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NU Board of Regents candidates is By Mary Kay Roth Four candidates will have left long campaign trails behind them In Nebraska by . the time the Nov. 5 election arrives, as they are seeking seats on the NU Board of Regents in two of the largest Nebraska districts. Two will be chosen by western and central Nebraskans to serve for unsalaried six-year terms. In the 6th District, which stretches across 32 counties in northern and western Nebraska, Robert Q. Simmons Jr. of Scottsbluff confronts John P. Olson of Alliance. They are seeking the position Camilla Elliott of Scottsbluff now holds. She. was appointed to finish the term of her husband, John G. Elliott who died in April. Speaking on campus Issues, Olson and Simmons agree students are adults and should be treated accordingly. However, they are both reluctant to allow alcohol on campus.' Olson said alcohol is used on campus whether legal or not. He said it was, therefore, not necessary to pass legislation, since students ignored present laws. Redundant measure Both Olson and Simmons said the first amendment in the Nov. 5 election, which proposes to put a nonvoting NU, stud.ent on the Board of Regents, is a redundant measure. Olson said he sees no purpose In passing the amendment since any student can attend the sessions already. Simmons also said the amendment did not offer anything new, but said encouraging student participation was a positive move. He said the amendment won't help but won't hurt either. Simmons, a 55-year-old attorney, has served on the State Board of Education and the Scottsbluff Board of Education He was the only Hiram Scott College board member to vote against closing the private school. Although NU has now acquired the school for agricultural programs, Simmons said the college hasn't been given a chance to stand on its own. f doilu fin P; i i If f If Mli II Wednesday, October 30, 1974 lincoln, nebraska vol. 98 ho. 38 Welsch sole campaigner for weed post It might not be next Tuesday's most hotly contested election. Nor will it be the best financed campaign. In fact, three of the four men running for Lancaster County Weed Commission aren't campaigning at all. Only UNL assistant ' EngiliB Wtiltim Roger Welsch Is campaigning in hjs fcstijs to unseat incumbents C.V. Keller and Leslie L Myers Sr. and to defeat fellow challenger Robert A. Weigel. The commission doe3 much more than decide which weeds to pull, according to Myers who is seeking his second term on the commission. "Most of the problems we encounter deal with the dispensing of funds and the price we'll charge for our services (of spraying weeds)." Seed cleaning Keller said that in addition to the contract spraying for farmers and a current "seed cleaning" program which separates dirt and weed seeds from crop seeds, the commission hopes to start a ro-seeding program. Welsch's campaign includes yard signs according to Wiegel, a Lincoln attorney who says he has "not really done anything like he . (Welsch) has been doing" in the way of campaigning. To get elected, Weigel says he is relying on friends and contacts he's established In his years In the real estate business. Keller and Myers are also depending cn the low-key campaign to bring them success. "You ju3t can't afford to spend money on a job that doesn't pay," according to Keller. Welsch was unavailable for comment. : The commission has fivs members, three from rural areas and two from urban sites, elected in alternating two years. Keller is running because "you've got to keep interested in something when you're retired." He retired from the penal complex after serving "about 25 years" In a variety of Jobs including his final position, as superin tendent of the complex. Myers, who has been "very happy with the way things have been run the last four years," is running because he's "naturally interested in county government a3 most citizens are." He is currently an electronic data processor for an Insurance firm and raises livestock. Weigel, a 1962 NU Law School graduate, said that although he could "sympathize with those who feel that ail weeds are good weeds, you've got to control them. Otherwise they'll eat up the countryside." Welsch said that he disapproved of indiscriminate weed spraying used through out the state according to a Sept. 25 Dally Nc jraskan article. $1,000 offered for Forvcki .clues The parents of Debra Forycki, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Forcycki of Omaha, Monday offered a $1,000 reward for any Information leading to their daughter's recovery. "We're hoping for any kind of Information that the police department can follow up on," Forycki said. Debra Forycki disappeared Oct. 3 and police investigations have turned up nothing, Forycki said. Police said Ms. Forycki had planned a lunch date a 11:30 a.m. Neighbors told police they thought they heard Ms. Forycki leave her apartment at 11 a.m. Ms. Forycki did not show up for her luncheon engagement or for work that afternoon, police said. Forycki's wife Lorraine said her daughter had paid tuition and rent and had not picked up her paycheck from Brandcis before her disappearance. Her daughter would have picked up tho money If she had planned to leave, Mrs. Forycki said. Forycki said without stimulating public interest in the case people will forget about it and police won't find any new clyc3. "We don't think she left voluntarily," Forycki said. "We think someone abducted her." Police investigation had checked out all leads, according to Forycki, so he and his wife decided to offer the reward. "We have no other course," Forycki said. The longer she says lost, the less chance she's alive." Police Capt. Lowell Sellmeyer said police have established no connection between the disappearances of Ms. Forycki and Patricia Folley, 23, who disappeared last September. Sellmeyer said Folley left her two-year-old child with a babysitter and did not return. "Quite strange circumstances" surround the case, according to Sellmeyer. "It's rather unusual for a woman to leave her child with a babysitter, whom she knew quite well, and not cali back," he said. Although Sellmeyer said polics suspect foul play in both incidents, no evidence has confirmed those suspicions. The Lincoln Police Dept. is asking persons with information relevant to the Forycki case to contact the police department. ! . He said he worried about the many other "empty classrooms between Lincoln and , Wyoming." ' "The Board of Regents; is not agressive enough," Simmons said. He said it appeared they agree with the administration the majority of the time. 'Stir things up' "I wouldn't be another automatic assent ing vote," he said, "I like to stir things up." Although issues are important, Simmon3 said it comes down to who will be the best regent. He said farmers should have representation, and as an attorney he has represented ail the people. He added he thought his opponent can not empathize as well with the farmer. His opponent, Olson, who operates the Prairie States Cattle Feeding Co., said in a large operation one must farm and feed just like anyone else and so he can also empathize with his constituents. "I'll compare losses in cattle with anyone else," he said. Olson advocated expansion in agricultural research at the University. Possibilities include new crop varieties to survive the short growing season and new cattle vaccines to combat diseases. A newcomer, Harold W. Kay of North Platte, will face incumbent Robert L. Raun of Minden in th November general election for the 7th district. This district spreads over an area in south-central and southwest Neb raska. Continued on pg. 2 NO MORE WEEDS?? J '' "'IT o V K Absentee ballots Students who need absentee ballots for the Nov. 5 election have until Nov. 1 to send a letter of request to the county clerk in their homo county. The letter should include the stu dent's current address, homo address and signature. Absentee ballots must be cast by 0 p.m. on Nov. 5 and bo received by tho county clerk by 10 p.m. the following night. IHHMt .4 J. t t W Jt A Jt. t i : t ' S ' ttt.t tftitttt t - fj i'i 1 1 t i
