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Sour Mash will be featured Friday evening at 7 p.m. behind the Sheldon gardens.
IPC concerts
scheduled for
Sheldon gardens
It's time for lome good
country picking this week
as two bands, each featur
ing different types of mu
sic, are scheduled to per
form in the gardens behind
Sheldon Gallery.
Bluegrass Crusade, and
Sour Mash-both well
known bands in Lincoln
are scheduled to- perform
Wednesday (Crusade) and
Friday (Mash) at 7 p.m.
The concerts are being
sponsored by the Univer
sity Program Council in an
attempt to provide summer
events for summer school
students.
Nathan Wesely, Presi
dent of UPC East, said
because summer school
students pay student fees,
they 'should also benefit
from them
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would coordinate the existing agencies and departments
that deal with the aged. ". ..
"With the money we are spending, we should get more
services out of it and better services.'1
Wesely Joined Sens. Jerome Warner, Waverly and
Steve Fowler, Lincoln, to pass LB 119, dealing with
municipal power systems.
Wesely said, "All of (the public power systems) go to
the Power Review Board before they build a facility or
transmission line. Except for the municipal power
systems. They have a huge loop-hole that is causing
problems . . ., particularly in recent years."
Wesely said Grand Island and Kearney built power
plants within their cities after being told by the Power
Review Board they didn't need the plants.
"Hopefully, the municipal power bill will keep energy
costs down. It was sort of a first step In recognizing the
need to do more In regulating the public power district."
Checks and Balances
Wesely then compared the municipal power bill and his
hospital Certificate of Need bill.
"You want to have, In both cases, quality service. You
want adequate service, but there is a tendency to become
empire builders, not only In those areas but in many other
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He said a hospital administrator who wanted the best
equipment or the biggest hospital without being
concerned about the general community would be an
example of an empire builder.
He said he thought the bill would provide needed checks
and balances.
"We are going to move in other ways also to try and
strengthen the review," he said.
Another bill from the short 1979 session that Wesely
voted tor was Omaha Sen. Emie Chamber's the death
nenaltv reneal bill. He called it one of the more symbolic
-changes of the Legislature in a long time, although the
repeal bill was later vetoed by Gov Charles . Thone.
Wesely esid, "Thtt was an amazing thing to have
happen. Never before had a death penalty repeal bill got
past the first stags ' of debate. . . When we voted to
advance it from that first stage of debate, that was historic
in and of itself and to continue and pass the bill was really
incredible" -
"I supported the bill, I supported the repeal, but my
position had always been that I wouldn't support repeal
unless there was ; a toughening of sentences; a built-in
sentence." 'N - " l "' "v'''
He said he though the people of the state probably could
have lived with the repeal bill. .,
"I think that was a tougher bill than What we have now.
Right how, a person getting a life sentence for. murdering
somebody will get out on the average of 15 years, IB years.
"The problem is that the judges and juries do not want
to potentially kill somebody.
"However, when I read about that meat cleaver killing
in Omaha and everything, 'then I wonder if the death
penalty isn't the right way to do it (punish murderers).
SpenkelmVe execution
He mentioned the Florida execution of John Spenkelink.
"But then you see what happens and it's a different
kind of brutality, it's a government sanctioned one.
' ' "I don't know. I just don't see it as the right way to do it.
Wesely said didn't think the Nebraska bill would
pass next year either.
"There are 26 votes and that's it. There are not SO the
number needed to over-ride a governor veto),
"The repeal of the death penalty as envisioned-by
Chambers won't happen unless there is a change in
make-up new senators or a new governor).
"However, there may be a tightening of the law so it
isn't as broad and that may be the best thing overall
anyway."
Wesely said he would support the death peanlty for the
killing of prison guards and for terrorists.
Besides the death peanlty repeal bill, the Legislature
passed a bill providing for district elections in Omaha city
elections. That bill was signed by Gov. Thone.
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receive in the public sector' Jeffries s&id. .
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Miser problems -
Although sexual contact is not dlscccraged, a state
institution must be conscious of the law. Problems could
occur with minora, Zeisset said, but so far the center h&M
not had any problems with minors. : . .
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minors present a dlffageat pmhlrm thzn ih p!?,
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