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1 (3 lisnfirs 19 Tornado devastates Ladysmith Two barns blown down; six homes lose roofs By Peter J.Wasson Wausau Daily Herald pwasson wdhprint.com Residents in the towns of Maine and Texas faced the daunting task today of repairing the damage caused by a tornado that ripped across Wausau's north side Monday evening. The storm tore the roofs off at least six homes, blew down two barns and left one person injured, a motorist blown off Highway 51 as the funnel cloud moved from the west into the town of Texas. On Wausau's northeast side, the storm uprooted trees and tore the roof off a home on 33rd Street. As of this morning, 1,600 Wisconsin Public Service customers immediately north of Wausau were without power. The twister was part of a line of storms that nearly leveled downtown Lady-smith and swept through central and northern Wisconsin.

The Gilman School District in Taylor County said the roof was torn off its school and classes were canceled for today and Wednesday. Another twister touched ground at the intersection of Highways 45 and 52 in a rural area in northern Shawano County that was not heavily populated. Most of the damage just north of Wausau was concentrated in the neighborhood Texas surveys the damage to his By Todd Richmond The Associated Press LADYSMITH A tornado ripped apart a northwestern Wisconsin town Monday, leveling a Baptist church, a hotel and a gas station and injuring dozens of people, witnesses and officials said. A second tornado struck in the central part of the state. The tornado struck Ladysmith at 4:30 p.m.

Monday, destroying homes and tearing the roofs off the Davis Hotel and Lounge and the town fire department, eyewitnesses said. There was virtually nothing left of several businesses shown on television. "Most of the town is a disaster. There's buildings missing, down, torn apart everything," said Christine Wright, an employee at the Holiday Station Store in downtown Ladysmith. They're shutting the town down." Gov.

Scott McCallum declared Ladysmith a disaster area and planned to visit the site today, spokesman Tim Roby said. McCallum verbally gave the go-ahead for rescue workers to start working under the declaration Monday night and the state emergency management team was on its way to assess the damage, Roby said. Thirty people were treated for nonlife-threatening injuries at Rusk Memorial Hospital, and 18 of them were released, adnunistrator Mike Shaw said. Four patients were brought to Lakeview Medical Center in Rice Lake with nonlife threatening injuries, but three were released, said nursing supervisor Cindy King. Two other patients were flown to Luther Hospital in Eau Claire, but officials would not release their conditions.

Ladysmith Police Chief Norm Rozak said the storm swept through two small neighborhoods and the business district in the center of the town, damaging as many as 60 homes and businesses. He said everyone was accounted for, and it appeared most of the injuries were bruises and cuts. "It surprises me right now, looking at this devastation, that nobody to our knowledge is deceased," Rozak said late Monday. "It's not good for us, but there's a lot of great people up here. Well have so See LADYSMITH2A ft Keith Kroening of the town of where the tornado first touched down along Emery Drive near Highway in the town of Maine.

"It must have gone right through here," Maine Fire Chief John Ohrmundt said. "I live about a third of a mile away and I saw it. The twister dropped right down like a giant raindrop and as fast as it was down, it was gone again. I didn't think there would be much damage, it was gone so fast. Then I saw all the debris flying in the air." Larry Peterson didn't see the storm that ripped the house Monday night after a tornado could hear the roof rip off" The largest part of roof was left on top of Kahl's car in the front yard.

Other portions were thrown across the neighborhood, where sheets of aluminum were wrapped around trees and 4-inch-square sign posts were snapped at ground level. "Just look at this," Kahl said, standing on her son-in-law's back porch "The patio chairs and the table with its glass top are just fine. Then you look inside and the roof is gone. It sucked the light fixtures right through the ceiling." Up the block, the storm roof from his Emery Drive home, but he heard and felt it. He, his wife, Jean, their 10-year-old daughter, Broock, and his mother-in-law, Linda Kahl, learned a storm was coming while watching television just after 6 p.m.

1 seen it was spotted near Brokaw and that's when we headed for the basement," Peterson said. "It wasn't no more than 45 seconds later that everything started letting loose. We were hiding under a mattress and there was a whole lot of wind. Then the whole house shook and you i Bac NghiToTrongWausau Dally Herald ripped part of the roof off. tore part of the roof off the Emery Drive home of Ron Peters and smashed his garage and shed to splinters, depositing it in a 100-yard-long path of debris into a corn field to the east.

"We were in the basement because we heard the warnings on TV," said Nancy Henke, 32, Peters' daughter. "When I was like 10 years old, we had a storm here that blew the garage off the foundation. Ever since then, we went down when warnings went off" As it did at the Peterson See STORM2A said, "to set a tone for the class." After 14 years of teaching, she still feels nervous those first few days. The activity to quell those feelings starts days' before classes begin. She put in more than 40 hours in her classroom last week.

"I have to be organized, so that way I can get the most out of my class," she said. Joel Anderson, a fourth-See SCHOOL2A lack-to-school iitters jj few 1 Students not the only nervous ones today same way," said Julie Guerin, kindergarten and first-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Wausau, starting her fifth year in the profession. 1 love buying the supplies, too. I get excited about seeing the new crayons coming out." like their students, teachers' attitudes also must shift from the sleepy summertime to the busy school year. "It's a change to a struc Bac NghiToTtonoWausau Daily Henrid Julie Guerin prepares her classroom Friday for the first day of school today at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Wausau.

Candidates for state offices say time is right for change By Keith Uhlig Wausau Daily Herald kuhligwdhprint.com Thousands of them walked into classes across north central Wisconsin today, with new shoes on their feet and butterflies in their stomachs. And then the students showed up. The first day of school is exhilarating, even nerve-wracking, for teachers, too. "I get excited. I'm just the Mandela rebukes U.S.

for Iraqi threats By Mike Cohen The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Nelson Mandela said Monday that he is "appalled" by U.S. threats to attack Iraq and warned that Washington is "introducing chaos in international afFairs." He said he had spoken with President Bush's father and Secretary of State Colin Powell. As several world leaders at a summit here urged restraint by the United States, South Africa's revered former president Issued a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration. "We are really appalled by any country, whether a superpower or a small country, that goes outside the U.N. and attacks independent countries," Mandela 4 mm Attorney General Jim Doyle isn't seeking re-election because he is running in the Democratic primary for governor.

Democrats have a primary in the lieutenant governor's race after Green Bay civic activist Barbara Lawton decided to challenge state Sen. Kevin Shibilski of Stevens Point for the nomination. The winner automatically goes on the ticket with the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. They likely will face Republican Gov. Scott McCallum and Lt.

Gov. Margaret Farrow, as well as Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Ed Thompson and his running mate, state Rep. Marty Reynolds. Lawton unsuccessfully ran for state Senate in 1996 and lieutenant governor in 1998. Democratic leaders asked Lawton to run again after Shibilski cast a key vote for a Republican plan to fix the state's $1.1 billion deficit Shibilski raised $243,000 See ELECTION2A Road project topic of hearing The state Department of Transportation will give area residents a final chance Wednesday to comment on the planned extension of Hirmmingbird Lane from Rib Mountain into Wausau.

Local3A Cheese League full of holes The fabled summertime training camp circuit in the state that once boasted as many as five NFL teams is down to two the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs and they don't even scrimmage each other. SportslC Obituaries Edward Buchkowski Nina Dettmering Donald Genrich Amelia Grauden Evelyn Hubbard Rodney Irwin George Kraeuche Ruth Langhoff Charlotte Mueller Rita Nieuwenhuis Marion Viste Records4A Weather Forecast I for Wednesday: Mostly sunny and mild. Details6C High: 79 Low: 54 Visit our Web site at wausaudallyherald.com for the latest news and information Former South African president Nelson Mandela, his wife, Graca Machel, and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan talk during the arrival of world leaders at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg on Monday. tured routine," said Lisa Mages-Greene, a Spanish teacher at Mosinee High School.

"I know I have to leave at 6 in the morning, and that lunch will be between this hour and that hour. No more late nights and no more sleeping in." And like their younger charges, they usually come to school wearing new clothes. "I try really hard to look professional," Mages-Greene AP photo was not available. Mandela said he instead spoke with Powell and former President George Bush. A number of top figures from the previous Bush administration have spoken out recently against unilateral military action raising speculation that the elder Bush shares some of their doubts.

The former president, however, has kept silent on his son's Iraq policy. Chirac, who is in South Africa to attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development, said he shared "a common position on the assessment and approach of these issues" with Mandela. Inc. delivery services call While Top invested Call By Todd Richmond The Associated Press Candidates running for four state offices in the September primary election say voters want Wisconsin politics cleaned up. Now.

"I know how to clean out a barn. I have no problem cleaning out the state Capitol the same way," said Robert Gerald Lorge, an attorney and farmer who is running in the Republican primary for secretary of state. Voters go to the polls Sept. 10 to decide who advances to the Nov. 5 general election for attorney general, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and state treasurer.

Candidates say the time is right for change after a series of recent scandals that rocked Wisconsin government. Prosecutors are investigating allegations of illegal campaigning by state-paid workers at the Capitol. Sen, Brian Burke dropped out of the attorney general race in May, in part because of the investigation. He was Page 2A The candidates. charged in June with 18 felonies.

Seven Milwaukee County Board supervisors lost their jobs in recall elections after voters learned the board approved a pension plan with million-dollar payouts. The state Elections Board removed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gary George from the ballot in July after deciding his campaign submitted false nomination signatures. Before leaving the attorney general race, Burke was considered the favorite to win a Democratic primary against former U.S. Attorney Peggy Lautenschlager. She now has no primary opponent and faces Outagamie County District Attorney Vince Biskupic, a Republican, in the general election.

said before going into a meeting with French President Jacques Chirac. "No country should be allowed to take the law into their own hands." The United States has made toppling Saddam Hussein a priority, accusing the Iraqi leader of developing weapons of mass destruction despite U.N. resolutions that prohibit him from doing so. "What they are saying is introducing chaos in international affairs, and we condemn that in the strongest terms," Mandela said. The 1993 Nobel Peace Prize winner said he tried to call Bush to discuss the matter but that the president Index For home we Invested In Enron, Enron management in real estate.

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