Friday, March 22, 1968
Page 10
The Daily Nebraskan
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Husker baseballers
liit 'stormv weather'
" After a heartening start in
he six game series against
Houston this week, the Ne
braska baseball team hit
some stormy weather any
way you want to interpret it.
The Thursday contest was
called because of rain, call
ing for a doubleheader today.
The physical condition of
the players also got cloudy,
as five Huskers came up with
injuries through the first three
games.
; Dana Stephennson, Bob
Brand and Adrian Fiala will
all probably be out for the
rest of the trip and Bob Grie
go and Alex Walter may be
in for limited duty only.
Stephenson was lamed by a
pulled leg muscle Tuesday,
and Brand and Fiala were
both hit by pitches, with no
serious or lasting injuries.
: The series stands even at
1-1-1, with NU coach Tony
sham encouraeed bv early
pitching performances of vets :
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Happenings
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Today
R.vbsll at Houston.
(iTmnasttn Big Eight at Oklahoma.
WraatUnc NCAA t Pennsylvania.
Saturday
. Basrball at Houston
, GrmaasiMci Bin Eight at Oklahoma.
. WrastUnc NCAA at Pennsylvania.
and newcomers. Al Furby and
Mick Logue, both of Grand
Island, and Keith Winter of
Norfolk looked good in their
first starts.
The scries will wind up Sat
urday barring more rain.
Jayhawks,
Dayton in
NTT finals
Big Eight runner-up Kan
sas and Dayton will clash
Saturday afternoon in Madi
son Square Garden for the
National Invitational Tourna
ment crown.
Dayton bumped Notre
Dame, 76-74 in overtime, and
KU grilled St. Peter's of New
Jersey, 5846, in semifinal ac
tion in New York' Thursday
night.
Dayton was a surprise con
tender in last year's NCAA
playoffs and Kansas finished
strong after a bad start in
a wild Big Eight race they
had been favored to dominate.
Two losses to champion
Kansas State dropped them
into a runner-up spot, heand
ing them the NIT bid Nebras
ka collected last year.
Hruska, NRA vs. the gun control lobby
Is mailorder firearm legislation worth it?
Firearms Used For Crime
In the wake of a few recent crimes involving the use
of firearms, there has been a sharp rise in the calls for
legislation to "control" the ownership of guns.
Four years ago President John F. Kennedy was assasi
natcd by a bullet fired from a mail-order rifle, and a year
ago, 14 persons were gunned down on the University of
Texas campus before the slayer, Charles J. Whitman was
himself shot dead.
Increased racial discontent has also involved the use
of firearms in the past and there is fear that they may be
used again.
Legislation Causes Problems
Legislation to control firearms, however, has its draw
backs. How, for example, can Congress keep firearms out of
the hands of criminal types without destroying the consti
tutional right to "keep and bear arms" and infringing on
the rights of hunters, target shooters, collectors and other
sportsmen?
It should be pointed out that of the between '30 to 50
million homes in the United States which contain fire
arms, such weapons are used in only three percent of
what the Federal Bureau of Investigation considers serious
crime and that further figures indicate that the rate of
death from firearms has declined 50 in the past 20 years,
while our population has doubled.
The remainder of the firearms are used for sports such
as hunting, trap, skeet or target-shooting, etc.
Hoiv Do You Know?
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By Tom Henderson
Three NU gymnasts end career in Oklahoma
" Three gymnasts will be
making their last appearance
an Husker uniforms this week
as Nebraska finishes the 1967
68 season at the Big Eight
"championships in Norman,
Okla.
Team Captain Bob Santoro,
Pat McGill and Bruce Jones
will lead the squad of twelve
from Nebraska at the fifth an--nual
conference meet. Ne
braska won the first two Big
Eight titles, in 1963 and 1964.
For obvious reasons coach
Jake Geier is not happy to
lose his three seniors.
"What can you say about
three boys whose departure
you really hate to see?' Gei
er said.
"All three have been solid
in their executions routines,"
he continued, "and all are ex
tremely capable athletes. The
entire squad has held great
confidence in them."
Geier extended praise to
each of his seniors:
"Santoro had the concern of
the whole squad in his think
ing during the season. He was
a good leader and therefore,
a good captain.
"Jones had a late start this
year because of an operation
but he moved within the squad
with his good, steady performances.
"McGill has always given
us a total effort and also is
a fine young man, as they all
are. I repeat, it's hard to lose
athletes like these."
The Husker coach, nearly
finished with his eighteenth
season of gymnastics, also re
flected on the current season,
terming it "quite unusual."
"As a team we scored sub
stantially better than we did
last year," he said, "but we
still didn't win many more
meets." Nebraska had a 4-6
dual meet record this year.
Geier sees this c a u s e d by
the leveling off of the con
ference in gymnastics, since
he feels that there is no one
team that now dominates the
sport. As an example ' Geier
said that Iowa State, Okla
homa, Colorado or Kansas
could end up with the Big
Eight championship this year.
"That leaves us in fifth
place," he added. "But this
is good for the conference.
Our top teams are compar
able to the best in the na
tion. This is an outstanding
accomplishment in the five
years since gymnastics was
added to the league official
ly." The finals are set for 2:30
p.m. Saturday. Nebras
ka hosted the meet last year.
anyone know which applicant to buy a firearm is a po
tential killer and which is not?
Under every firearm bill proposed or In effect, Charles
Whitman would have qualified to lcgaUy purchase a gun.
There is a general opinion among criminologists that
the availability of firearms has little to do with their use
in crimes of passion or social iU-health,
In other words, in cases of what might be considered
casual homicide and not the work of professional or habitu
al criminals, whatever comes to hand a baseball bat or
a butcher knife will dp the job if the neighbors are too
noisy or the wife goes beyond the barriers of normal nag
ging privileges. ,
Bills Before Congress
President Johnson has asked several times for fire
arms control legislation and more than 40 bills to that ef
fect are currently before the House and Senate.
One of the bills now before Congress was introduced
by Sen. Thomas Dodd who began introducing gun-control
legislation as far back as 1963, concerning the sale of hand
guns through the mails.
Dodd had the backing of the National Rifle Association
on many of his earlier bills, but lost that support when he
stated that the ease in obtaining firearms "is a significant
factor in the prevalence of lawlessness and violent crime
in the United States."
NRA Now Backs Hruska
The National Rifle Association's primary concern, al
though it has vigorously opposed what it regards as
needless restrictions on the rights of the shooting frater
nity, is that the Constitutional right of citizens to "keep
and bear arms" will cease to exist.
With Dodd'g proposals now threatening to inconveni
ence sportsmen, ranchers and farmers who mostly bought
their guns by mail, the NRA switched its allegiance to a
bill sponsored by Sen. Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska.
Ilruska's bill, which also has the support of the Na
tional Shooting Sports Foundation and the Sporting Arms
Manufacturing Institute among others, would "try to re
concile the lawful and wholesome use of firearms by 20
to 30 million Americans with the necessity of trying to
keep the guns sold in this country out of the hands of the
wrong people."
NRA Idea Similar
The NRA has its own suggested program of legislation
which is quite similar to that of Hruska's.
The NRA recommends that Congress:
1. provide a mandatory penalty for the possession or
use of a firearm transported in interstate commerce or
foreign commerce and used in commission of a crime.
2. prohibit licensed manufacturers or dealers from
shipping any firearm to any person in any state in viola
tion of the laws of that state.
3. place "destructive devices" (bombs, grenades,
mines, crew-served military ornance, etc.) under the tax
and registration provisions of the National Firearms Act
(of 1934).
4. require that a person who orders a handgun by mail
or over the counter in a state other than his own submit
to the seller a .sworn statement that he is over 21 years
of age, is not prohibited by federal law from receiving a
handgun shipped in interstate commerce and his receipt
of the firearm is not in violation of any state statute. The
affidavit would contain the name and address of the princi
pal local law-enforcement officer of the locality to which
the handgun would be shipped, and the seller would have
to forward the affidavit by registered or certified mail
to that law-enforcement officer and receive from him a
reply indicating receipt of this notification. The seller;
would be required to wait at least seven days after re-'
ceipt of the notification by the law-enforcement officer be
fore shipment could be made.
NRA, Hruska Supported
As one who cherishes hunting and all other sports re
lated to firearms and takinginto consideration that some
form of control must be placed on their acquisition and'
use, this writer places his support behind the NRA and
Sen. Hruska.
Their proposals, I believe, come closest to preserving
the rights of all sportsmen, while doing all within the con
stitutional limits to keep guns out of the hands those who
would abuse the right to bear arms."
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