Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 8

8 rdnrsday, Dec. II, Lincoln Kvering Journal and Nebraska Stale Journal Governor Asks Probe Of Retail Meat Prices Finigan to Hold Hea C7 Gov. Frank Morrison directed Agriculture Director Pearle F. Finigan to hold a public hearing soon in an attempt to find out why a drop in feed cattle prices has not been reflected in retail meat prices. Morrison said he suggested Finigan call in leaders of all farm organizations and other to testify at the hearing.

Finigan said the hearing will be held in Lincoln in the statehouse in a few days. He said it will probably not last more than two hours. Finigan said because his department has been studying the price problem for several months now, he feels he can complete the full investigation in or four He said he will then make his findings known to Morrison. said Finigan told him that a personal check of retail meat markets led the agriculture director to the conclusion that the reduction in cattle prices was not being passed on in its entirety to the consumer. Morrison said he wants to know whv.

rings The governor said he has i been about the price situation for almost a year because cattle feeding is a major industry in Nebraska. Message Sent He noted he sent a message to the U.S. Tariff Commission in Washington earlier this week requesting it resist any further reduction of cattle imports. Morrison said he thinks tariffs on cattle imports should be hiked rather than lowered. He said he also feels and quotas on beef imports should be estab- lished.

The governor said he is convinced the United States cannot continue to import as high a percentage of beef as it is doing today without impairing the domestic cattle industry. Morrison, a Democrat, said he has not talked to a single governor, both Republican and Democrat, who did not feel beef imports were hurting the domestic beef industry. I've talked to quite a he added. Earlier this year Federal Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told Morrison that beef imports were not a reason for high retail meat prices compared with fed cattle prices. No Funds The 1963 Legislature passed a resolution asking the governor's office to look into the matter, but because no funds were provided nothing was done.

However, Morrison said Wednesday recent findings by Finigan now makes a state investigation necessary. Morrison also announced at his news conference that he has selected a new hanking director to replace a 1 Misko. who resigned earlier this year because of a new conflict of interest law passed by the 1963 Legislature. The governor would not reveal his selection, saying only that it was a banker and not acting banking director John Kelley. Morrison said he would an- the appointment within a A Rights Law Is Southbound Lanes of 180 Are Opened Into Lincoln Bv RON GIBSON A new gateway to Lincoln was opened Wednesday morning as traffic began moving over the southbound lanes of Interstate Highway 180 from Cornhusker Highway south to Street.

The Nebraska Dept, of Roads opened the 1.5 mile road at 10 a.m. despite a snowstorm. Traffic was light. But those who did travel on the Interstate access road found it saved a few minutes and much frustration over the alternative route to downtown Lincoln via North 10th. Drivers on the new section were the first to pass over the new viaducts over the Missouri Pacific, Burlington, North Western and Union Pacific Railroad tracks.

While the traffic surface was suitable, the project still is not complete. All the guard rail north of the viaduct is not yet in place, and Highway Dept established a row of weighted oil drums as a temporary safety measure. Deputy State Engineer G. C. Strobel said it will take at least a week to install the remaining guard rail.

Later, more directional signs will be added along with landscaping and lights. Drivers are cautioned that part of the new segment has a lower speed limit than the usual 75 m.p.h. limit on the Nebraska Interstate. Signs north of the viaducts mark 55 m.p.h. and 45 m.p.h.

zones. Opening of the segment completes the southbound portion of the 3.2-mile Interstate access route. The remaining 1.5 miles of the northbound portion, parallel to the segment opened Wednesday, is still under construction. Dept, of Roads officials hope to have the northbound lanes open by the end of this year although the cold weather has put a crimp in their plans to do so. However, the Wednesday snowstorm still doesn't rule out the completion of the northbound lanes by the end of December, Strobel said.

Lincoln Chamber of Commerce President Willard Townsend sent a telegram to the Nebraska Dept, of Ror and the principal contractors on the Interstate 180 project, congratulating them on completion of the southbound! lanes and urging speedy com- pletion of the northbound por -1 tion. Major contractors are Abel: Construction Capital! Bridge Co. and Dobson Bros. Construction Co. I nicam Asked By Thompson congressional delegation has been asked by Carroll Thompson, chairman of the Council on Human Relations, to give consideration to a civil rights law that will be forward-looking.

hopeful and a picture of what today ought to be. In a letter to the delegation, Thompson said the people of Lincoln have indicated good spirit in all the work that our Council has Thompson included in each letter the recently approved statement of purpose and function for the Lincoln may- or's Council on Human Rela-j tions. is more apparent to the American people today than the urgent need for eradication of bias and discrimination because of said Thompson in his letter. you falls the responsibility for helping decide what kind of human relations cornerstone we will have in the United In regard to civil rights, Thompson said. am confident we will see real progress in this next year.

But we need a tone-setting law from our national government to assure us that we are in harmony with great national Normol Maximum Normal Minimum Lincoln's all-time record low: 29 below zero, Jan. 19, 1892 Shifting Wind Patterns Waft Winter From West As the year declines so does the temperature. The sunrays mosphere strike angle with less the at- at a glancing warming taking Norris Notes Hallain In Its Service Area Continued from Page 1 Hiiildinu Erase c7 Extended For Havelock Mail The expiring lease on the building at 4329 No. 61, housing the Havelock Station of the Lincoln Post Office, has been extended for a year. According to Postmaster Kenneth Lewis of Lincoln, bids for the Havelock operation opened in Omaha by the regional real estate officer did not meet building requirements.

These bids included one from Louis Schmidt of Canada and formerly of Lincoln, owner of the present station location. Mid-State Clarkson May Get I Funds Washington (tf) Senate House conferees reportedly have agreed to an addition of $100,000 to the public works money bill to start planning the Mid-Utate Reclamation Project in Nebraska. Congress has not yet authorized the project. A person interested in the project eaici the conferees also have agreed to an appropriation of $205,000 for the Clarkson. flood protection pwrject.

excess power to NPPS cause the Bureau of Reclamation to reduce allocation of Bureau of Reclamation power by the amount of the increased generating capacity resulting in irrepair- able harm and injury to objector and its The objection said it had no objection to the planning and construction by Consumers of its own future power supply or to their constructing generation plants to meet their own needs long as said plans or construction do not jeopardize or reduce the allocation of Bureau of Reclamation power to objectors and its members or other preference customers The objection urged the review board to deny the Cons ers application such time as the granting of the authority does jeopardize, limit or reduce the allocations of federal power by the Bureau of Reclamation to objectors and its members and to other preference customers in In a separate filing, the Norris district, which declined to object, but is not a member of GAT. said it is confident Consumers will assure the review board that: The proposed facility will be dedicated to service of the public convenience and necessity, rather than being limited to the service of the convenience and necessity of a special group of electric users. The proposed facility will be operated economically a feasibly to supply the service needed by the public rather than being limited to service of a special group of electric users. The proposed facility will be integrated with other generation facilities serving the pub- 1 i c. avoiding unneecessarv conflict and duplication.

The Norris filing noted the Hallam station is in its service area and near the load center of Norris. Norris said in its application it asked Consumers to submit a proposal to supply Norris additional power needs i after 1966 but Consumers declined. Norris now gets its supply from NPPS. Among the questions posed to the board by Norris for consideration is one which asked if Norris should be required to import its power from a distant NPPS source the proposed facility is located near the Norris load center. Norris also noted most of Consumers customers are urban and asked the £oard to consider tf the public convenience and necessity are served when low cost generation facilities are restricted to a special group rather than being made available to all the public.

The Norris filing admitted that the bureau will take into consideration the additional consumer generating capacity when it allocates additional power in early 1964 as it did on an earlier allocation when Consumers announced it would build Sheldon Station. The filing said Norris refuses to protest on the following reason: generation facility proposed by Consumers i strict. if its benefits as a publicly owned facility, are shared equally with all electric users in eastern Nebraska. and if its construction is appropriately timed with respect to the availability of power from the Bureau of Reclamation, is probably the best solution to the immediate power Missouri Basin Studv Decision Due Jan. 29 A decision whether to attempt the first comprehensive planning study of the Missouri Basin since World War II will be made in Houston, Tex.

Jan. 29. the date the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee meets with Arkansas White-Red Inter- Agency Committee to discuss basinwide planning. Representatives of the 10- state Missouri Basin group discussed a proposed study plan which would also involve a number of federal agencies. The states involved are Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, Sou Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.

Spokesmen for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and other federal agencies involved reported that they are figuring on such a study in preparing their budget requests. 20 Inmates Ask Parole Hoard Meets Jan. and 9 1 An Abilene, man sentenced to life in the Nebraska Penitentiary when he was 20 for a 1948 Omaha murder will be up for parole when state board of pardons meets Jan.

8. He is Elvin L. Keene, now 35, who was convicted Nov. 8, 1948. of second degree murder by a Douglas District Court jury for slaying an Omaha taxicab driver during an attempted holdup.

Keene had his sentence commuted to 45 years by the pardon board last year. Seven other prisoners will get parole hearings the same day. The following day, Jan. the pardon board will con- warming the earth daytime place, even during the diminishing daylight hours. During November the normal average maximums fall most sharply, nearly 20 degrees during the month.

The normal minimum readings fall less sharply, gradually declining through the season, reaching their lowest ebb late in January. Seasonal wind patterns shift. In place of the Gulf Stream breezes that prevail most of the summer, a different air passage, predominantly from the northwest brings surge after surge of cold air masses down over the Rocky Mountains and into the Great Plains. An increase in the number and intensity of these cold blasts brings first snow, then winter, and finally the bitter blizzard blasts of January, before lengthening days and seasonal wind shifts bring the snow- melting false spring of February. Although the days begin lengthening af- tcr the first day of winter (Dec.

23 this year), the declining temperature pattern prevails through most of January, not really showing much improvement until March when the temperature averages rise almost as rapidly as they fall in November. From October until the weekend past generally fair, unseasonably mild weather prevailed in Lincoln this fall. October was the warmest on record with less than the normal number of degree days. November was the fourth warmest on record with temperatures averaging 5 to 15 degrees above normal. Degree days, a heating requirement measurement, were below ior November.

Large high-pressure systems in southwest United States served a two-fold purpose during this period blocking the cold fronts dipping southward from Canada and the Pacific Northwest, and holding back Gulf moisture moving northward. The result was an extended period of clear skies, warm temperatures and no precipitation. With the collapse of the long stationary system, rapid changes took place with abrupt changes in weather resulting. lage Vili Is Given Ten Days Must Answer In dub (rise Projects Listed by Colleges Continued from Page 1 Highways i Ire Snow Packed Czech Museum Planned Depends on Court Case By DEAN TERRILL Southeast Nebraska Bureau Wilber Plans for a substantially-endowed Nebraska Czech museum were men- i tioned in connection with a unique District Court hearing which seeks the exhumation of a farm couple who were murder-suicide victims 19 months ago. Mrs.

Milo Stastny of Wilber, sister of the slain Mrs. Alfred Tachovsky, testified the two had planned a Wilber city library as a memorial to their late parents. Their mother, Mrs. William Dvoracek, had left them an estate of around six years ago. half is already designated in my will, but unfortunately Ida never got around to legally taking care of her Mrs.

Stastny said. Mrs. personal inheritance is part of the controversial $240.000 estate currently involved in the hearing before Judge Joseph Ach. The attorneys seek disinterment of the Tachovsky bodies to possibly prove that the slain wife briefly survived her husband thus technically could have passed the estate to her sister. Mrs.

Stastny said the two shares would be sufficient to expand the original plan to include a Czech museum as part of the contemplated building. On the witness stand, both Mrs. Stastny and her husband testified that Lester Tachovsky, nephew of the deceased told them as members of a group that he had heard two shots about three minutes apart. This contradicted his repeated denials on the stand I Tuesday of having made such la statement. Both Stastnvs also said they had no idea wiiy the tragedy had occurred, as the Tachovsky had got along well.

They also were in reasonably good health, they added. now has 10 days to answer accusations brought by City of Lincoln before the case is tried in Lancaster District Court. Jan. 7. As plaintiff-intervenor in a suit filed by the Club Safari, the city charges the village with indirect contempt of court and asks for $525 for expenses and damages.

The city alleges that the board violated a May sidet paiole applications by iq restraining order by collecting $100 for occupation taxes from the club in August. The city asks that the court find the village guilty of indirect contempt and be punished by fine or imprisonment, in addition to the $525 judgment. Defendant West board members are Francke, chairman; Campbell, Robert years; to yean fort 28, fery 2. 12 Reformatory inmates. The Penitentiary cases, with age, home, crime, county where convicted, term and date of sentencing: Fred A.

Schrer: 34: Hayward. two counts of issuing forged instruments: Cass; three years; Oct. 12, 1962 Warren F. Nelsen; 29; Omaha; receiving stolen property; Douglas; four years; Sept. 20.

1961. Russell Spearman; 24; Omaha; ceny from person; Douglas; five May 10. 1962. i Anton Svehla; 45; Meadow Grove; in cest; Madison: 20 years; Oct. 10.

1958 Robert L. Montgomery; 21; Crosby attempted jailbreak; Otoe; one one and a half years; Jan. 18, 1962. John L. Grissom; 33; Gruver, Tex forgery; Scotts Bluff; three Aug.

20, 1962. Ervin E. Clay; 31; Kimball; Scotts Bluff; four years; July Reformatory rases Richard A. Grace; 20; Omaha; larceny from person; Douglas; two to three years; Nov. 2, 1962.

Kirsrhhaum; 22; Omaha glary: Douglas; one to three Aug. 31. 1962. Alfred Perkins; 27; Omaha; burglary; Douglas; two to four years; May 2, 1962. Edwin Petersen; 27; Omaha; burglary and violation of probation; Douglas; one to three years; Oct 3, 1962.

Frederick L. Reeves; 24; Omaha: burglary; Douglas; one to three years; Jan. 17, 1963. Richard Havens; 26; none; breaking and entering and violation of parole; Hall; three years; Oct. 4, 1962.

Kenneth Downs; 28; Inman; cattle stealing; Holt: three years; Nov. 8, 1962. Herman Silas; 18; Montgomery, sodomy; Lancaster; one to three years; Sept. 27, 1962. James Sharpe; 30: Lincoln; issuing check to defraud and violation of probation; Lancaster; one and a half to three years: Oct.

11. 1962. Jack Wealch; 21: Gresham: issuing check to defraud; Lancaster; one to two years; Dec. 14, 1962 II. Jay Hamilton; 39; Tulsa, Okla issuing no account checks; Lincoln: one to two years; Jan.

16. 1963. Robert Wyman; 26 McCook; debauching minor: Ked Willow; two to three years; Aug 30. 1962. bur a Loans lo Low-Rent Plan I Ionios Washington (tf) The Public Housing Administration has announced loans to local housing authorities for preliminary planning of low- rent homes in Nebraska at Blue Hill, $5 000 for 25 homes; Burwell $10,000 for 50 homes; Stromsburg, $7.200 for 36 homes.

Fremont Man ISot (Congress Race A Fremont real estate man, Jerry Fov. said ho is not considering running for the First District seat in Congress next year on the Democratic ticket. Foy, who had been rumored as a possible candidate, said he has any idea of running. The Kirst District, which in- repre- Beer- cludes Lincoln, now is sented by Rep. Ralph mann of Dakota City.

Beermann lias no opposition on either the Democratic or Republican tickets date. The wings would house expanded math, geology, English and foreign language de- The of West Lincoln I partments, Breckenridge said. Federal aid could have a substantial impact on higher educational institutions in Omaha. Creighton University is in the midst of a major campus expansion, which includes new science facilities. Omaha University is adding to its main library.

Both schools have legal power to contract for Ion g- term loans, as well as being grant recipients. Hastings College President Theron Maxon said his board of trustees would inspect the federal aid bill in light of re, cently-announced expansion I projects. These include a science laboratory annex plus a speech, drama and English department classroom. Dr. Clifford Madsen, Dana president, commented his i school has no immediate' classroom construction plans, although a library improvement may be coming up.

But Midland College President Paul W. Dieekman is in the possibility of federal funds. Presently on the drawing boards is a new science building for Midland, costing just under $1 million. A long-time booster of federal aid to education is Dr. Vance Rogers, Nebraska Wesleyan president.

In Dr. absence Wednesday, a Wesleyan official said the school is planning a $1.5 million science building and application for federal funding would b( tively considered when ministrative details arc known. Junior colleges could get building cash, too. Fairbury Junior College Dean Fred Drexler said his school has immediate and pressing for new science and library facilities. At Scottsbluff, Community College Dean Ora Roades declared the federal aid measure prove a Godsend to Scottsbluff College recently purchased a new 35-acre campus site, but building work has been stymied for lack of funds.

Road surfaces in the northern and western parts of the state are normal except for some packed snow through towns and sheltered areas, state maintenance engineer John McMeekin reported Wednesday morning. But the north-south roads in the south and southeast Nebraska are covered with loose and packed snow, he said. East-west roads are about normal except through towns and sheltered areas. Interstate 80 between Grand Island and Lexington are normal also except at interchange ramps and in the vicinity of over-head bridge crosssings. The Interstate between Lin- Man Killed In Accident Cars Collide Near Alliance Traffic Fatalities 1963 1962 Nebraska 320 379 Lancaster County 13 35 Lincoln 4 10 Alliance Merle Stark.

65. Alliance, was fatally injured about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday when his car and another collided on an ice- covered highway. Box Butte County Atty. John Anderson said car was turning left into a shop- Lincoln James Cecil Knape, Wayne Sieerest and Curtis O.

Jensen. The Club Safari is located in the Midway Addition, the disputed area annexed by both the city and West Lincoln. The club has withdrawn as plaintiff in the case but the city has continued action as an intervening plaintiff. ping area. It collided with an coin and Omaha is generally auto driven by Michael Nagaki.

15, Alliance. Stark died about 15 minutes after admittance to a hospital here. Nagaki and his mother, Mrs. Jane Nagaki, suffered cuts and were treated. Anderson said the accident occurred about y2 mile west of here.

snow covered with packed snow on the passing lanes, interchange ramps and under overhead bridges. Sa Iva ion Ai Taxi Driver Strike Feared By Omniums Omaha contract dispute with three Omaha taxicab firms. Yellow, Checker and Safeway, may result in a strike by cab drivers. Andrew Kaelin. a vice president of the Transport Workers International, and Charles Pirolli, a field representative for the Teamsters Union, discussed the situation with Mayor James Dworak.

Kaeline said locals of both I unions had voted to strike, but that the parent unions had 1 persuaded the locals not to. do so. He warned, though, that; once they gave notice of a i strike they could walk off the job in three days. Kaeline said the locals have been trying to negotiate a new contract since their old one expired four months ago. Kaelin would not say what new terms the unions were seeking, explaining only interested in a living ac- ad- Johnston Chairman Fred Johnston.

Sears Roebuck manager in Lincoln, was elected new chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, succeeding Ted Thompson. Board members at their annual meeting elected son as treasurer. Other 1964 officers are Dr, Kenneth Rose, vice chairman; Mrs. Johnston Genie McClasson. secretary, and Mrs.

Willard Wells, assistant secretary. Renamed for another three- year term as advisory board members were Mrs. Willard Wells. E. A.

Frerichs, Willard Townsend, Carl Dvoracek and Richard Smith. New advisory board members for a three-year term are Robert Peterson. Charles Probasco and Kenneth Lewis. Chairman Bill a 1 of the 1963 Tree of Lights reported twelve of the 70 lights on LBJ Asked to Prevent Strike Washington (UPI) Sen. Carl T.

Curtis, urged President Johnson to use his aoffice to prevent a threat! ened strike against United Airlines. Curtis said he made the appeal in behalf of many Nebraska mayors, civic leaders, educators, students, servicemen, airline employes and others. at Christmas time is very important to manv individuals and their families as well as those economically Curtis said in a telegram to the President. I urge that you request the union leaders in control to accept the findings made by the presidential fact finding board on Nov. 18 thus avoid the tis said.

and Cur- Fire kills 5 West Haven. Conn. of them children ranging in age from the tree are illuminated, indicating $1.282 has been contributed in the Salvation annual bellringer campaign. Each light illuminated represents $100 of the six goal. Twenty-nine ueeks to five ice memberships are this Christ- kettle and bell workers.

before dawn here in a fire that sewpt a small house Rhodes Meet Held at Center The 196,1 Nebraska Rhodes Scholarship selection committee was meeting Wednesday at the Nebraska Center. Chairman Vance D. Rogers, Wesleyan president, said the committee may designate two nominees to represent the state before a middle west district Rhodes scholarship selection committee which meets at Des Moines 4.