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Herald Photo by Sebl Brecl 1 A'ifw WK 1 53WEW' 71 7 Interstate Pile Up Three persons were injured but none apparently seriously about 7 pm Tuesday in a three vehicle collision on In terstate 80 eastbound at about 50th Street Sheryl Nanos 31 of 8803 Parkview Blvd in LaVista was driving the auto above which appears to have lost its rear third She and her 9 year old daughter Kimberly were treated for injuries at Lu theran Hospital Sidney Tailant 52 of rural Springfield Neb was driving the truck He was not injured but was tick eted for following too closely A car quite a distance ahead of the truck initiated the events that led to the collision police said Mrs Nanos said she slowed her auto and flashed her brake lights when she saw a car ahead of her go into a spin Tailant who was behind Mrs car said he braked but was unable to stop so he at tempted to drive into the median The truck jackknifed and struck Mrs car It was shoved ahead into a car driven by Charles reer 28 of 913 Ash St Council Bluffs reer was treated at Lu theran Hospital for a cut lip 'V Omaha World Herald Wednesday November 9 1977 ''r 3 Carter Asks for air Energy Bill Continued from page 1 conference committee The As sociated Press said In the election night address to the nation Carter warned the public it is endangering the na economy and security by guzzling energy at record rates He urged Congress to pass energy conservation laws that he can accept He indicated he would veto any energy bill that provides to producers and fails to meet his standards of conservation fairness and budgetary restraint Trying to whip up public sup port for his tax based con servation proposals Carter tried to persuade his audience the energy crisis is a pocket book issue of direct concern to working Americans He told an anecdote of a con conservation in ebruary While pressing for congres sional action the president seemed to take special care to adopt a conciliatory tone to ward the legislators United Press International reported choices facing the members of Congress are not he said them to pass an effec tive and fair plan they will need your support and under standing your support to res ist pressures from a few for special favors at the expense of the rest of us and your under standing that there can be no effective plan without some sacrifice from all of us Serious Challenge is not a contest of strength between the president shift to more plentiful and per i manent energy supplies and I encourage energy production I they protect fed eral budget from any unreason I able financial energy plan is a good insurance policy for the future in which relatively small pre miums we pay today will pro tect us in the years Carter said we fail to act boldly today then we will surely face a great er series of crises tomorrow energy shortages environmen tal damage ever more massive government bureaucracy and regulations and ill considered crash and the Congress nor between the House and the Car Oil Price Hike Energy Plan Linked frontation he had recently with an unemployed Detroit steel worker who said feel much like talking about energy and foreign because he had more pressing personal economic problems on his mind understand how he the president said I must tell you the truth and the truth is that you cannot talk about our economic problems now or in the future without talking about ormal Manner The manner was somber and formal in marked contrast to the folksy format he used to in troduce the theme of energy ter said is being meas ured is the strength and will of our nation whether we can acknowledge a threat and meet a serious challenge together He reserved the right to veto whatever legislation comes out of Congress will sign the energy bills only if they meet these he said and listed three re quirements for energy legisla tion: That they be to both the American consumers and to the energy producers and that it not disrupt our national econ they be to meet our important goals for energy conservation promote a Washington (UPI) Trea sury Secretary Michael Blu menthal warned Tuesday that oil producing nations may cur tail supplies or raise prices id encourage conservation in the United States if a national energy plan enacted 1 Blumenthal said he believed the Organization of Petroleum' Exporting pricing policies for 1978 be in fluenced by our Before you BUY COMPARE OUR PRICE! CARPET WAREHOUSE 1004 1st Ave CB 323 8191 Sioux City Votes Center Supporter to Council the 72 acre site sought by Geh Holiday Sate Election officials said 27628 Cain 20 off Gor The project would have per mitted the city to accept as a gift the old federal building in downtown Lincoln The money would have'been used to reno vate the building for city office But a $69 million storm sew er bond issue was approved Tusday 13714 to 8002 The pro ject will speed work on 28 sewer projects during the next three years including some in neigh Westroads: Open Sunday 12 to 6 Mon thru St 10 to 9:30 Southroads: Open Sunday 12 to 5 Mon thru Sat 10 to 9:00 Council Bluffs: Open Sunday 12 to 5 Mon thru Sat 10 to 9:00 create a majority for construc tion of the shopping center The unofficial vote total was Skinner 14806 or 20 percent of the total Clausen 14113 or 19 percent and Cole 13562 or 18 Mayor William Gross who fourth in his bid for re election and management reforms are urgently needed Lincoln or the second 'time this year Lincoln voters turned down a $7 million bond issue for a downtown civic cen ter project borhoods hit by flooding in Sep tember Two More Attacks Rome (AP) Police report ed two more arson and bomb ing attacks on West German commercial establishments in Italy apparently in reprisal for the deaths of Andreas Baader and two other convicted terror ists in West Germany Kelso said the drought of the 1970s has ushered in a new era of water planning and manage ment This is because of a pre dictable recurrence of drought every 20 years he said a complicating factor in Attempting to find solutions to water problems is that we have refused to treat water as an eco nomic said ischer who defined consumption of water as diverting it so it is unavai lable for any other use space and to finance construc tion of a 2500 seat performing arts center linking the building with the old Lincoln City Hall A total of 21970 Lincolnites went to the polls compared with predictions of about 18000 Election Commisssioner Bill Davidson attributed the heavi er turnout to apparently heavy opposition to the civic center proposal and to heavy support for the storm sewer bond issue Interstate 70 was closed for more than 100 miles from Strasburg east of Denver to Stratton 25 miles from the Kansas line Blowing snow sleet and poor visibility also closed Interstate 25 south of Denver Snowfall in the area ranged from 7 inches at Del Norte in Rio Grande County to 4 inches at Buckley Air National Guard Base east of Denver Pueblo re ported a trace Mountain ski resorts how ever generally reported only 2 to 4 inches of snow and said it would not be enough to move up planned Thanksgiving week openings Timbers Called Que to Disaster Los Angeles Times Service Toccoa Ga Investigators have uncovered what they be lieve may be a major clue to what caused the Toccoa alls dam to collapse: long forgot ten turn of century timbers that apparently formed part of the earthen dam's foundation it was learned Tuesday This disclosure came as Georgia Gov George Busbee urged President Carter to sup ply federal experts for an in vestigation of the fail ure At least 38 persons were killed one was still missing Tuesday when the structure collapsed early Sunday releas ing a torrent of water on a col lege campus in the valley be low Preliminary inquiries into the failure have been hampered by a lack of recordsor engineering data Toccoa alls College which owned the dam said it had no records The school reported that the dam was built in 1937 but The Times learned that parts of the structure dated back to 1900 The 1937 construction put an earth embankment atop a smaller dam built on the site about 1900 That procedure building one dam on top of another can be accomplished safely but independent engineers say it requires careful construction Ray Keynoter this definition irrigation is virtually the sole consumer of water in any great he said Kelso said irrigating 160 acres of land consumes about the same amount of water as a city of 10000 uses in a year Iowa Gov Robert Ray was the keynote speaker at the opening of the three day confer ence He said there is no class of people who are greater in novators than farmers future lies with the family said Ray with the ability to produce agricul tural By the Associated Press A record number of Sioux City residents went to the polls Tuesday and apparently set the stage for construction of a con troversial shopping center on the south side Elected to the five member City Council were the Rev Wil liam Skinner Larry Clausen $13000 Top Price or Nebraska Bull Kansas City (AP) A Here ford bull from Nebraska brought the top price of $13000 at an auction sponsored by the American Hereford Association Monday night in Kansas City The bull SM Spur Domino 630 and sold by the Spur Cattle Co of Harrison Neb was named the reserve grand champion at the show Monday at the American Royal Arena tne bull was sold to Still House Hollow arm of Hume Va Temperatures in the west were in the high 20s to low 30s most of the day but remained in the 40s and 50s in the east and southeast bv 5 nm 3()s and Winds Western Nebraska was ex pected to remain today as doings left it: high temperatures reaching the 30s and winds whipping the snow around Colorado had it worse than Nebraska A 100 mile wide belt of snow crossed eastern plains closing schools snarling traffic and downing power lines in Denver and nearby areas Winds gusted to 58mph The ratings were made by the Iowa Natural Resources Coun cil under contract to the corps The western Iowa dams nearest town and owner: Adams County Corning Re servoir Corning City of Corning Crawford A nameless dam along a Boyer River tributary a mile from Dow City owner not listed remont A nameless dam along a Nishnabotna River tribu tary one mile from Hamburg Soil Conservation District Harrison Site R3 Mill Pi cayune Watershed Woodbine Soil Conservation District Shelby Prairie Rose Lake Avoca Iowa Conservation Com mission 5 Are In Western Iowa ive western Iowa dams are rated on an Army Corps of Engineers' in ventory Nebraska Game and Parks Com mission Howard Cotesfield Detention Dam Cotesfield Mrs Walter Kvnn Keith Detention Dam 1 A Ogallala city of Ogallala King sley Keystone Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation Dis trict Ogallala Dam East Ogal lala city of Ogallala Ogallala Dam West Ogallala city of Ogal lala Kimball Janicek Dam Kim ball city of Kimball Lancaster Big Nemaha Dam 11 A irth Nemaha Natural Re sources District Bluestem Dam Site No 4 Sprague corps of engi neers Branched Oak Dam Site No 18 Raymond corps of engi neers Conestoga Dam Site No 12 Lincoln Dean Mro lader Dam Lincoln loyd lader Sr Holmes Lake Site No 17 Lincoln corps of engineers Olive Creek Dam Site No 2 Sprague corps of engi neers Pawnee Dam Site No 14 Emerald corps of engineers Rol ler Dam Lincoln Mrs Merle Rel ler Salt Creek Dam 17 A Roca Lower Platte South Natural Re sources District Salt Creek Dam 22 A Kramer Nebraska Game and Porks Commission Salt Creek Dam 27 Kromer Lower 'Platte South Natural Resources District Salt Creek Dam No 3 A Sprague Lower Platte South Nat ural Resources District Salt Creek Dam No 35 A Hickman Lower Platte South Natural Re sources District Smith Dam Mal colm Dr Phil Smith Stagecoach Dam Site 9 Hickman corps of en gineers Wagon Train Dam Site 8 Hickman Dean Mro Wedgewood Lake Dam Lincoln Wedgewood Manor Inc Yankee Hill Dorn Site 10 Lincoln corps of engineers Lincoln Wellfleet Dam Well fleet Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Madison Multipurpose Dam 1 A Norfolk city of Norfolk Morrill Wildhorse Dam No 14 A Bayard North Platte Natu ral Resources District Wildhorse Dam 5 A Bayard North Platte Natural Resources District Otoe Wilson Creek Dam 1 Dunbar Nemaha Natural Re sources District Wilson Creek Dam 2 Otoe Nemaha Natural Resources District Wilson Creek Dam 7 A Dunbar Nemaha Natu ral Resources District Wilson Creek Dam 8 Dunbar Nemaha Natural Resources District Wil son Creek Dam 9 1 Otoe Nemaha Natural Resources District Wil son Creek Dam 9 Otoe Nemaha Natural Resources District Pawnee Plum Creek Dam 5 Burchard Lower Big Blue Nat ural Resources District Pierce Pierce Dam Piercecity of Pierce Saline Dudley Dam Big Blue River Lodge Area Bud Dudley Saunders Memphis DamMemphis Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Scotts Bluff Gering Valiev Dam A Gering North Platte Nat ural Resources District Gering Valley Dam Gering no owner listed Gering Valley Dam Ger ing North Platte Natural Re sources District North Platte Ger ing Valley Dam lower Gering North Platte Natural Resources District Seward Langworthy Dam Beaver Crossing Jessie Lang worthy Estate Twin Lakes Dam Site 13 Lincoln corps of engi neers Sheridan Antelope Creek Dam 20 A Gordon city of Gordon Anieiope creeK uarn 4U don city of Gordon The vote on the civic center 5 project was 6892 to 14792 In tne earlier vote a similar cen ter proposal lost by 531 votes 93 87120 85 52 99 59160 83 83108102 940982 iv vuuiicu cuiuebL I Skinner said during the cam eral Growth paign he would vote for an out lying snooping center onlv at 1 ter downtown redevelopment opposed the center came in was completed fourth in his bid for re election Cole a former Sioux City The other candidates defeated mayor said he would approve both in favor of the center were the shopping center if it were Beverly Aspleaf and Wayne built on a 47 acre site instead of Cain and George Cole Clausen had said he favors building a center proposed by General Growth Properties of Des Moines in the Morningside section of Sioux Ci tv vote combined percent it ii use in 1 1 hkpi ct nr members 'Donald Lawrenson residents cast ballots in the and Loren Callendar would election a record turnout for a Winter Arrives With Roar But Holds Back ull ury Continued from Page 1 time our to 6 inches of snow and winds gusting to 50 miles nor hour rut thrnnoh the cen tral ana nortnern sections ot the state The KDLO TV transmitting tower near Garden City in northeast South Dakota col lapsed late Tuesday Station of ficials said they did not know if it was due to strong winds or ic ing Several towns were without electric power Pierre was blacked out for about 40 min utes Most of the snow appeared to have ended in western Ne braska in early mid afternoon the weather service said al though the wind made it diffi cult to tell whether the swirling snow was new or old Ahead of the front was rain which was heavy in parts of southeast Nebraska By 8:30 pm the front was along a line running northeast southwest from near Sioux City Iowa through Superior Neb to Hill City in west cen tral Kansas West of the line was snow and blowing snow with wind gusts of up to 50 mph Along the line was sleet or rain mixed with snow East of the line was rain Rain sometimes heavy was falling in most of the western half of Iowa by 8: 30 Precipitation reports as of 7 pm Tuesday: Nebraska Beatrice Bruning Burwell Elain Emerald 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Charge it Use your JCPenney Charge Account JCPenney heavyweight acrylic' gift blankets Prof: Water Problem Is One of Delivering It South Sioux City Neb (AP) The world is not running out of water there are just occa sional inequities the second an nual Midwestern Conference on ood and Social Policy was told Tuesday A three member panel dis cussed water problems but offer much consolation to areas where the inequities floods and droughts exist "Water is one of the most stable substances and one of the most abundant substances in said Lloyd ischer a professor of agricultural eco nomics at the University of Ne braska all of the water that was ever in the crust and atmosphere is still here do we treat water as a scarce resource Irrigators still pay only a penny or two per ton for water Municipal water costs about 10 cents a he said course that water is treated under pressure and comes from your tap We pay for the delivery charge not for the Dollars Not Answer His comments were echoed by Maurice Kelso professor emeritas of agricultural eco nomics at the University of Ari zona who said water planning State Says Breathe Easy on Dams Continued from Page 1 good condition a few years ago the department ordered a re duction in the water stored and the reservoir was abandoned he said The department also ordered a dam repaired or breached at the old Hastings ammunition depot a few years ago and it was breached he added Recently the department or dered repairs to a road struc ture impoundment in Saunders County because a road might have eroded he said Bishop said probably is a poor phrase for the inventory to use since it may lead persons to think perilous to live below the dam The rating he said a judgment When dwell ings are in the flood plain in the "immediate vicinity of the dam and there is the chance of loss of a high or signifi cant hazard rating is given he said Bishop said he think there is the potential for a Toc coa tragedy in Nebraska The Toccoa incident prompt the department to change its inspection policies but remind us we should continue to try to do a better The department makes a spe cial effort to regularly inspect dams classed as high hazard he added High Hazard Ratings Nebraska dams called high hazard with nearest town and owner listed: Boone County Kohtz citv of Albion Dam Albion Harlan Kohtz Buffalo Cottonmill Dam Kearney City of Kearney Kearney Dam Kearney Ne braska Public Power District Cass Beaver Lake Rock Bluff Beaver Lake Corp Deten tion Dam 10 A Plattsmouth city of Plattsmouth Detention Dam 12 A Plattsmouth city of Plattsmouth Detention Dam 18 A Plattsmouth city of Plattsmouth Chase Enders DamWauneta Bureau of Reclamation Cherry Pierce Millins Plant Dam Valentine Nebraska Public Power District Cheyenne Helmer Dam Pot ter John Helmer Sidnev East Dam Sidnev city of Sidnev Sid nev West Dam Sidney city of Sid nev Verde Lane Dam Sidnev city of Sidnev Willoughby Dam Potter Lester Willoughby Dawes Whitney Dam No 1 Whitney Whitney Irrigation Dis trict Douglas Boys Town Dam No 1 Omaha Boys Town Dan dlewood Dam Omaha Candle wood Inc Longergan Dam Oma ha US Deportment of Housing and Urban Development Papio Creek Site No 16 Omaha corps of engineers Papio Site No 11 Omaha corps of engineers rontier Medicine Creek Dam Cambridge Bureau of Recl amation Gage Plum Creek Dam No 2 Liberty Lower Big Blue Natu ral Resources District Upper Big Nemaha Dam 7 A Adams Ne maha Natural Resources District Holt Atkinson Dorn Atkinson Norfolk 65 Bend 80 Omaha 55 Platte 22 Omaha Epp 49 Sidney 41 Scottsbluff 39 Table Rock 81 Utica 85 Valentine 48 Verdigre 100 Iowa Bluffs 110 Des Moines 01 Shenandoah 24 Sioux City 45 Sale $12 Reg $15 This yearwrap up your Christmas gifting warm and cozy Our best woven acrylic blanket is on sale strong and durably machine washable With 6" nylon satin binding for a luxurious touch And at 20 off save a bundle too! 66x90" rust blue coffee yellow mint ull 80x90" reg $18 Sale 1440 Queen reg $22 Sale 1760 King reg $26 Sale 2080 Sale prices effective through Saturday Lincoln Splits on Bond Issues WORLD HERALD BUREAU Pro i I Of BfS At i I A I I A A I 4 4.