Wednesday, August 29, 1934
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Daily Nebraskan
P.O. Pears wants drunken drivers sidelined
By Uichnrd Cooper
Daily Nebraskan Stiff Writer
P.O. Pears, a popular night spot
for university students, has
started a program to help keep
drunken drivers off the road.
The -I'm Driving Club" allows
people who go out to the bar with
friends and who are driving to
enjoy the social life without
alcohoL
"All the person has to do is ask
for a manager at the door and he
will get a card saying that they
are in the club, Ben Brett, man
ager of P.O. Pears said.
Brett said the idea came from
the corporation that owns Pears,
along with other bar companies
around the United States.
"It's more of an on-going feel of
the bars ol the United States to
keep drunken drivers off the road,"
Brett said.
Other nightclubs in the area
are starting to become more aware
of people who leave too drunk to
drive. By the suggestion of the
Lincoln License Beverage Associa
tion, posters have been put up in
bars to help discourage people
from drinking and driving.
Bob Eastwood, Stooges' man
ager, said his staff will help anyone
get home who has had too much
to drink.
Ron Dade, an employee of the
Lincoln Council on Alcoholism
and Drugs said he thinks drun
ken driving is more of a youth
problem. According to Dade, 4 9.8
percent of the people arrested
for DWI were in the 19 to 25 age
group.
The Lincoln Police Department
also has started a training pro
gram for employee's of local night
clubs on how to deal with people
who have had too much to drink.
Capt. Jim Baird said the work
shops, which last four to five hours,
teach employees about liquor regu
lations and the effects of alcohol.
Baird said the number of peo
ple arrested in Lincoln for DWI is
down 26 percent.
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Shuttle launch threatened
"by. computer problem
CAPE CANAVERAL, Ha, The twice-delayed maiden voyage
of the space shuttle Discovery was threatened Tuesday by a
"timing problem" in one of the space plane's vital on-board
computers. The problem could be major enough to delay the
flight, Jesse Moore, the new chief of the shuttle program, said of
the computer problem at a press conference prior to today's
scheduled 8:35 a,m. EDT launch. Experts worked Into the night
writing a "patch" for the computer program but space agency
spokesmen said it would take hours to determine if they
resolved the problem. The launch may depend on solving the
problem, Glynn Lunney, shuttle manager at the Johnson Space
Center in Houston, told the press conference. The main events
controller regulates the in-flight separation of the orbiter's
external tank and two giant booster rockets. Lunney said the
apparent computer timing problem was discovered Tuesday
by a programmer who actually was working on plans for an
upcoming shuttle flight.
The first shuttle launch in April 1901 was delayed at the last
minute by what was later described as a timing problem with
one of the main computers aboard the orbiter Columbia. A
last-minute computer failure June 25 also halted the first
attempt to launch Discovery, the third orbiter in the UJ5. fleet,
just nine minutes before lift-off. A second launch attempt the
next day was also aborted when one of Discovery's three main
engines malfunctioned just seconds before blast-off. Officials
said Tuesday they did not expect a repeat cf that problem,
which was described as "transient contamination" of hydraulic
fluid in an engine valve.
Demos unveil registration, drive
WASHINGTON The Democrats Tuesday announced a $27
million drive designed to stir the biggest voter turnout in US.
presidential election history as their strategy to defeat Reagan
in November.
"We need to have a turnout of 100 million voters or more for
us to be successful on the Democratic side" Democratic
Chairman Charles Manatt said. According to the U.S. census,
86.5 million people voted in the presidential election of 1980,
which Reagan won by 8.4 million votes over former President
Jimmy Carter. While demographic experts are predicting that
a 20-year decline in eligible voter participation may well end
this year, a rise of 1 4 million or about 1 6 percent over 1 980
would be a startling turnaround.
Democrats received strong campaign support Tuesday from
former Republican Presidential hopeful John Anderson in
Urban a, III. Anderson announced he would head a committee
of political independents for Democratic challenger Walter
Mondale and said a vote for Ronald Reagan this year is a vote to
"continue a policy of fear and loathing." Anderson, who won
seven percent of the vote when he ran for president as an
independent in 1980, appeared with Mondale at a rally at the
University of Illinois attended by an estimated 10,000 people,
Anderson and Mondale both sharply criticized Reagan for fail
ing to negotiate an arms control treaty with the Soviet Union.
The former Republican congressman from Illinois, who
became an independent after failing to win his party's 1980
nomination, called ending the risk of nuclear war the "trans
cendent issue" of the 1CS4 campaign.
President Reagan may bar signs
WASHINGTON The White House reserves the right to
remove placards carried by supporters or protestors at politi
cal rallies addressed by President Reagan during his re
election campaign, White House spokesman Larry Speakes
said Tuesday. Placard removal does not abridge freedom of
speech guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, he said. Besides
the White House rule, the secret service bars all signs attached
to sticks because the sticks can be used as weapons or thrown
at the president, Speaks said. The secret service rule is inflexi
ble but the White House will make its own decisions on a
case-by-case basis, he said. Speaks did not explain the criteria
to be used by the White House on that case-by-case basis, other
than to say that time was a factor in a security check in
Cincinnati last week, when there was not enough time to test
signs by magnetometers for weapons.
South African crowds protest
LENASIA, South Africa South African police fired tear
gas and 1 50 rubber bullets Tuesday at crowds protesting polit
ical reforms that exclude blacks after three shots were fired at
police from a car in this Indian township. Police reported
unrest in about a dozen townships across South Africa as
Indians in small numbers voted for members of a controversial
racially segregated parliament. The shots climaxed a day
which saw at least 80 injuries and 20 arrests in the worst
violence in two weeks of nationwide protests over the contro
versial elections.
A police spokesman said the three shots were fired from a
movmg car in Lenasia, near Johannesburg, alter violent
clashes for most of the day between police and opponents cf a
new constitution which comes into effect nest month. A radio
report said turnout at most polling stations was Uht m Indi
ans voted for the first time under the rew constitution, whkh
provides for sepsis chambers in p&ri&nent for whites,
mixed race or colored people cr.d Indiana but excludes the 73
percent black majority.