The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-04
COUNTY BOARD
FALLS in LINE
Supervisors Willing Court
house Should be Part Of
Civic Center.
AFFORD TELLS OF PLAN
Board VIII Cooperate with
Council Is Decision After
Morning Conference.


a civic center if the plans Of the county
board and the city council come to the
maturity that the first blossoming has
promised. For this morning at the
regular session of the county board
it was agreed by that body, after list
ening to an address by w. H. Afford
and others, that a civic center and O.
civic plan would be a splendid thing
for Kenosha and that the board could
not do better than to cooperate to
that end. At noon the county board
passed unanimous resolution to CO.
operate with the city council in every
way in forwarding the civic .center Of
the proposed city plan.
The concrete way that the board will
help is by deferring their final plans
of the court house until such time as
the city had ready civic center plan
in which the court house building
would be as unit of the whole
Supervisor White of the new building
committee Of the board explained that
there was two months preliminary
work to be done by the board in plan
ming the interior, heating equipment
and so forth Of the court house, and
that when that had been completed
no doubt the city would be ready
with its civic plan.
Mechanic Can't Build Car.
Some of the county board members
thought city plan could be had with
out the expense Of a city planner, and
suggested that committee draw up
such plan.
well" replied Mr.. Afford, "you
have board here composed of intel
ligent citizens, and you had certain
ideas of what you wanted in the way
of court house, but not one of you
would allow this board to plan and
build that court house. You had to
have man with the training, with
the artists temperament, who knew
designing to do the job. With the city
plan it is necessary to hire compe-
tent planer who knows what has been
done in other cities. Of course he
can't work at night while the city is
asleep. The commission will plan to-
gether with him.
Regarding myself as of average in
telligence, | know that if / tried to
lay out civic plan it would be an
absolute failure. An ordinary me-
chanic might offer valuable sugges-
tions for the perfection of an auto
mobile, but if he were asked to lay out
the car, you wouldn't be able to sell it.
You have to have competent engineer
to- do that, who knows the business"
Board Pushes Idea Too.
A. H. Lance, representing the COM
mittee of fifteen, E. T. O'Brien, Robert
Cooper, Architect Lindl and Howard
Hahn, as we'll as w. H.. Afford ad-
dressed the board in response to. in
vitations urging them to consider the
merits of the civic plan, ard merge
their plans into the whole. T la board
took kindly to the idea and without
tying themselves to any action, never
theless showed that they too were in
the forward movement for a directed
and planned growth of the city.
'In behalf of the city," said Mr.. AL
ford, Il wish to express our apprecia-
ton of the spirit Of cooperation which
prompted you to ask us to meet to-
gether to discuss city plan. The
matter of city plan has agitated the
forward looking minds here for a num-
Der of years, but conditions have not
been favorable to putting such a plan
into effect.
Nov the city council in making
study of the city school system with
the idea of providing adequate school
facilities came directly to face with
the need of plan. We found our
selves handicapped by not knowing
whether or when school district
might not suddenly be converted into
an industrial district. We don't want
our schools where the factories are
for several reasons; for one, because
factories mean factory tracks and in
creased danger to the life and limb
of children who have to cross them
to get to school. The schools must be
placed where they are safe and easily
reached.
"Kenosha is going to be substan-
tial city and we want something that
will appeal to civic pride and reflect
credit upon US as city. AS the
county seat of Kenosha, you gentlemen
Of the county board are interested in
its development as we citizens are.
To Select Lovers of Kenosha.
"Your plans, in which we are in com
plete sympathy, involve magnificent
court house. Our plans magnificent
high school. We believe that very soon
there will be a new post office. In the,
next few years there will be neees-