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Gen. 2) Section FRIDAY i July 5, 1991 LeadtrjTelesram jf 1 1 1 Charles G. McDonald, a Barron native, will be honored from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Barron community center. Wlfrtlgtg UlQ GUEST OF HONOR: ports indicate deaths of Jive biuiallv clone Council to discuss city assets, liabilities By Susan Allen Leader-Telegram staff .,) The Eau Claire City Council Monday will discuss the city's assets and' liabilities in attracting large-scale industry, a discussion that council, President Allan Hofland said was not prompted by Wal-Mart Store's choice of Menomonie for its distribution center.

Wal-Mart, of Bentonville, officially announced Monday it uinnlH hnilit S2R million. 1.1- 3 BALSAM LAKE (AP) The in a duffel bag and near the family's home, the reports said. The Brenizer family's remains, charred beyond recognition, were found May 11 in a burned car in a wooded area about three miles from their rural Cushing trailer home. The family had been reported miss-ing three weeks earlier by Bruce Brenizer. The Pioneer Press reported the documents it reviewed indicated: sheriffs investigators believe the; victims bodies, were burned twice but don't explain why they believe that.

The documents indicate! 1 5 If million-square-foot distribution center in Menomonie that is expected to create between 300 and 900 jobs. But Hofland said today that plans to coordinate the city's economic development were made several bodies of five slain family members had been dismembered, were badly burned and found in very small pieces, an anthropologist concluded in Investigators documents released this week. The files released by Polk County authorities detailed the investigation into the April deaths of Rick Brenizer, his live-in girlfriend Ruth Berentson and three children ages 5, 7, and 10. The documents showed the bodies which were found burned in a station wagon had been shot with a rifle and mutilated at their home, media members who examined the files said Wednesday. Authorities are holding 16-year-old Bruce Brenizer in the deaths.

He is being held at the juvenile detention facility at the Eau Claire County Jail. Prosecutors have asked a juftge to transfer the youth front juvenile jurisdiction to adult court' A hearing is scheduled The investigative documents were released at the order of Circuit Judge James Eaton and were reviewed by WCCO-TV and KSTP-TV in Minneapolis and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Reporters said the documents in authorities believe the five victims were shot sometime between April 22 and April 26 and then burned on I 1 April 26, the media reporter p. Documents indicate a Rick Brenizer's near the trailer home, and some -mm fit i' i 1 At "I tf I 1 human remains were also found in a duffle bag at some distance from the burned-out car in the woods.

KSTP-TV reported the documents state the victims likely were killed near their trailer home because bullets and bone fragments were found only SO feet from the home. Authorities also found bullets in the family car in which the bodies were burned, WCCO-TV reported. A crime lab report said a machete or com knife probably was used to mutilate: at least, some' of the -victims. weeks ago. After its June 12 meeting, the council appointed Hofland, council Vice President Raymond Nicholls and council member Wally Rogers to a committee that will try to coordinate the area's many economic development efforts.

The committee was recommended by an outside consultant, Hofland Before forming the committee, the city's efforts were ''kind of like a football team with too many quarterbacks," Hofland said. "Irs a matter of everybody working together, from the unions to all of the community development agencies." i The council also is scheduled to vote on an ordinance to require all 'buildings with three or more dwelling units to have electrically-operated smoke detectors. The ordinance also would require the dicated all five bodies had been mutilated. At least one of the three children had been, decapitated and her head crushed, they said. Body parts were found in the car.

Court: Blood sample am admissible in case tors in common areas or those dwellings, such as hallways to be interconnected. Staff photos by Brian.Poultor Kuhn, bottom, shovels coal into the hearth of the steam engine tohelp fuel the train around its half mile route. The, train rides are offered Sunday afternoons through Labor Day weekend. Cost is $1 for adults and 50 cents for those 12 and under. Although the pesky clouds refused to go away for much of Thursday, the on-and-off rain wasn't enough to sideline the Chippewa Valley Railroad Association, which offered rides to Carson Park visitors as part of July 4 festivities in the park.

Mike Fireworks climax quiet day By Leader-Telegram staff The Wisconsin' Supreme Court has reversed an appellate court decision by ruling that a blood sample taken from a Fountain City man nlaybe used as evidence against him in a Trempealeau County vehicular homicide case. The high court, on a 4-3 decision, ruled that authorities properly ordered a blood test for Michael L. Seibel, 24, they reasonably suspected he was intoxicated at the time of the accident. Seibel is charged with two counts of homicide, two counts of causing great bodily harm and two counts of causing injury, all by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle. A criminal complaint states that By Leader-Telegram staff both 81, of Osseo, were killed in me accident and Jour others were 4: The complaint indicates that Seibel had a blood-alcohol level of 0.26 percent at the time of the accident.

The legal level of intoxication in Wisconsin is 0. 10 percent. Seibel's lawyer, Michael McQuillan of the state public defender's in Black River Falls, filed an appeal of rulings by presiding Judge Robert Radcliffe of Jackson County. McQuillan moved to have the blood test results suppressed, maintaining authorities had no reason to believe Seibel was drinking and had no probable cause to draw the blood sample. The 3rd District Court of Appeals in November 1990 agreed with McQuillan, overturning Radcliffe's ruling and ordering that the blood sample not be allowed into evidence at the trial.

Prosecutors, in turn, appealed to the state Supreme Court. McQuillan was unavailable for comment about whether he will appeal the most recent ruling. Action on the ordinance was delayed during the council's June 25 meeting and likely will be, again because of questions about tenant responsibility, Hofland said. The council also plans consider on Tuesday a plan to build baseball fields at Fairfax Park next to the new swimming pool on the south side. The plan calls for the fields to be built using a $100,000 donation trom the Little League organization.

Also on Tuesday, the council is scheduled to: Consider establishing a Redevelopment Authority and appointing an Economic Development Administrative Loan Approval Committee. Consider leasing land from Northern States Power Co. for a pedestrian path in the north crossing bridge area. Consider changing the speed limit on. West Mac Arthur Avenue' from 30 mph to 25 mph.

calls of illegal fireworks use from all areas of the city. Officers said several people were apprehended and issued citations. While the cod weather and intermittent rainfall played havoc with attendance at the Fairfax Park rhunicipal pool, an estimated 12,000 people were on hand for the annual fireworks display at Carson Park as the weather cleared and provided a pleasant evening. Ken Van Es, director of parks and recreation, said traffic into the park was halted well before the 10 p.m. display because the parking lots were full.

He estimated attendance was up by several thousand people over last year. The Fairfax Park cgjl was slated to be open from 11:30 a.m. to 8 Iptf as closed at 5 p.m. because of sparse lb. See.

Van Es said fewer than 100 people useduropool. Eau Claire police and firefighters reported a quiet Fourth of July holiday although one minor garage fire Wednesday afternoon was caused by two boys combining legal fireworks to make them propel. 4i Firefighters were called at 5:38 pm. to the home of Ronald Stremcha, 16 E. Tyler Ave.

A minor fire in the garage was out on arrival. Police said the boys, 12 and 14, combined two legal fireworks to make them propel up to 30 feet in the air. One rocket flew into the garage and caused minor fire. The boys attempted to put the fire out but knocked over a canof gas, which ignited. Stremcha came putnd put out the fire before firefighters arrived.

The boys were issued juvenile citations. Eau Claire police report receiving a number of Antenna for independent TV station approved But picture still isn't clear concerning when, or if, WEUX-TV will sign on Seibel was operating a motorcycle Oct. 14, 1989, on U.S. 53, about five miles south of Osseo, when the cycle crossed the centerline and struck a car driven by Oscar Love-lien. Another vehicle also was in- volved in the accident.

Lovelien and his wife, Olga, Committee to meet again on allegations By Janean Marti Chippewa Falls News Bureau CHIPPEWA FALLS The Chippewa County Law Enforcement Committe will reconvene Monday in closed session to continue discussing allegations about improper handling of department property and other matters. The committee met in closed session for more than six hours WtnicHav hut made nn (twisinns Birt Aries in March and again in April asked the FCC to extend the time it had to make the deal. "Due to some unforeseen, last-second complications, the parties were not able to consummate the transaction as initially planned. They do, however, remain committed to consummating in the near future," Aries attorney Wayne D. Johnsen of Wash ington, DC.

wroteto the commission April Family Group's previous attempts to find an antenna site were foiled after opposition by the Federal Aviation Administration. So the firm switched its proposed antenna location to the Lafayette site and shortened the height of the antenna. The antenna's ap-' proved height is now 61 meters, or 200 Aries also must straighten out Family Group's sense of direction. On its antenna application, Family Group said the antenna would be located about 3.2 miles south of the intersection of Highway OO and Highway 23. And that's the way the FCC approved it.

Unfortunately, the site is actually south of Highway 29. Highway 23 runs east to west from Sheboygan to Oxford in the south-central portion of Wisconsin. baseball team and Milwaukee Bucks basketball team. WLAX is currently seen on cable Channel 8 of Wisconsin CATV-Cable Vision's system in Altoona, Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire. For those without cable, WEUX will mean west-central Wisconsin will have four over-the-air witmPBS affiliate WHWC (Channel 28) inMenomonie, NBC affiliate WEAU (Channel 13) in Eau Claire and ABC affiliate WQOW in Eau Claire.

From there things get complicated. 'The antenna site approval was given to Family Group Ill of Green Bay, the i successor group to the Florida-based parent firm that went through bankruptcy last year. Last November the Green Bay-based Aries Telecommunications Inc. announced it was paying Family Group $7.6 million to buy WLAX, Green Bay station WGBA and the license for WUEX. By Rod Stetzer Chippewa Falls News Bureau CHIPPEWA FALLS Nothing seems ever to go smoothly in getting a long-delayed Chippewa Falls television station on the air.

-r-' -i-. The Federal Communications Commission on June 18 approved placing an antenna for what will be called WEUX-TV, Channel 48, near the comer of Highway 00 and Orchard Lane in the town of Lafayette. The antenna site is about seven miles southwest of Chippewa Falls. The permit to build the antenna expires Dec. 18.

If it ever gets on the air, the station will carry the same programming as LAX-TV (Channel 25) in La Crosse. It will be an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Co. and carry games of the Milwaukee Brewers 13. The latest extension expired June 15, and three days later the POL approved the antenna license for Famiw Group. However, the FCC in a separate notice listed Aries as getting the approval.

Mitchell Lambert, pesident of Aries Telecommunications, has not returned a reporter's telephone calls since-November comment on his company's plans. said committee Chairman Louis Reetz Jr. One of the issues discussed was an incident in which department Capt. Curtis Folska had a lawn-mower that had been recovered by the department dropped off at his house. Folska had the lawnmower repaired ami intended to use it at the department's target range.

The lawnmower was subsequently returned to the department after a Leader-Telegram reporter inquired Cray Academy again will benefit hundreds of teachers about it. Last month the mower was returned to its owner after the owner recognized, through the publicity about the incident, that the mower had been stolen from him. The mower had not beeilaimed and Sheriffs Department officials said they did not know who he rightful owner was at the time Folska had the mower dropped off at his house by another deputy. Folska said Wednesday that allegations made by another deputy A Presentation by Richard Paul of Sonoma State University's Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique will open he second week of the academy. Participants in Cray Academy are selected by their respective school district administrators.

For general information about the academy, contact Charles Larson at UWEau Claire's School of Education at 836-5843, or Julie Stafford at 723-1181. teaching technology; starting an elementary technology program; problem-solving with middle-level math; and applied math for high school graduates entering the workforce. Steven JSy Leinwand, mathematics consultant for the Connecticut State Department of Education, will keynote the week's activities, which will incltlde courses on biotechnology, technology principles, graphic communications and photonicfiber optics. teachers how they can access and develop curriculum projects on the National High School Supercom- puter, a Cray X-MP, at the California Teachers can also sjign up for tours offered by nearly 40 Chippewa Valley businesses and industries. AmOng the academy's first week offerings: teaching K-6 youngsters to use calculators and computers; adding fun to science learning; developing hands-on science projects; discovering the lighter side of.

By UW-Eau Claire News Bureau More than 850 are expected to take part at the fourth annual Cray Academy on July 22-26 and July 29-Aug. 2 at Chippewa Falls Middle School. Participants this year have the option of earning graduate credits for each week of attendance from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The two-week academy is designed to help kindergjEUtenthrough- high school teachers promote literacy in mathematics, science and. technology.

Collaborating on the project, which attracts national leaders and outstanding instructors to the Chippewa Valley, are UW-Eau Claire's Education Outreach and Extension, Cray Research and the U.S. Department pf Education. Brian Lindow, a UW-Eau Claire alumnus and software engineer at LawrenceLivermore Laboratories, again, will be showing math, science and computer high school See COMMITTEE, Page 2B.