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A new and improved 91 1 emergency telephone system
in Lincoln, will begin in January, according to Randy
Amo, coordinator of the County-City Implementation
Commission (CCIC).
A center of Lincoln emergency telephone services wi3
Improve coordination between area emergency services
and reduce response time to emergency calls, Amo
said. ' . . ,
The new system proposes to have each emergency
agency pick up its gear and move into one central loca
tion," he said.
The CCIC has contracted with Arthur D. little
Systems to design and implement a center for the 911
system. The City Council approved the $57,000 con
tract on Monday.
Work will begin on the 12-week project at the end of
October, Amo said.
The current 911 switchboard is at the Lincoln Fire
Dept. (LFD) headquarters. A fire dispatch officer answers
all incoming calls and transfers them to the proper service
area, such as the Lincoln Police Dept., ambulance or the
Bryan Hospital heart team. The Fire Dept. is usually the
first to respond to emergency calls, Amo said, because
it operates the switchboard.
news digest
By The Associated Press
China si'ant
Tokya-Hua Kuo-feng was believed to be consolidating
his position as China's top leader at a high-level meeting
in Peking on Thursday, but the government maintained
its official silence on the reported turmoil in the Chinese
hierarchy. Scores of limousines were seen outside Peking's
Great IlaH of the People on Wednesday night, Japan's
Kybdo news agency reported. In Taipei, a Nationalist
Chinese analyst said members of the Communist party
Central Committee had begun gathering in Peking on
Tuesday. It was not known whether the reported meeting
would be faced merely with the task of rubber-stamping
Hua's selection to succeed the late Mao Tse-tung as party
chairman, or would have to deal with factional strife
surrounding the question of succession. The first signs
of such a power struggle were reports that more than
33 leaders of the party's radical faction, including Mao's
widow, Chiang Ching, had been arrested" as a result of a
plot to forge Mao's directives in order- to have his
widow succeed him. Peking has not confirmed the arrests.
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The Omaha Work Release Center for Women will be
moved to Lincoln today. According to Correctional
Services Director Joseph Vitek, the move is being made
because "we couldn't see continuing a program in Omaha
that was obviously going downh2L
The Lincoln home at 1 133 S. 1 1th St. formerly was
used as a halfway house for 13 women. Eight women,
most of whom are within one year of discharge or final
parole hearings, will be moved to the house this week.
Vitek said another location for the house was sought
fei Omaha's Cathedral-Dundee area, but Douglas County
officials and area residents 'indicated very strongly that
they didn't want us to move in."
The program was begun in 1974 and most recently
was located on the top floor of the YMCA Administra
tion BIdg. in Omaha. Vitek said the housing was
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The project win consolidate all emergency services
into one center, Amo sail. A central switchboard opera
tor wH answer calls phoned into the 911 emergency,
Amo explained. This should cut down on response time,
he said. . -
Emergency services included under the new 91 1 con
solidation are the Lincoln Police Dept., the Lincoln Fire
Dept., the CivJ Defense Dept., the Bryan Memorial
Heart Team, area hospitals, rural fire districts, the county
sheriff, the State Patrol and ambulance systems. Some of
these, services are not covered by the 911 system now,
Amo said.
' The Lincoln Electric System, the Public Works Office
and the City Engineering Dept. also may be plugged into
the 911 network, Amo said. However, he added that
those proposals "are down the road," and need to be
. studied by the CCIC to see how they would fit into the
system.
"Nine-one-one is not a total system yet in Lincoln,"
Jim Cary, LFD communications supervisor, said. The new
system "could be more effective for Lincoln if it is hand
led right," Cary said.
Cary said 4,144 calls to 91 1 were received from Jan
uary to June of this year. Of those calls, 40 per cent
were for the police, 24 per cent for central ambulance
Clinics reopen
Swine flu clinics in several areas reopened Thursday,
as the troubled immunization program was boosted by
President Ford and his family who got their vaccinations
at the White House. Officials hi the Pittsburgh area said
they would resume their immunization program for the
elderly on Monday. The announcement Tuesday of deaths
of three elderly Pittsburgh residents who were vaccinated
at a local clinic touched off the concern that led to sus
pension of immuniazatRm programs in parts of Pennsyl
vania and elsewhere. "The official explanation is the three
deaths were a coincidence, said Dr. Frank Clack, director
of the Allegheny County Health Department.
Soviets in orbit
Moscow The Soviet Union launched a Soyuz space
craft into orbit Thursday with two cosmonauts aboard,
Tass reported. Soyuz 23, launched three weeks after the
successful return of another manned craft, was carrying
pilot Vyacheslav Zudov and . flight engineer Valery
Rozhdestvensky, the official news agency said. The Tass
report said the cosmonauts will attempt to board the
orbiting Sahut 5 research station, which housed its first
two-man crew for 48 days last summer. Soyuz 23 blasted
off from Baikonur space center in central Kazakhstan
some 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow Tass said. It was.a
chttuae launch here. Doth cosmonauts are making
their first space flight.
inadequate for the program. Yhen the Cathedral-Dundee
relocation was opposed, the only alternative fcft was to
move to Lincoln, he said.
"We also felt that we were not serving the interests of
the women we were sending there as long as we weren't
welcome in Omaha, he said.
No Lincoln officials or residents have raised objections
to the center, according to Brian Hendrickson, work
release director. The men's work release program has been
operating in Lincoln for nine years. It has operated
relatively smoothly and should have a positive effect on
the women's program, Hendrickson said.
The women have had no problems finding employment
m Lincoln, he said, adding that it seemed harder for
women to find jobs in Onxha.
diipatch, 22 per cent for the Fire Dept. nine per cent to
the mobile heart team, four per cent for the State Patrol,
and one per cent for the county sheriff.
Lack of publicity has hampered the effectiveness of the
Lincoln 911 system, Cary said. Last year, 911 operators
sent out about 6,000 emergency dispatches, although
total calls to the number were "about four or five times
that amount," he said. Some persons call thinking 91 1 is
an information number, or because it is the only number
that can be called free from a public telephone booth.
Amo said increased publicity will be used to make the
public more aware of 911 as the common emergency
number for Lincoln.
The basement of the County-City Bldg. is the proposed
site for the new center. The administrative offices of the
Civil Defense Dept. are there now. Amo said construction
of the office should begin by Dec. 1 .
It will cost nearly 510,000 to move all the emergency
agency's communications equipment to the new loca
tion, Amo said. CCIC is trying to get federal funds to fin
ance the move, he said.
short Stuff
The Political Science
Dept. at Nebraska Wesley an
University is sponsoring a
rally at 10 am. today in the
Hall of Science, Olin B
Lecture Hall. U.S. Senate
candidate Edward Zorinsky
will speak.
The UNL Student
Alumni Board is taking
applications for new mem
bers today. Anyone inter
ested in joining the board
should fill out an applica
tion at the Alumni House,
1520 R St.
The Physics and Astron
omy Dept. will open the
Behlen Observatory to the
public from 7 to 10 tonight
and on Oct. 29.
Norman Allinger, a Uni
versity of Georgia professor ,
will speak about Recent
AppEcGtiottS of IMeoisr
Mechssu&t to Stmctwtsl
Problems in Organic Chem
ttry at 3:30 pm. today in
Hamilton Hall 110.
Alpha Chi Omega soror
ity and Delta Tau Delta
fraternity are sponsoring an
ice cream social from 1130
to 1:30 pm. Saturday in
the Alpha Chi Omega park
ing lot, 10th and Vine
streets.
A workshop in intra
personal communications
will be from 7 ajn. to 7
pjn. Sunday. The philoso
phies of Eastern yoga and
Western psychology will be
explored - through mind,
movement and musk at the
UMHE Commonplace, spon
sored by the Human Poten
tials Committee. Balthazar
and Gordon Becker will
conduct the workshop,
which is limited to 30 parti
cipants. Registration is $15
for UNL students, $30 for
others.
calanddr
1230 pjn. Engineering
Mechanics luncheon,
Nebraska Union 243.
12:30 pjn - Muslim
Student Association, Union
337.
3:30 pjn. - Political
Science Dept. lecture,
Union Auditorium.
6:00 pjiL-Tassels-Corn
Cobs pep rally, Union south
steps.
7:30 pjn. Inter Varsity
Christian Fellowship, Union
202.
730 pjn.-Rek-suhn-roc
homecoming celebration,
Union Ballroom, Harvest
Room, Main Lounge,
Centennial Room and
Auditorium.
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