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WEATHER: Cooler National Weather Service Forecasts for Eastern Nebraska Tonight: Cloudy. Sunday: Cloudy, chance snow. Past 24 hours: High Low Next 24 hours: High Low Full Weather cn Page 5 LINCOLN EVENING JOURNAL MARKET CLOSES Two Pages and Nebraska State Journal LINCOLN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1971 SPORTS MARKET FINAL TEN CENTS CHANGE: Due? Will the Nebraska Council of Churches become the Pan-Christian That question faces various denominations as they study a task force report. Story on Page 12 Demos Taking Over in Capitols By Associated Press Democratic governors this weekend began taking over in a majority of the 50 state capitois, the dominant position won in the Nov. 3 elections.

Republican governors, who had held office in 32 states, now will number only 21. The first of the Democratic newcomers formally sworn in, Gov. Bruce King of New Mexico, took the oath of office Friday. Several more will follow next week. King, a 45-year-old rancher noted for his Western attire, pledged his administration will be serious one, with the welfare and necessities of New Mexicans in mind at all King succeeds Republican Gov.

David F. Cargo. More Democrats will be installed Monday. They include Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin, a liberal who has connections with the Kennedy family and who helped found the New Democratic Coalition.

Lucey, who succeeds retiring GOP Gov. W'arren P. Knowles, defeated Lt. Gov. Jack Olson in the election.

Cecil D. Andrus, the first Democrat elected governor of Idaho in 26 years, also takes office Monday. The 39-year-old former insurance company executive defeated one-term Republican Don W. Samuelson. who had beaten him in the 1966 election.

In Minnesota, one of tie youngest governors will take tne oath of office Monday. Wendell R. Anderson, 37, ex-Olympic hockey player, succeeds Republican Gov. Harold LeVander. On Tuesday, Florida's only Republican governorship in nearly a century will end when Gov.

Claude Kirk hands over the office to Reubin Askew, 42, a surprise victor in the five-way Democratic primary and winnei over Kirk by 230.000 votes. Another new Democratic governor is J. J. Exon, who takes office in Nebraska on Thursday. He defeated GOP Gov.

Norbert Tiemann. The two most populous states retained their Republican governors, giving Ronald Reagan a second term in California and New Nelson A. Rockefeller a fourth term. Rockefeller renewed his oath of office Friday in the state assembly chamber while a 19- gun salute boomed outside. In his inaugural speech he declared: most fundamental task before us is to make our communities places where family stability and strengthened family life and family ties can be realized in this period of social' great task of our time is not to probe the moon, but to preserve the he said.

Reagan, who defeated Democrat Jess Unruh by 500,000 votes, says his second term as governor will be his last. He says he wants to retire to his ranch in 1975 but has not ruled out speculation that he may run for the U.S. Senate in 1974. He will take the oath of office on Monday. A GOP newcomer will take over Wednesday as the first Republican governor of Connecticut in 16 years.

Bucking trend towards the Democrats, Rep. Thomas J. i11, 42, succeeds Democratic Gov. John Dempsey. The South Dakota State House goes over to Democrat Richard Kneip on Tuesday when the former state legislator formally succeeds Republican Gov.

Frank Farrar. Jet Crashes Near Tripoli Tripoli, Libya An Egyptian jetliner carrying 26 persons on a flight from Algiers to Cairo crashed and burned on an approach to Tripoli airport early Saturday. All aboard were feared dead. The Libya News Agency said the pilot appare ntly miscalculated the distance from the runway and crashed about four miles from the airport. The agency said 17 bodies had been recovered.

1971 Orange Bowl ampiots Color No. 1 (Big) Red Victory Details, Pictures on Pages 9-11 AP WIREPHOTO There was joy in the Cornhusker locker room after Nebraska whipped Louisiana State 17 to 12 in the Orange Bowl. And guess what? Those Cornhuskers are convinced the team is undisputedly 1- of the players in the foreground are linebacker Steve Yanda (39) and split end Rex Lowe (83). SeiKilP Okays House Honors McCormack As 91st Congress Adjourns, Plans Being Made For 92nd UPI TELEPHOTO At least one impartial and frequent sideline observer oi tne university of Nebraska Cornhuskers thinks the team is No. 1.

That would be Coach Bob I)e- vaney, who restated with gestures his final judgment, often expressed in recent weeks, following the Orange Bowl victory. Describes Husker Fans After Win By HELEN HAGGIE Miami No. University of Nebraska football fans expect Associated Press pollsters to be as convinced of claim as the fans are. Pandemonium broke loose in Nebraska sections of the Orange Bowl Friday evening when the final gun sounded. N'U fans seemed reluctant to leave the stadium.

The cheering went on for a long time after the game had ended. No. signs which had been brought to the stadium were held high. As red-clad fans started to file out of the Orange Bowl, they beat a rhymthic tattoo on the metal siding of the ramps to augment their yells of No. Total crowd count was an Orange Bowl record breaker 80,699 and the Miami Herald count of Nebraska fans was 32,000.

Sixteen thousand of those tickets had been purchased at the NU ticket office. No. banners had appeared occasionally during the first half of the game. At half time, three red- hatted men circled the sidelines with a larger red and white No. banner.

A woman from Fort Lauderdale, said: made a believer out of me. I think wonderful the way Nebraska supports its A couple from Chicago and their small son also became converted Nebraskans Friday evening. As the Louisiana State University band marched to its buses, many Nebraskans congratulated its members on their fine performances. Many fans from LSU grinned at the No. whoops and answered No.

and held up two fingers. Bob Jacobson of Sioux Falls, S.D., was heading for the dressing room with a large plastic Big Red sign. The number is the one his iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiniitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Major Bowl Scores ORAINGE Nebraska 17, LSU 12 ROSE Stanford 27, Ohio State 17 SUGAR Tennessee 34, Air Force 13 corroN Notre Dame 24, Texas 11 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii brother, Larry, wears as a Cornhusker team member. Nebraskans who have heard all week about the great LSU team finally let go Friday night with all the feelings they had stored up. Their banners were unfurled in increasing numbers during the first half of the game.

Two of the Stanford beating Ohio State and Notre Dame beating Texas had happened preceding the one for the Cornhusker followers counted down the last 10 seconds of the game, which was full of cliff-hanging moments, and then raised their one-fingered hands high. It was a fitting climax for the native Nebraska Rutledge brothers, who were having a reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rutledge. In i Huskers Home I Sunday, 2 p.m.

I The Cornhusker foot- ball team will arrive at I Municipal Air- I port on Sunday at 2 p.m. i on Eastern Air Lines. It is a special charter flight i direct from Miami to 1 Lincoln. 1 iiiiiiiiiittniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii addition to Roy, Dr. David of Boston, Charlie of Long Island, N.Y., and Bill of Blair cheered for the Cornhuskers- The Syracuse High School Band helped the NU Band in a magnificent flag and music routine with the theme during halftime.

The high schoolers carried flags from many nations. The feeling of the crowd was well summed up by Mrs. Roy Byington of Lincoln: (Nebraska) done down here has been wonderful. The bands in the parade, the Nebraska float, the performances and now this great Friday night as tired but exuberant fans left the stadium, they were convinced NU is No. 1 in the nation.

A Notre Dame fan in the lobby fo a hotel might have been in trouble had he not escaped into an elevator. He denied NU claims and called his alma mater No. 1. Alumni at the Galt Seaside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale were disappointed earlier in the week when an unidentified and uncaught person made with the Nebraska flag, which was flying above the hotel. But Friday night and early Saturday morning, all this had been forgotten.

Washington he 91st Congress adjourned Saturday the longest session in 20 years, leaving to its successors a New hangover of unsettled controversies. As the old Congress ended its 1 a session, President Nixon disclosed that he plans to deliver his State of the Union message the evening of Jan. 22, one day after the 92nd Congress convenes. Nixon advised Senate leaders of that schedule after telling them he had no more business for the Congress to at this The leftover disputes make it plain Nixon will have plenty of business for the new session. Atop the menu: the postponed but unsettled controversy about the future of the supersonic transport aircraft, and the welfare-reform program that passed the House but died in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania made the traditional telephone call to Nixon to tell him the work was done. Back on the Senate floor, Scott made the motion to quii for good: mixed emotions, almost all of them happy, I now move that the Senate stand in adjournment sine The Latin words mean without delay. With a round of applause, the Senate agreed, at 1:29 p.m. CST. The House lingered a while to eulogize Speaker John W.

McCormack of Massachusetts, who retired with the end of the session. It adjourned at 2:11 p.m. The coniroversy over the supersonic aircraft subsidy was the last to yield to tlement. Under its terms approved by voice vote, the new Congress will have to confront the issue all over again before March 30. Mansfield assured William Proxmire, the leading SST foe, he will do all in his power to make sure both the Senate and the House are given the chance to vote for or Kosygin: Glad to Help U.S.

Out of Vietnam 18 Experts Begin Mine Inspection Hyden, Ky. (UPD-Eighteen mining experts entered the Finley Coal Co. mine Saturday to determine the cause of an explosion deep underground which killed 38 men. They had been told by rescue workers, who went 1,600 feet into the mine after Wed- a explosion and recovered the bodies, that dynamite was the probable cause. Two cases of dynamite were brought into the mine the day before the blast.

The 16 experts, including federal and state inspectors and company officials, rode into the mine on three battery- operated personnel carriers. James Westfield, assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, who rode on the lead carrier, said one thing they hoped to learn was how much dynamite, and what type, was used in the mine. Moscow (UPI) Premier Alexei N. Kosygin said Saturday the Soviet Union be glad to help the United States get out of Vietnam as part of an overall desire by the Soviets to assist in mapping a political settlement ol the Indochina conflict.

He made clear, however, there was no change in the basic Soviet position of total support for the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong and said the United States would eventually have to pull its troops out anyway. Kosygin also said the Soviets welcome a reasonable agreement in the field of the limitation of strategic arms which would not be of a sided nature. It was a reference not only to the U.S.- Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) at Helsinki and Vienna but to broader aspects of The diplomatic value of his offer to the Americans leave was in doubt. For some time, however, the Soviets have followed the policy of steering clear of any public role as mediator, responding to Western feelers with the line that matters must be worked out directly with the Vietnamese Communists. The Soviet premier also had some words of would-be 11 0 i for Communist China, returning to the conciliatory line the Soviets have been following for a year after an editorial attack upon Peking earlier this week by Pravda, the Communist party newspaper.

On European policy, Kosygin said he noted toward detente and good- neighborly cooperation is being ever more noticeably felt in relations between the blocs with different social Referring to current negotiations over the status of West Berlin, he said: are ready to cover our part of the road to agreement and if our partners are prepared to do the same the problem will be BE SURE TO READ Northeast Blanketed While the Northeast digs out from under piles of snow, mountain climber Paul Petzoldt describes his New Day on a Grand Teton mountain in Wyoming as being inside a Breathtaking Despite pollution, slums and clogged highways, there is still some awesome, inspiring beauty left in America Page 8 nSSlDE ALSO FIND Ann Landers 7 Legal Notices ...13 Television ...........5 Births 7 Lincoln News 8 Theater 3 Comics 16 Living Today 7 Things To Do 3 16 Movies 3 Want Ads Deaths 5 National 2 Weather 5 Editorial 4 Nebraska News 8 News 7 Emergency Nos. 3Radio 5 World News 2 Horoscope 16 Sport News against the aircraft on its own merits. Other key figures on the other side of the John Stennis. and Alan Bible, gave similar assurances. And Mansfield went one step further.

He resigned his seat on the Senate Trans- 0 a i 0 Appropriations subcommiteee and offered it to subcommittee and offered it to Wisconsin Democrat a permanent inside vantage point from which to follow the continuing SST controversy. Shortly alter Proxmire had his assurances in hand, the Senate voted by voice vote to approve a resolution continuing spending for the entire $2.7 billion transportation appropriations bill, the related $4 billion highway trust fund and the $210 million for the SST until 30. Any other decision have stopped all spending for federal transportation activities aftei the noon Sunday expiration date of the Congress. Earlier, the Senate received anew member Republican William Roth of Delaware. Roth, named by Delaware Gov.

Russell W. Peterson when veteran Republican John J. Williams resigned quietly Thursday, got the edge in seniority over the other newly elected senators. Stadium Collapses; Toll High Glasgow, Scotland (UPI) Hundreds of fans were hurled to the frozen ground Saturday when a section of metal and concrete crowd barrier collapsed during most famous annual soccer match in Ibrox Park. An official announcement said 66 persons were killed and another 6 were injured seriously enough to require hospitalization.

Scores of others were treated at the field for minor injuries. Spectators lean against the barriers while standing on terraces overlooking the playing field. The tragedy struck in the closing seconds of the game between the Rangers and Celtics when the crowd of 80,000 leaped to their feet as each team scored its only goal of the match..

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