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lh Journal Timet Jan. 2, 1971 4A NEWS 1 age Pacts Initially OK'd in 111111 1 1 i I 1 il it 1 thun five years of service will receive a one-half of one per cent longevity increase. Insurance bnefits will be upgraded and some men with additional responsibilities such as rescue squad personnel, drivers and dispatchers will receive an additional $10 a month, under the proposal. Ronald BcnU, president of the local, said firefighters are withdrawing some demands which the city had agreed to earlier, before city officials said they discovered an error in calculating the total package and Its Impact on federal wage-price guidelines, Being withdrawn, he said, are requests which would lower city 1973 costs but increase the wage structure by 1 per cent more for privates and Vj per cent for officers. The firefighters had sought an initial 3 per cent for each group at the first of the year, plus another 3 per cent for privates and 4', per cent for officers in mid-year.

Also dropped, he said, is a demand for additional vacation time for men with at least 25 years of service. If the agreement is completed, firefighters will drop their unfair labor practice charge filed against the Racine Police and Fire Commission and the city will drop. its application for binding arbitration. Firefighters contended that the commission, involved in promotions and disciplinary Tentative agreements have been reached In negotiations (or 1973 contracts with three major city employe groups firefighters, policeman and municipal employes. The contract proposal for Municipal Employes Local 67, which represpnts public works, parks and cemeteries workers.

Is expected to go to City Council tonight. Members of Local 67 voted last week to ratify provisions of the agreement. Firefighters, whose bargaining committee reached the tentative accord with city negotiators Sunday afternoon, will vote on their proposal Wednesday and Thursday nights. Members of the 170-member Racine Policemen's Professional and Benevolent Association will meet at 7:15 a.m. Wednesday to act on their recommended agreement.

The contract proposal with Local 67 covers two years, as does one proposed for a new Municipal Employes union. Local 2239 which includes crossing guards and City Building Department Inspectors and some other City Hall employes. Firefighters The agreement being recommended by the Executive Board of Firefighters Local 321 calls for a 5 per cent pay hike for men holding the rank of private and a 6 per cent raise for officer ranks. Additionally, men with more actions, should be a part of the bargaining process. "We believe this contract may defer some Issues for a year," the firefighters' board said In a statement today.

It charged that a problem In negotiations was a "lack of decency" by the city. Policemen Sgt. Walter Hahn, president of the policemen'! association, said the agreement comes close to the 5 per cent figure negotiated by city and fire- -'fighters bargainers. With fringe" benefit increases, he said, the package would come to aVmt 24 cents an hour. In addition to providing for pay Increases, the agreement also calls for some vacation schedule changes and im-provements in the insurance program.

Adoption of the one-year Fire Injures 3 Three children were taken to St. Mary's Hospital Monday morning after a New Year's Day fire caused an estimated $1,250 worth of damage in a two-story house at 1217 Hamilton St. Listeir in good condition is Tyrenia Jones, 1, daughter of Mrs. Ella M. Jones, occupant of the second-floor apartment where the fire occurred.

would not have to be helping him." Kahl said David would come in and pick put his material, 'i Garfield School Among Burglars' Targets i Police are Investigating several burglaries reported over' the holiday weekend. Audio-visual equipment, Including projectors, record players and recorders valued at about $1,200, were reported stolen from Garfield School, 930 Milwaukee after a window was broken. Loot galued at about $575, including two rifles, jewelry and liquor, were reported stolen from the home of Robert Duchac, 3134 Osborne Blvd. Gerald D. Lenz of 2815 Hayes Ave.

told police his house was ransacked and two pistols and stereo equipment were stolen. Anne Alameda of 1616', Albert St. said Jewelry, two record players, tapes and about $65 were stolen from her ransacked apartment. One Still Hospitalized Following Crash One person remains hospitalized with injuries suffered in a two-car crash at Highways 11 and 31 Monday. Listed in satisfactory condition in St.

Luke's Hospital is Jose L. Sabala of 3055 Hickory Grove Ave. Police said Sabala's car and one driven by John Szekais of Union Grove collided. Szekais and his wife were released after treatment at St. Mary's Hospital.

A two-car crash New Year's Eve. in the 1500 block of S. Memorial Drive injured three persons. Both drivers, Bobby Jones of 941 Villa St. and Jeffrey Madisen of 2200 William were taken to St.

Luke's, as was Leslee Neibauer of 1545 S. Memorial Drive, a passenger in Madisen's car. They were released after treatment. County Christmas Seal Gifts Total $14,656 Racine County residents have contributed $14,656 to the 1972 Christmas Seal campaign, according to Janes Beckett and Jack Coleman, campaign co-chairmen. Because Christmas Seals traditionally are associated with the holidays, the amount raised by the end of the 'holiday season usually represents about 80 per cent of the final total for the campaign.

Last year Racine County residents contrjb- uted nearly $30,000. Location of IRS Office Given Help for taxpayers will be provided this week by the Internal Revenue Service at Room 101 of the Main-Lake Building at 425 Main St. The address for the office was incorrect in a Journal Times news story Thursday. Hours are 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

today through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Head Start Health Chief Gets State Post Mrs. Bess Winnen, 3611 21st has been elected to the committee on nominations of the school nurses branch of the Public Health Nurses section of the Wisconsin Nurses Association.

Mrs. Winnen is health service coordinator of the Head Start Program of the Unified School District. 2 Recreation Programs to Resume Two city Park and Recreation Department programs will resume at William Horlick High School. The Men's 30 and Over Club will begin again Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m. and family swims will be conducted Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Film ClubWill Meet at Museum The Ra-Cine Movie and Slide Club will hold its first meeting of 1973 Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Wustum Museum. The program "will include a showing of club production films and is open to the public. Ilillllllillliiilllllllllliiiiiiillllliilliiiiiiiiliiliiilllllllllllillllilllllllllllliil Half Mast for 30 Days Former President Harry S. Truman died a week ago today but around Racine several United States flags were found to be flying In breach of the Code of Etiquette for Display and Use of the U.S.

I lag. According to the code, as provided by Presidential proclamation, the flag should fly at half-staff for 30 days from the death of a president or vice president. The flag atop the U.S. Postal Service building in Downtown Racine (right) was being flown in compliance with an 'order by President Richard Nixon but the flag at a Lathrop Avenue industrial firm was at full staff this morning. proposal Is being recommend' ed, Hahn said, by the association's board, Municipal Employes The two-year' proposal ratified by members of Municipal Employes Local, 67 calls for improvements In holidays, vacation schedules and insurance benefits, as well as Including pay increases, said Charles I a city negotiator.

The agreement also includes a compulsory Wisconsin Retirement Fund increase In the second year. The package, Mulcahy said, comes in below the federal wage-price guidelines. The guidelines call for a maximum 5.5 per cent In annual increases, except for certain finges such as some pension and Insurance provisions which may add another seventh-tenths of one per cent to the total. Children Firefighters said the girl suffered first degree burns to her face, neck, chest and arms, as well as smoke inhalation. The other two children, Anthony, 3, and Ray, 4, were released after treatment.

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"One 14 I -Called Him Good Worker By James Dowd Journal Times Staff i BURLINGTON Just a few weeks before Christmas David Schwochert put extra time in at his woodworking class making a cashbox and a small wooden drawer type of box for credit card applications for his boss. He won't have a chance to do any more favors for his boss or for anyone else. The body of the Burlington High School junior was found 2'4 miles from the service sta-ticnr where he had been working New Year's Eve appar ently the victim of a robber. "David was a tremendous "I'm making something for my boss," Kahl said. "He was a quiet added, and pointed out that David never disciplinary problem.

"p6s are Kids they try to get away with thing sometimes, but David didn't, rwould tell him some-thing-ohce and he would get it right'away and go to work. "If he would have been, any able boy." Kahl said David had taken general woodworking last year with Kahl and was taking good worker," he added. Lees said one reason he was impressed with Schwochert's work was. because he was so "even tempered." According to Lees, Schwochert always acted like a gentleman and never became involved in arguments with customers. Lee said Schwochert mally the afternoon ally turn upon the tolerance and circumspection of the majority." Reynolds said Jthat the Supreme Court decision left the go-go operators and others "with a right to relief only if Brief SOPEtUS JEPPESEN Jeppesen- served on the draft board here during World War I.

He was a member of the Dania Society. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Leola Hjorth of 925 Crabtree Lane. School District Clerk iimiiimmmimmiiiiiiuimimiiiH Way Cleared for iiniiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiii imiiiiiniiiiiii iniiiiii tin iiiiiik City to Enforce Nudity Ordinance Funeral Is Thursday for Real Estate Dealer kid," said- Ronald Kahi his woodworking instructor. Kahl said it was just before Christmas when David asked to come in during the second shift to do some extra work.

The youth was in his second year in woodworking. According to Kahl, David had a cabinet project going but his extra work involved two small boxes he intended to put to use at his new service station job. Kahl said he did not make it a habit of letting students in' during the second shift because of the large classes. However, in David's case, "I knew he would not be any trouble and Reynolds'' decision have been forwarded to the Police Department. The cabaret ordinance, which sets costuming requirements for performers, will be enforced, he said.

Kranzke added the city also will- process some pending complaints in accordance with rules set down in a 1971 decision by a three-judge federal panel. Action -taken, he said, will be determined after a review of files in the 2-year-old cases. The cabinet ordinance says that female entertainers may not fraternize with customers and that no lewd or indecent performances are allowed. It also requires costumes to be of sufficient, non-transparent, material to cover the upper and lower erotic zones. -St Journal Tlmei photo by William Llzdat cabinet work this year.

The small cashbox created by David was found intact in the backroom at the Clark station. and early evening However, -Schwochert had requested to fill in for the night man, Leonard Drews, on New Year's Eve. According to Lees, Schwochert wanted to work the extra shift in order to earn some extra money. Lees said Schwochert's parents had given their son permission to work the late shift. they can show that none-of the conduct to which the ordinance was be applied is obscene." In view of the Supreme Court ruling, he added, the difficulties in doing that would be considerable.

CLARENCE NEHRING after 40 years with the utility companies, which he joined in 1925 as a salesman. He was named -Racine district sales promotion supervisor in 1954. Until retirement, Nehring was active with the Downtown Association. He served on the organization's board of directors and as chairman of the Christmas lighting committee. Survivors include Nehring's wife; two sons, Jack of Racine and Gerald of Oxnard, and a brother, Edgar of Oconomowoc, Nehring's birthplace.

A A A. Tk. II reou or passbook accounts! AMERICAN BANK AND TRUST COMPANY Two convenient locations; Downtown, Fif inland Main Uptown, Washington at Ann LAitL It, A. Gas Co. Official Dies Private funeral services will Natural Gaa Co.

and its par-be held here Thursday for ent firm, Wisconsin Electric Clarence A. Nehring of 2047, Power Co. Blake retired sales pro- Nehring, 66, died Sunday in motion supervisor for the Ra- St. Luke's Hospital, cine district of Wisconsin Nehring retired early in 1966 Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 10:30 a.m. the funeral home at 722 N.

Memorial Drive for Sophus Jeppesen of 2430 Lathrop a real estate dealer here for more than half a century. Jeppesen, 90, died Sunday in St. Luke's Hospital. Born in Skagen, Denmark, Jeppesen came to Racine in 1902 and went into the grocery business four years later, opening a store on Washington Avenue. Jeppesen turned to real estate and home construction in 1914, for a number of years occupying offices in the building he put up at 1436 State St.

Jeppesen created the Doris Park Addition on the city's southwest side and the Jeppesen-Molbeck Subdivision, where the S. C. Johnson school was built. His wife, the former Ella Johnson, died in 1966. They observed their 50th wedding anniversary in 1958.

Osenga Seeks 3rd Term as Caledonia Town Clerk of Test Borings Power Plant Complex Enforcement of a city ordi nance nrohibiting nude danc- ing taverns is expected to -resume The city received a decision today from Federal Judge John Reynolds dropping his 2-year-old order which had banned enforcement of the "ordinance. The ordinance was challenged in court by operators of Racine go-go bars. Reynolds said last month that in view of the Dec. 5 U.S. Supreme Court decision, he doubted that the go-go operators would be successful and expected to his restraining order.

He gave the city and tavern operators time, however, to submit legal briefs on the question. Krenzke, dejiuty. city 'said copies of Paris Site for Huge An officer of the Wisconsin Electric Power Co. said today that test borings would be taken soon in the Town of-Paris, KenosHa County, to determine whether the area would be suitable for a proposed huge power plant complex. John Dahlbeeg, vice president, said he has no target date on the beginning of borings, which would depend on and engaging a contractor.

Similar testings will be made later this year in Grant, Wood and Sheboygan counties, he said. Dahlberg said the power company's real estate department is contacting .8 to 10 farm owners to see if borings can be made on their properties. He said the Town of Paris is the only area in which borings will be taken in Kenosha County. Last fall the power company and four other utilities said they are considering sitesfer a power plant complex and Reynolds, in his decision, said the restraining order on enforcement was issued after it was felt the city's ordinnce was overbroad in prohibiting some activities such as dancing and nudity which may under some circumstances be protected by the First Amendment on freedom of expression. Reynolds said that a dissenting U.S.

Supreme Court justice had noted that the court's decision was a "startling" shift from its past approach to overbroad, regulations. "That shift in approach," Reynolds said, "has altered the plaintiffs' probability -of success in this case in light of the Supreme- Court's opinion I can no longer find that (the questioned section of) the Racine ordinance is proba- may be needed if the complex is tg include cooling ponds for the heatdd water exhausted by the power plant. Participating in the venture with Wisconsin Electric are Wiscons Michigan Power Wisconsin Public Service Wisconsin Power and Light Co. and Madison Gas and Electric. Racine son (Lise Hansen), 4844 Highway 31, a son, Jan.

1. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fegher (Rosemary McDougal, 3106 Blue River Road, a son, Jan. 1.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Jock (Maria Hoffmann), 3408 Elderberry Road, Caledonia, a son, Jan. 1. Mr.

and Mrs. David Fox 451j01 16th a daughter, Jan. 1. John Osenga, Caledonia's" Town Clerk, will bid for a third consecutive term at that job in the spring elections. Osenga won his first bid for public office, taking over the clerk's duties in 1969.

He defeated the clerk he succeeded, Mrs. Joanne Zukewich, in the 1971 election to win a second term. In announcing his decision to seek a third two-year term, Osenga said, "I had serious reservations, the job gets pretty hectic around tax time. But I have decided that my experience makes me. the best qualified person to serve the citizens of Caledonia in this capacity." Before entering town poli-x tics, Osenga was production would begin to test bedrock to see if it is suitable for foundations and make other studies of specific areas.

The proposed complex could include two electricity generating plants, probably nuclear-powered, each capable of 'producing'" megawatts. The complex could cost $1 billion. .1 A site of 5,000 to 6,000 acres BIRTHS Pointing "Develop-. 4 ments Inc. He is 36 year's old, divorced, and has lived in -Caledonia for the past ten years.

Annual salary for the1 full-time Caledonia clerk's job is $10,800. Osenga is the second Caledonia official to announce his re-election bid. All town offices, including the five Town Board positions, are open in the April election. Incumbent assessor Irving Klema previously said he will seek a seventh consecutive term. The five Board mem-bers have not yet indicated their intentions.

Deadline for filing nomination papers in Caledonia is at 5 p.m. make their views known, whether they seek, change in the law, whether they want to preserve the Wisconsin Consumer 'Act in its present form," Dorman said. The hearings, at 1:30 p.m. 11 in the State. Capitol, will be held by a Legislative Council subcommittee which will report is findings to the full council Jan.

29. The coun-cil willdecide thea whether to-recommend changes to legislature. Notice for filing Declaration of Candidacy for the School Board of Unified School District No. 1 of Racine County Any -qualified elector of Unified SchooT. District No.

1 of the City of Racine, Village of Sturteyant, Village of Wind Point, Village of North Bay, Village of Elmwood Park, Town' of Caledonia, and Town of Mt. Pleasant of Racine County, Wisconsin, who intend? to declare his candidacy for the School Board of the School District is hereby notified that he must file his written declaration of candidacy with the School District Clerk at the Board of Education offices, Northwestern Avenue, Racine, Wisconsin, no later than 5:00 p.m.", January 23, 1973. 1iames Dickert Consumer Act Hearing Set iiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuni in SL Luke's Hospital Dr. and Mrs. Don P.

Baum-blatt (Geraldine Mattie), 137 Westminster Square, a daughter, Dec. 30. Mr. and Mrs. Kjriazles (Jane Daubers 1533 Oregon, a son, Dec.

31. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jar-stad (Barbara Butterfield), 1779 Domanik Drive, a son, 3 snrl Mr. and Mrs.

James John Proposed changes in the Wisconsin Consumer Act will be given a public hearing Jan. State Sen. Henry Dorman, D-Racine, announced. The act includes regulations on consumer credit transactions, interest rates, creditor insurance, deceptive advertising regarding consumer I credit, debt collection and other consumer credit actions. "This, is an opportunity for all those interested to".