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the Racine, Journal Wis, Times, Thursday, Jan. 26, 1978 3A local- -News briefsIndustrial zoning backed Rezonings from community shopping to general industrial were recommended by the City Plan Commission Wednesday. Ratech now at 330 Lake sought the change for 1454 Junction Ave. Owners of the two properties to the south asked similar changes, connecting the land to other general industrial zoning. Deferred was a request to build a marina on the west side of the Root River south of West 6th Street.

State approvals are still required for the project. Harbor Commission members backed the plan while some neighboring property owners had questions and asked about security. The area would be fenced in. Filed was a request for a portable advertising sign at the southwest corner of 3 Mile Road and Douglas Avenue. The sign would have been for a business to the north but owners of the property indicated they didn't want a sign.

Aspin to speak at UW-P Rep. Les Aspin, D-Racine, will speak on "'The Federal Government and Its Relationship to Family and Children" Feb. 5 at the a annual dinner meeting of Kenosha Youth Development Services Inc. (KYDS). In a press release, KYDS said the meeting will be in the dining room of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside student union.

The meeting will include installation of officers, election of board 1 members and Aspin's speech. Tickets cost $6.75 per person and can be obtained from KYDS. Reservation deadline is Jan. 30. Dinner will be at 7 p.m...

KYDS is involved in outpatient counseling, crisis intervention, foster care and group home-shelter care in Kenosha. Special Olympics scheduled A team of 25 Racine Special Olympians will leave at 6:15 a.m. Friday from the southwest corner of Washington Avenue and Ohio Street to attend the Wisconsin Special Olympics winter state games in Oshkosh. The two-day event for the developmentally disabled will include competition in bowling, basketball and run-dribble-shoot. Carthage gearing up Carthage College is gearing up for its spring term of classes which starts Feb.

1. Advance registration for evening school classes is in process now by telephone or in person at the Continuing Office, Lentz Hall. Registration for spring term day classes is Jan. 31. Legislators pick Dorman State Sen.

Henry Dorman, D-Racine, was elected chairman Wednesday of the Legislative Council's Mining Committee. Dorman, who is the council's vice chairman, has also been chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Mining Development. The Legislative Council committee, he said in a release, "will have the ultimate responsibility for advising the legislature on all aspects of mining policy." The committee will study issues related to mining, including feasibility of building a metal recovering smelter, possible studies of long-term liability of mine operators and registration of mineral rights. Ex-mayors give scrapbooks Three former Racine mayors kept scrapbooks during their administrations which recently have been donated to the University of Wisonsin-Parkside's Archives and Area Research Center. T.

Gleason Morris, mayor from 1939-1943; Francis H. Wendt, 1943-1949, and John E. Gothner, 1949-1955, kept scrapbooks of newspaper clippings arranged by subject matter. Wendt later became a county judge and Gothner later: served 18 years as county treasurer. Wendt also has contributed two volumes on the 1946 strike at J.

I. Case Co. which lasted 440 days. Amtrak offers discounts Amtrak announced that it will offer bargain fares on 21 i in an effort to boost light ridership in the late winter and early spring months. Amtrak said the excursion fares generally apply to, roundtrip coach travel and will not be offered during holiday periods such as Washington's Birthday weekend and Easter.

Among trains included in the program are the North Coast Hiawatha and Empire Builder, which run on Chicago-Seattle routes and stop in Milwaukee. Discounts of 25 percent or 33 percent are available under different plans. The discount rates will go into effect Jan. 31, Amtrak said. FIRES fire at 1100 Park damaged a two-story frame house about 11 p.m.

Wednesday. Nine firemen were injured. fire at the Pearl Kidd residence, 1623 Maple damageda second floor bedroom just before 8 p.m. Wednesday. Fire officials said the blaze may have started from an electrical short in a wall and ignited plaster.

No damage estimates have been made. ROBBED James Lee, 1309 FrederSick told police a man a gund at him while he was in his car in the 1300 -Births- St. Luke's Hospital VISITING HOURS Fathers 10 a.m.-0:30 p.m.; others 16 and eider p.m., 7-6 p.m. Mr. and Mrs.

Barry Grant (Linda Washebek), 3321 Kentucky a son, Jan. 25. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Hetchler (Diane Angelo), 614 Sixth a daughter, Jan.

25. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stolfi, (Patti Caudill), 1123 High a son, Jan. 25.

Mr. and Mrs. David Szymanski, 725 Monroe a son, Jari. 25. Journal Times photos by William J.

Lizdas Blizzards are a boon for tow trucks. they get stuck too. Storm- tensive number of fender-bender accidents on the slippery roads. City Hall and the Courthouse were open today, but by 11 a.m. county employes were being sent home, with city employes scheduled to follow them at The Racine Public Library, closed this morning, had planned to open at noon today, but lack of staff canceled that, as well.

City buses wound their way through snowdrifts and around stalled cars, but fell well behind schedule, according to Jack Taylor, transit manager for the Belle Urban System. The number of riders probably was much lower than normal, Taylor said. "I doubt we'll have too many. I would think it would be way down." Taylor said the storm hadn't caused too many problems, except that the company's parking lot at 19th and Kentucky streets was drifting shut. It may sometimes take a week to get a letter from Milwaukee to Racine, but the Post Office tradition of braving weather's worst to deliver the mail continued.

"We're going out," a Racine Postal Service spokesman said, "and that includes the rural carriers. They've got to at least give it a try, it's part of the contract: if they don't go out, they don't get paid." When the mail gets delivered, the weather has guaranteed a lot of people waiting at home to read it. Even many bowling fanatics were announcing the cancellation of league play today. Bowlers won't be the only ones to lose their muscle tone, however. Municipal basketball and volleyball league play is cancelled for today and all park and recreation facilities and programs were closed.

"Everything's it was explained by the Parks and Recreation Department. Two courts, Judge Thomas Corbett's Circuit Court Branch II and Judge Dennis Costello's County Court Branch 4 never opened. Both had jury trials scheduled for today, but the storm prevented jurors and some staff from getting to the Courthouse. In addition, Family Court Commissioner J. Lester Johnson's office was closed for the day.

But even those offices which were open today were operating with short staffs as many individuals saw the wisdom of staying at home. At Wisconsin Telephone Company an emergency plan is in effect but there are no serious problems and local service is normal, according to John Barrows, manager of the phone company's Racine office. Barrows said customers who try to use the operator for long-distance calls will get a recorded message stating that if their call is an emergency, an operator will assist them. He said direct-dialed long distance calls will go through although customers may encounter some busy signals because of the high volume of calls that always occur during bad weather. Spokesmen for Wisconsin Natural Gas Wisconsin Electric Power Co.

and the city water department all said service is normal and special problems are not anticipated. Meanwhile, closings were reported by some businesses. Several doctors' offices, including the Racine Medical Clinic, 5625 Washington closed. And most banks and savings and loan associations closed their doors between 11 a.m. and noon.

Despite the storm, officials at J.1. Case Co. and Western Publishing Co. Inc. said employee absenteeism was light.

S.C. Johnson Son Inc. reported about 80 percent of the company's employees made it to work. Traffic in the west end of the county was snarled as cars became stuck in snow drifts. Between Burlington and Lyons on Highway 36, eight vehicles were, stuck in drifts by 8 o'clock this morning.

One Waterford driver, attempting to travel to Racine about 7 a.m., said an estimated 20 vehicles were stopped on Highway 20, two miles west of Highway 45. He said he didn't know what the hold-up was caused by, but after waiting for about 20 minutes, someone came along and asked all of the cars to turn around and go west on Highway 20 because "the road is impassable to the east." (Continued from Page 1) He said on his return to Waterford two cars were involved in a head-on collision but apparently no one was injured. Highway 11 also was reported closed east of Highway 45. All schools in western Racine County were closed because buses were not running. In the City of Burlington seven crews began plowing operations at 7:30 this morning.

Main street were passable even before the plowing operations began but visibility was almost zero at times because of the swirling, drifting snow. Town of Burlington crews were out before 7 a.m. but they reported the town roads were drifting closed almost immediately after they were plowed. Walking was almost as hard as driving today. REA binds up, delivers list of grievances By Margo Wilson Journal Times Staff block of Hamilton Street and took a three-piece suit, valued at $115.

No arrests have been made. -DeathsGULBRONSON, Mrs. Isabel, 75 1629 Flett Jan. 25, St. Mary's Medical Center.

Draeger Funeral Home. PFEIFFER, Joseph 88 2055 Superior Jan. 26, St. Mary's Medical Center. Strouf-Sheffield Funeral Home.

PROOST, William 403 N. Memorial Drive, Jan. 26. Hanson Funeral Home. JACOBSEN, James M.

High Ridge Hospital, Jan. 26, Hanson Funeral Home. INFUSINO, Mary, 57 4836 Erie Jan. 26, St. Luke's Hospital.

StroufSheffield Funeral Home. SENDT, Mrs. Margaret, 63 1024 Vine Union Grove, Jan. 26, St. Mary's Medical Center.

Polnasek Funeral Home, Union Grove. MOLE, Arthur, 69 4622 W. Carter Road, Milwaukee, Jan. 25, Burlington Memorial Hospital. Forty-six grievances by the Racine Education Association (REA), ranging from problems in collecting fair share dues from non-REA members to alleged assaults on teachers at Gifford Junior High School, have been bound in a neat booklet.

One of the booklets was delivered to the Journal Times. The grievances are directed against the Unified School District and commemorate the first anniversary of the REA strike which shut Unified schools for seven weeks, beginning last Jan. 25. But Sister Michelle Olley, president of the Unified School Board, said this morning she has not received the booklet, even though the volume's cover letter begins with, "Dear Board Member." She said it was typical for the REA to go to the newspaper before going to the board. Richard Kreul, chairman of the board's staff personnel: subcommittee, also said he's not received the booklet.

James Ennis, executive director of REA, said the booklet was prepared "so people could have something to read." He said the board has refused to hear the grievances and they've all gone to arbitration. According to Ennis, the REA has the option of bringing grievances before the committee or the full board and the REA has chosen the board. But Ennis says the board has refused to discuss the grievances. However, Kreul said he was operating under the assumption the committee was to hear the grievances and had tentatively set up a hearing date of Feb. 3.

Ennis said he was not notified in writing of such a meeting. Included in the grievance packet is a list of those teachers the REA says are not members of the bargaining unit but who should be paying fair share dues to the association. The REA won the fair share agreement as part of last year's contract but maintains that Unified has not been deducting fair share fees from the non-REA teachers' paychecks. The contract was agreed to last year ending the strike, but it never has been signed by the two sides. Also in the REA packet is a grievance by Gifford Junior High School REA members contesting a recommendation in a school bulletin.

insure According to the grievance, the bulletin of Oct. 3, 1977, with asked that, The "Reminder: Please refrain from putting hands on students cedures in volatile situations where the possibility of striking back by staff." the student can take place." The The grievance states that the reminder contradicts a por- William tion of the REA contract which states that "A teacher may center, use reasonable and appropriate means, including the use of' Her physical restraint. The grievance also alleges that, "Gifford Junior High Hussy School, under the administration of Glenn Kirchner, has been dealing plagued with violence and disruption which has resulted in "leads physical assaults on teachers." fear. cult Olley defended Kirchner and said that, "All he was trying to say was, 'Be a little careful." plaints Another grievance, dated Oct. 31, 1977, states that, "On 18 Other October 1977, two Jefferson teachers were assaulted on the teacher grounds.

Principal Lawrence Terry failed to provide ences. Fire- (Continued from Page 1A)' pery," building after Irish lost his oxygen mask. Both men fell down the stairs, Chiapete said. Four firefighters were treated by rescue squad personnel at the fire department for first degree burns to the face and neck, including Lt. Cadwell Mevis, Irish, Dennis A.

Felton and Thomas Mills. According to reports, dense black smoke was billowing out of the structure's second floor north windows when police arrived. They called the fire department to the scene. The house received heavy structural damage from the fire and contents sustained heavy damage from the smoke and water, Chiapete said. Famous told fire officials the house was valued at $26,000.

No monetary damage estimate had been made by late morning, Blowing and drifting snow hindered efforts to fight the blaze. "It got so bad, the stairs got slippery, equipment got slip- protection for all teachers of that school in meetings parents after 4 p.m." grievance calls for a written plan of "actions and prowhich insure future actions to protect Jefferson association also has filed a grievance complaining th that Grindeland, director of the instructional materials asked to review copies of Calamity Jane's Letters to Daughter, which was on Unified library shelves. Grindeland's review of the book, published by Shameless Press, "is contary to the established procedures for with matters of this type," the grievance asserts a and employees affected by his actions to believe that his leave building-level librarians in extremely diffipositions. Grindeland, the grievance alleges, was reacting to comabout the name of the book's publisher. grievances include alleged problems encountered in evaluations, and in scheduling parent-teacher confer- see how Chiapete house.

ter. It "It these," one firefighter said. "'The rescue squad could hardly to get to the hospital." said the fire was contained to the interior of the "It was snowing pretty bad. We had to use a lot of wawas pretty slushy around there. was pretty bad.

We don't usually have injuries like Chiapete said. Spanish Center counting The Spanish Center, which is compiling a count of Racine County's Latino population, is asking Latinos who have not been reached by census-takers to contact the center. Spanish Center officials said information provided remains confidential. The Spanish Center is running the census and plans to use results to help determine Latino needs in the county..