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IACINI JOURNaL-TIMES Tdundoy, More 4, 17I AW Presents Its Proposal to AMC i-ft tfH -v '-V. i fS 1 Local 72 In Kenosha, said the four-year package encompasses all the demands which were on the table matching the pattern established In contracts negotiated by the UAW with General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. In addition, he said, there were other catchup Items to give AMC workers parity with Big Three employes. The AMC workers, Daum said, would get, over the four-year period, "all we haven't had in catchup" though the effective dates of gains would be spread over four years, instead of three as in the Big Three pacts. Daum said the proposal AMC than agreement on the central economic package, Inability to reach agreement In the local talks, for instance, was largely responsible for the length of the five-week strike against AMC In the fall of 1969.

Negotiators reached accord on the central economic package shortly after the strike began. But local issues, along with scores of unsettled grievances, particularly at the Kenosha plants, where workers are represented by Local 72, proved more difficult. In addition to the Milwaukee and Kenosha plants, the neo-giations, which are being held in Detroit, cover members of Local 1285 at the 'company's Canadian plant at Brampton, Ont. years and annual cost-of-living raises without a ceiling. The Big Three contracts give workers a first-year increase of from 49 to 61 cents an hour.

Lepianka, Wednesday quoted AMC as saying it could raise Its money offer, but It was "tied to what It can take away" In negotiations on the local plant working agreements. Some of the discussion in Tuesday's central talks centered on the lack of progress toward settlement of the non-economic local plant agreements. Settlement of local plant issues has on occasion in the past proved harder to reach at Negotiators for American Motors Corp. today were mulling the contents of a four-year economic contract package placed on the bargaining table Wednesday afternoon by the llnltcH Autn Workers. The package was proposed by the union in response to a company offer that has been rejected twice, on Feb.

18 and again on Tuesday. The company requested a lull day to review and consid er the package, so talks at the main table are not expected to resume until Friday. separate neguuuuuns wcie continuing today on local plant working agreements. Ralph Daum, president of i "AM- NEWS A would put AMC workers on a par economically with Big Three employes by August, 1974. He estimated that the package would be worth "more than $2 an hour" spread over the four years, and that wage gains in the first year would be the same as in the first year of the Big Three pacts, 49 to 61 cents an hour.

In addition to wages, the contract proposal also covers Insurance, supplemental unemployment benefits and retirement. Daum said the cost-of-living factor would be retained, as would an annual Improvement factor amounting to three per cent of the base rate. Cost-of-living raises plus the annual three per cent "could add up to 26 cents an hour" alone in the fourth yeaY, he said. Until making the counter proposal, a company spokesman said, the union was simply asking AMC to match the pattern set in the GM, Ford and Chrysler settlements. Bernard Leplanka, president of Local 75 at the AMC body plant in Milwaukee and chairman of the union's joint AMC council, said the proposal is new, but basically the same as the Big Three settlements.

With one eye on the unions Monday strike deadline, now only four days away, the company spokesman called the fact that the union has made a counter proposal "encouraging." The three-year company offer already rejected twice by the union was said Wednesday by Lepianka to call for a wage increase of 38 cents an hour in the first year, 3 per cent In each of the remaining two iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiinimiiitiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiii Brief 1 I --'to, i Journal-Tlmei Phpto bj Arthur P. Km First Aid training was on today's agenda as the Racine Police Academy's basic law enforcement course ncared completion. Twenty-seven recruits will graduate from the four-weel course Friday. From left are William Stelnmetz, of 3109 5 Mile Road, a Racine County Deputy Sheriff; Capt. Alfred Tucker, police Instructor; and William Carter, a University of Wisconsin-Parkslde policeman from Kenosha.

Fee Better? Aldermen Still Studying Detachment Referendum AP Wirepholo Hundreds of persons crowded the Assembly chambers Wednesday where the Joint Education Committee heard testimony on a bill to provide state aid to private schools. Aid to Private Schools Stirs Madison Debate History and Historians "History and the Historian" is the title of an address to be given at Carthage College by Prof. J. V. Langmead Casserley March 11, at 4 p.m.

A London native, Casserley is a professor of apologetics at Seabury Western Theological Seminary In Evanston and professor of philosophical theology at the Chicago Institute for Advanced Theological Studies. His lecture will be'sponsored by the Department of History and the Burckhardt Society at Carthage, is open to the public. The second Burckhardt lecture of this semester will be "The Origins of the Crusades" by Prof. Hans Mayer of the University of Kiel March 17 at 4 p.m. Five Students on List Five Racine students at Carroll College have been named to the first semester honors list for academic averages of 3.5 or above.

One of them, Patricia Siewert, 715 Oregon achieved a perfect 4.0 average. Others on the list were Nancy Marinac, 3413 Third Elizabeth Mogensen, 243 Wilnette Spring Drive; Denice Gill, 3821 Indiana Lane; and Linda Van Susteren, 2500 Coolidge Ave. Toastmasters Sponsor Course The Racine Toastmasters Club will sponsor a youth leadership course stressing public speaking and parliamentary procedure. The eight week course, open to high school or. college aged boys and girls, will be taught by members of the Toastmasters Club beginning March 17.

A member of the club, Leonard Ziolkowski, of 4420 Blue River placed second in the annual Southshore Divisional Humorous Speech Contest held in Milwaukee this week. Title of his speech was "Put on Pounds Sensibly." Meetings. Co-Sponsored The Racine AFL-CIO Council's "Committee-orr Political Education (COPE) has joined the United Auto Workers' -Racine-Kenosha Community' Action Program (CAP) Council of the weekly "Meet Your Legislator" series of public meetings, said a spokesmanfor the CAP Council. The meetings are held Sunday mornings starting at 9:30. This Sunday's will be in Racine; at the Labor Center.

Honored at Iowa 1 Stephen Berge, a sophomore at the Univeristy of Iowa's College of Pharmacy, has been named to the dean's honor roll for outstanding academic performance last semester. Berge is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Berge, '710 Crabtree Lane. Racine Coed in 'Who's Who' Nancy Sadlon of Racine is one of 22 students at Ripon College selected for listing in "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges" this year.

She is the daughter of Mrs. Stephen Sadlon of 3115 Meachem Road. Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Council Action Prevents Shadow Lane Building administrative policies and decisions. Hodel said, "I'm not sure I agree with everything In the letter, but it does point -eut good reasons the bond refere-' ndum was voted, down." And. he said although he would vote to keep Unified "I believe disassociation would be a step backward." He proposed it be put on the ballot, "so people -can vote their feelings." Arguments against detachment referendum' proposals came from Aid.

James Eastman, and Frederick L. Lawrence, 4th. Eastman felt "the Board does listen to the people," and attributed the bond referendum defeat to pressures" and urged "concerted efforts to a basic tax reform." Lawrence said four of the six candidates elected to run for School Board were proponents of a bond referendum. The Council action has "come after City Atty. Jack Harvey reversed a former opinion that there is no method to detach." In a Monday night Committee of the Whole meeting, Harvey said he was in error when he said the statutes provide no means for detachment.

He said: "The statutes as revised by Chapter 92 of the Laws of 1967 provide that a petition signed by 10 per cent of the electors residing in the territory proposed to be detached may be filed with the secretary of the appropriate agency school committee. Sec would increase $10 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. "We can't expect our neighbor to pick up the tab for our luxuries, and private education is a luxury," argued Mrs. Bridget Finn of Madison. State officials estimate the measure would'" cost the state $19 million a year.

----It would provide grants equal, to 10 per cent of public grade school costs and 18 per cent of public high school costs to parents of private and parochial school children. "Give the $40 million to public schools over the two years," Wendt urged. He called the bfll "an attempt of the proponents of parochial schools to get their hands in the public treasury." Rice said subsidizing the private school system would not bean economy. The Kellett Commission on Education, he said, gave non-fiscal reasons for backing private schools. Other opponents -of the measure argued that state aid would lead inevitably to state control of private education.

But its proponents said that, without state subsidy to stem the tide of withdrawals of children from private schools, their financial bankruptcy is imminent. Wisconsin has adopted legislation and has been to the State Supreme Court concerning indirect aid to private schools. In another field of taxpayer assistance to parochial schools, public school districts now are required to guarantee bus transportation for private-school students. The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked in a case from Connecticut whether there should be constitutional barrier between state aid and church schools.

The court ruled three years ago that public 1 schools in New York can be required by the state to lend texts to private schools. Wendt said the bill is unconstitutional according to both Wisconsin and federal consti- tutions. The Wisconsin Constitution, he said, provides that no money shall be drawn from the treasury for the benefit of religious societies or religious or theological seminaries. Since Article, 10 of the state Constitution provdes' that no sectarian instruction shall be allowed in any'of the districts' public schools, if such instruction may not be given in a public school, then it is logical that it shall not be used to support such instruction in a private school that is supported by public funds, Wendt said. The bill would also be contrary to the U.S.

Constitution, which provides for complete separation of church and state, he noted; The legislation would force people who do not believe in parochial schools to pay taxes in support of religious teaching. A bill to provide tuition grants to parents of children in private schools "has no purpose, than to keep parochial schools in business teaching, religion," former Racine County Judge Francis H. Wendt, said in testifying against it in Madison Wednesday. Wendt was one of four Racine County citizens appearing before the Joint Education Committee in the Wisconsin Assembly cham- -ber to oppose the proposed legislation. Hundreds of citizens from around the state crammed into the hearing and Capitol police estimated 1,000 persons were turned away from the three-hour session.

Mrs. Ralph Deihl, 715 Russet presented petitions signed by 847 Racine County residents opposed to "public tax money being, paid either directly or indirectly to private elementary and secondary schools." She said she spoke as a representative of the Committee on Tax Dollars for Public Purposes, a Racine group formed to oppose this kind of legislation. Mrs. Deihl told the hearing the potential cost of such tuition-grant programs, is "staggering." The promoters of such legislation laready have almost doubled their request since last year, she said. This tax money would be available to all private schools, including those established by special interest groups to promote their political, racial, social, religious, economic philosophines and would quire the taxpayer to support such schools, she contended.

"It is obviously more expensive to support more than one school system," she remarked, "and the public schools would be weakened by a diversion of funds and by decreasing public interest." Taxpayers deserve some control over how their tax money is spent, she said. The Rev.1 Mark J. Schommer, a Roman Catholic priest from Green Bay, testified in favor of the bill. Schommer said a hands-off philosophy toward private schools is beginning to cut like a two-edged sword into quality public and private education alike." William Rice, a director of the American Civil Liberties Union, countered that in addition to being unconstitutional, the bill "is objectionable because it selects certain persons in a community on primarily religious grounds." "We have to recognize the rights of the people of the state to have their children educated the way they want," Mayor Don Tilleman of Green Bay said. Tilleman told the committee that if the 8,000 private school pupils in Green Bay were added to public school rolls, property taxes tion 117.02, Wisconsin Statutes prescribes the procedure which that committee must take in acting on such a petition.

Section 117.03 Wisconsin Statutes provides that the decision of the agency school committee may be appealed to the State Appeal Board. In the event of detachment or alteration of the Unified School District boundaries, adjustment of assets and liabilities shall be provided as in 66.03 Wisconsin Statutes. "The authority of the agency school committee is contained in Section 117.04 Wisconsin Statutes, which provides that suclua may 'create or alter a Unified School District in any territory containing 1,000 or more elec- -tors." "The agency, school committee is appointed by the Board of Control, 116.02 Wisconsin Statutes, and is to 'study and evaluate the existing school district structure evolving from the former county school committee plans and 1 subsequent modifications to determine if the goals of equal and improved educational opportunities for all children within the agency territory have been (Advertisement! Lacking food bulk? BRAN BUDS the natural way to regularity. Curling shingles and Bald Spots are Danger Signals on your Roof. Seal Roof ftnmEMWi n1nri frtofcYMiMiWKM tin i m.

itf lift irt Budget Bank Rates i 632-27811 (Continued from Page 1A) the people, it would only be advisory, having "no binding, legal effect whatsoever." And some aldermen, advocating a further look at such a referendum, noted they weren't in favor of getting out of the Unified system, but wanted to "give people a chance to vote their feelings about the Unified school system." Aid. David Retzinger, 15th, who originally introduced the resolution to detach, is chairman of the tax study committee, and expressed a desire to meet with the School Board, as well as heads of government in other areas of Unified, after the decision for further study was made. During discussion, he still urged for the matter to be put on the April ballot. He said he didn't think Tuesday's schopl bond referendum failed "because the people don't want to have good education, but because they want to get the message across to the School Board." And he indicated the Council" "will be remiss in its duty" if it does not offer a detachment referendum. "Call it an 'opinion' or 'exploratory' referendum, but we owe to our constituents access to the School Board which presently seems impossible.

"The people ought to be heard, but the School Board listens to the administration instead of the people. The administration is 'God Almighty' before the School Board. I think it's up to us to get the message through." Aid. Glen W. Hodel, 17th, read a letter he had received Wednesday which urged, that the defeating vote Tuesday involved more than the issue of two new junior highs, but "the whole ball of wax" of has been practicing law in Racine since 1937.

He said today an appeal on his conviction for commercial gambling is being filed with the State Supreme Court. The. recommendations of Judge Minor also must be reviewed by the Supreme Court for final decision. In his statement, Minor "said "The full will never be known, due to the fact that he (Postorino) took the Fifth Amendment" to most of the questions he was asked at the disciplinary hearing. Postorino said today his refusal to answer questions at the hearing were based on the fact that the conviction on which disciplinary action is based is going to be appealed.

it mm mm cials "to go over our mutual problem." The resolution noted the only feasible way to dispose of the water is by connecting with the Pike River Watershed System located in Mount Pleasant. "It should be a since stormwater doesn't rnow where the city ends and the town begins," Hoganson said. "let WECKS Re-roof your homeVrrlWd let the Windstorms come! Judge Recommends License of Attorney Be Suspended No more building permits will be issued for the Shadow Lane subdivision located in the southwestern part of the city, the Racine City Council decided Wednesday night. The approved resolution also called for the recall of if already given for buildings on which construction has not actually started. In general, the subdivsion is south of Durand Avenue, north of Taylor Avenue and between Lathrop Avenue and Meacham Road.

Lester Hoganson, city engineer, explained there is no storm water sewer drainage system in the subdivision, leaving only surface drainage. This has caused flooding and drainage problems for homeowners in the area, with the problem coming to a "head" when a new building blocked a-drainage path. Hoganson said today it's hoped that "a meeting can be held with Mount Pleasant offi- discussed contract, "offers another proof this is an 'above board' deal." The Council also took action to remove the street sign of Porto Rico Avenue, noting it had never been dedicated as a public street. The public works department was directed to put up a barricade, with a sign showing it is not a public street. 'Felix Rosa, director of the Puerto Rican Society of Racine, objected to- the saying the street with condem- unoccupied houses is degrading, the island namw and to Puerto Rlcan people.

Bird Wind SPECIAL SPOTS 0 Chicago Firm to Study Sewer Charge Plan Charges of unprofessional conduct have led to a recommendation for suspension of Xomenick Postorino's license nractice law. Postorino, a Racine attorney, was the subject of a complaint filed by the State Board of Bar Commissioners after his conviction on a commercial gambling charge last July. The conviction resulted in a $3,000 fine and probation for three years for Postorino, of 1120 Hagerer St. Disciplinary hearings involving Postorino's status as an attorney were held last December before Milwaukee County Reserve Judge Edward G. Minor, who acted as referee in the proceedings.

Minor recommended that, the State Supreme Court suspend Postorino's license for a specific period of time to be determined by the court, contending Postorino was guilty of unprofessional conduct. "His conduct in accepting bets for placement constitutes, in my -opinion, moral turpi- tude," Minor saidr-" The 58-year-oldPostorino This is the secret of the high wind Every shingle seals to the ones above and below it by action of the sun's heat. FREE Estimates Aldermen voted Wednesday night -to hire a Chicago engineering firm to study a sewer service charge system for Racine Consoer, Townsend and Associates were recommended by Arnold Weidner, chairman of the city Water Pollution Control Charge Committee, who' said the firm was well qualified and had promised a SepVl, 1971, completion date. The firm has conducted simi-. Jar studies for other cities.

The (Jommittee had previously recommended a Sheboy ceived for $6.4 million improvements to the Wastewater Treatment Plant," "the effect on the tax rate could be tremendous." In other action, aldermen approved a resolutibn reaffirming the right to turn down zoning which may be requested by Fogelson Development Corp. of Chicago. The firm 'is proposing build -multiple-family rental housing on the site at Spring Street and Osborne Boulevard. Leo F. Mutchler, 12th, commented that approval of the resolutionr which-wa report-, edly the same as a pieviously gan firm, Donahue and Associates "incT" The study relates to the possibility that costs of treating sewage will be taken- off the general property tax bill and will go onto special individual direct bills.

City committees have been looking at such a system, which is. now being required by the federal government in order, for- cities to receive federal aid. The. firm's, study would attempt to arrive at rates fair homeowners aswell as large industries. Mayor Keteth Huck said that if federaraid is not re- where you, can always depend on personal scn ice" .2000 Douglas at Yout.