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Regional News THE DAILY GLOBE, Ironwood, Ml Monday, July 20,1998 Page 9 In Wisconsin Farmers cash In on program Wisconsin witnesses an increase in violent crimes involving young girls (AP) A tax-funded program to turn rnargioal farmland back into wetlands has some Wisconsin farmers cashing in all their acreage for hundreds of thousands of dollars, an Associated Press review has found. Farmers are passing the word about the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wetland Reserve Program, with the number of applicants more than tripling in the past two years. Participants don't give up ownership of the land, but they agree that it will stay as wetlands in exchange for the money. In the biggest payment to date, a Marquette County fanner received $554,805 for putting 994 acres of his land into the program run by the department's Natural Resources Conservation Service, records show.

Then he sold it to new owners to use as private hunting land. That farmer, Steve Sheldon, 43, of Neshkoro, said he applied for the wetlands program then sold the land after prices fell for peppermint crops he and his father once grew there. Sheldon said he is trying to Start a new career as a. middle-school science teacher. Tribal casino cash promised MILWAUKEE (AP) Investors abundant in Chicago cash have promised to pump $40 million into a project that would turn a greyhound racing park in Kenosha into a Menominee tribal casino, a newspaper reports.

Chicago investors are joining Wisconsin investors who include polit- ically connected figures, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported in Sunday's editions. Those investors include Franklyn Gimbel, one of Milwaukee's top criminal defense lawyers and former state Sen. Joseph Andrea, who will be a board member of the casino's management company. Sources told the newspaper the Wisconsin group is putting only a small amount of cash into the project to turn Dairyland Greyhound Park into a casino, buying the track from its current owners for $45 The management company, NTI-JTI Entertainment, is arranging financing and will manage the casino, which the tribe would own. Reserve facility dedicated MADISON, Wis.

(AP) The case of a 16-year-old girl convicted of attempted murder after slashing a classmate's throat is part of what authorities say is an increase in violent crimes involving girls. "We're seeing the evening out of the genders," Madison Police Capt. Ellen Schwartz said. The number of girls brought to Dane County's Juvenile Reception Center, where, youths are taken when they're first arrested, has increased over the past 10 years. Last year, 39 girls were brought in on battery charges, compared to 13 in 1988.

Seven were brought in for recklessly endangering safety, compared to one in 1988. And two girls were arrested for sexual assault last year, compared to none a decade ago. Then there was the case of Latoya Sykes, 16, of Madison. Last year, she was convicted in adult court of attempted murder after she slashed a classmate's throat with a boxcutter. The thing that we're seeing now is that girls aren't just being the follower," said Radine Celusta, who supervises the center.

"They're taking on the role of being the leader." Many of the delinquent girls have problems at home, and these issues are reinforced by larger societal trends, including an American culture so saturated by violence that acceptance of it has grown, experts said. Girls see violence everywhere, said Deborah Ragland, who teaches self-improvement workshops for middle and high-school students. At Black Hawk Middle School in Madison, the -thorniest discipline problems last year involved girls, said principal Dave Krause. "Sometimes it's hard to understand the level of the girls' anger" he said. Getting a girl to open up after a fight can be a teachable moment, he said, but.

"kids are pretty reluctant to share these things, to say, mom's a crack addict or my dad's a drunk or he hits me The increase in violence by girls creates a need for research and programs tailored to their needs, perceptions' and experiences, Joanne Belknap, University of Cincinnati associate professor of criminal justice and women's studies, said. Belknap spoke last week at the 1998 Juvenile Justice in Wisconsin Conference in Appleton. "Criminologists have focused so milch on boys. It's been, just add gender and stir," Belknap said. 1 feel we know so little about, this.

What we do know is that anger and related issues about gender and being female are important." Keisha Marsh, 16, thought people would look up to her if she fought. Now she teaches Sunday school and plans to go to college. Her last fight was two years ago. She said she stopped fighting when she began going to church. "I used to think if I fight, I get attention.

Ill fit in with the crowd," Marsh said. "Now that looks stupid and ugly to me." Hasenfus helps ballpark ASHWAUBENON, Wis. (AP) A dedication for a $9.5 million U.S. Army Reserve facility named after a Civil War hero had a surprise visitor over the weekend: the soldier's great-great- granddaughter. It had been thought Army Sgt.

Denis J.F. Murphy, who died in 1901, did not have any survivors. But on Saturday, Mary Curran of the town of Scott, Murphy's great-great-granddaughter, paid a visit to the dedication. Curran learned of the dedication ceremony after reading about it in a newspaper. This was delightful," Curran said of the dedication.

"I think it's wonderful to recognize people in the area." Murphy is believed to be the Green Bay area's only Medal of Honor winner. The search for Murphy's relatives may have been difficult because his daughter married and took another last name, Curran said. About 100 people attended the dedication ceremony, including U.S. Rep. Jay Johnson, and Green- Bay Mayor Paul MILWAUKEE (AP) A man who became a national figure' when his CIA supply plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986 is helping to build the new ballpark for the Milwaukee Eugene Hasenfus'of Marinette gladly talked about the.

baseball stadium project in which he is an ironworker. A However, in a story printed for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Monday edition, Hasenfus said he was not interested in getting into the incident in 1986. That blew the cover on Oliver North's 'arms shipments to the Nicaraguan contra rebels, financed in part by secret U.S. sales of arms to Iran. "I don't care to talk about myself per se, or why I'm here, the Gene Hasenfus story none of that (expletive)," he told the Journal Sentinel last week.

Tm not here for that." Hasenfus, 57, said it was nice to be working on the Brewers' new retractable-roof stadium, because it's going to be a "piece of history." He has been on the stadium job since about April. Ironworkers erect the structural steel frames of buildings. In 1986, Hasenfus was part of a three-man crew flying a CIA- owned C-123 supply plane that was shot down by a Sandinista government missile over Nicaragua. He bailed out and was the only survivor. Sentenced to 30 years by the Sandinista government, Hasenfus was released after three months but returned to the U.S.

in debt over legal fees. Pastor facing six counts Indian culture highlighted ONEIDA, Wis. (AP) A high school student says a hoop dance and storytelling help her to understand better her American Indian heritage and her own identity. "My culture is who I am," says Thirza Defoe, of Milwaukee, who entertained some of the nearly 500 people who came to view crafts, performances and traditional foods at the Oneida Museum Cultural Festival Saturday. "I think a lot of young people are confused about who they are, which is why they end up using drugs and alcohol and get into gangs." Exploring American Indian culture is good for all people, said Karen Brockman, director of the museum.

"It's an opportunity to interact and discuss the culture and see a facet of Oneida and Iroquois people besides gaming," Brockman said of the festival. Artists and craftsmen offered demonstrations of their arts. Baskets, beadwork, drums and moccasins were made. Others showed metal work, pottery and wampum belts. MARINETTE, Wis.

(AP) A former pastor of a Baptist church had an innocent plea entered on his behalf Friday on accusations he sexually assaulted two granddaughters about 20 years ago. Charles Reeves is charged with six counts of sexual assault of a child. A criminal complaint said Reeves fondled his twin granddaughters and forced them to engage in oral sex in the late 1970s. The girls were about 4., at the The charges were filed after the granddaughters, now in their 20s, told Marinette police about several incidents of sexual abuse by Reeves, authorities said. The women said in the criminal complaint that Reeves told them not to tell anyone about the incidents.

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