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flEALiS Tips for relaxing during hectic holidays, ic IMS TTT 71 1 PTno I flTTFrj(Q i Q) j) PAUL J. HOLLEY Business Editor UT. PUASAHT 4 Hi RACINE I 4i I VILLAGE OF 85 STUKTEVANT I Burglary suspects pick wrong house RIK HAYMAN Journal Times If a pair of teen-age burglary suspects had it to do over again, they probably wouldn't have broken into a lawman's Caledonia home. But their blunder could be a lucky break for investigators looking into a rash of burglaries in Mount Pleasant, Racine and Caledonia. The break came about 1 p.m.

Monday when a sheriff's deputy returned to his home near Highway 31 timated $5 million, will house corporate, marketing, research and development, sales, finance and other offices. "If we can start moving dirt before it freezes deep, we will," Inslee said. JWA officials plan to soon select a design and are hoping for a summer 1994 completion. Bukacek Construction Inc. of Racine has been named general contractor.

Zimmerman Design Group of Milwaukee is the architect. The two firms also teamed up on the Danfoss Fluid Power and Putzmeister buildings. Inslee said about 100 people are expected to work in the new building. In recent months, the JWA headquarters staff has grown from 20 to 50 people as the company moved more manage- More on BUILD, Page 11 A zoning officials, he said. The Mount Pleasant site is owned by S.C.

Johnson Son which plans to construct a building for its own Professional products business at a nearby location. Johnson Wax's large Waxdale production facility is about a half-mile south of the proposed JWA site on Willow Road. JWA, a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of outdoor sporting goods, and Johnson Wax, a household products and specialty chemical manufacturer, share a common heritage. Both companies are controlled by Samuel Johnson and members of his family. JWA was spun off into a public stock company a few years ago.

Its shares are traded on the over-the-counter market. JWA currently leases space in the Snoop Building, 222 Main St. The new building, to cost an es North American headquarters building is planned for Mount Pleasant by Johnson Worldwide Associates Inc. Robert Inslee, JWA vice president-human resources, said Tuesday that the company has agreed to buy land near the southwest corner of Washington Avenue (Highway 20) and Willow Road and hired a general contractor and architect. Company representatives have also had preliminary talks with Mount Pleasant building and 1 Danfoss Fluid Power 2 Putzmeister 3 Site or Johnson Worldwide project 4 Waxdale 5 Case High School Qunmm CcSDDs 4 omi MX toiim Memories of Kenosha In a 1988 interview, actor Don Ameche, who died of cancer Sunday night at 85, was asked to look back at life in Kenosha, where he lived until he had completed the early grades in public school.

"It's a and 3 Mile Road to find a teen-age boy in his living room. Didn't belong "He found a person standing there who didn't belong there," sheriff's department spokesman Lt. James Ivanoski said of the deputy. Ivanoski said the deputy chased the suspect, who ran outside when he was spotted. The deputy caught the 16-year-old boy after the teen slipped on an outdoor deck and failed to hurdle a nearby fence.

The deputy grabbed the boy and took him back inside. Then, while telephoning for help, the deputy heard a noise and spotted a second teen running from the home. He managed to escape, but Ivanoski said investigators know who they're looking for. "It's just a matter of time before we catch him," Ivanoski said. Other burglaries Meanwhile, investigators are looking into the possibility that the teens have been responsible for at least some of a string of more than 40 burglaries that have occurred in the three communities over the last few months.

The area targeted by the burglars I I on iWa 1 I miseraD'e citv-I Always was. I My memories 7 are not good at all. Not -ill uli .1 Ameche pleasant one 85 photo dhathBve they got there? It's just a totally manufacturing town. Oh, there was a library there that they had." Story, Pag IB. 21 wounded as 'guy just went berserk' GARDEN CITY, N.Y.

(AP) A gunman methodically walked through a crowded commuter train Tuesday evening, firing at random and pausing to reload as screaming passengers tried to flee. Four people were killed and 21 hurt before passengers subdued him. The man started shooting as the train was entering the Long Island Rail Road's Merillon Avenue station in Garden City, said Officer Andrew DeSimone, a spokesman for the Nassau County police. Four of the wounded were critically hurt, DeSimone said. "It was just a terrible sight to see," said Ed Marinello, 35, of Garden City South, who was riding in the train's sixth car when the man opened fire in the third car.

"I'm counting my blessings I could have been in that car, should have been in that car." Passengers said the gunman walked down the car's aisle, randomly shooting people in their seats and pausing several times to reload. "The guy just went berserk," passenger Diane McCleary told WCBS-TV. "The shots just kept going off. He would not stop shooting." "After the second look, I ducked down in my seat, for real, knowing this man was going to kill people indiscriminately," said Carl Peter-, sen, 48, of Garden City, The carnage finally ended when three men on the train jumped the gunman and wrestled him to the floor, police Inspector Mel Kenny said. TODAY Associated Press A A crying woman, fearful that her husband was among the victims of Tuesday's shooting, talks to policeman at Long Island Rail Road station in Garden City, N.Y.

DeSimone said. "It seems like a random shooting." Marinello said he spotted the casually dressed man shortly before police took him away. "He just looked like he was in More on SHOOTING, Page II A The man, whose name wasn't released, was armed, with a 9-millimeter handgun, which can hold up to 15 shots, Kenny said. "It's hard to estimate the number of shots (fired) but I do know 21 people were injured," Kenny said. That number included the victims who died, he said.

The gunman, whose name was not released, was taken to Nassau County police headquarters in Min-eola. He was a New York City resident, Kenny said. "Right now, there doesn't seem to be any thing as far as a motive," scte gaiim power rVUglUJT U11WJ U4 UK3 north, Spring Street on the south, Newman road on the west and neighborhoods just northeast of Northwestern Avenue. Ivanoski said the boy arrested Monday had some antique coins in his possession that may have been taken in another burglary. "We're not convinced they've done all the burglaries in the area," he said.

"But we are convinced they've done some." Residents should still be vigilant and take extra precautions, he said, since authorities are continuing to look for other burglary suspects and a man responsible for two rapes in the area. Authorities have speculated that the rapes aren't linked to the burglaries. Gravel pit plan OK'd JANE RIDER Burlington Bureau BURLINGTON An emotion-packed months-long battle that pitted environmentalists and neighbors' against a local concrete company and landowners of a gravel-rich oak forest, ended Tuesday. The city council voted 7-1 to re-zone 336 acres to allow J.W. Peters Sons Inc.

to begin a 20-year mining operation just west of Highway on the south edge of the city. Owners of the site petitioned the city earlier this fall for annexation after the town denied the pre-s tressed concrete manufacturer re-zoning. The city annexed the site on Nov. 2. The land is owned by Markus and Mary Alice Thomsen, 160 acres; Anthony Cerami, acres; and J.W.

Peters, 80 acres. John Nanna, president of J.W. Peters, said late Tuesday he was "very pleased" with the council's decision. More on PIT, Page 11 A Elderly need their veggies CHICAGO Many older people may be increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke by failing to eat enough fruit and vegetables, researchers said Tuesday. Low levels of three vitamins B-6, B-12 and especially folate are associated with high blood concentrations of an amino acid that contributes to blocked arteries, a new study shows.

In order to lower levels of the amino acid homocysteine people need more than the government's recommended allowance of all three vitamins. No salary for the dead BRAZZAVILLE, Congo -The government is about to lay off workers who have been doing some serious lying down on the job they're dead. In February, the government estimated that 10 percent of its payroll was being paid to third parties in the name of people who had retired or died. This week, the government announced that it is sending out some 200 canvassers to weed out the deadwood from the 80,000 people on the payroll. from The Associated Press fairs minister, Roelf Meyer, one of seven whites among the 32 politicians who met at the old President's Council chamber.

Each of 16 parties sent two representatives. Three other parties planned to join the meeting later in the week. The President's Council, disbanded earlier this year as part of President F.W. de Klerk's reforms, was used by past presidents as a rubber-stamp body to push through legislation that lacked sufficient support in Parliament. Past members included Clive Derby-Lewis, a prominent member of the pro-apartheid Conservative Party who is now on death row for the April murder of black leader Chris Hani.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) Blacks, took seats in government for the first time Tuesday to help steer the country toward democracy and end 341 years of white domination. Right-wing whites staged a theatrical bid to stress their opposition to reforms, but their seizure of an abandoned fort hundreds of miles away was dwarfed by the significance of the Transitional Executive Council's first meeting. "To be part of the TEC means the struggle we have engaged in over the years is bearing fruit," said the African National Congress' secretary-general, Cyril Ramaphosa, as he settled into a velvet chair. The council, composed of representatives from the ANC, government and other black and white groups, will serve as a government watchdog before the country's first multiracial elections April 27 Vested with wide powers to effectively veto government decisions, it marks the first time the black majority has had the power to affect the future from within the halls of government. The election of a new Parliament in April will give blacks their first vote in national affairs since Dutch settlers arrived in 1652.

"Certainly the TEC is the final step in the process to bring about true democracy in South Africa," said the government's constitutional af k- INSIDE I i State Street plans start talcing shape JOE BUTTWEILEH Journal Times Just out the back door, the shrill whine of saws drew attention to the new fish market being built. Down the street to the left workers were busy constructing a new drugstore. To the right and elsewhere near Dee Dee's, 1019 State properties that recently housed slums and other eyesore buildings now stand cleared and ready for redevelopment. One of them, an odd-shaped lot that some used to call "Slippery Corners," will begin a transformation next spring into Martin Luther King Plaza, complete with a life-sized bronze statue of King, flagpoles, bright lights, trees and benches. It's taking a while, but Racine's State Street is definitely improving, City Development Director Thomas N.

Wright said Tuesday. He outlined progress to date and Ann Landers 12A Movies Business SC Obrtuaries 2B Classified 7C JO Comics 3C Racine County IB Crosswords 9C, 11C Sports ID Daily record 2B Stock listings 5C Health 1C TV listings 4C Horoscope 12C Wisconsin 33 OUTSIDE Becoming partly cloudy with highs in the mid- to upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. 12A page editor John ft Bomor A PtanrMd Martin Luther King Plaza on State Street is shown in artist's rendering. plans for the future to guests of a Steve Gabriel, who's headed the Frank Colicki, who is known for his Downtown Rotary Club luncheon, group's quest for a suitable shrine artwork outside of Jockey Interna- where likenesses of the King statue to King, said the club is expecting Mot on PLAZA, Page 11 A and plaza were presented.

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