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THE LINCOLN STAR VIST VBAB No. LINCOLN, TCESDAV MORN JANUARY 2, 127 3 30 Paiges CENTS BOMBS FALL IN UBS, CAMBODIA mio NEBRASKA RO RANGE BOWL VICTORY Gary Dixon (22) scores the second touchdown on a short plunge with 14:29 remaining in the first half of action in the 39fh annual Orange Bowl Classic in Miami Monday night. Nebraska, playing its final game under retiring head coach Bob Devaney. went on to defeat the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame 40-6. Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers ran for a record- setting four touchdowns and threw a 52-yard scoring pass to Frosty Anderson, (kaff wirephoto by Randy Hampton) See Stories And Pictures On Orange Bowl Action On Pages 15-17 Juvenile Detention Center Construction Approved By GORDON WINTERS Star Staff Writer Proposed construction of a new $268.000 juvenile detention center for Lancaster County has been given final approval.

Work on the building may begin next spring if the final detoils can be worked out, according to William Janike, chief juvenile probation officer. Tlie State Crime Commission recently an application for $18,000 in federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration funds. The Lancaster County Commissioners have already budgeted $100,000 in local funds. Plans call for building a one- story structure at 13th and South streets. The building would have 15 bedrooms, quarters for the couple who will the center, recreational space and Separate rooms for counsel- irvg.

Tlie plan was selected from several alternatives, including one plan for leasing a floor of the YMCA and remodeling it for use as a detention center. According to the center will be used to provide short-term care for children up to 17 years old pending court action. Janike said, however, the juvenile authorities, will continue to release children to their parents or other adults in the community whenever passible. You'tlis will be kept in the center if authorities feel they may be dangerous to themselves or to others or if they may flee. Youths are now being kept at the Wealview Nursing Home, about three miles northwest of Lincoln city Mmits, or in the city jail.

Westview has plasterboard walls, wooden doors, exposed radiators, windows with steel mesh, and little space for recreation. In the past youths have broken doors and windows, knocked holes in walls OTd rattled radiators, disturbing the elderly residents of the Ihome. In addition to providing better living quarters than those at Westview, the new facility means that juveniles need no longer be held in jail. Youths are being held in jail now because Westview is not secure. Janike noted that when a juvenile is held in the city jail it sometimes means solitary confinement.

Juveniles, are kept separated from adults and if no other juveniles are being held, the youth is alone. Authorities also feel the new location will be an improvement. Westview is about eight miles from Juvenile Court and the Police Station. The new center will be one and oncdialf miles away. According to Janike, the new location means that in many cases it will be easier for family members to visit a youth in the center.

Youths will also be closer to medical, psychological and educational services. The new center will also provide space for indoor and outdoor recreation. Although it is a difficult factor to measure, Janike feels that the new facility will have an atmos'phere more conducive to effective counseling than presently exists. want it to look like a Janike said. want it to look like a home and be as much like a home as much as possible, and still be Authorities also feel that the new facility in the new location will result in more coinmunity involvement in juvenile programs.

know there are many people in Lincoln who would offer their services to a child going through a Juvenile Judge W. W. Nuemberger said. will be the type of a facility that will make this Although juvenile authorities are enthusiastic about the new center, they add qualifying statements when talking about it. help kids through Janike said.

are commimity involvement is As evidence of that orientation, the new center will probably be called an center rather than a center, according to Judge Nuemberger. want to stress that this is a place where a child will be given said. Legislature Convenes At Noon By DON WALTON Star Staff Wrlted With an Omaha-Lincoln contest for the speakership as the opening attraction, the regular session of the only unicameral legislature convenes at the Statehouse Tuesday at noon. Sen. Richard Proud Omaha and Sen.

Harold Simpson of Lincoln are the announced candidates for Speaker of the Legislature. Proud, 50, an veteran of legislative wars, is the acknowledged favorite among betting men. Simipson, 46, a senator since 1967, entered the contest late and freely admits that his battle is But, Simpson notes, a great number of senators have remained uncomimitted in the race. seem to be holding oiff, waiting hard to get anything solid fi'om them Only one Lincoln senator has I held the speakership during the 36-year history of the Unicameral. That was the late C.

Petrus Peterson, elected in 1945. Lancaster County lawmaker Jerome Warner of Waverly was the Speaker in 1969, following in the footsteps of his father, the late Charles J. Warner, who was Speaker in 1937. The last Omahan to hold the speakership was William Moulton, who was elected 10 years ago. Ten years before that, in 1953, the late Charles Tvrdik of Omaha was the Sipeaker.

Moulton and Tvrdik are the only Omaha senators ever to hold the post since the Unicameral first met in 1937. opening day could be one of the longest on record if senators adopt rules recom- Inended by the Legislative Council and decide to elect their committee chairmen on the floor. Chairmen in the past have been designated by the Committee on Co-mmittees, subject to approval of the full Legislature. Other leadership posts to be filled include the chairmanship of the Legislative Council and the Ccmmittee on Committees, the 13 member unit hands out committee assignments and holds confirmation hearings on gubernatorial appointees. This the 83rd session of the Nebraska Legislature is scheduled for a 90-legislative day life, with adjournment likely by late May.

The only previous 90-day session, in 1971, adjourned on May 26. Last session was limited to 60 days and called it quits on April i. On Inside Pages World News 2 NFO Blasts Nixon Farm Cuts State 8 CTU Plans Expansion Women's News Pages 10, 11 Doll Cibllecting Sports News Pages 15-19 Trojans Bomb Buckeyes Fiditorials 4 Deaths 20 Astrology 7 TV. Radio 20 Entertainment Want Ads 21 The Weather Today' 's Chuckle Said the husband sadly, wife and I had some words last night, but I never got to use Copyright 1973, Corp. LINCOLN: Sunny, warmer Tuesday, high mid 30s.

Winds westerly 8 to 18 mph. Increasing cloudiness Tuesday night, low upper teens. Precipitation probabilities near zero Tuesday, Tuesday night. NEBRASKA: Genera'lly fair, warmer Tuesday, highs mid 40s extreme west to mid 30s east. Increasing cloudiness Tuesday night, lows 15 to 22.

Mostly cloudy, colder, chance snow northwest Wednesday, otherwise considerable cloudiness, mild. Highs Wednesday 40 to 45 southeast, 30 to 35 northwest. More Weather, Page 8 U.S. AimsTo Cut Enemy Supplies Saigon American bombers turned the thru.st of their attacks from North Vietnam to Laos and Cambodia Monday in an effort to cut the replenishment of enemy troops and supplies. The shift came on the heels of an indication by U.S.

oi' ficiaJs that strikes cm North Vietnam below the 2 0th Parallel had been halted to coincide with 24-hour cea.se- fires annomieed by South Vietnamese and tht' Viet Cong. The cease-fires ended at duak The U.S. Command refust'd to comment officially American air operaticns in Indochina. But U.S. officials indicated privately that while American bombers would be free to resume air strikes in South Vietnam after expiration of the vSouth Vietnamese fire, air operations over the southern panhandle of North Vietnam probably would remain cut off until Tuesday morning or afternoon.

Sign of Good Will Continuing the bombing halt from the 20th Parallel 200 miles south to the demilitarz- ed zone was a sign of good will, according to U.S. officials. The same routine vas followed after the Christmas cease-fire a week ago. The cessation of American bombing above the 2 0th Parallel, including the principal cities of Hanoi and Haiphong, will remain in effect indefinitely. The halt in that area is tied to the resumption of the Paris peace talks scheduled for next Monday.

Duriug the initial hours of the New cease-fire, the South Vietnamese reported at least 34 violations. The command said seven South Vietnamese soldiers were killed, 53 were wounden and five were missing. In addition, Saigon reported that three civilians were killed and 10 wounded. The North Vietnamese, according to the command, suffered 35 killed. Cease-fires in South Vietnam traditionally have been marred by so many violations that they become almost meaningless.

Tliey usually end with both sides accusing the other of breaking the truce. 199 Before The U.S. Command reported that American fighter-bcmbers flew 199 tactical air strikes in South Vietnam before the Saigon cease-fire began at 6 p.m. Sonday. Bomb damage assessment from the strikes included reports that vv North Vietnamese tanks were destroyed 15 miles southwest of Quang Tri City, and that several supply trucks were destroyed in the central highlands 25 miles northwest of Kcntum City.

No attacks were reported against American troops during ttie cease-fire. With the U.S. bombing of the North stopped, the Soveit news agency Tass wrote from Hanoi that the city is but The dispatch added: are many casualties among the Cease-Fires End Civilian population, but the enemy has not brtMcen the wiy of the heroic people. In spite of the barbarous bombings, strict order was maintained in the city. There was no Strength Drops In the South, the U.S.

Command announced that American troop strength in Vietmim dropped by 190 men during the last December to 24,100 the lowest level since Jan. 31, Die figure dies not the 100,000 Americans stationed elsewhere engaged in air and naval attacks. Former South Vietnam Foreign Mini.ster Tran Van Do confirmed reports that he and a former Vietuamese ambasador to the United Bui Diem. wnW undertake a spt'cial mi.ssi<m for President Nguyen Van Tliieu soliciting support in Rumpe, Asiiin and North ami South Amerioa. The reports said Thicu was holding fast to his position thpt South ictnam must regarded as sovereign and senaratp from North Vietnam.

This is believed a chief sticking point in tre impasse in negotiations between Hanoi and Washington. Thieu also was quoted as Swth Vietixim wants real and peace and not just a temporary result in Communist The statements were published by the daily newspaper Tin Cong, which is supported by the government. A temporary cease-fire, the president only result in Communist abuse U) create more difficulties and re.sume a inva.sion under conditions that will provide them with a better With The president concluded: people of Vietnam wbolebeairtedly desire a reasonable and equitable peace with honor. Let us all hope tbat a long-lasting peace will be restored in this part of the world a peace that will open the of a new century cf iin and development of the common interests of the people in the Elsewhere. Mrs.

Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the Viet Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, left Peking for home following a visit to China at the invitation of the Chinese government, official i a news agency reported. During her stay in China, the Viet chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks had had meetings Cbinese leaders, includfing Chairman Mao Tse- tung. Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chi Peng- fei. Another Peking visitor, Troung Chinh, a Vietnam Communist Party Central Cimmiittee member and chairman of the standing committee cf the National Assembly, left Peking for home following a one-day stopover, Hsinhua reported. New Cease-Fire Effort Gets Under Way Today Washington New efforts to reach a cease-fire in South Vietnam got under way Tuesday as Henry A.

Kissinger returns to Washington and American diplomats begin technical talks in Paris. Kissinger is scheduled to meet with President Nixon this week in preparation for his secret talks with the North Vietnamese in Paris Jan. 8. The presidential adviser has been on vacation in Southern California but is said to have been in direct contact with North Vietnamese officials in recent weeks. Leading up to negotiations will be the low- level technical talks between exoerts from both sides.

Meanwhile, efforts will resume in Congress Tuesday to pressure Nixon to reach a settlement as House Democrats discuss various antiwar resolutions. Two congressional committees had asked Secretary of State William P. Rogers to testify this week about the war, but the State Department said Rogers would not be able to testify at this time because of the imminent negotiations. The White House announced the new talks Saturday and said bombing had also been halted north of the 20th Parallel in North Vietnam. fi.

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