The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 3

the Journal Times, Tuesday, July 30, 1985 Racine, Wis. 3. ing the value of flrades. Unified responded failures to a minimum. But students who consistently do poorly are returned to a traditional high school, Kent said.

"We're an alternative form of education, Richard Farr, subschool principal at Park, said staff members' there are concerned about student apathy and attitudes as well as unattempted or uncompleted assignments. In conjunction with a state-funded program, Farr said, Park volunteer teachers are putting a plan together this summer to combat the dropout and failure problems. At Horlick, subschool principal Robert Ware said a computer used by the school to notify parents of truant students has improved attendance dramatically. Officials hope to use the same computer this fall to telephone parents of students who are failing classes, said subschool principal Ralph Fcrraro. Walden III Principal Charles Kent said the school's small size, individualized instruction and scheduling practices keep By Len LaCara Journal Times RACINE Unified high school principals Monday said they have lots of programs in place to combat high dropout and failure rates.

The trick, said Superintendent of Schools Don Woods, is to find out which programs work. During a school board study session Monday night, administrators from Case, Horlick, Park and Walden III high schools outlined some of their programs. And one directing principal Walter Stenavich of Horlick warned against board members becoming overly concerned about failure rates. A few years ago, Stenavich said, universities complained high schools were inflat by strengthening its academic standards, he said. "I hope we're not going to be panicking because of a 13.6 percent (freshman) failure rate," Stenavich said.

I think we're doing fairly well." Jackson Parker, administrative assistant for planning, information and research, said his department plans to study why students are failing more, and whether improving students' transition from middle to high school would lower the rate. Joseph Mitchell, directing principal at Case, said his school will have three programs in place by this fall. The summer Standards program, Mitchell said, is helping about 50 students who have fallen behind in credit production. Starting this fall, suspended students will "I hope we're not going to be panicking because of a 13.6 percent (freshman) failure I think we're doing fairly well." Walter Stenavich, Horlick principal be detained in school, instead of being sent home or into the streets, he said. Also this tall, he said, students will help tutor their peers in some subject areas.

not an alternative form of failure," he said; At Washington Academy often a student's last stop before he or she drops oul for good Principal George Kurland said he has revamped course offerings for this fall. The emphasis, Kurland said, is to teach kids the basic, important things they need to know first, before they drop out of the program. The curriculum should teach kids what they need to function "on the streets," so to speak, Kurland said: they should be taught first how to fill out job applications, or how to get along with bosses and co-workers, or how local government works. ZsT' ready 51? EairD pocks Ooveo zens Against a Prison in Dover has-a membership of ten people some-; with "a lot of clout politically" who are ready to take he state to" court should Dover be selected as a-prison site. CAPD has opened a bank account-and has placed two advertisements." in a weekly newspaper soliciting, donations to the group.

Thompson. 37, of 21642 Durand' said she met group co-organ-; izer Carol Condrowski during a tel-1 evision interview in May. She sard; after the two had talked awhile about their feelings against the! prison, Condrowski said, "Let's; form a committee." Condroski said the group has plan of action, "but there's no reason to carry it out at this time." Thompson said she is not as excited about going to court as some of the committee" members, but prel-' its talking and writing to legisla By Don Schauf Journal Times DOVER All's quiet on the prison front, but town Chairwoman Lucille Sheahan said the silence isn't necessarily an indication the state has forgotien about her town as a possible site for a maximum security prison. Sheahan said Dover officials haven't heard a word from Gov. Anthony Earl's office about the prison since Earl withdrew his support for a plan which would have put a 300-inmate maximum security prison in Dover and a 200-inmate medium security prison in Milwaukee.

An outspoken opponent of a Dover prison. Sheahan said no news is not always good news. "I'm not sure if that's true in politics," she said. "I really don't know what to think." Just in case Earl. still is considering the Dover site, a citizens group has formed, and is "laying in wafk for him if he tries to put a prisi Paul Roberts, Journal Times tors.

"If the people can't stop this; thing, there's no lawyer in the world who can," she said. here, organizers say. Bernadette Thompson said Citi Working the high iron Mount Pleasant and western Racine residents are getting their water directly from the source at the lakefront these days. That's because the water tower on Perry Avenue south of Wright Avenue which normally supplies their water is out of commission for a thorough cleaning and painting. Employees of Best Painting working on the project, which will require 1,200 gallons of paint.

After it's scoured with sand and painted inside and out expected to take six to eight weeks the 72-foot-high tank will be refilled. Tractor pulling Thursday, Friday Ds Doaim plain) BinrespoirDSDlbD? reported, country singer Margo Smith will perform and 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Wednesday. The County Fair Queen will be crowned between Smith's performances.

The fair opens at noon. Wednesday. Thursday through Sunday, gates open at 8 a.m. and close about 11 p.m. Admission is $1 for children 9-11 and $3.50 for people over 11.

Season passes are $10. Children under 9 are admitted for free. Admission for senior citizens is $2 daily or $7.50 for a season pass. Journal Times staff UNION GROVE A story in Monday's Journal Times incorrectly listed times and dates for tractor and truck pulling contests scheduled at the Racine County Fair. The Badger State Tractor Pull will be at 7 p.m, Thursday and a tractor and truck pull is set for 7 p.m.- Friday.

The events will be in front of the grandstand. Also, country music singer John Conlee will perform at 6 and 9 p.m. Saturday at the grandstand. As previously that money, compared with about 5 percent it would pay for the tax-exempt short-term notes, Hanson said. "The market is good right now" for borrowing because interest rates are down, she said.

McCrea said the state treasury would need a $500 million surplus year-round to even out cashflow problems, a sum that Republicans would surely criticize as indicative of heavy taxation. "Our receipts and expenditures do not even out every single month," Hanson said. She said the state saved $7.5 million last year by borrow ing $350 million on the outside market rather than from other state funds. The money was repaid by June 17. The operating notes to be issued under the lat est plan would have to be repaid by June 30, 1986.

When the money was not being used to keep the state's checking account in the black, it would be invested, earning interest for the portunism." He said Prosser could have advocated delaying aid payments during discussions by the Legislature's budget-reviewing Joint Finance Committee or during debate on the budget that went into effect July 1. "The option is to delay payments to vendors or creditors," Doris Hanson, Earl's secretary of the Department of Administration, said. "That to me is bad fiscal management." She said that, under Republican Gov. Lee S. Dreyfus, "the state did not face up to its financial obligations" when the treasury ran short.

"We will not delay payments to vendors and creditors at their expense," she said. Without the $350 million in borrowing, there would be a deficit in the state treasury in November when the state is to make $455 million in shared revenue payments to local communities, the administration says. While the general fund might be able to make up the difference by borrowing from other state funds, it would have to pay 9 percent interest on MADISON (AP) A proposal to borrow $350 million to enable the state treasury to make aid payments to local governments on schedule in November was criticized Monday by a Republi-, can legislator as irresponsible. But a spokesman for Democratic Gov. Anthony S.

Earl said the loan tactic is sounder management than a cash-flow squeeze that forces the state to postpone it checks to municipalities and the contractors with whom it does business. The Earl administration said Wisconsin may have to obtain loans or "operating notes" to cover about $455 million in shared-revenue payments to local governments. The administration used the same technique two years ago during a treasury cash squeeze, and was criticized by Republicans. Rep. David Prosser, R-Appleton, said Monday the need to borrow $350 million despite a surplus June 30 of $349 million is "unmistakable fiscal mismanagement." But Ronald McCrea, Earl's news secretary, accused Prosser of "unmistakable political op Circus museum hopes to do parade again PiobDBc access to lake ypDnefld sumption of the board and the.

museum," Ingrassia said after board meeting Monday. Ironically, he said, the museum's! tourist attendance dropped off while; the wagons were absent for nine, days. jj "We killed ourselves at the Ingrassia said. "Now we are con-', fronted with a major deficit as a re-; suit ol our kindness." The attendance loss was 42 per-! cent and ticket revenue was short of anticipations, the board' was told. 1 But officials said the museum is-expected to finish the 1984 tourist season with revenue $14,000 ahedd ot expenses.

-1 BARABOO (AP) The organization operating the State Historical Society's Circus World Museum says it hopes Milwaukee will repeat this year's parade of the museum's restored circus wagons. "I think it was grander than anyone anticipated," said Paul Ingras-' sia, chairman of the Historic Sites Foundation's board. More than 70 of the museum's antique wagons, about hall of the collection, were featured in a July 14 parade. It was a resurrection of wagon parades conducted by Milwaukee from 1963-73. Sponsors are considering doing it again in 1986, and "that is the as XV -toush my mind the four roads.

UW researchers seek chemical effect study SHEBOYGAN (AP) A judge has upheld the public's access to Lake Michigan from four town roads in the Town of Holland two of which have been posted with no-trespassing signs by adjoining property owners. Sheboygan County Circuit Judge John G. Buchen upheld town ordinances prohibiting vehicles and horses on the beach but ordered the private property owners alongside Stokdyk-Ingeless and Van Ess roads to remove the no-trespassing and private-property signs posted where the pavement ends. The fact that the rights-of-way have not been maintained for vehicles does not affect their status as public highways as far as access to the Lake Michigan beach' by strollers or swimmers is concerned, Buchen ruled. But he said the public right-of-way was no larger than the widths of the roads in question three rods, or nearly 50 feet.

His' ruling also affected Foster and De Witt roads in the Town of Holland. Seven citizens had petitioned for a ruling that the public was 4 entitled to access to the beach from The decision was termed a victory for public access to lakes and rivers by Public Intervenor Kathleen Falk of Madison, who had filed a brief in the case. '-'There are hundreds if not more old town roads in the state that lead to lakes," she said. "They're usually not paved." James Hauer of Elm Grove, attorney for property owners along Stodyk-Ingeless and Van Ess Roads, had argued his clients were entitled to the rights-of-way because they had been assessed taxes on the disputed land. But Buchen ruled that a half century or more of use of paths to the beach extending from the ends of the roads amounted to an easement to the public.

Earlier this year, the state Court of Appeals ruled in a Taylor County case that there was no presumption that roads leading to navigable lakes are publicly owned. Falk said Buchen's ruling was important because he took into account the testimony from residents of the area that they had long used the roads for access to the lake. but it seemed more like a week. As stupid as this might sound, I was always the most excited about seeing the carnival rides, but when it came to riding them, I was the biggest chicken. Give me the Tilt-a-Whirl and the Scrambler, those were tame enough.

I liked life too much to ride the Rock-O-Plane like a ferris wheel with cages that turn upside down. My Sister Shellie loved the Rock-O-Plane. She and dad would climb on it, get their cage spinning faster than anybody else's and just have what they said was a great time. Shellie couldn't talk me onto that Rock-O-Plane even though she's two years younger than me and a girl. "That has nothing to do with it," I thought.

"She's just nuts." Shemigfil have been a braver rider than me, but I found redemption in the fact that I could throw a football through a tire at a midway game better than she could. I loved that game and the worthless stuffed animals I won playing it. There were other neat games like breaking balloons with darts, knocking milk bottles over ith a baseball and shooting a basketball through a miniature hoop. I remember watching the big, strong guys try to ring a bell by swinging a hammer, to win cigars. I couldn't wait until I got strong enough to try to ring that bell.

Maybe this year. By Don Schauf Journal Times UNION GROVE The Tuesday before the Racine County Fair was always a special day for me when I was a kid growing up here. In the summer months, Tuesday was the best day of the week because it was Little League Day and 15-cent Coney Dog Day at the local drive-in restaurant. But the Tuesday before the fair was the best Tuesday of all it was the day the carnival rides and games came to town. Word of the first long truck pulling into the fairground loaded with its colorful cargo, spread quickly in my neighborhood.

Todd or D.J. would tell me about it, or I'd find out first and tell them. Then I would bug my folks all afternoon to drive me past the fairground so I could see the rides being put together. Then I'd have to put my fair anxiety on hold for two whole days, until Thursday. Thursday was Kids' Day, with reduced ride prices.

Mom said we couldn't go to the fair until then. I'd brag to Todd and J. about how I was going to get in for nothing because my dad worked as an admission ticket seller. I would have gotten in free anyway because I was under 9-years-old, but it's nice for a little squirt to have something to brag about. After a nervous and restless Wednesday night.

Kid's Day finally came. It was only two days Tuesday through Thursday MADISON (AP) Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Madison are planning to request again funding for a study on how combinations of chemicals affect men and animals. Thomas Yuill. professor of veterinary sciences and medicine, said the proposed study would allow researchers to take a more "realistic approach" in determining what impact pollutants have in nature instead of in sterile laboratories where, most animal research is conducted. "We're trying to have a look at environmental factors that may influence the.

way animals are affected." Yuill said. Those environmental factors include the availability of food and water, temperature changes and occurrence of diseases, he said. Yuill said he and two colleagues had an earlier $810,000 proposal rejected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency due to budget limitations. He said a scaled-down funding request would now be sub mitted.

Most studies on the health effects of chemicals don't consider m)re than one chemical or environmental factor, he said. But low levels lof several chemicals have been detected in the same well in nature, and scientists aren't sure what effects, of the combinations of chemicals are on health. "This problem of multiple contamination is not unique to Wisconsin." the state congressional delegation said in a letter to EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas in suppport of the proposed study. "Unfortunately, few studies eist which analyze the possible health problems these substances rriay cause after long-term, multiple exposure." If the new funding request is approved, Yuill said researchers hope to develop a model to test for up tq eight variables at a I "Ultimately, what we want to is to take this to the field, out in nature, where it really be said.

Steer brings $86 a pound urday night. James Kennedy, fair board president, said he thought the WEST SALEM AP) The college fund for the children in the Don Temp family of rural Coon Valley has grown extensively following the sale for $107,930 of the champion steer at the La Crosse Interstate Fair's junior livestock auction. Keener, a 1.255-DOUnd Steer price may be a national record. Cindy is one of six Temp children, all of whom have exhibited beef cattle in many fairs and shows. Three of the children have graduated from the 4-H program.

TVin Tpmn caiH mnitfv his rhil- dren have won in shows and sales shown by 19-year-oid Cindy Tem(ft was sold for $36 a pound to Cub Foods, which outbid IGA Foods for the Chianina-Angus cross steer Sat has been put in a trust fund for all of them..