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Peoples City Mission
suffers from image
By Donna Sisscn .
For more than 77 years the Peoples City RJission
has offered a variety of human services from its
location at 124 S. 9th St.
The mission was started in 1907 by the Rev. W.B.
Howard who, together with concerned churches,
wanted to help indigent people, said Jerry Ann
Ortega, development assistant for the mission.
The Peoples City Mission offers three programs: a
men's shelter, a family shelter and a restoration and
renewal program, Ortega said.
Shelter programs provide temporary emergency
housing, food, clothing, counseling and a free medi
cal clinic. Transient men, single women and families
also receive help, Ortega said.
The restoration and renewal program is designed
to help people become productive community mem
bers outside the mission. Ten to 15 people are
enrolled in the program. It offers daily classes rang
ing from scriptual teaching to job int -viewing.
The only qualification needed to get aid from the
mission is for a person to have no other place to go,
Ortega said. Interviews determine an applicant's
needs, she said.
The mission also has a "walk-in" clientele which
uses the furniture and clothing rooms, Ortega said.
One strict rule of the mission is that no one who is
intoxicated may receive services, Ortega said. They
must be dry before they can come in, she said.
The mission stresses spiritual and physical well
being and offers chapel services seven nights a week,
Ortega said. The services are interdenominational
and attendance is voluntary, she said.
The Peoples City Mission is open 24 hours a day
and is the only human service agency that doesn't
close its doors on holidays, Ortega said. ,
Each year the number of people served by the
mission increases, Ortega said. Through May of this
year, the total number of people housed was 8,839,
up almost 2,000 from 6,953 through May 1983, she
said.
Fifty percent of the mission's support comes from
individuals and churches, 30 percent from the Uni
ted Way and the rest from fees and grants, Ortega
said. The mission's staff consists of about 20 volun
teers and 20 paid employees, she said.
The mission is considering relocating to an indus
trial area near First and O streets in the next two
years,- Ortega said. The present building needs
updating, she said, especially with regard to fire
codes.
" The new location would also provide a park for
single men, a playground for children and would be
more accessible to handicapped people, Ortega
said.
The mission's biggest problem is public misunder
standing. People picture the mission as as place that
serves drunks and other no-accounts, Ortega said.
But they don't realize the amount of work and care
that goes into dealing with real human needs and
problems, she said.
People need to understand that the mission
doesn't create the people it serves; those people
would exist whether the mission was there or not,
she said.
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Marcy said remodeling ideas began forming in
1978 with the Union Planning Committee's five-year
plan.
The Union Planning Committee gave five reasons
for the remodeling: the Crib's drab appearance, its
high use, its first-floor location, a need to tie it into
Union Square and a need to improve it as a lounge
and program center.
Robert Strong, a UNL Physical Plant employee,
was the architect. A panel of five judges, - which
included union director Daryl Swanson, two faculty
members from the architecture college and two
Student members of Union Board, selected a winner
from competing UNL architecture classes. Strong
used the winning class' ideas to make a new Crib
design, Swanson said.
The university's bond fund is financing the pro
ject, Swanson said. The bond fund is financed through
student facilities fees, he said. According to the
proposal submitted to the NU Board of Regents,
total estimated cost of the project is $170,000.
Kuhn said the soon-to-be Crib has a history of
change dating back to 1059. Then it was known as
the Corn Crib, a name selected through a student .
contest, he said. After the union's addition was built,
the Corn Crib became the South Crib. The room
presently called Union Square then was called the
North Crib. The North Crib became Union Square
2Vfc years ago, leading to the South Crib's. present
name change, Kuhn said.
DCiiy Nebraskan
BEIRUT Shells crashed into residential
areas Monday and gunfire echoed through the
city after nine people were killed and 30
wounded overnight in the heaviest fighting in
three weeks, police said. The violence erupted
only hours after the last of the three main
militia groups on both sides of the divided city
agreed to stop fighting and accept a govern
ment peace plan. As usual in this war-torn city,
no one had an explanation for the outbreak of
shelling and shootinjg.
The violence increased suddenly late Sun
day after Lebanese forces announced qualified
acceptance of a government plan under which
the army is expected to -start taking over
responsibility for security for the city on Wed
nesday. The Druze and Shi'ite militias had
accepted the plan earlier. The Druze Progres
sive Socialist party headed by cabinet minister
Walid Jumblatt pulled several heavy weapons
away from the front lines over the weekend as
a peace move. Christian militia commander
Fadi Frem broke a long silence yesterday and
agreed to the peace plan, saying his militia
would accept the deployment of the army in
Christian East Beirut if the army moved simul
taneously into the Moslem-held western sec
tion. Most of the overnight casualties were in
West Beirut's heavily populated Shi'ite south
ern suburbs. Beirut radio broadcast a state
ment from the Shi'ite militia Amal, led by
cabinet minister Nabih Bern, expressing sur
prise at the fighting and saying it remained
committed to peace.
Monday, the Military Council, a committee of
senior army officers, met under the new army
commander, Maj. Gen. Michael Aoun, to dis
cuss details of the latest government plan
designed to end more than nine years of
intermittent civil war. Two reunified brigades
of Christian and Moslem troops are expected
to carry out security operations in Beirut,
clearing militia strong points and banning
non-army uniforms from the streets. A third
brigade will be ready to give support. The
government hopes the army deployed will be
followed by the reopening of the port and air
port, which have been closed for almost five
months.
Vote watchers pleased
GUATEMALA CITY U.S. observers attend
ing Sunday's elections in Guatemala said Mon
day they were encouraged by the large turnout
and that the polls could help restore U.S. mil
itary aid to the Central American country.
According to electoral officials, 70 percent of
Guatemala's 2.5 million voters showed up at
the polls to elect an 88-member assembly and
pave the way for the return of civilian rule next
year.
None of the 22 members of the official U.S.
observer delegation has visited any of the
human rights groups working here who de
nounce abuses in the military's more than two-decade-old
war against left-wing guerrillas.
But they said after visiting ail of Guatemala's
major communities, they have seen no signs of
military intimidation in the voting. Congress
has balked at proposals by the Reagan admin
istration lit $10 million in military aid to Gua
temala for 1985, part of an overall $100 million
aid package.
Czechs prefer patriarch
VIENNA Radical Czechoslovak Commu
nists have revived a Stalinist plan to replace
the pope with the Russian Orthodox patriarch
as spiritual leader of the nation's Catholics, the
Catholic news agency Kathpress said Monday.
The agency, which monitors the church in
Eastern Europe, said the state-controlled cler
ical organization Pacern in Terris was told to
split with the Vatican last week by party offi
cials led by ideologist Vasil Bilak. The report
followed an attack on the pope earlier Monday
by the Communist Party organ Zivot Strany,
which accused John Paul of attempting to
degrade humanity. Kafhpress said Blink's group
proposed, in party, that "the Czechoslovakia
Catholic Church should break from Home,
declare itself a national church and submit
itself to the spiritual leadership of the patri
arch of Moscow."
Paae2
Tuesday, July 3. 1984
