Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 5

A Lincoln Evening Journal and Nebraska State Journal Saturday, October 5, 1963 P.M. 5 Old U.S. 34-State 2 Gets New Location, New Look November 1 Workmen are putting the finishing touches on a brand new four-mile segment of U.S. 34-Neb. 2 northwest of Lincoln, a busy road which up to now just wouldn't stay put.

With one sweeping curve, the new road will 1 take traffic from the junction of Interstate Highways 80 and 180 westward to a junction with the present line of U.S. 34 at Woodlawn corner. The old Highway 34 was moved once to make room for Lincoln Air Base. It was disrupted again to allow a second runway at the Base, now being built. The next move will take the road well to the north of the Base, where it should stay for a long time.

Most of the four new miles are of the four lane divided type, like the Interstate Highway. The new road will be an extension of Interstate 180, which will also be numbered U.S. 34 into downtown Lincoln. Nebraska Dept. of Roads officials expect the new segment, including an access.

road to the north gate of LAFB, to be finished by about November 1. 80.180 Interstate New U.S. Piles of sand and earth are ready to be placed as base for asphalt shoulders along new U.S. 34 segment passing through rolling farmland. Twin viaducts just south of Westview County Farm take the new road over Union Pacific Railroad and a county road.

Omahan E. F. Pettis, Ex-Lincolnite, Dies and civic circles here for many years, Saturday at the age of 69. He was hospitalized later Friday. deis Store Pettis had been associated Investment with the Brandeis store here the board for about 30 years.

At the firms. time of his death he was sec- He was of both Bran- Ak-Sar-Ben retary died at a hospital Omaha (UPI)-Edward Fitch Pettis, leader in business and the Brandeis and was on of directors of both President of the board of gov- sidiary of the Omaha National Bank. He left that position in 1935 to take over as credit manager for the Brandeis store. ernors in 1954, 1955 and 1956. Pettis, a lover of often said that his hobbies were "civic work and business." Born in Lincoln Feb.

21, 1894, Pettis was the son of a prominent Lincoln attorney. He attended Lincoln High School and for two years attended the University of Nebraska. His first job out of school was with the Lincoln Trust a firm he began working for while attending college. He came to Omaha in 1920, to become a vice president of the Omaha Trust a sub- His numberous activities included chairmanship of the Omaha Committee for the College Baseball World Series and a number of Chamber of Commerce posts. He was interested in the midget baseball team sponsored by Brandeis and was a regular spectator a at the midget Sunday games.

Pettis was the 56th king of Ak-Sar-Ben. He was given that honor in 1950. 180 interchange 34 2 Base NEBRASKA TODAY Journal Leader Dog Holdrege (UPI) -The Lions club here has received word the second leader dog from this area has been assigned to a blind person. Mrs. Catharina Seitzinger of Indiana was recipient of the dog which was donated by Mr.

and Mrs. Verlin Anderson of Loomis last May. Shapiro Says Censors Victims of Anxiety' Richmond, Ind. (UPI) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Karl Shapiro said here that persons who criticize litera- Mother, Son Escape as Car Hit by Train. A Lincoln woman, 20, and her 22-month-old son escaped injury when a Rock Island train hit her 1955 model sedan at a crossing on 19th between and and demolished the vehicle.

Police said Mrs. Charlene Cotton, of 1803 told them vehicle stalled on the tracks and she was unable to re-start it. She saw the train coming so she grabbed her little boy and got out of the automobile. Franze D. Fielder, 47, of Fairbury, engineer, said the train was traveling south at about 18 m.p.h.

He said he applied the emergency brakes but couldn't stop before the collision. ture as obscene may be victims of anxiety. Shapiro, professor of English at the University of Nebraska, spoke at dedication ceremonies for the new Lilly Library at Earlham College. He scored efforts to censor literature while discussing new forms of poetry and the freedom to experiment with it. "What is obscene for one person may not be obscene for another," he said.

"A word 80 Road Access U.S. 8 Air view of $1.1 million project, which adds two traffic lanes; eliminates several curves; replaces a railroad grade crossing with a twin overpass at and includes a new Oak Creek bridge and access road to Lincoln Air Force Base at 2. Workmen on railroad viaducts drivers to have this new view of Air Base. Misko Says Opponents Of Policy Behind Push State Banking Director Ralph Misko said his efforts to modernize state banking laws to have him resign. Misko made the comment in connection with an attormey general's opinion he must resign or cancel a contract to buy an interest in the state-chartered First Security Bank at Holdrege.

Misko said he must abide by the opinion made in connection with LB751 passed by the last Legislature. That bill, which takes effect Oct. 19, contains a conflict of interest provision barring the banking director from having any interest in banks under his Supervision. Misko said he still feels his contract, which is not to take effect until December of 1964, does not constitute a conflict of interest. Misko said he will make a decision about resigning after returning to Lincoln next week from Virginia where he is attending a banking convention.

Coonrad Rites Held in Lincoln Funeral services for Rollin (Tal) 52, were held Saturday at St. John's Catholic Church here. Burial was in Lincoln. Coonrad was director of the Nebraska Division of Employment Security. He collapsed after attending an 0 ah a meeting Wednesday evening and died in a hospital the next day.

I Air Base To Seward Big Explorer, 8, Is Halted Falls City (UPI) Authorities intercepted and turned back a boy, 8, who was pedaling toward Kansas City to seek his fortune. The youngster was stopped near the state line, south of here on Highway 73, by Deputy Sheriff Junior Hollens. The boy had $9 in his pocket and a girl's bicycle which was taken from the Berthel Kelley home in Falls City. The youth said he had earned the money working at the Missouri Pacific Roundhouse, but his mother said that he had worked it out of her pocketbook at home. The boy, who lives with his mother here, has a habit of running away from home, authorities said.

Service Monday For L. Sawyer Royal (P Funeral services will be held at the Brunswick Community Church Monday for Leonard H. Sawyer, 71, a prominent northeast Nebraska band director. Mr. Sawyer died at a Tilden hospital three weeks after he suffered a stroke.

A resident of Royal all his life, Mr. Sawyer was a veteran of World War I. He started teaching band in seven schools in this area in 1947. For about the last three years he had taught only at Royal. 4 Added To Road Fatalities may have resulted in pressure March of POWs To Be Traced Omaha (UPI) Former prisoners of war who were in Oflag 64.

in Poland will be able to trace their march of 500 miles on a giant map at their first reunion in Omaha Oct. 19-20. An enlarged wall map 12 feet by four feet will show the long march from Poland into central Germany which the officers marched during January, February and March of 1945. Highlights of the march will be noted, such as the- woods in which many frozen Russians were found, the town in which Heinrich Himmler "inspected" the prisoners, and where the POW's saw their first missiles and jet planes used by the Nazis. Pilot Concedes Russia Leading Omaha (P) An X-15 rocket pilot has conceded in Omaha that the Soviet Union has at least a partial lead in the race to space.

Because of this, Maj. Robert A. Rushworth said, the Russians are not likely to join the United States in a cooperative venture into space. He said the Russian advantage lies in a more powerful I booster rocket. Traffic Fatalities 1963 1962 Nebraska 259 277 Lancaster County 13 20 Lincoln 4 6 Four more names have been added to the state highway death toll.

The victims: Scott Everett Wood, 14 months, Ogallala. Wallace Brown, 50, of Elwood. Rollen F. Kirby, 19, of Naper. Albert DeJung, 68, of Edgar.

Criminal Law Post to O'Neal Walter C. O'Neal of O'Neal Krause of Lincoln has been appointed Nebraska state chairman of the membership committee of the section of criminal law of the American Bar Assn. O'Neal has several times been successful in obtaining the dismissal of state criminal charges on illegal search and seizure grounds, while acting as defense attorney for the state. 2 Apartments Burglarized -Two apartments at 1340 were entered by someone who slipped a thin instrument between the doors and door casings and tripped the locks. Thomas Pendleton told police some money, a knife, wristwatch and pistol were taken from his quarters.

He estimated the loss at $196. Gordon W. Arnold said about $6,50 in change was taken from his apartment. used in literature is not the same as a word written on a school wall by a 14-year-old boy." Shapiro won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1945. Burned Up Reading, England (UPI) -The British Army told soldiers at Poperinghe Barracks they would have to pay for uniforms destroyed when their quarters burned down while they were on weekend leave.

Young Wood was killed Saturday when a car driven by a neighbor backed over him in a city alley. Policeman Bill Harless said the victim was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Wood: Harless said Mrs. Paul Walker backed her car out of the garage preparatory to cleaning the garage and was not aware of the boy's presence until she looked back and saw the tot's mother holding him in her arms.

Brown died Friday when he apparently lost control of his car. on a county, road about seven miles northeast of Bertrand. The vehicle overturned. Kirby died Friday of injuries suffered Sept. 28 when his tractor overturned.

DeJung, a farmer, was killed when his car went out of control Friday and overturned on a gravel road about 10 miles southeast of Clay Center..