Children Mar Five Schools

    A brother and sister, about 11 years old, were turned over to juvenile authorities today for the damage they admitted wreaking on the Pleasant Valley school, town of Oregon, prior to and during Halloween. The pair was questioned fay Undersheriff Elmer Ottum.
     The youngsters admitted smashing windows, ripping out parts of a piano, scattering books and pouring paint and chalk on them, tipping over desks, and smashing plates. The school is not being used this year.
     Sheriff John R. Arnold reported today that two other schools had been visited by Halloween vandals. They are the Gordon school, Town of Verona, where eight windows were smashed and two privies tipped over, and the White school, near Verona, where several small windows were smashed. Earlier damage to Pleasant Springs school and Maple Grove school was reported.
     Ten youths. 14 to 15 years old, vho were taken into custody by Madison police for smashing a window with tomatoes and lowering a street light, also admitted daubing paint on walls at East high school They were turned over to probation authorities.

Wisconsin State Journal - November 2, 1943