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The Lincoln Star 3 Fridoy, Jonuary 9, 1970 7 Restoration if Advanced rain Funds Sought By. Nebraska Trio Monorail Study Gets By GLENN KREUSCHER Agriculture to make the ad' Clifford M. Hardin planned tak to alienate rural America by Approval rarm Editor Three members of Nebraska's congressional delegation took the lead Thursday in seeking a means of securing funds to provide near $375 million for advance diversion payments for the nation's farmers participating in the 1970 feed grain program. Nebraska, ranking as a leading state in compliance with the feed grain program, would benefit from near $25.5 million paid to farmers at sign-up time during February and March. Rep.

Robert V. Denney, said he would propose a supplementary appropriation for the U.S. Department of lng the question of advance payments to the White House in an effort to secure presidential support for providing farmers with advance feed grain payments. 'Budget Bureau Move A spokesman for Sen. Curtis' office said the decision not to make the advance payments "was not made by the USDA but was an arbitrary ruling made by the Bureau of the Budget in an effort to come up with a black ink budget picture." A congressional staff member reported that farm state Republican congressmen were telling the "White House" that the administration cannot afford vance payments available for the 1970 program, and to keep the advance payment practice in a continuity that began with the entrance of the feed grain program in 1961.

GOP Sens. Roman Hruska and Carl Curtis have joined Denney in stressing the importance of the advance payments to the nation's economy. Sen. Hruska, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said he would support the efforts to secure a supplementary appropriation "if the extra funds are needed to make the advance payments possible." A Washington spokesman said that Secretary of Agriculture Interstate Ramp Bridges Entered In Competition 'Fund Decision Illustrates Cunllkt' eight block section of elevated Interstate from 12th to 20th streets in Omaha. Choice of the steel box girder over that of conventional concrete box girder use was based on cost, time of construction, and accommodation of existing street traffic, according to John Porter, bridge design engineer.

Omaha's Interstate 480 ramp bridges, employing a unique steel box girder design, have been entered in the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation engineering design competition, the Nebraska Department of Roads announced. The bridges (one is shown above before completion to dramatize the unique design) are the first two of their type in the nation and part of the making a drastic cut in the budget for the feed grain pro-gram and Farmers Home. Administration. In providing some background on the advance feed grain payments Rep.

Denney said his investigation showed that the threatened cut of the 1969 advance payments was averted when Secretary of Agriculture Hardin was able to "borrow from the 1970 ag budget to make the advance payments that totaled about $25.5 million for Nebraska, and $375 million for the nation." Denney explained that since there is no 1971 farm program it is impossible to borrow from funds intended for later use. "Not getting the advance payments is really hurting the farmer and with exhorbant interest rates and no guarantee to secure a loan it is my intention to seek the supplementary ap-propriation to make funds available," said Denney. Herman Frerichs of Omaha, president of the Intermediate Credit Bank of Omaha that supplies loan funds to Production Credit Associations in four states, said the absence of $25 million would make a drain on deposits and would result in farmers having to borrow just that much more money In a tight money market. Adon Jeffrey of Wayne, president of the Nebraska Bankers Association, said that with the money situation already quite tight the $25 million in advance payments would certainly be missed in Nebraska's economy. The board of directors of From Omaha Omaha The city planning board voted approval of a study on the possibility of a high speed monorail system between Omaha and Lincoln, but Planning Director Alden Aust said he doubted the financial feasibility of the project as outlined.

Aust said he felt the study should be done anyway. The vote came after Frederick R. Wagner, Lincoln attorney, and Douglas McKnight, a Lincoln engineer, described the project. They ap-p eared as spokesmen for Horizontal Automated Transit System, which seeks to raise $30,000 locally to qualify for $60,000 of federal money to finance the study. The Lincoln men said the study already has the support of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Board and Rep.

Robert V. Denney, R-Neb. The Omaha Public Power District and the Nebraska Public Power System also have pledged financial support for the study, Wagener said. McKnight said he envisions a system with a monorail train and an automated roadway above it. Power lines and pneumatic tubes for carrying mail also would be included, he said.

He estimated the cost at about $1 million a mile compared with $7 million a mile for a subway train and said it would have to carry about 26,000 passengers a month to pay for itself. The trains would travel at about 150 miles per hour. Aust said studies he had read indicated it would take 50.0(10 these cutbacks in the federal agricultural program. "It all adds up to the fact that the sooner the nation's farmers find a way of returning to the market system for their income, rather than asking for more and bigger government farm programs, the' sooner they will be on sound financial ground." one more year, a reversal can be obtained." Van Kirk said there has been steadily increasing pressure in recent years to cut back the cost of the nation's agricultural programs. "Congressmen from the metropolitan -sections say their constituents are demanding State Takes Control Of Mr Museum that some $260,000 had been ap propriated by the ,19 6 9 Legislature to start the museum.

Tiemann said the money would be used for planning, designing, and part of the State's Congressmen Said 'Derelict In Duty' building costs of the new state museum building, which is expected to be built during fiscal 1972. you won't get any results," said Callan. He was referring to Tiemann quipped "Now that we have the planes, maybe we should start a Nebraska Air news reports that First District By DICK MEZZY Outstate Nebraska Bureau Offutt AFB Amid the pomp of ceremonies at the Strategic Air. Command headquarters here Thursday evening, the State of Nebraska officially took over control of the Strategic Aerospace Museum. At a black-tie dinner at the officers club Gov.

Norbert Tiemann officially accepted the "keys" to the museum from Col. Joseph D. Hornsby, director of the Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Tiemann accepted a plaque dedicating the museum to the state and noted "it could become one of the largest tourist attractions in the state." The museum boasted an attendance of some 644,000 people during 1969. The idea of the Air Force museum at Offutt started in August of 1959 when Col.

A. A. Arnhym had a vision of a museum that would portray the history of the Strategic Aerospace Command. After seven years of searching for outdated aircraft, Offutt opened the museum to the public in May of 1966 with eight exhibits. The transfer of the museum to the state culminates a four-year effort by the chambers of commerce of Omaha and Bellevue, state officials, and Air Force officials to develop the museum as a state historical park to be known as The Nebraska Museum of Aerospace History.

By 1971, the museum is expected to have a new building to display hundreds of artifacts already acquired or available on loan from the Air Force Museum and the Smithsonian Institute. At a press conference prior to the dinner, Gov. Tiemann noted Rep. Robert Denny would By the Associated Press Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin's recent announcement that the feed grains program for 1970 will be cut an estimated $110 million nnd no "advance payments" will be made this spring illustrates the conflict between consumer and agricultural interests in Congress and high government circles, a Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation spokesman said. With only 5 of the nation's population engaged in farming, agricultural interests "are decidedly over-matched," M.

M. Van Kirk, the NFBF director of information, pointed out. The announced decision to eliminate the advanced spring payments Jiits Nebraska feed grain growers hardest, he said. "Last year the $25,737,456 in such payments in Nebraska, just as in other years, came at a time when farmers and their suppliers were getting their finances in order for another season of production. It means these farmers will have to replace the $25 million with money from other sources and most of it will have to be borrowed at today's higher interest rates.

"There will be a lot of finger-pointing and political hay made concerning the government's action. Pressure will be applied to reverse the decision, especially concerning the advance payments. Perhaps for Force similar, to the great submit a supplementary ap-DroDriation bill for the Nebraska Navy." Agriculture Department. Callan said be considered securing the advance feed Vision-17, an economic develop grain diversion payments vital ment organization of 17 south- passengers a day to make a to Nebraska. eastern Nebraska counties, Crash Kills 23 Belo Horizonte, Brazil W) Twenty-three persons perished in a fiery bus-truck collision near Montes Calaros, about 320 miles north of here, police reported.

An unknown number of bus passengers were reported seriously injured. Thursday night passed a resolution urging the state's congres nxea-raii mass transit system pay. "In Omaha, we have 50,000 bus passengers a day but we Can't SUDDort a hns rnmnnnv Former Congressman Clair Callan of Odell Thursday charged Nebraska's congressional delegation with being "derelict in duty" for not a v-ing been sure the fiscal 1970 agriculture budget included funds for advanced feed grain diversion payments. Callan, a former member of the House Agriculture Committee, said the efforts of Nebraska's congressional delegation "will be an excellent test to see what kind of influence they have with the Nixon' administration." He said it is "almost ridiculous" for a congressman to introduce a supplementary appropriation bill unless the administration wants to go along with the action. "You could appropriate billions, but if the administration doesn't want to spend it, sional delegation to take action to help restore the advanced feed grain payments.

with 1 $3 i 1 1 i or $4 million investment," he said. "But for the congressional delegation to make their first move after priorities have been established by the administration is a hoax in making farmers believe they have had everything done to secure their advance feed grain payments," said Callan. He said that if the delegates wanted to act like they were fighting hard for the farm program, they should have been doing their talking when they were working on the budget. $1.5 Million Sought By Park Committee To Study Indoor Tennis atthe I Si request until after the committee submits its recommendation. No Priorities In a letter to the board, Park and Recreation Dept.

Director James Ager recommended that the interested group of tennis players get sufficient contributions to either build the center or to make such a major pay West Bend aluminum teakettle, color-clad with real baked porcelain in your choice of Poppy Red, Avocado Green or Harvest Gold. Big 2Vfe-quart size. Handy trigger lid on spout. ment that the city would be in terested in financing the balance. your cup Ager, who is recuperating from a coronary attack, said that the tennis center should be city-owned property and should be operated by the' city under whatever rules are set up.

He said there should be no membership priorities or special privileges. gram calls for $6,000 to be spent in 1970-71 and $4,300 in 1971-72. Much of the discussion centered on paving roads in the city parks. Mrs. Helen Boosalis, City Council representative on the board, said she supported paving in Pioneers Park ($106,000) but questioned whether there is a need to pave roads this next fiscal year in the neighborhood parks.

On the indoor tennis court issue, board members indicated that a committee was needed to explore the subject in detail after hearing a proposal for a privately operated indoor court at Woods Park. Wallace Rudolph, a professor of law at the University of Nebraska, appeared before the board requesting the board's approval for a private group to build the court in Woods Park. Rudolph said a group of tennis, players wants to develop a tennis center at the park with a tennis pro available to offer instructions. Funds Available He said that an individual is willing to make a substantial investment and that the local tennis club is willing to pay the rest of the investment to construct a six-court indoor facility at the park. He said that the city would have to lease the land over a long-term period.

Rudolph estimated that costs would total between $370,000 and $400,000. Board members tabled the The 1970-71 capital improvements program for the Park and Recreation Department calls for slightly less than $1.5 million in expenditures, the Park and Recreation Advisory Board was told Thursday. And other business at a monthly meeting, board chairman Max Roper appointed a five-member committee to study the feasibility of an indoor tennis court center at Woods Park. The capital improvements program, which lists improvements totaling $9,635,101 for a six-year period, must still be considered by the City-County Planning Commission, the Capital Improvements Finance Advisory Board, and Capital Improvements Advisory Board before being included in the mayor's budget to the City Council. To Be Set In August The council will determine in August those items to be included in the 1970-7f budget for the fiscal year starting Sept.

1. Last year the original capital improvements program $904,100 for 1969-70 was trimmed to $260,500 in the mayor's budget to the council. Park Supt. Don Smith said the 1970-71 program includes items cut from last year's request and new items. Abel Park One new item is the development of Abel Park located near the downtown area.

The pro of tea! Ager said the other alternative is for, the group to undertake building the indoor court as a private enterprise on land other than city-owned property. The board also recommended approval of a request by Edward Itzen to hook on to a four-inch water line at Oak Lake. Itzen said he proposes to build an overnight trailer camp on a nine-acre site in the vicinity of Charleston 1st and Oak Creek. IS Teakettle when you save $300 or more. This is one of the prettiest singing teakettles money can buy! Only you don't need to buy it.

You get it FREE when you save $300 or more with First National's new Pacesetter Savings or with a 3-Month Savings Certificate. Earn 15 interest, and get a free singing teakettle, too! Limit one teakettle to a customer, please. Mrs. Anderson's Identification Wrong In Story The Mrs. Alma Anderson of Ithaca for whom funeral services were held there Thursday was not a retired Extension Service employee.

The Star's, funeral story Thursday morning on Mrs. Anderson mistakenly confused her with another' Mrs. Alma Anderson, who has served with the Extension Service for a number of years. The picture carried with the story was also of the wrong Mrs. Anderson.

The notice in the death column was correct. A longtime resident of Ithaca, KANSAS: Temperatures during the five- Lincoln Temperatures 1 1:00 i.m.lTnuri.-T i-v 3-Month Savings Pacesetter Savings 3:00 p.m 3 4:00 p.m 4 5:00 p.m 6:00 p.m 3 7 no a m. 3 2:00 a.m 3:00 a.m 4:00 a.m a.m -JO 6:00 a.m -JO T.nrt ji -10 day period, Saturday through Wednesday, will average from five to 10 degrees below normal. Normally, highs are from 26 to 41 and low are around 11 tn the northwest to 33 In the southeast. Precipitation is forecast to average from one to three-tenths Inch, occurring at snow over the.

weekend, and possibly again on Tuesday. Nebraska Temperatures oj0 Certificates 8:00 p.m 3 no D.m.. 4 (loo a.m -10 :00 a.m i ii uu D.m IUTUU per annum 12:00 a.m.(Frl) 2 per annum compounded every three months 1:00 a.m i L- ML Lincoln 7 ill Sidney 23 -12 Beatrice 7 -10 Imperial 18 -8 11:00 a.m.. 12:00 p.m.. 1:00 p.m..

i-oo a.m 1 Mrs. Anderson was a member of ij.w wntura one year ago 37( Scottsblutf 19 -10 North Platte 17 -10 compounded quarterly Chadron 14 -18 Grand Island 7 -17 the United Methodist Church in Ithaca. Her survivors include a Norfolk 1-13 Omaha 4 -11 Temperatures Elsewhere brother, John Rexilius of Ceresco, and sisters, Mrs. Anna 67 47 55 38 2 -16 Schiefelbein of Ithaca and Mrs, Minnie Luchnow of Wahoo. 42 17 FIRST NATIONAL BANK Trust Company of Lincoln Main Bank 12th and Drive-In Walk-In 13th and Member, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 'Sun rises 7:51 a.m.

seta 5:16 p.m. ToT.M.n. palpitation to data 4 In. Total 1970 precipitation to data .04 In. Extended Forecast EAST AND CENTRAL NEBRASKA! For the five-day period, Saturday through Wednesday, temperatures are forecast to from five to 10 degrees below normal.

Normal high are from to 36 and normal lows are from to 15. Warming trend expected through Monday, but turning cooler Tuesday or Wednesday. Precipitation will average from one-tenth to one-fourth Inch, occurring as snow Saturday or Sunday and again about Tuesday. 18 10 LINCOLN 67 32 16 Los Angeles 6 Miami Beach 11 Paul .14 New Orleans 13 New York -2 Phoenix -6 Reno -8 Salt Lake C. 15 San Francisco 20 Seattle 21 Washington 3 Winnipeg -4 41 22 24 3 24 2 -4 22 0 64 41 16 13 40 20 Albuquerque Amarillo Birmingham Bismarck Boston -Chicago Cleveland Denver.

Des Moines El Paso Jacksonville Juneau Kansas City i 2 6 58 49 40 39 17 6 4 -13 A Stamp Collector? Then pictures and news of new and old Stamps in the "Sunday Journal and Star's" "Stamp News" column is a iiiust. i.