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Muskego Disfrict Will Get Second Sewer to Serve 6 Subdivisions USKEGO A second sewer district for Muskego was put in motion when the council adopted a resolution declaring itj intent to levy special assessments for installing sanitary sewers in the Tess Corners area. To be called the theast Assessment the new system is expected to service all platted and unplatted lands in sections one and two, 11 and 12 and the east half of sections three and ten in the city. The new system i expected to serve the subdivisions of Fountainwood, Belmont Greens, Freedom Acres, Tess Corners, Hale Park West and Maclen Meadows. Location of the new sewer plant to serve this system has not been determined. The resolution directs the city engineei to prepare final plans and specifications of the project, an estimate of the entire cost and a schedule of proposed assess ments.

A public hearing on the report will be scheduled. The council also adopted a sign ordinance to regulate design, construction and location of permanent signs. It will also regulate permits, fees and inspection of signs and their restrictions. Temporary signs will also be covered, including political signs. Political signs must be removed 10 days after elections for which they were erected.

Other porary signs must be removed after 60 days. In other business the council: RMM inti Smashes Into Trucker Is Charged 1. Approved the appointment of Mrs. Elaine Modlinski, W175-S7437 Lake Dr. to the library board to serve the unexpired term of Kenneth Kapelka, who resigned.

2. Adopted an amendment to an ordinance to change the industrially zoned 120 acre farm of John Weseljack to an agricultural overlay so that Weseljack can build a second house on this land, 3. Approved two contracts of the Tess Corners fire department for fire protection and for rescue service for the city. The city will pay the volunteer fire company $35 for each rescue call. It will pay the fire company $15,880 for fire service in 1968 with quarterly payments.

A Hartland trucker, Richard F. Pratt, 35, of 345 Cottonwood struck a parked car and a tree Wednesday night in Waukesha and received a left knee injury. Pratt has been chargpd with failing to have his vehicle under control and leaving the scene of an accident. He was told to answer the charges in county court on Mar. 20.

According to police, pickup truck fim struck the parked auto of Harriet Schmitz, 1111 Anoka in front of 817 E. North St. at 6:40 p.m. Northbound on Pewaukre truck left tlie road and struck a tree in front of 1305 Pewaukee Rd. Issues Revived the industrial park, acquired additional land for a land bank, upgraded and salaries, eliminated traffic congestion downtown and undertook street paving projects in six major areas.

The mayor showed a drawing of a redesigned downtown section. It showed Main St. traffic being routed through the River parking lot, and a pedestrian mall created on Main St. His plan is not currently before any of the city government agencies. The plan commission will soon hire planning consultants, to make a study of the downtown and other areas.

There is $30,000 in the budget for this. Owens said that during the last three years of his administration the city tax rate went up only 62 cents without a curtailment of city services. Improvement projects started during his administration included the addition to the library, new fire station on Arcadian new city hall, parking ramp and improved street lighting, he said. Moves Headquarters MILWAUKEE The Wisconsin wing of the Civil Air Patrol has moved its headquarters from Watertown to the National Guard Armory at Fort Atkinson. The wing, commanded by Col.

James C. Gates has 1.500 members in 52 units throughout the state. Sewage Carousel The vehicle veered to the left for 350 feet and came to rest in a field. Pratt got out and called his wife. A police squad car took him to Waukesha Memorial hospital for treatment of his knee injury.

He posted $135 bail at the police station upon being booked for the traffic violations. Grove Home Is Ransacked ELM GROVE An Elm Grove home was between Tuesday entered and ransacked evening and Wednesday while she was away. Police said the home of Mrs. Ralph Huth. 14800 Juneau had been entered by breaking a pane of glass in a French door and then unlocking the door.

Police became aware of the break-in when they found valise early Wednesday Muskego OKs Funds For Projects UWW Plans Market Drops In Gold Fever NEW YORK The stock market was hit hard hv heavy selling today as gold fever continued in Europe, and Wall Street wondered whether U. S. monetary authorities would take stiff restraining measures after the market close. Trading was heavy. Losses outnumbered gains by a ratio of about 11 to 3 on the New York Stock Exchange as prices retreated on a broad front.

Even the gold, silver, and other mining stocks turned mixed as speculators began taking profits selectively, fearing that decisive action by the United States might dash cold water on these recent big movers. The Dow Jones industrial average at noon was down 9 82 at 832 41. School Staff Asks Free U.S. Tanks, Helicopters Fight Off Enemy Ambush a morning containing some of Mrs. belongings at the Halfway House restaurant, 15350 Blue Mound Rd.

They called Mrs. Huth who was spending the night in Brookfield. She told them someone must have entered her home to get the belongings. Police found Wednesday morning that the house had been entered and ransacked. No estimate of what was stolen was available Thursday morning.

The break-in is under investigation. MUSKEGO Two projects of the public works committee were granted funds at this week council meeting. The council approved purchase of culverts for the Fountainwood drainage ditch project and appropriated more money for the Woods road bridge project. Last month the council rejected all bids for the proposed straightening and cleaning of the drainage ditch going through Foun tainwood and Hale Park West. The council agreed the city would benefit by purchasing its own ditching equipment so that the city highway department could clean and widen all ditches in the city.

The council agreed to purchase the culvert from the Bark River Culvert Co. for $7,834. At the Woods Road bridge longer piles are being needed to reach solid ground to support the bridge. Instead of the anticipated 30 foot piles, the engineers find that 45 foot piles will be needed. An additional $3,500 expenditure was approved.

Linnan Construction Co. was low bidder for the project. The bid was $31,772. Dies Under Train PORTAGE McDowell of Portage, a railroad employe, was killed early today when he slipped or fell beneath a freight train in the rail yards here. Continued From Page I enrollment of 1,700 full time students, includes: 1.

A three-story library building. 2. A fine arts building including a lecture-performance hall, studios, and some classrooms. 3. A three-story student services center which would be expanded out of the building proposed for next fall.

4. A physical services building including an expansion of the heating plant, vehicle storage, workshop, physical education facilities and two classrooms. Enrollment is expected tc reach 1,700 by 1929. according to Deutsch. Previous enrollment predictions for UWW have been too low.

Several supervisors were miffed at discovering that no guarantee of ever becoming a four year institution could be given. up to the legislature. a matter of said Mancl. University take a position on Parking Fire in Jail Shaft A fire in a county jail ventilating shaft, discovered about 9 p.m. Wednesday did only smoke damage to a room serving as an entry way into a second floor cell block.

Deputies smelled smoke before 9 p.m. but although they searched the jail were unable to find the source. The Waukesha fire department was finally called in to find the fire and put it out. Deputies said the shaft has an opening high up in the wall of the room but it has not recently had a covering over the opening. Firemen found "smoldering clothing, paper, wrappers, magazines and which deputies said must have been thrown there over a period of time by prisoners.

Deputies said they were told by prisoners that a prisoner released at about 4 m. threw a cigarette into the shaft. Capt. Jerry Janssen said Thursday he will consider bringing charges against the man and will discuss the possibility with the district attorney. Damage was confined to smoked walls because the duct runs through a steel wall.

Will Close Office MILWAUKEE (AP) The Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union, with 1,400 members in the state, will close its Madison office and consolidate its operations at its Milwaukee headquarters, officials said today. Problem Falls in Closes Village jyjENOMONEE FALLS It may be some time before the court decides to allow the reopening of the Carousel Restaurant in Menomonee Falls, Herbert Ripley, director of environmental health in the WMmitMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMtiiniiiiniiruHiimiiiHmiiimiiiiHiiiffliiiiminimiii Waukesha Freeman An Independent Newspaper Established 1859 Thursday, March 14, 1968 Published every afternoon except Sunday by the FREEMAN PRINTING COMPANY 200-204 PARK PLACE HOME DELIVERY PRICES (delivery in Waukesha County) Weekly 50c 3 mos. 13 wks.) $6.50 6 months (26 weeks) 1 1.00 mail subscription prices (mailed outside County): Waukesha 1 month $2.00 3 months $6.00 6 months $11.00 One year $20.00 Ask for department or person defcued. Private exchange. 542-2501 or 567-6791 Entered at the Waukesha.

Wisconsin, post office as second class matter. All unsolicited manuscripts, at tit les, letters and pictures addressed to the Freeman, are sent at the risk. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republiea- tmn of all the local news printed in the newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. county health department, 3aid Thursday. At the request of the health department, Circuit Judge William E.

Gramling this week ordered the restaurant dosed until its operator, R. Walter Gross, corrects a sewage problem. Ripley said the restaurant be opened until the court is petitioned to open it, and he said the court will not do so until it receives assurance from Gross that corrections will be made. The court, this week found Gross in contempt of a previous court order demanding that a 12,000 gallon sewage tank be emptied regularly. In Menomonee Falls the soil capable of absorbing septic tank wastes.

When the restaurant was built the huge tank was put in the ground to collect waste. Gross arranged to have waste pumped out regularly and carried away in a truck. Ripley said in December 1965 the health department got a court order to make Gross agree to regular pumping. In February 1967 the health department again took Gross to court. Ripley said Gross was not paying the pumper he had a contract with, so the pumper was not removing the waste material.

In February 1967 Gross posted a $500 bond which the health department was to use whenever the tank was not pumped out. Ripley said all but about $50 of the $500 has been used up because it costs $25 per pumping and 5,000 gallons is removed four times weekly. In January 1968 witnesses testified the tank had in that month overflowed onto the ground and into a barroom. The current court order dosing the restaurant does not apply to bowling lanes in the same building or to a motel next door, once operated by Gross, but now in receivership. The motel is also having problems with sewage, Ripley said, and plans for correction are being prepared for presentation to and approval of the state health department.

He did suggest that the Waukesha area is one of three in the state for which a four year university center seemed likely sometime in the future. The five building expansion plans he outlined were drawn with the idea that the institution might eventually become a four year school, Mancl said. He said the UWW special building committee of the County Board had asked for plans of that type. your committee had agreed to forget all about this four year stuff, we would have been further along in he said. Deutsch and Mancl both urged the board to approve the classroom and office building immediately so it would be available next fall.

Supervisors found a new objection to the first building when Mancl revealed it would soon be remodeled two years later for use as part of the student services center. But it is needed immediately for classrooms, he said. The present buildings were built for 750. There are now 909 students. Schedule planners have said no more students should be admitted without additional space, Mancl said.

a public institution and I think we should be in the business of turning students said Deutsch. "If we turn off our growth now I know if we can start it again as A petition calling for the continuation of parking facilities for the Centrnl Campus High school staff was presented to the school boara at its meeting Wednesday night. Teachers and other employes are objecting to a recent city council decision to put metered parking in the Carroll Ave, and Carroll St. lots, used by high school staff since 1949. Failure to provide parking facilities "would amount to financial discriminaton instead of for doing a difficult job, charged the petition.

The petition called for the acquisition of adjacent pro- nerty for a parking lot, making arrangements with the city for free parking in the lots or compensatory pay for teachers using the lots. Parking will have an eight hour limit and cast five cents an hour when the two lots become metered, probably by Seotember. Charles Horwitz, principal of Central Campus, said teachers would be inconvenienced by having to run out and put money in the parking meters. The school dav runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

usually, according to Horwitz. In a recent survey conducted at the school. 107 of the 140 professional and nonprofessional staff members reported using the lot four to five days per week. Free parking at Butler Middle school and South Campus the oeti- al.xo providing free parking for its students, was cited by the petition. The metered parking lot "would in effect reduce the salary or wages paid Central Cajpus the petition charged.

Additional expense would amount to a full pay in a year, said the petition. Both lots originally were purchased for the school hoard, according to school Sunt. R. G. Hein.

One of the main arguments in purchasing the Carroll St Cutler St. lots was to provide parking for Central Campus, Hein. When the propertv was taken by the citv there was an assumption that Central Camous staff could use it. "It seems to me they forget the consideration of the people who owned it in the first said Hein. AIGON (AP) Enemy troops raked a U.S.

Army supply convoy from ambush along winding Route 14 in the central highlands but American tanks and helicopter gunshlps splintered the attackers. The U.S. Command said 18 North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong guerrillas were killed in the short, mid day fight nine miles north of Pleiku City Wednesday. Twelve Americans were killed, eight were wounded and soldiers of the South Viet namese armored unit escorting the convoy suffered light casualties, the command said. The enemy sprayed the 4th vision convoy with bazooka- type rockets and heavy automatic weapons fire and inflicted damage on the vehicles, a command spokesman said.

This indicated as many as a third of the trucks might have been damaged or destroyed. Tanks and armored personnel carriers of the 3rd Vietnamese Armored Cavalry raced past the convoy to attack the ambush site, after the fight began at 11:15 a.m., and at 11 25 helicopter gunships sailed Into the battle. Fighter-bombers arrived at 11:59 and within minutes the enemy troops fled. Army engineers with the convoy began clearing the narrow road, which links the 4th headquarters near Pleiku with Its units operating around Kontum and Dak To. Just 17 hours later guerrillas ambushed a 30-venlcle convoy nine miles northeast of Saigon, on the highway to the big military base at Long Binh.

The U.S. Command said one American soldier and one enemy soldier were killed, and damage to the trucks was light, but the ambush underlined the threat from roving guerrilla bands operating in suburbs At Khe Sanh, the 14th anniversary of the start of the siege of Dien Bien Phu passed with enemy gunners hitting the U.S. Marine combat bose with a below-average barrage of 200 shells Wednesday. Casualties among the 7.000 Allied defenders of the base in northwestern South Vietnam were as usual described as light. Because of similarities between the situation at Dien Bien Phu and at Khe Sanhn there had been speculation that Gen.

Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese defense minister, might mark the anniversary with a show of force against the besieged base. Giap directed the 56 day siege of Dien Bien Phu that ended May 7, 1954, with the capitulation of the French. The U.S. Marine command at Khe Sanh considers that the iiege there began 54 days ago with attack Jan 21 on the base and Khe Sanh village. "We are prepared much better now than we were in said a spokesman.

U.S. bombers hit the estimated 20.000 North Vietnamese troops surrounding Khe Sanh Wednesday with five raids. The B52s also flew millions against enemy concentrations northwest of Dak To, in the central highlands, and in the A Shau Valley. bVaubeiha Count T. J.

Hughes; Team Manager NEW BERLIN Thomas J. Hughes, 23, of 17812 W. Oak died Tuesday at Waukesha Memorial Hospital of an acute respiratory ailment. He was graduated from Catholic Memorial High School. Waukesha, where he was manager of the football and wrestling teams.

He attended Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh for three and a half years. Ohituci rieJ Thomas J. Hughes He was employed at RTE Corp. in the computer department. Hughes is survived by his father, Thomas and a sister, Patricia grandmother Mrs.

Helen Schaible of Wauwatosa. His mother, Betty, died Dec. 23, 1963. Funeral services will be held Friday at 9:15 a.m. at the Koelsch Funeral Home, West Allis, and at 10 a.m.

at St. Luke Catholic Church, S. 180th and W. Greenfield, Brookfield. Burial will be at Holy UK; Cross Cemetery, Milwaukee.

Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday after 4 p.m. Parish vigil will be Thurs day at 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials to St. Luke church are suggested by his father.

Mrs. Grace Dorrance Mrs. Grace Dorrance. 84, a resident of Waukesha for 25 years, died suddenly Wednesday morning at Fort Pierce, Fla. Mrs.

Dorrance moved from Waukesha about 20 years ago. Survivors include sons Howard Hockett of Fort Pierce, Maj. Donald Hockett of the U.S. Army, and Richard Hockett of Waukesha; daughters Mrs. Lyle (Bernice) Grey of Kenosha; Mrs.

Frank (Leota) Samuels and Mrs. Hans (Winifred) Barg, both of Fort Pierce; Mrs. William (Margaret) Redman of Vero Beach, and Mrs. Dorothy Garday of San Diego, Calif. Services will be at Fort Pierce Saturday afternoon at the Yates Funeral home.

Ronald L. Dace MENOMONEE FALLS Funeral sendees were held Thursday morning at St. Francis Episcopal church, Menomonee Falls, for Army Sp4 Ronald Lee Dace. W157- N5792 Cherlyn Menomonee Falls. Burial was in Valhalla cemetery, Milwaukee.

Dace, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Dace. Menomonee Falls, died Friday at Fort Riley, from wounds received in October in Vietnam.

He enlisted in the Army March 10, 1966, after attending Menomonee Falls High school. He is survived by his parents and brothers Roger, with the Army in South Korea, Thomas and Scott at home. Mrs. Ida E. Golemgeske Mrs.

Ida E. Golemgeske, 75, of 820 Niagara died Wednesday at home. She was a resident of Waukesha all her life. Her husband Paul died Dec. 30, 1955.

She is survived daughters Mrs. Dorothy Mitchell, of Seattle, Wash, and Mrs. Charles (Marie) Opsahl of Waukesha; son Lester of Waukesha; brothers Herman and Otto Tiegs of Waukesha and sister Mrs. Helen Mitchell of Seattle, Wash. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday at Trinity Lutheran church, Waukesha The Rev. Clayton Krug will officiate and burial will be in Prairie Home cemetery. Waukesha. Friends may call at the Erling Larsen Funeral home, E. Broadway, Waukesha, from 4 p.m.

Friday until 10:30 a.m. Saturday and at the church until the hour of services. School Board Rejects Request for Mediator Hearing Date on Union Set Arguments on the petition of about 135 county employes, mostly clerical workers, to unionize will be heard Mar. 22 at 10 a.m. at the courthouse.

The Wisconsin Employment Relations Board set the hearing date in a letter received Thursday by the County Board. The employes voted last month to ask the Wisconsin Council of County and Municipal Employes, AFL- CIO, to represent them in negotiations with the county. Included in the proposed bargaining group, besides clerical workers, are maintenance and custodial workers at the courthouse and at the University of Wisconsin- Waukesha center. Field Fire Put Out MENOMONEE FALLS A small field fire behind the department store was quicly put out by Menomonee Falls firemen Wednesday afternoon. Police said the fire call came at 3:48 p.m.

The fire was in a field on Appleton Ave. and St. Francis Dr. The department store is surrounded on three sides by fields, police said. SUSSEX At the seventh meeting Wednesday of the negotiations between the Hamilton Education Sussex, and the board of education of joint district no.

16. the school board again turned down the request to have a neutral, disinterested mediator from the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. Although teacher contracts are supposed to be signed by Friday there is disagreement on salary, a spokesman in the office said Thursday. (School Supt. Norman Fries told the Freeman he was not interested in giving the school viewpoint.) Paul Sicula, attorney for the association, Wednesday asked of the board if it was afraid to have a neutral person there to assist in breaking the obvious impasse because they have something to hide.

There was no answer, he said. Roger Robinson of the school board indicated the board would offer nothing further and would not participate in mediation or fact finding, Sicula said. He suggested the teachers in the Hamilton-Sussex area had better ask for letters of recommendation and seek applications for positions elsewhere because it was apparent the school board "has no interest in treating them with the dignity that their profession requires and George O. Anderson, N80- W22232 Susan Sussex, president of the school board, said the board turned down the proposed negotiator "because wc are negotiating in good faith and can arrive at a solution if they are willing to consider the problems in a mutual He also said the board declined a mediator because it feels it and the association are not far apart. "We are willing to Involved because of the dispute between the board and the association are about 172 teachers in about six schools both high school and elementary in the joint district.

Last year, Anderson said, beginning teachers with no experience and a B.S. degree received $5,800. The school board has offered $6,400 this year. The association which originally demanded $7,400 is now asking $6,800, he said. Third Vote Set on School Addition STONE BANK Electors of the elementary school district here will vote Monday for the third time on a proposed addition and remodeling program.

The district last July approved the $175,000 project by a 40 to 5 vote, but turned it down, 152 to 144, upon reconsideration last month. The third vote will come at a special district meeting at the school Monday at 8 p.m. A citizen8 committee of about 96 residents has been active in recent weeks promoting the addition. The addition will include a cafeteria and kitchen, gym with shower rooms and a multi-purpose room. Present cafeteria and gym space would be remodeled into a kindergarten room, storage area, two additional classrooms and an expanded library.

The district is indebted about $8,000 to architect Fitzhugh Scott, Milwaukee, for preparation of the addition plans. Low bids totaling $192,000 have been submitted by contractors. If the project is approved, the board has indicated it would modify the plans to reduce the bids to the $175,000 total proposed for the project. The addition would add about $1.26 per $1,000 of equalized valuation to tax bills next year, and a gradually declining amount over the 20 years in which the loan for the project is in effect. The school has a present enrollment of 249.

and expects 15 more students in fall. The average number of students per class now is nearly 28, and is expected to be 29 in fall. The building project is needed, according to the citizens committee, because six of nine classe8 already have more than the 25 students per class recommended by state education officials. Present facilities for band lessons, music instruction, kin- the are the physical education, dergarten classes and cafeteria and library, "totally committee maintains. Waukesha Freeman Thursday, March 14, 1968 Page 3.

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