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I iJ do DECEMBER 14, 1994 SERVING WISCONSIN'S GREATER FOX RIVER VALLEY a Ma) Amtrak cutting line to Milwaukee Thompson says the announcement is a "death knell" for rail expansion plans to the Fox Valley you've--1 ft i Company sees future in Asia, South America RESCUE WORKERS inspect the wreckage of an American Eagle commuter plane that crashed Tuesday night near Morrisville, N.C., killing 1 5 people. 15 die in North Carolina crash of commuter plane By staff and wire services Faced with rising red ink and shrinking ticket sales, Amtrak announced today that it will eliminate about 5,500 jobs and shut down 21 of its passenger train service nationwide including that between Chicago and Milwaukee. The frequency of several Amtrak routes will be reduced starting Feb. 1, with some routes including the Hiawatha service between Chicago and Milwaukee being eliminated beginning April 1, the national passenger railroad announced. Amtrak President Thomas M.

Downs said the system can no longer afford to maintain its service to 540 cities across the country. Gov. Tommy Thompson said the decision "almost sounds thetieath knell" for Wisconsin's hopes for expanding Amtrak service to the Fox Valley and Madison. Regarding the decision to cut back the successful and growing service between Milwaukee and Chicago, which Wisconsin has subsidized, Thompson said, "I feel shafted." Amtrak officials said they were eliminating just three complete routes, although several segments of several other routes will be closed down. The cuts are expected to save $173 million in the current fiscal year and more than $360 million in 1996 and annually thereafter.

Thompson said he feared such changes negatively affecting the Midwest when he was not replaced by a Midwest governor on the Amtrak board in October. He said Downs told him it would cost $8 million per year to maintain the Milwaukee to Chicago service with 14 trains and more than 1,000 riders per day. Thompson said the state could not afford to pick up the cost alone, but would need a partnership with Illinois, the city of Milwaukee and other communities along the route. Thompson said he is working with U.S. Rep.

Tom Petri, R-Fond du Lac, who chairs the House trans- Eortation subcommittee that will andle the Amtrak budget- next AP photo by Robert WillettRaleigh News and Observer probe, said John Lauber of the National Transportation Safety Board. Airline spokesman Al Becker said no one has any idea what caused the crash, but American Eagle had confidence in the aircraft. The two-engine turboprop, American Eagle's smallest plane, seats 19 passengers. It was 37 degrees on the ground and much colder in the air when the plane crashed with 18 passengers and two pilots aboard. Visibility was at 2 miles at the airport.

Thirteen people died at the scene and seven others were taken to hospitals. Two people died at Duke University Medical Center, and two others there suffered "extensive trauma," said a hospital spokeswoman. Three survivors were in critical condition at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh. The flight data recorder and voice recorder were recovered, and the NTSB and Federal Aviation Administration were investigating. American Eagle, a commuter carrier affiliated with American Airlines, already was reeling from the Oct.

3 1 crash of an ATR-72 plane in Roselawn, that killed all 68 people aboard. Ice on the wings is the suspected cause; on Friday the government banned ATR aircraft from flying in icy weather. I l.r-. Sanders 'Aw "There was one major piece, and the rest of it was a mix of fire, plane, trees and wire." trees and wire," said Edmond Bad-ham, Stanley's neighbor. The pattern of the wreckage offers clues about the cause of the crash, Ned Clarke, an aviation safety consultant, said today.

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Other projects in 1995 will further increase the company's position in South America. "Argentina has the highest per capita income level in South America, so it's an important market in the ongoing expansion of our consumer products businesses," said K-C spokeswoman Tina Barry. K-C's move into China fits with the firm's commitment to make Asia one of its major areas for future expansion. The firm has acquired a 90 interest in the Handan Comfort and Beauty Group, which makes the leading brand of feminine pads in China. "Through this acquisition, Kimberly-Clark gains about a 25 share of China's rapidly growing $100 million feminine care market, as well as distribution channels for its other consumer products.

With a population of 1.2 billion and a relatively undeveloped feminine care market, China offers tremendous potential," Sanders said. Huggies diapers have recently become available in France, and shipments to Belgium will begin in a few weeks, he "Response from the retail trade has been exceptionally good in both countries," Sanders said. "In the U.K., where we launched Huggies diapers earlier this year, our market share is already in the mid-teens." Analysts' consensus estimate of 85 cents a share in the fourth quarter of this year is "in line with the company's expectations," Sanders said, adding that sales, operating profit and earnings will set all-time records for the full year. Excluding the impact of a potential sale of K-C's North American pulp and newsprint operations, Sanders said he is "comfortable" with analysts' consensus estimate of $3.83 a share for 1995. daughter Charges expected Thursday A 24-year-old man who police say stabbed his former fiancee to death and then attempted suicide with the same knife is expected to be charged with first-degree intentional homicide Thursday.

Reid D. Harder of 1119 W. Winnebago St. remains under police guard at St. Elizabeth Hospital, where he is in serious but stable condition.

Harder remains in intensive care after surgery on the knife wound to his chest, but he is conscious and alert and expected to survive. Sgt. Michael Heisler of the Outagamie County Sheriffs Department said officers expected to interview Harder today. Officials have 48 hours to file the criminal complaint against Harder. Heisler said investigators would recommend first-degree intentional homicide charges in the death of Jackie Hetcher, 26, W3131 Harvard Drive.

An autopsy performed Tuesday by Dr. Helen Young, a Green Bay forensic pathologist, determined that Hetcher died from a single stab wound to the heart. There were only two stab wounds on the body. Heisler said investigators have recovered a knife they believe is the murder weapon. said.

The CEO of the paper giant says the company has switched forecasts and expects to lose money in Europe next year By Pete Bach Post-Crescent staff writer DALLAS Kimberly Clark Corp. is well on its way to realizing its goal of taking consumer products to a worldwide market, the company's top executive said Tuesday. "Our strategy is to expand our presence outside North America, transferring our technologies worldwide to build global brands," Wayne Sanders, chairman of the board and chiet executive officer, said at a meeting at K-C's corporate headquarters in Dallas. "This year, revenue from operations outside North America will grow at nearly three times the domestic rate." At the meeting, Sanders talked about the firm's international growth plans, earnings forecasts and business challenges for investors and securities analysts. He said aggressive expansion is under way in Europe, Asia and South America.

The firm plans to increase its presence in South Africa, he said. "In September, I thought that we could break even in Europe sometime in 1995," Sanders said. "Now, with pulp costs increasing and vigorous competition and high promotional spending on diapers continuing, I expect European losses to continue in 1995, but to be substantially less than in 1994." In South America, K-C's Argentine and Colombian operations have recently expanded sales of diapers into Chile, Uruguay and Bo- JACKIE HETCHER: "She's in a better place," says her mother. Fox Cities last March. She had worked in a manager's training program at Target stores in Fargo, N.D., and Moorhead and Willmar, and hoped to have her own store to manage in a few years, her mother said.

Harder and Hetcher apparently met in his hometown of Willmar, and became engaged soon after. They moved into a new duplex in Darboy, but Harder moved out in August, just two months before their scheduled wedding. While he moved into a Winnebago Street apartment with two Best Buy co-workers, she took a part-time job at Brooklyn's, a downtown Appleton nightclub. Please see VICTIM, BACKPAGE if I emories of their No state offices are safe from cutbacks comfort the victim's family No cause has been identified for American Eagle's second crash within two months MORRISVILLE, N.C. (AP) An American Eagle commuter plane finishing its fifth trip in a daylong trek across North Carolina crashed in fog and drizzle, killing 15 of the 20 people aboard.

It was the commuter airline's second crash within two months, but the plane was not the same model that went down in Indiana in October, killing all 68 people aboard. Flight 3379 from Greensboro smashed into the ground 2lh miles from Raleigh-Durham International Airport about 6:40 p.m. Tuesday. The crash snapped the fuselage in half and scattered wreckage across 500 yards of rugged woods. Residents who rushed to the scene said they heard the cries of survivors as the Jetstream Super 3 l's cockpit burned.

"The way it was mangled, there was nothing I could do. I didn't want to hurt them any more than they were," said David Stanley, who led rescuers to the scene. "There was one major piece, and the rest of it was a mix of fire, plane, the promises. Thompson gave his strongest indications yet that he will propose a wholesale reshuffling of agency responsibilities and functions in his next budget. He said he still hopes to fund the $1 billion school funding shift by cutting costs.

Assembly Speaker-elect David Prosser, R-Appleton, introduced the last three of his six appointees to the pivotal Joint Finance Committee that will have first crack at Thompson's budget and the property tax issue. Prosser also said top items of Assembly business early next year will include passage of the so-called "family cap" on welfare benefits -to end benefit increases to households that produce additional babies; "tort reform" to curb court awards in malpractice and civil damage lawsuits; and new anti-crime legislation. Prosser also said he is continuing unprecedented talks with minority Democrats to offer them chairmanships of other Assembly committees. So far, only Rep. Annette "Polly" Williams, D-Mil-has accepted.

She will waukee, chair the Urban Education Committee. Senate Majority Leader Michael Ellis, R-Neenah, and Assembly Majority Leader-elect Scott Jensen, Please see CUTS, BACKPAGE i The suspect's I co-workers don't believe he stabbed his ex-fiancee Even the lieutenant governor's position is up for debate, says Gov. Thompson By Cliff Miller Post-Crescent Madison bureau MADISON The Republican governor and legislative leaders Tuesday expanded on their vows to reshape government as never before, from the way the Legislature does business to streamlining state agencies. The possibilities even include eliminating the office of lieutenant governor. Republicans are wearing out the words "opportunity" and "challenge" in the face of two key developments: The "party now controls both houses of the Legislature as well as the governorship for the first time since the late 1960s.

I More than $1 billion in school property tax cuts required by the out going Legislature and signed into law by Gov. By John Lee Post-Crescent staff writer Jackie Hetcher's father called his only daughter "The Tornado." When she was growing up, and when she began a career she loved, she never took time to sit still. "She was so bubbly. She was breezing in and breezing out. She always had something to do.

She breezed around these stores," her mother remembered Tuesday, just hours after she learned her 26-year-old daughter had been killed in her home outside Appleton. Jackie, daughter of Carol and Jack Hetcher of Marinette, died between midnight and 2:30 a.m. from two stab wounds to her chest at the duplex she rented at W3131 Harvard Drive, Town of Buchanan. Her former fiancee, Reid Harder, is under police guard at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton after surgery for what police say is a self-inflicted stab wound to his chest.

Police allege Harder was waiting for Hetcher when she returned home late Monday or early Tuesday, stabbed her to death and then attempted suicide. Co-workers of Hetcher, who was an assistant manager at the Town of Grand Chute Target store, and Harder, warehouse manager at Best Buy, said the two came to the McCallum Thompson Tommy Thompson must be carried out in the next session. Republicans promised in their campaigns to do it without tax increases. In separate press conferences Tuesday, Thompson and leaders of the Assembly's GOP majority gave glimpses at how they may carry out 4.