K'- J f J fl - - 2 v I- i . 'Ci' .! Empty liquor bottles was the name of one game and keepaway of another as police tried to halt fence climbers. Gate Crashing Game So Lively That Police Forced To Give Up By DEAN TERRILL Nebraska's 35-7 smashing of Minnesota was only one of the games going on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. All around the perimeter and particularly along the south fence, police and would-be gate crashers had what was surely the liveliest game of "keep away" in university nistory. Fence climbing, cross-country runs, at least one flying tackle and some strong-arm ejecting were included. At least a couple of hundred youths had sneaky intentions and several dozen did find some way to elude the badly outnumbered guards. The muscling open of one gate alone enabled 50 or so to sprint through. Gail Gade, chief of UNL campus police, said there had always been some sneaking in but that the problem had intensified in the past couple of years. No arrests have been made, but many an offender has been booted out. "A new fence has proved to be a deterrent to some, but for others it's just a challenge," said Gade. "This is an awfully big place to patrol." Off-Campus Help Welcomed Besides the University's own force of about a dozen men, assistance came Saturday from perhaps twice that many volunteers. Local police, firemen, deputy sheriffs and ROTC Air Police all walked the grounds. Although there was at least one display of night sticks, much of the goings-on was less serious. Fence liners cheered whenever an outsider outran police and booed when another got caught. Two campus officers sustained minor injuries trying to stop the fence climbing, according to Gade. Two teeth were loosened on one man, and another got a sprained hand. One veteran officer blamed adults for "encouraging the kids and making the worst situation we've ever had. People up in the stadium yell for the kids to come in, but I don't see any of them giving up their $6 seats," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, this is thievery, the same as shoplifting or any other stealing." A more tolerant view came from a ticket taker who said the crisis situation resulted from "not having enough tickets to sell students. It's pretty hard to tell a University kid he can't see his own team play," he remarked. 'Hoodlum Element' Les Webb of Fairbury, in his 16th season of supervising Boy Scout ushers, said this is the first year that a "hoodlum element" has been encountered. "Last week our boys were cussed, people were pushed and some reserv ed seats were taken over by hoodlums who refused to move," he said. One playful antic took place inside the stadium late in the game when a group started passing empty liquor bottles and displaying them in the southeast corner. A collection of approximately 100 materialized before Officer Robert Brester called a halt. Usually keeping the outside gates locked until the fourth quarter, officials finally despaired and opened them, about halfway through the second. P e r h a p s a hundred young hopefuls mostly from junior high : age to college level quickly dashed through.1 ... "We give up for today at -least," '. grumbled a weary officer. "It just , isn't worth it." COUNTY GROWTH PATTERNS IN NEBRASKA TX&m l 1 I ..m-$ -TtHIB: i TJj j 1 1 ' 1 ' BWfT' ' L -- 'i-i'jMRW "TivpT" '.Wj.'l'q fr' f EMlilil In excess of both state and national growth rates. mm Between the state and national growth rates. Growth below both the state and national rates. Decline or no growth. Wallace Report on 1960s Nebraska Still Relies On Its Agriculture For Economic Growth Despite a healthy rate of growth in manufacturing during the decade just past, most of Nebraska still relies on agriculture for its economy growth. That's the gist of a report on "The Nebraska Economy in the Sixties" by Dr. E. S. Wallace, director of the Bureau of Business Research in the University of Nebraska's College of Business Administration. "The growth of manufacturing appears particularly gratifying," Wallace wrote. "More than half the counties for which figures are available exceeded the national growth rate." But he added that in sunie cuiiniies, manufacturing is such a minor factor that a high percentage of growth represents only a tiny actual growth. "It is evident that manufacturing growth, particularly in outstate Nebraska, has not been sufficient to provide employment opportunities for those displaced from agriculture . . . "Thus in most of its geographic area, the state must still rely primari ly on agriculture for its basic economic growth." Service Industries Wallace pointed out service industries generally would be relied on to take up the slack created by automation of farming and manufacturing. But growth in this area has been confined to a few areas, as evidenced by the fact that 70 of the counties either grew at less than the state rate or declined in service industries. Wholesale and retail trade also grew at less than the national rate, with 13 of the 93 counties showing a decline in retail sales and 16 showing a wholesaling decline. In fact, 30 counties have fewer than a dozen wholesale outlets each, and five have none. "Another important fact revealed by the figures ... is the high degree of concentration of both manufacturing and wholesaling," Wallace said. "The Omaha and Lincoln metropolitan areas have 60Co of the manufacturing and more than OOc of the wholesaling. Continued: Page 6B, Col. 2