The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 1

VLeamM i IEEE 0 DTD ynltw Flower power Nick Estep, 5, examines some of the sunflowers he's growing at his 4 Mile Road home. The Gifford Elementary School kin-dergartner will use the seeds to feed thie birds this winter. i iimuiii.ia.i- II II Wl HJ1 IJII HI.Ii.iiiiili tanm' Associated Press Two white laborers were convicted of all charges Tuesday in the burning of a black tourist who said they taunted him with racial slurs, doused him with gasoline and set him on fire. TODAY Chimp top stock-picker STOCKHOLM, Sweden A newspaper gave five stock analysts and a chimpanzee the equivalent of $1,250 each to make as much money as they could on the stock market. The chimp won.

After one month, the chimpanzee, Ola, saw the value of his stocks rise $190, the newspaper Expressen reported Tuesday. While the stock experts carefully considered their portfolios, Ola made his choice by throwing darts at names of companies listed on the Stockholm stock exchange. One dart hit Forsheda, a small diversified company whose stock rose 44 percent over the month. That compared with the average 5 percent rise for all stocks listed on the exchange. Senate OKs surgeon general WASHINGTON Dr.

Joy-celyn Elders, President Clinton's choice for surgeon general, was confirmed by the Senate CHARLES S. VALLONE Journal Times 5usly The jury had deliberated for 12 hours after a 10-day trial that included the victim's softly spoken, chilling testimony, but no physical evidence linking the defendants to the crime. The state's case also had been hobbled by internal disputes in the prosecution team. Mark Kohut and Charles Rourk showed no reaction when the jury of five whites and one black in West Palm Beach, found them guilty of attempted murder, kidnapping and robbery. Burning victim Christopher Wilson sat looking straight ahead next to his mother, Enid Plummer, who looked upward as the first guilty verdict was read and nodded her head yes.

in fall from viaduci Suffers fractured skull after trying somersault Wilson victim RIK HAYMAN Journal Times Later, she wiped away tears as Wilson whispered to her. Kohut and Rourk, day laborers from Lakeland, face up to life in prison. Sentencing was set for Oct. 22. Wilson made no comment as he 5imyired PAUL ROBERTS Journal Times lUMW-mwiyilMromiUJ will i -1; -ii'i I' A somersault meant to impress two girls ended badly Monday when a teen toppled 25 feet off the Lathrop Avenue viaduct to the pavement below.

Tadd Anderson, 15, of 4018 20th suffered a fractured skull and other injuries when he fell from the south side of the viaduct onto the roadway in the 1800 block of Lathrop Avenue about 9 p.m. Monday, Racine police said. Anderson, who also broke a wrist in two places and suffered a collapsed lung, was listed in serious condition late Tuesday in an intensive care unit at St. Mary's Medical Center. Pt recovering from attack with two girls, both 16, they were with walking his dog they stopped atop girls said she looking over the of the overpass asked Tadd if "could dangle feet." you want to see really cool?" reportedly re- 6 They should rip it out or put up a cyclone fence with barbed wire.

Jerry Anderson boy's father sponded. The told police Anderson when the viaduct. One of was south side when she they (their) "Do something Anderson He railing was going girls how fcrii left the courthouse. His mother said in a statement through prosecutors: "We are very happy to know justice was served." "As a black mother, I would like to say that never would I wish for anyone, whether black or white, to have to undergo the pain and agony and frustration we have been through and are still going through." "We will survive," she added. Wilson, a 32-year-old stock brokerage clerk from New York City, was burned over nearly 40 percent of his body.

In his testimony, Wilson described being abducted by gun-wielding attackers on New Year's Day outside a suburban Tampa shopping plaza and being forced to drive to a remote field, where he was doused with gasoline and set ablaze. Wilson called Rourk, 33, "the mean one" who barked racial slurs and sloshed him with gasoline. More on GUILTY, Page 7 A a re. A Chico, with her 30 stitches, is waiting to be reunited with her young owner. taken to hospitals for treatment of their wounds.

The 30-year-old suspect remains at large, although a warrant ordering his arrest could be signed as early as today. Police said it is likely he is in the Milwaukee area. Meanwhile, the mother said she and her son had presumed the dog had died until they read about its survival in Tuesday's Journal Times. The family is expected to pick up Chico today. "He's so glad," the mother said of her son, who like his pet received a giant share of comforting Tuesday.

"He loves the dog so much. They even sleep together." The 10-year-old remained upset about the incident and was experiencing pain, especially in a finger which was cut down to the bone, his mother said. She said the boy was More on ATTACK, Pag 7 A wasted? The 75 courses passed were classified as traditional high school courses, "and students could probably have taken similar or identical course work" within the district; The overall attendance rate was 52.7 percent. "A total of $115,000 from an extremely tight public school budget was lost to (Unified) for costs associated with this program" for 1992-93, Zingler wrote. More on ACT 39, Page 7 A knH Tuesday night, sur-1 mounting vigorous opposition from conservatives.

The vote was 65 to 34. Conservatives fought Elders' nomination Elders confirmed in the wake of a series of con- troversial statements she made as head of the Arkansas Health Department. She once characterized anti-abortion Americans as "very religious non-Christians" and she talked bluntly of reasons for making condoms available to young people. Huge heart gets repairs PHILADELPHIA The heart's steady "lub-dub" beat will be halted so trained professionals can perform surgery with soap and paint and new floor tile. This is no couch potato.

Overexercise is being blamed for the condition of the 39-year-old giant heart at the Franklin Institute Science Museum. Most of the museum's 1.2 million annual visitors walk through the 4-ton heart, made of papier-mache and chicken wire and covered with fiberglass. Now it needs some operations by the museum's technical staff. from The Associated Press INSIDE Teen took tumble off then grabbed the and reportedly to show the to do a somer- this viaduct onto Lathrop Avenue below. 1 t'f'1' 1 1 il'rnitfl-hriiiiimrr inmiiirfii inh.in nii-i rmtiiUnmmafnn 16 St.

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sault between the three fence railings on the south side of the viaduct, according to a police report. But as he hurled himself into the air, Anderson lost his grip and plummeted to the street below. A car screeched to a halt, just missing Anderson as he lay on the road. And the girls rushed for help. A short time late, Jerry Anderson heard a knock on the door.

One of the girls, standing there with the dog on a leash, said his son had fallen from the overpass and was lying injured in the middle of Lathrop Avenue. Anderson kept a vigil at his son's bedside Tuesday, hoping with all his will that the Park High School fresh-, man would emerge all right. His hopes were fulfilled when doctors broke the news More on FALL, Page 7 A KEN MUTH Journal Times Chico, the chihuahua who survived a knife fight, rediscovered Tuesday there's another side to the human touch. One day after the 7'2-pound canine was wounded during a horrifying attack on her and her owners, she received more gentle strokes and soft words than a young child who had scraped a knee. "She's such a sweet thing," said Dee Fink, a volunteer at the Countryside Humane Society, Chico's temporary residence.

"It's hard to imagine anybody doing something this." Chico, her 10-year-old owner and his mother were slashed early Monday, allegedly by the woman's boyfriend who became angry because the dog was receiving most of their attention. The incident occurred in the upper unit of a duplex in the 900 block of Villa Street. Racine police said the violence started when the man entered the home and, for no apparent reason, hit the woman in the face. He then tried to stab her with a butcher knife. When the 10-year-old tried to rescue his mother, the man began hacking at him cutting his face and then a finger and his back as the boy curled up to protect himself.

After wounding the boy, police said, the suspect turned his attention to Chico, a chihuahua-pug mix who was on a leash in the kitchen. The man reportedly held the dog up by its neck in front of the boy; asking him to decide who he wanted to live, his dog or his mother. After the boy pleaded with him not to hurt either of them, the man reportedly slashed the dog several times in the face. The mother and her son fled the apartment and used a neighbor's phone to call police. They were then Last vear's results were disas trous, according to Unified researcher Sandra Zingler.

Her report on second semester of 1992-93 showed: Sixty-five students took classes under Act 39, at a cost of $64,096 56. They took 212 courses and passed just 75, or 35.4 percent; Six other students bought books but attended no classes. The books were charged to Unified; Virginia judge rules lesbian unfit to be mother to son RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A lesbian is unfit to be a mother, a judge ruled Tuesday, allowing a woman to retain custody of her homosexual daughter's 2-year-old son in a case watched closely by gay-rights activists. Judge Buford Parsons ruled just half an hour after the close of daylong hearing in which the grandmother and mother testified.

The grandmother, Kay Bottoms, had argued that the boy could grow up not knowing the difference between men and women if he is returned to Sharon Bottoms and her lover, April Wade. The daughter testified that she herself was harmed by years of sexual abuse from her mother's live-in boyfriend. Ann Landers 8A Bridge 4C Business 4A Classified 3C Comics 4B Crosswords 5C, 7C Daily record 2B Dr. Gott 12A Health 1C Horoscope 6C Movies 2C Obituaries 2B Opinion 6A People 2A Racine County IB Sports ID Stock listings 4A TV listings 2C Weather 8A Wisconsin 33 252,000 fewer workers 'Savings under the Clinton realignment were broken down bv the White House Deficit reduction into five categories: $5.4 billion $3.3 billion Consofidating Simplifying paperwork and modernizing and reducing government administration costs systems $40.4 billion Streamlirting the Dureaucracy $22.5 billion Changing the way government buys items $38.4 billion Making changes in individual agencies Benefits of reducing the work force by 252,000 positions apparently are split among these two categories. AKBrian Sippta President Clinton Tuesday unveiled his plan to make government work better with federal job cuts and savings.

Story, Page 3A. li 1 $1 1 5,000 in school money State-imposed program not working, Unified board told nf those credits bv stavine Ra cine Unified School District classes. Several district officials Tuesday reported to the Unified School Board on the first year results of Act 39, which allows "at-risk" students to earn high school credits outside the district In Racine, that means going to Gateway. It only takes a parent's request, and Unified taxpayers foot the biU. MICHAEL BUftKE Journal Times Only, two in five students passed even one Gateway Technical College course they took last semester under a state-imposed program that cost Racine taxpayers $115,000.

And fewer than one in six passed every course they took under Act 39. To rub salt in the wound, the students could have earned every one OUTSIDE Partly sunny. Highs in the low to mid-70s. Southwest winds around 10 mph. 8A.

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