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Saturday: -Weather on A-1 7 Cats, dogs politico Rain LowHigh 3242 National Weather Service forecast All-Metro Watzka, Maccoux top player picks; Coaches Wall, Lucas citedB-1 It's time That's what Reagan says about meet with SovietsA-3 eeiS Columnist Rooney comments on peace talksA-16 Dressing for cucccso Some timely advice offered in local program A-1 0 Saturday' tlpoff: Green Bay Symphony, West High School, 8.15 p.m. rrVfiHt Z3 TLX) tress (Gasettte (Eireeim DBa newspaper 32 pagesTwo sections 35c TeairM ceiuiinioeini Brother's serious illness brings long-separated family together 11 A 7 They agreed to do what they could to help. "I was asked 'what is but didn't really know," said John Davis, 21, of suburban Chicago. "Now I've got Steve. He needs our help and we're going to give it to him." Mrs.

Campbell said it seemed natural that they each greeted one another with "I love you." "That love is there, deep down," she said. "It's just got to grow. It's part of being family." John and Barbara Davis planned to stay in Houston as long as they are needed for medical tests. Doctors at M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Center, planned to take blood samples today to determine if either of them has compatible bone marrow.

Statistically, said officials, the chances are about one in four. If there is a compatibility, Akin will be treat- Please see ReunionA-2 HOUSTON (AP) Four brothers and sisters separated since childhood, including one from Allouez, wept and pledged their love in the glare of television lights in a reunion prompted by a leukemia victim's search for a bone marrow donor. Steven Akin, 24, who hopes a marrow transplant will save his life, was waiting with his twin sister, Sandra Campbell, as their lost brother and sister, John Davis Jr. and Barbara Davis, arrived Thursday on a plane from Chicago. Barbara Davis, 443 Taft Green Bay, was not aware'of her relationship with the victim until telephone conversations Tuesday.

She is the foster daughter of Harry and Lorraine Miller with whom she has lived since she was 15 months old, and works as a nurse's aide at Parkview Manor Nursing Center. "Steven," said Davis as he embraced his brother for the first time. "I love you." "He needs our help and we're going to give it to him." John Davis Campbell hugged her newfound sister and they wept, standing together, while reporters and other travelers looked on. The four were abandoned in childhood by their father and mother. Akin had searched for his missing brother and sister in hope of securing a compatible bone marrow transplant, a procedure doctors say is his best chance of survival.

John and Barbara Davis learned of their Texas brother and sister after a relative who knew the family history saw a broadcast about Akin 's story on a Chicago television station. AP Laserphoto Houston reunion: Steven Akin, right, was all smiles after his sister Barbara Davis, Green Bay, and brother John Davis, Chicago, arrived in Houston Thursday after a flight from Chicago. John and Barbara hope to provide a bone-marrow transplant for their brother who is suffering from leukemia. Juror Earl signs bills to spur farm loans killer But convicted man was party to crime, they say MADISON (AP) Gov. Anthony Earl signed today bills designed to speed emergency spring planting loans to up to 4,000 Wisconsin farmers by as soon as April 1, saying the measures would save many of them from bankruptcy.

In the longer term, farmers in Wisconsin and other states need enlightened federal policies to improve the agricultural economy, the governor said. H' rx Afi mm Jj)r If I Y' tr i 4 'V i I ill mini iiiml i )i i i mmniiiMli llini IS-- ilrttmtmi -irwifi mi mi iiihhiitHi im unnr-i i-iA 1 here are going to be many Ellis farmers who are not going to survive in coming years," Earl not ,0 said. "Without this legislation, bai1 anyone out." there would be many more who would not survive." One of the bills provides as much as $10 million in state money to guarantee loans of up to $20,000 each at 9 percent interest to between 1,000 and 2,000 farmers who could not otherwise obtain credit for prosecuted in connection with the beating, sexual assault and killing of Anderson on Dec. 27, 1983. The jurors' verdict ended a 10-day trial before Brown County Judge Alexander Grant.

The Press-Gazette contacted four jurors by telephone today, and three of them agreed to comment on the condition that their identities would not be revealed. One woman juror said the jury concluded Whiting was guilty "just because he was in the car" that took Anderson from the Back Forty Tavern to a manure pit outside a Please see WhitingA-4 By Mike Smothers Of the Press-Gazette Three of Randolph Wiring's jurors said today they were convinced that he did not kill Margaret Anderson. However, they said the jury chose to convict Whiting of first-degree murder because he played a substantial role in her death. The eight-man, four-woman jury from Ozaukee County deliberated only two hours Thursday before finding Whiting, guilty of degree murder. He was diately sentenced to life in prison.

By next week, authorities may begin discussing who else, if anyone, should also be Press-Gazette photos by Ken Wesely At right, District Attorney Peter Naze reacts during his closing arguments. In court: Randolph Whiting, left, waits for the jury to return Thursday. Murder victim's mother feels better after verdict seed, fertilizer and other supplies. It was passed 22-9 by the Senate and 83-14 by the Assembly. The other bill donates $292,800 in state money to the federal Farmers Home Administration to staff temporary loan processing centers that are to help provide farmers with up to $70 million in federal loans.

It passed the Senate 30-2 and the Assembly 93-3. The bills, hammered out last week by a special commission of farm leaders and lenders appointed by Earl, cleared both houses of the Legislature in a single day Thursday. Despite grumbling by some lawmakers, they were approved with only technical amendments and overwhelming margins of support. "This is one of the most imperfect solutions to a very serious problem that has ever come before the Legislature," said Sen. Walter John Chilsen, R-Wau-sau, before casting his vote for the loan-guarantee bill.

"This is going to prolong for a year the debt agony that Wisconsin farmers are experiencing," said Sen. Michael Ellis, R-Neenah. "It's not going to bail anyone out." "We're pouring water on a drowning victim. We're going to make some headlines, but we're not going to Whiting trial tapes to be aired Day-by-day videotapes of the Randolph Whiting murder trial will be televised beginning tonight on N.E.W. Media Cablevision of Green Bay and Howard.

The cable TV system will show the tapes for the next nine nights at 6:30 on its educational access channel, 34. Cablevision was allowed to use one camera in the courtroom. The system originally planned to air tapes as the trial progressed, but agreed to delay them until after the verdict. Attorneys involved in the case had asked for the delay, fearing -that witnesses would watch the trial coverage before they testified. By Terry Anderson Of the Press-Gazette Mary Copple sobbed softly Thursday night as she talked about the guilty verdict against Randolph "Gargoyle" Whiting, the man convicted of murdering her daughter, Margaret Anderson.

"I was hoping they would find him guilty," said the 76-year-old resident of Saco, Mont, in a telephone interview. "My daughter went through enough without them getting away." Mrs. Copple said she learned of the jury verdict from the district attorney's office. A secretary called her to relay the news and "I was hoping they would find him guilty." Victim's mother "promised they'll do something about the others," she said. As she learned of the conviction, her thoughts went to Margaret, her free-spirited, freckle-faced daughter who left the ranch country of Northeast Montana 19 years ago to Please see MotherA-4 do a darn bit of good," complained Rep.

Robert Welsh, R-Redgranite, as the loan -processing bill was debated in the Assembly. MHC must reinstate Freward with back pay Inside today wm-igMy, juijii His Madison attorney, Bruce Ehlke, said Thursday a claim still is pending against the county for $15,000 to $16,000 in attorney fees. Those costs were incurred in Freward's defense against a felony charge of patient abuse. He was cleared of that charge in March 1984 after a four-day bench trial in Brown County Circuit Court. Hearing examiner William Houlihan said in his decision that there was no way' to tell from the WERC hearing record how or when Swanson's ribs were broken.

"It is possible that Freward did what he is accused of doing, and it (is) just as possible he did not. There is inadequate evidence to sustain this discharge," Houlihan wrote in his decision. He also said the corroborating evi-Please see Freward A-2 By Joanne Zipperer Of the Press-Gazette Brown County must reinstate Mental Health Center employee Randy Freward with back pay, fringe benefits and seniority, a Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission examiner has ruled. Freward, 26, was fired from his nursing assistant job in April 1983 for allegedly punching MHC patient LeRoy Swan son in the chest and breaking three of Swan son's ribs. The cost of the WERC decision has not been calculated, county officials said today, but back wages alone could amount to $30,000 based on 2,080 hours of work per year and Freward's average pay rate of about $7.50 an hour for the 23 months he has been off the job.

Freward said today he wants to return to work at the Mental Health Center. Freward Faot action: Legislature moves to aid ill Green Bay man Around Wisconsin A-1 4 Beck column A-11 Bridge column 8-14 Business A- 6 Classified ads B- 6 Comics B-14 Crossword puzzle B- 7 Deaths, funerals B- Entertainment A- 7 Health column A-10 Horoscope B-14 Kid bits B- 5 Landers column A-8 Larson column A-1 7 Looking back A-1 7 Metrostate A- 4 Morrises on words B-14 Opinion page A-1 6 Scene A- 7 Showtimes A-11 Sports B- 1 Stock listings A- 6 Television logs A-1 2 Weather A-1 7 Weekend calendar A-1 3 World A-1B Young hobby club B-14 it went to the Organization Committee, which schedules bills for action. Sen. Timothy Cullen, D-Janesville, majority leader, asked that the bill be pulled from the committee which takes unanimous consent. Sen.

J.M. Davis, R-Waukesha, objected. After Sen. Jerome Van Sistine, D-Green Bay, explained the bill, Davis withdrew his objection. "The problem is that he is close to death and that his widow could not col lect a disability pension," Van Sistine said.

The bill now goes to Gov. Anthony Earl. wrote. Mrs. Steeno declined further comment today.

A bill was introduced Feb. 21 by members of the Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems. March 6 it issued a required report. It said the bill would affect a very small number of pensions and that "the cost effect is so small that it cannot be measured." Normal committee routing for the bill was eliminated, and the Assembly's unanimous vote came on the first of two days the Legislature was in session this week. That sent the bill to the Senate where day, the Senate completed the final step in fixing that.

It unanimously passed a bill starting disability pensions on the last day worked and disability annuities at the date of death. The bill passed in the Assembly Tuesday 97-0. The situation was brought to the attention of Rep. Sharon Metz, D-Green Bay, in it letter from Steeno 's wife. "Due to this technicality, after 30 years of employment, we would be entitled to a death benefit which would only be a small portion of the amount available for disability.

The moral to the story seems to be: State Employees, take your sick leave whether you are sick or not," Mrs. Steeno By James Bartelt Press-Gazette Madison Bureau MADISON -The Legislature can move fast when it wants to. William Steeno, 1378 Division Green Bay, a 30-year employee of the Department of Transportation, has cancer, and doctors have told him he may have only months to live. But the way the state pension law is written Steeno cannot get a disability pension and his wife Cannot get a disability annuity until Steeno has used about six months of accumulated sick leave. Before recessing until April 23 Thurs I.