The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 50

4E April 14, 1974, Lincoln, Sunday Jonmal and Star Hyperactive Children Schools Have No Room for Johnny Police Recruit Raymond Kansier shoots over Rich Nootz in a basketball game at Cedars Home for Children. Kansier visited the home as part of his training with the Lincoln Police Dept. Drufis Young Police Officers Get Rehabilitation Experience By John Gleason going to let you be drug users said Dr. Olga Bom, director of Full Circle of the Lincoln Lancaster Drug- The two young police officers visibly relaxed when she added the usage part would be skipped and they would start at the rehabilitation stage. The officers worked with the people at Full Circle most of an afternoon and evening as part of their training for the recruit class now being conducted by the Lincoln Police Dept Dr Bom said they would be shown how to do some relaxing exercises to relieve tension and would go through some of the group counseling and therapy sessions.

Steve Worster, of the Lincoln Police and Don Jenkins, a newly recruited Lincoln park ranger, felt the sessions with the clients at Full Circle would help them to better understand people with a drug problem. puts a human aspect into it. We can see people with Worster said. Dr. Bom said she feels the program is very worthwhile, and that it her clients to see the officers as people, not just uniforms.

She described a visit by officers from the last recruit class as a success. Some of the patients baked brownies as a treat. Lt. John Miller, training officer for the Lincoln Police said the ten recruits now in training spent one day with local service agencies as part of their training. He noted this has been tried once before on an experimental basis and that if its success continues, attempt to expand it into a formal part of recruit Miller said that because of Rural Sites Ask County For Lights Lancaster County Commissioners are expected to act Tuesday on a request for a street light in the village of Cheney discussed at last meeting.

In approving a request last week for a street light on Pinelake Road near the entrance of the Southeast Fire District station, the board members indicated there was a need for a policy on the street lights for rural areas. Until such a policy is established each request will have to be considered individual- i.v. County Engineer Walter Hoppe said he is sure requests will continue to increase as rural areas develop. Also on agenda is a special meeting to issue Industrial Development Act bonds foi a SealRite project. time limitations in the training only one day available for the field work with the agencies, but they have made some adjustments to get the most out of It.

Another agency visited by this recruit class was the Lincoln Information Service to the Elderly, under the direction of James Zietlow. is the second group had, and found it to be a useful experience from our Zietlow said. know from our two years of experience that a good number of our referrals come from the he added. Zietlow said an example of this was provided by the last recruits to work with bis office. He said the officers came across an elderly woman with a housing problem on their way back to police headquarters and were able to notify his office so the woman could be helped.

Four Omahans for County Judge Gov. J. J. Exon said Saturday he has received the names of three Omaha attorneys and one Omaha Municipal Court Judge for nomination to fill a vacancy on the Douglas County District Court. Exon said the candidates selected by the Judicial Nominating Commission are John T.

Grant, John J. Hanley, and Benjamin Wall, all Omaha attorneys; and Paul J. Hickman, an Omaha Court judge. Exon said he would make his selection sometime next week. The vacancy was created by the appointment of Judge Donald Brodkey to the State Supreme Court.

East Campus Plans Free Ice Cream Social Ice cream produced by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Food Science and Technology Dept, will be served at a free ice cream social open to the public Friday on the UNL East Campus. The UNL Marching Pep Band will play at the social which will be held between the Burr-Fedde dormitories from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Julie Bergmeier, chairman of the East Union Hospitality Committee which is sponsoring the event, said about 500 persons are expected to attend. First School Ala. (UPI) The site of the present Maxwell Air Force Base w'as first used as a flight school by the Wright Brothers.

The base located near Lt. said the other agencies that were visited included the VA Hospital. People City Mission and the Family Shelter, the Chemical Dependency Unit at Lincoln General Hospital and Cedars Home for Children. Inquiries Ordered for 10 Youths Fifteen youths appeared before the Lancaster County Separate Juvenile Court during the past week Disposition investigations were ordered in 10 of the cases. Probation was ordered for three youths.

Those cases in which disposition investigations were ordered included: Boy, IS, forgery, found delinquent Girl, 14, truancy, found need of ipecial supervision Girl, 17, obtaining money under false pretense, found delinquent Girl, IS, uncontrolled by parents, found in need of special supervision Boy, 16, assault, found delinquenf. Girl, 16, uncontrolled by parents, found in need of special supervision Girl, 17, uncontrolled by custodian, found in need of special supervision. Boy, 14, burglary, found delinquent Boy, 14, uncontrolled by parents and neglected, found neglected and need of special supervision Boy, 12, uncontrolled by parents, found in need of special supervision Probation was ordered in the following cases: Boy, 17, larceny, found delinquent. Boy, 17, larceny, found delinquent. Boy, 16, larceny, found delinquent In other cases heard by the court, It decided the following: Girl, 16, dependent, to remain in parents' home under supervision ot the Lancaster County division of public welfare pending investigation Boy, 15, ioyriding.

found delinquent, placed at the Nebraska Center for Ctiiidren and Youtb for evaluation and planning New OSHA Office To Open North Platte A new area office of the U.S. Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration will begin operations here Monday. Oscar F. DiSilvestro will head the new office. By Jack Kennedy Johnny is only seven years old.

He has just returned to school after being for a week, as the official notice to his mother said, his own welfare and best Johnyy is hvperactive. He is emotionally disturbed. He comes to school early and strikes at the windows, administrators said. Teachers "just control him in although he takes medication. administrator noticed just in time that he was walking railroad tracks near the school.

his previous school another administrator said have other kids to look after. I run him down all of the The mother, a solo parent, goes to work early. Often Johnny IS left with a junior high-age brother. At times the child must be tied with a rope to control his activity. The terse two-paragraph exclusion notice hit the mother on April Fool's Day but wasn a joke.

It was for she said, She was bitter toward the school system until she met officials and they decided Johnny could return to school. He is a victim, officials admit. A of classes that were small (13) at one school and larger (22) at the latest too large for a hyperactive, insecure child with a single parent working to keep both boys in school. just as frustrated as she is," student services director Eldon Heskett said after the parent conference. The youngster has been in several foster homes, where he could not be controlled He has tried the Lancaster Office of Mental Retardation If he becomes too much to handle in a conventional classroom, it was agreed he may be sent back again to a house empty much of the time feel he should really be in a regular Heskett said, we a classroom for him." to a special class tor the emotionally distrubed has been approved.

Heskett said, there just isn't any room right Donald Sherrill, special education director for Lincoln schools, is equally frustrated by a waiting list of other Johnnies who need minute by minute supervision. There has been enough space for the emotionally disturbed. Sherrill said. Passage last year of new special education legislation will bring more money and more classes, he said, but the school system may never catch up. When Sherrill, former state special education director, came to the public school post six years ago there were two classes for the emotionally distrubed.

we have eight, and we have a longer waiting list than we had Fifty-six children are in the special classes. At least 15 kids have pretty high priority, like Johnny, and 25 or 30 others Theology Prof Joins CL Board The Rev. John M. Ginsterblum, S.J., an associate professor of theology in the Creighton University College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed to the CU board of directors. Father Ginsterblum joined the Creighton faculty in 1957 and served as chairman of the department of theology from 1958 to 1965.

should be in the program but are not, the director said. He has asked for two more classes for the emotionally disturbed next fall but know if he will get them. Sherrill also needs more room for learning disabilities classes. He wants to give regular classroom teachers more help and put a resource person in each school so such children don't have to attend special classes. He questioned whether all children with problems should be from regular rooms.

Qualified teachers of the emotionally disturbed and those with learning disabilities are hard to find. Sherill said. Few colleges train them. So the job is left to the regular teacher. She will work with Johnnny as long as she can.

But she may have to eject him again because there is no room for him. The arrival of real spring weather has helped bring construction ot Rural Water Dist. 1 ahead of schedule. Fall Completion Probable Water District Progressing Progress is well underway on Lancaster Rural Water Dist. 1, according to Dean Connett of Hoskins-Western- Sonderegger, engineering sultants for the $1.5 million project.

Designed to sene the towns of Bennet, Panama, Martell and Cheney and rural customers near Roca and Walton, the job is slated tor completion on Dee. 7, but Connett says the contractor is ahead of schedule and should be finished earlier this fall. Line laying will cover 180 miles when completed, with over 50 miles already done Contractor on the project is Eathcrly Contractors. Garden City, Kan Iowa Tax Relief Controversy Food Sales Are Taxing Problem By Val G. Corley Des Moines, Iowa (AP) Is the bill to exempt food and prescription drugs from the 3 percent Iowa state sales tax Many state legislators are saying privately that it is But Lt.

Gov. Art Neu says the sales tax e.xemption has "not necessarily" breathed its last breath. And Gov, Robert Ray still contends that the sales tax exemption is the best way for the state to go for tax relief. Those legislators who say the sales tax exemption is dead agree that the legislature will grant some sales tax relief before it adjourns for the year, probably at the end of this month But they say increasing pressure from local grocery store owners to dump the measure is taking its toll along with the minimum of $31 milbon a year the proposal would cost the state treasury. The Senate originally passed the measure to exempt food staples, prescription drugs and artificial limbs from the sales tax.

The Senate version would retain the tax on such foodstuffs as cookies, candy and soft drinks. The House, in its version, expanded the definition of food to exempt all grocery items that could be purchased under the federal food stamp program. That version would also exempt home heating fuels. The Senate, concerned that exempting heating fuels would cost the state an extra $8 million annually above the $31 million for food and drugs, rejected the House version. The bill was sent to a Senate- House conference committee to work out a compromise on March 3.

That committee has not yet met. And legislative leaders say the way the legislature has been spending the almost $200 million treasury surplus, there may not be enough money left to finance even the food and drug exemption. So the conference committee Agreement Reached on Campaign Finance Forms Detailed new forms which all candidates for state and county political offices must henceforth use to report income and expenditures are expected to go to the printers next week. Deputy Sec. of State Ralph Englert reported basic agreement on what data the forms should contain was reached in a Friday meeting.

Attending that advisory session, Englert said, were representatives of both state political parties, Common Cause, the League of Women Voters and attorneys knowledgeable about political campaigns. It was a bill passed by the 1973 Legislature which directed im- proved political campaign financial reporting Waverly Sen. Jerome LB267. However, the secretary of office delayed development of a new reporting form until it became certain no further refinements might be required by legislation approved by the 1974 Unicameral. None were.

Englert said the multi-page form should provide lot more to the public about where candidates get their money and how they spend it. There w-ill even be requirements for disclosure of in-kind or money gifts, such as loaned use of equipment and vehicles. Under Nebraska law, iden- tification of a political donor is required only when the gift is $1()0 or more or a thing of value in excess of $100. That does not prevent disclosure of gift-givers of lesser amount, Englert noted. All candidates who filed with the secretary of state for primary election ballot placement will be provided with the new financial forms as quickly as they come from printers.

Then copies will go to county officials so candidates for county races may also comply with state laws. To some extent, Englert said, the new state forms ajre modeled on federal campaign disclosure documents. has been given authority to study other, cheaper tax relief measures too Sen Lowell Junkms. D- Montrose, says grocers have convinced him that exempting food from the sales tax would bring about higher food costs. He said food stores in the larger cities have cash registers that can easily separate taxable from tax exempt food items.

But the rural stores do not and would have to pass along their extra costs through price increases. a lot of baloney, said Neu. "Other states have it (the tax exemption) for food and it works all right The lieutenant governor said stores already have to separate grocery items for food stamps from other items they sell But Neu admitted the tax exemption program might have to be dumped because of the cost. If it IS, Neu said a tax relief package suggested by Sen. Tom Riley, R-Cedar Rapids, last week is "not a bad proposal.

Riley suggested expanding the eligibility tor the property tax relief program for the elderly, exempting all lowans who earn under $5,000 from the income tax, adopting the "Curtis income tax standard deduction and increasing the inheritance tax exemption. Riley said his tax relief package would result in an annual revenue loss to the state treasury of $19.2 million almost $12 million less than exempting food and drugs from the sales tax. Property tax relief for the low income elderly could be increased to cover those with an annual income of up to $8,000 at a cost to the state of only $3.2 year, Riley contends. Currently, the state picks up to 95 '0 of the property tax for elderly persons who have an income of less than $1,000 a year and progressively picks up less until it absorbs only of the property tax for those with an income of between $5,000 and $6,000. The Riley plan would increase the percentage of property tax picked up on all but the lowest step and would have the state pay of the property tax for the elderly with incomes of between $7,000 and $8,000.

Riley said the state could exempt all lowans earning less than $5,000 from the income tax at a cost of only $3 million a year. Currently income under $4,000 is tax exempt. The Cedar Fiapids proposal would include the inheritance tax exemptions already approved by the House but not considered by the Senate. This would double inheritance tax exemptions for spouses from the current $40,000 to $80,000 and for children from $15,000 to $30,000. And it would, unlike today, presume that joint tenancy property is the result of joint efforts of both the husabnd and wife.

Riley estimates this would the state $4 8 million a year last proposal, the ur- lis plan originally proposed by Sen. Warren Curtis, R-( herokee would raise the standard deduction on income tax from $2.30 to $7.30 or from 5G to 10' ot the income. This would cost the stale $8.2 million a vear. The plan is popular with many legislators and Neu admits that many Senate leaders are considering a combination package of that plan and a $12 annual sales tax rebate to low income lowans "The Curtis plan has a lot to recommend it. but politically it IS ditticult to understand, Neu said "A lot of people would not understand what we did once we did It," the lieutenant governor siiid of the Curtis plan Although many Senate leaders would prefer the $12 sales lax credit and the Curtis plan, Neu admits that House leaders do not like the tax credit, because those who quality would have to appiv tor it at the end ot the year.

talks with House Speaker and House l.eader Edgar Holden, it comes across clearly they are against the credit. Neu said The lieutenant governor said the tax exemption compromise could be worked out as early as next week or it could wait until the last minute ot the legislative session To some extent, how much we have tor tax reliet deptmds on what we do with a propriations, Neu said And that won be known until the final hours of the session The lieutenant governor said he still likes the sales tax e.xemp­ tion tor food and drugs because "It does make the sales tax more progressive Omahans Uneasy About Iowa Ending Food Tax Concern about elimination of sales tax on food is one of the items fueling Omahan uneasiness about the school aid bill passed by the 1974 Nebraska Legislature. Financing that bill will require the Nebraska stale sales tax rate to be increased next Jan. 1 trom 2' to 3C municipal sales tax is in addition to the state sales tax. Thus, the Omaha sales tax on commodities, including food, would be 4 2 next Jan.

1. as against the possibility of no sales lax on food purchases in neighboring Council Bluffs. Nebraska's sales tax has never been applied to drug purchases. For several years, Iowa had a food sales tax credit system identical to the one employed by It was repealed when Republicans succeeded Democrats in control of the Iowa Slatehouse in Des Moines. The Republican-controlled Iowa Legislature this year turned down Democratic efforts to revive the f(K)d sales tax credit operation.

Jantzen Latest Move In Chamber Campaign 'The decision by Jantzen national swim and sportswear manufacturer, to construct a distribution center in Lincoln is the latest nudge in what the Chamber of Commerce hopes will become a major push to establish similar operations here. Duane Vicary, director of the industrial development division, said the Chamber is a definite attempt to get such companies to move here. It fits in with what we want for the In addition to the Jantzen move, the last decade has seen at Easter Eggs Set for Xenia Xenia, Ohio (AP) The Easter Bunny may be wearing olive drab and riding in a jeep in tornado-stricken Xenia. The Ohio National Guard said Friday its 178 military policemen in Xenia are preparing about 90 dozen eggs for the holiday. Saturday night patrols will he doubled, with four men on patrol instead of two, the guard said.

Two of the guardsmen will be dropping Easter baskets on doorsteps. least two other major companies settle their distributing centers in Lincoln. Ace Hardware established a facility here in 1971. The operation employs more than 100 persons, Vicary said. In 1962, the Fleming Co.

built a wholesale food distribution center in the Capital South Industrial Park. The $2 million Jantzen facility, to be located in the Union Pacific Industrial Park, will cover 153,000 square feet and will employ 150 persons. Vicary said both Ace Hardware and Jantzen considered central location a major benefit. Ace Ifardware wanted a location to serve the 17 or 18 central states, Vicary said. Lincoln operation will serve all 50 states.

In addition to the central location, to trucking via the Interstate Highway system is attractive to wholesale distributors, Vicary said. He said Jantzen primarily will use truck transportation. Ace Hardware has used both truck and train for shipping products..