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1 unfcap lournal anb Weather Fun See Col. 6 GOOD MORNING! 40t' 13 Sections 142 Pages, Lincoln, Neb. September 18, 1977 tar Cavanaugh stick by Short despite ruling Although Daley is prevented from nor's and Cavanaugh's appeal for me to Carroll, a Republican, was police chief make the rejection of Short official on if 4J I By C. David Kotok The Sunday Journal and Star 1977 Despite the U.S. Justice rejection of the nomination, Nebraska Gov.

J. J. Exon and Second District Rep. John Cavanaugh are sticking by their choice of Clive Short for U.S. marshal at least for now.

And Nebraska Sen. Edward Zorinsky backed away from his Friday decision to drop the Short nomination at the urging of Cavanaugh and Exon. During a Saturday telephone conversation with his Democratic colleagues, Zorinsky said he agreed to seek the reasons for the Justice Dept. recommendation that the nomination be withdrawn and an alternate found. If the reasons prove to be minor, Zorinsky said he could continue his support.

However, he said Justice Dept. officials said they considered the political accusations in Nebraska, and despite them, felt Short should be rejected. Zorinsky said he still leans toward finding a replacement for Short, but is holding oil "in deference to the gover being politically active by the Hatch Act, he said his wife worked for the election of Carter. State Democratic Chairman Dick White said Short's activities within the party worked in his favor. "There was no one else there with what would be called a long time of party work," White said of the other applicants.

One of those pleased with the Justice Dept. report was Romans. "That's not bad news." said the former national chairman of the Young Republicans Romans said he never expected to serve past July. If another nominee has to be submitted. White and Romans agreed the FBI checks and screening would take up another eight weeks.

White said Democrats are becoming disgruntled that Romans and Republican U.S. Atty. Daniel Wherry are still in office nine months after Carter became President. The Justice Dept. recently has cleared Dept.

Douglas County Atty. Edward Warin as a replacement for Wherry. Exon and Cavanaugh had angry words for both the Justice Dept. and Republican Sen. Carl Curtis.

Both were accused of "Gestapo tactics." I. for one. am not going to run under the shed just because of the Justice Dept. report." Exon said. "As incidents in the last few years have proved, the Justice Dept.

is not infallible and neither are their sources of information." Cavanaugh said he was outraged that the agency "can walk into the office of a U.S. senator and tell him to remove a man for no reason." It seems everyone wants the report on Short, including the nominee who requested the FBI information on him alter Curtis criticized the Short appointment early in the week. Exon and Cavanaugh say they must have llie report before they can even consider other candidates. Exon says he also wants 'urtis to reveal who has given him FBI information against Short and all calls concerning the nomination made to Curtis' office. Curtis wants all information the Justice Dept.

has on Short. Curtis said in a phone interview from Grand Island that he would make the Justice Dept. report public if possible. Cavanaugh says he may make a formal complaint to Wherry on the leaks of FBI information to Curtis. In all, the war of words between the Democrats and Curtis continues.

Exon continues to demand an apology from Curtis for accusations that the governor tried to pressure for a favorable FBI report or proof of the charge. "He owes the people of Nebraska an apology." funis said of Exon. "for trying to put over a man for high public office in Nebraska who was not approved by the Justice Dept." Curtis said he is not the one to nominate a candidate for U.S. marshal and that he realizes the choice ultimately will be a Democrat. "The governor is trying to force his own administration (Carton to take someone who is not acceptable," Curtis SHORT continued page 8A rXx If r-, V-y iv -sj A.

Mr4 Monday, according to a copyrighted story in the Journal. At the meeting, Zorinsky specifically asked that the reasons for the recommendation against Short's nomination not be given to him. However, Exon and Cavanaugh now say that when they talked to Zorinsky at 1 p.m. Saturday, the freshman Democratic senator said he agreed with the Exon-Cavanaugh position to support Short until they learn why the department objected. "As of this afternoon, Congressman Cavanaugh.

Sen. Zorinsky and 1 were in agreement that the matter is not closed." Exon said. If Zorinsky does not continue his sponsorship of Short, the nomination will be dead. Exon said. If the Short nomination is finally rejected, among those waiting in line for the job are former Lincoln Police Chief Joe Carroll.

U.S. Treasury Special Agent John Francis Daley of Omaha and present U.S. Marshal Ronald Romans. Bama officers conventionally traveling with the coach. "Why, they even tried to take it away from me." According to Alabama's assistant athletic director, Charley Thornton, such attention to the colorful coach is typical wherever the Crimson Tide is playing.

"It's almost like a sideshow sometimes, especially at intersectional games such as this." he said. "I think he enjoys it to some degree, but he doesn't really need an ego trip." wait. Exon and Zorinsky agreed there is no immediate need find a replacement for Short because the present U.S. marshal is on the job. Another reason Zorinsky and Exon want the full report on Short is to insure that if a substitute nominee must be found, the same mistakes, if any, won't be repeated.

"My basic feeling on patronage," Zorinsky said, "is to do away with it all. Such political jobs should be given on the basis of a screening board by professionals in the field to avoid the type of political accusations that have surfaced in the Short affair." During a meeting Friday with Justice Dept. officials, attended by Sunday Journal and Star correspondent Andy Montgomery, Zorinsky said he would accept the department's opinion and would begin a search for another candidate. The Justice Dept. asked Zorinsky to submit another name and promised to quarters which had the 75,899 spectators on their feet half the time.

Huddled with a dozen reporters in a post-game conference, the sweating Bryant looked like he might have been in a few plays himself. He puffed one of numerous afternoon cigarets and fielded questions about why things went wrong. With obvious irritation, he batted down one southern-drawled query about a change in lineups: Why'd I do it? I was tryin' to win the game!" Other observations generally were made with more courtesy. But anything resembling a smile was back home in Alabama. Appearing almost indecent as he left the field sans the habitual hat, Bryant had his reasons.

An overzealous fan had first grabbed it during half-time and the hat had to be retrieved by Patrolman W. 0. Nichols. "They're always gettin' that hat," complained Nichols, one of several of Lincoln for nearly 35 years before his retirement in 1975 at age 64. Since then, he has been a part-time consultant with he Nebraska Highway Safetv Program.

When it became apparent the 65-year-old Short, who served as U.S. Marshal for five years during the Johnson administration, would get the nomination. Carroll said he made no further efforts to get the job. "I haven't talked to anybody directly about it," Carroll said. "I mean not the powers that be.

I think I would be interested. II the offer came I would sure consider it." Daley is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Treasury Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The 52-year-old Sioux City native now living in Omaha says he still is very interested in the job. Daley said he visited with Zorinsky about the post after President Jimmy Carter's inauguration.

"Zorinsky told me he was going to have the best qualified person in there," he said. "So I had a little hope." "A week ago they would have been worth at least $15 apiece," he remarked. According to Helen Ruth Wagner, in charge of NU ticket sales, about half of some 150 proffered ducats found no takers Saturday morning. She blamed television for the demand fall-off. Too bad.

Had they known the outcome. Bear trappers from all over Nebraska would probably have come stomping in. Game results in Section whether to retain his old friend and adviser in that post would depend on how well he acquitted himself in his showdown with the senators. Committee Chairman Abraham Ribicoff, told Lance he sympathized with the "grueling three days" he had undergone about 20 hours in the witness 'ghair and commended his "complete patience and courtesy and good humor under most difficult circumstances." For Lance, the roughest moments came last, when Sen. Charles Percy, raised the airplane issue, challenged the ethics and legality of both his sale of the plane and his free use of it, and summed up the moral charge at the heart of all the allegations in the tangled Lance case: "His standards in the private sector," said Percy, "are not acceptable for a high government post." Bulldogged by Percy, Lance said he had sold the 10-year old personal plane to the Atlanta bank be headed in 1975 and then used it free of charge to attend football games and the Mardi Gras, and to ferry former national chairman Robert Strauss and Democratic bigwigs to Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign opener.

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STAFF PHOTO BV FPANK VARGA Bama-bound a bare-headed and beaten Bear found the walk across Memorial Stadium a long one. He's flanked by' Alabama troopers Bob Miller, left, and W. 0. Nichols. Cornhuskers hound Bama's Bear on, off field Joe Carroll The Sunday Journal and Star has learned Carroll and Daley are among the original applicants for the post.

Saturday's regionally televised game, incidentally, was played before a few empty seats for a change. It was still considered a sellout, but gaps were notably evident among Bama rooters in the stadium's southwest corner. With game tickets plentiful at half price, few sellers were more disappointed than Bob Yates of Scottsboro, Ala. He came up seven tickets long and was having trouble finding a buyer at $5 each. for $40,000 profit in 1975 and then took free rides on it.

Lance's long, defensive account of the aircraft issue including disclosure that the free trips sometimes mixed politics and pleasure with business completed his third and final appearance before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. The rare, 74 hour Saturday session was a grueling, tense affair in which Republicans repeatedly questioned the ethics and legality of Lance's private financial and banking affairs. But Lance gave no ground and, when the session ended at 6:45 p.m. EDT, President Carter's burly, seemingly unflappable budget director thanked the panel for his chance to correct "the half-truths, distortions and unfounded charges" leveled against him. Then he strode up to shake hands with each committee member.

"This hearing has been a personal ordeal for me and my family," Lance said in his closing statement. "I am satisfied that the American people now know me much better. "I shall return to my duties as director of the Office of Management and Budget with even a firmer sense of responsibility and dedication." Carter has indicated his decision TOLL FREE You can call the Journal-Star and place your Classified Advertising from anywhere in the State of Nebraska: By Dean Terrill The way they were buzzin' around the Big Bad Bear, you'd think he had dipped his paws in honey. Scads of photographers, both still and TV. Assistant Bama coaches constantly.

Players pulled out and players he back-patted in. And when they got the chance, autograph seekers galore. Especially when Paul Bryant left the field Saturday, he was surrounded like he was the guy with the ball. The Bear had been beaten. Treed or trapped if you prefer, but anyway the score was 31-24.

With his hide ready for tanning, the coach even needed uniformed help to make it home with his celebrated hounds' tooth hat. For safekeeping, an Alabama state trooper carried the fedora as the dejected coach took one of the longest walks ever across Memorial Stadium. Jaw set, he stared straight ahead, speechless. A seeming blackness replaced the scowl he had worn almost continually through four quarters four Lance's roughest moments ride over Georgia bank aircraft issue I.SIDE YOU'LL FID Action Line I2E Homp. Yard 6 7E Bankruptcies 9E Livi'iij Sec Budding MdildJVdy 9.I0D Council 6B Outdoor I0D County Agenda IE Real Estate 6E Deaths )E Religion I IC Editorial 4 5A Statenonse 2B Education SB Snorts Sec Farm 9E Thingi to Do 4B Financial 8 HE Want Aas 2F-I2G Gallup Poil I2A Weather 3B, FOCI'S: Section II Art 10 Travel 14,15 Auto Album .12 In View Books .12 Television Movies 2-5 Radio 10 Music 5-9 Coins 11 Old Nebraska 10 Crossword 11 Theater 4 stamps II Things to Do 2 From News Wires Washington Concluding 20 hours of testimony that could make or break his public career, Bert Lance disclosed Saturday he sold a plane to his own bank to states Moving away from property taxes Education burden shifts which are attempting to disengage the uneven power of the property tax from the financing of public education.

Several of the nation's most populous states California, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and several smaller ones are trying frantically to comply with the Serrano doctrine. As they do, it is becoming apparent that the Serrano case and its counterparts in other states are ending up at a different destination than they started for when the litigation began. Much of the original rationale for outlawing the property tax as a principal source for financing schools was to provide equity in taxation and education to raise the educational op- SCHOOLS continued page 6A Weather: Page 3E Tonight: Clear, cool Monday: Sunny, warm Monday's High 74 (23C) Low 52 (DC) It's been 20 years since Sputnik shook up Americans. Focus. Cohabitation raises more than moral questions.

The "living together" relationship is explored in the second part of the Living section's Changing Lifestyles series. Page IC. United Way has provided arms for Kate Cromwell, who cannot use her arms to take care of her children. Page 6B. Diller's village marshal, Lavern Engleman, traded badges and communities to become a part of a new concept in Thayer County consolidated law enforcement.

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Ad. By Robert Lindsey (c) 1977 Robert Lindsey Los Angeles John Anthony Serrano is 17 years old now and almost a man. He hardly remembers the beginnings of the legal storm that was to make "Serrano" a familiar word in the world of public education. He was only eight when his father entered a Los Angeles courtroom and made what was then considered, at most a curious claim: because schools are financed largely by property taxes, and because the Serranos lived in a community without expensive homes or factories, John Serrano was being unconstitutionally deprived of the kind of educational opportunity afforded children in the property-rich communities like Beverly Hills. The result of his lawsuit was the most important court ruling affecting American education since the U.S.

Supreme Court's 1954 Brown Board of Education decision outlawing racial segregation in public schools. In 1971, the California Supreme Court ruled that financing schools bv local property taxes alone because of wide variations in the value of taxable property in each school district was unconstitutional. A property tax, said the court, "invidiously discriminates against the poor because it makes the quality of a child's education a function of the wealth of his parents and his neighbors." The court would give the state until 1980 to devise a more equitable system of financing education. Although a U.S. Supreme Court decision eventually would deflate its impact, and an anti-Serrano backlash would develop, it has sent repressions through at least 29 other states, all of Brown signs $4.3 billion California school aid bill Sacramento, Calif.

(UPI) -Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. on Saturday signeti an unprecedented, $4.3 billion school bill designed to meet a court-ordered demand for equalized spending among districts. The new law also allows creation of local councils of students, parents, administrators and teachers to assume responsibility for many decisions in individual schools.

"This is a law that goes to the heart of the structure of education," Brown said. "It is the most significant educational reform, not only for this state, but anywhere in the country.".