The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • 17

La Crosse Tribune, Friday, December IS, 1967 'Gentleness' Doesn't Lead STUDY OF OLD CENTRAL To More Juvenile Offenses 0RDERED The La Crosse City School District Board of Education was directed Thursday night to hire an architect to determine the feasibility of using old Central High School for a junior high. The school was vacated this year for a new senior high at Losey Boulevard and Green Bay Street. The school board is to return its recommendation to the Council. Since the board has said it no longer has a use for the school, the old school building is in city hands. The City Plan Commission, seeing a school board request for funds to design a new junior high school to serve Southeast La Crosse, proposed that the board instead explore converting old Central to a junior high.

At the commissions recommendation, the Council placed $30,000 in the 1968 capital improvements budget for the study. By GRANT BLUM (La Crosse Tribune Staff Writer) Gentle treatment of juvenile offenders doesnt necessarily Waupaca County, told members! They are both overcrowded of a two-day seminar on ju-' especially the school for boys, venile court procedures ha he said. Most youngsters are merciful treatment of youth- there for 60 to 90 days and how much can be done for them in that time? fact, its often a place! I have handled about 120 where boys from smaller coun- cases a year over the past 10 ties can get a concentrated short years, he said. Of that num- course in crime from their city for ber, about 90 per cent were in cousins, my court for the first and lastj McHenry said problems might time. And during that time Ive be different in metropolitan only had to send 25 boys and areas, but that he still favored' nine girls to a state training leniency as the best method of lead to further lawbreaking as ful offenders is highly success-claimed by some juvenile court ful especially in smaller, rural-critics, a Northern Wisconsin oriented counties, judge said here Friday morning.

solving most juvenile school. muon At a time when some critics of juvenile courts are contending that leniency means more law breaking, Judge McHenry said that doesnt jibe with his experience. McHenry said he follows the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions which outline such juvenile court offender rights as right of counsel, right to statement of written charges against them, the right to not testify, and the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses who testify against them. But he said even a trend toward more formal juvenile court hearings does not mean that harsh or severe sentences are the answer.

it vr A majority of the youngsters who appeared before me were actually delinquent, he admitted. But I withheld declaring many of them as such. Instead I put off the sentence for 90 days in custody of their parents or a pastor, then for another 90 days, and so forth. After all, the purpose of a juvenile court is to try to see that youngsters dont come before you again. McHenry said he recalled only two cases in the past 10 years where lawyers appeared in a Waupaca County Juvenile Court.

One of them was on a shoot ing, he said. A The juvenile judge said he spends 60 to 90 hours on each case, gets reports of a social case worker and law enforcement people, and bases his dec! sions on all facts presented. When the hearing starts I usually know more about that child than his parents do, he said. McHenry also said he didnt believe state training schools played an effective role in combating delinquency. Bond Issue Is Approved A $4.01 million bond issue for 1968 was approved Thursday night by the La Crosse Common Council.

The bonds, which will finance various capital improvements in the city, probably will be sold in February. Because interest rates increased when the Federal Reserve System increased the rediscount rate to protect the United States gold reserve following the devaluation of the British pound, the finance committee is considering 12-year bonds. For the past few years, the city has sold 20-year bonds. The shorter 12-year bond issue would mean a lower interest rate for a shorter period of time and would save the city as much as $750,000 in interest costs. The prevailing rate for 20-year bonds is 4.25 per cent and for 12-year bonds, between 4.10 and 4.20 per cent.

However, the shorter bond issue would raise the citys 1969 debt service costs, since a bigger installment repayment would be made. For the past few years, the Council has deferred initial repayments to keep debt service costs between 10 mills. Some of the deferred payments are catching up with the city now. The $4.01 million breaks down as follows: street improvements, school improvements, $1.04 million; Coleman Technical Institute improvements, $1.54 sanitary sewers, storm sewers, airport improvements, miscellaneous, IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN The Post Office, says acting Postmaster Harold C. Ristow, is keeping pace with the Christmas mail rush.

Sacks containing parcels are shown in the upper photo and in the lower picture, mail clerks sort merrily on. Thursdays total was 536,753 items handled compared with 520,176 on Dec. 14, 1966. Mail from Saturday through Wednesday midnight, said Ristow, was 23.5 per cent ahead of a year ago in La Crosse. Tribune Photo.

PORTRAIT PRESENTED A portrait of the late Myrtle Oltman, principal of Emerson School from 1940 through 1957, was presented to the school Wednesday by Ruth Bentz (right), Miss Oilman's niece. Receiving the portrait on behalf of the school were Otis Adamson (left), principal of Emerson, and Kenneth F. Storandt, former principal, now director of Elementary-Secondary Education Act programs in the school district. Funds for the portrait were contributed by friends and associates of Miss Oltman. The presentation was made at the schools PTA meeting.

Tribune Photo. Parking Ramp Repair Ordered By Council 5 ALDERMEN SAY, WAIT Pool Payments Granted FLUORIDATION REFERENDUM IS REQUESTED An April 2 referendum on whether La Crosse residents want the city to fluoridate city water was requested Thursday night at the La Crosse Common Council meeting. The legislation, introduced for the Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce, was 'sent to committee. A chamber fluoridation study committee has endorsed fluoridation. A letter from the city health department endorsing fluoridation and urging a referendum accompanied the legislation.

A major repair job to prevent the huge concrete slabs in the six-year-old parking ramp from deflecting was ordered Thursday night by the La Crosse Common Council. Some 15 tons of steel will be needed. A La Crosse architect, Robert Hackner, of Hackner, Schroeder and Associates, the original dowels to prevent deflection were too short and broke. The slabs deflect by as much as llA inches in some joints. The finance officer will advertise for bids for the repair work.

The Board of Public Works had noticed that the slabs were slipping. It had braces installed to support them and hired Hackner, Schroeder to determine what was wrong, whether it was unsafe and what repairs would St. Francis Hospital nuns and be needed. Hackner says the contractor will be asked to establish a sys tem of suspended structural steel under the joints to prevent their deflection. employes again have welcomed holiday season with large hand-painted Christmas cards the bridge windows between hospital and the extended Ward), Clayton Johnson (3rd), Joseph Murphy (21st), Harold Otto (10th) and James Shoger (6th).

They complained either that completion is seven months late, or that the city doesnt know if the pool has deficiencies and should keep more money back until it does know. Finance Officer Sherman Stellpflug, president of the Board of Public Works, said the pool is completed except for testing. We dont want to go through the same thing we did on Losey, said Otto, alluding to the city finding deficiencies in the Erickson Field pool after it was in use. Shoger and Otto said the city should either invoke the penal- Five La Crosse aldermen asking why completion of the North Side pool is seven months late objected to paying the next-to-final installments Thursday night for its construction. The Common Council, however, voted 14 to 5 to pay an $11,000 installment to Peter Nelson and Son, the general contractor, and $3,688 to Winona Plumbing Co.

The Board of Public Works is withholding an additional $2,288 from the Nelson contract, and $4,647 from the Winona Plumbing contract, pending the outcome of pool tests in late April or early May. The five who objected to paying the installments are Aider-men Lawrence Hole (15th Christmas Cards Appear Again Over Market St. ty clauses it has in its construction contracts or not have them. Stellpflug said that the archl- tect, Carl W. Schubert and Associates, attributes the construction delay to a delay in getting supplies and materials and recommends not penalizing any contractor.

Schubert called it an unusual year for delays, said Stellpflug. The board is considering the firms recommendations and will decide whether to invoke the penalty clauses. Asked if the North Side pool, built on the east side of Logan High School, has any deficiencies, Stellpflug said this could not be determined until the pool is tested next spring. Thats why about 10 per cent of the general and plumbing contracts is being withheld, he added. ing its ramp maintenance cost estimate from $7,500 to $25,000.

In other action, the Council: Asked the Board of Education and Fire Chief Frank Kloss if Logan Street between Avon and Liberty could be blockaded during the school year instead of permanently closed. The block of Logan is between Logan Junior High School and the recently acquired school expansion site. The half block of alley within the site is to be closed. Closed the unused alley- within the city hall site at 5th and State Streets. It never was vacated when the city acquired the site in the 1890s.

Referred for 1969 capital budgeting proposals for curb and gutter on Green Bay Street for 600 feet east of Losey, and on Liberty south of Gould Street; and for sidewalks on the north side of the State Road overpass. Filed, in effect, rejected, a request for a three-way stop sign at Funk Road and Ward Avenue. Voted to ask the Burlington Railroad to abandon its right of way and remove its tracks between 16th, East Avenue, Green Bay and Hyde Avenue. Sent to committee legislation from Alderman Raymond Keller (2nd Ward) asking for a study of inter-departmental use of city heavy equipment. Public works departments generally have inter-department equipment use, but other departments dont.

Asked City Atty. John K. Flan agan to negotiate with Vanlan Corp. for land to expand Badger Playground by 1.48 acres. Appraisals came in high and Flanagan is to negotiate for a more favorable price.

the on the care facility over Market Street. Twenty-six paintings, complet- A $126,000 Parking Utility ed under the direction of Eric budget for 1968 including NEW METERS TO STAY FOR AWHILE, ANYWAY 000 for ramp maintenance was approved. Much of the maintenance fund will be used for ramp repairs. The budget is up from 1967. Estimated 1968 income is $147,000.

The excess of $21,000 over costs, says Finance Officer Fulfer, laundry manager, and his committee, depict the traditional stories of the season. Sister M. Francita, administrator of the hospital, said This is an excellent tradition begun last year, of the employes themselves setting the designs and A Board of Public Works, question; as a result, any mo-study of the 15-minutes-for-five-Uon could be made Thursday night. Johnson moved that his cents parking meters to see he fewer such meters are needed was ordered by the La Crosse Common Council Thursday proposal be adopted. Alderman Loren C.

Ward well (9th Ward) suggested the study and asked the board to com' doing the art in their personal Sherman Stellpflug, will be used expression of joy this season of or anY unexpected costs or Heileman Plans 100 Dividend The G. Heileman Brewing Co. board of directors has voted to recommend that the shareholders increase the authorized shares from 700,000 to 2 million, Heileman President Roy Kumm said that if the stockholders approve the increase in au thorized shares, the board plans to vote a 100 per cent stock dividend, giving each shareholder one additional share of stock for each share owned. There are 462,263 shares outstanding. The pioposal would increase the total outstanding shares to 924,526.

Heileman is listed on the Midwest Stock Exchange and has approximately 4,000 shareholders in 40 states and several foreign countries. Kumm said that if the stock proposal is approved by the shareholders, the board intends to review current dividend policies. The companys annual meeting will be April 5. Heileman operates breweries in La Crosse and Sheboygan and Newport, Ky. Madison Firm Gets OK For TV Station Here A Madison television firm, Midcontinent Broadcasting Co.

of Wisconsin, has been given approval to build a satellite station at La Crosse. The approval, announced Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C., is for Channel 25 ultra high frequency (UHF). It has no direct bearing, however, on another TV station application for La Crosse, according to a spokesman for WKTY, a La Crosse radio station. Owner-general manager Herbert Lee has applied for Channel 9-UHF. Lee was out of town and unavailable for details.

-A Tony Moe of Madison, executive vice president and general manager of Midcontinent, said, We hope to be on the air by midsummer 1968) Channel 25 will start as a satellite (relay) station, but probably within a year it will originate some local live programming. Channel 25s application, said Moe, called for a tower and transmitter site near La Crescent, Minn. Midcontinent, said Moe, is affiliated with the American Broadcasting Co. at its Madison and Wausau television stations. WKTYs spokesman said that stations application came after the Madison application.

We are just waiting, he said of FCC action on the application. If approved, WKTY would operate a local studio. WKBT-Channel 8 began telecasting in 1954. The channel is very high frequency (VHF) and there are no other VHF channels open for application in the La Crosse area, it was reported. our Christs birth.

pare parking meter rates of other cities. Possibly, he said, the number of yellow meters could be reduced, 1 a in the site acquisition and improvement fund. The fund Nov. 30 totaled $286,000. The $21,000 increase results mainly from the utility increas- ITARIAN FELLOWSHIP SUNDAY 10:30 A.M.

night. But in the meantime, the meters apparently will remain. The Council in September ordered the five-cent, short-stop meters out and the penny meters back in. The board ordered parts but before they were installed Alderman Clayton Johnson (3rd Ward) offered legislation to keep the meters. The board had dropped the penny meters in early August, Theyre doing what theyre supposed to keeping spaces open for quick-stop shoppers, said Johnson.

The Council Committee-of-the-Whole Monday split 10-10 on the Dividend Declared The directors of Gateway Transportation Co. Inc. of La Crosse Thursday declared a regular quarterly dividend of 15 cents a share payable Jan. 29 to stockholders of record Dec. 29.

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