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RRRW BUSINESS 13 EDITORIALS 14 MORE MIDLANDS NEWS 15 i City Council Backs License Bill ANNET WALSHTHE WORLD HERALD Wacky Weatherman Is Back Park Paying Off for Plattsmouth 1 SJ jLiAdait 5 Michael Kelly BY JAMES IVEY WORLD HERALD STA WRITER Christmas Was Mostly Quiet In Metro Area any offense involving drugs not just driving offenses He said the penalties in the bill are harsh do think the penalties make the license something that a young person would not want to risk during this probationary he said The bill would not apply to permits which can be issued at age 1 5 Exon said the bill is based partly on a Nevada law He said that law was brought to his attention by the Rev Paul Begley pastor of Assumption Catholic Church in South Omaha hours later I had made friends who arp duties at KAB will in elude weather casting after the end of the vear when he will takp being called to active duty with the Air orce However Coleman has no long term commitment with the radio station have a contract want one he said owe them two notice if I quit and give me two weeks if they want to get rid of Meanwhile he hopes to buy the financially troubled NTV Network Please turn to Page 10 Col 3 Hard Headed History didn't repeat Pat was out of the hospital in a week We joked that he had a hard head and he proved it later when he later acted a bit hardheaded at times as an adolescent Today at 38 a professional musi cian married with two children His childhood accident was a close call He remembers that garbage trucks were parked near the delicatessen for a lunch break He asked the school guards to help him cross the street and they sat nearby saying He says he saw the pedestrian light change from to and start ed across the street The car came late through the intersection By the time the driver saw him and hit the brakes it was too late Just before Christmas this week back in the town where I grew up Mom and I went to hear 13 piece jazz band play in a small club They have other jobs in and out of music but get together on a Monday night every two weeks simply to play with other good musicians The holidays are a time for families a time to appreciate what we have and to savor it I watched my childhood room mate play keyboards and direct the other musicians and then I glanced at my mother as she enjoyed the music I stood back from a hectic holiday season and did what I should do more often i I figuratively took a moment held it in my hands and then breathed it in savoring it for all I was worth Prazan who is helping Exon draft the bill said license applicants under age 1 8 would be required to have a physician certify that they were drug and alcohol free Licenses would be issued for four years as is done for all drivers But 16 and 17 year olds would be on probation If they had any drug or alcohol related convictions before age 18 they would automatically lose their licenses and could not reapply for a minimum of one year Exon said licenses could be pulled for Visions of Slap Shots Dance in Their Heads produced nrimThofkev Park MaU 0Pher Burns' Blelowicz Moore and Bums live near 54th and Gladstone Streets 1S riday rom left to right are Shannon Moore In hockey three goals equal a hat trick but riday with a high in the mid 20s the Tom Bielowicz Bob Griswold of Colorado Springs Colo and Chris trick was wearing a hat to keep warm Old Photos Even today difficult to look at the old photos and relive that moment Mom will be 80 next month and she is blessed with health a lively sense of humor and a lo of nusic which she partly indulges by playingthepianoathome 1 don I think she ever looks at that old from page I fell some responsibility for juiiuo usually waixea oacK to school together but on this day he was eager io get going early He had money to buy a candy bar and persuaded Mom that he would be careful Plus the intersection was manned by boys who were school crossing guards Ten minutes later the phone rang I answered it and heard the voice of the aencatessen owner 1 looked at my moth er with dread and repeated what he had said: has been hit by a The color drained from her face When she was 13 she had received a similar message from schoolmates Her 5 year old brother had been hit by a truck while he crossed the street No photographer happened by Her brother was killed And her mother she said never got over it Just as I was relaying the message about Pat and as she was imagining the worst a brush salesman rang the door bell He drove Mom to the scene I ran All of us including the photographer arrived before the emergency vehicles Klumpe spent 43 years as a newspaper photographer and he covered three major airplane crashes as well as other disasters He says he has a photographic memory and that practically every Cin cinnati neighborhood today reminds him of a story Compared to a lot of news he covered a child getting hit by a car and surviving was no great shakes But the mother whose emotions he captured as she came upon her child was shaken indeed Old Clippings Stir Memories Cincinnati I he newsnaoer clinnino i and few outside our family remember what happened that December day I found someone this week who did I remember the said Jack Klumpe retired newspaper photog rapher As I recall I was coming from an assignment when I happened upon it The boy was lying on the The child was 7 bleeding from his head He had been struck by a car while returning to school after lunch He suffered a concussion cuts and bruises By normal news standards this was not a big story' A lot of people have experienced much worse But this made the front page of the daily paper above the fold not with one photo but two Klumpe now 72 and seven years retired from the Cinncinati Post had captured the emotion of a moment One picture showed the little boy on the steps held by the driver who hit him even before the ambulance arrived The boy was my brother Pat I was 13 and if these were my well that was a day I still wonder about we shared a bedroom at home and the sight of him bloodied in front of the corner delicatessen was tough to take But it as tough for me as it was for the woman in the other photo on the front page my mother who thought history was repeating hedCTdqmient al Rh lander Park and lhe extension of Ore Kenned roewavZm recent Projects is renovation of the itzgerald building in downtown PlattsmoutK Photos show the extenor before and after renovation work Driving and Pride Omaha Inc an anti drug group in lobbying for the bill City lobbyist Jerry Prazan said the proposal is supported by the League of Nebraska Municipalities Exon who will seek re election next year has been associated with various measures aimed at young people He is collecting petitions seeking a curfew in Omaha He successfully spon sored a city ordinance to crack down on beer parties for minors He helped orga nize an operation against music stores that sold sexually explicit recordings to minors Plattsmouth Neb A few years ago many people thought that the Burlington Railroad shops once biggest employer held back develop ment in the southeastern part of the city Mayor Ron Buethe is convinced that it was indeed a deterrent Encouraged by the conversion of the Burlington shops into a park in 1986 and street and sewer construction since at least two housing developments are scheduled to begin in 1993 in that portion of the city sure they (the shops) held up Buethe said give away land down Buethe said the city has approved the construction of about 50 homes in Park view East and Meadow Heights Estates Both are next to Rhylander Park which for nearly a century was the location of the old Burlington shops The shops unused for several decades were purchased by the city in 1986 for $60000 The $300000 park was named for late Mayor Clayton Rhylander was the catalyst that fired the Buethe said never would have been any development there if it been for the Plattsmouth city officials say they are optimistic that the improvements will draw more development They also believe that the develop rhents and recent population growth herald a return to the river status of the last century when it was an impor tant link between river and rail traffic in eastern Nebraska One hundred years ago Plattsmouth had 8392 residents ana was the sixth largest city in the state By 1940 with the shops closing gradually the population had dropped to 3700 But its population rebounded to 64 1 2 Please turn to Page 10 Col 1 JE BUNDYTHE WORLD HERALD Santa Knew My Size Dad orget about waiting for warmth for no time like the present for trying out a present Kevin Soderling 3 of remont compelled his father Lyle to layer up and pedal out riday for a test spin The cold soon sapped Kevin enthusiasm and the practice resumed in the basement would be an incentive for young people to obtain their Exon said logic behind it is a license is the most precious thing a young person can get So stay The council has endorsed the propos al including it among the legisla tive priorities for the 1993 session of the Nebraska Legislature Exon is still drafting the bill and has not yet lined up a sponsor He said he would ask his state senator Carol McBride Pirsch to introduce the bill The councilman also will seek the support of Mothers Against Drunk BY ANGELA OPPERMAN WORLD HERALD STA WRITER The Omaha Council Bluffs area en joyed a peaceful and quiet Christmas Area police departments reported ri dayas relatively slow The Omaha Police Department said business had been steady but without major problems State Patrol officials from Iowa and Nebraska also experienced an unevent ful day Santa came into some houses last night and left some said Lt Allen Soukup of the Lancaster County Office other than that been The dispatcher for the Iowa State Patrol said there seem to be as much traffic because people were already with their families After spending the day opening gifts and visiting with relatives some Omaha families spent Christmas night out on the town The Cinema Center movie theatre had medium sized crowds attending their movies had roughly 1000 people for the Pm said Lisa Hagedorn a box office worker 200 people a show She said last Christmas was busier because some of the movies had just been released The most popular movies at the Cine ma Center Christmas night were din and ew Good Ms Hagedorn said Matt Market owner of the Ranch Bowl Entertainment Center said Christ mas night is usually a night out for friends and families Christmas night people are sick of sitting around looking at each he said come to bowl or listen to the Markel said the crowd was steady for the Christmas two for one show featur ing the bands On The ritz and Azure Blue Bill Koch manager at Skateland 6715 97th St said he had about 37 people skating Christmas night usually have about 100 skaters Most people are home with their families he said and the rink would likely close before its scheduled midnight closing time The Salvation Army said its shelter was at full capacity for the holidays fN 1 KCZ 1 sirrn tu iual ti Km nc uiauneu i ne rski mos eat 7000 calories a day but they still my muiu ii vii itdiduiig me com iNODoay ever saw a fat That off the wall comment hvaIIq i miv yvai vYiitn nc win iaxe over iron he weatherman and meteorologist Charlie Grisham who That was some years before he deliv ered a more subdued weather cast for Morning show and before he launched the Weather Channel on cable TV Now Coleman is back working as early morning man for radio station KAB he said loved this city from the first when I came here straight out of college orty eight BY JOE BRENNAN WORLD HERALD STA WRITER Nebraska 16 and 17 year olds would have to be free of drugs and alcohol 1 before being issued a probationary driv license under a legislative proposal that is being advocated by the Omaha City Council The measure also would require the state to revoke licenses of those under age 18 who were convicted of drug or alcohol offenses Councilman Steve Exon author of the proposal said the bill would give teen agers another reason to avoid drugs lorltl Hcmld Midlands News Saturday December 26 1992 Page 9 RED VELEBATHE WORLD HERALD OMAHA MAY BE IT: John Coleman says been looking for place to spend the rest of my Voice Heard on KAB Shamlv drQCfr1 in a double breasted gray nannei suit striped shirt and snortv kerchipf dangling from his breast pock et John Coleman looked like the big time TV weatherman passers by remembered as he strode along Dodge Street in downtown Omaha But could he have missed the latest weather report? The city was gripped in an arctic front The temperature had aed to a windy 17 degrees and was plummeting Coleman wore no topcoat He wore a nonchalant expression that said is the greatest way in the world X' A Thk IB it 1 I ft Lf ll 1 r'i'l i 1 1 I i rl.