Omaha World-Herald from Omaha, Nebraska • 18

Winter Power Cutoffs Omaha World Herald Saturday December 23 1978 18 States May Study Restricted but Not Banned Shifts to Industry World Herald Photo The Other Side of the Shopping Hassle Hoggart Lawyer Line a radition Lincoln Loses outh Symphony Nebraska Briefs Chambers youngsters Salvation Army Trees Shining vacation resumed she said scoffed at massage as a way to reduce saying the only one who lost weight was the masseuse ciated with an Omaha law firm earlier this year said he plans to complete his term as election commissioner which ends Dec 31 1979 then devote full time to law practice He was appointed election commissioner in 1971 by Gov Exon after serving as chief deputy commissioner points The Associated Press re ported: The Omaha Police Depart ment's internal affairs unit is looking into a report by State Sen Ernest Chambers that a policeman physically abused a 13 year old girl during an inci dent Nov 27 said Police Chief Richard Andersen Andersen said the unit seeks to determine if there is any truth in the allegation which was reported to Chambers by mother Both Andersen and Chambers refused to name the family and policeman involved letter to the chief stated that the alleged brutality out of a fight between the young girl and a male youth who had shoved her and torn her Van Nostrand also said all utility customers will be noti fied by their utility companiej of the new regulations on utility shutoffs even though the 144 rooms in the structure have an occupancy level of about 80 per cent While a commercial hotel would be proud of that figure the YMCA exists to give pro grams to its members not to rent rooms Wright said The building is the perma nent residence of 62 persons and another 50 rooms are rented to the Burlington Northern rail road Talks Next Month The plan is being circulated among Nebraska water inter ests and is expected to be dis cussed by a council committee next month One section of the 144 page document concerns alterna tives to continued agricultural development in the region a copy of the plan obtained by The World Herald indicates imagine Nebraska would be cautious at this about such efforts said Williamson one of 24 council members look in this area at indus try as much as they have in the southern part of the Williamson said But in parts of Texas and Ok lahoma have much water any more and al ready reverting back to dryland Williamson said Whatever comes from the study probably be en acted before 1987 Williamson said The effort is being paral leled by a regional ground water study by the US Geologi cal Survey he said The campaign also got a boost of $2 700 from the doll auctions held Thursday Auctioneer was BingGrunwald Helping with the ceremony were volunteers from the Ak Sar Ben Amateur Radio Club John Gebuhr radioed from the courthouse to another volunteer at 72nd and Dodge Streets where the other Tree of Lights is located The stars atop the trees were then lighted si multaneously 1 benesin twoweeks police saiu Authorities said the man demanded money early Thursday from station attendant Casey LaBaron but LaBaron said to Before fleeing in a car with Utah license plates the man stuck the ice pick into LaBa sleeve and hit the attendant on the head with theclub police said Keith County Attorney Pat Hayes said rob bery charges were to be filed against Richard Lindsay 18 suspected of robbing a rail road worker Sunday Lindsay voluntarily sur rendered to police Wednesday Sunday as Danny Yazzie 20 was counting his money outside a restaurant a man alleg edly drove up pointed a shotgun at him and took $130 A Dec 11 armed robbery has not been solved authorities said Police said two men carrying shotguns allegedly broke into the home of Ernest McVay knocked him into a bathtub and hit his wife Gertrude McVay When Mrs McVay ran to a house the men fled and possibly took a neck lace with them authorities said see now When we drove in we parked in Aisle Or was it Aisle As I recall we parked between a green Pontiac and a yellow Pinto The Pontiac had an Oklahoma Sooner sticker in the window Or it did have a Sooner sticker until I accidentally rubbed the back window with my snow scraper? This is really ridiculous 1 ought to be able to find my own car Every car has to be some place When last seen Gina Hungerford of 9817 Bloomfield Dr left and Maureen renking of 517 88th St were wandering through the maze of the Westroads shopping center parking lot perhaps wondering why they had chosen riday todo their Christmas shopping Beach Taking Suit To Supreme Court Omaha attorney Rober Beach said riday he hopes the Nebraska Supreme Court will force a district court judge to hear evidence in a lawsuit he has filed challenging the right of State Sen Gerald Koch to take his seat in the Nebraska Legislature Koch defeated Beach in the November election for the 12th District seat Beach filed suit maintaining that Koch's posi tion as coordinator of the Omaha Suburban Area Council of Schools should make him in eligible for the Legislature be cause of a provision in the state constitution Beach said Lancaster County District Court Judge Samuel Van Pelt has held that he (Beach) sue the state without its permission and that Koch's eligibility to serve is a matter for the Legislature to de termine personally contact a residential customer before disconnection to impart the same information If per sonal contact cannot be made be tween Nov 1 and April 1 the premises must be posted with a notice containing the same infor mation at least one day prior to dis connection utility must give 12 written notice of an impending dis connection and give a customer the opportunity to dispute the dis connection or enter into an agreement to pay the past due bill before disconnection may taken Place A residential customer must be allowed to designate another person to also receive any nect notice dergoing surgery last summer for replacement of an arthritic knee by a plastic one She now sees four or five clients a day in contrast to about 18 in her hey work from a sitting posi tion she said thought of retiring But you just keep an old horse in thfe barn 1 Robert daily column will be suspended next week while he is on The column will be Jan 1 Mrs Qualset claitp that massage will take weight off but believes in its power to redistribute weight few years she said discovered that women unlike men tend to put on globs of fat on the thighs and stomach and this can be massaged away knew that 30 years ago appeared I once had a woman with rather heavy legs who broke one of them She came to me and I saw this would give an opportunity to do something I had always wanted to do I could make a comparison test broken leg was in a cast but I worked on the other one: The fat on that one came off After the broken leg healed and the cast was removed the woman called and said phine write you a testimoni al do anything if you can just get this one leg to match the Mrs Qualset has drastically Great Teaching Drive Tops $150000 Goal Lincoln (AP) Nebraska Wesleyan Uni versity's $200000 Great Teaching Program has reached the $150000 level according to 4 Paul Schorr III Great Teaching chairman 2 and president of Commonwealth Electric The total of gifts and pledges has in creased nearly $8000 since the first report was issued Dec 15 Schorr said The $150000 figure includes a $100000 challenge gift from several corporate friends of the university unds are' used by the school for current operation and support of faculty library aca demic program and scholarship assistance has utility sevices may be discon nected for failure to provide a posit from Nov 1 to April 1 a notice of disconnec tion the utility must send a sum mary of the customer's rights and remedies explaining how discon nection may be avoided symphony move its national headquarters to Houston Creating a National Youth Symphony was brainchild The non profit corporaton organized three years ago has maintained a Lincoln office for conducting fund raising ef forts The orchestra will have 90 musicians 25 years old and younger representing every area in the United States and arnam Streets Griffin of 1529 Avenue A in Council Bluffs represented Happy Cab in do nating a check for $372 The money was donated by drivers and matched by the company said Manager Harold Hunter This is the second year drivers have donated Last year about $300 was col lec ted Owner Elected Beatrice Neb (UP1) Bud Pentz 'of Beatrice owner of KWBE radio has been re elect ed president and treasurer of Mia Enterprises Inc the li censee of KWBE AM More Grain Sold To Soviet Union Washington (AP) Addi tional grain has been sold to Soviet Union the Agriculture Department said Officials said that the sales include 325000 metric tons of wheat and 242000 metric tons of corn The Soviet Union now has bought about 605000 metric tons of wheat and 126 million metric tons of corn for delivery throughSept 30 1979 Continued from Page 17 graduated from high school (St John's Academy Petersburg Neb) at 15 and the next year began a four year teaching career in Boone County rural schools greatest education in the world is to teach in a country Mrs Qualset said discovered the fat could be could read before I started to kneaded and molded until it dis school but I always had trouble with math Girls in those days were supposed to have trouble with math I had to know the stuff in order to teach it 1 lived in fear that some farmed would come in and want me to figure out how many bales of hay he could put One of her most memorable experiences as a teacher came one day when a skunk ran into the schoolhouse and a pupil slew it with a baseball bat cleaned the spot with kerosene but the smell hung around for the rest of the year said She later studied nursing at reduced her workload since un Homestake Hospital in Lead 5 home of the Homestake gold mine used to get paid in she recalled She later worked in a hospital in Lincoln where she developed a special liking for massage found I had hands to soothe said At she became Wesleyan Debaters Win 3 Trophies Lincoln (AP) our Nebraska Wesleyan University students won three debate tro phies at the Nebraska Amateur Debate Tour nament at the University of Nebraska Lincoln winding up first semester activities Scott McLain of York and Kelly Karges of Doniphan took the first place trophy for the Wesleyan affirmative team and Becky Smith of Lincoln and Nancy Kimball of Lakewood Colo took second place for the negative team The team members combined to win the overall tournament championship GI Woman Located Another Sought Grand Island (UPI) One of two women missing since last month was found Thursday living with an elderly woman Police Chief Tom Smaha said He identified the missing woman as lor ence Lathen 56 who disappeared Nov 5 Smaha said public response to a police appeal helped authorities locate Mrs Lathen just completed talking to her and she is physically all right but she wished her whereabouts kept Smaha said adding Mrs Lathen did not know anyone was trying to find out where she was Police are still looking for Janet Callies 40 who disappeared Nov 15 Lincoln (AP) Because of a $130000 grant from a Texas charitable foundation Lincoln will not be the national headquarters and training ground for the proposed Youth Symphony of the United States Executive Director Chuck Kuba said the entire operation will be moved to Houston as soon as possible Kuba said a prerequisite for the grant from the Robert Knox and Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable oundation was that the rom World Horold Press Services Des Moines The Iowa Com merce Commission used its emergency powers riday to adopt a nine point rule includ ing an expansion of budget pay ment plans to help lowans pay their utility bills during the winter The unanimous decision re jected a proposal to ban all dis connections during the winter Instead it put into writing the steps utilities must take before shutting off service to custom ers Included in the rule are provi sions against shutoffs when temperatures are below 20 de grees or when they would threaten health It also extends the current five day waiting period for disconnections to 12 days The rule took effect immedi ately think of any circum stance that we heard (in public hearings) that this rule said Commission Chair rrian Maurice Van Nostrand United Press International re ported budget plan does what the proponents of the rule set out to do avoid a huge bill from arriving at a time when re sources are unavailable to meet Van Nostrand said the new rule while protecting custom ers would still allow utilities to disconnect gas and electric service Banning disconnec tions he said would hamper utilities in collecting payments The Community Action Re search Group of Ames proposed the moratorium on shutoffs Van Nostrand said the rule contains finer ap of some but not all Iowa utilities The rule includes these wreck spun car and threw him through the passen window Cihak received serious head injuries and was listed in crit ical condition at Bergan Mercy Hospital I Police said Craft and two of her four passengers were taken to Bergan Mercy with minor in juries No tickets had been issued Robbery Try ails At Ogallala Station Ogallala (UPI) A man armed with an ice pick and a club attempted to rob the Turnpike Texaco service station at the Interstate 80 in terchange here The town has had three rob Lincoln YMCA Up or Sale Official Says It Won Close St Paul Neb (AP) The dean of lawyers in St' Paul leaned back in his swivel chair sun filling the office where his father had practiced 78 years before Ralph A Haggart reached back in time 'pulling recollec tions from a 90 year old grab bagofmemories He is the second generation in a long line of Haggart lawyers The law profession has come to be a family tradition a tradi tion Haggart tried to define hard to he mused of us became very famous at it father (James A Hag gart) lived in New York His father had died in the Civil War and his mother managed to keep the family together In desperation they came and took a homestead in Howard County She took the homestead because father was too young to file and one of the neighbors decided to go to ort Hartsuff (near Elyria) to get a job They took an inventory and between them had 10 cents They arrived and got a job working to build the fort mother died He came back to St Paul and got a job as janitor in the St Paul courthouse And what got us started in St Paul Lincoln (AP) The down town Lincoln YMCA headquar ters building has been listed for sale at $1 million in an attempt to erase debts of nearly $589000 However Director Richard Wright want people think going to close up shop and walk away We The buyer would have to agree to lease back arrange ment involving office space and the fitness center portions of the structure which was once ahotel "If a buyer were to come inwith cash we could think of building a new said President Ted Dewey Wright says the board wants to get out of the hotel office of another iSt Paul lawyer James Under the tutelage of Paul the elder Haggart was admitted to the Nebraska bar in 1880 es tablishing a law practice in his hometown Haggart said he thought it was that kind of determined self improvement that led his father from janitor to lawyer that has permeated succeeding generations of Haggarts ather Son Team A 1906 graduate of St Paul High School Ralph Haggart joined his father in practicing law after he was admitted to the state bar in 1913 The father son lawyer team practiced together in the small office building south of the Howard County courthouse until the elder Hag death in 1936 at the age of 83 The third generation of Hag garts Ralph's son Richard joined the family practice in 1949 Although the 90 year old dean has reduced his caseload that father son team still main tains a law practice in the office established by the senior Hag gart at the turn of the century This summer granddaughter Veronica A Haggart 29 became the fourth generation to follow in the family profession of law when she hung out her shingle with a firm in Washing ton My father had verylittle actual In 1915 Ralph Haggart was schooling He studied in the elected Howard County judge a If the residential customer is unable to pay in full he must be offered a reasonable payment plan by the utility which should consider the customer's finances During the period Nov 1 to must also attempt to! April no disconnection may taxe i placeif itwouldbeespeciallydana 1 gerous to health i No disconnection of a resi dential customer may take place if the forecast for the rest of the day andthenextdaylndicatesthattem peratures will drop below 20 de grees or a weekend or holiday or after 2 pm unless the utility is pre pared to reconnect that same day No disconnection may take place when tne utility Business office will be closed the next day utility must offer all resi dential customers not behind in payments a budget billing plan that would equalize electric and gas bills over the courseof a year A customer must be allowed to enroll in such a plan at any time without any initial payments The monthly due date for payment by participating customers must be flexible so as to accomodate the customer's needs No residential customer who Council Bluffs A Bluffs nightspot had a fire and nobody came ire Chief Norman Elgan said riday Elgan said the fire at the Razzle Dazzle 3339 Broadway apparently died out after doing considerable damage to the interior of the business sometime during the night The chief said the fire appar ently was set by intruders who broke into a cigarette vending machine and also took some By Jim lanery World Herald Staff Writer The possibility of a partial shift from agricultural to indus trial production in some water short High Plains states has been recommended for study by a group exploring a number of futureoptions for the region The reasons are twofold: irst the historically bounti ful supplies of ground water which have fueled agricultural development in this region are declining rapidly so in the plains states of Texas Oklaho ma and New Mexico Second water shortages are so severe in some parts of I states that it may be more prof itable to shift from agriculture to less water consuming indus trial development in Nebraska' stood in as Santa Claus who was too busv to attend at the were lighted riday afternoon ceremony in front of the Doug coat as she was boarding a school bus leaving Beveridge Jr The incident continued after they got off the bus at 32nd and Corby Streets and when a police cruiser arrived said The policeman reportedly dispersed some with his loud speaker and alleg edly his arm across her when she and the boy kept tussling Chambers said' The officer then allegedly sprayed a chemical repellant in the face and did not arrest her The mother told Chambers that the teen ager had to be taken to a hospital to have hereyes bathed Transferring large amounts of surface water pos sibly from the Missouri River to the water short agricultural areas in the southern part of the region Using new technology to grow varieties of crops requir ing less water and adding new lands to agricultural produc tion Reverting to dryland farm ing in someareas Among other proposed study topics are the long term energy needs and sup plies agricultural productivity and prices consumer spending water conservation and envi ronmental concerns The Dallas Texas firm of Camp Dresser McKee Inc has outlined these subjects in a proposed study plan for the council Congress has allocated Nebraska is unlikely to be a $6 million for the study candidate tor large scale agri cultural to industrial shifts savs state water planner Dayle Williamson Although in some areas the state is withdrawing ground water faster than it is replacing it good management our water supplies are good enough foragriculturefora long says Williamson executive sec retary of the Nebraska Natural Resources Commission And even in plains states with severe water problems there are other economic possibilities outlined for study by the feder ally funded High Plains Studj' Council Established by Congress the council will examine how Ne braska Texas Oklahoma Kansas Colorado and New Mexico can continue their eco nomic growth the next 40 years despite declining water in the huge Ogallala aquifer underly ing the six states Other Topics Other topics a Texas engi neering firm is proposing that thecouncil study include: Police Investigating ussle Charge of Officer Brutality Boyle: No Plans or Mayor Race Douglas County Election Commissioner Mike Boyle said reports are not correct that he is planning a race for mayor of Omaha in 1981 flattered with the report but I'm 9999 percent certain of not Boyle said Boyle who became asso position he filled for 10 years His starting salary was $1800 per year Murder Trial Probably the biggest legal star in his 65 year law career was when he conducted the pre liminary hearing for two men who later were convicted of murder and executed It was about 1920 when Vin cent Grammar hired Alson Cole to kill his mother in law Lulu Vogt who owned a farm and other property near Elba Hag gart said He said Cole was captured and escaped to Wisconsin The Howard County sheriff went to Wisconsin to bring him back for trial Cole confessed and said he had been hired by Grammar for $500tokill Mrs Vogt After a preliminary hearing popular as reducing special in Haggart court the two men were tried in Howard County district court found guilty and condemned to death Masseuse Says She Is a Good Listener World Herold Photo Congratulations on a job well done from left Crouchley Salvation Army Maj George Scofield Maj Lee Hickam Santa and Harold Hunter Kentucky Man Caught After 2nd Escape Rushville (AP) A 29 year old Kentucky man was returned to the Sheridan County Jail Thursday after he broke out for the second time in three weeks Terry Lee ancher was apprehended Thursday morning by Nebraska State Trooper Gene Harris southwest of Broadwa ter ending the search that began Wednesday nightafterthe jailbreak ancher had previously been charged with breaking out of the jail Dec 2 when he was free for about one hour He is being held on charges of breaking and entering an auto at Rushvilleand was first arrested Nov 25 Sheridan County Sheriff Jim Talbot re ported that ancher had allegedly obtained hacksaw blades from an unknown source sawed out two bars Wednesday evening broke a cell window and jumped 7 feet into a snowdrift ire Bums Bluffs Nightspot But Goes Out on Its Own liquor Police and firemen are still investigating the incident The damage was discovered by co owner Dennis Konvalin of Omaha when he opened the door about 9 am riday morn ing Elgan said The lounge the former Tramp Inn was scheduled to open next week and was to fea ture go gogirls Elgan said it appeared some one entered the building by pushing in an air condit loner lo cated high on a wall of a storage room 19 Year Old Injured in Crash A 19 year old Omaha man was critically injured when his car collided with another vehi cle at 84th and Grover Streets riday Police said a car driven by Stephen Cihak 14732 Shirley St was southbound and turn ing left off 84th Street when it collided with a northbound car driven by Cheryl A Craft 20 6363GroverStLot51 Police said the force of the The stars atop the two Salva tion Trees of Lights WC1C IlglllCU 11MUJ vv 11WI as the campaign neared its goal las County Courthouse at 17th Ctwr riritfin nf Ot $125000 about $3000 short but not concerned be cause got the rest of riday and Saturday to reach the said Chairman Ted Crouchley executive assistant to the president of Northwest ern Bell Telephone Co Cab driver James Griffin wMlil.