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Animal Control issued three citations for cruelty to
animals to the owner of these animals after Sunday
rains flooded the area, which had no drainage.
2nd half softball season
starts vith 3 days of rain
BY BILL CONItADT
Softball and rain do not mix.
Lincoln's softball leagues have once
again been hit by a rainy spring and sum
mer. Vera II ass, program coordinator of
athletics with the Lincoln City Parks and
Recreation Department said that two weeks
or about 4C0 to 500 games were rained out in
the first half of the city rec. season. Accord
ing to Hass, the men's, women's and girl's
softball leagues have made up all but 18
games. The second half of the season, which
started Monday, has already had it's first
three days rained out
Making up those rainout games has
worked out rather well this year, Hass said,
because the city has tried to keep Sawyer
Snell, an unlighted ball field, open for
makeups. Two games are made up each
night on each of the two fields, Hass said.
The teams have been fairly cooperative, he
said, since everyone agrees there is little
anyone can do about the rain.
Makeup games for the second half of the
season are scheduled for July 25 through the
29. Hass said the tournaments are scheduled
to begin the week of Aug. 1.
The city rec coed leagues, which play on
Sundays, have also had their problems with
rainouts. Hass said coed team coaches
should receive a schedule this week for
makeup games set for July 9 and 10.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln coed
softball leagues, which started June 13, have
already had half of their games rained out.
Rick Sedgwick, coordinator of intramurals
at UN-L said that all 19 teams will be given
a win for each rained out game. Sedgwick
said there isn't enough time to make up
games before the end of summer school.
UN-L rents their fields to a church league
on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays,
preventing any games on those days.
The season ending tournaments for the
coed leagues are sheduled to begin Aug. 1.
PHONE RATES.
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help keep local service rates low for small
users.
While UN-L is protected from basic rate
increases, Ms. Michalecki said, not all items
are covered in the stabilization contract.
That could mean higher phone bills for the
university, she said.
One such item is an access charge that
soon will be implemented across the nation.
To make up for lost long-distance tolls, local
phone companies will assess a fee for ac
cess to the long distance lines, she said. That
fee has not yet been determined, she said,
and the phone comapny has not indicated
how it will be applied to big users like UN-L.
"We're hoping they don't see fit to charge
us on a per-line basis," she said. "We're hop
ing they charge us by some sort of industry
standard, since we are such a large user."
To offset the access charge and other
rate increases, Ms. Michalecki said her of
fice is looking into cost-saving measures.
"The rate stabilization contract buys us
some time while we do this," she said.
One of the measures being studied, she
said, is the possibility of UN-L purchasing
its own telephone system. Currently, she
said, UN-L leases its system from the phone
company and pays charges on a per-line
basis.
Tom Stark, president of Descom, a tele
phone equipment company, said low equip
ment prices and high leasing fees are caus
ing many large users to buy their own sys
tems. Telephone systems are becoming more
cost effective, he said, because of increased
competition in the market. DeregulaVion
brought many private companies into a
market once reserved for Ma Bell, he said.
If UN-L were to purchase a system, he
said, it would continue to pay for outside
lines, but the savings from not having to
lease equipment would quickly pay for in
vestment "Normally, you can cost-justify tele
phone syste.ms in no more than five years,"
he said. "Many businesses are finding they
(telephcr.s systems) are paying for them
selves in as few as three years."
Thompson agreed that purchasing a sys
tem often leads to lower phone costs.
"If I were riinning a large company, that
would be something I certainly would look
into," he said. "I might find out that it would
n't be cost effective, but I would look into
it."
Stark, however, cautioned customers
against purchasing a system before fully in
vestigating the equipment and the company
that sells it. The growing market, he said,
has brought companies into the business
that aren't familiar with telephones.
"It scares me that we're getting people
into the business who don't know anything
about telephones," he said.
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Recent flooding and heavy rains in the
Lincoln area haven't affected the University
cf Nebraska-Lincoln campus substantially,
according to UN-L officials.
A few trees and schrubs are drowning in
standing water, said Bud Dasenbrock,
grounds department director at UN-L.
Harley Schrader, UN-L's physical plant
director, said rain and water have caused
minor problems.
"Anytime you have rain of that intensi
ty," Schrader said, "you will have problems
Like water blowing in under doors and win
dows leaking."
Water came in under the floor at Ne
braska Hall recently after rain filled a
trench dug to repair a water line, he said,
"but it didn't hurt very much."
Dasenbrock said the university lost about
24 trees last year because of the wet spring
and summer, but so far this year fewer
trees have died.
"Willows, dogwoods and cottonwoods can
be flooded," he said. "Pines and oaks need
well-drained soil."
Many soils on campus have a high clay
content, making drainage poor, he said.
"We also have underground clay pans,
which can be a problem," Dasenbrock said.
"The water perches on the clay pan and
moves toward buildings."
Dasenbroock said many parts of the
campus need additional storm sewers, espe
cially east campus.
"For five years we have been asking (for
money for storm sewers)," he said, "but as
long as the legislature is conservative and
funds are tight, we're going to have the
problem."
Schrader said the university still has
some money for repairs left from a bill
passed five or six years ago. The money was
designated to take care of deferred mainte
nance on state buildings.
The money has been used, Schrader said,
to replace roofs and repair leaking walls
and structural problems; to get the build
ings back in "par" condition.
"The money helped tremendously," he
said, "but there is still a lot of work that
needs to be done."
Dasenbrock said his department doesn't
have enough money for inspections and pre
ventive maintenance.
As for the rain, Dasenbrock said, he ex
pects no serious problem with flooding or
water damage on campus.
"We'll just take care of them (problems)
as Lhey come," he said.
Quake jolts wide area
in Southern California
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A moderate earth
quake jolted a wide area of Southern Cali
fornia early Wednesday, awakening resi
dents, collapsing a roof in San Diego and set
ting off burglar alarms, authorities said.
The 1:09 a.m. PDT quake, which geolo
gists said registered about 4.5 on the Richter
scale of ground motion, was felt in River
side, San Diego, Imperial and Orange coun
ties, authorities said. There were no imme
diate reports of injuries.
"It felt like an elephant was walking
down the hallway," said Doug Smith, a re
porter for radio station KOGO in San Diego.
The quake's epicenter was 10 miles west
of San Diego in the Pacific Ocean, said Den
nis Meredith at the California Institute of
Technology. It was felt as far away as Santa
Ana, 110 miles to the north, police said.
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