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Page 3A Thursday November 29, 1990 Wausau Daily Herald What's new? Tell us. Call 842-2101 in Wausau, or 536-5561 in Merrill. Marathon Window art Local Si1) I wamnss Wausau schools By Gregory Shriver Wausau Daily Herald The Wausau School District will need up to 12 additional classrooms beginning next fall and Superintend mtm if i Research Network to meet in Wausau The Wisconsin Research Network, comprised of more than 350 family-practice physicians, will hold its annual meeting Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at the Westwood Conference Center in Wausau.

The purpose of WReN includes implementing multi-site studies in the office of family physicians and other specialists in Wisconsin and providing support for individual community physicians conducting primary care research. WReN also functions to develop research expertise among community-based Wisconsin physicians to facilitate multi-site studies and develop systems at the academic centers. The two-day annual meeting will include presentations by invited speakers, workshops related to conducting research in the office setting and panel discussions. Breske sworn in as state senator MADISON (AP) Democrat Roger Breske, an Eland tavern operator, was sworn yY ent Penny Kleinhans thinks the best, source is St. Mark's Lutheran Church.

But the School Board voted 4-3 in June not to buy the building, which houses the church and St. Mark's school. Penny Kleinhans Haering to lead advisory group Wausau Daily Herald Arno Haering will head a 40-member advisory committee researching Wausau School District building needs. Superintendent Penny Kleinhans has directed the first two meetings of the facilities planning committee, which met Wednesday night. Haering, executive director of the Northcentral Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, will take over when the group meets Dec.

12. He was selected by the committee. The committee Wednesday reviewed the 1990-91 classroom needs for the school district snd looked at possible sites for future building projects. Committee members also discussed their recent tour through some of the district's schools, where many said they found conditions to be much more crowded than they imagined. Kleinhans hopes the committee and the School Board can have a building plan to take to district voters by April.

in Wednesday as a Wisconsin state senator, assuming the seat he won Nov. 6 with a victory over Republican Gordon R. Connor of Laona. Senate Majority Leader-elect David Helbach of Stevens Point presided at a ceremony SrL (til A i i MMiid --attended by about 100 -relatives, friends and legislators in the Senate chamber. Breske will represent Roger Breske I Kleinhans told the district's facilities planning committee Wednesday night that acquiring St.

Mark's would help Wausau meet its short-term space requirements. "It would buy us some time for next year," said Kleinhans, who hopes to send a building referendum to the voters in April. "There is no way that building would not be utilized and utilized heavily in this district." District residents defeated a $26.6 million school building referendum in February by more than a 2-to-l ratio. Assistant Superintendent Berland Meyer projects a district enrollment increase of about 1,000 students over the next five years. Meyer said preliminary indications are that 12 additional classrooms will be needed for 1991-92.

He said some of the rooms might be found in existing facilities, but only by turning areas such as kitchens and libraries into classrooms. Kleinhans said she will urge the board at a special meeting Friday to approve talks between the district and St. Mark's to see whether a sale still is possible. Former Superintendent Theodore Nicholson earlier this year said St. Mark's would provide the district with at least eight additional classrooms, an audio-visual room and a full-service kitchen.

The district is renting three classrooms and the audio-visual room from St. Mark's, but church officials say there is no guarantee that space will be available in the future. Board President Richard Allen said St. Mark's might still sell its Casey LakeWausau Daily Herald camp, and in return students paint holiday scenes on the windows. Painting a snowman Wednesday is Jessica Dhein, 15, daughter of Jeanne and Dave Wolfgram, 1739 Tonawanda Road, Kronenwetter.

Holiday Scene: DC. Everest Junior High School ninth-grade art students are painting windows at Hardee's, 1027 E. Grand Rothschild. Hardee's gives art students scholarships to attend an art property for $1.25 million if an agreement is reached by about Dec. 10.

"The question is where it fits in terms of the long-term needs of our school district," Allen said. Church officials said the school district must pay for asbestos removal in the building if such a project were necessary. He said the district could probably move into the building as early as July 1. Kleinhans said St. Mark's, 700 W.

Strowbridge Wausau, could be more than a temporary answer to the district's classroom needs. "What St. Mark's is used for next year may not be what it is used for three years from now, but it will be used for something," she said. "A $1.25 million asking price for a building like that would not be a Band-Aid approach. It's a wonderful little Guilty verdict expected in prostitution ring case Change of venue OK'd in Rapids homicide trial STEVENS POINT (AP) Jurors for the trial of a woman accused of the sprawling 12th Senate District, which includes all or parts of Vilas, Oneida, Lincoln, Langlade, Florence, Forest, Marinette, Oconto, Menominee and Shawano counties.

Breske won a special election called by Gov. Tommy G. Thompson to fill a vacancy created last summer by the retirement of Democrat Lloyd Kincaid of Crandon. Kincaid resigned for health reasons. Because a vacancy existed, Breske was able to take office before the regular terms for sitting legislators end the first week in January.

Breske will have seniority over four other new senators elected Nov. 8, including Democrat Russell Decker of Schofield. Area Withee teen pleads guilty in Medford fire MEDFORD (AP) A 17-year-old Withee youth has pleaded guilty to participating in an arson fire that caused more than $100,000 damages to a Medford school, Taylor County authorities said today. Christopher Armbrust pleaded guilty to one count of being a party to arson, said Sharon Virnig, an assistant to Taylor County District Attorney Allen Brey. Taylor County Circuit Judge Gary Carlson set sentencing for Jan.

2. Armbrust, who was ordered to face the charges as an adult, could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison. The Oct. 17 fire at a middle school was confined to two classrooms but other portions of the school suffered some smoke and water damage. The fire forced officials to cancel two days of school.

An 18-year-old Medford man, William Werner III, has pleaded innocent to arson in connection with the fire. Werner, who remains in jail on a $20,000 bond, was convicted last summer of criminal damage to property at the Medford golf course, Brey said. Price County death a suspected homicide PHILLIPS (AP) Exactly how a missing Lac du Flambeau woman died remains unknown but the investigation is being handled as a homicide, Price County Sheriff Wayne Wirsing said Wednesday. Skeletal remains of Susan R. Poupart, 30, were found last week by deer hunters in a secluded area of northern Price County, near the border with Vilas County.

Poupart was reported missing in May after she failed to return from a party. "We just don't know what caused her death," Wirsing said. The Vilas County Sheriff's Department is assisting the investigation because the woman was initially reported missing from the coun-! ty, he said. "They have considered this as a homicide from the very beginning." Investigators for the Vilas County Sheriff's Department were out of their office Wednesday and were unavailable for comment, a dis- patcher said. Rhinelander man gets 20-year term .1 killing a newspaper coworker will be selected from outside Portage County because of excessive publicity about the case, a judge decided.

Jayne S. Jacobson, 29, Grand Rapids, is charged with first-degree in 9 I It' Dv Ml By Mary Jo Kewley Wausau Daily Herald STEVENS POINT Portage County Reserve Judge Robert C. Jenkins was expected to find a 36-year-old Monroe man guilty today of running a Wausau prostitution ring. Arthur Graves 36, Monroe, was to enter three Alford pleas for two counts of second-degree sexual assault and one count of soliciting a child for prostitution. The Alford plea allows Graves to maintain his innocence while the judge finds him guilty.

It also preserves an issues for appeal. A sentencing date for Graves has not been set. He could receive a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison. But, in exchange for the plea, Assistant District Attorney Charles J. O'Neill said he would not ask for more than 15 years in prison.

Graves was said to have led a prostitution ring involving as many as five women, who operated out of two Wausau motels. Wausau police arrested Graves in April after receiving a tip that a 14-year-old runaway from Janesville was soliciting sex. The girl told police she gave the money she earned to Graves, and that she had sex with him several times. Police also said two exotic dancers sent men to the motels, where the 14-year-old was paid to have sex with them. O'Neill said both dancers were charged, but have since disappeared.

Warrants have been issued for their arrest. O'Neill said he would have presented evidence at trial that Graves had continued operating his prostitution business while in custody in the Marathon County Jail. The jail's telephone and mail log shows Graves received money totaling $1,200 from two of the exotic dancers. He also received telephone calls from the Exotic Ecstasy Booking Gary, Ind. O'Neill said Graves used the service to coordinate his prostitution business in Wisconsin, South Dakota, Illinois and Indiana.

The case moved from Marathon to Portage County Circuit Court after O'Neill agreed to a defense request for a change of venue, based on pretrial publicity. Though never decided in court, Graves, who is black, also argued that his race precluded him from receiving a fair trial in Marathon County. In the change of venue motion, Graves' lawyer, Paul Goetz, Wausau, said the jury makeup would be unfair because it "will either not include any black people or its array of black people will not reflect the proportion of black people in the national population." O'Neill said Goetz's motion suggested Marathon County jurors would be unable to reach a fair verdict for a defendant who is black. "It presupposes racism," he said. Goetz would not say if he believed Marathon County jurors would be inherently prejudiced toward a black defendant.

"You raise every issue that you can think of," he said. He said he did not consider other minority groups when filing the motion. "I raised the issue, representing Mr. Graves that's all I can say," Goetz said. Public Defender John Reid said he has not found race to be a factor in a jury's decisions.

"It's an individual situation," Reid said of Graves' case. "If a client believes it's an important issue, then you've got to look strongly at it." Marathon County District Attorney Greg Grau said he knew of no legal precedent for the request. "I've never seen anyone convicted on the basis of race or prejudice," Grau said. "I think jurors in Marathon County take great pains to put their sympathies, passions and prejudices aside. The issue raised has no merit." son's request for a change of venue.

The trial is scheduled to begin in March. The county from which jurors will be picked will be determined later, Portage County Circuit Judge John V. Finn said in announcing his decision Wednesday. The jurors will be transferred to Stevens Point for the trial. During a pre-trial hearing, Jacob-son's lawyer, John Runde, argued that some evidence gathered Sept.

25 when Jacobson was searched without a warrant or probable cause cannot be used during the trial. According to the criminal complaint, a fingerprint was obtained from Jacobson that day. A piece of pottery found near a pool of blood in the Schroer home links Jacobson to the slaying, court documents say. Runde contends that search warrants issued Sept. 26 for Jacobson's home and for her body were based upon an unlawful search of her the day before when the fingerprint was obtained.

Jayne Jacobson tentional homicide in connection with the Sept. 20 stabbing death of Julie M. Schroer, 24, at Schroer's home in the town of Grant. The two women worked together in the business department at the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. Schroer's beaten and stabbed body was discovered in the basement of her home.

Jacobson was arrested Sept. 26. Portage County District Attorney William Murat did not contest Jacob- Bathroom towel turns into a 4-foot python RHINELANDER (AP) A man who pleaded no contest in September to second-degree intentional homicide in the death of his I i-LJ lO-month-old son three years ago was sen tenced Wednesday to a 20-year prison term. Gary W. Coleman, 32, of Rhinelander had been charged after his former wife convinced prosecutors he was responsible for the death snake but decided it might instead go to a friend who wants to adopt it.

Doucette, 19, and Houteman said they had no clue of the slithering visitor until they found some snake skin on the kitchen floor a few days ago. A friend who owns a snake didn't make anything of it, thinking the snake skin may have dropped from his clothing. After the abrupt discovery of the skin's owner, they looked around for places a snake would hide and found an entire shedded snake skin behind the stove. John Allen, owner of Pet Land, said a python can go months without eating. Their usual diet is mice and rats.

Pythons are relatively popular pets among snake fanciers, Allen said, because they are much cheaper than the more coveted boa of his son, Jake, on Sept. Z7, 1987. APPLETON (AP) Dawn Doucette says she scrubbed her face and was reaching for what looked like a black towel draped on the bathtub when something didn't look quite right. "I thought I saw a snake," she said. She decided she'd better get her eyeglasses, and, for good measure, alert roommates Bill Sommers, 18, Renee Marcks, 19, and Rick Houte-man, 19.

"She came out yelling at me like, 'What the heck's in Houteman said. The "towel" turned out to be a 4-foot python that the roommates managed to capture and place in a box. They had lived in the apartment less than a month and surmised the unexpected guest that showed up Tuesday morning was a pet left behind by the previous tenants, who were evicted. They contacted pet stores about selling the Court records showed Coleman had been drinking the night before smothering the baby "under a blanket. Correction APptxrt ACCIDENT A car driven bv Irvine Fletcher was hit from the rear by a pickup Bathroom Surprise: Dawn Doucette (left) found this 4 foot python in her apartment bathroom in Appleton.

Holding the snake are room mates Rick Houteman and Renee Marcks. truck. Information was incorrect in the Nov. -18 Sunday Herald..