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Every football day is a banner day
for Owl Aviation president Gallup
Photo by Tim Ford
If you, think -you have high seats for Saturday's
game, you should watch it from Jeff Gallup's point
of view. Gallup, president of Owl Aviation, flies
over the stadium every game day while displaying
advertisement banners.
' By Mary Jo Pitzl
Fans in the uppermost rows of Memorial Stadium
think theirs is the best. People on the 50-yard line say
they have it. Dignitaries in the glass-enclosed press box
contend nothing can rival the view they have.
But Jeff Gallup, who has never been inside Memorial
Stadium for a Husker football game, says he has the best
view of Big Red football action.
"It's the best seat in the house," Gallup said of his
perch more than 1,000 feet above the stadium.
Gallup, president of Owl Aviation, tows advertising
banners from his Cessna 172 airplane and gets a bird's
eyeview of the games as well.
Gallup said the weekly advertising flights are a side
line to Owl Aviation's regular commercial business.
"Where else can you express your advertising message
to 70,000 happy people all at once?" he asked, He added
that customers return yearly to use this unusual form of
advertising.
Gallup charges customers $500 for a two to three-hour
flight, which covers the majority of the city. Special at
tention is given to Memorial Stadium, which Gallup de
scribes as "a lot of red." He said he schedules his flight to
coincide with game time. . ' '
Updrafts and downdrafts created "by the concentrated
hot air in the stadium, cause some turbulence, according
to Gallup. The added weight of the banner calls for extra
caution. ;
"Anything you do to alter a plane, you'd better be
200 per cent awase," Gallup said,
Although he said he does not have a lot of time to
watch, Gallup said he can see the action on the field.
"When Alabama scored I thought I was going to
crash," said Gallup, who admits he is an ardent Big Red
fan. .
"I thought 'if they score again, 111 jv. pull over and
coast into Salt Creek'."
.' Gallup tunes into the game on his radio and keeps an
eye on the scoreboard when he cannot watch all the
plays. He said the new scoreboard is more enjoyable from
his point of view than the old one.
Gallup has missed only one home football game in
three years due to bad weather. "That's a pretty good
batting average " he said, considering he can watch Ne
braska games and get paid $500 at the same time.
However, Gallup said high-rise seats such as his are not
easily obtained.
To fly advertising banners, the Federal Aviation Ad
ministration must issue a special waiver and inspect the
plane, banner and equipment, according to Gallup. In
addition, the pilot must be licensed as a commercial
.pilot and have training in towing banners. ,
.Gallup said that although flying the banners may
appear to be an easy job, it requires hours of preparation.
He estimated tht it takes about two to three days to as
semble a 250-foot banner. Letters are five feet tall, and
must be attached by hand to the banner. He described
the completed banner "like a line of music with notes on
it-
The advertising messages are created by the client, ac
cording to Gallup, and assembled by Gallup's staff.
J.L. Brandeis department store is one of Gallup's
most frequent customers. Store manager Jim Knudtson
said Brandeis has been flying promotions for Charlie and
Chas, two perfumes from the Revlon Co., for several
years.
"We're constantly looking for new, integrating ways to
make it (advertising) stand out to the public," Knudtson
said. "The unusual promotions are the best."
Kundtson said he cannot determine which per
centage of sales the weekly advertisements brings in, but
added that anything that stimulates a public the size of
Memorial Stadium fans must be effective.
Van Sickle Paint Company has been another Big Red
' Saturday advertiser in past years.
Manager Bob Danley said the advertisements have
drawn considerable comments from customers.
' "1. don't know if there's a direct influence on sales,"
Danley said. "Hopefully it will catch somebody's atten
tion and stick in the back of their mind."
Gallup said that the majority of his advertising flights
are made on football Saturdays. He said he also has flown
banners for politicians and fund drives.
ROTC women 'are as prepared for combat as men'
By Rex Henderson
All they need is a war.
The women in the UNL ROTC are as prepared for
combat as the men, according to Lt. Col. Robert R.
Bachmann, UNL professor of military science,
Bachmann said that, except for slight differences in
physical training, women in today's army are treated just
like men, including combat training.
Women are not yet assigned to combat units in the
regular army, but there is an increasing number in combat
support units, Bachmann said.
About 92 cadets are in the UNL ROTC program this
year and 17 of them are women, including Cadet Col.
Linda Swanson, the first female battalion commander at
UNL.
Swanson said that women have done just as well as the
men in combat training. "Everyone has difficulties, but
not because of their sex," Swanson said.
Swanson, a senior Spanish major, said she wants to
be in a combat support unit after she is graduated this
year.
"No one likes being told they are going into combat
tomorrow, but women would be just as prepared as men,"
she said.
Two female sophomore cadets, Terry Van Fleet
and Laura Melvin, said they are happy with women's role
in ROTC.
Melvin said . she would rather not be in a combat sup
port unit, but would not refuse the assignment.
A pre-bptometry major, Melvin said she is not sure
she will join the army after graduation, but has enjoyed
the opportunity to things the ROTC offers.
Particularly important to her has been the "experi
ence in leadership with the opposite sex," she said. Most
groups students that join are either all male or all female,
she said.
Van Fleet said, "There are certain things men can do
well, and women can do well. One of the things men can
do better is combat."
She added that with ROTC training she could handle
a combat position.
Both Melvin and Van Fleet said they would resent
being segregated from men as women were in the WACs.
Most of the WACs' jobs were clerical, VanFleet said,
while there are many Army jobs women can do better.
Melvin commented, "As soon as you divide people up
each group would be treated differently."
During NATO field manuevers last week in .West
Germany, women were integrated into all U.S. army units
except combat units.
Combat support units include the Military Police, con
struction engineers, combat engineers and civil engineers,
units that move with combat units during a war, Bach
mann said.
The women would be close to the fighting in these
units during a war and are trained in basic combat skills,
just as the men are.
Women have been a part of the Army ROTC program
since 1974. Except for a different physical training rou
tine the training has been identical since 1975.
The Women's Army Corps (WAC) exists only in name
now, Bachmann said. AH women have been integrated
into the formerly all male units.
inside friday
Jimmy Who?: An analysis of Carter's first nine months
is on the OpEd page p. 5
Walk a mile for a stall: SA's now must give up their
convenience and join the rest of the crowd p. 6
Pity the confused dogs: Landscape changes on the UNL
campus, including trees and shrubs, is nearly
done p. 9
Staff members clamor for raises
Now that the NU Board of Regents has independent
control of NU from the Legislature, a number of UNL
staff members are clamoring for raises.
Maintenance manager Jerry Delhay said the main
tenance department and several other groups in the
physical plant have presented wage increase proposals
to the regents.
At their September meeting, the regents appointed
a committee to study the wage rate for all three
campuses in the NU system,
"It's progressed to that point," Delhay said. "We
haven't heard anything else."
Employee salaries average about half of the union
scale, Delhay said. They are 'Viot anywhere near the
journeyman's scale," (a scale established by unions
which most wage rates are based on).
Delhay said they presented the proposal asking for a
salary increase, "so we would be paid closer to what
people are paid on the outside."
'My highest hope is that something will be done yet
this year. The problem is no money " he said.
He said although the maintenance workers wanted
more money, they had no solution for the funding
problem,
"I don't know of any funds that could be used,"
Delhay said.
Harley Schrader, physical plant director, refused to
comment about the wage proposal.
Miles Tommcraascn, vice chancellor for business and
finance, denied that the regents promised anyone a
raise.
"It may well be they had a request for special raises,
but so have a lot of others," Tommcraascn said. "And
they are no different than the other groups."
Raises depend on what the Legislature appropriates,
he said. Currently the 1978-79 budget is being
considered, but "next year's budget request is like your
Christmas list," he said. "You never really know what
you're going to get."
If the budget is approved by the Legislature, staff
members are to receive a total seven per cent salary
increase.
"Very seldom do we get what the budget asks for,"
Tommcraascn said.