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Madison ALMOST RIPE Green Bay Press-Gazette THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1961 A DAILY THOUGHTi (a good wife) it far more precovi than jewels. Proverbs 3 JO. Her ii a fitting conclusion to the great book of moral wisdom. The Personal Property Tax on Boats Whips Up Many Storms character of a wife is of great importance to every home. By JOHN WYNGAARD MADISON, Wis.

The lamentations now heard. throughout Wisconsin as the local property assessors dun pleasure boat owners for personal property taxes illustrate th'i errat County College Is Out-Dated ic operations of the property tax system as a W3 Ail" St. consistency of A tax if the boat own- tiill narrinn the expression. Thousands of who were always 1 1 a a decade or more ago, Instead of today, they would doubtless have their immunity now. Year after year the legislature has listened sympathetically to a long parade of pressure groups demanding exemptions from this seemingly insignificant item and that, and year after year some of those demands of the most influen- tial or articulate of those pressure groups have been granted.

Today the listing of the tax exemptions in the statute book of Wisconsin occupies a number of closely printed pages. But it is precisely the long-scandalously long list of such exemptions that makes the boaters' lobby encounter a stone wall of resistance to their exemption pleas today. At long last, the legislature is facing up to the realization that there is no possibility of resolving the burdens of the property tax by excusing one group or another. The result is merely to transfer the liability to the rest of the community, which is not only getting smaller as the exemptions increase, but is also getting wise to what is going on. Reform Needed Unless the erosion of the tax base is halted somewhere, the time will tome when a man will be excused from paying taxes on his boat, or his airplane, or other relatively costly item of property, but will be taxed to the point of suffocation on his home.

Already the private garage, as property, is taxed at a considerably higher rate than is the automobile it houses, as suojecT in Wyngaard assessment of taxes on their craft are suddenly getting bills, for the first time, and their ire is something to behold. What has happened of course, is that the new state boat registration system has given the local assessors a ready-made dunning list Before this year it was often hard to find the boat that was technically liable to assessment It is also pretty plain that many of the local assessors didn't try very hard to find them. Now there is no longer any excuse. The levy is a stiff one, the boat enthusiasts are discovering. Many a humble family pleasure vessel is being taxed at the rate of $25 or even more.

The complaint is that the hunter's equipment, the golfer's, the tennis player's, the fisherman's, and the hobby equipment of most other persons, are not being taxed. Why single out the boaters? The History The reasons are several, practical and otherwise. Much required in degree granting institutions. The educators also point out that the county college program is no great boon to the student. His two-year certificate restricts him to a much lower paying position.

"Every year taught without a degree is lost money which can never be regained." The prospective teacher can get a loan from the National Defense Student Loan Program if he attends a member institution of which there are many in Wisconsin. "If a person borrows $2,000 over a four-year period and then teaches for five years, he pays back only $1,000 plus interest. Can anyone beat that kind of a deal?" There is no shortage of trained and qualified teachers, the letter insists, but only "of teachers who will teach for $3,000 to $4,000 a year." There has never been any sense to the idea that a teacher in a rural school needed less education than one preparing for a position in a city school system. Moreover, since the state colleges are required by law to accept the credits of county college graduates in the elementary program, all Wisconsin education suffers. Financially the county colleges are not a bargain either.

George Watson, retiring superintendent of public instruction, has estimated that the money used to maintain the county colleges would provide each student in them with a $1,000 scholarship. Because of the growing concern over the number of college students, higher entrance requirements and tuitions there probably has been even more doubt than usual about changing or closing the county colleges. But their continued existence as teachers' colleges lowers educational standards in the state. The Legislature should look The Legislature has been considering several different bills, all of which have as their aim the requiring of at least four years of college for teachers in Wisconsin. The most vocal opponents have been quite naturally those connected with the county colleges, institutions which grant two-year teaching certificates for use only in the common school districts of the state.

The defense is political and personal and quite thoroughly outmoded. The county colleges are in reality holdovers of the old-fashioned normal schools which were a tremendous boon to education in the 19th century and early years of this century. They provided around the nation, but particularly in the Middle West, everything from a few weeks to two years of instruction to prospective teachers who often had finished only grammar school. They played an important part in America's educational history. But they are as out of date in the educational picture today as the wood-burning stove in the front of the school room or the high button shoes the school marms wore.

A letter to the Press-Gazette from two educators in the state emphasizes this position. Too long to print in its entirety, the letter points out that the county colleges have virtually no subject requirements for entrance and "they seem to be only concerned about getting enough people to continue their operation." This is a real concern since seldom does a county college have one hundred students and several are operating with less than forty. High school level books are often used, the educators charge, the instructors seldom have more than a bachelor's degree and the emphasis has to be upon educational methodology, important enough in itself but far inadequate to a teacher's responsibility without the subject matter property. Already the man who chooses to own luxury property that probably ought. PEOPLE'S FORUM Wffaffl Morris On Words Over the CdltUry to be taxed is not being taxed and pleasure items, instead of tnr i- 7 because it is not in practical a home, has an enormous ad- Litters Intended tar publication In the Pageant Caused In Green Bay vantage in his liability for the cost of government in the Ptoplt't Forum thou Id LIMITED to 400 words and mutt Invariably baar tha nam and addrtu of tha writer aa evidence of good faith.

The Editor reserve! the right to edit all such let-ten and If necessary to shorten them to conform to the needs of the column. GREEN BAY ADVOCATE 100 Years Ago 1861 "Mrs. Capt. Cotton, we un terms discoverable. A man may have a beautiful set of golf clubs, or the finest sporting rifle, but it is not easy for the assessor to find it and put a value on it for tax purposes.

A man may have visible and tangible property that is plain-ly available for the assessor's count, the boatmen object, and yet be exempt from these levies. How come? Here the politics of tax exemptions comes into play, and had the boat owners thought to ask for their own exemption Father's Pangs Our daughter recently took part in a school pageant celebrating an event in local history. On such occasions a father even a most devoted and admiring one sometimes finds that time hangs heavy on his hands and his mind strays to thoughts far removed from the action. In my case I got to wondering community that serves him as well as the owner of the home. There is a need for drastic reform of the property tax system and it is such tempests as those stirred up today by the boat lobby that may contribute to the legislative decision to make such reform.

The issue is not more exemptions, but equality of assessment The boaters are right for the wrong reasons. again at the bills requiring tour years of college for a teaching certificate. They have strong merit. Where the Reds Reap Little League Editor, Press Gazette: I heard over the radio that five Little League boys were killed this year and that is going to happen in Green Bay as the boys and fans are not safe at any of the parks in Green Bay. I was hit with a foul ball on the ankle that cost me a big doctor bill and may be crippled for life.

I took our boys to several cities and they all have protection for the boys as well as the fans. M.J.S. Green Bay, Wis. Animal Life In Washington Want To Get Rich Quick? Be a Missile Base Worker By RALPH DE TOLEDANO Concern over labor practices at Cape Canaveral and the other missile sites subsided when Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg grandstanded his "no strike" pledge.

derstand, has enlisted as a nurse and will go with the Oconto River Drivers. If this becomes known throughout the country Capt. Loy will have a large company, so many will go for the sake of being taken care of." The Northern Bank and the Bank of Green Bay both suspended in a wave of bank closings throughoutthe state. Uriah H. Peak is the president of the Northern and Henry Strong cashier of the Bank of Green Bay.

Closing of banks in Milwaukee caused wild. scenes of mob disorder. GREEN BAY GAZETTE 65 Years Ago 1896 The Green Bay and Fort Howard postoffices were consolidated, the latter to remain open as a substation. Extension of the Fox River Electric Railroad to De Pere was completed and cars will, begin running on a regular schedule July 3. The East and West Side lines were consolidated into one with the purchase of the McCartney street line by the Fox River firm.

They will be connected by a double track across the Main Street bridge. The Algonquin Club held a barge picnic, supping in the open near St. Joseph's orphanage. The young people making the trip included the Misses Marion Peak, Emily Robinson, Katherine Shoemaker and G. M.

Drabble of London, the Messrs. Will and Edwin Walker, Frank Shoemaker and G. G. Mason, Mr. and Mrs.

B. L. Parker and Mr. and Mrs. H.

W. Esselstyn. GREEN BAY GAZETTE 50 Years Ago 1911 just where the whole idea of "pageants" came from. I suppose the notion goes too far back for me actually to seek out the person who started them. I can think of a few things I'd like to say to that enemy of suffering par-' enthood if I could find him, though.

How about it? Whodunitthe first pageant, I mean. Leave My Name Out of This, Chicago. As the father of six every blessed one of whom has been involved in such shenanigans I pass on my deepest sympathy, together with word that you're about eight centuries too late in your search for the original pageant-producer. In medieval times religious "mystery" dramas designed to educate the people in the doctrines of the Christian faith were performed on stages called "pagents." These rough scaffoldings sometimes mounted on wheels so they could be moved from place to place-later gave their name, now spelled "pageant," to the plays acted upon them. Your word man is fortunate in numbering among i friends a number of specialists in different areas of knowledge men and women to whom he can refer questions requiring special technical knowledge.

Recently the word "geomorphologist" cropped, up, so I asked Harold Fahy, map editor for the Now, President C. J. Haggerty of the AFL-CIO's building and Construct i Trades Department joined Secretary Gol in attempting to lull Congress dom with unbelievable good nature, but they were peasants robbed of their The concentration of infiltration and subtle attack upon these newly independent' and underdeveloped countries is paying off for the Reds. In Southeast Asia they have made strong inroads helped by the reluctance of the West to fight and the befuddled condition of many of the small nations. Leaders in such countries as Viet Nam and Thailand probably understand the dangers better than anyone and are attempting to combat them with both military and educational programs.

But they are hampered also by a tragedy in many of these lands whereby the old traditions and cultures have been eradicated before anything else has been offered to take its place. This is becoming apparent in Latin America, too, largely Christian but also showing a growth of anti-clericalism. How do we fight this sort of thing? We cannot do it alone. We must have help from the other free and economically sound nations of the world in aid programs such as Secretary of the Treasury Dillon outlined many months ago. But the biggest source of help must come from the leaders of the vulnerable lands themselves.

Here Mr. Stevenson was optimistic as he said he felt many of the Latin American heads of states and government officials understood the desperate need for reform. But time is running out in Latin America and in Asia. These are the lands which the Reds can take over without the force of arms. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson's report to the President following his Latin American tour was 'not encouraging as far as slowing down Communist influences in the area is concerned.

A "deteriorating" economic situation, a rising drive in finding ways to rise above squalor, the inability or lack of real interest of governments in promoting serious reform programs are the principal reasons for the concern. In the war between communism and freedom around the world, the odds have been on our side in countries where people either had had educational opportunities or where the economy was sound. The people of Western Europe hardly toyed with the idea of communism following World War II despite the despair, the hunger, tha destruction and the privations most of them suffered. They had known tyranny sfnd wanted no more even when a new form promised them relief. The peoples of Eastern Europe were captured before they could restore democratic regimes and the Red Army is still there.

But in a country like Greece, poor and hungry, we were able to inspire the drive for freedom. And today, as Stuart Cloete writes after a visit in the Far East, "there are millions of people here who do not even have 'chains to People with no, homes, no clothes and no food. Nothing could be worse than what they endure now. Any change might be for the better. This' does not apply to Hong Kong where the refugees from Red China accept' hardship as the price of free and people in- pe Toledano Editor, Press-Gazette: Many is the hunter that was bothered by a little chattering red squirrel while waiting for his buck to show.

Whether he knew it or not, that red squirrel was sending out a warning that all woods folks knew. That hunter would never see his buck as long as Jimmy red squirrel was saying in woods language, "Don't come this way." Buck deer are sometimes foxy. Or at least he thinks he is. If a buck stands and whistles he gives himself away and Mrs. Doe knows that.

But if he whistles sharply and takes out, Doe deer knows he really means, "Go for your life." When doe deer leave the winter yard, they search for several weeks or until middle and late May for a secret place to rear the fawns. The place must be low down where the sun shines in and where their scent will not carry about. Fawn have no scent until they start to wet on the scent bags, the heavy tufts of hair that is on the insides of "Do you mean a worker out there as a pipefitter made more than the commanding general?" Mr. Dunne: "Every one of them the high wages weren't limited to just the plumbers or the electricians. The common laborers earned up to $287 durjng the weeks we checked, which is considerably more than the pay and allowances we pay our Astronauts, majors, and lieutenant colonels, and commanders, in the armed forces." Sen.

Karl E. Mundt: "What kind of work was done hy laborers whom you classify as common laborers?" Mr. Dunne: "Ditchdigging, cleaning up. They are unskilled, common laborers." Mr. Dunne, continuing: "(The iron workers) averaged out at $520 (a week), which is considerably more than the $480 we pay the secretary of defense." Variety of Cases The same kind of wages prevail at Cape Canaveral Mr.

Dunne cited a variety of cases. A journeyman electrician who worked for IS consecutive weeks was one such example. "His lowest weekly wage," Mr. Dunne testified, "was $426 and ranged as high as $722 per week." This wage scale was arrived at by a system of time-and-a-half, double time, and quadruple time. to a belief that all is well.

What neither Mr. Goldberg nor Mr. Haggerty cares to discuss is the wage-hour policies which obtain at missile site bases. Since the taxpayer is footing the bills, neither management, labor, nor the government agencies involved care particularly that fabulous wages are being paid in the missile program. The AFL-CIO's Haggerty, in fact, has taken the offensive in his defense of labor and charged the McClellan committee investigation of the missile program with being one-sided.

But a look at the Two hundred members of Royal Arcanium lodges in the Grolier encyclopedia people, how he would define it. His reply seems to me a masterpiece of careless erudition: "Geomorphologist," said Harold, "is just a fancy way of saying Forty Years Government arid the Individual all deer rear legs at the hocks. What is written here is not fantasy. It is information obtained by watching tame deer that we raised here in Wisconsin and also in Montana. The white tailed deer are smart and learn the ways of man and predators.

Not so with the black tail or, as some call them, mule deer. The cougar lives well where there are many black tail deer but not with the white tail among them. He would starve or be forced to go back to a kill and that he will not do only in dire necessity. In all the cougar is a merciful killer (if killing could be called that). A cougar springs on the back of an animal and tears out the neck files of the local unions themselves clearly proves that the Treasury is being held up and that the missile program is costing many times more than it should because of simple greed.

Testimony Tells Story The testimony under oath of Robert Emmet Dunne, an assistant counsel to the McClellan committee for the past five years, tells the grim story. Studying the payroll of one contractor at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Mr. Dunne discovered that of the 52 plumbers on the job, "the lowest was paid $402 (a week) and the highest $733. The average weekly earnings of all of them was $451." The Astronauts, it should be pointed out are paid $186 a week and rocket scientist Dr. Wernher Von city celebrated the 30th anniversary of the founding of the organization with a picnic at Doberstein's Park in Little Rapids.

The Saturday Bathing Club held its second outing at Long Tail Point. Hostesses were the Mmes. George Doney and C. J. Chloupek.

De Pere began the installation of a horse watering trough in front of city hall and a sanitary drinking fountain at the head of the George Street hill, where it intersects with Broadway. Atty. Eben R. Minahan will be the Fourth of July orator at Union Park. Max H.

Streh-low will be master of ceremonies. The Shakespeare Club held its 196th meeting at the home of Miss Sophia Beaumont in honor of Mrs. E. H. Ellis.

PRESS-GAZETTE 25 Years Ago 1936 The Ambassadors Club held its summer ball at the Hotel Northland. Among the out of town guests was Miss Louise Bambenek of Winona, Minn. Ray J. Duval, Green Bay truck driver, won the national beer drinking championship at Cedarburg by downing a half gallon of beer in 19 seconds flat. Two Rivers defeated Green Bay, 2-1, with a home run in the last of the ninth to the government requirements the ordinance must require screens on virtually all outdoor windows and doors.

Most people have screens, too, but the ordinance will insist that the screens must be installed "during that portion of the year when the county health officer deems it necessary for protection against mosquitoes, flies and other insects." Most people would not object to any of the requirements relating to screens, but what they do object to is the insufferable paternalistic attitude of the federal government Of course screens should be provided for the doors and windows of a modern house and certainly they should be installed as protection against flies and mosquitoes at the proper season of the year. But who but a mint-headed bureaucrat would think it necessary to write that provision into the law and to thus provide a way to harass householders who may have momentarily neglected to obey the federal edict? Opponents of government aid have frequently' bolstered their opposition with a claim that aid from the' government brings, government intervention and interference with local affairs. An example of just how far such interference may go is provided by Montgomery County, Maryland, where the people are interested in getting federal aid for urban renewal. To get this money it is necessary for the county to adopt an ordinance with certain restrictive provisions, most of which are directed against potential slum The ordinance would set up minimum standards for bathrooms, kitchens, bedrooms and other living quarters. The standards are already met by most American households, but the government wants everything tied down tight.

For example, they require hot and cold water, toilets, lavatory, bath or shower. Most of those provisions would be acceptable Without much question, but to meet There were cases of workers whose entire week; was classified as "overtime And there were other abuses. Citing the case of a "foreman" at Canaveral, Mr. Dunne pointed out that in one week, he earned $748, "which is considerably more than the combined salaries to be paid Dr. Von Braun and Vice Admiral Hy-; man Rickover (he) wasn't even a journeyman electrician at that time.

He was merely an apprentice." Related to Official Mr. McClellan: "An apprentice was. paid foreman's wages?" Mr. Dunne: "Yes sir he is the brother-in-law of tv business agent of the elert--cal workers union (IBEW) Enterprise did not die some of these high-oriced union members. Mr.

Dunne told of two journeymen electricians who earned $26,843 and $24,274 respectively in 1960. Pooling their funds, they formed a business on the side which rented trailers and a portable warehouse to the contractors at the missile site. The warehouse, purchased for $800. was leased for 10 months at $250 a month. At the present time, this portable warehouse Is being stored free for them at Cape Canaveral In 10 months, these electricians had tripled their investment They are now Ago Today Lady Randolph Churchill, the former Jennie Jerome of New York, died in London.

Her son, Winston Spencer Churchill, was with her at the end. Officers and employes of the Wisconsin State Reformatory gave a surprise banquet last night for R. M. Coles, who leaves shortly to take the post of superintendent of the state prison at Waupun. Some more firearms "have arrived for use at the post-office.

Every employe who handles money there will now be armed with an Army model .45 caliber pistol. The publicity committee for the home coming and pageant in August will consist of Horace Baker. J. C. Beth, F.

M. Blahnik, W. E. Entzminger and George De Lair. The Ingels Motor Car Co.

has been organized by L. Ingels to sell the Oldsmobile car here. There will be plenty of baseball here over the holiday weekend. The Lake 'Shore League club will play Oneida on Saturday and Juneau on Sunday and the Fourth of July. Ray Buth will pitch Saturday and Jerry Gervais on Sunday.

cord rendering an animal as senseless as if shot in the brain. There are (24) things that grow the forests that deer are fond of. They do not touch browse until all other food is frozen and covered with snow. But there are some that would have us believe that deer live on tree foliage. It's fun to watch raccoon while eating.

Everything must be vfery clean and all bug life must be dead before they will eat it They are very fond of snails, water bugs, clams and fish if they can catch fish. And a tame coon is one of the biggest nuisances known in pet animals. We had one and we had the greatest fun watching her trying to catch a big green frog that we put down by her. When she didn't get what she wanted she would cry like a spoiled child. Samuel J.

Wiltshire Athelstane, Wis. Braun receives $404. Taking a week in January 1961 as a sample, Mr. Dunne found that "there were 68 electricians on the payroll 48 of them worked a full week. The lowest oaid (of these) received $413 for the week, and the highest $670." The average was $510.

"The remaining 20 working less than a full week averaged $92 a day." Mr. Dunne added: 'The commanding officer at Vandenberg Air Force complex is a major general. His total nay and allowances (after) 25 years service, including his auarters allowance and his subsistence allowance, amount to $365 a week." Chairman John McClellan: take first place in the Northern State League. The Green Bay De Pere Polo Club and Milwaukee tied in a sensational game at Lenfestey Field, 2-2. Leo Dillon got both local goals.

Editorial Paragraphs ON THE JOB Definition of work: What you wish for when you don't have, don't like when you get, and do, mainly so that you won't have to someday. Mattoon (111.).