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Friday: Weather on B-11 Colder LowHigh 1727 Natlongl Woothor forecast Ray of hope Preble's Richard Ray takes 23-0 record into wrestling tourneyC-1 Volunteer Leo Frlgo honored B'nai B'rith award for Paul's Pantry, other helpA-4 What makes 'em tick? How to mix fulltime job, Community Theater roleB-1 Good for granny! At 50, Grandma Marshall finds t-r 1 body-building the thing to doC-1 jy Aj Keen Marshall w. Friday's tlpoff: Sebastian Chamber Orchestra, St. Francis Cathedral, 8 p.m. (Gffim IPiress Thursday February 20, 1986 A Gannett newspaper 40 pagesThree sections 35c ounfly Holloway looking for other ways to raise $2.4 million Police: Local firms victims of 'hacking' By Jim Stingl Of the Press-Gazette An investigation into a scam against an Alaskan telephone firm has found that other companies, including some local ones, are having their computer files entered by Green Bay youths and adults, police said today. Deputy Police Chief Robert Langan declined to name any of the victimized companies.

He said he was not certain if attempts were made to alter computer records. Teachers say "hackers" not learning tricks in schoolsA-4 Police plan to inform the companies about the intrusions and to continue their investigation. Better safeguards against computer fraud will be needed, Langan said, otherwise police will continue to be faced with this kind of case. Last week, police began interviewing area students about their Please see aHacking7A-2 the committee Wednesday at the request of Finance Committee Chairman Marion Hipp. She said citizen involvement will add a new perspective to the budget process.

Repealing the county sales tax ended three months of controversy over its expected impact on local residents. Its supporters saw it as property tax relief and insisted that it appear that way on tax bills. But opponents argued that it was just another way of increasing taxes to pay for uncontrolled spending. Some local businesspeople objected to it because they said it would create bookkeeping nightmares. Opponents of the tax submitted more than 11,000 signatures Wednesday night seeking a Please see TaxA-2 By Joanne Zipperer Of the Press-Gazette Brown County Executive Donald Holloway is looking today for $2.4 million to replace expect- ed revenues the county lost when its 0.5 percent sales tax was repealed Wednesday night.

The County Board voted 35-6 to get rid of the tax, then gave Holloway 28 days to submit a plan that will balance the 1986 budget. 1 This year's real estate bills implied that ex-' pected county sales tax revenue was a credit applied to the total bill owed by property own-' ere. But the revenue actually was included in the county budget as income. Without it, the county is short $2.4 million that it was counting on to help pay operating Costs this year. Holloway said today that he is looking at a "If there's $2.4 million that can be cut from the budget, it should have been done at budget time." Supervisor Dennis Gaestel number of possibilities for coming up with the money.

The answer might include a combination of tapping the general fund and making cuts in spending, he said. Holloway and County Board Chairman Larry Adams also will be appointing a citizens' advisory committee to study and recommend a 1987 county budget. The County Board authorized formation of Pittsfield concrete plant destroyed 4th area man dies 6" of AS By Terry Anderson Of the Press-Gazette AIDS has claimed the life of a fourth Green Bay area man, but supporters of a local AIDS screening clinic believe their educational efforts are crucial to preventing future tragedies. "Obviously, only time will tell whether we've been successful in identifying who is at risk and how they Update on Green Bay native with AIDSA-4 can avoid contact with the virus," said Ricki Kraut-kramer, nursing director for the Green Bay Health Department. "But it is our expectation that, yeah, we're having an impact," she said.

Homosexual men and intravenous drug users are considered at high risk for contracting AIDS. AIDS acquired immune deficiency syndrome is caused by a virus transmitted through the exchange of body fluids, most commonly semen and blood. AIDS damages an individual's ability to fight off. other diseases. Please see AIDSA-4 IJf -1 fit' Press-Gazette photo by Russ Kriwanek Dept.

fought the blaze. The damage is estimated at $150,000, according to a company official. Plant fire: Fire destroyed Peters Concrete mixing plant in the town of Pittsfield Wednesday afternoon. The Tri-County Fire Reagan: No regrets about Grenada Employee of NWTI resigns amid audit By Peg Schmeling Of the Press-Gazette The coordinator of Northeast Wisconsin Technical Institute's Shawano adult education center has resigned after school officials began an internal audit of the operation, district Director Gerald Prindiville said today. Ursula Rathie, the coordinator, submitted her resignation Wednesday, Prindiville said.

Prindiville said Northeast Wisconsin Vocational, Technical and Adult Education District officials initiated an internal audit of the center operation Feb. 12. He declined to say exactly what problems were involved, but said the VTAE District has sought assistance from the Shawano County district attorney's office. Shawano County District Attorney Gary Bruno said his office had been contacted. "They've got some suspicions," Bruno said.

He said his office was first contacted Tuesday and he met with NWTI officials Wednesday. "That is why the United States must help those struggling for freedom in Nicaragua." He said that, "In the cause of liberty, all free people are part of the same family. We should stand together as brothers and sisters." "If we do, the Nicaraguan people will be able to free themselves from communist tyranny and win the liberty you now enjoy in Grenada." Please see Grenada A-2 tervention after the overthrow and murder of Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. The United States invaded two days later. Today, Reagan said, "I will never be sorry that I made the decision to help you." The president added that, "in Nicaragua, we see a chain of events similar to what happened here.

We hear the same excuses made for the Communists, while the people of Nicaragua see their freedom, slowly but surely, eaten away. ST.GEORGES, Grenada (AP) President Reagan said today he "will never be sorry" he sent troops to oust the Marxist government of this tiny Caribbean island. Nineteen Americans died in the invasion. Reagan also said the United States "must help those struggling for freedom in Nicaragua," but did not indicate any intention to intervene militarily in the Central American nation. Administration officials said Reagan, who plans to lay a wreath at a monument to the 19 U.S.

servicemen who died in the invasion, also would Joblessness still high in Grenada 28 months after U.S. invasion A-1 2 announce steps to strengthen his administration's 12-year plan to bolster sagging Caribbean economies. In a speech prepared for delivery in the Grenadian capital, Reagan recalled being awakened early in the morning of Oct. 23, 1983, and told that six members of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, joined by Jamaica and Barbados, had requested U.S. in Inside today Langan defends use of citizens in prostitution investigation imimmiimi' 'jjijLii'yiiiiiMinnii i ii yi i iiiwiTnifTiirMiii Xf By Jim Stingl and Tom Murphy Of the Press-Gazette Using private citizens to engage in sex with suspected prostitutes was defended today as a sound police technique by Deputy Chief Robert Langan, who said that opinion is backed by the state attorney general's office.

"I think we have done nothing illegal, nothing wrong. We did what we had to do to do the job," Langan said at a press conference this morning. The questions about the practice have come from reporters, Langan said. No city official or citizen has complained to Langan about the practice. Two men hired as agents by Green Bay police were paid to go into the Angie's and Stairway to Heaven massage parlors and the Cheyenne Social Club earlier this month.

They were offered and they accepted sex for payment, according to criminal complaints filed in the case. If the cases go td trial, the agents will testify for the prosecution, Langan said. He declined to say how the police selected the agents. Theodore F. Witheril, the operator of the three establishments, was freed on a $10,000 signature bond in Brown County Court Wednesday.

He faces a March Bombeck column B- 3 Bridge column B- 7 Business B- 8 Classified ads C- 6 Comics C- 7 Crossword puzzle C- 7 Datebook A- 9 Deaths, funerals C- 6 Entertainment B- 1 Health column B- 2 Horoscope B- 7 Kid bits B- 6 Landers column B- 2 Larson column B-11 Metrostate A- 4 Opinion page B-10 Scene B- 1 Showtimes B- Sports C- 1 Stock listings B- 9 TV listings B- 5 Washington A-11 Weather B-11 World A-12 13 preliminary hearing on three counts ot operatmg nouses oi Drosuiuuon ana one oi souciuiir iur Press-Gazette photos by John E. Roemer tion-related charges. The women are, from left, Mary Kaliebe, Barbara Marbes and Sandra Soukup. Suspects in court: Massage parlor operator Theodore Witheril, left, and three women appear in Brown County court Wednesday on prostitu- Please see Langan A-2.