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ELSEWHERE www.ritizenol.com Saturday-Sunday, January 8-9, 2000 Daily Citizen Couple provides foster home for turtles 'Satisfaction' named top rock song by VH1 viewers i It -tt 4 NEW YORK (AP) More than 80 years later, the competition between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones rages on. The Beatles placed nine entries on a list of rock 'n roll's 100 greatest songs, as compiled by VH1 in a poll of 700 people in the music industry. The Stones have five. But it's the Stones' celebrated ode to sexual frustration, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," that topped the list The Beatles could do no better than ninth, with "Hey Jude." The Stones' 1965 hit has one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in music, which Keith Richards said came to him one when he was sleeping. "It kind of sticks up as an anthem, for the time it was released and for every generation that came since," said Todd Schwartz, VH1 programming director, "It strikes a chord with every teen-ager." After "Hey Jude," three other Beatles songs made the top 25: "A Day in the Life" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand." "The Beatles had so many songs that the vote got divided," Schwartz safd.

Elvis Presley, who had four songs on the list as did Led Zeppelin, couldn't crack the top 10. The best he could do was No. 18 with "Jailhouse Rock." A lot of big names were shut out of the top 100 entirely, among them Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, U2 and R.E.M. Aretha Franklin's "Respect" came in second and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," a staple of FM radio in the 1970s; was third. Rounding out the top 10 are "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan; "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen; "Hotel California" by the Eagles; "Light My Fire" by the Doors; 'Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys; "Hey and "Imagine" by John Lennon.

The list's oldest song was "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley His Comets, released in 1955. The newest was Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," from 1991. Nirvana's hit was the only one from the 1990s to make it. Schwartz said it may be because voters were even older than the network's usual audience. VH1 aims at age 30 and up.

VHl will count down the list in a special that runs over five nights, starting Jan. 17. Associated Ptess Photo NEWARK (AP) For the eight small box turtles, it's something like a Florida vacation or summer camp in winter. The rare baby ornate box turtles are getting a "head start" on life by living it up in Mike and Loni Powers' kitchen in the Town of Newark. The couple, an assembler for Enkle Corporation and a homemaker, have put the eight reptiles up in style in a heated plastic tub, tastefully furnished with moss.

The turtles are regularly misted down to promote healthy shell growth. And every couple of days they dine on hearty helpings of reptomin, a commercial pellet-type reptile food served on jar lids. In June or July the Powers will let the turtles trundle away to live on their own in the sandy Town of Newark soil. The Powers' turtle-raising effort comes at the behest of Bob Hay, Department of Natural Resources' cold-blooded-species manager, with the aim of creating stronger youngsters, more likely to survive their vulnerable early years. While adult turtlesare spotted in Newark township, humans aren't sure how the young ornates survive.

"No one's ever seen a little one out here," Mike said, adding the young animals are prey to raccoons and skunks. Box turtles can close up the head and tail holes in their shells by flexing a hinge in their bottom shell. However, the younger turtles have not yet developed that hinge. Aiding turtles has become something of a neighborhood effort in the Town of Newark as Richard and Mary Norman help organize spring turtle hunts. Mary is chair of the Rock County Conservationists.

Through the hunts the turtles are caught and brought to Richard, who is trained to put a notch in their shell, measure the animal and weigh it. "We can see if it's captured more than once and how far it's moved," she said. "You get kind of a history then because they pretty much all look alike." The wards living in the Powers' kitchen are more than two inches long, a healthy size, the couple said. "They're growing pretty fast. Loni Powers examines the growth of a box turtle she and her husband are helping to raise in their home in Newark, on Monday.

The Powers' turtle-raising effort comes at the behest of Bob Hay, Department of Natural Resources' cold-blooded-species manager, with the aim of creating stronger youngsters, more likely to survive their vulnerable early years. 11 J. i mull ii'JT MM! 1 1 -t believe," said Christoffel, who has worked for Hay on the ornate box turtle project. The ornate turtles are also rare because they're coveted by reptile lovers for the animals' colorful markings. Dark fan-patterned bands spread across a yellow, background on the turtles' shells with additional markings on the underside.

"It's not just on the top that they're beautiful, but if you hold it on the bottom, they're beautiful," Christoffel said. The banding design makes effective camouflage for the animals as they sit in the grass. While wildlife specialists have found pockets of ornate box turtles across the state, Newark township holds the most vibrant population in Wisconsin, Christoffel said. "Definitely the largest population is in Rock County," she said. The ornates are more common in other parts of the country, including Kansas and Nebraska, with Wisconsin making up the northeastern edge of their territory.

One experiment shows the coddled reptile youngsters pick up the behavior needed to live in the wild. Christoffel tracked a group of 10 young turtles by gluing radio transmitters to their shells. She learned the indoor "head started" turtles instinctively knew to eat vegetation and insects once released and had not bonded to humans. Most of the head starters also burrowed one meter deep into the ground for hibernation, she said, and many returned to their release spot for the winter. The Powers' were drawn to the Newark project when they moved to the area two years ago.

Knowing the turtles live on their land and knowing there is little funding for ornate box turtle, protection makes a difference, said Loni. "I've been interested in reptiles all my life," Mike added. "The fact that they're an endangered species intrigues me," he said. "I want to participate and increase the numbers, hopefully." That's what this head start program is all about," Mike said. "When they hatch out of their eggs, they're the size of a nickel," he said.

The young turtles were about the size of quarters when they arrived at the Powers' home in October. The youngsters are Rock County natives. Hays collected pregnant female turtles from Newark last year, gathered the eggs and hatched Four of the Powers turtles remain smaller than the others. The couple has given them separate tubs and extra food to try to give the smaller creatures an additional boost. Ornate box turtles are on Wisconsin's endangared species list, largely due to the farming of the state's traditional prairies.

The turtle needs deep sandy soil to burrow to survive, but less than 1 percent of Wisconsin prairie land remains, said Rebecca Christoffel, University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife outreach specialist. "These animals have had a loss of habitat like you wouldn't Mother-daughter team a first for Racine police Associated Press Photo FILE Artist Don Martin signs and copyrights a drawing done by another artist on the outside of a restaurant in Miami in this May 25, 1990 file photo. Martin, died of cancer Thursday. fMadf cartoonist dies RACINE (AP) Racine police officer Julia Burney and her daughter Vanessa Oliver, who joined the force in April, have begun a new tradition at least in Racine of a mother passing down public service in law enforcement to her daughter. Like many of the Racine County families with more than one member in public service Oliver said taking the same path as her mother had to do with pride, good values and the desire to serve others.

She said Burney's attitude toward the job and life had a big impact on her decision to become a police officer. "Her wisdom, her lectures, always being positive, raising us to be the best we could be, and always caring for others she instilled that in us," Oliver said. "I just followed through with it. It was always something wanted to do." "I think, to me, it was just positive seeing my mother working. She was always happy with what she was doing just knowing the effect you can have on people," she said.

"She's never been happier than with this career." A 16-year-veteran of the police department, Burney has gained the respect of fellow officers and the people in the community she serves. The Cops Kids reading program she developed won her more than five state and local awards in 1999 alone. In the past year she has secured numerous monetary and book donations for the program, which will bring free books to central city children. Burney also acquired a headquarters for the organization "rW V- 1 Associated Press Photo The Racine, police department now has a mother-daughter team on its roster. Vanessa Oliver, right, followed in her mother, Julia Burney's footsteps and became a Racine police officer.

They are shown outside the police department in Racine, Wednesday. Burney, a 1 6-year-veteran of the department, has won numerous community service awards for her work. MIAMI (AP) Don Martin, longtime Mad magazine cartoonist who drew an assortment of wild-haired characters, punctuating the grotesque action with wacky words like SPLOP! and has died. He was 68. Martin died of cancer at Baptist Hospital, hospital spokeswoman Christine Thompson said today.

During his 30-odd years as a Mad contributor, Martin based his humor on misery and misfortune, to crack "sick" jokes. The magazine dubbed him "Mad's Maddest Cartoonist." The guy poisoning pigeons in the park "I hate pigeons" winds up killing the people who gather around to sample his scrumptious popcorn. Mona Lisa, as the reader realizes only in the last frame of the strip, is sitting on a toilet. Hapless boobs with big feet get squashed in all manner of ways. "There's always been physical suffering in comedy," he once said.

"Even ancient clowns kicked each other in the seat of the pants or hit each other over the head. It's the same thing in our time, just a little stronger." The cartoons had a vocabulary all their own. "SHKLIP" was the sound made when construction workers tossed concrete at each other. "SPLOP" described a surgeon throwing body parts into a doggie bag. "FACfROON" came from a collapsing skyscraper.

His license plate read "SHTOINK." "Is it funny? That's, the only test 1 know when it comes to cartooning," Martin once said. "Not whether it's sick, or whether it's going to ruin people's values or morals. You only have to ask a simple question: Is it funny?" At 32, Oliver is the oldest of Burney's four children. She said she doesn't know if her younger siblings will follow in their mother's footsteps. Burney said she hopes her son will someday join the police department.

"He's in the military right now," she said. "He would be good at it." it. They grew up with it," she said. "Police is part of the household." Burney said she was very excited and happy when her daughter told her of her plans to apply at the police department. "She told me, 'Mom I'm going to be a police officer like and she did it," Burney said.

"It's really flattering to have your child look at you as a role model. It's the best reward for a parent." at 800 Villa St. where volunteer teachers will work with children on their reading skills. This past summer, Racine officers handed out nearly 10,000 free books to children in the Cops Kids Squad Car program. Burney has said she became a police officer because she wanted to help people, and a badge allowed her to do it.

"I know that my kids watched Darling Clementines a hit in US grocery stores become one of the best-selling fruits at his store. "They're an easy item to move," he said. Broeckert thinks the Madison market is particularly strong for Clementines because shoppers here tend to be affluent, educated and more likely to try new foods. Broeckert, who counts over 20 years in the grocery business, worked recently at a competitoi 's grocery in Eau Claire and said shoppers in that part of th state tend to stick with familiar jhoices. "In Madison, you've got the UW influence, more diverse people who are familiar with lots of sends most of the diminutive citrus fruit, a variety of mandarin orange, to other European countries.

But this year, shoppers are finding juicy Clementines stacked high in the produce section alongside the navel oranges, tangerines and grapefruits. Kris Collins of Madison, shopping at the Hilldale Sentry, was setting a box of Clementines in her basket last Wednesday. "My 85-year-old mother had these on her list," she said. "I had never really even heard of them before. But she loves them." In 1991, only 5,180 tons of or waiting around for them to come in." he said.

"I hope we can keep them around through It's the same story on the city's west side, where Sentry Foods Hilklale produce manager John. I'oki iefke said Clementines made up 10 percent of gross sales in his department the week preceding Christmas. "We had a special on them and sold 800 boxes that week," he said. It's a recent phenomenon to even find Clementines in the Midwest. Spain, which holds nearly a 90 percent share of the wot Id's Clementine export market, Clementines went to the United States.

Last year, the figure hit 50,706 tons. That's just four percent of Spain's Clementine output and nothing compared to the 1.5 million tons of navel oranges California will produce this season. Still, the distinctive five pound crates which sell here from $4.99 to $9.99 have gone from gift item to winter staple in a short time. At Copps Food Center on Whitney Way, shoppers were introduced to Clementines through a series of in-store samplings, said produce manager John Broeckert. Now, he says, Clementines have different things," he said.

"Like mangoes. They're the best selling fruit worldwide but we sold very few of them in Eau Claire." In previous years, grocers said they had trouble keeping Clementines on the shelves because the warehouses were empty. But this season, there are no shortages, as importers have figured out they are onto a hot item. Some limited production in California is also helping to ease the Clementine pinch here. Most importantly, growers in Spain have become more savvy over how to professionally play in the global marketplace.

MADISON (AP) Darling Clementines, those petite fruits that peel so easily and come in the cute wooden box, are giving oranges a run for the money this citrus season. Clementines stem to possess many of the qualities coveted by snackaholic Americans save tor a high fat content. They're portable, seedless sweet as candy. In fact, in his years in the produce business. Jay Luy of Cub Foods Last said he's never seen as much excitement over a fruit or vegetable.

"I've got people ask ing for them.