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election issue
monday, October 30, 1978
1st district candidates
Photos by Mark Billingsley
Hess Dyas, Democratic candidate for the 1st Dis
trict seat in the House of Representatives.
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Photo by Ted Kirk
Doug Bereuter (right), Republican candidate for the 1st District seat in the House of Representatives is shown
at a rally with Kansan Robert Dole.
Dyas, Bereuter differ on spending limits
By L. Kent Wolgamott
Democrat Hess Dyas is campaigning
throughout Nebraska's First Congressional
District stressing accessibility, while his
Republican opponent Douglas Bereuter
says he offers experience.
Dyas said he will return to the district
and public meetings in all of the counties
to "continually let them know what I'm
doing."
He said he would be able to hear consti
tuents' concerns and they could hold him
accountable.
"It would keep me cloase. I would not
be working for special interests. They can
have impact on the way I'm representing
them."
Dyas said he would supplement his per
sonal appearance in the district by placing
at least six staff members in the district to
gather information for his office and deli
ver information to the public.
Record stressed
Bereuter stresses his record as a state
senator and as federal state coordinator
for the Tiemann administration in the late
1960s.
"I battle the bureaucracy for three years
on behalf of state government," Bereuter
said. "I understand the federal structure
and how things are accomplished there ."
He said he has a good record as a state
senator who represented the district but
"voted as a state senator should, in the
interests of the state."
Bereuter said his experience "lends cred
ibility to what I say."
Both Dyas and Bereuter said they favor
balancing the federal budget to help reduce
inflation.
Tax indexing
Additionally, Bereuter said he favors tax
indexing to assist persons whose incomes
rise into higher tax brackets and require
them to pay a greater percentage of their
income in taxes.
He said he favors a constitutional limit
on federal spending in order to help slow
inflation.
Dyas said he opposes the limit as im
practical and dangerous.
He set out a six-point program to deal
with inflation. It includes giving the presi
dent power to bargain with labor and in
dustry and emphasizes more aggressive
exportation by the United States, along
with balancing the federal budget.
Dyas said he differs in style from
Bereuter in that he works closely with
people, and did not talk in slogans or
"throw out" terms like "lid."
Small town experience
Bereuter said his experience living in a
small community, dealing with agricultural
concerns and his training in urban develop
ment contrasts with Dyas whose exper
ience is of running for office for the last
four years and as executive director of the
Democratic party.
Bereuter listed right-to-work, labor
reform and national defense as areas where
he differed from Dyas.
The two candidates also disagree on
federal aid to help pay college tuition
costs.
Dyas said he favors expansion of the
current system of grants and loans to aid
students.
"Anybody should be able to borrow the
money to pay for tuition, and pay it back
later," Dyas said. "It should have teeth to
get them paid back."
Loan collection
He said the loans could be paid back
through the Internal Revenue Service,
using tax refunds to pay for the interest on
the loans or paying more money when
taxes are paid.
He said he opposed tuition tax credits as
"just giving another loophole to the rich"
and said, "We cannot give a credit large
enough to make any difference" and the
tax credits are "not a targeted way to go."
Bereuter said he favors tuition tax
credits, as a broader number of people will
benefit from a tax credit.
"I don't want to devote all of the
money it will take to administer increasing
the grant and loan program," he said.
Legislature
Second district
Calvin F. Carsten
Fourth district
Carol Elrod
Larry D. Stoney
Sixth district
Ralph L. Morocco
Peter Hoagland
Eighth district
Vard Johnson
Ed Dvorak
Tenth District
Michael O'Connor
Carol McBride Pirsch
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Twelfth district
Robert H. Beach
Gerald Koch
Fourteenth district
Tom Fitzgerald
Walter J. Duda
Sixteenth district
Walter George
Gregory A. Moseman
Eighteenth district
William H. Hasebroock
Twentieth district
Glenn A. Goodrich
Mary Ellen Drickey
Twenty -first district
(2 Year Term)
Thomas C. Kennedy
Merle E. Hansen
Twenty-second district
Donald N. Dworak
Twenty -fourth district
Raymond E. Ratliff
Harold F. Sieck
Twenty-sixth district
Don Wesely
Tom Novak
Twenty-eighth district
Chris Bcutler
Marge Schlitt
Thirtieth district
George Bill Burrow
Sylvester H. Schick
Thirty-second district
Richard Maresh
Gene Harding
Thirty -fourth district
Maynard W. Jensen
Maurice A. Kremer
Thirty -sixth district
Ron Cope
Bill McMullen
Thirty -eighth district
Lester Harsh
Tom Vickers
Fortieth district
John DeC'amp
Forty -second district
Myron G. A. Rumertv
Forty -fourth district
Rex. S. Haberman
Ramey ( . Whitney
Forty -sixth district
David M. Landis
JoAnn Maxey
Forty -eighth district
William 1 Nidiol
Roger I Green
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