The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-23
CIVIC COUNCIL
TO PUSH BILL
Advocates Bill Now in Leg
islature Cor 7-MemDer
School Board.
PROPOSE CHANGE HERE
Committee Shows Need of a
Change in Membership;
Name New Directors.

concerted effort to bring to Ke-
nosha a seven-member school board
instead of an eighteen-member board,
as the board of education is now con-
stituted, was launched at meeting of
the Kenosha Civic council in the city
council chambers on Wednesday even
ing, when the council unanimously
adopted recommendations presented
before that body by committee of
the council appointed to. bring in a
report.
This report, as read on Wednesday
evening by George S. Whyte, chairman
of the committee, gave detailed
analysis of a survey taken of ITO
cities with a population of from
10000 to 100000. The recommended
tions and considerations outlined in
the report were similar to those
drawn up by committee of members
of the board of education which in
cluded George Cook, chairman, Elmer
Swartz and James w. Blair.
Tell of Bill Now Before Legislature.
Chairman Whyte pointed out to the
COUNCIL that there is now bill, desig-
mated as 497A before the state legis-
lature which provides generally that
school boards of cities of the second,
third and fourth class shall consist
of seven members elected at large.
Passage of this BILL" declared the
chairman, would make the circulation
of petitions unnecessary and would
relieve the city of the cost of
special election, which ordinarily
amounts to a sum in excess of $4,000"
The committee made the following
recommendations:
"That the Kenosha Civic council
actively sponsor the proposed move
ment to reduce the membership of the
school board from 10 to z elected at
large.
"That the Kenosha Civic council be
officially represented at the hearing at
Madison on Bill 497A which provides
for a school board of seven members
elected at large, and urge its passage.
"And that if the bill fails of pass
age the Kenosha Civic council take the
necessary steps to circulate petitions
for a referendum on the proposition
and actively interest itself in properly
of Kenosha."
The committee which drew up these
recommendations consisted of Mr..
Whyte, as chairman, with the follow
ing as co-workers: William f. Jornt,
Louis Plous, DIR. Margaret Pirsch,
Eva H. Barden, NJ G. Wilson, DR.. H.
A. Robinson, Lynn T. Hannahs, George
H. Cook, o. H, Theleen and Robert M.
Smith.
All delegates to the Civic council
were urged to support the bill now be-
fore the legislature by sending word
to their representatives in the state
senate and in the assembly of the ac
ton of the organization. Others were
urged to follow the lead of the coun-
ell and write to the state legislators
urging passage of the bill.
At the meeting Wednesday even
ing Howard Dennis, chairman of a
special committee to investigate how
many defendants convicted of driving
while intoxicated actually served time
following a sentence to the county
Jail, announced that a full report of
the committee would be presented at
the May meeting of the council, at
which time some enlightening as we'll
as interesting figures regarding this
phase of law enforcement in Kenosha
county would be presented, he said.
The meeting was also the annual
meeting of the Kenosha Civic council
at which time the executive committee
for the ensuing year is elected. A
board of nine members was elected as
follows: Oscar Theleen, Mrs. w. H.
Afford, Miss Dorothy Slater, L. j.
Hammond, Dan o. Head, Floyd Carl
son, Jessel Whyte, Howard Dennis and
Conrad Shearer.