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Vet story: Plans for a regional
veterinary school still are
being finalized p. 10
UNL's new gallery: A different
look at health .... . . . . . .... . . . . p.2
OU at NU: A look at Wednesday
night's Big 8 Conference basketball
home opener. p.14
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By Bryant Brooks
Many UNL students with small checking accounts are
going to find them smaller when Gateway Bank begins its
new "activity charge" next month.
Bank customers with an average balance of less than
$50 will be charged a monthly $1 maintenance fee plus
six cents per check, says Karl Dickinson, Gateway Bank
president.
Customers with $200 or more in their checking
accounts will pay a 25 cent maintenance fee and six cents
per check. In addition, they will receive 50 cents credit
for each $100 of average balance.
For example, if a customer with a $400 balance writes
30 checks, he would be charged 25 cents plus $1.80 (6
cents x 30) for the checks, which equals $2 .05 .
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Students with a checking account at Gateway Bank can expect to pay a little more for that service. Gateway has
announced it will begin an "activity charge" next month. ' ' -
dit for each $100 average balance, he gets 50 cents credit
for each $100 average balance, resulting in a $2 credit.
Subtracting the $2 credit from the $2.05 maintenance fee,
a five cent checking charge would result.
Customers will be notified of the charge in a letter with
their next statement, he said, and the following statement'
will include the extra charge.
Increased salaries and departmental costs are the cause
of the new charge, Dickinson said, and the cost of each
check could go from six cents to eight cents by mid-year
if expenses continue to rise.
Lose business .
"I anticipate w? will lose some business at all three (of
the bank's) locations ," he said .
Dickison said the bank was forced to adopt the new
policy because of a 22 per cent drop in the bank's net re
turns in 1975 as compared to 1974; He added that most
banks had higher net returns last year, but that they too
may follow Gateway's lead.
Ten thousand randomly selected customers were sent
questionnaires asking why they banked at Gateway, he
said. Hours and convenient location were listed by 60 per
cent of those returning the form while three-and-one-half
per cent answered "free checking." About 4,000 custom
ers returned the form.
Gateway's Union branch pays $15,616.08 in rent to
the Union annually. The UNL branch opened in August
1974, relieving the Union's job of cashing checkf for stu
dents. Money saved
UNL saved between $12,000 and $15,000 a year in
salaries for employes involved in the check cashing service,
according to UNL Comptroller Robert Lovitt.
The bank's lease, which can be cancelled either by
UNL or Gateway Bank giving 90 days notice at anytime,
is jointly reviewed yearly by the Union Advisory Board,
Union director and the vice-chancellor for business and
finance.
Lovitt said the bank's new policy does not break any
conditions in their lease but said the possibility of re
placing the bank will be considered when the lease is re
viewed in late spring.
"Well also have to wait and see if other banks initiate
the charge," he said.
As of Wednesday, no other Lincoln banks had announ
ced plans of incorporating a similiar charge.
UFO disciples still wait for saucer ascension
By Ann Owens and George Miller
Between fifteen and twenty people left their pos
sessions in Waldport, Ore. in Oct. 1975 to join a sect of
Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) evangelists.
In August, two University of Northern Iowa gradu
ates and a 20-year-old Kearney woman disappeared re
portedly for the same reason. Only the Kearney
woman remains with the group.
Tonight three underground followers, often referred
to as "space fetuses," will "pass the faith" to a Lincoln
audience.
The movement began last spring when a man and
woman calling themselves Bo and Peep signed up the
first 26 disciples in their design for heavenly ascension.
Three newer followers, a woman who goes by the
name "Hickory," and two men who go by "Tuna" and
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UMHE Commonplace Chapel, 333 N. 14th St. They
will ask people to give up worldly possessions and sex
and Join them in a search for "the second level," Tuna
said.
Tuna said human existence is based on many levels
with each successive level being nearer to the ultimate
paradise.
By breaking all possible ties with the earthly level of
existence, it is possible to enter what Tuna called the
second level.
Sacrifices
"We don't have real names and we have given up
most worldly possessions," he said. "We don't talk
about our past lives because they are irrelevant."
Worldly sacrifice only "guideline"
However, neither Hickory, Reach nor Tuna have
sacrificed cars, money or watching television, they said.
.Sacrificing possessions is only a guideline set by
Bo and Peep, they said.
Reach, apparently the spokesman for the three, said
he was a common worker before he was recruited at a
meeting in Boulder, Colo.
He refused to disclose his occupation, but said "it
was ordinary-nothing glamorous."
Reach added that not all followers are young. Some
were old and once wealthy, he said.
Tuna said he discovered the "deep and inherent
truth" in November when he attended a meeting in
Oklahoma.
"I was in the U.S. Air Force and due to get out," he
said. 'They told me at the meeting that if I were meant
to follow I would find fellow followers to travel with.
"I wasn't surprised when I met Reach and Hickory
in Boulder," he said.
Children abandoned
Hickory did not reveal her previous occupation.
At the meeting in Waldport, people left behind not
only names, identities and homes, but even children.
After the Waldport meeting, one couple gave their
two-year-old daughter and 14-month-old son to a
friend.
According to Reach, giving away one's child is in
the child's best interest.
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Tuna, Reach and Hickory, three 'Space fetuses", will speak tonight at 7 at die UMHE Commonplace chapel,
333 N. 14th St. The "space fetuses" have given up their worldly goods and tay they are waiting to ascent In
a spacecraft to another level of existence.
