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fewne District meets state requirements 2 A MABEL MNTBR May 31 .53 69 62.0 A1JTA I fAI I A ijZIZZss so. nil Council endorses overpass construction Page 3 June3 54 74 63.7 1 June 4 46 77 62.5 June5 56 84 703 Alleged forgers face court date Page 5 June 22-25 June 6 64 85 74.3 0 II! i il A (USPS 162-680) The oldest established business in Menomonie and Dunn County Founded April 5, 1860 VOLUME CXXX 35 MENOMONIE, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1989 Couamdl feed. Park developmeet "It was the most exciting month of my life in this community!" Author of that statement is Jim Bcnsen who told Menomonie's city council Monday night that he has responded to inquiries from a dozen businesses who have expressed an interest in the Stout Technology Park. Bensen, who represented Stout Technology Park, and Stout Technology Park Development Corporation at the meeting, said these inquiries have-come from such businesses as a medical software operation, a Fortune 500 firm and a food robot company. He said businesses that can't meet standards developed for the Tech Park are being urged to locate in Menomonie's Industrial Park.

He said a firm from California needs to become operational immediately and present plans say this business will find a temporary home in the Industrial Park before moving to the Tech Park. These remarks by Bensen supported a council decision to borrow $930,000 to develop the park totally via the bond" method and This issue consists of three sections Port 1 i authorize the advertisement for bids to complete "Phase IV" of Tech Park development. Phase IV of the park development project wasn't contemplated initially. However, plans were revamped to meet the needs of Phillips Plastics Corporation, of Phillips, which will purchase two lots (6.38 acres) in the park for $159,500. The council was told that Phillips Plastics wouldn't build in the park unless all of the infrastructure was in place.

Bensen said Phillips, presently an $80 million business, hopes to hit sales of $250 million within four years. To meet this goal, the firm will need to construct additional manufacturing facililies, Bensen said, and it is hoped a plant will be established in the Industrial Park here. The council said the $930,000 ill be borrowed from the three local banks. Steve Apfclbachcr, of Ehlcrs i Associates, of Minneapolis, the city's financial consultant, said another choice was a commercial lender. and she will be 90 in August.

Mr. Score operated Score's Pontiac Co. here until 1963 when he sold his interest to son, Lee, who associated "with the business in 1945. Lee was ech According to his calculations, the overall cost to the city is $34,000 more because the council picked the local banks. This difference results because of the interest rate charged, by the banks here.

Ehlers, however, favored borrowing from the local banks for a couple of reasons. To illustrate, he said the $34,000 doesn't consider paying an agent fee which could total $15,000 during the life of the issue. This fee, he said, brings the difference to $19,000. Another advantage, he said, of borrowing locally is the ability to call the issue at any time. He said the city would be locked in for at least five years had it selected a commercial len-ddr.

This call feature will permit the city to refinance the issue should inter-' est rates drop. Resigns The council accepted the resignation of Mike A. Becker, the Seventh ward representative. Becker took a position starting last Thursday with Desaulnier's Printing in Milan, 111. Two appointments won confirmation.

serving as, executive director of the -Greater Menomonie Area Chamber of Commerce when he died in December 1984. Mrs. Score said the school she attended was replaced with a new facility that opened in 1924 and Lee 1 Four generation family says 'North NUMBER 10 sor Keith Sommcrfeld said the group will recommend the creation of a nonprofit corporation that would have goals of job creation and new investment in all of Dunn County. The corporation, he continued, would be staffed initially by an executive director. He said several decisions remain to be made, including how the corporation will be funded.

Sommerfcld said formation oLthe corporation will "open the door to grant funds from the state." He noted, too, that although 17 different economic development groups now exist in the "there is no central point to get information." Sommcrfeld aid his commi ttee will recommend that individuals presently affiliated with economic development be named to the corporation's board of directors. Sommcrfeld was joined in the presentation by Supervisors Jane Wikum, Edward Ferber and Dallas Chryst. The council authorized the sale by auction of items no longer needed by the police and park departments. The sale will be conducted Saturday, June 10, and included are pistol grips, car- is neaf 1500 North, Broadway present home of the Bank of Menomonie branch in North Menomonie. i.

i i Mrs. Waller said she went to North through seventh grade before transferring to Central where she completed the eighth grade. "We didn't have a prom or a yearbook my senior year in high school because of the war," she commented. "I felt sorry for those kids because they worked hard and didn't get what the- rest of them got," Mrs. Score observed.

Beverly Score and Norman Waller were married in 1944 and she worked at a defense plant in Eau Claire and at Lakeside Aluminum and Montgomery Ward here before becoming bookkeeper for her husband who operated Waller Electric. Mr. Waller was employed by Northern States Power Co. before forming his own business and Mrs. Waller said she served 20 years as bookkeeper.

The Wallers' daughter, Sue, a 1965 Menomonie High graduate, completed the eighth grade at North. Her husband, Dwight, is a patrolman with the Menomonie Police Department. She has been employed by First Federal Savings Loan Association the past 18 years and presently serves as North Menomonie branch manager and assistant vice president. "She has the best job of the whole bunch," declared a proud grandmother. Christy is the youngest of three children and a new elementary boundarystaffing plan adopted by the board of education recently combines North and Cedar Falls.

The plan says North will host students in grades 4-6, which means that Christy will finish sixth grade at North. Asked her reaction to the new plan, Christy approved because it will rcun ite her with friends from Cedar Falls who at some point in time attended North. Although somewhat reluctant to make comparisons, Mrs. Score did offer the opinion that "today's young people are allowed more leeway." She suggested, too, that discipline was once a more dominant factor in the home. "Dad laid down the rules when our children started to drive a car and none of them ever lost their driving privileges," she said.

"Young people have so many opportunites today," she continued. "When I was young, country kids didn't have the same advantages as city kids." And a condition that exists today at North was already present when Mrs. Score attended school. "Our kindergarten room couldn't have been more crowded," she declared. While subject content and teaching methods have undoubtedly changed during the past plus.

80 years, all four agreed on one point: "North is a really neat school." tridge holders, tires, holsters and diving boards. City fathers accepted ihe recommendation of the public works director and said special dumping licenses will be required and commercial tipping fees will be charged for the following categories of construction and demolition waste and debris: new houses duplexes, new apartments, new commercial, commcrical remodeling and residential or commercial demolition. A request from Claudia Shepard, 2713 Schabacker Court, to purchase a lot adjacent to her dwelling was referred to a quartet that will establish a price and report its findings to the council. The quartet includes the mayor, city attorney, City administrator and an appraiser. This lot in the Eighth addition to Grove Hill addition was obtained for back taxes from the county.

Reportedly, the city needs to realize at least $5,500 from the sale to cover unpaid taxes and special assessments. The lot was appraised at $8,000 by the county. Judge Muza places Taylor in Mendota By Randy Skjerly Staff Writer Psychiatrists painted a complex and chilling portrait of convicted murderer Alvin Taylor last week in Dunn County Circuit Court. On Thursday Taylor waived his right to a jury trial and pleaded guilty to the Dunn County of Timothy Hayden and Robert Williams. On Friday, Judge Donna Muza declared Taylor not guilty on both counts by reason of mental defect.

She remanded him to the Mendota Mental Health Institution in Madison, saying, "Alvin Taylor is dangerous to himself and to others." For Taylor to be released from institutionalized care, courts in Washington, Eau Claire and Dunn County would each have to rule on his sanity. But Dr. John Greist, one of the psychiatrists who testified, said, "Alvin is 'Alvin Taylor is dangerous to himself and Donna Muza. likely to have this disorder for many years. I don't know what would happen, in treatment terms, that would lead to physicians recommending his release." Taylor suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, which is uncurable, psychiatrists said.

Public Defender John Kucinski turned to members of the Hayden family present in court and told them Taylor is not getting off lightly. "Mendota is like a prison. It has fences. It has bars. It has walls.

There is a guard at the front door. It's like a prison except there are a lot more doctors and psychologists," Kucinski said. "Alvin has been committed there, basically, until he is better, which is basically for the rest of his life." Taylor will also suffer internally from his mental disease, Kucinski said. "He's one of the sickest people I've ever seen," Kucinski said. Past Rulings Hayden, 27, was shot in March 1987 in his Menomonie home.

Wil- It is unlikely he will ever be Jim Peterson, district attorney. Hams, 38, was killed on or around July 15, 1985. His body was found in 1987 buried near a house in the Town of Spring Brook." Last August Taylor pleaded guilty in Eau Claire County to the May 1986 stabbing death of James Severson, 42 and was ordered to Mendota. Also at that time, Taylor received a 20-year prison term for attempted murder in Washington County where he assaulted Paul Zwick with a screwdriver and hammer. TAYLOR: Page 2 First Ward Alderman Delbert Block was named to the Landfill User Fee committee by Council President Albert F.

Brockclman, and Jean O'Neill was renamed to the Municipal Library Board by Mayor Charles Stokke. President Brockelman presiding at the plus two and one-half session in the absence of Mayor Stokke and business was conducted with nine representatives as Wesley Sommers was absent. Wage Adjustments City fathers during executive session approved two work agreements. The 1 8 persons in the police patrolman unit will receive a four percent adjustment retroactive to April 1, and the 1 1 individuals in Fire Fighters Local 1697 were granted a three per-cent adjustment retroactive to June 1 and a two percent increase effective Nov. 1, 1989.

The council heard a progress update presented by the Dunn County Economic Development Task Force. This committee will submit its report to the county board at the Wednesday, June 21, session and Supervi a member of the charter first grade class that attended the school. Mrs. Score said that Sig's father conducted a truck farm on the present site of the Thundcrbird Mall while the Score family dwelling was located at Score, Christy Albrecht and Beverly Photo by Layne Pitt The end of any schooyear triggers a certain amount "of nostalgia with memories becoming more precious with each passing year. This condition was very much in evidence last Friday afternoon when a four-generation family gathered outside the North elementary center a facility they all attended at some point in time.

Senior family member is Esther Score, who will celebrate her 90th birthday in August. Junior member is 1 1 -year-old Christy Albrecht, who has completed the fifth grade. Between are Beverly Waller and Sue Albrecht, who graduated from Menomonie High in 1943 and 1965, respectively. "I went to kindergarten three years," declared Mrs. Score wheijasked if she had the privilege at the turn of the century of participating in the preparatory program.

Three years old at the time, Mrs. Score recalled tagging along with other family members when school opened in the fall. "They walked me back home and I cried and I cried," she continued. Eventually, she was allowed to remain in school and today she says, "I was in kindergarten so long I thought I owned it." She has other fond memories of those kindergarten years- brother Bill carrying her on his shoulders to school and the school's fenced garden. Mrs.

Score said kindergarten was conducted in a separate building located on the southwest corner of the North school lot. Nearby was the fenced garden and she remembers taking lettuce and radishes home for her family to enjoy. She the sixth grade at North, then transferred to Central in downtown Menomonie the next two years. "We walked two and one-half miles to school," she commented. "School buses didn't operate in those days." But she never had the opportunity to complete high school.

After finishing the eighth grade, Mrs. Score said she stayed home the next year because her mother was ill. She enrolled in high school the follow- 4I was in kindergarten so long I thought I owned it! Esther Score ing year but was forced to quit after a couple oi weeics. "I was 15 years old on Aug. 30 and my mother died on Sept.

14 (1914)," she recalled. "I had a father and three brothers to care for. I liked all subjects when I was in school. I got wonderful grades and thought I was really going some place but family comes first. In 1919 she married Sig Score and the family will celebrate come Sunday, June 24.

Open house is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Score home at 1514 Stout St. and three events will be celebrated the Scores' 70th wedding anniversary and the 90th birthdays of Mr. and Mrs. Score.

Mr. Score was 90 in I I'UJ i -j I i I I "1 i myf I 1" I 1 i I i I I I i ft I 'f I I i'Jr- v'l; fit i i 1 i "rr .1 i fr A A Ui.iiiimiu iiiiiiiw iwiwinwiwi win iiwiimiiniiini iw iiiij.n.LjiiwiPiuiwiuiiiin ri -rr--fm -)---. All members of this four generation family contend Albrecht Esther that "North is a really neat school" From left are Sue Waller. Staff.