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4A State Wausau Daily Herald, Saturday, March 4, 1989 State senator charqei misconduct with fraud, it hi "This is a particularly difficult time for (Shoemaker's wife) Linda, the kids and the statement said. "We want to thank our friends and family for their support and comfort." "While it is not my nature to be inaccessible to the press or to my constituents, it is best for all concerned to address questions about the recent charges to my counsel, Stephen Hurley," it said. "Any questions about other matters will, as in the past, be handled by my staff and it said. In the 33-page complaint, David L. Collins, a special agent for the state Division of Criminal Investigation, quoted Dohm as saying he gave Shoemaker eight checks ranging from $370.50 to $1,000 from February 1986 through late last year.

The complaint said another special agent contacted James R. Sperstad, a Menomonie attorney, who said he issued an $8,500 check drawn on his trust account as a loan to Shoemaker in October 1985. Sperstad said the loan was still outstanding, the complaint reported. When Shoemaker provided the State Ethics Board with his financial statement in November 1988 he did not list Sperstad as a creditor for the years 1985, 1986 and 1987. MADISON AP) State Sen.

Richard Shoemaker was charged Friday with misconduct in public office and theft of $3,142 by fraud concerning his handling of election campaign finances. Shoemaker, a promoter of legislation to legalize various forms of gambling, was also charged with feloniously accepting $4,620 from a lobbyist, Thomas D. Dohm. The complaint filed in Circuit Court contained two felony and four misdemeanor charges. Court Commissioner Todd E.

Meurer entered pleas of innocent to all charges as Shoemaker, D-Menomonie, stood mute during a brief court appearance. Shoemaker, 37, served 10 years in the Assembly before his election to the Senate in November. The complaint said the charges involved activities that occurred in 1986, 1987 and 1988. At the request of Dane County assistant district attorney John Burr, who noted Shoemaker faces felony charges, Meurer ruled the senator to be photographed and fingerprinted. Shoemaker declined to speak to reporters as he left the courtroom.

His office issued a four-sentence statement, referring questions to his attorney Stephen Hurley of Madison. AP photo Two-tiered welfare aid plan criticized MADISON (AP) Plans to provide newcomers to Wisconsin with a lower level of welfare benefits than other residents were attacked Friday on legal and moral grounds. Republican Gov. Tommy G. Thompson has proposed cutting Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits for newcomers in four Wisconsin counties by 25 percent during their first three months in the state.

Also, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Strohl, D-Racine, has proposed holding newcomers to the welfare benefits they would have received in their home state for their first six months in Wisconsin. plan is "clearly unconstitutional" because it would deny poor children basic necessities of life, Carol Medaris of Madison, an attorney who specializes in welfare law, told the Assembly Children and Human Services Committee. "You're experimenting with people by denying them food and housing," Medaris, of Legal Action of Wisconsin, said. "I don't see how any court is going to support that." She was one of just three witnesses testifying on the controversial proposal in Thompson's 1989-91 state budget. Committee chairwoman Rep.

Rebecca Young, D-Madison, blamed the snowy weather for the low turnout. Drug investigation results in 15 arrests OSHKOSH (AP) Approximately 15 people were in custody Friday as authorities served arrest warrants stemming from a six-month investigation in three counties. The Winnebago County sheriff's office said there were about 30 warrants. The investigation was conducted by undercover agents and involved cocaine, marijuana and LSD, spokesmen said. Most of the arrests were in Winnebago County.

Sen. Shoemaker Charged: State Sen. Richard Shoemaker (right) and his attorney Stephen Hurley appear in Dane County Circuit Court in Madison Friday where Shoemaker was charged with misconduct in public office and theft by fraud. Archbishop: Split with Vatican grows Taste of winter ti mw MILWAUKEE (AP) Tension is worsening between American Catholics and the Vatican, Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland says. Weakland's comments came during an interview this week as he prepared to leave for Rome, where he will be among 35 American archbishops to discuss the future of the church in the United States with Pope John Paul II.

Anti-Rome sentiment remains strong among American Catholics, Weakland said. "I think we should be honest and say that yes, it's there. One shouldn't say it's 100 percent; that would be an injustice to many." Dissatisfaction with Rome can be seen not only in Catholics leaving the church, but also in Catholics who remain faithful but have serious disputes with church doctrine, Weak-land said. "You have to distinguish that there are some who are very angry with Rome but are still very faithful, who still go to church even though they are upset," he said. "Then there are some for whom it has become a real serious issue so that the disaffection means leaving active participation in the church.

How large that group is, I don't know." Asked whether there had been a lessening of the disaffection many American Catholics have felt over the Vatican's positions on several issues, Weakland said: "My feeling is that it is getting worse, but I can't prove that." AP photo winter as a snowstorm moved into Snow depths of up to a foot by this morning in La Crosse. Snow football: Rory Weber high school sophomore at La Crosse Aquinas, relaxes after a game of snow football Friday. Weber got a Drug firm fined $4,000 for lobby violations Wk state senators: Gary George of Milwaukee, Marvin Roshell of Chippewa Falls, Richard Kruel of Fennimore and Joseph Strohl of Racine. The civil complaint said the lodging was provided on the eve of a Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers National Football League game Nov. 7, 1987.

Wisconsin law prohibits lobbyists GOOD! s'lJlnasi I taste of a western Wisconsin. are expected Judge denies dismissal in girl's murder trial NEIGHBORS, INC HOME HELP SPECIALISTS The March 8-11 meeting in Rome was proposed in 1986 by Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, then president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Gallup polls and recent studies by church observers have shown that the 22-million-member Catholic Church in the United States has lost substantial numbers of its flock even though its membership is not officially declining. A recent Gallup poll indicated that one out of 10 Catholics no longer practice their faith. "That was the crisis of the church in Holland," Weakland said.

"We always compare ourselves to what happened there. There was no schism, people just gave up the practice of their faith and went their own way. That's the thing we worry about. Weakland was referring to a long standing rift in Holland between Catholic liberals and conservatives. While a schism never materialized, many Catholics there have stopped going to church and have become apathetic about the church.

Weakland said he did not fully understand why Catholics here were leaving the church. In his youth, most of those who left did so because they had divorced and wanted to remarry. These days, it is more complex, he said. "Nowadays that's not the group," he said. "Rather, it's people who leave for anger, for faith reasons that are more disturbing, more basic to the faith." "Beyond that, we have no witnesses to the incident," Kaminski said.

"We have no evidence that the child was born alive," he added. "Beyond tht we have no evidence of an attempt to take a life" or a motive for murder. The defense has claimed that the girl believed her son was born dead and cut his neck to open an airway in an attempt to revive the baby. But Hazelwood rejected the motion, ruling that a decision about apparently contradictory medical testimony and evidence about the infant's condition at birth and the nature of the neck wounds should be left to the jury. "Without question this is the major issue in the case," the judge said.

"The presence of other wounds is somewhat inconsistent with the large wound at the front of the throat with an attempt to open an air passage." such a sweet person," she said. Police identified Kawczynski Thursday through her dental and medical records. Kawczynski, 28, will be buried today after private family ceremonies, said her mother, who lives in Burbank, 111. "We can't even view her face," the distraught mother said, referring to the condition of her daughter's body which authorities said may have been lying near the road since Jan. 1.

The frozen, partially clad body was found by two boys as they returned home from school. Other than saying her daughter had done some filing for a living, Bouzkek declined to say more. Police identified Kawczynski, also known as Bette Wilson, from a thumbprint which matched one on file in the Illinois prison system. She was convicted in 1983 in DuPage County (111.) Circuit Court of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and released in November 1984. Lawn and Garden Care Window Cleaning Home Sitting Closet Organization Systems MADISON AP) An Illinois drug manufacturing company has agreed to $4,000 in fines for violating Wisconsin's lobby laws, special assistant attorney general Thomas Basting said Friday.

Pfizer Inc. of Hoffman Estates, 111., was charged with one count of providing lodging at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Green Bay to four When you want help around the house, call your Good Neighbors Home Help Specialist. Maid Service Home Remodeling Home Repairs Painting (Interior and Exterior) Wallpapering and Stenciling 1 occurs in application Name Phone No. Age School Attended. MAIL OR The Daily boys and girls become Herald Get on the Herald, 913 MANITOWOC (AP) A judge refused Friday to dismiss a murder charge against a 15-year-old girl accused of killing her newborn son and hiding the infant's body in a plastic bag.

The motion by defense attorney Ron Kaminski came as the prosecution rested its case in the fifth day of the juvenile trial before Manitowoc County Circuit Judge Fred Hazle-wood. The Valders-area girl is accused of slashing the infant's throat with a scissors in the basement of her home after giving birth Dec. 28. The girl then placed the body in towels and plastic bags and hid it near a Pigeon Lake cottage, according to the criminal complaint. In arguing for dismissal, Kaminski said prosecutors failed to prove the infant was born alive, that his client was the infant's mother and that his client was trying to kill the baby by slashing its throat.

UW to test bacteria that fights root rot MADISON (AP) University of Wisconsin researchers say they plan to test bacteria this summer at 10 to 20 sites to determine whether they fight a type of root-rot fungus that strikes soybeans, alfalfa and corn. UW-Madison plant pathologist Jo Handelsman discovered the bacteria in 1985 by sending stu dents across the state to uproot alfalfa, and culture strains of bacteria living on the roots. She then treated each of hun dreds of alfalfa seedlings with a different strain of bacteria, and dosed them with the root-rot fun gus. "It's what we call the brute-force method. Of the more than 700 bacteria-treated plants, all but one died, she said.

The surviving plant had been treated with bacteria now dubbed Bacillus cereus UW85. Tests indi cate it could be as effective and cheap to use as pesticides while posing fewer threats to the envi ronment, she said. Ex-cop sentenced for sexual bribery ELKHORN (AP) A former police officer with a history of asking motorists to perform sexual favors was placed on proba tion after pleading no contest to a bribery charge. Donald K. White, 32, a former town of Bloomfield officer, was accused of offering to dismiss a driver's speeding citation in 1984 in exchange for sexual favors.

White received a suspended sentence of five years in prison and was put on five years proba tion during a court appearance Thursday. A charge of misconduct in public office was dismissed as part of a plea agreement, said Phil Koss, assistant Walworth County dis trict attorney. White has two other convic tions on similar charges. Last month, he was placed on probation in Walworth County for offering to void two traffic tickets in exchange for sex from a male driver. Most sex assault victims are juveniles MILWAUKEE (AP) About 75 percent of all reported sexual assault victims in Wisconsin are juveniles with the average victim's age being 15, Attorney Gen eral Don Hanaway says.

Hanaway said his statistics were taken from a recent study released by a task force on family violence, sexual assault, child abuse and missing and exploited children. Hanaway told a crowd of about 180 people at a Statewide Crime Victims' Conference here that children who run away from home "are often sexually victim ized and exploited through prostitutions and pornography." WANTED Herald is now taking applications from 1 2 years or older who would like to Carriers in Merrill and Tomahawk. list and be ready when a route opening and their clients from giving anything of value to public officials, who similarly are forbidden from accepting favors of value. Basting said the investigation was continuing. Asked if legislators might face charges, Basting replied, "No comment." fluff others! "Kittens all gone first night." D.

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She was strangled with a rope found around her neck, according to Madison pathologist Robert Huntington III. She also had a skull fracture. Bouzkek said she had not seen her daughter for two or three years. "I spoke to her in November. She didn't call constantly," she said.

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