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Show JUDGE FOR YOURSELF BY DAVID A. SELLERS Copley News Service In Milwaukee several families are evicted from their public housing because be-cause of planned urban renewal. re-newal. The tenants demand Evicted tenants' rights compensation for their loss of residences. What are their rights? In federal district court the tenants complained that they had not been given federal relocation funds. The city gave such assistance only to those who would be evicted from buildings to be destroyed. Some of the property was just to be renovated. A judge ruled that since no actual "taking of property" had occurred, the tenants had an invalid complaint. A federal appeals court reversed this finding. It said a renovation was in ef fect a "taking of property." Urban renewal placed a heavy burden on the displaced dis-placed tenants while strongly benefiting all others oth-ers in the city, the court wrote. The city argued that it would illegal for it to allow tenants to remain in their houses. State law requires the evacuation of buildings found to be unsafe. For this reason they claim nothing was actually "taken" through eviction. The court rejected this reasoning. It said renewal was in effect private property prop-erty taken for public pur- pose. The tenants therefore deserve just compensation for the homes they have given up. Dolores Devise v. Mafor Henry W. Maier (7th Or.) Sellers is currently court reporter for The Washington Washing-ton Times and former editor edi-tor of the District of Colombia Col-ombia Bar Association Newspaper. Bats catch frogs Some bats eat frogs. These bats, in tropical forest for-est ranging from Mexico to southern Brazil, hunt their prey by honing in on frogs' mating calls. They catch frogs at the rate of more than six an hour and can distinguish between edible and poisonous ones merely by sound. First for Italy In 1904 the world s first power-generating station using natural steam was established at Larderello, Italy. Production of electricity elec-tricity from geothermal resources re-sources in Italy has grown to about 420,000. Deaf to noise When academic tests are given in a noisy room, boys outscore girls by 26 percent, per-cent, when they're given in a quiet place, girls do 8 percent better than boys, an Ohio State University study has found. Toll 150 Since the 1940s records were fi k more than 150 people d United SUtesa hS killed in aircraft colli.- sir1"" A: |
