The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 31

SECTION the Journal Times, Sunday, ug. 17, 1975 Ririne, wis acobson's store breathes its last breath ainiiaunMfii.ua ffW? i smtwym" tftspfsvcg-" mm wywf By David Pfankuchen Journal Times Staff The last page on the calendar has arrived for a family business started here 63 years ago as a cleaning, pressing and tailoring shop by Jacob Jacobson, a Pole who made his way to Racine by way of London and Philadelphia. Jacobson 's Menswear, 1015 16th the last vestige of Jacobson's Department Store, will close at the end of the month. William Jacobson and his brother, Joseph, have been selling out to the bare walls since spring. They've been successful.

There's not much merchandise left. A few shirts, some belts, some slacks: Mostly, the racks and shelves are empty. The walls are largely bare. "We didn't decide to go out of business because we weren't doing business here," William said. "We were getting on.

It was time to retire." The Jacobson business phaseout began last year. After selling the buildings at 1009-15 16th to S.C. Johnson Son Inc. for $75,000 last summer, the Jacobsons closed the women's and children's wear sections of the store at Thanksgiving. A sister, Miss Rae Jacobson, operated the women's department, a brother-in-law, Edward Rosenzweig, the' children's department.

It was the Jacobsons' father, Jacob, who started it all. Born in Poland, Jacob Jacob-son emigrated to England. There, William said, he worked in London for the British government during the Boer War (1899-1902). "From London he went to Philadelphia." William said, "because we had an uncle there. In Philadelphia, someone mentioned Racine as being a good industrial area where one could make a living.

That prompted our move here." Of the seven Jacobson children (five girls, two boys), five were born in London, one in Philadelphia (William) and one in Racine (Mrs. Edward Rosenzweig). When Jacob got here, he opened a cleaning, pressing and tailoring shop at 1815 16th St. William fixes the year as 1912. Soon, clothing was added.

"Actually," said William, "people put him in that business. They came to him and wanted work shirts and trousers work clothing and we were able to supply them from local sources, places like Racine Shirt Co." About 1920, Jacobson shifted his business to the building at 1009-11 16th St. and was operating it as a department, or dry goods, store. The adjoining building at 1015 16th, where the menswear operation is breathing its last, came later. In the 1920s, the neighborhood was distinctly a working man's neighborhood, William recalled.

Immigrants including Poles, Slavs and Lithuanians were moving in and taking jobs at -m vi ifi-i Journal Times Photo by William Lizdas William Jacobson, left, and his brother Joseph, proprietors of Jacobson's menswear store. places like Mitchell Motor Car Wallis Tractor and J.I. Case. In addition to wearing apparel, the store in those days carried everything from window shades, linoleum and mattresses to piecegoods and pillow-ticking. "We had a general merchan dise store, selling things people needed for their daily living," William said.

"My father was able to speak their languages. That helped considerably." Jacob retired in 1927. He died in 1947. At retirement, he left Jacobson's Department Store in the hands of William and Joseph, his two sons; Edward Rosenzweig, his son-in-law; and his daughter, Rae Jacobson. The store did business with numerous families for more than three generations, William said, and also developed an international clientele people in town from places like Lebanon, Spain, Italy, Germany and Kenya to do business, say, at S.C.

Johnson Son, across the street, were Jacobson customers. "There will always be room for a good independent merchant," William said. "It's more personalized. You get to know your customer. He's not just a number.1' A spokesman for S.C.

Johnson Son said the Jacobson store buildings probably will be torn down. There are no plans at present for developing the site, the spokesman said is the Journal llntes Real estate offices to move The residential real estate offices of N. Christensen Son Real Estate 1354 State will move to 1100 N. Main St. by the end of October.

At the Main Street address, the offices will occupy a now-vacant former donut shop purchased by the real estate firm earlier this year. The building is being remodeled. The firm's commercial and industrial real estate operations will remain at 1354 State said Christensen Vice Pres. Robert H. Crimmings.

Crimmings said eight brokers will be working out of the Main Street building. Moxness picks sales manager Gerald E. Symeon has been appointed sales manager at Moxness Products 1914 Indiana the silicone engineering division of Versa Technologies, Inc. As director of the division's sales and marketing department, he assumes responsibility for customer and order service, market development and field sales coordination. Symeon comes to Moxness from the General Electric Co.

in Water-ford, N.Y., where he spent seven years working in silicone rubber product engineering, technical marketing and silicone sales. Copper, zinc mining planned RHINELANDER (AP) Noranda Exploration Co. has notified the Department of Natural Resources of plans to begin copper and zinc open pit mining near Rhinelander. The firm, a subsidiary of Noranda Mines of Toronto, said that in April it found copper and zinc ore in exploratory drillings on land owned by Consolidated Papers Inc. eight miles southeast of Rhinelander in the Town of Pelican.

Consolidated Chairman George W. Mead II said the start of operations would depend upon environmental and other governmental approval and could take as long as five to seven years. Consolidated would be paid royalities. The area is expected to produce 1,000 tons of ore a day for 10-14 vears. Noranda said.

Bomber', lawyers con hurt divorce coses JJane clQuinn each other, doing a pas de deux that raises their fees while leaving their clients wiped out, both emotionally and financially. Instead, make sure your own lawyer is a divorce expert Bombers eat new lawyers, and real estate or corporation lawyers, for lunch. And see that he does thorough work. A careful and sympathetic lawyer can expose the bomber's tactics while leaving the door open for both you and your spouse to come to your senses and negotiate in good faith. Id 1975, The Woshingtori Post Co large a fee.

Many divorced people say that they had a fairly good understanding with their spouses until the lawyer entered the picture. If you find yourself in the hands of a bomber, the smartest thing you can do is change lawyers. The more bitter a divorce, the longer it is in healing. You could spend years in thrall to the angers a bomber stirred up. If you're confronted with these tactics from your spouse's lawyer, don't get a bomber of your own.

These lawyers feed on they're not, the poison he spreads will blight your relationship with your children and your ex-spouse for years to come. The Matrimonial Section of the New York State Trial Lawyers Assn. (NYSTLA) recently drew up a code of professional responsibility for matrimonial lawyers, in hopes of isolating the dirty tactics. Their goal is to follow it up with a peer review board, where angry lawyers could bring complaints against those in their profession who violated the code. This doesn't sound as if it will do much to protect the public from the consequences of vicious lawyering, but it's certainly better than the what-we-can-do-about-it attitude that now pervades much of the legal profession.

It's NYSTLA 's belief however, that peer review will indeed help the public. Violators NEW YORK A is a divorce lawyer who will do anything to win. He'll encourage perjury, bug apartments, conceal income, lure people into compromising situations, file harassing motions, and try to starve or blackmail the opponent into submission. Some people, when they want a divorce, seek out a bomber. They may think he'll do better for them than a lawyer who's less mean-spirited.

Or they've grown so bitter over the years that the thought of starving or blackmailing their spouses fills them with nasty pleasure. Other people stumble upon a bomber by accident, and let him lead them down a far more punitive path than they might have chosen themselves. Whatever your motives, hiring a bomber can often hurt your cause more than help it. If his perjuries are exposed, it will go hard with your side. And even if will be better publicized throughout the court system, which should make it harder for them to employ their tactics with success.

NYSTLA hopes the code will spread to other states! Here are some of the practices it deplores, according to Elaine Sheps, co-chairman of the Matrimonial Section, and Bernard Selkowe, chairman of its ethics committee: 1. Bombers lead you to believe they can get you more than what's reasonable, by such Racine native appointed Dennis W. Kozich, a Racine native, has been named corporate attorney for Marion Laboratories, Kansas City; Mo. Kozich has been deputy counsel for the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services. In Racine he was a trust administrator for First National Bank Trust Co.

Public employe groups ion rolls helped build un statements as "we'll let her hang." or "we'll push him to the wall." You then may resent the final settlement when you have no call to do so. 2. They advise husbands to pay a wife nothing, not even for the children. If she has no funds of her own, this tactic can force her onto welfare or starve her into submission. They advise wives to run up bills, and blackmai! husbands by denying them access to the children.

They may file a child custody suit for the sole purpose of terrifying the wife. Tactics like these can destroy any hope of an amicable relationship in the future. 3. If a wife has no ready cash of her own, a bomber may deny her effective counsel. He does it by challenging the size of the fee her lawyer asks (if the husband is to pay it), then filing a blizzard of motions that will cost the lawyer more than his reduced fee will cover.

This reduces his incentive to pursue the case. Where the wife pays the fee, the bomber will stir up enough work to exhaust her money. She then may be forced to accept an unfair settlement. 4. He encourages or even procures false testimony, to prove the husband a bounder, the wife a tart, or either a monster to the children.

And whereas it's simple to make charges, it's an expensive and complex matter to prove them untrue in court. 5. He won't permit a client to take a forgiving attitude. After all, if he can't, whip up a contested situation, he won't get as Kozich about three quarters of the overall increase was attributed to Sugar price hikes natural: FTC WASHLNGTON (AP) The Federal Trade Commission says iho last year's 400 per cent rise in raw sugar prices resulted from natural market forces, but warned its study was not exhaustive. In a staff report released Tuesday, FTC economists acknowledged they had not conducted an "extensive inquiry" into possible industry acts to raise sugar prices artificially and cautioned against "conclusions regarding collusions in any segment of the industry." The FTC economists said that the study was based upon industry, government and university data.

Based on those facts, the economists concluded that weather and past low prices combined to depress 1974 sugar production around the world causing the price rise. "On the basis of this information, there appears to be littic evidence that the explosion of raw sugar prices in late 1974 was duo to anything other than natural market forces." the report said "However, no extensive inquiry as to the possibility of collusive activities was made and, therefore, no conclusions collusion in any segment of the industry should be It added, "The highly inelastic nature of demand for sugar makes the product vulnerable to very large increases in price in response to relatively small reductions in the quantity The FTC's bureau of economics said there is a need for intensive investigation" of the industry's method of setting wholesale prices for refined sugar, which "can and does introduce some distortions and inequities into regional markets." "A freight basing point system can also be used as a device to facilitate collusion on prices," the report said in reference to the sugar industry's practice of setting area prices for sugar deliveries without regard to distance from a refinery to customer. The FTC staff discounted theories that sugar prices soared last year because Congress dropped sugar price supports, because of Cost of Living Council regulations or because of an attempt by sugar exporting countries to restrict supplies. Sugar prices have dropped for last year's high levels in recent months. Pulp mill proposal splits community WASHINGTON (AP) The rapid growth in the unionization of public employes helped push total membership in U.S.-based labor unions and employe associations to 24.2 million in 1974, an increase of I.I million or nearly five per cent over 1972, the Labor Department reports.

During the two-year period, labor unions added some members to the role for the biggest two-year gain since 1967-68, increasing the total 3.4 per cent to 21.6 million members, the government said. At the same time, membership of employe associations, which rose 17.5 per cent, reached 2.6 million, an increase of nearly 400,000. Nearly four-fifths of the increase was reported by the National Education Association, the nation's largest teacher organization, which now lists 1.7 million members. The figures were based on information provided the Bureau of Labor Statistics by 173 unions and 36 professional and state public employes associations. The total figures include the Canadian membership of these organizations.

As a proportion of the total labor force, membership of both union and employe associations had been declining. However, the growth and organizing over the past two years has reversed the downward trend and membership in both types of organizations increased from 24.3 to 24.5 per cent of the total labor force over the past two years. The Labor Department said successful organizing activity in the public sector, where over 800,000 new members were recruited since 1972. Union and association members employed in white-collar jobs totalled 5.9 million in 1974, an increase of 673,000 over the two-year period. White-collar workers now account for 24.3 per cent of all members, compared with 22.5 per cent in 1972.

Female membership in unions and associations over the two-year period rose by nearly 300,000 to six million, the government said. However, as the proportion of total membership, women have remained at 29.4 per cent since 1972. Australian dealer impressed by Case not discouraged them from considering the site, although they admit other sites, including two in Vermont across the river, are still under study. A vote on the zoning is expected this month or next and Citizens for Walpole has vowed to fight against a change. Some residents say the fervor behind the opponents' drive may bring about approval of the zoning change.

"Some who are undecided are saying they want to vote for the mill just to get rid of Citizens for says Robert L. Graces, chairman of the town's board of selectmen and a backer of the mill. He claims the opposition is "fighting too hard." Stevens admits that many of the 50 key members of Citizens for Walpole are not long-time residents. But he claims that those opposing the mill also include tradesmen, farmers and persons whose grandfathers lived in the town. Stevens 'says his group is not against industry, but would rather see smaller and cleaner operations come into the area.

The Dartmouth report and others have called for an objective, in-depth study of the mill's economic potential, as well as Its social and environmental impact. Gov. Meldrim Thomson, a strong backer of the mill, says such a study is unnecessary. The company also has hired Arthur D. Little to conduct an environmental study, but a spokesman said it may not be released to the.

public. WALPOLE, N.H. (AP) A proposal to build a $200 million pulp mill has split this 213-year-old community with many of the arguments centering over the economy versus the environment. "The town is so divided on this that I've seen husbands and wives turn on each other and swing a fist," says Austin N. Stevens, a member of Citizens for Walpole, a group fighting the mill.

Stevens' group was formed after Walpole citizens voted 252-153 at their town meeting In March to welcome the mill. The proposal for the construction comes from Parson Whittemore, a New York-based conglomerate. To this day the company has not made a firm commitment to build in Walpole, though it has bought an option on 600 acres of farmland near the town. At the time of the March vote, many Walpole officials said a mill would lower taxes, boost employtaient and help business. A recent report by researchers at Dartmouth College indicated the mill would hire 500 persons and attract from 200 to 400 new persons to Walpole.

The opposition claims the mill will pollute the air and destroy the region's tranquility. Parsons Whittemore still must secure a zoning change before it can build on its chosen site. Officials of Parsons Whittemore have said the conflict has I 1 1 I I people living in the country get their share of the cake." An avid cricket fan (He is a trustee for a cricket field in Sidney, Australia), O'Keefe began his International tour last month when he traveled to England to see matches involving the Australian national cricket team. "I Joined the team in Birmingham and traveled with them to Hove, Sheffield, and London." He said he hasn't had time to see the agricultural areas surrounding Racine, although he noticed cornfields here much larger than those In Australia, where 80 to 100 acres is considered a large corn farm. Wheat, not corn, is the major crop in his district, with farms of 1,200 to 2,000 acres, he said.

He said he was amazed at the size of Case's operations here and impressed with the city itself. "I like your residential section, your waterfront, your business section the whole layout," he said. By Robert A. Frahm Journal Timet Staff A funny thing happened to Frank 6'Keefe on his way back to Australia from cricket matches in London and talks with oil company executives in New York. He stopped in Racine.

A member of Australia's parliament, has a natural tie to Racine through the J.I. Case whose tractors he sells to wheat farmers in New South Wales. "I've represented the Case Co. In Gunnedah, New South Wales, for 35 years," said the gray-haired O'Keefe, 60. "I just wanted tq come to Racine and meet the Case executives who I've been doing business with for so many years." O'Keefe, in fact, said he's connected with a variety of businesses in the agricultural district he represents In parliament.

Besides being a Case dealer, he is an oil distributor and co-founder of a livestock processing plant. His parliamentary district, covering 25,000 square miles, produces wheat, wool, meat, dairy products, cattle, hogs "You name it, as far as agriculture is concerned, and we've got it in our district." He said his first contact with Case came in 1934, when Case sent a pickup h'ay bailer to Gunnedah, the first such machine ever sold in Australia. He started his dealership later, a dealership he still controls, despite other duties. "I sign all the checks, value the trade-ins, and keep my finger on the business," he said. "They (Case) are a wonderful company," said O'Keefe.

"I've made a lot of money in their product." His other duties include parliament, where legislators contend with Inflation, unemployment, and "huge wage demands being made by trade unions," he said. He is a member of the conservative Country Party, The party was formed, he said, "so FRANK O'KEEFE I.