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Dining Guide Page 2 Movie Guide Page 3 Wisconsin State Journal Tuesday, May 27, 1 986, Section 3 Death notices Page 4 1 1 killed on state roads over holiday anas Across Anraerico Associated Press More than charity; good feeling lingers 'What we gave, we got back in so many ways new friends and a good feeling inside. It's been such a wonderful day, I don't want it to Ann Caruso At left, Judith French breaks into song during the Paxton, Hands Across America celebration. Above, the hands of Joan Parker and her daughter, Anna, of Madison. So we must learn to love each other See those people over there, they're my sister and brother And when they laugh, I laugh And when they cry, I cry And when they need me I'll be right there by their side Hands Across America theme song By Kris Kodrich Of The State Journal They were strangers who joined together for a noble cause. They left as friends who shared 13 hours of singing, dancing and holding hands.

When they said goodbye, there were hugs, kisses and genuine plans to meet again soon. Hands Across America did much more than raise some money to help the hungry and the homeless. For the passengers on bus 161, the event brought 50 people closer together. "What we gave, we got back in so many ways new friends and a good feeling inside," said Ann Caruso, as the bus pulled into Madison. "It's been such a wonderful day, I don't want it to end." Moments earlier, the 50 or so passengers had linked hands throughout the bus as they sang "Hands Across America" one more emotion-packed time.

"You're special, every one of you," said Chancey Blackburn, the general manager of WMAD Radio, which organized the bus trip. "I By the time the bus arrived crossed the Wisconsin border on the way back, the aisle was filled with people talking and mingling. There were occasional cheers for Ms. Blackburn and the bus driver, Jerry McCann. The only boos and hisses came early in the day when Ms.

Blackburn read a newspaper article that mentioned President Reagan, who said the only hungry Americans were those too poorly informed to find food. Most everyone exchanged telephone numbers. Several made plans for a reunion party. People with cameras promised to send their negatives to Ms. Blackburn, who said she would get pictures to everyone who wanted them.

Joy Keller, 21, asked all the bus passengers to sign her Hands Across America T-shirt "just to remember everybody." State Journal photos by Carolyn Pflasterer hope you remember this day a long time." Undoubtedly, they will The day was filled with memorable moments, including the actual linkup with thousands of other people in Paxton, 111., as part of the attempted nationwide human chain. But there were other highlights. Like when Tom Hart, 35, sprang into a dance with Brianne Stuard, the 3-year-old daughter of Sara Lien, in the middle of a downtown Paxton street. Brianne, dressed in a huge Hands Across America T-shirt, did not care that Hart was a stranger. There was Jerry Kukachka, 69, who flashed her Hands Across America T-shirt at cars and buses on the road.

"Jerry, I think you should adopt us all" said Joe Rol-ing, a 15-year-old Edgewood High School student. An Edgewood teacher, Michael Kraus, 29, said: "The generation gap? It doesn't exist here." Frequently during the 4-hour rides to and from the event, the bus erupted into song. Everything from "The Star Spangled Banner" to "The Sound of Music" was heard on the highway. iS A III Below, Ann Caruso and Michael Kraus became friends during their trip to Paxton, for Hands Across America. They share a hug during the city's celebration in downtown At least 11 people were killed in traffic accidents on Wisconsin highways during the Memorial Day weekend.

Wisconsin's Memorial Day weekend death toll was 12 last year and nine in 1984. Corey Sigler, 19, of Port Edwards, died Monday of internal injuries after being thrown from his motorcycle in the town of Port Edwards. John Evenson, 21, of the town of Waukesha, was killed early Monday when he lost control of his motorcycle south of Highway 18 in the town of Wales. David Iken, 40, of Wausau, was killed Sunday evening when he lost control of his motorcycle and was thrown in the Marathon County town of Green Valley. William Wayte, 18, of Green Bay, died late Sunday after he lost control of his car on Highway 55 near Antigo.

Daniel Hanke, 21, of Milwaukee, died Saturday of injuries he received when he lost control of his motorcycle in the Milwaukee suburb of Greendale. A 37-year-old Minneapolis man was killed Saturday when his bicycle was hit by a vehicle on Highway 61 near Lancaster in Grant County. The driver of the vehicle did not stop. Kurt Garvey, 17, of Livingston, and Lucille Granville, 60, of Monfort, were killed when Garvey's car collided with another car on Highway 80 one mile north of Livingston late Saturday. Ms.

Granville was a passenger in the other vehicle. Vicky Anderson, 37, of Sussex, was killed early Sunday when her car and another vehicle collided on Silver Spring Road in Menomonee Falls. Michael Brukwicki, 16, of Monroe, was killed Saturday evening when his car and another car collided on Highway in the town of Jefferson, Green County authorities said. A motorcyclist was killed early Monday in Waukesha County in the town of Wales. The victim's identity was withheld pending notification of relatives.

Meanwhile, three Wisconsin residents were killed in two accidents in Iowa during the Memorial Day weekend. The Iowa State Patrol said La-verne Grohman, 59, of MerrilL and his daughter-in-law, Lori Grohman, 26, of Oshkosh, were killed early Monday when the car they were riding in collided head-on with another car five miles north of Monticello on Iowa Highway 151. Joel Grohman, 25, the son of La-verne Grohman and husband of Lori Grohman, was driving the car. He was listed in fair condition at a Cedar Rapids hospital. Laverne Grohman's wife, Ruth, 54, was in critical condition and another son, Mark, 27, of Oshkosh, was in serious condition.

The driver and a passenger of the second car, both Iowans, were hospitalized in fair condition. A car-train accident near Luana killed two people Sunday night, including William Shaw, 30, of Bangor, Wis. nTf" "-z "-y CSL 'Tta til Ann Caruso, Madison, Michael Kraus, Middleton, on bus. UW professors take field trip to study Wisconsin SttvmMnT Oiii luJl Monlfwt I Shaboygoq MltwJLkMl I' da Chain V-1 OoiMavlll 1 By Susan Lampert Smith Education reporter Results of final exams aren't in, but bets are that a group of UW-Madison academics learned more about Wisconsin last week than some natives do in a lifetime. The 22 faculty and staff members, most of them new to the state, spent last week riding on a bus as part of the second "Wisconsin Idea" seminar.

They toured factories and churches, talked to Indians and industrialists, learned from geologists and historians, and basically met the state that will produce most of their students and many of their research ideas. Here are a few glimpses of the Wisconsin they saw: Lake Michigan lapping at the buildings in the Palmer Johnson boatyard in Sturgeon Bay, crashing against the Lighthouse restaurant in Two Rivers, roaring across a new rock breakwater at a Manitowoc marina. Someone on the tour asked the logical question: Why can't they just "pull the plug" on the lake? The answer, according to Clifford Kraft of the UW Seagrant Program, is that the drain pipe is too small. Kraft said the diversion into the Chicago River can carry away Lake Michigan at a rate of 3,000 cubic feet per second. By contrast, he said that on an average day 87,000 cubic feet per second of water evaporates from the lake's surface.

"The mayor of Marinette told me he had a public works solution to the high lake levels," Kraft said. "He said he was going to send all the people to church to pray for sunny weather." Alewives changing from what Kraft called "public enemy number one" to a more beloved status. Just a few years back, these fish invaders from the sr a were scorned, especially for their habit of dving in Zeidler has been busy since he left office in 1960, lecturing, researching and writing about Milwaukee history. A bus tour with Zeidler reveals layers and layers of Milwaukee history. A terminal moraine of the glacier under a busy street, a modern shopping district that grew along a street-car route, a luxury hotel at the site where Teddy Roosevelt was shot.

Zeidler seems to know which immigrants founded which church and who built every building. He doesn't stint on the present either. "That's the highest crime corner in Milwaukee," Zeidler said, as the bus passed Center Street and Martin Luther King Drive. "There's been a homicide on every corner in this neighborhood." Zeidler knows, he lives just up the hill. Below his house, he can see some of the reasons why he thinks Milwaukee did a political about-face from years of Socialist rule to what he calls the "ultra-conservative" administration of Mayor Henry Maier.

Black migration to central Milwaukee and subsequent "white flight" to the suburbs was a big force in turning union-card carrying Democrats into social conservatives, Zeidler said. "(My opponents) said that Frank Zeidler posted billboards in the South, inviting (blacks) to come up to Milwaukee," he said. "Thousands of people believed that rumor, it gave them a way of coping with what was happening." The "biggest box plant in world" at Green Bay Packaging; toilets colored in "raspberry puree" and sinks with 24-carat gold fittings at Kohler Co; genetic engineering at Universal Food in Milwaukee; robotics at General Motors in Janesville. Slick public relations presentations seeming to put Wisconsin squarely at the center of the universe. Ironically, the place where people were most open about the underside of God's Country was Door County where the rest of the state goes to escape its problems.

Sanitarians talked about the ground water pollution caused by disposing of human and cow wastes on cracked limestone bedrock. County board members discussed the rapid development that some worry will spoil the rural character of the peninsula. And the tour participants got to see the construction of Door County's first combination membership campground and shades of Wisconsin Dells water slide. The faces of farming in Wisconsin. Mary Meehan-Strub, a Cooperative Extension associate professor, told about the wrenching realities faced by counselors in the extension's Strategies on Survival program.

Sometimes the best advice they can give is to tell a failing farmer to sell out. At staff meetings, Ms. Meehan-Sturb said, "we sometimes ask: 'Where are the counselors for the Justin Isherwood, an author and Plover area potato farmer, talked to the professors and read from a draft of his new novel about farm life as the bus rolled across the Central Sands. While Isherwood's family farm is financially successful, he talked about ethical dilemmas of farming: killing a favorite cow, putting up a utilitarian pole building to replace a more picturesque barn, feeling like a "cannibal" because a farmer may earn more money if his neighbor fails. At the Weier Nook Farm near Dodgeville, they learned why despite low income and grueling work farmers keep farming.

Sarah Weier told the group that farming is shot through with a "love of the land" and "a spirit of living." "It isn't so much what we do here," she said, cradling baby Carl, "as how we do it." I droves and rotting on the beaches of Lake Michigan. This spring, however, a group of citizens presented the Department of Natural Resources with a petition asking them to protect the alewives. "They had 15,000 signatures and they told the DNR they could easily get 15,000 more," Kraft said. The reason is the multi-million dollar lakeshore economy built on sport fishing. It's like the picture of the big fish eating the little fish who's eating a smaller fish.

Marinas and charter boats depend on salmon and trout. And salmon and trout eat alewives. The last Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, Frank Zeidler, who's still a vibrant speaker at age 73..