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Woman justice is a lawyer first Patricia Simms Of The State Journal Gov. Patrick Lucey on Friday delighted women activists by naming Madison Atty. Shirley Abrahamson to serve on the State Supreme Court, the first woman to do so. In announcing the selection, Lucey said the appointment gave one woman the chance to "help right the wrongs that have faced all women over the years." However, Mrs. Abrahamson, 42, who is also a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said she hoped Wisconsin State Journal Metro Saturday, August 7, 1976 Section 4 Two men charged in escort cases Two men were charged with pandering Friday after women they sent to appointments made through escort services were arrested for prostitution by vice squad officers.

Charged in Dane County Court were Richard Fletcher, 49, of 2001 Post and Chester Metcalf, 22, of 1910 W. Broadway, who also was charged with disorderly conduct. Fletcher was released on $200 signature bond with trial set for Sept. 8. Metcalf was held on $400 cash bail.

Fletcher was arrested at his home after a woman charged with prostitution Wednesday night told police he was her employer and would receive $25 of her $60 fee. He admitted to police he had answered the telephone at Your Pleasure Escorts and arranged for the woman to go to the motel room, according to the court complaint. Vice squad officers who said they seized documents from Fletcher's home concerning activities of about 10 women said Fletcher told them, "I'll get my girls off the street." Metcalf was arrested in the parking lot of an unidentified motel after a woman who had been arrested for prositution inside told police he had brought her there, according to the complaint. After police stopped him, Metcalf began yelling, denied knowing the woman and threatened to attack a policeman. A crowd gathered as Metcalf assumed a fighting stance, continued yelling and jabbed at the policeman's face, the complaint said.

Four women from escort services were charged with prostitution this week after keeping appointments with officers of the Madison Metro Vice Squad. The husband of one of the women was charged with pandering. Bear scare has nudists quivering GALESVILLE (AP) The bare occupants of the Sol-Vista Recreation Club are perturbed about a bear arrival. Members of the nudist camp say a large black bear has them quivering in their uncovered skins. A club member reported seeing the bear 6 feet behind his mobile home about a week ago.

He said he climbed atop the home, turned a flashlight on the bear and fired six shots over the animal's head before it retreated into woods. Since then, other members of the nudist colony also have reported seeing the bear. Bears do not normally inhabit southwestern Wisconsin. the appointment was not based on the fact that she is a woman. "I hope he made the appointment on the basis of merit," she said in a news conference in her offices later Friday.

Mrs. Abrahamson said that when all the factors had been balanced, the governor's choice "happens to be me, and I happen to be a woman." Mrs. Abrahamson, a partner in the firm of LaFollette, Sinykin, Anderson and Abrahamson, said the fact that she was a woman, and the first to sit on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, was 66 an interesting aspect. "My record and my life speak for themselves, and herselves," she said of her commitment to women's rights. But she emphasized her role on the high court, not as a woman, but as a lawyer, telling reporters she would bring to the bench "what any good lawyer and law teacher can Mrs.

Abrahamson, whose appointment does not require State Senate confirmation, is expected to be sworn in to the post before the next court term begins in early September. According to Lucey, when Mrs. Abrahamson takes the bench, she will Shirley Abrahamson: 'It's going to be -State Journal photo by Joseph W. Jackson Ill think I know what I have to do' "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." -Longfellow She shook her head slowly and smiled at the question. "I will be one judge in the court, doing her best in a judicial capacity.

I will sit representing no groups or interests." Shirley S. Abrahamson, 42, was the center of ferocious media attention Friday in the wake of her appointment tothe seven-member Wisconsin Supreme Court, the first woman to sit on that bench. She fielded questions through the day on whether she would represent women, and the interests of the feminist movement as a State Supreme Court justice. The answer was always the same. "I am sitting not as an advocate, but as an impartial decision-maker who will do the best possible job as a judge that she can," she said.

This last statement was made late in the day, in an office cluttered with work. She has been a member of the law firm of LaFollette, Sinykin, Anderson and Abrahamson since 1962, a time women in major law firms or women in the legal profession at all were rare. On the wall of the office is a poster. It reads, "When was the last time you saw a miracle?" To many feminist groups, Mrs. Abrahamson is the miracle, the first woman to be a Wisconsin justice.

But she does not see herself as a symbol. "I can't isolate myself from being she said. She is a small woman, dark and quick-spoken. She said she decided at somewhere between six or seven years of age that she wanted to be a lawyer. In 1956, she graduated from the Indiana State clerks reach tentative contract By William Christofferson Of The State Journal become the only woman judge in the state.

Lucey said Mrs. Abrahamson probably will have to stand for election in 1979, the first term no sitting judge will be running for reelection. However, if Justice Daniel Hanley retires prematurely, he said, she will face election in 1978. Lucey told a news conference he did not feel under any pressure to appoint a woman, nor did he fell any political push to name a Milwaukee judge to the high court. Lucey's last appointment to the court was another Madison lawyer, Roland Day, a long-time Democrat and close friend of Lucey.

"There are still two Milwaukeeans on the the governor said. Lucey said he hoped Mrs. Abrahamson's appointment would serve as a Tentative agreement on a labor contract between the state and 8,600 clerical workers has been reached, ending bargaining that started in March. Clerical workers will get a pay raise of 6 percent or 27 cents an hour, whichever is more, retroactive to July 4, union on sources said. Agreement between the state's negotiators and the Wisconsin State Employes Union (WSEU), which represents the clerical employes, came Thursday night in a conference telephone call.

Before it becomes effective, the tentative contract must be ratified by the union membership across the state and the Legislature's Joint Committee on Employe Relations. It later requires approval of the full Legislature and the governor. The wage package agreed upon was in line with pay raises received by most other state workers. The clerical unit was the last to reach an agreement with the state. Most state workers received pay raises of about 6 percent in early July, including both union and non-union employes.

The WSEU represents about 24,000 state workers. Another 3,000 are represented by other unions. The state has a total of 34,608 classified employes and 17,707 unclassified employes, the Dept. of Administration said Friday. Unclassified employes include elected officials, appointees of the governor, University of Wisconsin faculty members and legislative and Supreme Court staffs.

The 6 percent or 27 cents an hour raise agreed to by the union was almost the same as the offer made by the state symbol to encourage women to become involved in government policymaking. But he acknowledged that he had named only one woman to the lower courts, Milwaukeean Vel Phillips, "and she was defeated" for election. "It is appalling that currently there are no women serving on any level in the state judicial system," he said. Several women activists praised the selection. State Sen.

Kathryn Morrison (D-Platteville), the first woman to serve in the Wisconsin Senate, said she thought it was "fantastic." "I'm not only pleased because she is a woman, she's a super person. She's extraordinarily bright and has a terrific sense of humor." Atty. Louise Trubeck, director of the Center for Public Representation, praised the selection, but said women should be appointed to and represented at the lower court levels. a month ago, of 6 percent versus 25 cents an hour. The union had asked 8 percent or 33 cents, arguing clerical workers needed bigger raises than other state workers to catch up.

The clerical workers, who voted last December to join the union, are 94 percent women. The WSEU claimed women had been discriminated against in past pay plans, and clerical workers were underpaid compared with other state workers. The tentative agreement will be explained in detail to clerical workers at a series of meetings Aug. 17-19, including two in Madison on Aug. 18, WSEU assistant director Carl Hacker are other vacancies throughout the state," Ms.

Trubek said. "While Shirley is probably the outstanding woman of the age and experience to serve on the Supreme Court, there are many extremely competent women who could serve on the circuit and county level." Mrs. Abrahamson, who will fill a vacancy created by the death of Chief Justice Horace Wilkie in May, received a law degree from Indiana University in 1956, and was awarded a doctor of laws degree from the UW-Madison in 1962. She is a tax specialist at the UW Law School, and has been active on several UW committees. A former chairman of the Capital Area chapter of the Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union (WCLU), she has been with the LaFollette firm since 1962.

She lives at 2012 Waunona Way with her husband, Seymour, and son Daniel. said. About 4,000 of the 8,600 clerical unit members work in Madison, he said. Hacker would not confirm details of the wage settlement, saying only that the agreement was "far better than the unilateral pay plan" for non-union state workers. Neither union nor state officials would comment on other benefits contained in the package, saying they had agreed it should be presented to union members before being made public.

The clerical workers had planned a rally today at the State Capitol to seek support in the negotiations, but cancelled it Friday afternoon. Elevator shaft fall kills worker, 21 Ross Frint, 21, of 4501 Travis Terrace, a maintenance worker, was killed Friday in an elevator shaft accident a at the Gay Building, 16 N. Carroll St. Coroner's Chief Investigator Richard R. Peterson said Frint was looking for a clip that had fallen off another worker's snap-on-tool into the shaft when he apparently was struck by a descending elevator weight and knocked about 15 feet to the bottom of the shaft.

The weight which struck Frint was a heavy counterbalance device which descends as the elevator car moves up. Frint died of massive internal and head injuries suffered when the weight descended and crushed him. The death was ruled accidental by Peterson and Coroner Clyde Chamberlain Jr. Former city clerk A. W.

Bareis dies Alfred W. Bareis, Madison city clerk from 1933 to 1963, died Thursday at age 83 in Dade City, Florida. Mr. Bareis, who was appointed by Mayor James Law, advocated modernization in the clerk's office throughout his career. He was elected interim mayor by the City Council in 1955 to serve out the last six months of the term of Mayor George Forster, who left to become city manager of Janesville.

Mr. Bareis was encouraged to run for the post at the end of the appointed term, but refused, saying, "I had no ambition to be mayor and I have no political ambitions He went back to the city clerk's office and served until he retired at the age of 69. Retirement gave him a chance to give attention to his singing hobby. "I'm going to organize an old man's Master's degree and a new career at 70 going to college, noting, "By 1985 there By Roger A. Gribble will be more elderly people than young Of The State Journal and many more retired people.

PLATTEVILLE Don't try to put "This is the next group we'll have to John Williams on the shelf just because fill our universities with, although I do he's 70 years old. feel we shouldn't go overboard on this." He won't have any of that. He believes Williams warmed up for the new job age shouldn't be a barrier toward he'll start this fall by serving during the reaching life's goals. And to prove it he' past year as a part-time "counselor at went back to college a year ago to get large." the master's degree he'd always wanted. Despite the fact he was also the Friday that goal was realized.

graduate school's elected representaWilliams joined 126 other UW- tive on the Student Senate, he managed Platteville Summer School graduates at a 3.7 grade point average (on a 4.0 commencement exercises and marched John Williams scale). Nevertheless, he believes that down the aisle to get his master's "When you start working for grades degree in guidance and counseling. confessed to a reporter before the alone you lose something." But don't expect Williams to rest on ceremony. But he also firmly pointed "This is a big day in my life," he said his laurels just because he's reached his out that "just because we're aged Friday. "It was almost 50 years ago to goal.

This fall he'll go back to work doesn't mean we're dead. the day that I came to UW-Madison and full-time as director of UW-Platteville's "In this country, we don't respect our was turned down for a track Multi -cultural Educational Center. aged he added. Williams scholarship. "I'll be scared to death today," he would like to see more elderly persons "They were building Camp Randall Frint, an employe of the Murdoch Investment 222 W.

Washington was reported missing by a fellow maintenance worker who had last seen him about 8 a.m. The body was discovered about 1 p.m. when searchers heard static from Frint's radio pager through the closed elevator door when they attempted to locate him by using the paging system. University Law School at the top of her class. She worked for 11 years before choosing to have her son, Daniel, who will be 12 this month.

A photo of him hangs in her office. There are some seashells, a ball of colored twine on her desk. She is confident about mixing her career and family. "My husband and with the aid and assistance of a number of other people, have shared the burdens and the joy of housekeeping and child-rearing," she said. She says combining a family with a profession is commonplace.

"You need a lot of organization and thinking through of the schedules of many people in order to keep a home running and keep a career working," she said. "We all do it, all working women who have a home and children." The appointment will change her life in several ways. She will have to resign from many organizations and groups she belongs to. "Many take positions that come to the court and several become litigants before the court," she said. A full professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, she said she will ask for a leave of absence for a time from teaching.

"I do hope to teach some courses some time in the near future which has been the tradition of the court," she said. But perhaps hardest will be the caution inherent in a job where one cannot display bias, or make strong statements on issues that may come before the court. Mrs. Abrahamson has long been an outspoken person. "It's going to be different," she said.

"Until I make the change, I don't know if it will be difficult or not. But I think I know what I have to do." -By Patricia Simms Frint is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frint, 4501 Travis Terrace. Frint was the only nephew of Madison Police Capt.

Stanley Davenport. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Frautschi Funeral Home, 3610 Speedway Rd. quartet, the Elks legionnaires quartet, the Four Badgers, and other musical organizations." Mr. Bareis was born on Williamson St. on the near East side.

He began his work career as a bundle boy at the now-defunct Crescent Clothing and established a "men's furnishings store" with Charles Brown on State St. in the early 1920s. He had been married for more than 50 years to his wife Edna, who died in 1972. Surviving are son, Phillip, 1501 Pleasure a daughter, Mrs. Genevieve Bruce, Zephyrhills, a Alfred W.

Bareis quartet," he said upon retirement, complaining he "had to give (it) up when I came into city work because there were so many night meetings." A newspaper clipping from 1932 listed Bareis as a member of "the Moose brother, Ray, Zephyrhills; six grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. Friends may call Sunday at the Schroeder Funeral home, 3325 E. Washington from 4 to 8 p.m. The funeral will be Monday at 1 p.m. at the funeral home.

then and we had just won a city "It comes down to accepting people Schools of Business and Industrial championship," he continued. "After a as individuals," he added. "'This is why Technology." In that sense, he added, it brief introduction at Madison we were I give Platteville credit for what they're could be considered a miniature Purtold that Wisconsin doesn't want any due, except the cost of attending Negro athletes." Williams and his family have helped Platteville is much lower than the cost Williams ran into the same kind of break many barriers during their life- at Prudue. prejudice after graduating in 1932 from time. His father was the first black As Multi-cultural Center director the former Milwaukee Teachers policeman in a Missouri community, Williams hopes to "slow down that College.

"In the 1930s in Milwaukee his mother was a suffragette and he was revolving door" for minority students. there was no way you could teach," he one of the first two black Milwaukee He believes that even though large recalled. mail carriers. sums are being spent, the high dropout "They'd tell you to your face 'we can't Williams was once described as a rate for minority students continues. use you because you're And "gentle activist" but he said he wasn't "I think we should tell students when even in the 1940s a black basketball so sure that was a good description.

they go to a four-year school they are team couldn't stay overnight in Apple- "But I don't believe in throwing rocks," working toward a degree. There should ton and had to stay at Fond du he explained. "I believe you can catch be a certain amount of self-satisfaction While there have been improvements more flies with honey than with in that. I feel we're losing that in the in race relations, he says, is still schools." prejudice. But people have to learn to Williams said he chose Platteville Williams has been a teacher, semilearn about other people.

I don't expect "because it is the best of the old pro basketball player, girls' baseball them to love me. But if we don't become teachers colleges in fact to me, it is coach, chauffeur, dining car cook, a part, how in the hell can they learn the best in the UW system. It has more railroad porter, mechanic and printer's about us? colleges that are practical, such as the devil. John Williams.