Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 17

i Alone together, Nebraskaland Treasure Hunters from Lincoln comb deserted Linoma Beach for small change booty. Leland Pavel (left photo), club president, plies his metal detector in the moist lakefront sand, a scoop in his right hand. Ron Lobb, (center photo), stoops to examine a handful of sand Mrs. Pavel (right photo) close attention to the wavering sounds of her detector. Treasure Hunters Have Fun But Make Little Money By KA.NDRA HAHN They look like an order of monks vowed to silence trying to have a good time on an off-season beach holiday.

They prowl the gray beach under a gray sky, wind flapping their pant legs, occasionally stooping to scoop up some sand. In their hands are long wands. Cords string from the sides of their heads, at- a died to buttonlike receivers plugged into their ears. These people are having fun. They arc hobbying.

They are treasure hunters. Not like the swashbucklers we all loved in our story books. Their outlook Is tamer and the loot is more likely to be aluminum pop tops than gold doubloons. But a hobby. They use metal detectors instead of parchment maps.

They explore the once crowded but now deserted beaches of a landlocked state instead of uncharted seas. In this part of the country organized into a club known as the Nebraskaland Treasure Hunters. The idea is this: You buy a metal You" spend your spare time detecting metal pop bottle tops, pop top rings, rusted toy shovels, small change rings, jewelry, artifacts, if lucky. Or you make yourself known to local law and then when they waiat to gather evidence in, say, a marijuana manufacturing bust, you spend a hot summer afternoon thrashing through the brush, looking for a machete allegedly used in the procedure. But you find it.

The brush is too thick. Or you attach a special loop to your detector and electronically plumb the depths of a sandpit for a ring or a watch. If really into small time loot you may travel thousands of miles to a na- i 0 nally-advertised treasure hunt. Once there, you can pay an entry fee and claim the privilege of hunting for metal washers or dimes standing on end really tricky items. Tiny treasurer gruMiers can join a hunt for bits of foil with dollar bills wadded inside.

One Lincoln treasure hunting tribe traveled to Illinois this summer fo a commercial hunt which yielded them a gold token redeemable for a diamond make that a synthetic diamond ring. An Omaha hunter says been probing a western site (the location of which he refuses to divulge) for antiques. found a lot of pieces of bullets, he says, but stick with the site, hoping to find old bottles, perhaps, or metal artifacts. Nebraskalanders say hobby is a growing one. President Leland Pavel estimates that there are about 30 devotees in Lincoln, five of them recruited this past summer.

The equipiment costs under $100 and a nice hobby if not into communication. On windy days your earplug is your only companion. When still you can turn up the volume and listen to the electromagnetic signal unaided. Remunerative not. Pavel reported recently on the returns of a four-hour at a local site.

About a dozen treasure hunters reaped a threadbare $7 from the bountiful beach plus all the pop top rings and fresh aur they could use. Jiturual Lincoln, I'riday, Nov. 21, 1972 17 The Nebraska-Oklahonia clash Thanksgiving Day provided tense moments for football fans NU Regent l-k! Schwarlzkopf (from left) Gov. and Mrs. J.

.1. Exon and Oklahoma Gov. David Hali. Cardiac Cases in Stadium Thursday Continued Prom Page 1 an impressive half-time salute but Bob had missed it while pep talking his team. With the final gun.

the lines on his 57-year-old face deepened and his jowls set more firmly than ever. A trademark clipboard tucked under has arm, he strode to the center of the field for a quick handshake with Sooner Coach Chuck Fairbanks. The only contact with his was a brief elbow grab from a tearful Johnny Rodgers. Then, all to himself except for a handful of new'smen, he shuffled north toward fieldhousc. A setting sun had left miKh of stadium that Bob in shadows.

Broke Tie, Heart If it been for tie-breaking field goal, there surely would have been some back-slapping and at least half-hearted man-hugging. If a winning touchdown been called back, the coach w'ould have been jostled here-high as he had 90 many times before. But what do you say to a winningest coach who has just lost. How do you congratulate for 100 vicotries and in the same breath console for what was almost 1017. This Thanksgiving Thursday, a hand-lettered banner draped near the north goal post had covered tihings pretty well: Bob, for it Bear Down, Johnny Up Even with NU, OU and ABC- TV signs the dozen, a good many Alabama-type banners managed to squeeze into the stadiuim.

"Bryant no Bear, a was typical of several i the Alabama decision not to risk a No. 2 ranking in the Orange Bowl. There was also considrablc boosting of Johnny Rodgers for the Heisman trophy, including this limerick: in red, Pruitt is too. When it comes to the Heisman, Johnny, you. Tivo for $5- And an Exlral With the competition from family Thanksgiving dinners and television, ticket scalpers saw Big Red in more than one way Thursday.

Ducats which had gone as high as $30 for some home games were suddenly in ample supply. Helping flood market were countless NU students opted to go home for the holiday week end. of sellers stood at the stadium entrances offering seats at below the standard $6. rate on the was one unbelievable cry. Another huckster had a stack of 24 which he was ovveir at or $4 or anything I can He said he had already peddled 15 at the face rate before the market crashed.

What appeared to be the best bargain of all was this shouted offering: for five bucks and throw in an Crowd BVf.s Despite the cold and a disheartening afternoon, the Bryant Heart Team reported no cardiac cases in the stadium Thursday. The Red Cross First Aid Stations in the northwest and southeast corner of the stadium treated six people for chills and minor ailments. A stretcher was rushed to the north stadium when a woman suffered a fainting spell. Weekend Road Death Toll Mounts Traffic Fatalities 1972 1971 Nebraska 433 425 Lancaster County ..20 26 Lincoln lo 11 By Associated Traffic accidents in Nebraska have taken seven lives since the Hiairicsfiving weekend counting period started Wedbesday evening. The latest reported accidents took two lives early Friday and another one life Ttiursday nighft.

TTie State Patrol said a two- car collision two mUes north of West Point on Nebraska 9 at about 12:45 a.m. Friday took the lives of two West Point residents. They were identified as Warren A. Gentrup, 18, and Stanley M. Yunker, 24.

The patrol saad an Arlington man, Albert A. Meier, 78, was killed in a two-car collision at the intersection of Highway 91 and a county road about eight miJes west of Blair Thursday night. Earlier reported traffic vic- tiims were: Clifford P. Cox, 71, Hastings, and Gerald D. Racek, 23, Lexington, killed in car-pickup truck collision near HoWrege.

Bradford R. Talbot, 20, Scottsbluff, and William Dow, Lyman, killed in two-car accident near Morrill. Mrs. Sam Schwartzkopf rode to the top of marquee in the Lincoln Fire snorkel basket to light the Salvation Army tree of lights. She was accompanied by Police Cadet Van Meter, one of 130 police officers who launched the bellringing campaign Friday.

Bellringing Campaign to be Dream Come True Despite Nightmares A couple weeks ago, Salvation Army Major Zarfas had a nightmare He dreamed he was on a street comer with a Salvation Army drum announcing the beginning of a bellringing campai'gn only to discover neither bells nor bellringers anywhere to be found. Mrs. Sam Schwartzkopf also had a nightmare. As honorary diairman of the bellringkig campaign, in her nightmare, she had missed the tree lighting event entirely and her best efforts to gert, to the tree site were frustrated. Those are nightmares, but reality found Mrs.

Sdhwartzkopf at 11th and 0 Sts. Friday morning where the Lincoln Fire hoisted her up on marquee whtae she lit the tree of lights. Major Zarfas aiso was there, a.s were 130 policeman who launched the campaign. Their goal for Friday is to raise $700. The camipaign goal is $20,000 to provide toys for depencknt children of inmates in the Nebraska Penal Complex and Reformatory at York and to buy gifts for inmate.s of those instiiuticns as well as gjfts for pervms in nursing homes and focd for otherwise barren tables.

For hundrctls of the Salvation Army bellringing campaign will be a cream cwic true. 13 Women Are Cited for Agriculture Roles Thirteen women who have played an outstanding role in agriculture have been honored. They were special guests at a luncheon honoring the Sunday Journal ard 1972 Honor Farm Family, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Grothen Hastings.

The included Miss Barbara Atkins, seed analyst with the Crop Improvement Mrs. Etemese GiUings, assistant to program specialist at the State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Arthrilis Board Elects Officers The Artbriils Foundlation board of directors has elected Dave Calhoun president of the Linooln dhapter. Mary Lou Alexander Is vice president; Patricia 11, secretary, Gaylae Abood, treasurer. Is't Pulp Mill Ottawa The first pulp mill in Canada was built in 1864 at Windsore Mills, Que. Service (ASCS) Mrs.

Nonna Jacobsen, owner of the Blue Hill Livestock Minden livestock Sales of Minden. Mrs. Beverly a i manager of the Farmers Cooeprative elevator at E'Imwood'; Mrs. Doris Olson, executive director of the Burt County ASCS office a Tekamaha; Mrs. Cynthia Payne, manager of the state Livestock Brand Divksion in Lincoln, and Mrs.

Dorothy Switzer, editorial assistant at the Bureau of Business Reseaixsh at the Uraversity of Dr. Virginia Trotter, vice chancellor for academic affairs, University of Nebraska- Lincoln; Mrs. A a 11 Trumble, manager cf the Farmers Union Cooperative elevator at Dr. Anne Vidaver, research associate plant pathology University of Nebraska Lincoln Mrs. Vacte a ranch owner, Thcdford, and Miss Amelia Wellman farm owner from Governor Pleased mih Handling of Eneoiniler 38 Cars, 1 Truck Tangled on 1-80 Tlie Nebraska State Patrol said seven persons were injured shortly before 6 p.m.

Thursday in a series of pileups on 1-80 between Beaver Crossing and Utica which involved cars and a tnick. Capt. Raymond Syslo said five of those injured were treated for minor injuries and two were haspitalized i Seward in gcod conditon. Capt. Syslo said it was the worst pileup in terms of number of 1949 when 11 cars collided on U.S.

6 at the Stevens Creek Bridge. That accident followed the Oklahoma Nebraska football game (which the Sooners also won that time by 48-0) In Lincoln. losing to Oklahoma is a bad Capt. Syslo said. Syslo said the Interstate pileup was actually several accidents stretching from one mile west of the Goehner interchange to just west of the Beaver Crossing interchange, a distance ctf about five miles.

The worst accident involved nine cars in which there were no injuries. Syslo said it took about three and one-half hours to clean up the mess on the Interstate. Nine s(tate troopers and two deputies from the Seward County office investigated the mishaps. Rescue units from Beaver Crossing, Seward and Mftilford were sent to the scene. Capt.

Syslo said was not the chief factor in the earliest But he the fog dropped qukkiy in the area and was probably to blame for the other collisions. All the accidents occurred on the westbound lane, Syslo said. Syslo said that during that mid-October, 1949, accident a woman was attempting to make a left turn when a chain collision occurred. There were no injuries. J.

J. Exon said Friday subtntial number of law enforcement personnel would be leaving the Fort Robinson area Friday if there is no more threat of Exon said he had taken the action following Thursday's Indian gathering near the fort. However, he said, more law officers would remain in the would normally be was very pleased with the way things went in the area yesterday the governor said, when Indians turned away from the park after being asked to do soby officials. the reports I received, it appears that the leadership of the American Indian Movement (AIM) said yesterday they would not cause aiiy Exon said. The governor said state officials had up some very careful plans to prevent any ocupation of the park and added that he felt the plan to diffuse the About 70 Indians were turned away two miles from the entrance to the state park Thursday after a confrontation that ended without major incident.

A caravan of 12 cars was stopped on Nebraska Highway 2 that leads into the park a contingent of Nebraska state troopers. Plane Seized Frankfurt, Germany (UP) --A man believed armed with a pistol seized a inside an emipty Air Ciinada plane at Rbcin-maim Airport release of Czcchcclovak nationals jailed in Gerniany for air piracy, police said. Police surrounded the plane on the strip at biggest aurport. Neither police nor au-Iine olficaaJs had debits on who the man ws nor which convicted hijackers he wanted released in return for tre stewardess' safetv..