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Daily Nebraskan
Wednesday, February 17, 1982
The Question of Secession
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rise once again
By Melinda Norris
When voices from the Panhandle, chant
ing secession to Wyoming, were heard in
Lincoln last week, Sen. William Nichol of
Scottsbluff didn't think the Nebraskans
were serious. But when he returned to his
district for the Presidents' Day weekend,
Nichol said he had a "big surprise."
"Most people seem to be serious," he
said.
Nichol said he didn't think much of the
talk at first because the issue has cropped
up twice before.
About 1962 the idea of secession was
suggested by Scottsbluff disc jockey Gary
Lopez, and was "batted around in jest",
Nichol said.
In 1973, Western Nebraskans were
screaming secession in anger about the Ne
braska Legislature's refusal to accept the
bankrupt Hiram Scott College near Scotts
bluff as a Panhandle campus of the Univer
sity of Nebraska. Built in 1967, the college
cost $8 million and the Legislature
"wouldn't even accept it as a gift," Nichol
said. Eventually, the state took the campus
under its belt, establishing the University
of Nebraska Panhandle Station.
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By Mary Louise Knapp
The transformation of Western Nebra
ska Cornhuskers into eastern Wyoming
Cowboys could become a reality if resi
dents of the Nebraska Panhandle have their
way.
Panhandle residents have discussed the
possibility of seceding from Nebraska for
about 20 years. The matter has usually
been treated as a joke, but this time it's
serious, according to some Western Ne
braskans. Sentiments in the Scottsbluff and Kim
ball areas of the Panhandle are favorable to
secession, according to a poll taken by the
Scottsbluff Star-Herald last week.
Of the 2,000 people polled, 85 percent
said they wanted the Panhandle to become
part of Wyoming.
John Jirdon, owner of a feed corporat
ion in the area, said secession would be
beneficial to both the Panhandle and
Wyoming.
"The general economy here is more
compatible with Wyoming's," Jirdon said.
Crops grown in Western Nebraska and
the elevation and type of soil are more like
that found in Wyoming than in the rest of
Nebraska, Jirdon said.
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