The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 1

aaaO. Jewelry, hardware-lumber, chains may build storos hero Tm very -y 1 County CxccuCva DmM Thorn Journal Timet RACINE The county may swing two real tate deals in the next few weeks, leading to the construction of two new retail businesses. A major jewelry chain and a hardware-lumber business are proposing new outlets in Mount Pleasant, across from Regency Man. County board supervisors are to meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday to vote on the sale of 4.7 acres to Best Products Co.

Inc. of Richmond, which plans to build a 40,000 square-foot showroom, Racine County Executive Leonard Ziolkowski said Saturday. The land on the west side of Highway 31 across from Regency Mall would sell for 170,000 an acre, he said. Tuesday so Best can begin construction in said. said supervisors also will hear 'potential sale of 10 adjacent acres to Inc.

of Eau Claire for a 50,000 square-foot and hardware store. county and Menard still are negotiating that sale, but a resolution could be to the board Jan. 22, be said. very optimistic. There are no hitches Ziolkowski.

Menard's store would employ about 75 construction would begin in March, said if the sales are approved, the will own about 12 acres across from west of Highway 31. i en id Best, with 204 showrooms in 28 states including three in the Milwaukee area, is the nation's largest catalog retailer of Jewelry, with sales in 1984 of 92.3 billion, according to Ziolkowski. About 180 people would be employed at the showroom here, expected to open in the fall, Ziolkowski said. The county board's executive committee will ask for two readings of the land sale resolution JtaHjt i I TC3 LATE TO LET IjVJTO P10E3A I iSTj' -ft ivtiii sjiatTfiif-rt in -st'i Mi i ji 1 MswrtMgiefrauuiil iitf ummmn-lwmmmmMitom If 1 1 1111 -JP If1" 1 1 I'wiiiiiiilMfiiiim iii.ii inn il.HliyiMui.Din mummm mm ,11,11, 4r ify tP5irates Ib" Sunken treasure worth millions i i Jv fc" Hi A flfftfc, BOSTON (AP) A treasure hunter has retrieved more than SI million worth of treasure from the ocean floor off Cape Cod, where a pirate's galleon loaded with booty from 22 ships sank in 1717. The treasure being recovered by Barry Clifford is believed to be that of the Whidah, a ship captained by Samuel "Black" Bellamy that was carrying loot from the Caribbean when it sank in an April storm 700 yards off Wellfleet.

The booty was estimated worth $4 million when the ship sank, and it's probably worth $400 million today, said Robert Cahill, a member of the state Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources. "I can't put a value on what was found thus far, but with at least GOO silver and gold coins, and the gold dust, what he's found is worth well over $1 million already," said Cahill, who has been examining the treasure. A member of the salvage team, who asked not to be identified, has estimated value of the find to date at lio million. Clifford, 40, of Vineyard Haven, has brought up hundreds of gold and silver coins, gold dust, and pieces of gold bars and jewelry since he began excavating the shipwreck this summer. 3 I HsiwsisBI irDwa importance to reaching agreement with the United States on the entire range of questions embracing both the non-militarization of space and nuclear arms," Chernenko said.

He repeated Soviet calls for a nuclear arms freeze and a formal superpower agreement renouncing first use of nuclear missiles, and said the Soviets would "welcome" U.S. agreement on those proposals. The U.S. has agreed to discuss space weapons, but has said it will not abandon "Star Wars" research, formally known as President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. houses 7r3 March, be Ziolkowski about the Menard lumber the terms of presented "I'm yet," said The people, and he said.

Ziolkowski County still the mall, "All I can say is we haven't even started," said Clifford, adding that he expects to spend six to 10 more years to retrieve the treasure. Clifford's salvage operation has been granted temporary custody of the loot, said attorney Alan Tufank-jian. But the state has gone to court to claim 25 percent of what is salvaged. Salvage laws require the state archaeological board to chart the Whidah 's booty and to make sure what's brought up is preserved. After all the treasure is up, state museums have six months to bid on it, Cahill said; what the state doesn't want, Clifford can sell.

Clifford said be had dreamed of finding the Whidah's treasure since he first beard the pirate tale as a boy. He announced his find in November of 1982. "This is the most famous pirate ship in the world, and we've hit it," he said. Cahill said items he has seen so far include a chest full of Spanish and French coins in mint condition dating before 1717; pieces of gold bars and jewelry carefully cut, probably by pirates dividing up shares; some 20 Spanish cannons; a swivel gun, a pirate's broadsword and a flintlock pistol. engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, said he and Narins, an associate professor of biology at University of California, Los Angeles, believe their work is the first to demonstrate the inner, ear of amphibians and perhaps reptiles is sensitive enough for communicating through vibrations in the soil.

"What's exciting is just finding a new mode of communication," said Lewis, who runs the inner-ear biophysics laboratory at UC Berkeley. "Behavioral biologists have been poking around out there for a long time, and to find something new like this is very exciting That's why science is such a blast." Just white-lipped with excitement .7 OLD Who's talking to whom? So 'Today's Insight' on Pago 2A. Gromyko agree to pursue negotiations, said one official, "it will be a long haul." Washington and Moscow have expressed differing views on what they expect. President Konstantln Chernenko said Saturday the Soviet Union sought "urgent and effective measures" to curb the arms race, the official news agency Tass reported. "The Soviet Union attaches much aP" mm Wtil Chuok D'Aequtote.

Journal TirnM Wjnter sports Saturday was a good day for cross-country skiers at Racine's Johnson Park, and for sledders like Russell Brown and his children at the Chicago Street hill. More snow might be on the way. The National Weather Service is predicting highs in the 30s today, with increasing cloudiness and 30 percent chance for snow this afternoon. Snow is to continue through the night, with lows in the low to mid-208. Some flurries may linger into Monday.

Winds should change to the north, and wind chills around zero are expected Monday morning. Meanwhile, a snow emergency has been called tonight to make snow removal easier In Racine. Story on Page 4A. ADD S1FS GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko arrive In Geneva today for the first nuclear arms discussions between the superpowers in 13 months. The meetings Monday and Tuesday are billed as preliminary discussions "on the whole range of questions concerning nuclear and outer space arms." If successful, they may lead to formal negotiations later this year.

But U.S. officials have been warning against expecting too much of these meetings. If Shultt and JaT fMoro show coming details Page) 2A Lot Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO White-lipped frogs may not have much to say to one another, but a pair of University of California scientists believe the tiny amphibians have developed an unusual way to communicate with seismic vibrations. In an article in the current issue of Science magazine, Edwin R. Lewis and Peter Narins wrote that laboratory tests and field studies in the mountains of Puerto Rico indicate white-lipped frogs can attract females and warn away other males by thumping the ground with their throat pouches.

Lewis, a professor of electrical Ferraro, Is considering pleading guilty, to unspecified charges stemming from an IrrvestJaation into some of his business dealings, his lawyer said Saturday. Zaccaro. whose financial affairs became an Issue during his wife's campaign with Walter Mondale, now is "looWng at all of his options, and considering pleading guilty is one of them," attorney John Koegel told The Associated Press, Koegel denied a report In Sunday's editions of The New York Timet that the possible plea by the real estate manager Involves the falsification of sales contract for five apartment buildings. Orchestra strikes SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) Musfcteni the San Antonio Sym-, phony voted to go on strike Satur- day, just 50 minutes before a scheduled sell-out concert by flutist Jean-. Pierre RampaL They also were to perform with violinist Itznak, Perl-, man Immediately after the vote by the 83-mambsr orchestra, picket lines went up outside the Ilia CockreO Theater at the San Antonio convention center in the first musicians" strike since the symphony opened in '7- Iraq attacks BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) An Iraqi war communique said Its forces attacked Iranian "troops, equipment and positions" Saturday, corrtlnumg a tfiree-weeft.

barrsge of air and artillery attacks designed to prevent an Iranian offensive across the border. Inside 4 1 4 'ft Actors negotiate 4 i iNEW YORK (APj With tW' Royal Shakespeare Company in town lor a Broaoway run. British and American actors nsve resumed talks Over union rules that keep them off tach other's itaoet. Envious outbursts marked the first, informal meeting at Actors Eq ulty headquarters, but ended with expressions of brotherhood befitting members of a profession with 85 vpercent uriemnloyment 1 ovist tcRsnent -v'' I50SCCW (AP) A leading Soviet commentator said In an arte-. la published Saturday that the Hbel suit brousH s-alnst CCS television by retired U.S.

Gen. William C. Westmorland is an attempt to i "muEle" media criticism of the Psn- tacon and its war Jn Vietnam. tS Vutl Zhokav, commentator for i iii Jl firty doity, Pravda, d'scur- i t.t mnretand cast In i an article p-zv: by a foreign af- fair (mirrwil, i Abroad. fi Zh.sv i-'i suit was filed at pt of an ar fcy tfc iann ad-.

mlnWrstian "la prove that the war In Vietnam rs for the Untied States a c'orlous In Its military hlsto ry racier Csn 'A rcw vonx (J5) A. lL taro, tur of frwortic vie ptesldcm.dl candidate twaltiine Briefly Amid mow, 'Ann 3C Bridge, 3C Bulldr. 6E tttltnsMeiMW'eiMftweMieeee 1 wtyeeew 3CV; Daily record-. JUa 4A 4C HOfOttCOpMtfee4MMvM 3C 20 Opinion Racine 3A, 4A 1 8 Sunday 1 Sunday 10 WMfttlnM.J.M.M 6A Chucldo 1 America Is a great country. Where else would tlwy lock up the jury and let the defendant go free? LAS VEGAS (AP) Thousands of retailers and manufacturers roamed through 20 acres of gadgetry from a so-called talking bouse to a wristwatch computer for a sneak preview Saturday of what shoppers will find on shelves this spring.

Thousands of Items were on view at the Consumer Electronics Show. Some 1,400 manufacturers are exhibiting their spring lines of audio and video equipment, home computers and telephones to representatives of about 50,000 retailers, who expect to ring up 130 billion In 1985 sales. The star of the show again. Is expected to be the vl-deocassette recorder. VCR sales soared past the 7 million mark in 1084 compared with 4.1 million the previous year.

"The VCR remains one of the hottest products in our business and we have every reason to expect that to continue Into 1085." said show spokesman Allan Schlosstjr What could be a hot item In years to come is the talking house, wired to perform a number of Jobs on Its own. Mitsubishi is featuring a house the company says can deliver the newspaper, take pictures of visitors while no one Is home, lock doors, close curtains, switch lights, take commands and "talk" by telephone when the owner Is away. By entering certain codes through any push-button phone, the system will turn lights on or off, control air conditioning, start dinner and perform a variety of other functions. In addition, the company says the home can Inform the caller of everything from an open window to an emergency. Manufacturers of other equipment are heading In the opposite direction: miniaturization.

Epson America is Introducing a wrist computer with a built-in calculator and watch. Magnavos plans to market one 4-inch and two 2-inch television sets, with th smaller version weighing only 18 ounces. The tiny TV utilizes a flat display picture tube and Is only 1H inches wide. Canon Is coming out with three-piece, 8mm borne video system that includes a camera weighing 3 pounds, 5 ounces. Polaroid Is Introducing a similar lightweight system.

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