JUNK 17, 1982
Cost of maintaining
bowling alleys soars
SUMMKR NKHRASKAN
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BY PAT MASTERS
In the last four years bowling fans have
paid nearly 25 percent more at the alleys, but
the cost of maintaining those alleys has more
than doubled that amount according to one
bowling alley manager.
Stan Tyrell, the manager of Briarpark
Lanes, said for him to make a legitimate
profit he should charge $1.60 per game. The
cost of bowling at Briarpark Lanes is $1.25.
but on weekdays before 6 p.m. sanctioned jun
ior league bowlers can bowl for $1.00 and sen
ior citizens can bowl for 90 cents. Shoe rental
is 50 cents, about the average in Lincoln.
Tyrell said once league bowling has
started in the fall he can't raise the price of
their bowling for the next 35 weeks. The rules
of the league have already been adopted and
they have a set price for bowling.
He said prices in different businesses can
change daily, but he must stay with his league
price for it's duration.
The prices for lane maintenance have in
creased about 60 percent the last four years,
according to Tyrell, but the most drastic in
creases have been in utility costs. He said
Briarpark Lanes consumed less killowatts of
electricity this April compared to April of last
year, but the electricty bill was $200 higher.
A complete set of bowling pins cost $3,800
two years ago, but this year Briarpark Lanes
paid $4,300, "and we got a discount," Tyrell
said.
The manager of Hollywood Bowl, Jim Dill
said bowling centers in the midwest haven't
been responsive enough to the economy in
raising their prices
Dill said 14 years ago lane maintenance
for the year cost about $70. A single resurfac
ing job today costs $240.
Increases in resurfacing, pin prices, taxes
and payrolls have put increasing burdens or
lane owners.
"Kverything is so expensive that you have
to raise prices or be gone," Dill said.
Bowling prices at Hollywood Bowl are $1.25
and $1.00 for junior league bowlers and senior
citizens. On weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m
and all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday two
games can be bowled for the price of one.
Sun Valley Lanes offered the lowest
prices. On weekends and holidays the cost is
1.05. Senior citizens, groups of 10 or more, jun
ior league bowlers and anyone under 12 can
bowl for 80 cents before 6:30 p.m. on week
days. For all others the cost is 90 cents a
game until 6:30 p.m. Families get the best
rate. On Sundays from noon until 3 p.m. fami
lies can rent a lane for $4.00 an hour.
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ment and representatives from the public. Krivo
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The river pitches and swirls, meandering its way through
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The "end" is a recirculating pipe and the"river" is a work
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The study, headed by Prof. Ralph Marlette of the Univerity
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The use of the scaled-to-size model is designed to test ways
in which the possible problem of the river moving away from
the cooling intakes of OPPD's nuclear plants during the winter
low water flow periods can be eliminated, Marlette said.
Marlette said that the water shortages upstream in recent
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intakes, Marlette said.
The model is 6 feet wide and nearly 100 feet long with one
foot in the model equalling 100 feet in the river. It uses finely
ground walnut shells for the sand that will "build like the silt
does in the river," Gene Matson, technical advisor for the proj
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The shell fragments average .25 millimeters in size and are
half the weight of sand, allowing them to go into suspension
easier at the scale velocity of the flowing water in the model.
Merlette said they are currently adding extensions to the
model dikes in an attempt to push the river channel towards
the Nebraska side. The actual dike extensions would cost close
to $100,000 each if tested in the river. The model research proj
ect is costing OPPD only $26,000.
Model is time saving
Marlette said they are running four or five tests a week
that run 20 to 22 hours each, testing various levels of flow and
various arrangements of dike extensions to find the most suc
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In the scale of the project those 20 hours equal 20 days in
the river, thus data of long periods of time in the river are cov
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The project was constructed in early April and testing
should be completed by mid-summer in time for OPPD to act
on any findings the study might reveal before next winter.
Merlette said that OPPD is not the only party interested in
the results.The city of Omaha gets 70 percent of its water from
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