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City Editor. David Stoeffler, 252-6130 WISCONSIN 3B 1B Thursday. Apr! 21. 1994 Movie Listings 4B Wisconsin State Journal I mm i Justice Heff eman to step down in 995 By Cary Segall Wisconsin State Journal Possible successors Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Heffernan said i i State Journal staff Marathon County Circuit Judge Ann Walsh Bradley said Wednesday she will run for the Wisconsin Supreme Court vacancy left by retiring Chief Justice Nathan Heffernan. Bradley, 43, drove Wednesday from her Wausau home to Madison and plans to meet with reporters today at the Concourse Hotel.

She has been a circuit judge since 1985 and has twice applied for gubernatorial appointment to high court vacancies since 1992. Milwaukee lawyer Walter Kelly, who ran briefly against Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske for a spot on the court, also said he is interested. "I certainly am giving it some thought," Kelly said. "It's probably a good idea to have a gray-bearded Irishman succeeded by another gray-bearded Irishman." Kelly, 50, who practices civil rights and union labor law, dropped out of the race against Geske last November after she got broad support from lawyers across the state. Also considered a likely candidate is Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Dominic Amato, who was a finalist for the high court appointment that went to Geske last July.

Amato had the strong support of state conservatives. The election for a 10-year term on the court is next April Scam artists take woman for $40,000 An elderly Madison woman has been bilked out of at least $40,000 during the past few years by various organizations that contacted her over the phone and through the mail with promises of money and prizes. Most recently, one organization called the Cooperative Office, supposedly based in Nevada, encouraged the 80-year-old woman to wire them $4,700 to assist her in getting back the money others had scammed from her, according to Madison police reports. The woman had given money to at least one other organization that had made a similar promise, the reports said. Madison Police spokeswoman Dorothy Doheny said that after the woman fell for one scam, she may have been on a list circulated among individuals that run such scams.

Often the same people operate under different company names, using the same ruse to get money, Doheny said. The woman's name and exact address were not released by police so that she could not be targeted by other scam artists. She lives in a West Side nursing home. By Jonnel LiCari I ilHr 1 Wisconsin has 13 Fortune 500 companies: Johnson Controls, Harnischhf eger Industries, Fort Howard, Harley-Davidson, Universal Foods, Consolidated Papers, Terex, Briggs Stratton, A.O. Smith, Banta, Oshkosh Truck, Giddings Lewis and Snap-on Tools.

Source: Fortune magazine, April 1993 File photo Nathan Heffernan, 73, a member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since 1964 and its chief justice since 1983, has announced plans to leave the court when his term ends in August 1 995. Wednesday he will leave the court when his term ends in August 1995. Heffernan, 73, has been on the court since 1964 and chief justice since 1983. He said he wants to retire while he is in good health and able to spend more time with his wife, three children, five grandchildren and three Labrador retrievers. But he said he hopes to continue working as a reserve judge and wants to update "The Story of a Great Court," a book by former state Supreme Court Justice John Winslow.

Heffernan has been known for his quick wit, promotion of open courts and devotion to civil liberties. He is one of three liberals on the seven-member court and has often been on the losing side in close constitutional decisions in the last decade. But, Heffernan said Wednesday, writing dissents, like other aspects of his job, is enjoyable. "It's sort of fun to be in the dissent," he said. "As (former U.S.

Supreme Court Justive Oliver Wendell) Holmes said, 'You only dissent when the blood rushes to your And being a dissenter you have a feeling of irresponsibility. You're not making the law; you're complaining about some- Reynolds, now a senior federal judge in Milwaukee, said Wednesday he has never been disappointed with his choice. "He was outstanding then and still is," Reynolds said. "Under his leadership, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has become one of the truly great common law courts of this country," Reynolds said, referring to the court's ability to make new laws through Please see JUSTICE, Page 2B But he said he felt it was time to give others a chance to enjoy the job he has loved for 30 years. He said he made his decision now so court candidates will have time to campaign for the election to replace him next April.

Heffernan, who grew up in Sheboygan, has spent most of his life in public service since graduating from UW-Madison Law School in 1948. He was deputy attorney general from 1959 to 1962 and was the U.S. attorney in the Western District of Wisconsin in 1964 when then-Gov. John Reynolds picked him for the court. Heffernan said he will miss his colleagues, some of whom tried as late as Wednesday afternoon to persuade him to change his mind.

But he said he will miss, most of all, the young lawyers that work with him each year. "It's a delightful thing to get bright young kids," he said. "They're willing to argue with you; they keep you young. They're starry-eyed, and they keep you starry-eyed." body else." Heffernan, though, also has had a role in plenty of majority decisions during his long tenure and has played a leading role in the development of personal-injury law in the state. He said he is particularly proud of his work in reorganizing state courts in 1978 and starting the Equal Justice Task Force in 1989 to combat gender bias in the justice system.

I Roland Day to retire in '962B r. She's the shepherd of Old Sauk Road Girl says thanks with gold medal The people who staff Madison nurseries that treat premature babies don't always get to see the good they have done. The babies, after all, are released from the hospitals once they be- in i 1 1 I come neauny ana, au I goes well, they don't re- tur5- Ch IU. VI unce in a wmie, now-ever, the children get a chance to say "thank you" in some public way. Jl By Ron Seely Wisconsin State Journal Nobody stops traffic like Rosie Hiestand.

Rosie is a crossing guard, one of the best and certainly one of the most devoted. She's done her job quietly and humbly and well for 30 years, shepherding students of Crestwood Elementary School back and forth across busy Old Sauk Road on Madison's Far West Side, holding back the tide of commuter traffic with her upraised sign in one hand, gently guiding her wards across the pavement with the other. If, in fact, you travel on Old Sauk Road during the morning or afternoon, you may have been stopped by Rosie. And if you were going a little too fast, or if you stopped a little too close to the crosswalk when she held up her stop sign, you may have been glared at by Rosie. It's her job.

She's very good at it. And there are lots of West Side parents who rest a lot easier each day knowing that Rosie is out there, parting the traffic like a modern-day Moses. On Wednesday, the students, staff, and parents at Crestwood Elementary School gathered to honor Rosie, who first walked to her post 30 years ago this month. Crestwood Principal Harlan Sie-brecht opened the proceedings with a few simple words that said a lot about Rosie and about the neighborhood's devotion to her. "She's not the kind of person who likes to be in the spotlight," Sie-brecht said.

"But after 30 years of caring for our kids, we just had to do something." And so they did. The celebration had actually started early in the morning, just after Rosie walked up the Old Sauk Road hill to her station across from the school. She was met by teachers and others from the school with coffee and juice and pastries. She was saluted by honking cars. Later, in a crowded gymnasium, Rosie was showered with flowers (roses, of course), serenaded by stu dents and plied with gifts.

There was a plaque from the city of Madison and a plaque from Gov. Tommy Thompson. There was a special school crossing sign with "Rosie's" written across the bottom in elegant script; it will mark Rosie's crossing from now on. Through it all, Rosie sat at the front of the gym in her crossing guard outfit: blue jacket and blaze orange vest. Her stop sign leaned against the table at her feet.

She seemed a bit shocked at all the attention and just a touch embarrassed. Fourth-grader Abraham Sorber put Rosie's accomplishment in perspective better than just about anyone. In her 30-year-career, Abraham figured, Rosie has walked to and from her crossing 32,280 times. If that isn't impressive enough, consider these additional musings. When she started 30 years ago, Rosie was 36 years old and Lyndon Johnson was president.

Today, she is 66, and she is crossing the children of the children she crossed all those years ago. Or consider the Old Sauk Road hill, up and down which Rosie trudges three times each day from her Crestwood home. It is one of the steepest hills in the city and yet every day of the school year, Rosie can be seen walking slowly but surely up to the crossing. Last winter, she slipped on the ice while climbing the hill and broke her wrist. She was back at the crossing right away, her arm in a cast, doing her job.

As Stacy King, the neighborhood's alderwoman, said before she presented Rosie a plaque from the city: "It's truly overwhelming and more than a uttle humbling." With the program over and the gym clearing, Rosie was kept pinned in her chair by student after student coming forward to offer hugs and candy and cards. Afterward, true to her nature, Rosie took up her stop sign and walked out to her post for her lunchtime duty. WILLIAM R. Sarah Brue, daughter WINEKE Dan and Marcia Brue, mm Hollandale, will do so during a nationally broadcast television show Friday. The show, "What's in the News," is designed for school-age children and will be shown on WHA-TV (Ch.

21) at 9 a.m. and, again, at 1 p.m. Friday. Sarah, a third-grade student in Paulette Timm's class at Mount Horeb Elementary School, was asked, along with 3,500 other students from around the country, to write an essay on the subject "A gold medal should be awarded for "I think a gold medal should be awarded to the people who work in the Special Care Nursery at Meriter-Park Hospital in Madison, she wrote. "When I was born, I was very sick.

From the hospital in Monroe I was taken in an ambulance to Madison. I had an infection which made it hard for me to breathe. I was there for three weeks. They knew exactly what to do and I came home well. "I know that they take good care of other sick babies, too, including many who are much sicker than I was.

Some are very tiny because they are born too soon. Some babies need operations. "The people who work in the Special Care Nursery are very special people who work hard to help babies get well. They saved my life and they save many babies' lives every day. I believe they deserve a gold medal." Sarah wrote one of eight essays hers is the only one from Wisconsin to be featured on the television show.

In a note to the staff at Meriter, she said she originally couldn't think of a topic for her essay "until I put my hand on my head and felt the lump caused by the needles that had been in my head." Wineke covers religion and medicine lor the State Journal. Pbone: 252-6146. i State Journal photoJOSEPH JACKSON III Rosie Hiestand was 36 when she started her guard. Today she's 66 and crossing the children job as Crestwood Elementary School crossing of those she helped years ago. Woman convicted of trying to kill neighbor 'We are conceding the use of force was excessive and unreasonable given the injuries sustained.

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