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Racine Journal Times Sunday Bulletin (Newspaper) - August 01, 1971, Racine, Wisconsin When night Falls some prepare for by Bruce Roselee j our rial times staff when night Falls in Racine most of those persons still at work Are Busy protecting maintaining or cleaning up in the darkness. Policemen firemen watchmen Bridge tenders nurses custodians a All earn their wages by working while the daytime world sleeps. There arc other night workers however whose Job is not to protect maintain or clean but to prepare a business or City for the next morning. Among these workers Are the Bakers store stockers and Street sweepers. Baker Hutchinson 3442 Indiana St., is a Baker. At 43, he has been in the bakery business for 30 years and presently runs Larsen s bakery 3311 Washington ave. Monday through Friday mornings he starts working at 4 . On Friday night he has to be Back at the ovens at 8 . In order to prepare for the three times Normal saturday sales. A owe could no to begin to get All this bakery out for saturday in an eight hour shift a he explained. Quitting time for Hutchinson is determined by when his work is completed a generally about i . A when in to not Busy then in to done a he laughed. Hutchinson said he started working at a bakery a when i was quite Young a and still attending Park High school. He worked Par time at Hendricksonj to bakery for $2.50 a week. Why did he Start working in a bakery a oif you remember the Way it was during world War ii Well i needed a Job a he replied. The bakery business has changed quite a bit since then Hutchinson noted. Refrigeration has enabled Bakers to make Many items a Day in Advance thereby cutting Down on the Rush to get the baking done by 6 . Opening time. Though Hutchinson comes in at 4 . To work he employs two other Bakers who Start at 2 . They take donuts Sweet Rolls Kringle and Coffee cake to be baked for that Day out of the refrigerator. They begin getting the donuts ready for frying and filling Rolls. When Hutchinson comes in the three of them finish up the items needed for that Day. Baking starts at 5 . On the initial order of Kringle and Rolls. By 6, the bread is weighed and put into a a proof boxy to raise the yeast and donuts Are Fried. The front of the store also opens at this time with the woman who ices cakes and the clerk Hutchinson to wife Patricia starting work. A Othen we concentrate on replacing what we took out of the ?� Hutchinson said. This usually Means making too singles getting 40 dozen Rolls ready for filling and making up about 40 dozen donuts. After that the Coffee cakes and specially items for later the same Day Are made. Then they Are a ready to Start rolling in the danish products a he said. These products Are a what the danish Baker is noted for a Hutchinson explains with Pride. The fat is rolled into the dough three times by hand not machine a which gives the flakiness characteristic of danish ?� this dough must be refrigerated for 24 hours a chilled Down Good so it to firm to be handled a before it is used he said. At to ., the a whole bakery is scraped and cleaned up and Hutchinson starts making a fall the fancy items by himself. These include cakes pies and pastries. A lot of work and a lot of very Early morning hours but Hutchinson likes it. Quot at first it lathered me when i was quite a bit younger. Ifs like any Job once you get used to it you like it a he explained. A you have to like your ?� though he works nearly 50 hours a week Hutchinson said a of enjoy the shift because i can do things during the afternoon. A of love to Hunt and fish and i can do these things during the daytime a he pointed out. A member and past president of the Racine instinctive bowmen he has shot 17 Whitetail Deer and 7 Bear this year with his Bow. Hutchinson said he manages to sleep from Early afternoon until 6 ., when his wife gets Home from work and the whole family Debra Lynn 16 Danny 14 and Donald 6 a has supper. He goes to bed again about la . A Oitt to split sleeping but you get used to it a he said. Hutchinson noting that the baking Trade is improving said wages have a Onever been on a Par with local Industry because it is difficult to automate to get any Type of ?� the top pay scale for a Baker is $3.00 to $3.25, he said. A Orich dough does no to lend to automation it can to take the punishment like cheaper doughs do a he added. Quot i try to specialize in items that can to be ?� store Stocker Twenty one year old Gary Habetler 2700 Illinois St., quit school after a year at Milwaukee technical College in order to get a Start in the food store business. A Stocker at Kohl to food store 3915 Durand ave., Habetler started there two and a half years ago As a part time worker. He worked at the store on a part time basis for to months while he attended the technical school. He has been working full time since the last 15 months of which has been on the 9 . To 6 . Shift. Habetler lives at Home with his parents or. And mrs. Joseph Habetler. Like the Baker Habetler enjoys the hours he works. But he has different reasons. A Othis working nights is Good because you done to have customers in the store a he explained. Quot customers can get in your Way and ask you bothersome ?� also he and his fellow night worker Scott Zierke done to have to dress up a a Oitt to Nice in that ?� Quot i find the tune goes a lot faster working alone Habetler added. Habetler indicated that working the hours he does helps his Bank account. A of dont have any time to spend my Money a he said. Occasionally however Habetler finds the time to go someplace with his Girlfriend Mary Hartwick who works during a different shift in the Kohl to bakery. In addition to the advantages of the hours he works Habetler feels the stocking Job is Good experience because it a generally helps you learn and understand the ?� a of plan on staying in the food store business and this is one of the jobs you have to Gary Habetler stocks the shelves at a supermarket during hours when the store to customers Are sleeping. He sleeps while they shop. A a a a a a a a a monday noon a luncheon j a. A 2 v / roast beef i50 Driftwood Highway 11,5 Lur Levant j St. Lucy s summer festival Spaghetti in wok 1�?"7 . I .50 adults children under 12-75 Camest crafts bombers so 3035 Drexel school Hall a heft i italian take to get to a higher Job a he Habetler is making $3 60 an hour As the tonight ?� when he comes to work Stock which was ordered the previous Day must be pulled out onto the floor divided up into sections for the aisles in which it will be shelved and put onto kids. The skids Are then positioned in front of the proper shelf the items Are stamped with prices and then put on the shelf. But the products Are not just put on the shelf. A owe Stock the store and get it ready for the morning business a make it presentable a Habetler emphasized. So the items Are a faced a set evenly at the Edge of the shelves like the rest of the products in the aisle. In sections where new Stock has not yet arrived the remaining items must be faced also. Habetler and Zierke usually do the first five aisles in the store. Monday nights mean More work than a Normal night because no Stock has been put up since Friday and the weekend depletes Stock More quickly he said. Street sweeper Bart Kannenberg 1901 Glen St., operates a Street sweeper for the City from 4 . Until noon and likes it. A of you tre out by yourself you tre sort of your own Boss so to speak. You get your orders in the morning then you go out and you tre on your own a he explained. In addition the Early hours a give me a Little evening time at Home a he said. Kannenberg 52, will have been a sweeper operator for four years in november. Before that he worked for the department of Public works in various capacities for 14 years. It is Kannenberg to Job along with the five other Street sweepers to Brush up All the a dirt gravel paper cans a you name it from Racine to streets. In the Winter Kannenberg to Job becomes a mostly salting and Sand control. In Case it does Start snowing we get the Salt Down first before the traffic starts a he said. Spring cleanings and fall Leaf takings Force the six operators to team up and cover one Section of the City together at a time. But in the summer each sweeper has his own route. The City is divided horizontally into three sections a North Central and South a and the routes cover the sections in that order with monday a North tuesday a Central and wednesday a South. On thursdays oiled streets Are swept and Friday is the Day when major thoroughfares get brushed a a Oso the main streets coming through our town look Halfway ?� Kannenberg explained that each Street sweeping machine has a Gutter Broom which a swirls dirt out into the Center of the machine a where it is swept up by the pickup Broom. The pickup Broom rotates opposite of the Gutter Broom. Once dirt is swept up it travels to a Large Hopper via conveyor Belt. A sprinkler a holds Down the dust As we sweep a he said. Once a Hopper is filled the sweepers go to designated locations on the streets to dump the loads. Trucks from the Dpi then come by and Load these up for dumping at the land reclamation Ltd. Site. In the summer each sweeper picks up 1-3 loads a Day. But in the Spring and fall each usually gathers 8-12 loads. Kannenberg was asked if autos parked along curbing give sweeper operators Many headaches. A Ono it to a Normal thing for us a he replied. A when you first become an operator it kind of goes against the Grain a but they learn to just swing out and go around them. Kannenberg said he goes to bed about to . In the summer mainly because of the baseball games that Are held at Island Park. A othe times i go to bed at 9 ., i still can to go to sleep till they tre All Over with a he complained. During Winter he manges to get to bed at 7to to 8 . In his spare and vacation time Kannenberg goes fishing. A omy biggest Hobby that in the got is fishing. I love fishing a he said. Kannenberg usually goes to the Mississippi River near Lacrosse for Northern walleyes bluegills and crappies. A omy favorite is Walleye then comes the Bluegill a he noted. Asked if he takes his wife Ruth along fishing he replied a Ono not As a ?� she used to like to go along when they fished for Perch in Lake Michigan but the fishing is poor there now he said. So they go antique Hunting together instead. All three of these night workers a the Baker the Stocker and the Street sweeper a enjoy living and working slightly Askew to the Daylight society. And All three make things ready at night for those who will need them during the Day. Amassa dear 4th annual brat bust August 4,5-11 drum corps entertainment by a explorer scouts a kitties a boys of 76 a Junior scouts a Kiltie Kadets a Amassa dears Lakeview Park Corner of main and Goold Aspin criticizes Lockheed loan rep. Les Aspin a Racine has attacked the House passage of a loan guarantee for Lockheed As a nothing More than a government subsidy of poorly managed private ?� the House approved the Nixon administration proposal for a $250 million loan guarantee by a vote of 192-189. Aspin a member of the House armed services committee and a former economic advisor in the defense department described the action As a a terrible ?� a the reason Lockheed May fold is that it was poorly managed. At one Point it was losing Money in four separate defense contracts including the c5-a,�?� Aspin said. A that is no Small ?� a now we Are told by the administration that to save this so called vital company which has already Cost the taxpayers tens of millions of dollars we must provide it with a Federal subsidy so that it can produce the Tri Star a non government commercial Jet. A oif we subsidize Lockheed to be consistent we should subsidize every company in the United states that is in trouble. But you done to see the administration Rushing to help Small and medium size companies that Are in financial Straits a the first District congressman said. Aspin maintained the real reason the administration has proposed the Lockheed subsidy is to avoid More unemployment. But according to Aspin a othe answer is not to keep an inefficient company artificially alive through Federal subsidy. The real answer is to pass a Good economic conversion Law a which the administration has so far opposed a which would allow for the Rechard Eling and retraining of any workers Laid off into areas which have some real future ?� open monday night to 9 doors open 9 30 . Journal times want ads bring results sunday August i 1971 Racine sunday bulletin tomorrows business a journal Tom photos by Charles a. Vallona Ernie Hutchinson has been a Baker for 30 years and likes it. Bonne Bell Beauty Bonus ten six lotion try just 2 Ops. Of ten of six lotion and see How Clear Bright and honest your skin can look. Of theres any doubt return the big 8 of. Bottle for a Complete refund ten six is the remarkable facial lotion that cleanses deeply helps Clear skin problems and normalizes dry oily or half and half skin. Nows the time to try ten of six lotion. A 2 of. Plastic traveler to Sample first then the 8 of. Shelf size to keep your complexion Clear and Beautiful. Honest. Cosmetics Mhz Flook a 2 of. 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