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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1989 LINCOLN, NE. JOURNAL 1 CIZDnASKALinCCLn state- 'tomtit's make dleiilt drongM fligfi winds, hail accompany heavy rains Sunday and Monday west of Lexington about 8:30 p.m. By Staff Wrttera and Nwn Sorvlcaii atrice 40, Fairbury 2.38 and Dorchester 3.60 inches. The rain was welcome most everywhere, though it caused some havoc at the Nebraska State Fair and in state parks. Mud limited State Fair parking spaces and the east gate already was closed to vehicles by 10:30 am Monday.

The Monday morning storm, in its fast sweep across the state, left some damage from high winds and haiL A man was injured when a trailer blew onto a pickup truck at Valentine, authorities said. The injured man was treated for cuts and bruises Sunday night at the Cherry County Hospital and released, Administrator Brent Peterson said. The National Weather Service said 100-mph winds were recorded in the storm that also knocked down concrete walls of two hangars at the Valentine Airport. Extensive damage was recorded to one of seven airplanes being stored in the two buildings. Authorities said there were reports of 2 feet of hail at Crookston west of Valentine.

The winds broke tree limbs, downed power lines, damaged several small storage buildings and several automobiles about 9:30 p.m. Sunday, a spokesman for the Cherry County sheriffs office said. Hail as large as golfballs was reported by the Nebraska State Patrol on Interstate 80 about five miles About that same time, a trucker1 told the Sheridan County sheriffs office nail was 4 to 6 inches deep along US. 20 in extreme northwest Nebraska. Don Ash, who lives at the Thomas Lake area near Ashland, reported a mobile home blown off its foundation, several small storage sheds blown away and several large trees were blown down when the storm whipped through there about 2 am Monday.

A flash flood warning was in effect for portions of east-central Nebraska until 6:30 am Monday after heavy thunderstorms rolled through that portion of the state. Columbus reported 190 inches of rain in the 24-hour period ending at 7 am Monday. Ord had 4.10 inches, Fairbury 2.52, Omaha 2.77, Broken Bow 2.44, Grand Island 2.19 and Norfolk 2.06 inches of rain. The National Weather Service said Omaha's 2.77 inches of rain from midnight to 7 a.m. made Monday the wettest Sept 4 in the 118 years of record-keeping at the North Omaha weather station.

Schuyler reported some power lines and larger trees downed by a strong storm that moved through there just before midnight, while 2 inches of rain in a short period left water running curb deep before midnight in Hooper, the weather service said. like the dinosaur replicas on display near Folsom Children's Zoo, the word "drougit" soon may be extinct in Lincoln and across much of Nebraska. Sunday and Monday mornings in the Capital City looked more like monsoon than drought Churchgoers added umbrellas to their Sunday finest as 1.11 inches rain fell between the beginning of early services and the morning's final benedictions. Most Uncolnites were in bed when the Monday morning storm arrived about 2 am, but a spectacular lightning show and pounding thunder awakened many. Before dawn, another 1.42 inches had fallen at the National Weather Service office at the airport.

The twoKiay total of 2.53 inches brought to 6.53 inches the total recorded at the airport since Aug. 15. At that time, Lincoln was nearly 9 inches below normal for the year. By Monday, the deficit had been reduced to less than 5 inches (16.65, compared with a normal of 21.03). Totals across the Capital City varied, with two-day totals at Lincoln fire stations averaging 2.81 inches.

More than 3 inches was recorded by many home rain gauges. Southeast Nebraska totals included: Utica 1.45, Hickman 2.90, Roca 3.20, Brainard 1.80, Malcolm 3.15, Be Anti-drug group seeks prayer month OMAHA (AP) Omaha Community Coalition Project Safe, a group formed to battle drugs and gangs, is asking Omaha residents to designate September as a month of prayer. "We ask that for the entire month, Omahans win pray in their places of worship, in their families and as individuals that God win guide us, give us courage, give us wisdom and give us the win to address the problem of gangs, drugs and violence," said Fred Schott, coordinator of the coalition. 1 City Councilman Fred Conley, the coalition's staff director, said a month of prayer would focus people's thoughts and energies and help build a communitywidt consensus. Retirement project to begin at Columbus COLUMBUS (AP) Several community groups say construction of a $3 minion retirement facility is to, begin this faU at a 20-acre site.

Columbus was competing with other communities to acquire the 60-unit retirement faculty, said Dwayne Smith of the Columbus Economic Development Council. The official announcement was made by representatives of the United Presbyterian Welfare a Columbus-based Citizens Advisory Committee, Columbus' Economic Development Council and Dean E. Alter and Associates Architects of Lincoln. The center of the Columbus project wffl include a one-story structure built on 8.5 acres. There win be 60 living units, including some with kitchens.

Waste site opponents schedule Nora rally NORA (AP) Groups that oppose a low-level radioactive waste faculty in Nebraska have scheduled a rauy Sept 17 in Nora. The rafiy to be held about two miles from one of three sites considered for the facility win feature a talk by Marvin Resnikoff, founder of the Radioactive Waste Campaign, based in New York City. i Radioactive Waste Campaign as-. sists local groups opposed to the federal government's and nuclear indus-N try's waste generation and disposal policies. A11 Ufa's (t.

Mi iiT-t r-i 4 4f I mi xi.ll fj UltH, ill -DlH lflciC SO IuX 7 I St Paul bond issue to be decided Nov. 7 ST. PAUL (UPI) Residents wffl vote Nov. 7 on a $1.7 minion school bond issue. If approved, the money would finance a new gymnasium, computer classrooms and a high school principal's office.

Officials to discuss Crawford water needs CRAWFORD (UPI) Adjutant General Stanley Heng; George Beat-tie, who win become state Agriculture Department director Oct and Sen. Sandra Scofield of Chadron wffl meet Tuesday with Crawford representatives to discuss the community's water problems and possibile state aid, said Gary Person, director of the governor's western Nebraska office. Problems arose when the White River became clogged with ash and silt after a forest and range fire near Fort Robinson State Park in July. Omahan sentenced in boyfriend's slaying OMAHA (UPI) Douglas County District Judge Patrick MuUen sentenced CoUeen R. Harris, a mother of four children, to five years in prison for the killing of her former boyfriend.

Harris, 33, pleaded no contest to manslaughter in March. She argued with Brian Peterson, 26, about their relationship on Nov. 29 and then fired a shotgun at him. MuUen said there was no evidence of self-defense and no indication of remorse or concern by Harris after she shot Peterson in the chest Mullen said the shooting was senseless. Harris' four daughters, ages 16, 14, 12, and 10 wept as she was handcuffed and led from the courtroom.

Heiningford High said overcroweded HEMINGFORD (UPI) A Hem-- ingford High School enrollment increase is overcrowding some class-' rooms, school officials say. Superintendent of Schools Don Hanks said the enrollment is up 19 to 178 and future figures indicate crowding wffl continue. Officials are planning to expand the school A school bond election might be held in May. Tir Law enforcement officials said they worked around the clock but stffl were unable to keep up with complaints of drunken driving, littering, disturbances, vandalism and theft Corns said the Labor Day celebration': resulted only in some arrests for minors in possession of alcohoL Cloudy skies and low water levels contributed to a smaller turnout at Lake McConaughy on Saturday, said Roger Knowlton, lake superintendent He estimated the crowd at 1228 visitors, "down quite a bit" from past years' Labor Day weekends. "If anybody stayed away, it was the people who couldnt control themselves anyway," he said.

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Dryden and Christensen said gauery directors who have seen some of the pieces are equauy "impressed and excited" The current tour is being made possible in part by a grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance. Retail sales up 25 in state from '82 to '87 Sales of Nebraska retaU stores with paid employees rose from $6.8 billion to $8.5 billion during a five-year period tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau's 1987 Census of RetaU Trade recorded the 25 percent increase between 1982 and 1987. The national increase was estimated at 44 percent for the same period.

Douglas County, which includes Omaha, had 1987 retail sales of $2.9 Ninon. Lancaster County, including Lincoln, had $1.3 billion. Grocery stores in the state recorded the highest sales in the 1987 figures at $1.6 billion, an increase of 18 percent for the five-year period. New-car dealers reached $1.5 bfflion, up 45 percent, and department stores with 25 or more employees hit $1 bfflion, up 57 percent The bureau said copies of the report, which includes additional information, wffl become available for sale within a few weeks from the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C., for $3 each. For three years, Don Chrlstensen, Blagdon of Stapleton for a touring JJORTH PLATTE (AP) What were once the puzzling contents of an old shed on the Garfield Table near Stapleton are now ready to become the focus of an exhibit that win tour art galleries throughout the country.

For more than 30 years, Emery Blagdon had created the mystical, artistic pieces from strands of wire, folded ton, bits of tin and wood, plastic and ribbon and whatever. I More than 700 of the seemingly strange creations were crowded into the Table shed. They hung from the rafters and the walls; they were stacked deep against the walls and covered the floor. I George Neubert, director of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Says Blagdon's creations are the work of an artist with a vision. The fact that the pieces should have become gallery material, rather than what might have been landfill destiny, also, is thanks to vision.

They were cataloging, cleaning and preparing Blagdon did not claim to be an artist He would teU Dryden of the "healing machines" that he was creating. Dryden's memories of Blagdon remained with him even after he left North Platte. When Dryden and Christensen returned to North Platte for their 20th class reunion in 1986, Dryden wanted Christensen to meet the elderly gentleman. They arrived at what had been his home to find it posted with estate auction sale bills. A peek into the shed revealed that the "healing machines" of Blagdon's vision were stffl there.

The two returned for the auction a few weeks later and bought an of the shed's contents as a single package. Three years' work It has taken the two friends the past three years to inventory and catalog the pieces in preparation for exhibit Sixty-four of the pieces, in both two and three dimensions, and ranging in size from several inches to several feet, were crated and shipped for their first major exhibit 'On Friday, they made their premiere at the North Art Center in Atlanta. In the ensuing months, they wffl be displayed in ganeries in Sauna and Lawrence, and Flint, Mich. Neubert acknowledged feeling "emotionally overwhelmed" after seeing Blagdon's works for the first time. In terms of quantity, consistency and quality he called Blagdon's body of work "one of the great contributions" by a Ne-braskan.

Neubert said the Sheldon wffl be assisting in publishing a catalog of Blag SOUTHEAST 4630 Antelope Creek (Van Dom Ptaza Arw) 483-5310 Bttfj 4 I "You person and stSSI Diet Ann inches SH3I1T LCi3 1 left, and Dan Dryden have been art exhibition. saved because of the vision of two New York City men who are North Platte natives. s. Bought at auction After Blagdon's death in 1986, Dan Dryden and Don Christensen bought the shed's contents at the auction of Blagdon's estate. "We knew the pieces had to be preserved.

We knew they were something far beyond pieces of twisted wire and foil," said Christensen. The pieces are largely geometric in execution, a single piece sometimes comprised of hundreds of shapes amd attachments. "It can only be said that what he created in each piece was guided by his own vision. Each has its own distinct design parameters," said Dryden. Dryden had first met Blagdon when the man, who lived largely in solitude, would occasional come to Dryden's pharmacy in North Platte seeking "earth elements." "We have done everything possible.

There are not a lot of things that we can do to locate him. We've forgotten how to relax for a long time. We didnt notice things like flowers, beauty, nature," she said. Although the Gosches have maintained their marriage and careers, thoughts of Johnny's disappearance wffl always haunt them, she said. "The terrible pain is not knowing what happened.

What did they do to him? What if he is stffl alive? There are a lot of she said: Johnny disappeared Sept 5, 1982, as he was about to deliver Sunday newspapers in his neighborhood. The case may be linked to the Aug. 12, 1984, disappearance of another carrier, Eugene Martin, in a Des Moines south-side neighborhood about seven miles from the Gosch home But investigators have uncovered almost no leads in either case and have no evidence to connect the two. The Gosch home is quiet Noreen Gosch's two children from a previous marriage have left home. Johnny was the couple's only child.

She works fun time as office manager for a company that sens cleaning products to institutions. She also operates a small after-hours business selling women's knit clothing and jewelry. John Gosch is employed by a farm chemical company and on weekends tends a 40-acre farm a snort drive from home. Iowa family finds peace9 7 years after son vanishes OGALLALA (AP) Beefed-up law enforcement has proved successful in keeping the peace at Lake McConaughy this holiday weekend and probably win be used again next summer if more state money is made available, authorities say. About 60 local, county and state law officers joined forces for the Labor Day weekend as part of a project dubbed Big Mac Attack, to avoid a recurrence of the trouble that erupted at Nebraska's largest lake during, the Fourth of July weekend.

"An the reports we have gotten so far have been good," Keith County Sheriff Wayne Young said Sunday. Young said requests for additional state appropriations wffl be made so that a similar effort can be made next year for the major summer holidays. Nebraska State Patrol Capt Stewart Corns said the lake area was much calmer than it was during the Fourth of July weekend. Two Colorado youths were injured during the Independence Day celebration as a record crowd of nearly 80,000 visitors converged oh the lake. USED CARTRIBCIHS REMAN.

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"After a certain point there's no reason to keep the room like a shrine," said Noreen Gosch. "It's not healthy for people who live here." Johnny's smafl upstairs bedroom had been left as it was, fined with "Star Wars" pictures, toy rockets and spaceships and a notebook divided into "English," "Math" and "Science." But the seventh-grader's things have been removed and the room wffl become an office for his mother, who has become a businesswoman, a career she started, in part, to Ul the void of having lost a son. "I dont know if I can mentauy relate to a 20-year-old boy because the clock stopped at 12 years old in this house. The night before he was kidnapped, he started to go upstairs anc' he put his arms around me and said, 'Mom, I reany love That was the last we saw of him." Once angry and combative, Gosch said she has meUowed. She no longer lashes out at police for allegedly botching the investigation and says she has accepted a "peace" about her loss, an understanding that nothing else can be done.

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