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daily nebrackan thursday, december 6, 1979 Flood control possibilities for Malone area discussed By Debora Hemmingtr The citizens at a public meeting Tues day night pose.d questions about the Malone neighborhood that were difficult to answer. Larry Potratz from the Lincoln Urban Development Department tried to discuss alternatives for the 27 homes and business es between O and R Streets and between 22nd and 27th Streets in an area with a 1 percent chance of flooding each year. However, the citizens asked where the Northeast Radial, a proposed highway, was going to be placed. The citizens also asked Potratz if the UNL City Campus will ex pand into . the Malone neighborhood. The Northeast Radial would go from northeast Lincoln to downtown. Several proposed routes go through Malone. Malone is directly east of the Abel Sandoz dormitory. Potratz reminded the citizens that the meeting was to get input from the public about the alternatives so "we don't do any thng wrong. None of the citizens who were present live in the area being discussed. Genevieve Logan, 2312 T St., said city representatives often come into the neigh borhoods and ask for citizens opinions when the city has already made up its mind. Potratz said the meeting was part of an eight-step process to receive federal funds to correct potential flood areas. Asked why the city is just now looking at the danger of flood in the Malone neigh borhood, Potratz said, "We didnt know we had this option.' Potratz, looking for general agreement, found the citizens needed more questions answered before they would give their opinion on the four-block area. Four possibilities that Potratz presented were building water channels, removing or destroying the buildings, raising homes above the flood level or to do nothing. Building water channels that would hold . flood water and then carry it to Antelope Creek would cost $6.5 to $7 million, Potratz said. N ' i Water detention areas could prevent flooding in an area north of 0 Street and west ot rd Street, To remove buildings from the Malone area, the city could buy them, move tne residents and tear down the buildings. Another possibility is to move the homes tn other lots owned by the city. Potratz said every attempt would be made to provide housing in the Malone area or close to the Malone neighborhood, perhaps in the Clinton neighborhood, just north of Malone. The third possibility, raising homes above the flood level, could be paid either through flood loans by the city or by pro perty owners buying flood insurance To elevate the buildings, the foundation would be lifted and a new foundation would be built under it. 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Mon.-Frl. 10-5 pm Thun til 8 pm Sit. 10-1 pm J Professor: state's recession to be rmld By Patti Gallagher All symptoms point to the fact that the nation is in a recession, but the Nebraska economy will be affected less than the national economic picture, according to Donald PurseU, director of the Bureau of Business Research at UNI, ; Because the state depends more upon agriculture and agricultural-related industries than on cyclical industries, PurseU said Nebraska would face less difficult economic problems than the rest of the country in 1 980, Cyclical '"industry, PurseU explained, involves "heavy durables" such as automobiles and televisions, PurseU said that purchasing of these items is "commonly postponed in times of (economic) uncertainty" as is happening now in the United States, He said that because Nebraska's ecomony is largely re lated to food processing, the state will see less of the recession, "People cannot postpone eating," PurseU said , PurseU said although the nation has not officially enter-. ed a recession, most economists have a "general agrees ment" that it is inevitable, The most-accepted definition of a. recession, PurseU said, is a decline in the growth of the gross national pro duct for two consecutive financial quarters, v IN 1979 the GNP was up for the first quarter, down in the second quarter, up In the third, and tne fourth is yet to be seen, PurseU said, y PurseU made the following conclusions and predictions on Nebraska's economy from information be presented in the Nelson Lecture Series this fall; Real personal" disposable income in Nebraska wUl approximate $13 billion at the end of 1979, showing a 10 percent increase above the 1978 figure, Real personal dis-. posable income, PurseU said, is "consumer purchasing power'' after the subtraction of taxes and other charges assessed to employees, This personal income will be down 1 percent from last year, . -Following the decline in personal income, retail sales will be down 1 percent, PurseU said , Unemployment in Neraska will be lower than nation al percentages, Nationally, unemployment for 1980 will be 7 percent, compared to about 4,5 percent for Nebras. ka, PurseU said that Nebraska labor patterns are changing and a "substantial amount of out-migration" from, Nebraska is a cause of the lower unemployment rate,' -PURSEU, PREDICTS a 29 percent increase in agriculture cash receipts for the fourth quarter of 1979 in Nebraska. He said that because the farming population approximates nearly one -third of Nebraska, a boost in the buying power of the farmer will ultimately affect the total economy. -A weak spot in the economy is centered in urban areas, PurseU said, Metropolitan Omaha is one "area of concern" because Ut retail sales are running 6 percent above 1978 levels, but when an inflation of 12 percent Is entered, real retail sales are down in Metro Omaha, he said, If disposable personal income continues to decline the second and third quarters of 1980, consumers wiU be pup chasing less meat and less luxury (terns, PurseU said, If the winter weather should proved harsh, higher oU prices paired with declining personal income will cause consumers to limit spending largely to necessities. The predicted recession will be relatively mild in Nebraska if it ends in the second quarter of 1980 and Purse 1 said it is unlikely that a recession will continue after the first half of the coming year. A recession will not flouish in an election year, accord ing to pursell, ' ' -