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A A- the Journal Timet, Thursday, Fab. 21, 1985 Racine, Wit. 3A Lake muni IbimSlldlSmigs get ffinvaH OK By Lori Bergetrom one of the developers, said today. Anderson said he and his partners originally had hoped to open the indoor mall by the summer of 1986. Realistically, he said, they now will aim for the spring of 1987.

Anderson and four other principal backers make up the firm Northwestern Trunk and Traveling Bag Manufactory Ltd. which plans to revamp the four city-owned buildings on the east side of the 400 block of Lake Avenue and connect them to the former J.C. Penney building across the street. The firm will pay for the skyway, which some potential tenants, but didn't want to beginning the fifth year, for a total of $500,000, the amount the city paid for the buildings with federal funds. The agreement gives the firm 60 days to hire a lease agent.

It gives the developers three, three-month periods to get tenants while having options to buy the buildings. They'll get the first three-month period at no charge and will pay $5,000 for each of the two remaining periods. The executive committee and the council gave unanimous approval to the agreement, which Anderson said probably will be signed in about two weeks, after technical details are worked out. Journal Timet RACINE By the spring of 1987, you may be able to listen to live music while watching boats on the harbor, and then wander inside to shop and eat In rejuvenated old buildings. At least that's the hope of local developers, whose $4.5 million plan for five buildings on Lake Avenue got final city council approval Wednesday.

"We're very happy it has finally gotten to this point. We still feel it has tremendous potential," Brian Anderson, 'We're very happy it has finally gotten to this point. We still feel it has tremendous potential. Brian Anderson, developer the city originally had been asked to fund, said Thomas Wright, director of city development. Anderson said the firm already has pursue any agreements until council approval was received.

The firm plans to lease space to speciality shops and restaurants, he said. Upper levels will be used as office space, Wright has said. Anderson said without the proposed harbor and festival park, any development down there probably would not make it it's all needed." He said the harbor and festival park will succeed better with the building development. Wright told the council's executive committee Wednesday that the plan calls for payment over a 29-year period, City buying Johnsotii) Coop. be done with general obligation bonds and revenues from the downtown tax incremental finance district, which allows the city to keep tax gains from development which would otherwise go to the county and school system.

In other action, the council: ACCEPTED the bids of John Lynch Chevrolet-Pontiac Sales, Burlington, for 15 police squad cars for $129,354, including trade-ins. Also accepted was the bid of Ber-man-Shaver Chevrolet of Racine for a patrol wagon for $7,861 Including trade-in. APPROVED the use of Monument Square for the 23rd annual Monument Square Art Fair to be held June 8 and 9. Since 1967, the art fair has been held at the Racine YMCA. BOUGHT two salt spreaders and three snowplows for a total of $16,509 from Monroe Truck Equipment Milwaukee.

ACCEPTED the donation of equipment for a lakefront fitness trail from St. Luke's Hospital. The equipment, costing $5,500, is to be installed along a 1.5 mile jogging trail along the lakefront from 7th Street, to 11th Street. In addition, the council gave approval for the use of city streets for St. Luke's annual Blue and Gold Lakeshore Family Run May 18 from 8 to a.m.

By Sean P. Devlin Journal Timet RACINE The city will buy 14,300 square feet of land in the 200 block of Main Street from the Johnson Redevelopment Corp. City council members approved spending $140,000 for the land, a figure much less than the $400,000 the corporation claims to have put into purchase and clearing of the area. The city has agreed to build a 220-space parking ramp there, partly to serve occupants of the Shoop building at 215 State which Johnson Redevelopment is renovating into office space. Besides agreeing to buy the land, the council approved up to $92,000 for architectural and engineering services for the ramp by Torke, Wirth, Pujara of Milwaukee.

The ramp, expected to cost $1.6 million, will be built on the city parking lot land just south of the Shoop Building and on a portion of the land being bought from Johnson Redevelopment, according to Thomas Wright, director of city development. Wright said designs call for the ramp to be partially underground, rising only 30 feet above street level. He said construction is expected to begin Sept. 1, with financing to I Paul Robert. Journal Timet 'Remember, thou art dust The Rev.

James Kaestner, rector at St. Luke's Episcopal night. Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent, the 40-Church; dispensed ashes during a service Wednesday day period of preparation for Easter. Prison) sote Brewers win round against state HlbSr Yf i t- rinvm vet arp S2 million froi none of which have oeen down yet, are $2 million from nauea Journal Times the federal government, $2.7 million from state fuel tax funds, and $1.5 million from federal community de Parrish's order "stops the state's steamroller" and marks "a red-letter day for the city." Mayor Henry Maier RACINE County officials are considering hiring an individual or firm to help the county raise money for its harbor and marina projects. County Board Chairman Hubert Braun today said the county executive's office doesn't have enough staff members to work on various grant proposals, so outside help is being considered.

"There are various sources of funding," Braun said, and competition is getting stiifer. Hiring an outsider to help get money doesn't mean any potential grants have been denied, Braun said. The county has agreed to borrow The mayor said Parrish's order "stops the state's steamroller" and marks "a red-letter day for the city." Maier said it eases concerns about the Brewers' ability to remain economically comfortable in Milwaukee and allows the city to concentrate on retaining the Milwaukee Bucks, whose National Basketball Association franchise is for sale. The state says the prison, a campus-like complex separated from the stadium by an expressway and parking lot, would be only partially visible to stadium patrons. "We are disappointed that our efforts to solve the prison-overcrowding problem have been delayed once again," Earl said in a statement.

Construction of the Portage prison is nearing completion, and work is underway on another new prison near Oshkosh. Despite development of the Portage and Oshkosh prisons, more space is needed to alleviate velopment block grant money. Braun said he and County Executive Leonard Ziolkowski will be going to Washington, D.C., next month to discuss federal funding with officials there. The county board's executive committee will discuss the harbor issues Monday and they'll be before the full county board at a Tuesday committee of the whole meetings Braun said a recent change in design of the marina project may mean a $500,000 cut in projected cost. The county also is in the process of selling some land near Regency Mall at a cost of $829,000 and MILWAUKEE (AP) The Milwaukee Brewers have won a temporary restraining order against Gov.

Anthony S. Earl's plans to build a prison that the American League club says could discourage attendance at Milwaukee County Stadium. Linda Reivitz, Earl's secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services, predicted the Circuit Court order will not permanently halt development of the penitentiary. The Brewers, for whom Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth testified during a Circuit Court hearing last week, had asked Judge Clarence R. Parrish to halt site preparation until he could rule on whether Reivitz' department had written a satisfactory environmental impact statement.

The club argues a 450-inmate prison in the industrialized Menomonee River Valley near a stadium parking lot could have a chilling effect on ticket sales, and that the state did not adequately study alternative sites. In his temporary restraining order Wednesday, Parrish said there was reason to believe the prison influence "could cause irreparable harm" to the Brewers. He also questioned the state's arguments that a prison would "accelerate development" in the valley and encourage a rise in property values. No date was immediately set for a hearing to determine if the temporary restraining order should become a permanent one. "We expect to prevail in the Legislature's directive to build a prison in the Menomonee Valley," Reivitz told an interviewer in Madison.

"This is not the first time that efforts to reduce serious overcrowding in our state correctional institutions have been sidetracked," she $4.5 million for harbor improve- much of that money has been ear- congestion at Waupun State Prison, Wisniewski ments and $9.3 million for construe- marked for the harbor projects. tion of a 922-boat slip manna. It In November, county officials said. said, citing court objections that delayed construction of a central Wisconsin prison in Portage. The Brewers also argue the state's environmental impact statement is inadequate on grounds it underestimates the security risk of traffic jams blocking a prison driveway entrance during stadium events.

The state had planned to start construction of the $51.5 million facility in June. It is already clearing a 46.3-acre riverside tract purchased from the Milwaukee Road. At a hearing Feb. 13. the state argued it did not have to consider alternative sites because the Legislature specifically authorized the Menomonee Valley railroad yard.

Ueberroth joined the Brewers is saying Milwaukee's professional baseball market cannot afford an unnecessary burden on patronage. He described the Brewers as a "jewel which shouldn't be lost." American League President Bobby Brown, Brewers President Allan H. "Bud'' Selig. and Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago White Sox, also testified. Mayor Henry Maier has also objected to the Menomonee Valley prison, saying he does not want a penitentiary built anywhere in the city.

The issue has contributed to a political feud between Earl and Maier, both Democrats. predicted the harbor and marina projects would cost about $21 also has gotten the a city of Racine committment for $1 million. More potential funding sources, More VTAE money asked "We have prison overcrowding," he said. "People seem to forget that we had a riot at WaUpun a couple years ago, caused in part by overcrowding." He referred to a disturbance that lasted several hours and which inmates told legislators was intended to encourage an investigation of the treatment of an inmate who had hanged himself. Reivitz, whose department includes the Division of Corrections, said Waupun is 10 percent over stated capacity, Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun is 38 percent beyond capacity, and the Green Bay penitentiary is about 33 percent over capacity.

kee Area Technical College, complained Wednesday to the Legislature's budget-writing Joint Finance Committee that Gov. Anthony S. Earl proposes to hold the state's VTAE subsidy at 29 percent of operating costs. It was almost 37 percent in 1978, he said. MADISON (AP) The Legislature could restore its funding of the state's vocational, technical and adult education system (VTAE) to 1970s levels by appropriating the same amount proposed for University of Wisconsin salary increases, a college spokesman says.

Rus Slicker, director of Milwau wtier, owtier, The present Richard Kiekenbush, took over UW system faculty advisers 'disenfranchised, panel told White Oaks landmark The news media called the White Oaks Restaurant a "landmark" when it was destroyed by fire last week. A landmark it was in my memory. It has been there for more than 30 years and it has built quite a reputation. Of course, being a member of the Burlington Rotary Club, it has fond memories for me. It was in 1959, when I was president of the club, that we moved to White Oaks for our weekly meetings.

That was back when Charlie and Katie Dunkel owned it Charlie naa ouui me piace a opened, Katie did the cooking. It was smaller then, but Charlie quickly expanded it. The ifJt Don i i r- i eight or nine years ago He had started as a dishwasher in the place and had worked his way up until he finally purchased the establishment. Charlie and Katie are now retired. I remember in 1959, when the Rotary Club had to move from its former location at the Colonial Club, Howard "Bindo" Harlow, who was then vice-president, and I sat in a booth at the White Oaks and made a deal for the Rotarians to meet there.

I think the cost of the noon meal at that time was $1.25. Of course, the Rotary Club was not the only organization to lose a home. The Burlington Lions Gub met there, plus its auxiliary the Lionesses. The Business and Professional Women's Gub mej there, in fact they were to meet the night of the fire. Several other organizations also met there.

Losses to those organizations must have been great. In the case of the Rotary, the losses amounted to about $2,500 in equipment. I was out there Monday and retrieved our meeting bell, the bell which is rung to call the meeting to order It was badly scarred from the fire, but salvageable. A local firm, the Wagner Specialty Co is going to refinish it for us. But the other things will have to be replaced, like the past presidents' plaque.

It contained the 60-some names and the years they served of all the past presidents since the club started in 1924. Thank gosh the Standard Press had run the names of the past presidents a year or so ago. But as for the White Oaks, in all the years we have met out there, I can say I never had a meal that I didn't like. Sure there have been meals I wouldn't order off the menu, but there never has been a meal that was not good. I sure hope Rich Kiekenbush decides to rebuild, as I think Burlington would appreciate many more years of his efficient operation.

neea establishment did not havp a liminr license those at Madison, but do not want to see It worsen. If fair comparisons had been made of what "peer institutions" pav their faculties, bigger salary increases would have been proposed for campuses outside Madison and Milwaukee, Haven said. If the plan were adopted, the disparity between salaries at the "flagship" campus and other campuses would be greater than anywhere else in the country, he added. UW President Robert O'Neil. who is leaving Wisconsin to become president of the University of Virginia later this year, told the committee the salary disparity between campuses in Virginia is twice that at UW.

"That is not considered strange or unusual or unfair in Virginia," he said. 'It's a (act of life." "If it's not fair, then it's not fair all over the country." Regent President Ben Lawton of Marshfield said. One of UW's arguments for pay disparities is that faculty members in Madison are more likely to be lured to other colleges than professors elsewhere in the lW system. Steinman said that, like faculty members, some of the best academic staff members have been lured to private industry by higher salaries. She cited a UW report that a counselor paid $16,000 by UW went to a job elsewhere, and a specialist in computer science left a $28,000 UW position for a $58,500 job elsewhere.

On another matter, officials from the Marquette University School of Dentistry and the Medical College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee told the committee that Earl's proposal to freeze state subsidies for their students would hurt the quality of education they could provide. MADISON (API Faculty advisers are in line for even more neglect than many professors under the University of Wisconsin system proposed "catch-up" faculty pay plan, a legislative committee has been told. The pav-increase plan endorsed by the Board of Regents and included in Gov. Anthony S. Earl's 1985-87 budget bill provides lower pay raises to faculty members outside the central campus at Madison.

But it provides no pay raises whatsoever to more than two-fifths of the counselors, advisers and others who are lumped into category of "academic staff. witnesses told a Senate Education and Government Operations Committee hearing Wednesday. "I don't think disenfranchised is too strong a word to describe these people." Sara Steinman of I'W-Milwauk-ee said. Douglas Lueck. also of said "It's a betrayal of trust They have a moral obligation to provide catch-up to all academic staff." Barbara DeCleene of UW-Green Bay said there is talk among her colleagues at various campuses of forming a union.

Steinman said academic staff members are underpaid about $3,000 each per year, depending on their jobs. i Lueck said librarians are worst off. but they are among those due for at least some increase in pay in the catch-up plan. Professor Richard Haven, chairman of the UW-Whi-tewater faculty senate, said his colleagues accept the year difference between their salaries and it could only serve beer. But there were good meals served.

I can remember going out there when my daughter. Donna, was a little girl. Audrey Wilson was our waitress most of the time and she would see that Donna got everything she wanted. I also remember the night the Burlington Town Board granted the White Oaks a liquor license Charlie threw quite a party at the Palace Lanes in Burlington. As a membei of the press corps.

I was invited and we sure had a good time. That was after 1959. because when Rotary moved out there, there was no liquor license. However, on special holidays, Charlie would concoct some special drinks for the Rotanans. like Tom it Jerry's at Christmas.

It would all be "on the house'' so really the law was not being violated..