Calumet OKs county budget of $4 million iiln 1 Jllil)! Last leaves John Hastings is silhouetted as he sweeps leaves from the entrance of All Saints Episcopal Church, hopefully for the last time this year. (Post-Crescent photo by Tom Running) i I The Post-Crescent Thursday, Oct. 31, 1974 4 Concern voiced by transit commission on area plan A scary night 3 ner Neal Manske, who told them the committee will be representative of all communities in the area. The committee decision on route structure will be the major plan under which the commission will have to work, he noted. "I don't know how the opinion of someone who is from another municipality is germane to our bus operation," noted Robert Bodoh, commission chairman.
"Why should we want to take these others into account?" "It's completely out of line," said Albert Johnson, a commission member. A committee member noted that he didn't see the function of the new committee as anything but a rubber stamp. "I don't see how you're going to lock us into a transit development plan," said Bodoh. "We're the ones who are going to be responsible for referendums, operation in the city. Manske responded that the regional federal aids reviewer will want to see "an honest, areawide approach, not something that's going to show a plan that kowtows to the big wheel," refer-Continued on page 4 St.
Elizabeth wants Oneida parking removed The planning committee of the St. Elizabeth Hospital Board of Directors has asked the city, to eliminate on-street parking on S. Oneida Street from E. Fremont Street to Foster Street and control lights at the Fremont Street-Oneida intersection because of the traffic hazards and bottlenecks they cause. The request came in a letter this week to Mayor James Sutherland.
It will be referred to the City Council Public Safety Committee for recommendation before it is brought before the full council. The request comes as the state Department of Transportation is entering the final stages of planning for the reconstruction of U.S. 10 (Oneida Street) from Seymour Street to State 114 just north of Lake Winnebago. That road will be made four lanes wide and presumably will be generating more traffic when it is completed. The hospital planning committee said in its request that vehicles parked on the west side of Oneida in the Seymour to Foster one-block stretch be removed i Continued on page 4 BY MAUREEN BLANEY Post-Crescent staff writer The formation of an area committee on transit, which would develop a transit framework for state and federal aid applications, caused some concern about authority with Appleton Transit Commission members Wednesday night.
The demise of the bus service in Kau-kauna has prompted the earlier formation of a committee, which would have come in a few months as part of the Transit Development Program, a project of the East-Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, and the still nebulous quality of the committee idea had some transit members upset. A meeting is being planned for mayors, village presidents, town chairmen, East-Central and the state to consider the idea of a transit system between Kaukauna and Neenah. These local officials will be asked to recommend residents to represent their municipalities on the committee to develop transit system alternatives for East-Central. In turn, these proposals would be Appleton views shown in survey BY ALICE CONNORS Post-Crescent correspondent CHILTON The Calumet County Board shaved only $52,000 from a proposed county budget of $4 million before approving the budget Wednesday. The new budget calls for expenditures totaling $3,948,853, an increase of $1,219,312 over spending for 1974.
Expenditures will require a tax levy of $1,223,400, calling for a tax rate of $4.04 per $1,000 equalized valuation. The supervisors, however, recommended that $100,000 be taken from the general surplus, which is $50,000 more than first anticipated. This sum will reduce the tax rate to $3.74, which is 15 cents lower than last year. New in revenues this year is the machinery and equipment tax reimbursem*nt from the state, which amounted to $100,000 for Calumet County. By reducing the tax rate 15 cents, the county will lose approximately $4,000 of this amount, but supervisors agreed that the added $50,000 taken from surplus was worth the reduced levy.
Although no major cuts were made in any particular department, decreases were seen in the county aid to bridges, B-l up time, a night when you can become on page 4 i WW'" 1 8 stillness this week on a footbridge at which was anticipated higher, and in actual state charges for charities and corrections. Supervisors moved to cut the county park allocation from $65,478 to $49,108. Some $50,000 dollars was added to the tentative $100,000 courthouse jail building account. This was taken out of the general revenue sharing due the county. A total of $7,000 was added to the sheriff's budget of $91,000 for search and rescue operations.
In the part of the budget concerned with health, the Unified Services Board had the largest allocation, $487,054 out of a total $532,792 in that section. Several persons who appeared at the budget hearing in the morning questioned many aspects of the unified board's appropriation. One citizen, Mrs. J. W.
Knauf, questioned duplication in services of a psychologist, noting that the school, through Cooperative Educational Service Agency No. 10, hires its own psychologist two and one-half days per week. She also said that children who have any disability are the responsibility of the individual school district. She asked whether some unified board services were being duplicated and said that taxpayers should not be doubly taxed. G.
J. Hipke, who also spoke on the unified board, pointed out that it was a new program. "We will have to learn as we go along," he said. The unified board now includes the mental health clinic and day care services board, which formerly had separate appropriations. Revenues from state funding offset this appropriation somewhat.
Charities and corrections totaled $1,409,285, up $383,461. Social Services administration increased $417,573. This includes appropriations for old age assistance, blind aid, medical aids, aid to dependent children, blind and disabled aid. Revenues from the state and federal government are received for many of these items. General government totaled $424,720, up $73,574.
Protection of persons and property was $323,936, up $93,247. Both the sheriff's department and traffic police budgets were larger because of additional men and programs. Education and recreation totaled $351,374, up conservation and development totaled $62,421, up $6,900. County highways was $580,253, up with the county aid for bridges totalling $49,253 instead of the anticipated $103,750. Miscellaneous expenses were $214,070, up $53,030.
The largest outlay of $150,000 went for the courthouse and jail. The new radio communication package of $55,000 was the second largest. Revenues totaled up $114,499. The equalized valuation for the county is $327,393,200. Recreation area bids accepted KIMBERLY Low bids amounting to $206,123 were accepted by the board of education this week for development of a physical education area adjacent to the high school, but a bid for $22,074 for development of a quarter-mile track was held for further study.
In addition to the track, the complex will include a paved intramural and parking area, soccer field and football practice field, two softball diamonds and a baseball diamond. School district voters last September approved borrowing $250,000 to make the plan a reality, Edgerton Contractors, Edgerton, submitted the low bid of $142,000 for site preparation and development of the ball diamonds. Appleton Asphalt will do the parking lot with a bid of $31,325. The bid for extension of water mains was awarded to Coppens Construction, Appleton, with a price of $18,972. Curb, gutter and sidewalk work will be done by Sommers Construction, Shiocton, which bid $5,305.
The low bid ($8,521) for fencing and backstops came from Cyclone Fence Green Bay. The board approved extension of the water main on the west side of John Street, eliminating the need to tear up the road when development west of the street begins. The resignation of Thorn Lawler as Combined Locks representative on the school board, was accepted after he reported that his employer was transferring him to Chicago. Board President Harold Wentzel was authorized to report at the next meeting on what course to follow in replacing Lawler. The board can leave the position vacant or appoint a successor who would serve until the spring election when voters would be asked to name a board member to serve the two years remaining on Lawler's three-year term.
The board approved the addition of $40,025 to the tax levy for 1975. The money represents initial payment and interest on the bond issue being floated to finance the $250,000 physical education area. The administration was authorized tc draw up an interim policy concerning student records to comply with state statutes and School Supt. Al Brown was authorized to seek a replacement for the head custodian who resigned earlier this week. Business Manager Myron Huth reported that the access road from Railroad Street to John Street has been graveled, but no asphalt work was contemplated until next spring to perrnit the road to settle properly.
Halloween, whatever its-original meaning, has come to mean a dark and spooky night when witches fly and goblins walk. To mark this noteworthy event, the more than 200 pupils at Appleton's Columbus School had an all-school project a poetry writing session. The anthology is filled with black cats, rats and bats, full moons and weird houses. For some, like the kindergartners, it presented some difficulty. Not because they lacked imagination, but because they couldn't write.
However, they had no difficulty putting together all the small words they had learned and dictating them to the teacher, who put them down on paper. Here is one of their combined works A skeleton went on its broom To the flying moon. His arm shakes and rattles His head nods and paddles. His knees crack and rumble And he falls and tumbles. An excerpt from another one goes like this A scary 'night for Halloween.
Skeletons rattle. Fish battle. Come tonight. Rattle night. Fish fight on a scary night.
Bats in flight. Bat, cat, The cat's in the witch's hat. Not everyone would like to think of Halloween as totally spooky. Tammy Zimmerman, age 6, proclaims: Pumpkins are gay On Halloween night. My pumpkin is going to smile And the candle will be light.
Steve Arnold, age 7, may dream of Halloween, but it's not all bad, as he makes plain in his ending: One night I was sleeping And I heard someone creeping. I dreamed that some people were walking And witches were talking. I dreamed that a cat sat by a bat That was sitting on a mat. I dreamed that I made a pie That was very, very high. Ray Austin, age 8, is a boy of few words.
He sums up his feeling with Strange things seen. On Halloween. Ghosts may walk. Skeletons talk. Everyone knows, of course, that all the scary things are about that night, but has anyone ever considered what he would do if confronted with one? Larry Boehnlein, age 10, asks ths same question: Witches are ugly.
Black cats are too. If a witch came after you What would you do? presented to the various municipalities for their approval. The idea of people inexperienced in transit matters making recommendations that will affect Appleton's transit system riled some commissioners. Cor-rine Goldgar, commission executive assistant, noted that her entire first year on a transit commission was spent learning about the various aspects of transit. The commission also noted that it is the only official commission in this study area and they were probably the only persons experienced in dealing with transit matters.
The program is looking at all aspects of a transii system as a requirement for federal funds. This yet-to-be-formed committee will provide resident input to East-Central on possible alternatives. The state will also determine its subsidy allocations based upon the plan finally submitted and approved by participating municipalities, said James Malloy, transportation planner with East-Central, today. The idea of the committee was presented to the transit commission Wednesday night by East-Central plan- vored the law and 24.3 per cent didn't. Stetz said she believed the inference here was of the "Saturday night special" pistol, not hunting weapons.
62.7 per cent felt that the local courts were not harsh enough in dealing with criminals while 19.5 per cent felt they were about right, .8 per cent too harsh and 16.9 per cent didn't know. In the Midwest, 64.7 per cent felt courts weren't harsh enough, 18.4 about right, 3.1 too harsh and 13.7 didn't know. 46.6 per cent were more or less satisfied with their present financial situations while 36.4 per cent were pretty well satisfied and 16.1 per cent not satisfied. In the Midwest, 40.8 per cent were more or less satisfied, 34.9 pretty well and 23.5 not at all. 58.5 per cent are pretty happy these days while 22.0 per cent are very happy and 19.4 per cent are not too happy compared with Midwestern responses of 53.7 pretty happy, 29.4 very happy and 15.3 not too happy.
Stetz said the correlation was evident between satisfaction with financial condition and happiness. 42.4 per cent considered themselves "independents" instead of being affiliated with a political party, which is more than all those who considered themselves Republicans or Democrats combined. Those calling themselves Republicans totaled 22 per cent and Demo-Continued on page 4 reporter today. He would not name the official. At the time, Engel said, he was traveling around the country, attempting to get new businesses into downtown Appleton.
He quoted the unnamed city official as saying Engel would have more need than the city for the picture so he suggested he take it from the city office. Engel said he had placed the picture on the trunk of his wife's car about July 14, 1972, after showing it to someone. His wife drove away, without noticing the picture on the trunk, he recalled. Someone found the picture on Seymour Street and turned it over to Apple-ton police who in turn gave it to the public works department. Engel told a reporter he went to the city agency, saw the picture on a counter, said "this Is what I'm looking for," and walked out with it.
He hasn't decided if he'll abide by the court order against him, Engel said. It's his picture, not the city's, he em-Continued on page 4 BY ARLEN BOARDMAN Post-Crescent stall writer A Lawrence University student-conducted survey last spring suggests that Appleton residents feel about the same about a variety of social issues as other Midwesterners do, a comparison with a 1972 Midwestern survey has indicated. The Lawrence students' survey was conducted only in the city and responses include 71.2 per cent women which surveyors said could have affected the results. Many were homemakers. However, the students feel that general attitudes and comparisons of these attitudes with those in the larger survey are legitimate, according to Donna Stetz, a senior from Milwaukee.
Using the system of the National Opinion Research Center, the students found that among Appleton residents: 68.6 per cent approve of a married woman's earning money in business or industry if her husband is capable of supporting her. About 25.4 per cent disapproved while in the Midwest 60.8 per cent approved and 35.7 didn't. 58 per cent favor the death penalty for persons convicted of first-degree murder while 32.2 per cent don't, compared with Midwest figures of 54.1 and 35.3, respectively. 68.6 per cent favor a law requiring a person to get a police permit before he or she could buy a gun and 28.8 per cent don't. In the Midwest, 70 per cent fa Naturally, Halloween is also dress Continued Man ordered to return rendering or pay for it The picture or $600 was the court order this week against an Appleton real estate developer in a dispute over an artist's rendering of the proposed Oneida Street high-level bridge.
The default judgment in Outagamie County Court Branch 3 was against Joseph J. Engel, 1500 Oakcrest Court, who did not appear for the hearing on a civil suit brought by City Atty. David Gee-nen. In his complaint drafted for the city, Geenen charged that Engel wrongfully removed the picture from the city public works department on July 14, 1972. Public Works Director Robert Miller told a reporter that Engel "just walked in and took it and walked out." "We were dumbfounded," Miller recalled.
Geenen said today he had "absolutely no Idea" why Engel took the 24 by 3-foot picture. Engel said he didn't steal the picture, as city officials make it appear. It was given to him "by a prominent city father" in 1967 or 1968, Engel told a A man hurries to work through the early morning Fox River Paper Co. (Post-Crescent photo) Morning light.
