TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1970
SUMMER NEBRASKAN
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is the purpose off Vision-17
By Gene Kelly
Reprinted from Lincoln
Journal
' Creation of 1,500 new jobs
is the prime goal of Vision-17,
the Southeast Nebraska
economic development
group.
"During Vision-17's first
year, we tried to develop the
feeling of a 17-county com
munity," said Alan Hansen,
executive director. "We how
have that sense of community,
and we're aiming at those
jobs."
Hansen said he feels the
groundwork has been laid for
"putting dreams on a realistic
basis."
Two years of study led to
the founding of the group in
December 1967. "It's a
homegrown, bootstrap, volun
tary economic development
program," said President
Hugh Wilkins, Geneva
banker.
A mobile field office and
Vision-17 representatives visited
towns and cities with the
group's story.
Two events highlighted the
first year:
A 21st Century symposium,
held at Crete, featured
sociologists and community
development specialists who
examined the resources and
potential of the 17-county area
amd projected its role in the
year 2000.
An industrial exposition, held
in Lincoln, brought together
regional manufacturers and
Midwest buyers. 1
"Business was conducted,
orders taken and people
became aware of the resources
available in Vision 17 land,"
Hansen said.
Wilkins believes that the
economic development axiom
"A Rising Tide Lifts All
Eoats" is custom tailored for
the southeast corner of the
state.
"Our study led to the con
clusion that a multi-county,
n ulti-community pro
gram . . . offered the best
chance for a rising tide of
economic opportunity for the
370,000 people living in the 164
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of the region."
From this idea developed the
Vision-17 concept of mobilizing
the area's resources through
a program of industrial and
community development.
"It is necessary to make
manufacturers in other areas
aware of what we have to of
fer. This is an expensive, slow
moving project, with every
other town and region In the
country competing for the
same businesses to relocate in
their locale," Hansen said.
Wilkins added that, "We
know some 80 per cent of new
jobs created in an area come
from resources that already
exist. This can be a business
diversification or putting a new
idea into production."
He said the organization's
goal is to provide guidance for
county development groups
already in existence, rather
than creating "some expensive
new organization."
Wilkins isolated two aspects
of development efforts:
Town and county ac
tivities: The creation of in
dustrial sites, recreational
projects and improvements in
business districts, water supply
and public transportation.
Regional activities: Studies
o f transportation, post-high
school education and health
care.
Hansen explained that his
office, operating from
Northern Systems Co. o f
Omaha, is currently creating
a work plan for use by
d e v e lopment corporations,
aimed at creating new jobs.
Food technology begins
research study for NASA
The University of Nebraska
and the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration
(NASA) have completed a
contract calling for research
assistance to NASA from the
NU Food Science and
Technology Department of the
College of Agriculture.
The research program, in
volving bread irradiation study
for space flight use, will be
supervised by Dr. T. E.
Hartung, chairman of the Food
Science and Technology
Department.
"Primary Importance of the
research will be to control
storage of food, providing
health protection and
eliminating food spoilage for
the astronauts on the
missions," Hartung explained,
"and until now the United
States had undertaken only
limited work in the use of lr
radiuted foods for the Manned
Space Program. The Soviet
Union has studied the area
more extensively."
The new program includes
assistance by a team of food
scientists In studying t h e
feasibility of using Irradiated
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paign to attract new industry
is also in progress.
"We try to provide a plan
and expert consultants needed
in industrial expansion,"
Hansen said.
Vision-17 has contracted with
Northern Systems to provide
a professional staff. Each of
the 17 participating counties is
represented on the board of
directors by three voting
members.
Regional activities have in
cluded a comprehensive health
planning project which 15
of the 17 counties have en
dorsed and an effort to
secure federal funds for a
regional transportation study
covering roads, rails, barge
and air service.
The May workshop in Lin
coln will bring together state
and federal resource officials
and area leaders seeking
development facts and
guidelines.
Wilkins feels that
mechanization and marketing
patterns have changed both the
agricultural industry and the
communities which serviced
this industry in the past.
"As people leave expanding
farms, the need for merchants,
professional and service people
in nearby communities is
reduced" and population loss
snowballs, he said.
The Vision-17 president add
ed, "Southeastern Nebraska
retains all the necessary in
gredients for a rapid, strong,
late-20th Century growth patern.
"Vision-17 is located within
a 600-mile marketing center
pasteurized foods for the space
program, including the Apollo
and Skylab aeries. Initial
studies will be concerned with
using Irradiated flour and
bread under conditions which
will exist aboard an Apollo
moon craft or station, or the
Skylab system, Hartung ex
plained. The specific contract with
NASA stipulates that the bread
be stored at conditions similar
to temperatures in the Skylab
or the Apollo command module
and lunar excursion module.
The bread will be evaluated
periodically for its
microbiological condition, with
specific attention to develop
ment of mold, physical
changes due to s t a 1 e n e s s ,
flavor, and any chemical
changes which may occur.
University of Nebra.ska food
scientists have been conducting
preliminary research in
cooperation with the Atomic
Energy Commission under the
direction of NU Food Scientist
R. B. Maxcy, Hartung noted.
"The research, dealing wilh
irradiation pasteurization of
red meats, has offered en
couraging benefits using the
'cold pasteurisation' effect of
where 50 million people live.
Interstate 80, the navigable
Missouri River, four major
railroads, trunk line and
regional air service, transcon
tinental truck and bus lines
provide ready transportation
service for this market . . ."
The people in southeastern
Nebraska "prefer, bootstraps to
apron strings to improve the
quality of living," Hansen ad
ded. Vision-17 is supported by
private and business contribu
tions. Officers are Hugh F.
Wilkins, Geneva, president; M.
O. Strand, York, vice presi
dent, industrial development;
Carroll Thompson, Lincoln,
vice president, community
development; Lester Trussell,
Beatrice, secretary and
Charles Matzke, Pawnee City,
Treasurer.
Industrial development cor
porations in the 17-county area
are located in:
Butler David City, Rising
City; Cass Plattsmouth;
Fillmore Exeter, Fairmont,
Geneva, Shickley; Gage
Beatrice, Wymore; . Jefferson
Fairbury; Johnson Sterl
ing, Tecumseh.
Lancaster Lincoln,
Waverly; Nemaha Auburn;
Otoe Nebraska City,
Syracuse; Pawnee Pawnee
City, Table Rock; Polk
Osceola, Stromsburg.
Richardson Falls City,
Humboldt; Saline Crete,
Friend, Wilber; Saunders
Ashland, Wahoo; Seward
Milford, Seward; Thayer
Bruning, Hebron; York
Henderson, York.
low gamma irradiation doses."
Hartung stated that
"Nebraska holds great promise
in the field of industrial food
processing. The opportunity for
economic development within
Nebraska through further pro
cessing is one reason why food
scientists at the University are
looking at the use of irradia
tion pasteurization."
"The t r e n d of central pro
cessing for meats is a strong
one and the current irradiation
work suggests that this may
provide Nebraska a n ad
vantage in central processing
by using this new preservation
technology."
The project director added
that the NASA program will
supplement the study endeavor
in total concept, which has
direct application for the con
venience food items which are
packaged and subsequently
distributed nationally from
central processing.
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Dave Morock, a physical education major in
the Teachers College and a football player, tests
his lung power on the pulmonary function ana
lyser in the University of Nebraska's new physical
fitness laboratory while Dr. Kenneth Rose, direc
tor of the lab, watches the results.
Physical fitness lab
studies exercise
By Judy Nelson
A treadmill, bicycle
ergometer, and oxygen com
puter may seem strange addi
tions to the University of
Nebraska's Memorial Stadium.
They're there, though part
of the new physical fitness
laboratory.
The new lab. located under
the stadium and coordinated
by the University Health
Service, is one of 10 to 15
labs across the country, said
Dr. Kenneth D. Rose, director
of the facility. It is designed
to study physical fitness and
test individual capacities for
exercise.
The idea for the lab began
in 1960, Dr. Rose stated. Funds
for the construction came from
the University of Nebraska and
its athletic department. Equip
ment was financed by the
University, the athletic
department, the National
Institutes of Health, and the
National Collegiate Athletic
Assn.
The athletic department
needs a place to study exercise
physiology, and all university
students need to know the
benefits of a good physical
body, Dr. Rose said. Tests
made 'on the athletes will be
applicable to the physical
fitness of all people. Athletes
will not be the only ones using
the lab, he said.
He said the idea of a total
academic system needs to be
changed to one that includes
being physically fit.
"College students are
notoriously bad physical
specimens," Dr. Rose said.
The lab will help demonstrate
the need for physical fitness,
and back up what is
demonstrated with facts."
When the lab and equipment
have been thoroughly checked,
they can be used tc study the
heart three dimensionally, Dr.
Rose said. During the football
season this year one of the
players is likely to be tested
through a small broadcasting
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will wear it during a game,
and it will feed his elec
trocardiogram reading into the
lab. In addition, there's an
antenna on the stadium to
t r ansmit electrocardiogram
readings of spectators Into the
lab.
All people need to be
physically fit, because not only
will they feel better, they will
perform better, Dr. Rose
said.
People should avoid being
fat, he added. It has been pro
ven that if people keep fit,
their hearts can withstand sud
den bursts of exercise.
"Fat today for most people
in America is out of time and
out of place," he said.
Another problem that will
concern people in the lab is
coronary heart disease, Dr.
Rose said. He added that the
late Dr. R. L. Holman, a
pathologist from the University
of Louisiana, advanced the
theory that coronary heart
disease begins at age two and
becomes irreversible after age
20. This may be because peo
pie become oo sedentary and
too busy to care for their
bodies properly. The lab will
try to prove this right or
wrong.
Dr. Rose, who climbs stairs
instead of riding elevators,
says he doesn't have any wild
dreams of converting everyone
to physical fitness fans.
However, he is out to convince
them that a physically fit body
is better.
Not everyone has to go jog
ging, he added. People should
take part in physical exercise
they enjoy walking, playing
tennis, or swimming. The new
lab now on campus will be
able to help people plan a
physical fitness program by
telling them how much ex
ercise they are capable of
doing safely, he said. I
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Voice printing machine"
tests for speech detects
Crime stories and comic
strips have utilitized voice
prints to "catch" many a
criminal, but a real life voice
printing machine, called the
spectrograph, is being used in
a very different area at the
University of Nebraska.
The University Speech and
Hearing Clinic has a spec
trograph, which is used to
evaluate the effectiveness of
surgery for speech on cleft
palate children.
Dr. Herbert Arkebauer (left), and Dr. Herbert
Schliesser, both of the NU Speech and Hearing
Clinic, watch a voice print being produced by a
spectrograph.
Dr. Herbert Schliesser,
director of the clinic, explained
that cleft palate is a congenital
birth defect in which the roof
of the mouth is not completely
closed. This causes increased
resonance in the nasal
passages when a child speaks
and makes him sound as if
he is "talking through his
nose."
Surgery can correct the
cleft palate condition and can
also reduce the nasality of the
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child's speech, Dr. Schliesser
said. Voice prints made wi;h
the spectrograph before a-id
after surgery evaluate 'he
amount of improvement in the
child's speech.
To use the spectrograph, a
tape is made of the patient"
speech before and a f t e
surgery or therapy. A secti;
of the tape with a vowel sour.d
such as the "e" in "neel"
is played repeatedly into The
spectrograph, which transmi's
the sound waves by burning
them onto a specially treated
paper by wave of a moveable
needle or stylus.
The stylus transmits the
sound waves to a chart in dark
and light shades indicating the
frequencies of the sound
waves. The prints made of the
same vowel sounds before and
after surgery are then com
pared to see if the shades shift
in position on the chart. A
shift in position indicates a
change in the nasality of the
tone.