tuesday, january 22, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 5
'Country Place' supporters pack council meeting
By Debora Hemminger
More than half of the 140 people attending the Lincoln
City Council meeting Monday were present to support
jIXVL"8" a PrPosed addition near 56th Street
and Old Cheney Road.
According to representatives of the developing
company, Townhouser, Inc., the addition would include
a utility district, a residential district, an industrial area
and a park.
About a dozen of the 140 opposed the development.
The meeting drew a large crowd, as average attendance
at an afternoon meeting is about 50.
According to the developers, common complaints
regarding the addition are that the city would have to
place the sewer and additional utility outlets to the area,
increasing residents taxes and utility payments.
However, in answer to the complaint, the developers
declared that they would provide any utility that is
needed. The only thing that the developers would like is
to hook up to the city's water and sewer systems after the
developers establish the pipes.
Council chairman John Robinson worried that the
meeting would last "into the dark hours of the night"
because of the large number of citizens present to dis
cuss the development.
He asked the audience to indicate what side they fa
vored in the discussion, and later asked that discussion
on both sides be limited to 45 minutes.
Even though the developers argued that the 15 minutes
alloted for discussion would be too short, they were
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However, there are many people around who will offer
support for the woman, who will assert that abortion is a
woman's right to do what she wants with her own body
The life within the womb is of no value, unless the mother
decides that it is. Where is the logic in this assertion that
this is a woman's right?
How long will we 'sit idly back, tolerating the mass
media s perpetuation of the abortion ethic, i.e., that
taking life in some cases is justified, or that we need not
alarm ourselves with details of just what the abortion
procedures involve?
How long will we close our eyes to the exploitation of
tfomen that accompanies the proportion stance?
Celebrate? huh? 1 see no reason to celebrate this annl
versary. When we can guarantee the right to life to every
one, when we can humanely deal with society's problems
without killing our tiniest brothers and sisters, then and
not until, will we have a real reason to celebrate.
Director's apology
Dororthy Dobesh
Biology, Senior
On behalf of Campus Crusade for Christ and other
Christians who are sponsoring Josh McDowell's visit to
UNL, I would like to apologize to the professors whore
ceived letters concerning Josh through the campus mail,
We were not aware that we were in violation of univer
sity policy until we were notified by the university on
Friday, January 18. 1 hope that our error would not in
fluence your opinion of Josh McDowell nor deter you
from attending his lectures,
Sincerely,
Dave Eggert
Director, Campus Crusade for Christ
Editorial endorsed
This is to tell you we are in full agreement with your
thinking on raising the drinking age to 21, . . and
extremely pleased that one as young as you are, would
share our views.
One day we were discussing the drinking problems of
, so many-especlally college students, two commented that
we must have been very "pious" in college because there
was no drinking in the dorms or sorority house and we
never went to the bars. Someone quickly pointed out that
we couldn't drink legally then until age 21, (and a lot of
us graduated at 21).
The problem is, many start on actively before it is
legal. This puts drinking into the high schools, Most high
school students have close friends who are 19 and buy,
Age 21 is starting into another era of life, hopefully more
responsible.
Thanks for listening,
Jean Sehnert
McCook
Iowa trick . . .
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But if Reagan had lost to George Bush , you d say ; The
tortoise beat the hare in Iowa, as the former congressman
. ambassador-CIA director-and-party chairman proved again
what Jimmy Carter had shown in 1976-there is no
substitute for an early start and days of person-to? erson
campaigning in a caucus state, Reagan i decision to cold,
shoulder Iowans contributed to his downfall and goes into
the books as a classic political blunder,
If Howard Baker had won over Bush and Reagan,
you'd say: If ever there was proof of the power of poll.,
tical advertising and an effective mass-media personality,
the Baker victory is it. Barely six weeks ago Baker was
dead in the water in Iowa, with no organization and no
prospects. But with timely backstage help from popular
nnv Robert D Ray (now a likely choice as the
TneS running mate) and . marvelous TV campaign
by wizard Doug Bailey, Baker zoomed past everyone in
the closing days,
Finally if Jerry Brown, John Connallv, Phil Crane,
Rnh Ifcri f'john Anderson or Uncommitted had come up
StanSftiSS bother with any f xplanationi Just catcfi
fir" plane .to Uruguay. That's where I will be.
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through with their presentation before the time was
finished.
Council member Donna Frohardt asked Robinson if
a sheet could be sent around the audience for citizens to
write their names and addresses on it. There was general
agreement to this suggestion. Robinson said the pro
cedure was extraordinary. Family Acres, a neighbor
hood development in the area, is opposed to the new
development, according to Roy Peck, a representative
of the neighborhood group. He submitted a petition to
the council opposing the development.
Peck cited reasons such as cost to neighboring resi
dents because of increased utilities, contradiction with the
city's comprehensive plan, concerns with flooding, exces
sive problems to the Lincoln Police Department, fear of
changing the existing "acreage type of living and farming
which began 1 8 years ago" in the area.
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