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The Lincoln Star "Pose 20 Wednesday, April 77, 1983 Bellwood farmer sues N-Rich Plant Food Inc. over fertilizer Making a beeline from plane to ash tray sented the danger factors of the fertilizer and breached its express and implied warranties. Bohaty's attorney, David Hahn of Lincoln, said he is aware of four or five cases in the Columbus and Central City areas involving the fertilizer, which was sold through a distributor in Central City. Two other cases in which Hahn was involved were settled out of court for about $14,000 each, he said. Don Walton 14 From The Associated Press A Bellwood farmer has filed a federal lawsuit against N-Rich Plant Food Inc.

of Humboldt, S.D, alleging the company's fertilizer damaged his 1986 corn crop. In his lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court, Walter Bohaty alleges that he sustained $27,000 in damages after he applied the company's fertilizer to 243 acres of irrigated corn and 50 acres of dry land corn. Bohaty alleged that after he applied the fertilizer, his corn did not germinate properly and died shortly after germination. As a result, he was forced to replant many of his acres and to lose production on other acres.

Because the company should have known other farmers were experiencing problems with the product, it was negligent in failing to explain its potential dangers and in instructing him to use and, apply the fertilizer, Bohaty alleged. He also said the company misrepre rjTULi The following items in our ad in today's newspaper are delayed in shipment from the manufacturers. Rainchecks will be issued for these items: Zenith 1308 13 televisions, RCA FPR-725 26 televisions, Panasonic TR-511T 5 televisions, and Fisher AVS-6737 audiovideo systems. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. WORLD RADIO The first guy off Flight 555 from'SL Louis already had his pack of cigarettes in his hand as he made a beeline straight for the ash tray in the corner of the second-floor waiting area at Lincoln's airport.

Down went his briefcase, up went the cigarette into his mouth, lie lit it, picked up the briefcase and moved on. It looked like it had been a close caE NO SMOKING RULES went into effect on most airline flights in the United States over the weekend, and it's going to be a difficult adjustment for some people. Like the smoker who scoffed at the new regulations, telling a CNN interviewer this week that "prohibition didn't work either." And the guy with the briefcase. -1 shudder to think what might happen if he gets in a stack of airplanes circling in a holding pattern for an hour waiting to land at O'Hare some Friday night Or if he has to sit in the plane on the ground for an hour before it receives clearance for takeoff. A I think it behooves the airlines to combine a 1 quickly improved on-time performance with the new prohibitions on smoking.

Otherwise, peace and tranquility are at risk. As a non-smoker, I welcome the new rules. I just hope my smoking friends and relatives can accommodate their lives to the changes that are There are more coming, I would I expect that no-smoking rules will be extended one day soon to restaurants. That's where public smoking causes non-smokers the most trouble. But, hey, smokers have rights too.

There is, or at least used to be, a faculty member teacher. We probably have the normal percentage of drinkers where I work, but you might be surprised to know how few smokers there are among us. I was. Only about half a dozen in the newsroom. So much for that stereotype.

Our smokers are confined to enclaves now. They have as much freedom as the rest of us; they just cant bring their cigarettes with them. MANY OF MY SMOKING friends are very defensive about their habit, recognizing it damages their health and may over time reduce the quality of their lives or, ultimately, even end them. But they always resort at last to the bottom line: "You dont understand." Of course I dont Preachy? Judgmental? I hear that too. But there are more accurate words, like concerned.

If smoking ultimately is banned in public restaurants, I imagine private smoking restaurants and clubs might emerge. At that point, we'd be down to the nitty gritty. Would the smoker join his non-smoking friends or family members at the public restaurant? Or dine separately at the private club?" Or, of course, ask family and friends to go with; him or her into the smoking den so they can all be i together. That's sorta where we all were when this no-smoking fuss started. I guess we're going to try it the other way now.

And invite our smoking friends to come out into the fresh air and join us. on the UNL campus who expressed those sentiments quite clearly through a poster mounted on the office waL "Thank you for not jogging," it proclaimed. In the newsroom in which I work, we have an uneasy truce about smoking. I think it works rather well, but Tm not as bothered by smoke as some of my co-workers are. So conflict flares up occasionally, glows red hot briefly, simmers for awhile, then flickers and bums out Newspaper people usually are portrayed as hard-drinking, cigarette-smoking, high-strung neurotics slowly disintegrating under the constant pressure of deadlines.

But I discovered early on that there's a good way of dealing with whatever tensions might go with this kind of job. Just don't ask when the deadlines are. I dont ask, and I dont know. So much for that part of the pressure. Of course, some of us in this craft also have the' advantage of working for a morning paper.

It's the afternoon papers with their fast-approaching deadlines that are more likely to produce most of the basket cases. As for the pressure and tension of working for a newspaper, big deaL Try being a police officer. Or a 58 uesperaie itmes Desperate Measures Nebraska City district voters to consider bond issue to build new school facilities A shortage of foster homes and overworked caseworkers have left the state Department of Social Services in a crisis. Through numerous interviews reporter Ed Russo has learned that these conditions have led the department to place children with adults who have criminal records, or in homes that are ill suited to their needs or foster parent's capablities. Others say that at times the department withholds information about foster children from foster parents.

As one Department of Social Services official said, "Desperate times call for desperate measures." Don't miss the shocking truths behind foster care in this Sunday's Journal-Star. Jobbers Canyon demolition begins OMAHA (AP) Workers began to tear down a building owned by ConAgra Inc. in the historic Jobbers Canyon district to make way for a riverfront development plan that, includes a $30 million ConAgra headquarters and laboratories project 1 The U.S. Tire Building is the second building where demolition has begun. Work began last week on the former Duncan Mines plant owned by the Omaha Development Foundation.

Removal of the other buildings in the six-block Jobbers Canyon warehouse district won't begin until the riverfront redevelopment agreement is reached, probably in two weeks. Jobbers Canyon is a National Register Historic District Clearing of the buildings for riverfront development is being challenged in Douglas County District Court and federal court by People for Responsible Omaha Urban built in 1928. The district has three elementary schools in addition to the junior and senior high for its 1,320 students. If the bond issue is approved, it would add 39 cents per $100 valuation to the taxable property in the district, Superintendent James Withee sail District patrons currently pay a tax levy of $2.06 per $100 valuation. Monday the board of education selected the site for the middle school after eliminating 17 other proposals.

The area is between 16th and 21st streets and 8th and 10th avenues. Withee said the last time a school bond issue came up in the district was about 10 years ago and it failed on a 4258 percent vote. However, the district was successful in obtaining a $1.6 million federal grant and built Hayward Elementary School to replace two other elementary schools. The high school, built in 1964, was constructed from bond money, a proposal that was approved on the seventh attempt Keep Improving District Schools (KIDS), a citizens organization, has an extensive promotional campaign underway, Withee said. They are distributing brochures and fact sheets door-to-door, holding neighborhood coffees, and have formed a speaker's bureau.

"We think the bond issue proposal is a conservative program that will meet our needs for years to come," Withee said. Voters in Crete will vote on a proposed addition to Crete Municipal Hospital. The addition would accommodate two family practitioners and outpatient space. If approved, the addition would add approximately 10 cents per $100 valuation to the current $2.91 per $100 valuation levy. By Betty Stevens of The Lincoln Star NEBRASKA CITY Voters in the Nebraska City Public School District will be asked May 10 to vote on a proposed $4,960,000 bond issue.

And Crete voters will consider a proposed addition to the municipal hospital. If the Nebraska City proposal passes, it will provide funds to buy a site and build a new middle school for grades six through eight, as well as add 12,000 square feet to the senior high school That addition would include three classrooms, science laboratory, computer laboratory, research room for special education, art, typing, music, locker and multipurpose rooms. The new space Svould allow for a regrouping of grades, adding the ninth grade to the high school and eliminating the current junior high school which was unclai) JournaHcftar f5! Call 473-7300 for convenient home delivery. I Funk 1 2-year-old's art project wins state contest, places fourth in nationals FUNK (AP) When 12-year-old Tris-cia Erickson and her nine classmates designed Mother's Day cards as an art project, she had no idea her message to her mom would place fourth in national competition. The card Triscia designed won a state contest and then took fourth place in a national contest sponsored by Kentucky Fried! Chicken and Good Housekeeping magazine.

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