Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 7

Thursday, Feb. 21, 1980 Lincoln, Neb. Journal 7 Public broadcaster praises KUCV Raises overlooked for some PSC staff as start toward state public radio "I go along with him doing study and making recommendations, but we dont have to be MAKE US AN OFFER SALE 1 WOOD STOVES HUMIDIFIERS 1 By Jack Kennedy Union College radio station KUCV could become the key station in a privately financed Nebraska public radio network, Betsy Dirnberger of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said Wednesday. The corporation's radio projects manager praised the newly expanded station and called public non-commercial radio "the last, great audio laboratory in the world," where new program ideas will be born. "The pioneer spirit is alive and well in public broadcasting," she said, and commercial broadcasters need not fear it.

KUCV has applied to the cor- bound by those," be sail "There should be a top as wen as a bottom on salaries." In other business, the commission tentatively approved an application from Martin Wulf of Eagle to provide bus service, by means of passenger vans, from Eagle to Gateway Shopping Center and the Have-lock business district However, Wulf will not be able to start service until the commission formally gives him authority to do so. No protests have been filed, but the commission must receive several reports before it grants permission, expected in about three weeks. LAU-POWERED HUMIDIFIERS NORDIC WOODSMAN FRONTIER-UPLAND GLOWMASTER SUBURBAN-MONARCH "If KUCV continues to grow, they could be like the flagship station of the state," she said. A corporation grant carries with it National Public Radio Network membership. KUCV could feed network programs to other non-commercial stations by satellite or ground lines, Ma Dirnberger said.

Stations could be added as private funds become available, offering flexible programming for various parts of the state, she said. KUCVs long-range plans include a repeater station in the Grand Island area, after the parent Lincoln station has reached maturity. KUCV is one of more than 200 public stations seeking first-time grants for coverage expansion, Ms. Dirnberger said. The field has been narrowed to 30 stations and 10 winners will be named in March.

Only 211 of the more than 2,000 U.S. public radio stations meet the corporation's performance standards, she said. Union College and Lincoln generally have shown they'll support the station, Ms. Dirnberger said. KUCV raised $16,000 in a membership drive that ended last week and earlier got more than $100,000 for equipment.

The initial grant would be for staff and operations, not equipment, Station Manager Eric Graham said. By Jake Thompson The Nebraska Public Service Commission overlooked cost-of-living salary increases that about 18 of its employees should have received this year, Commissioner Eric Rasmus-sen of Fairmont said Wednesday. Rasmussen said a 7 percent salary increase was approved for all state employees by the 1979 Legislature, but he learned of the commission's oversight only last week in a legislative budget hearing to consider this year's increases. The commission misinterpreted the Legislature's provision for salary increases, he said. "We seem to be the only agency in the state that didn't give salary increases everyone else got," Rasmussen said.

"In my opinion, we should now make an effort to correct this error." Nor did the commission exercise its authority to grant 3 percent merit increases as the Legislature intended, he said, explaining that such increases were given to about seven of approximately 50 employees who would qualify. "We're having enough problems with morale around, here already," he said. Rasmussen requested that commission Executive Secretary Terry Kubicek study employee salaries and recommend increases. Commission Chairman Jack Romans of Ord disagreed with Rasmussen. DO IT YOURSELF OR LET US INSTALL CREDIT TERMS AVAILABLE 90 DAYS SAME AS CASH I FIRE PLACE INSERTS SUBURBAN LA HEATER ADD-ON WOOD FURNACES MONARCH SUBURBAN VOLCANO Tabitha's director resigns to take Minneapolis job Betsy Dirnberger poration for a $34,000 expansion grant Nebraska commercial broadcasters have led opposition to a proposed state-financed public radio network, but Stuart Broadcasting has been a major donor to KUCV's private fund-raising efforts.

Gov. Charles Thone has said he supports KUCV but would veto Sen. Steve Fowler's public radio bill Commercial and public broadcasters are competitors in a sense, Ms. Dirnberger said. "It's called marketplace reality, but it shouldn't be threatening.

What on Earth is commercial radio afraid of?" she asked. "It's kind of like the mouse and the elephant. "It's probably time to get a new plan to update an earlier Nebraska public radio study," she said. "I think the Legislature lost a durned good bet" by not creating a public radio network when the public television system began in 1963, she said. Many other energy efficient products and services available at: said he is proud of Tabitha's recent accomplishments, citing the growth of the home health agency and the success of the hospice program for the dying.

"I'm proud of the fact that Tabitha has been a real leader, one of the few leaders, in developing new ways of dealing with the problems of aging people," he said. Alfred Sward, chairman of the Tabitha board, said a search committee of board members will be appointed Thursday night to seek a Tabitha Home Director Harold Norby has resigned, effective April 15, to assume a similar job in Minneapolis. He said he has accepted a position as president of the Ebenezer Society of Minneapolis, a group managing several corporations that provide services to the elderly. "It is a unique opportunity with a highly visible national organization," he said. "I'd have a hard time turning it down." Norby, who has been at Tabi-tha for more than 11 years.

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