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Green Bay Press-Gazette Tuesday, July 26, 1994 LOCALSTATE B-3 Oregon man wins aeronautical race to Wittman Airport Wl "tm He made the flight from Denver in a plane he constructed himself OSHKOSH (AP) An Oregon man says he enjoyed sunny skies mile after mile on the way to winning the Great Cross-Country Air Race from Denver to Oshkoeh. Don Goetz of Redmond, led the field of 51 pilots by arriving at Wittman Regional Airport in two hours, 45 minutes and 42 seconds in the unlimited class. That's about 15 minutes faster than his closest competitor. The unlimited class is basically the fastest category in the race's five categories, said John Burton, communications director for the Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-In Convention that opens at Wittman later this week. Goetz said "everything was sunny" as he "purred along" at about 23,000 feet on the 777-nautical-mile route from Jeffco Airport in Denver to Wittman Regional Airport at Oshkosh.

Goetz flew a Lancair 4P, a home-built plane that he finished earlier this year. "This is the first year for me. I just finished the plane and wanted to enter the race," Goetz said. Fifty-one pilots started the race, but two had to make landings along the way, Burton said. He said he believed that all of the remaining planes made it safely to Oshkosh.

Air racers competed in five different categories. Participating planes were a combination of ho-mebuilt and production planes. "The fastest were homebuilts," Burton said. The race has been flown for a "couple years" now, but this is the first time the destination was Oshkosh, Burton said. The last two years the race took pilots from Palm Springs to Chicago.

The Great Cross-Country Air Race has never been flown to Oshkosh before because it was usually held during the fly-in convention and it would have been "impossible to land" at Wittman during that time, Burton said. "It worked out real well. We'll look at it again, it builds interest (for the EAA convention) early on," he said. Plane lands safely short of Oshkosh Pilots were forced to an emergency landing in Nebraska Associated Press Two pilots forced to make an emergency landing during an air race to Wisconsin said they weren't worried when the engine quit but were disappointed to be on the ground. The four-seat, single-engine, low-wing Mooney landed safely at Karl Stefan Memorial Airport in northeast Nebraska shortly after noon Monday.

Pilot Marlin Walmer of Lancaster, and co-pilot Irwin "Fehrer of Sun Valley, Idaho, said they were leading in their class of the five-class race from Colorado to Wisconsin when their plane's engine quit. "They did a real nice job of bringing it in," said Rick Kropf, airport manager. Walmer, 65, said the plane's engine stopped about 10 miles northwest of the airport. Fehrer, a retired Marine Corps pilot, said Walmer made a perfect landing. The plane had been flying at about 27,000 feet when the engine quit, they said.

Walmer said he flew the plane like a glider until he reached the airport. It was the first time the two men had flown together. They said they met at a plane trade show and decided to enter the race. Both men were disappointed at being on the ground. They had left Jefferson County, and were about halfway to Oshkosh.

The plane was still too high when it reached the airport and had to circle the airport to lose altitude, Walmer said. Walmer and Fehrer took apart the plane's engine trying to determine why it failed. Could be a keeper: George Anderson, 10, Root River in Racine, where his family likes proudly displays a sunfish he caught in the to fish. Rain helps corn, hurts hay "When it rains about every other day, it's very, very difficult to harvest hay." Despite poor hay conditions, the crop report indicated Wisconsin crops were in good shape. The general condition of Wisconsin crops was rated fair by 2 percent of the reporters, good by 72 percent and excellent by 26 percent.

The agents said the corn crop was in excellent shape, echoing the comments of most other agents around the state since early July. "I don't know of a corn crop that has looked any better than this year's," Ankley said. Catholic leaving priesthood to become Episcopal cleric Sex-predator law's appeal delays parole MADISON A rapist due for parole this week has been ordered held until Wednesday while a state Appeals Court considers whether to overrule a judge who found Wisconsin's new sexual predator law to be unconstitutional. The state contends William Roy Carpenter remains a danger to commit sex crimes if released, and he should be committed to a mental institution as provided under the law. Carpenter, 50, was to have been released at 4:30 jn.

Monday under an order issued by Dane County Judge Mark Frankel, who last week held the law unconstitutional. The state is appealing that ruling. Carpenter was convicted in Dane County in 1984 of first- degree sexual assault involv ing a 7-year-old. His record also includes a 1976 sex assault conviction, also involving a child. Two states join in tourism push Wisconsin Gov.

Tommy Thompson and Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson and have signed an agreement formally creating the St. Croix Valley Regional Tourism Alliance. The alliance was formed by business owners in 19 Minnesota and Wisconsin towns along the St. Croix River.

They plan to collectively promote the valley's old river towns. The conclusion the commu nities have come to is we would be much stronger and more competitive nationally if we had one tourist promotion effort, instead of competing," Carlson said Monday. Minnesota and Wisconsin have money for tourism promotion, but without the alliance, the valley had no organization to get its share. The Minnesota cities in the alliance are Afton, Bayport, Center City, Hastings, Lakeland, Lake Elmo, Marine on St. Croix, Oak Park Heights, Scandia, Stillwater and Taylors Falls.

Wisconsin cities are Dresser, Hudson, New Richmond, Osceola, Prescott, River Palls, St. Croix Falls and Somerset. Canoe retrieval ends in death SCANDINAVIA A 23-year-old man drowned while trying to retrieve a wayward canoe in Rollofsen Lake west of here, authorities said. Waupaca County Sheriff William Mork said the man told his fiancee he could overcome his poor swimming ability to get the canoe, which had been blown away from a dock by the wind, but he disappeared in the water Monday. The body of John Papan-drea was recovered by divers in about 40 feet of water, the sheriffs department said.

Two-jury trial is suggested WAUKESHA The trial of a father and son charged in an April bank robbery, chase and shootout in which a police cap tain was killed could involve two juries hearing the case simultaneously but deliberating separately, the prosecutor says. Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher commented Monday during a con ference with defense attorneys before Judge Lee S. Dreyfus who scheduled trial for Nov. 28 for James Oswald, 49, and his son, Theodore, 18. The possibility of holding a single, two-jury trial depends on a variety of motions expect ed to be filed and the judge rulings on those motions, Bucher said.

If such a trial is held, it could be the first of its type ever in Wisconsin, the district attorney said. Meat cutter returns $92,000 RACINE A judge ap-nroved a 500 reward for a Ra cine meat cutter who turned in $92,000 in cash and checks that a customer had handed to him in a package, saying it was poultry. "She told me it was chicken and asked if I would put it in the cooler," Don Wegan said. The woman, a regular cus- tomer at the PigglyWiggly Su per Market where Wegan works, told him she would come back later to pick up the bne But she didn't return. Judge Alan Torhorst named the woman daughter and son-in-law Monday to serve a her miardians.

He auicklv ap proved the guardians' request to authorize the $500 reward for Wegan. Associated Press I 4 AP photo The corn crop was rated good by 41 percent of the reporters and excellent by 59 percent. Frequent rain has put corn growth well ahead of schedule in many areas. Corn grew an average 9 inches last week to a statewide average height of 75 inches. That compares to a five-year average of 57 inches, the report said.

About 47 percent of the corn has reached the silk stage of development, compared to a five-year average of 21 percent at this time. The soybean crop was rated fair by 4 percent of the reporters, good by 51 percent and excellent by 45 percent, the report said. isn't as bad as last year and the financial losses haven't been as large, but additional losses could cripple some cabbage growers. Before the rains started, it looked like a good growing year, he said. That was before rains produced near-record precipitation.

The July rainfall in Appleton totaled 7.11 inches as of Monday, compared with the record for the month of 7.29 inches set in 1961 and the average of 3.57 inches. Biese said the rain also has kept soybeans somewhat behind the usual growing pace in Outagamie County, although most other crops are looking good. In Waupaca County, agent Greg Blonde said corn, soybean and wheat crops have been doing well. "Oats is probably the crop that's hurting the most this year," Blonde said. But getting the flourishing crops out of the field is another problem.

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"My greatest gift is pastoring, Feider said. "In order to keep pastoring, I had to leave." The Oshkosh pastor cited the celibacy rule as his reason for changing OSHKOSH (AP) The Rev. Paul Feider says he is leaving the Catholic church, and plans to continue his ministry as an Episcopal priest. Feider said in a letter to members of the Sacred Heart parish where he has been serving since last September that his switch stemmed from the Catholic church's celibacy requirement for priests. Episcopal priests are allowed to marry.

"I love serving the Lord as a priest very much, as you know, but living alone day after day has taken its toll on me emotionally and physically," he said in the letter. "I The overall condition of Wisconsin's crops was rated as good By Michael Buelow Associated Press MADISON Frequent rains that are producing an outstanding corn crop are also hurting hay crops in much of Wisconsin, agriculture observers report. "There's hay that's rotting in some fields," Portage County agent Dave Ankley said. Ankley and others said rains in the past several weeks have prevented farmers from harvesting the second hay crop at its peak in quality. In other cases, hay quality has been damaged after cutting because rain has prevented the crop from drying for storage in a timely manner.

"We won't have a lot of good quality hay. It's going to impact quality and reduce the amounts of hay available," Ankley said. The weekly state-federal Crop Weather Report compiled by agricultural observers throughout Wisconsin confirmed Monday what the agents said. Soil moisture was rated short by 7 percent of the observers, adequate by 69 percent and surplus by 24 percent, the report said. John Markus, an agent for Ashland, Bayfield and Douglas counties, said rain has hurt the quantity and quality of the season's first two hay crops.

Most Wisconsin farmers get only three hay crops in a normal season. "It's going to make supplies a little tighter for the dairy farmer," Markus said of the wet weather's effect. In Sauk County, agent Tom Kriegl said many farmers are still trying to cut their second hay crop, which generally occurs in early July. "The hay is growing well, but the rain has slowed down the process of harvesting," Kriegl said. VZ7 1 Dad was always willing to The losses in the Shiocton area were estimated at $864,000 APPLETON (AP) This month's heavy rains could mean a second consecutive year of heavy losses for the Appleton area's cabbage growers.

"This water is taking a pretty severe toll on the cabbage," said John Biese, Outagamie County's crops and soils agent at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. "You drive through Shiocton and you can smell it. It's rotting in the fields and what isn't rotting is turning white and looking abysmal," he said. King Pharr, general manager of Bush Brothers Shiocton, said last week that his company had already lost 25 percent to 35 percent of its cabbage crop. He estimated the loss for area growers at about $864,000 so far, and the total value of the area crop at $3 million.

Pharr said this year's rainfall he killed Sinthasomphone after the officers left the pair. The officers had responded to a call from neighbors that a naked, incoherent boy was on the street near Dahmer's apartment. The fired officers said Dahmer had convinced them the boy was actually an adult homosexual lover who simply drank too much and wandered onto the street. The commission upheld the firing. But Parins said in his decision that, in order for an officer to fired, his actions must demonstrate "moral turpitude or intentional dishonest, vile of willful misconduct." Kenneth Munson, executive director of the Fire and Police Commission, told the committee in arguing for the funding that Parins' ruling set a dangerous precedent and undermined the authority of the commission.

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