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iiahag Jmiraai aHSKrl Charles L. Wolff jr. Capital- giuto iimriml am mat Aew Section Warden Has Always Been Treatment Man LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SEPT. 19, 1971 SECTION Or Wne P.O. Box 8689, Ifncon, Nf 6850 Want a question answered? Action on something? Phone or write ACTION LINE, Sunday Journal and Star, giving name, town, daily paper (Journal, Star or Sunday) plus your request.

Unidentified calls or letters are not used. A pea name or initial will be used with the town only if requested by those who also provide their correct name, address. By MAR MARLETTE Chuck Wolff has always been a treatment man. He started in corrections that way, and now as new warden of the State Penal Complex he's assuming the top job just as hopeful new concepts of corrections are being expanded into the communities of Nebraska. He's making Inside changes, too.

Particularly in the controversial west cell block at the penitentiary. ACTIO HHI Do University of Nebraska Board of Regents members get complimentary football tickets? Is there any group that gets reduced rates for tickets? What happens when a student who has a season ticket graduates and then wants a season ticket like the general public? H.G.. Lincoln K'- fl 2 I- i program, you can't accomplish anything. "It's like bringing a guy up to major leagues and never letting him pitch. You get him all ready, but you're not letting him in the ball game." Under the work-release program, prisoners work at jobs in the free world alongside regular employes earning the same money and expected to do the same work.

Then, after the day's job is done, they return to prison. The value of slowly bringing men back to the community of giving them a chance to be constructively employed, paying the state for their keep, and sending money home to their families is tremendous, Wolff points out. Then, when finally released, work-release prisoners already have jobs they know they can handle, money in their pockets and the transition to free life is comparatively easy. Under a federal grant, Nebraska's work-release centers will soon be unity-based, correctionally-supervised living facilities located near downtown Lincoln and Omaha. Selected men will be allowed to live completely away from prison while working at their outside jobs.

And they won't be limited, as now, to work in Lincoln. Wolff foresees furloughs home for work-release men as a logical future development in the program. Assisted in Proposals Though initiated before he became warden, Wolff assisted in the original proposals which brought federal funds mmmmM Charles L. Wolff 40, began his career at the Complex when Maurice Sigler first became warden 12 years ago. He served longest as superintendent of Prison Industries (now Correctional Industries), where inmates learn work skills and produce items for sale to other governmental agencies and institutions.

He then became business manager and associate warden in charge of custody for a time, and was the first person to head the work-release program introduced here by the 1907 legislature. His last job before becoming warden was that of administrative assistant to Sigler a post handling, among other duties, the grievances of inmates. In most everything he's done, he's been working directly with the men committed to the complex for breaking the law. And, he says, "All I can see in corrections is, today you work as hard as you can to get each man ready for tomorrow." 'Not the Answer' "Institutions are not the answer," he asserted. "Here, you can only get a man prepared for success after he's out Without a community-based '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 ACTION LINE: Board of Regents members receive two complimentary tickets in the press box and "a limited number says NU public relations director George Round. Faculty, students and NU employes are entitled to one ticket if single and two tickets if married at reduced rates. The student who leaves school gives up that special rate privilege and must take his chance along with the remainder of the people seeking football tickets. Persons who currently hold season tickets both for the work-release centers and a skills training program about to get Continued: Page 6B, Col.l 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 locked until the fourth quarter, officials finally despaired and opened them, about halfway through the second.

a 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." 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 1 Ti i i tow mm, km tLZ L'A 'J I i mi, COUNTY GROWTH PATTERNS IN NEBRASKA 5 OS 1 i I ft a '3 1 I -TtHIB: i TJj 1 1 1 BWfT' 'i-i'jMRW "TivpT" fr' 11 usituffl.

I tV i 11' i 4 are given the chance to renew them each year. Other tickets arc on a first come, first serve basis. KrtOH LIHf I want to know if the State Game and Parks Commission could have published a list of names and addresses of those persons to whom antelope and deer permits are issued. 1 am interested in knowing how many out-of-state permits were issued as opposed to those issued to Nebraska residents. Carl Dailey, Lincoln ACTION LINE: The list is very long, too long to be published.

And it is still not complete, according to Ken Johnson, associate game chief of the State Game and Parks Commission. Last year, to give you a comparison, 30,023 deer hunting permits (rifle permits) were issued to Nebraskans at $10 each and 1,311 such licenses went to out-of-state hunters for $30 each. All the antelope permits went to Nebraskans, he said. Residents are given priority for all permits through an early application period June 15 to 31. If applications exceed the number of permits available, rcceipients are decided by drawing.

Only after July 1 are applications from nonresidents accepted on first come, first serve basis. Thus far this year, Johnson said, six of the 17 management units are filled. Four of these Blue, Nemaha, Wahoo and Elkhorn are filled with resident Nebraska permits. Archery applications are not limited in supply. For further information, write the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Box 30370, Lincoln, NE 68508.

If you have mailed your application recently and have not received reply, wait at least two weeks and then question the application. ACTION What is the use of placing airmail letters In a special box when it is dumped into a sack along with all other type mail? S.B., Lincoln EMlilil In excess of both state and national growth rates. 1 I 4t mm Between the state and national growth rates. A Growth below both the state and national rates. Decline or no growth.

11 1 fl' I 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 Wallace Report on 1960s Nebraska Still Relies On Its Agriculture For Economic Growth 4 Warden Charles Wolff Jr. at the door to the west cell block. Homicide Charge Expected In Shooting Death of Mao iff ACTION LLNE: Lincoln Postmaster Kenneth Lewis says the carrier is instructed to keep airmail letters separate and the carrier you observed mixing the mail in one sack did so incorrectly. Or, he says, perhaps the carrier was using a mail sack with a separate compartment for the airmail letters you could not see. In any event, Lewis urges continued use of the special airmail drop boxes to speed service.

Mrs. Judy Sturm Harvey L. Sturm 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 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 "Homicide charges of some sort" are expected to be filed Monday against Mrs. Judy Sturm, 28, 2710 Arlington, in connection with the early Saturday morning shotgun slaying of her 31-year-old husband, Harvey L. Sturm, according to Lancaster County Atty. Paul Douglas.

Mrs. Sturm was arrested by police after a neighbor, Raymond K. Anderson, 2750 Arlington, called them at 3:31 a.m. to report a shooting incident. Douglas said Mrs.

Sturm went to the Anderson house with her children following the incident. He said police found Mr. Sturm in the bedroom of his home. He had been wounded by two blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun. The couple's two children, a girl, 7, and a boy, 18 months, were in the care of Mrs.

Sturm's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cline, 4144 No. ACTIO UHl 70th, following the incident. Mr.

Sturm was taken to Lincoln General Hospital by ambulance and died there at about 4 a.m. An autopsy was later conducted at St. Elizabeth Community Health Center at Douglas' request, i Mr. Sturm was employed as a bakery route salesman. Police said Mrs.

Sturm was unemployed. Mr. Sturm's relatives reside in Topeka, Kan. 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 What is the status of Wilderness Park? When will it be open for the public? Wondering, Lincoln ACTION LINE: Herb Cords, Lincoln's park superintendent, says the area about 1,400 acres parallel to Salt Creek south of Pioneers Boulevard should be partially open by the spring of 1972. Plans are now being designed by an architect, he says and work such as mowing and weeding fthe area continues. Kinclieloe Firing immHeR Wo ay Signal Major County Board Battle Address responses to Volunteer Bureau, Rm. 22S Lincoln Center Bldg.

215 S. 15, Lincoln, Nb. G8508 Author's analysis entire county. The rest of the county officials "couldn't be getting along better" he said. Another has suggested that with Lancaster Manor the primary issue all along, Colin has now boxed himself in and may turn into a "one-termer." "I don't think he will be able to get anything done, now," he said.

A county employe has commented that the commissioners are "acting like children" and suggested: "If they would just sit down together and figure what to do, things would work out." Comments from county officials and employes have indicated controversies between the commissioners have become somewhat of a joke in the County-City Building. One wag has suggested the publicized "DMZ" which supposedly runs east-west down the middle of the building dramatizing a gulf of cooperation between the county and city, actually runs north and south and dramatizes the apparent inability of county officials to get along with each other. There appears to be a noticeable amount of defensiveness on the part of county officials about their form of government. No matter what the issue, their comments and attitudes seem to indicate blowups among the commissioners will only see one loser county government. By ROGER IIIRSCH Last week's blowup over the firing of Lancaster Manor chief maintenance engineer Lennie Kincheloe could turn into a major blood-letting among the commissioners.

County-City Building observers, including county officials, have pointed to Lancaster Manor as the chief bone of contention among veteran commissioners Kenneth Bourne and William Grossman and newcomer Robert Colin Sr. The county got into the nursing home business just over two years ago, when Commissioners Bourne and Grossman, along with former Commissioner Ralph Harlan, announced purchase of the old St. Elizabeth Hospital property at 12th and South for $530,000. This week, according to statistics compiled from figures obtained in the county clerk's office, the total cost approaches nearly $1.5 million, including the purchase price, remodeling, equipping, and maintenance costs. Since Colin arrived on the County Board, some have been wondering what shape the new board would take and whether issues would surround Lancaster Manor.

The combined power of Bourne and Grossman, although a political mutation (Bourne is Republican, Grossman a Democrat), has proved very effective in continuing previous County Board policies. Do You Care? Enough to assist with a young hunters clinic from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. One Hundred and fifty male instructors, assistants and aides needed.

Do You Care? Enough to assist in a school situation for very young mentally retarded children one session a week either in the morning or afternoon? Eight people are needed. Do You Care? Enough to be a special friend to elderly shut-ins living in their own homes? Ten people are needed. During the past week 15 persons contacted the Volunteer Bureau of the Lincoln Area concerning volunteer work, according to Mrs. Harriet Anderson, executive director. Of these 14 are doing volunteer work at Madonna Professional Care Center, Y-Pals, YWCA special program, Lancaster County Mental Health, Child Care Center, Head Start and PEP.

One person is being processed. Colin has been unable to crack now common 2-1 votes over matters dealing with the Civil Defense director, publication of the county agenda, purchasing practices, identification of county vehicles, recommendations on a county manager bill pending for the 1972 Legislature, and now the firing of an employe. Previously sedate County Board meetings, which virtually saw no break in the 3-0 vote pattern for 10 years, now have turned into debate sessions. Even the normal approval of county claims has prompted questioning and argument over county policies. Those debates, although unrelated to the nursing home, were interpreted as reflecting the primary issue operation of Lancaster Manor.

Now that the issue is coming into the open, what of it? One county official has complained that continual arguments among the commissioners has reflected on the.