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E1BSKEDFTI08 Playoffs will end special bond Kolstads' coach-player relationship will conclude with loss or football championshipC-1 TUESDAY, October 24, 1995 500 iff- I. Carson takes a wait-and-see Packers for life? Team discussing Favre, White contract extensions stand with Younkers' merger By Tom Murphy what's best for its shareholders. Proffitt's stock, which holds the key to the value of the merger, slipped 51 per share on the Nasdaq exchange Monday to 235s. Younkers rose 33i6 to 224 per share. Carson's expired tender offer was for $20 per share.

John Curti, an analyst for Securities Corp. of Iowa, said the Proffitt's decline was expected after the announcement. More on B-5 1996. The merger requires shareholder approval. Younkers has a store at Port Plaza Mall in Green Bay.

Carson is the parent company of Boston Store, also at Port Plaza. Carson, based in Milwaukee, has been an unwanted suitor of Younkers for a year. Carson holds about 16 percent of Younkers stock. Carson executives said Monday they would continue to monitor the situation and Proffitt's stock price and do By Chris Havel Press-Gazette The Green Bay Packers are interested in signing Brett Favre and Reggie White to contract extensions that enable them to finish their careers here. "They're two of the biggest names in the game right now," Packers president Bob Harlan said today.

"Reggie White has been a big boost to the organization, and of course, Brett has been playing great, too." Favre, 26. is one of the NFL's most talented young quarterbacks. He is tied with Chicago's Erik Kramer for the league-lead with 16 touchdown passes. "If the Packers want to do something, I'd be more than willing," Favre said. "But I'd only want it to be a deal that says, 'Brett Favre is a Packer for I'd love to finish my career here." Favre is in the second year of a five-year, $19 million deal he signed in 1994.

Asked about a contract extension, he said, "It's been mentioned in a positive way. I'll never say, 'I'm playing my butt off, so I want more The Packers have always been fair with me. "If Ron Wolf said, 'Let's do a 10-year deal and you play here until your career his I'd love it." White, 33, is signed through the 1996 season. He is the NFL's all-time sack leader with 152V2 and currently leads the NFL with 7V2 sacks. Wolf stressed contract talks with both players are in the "informal" stage, but added, "We'd very much like to have both of them finish their careers as Green Bay Packers." Packers receivers thriveC-1 NotebookC-3 rress-Gazette Carson Pirie Scott Co.

has adopted a sideline attitude as Younkers and Proffitt's, a Knoxville, retail chain, take the merger playing field. Directors of Younkers of Des Moines and Proffitt's announced Monday that they planned to complete a union of their Midwestern and Southeastern U.S. department stores by early The Monfils trial i rz fi 1 "i 1 1 J-i rp 1 i 3 h) AP photo Hearty laugh: President Bill Clinton puts his arm around Russian President Boris Yeltsin after Yeltsin made a statement about journalists Monday at a press conference at the Franklin D. Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, N.Y. U.S., Russia agree on Bosnia role NATO or United Nations command is key issue Prosecutor hammers at Basten's credibility By Paul Srubas Press-Gazette Dale Basten's credibility came under heavy fire Monday, in part because of his testimony about a mysterious black and orange hat and whether he saw Tom Monfils on the morning Monfils disappeared.

Basten is the fifth of six defendants to testify in his own defense in the trial that enters its 25th day today. He said Monday he never saw Monfils at the James River paper mill on Nov. 21, 1992. the day Monfils disappeared. But prosecutor Larry Lasee claimed Basten did see Monfils and only made up a story about seeing a man in a black and orange hat to cover his tracks.

Basten testified that co-defendant Keith Kutska pointed out a man in a hat that morning and indicated it was Monfils. However, Basten said he could see only a black and orange hat and dark hair of a man standing behind a paper roll. He assumed it was Monfils but later learned Monfils was wearing a blue hat that day. "It wasn't Tom Monfils," Basten said. But Lasee tried to prove Basten knew all along it was Monfils and lied about the hat he saw after learning that seeing Monfils there might draw him nearer to the place and time of Monfils' death.

Lasee pulled out transcripts and police statements indicating Basten previously said otherwise about whom he saw that morning. Basten had told police and James River investigators numerous times that the man he saw was Monfils, Lasee said. Lasee also pulled out a transcript quoting Basten about the hat he saw that morning. In the transcript, a mill investigator asked Basten: "Do you know the color?" Basten answered, "Blue, I think." Please see MonfilsA-2 Upcoming witnessesA-2 Monday's highlightsA-2 Trial at a glanceA-2 0 ft sNP' 'i Heavy questioning: Dale Basten, above, defended his earlier testimony and statements to police in the Tom Monfils homicide trial Monday under the cross-examination of prosecutor Larry Lasee, who claimed Basten lied on several occasions. Table talk: Keith Kutska, left, listens to his lawyer, Royce Finne, during testimony Monday from defendant Dale Basten.

A 1 1 Clinton insists on a unified force led by NATO. Yeltsin called the meeting, his ninth with Clinton, "worthy of meetings that would last hundreds of days" and lambasted reporters for casting this minisummit as a potential disaster because of disagreements on Bosnia. "You're a disaster," he told the assembled media. "Be sure to get the attribution on that," said Clinton, doubling over with laughter. Clinton and Yeltsin talked very little about NATO expansion eastward toward Russia's borders bypassing another contentious subject.

They also agreed to work for a ban next year on all nuclear tests and to improve security at Russian nuclear sites to guard against theft of plu-tonium. Clinton, in New York for the 50th anniversary meeting of the United Nations, holds a meeting today with Chinese President Jiang Zemin at Lincoln Center. The site was moved from the New York Public Library after Chinese officials objected to an exhibit that includes scenes of Tiananmen Square. Clinton, Yeltsin share spiritA-4 "We're partners," Arafat tells JewsA-4 Castro: Man of the hourA-4 By Bill Nichols Gannett News Service HYDE PARK, N.Y. -President Clinton Monday said he and Russian President Boris Yeltsin agreed that Russian troops should be part of a peacekeeping force in Bosnia.

The two leaders made "some progress" on the issue of using Russian troops, but administration officials said major stumbling blocks remain before a plan agreeable to both countries can be worked out. The key issue: Will NATO or the United Nations be in command? "How they go about doing it is the affair of the military; it is not a question for us two presidents," Yeltsin said. "We have done our task." Said Clinton: "We're going to have an operation that works. We want Russia to be involved in it." The leaders directed Defense Secretary William Perry and Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev meet Friday. Despite the optimism expressed by Yeltsin and Clinton who said they had "reached complete agreement about how we would work together for peace" there were no signs of compromise.

Yeltsin as recently as Sunday said Russian troops would not be put under NATO command in any force used to police a Bosnia peace agreement. Press-Gazette photos by Patrick Ferron MIA identified as Marshfield man a hillside after a surface-to-air missile detonated near the plane. His remains were recovered in January 1995. The two others are Air Force Maj. Roger W.

Carroll of Kansas City, and Air Force 1st Lt. Dwight W. Cook of Centerpoint, Iowa. Carroll was aircraft commander and Cook the navigator on a strike mission over northern Laos when their F-4D was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed. The men's remains were recovered in April and June 1994.

The remains of the 11 men are to be sent to Travis Air Force Base, Wednesday. Burial dates are to be WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon Monday named a Marshfield serviceman and 10 others killed in the Vietnam War among those whose remains have been identified and will be returned home for burial. Chief Master Sgt. Charles R. Fellenz was one of eight airmen shot down in a C-130A during a mission over Ban Salou, Laos, on Nov.

24, 1969. Their remains were recovered in 1993 by an American-Laotian search team. "It's an awful long time to wait for the news," said Richard Fellenz of Marshfield. a cousin of Fellenz. Richard Fellenz said the news provid Penfield, N.Y.; Chief Master Sgt.

Larry I. Grewell of Tacoma, and Chief Master Sgt. Donald L. Wright of Mount Savage, Md. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this morning reported the plane carrying Fellenz and the others was shot down over Laos, apparently by ground fire, on Nov.

24, 1969. The remains of the eight men were recovered in November 1993. Also identified was Air Force Col. Ivan D. Appleby of Fresno, who was aircraft commander on an F-4D photo reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam on Oct.

7, 1967, when the plane caught fire and slammed into ed a sense of closure but that it came too late to have any real impact for Charles Fellenz's parents. His mother, Ann, died in 1977. Until she was notified that his plane was shot down in 1969, she wrote him every day. Herbert Fellenz now lives in a Marshfield nursing home. He is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

In addition to Fellenz, the airmen were Capt. Earl C. Brown of Stanley, N.C.; Lt. Col. Richard O.

Ganley of Keene, N.H.; Maj. Michael D. Balamoti of Glens Falls, N.Y.; Maj. Peter R. Matthes of Toledo, Ohio; Chief Master Sgt.

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