Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 27

Cinnln Jpgrnal Friday, Sept. 27 UFOs Helicopters From Ft. Riley, Whatever it was that was sighted in Nebraska skies Wednesday night and Thursday morning was not helicopters from Ft. Riley, Kan. the word from Capt.

Phil Ahneman, assistant information officer at the fort. He said base operations at Ft. Riley reported that, to their knowledge, there were no flights over Nebraska at the time law enforcement officers from various locations reported unidentified flying objects. The only way a helicopter from Ft. Riley would be over this area is if the pilot were lost.

But 13 or 30 lost copters is highly unlikely, Capt. Ahneman said. He said the Nebraska State Patrol and the Nebraska Air National Guard had made inquiries about Ft. Riley helicopters and their possible relationship to UFO reports. STATE FAIR Deputy Arlen Stahl, from the Saline County office, was on patrol when he spotted a few about UFOs around the DeWitt area.

The time was between 2:30 and 3 a.m. Thursday. The objects appeared to be white lights with red flashing lights. They appeared all at once, Stahl reported, and made no sound. The lights were east, northeast and (the largest) southwest of DeWitt.

Stahl contacted a deputy from Plymouth who also reportedly sighted the large light southwest of DeWitt. A p(diceman from the Wilber Police Dept, also observed the lights with Stahl for a short time, report indicated. The report described the objects as fast-blinking, like a strobe. More on Page 22 Jirnierala CALENDAR Gates Open: Until fair ends at midnight, Sunday, Sept. 8.

Entrances: 17th and Court, 14th and Military, 27th and Walker. Exhibits Open: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Daily. Friday, Sept.

6 7:45 p.m. Demolition Derby, Sept. 7 Kids Day. All children 16 and under admitted free until 6 m. Rides at reduced rates from 10 a.m.

to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. Midway Opens. 1 p.m. State Fair Talent Hunt.

Open Air Auditorium. 1 p.m. Modified Stock Car Races, Grandstand. 7:45 p.m. Mac Davis, Little Angels, Grandstand 8 p.m.

Arabian Performance, Coliseum. Judging Open Class: 9 a half Arabian halter, Coliseum; 1 p.m.. Purebred Arabian halter. Coliseum. Sunday, Sept.

10 a.m. Midway Opens. 2 p.m. New Model Stock Cars Races, Grandstand. 7 p.m.

Little Angels, Grandstand. Judging Open Class: Quarter horse and halter, Coliseum. If ashington Roundup Floor Time Keeps Ford Waiting By Andy Montgomery Washington The Senate was back in a pre-election session this week, but it is doubtful Nebraska Republican Carl Curtis will have another opportunity like he had just before the late August recess. Unless the subject is controversial or be is one of a handful of spell-binders, two things usually occur when a U.S. senator gets up to speak: His colleagues flee to the cloakrooms and reporters empty the press galleries.

Curtis is not exactly high on the golden-throat list and his subject was not earth-shaking, but Wednesday, Aug. 23, he played to a full house. Practically every senator was in his seat, there an empty spot in the press areas and the spectator galleries were packed to capacity. In a skilled piece of timing, Curtis had asked for the floor at 2:29 p.m., just as majority leader Mike Mansfield was about to declare a brief recess so President Gerald Ford could be escorted into the Senate chamber. In the Senate, members take precedence over even Presidents, and request was granted.

For nearly four minutes, Curtis held the floor, reading into the Record the contents of a letter he had sent to Ford two days before on the need to develop fully facts relating to agriculture during the upcoming on inflation and the economy. smiled Curtis, that he had chosen that particular moment to address the Senate. He conceded he had planned to insert the letter into the Record the day before but his schedule prevented him from doing so and he had heard the day before the President planned to be up on Capitol Hill but thought the visit had been called off. Spouse Press Team Nebraska can claim the distinction of having the only husband-wife press team in its congressional delegation. Randy Moody is press secretary to Sen.

Roman Hruska, and his wife Jane, holds the same position with Second District Rep. John McCollister of Omaha. immediate predecessor: Randy Moody. Explanation Please Postmaster General E. T.

Klassen, seeking to smooth some ruffled feathers in the Capitol Hill coop, has been making the rounds of various senatorial offices soliciting suggestions on how to improve mail service. During a meeting with freshman Senator Dick Clark in early August, Klassen said his new-found interest in opinions had something to do with his hope Congress would bail out the postal in-the-red operations. If Clark had any sympathy with money problems, he is now fast losing it. mail delivery has been all downhill since that meeting. On Aug.

23, Clark received a packet of letters neatly bound with a rubber band. Three were from Iowa constituents, the rest from points. across the country, including several from Washington. All were postmarked January or February. A wedt later, the postal service delivered the coup de grace when a letter mailed by Dfes Moines office was returned with the notation, along with that accusing, pointing finger, stamped on the envelope: such Since the letter was addressed to his wife at their suburban Washington residence, Clark disputes the non-existent address changes and has asked Klassen for an explanation.

Covered with Biblical sayings, the Lindell home, 618 So. 19th, has been a neighborhood conversation piece for years. House Said Fire Hazard Elderly Couple Might Be Evicted From Their Home The city government may evict an elderly couple from their home of many years on the ground that it is unsafe for occupancy. But Mr. and Mrs.

Martin Lindell, 618 So. 19th, say the city have the right to toss them out of their home, and they are going to leave only if police drag them out. City Housing Administrator Carl Kopines says the home, which is covered on the outside with quotations from the Bible, is a fire hazard and unless those hazards are removed the couple will be ordered to vacate thcir home, Kopines said the residence contains an accumulation of combustible materials and the heating equipment and electrical wiring appear unsafe. It the Lindeits do not give the city some kind of assurance by Friday that the fire hazards will be removed, they will be ordered to move somewhere else and move back in until those deficiencies are corrected, Kopines said. The housing administrator said the city would offer them relocation services if they are forced to move, and the city's Housing Authority could assist them in finding new living quarters.

But to the Lindells (he is 81, she 71) a matter of principle. It's their house and they are to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lindell claim they will fight to stay in their colorful home of many years. Sen.

Kennedy Plans Trip To Nebraska Washington Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has tentatively planned a two-day political trip to Nebraska, IlUnois and Iowa for Oct. 4-5. office announced Friday he is also planning a day visit to California next week to help Democratic candidates campaign.

He will fly to Los Angeles next Thursday. Kennedy is planning a longer swing through a number of Western states beginning Oct. 22. Mishap Victim Is Identified Lexington (UPI) Dawson County Atty. Willard Weinhold said Thursday night the woman killed in a truck-train accident east of here Labor Day has been tentatively identified as Charlene Ann Carrerro of Moline, 111.

The woman was believed to be 20 to 25 years old, Weinhold said. Her husband, Ismel Carrerro, 52, remained unconscious Thursday at the Lexington Community Hospital. Goodrich: Fine Vi ilh Me Carstens Schedules Usury Hearings Sept. 26, 27 ANIS, Dr. Nadia Z.

DUNN, Clara M. EMS, Miss Debra D. FiCKE, Alice HEATHER, Anna W. HINTZ, Frederick Frank Lincoln ANIS Dr. Nadia 40,1530 Janssen died Friday.

Graduate Cairo, Egypt Medical School. Formerly Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Lincoln resident two years. Member St. Mary's Syrian Orthodox Church, Omaha.

Survivors: husband. Dr. Aziz daughters, Ghada, Acza, Mariane, all home; brothers, Nabil Z. Kilada, New York, Dr. Henry Kilada, Cairo, Egypt; sisters, Mary Victor Habib, Georgette Zahawat, both Cairo, Egypt, Margerite Anwar Whaba, Alexandria, Egypt, Aiea Helmy Aziz, Assiout, Egypt.

Umberger- Sheaff Mortuary, 48th Vine. EMS Debra 9, 6735 Aylesworth, died Thursday. Born Alma. Lincoln resident five years. Fourth grade student, Bethany Public School.

Survivors: parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold; brothers, Ronald, John, Charles, Douglas, all home, David, Air Force; sisters, Mrs. Jeanine Fish, Mona, Jenifer, Jacqueline, all Lincoln; grandmother, Mrs. Cloe Curry, Salem, grandmother, Mrs.

Mae Davis, Franklin. Services: 11 a.m. Monday, Hodgman-Splaln-Roberts Mortuary, 4040 A. Rev. Melvin Schroer.

Rev. Edwin Berreth. Fairview. Memorials to Leukemia Fund. FICKE Alice, 74, 4707 Greenwood, died Thursday.

Services: 1 30 m. Saturday, Metcalf Funeral Home Chapel, 245 No. 27th. Fairview. day.

Rev. Faye Gemmel. Metcalf Funeral Home Chapel, 245 No. 27th. Fairview.

Pallbearers; Kenneth Neff, Alan Grigsby, Gary Malcolm, Dwayne Anderson, Clifford Rudar, Douglas Tuzzolino. HEATHER Anna 91, 6427 Aylsworth, died Tuesday. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday, Hopewell United Presbyterian Church, Unadilla. Church cemetery.

Roper Sons Mortuary, 4300 0. Memorials to church. KUHN Roger Shawn, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Kuhn, 4618 St.

Paul, died Wednesday. Survivors; parents; brother, Christopher, at home; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pike, Mr. and Mrs.

Dwight Underwood, all of Lincoln; great-grandparents, Mrs. Belva Schnepp, Ulysses, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.

McMurtry, Ogallala; great-great- grandmother, Mrs. L. A. McMurtry, Ogallala. Graveside services: 9.30 a.m.

Saturday, Wyuka. The Rev. Mike McMurtry. TINKER Gladys 85, 3228 died Wednesday. Services: private, Saturday.

Memorials to First Church of Christ, Scientist. Metcalf Funeral Home, 245 No. 27th. HOKUF, Anna L. KNOX, Charles V.

KUHN, Roger Shawn NIES, Robert Lee OHNOUTKA, Mrs. Mary Omaha, Willis, Ft. Collins, Thomas, Elmwood; daughters, Mrs. Lloyd (Betty) Buckland, Lincoln, Linda Kay, Lincoln, Mrs. Edward (Pamela) Trapeur, Murdock, Mrs.

William (Margaret) Smith, Omaha; brother, Alfred, Shubert; sisters, Mrs. Florence Schmidt, Ruth Racey, both Ontario, Canada, Mrs. Jerry (Edith) Scher- nitski, St, Joseph, 18 grandchildren; two grandchildren. Services: 2 p.m. Sunday, Ebenezer United Methodist Church, Murdock.

Rev. Carr Hume. Elmwood Cemetery. Dorr-Culbert Funeral Home, Elmwood. RATHE Minnie (widow of Henry 87, Seward, died Wednesday.

Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, St. John's Lutheran Church, Seward. Further services: 2.30 p.m. Sterling Immanuel Lutheran Church.

The RASE, Lawrence W. RATHE, Minnie SLAUGHTER, Walter D. TESSAR, Edward TINKER, Gladys C. Sterling Cemetery. Volzke Funeral Home, Seward.

SLAUGHTER Walter 85, Longview, died Tuesday. Member Washington Educ. Assn. Retired Teachers Christian Church. Veteran WWI.

Formerly Lincoln school teacher. Survivors: son. Dean, La Canada, granddaughter, two grandsons. Services: Graveside, 10 a m. Monday, Wyuka.

Rev. Harold Edds. Umberger-Sheaff Mortuary, 48th 8. Vine. TESSAR Edward, 69, Crete, died Thursday.

Survivors: wife, Libby; daughter, Sonja Gunther, Crete; son-in- law, Gabe Gunther, Crete; grandchildren. Grant and Cheryl Gunther; sisters, Mrs. Anna Chihal, Grand Island, Mrs. Bess Capen, Portland, Ore. Services: 2 p.m.

Monday, Kuncl Funeral Home Chapel, Crete. The Rev. Robert Conner. Riverside Cemetery, Crete. Happiest Man in the From News Wires Former President Nixon appears to be in good health, but he is the happiest man in the according to a supporter who said he has visited Nixon in San Clemente, Calif.

Joseph Raines of Cheshire, who once headed the state chapter of the Conunittee for Fairness to the Presidency organized by Rabbi Baruch Korff, said be and a small group of other members went to San Clemente last weekend. But Raines added Nixon ako appeared to be in good health. The Washington Post meanwhile published a story quoting friends as saying the former president, who resigned Aug. 9, is and expects to be indicted in connection with the Watergate cover-up. The Post reported friends in California say Nixon hopes a pardon from President Ford will spare him a long ordeal in the courts.

They were quoted as saying legal future was a that is "not easily broached to him, not even by the The Post said they described Nixon as a despondent man who spends much of his time looking through stacks of unanswered mail, playing the piano, walking on the beach. This picture was sharply different from the one drawn by daughter, Mrs. David Eisenhower, Wednesday night in an interview, when she said her parents were fine really well and Dad is in good County Agrees to Hike Jail Fee Paid to City By United Press International Sen. Fred Carstens, Beatrice, said Thursday, he has scheduled hearings before his Banking, Commerce and Insurance Committee for Sept. 26 and 27 on Nebraska's usury rates.

Sen. Glenn Goodrich, Omaha, who has been conducting his own hearings on the subject and has been criticized for it, said: fine with Goodrich said he has one more hearing scheduled for Lincoln on Sept. 13. After that hearing, he said, will turn over the study to the Banking, Commerce and Insurance adding members of that committee have been invited to attend the hearing on the 13th. But while Goodrich said he was happy to turn over the reins of the study, Carstens said he was by no means happy with the initial direction the study took under Goodrich.

only people present during his hearings were the bankers and Carstens said. want to hear from the average Joe the guy who will have to pay those interest Goodrich, however, said he trying to direct the studies in any particular direction, nor was he trying to push Carstens and his committee aside. critics said the Omaha senator should have left the matter completely up to Carstens and his committee, since such things as interest rates are normally handled by that unit. only thing I was interested in was starting out early on this subject, which is, to say the least, complex, so we could have as much information as we need when we go back into session in January and have to face the Goodrich said. It was that need for information, the senator said, which prompted him to ask for permission from the executive board to hold hearings.

As to his own views on the current usury rate and attempts to increase it, Goodrich noted that during this session he voted against an increase proposal. He added that just because he started hearings on the subject necessarily mean he has changed his mind on that vote. Pioneer Bid Withdrawn, Senators Advised Irately A life insurance company which was negotiating to purchase all of the business in force of Pioneer Insurance Co. has pulled out of such negotiations apparently due to allegations by two state senators. Fred Gottschalk, Pioneer president, irately told a meeting of state and Pioneer county officials, plus senatorial critics John DeCamp and Loran Schmit, that Stuyvesant Life Insurance Co.

of Allentown, to the adverse and often misleading publicity generated by this criticism and has withdrawn their DeCamp and Schmit have charged that a massive covenip and possible wrongdoing exist in connection with financially- troubled Pioneer and the role of Jim Jackson, state insurance director, who is also sole trustee of Pioneer within a voting trust. DeCamp said he will continue to urge that Jackson resign his state post for alleged conflict of interest. The Pioneer board and DeCamp have agreed to meet again in a closed-door session to examine what DeCamp terms damaging evidence of undisclosed Pioneer Schmit says in no hurry for such a meeting. DeCamp and Schmit suggested that the problems of Pioneer specifically its $6 million in loans to the Lake California recreational development project be the topic of a hearing before the banking committee. But Pioneer officials said a public hearing might cause a crisis of confidence among policyholders.

Sen. Fred Carstens, chairman of the banking committee, said he would hold a hearing or recommend a committee study of banking law changes, but not specifically the problems of Honeer. Frank 0. Starr, president of the new Pioneer board, and other Pioneer spokesmen repeatedly stressed that the cash flow and assets of the company are sufficient to meet the demands of creditors and all policyholder claims. Outstate DUNN Clara 104, DeWitt, died Thursday in Wilber.

Born Otoe County. Survivors: granddaughter, Mrs. Beryl W. (Beulah) Potter, Leawood, one great- granddaughter; one great- great-granddaughter; nieces nephews. Services: 2 p.m.

Saturday, DeWitt United Methodist. Burial Oak Grove, DeWitt. Memorials to church. HINTZ Frederick Frank, 88, Western, died Wednesday. Services: 2 p.m.

Saturday, Western United Methodist. Plainview Cemetery, Western. Urbach Funeral Home, Western. HOKUF Anna 96, Crete, died Wednesday. Services: 10 a.m.

Saturday, Kuncl Funeral Home Chapel, Crete. Wilber Bohemian National Cemetery. KNOX Charles 65, Weeping Water, died Wednesday in Lincoln. Services: 1:30 p.m. Saturday, United Methodist Church, Weeping Water.

Burial Elmwood Cemetery, Elmwood. Dorr-Colbert Funeral Home, Weeping Water. NIES Robert Lee, 20, Beatrice, died Wednesday. Police cadet. Survivors: wife, Mindy; son, Benjamin, at home; parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Nies, Wymore; sisters, Mrs. Ronald (Bonnie) Sutter, Beatrice, Mrs. Jack (Betty) Malicky, Wymore, Miss Margie, Lincoln. Services: 2 p.m.

Saturday, United Presbyterian Church, Wymore. The Rev. Kenneth Hoschouer. Blue Springs Cemetery. Prayer service 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Laughlin-Hoevet Funeral Home Chapel, Wymore. In state from 1 p.m. Saturday until service time. Memorials Ellsworth Closs, Wymore. OHNOUTKA Mrs.

Mary, 81, Wahoo, died Thursday. Survivors: husband, Anton; daughters, Mrs. Edward (Ethel) Fiedler, Weston, Mrs. Robert (Marie) Tejral, Omaha; brother, Joe Pekarek, Seward; sister, Mrs. Ludvik (Hattie) Chapek, Wahoo; four grandchildren; two grandchildren.

Services: 10 a.m. Monday, St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, Wahoo. St. Francis Cemetery, Wahoo.

Rosary 3 p.m. Sunday, Svoboda Funeral Home Chapel, Wahoo, Wake 7:30 p.m. Sunday at mortuary. RASE Lawrence 68, Murdock, died Thursday in Omaha. Born Canada.

Member Ebenezer United Methodist Church, Murdock. Former garage owner. Survivors: wife, Helen; sons, Donald, Lincoln, Robert, Inflation has finally stormed the local bastille and the Lancaster County Commissioners agreed Friday to open the county budgetary door on the city- county jail. At an informal meeting with County Sheriff Merle Kamopp, Lincoln Police dief Joe Carroll, Mayor Sam Schwartzkopf and City Attorney Dick Wood, the commissioners agreed to increase the fee paid the city for housing county prisoners from $2.50 a prisoner a day to a figure of $3.50. The $1 a prisoner a day increase will be paid by the county retroactively to July 1.

Under the jail agreement between the city and county in force since the County-City Building was opened five years ago, the Lincoln Police Dept, runs the jail faciUty and the County Dept, contracts with the police to house county prisoners. The $3.50 fee agreed to Friday is expected to be officially endorsed in contract form next Tuesday at the regular weekly County Board meeting. The Lincoln Police Dept, had sought the fee increase in an effort to stem to budgetary toll being taken by rising food and administration costs. Police Chief Joe Carroll cited figures showing that the actual cost a day of housing and feeding each prisoner including all personnel costs associated with the jail is $8.63. Although the commissioners agreed to the $3.50 fee.

there may be some trouble in coming up with enough money from the county budget to pay the additional costs. Sheriff Kamopp said Friday that his approved budget for 1974-75 was based on the old $2.50 fee and that there is no extra money to cover the additional $1. But city officials will apparently be benevolent landlords. They indicated Friday that the county could pay the fee at the new higher rate until budgeted money runs out. The unpaid balance will be made up in the 1975-76 fiscal year.

State Officials Say Lotteries Are OK Washington (UPI) Officials of 13 states Friday told Atty. Gen. William Saxbe their lotteries violate no federal statutes and he was unnecessarily stirring up a false issue by threatening to file injunction suits against them. Two governors and officials of 11 other states met privately with Saxbe and strongly denied his claim there is a the lotteries violate federal criminal laws. Maryland Gov.

Marvin Mandel told reporters following the meeting is the unanimous opinion of the states that the federal laws apply to state- operated He said some states even claim they would not be in violation even if the federal statutes did apply to them, because the state lotteries avoid crossing state lines, avoid broadcasting or mailing of lottery information and comply with other federal laws. But Saxbe stood his ground during a joint news conference and said no one is going to be prosecuted criminally until Congress is given a chance to exempt the states from federal law or until the courts settle the issue of whether federal law appUes to state lotteries. Rural Ashton Man Dies In Tractor-Train Crash Traffic Fatalities 1974 1973 Nebraska .........................267 279 Lancaster 18 19 Lincoln 12 7 Sherman County authorities' said Edwin Stanczyk, 60, of rural Ashton, was killed Thursday morning when his tractor was struck by a Burlington Northern freight train on a township road about one mile east of Ashton. Officials said Stanczyk, his son and son-in-law were cutting silage, and that Stanczyk was returning to the field with an empty wagon when the mishap occurred. Investigators said Stanczyk's tractor had a closed cab, and that Stanczyk probably did not hear the train coming.

grandson, Jesse Jakubowski, 5, was also in the tractor cab, but was throwm clear of the wreckage. The youth sustained cuts and bruises, and was admitted to a Loup City hospital, where he was listed in satisfactory condition Thursday afternoon..