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Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 6

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Problems fi f--f-it-)' i 'i ti nr-nimin ft i "Response To People Lacking' Muny League Hears Lugar By SCOTT IIOOBER North Platte If one is wise, Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar said, "one does not trust jCfaroltt Second Font Page Vity Life LINCOLN, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1970 P.M. PAGE 6 i Hi mini i Crescent Greens Park Plan Is Expanded Salt Valley Watershed Dist. General Manager Hal Schroeder (left) explained goals and accomplishments of the organization to 20 Yugoslavians Thursday. Translating his remarks to the group were Jakov Sunjic (seated, right foreground) and Petar Strineka.

Agriculture Changes Vital in '70s Ebers Superior a TStoMunds U.N. Cojital Lake If I Ag College Holdrege QLf(( Street onl Von Porn I 2 1 Old Cheney Road 5P1 L-- 1. Scout Camp Expansion 5. CoK Count 2. Teenage Pavilion 3.

Family Park 7. Boating 4. Senior-age Park Crescent Greens will provide an eight-mile long corridor of parkland through' Lincoln along Salt Creek. 1 Bel Cash Bid Stale Game Commission By HAROLD SIMMONS Law' enforcement problems at state recreation areas that run the gaiiut from drugs to sex to vandalism to alcohol to illegal swimtning is going to force the Skte Game Commission to take the unprecedented btep of seeking state tax dollars to hire additional law enforcement personnel. Assistant GaWe Commission Director Frank) Foote told Salt Valley Watershed District directors that the commission will ask the 1971 Legislature for approximately $60,000 to hire additional Conservation officers.

The commission presently has 43 conservation officers, he said, and theh" salaries and costs are paid by hunting and fshing license fees. However, Foite said, the law enforcement problems encountered at voter recreation areas such as the Salt Valley Lakes in Lancaier County, the Fremont State Lakes and the Louisville Lakej are "people problems" net hunting and fishing problem! and properly should be I paid for with general fund tax Hollars. Foote indicated the commission's' law enforcement staff is already stretched thin by noting the 43 conservation officers are responsible for 77,000 square miles of land, or an average of 1,800 muare miles per officer. II'' However, he told the Salt Valley board of dtectors, during summer moiths some outstate officers must be brought to Lincoln, Fremont and Louisville to; help meet problems caused by the thousands of people that visit the lakes both legally and illegally during the summer. Foote said sortie of the outstate conservation officers "had their eyes opened" by what they saw a the lakes.

And he invited th Salt Valley directors to visi the lakes between midnight ind 3 a.m. to see for themselvesj "You see everything out there," Foote said of the Salt Valley Lakes. "Yoji see it all." Specific problems include drug and booze parties, illegal sex, theft, vandalism, swimming after the ieaches are closed and harassment of legitimate campers ana picnickers, he said. And the problems are caused not only by youngsers, but also older people, Foote said. The alternative hiring additional officers with state tax money is establishing a special park police force, fie said.

But Foote said he is opposed to the Alternative because it is more expensive. Foote said the commission is seeking to curb the problem at recreation lakes before they gain a reputation, for such activities and the problem becomes more severe. Since it costs about $10,000 a year to field oni conservation officer, he said, (this, additional money would ajlow hiring of three full-time! conservation officers, 12 part-time officers for the three-month summer periods, or some combination of the two. Foote asked the Salt Valley directors to support the commission request and Board President Harold i of Pleasant Dale said it is likely the board would give its support. Soil Erosion A federal official told Salt Valley Watershed District directors that erosion is one of the three major sources of water pollution that has not yet really been tackled by state and federal officials.

Carl 1 a area representative for the Federal Water Quality Administration, said definite steps have been taken to curb pollution from Municipalities ind industries. But little has been done in the area of agriculture, he said, except for cattK feedlots which resemble industry. Principle sources of soil erosion are farmland and urban areas, Chloupek said-National figures indicate that soil erosion produces 700 times more solids from farms than from the sewer pipes of either municipalities1 or industry, he said. I Good soil conservation practices are the best solution to the problem, he bid, pointing out that tpsts of (wo similar farms near Hastings showed that one without good consmition practices lost 4.7 tons of soil per acre per year, compared to only .4 of a ton per acre per year on the farm with full land treatment. Chloupek urged the Salt Valley directors to provide leadership in continuing its land treatment program.

rl tuna streams which flow through them. Wilderness Park has provided additional impetus to the Crescent Greens project. Enersen sees the Greens as "a natural extension" of Wilderness Park. Wilderness Park is a 1,000 acre, seven-mile long stip of land which runs along Salt Creek immediately' south of the Lincoln city limits. According to the plans, the southern boundary of the Greens would abut the northern boundary of Wilderness Park.

Many of the same local citizens who were involved in establishing the Wilderness Park, are now discussing Crescent Greens, according to Enersen. The group has not adopted plans for a formal presentation to any governmental body regarding Crescent Greens, but if Wilderness Park is any indication of the group's success, Lincoln', sometime in the future, may have a Crescent Greens. exactly the original it's much larger. The original plan called for a green strip to begin in south Lincoln at Epworth Park and extend to the State Fairgrounds. The new plan calls for a northeast extension beginning at the fairgrounds and traveling north and east, along Salt Creek, to Lagoon Park the proposed park northeast of Lincoln, adjacent to Arrow Airport.

Enersen envisions the Crescent as providing a "green belt" for the city. The "green belt" concept began in England in the early 1900s, he explained, and many English cities have belts of open space surrounding them in which no new development may originate. NU architecture prodessor Dale Gibbs. overseer of the development of the original plan, likened the Crescent to the park system in Washington, D.C. or Philadelphia, Pa.

The two cities have parks skirting a part of the farm program has. been glaringly shown in the recent corn blight scare that makes the nation realize it is only common good sense to have a reserve of food." He said such a protection on grains would be extremely valuable to the nation id stabilizing food prices and in assurring the consumer of food supplies. Ebers said the Stale Grange is being asked about the possibility of organizing marketing association. He credited the National Farmers Organization with "sound service to members" through the NFO agreements with packers to deliver an established number of cattle of certain grade each slaughter day. In an unprecedented credit from the leader of one farm organization to another, Ebers said, "If I were feeding cattle I would certainly give NFO a close look for possible benefits in marketing.

I congratulate NFO in this sound service to members." Ebers, a strong supporter of the family farm as the best means of producing agricultural products, said the family farm system means "widely distributed ownership, competition between producers, costs of production spent locally, forming the backbone of local communities, and production and harvesting of crops in the hands of many independent families whose livelihood depends upon their work." The state Grange master added, "It is senseless to drain off, economic resources into centralized cities, and then try to revitalize the same areas with welfare or guaranteed family incomes." Ebers had a word of warning for farmers regarding use of water. He said, "About half the state's farmers are not following conservation practices: no terraces, no grassed waterways, no water control dams. Consequently, precious top soil pollutes our streams and finds its way into the Mississippi River." On taxes, the state Grange master suggested, "raising more local taxes through the state combination sales and income law, with the possibility of fully funding the present state aid to school law with sales and income taxes. Grange luncheon speaker Dr. Frank Baker, chairman of the NU animal science department, spoke of a more future for the cow-calf enterprise in Nebraska.

Baker noted the cattle feeding industry now uses feeder cattle as rapidly as they are produced "because the growth in feed lot capacity has used up any surplus feeder cattle." Baker told Grange members he believes the claimed climatic advantages of the southwest for cattle feeding over Nebraska weather will not be as much of a factor as some observers now believe. "Nebraska weather, although some times violent and unpredictable for short periods, seldom impairs livestock performance," said Baker. in the democratic process at least not unduly." Lugar, key- note speaker at the 61st convention of the League of Nebraska Mu- Lugar nicipa 1 i i here, said government at all levels has become unresponsive to the people. And he urged his audience mayors, city councilmen and other officials from cities across Nebraska to bring back accountability. Lugar said it is not just young people who have learned to mistrust our government.

Almost everyone who has to deal with governmental agencies has reached the same conclusion, he asserted. In Indianapolis, Lugar said, he has tried to increase local government credibility by the simple expedient of having everyone phone their problems to his office. This has resulted in an average of 3,000 calls a week on everything from stray dogs to street repairs to the Communist threat. Much of local government's impotence, Lugar said, comes from the way it is viewed by state and federal officials. Neither state legislatures nor congressmen trust local officials, he The solution is revenue sharing, "on the assumption that mayors and councilmen know the priorities their cities and can be trusted," according to Lugar.

He explained that federal programs to aid cities are often hampered by confusing restrictive guidelines or by the fact they must be routed through state agencies. Lugar safd he thought a of government would make it easier for cities to receive federal aid and provide more accountibility to the voters. Lugar, who rose to national prominence after his election in 1967 with a bold plan to unite the governments of Indianpolis and surrounding Marion county, described the new chain of command he has established for ''Unigov." For a variety of overlapping boards and committees, Lugar substituted what is described as a more business-like approach. There is now one coun-tywide executive, and all departments report to six directors could be called vice presidents," Lugar Traffic Toll Up 2 Bellevue' Woman Dies Traffic Fatalities 1970 1969 Nebraska w. 296 247 Lincoln 11 8 By Associated Press The names of two more persons have been added to the 1970 Nebraska traffic toll.

The latest victims wre identified as Ruth E. Woodard, 19, Bellevue, and Michael J. Kirby, 35, a squadron leader for the British Royal Air Force attached to Offutt Air Force Base. The State Patrol said the Woodard woman was killed late Wednesday when the car she was driving went out of control and flipped end over end. The accident occurred-, on U.S.

73-75 south of the Platte River. A passenger, Carol Wood, 21, Plattsmouth, was injured. Mr. Kirby died Tuesday in a hospital after being injured in a two-car hcadon crash on Nebraska 131 near Bellevue about midnight Monday. The driver of the other car was identified as Jack A.

Springer, 49, Bellevue. Mishap Kills Omaha Man Council Bluffs (D An Omaha man was killed early Thursday in a one-car accident at the Intersection of Interstate Hwys. 29 and 480 just north of here. Police Identified the victim as Jerry Renfrow, 25, driver of the car. A passenger, Ronald Krug, 25, Millard, was listed in fair condition at a Council Bluffs hospital.

Authorities said the car crashed when it missed a turn off Interstate 29 onto Interstate 480. By DICK HAWS Parklands and good marriages are sometimes much alike both may take years to develop. The Crescent Greens parkland project is an example. Six years ago, a class of third-year University of Nebraska School of Architecture students, in searching for a project, devised a plan for the utilization of the land adjacent to Salt Creek. The students designed parkland, never less than two blocks wide at any point, with a golf course; foot, bicycle, and.

bridle paths; picnic areas; a dance pavilion; and numerous camping areas. Also included in the plan is an area for contact activities where sports such as football and baseball will be played. The students named their plan "Crescent Green," because Salt Creek sweeps in a wide eight-mile south-to-north "crescent" through the city. It was pointed out at the time that the plan was not an impossible dream as much of the land the students planned to utilize was owned by various governmental agencies. Acquisition problems often "associated with private land ownership would be avoided.

Another factor which ap. peared to make the plan more attractive was that the city, in its 1961 comprehensive plan, provided for a green strip following the course of Salt Creek. Crescent Greens, it was believed, would complement the city plan. But, as with many plans, this one hibernated for several years. One of the reasons was the flood problem.

Hal Shroeder, general manager of the Salt Valley Watershed District, explained that not until recently has the flood plain along the creek been "more safe and attractive." Salt Creek has undergone some straightening of its channel, but more importantly, a series of dams has greatly reduced the flood problem. By controlling flooding, the land was released for other purposes. Another reason, for hesitation in developing the "crescent" was uncertainty as to direction University of Nebraska expansion would take. Location of proposed highways was also unknown. Both of those problems have been more or less resolved, and, according to Lincoln architect Lawrence Enersen, the Crescent Greens project "has been resurrected." The "resurrected" plan is not Security Discussed Continued From Page 1 taken to restrict access to the Capitol after business hours.

A problem for the Legislature is that there are eight doors leading into the chamber. One past suggestion has been to forbid entirely the presence of lobbyists, guests and spectators on the legislative floor, forcing them into the galleries in limited numbers. Outside of the Legislature, there have been concerns about the security of the governor's office, data processing equipment and computers and tax records. Later Thursday the executive board was scheduled to review 1971-73 budget requests from its permanent staff. The board's decision in money askings was being watched closely by administrators in the executive branch.

They are interested In bow generous the Legislature may be with its own people. Also Thursday the senators discussed progress being made to use University of Nebraska computer equipment and personnel to draft and print bills for the 1971 Unicameral. Eight computer terminals are to be installed soon in the Capitol, permitting bills to be stored in the NU computer's files and then reprinted. 13 Die in Mishap Seoul, Korea Thirteen lersons were killed and 48 inured Wednesday when a bus )lungcd down a 13-foot slope into a river near Pusan, 200 miles south of Seoul, police reported Thursday. Yugoslavs Inspect Projects Salt Valley Watershed By HAROLD SIMMONS Salt Valley Watershed District projects have come in for quite a bit of state, regional and even national attention because of success in controlling floods and providing recreational benefits.

After an all-day session Thursday, however, the districts' accomplishments and goals will be carried behind the Iron Curtain as a prime example of the small' watershed program in the United States. Twenty Yugoslavian, engineers and agricultural experts were in Lincoln to discuss and tour Salt Valley projects as part of their one-month trip across the nation. The men are members of the Sava River Regulation and Management Project Coordinating Committee. The Sava River Basin encompasses about 40,000 square miles, or roughly 40 of the land area of Yugoslavia. Jokov Sunjic, one of two committee members who speak English, said the group chose to tour the United Hates under United Nations Development Program sponsorship because American water programs are the best he has seen anywhere, and that includes Russia, Africa and France.

"This is the best in the world," Sunjic said, "especially for multipurpose projects." Petar Strineka, tour leader and administrative officer for the Yugoslavian project, said the group is seeking ideas to improve the Sava River Basin. There are now dams on the Sava, Strineka said, but these are mostly for electric power plants. And some le.vees are up to 100 years old. The basin needs both large projects to tap the river's high potential for electric power production and smaller projects to develop a program of complete water utilization and control, watershed management and soil surveys, Sunjic said. It was their desire to inspect small watershed programs that brought the men to Lincoln on the first stop of their tour.

Thursday morning was spent with Hal Schroeder, Salt Valley general manager, and representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Soil Conservation Service, who explained the district's history and purposes. The Yugoslavians expressed interest in the technical features of the 10 large Salt Valley dams and reservoirs built by the Corps of Engineers, and were also sympathetic to the fact such projects must be economically beneficial before they are approved and financed by the federal government. Thursday afternoon the group was scheduled to tour Holmes Lake in southeast Lincoln, Wagon Train, Lake near Hickman, some smaller watershed projects and stream channelization work.

Friday the group will go to Omaha to visit Corps of Engineers district headquarters, and then travel to Denver. From Denver the group will go to Washington Slate and Grand Coulee Dam, then to several stops in California, on to Arizona, then Tennessee Valley Authority projects in Tennessee, and finally to New York for departure Yugoslavia on Oct. 13. to By GLENN KREUSCHER Farm Editor State Grange Master Albert Ebers of Seward told the 82nd annual state Grange session at the Lincoln Hotel Thursday that agricultural changes will rank near the lop of national events during the 1970s. -He note'd that the Grange sup- ported the Ebers coalition farm program based on the Food and Agricultural Act of 1965.

He said the act "is structured to give the consumer a bargain." Ebers said, "The tremendous importance of a consumer protection reserve of grains as Gridder Fined 850 Sophomore Quarterback Robert J. Jones, 20, 1001 Cather Hall, was fined $50 in Municipal Court Thursday on a charge of fleeing to avoid ar-rest. Sentencing on a second charge of driving in such a manner as to endanger life, limb and personal property was set for Oct. 16. Jones pleaded guilty to both counts.

The charges stemmed from a high speed chase in which Ofi ficers John Briggs and Larry Dvorak reported they pursued a car driven by the University of Nebraska sophomore quarterback at speeds reaching 75 m.p.h. in southeast Lincoln during a rainstrom at 2:30 a.m. Thursday. The pursuit ended when the Jones car smashed into a power pole on 20th between A and B. The pole was sheered from its base and the car sustained an estimated $1,500 damages, police said.

Briggs and Dvorak said the chase started on South St. at about Jefferson when they observed the car westbound at an estimated speed of 50 m.p.h. The officers followed the car to 21st, and when the red lights and siren were turned on, the car reportedly accelerated rapidly, northbound on-20th. The officers said the headlights on the car they were pursuing were turned off and the cruiser was going 75 m.p.h. and the other car was pulling away.

The case ended when the car hit the power pole. During the chase, the car violated stop signs at the intersections of 20th and Garfield and 20th and the officers said. They said Jones, who was alone in the car, was not injured when the car hit the power pole. NU head football coach Bob Devaney said he was unable to say whether any action would be taken against Jones, or whether the sophomore would be playing in Saturday's game at Los Angeles. Exon Foresees High Tax Rates Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.

J. Exon said the state sales tax would rise to the income tax to 20 "unless the brakes are put on present budget requests by state agencies." The governor "snouia sei sai- arv Guidelines now for all agen cies and begin the fight against rrnro In Nphraska bv Library Bd. Holding Meeting on Contracts Peters Reinhardt Bros. Inc. and W.

F. Lesoing Co. The carpeting installation bidders were Carpet Mart Manor House Floors Miller Paine, and Midwest Carpets, Omaha. NJ. Man Sentenced Anthony F.

Romano, 32, Newark, N.J., has been sentenced by Lancaster District Court Judge Bartlett E. Boyles to a two to four-year term in the Nebraska Penal Complex on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. Romano first pleaded innocent to the charge, then repleaded guilty Aug. 19. He was charged in connection with a check-cashing scheme in May, 1969, involving the theft of company checks, use of a check protector to emboss amounts upon them, and cashing the checks at local banks, according to police reports at the time of the Incidents.

One other man, Henrv F. Buccl, 35, of Tarrytown, was placed on two vears nro. bation in connection with the Incident, after he had repleaded no contest and was found guilty of the charges. The case of a third man, Bruce L. Rosen, 38, also known as William DcGina, Is pending in district court.

He pleaded innocent to the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, but failed to appear for a May 11 hearing and his $10,000 bond was declared forfeited. The Lincoln Library Board was to meet Thursday afternoon in a special session to approve bids and accept contracts for construction of two branch libraries, Gere Branch and Anderson Branch. Both the Anderson Branch, Fremont and Touzlin, and the Gere Branch, 56th and Normal, were able to be funded, according to Library Director Charles Dalrymple. Bidding opened Wednesday, with eight general seven electrical firms, six mechanical firms and five carpet installers submitting bids for consideration. Bidders for the general contract work were Lfndberg Construction Co.

with an apparent low bid of $447,858 to build both libraries; Kingery Construction, $459,362, and M. W. Anderson $464,198. Others seeking the job were Olson Construction George Cook Construction Dwight Nelson Sampson Construction Co. and McKinney Construction co.

Bidding competition for the electrical contract, included apparent low bidder Brite-Way Electric Co. with a combined bid of Electrical Installation $67,300, and Energy Enterprises, $67,707. Other bidders Included Ad-A-Lite Commonwealth 'Electric, Action Electric and OK Electric. Morrissey's Plumbing Heating Co. submitted the apparent low bid of $126,500 for the mechanical work with Cornhusker Heating Air Conditioning Co.

following with $127,000. Other bidders were Bee Jay Plumbing Healing, K. 0. Goods orth $786 Stolen From KOLN-TV Mclvin Canv KOLN-TV controller, told police the station is missing $786 worth of goods from its studios. Detectives Ken Idcen and Jerry Thomas said the missing 'articles included two 8-foot "banquet" tables, a microphone amplivjer and a console color TV set.

He said the TV set had been loaned to use lit a commercial and when the owners came to return it to the store, it was gone. It was owned Christcnsen's Electrical plianccs, 11th and N. by Ap- Over the KllCe taking firm actions to resist the outlandish Increases being pro-London (UPD-Hubert de posed," Exon told a Columbus Civenchy, the French fashion audience, designer, said Wednesday he The state sales tax rate is thinks women's skirts will cover now 3 and the personal in-the knee for the next six to come tax rate stands at 12 eight years. or tne currcnt vear'.

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