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the Journal Times, Tueiday, July 20, 1976 A ftate (cash Iot bmm gyirged (lielournalnics Police beat busing one child l'A miles and not every child 1'4 miles." Nelson urged the committee to approve a plan that would allow busing for desegregation as close as one mile to school, Not only were more minority students assigned to new schools under desegregation, but many had to walk further, Nelson said. "MOST WHITE KIDS weren't affected by this plan," he said, Lowell McNeill, who tried to set the distance at miles but later compromised at said, "I believe one mile Is too short for a child to be bused," The committee decided not to recommend busing for 34 children attending magnet schools (Fine Arts, Fundamental, and Red Apple) and 84 students In the former Howell School area reassigned to Fratt School since 1970 when Howell was torn down. those protests jeopardized the desegregation plan. "You would have seen the plan fall apart If those students weren't transported," he told the Joint Finance-Property Committee. Although some board members argued Unified should not change its policy of no busing under two miles, the Joint committee recommended a plan that would bus the following children who live between l'4 miles and two miles from their new schools NINETY-TWO children to Wadewltz School from the former Jefferson School area.

Those children live Just under two miles from Wadewltz. FORTY-ONE children to Mitchell School from the former Stephen Bull School area. FIVE students to Knapp School from the former Wlnslow School area. Students from the former Janes School By Robert A. Frahm Journal Tlmoi Staff Busing may be available for tome, but not all, of those students who protested when they wound up with longer walks to school under Racine Unlfled's desegregation plan last fall.

A joint School Board committee recommended a plan Monday that would use state money to bus students reassigned because of desegregation and who live more than l' miles from school. IF APPROVED, the plan will pay for busing about 140 of the 250 children, most of them black or Latino, who wound up being bused with about $10,000 In private donations last year, after parents protested the long walks that resulted when Unified desegregated. Supt. of Schools C. Richard Nelson said area, however, still would have to walk 1 to 1'4 miles to Roosevelt School or get private donations for busing, at they did last Parents of those studentt had protested the Roosevelt assignment because of long walks.

Monday's committee proposal takes advantage of a new state law, called the Coma bill (after sponsor Rep. Dennis Conta, D-MII-waukee), which allowt Unified to be paid for the full cost of all busing for desegregation, regardless of distance, THE PLAN Is expected to be debated when it comes before the School Board Aug. 9, but approval Is likely. Preliminary approval did not come easily, however, as board members debated what distance to bus students or whether to bus them under two miles at all. "Our policy Is no busing under two miles," said Earl Bell.

"I don't know how we justify Schenk, 46, of Greenfield. Schenk had failed to stop at a stop sign on Highway J. INJURED Berthie Dettman, 73, 1133'i Monroe In satisfactory condition at St. Luke's Hospital with a hip fracture from a fall In her home. Susan A.

Letizia, 24, and Daniel Letizia, 2, listed In fair condition at Burlington Memorial Hospital with Injuries from a car accident at the Intersection of Highway and Highway A. Letizia and Daniel were thrown from their car after they collided with a car driven by Herman ftaclM City Council, City Hall, p.m. today. Raclnt City Council tKacutlvo Com-mlttoo, City Hall, 7:30 p.m. today.

Radix Norttaldt Rodovolopmont yltory Commlttoo, City Mall, p.m. today. Raclno Tranttt and Parting Commit-(Ion, City Hall, i p.m. Wtdnatday. Sturtovant Vlllago Board, Vlllapo Hall, 7: Jo p.m.

today. -r rrrr, Mt Pleasant residents oppose new dumping ll 1 I 1 I iV tJI- I Deaths I wo i iff -v Ail i 7 Other considerations, he said, Include hard data on the expected life of the landfill site. "THEY TELL US the life expectancy of the site Is 40 years, then they propose doubling the input and still talk about a 40 year life," he said. "It seems to me If the life is 40 years and you double the input, you have to cut that life expectency by half. As far as dumping hazardous materials, Vanhaverbeke said, Oakes would have to request a modification In the present agreee-ment.

He added, however, there Is a real concern about the effect of those materials on wells in the area. "We asked a DNR representative last night if he could guarantee us there would be no pollution of water supplies and he said he could not," Vanhaverbeke said. "Still I think the Town Board has to take a good and rational and selfish look at the question, particularly in terms of the life of the landfill site," he said. "LANDFILLS are a critical commodity and it behooves everybody to use them to the best advantage. I wonder how we can justify shortening the life of the site by adding an estimated 100,000 tons annually.

It's critical to the town and to the City of Racine," Vanhaverbeke explained. The City of Racine was a subject of the meeting in another way, in the form of a "thinly-veiled threat by Oakes representatives that failure to obtain an OK to received the Kenosha waste could mean an application for annexation of the landfill site to the City of Racine. The statement, contained in a fact sheet 18. Wilson Funeral Home. RADISAV, Dlmltrijevlc (Ra-ca) 1001 95th Kenosha, July 18, Kenosha Memorial Hospital.

Strouf-Shef field Funeral Home. JACOBSON, Amanda, 81 2915 Mabbett Milwaukee. July 19, St. Francis Hospital, Milwaukee. Strouf-Sheffield Funeral Home.

SHEARD, Edwin, 70 Box 234, Rochester, July 18. Mealy Funeral Home, SORENSON, Mrs. Marie 85 1234 Hayes July 17, St. Luke's Hospital. Hanson Funeral Home, KAMMIEN, ELMER 75 5010 Biscayne July 18, Westview Nursing Home.

Hanson Funeral Home. REED, Cornelia, 76 820 State July 17, St. Mary's Hospital. Dahl-Ko-suboskl Funeral Home. KORNFER, Mrs.

Lewis (Alma), 75 216 Schemmer Burlington, July 19. McCarthy Ko-" enig Funeral Home, Bur-' lington. DEMBOSKY, John, 83 1442 Villa July 19, at his residence. Draeger Funeral Home. BOUZEK, Mrs.

Henry, 53 936 Sycamore July 20, St. Mary's Hospital. Ma-resh-Meredith Funeral Home. BECKETT, John 14 3222 Yorktown July 19, Burlington Memorial Hospital. Strouf Sheffield Funeral Home.

KORNHOFF, Mrs. Louis, 75 216 Schemmer Burlington, July 19. McCarthy-Ko-enig Funeral Home. MARHELIC, Illga, IS Silver Lake, July 19, Burlington Memorial Hospital. MEYER, Mrs.

Mayme (nee: RedmAn), 76 1623 Echo Lane, July 18, Westview Nursing Home. Draeger Funeral Home. HORVATH, Michael 501 6th July 18, unexpectedly. Wilson Funeral Home. CLOYD, Mrs.

James R. (Dorothy), 74, 5507 Marboro Drive, July By Sean P. Devlin Journal Timet Staff Mount Pleasant gains 15 cents for every ton of waste dumped at the Oakes landfill site on Highway 31 at 21st but you would have been hard put to find town residents who were impressed by that fact Monday night at the town hall. The occasion was an Informational public hearing held by the Town Board to allow public consideration of an application by the City of Kenosha and the Kenosha Towns of So-mers and Pleasant Prairie for permission to haul trash into the Oakes landfill. About 150 residents attended the hearing and "were almost unanimously opposed to the idea of hauling Kenosha County trash into the town, despite, the commission, the town receives.

AS IT WORKED OUT, not only the people of the town but the Town Board as well were the recipients of Information. Information such as the fact that the Oakes firm, Land Reclamation Limited, received permit from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as a dumping site for hazardous industrial wastes and has in fact been accepting those wastes from some distance away without seeking the permission of the Mount Pleasant Town Board. "We board members are very disturbed about that," Town Chairman George Vanhav-erbeke said today. "We are definitely going to take some action, possibly in the form of an injunction to stop such dumping in the town." He pointed out the contract Oakes has with the town limits dumping to waste from within Racine County, but that Oakes has also received waste from American Motors through a private hauler, also in violation of the contracts. "That's apparently the product of some earlier agreement with the prior town board," Vanhaverbeke said.

HE DENIED a charge that outside waste also comes from Nordberg Machinery In Milwaukee, where Vanhaverbeke is employed. "I can assure you there is no dumping from the town chairman's employer," Vanhaverbeke said, adding that Nordberg's industrial waste goes to a site northwest of Milwaukee. Vanhaverbeke said no action was planned Monday night and none taken, and added that compliance with current agreements "should be part of any possible favorable lourrulTimei Photo by Williarn TLizJai provided to Town Board members by Land Reclamation Limited, said, according to Preparing the German meal are clockwise: Annegret Klaster-er (back to camera), Karin Rohdass, Gabrielle Plschek, Hans Wedel and Glsela Reinhardt. Germans size up Racine community Town Supervisor Metvtn Hansche, that the cost to the town of failure to grant the permission could be annexation to the City of Racine. "THEY APPARENTLY forget that in or-der to haul trash through the town they will stiill need a permit from the Town Board," Hansche said.

The question of hauling Kenosha waste to Mount Pleasant was raised when the DNR ordered closure by October of the landfill site now used by the three Kenosha County communities. That site is located in the Towt of Somers and the three then sought use of the Mount Pleasant site. Even so, it is reported a private group is seeking a permit to start a landfill on 1 165-acre site in Kenosha County Just south of the intended location of the coal-fired power plant in Pleasant Prairie. Principals Dogs, cats get licenses By Robert Herman Journal Tlmn Staff More dogs and cats are licensed as a result of a door-to-door canvass by city employes. Canvassers called on 5,100 housing units over two months and found 247 unlicensed cats and dogs.

The program has also resulted In eight arrests and $25 court fines for pet owners who failed to get licenses after being contacted in a police follow-up. City ordinances require dog and cat owners to have their pets vaccinated against rabies each two years and to present vaccination certificates to obtain annual cat or dog licenses. The program to obtain more licenses and rabies vaccinations had two Health Department employes going door to door starting May 3. Two Youth Employment Program students were added to the canvassing team this month. The canvassing teams offer licenses if owners have a current rabies certificate.

Otherwise they leave a notice giving the owner a week to have the pet vaccinated and a license issued. "Police have been following up and issue citations for (hose who did not abide by the notices," said Dr. G. P. Ferrazzano, city health officer.

Those who were arrested and paid the $25 fines were still required to get shots for the pet and obtain licenses. By April 1, when licenses should have been obtained, only about 3,000 had been Issued. City officials have been uncertain how many dogs there are in Racine and the biggest estimates ranged up to about 30,000, or an average of one per household in the city. The door-to-door survey turned up about one additional pet for each two already licensed. By early this month, the city had 4,300 dog licenses issued 500 more than at the same time last year.

The new cat licensing program had 450 cats licensed. Licenses are $2 for altered animals and $4 for unaltered animals if obtained before April 1., There is an additional $2 fee for late licenses. By Elisabeth Bumiller Journal Timts Staff ult teem to be a wealthy place with beautiful homes. It's a nice place to live." "It seems to me like a garden town. All the houses are surrounded by gardens and parks." That sounds like San Francisco or Savannah.

It's really Racine, sized up by five German visitors. The Germans are here as part of the Experiment in International Living, a non-profit educational exchange group. The five four teachers and a secretary have been living with host families since July 3. The five watched the Fourth of July parade, have explored Milwaukee and Chicago, toured a brewery and taken dips in Lake Michigan and Quarry Lake. Monday afternoon they assembled at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. James Dickert, 1520 College to prepare a final party meal for their host families and friends. They will leave Racine Wednesday to continue their American tour in Alabama. Between chopping up bacon and pickles for rouladen, a German meat roll, the five offered some opinions of American life and people. THE BICENTENNIAL: "It just a celebration and we're not too much touched by it.

In European countries, we think in larger spaces of time." Glsela Reinhardt, 35, from Stuttgart, staying with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Canman, 1635 Meadow Lane. THE FOURTH OF JULY PARADE: "It was a little long. For Europe, it might be a little bit strange." Glsela.

AMERICAN LIFESTYLES: "The American way of living is a bit more uncomplicated. It's an easier way of living. It's casual. That's the way I like it." Gabrielle Plschek, 26, from Bonn, staying with the Dickert family on College Avenue. AMERICAN PEOPLE: "I find them very friendly and especially to foreigners.

They have never seen you before and they receive you as a friend. I'm not a stranger, I'm here, I'm like a daughter." Gabrielle. BUSING: "I think it is very important to do that. 1 think it's very difficult to do it, but I think it's very necessary." With only a small Turkish minority, Germany has few racial and ethnic problems. Karin Rohdass, 32, from Berlin, staying with Mr.

and Mrs. James Floyd, 1628 Flett Ave. AMERICAN PROBLEMS: "One problem is that if I compare it with Germany, there are differences between the lower and higher classes. There is a lower class and a higher class and not so many people In the middle class. But it's difficult to see the complexities of the problem if you only stay here two and a half weeks.

The time is too short." Annegret Klasterer, 24, from Baden-Baden, staying with. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Raymond, 3461 Osborne Blvd. AMERICAN WOMEN: "They're much more natural.

They don't care so much about the way they appear. At home, people dress up much more often." Hans Wedel, 36, from Mannheim, staying with Mr. and Mrs. John Stafford, 1428 College Ave. AMERICAN BEER: "It lighter than German beer and we love it.

It's good beer." Gabrielle. student backgrounds; MORE parent demand to know what is happening in schools and why; LESS willingness on the part of unionized teachers to assist In administrative functions. Both senior and Junior high school principals have had the aid of assistants for several years. Each of the three senior high principals has three assistant principals and each of the junior high principals has two assistants except at Washington where there is one assistant. The Personnel Committee made no decision Monday but will take up the issue again at another meeting, as yet Committee they are spending far too much of their time on busy work, general supervision between classes and at lunch and in dealing with parents.

They said they wanted to spend more time working as instructional leaders for their teachers through more teaching evaluations and staff meetings. Unified administrators cite various reasons the principal's job has become more time-consuming and complicated than in the past: THE NUMBERS of different special programs operating within one school (classes for the handicapped, gifted, slow learners MORE employes to supervise In each building; INCREASED diversity of (Continued from Page 1A) 60 to 70 per cent of the time and teaching the rest of the time (at a total district cost of about The other is to hire about one assistant for every two schools (total cost of about Less expensive is a proposal to hire two administrative specialists to work with principals on a rotating basis (at a cost of about THE FOURTH, and seen by Nelson as merely a stop gap measure, would be to have more money available to hire teacher substitutes in order to free up a teacher to act as building administrator in the absence of the principal. Currently; the committee was Informed, when the principal is called out of the building, a secretary often must fill in for him. To fund additional administrators, Nelson has been eye-coming from the state as a reward for desegregating schools. The amount is estimated at between $500,000 and $1 million.

The teachers' union criticizes Nelson's proposals and wants to see the state money used instead to reduce class size by hiring more teachers. "Since 1972, while enrollment declines, the ratio goes up and they keep hiring more and more administrators," complained union head James Ennis. "THAT MONEY IS OURS. We've taken the brunt of it," he said, referring to the part teachers have played in desegregation. Principals, however, said they are unanimous in wanting and needing more help.

They told the Personnel A Births Dandeneau (Continued from Page 1A) structed by Callow not to read or listen to any news about the case. McConnell was expected to wind up prosecution this morning. It could go to the jury late today, Caledonia Town Board members and a couple of character witnesses were expected to testify for the defense today. Town Clerk Helen Schutten testified Servais' license application was among 36 approved by the Caledonia board on June 23, 1975. Sup.

Richard Granger moved to approve all 36, Dandeneau seconded the motion and the vote was 5-0 to grant the licenses, she said. McConnell claims Dandeneau owed it to the Mr. and Mrs. Gary Kling-beil (Pamela Castle), 1312 Carlisle a son, July 18. Others Mr.

and Mrs. David Tesch (Arline Daily). Stevens Point, a daughter, July 19. The father is a former Franksville resident. Mr.

and Mrs. Bradley Moerke (Clarice Higgins), Milwaukee, a son. July 17. The mother is a former Racine resident. Mr.

and Mrs. Jerome Milk-ie, 4727 Indian Hills Drive, a rlniohlae lulu 1 14. St. Luke's Hospital Mr. and Mrs.

James Perry (Carol Roby). 4110 Riverside Drive, Waterford, a son, July 14. Mr. and Mrs. Greg Koll (Susan Dehne).

2817'i Gilson a son, July 18. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Luther (Barbara White). 3724 Astoria Drive, a son, July 19.

Mr. and Mrs. Norem Cain (Myong Chae Kim), 3621 10th a son, July 19. St. Mary's Hospital Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Gage (Janice Ann Daniels). 14 McKinley a daughter. July 19. tors Credit Union in Racine at a 12 per cent annual interest rate on June 27, 1975.

Harold Kaed-ing. executive vice president of Educators Credit, testified payments on the loan are two or three months behind. Servais said she hadn't been able to repay any of the loan. She went out of business last month. Coffey said she faces bankruptcy.

McConnell said Servais intended to repay Dandeneau out of profits from the restaurant. He said that means Dandeneau had a financial interest in the place. Coffey contends Servais would have gotten a liquor license even if Dandeneau hadn't voted. He says the state can't prove Dandeneau had either a direct or indirect financial interest in the Carousel, or that Dandeneau's vote was for dishonest advantage for Dandeneau or anyone else; voters to disclose his financial interest in the Carousel. He said Dandeneau had agreed to provide money to help Servais get the place started before he voted on the liquor license.

Servais denied any prior agreement. She said Dandeneau had no financial interest In the Carousel. She testified Dandeneau was a regular customer, made out her payroll and took care of the business books. Servais said she'd been dating Dandeneau since November of 1974, while she worked as a receptionist at the town hall. Dandeneau loaned her the $3,500, Servais said, when she came up short of capital to open the restaurant.

A note they signed provided for repayment by last October. It contains no provisions for interest. Dandeneau borrowed the $3,500 from Educa County Hospital..

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