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HHWJW I tin rv! JJIllE AUGUST 30, 1994 SERVINC WISCONSIN'S GREATER FOX RIVER VALLEY 5(K LJ I 1 Li 1 1 1 2SJ I Ll I Li) I I GuHOgfMO Bad weather, appeals keeping Cubans home 7 Caribbean Post-Crescent photos by Michael Leschtsin VENDOR FLOYD HAMMEN sells raffle tickets on the final night of minor-league baseball at Goodland Field. The the Appleton Foxes new stadium, which is slated to open in 1 995. The Foxes lost Monday to South Bend, 8-1 OT(Q)(0JLGA7 After 54 years, it's the last out for Foxes' field k. A proceeds from the raffle will go toward No hasty decisions on future 3 The options are to continue playing ball or sell the field, but ownership of the site must be settled first By James Meyer Post-Crescent staff writer The Foxes are now history at Appleton's Goodland Field, but baseball may still have a future there. Mayor Richard De Broux said Monday the departure of the Foxes leaves the city with two choices, and one of them is to continue using Goodland Field as a ball park.

The other choice De Broux's favorite would have the city sell the site, most likely to a commercial or residential developer. Despite his preference, De Broux said, there is interest in continuing to use Goodland Field for baseball. He said an amateur baseball group has talked about using the field next year, and it also could be used for high school, Babe Ruth and American Legion ball. Parks and Recreation Director Richard Grant said the city should not be hasty in disposing of Good-land Field. "There's really a need for youth baseball diamonds," he said.

"I know the high schools are looking for places, so at this point, without hearing further information, I Please see FUTURE, A-5 1 Appleton's minor-league baseball team won't call Goodland Field home anymore. Those who lived and died with the Foxes it weren't so By Mike Woods Post-Crescent staff writer It was hard to believe, but nothing happened. Really. When the Appleton Foxes' Wilson Delgado lined out to South Bend third baseman Greg Norton at 9:51 p.m. Monday, minor-league baseball officially completed its 54-year run at storied but crumbling Goodland Field.

'JThe Foxes were defeated by the Silver Hawks, 8-1. later, about 200 fans, mostly kids, stormed through a players' gate and took the field as Foxes players gave away everything from helmets to fanny packs. Everything, including a pair of players' gloves, was taken. Well, not quite everything. Goodland itself went home unscathed.

In a complete abandonment of fcaseball tradition, not to mention -natural human behavior, no one in the season-high crowd of 3,492 attempted to pick up a base. Nary a went for a shovel to dig up home plate. Every nut and every bolt on every bleacher seat remained intact and no living creature bothered to reach down for even one blade of Goodland Field grass. They may not have wanted to see it go, but they didn't want to take it home either. I t's shortly before 7 p.m.

as MARGE HINCHLEY, who grew up just six blocks from Goodland Field and has been coming to games for nearly 50 years, gets an autograph from Foxes pitcher Robert Krueger before Monday's game. U.S. off icials are cautiously optimistic that the boat people crisis is letting up WASHINGTON (AP) One week after more than 3,200 Cuban boat people headed for U.S. shores in a single chaotic day, a series of encouraging developments have Clinton administration officials breathing somewhat easier. U.S.

officials attribute a sharp drop in the numbers of boat people in the last few days to bad weather and round-the-clock appeals for Cubans to stay home. "Growing numbers of Cubans understand that they will not come to the United States if they are picked up in the Straits (of Flor-. ida)," Undersecretary of State Peter Tarnoff said Monday night. By then, only 118 Cubans had been intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard throughout the day.

The final tally for Monday was 253. Tarnoff also said Cuban authorities have begun to take "some small steps" to counsel Cubans not to flee by boat. In addition, President Fidel Cas- tro has ordered that any vessel with minors aboard be prevented from leaving Cuban shores. The White House and State Department welcomed the move. And Panama's incoming foreign minister, Gabriel Lewis Galindo, said his country is willing to receive up to 10,000 Cuban refugees for six months if the United States houses them at American military bases along the Panama Canal and takes responsibility for them.

Another encouraging sign, Tarnoff said, is that about 225 Cubans of the more than 13,000 taken to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have asked for permission to return home. Tarnoff, interviewed on PBS' "MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour," said arrangements for their return will be discussed with Cuban officials on Wednesday or Thursday when U.S.-Cuban migration talks resume in New York. The last such talks were held in December. Michael Skol, the second-ranking official in the State Department's Latin America bureau, will head the U.S.

delegation. He will be joined by Justice Department and immigration officials. The administration hopes the talks will "facilitate safe and orderly and legal migration," said White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Rafael Dauza, spokesman at the Cuban diplomatic mission, had no information on the makeup of the delegation or Cuba's goals. Cuba wants wide-ranging talks with the United States but has agreed to limit the initial phase to immigration questions.

The Clinton administration has said the talks will be restricted to that issue. College students should consider insurance D-1 FORECAST MORE STORMS 11 Back page nations to help in Haiti The forces will join a U.S.-led coalition being readied to oust the country's ruling elite if they don't surrender KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -Seven Caribbean nations have agreed to join an American-led military coalition to remove Haiti's ruling elite, senior U.S. government officials said today. The seven were to announce their participation today at a meeting here of defense and foreign ministers from members of the 13-nation Caribbean Community. The seven are Barbados, Trinidad, Antigua, Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica and Belize, according to a U.S.

official who spoke to reporters en route from Washington. Barbados, Jamaica and Belize already had indicated they woul4 contribute to the coalition! which would consist mainly of American troops. The Caribbean forces would perform mainly police func: Cedras aftermath of an invasion, should President Clinton decide to launch the attack. "We are very close to exhausting all peaceful means" of restoring democracy in Haiti, the official said. The planned U.S.-led force would include thousands of troops, supplemented by police, civilian technicians and administrators.

Its mission would be to forcibly remove Haitian army chief Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras and the rest of the military leadership if they do not quit the country first. If the junta leaves, the coalition's task is to restore order. Clinton has said the use of military force remains an option, but international efforts are continuing to achieve a peaceful transition.

U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Bou-tros-Ghali is attempting to lay the groundwork to persuade Haiti's leaders to surrender, but the results appear highly uncertain. Michael McCurry, a State Department spokesman, said, "We prefer to see a peaceful resolution to this crisis." A contingent of about 2,000 U.S. Marines has been aboard warships off the Haitian coast for more than a month. INDEX Bridge A-7 Business D-1 Classified C-S Comics A-a Crossword Donohue A-7 Editorials A-9 Entertainment.

Horoscope Landers A-7 Local news B-1 Obituaries B-4 Sports C-1 State news B-2 Stocks D-2 TheatersTV Vitals B-2 Weather A-IO I "Pfat" and Doris Filz settle in for their last activity-filled evening at their immaculate Spencer Street home, across the street from Goodland. As the organ sounds cascade upon their home and the aroma of ballpark food consumes the air, the Filz thoughts turn to the future. They have lived in this house for the past 47 years. They readily recall when the maple trees in front of their home were so small that they could go upstairs and watch the game through their dormers, Please see FOXES, BACK PAGE Game story: C-1; photo essay: C-3 W. College Ave.

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to build 800-employee plant in Georgia The pay and benefits package to be offered is expected to be about half that of Milwaukee workers Post-Crescent map by Mary Premeau isn't expected to reach full production until September 1995. The plant will employ about 100 workers when it opens before the work force expands to 800 a year the company said. Joe Chambers, secretary-treasurer of United Paperworkers International Union Local 7232, which represents Briggs workers in the Milwaukee area, said the decision to build a new plant in Georgia (AP) Briggs Stratton Corp. says it will build a $75 million engine plant at States-boro, that is expected to employ 800 people. "The new plant will replace some of the 2,000 jobs the small engine manufacturer announced irk May would be moved out of the Milwaukee area the next three years.

James A. Wier, Briggs executive vice president, said Monday the pay and fringe benefits package to be offered to workers in Statesboro is expected to be about half that of Milwaukee workers. He said a plant is planned on a 50-acre site in Statesboro's industrial park. The land was given to Briggs, he said. Wier said additional incentives 4 was a tragedy for the company's workers and stockholders.

"They seem to be bent on running away from Wisconsin and the people who made them what they are," Chambers said. Briggs built plants in Murray, and Poplar Bluff, during the 1980s. In May, Briggs said $112 million would be spent to expand those plants. Briggs did not consider building new plants in Murray or Poplar Bluff, Wier said. Briggs already is a major employer in those cities, he said, and 800 new jobs would put a strain on the work force in either area.

Briggs was looking for a community where it would be one of the major employers "at least one of the top five," Wier said. i were offered by Georgia and local governments involving infrastructure improvements and training funds. However, no figures were available. The company plans to move production of its model 28 engine series to Statesboro. Those are 12- to 15-horsepower engines used mostly on lawn and garden tractors.

The engines are to go into production in July 1995, but the plant.