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Drive continues
The NU Foundation is one-third of the way toward
its minimum goal of $25 million in a three-phase fund
raising drive.
Foundation president Harry Haynie said $8.3 mil
lion has been raised since the fund drive began last
spring. The campaign still is in its first phase, where,
gifts of $50,000 or more are the primary target, Haynie
said.
Phase two, scheduled to begin sometime second
semester, will concentrate on gifts of $5,000 to
$50,000, according to Haynie. The final phase is set'
aside to gather gifts of any amount from any donor,
he said.
Haynie stressed that the foundation's fund drive is
not committed to a rigid schedule, adding that gifts
of any amount are accepted anytime.
"The active soliciting should be pretty well wrapped
up in three years," Haynie said, although he speculat
ed that some contributions to the $25 million-minimum
goal could last as long as 10 years.
The most recent contribution to the foundation
has been a $500,000 gift from the Omaha World-Herald.
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As a matter of fact, all ski accessories are on sale at Gerry's.
It's a great way to save some money and make sure you stay
warm on the slopes (or keep warm through Nebraska's win
ter). But there's more.
Between now and Christmas, you can save on almost every
thing in the store. Besides saving 20 on ski accessories, you
can save 1 0 on practically everything else. Like brand name
hiking boots, tennis equipment, footballs, tennis shoes you
name it.
Why spend more money someplace else? Stop in today and
see what we have to offer - you don't have to buy a thing
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Lighting blamed in college fire
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scene may have sparked the fire that turned the top floor
of a Providence College dormitory into an inferno, killing
seven women, officials say. .
Mayor Vincent Cianci said late Tuesday that investi
gators believed the fast-moving flames early that morning
began near a small paper and cardboard manger scene set
up in the fourth-floor corridor of Aquinas Mall, a women s
dormitory.
Cianci and Lt. Bernard Gannon of the police depart
ment's arson squad said the corridor was adorned with
paper Christmas decorations," which helped fuel the
flames.
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The mayor, asked if the decorations violated fire regu
lations, said, "There are no violations anyone is being
cited for now."
He said the 38-year-old brick dormitory was equipped
with a system of fire alarms linked to the city fire depart
ment. The structure met all the fire safety requirements in
effect at the time of its construction, he said. However,
it lacked fire escapes and sprinklers, and officials were
unable to determine whether any fire extinguishers were
used.
Strike begins
Hundreds of farmers from Georgia to the Pacific
Northwest kicked off a nationwide strike Wednesday,
with their leaders vowing to shut down farm operations as
long as it takes to get better prices.
Farmers demonstrated at supermarkets in Colorado
and the Midwest. In Georgia, hundreds of rural merchants
closed their doors in sympathy. Livestock auction houses
closed in South Carolina. And in Texas, some farmers
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blocked the delivery of goods from grocery warehouses.
Much ot tne protest lueauay, m mc lurm oi tractor
cades, boycotts against grocery stores and grocery ware
bouse picketing, involved Midwestern and Pacific North
western farmers-many of them grain producers, who are
particularly upset with current prices.
But the strike was also felt through much of south
Georgia, where a number of small cities were virtually
shutdown. -
In the Texas Panhandle, angry farmers parked tractors
in front of grocery warehouses, blocking delivery trucks.
And an air hose for. brakes on a tractor-trailer truck carry
ing hogs was cut when the driver stopped for a red light
on Georgia 38 in Pierce County, the sheriffs office said.
That damage was repaired.
Crash victims
A rural North Bend man and his wife died in a three
vehicle crash near Schuyler and a young Omaha man was
killed in west Omaha early Wednesday, raising the
Nebraska's 1977 traffic toll to 335, compared with 372
a year ago.
Colfax County Attorney Larry Karel said the victims of
the accident four miles east of Schulyer were Leroy
Saalfeld, 63, and his wife, Pearl. They were killed
instantly when their car collided nearly head on with a
vehicle driven by Don Dufek, 19, Schuyler.
Dufek was taken to Clarkson Hospital with multiple
injuries while his passenger, Robert Saltys, 19, also of
Schuyler, was taken to Bergan Mercy Hospital in Omaha.
Karel said a third vehicle involved in the accident was
driven by Andrew Ulrich, 19, North Bend. Ulrich and a
passenger in his pickup truck were not injured.
Karel said the vehicle driven by Dufek apparently
sidewiped the Ulrich pickup and then collided nearly
head on with the Saalfeld car. The accident happened on
U.S.30 about 12:15 a.m.
Release ordered
Omaha-Three U.S. District Court judges have ordered
that portions of secret testimony concerning at least
eight city or state officials be released to investigators who
are looking into the possible involvement of government
officials in illegal gambling operations.
In an unusual breach of grand jury procedures, Judges
Warren Urbomb, Albert Schatz and Robert Denney
ordered that portions of grand jury testimony be made
available to city, state and bar association attorneys.
Attorney General Paul Douglas, Omaha City Attorney
Herbert Fitle and the Nebraska State Bar Association are
looking into the possible involvement of city and state
officials in gambling operations.
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