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"If they really want to see increases in sales retailers are going to have to make their costs back on retail reimbursement," Scholz said. "Without that, it a hard sell." The number of Wisconsin retailers selling lottery tickets dropped from 5,135 in April 1994 to 4,253 in April 1999. The revenue department proposes an incentive program in its 1999-2001 budget request. It would give bonuses to store owners who increase ticket sales and to those who sell winning tickets. The program was approved by the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee and is part of the proposed budget that legislative leaders are negotiating.

If sales do not increase by at least 1.5 percent in the 1999-2000 fiscal year and by 3 percent in 2000-2001, property tax credits may decline because there would not be enough revenue from ticket sales to offset costs of paying retailer bonuses, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates. MADISON, Wis. (AP) Lottery sales increased in Wisconsin last year but an audit report released Friday said there is no certainty that a three-year slide in sales has been permanently reversed. Lottery ticket purchases decreased by $100.4 million from fiscal year 1994-1995 to 1997-1998, the Legislative Audit Bureau said. Sales rebounded in 1998-1999 by 2.3 percent, or $9.8 million, to $424 million.

Money from the lottery goes toward property tax relief as property tax credits, credits to farmland owners and as other credits. THE AUDIT FOUND the state Department of Revenue's efforts to get more retailers to sell lottery tickets have failed. The number of retailers selling any type of lottery ticket has declined every year since 1993. Retailers get back 6.25 cents on the dollar when they sell a ticket but the transaction costs them 7 cents or more, said Brandon Scholz, president of the Wisconsin Grocers The wreckage of the Piper Tri Pacer airplane that crashed into Beaver Dam Lake on Aug. 28, 1 998, is hoisted ashore near Hickory Point Road the day after the accident.

Norman A. Prachel and Gabriel A. Weir were killed in the crash. Only wiring and cables are holding the pieces of ttie wreckage together. Few answers a year after fatal crash Panic could be worse than Y2K bug Road.

According to the safety board's preliminary report, instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. This means that due to cloudy and foggy conditions in the Beaver Dam Lake area, the pilot was unable to see and would have had to rely solely on his instruments to navigate safely. Neither Prachel nor the plane were Instrument rated, although Prachel reportedly had some self-taught experience with instrument flying. THE MORNING OF THE CRASH was overcast, with a low ceiling of 400 feet above ground level and a visibility of two miles, the report said. The conditions are considered poor for flying.

Prachel and Weir had taken off from Bed-Ah-Wlck Private Airstrip near Princeton and were en route to Palmyra, where the plane was to undergo its annual safety inspection. Barb Morrison said that Prachel had not radioed ahead for weather conditions. Throughout the year-long investigation, Morrison has questioned why the safety board didn't try to bring in specialized equipment in an effort to find the engine. "They let the insurance company dictate the investigation," she said. Morrison also said that the accident should have been given the same consideration as the JFK Jr.

crash. "That has more than upset us," she said. Safety board officials had indicated that all aviation accidents are treated in the same manner, according to Morrison. Whatever the outcome of the investigation, however, it will not ease the tragedy. "The pain will never, ever go away," she said.

By TED PENNEKAMP Staff Reporter It's been more than a year since a plane crashed into Beaver Dam Lake, killing two Princeton. Wis. men, pilot Norman A. Prachel, 57, and passenger Gabriel A. Weir, 61.

Shortly after the Aug. 28, 1998 crash, the Investigator in charge of the accident. Mitchell Gallo of the National Transportation Safety Board, said that it would probably be about a year before conclusions about what caused the crash would be made official. A preliminary report from the NTSB. offers little information not already known about the crash, but safety board personnel recently said that the final report should be available within the next few months.

Barb Morrison of Ripon, the daughter of Weir, is one who is eagerly awaiting the final report, in which the safety board would say whether it was pilot error, mechanical failure, or some other prdblem that caused the crash. Morrison contends that the safety board didn't do a fair job of investigating the accident and that they should recover the plane's engine before making a determination of pilot error. "I'm adamant that theyshould do a more thorough investigation," she said. "That's inexcusable." The engine and the propeller were never recovered and are likely burled in the muck at the bottom of the lake. Bill Sweetman of Sweetman Diving Salvage of Beaver Dam said that although the plane was very badly broken up, about 95 percent of the Piper Tri Pacer was recovered in the immediate area of the crash site.

A piece of wing was recovered about 90 feet away. Sweetman said that along with the engine and propeller, pieces of shattered Plexiglas and other small pieces of debris remain at the bottom of the lake. Although the 150 horsepower, 320 cubic-inch engine was not found, Sweetman said he did find engine parts, such as the exhaust manifold, the alternator, pieces of the flywheel and the dipstick. Sweetman said that he dragged for the engine, searched for it with a metal detector and stabbed a rod at depths of six feet and 10 feet into the soft silt bottom of the lake. The trough created in the silt when the wreckage was dragged ashore was also searched.

Avemco, Prachel's Maryland-based insurer, had cut off funding for the search after four or five days, Sweetman said. He continued to search on his own time for about two weeks, putting in about 30 hours during that time. Sweetman said that the search had continued, even though the FAA had told him that they didn't need the engine because the plane's speed indicator had been recovered. THE SPEED indicator's needle was at 160 miles per hour, the speed at impact. Chuck Swain, a pilot and president of Beaver Aviation located at the Dodge County Airport, said that when a plane crashes, the impact will cause the speed indicator needle to make a telltale dent in the indicator, thus showing- the speed and rpm of the engine.

The plane had been running at top speed, which would seem to rule out engine failure. Also, a witness, Arnold Oehlert, had said that the engine had sounded as if it was running properly up until the crash. The plane had plunged at approximately 40 degrees nose down into the lake approximately 400 yards off Hickory Point a significant part of their deposits only increase the risk that they will become victims of crime or fraud." Greenspan said the possibility that more Americans may start stockpiling is likely to rise as Jan. nears and news media devote more attention to the issue. He urged the financial regulators to work hard to counter scare stories.

"In the final analysis, facts are the only antidote for rumors," he said. Arthur Levitt, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said the financial industry was so prepared that "disasters that some originally predicted will not even get an honorable mention in the history books." "I see no reason why fear of a Year 2000 problem should cause investors to alter their, investment or trading habits," Levitt said. "Actions taken by investors based on unreasonable fear or bad information pose a greater threat to our economy." The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has graded less than satisfactory only 27 of the nation's 10,922 banks and other financial institutions in their Y2K repairs iricludiiigsevendeemed''unsatisiFactory" as of this week, FDIC Chairwoman Donna Tanoue said. The FDIC declined to identify those institutions.

WASHINGTON (AP)-Stockpiling and inventory hedging against Year 2000 computer failures could cause worse trouble than the Y2K glitch itself, the nation's top financial leaders warned Friday. If worried companies hold back more inventories than usual, said Federaf Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, "bottlenecks could develop, and market pressure could ensue." Greenspan appeared Friday at a conference in Washington with other government leaders and regulators to discuss Y2K repair efforts by the financial industry, considered among the most well prepared of all sectors of the economy. Greenspan noted that private companies have spent an estimated $50 billion on repair efforts, and said the chance for cascading failures in the most important computer networks seemed to be "now negligible." The government reported earlier this week it had spent $8.34 billion on repairs. "The response of businesses and households to unwarranted fears of serious disruptions does give me pause," Greenspan said. "Consumers should prepare for the century date change as they would for any long weekend," he said.

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When asked whether Ginsburg's doctor had offered a long-term prognosis regarding the justice's health, Arberg said, "This is the extent of the information we will be releasing at this time." Ginsburg is one of two justices appointed by President Clinton on the nine-member court; the other is Stephen G. Breyer. Her illness is sure to spur speculation about her possible retirement. If she were to leave the court, Clinton's attempt to name a successor could face vigorous opposition from the Republican-led Senate. The White House had no immediate comment.

Ginsburg, a one-time pioneering advocate for women's rights, became in 1993 the second woman ever named to the nation's highest court. WASHINGTON (AP) Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery for colon cancer Friday, and her doctor refused to speculate on when she will be ablff to return to work. Ginsburg, 66, underwent surgery at Washington Hospital Center, court spokesman Kathy Arberg said. The operation was performed by colorectal surgeon Lee Smith, who said the Justice would remain hospitalized for about a week. The court's 1999-2000 term is set to begin Oct.

4. The court actually got a head start last week when it issued orders granting review to a half dozen cases to be argued this winter. There was no indication that Ginsburg did not participate in considering those cases. Arberg said Ginsburg felt ill while in teaching in Crete this summer as part of a program run by Tulane University's law school. While there, Ginsburg was diagnosed as suffering from acute High 74 Low 50 Sunday: Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain.

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