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HIGH SCHOOL PLAYOFFS Team pairings We've got a wrap-up of local and state matchups for WIAA postseason footballC-1 C-2 SATURDAY, October 21, 1995 500 Packers' 4-2 start made Jackson 'come and try it' By Pete Dougherty Green Bay news conference Friday. Jackson said he first got the itch to play while watching the Packers on television the second week of the season. In a 27-24 win over Chicago on Monday Night Football. they played one of their his agent, Gary Wichard, again called the Packers about Jackson coming to Green Bay. For the first time since the Packers had acquired Jackson on March 29, Wichard was not asking for a raise but instead said Jackson might play under the conditions of his current Sunday's game is at 3 p.m.

Don't forget, Sunday's game against the Minnesota Vikings starts at 3 p.m. Mi I fir fawn wanted to play for in the NFL. And Green Bay, with its cold climate, wasn't one of them unless it either would give him a substantial raise or prove to be better than he suspected. The Packers did the latter, and Friday, seven months after Miami traded him to Green Bay for a second-round draft pick, Jackson attended his first practice with them. "The fact that the Packers were 4-2 and have a shot to get that (Super Bowl) ring, I had to come and try it," he said in his introductory Press-Gazette Last June, in a meeting in his hometown of Little Rock, Keith Jackson cordially listened to coach Mike Holmgren's pitch that the Packers would be a good football team this year.

And he didn't buy it. "I'm looking on paper and I'm going, 'Hmmm. You lost some players. You got some young wide receivers. Young corners.

It's going to be a Jackson said Friday. There apparently were few teams the five-time Pro Bowl tight end and fall, so they agreed to drop them. The Packers also waived the fine allowed by the NFL's collective-bargaining agreement, which would have totaled $364,000 for the 91 days Jackson missed since training camp opened. By Thursday evening they had a deal and Jackson was here for practice Friday. He will make about $662,00 this season, which is the prorated portion of his contract for the final 10 weeks of the season.

More coverage in Sports Jackson z2 Schedules XpUt printed mZTxszsn earlier in best halves of offensive football in recent years. Their 30-21 win over Detroit last Sunday, five weeks after the Chicago win, apparently was the clincher. On Tuesday of this week, contract. He has one year left on his contract with a base salary of $1,125 million. There was a little negotiating left.

Both sides had filed grievances against one another this summer the year say game time is noon. 7 had no business going up to him in the first place." The Monfils trial Mike Hirn, when asked why he felt bad about having confronted Monfils America's Indians may cringe tonight IfDtrugpG3 Testimony by Hirn contradicts others By Paul Srubas Press-Gazette If you're one of the people wondering when suspects in the Tom Monfils case would start pointing fingers at each other, you can stop wondering. It began this week as defendants started taking the stand in their own defense. Mike Hirn on Friday testified that Keith Kutska tried to establish an alibi on 3s- Cleveland, Atlanta mascots mock culture, some say By Lori Higgins Press-Gazette The World Series that begins tonight invariably will bring images causing American Indians across the country to cringe. They'll see the Cleveland Indians and Chief Wahoo, their grinning, red-faced mascot, facing the Atlanta Braves, whose fans cheer them with an arm-pumping Tomahawk Chop.

These images are demeaning to American Indian culture, said Ernie Stevens, a member of the Oneida Business Council. "We are very offended by mascots and caricatures of any nature that mock or try to imitate our nationality thrpugh. athletics. Many Indian tribes always have opposed using American Indian names and mascots for sports teams, but it has sparked widespread debate in recent years. Locally, both Shawano and uv ,1 Us-.

A position-by-position look at the matchups between the Cleveland Indians and Atlanta BravesC-3 Seymour high schools dropped their Indian mascots and names in April 1992. The Shawano Indians became the Shawano Hawks, and the Seymour Indians became the Seymour Thunder. "I can't tell you how much I appreciated that," Stevens said Friday. He said the use of Indian names belittles tribal culture. "We're a proud nation," he said.

Stevens said it was difficult to Please see lndiansA-2 the day of Monfils' disappearance, even though no one supposedly knew Monfils was dead. And Hirn hinted that his theory for how Monfils died included Mike Piaskowski. Heat relief Device that kills excess prostate tissue recommended for use 11 Lasee Known for his aggressiveness By Lauran Neergaard Associated Press Press-Gazette photo by Patrick Ferron Defendant's testimony: Mike Hirn, one of Friday how fellow defendant Keith Kutska six defendant's in the Tom Monfils homicide responded when Hirn beckoned him on the case, demonstrates in Brown County Court morning Monfils disappeared. Piaskowski had testified Wednesday that he heard Hirn had killed Monfils. Pias-kowski also said he reported Monfils missing on the morning of Nov.

21, 1992, and then referred further questions to Kutska, perhaps indicating he thought Kutska had inside knowledge about why Monfils was missing. Hirn, Kutska, Piaskowski, Rey Moore, Dale Basten and Mike Johnson are charged with being party to homicide in Monfils' death at the James River paper mill. Lawyers for the six defendants have been careful throughout most of the trial to avoid laying blame or casting suspicion on each other's clients. That likely was more of a strategy than mere politeness: Testimony places the defendants in roughly the same place at the same time, and the cent of men have the problem by age 80. Some 4.5 million men older than 60 will be diagnosed this year.

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Half the patients felt the benefits lasted four years, while about 11 percent needed surgery within that time because symptoms returned. ROCKVILLE, Md. A device that literally microwaves enlarged prostates may relieve symptoms better than drugs and clearly is safer than surgery for the condition that hits millions of aging men, scientists said Friday. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee unanimously recommended the agency approve the Prostatron, a machine that kills excess prostate tissue by sending microwaves into the gland to heat it. The device could become the first alternative to drugs or surgery for the millions of American men who suffer enlarged prostates.

The prostate is a walnut-sized gland that surrounds the urethra, which carries urine to the penis. Prostates enlarge as men age, squeezing the urethra and making it difficult to urinate. Eighty per Hirn said. Kutska remained out of sight for a few minutes before showing up again in the area of the No. 9 paper machine, Hirn said.

Hirn had confronted Monfils a few minutes before, at Kutska's urging, but never saw him again, he said. About 1 p.m. that day, when helping conduct a millwide search for Monfils, Hirn said he ran into Kutska, who was sitting on a stool in the doorway to a Lawyer for Dale Basten launches attackA-2 prosecution's position, in part, is that if one defendant did something to Monfils, the others likely at least knew about it. But now, as the trial concludes its fourth week and defendants are getting their chance to speak, defense strategies are beginning to diverge. That became clear as Hirn spent a few minutes on the stand Thursday and more than seven hours Friday.

He spent much of his time contradicting testimony by Kutska, Piaskowski and others. Hirn also tried to place himself on a time line that would have removed him from the scene at the place and time that prosecutors say Monfils was beaten to unconsciousness. Hirn said he smoked a cigarette outside the No. 9 control booth around 7:40 a.m. when Kutska left for two or three minutes on the morning of Monfils' disappearance.

Hirn said he briefly saw Kutska near a bubbler and refiner an area where prosecutors have said Monfils was beaten. Hirn called and beckoned to Kutska, who responded by holding up a finger, like "be there in a minute," Clinton endorses bill to ban anti-gay hiring bias By Diane Duston Associated Press "Those who face this kind of job discrimination have no legal recourse, in either state or federal courts. This is wrong." President Clinton enthusiastically by its supporters there. Clinton noted that in 41 states, job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is legal. "Men and women in those states may be fired from their jobs solely because of their sexual orientation, even when it has no bearing on their job performance," Clinton said in his letter.

"Those who face this kind of job discrimination have no legal recourse, in either state or federal courts," he said. "This is wrong." The bill would exempt small work," said Clinton in a letter to Sen. Edward Kennedy, a sponsor of the measure. The endorsement is part of a continuing effort by Clinton to end discrimination against homosexuals, presidential adviser George Stephanopoulos said later to the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Stephanopoulos said the administration had "brought gay and lesbian issues out of the closet and into the open." The proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act, sponsored by businesses, the military, religicftij organizations and educational institutions that are substantially controlled or supported by religious organizations.

"The provision, which I believe is essential, respects the deeply held religious beliefs of many Americans," Clinton said. The measure also would not require employers to provide equal benefits to the same-sex partners of employees. Stephanopoulos said Clinton does not support federal sanctioning of same-sex marriage. WASHINGTON President Clinton announced his support Friday for legislation that would bar most job discrimination against homosexuals. "This is wrong," he said of such bias, becoming the first president to endorse a bill on the politically charged issue.

"Individuals should not be denied a job on the basis of something that has no relationship to their ability to perform their orientation. Approval of the bill seems unlikely in the Republican-controlled Congress, but the president's announcement was received Sens. Kennedy and James Jeffords, and Rep. Gerry Studds, would prohibit job discrimination, quotas or preferential treatment on the basis of sexual i Friday's SuperCash Today: WeatherOtter says: Rain warn Down syndrome 'sTT doesn't stop families -tfvf; from having dreams. LrC "The whole perspec- 1 -J Aj tive on Down syn- drome has changed 4j If a lot over the last 25 Js h' to 30 years," says Dr.

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