Tuesday, November 4, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
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New state extension program
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By Andy Jacobitz
Staff Reporter
A new extension program, Managing
Main Street Business, soon will be
started to help businesses In rural
communities that are hurt by the farm
crisis in Nebraska.
The program, sponsored by the UNL
Cooperative Extension Service and the
Nebraska Business Development Cen
ter in Omaha will focus on assisting
managers and owners of statewide
rural businesses in developing man
agement skills.
Dr. Mike Turner, UNL extension
agricultural economist, said that the
program's main objective is to deal
with business retention and expansion
of existing businesses.
Main street businesses are those
primarily serving rural communities
from restaurants to dry cleaners to
grocers.
"Farm crisis problems are not limited
to just the farmers and ranchers in the
state," Turner said.
He said that Nebraska has the larg
est number of agriculturally dependent
counties of any state. - Fifty-two of
Nebraska's 92 counties have 30 percent
or more of their total wage and proprie
tor income based in agriculture. Over
400 towns statewide with populations
less than 1,000 depend heavily upon
agriculture as their economic base.
Turner pointed to noticeable down
ward trends in rural areas in the state,
including income levels lagging behind
those of urban areas, per capita sales
taxes dropping, the greatest decline In
student enrollemnt, the lowest popula
tion growth, the oldest average age, the
highest rate of Increase in food stamps,
and Aid to Dependent Children use and
limited health-care services.
Turner said he anticipates that most
participation in the program will come
from family businesses. The program
will integrate family goals as well as
business goals. Spouses and business
associates are encouraged to partici
pate in the program.
The program will consist of work
shop sessions across the state pres
ented by the Nebraska Cooperative
Extension Service. The Nebraska Busi
ness Development Center will provide
follow-up individual consultations, said
Bob Bernier, st ite director of the
Nebraska Business Development Center.
Bernier said the need for the pro
gram arose from the financial strain of
a weak farm economy. He said that the
Nebraska Cooperative Extension Ser
vice and the Business Development
Center are working together to best
serve rural businesses.
"We are Interested In their survival,"
Bernier said.
Turner said that the program Is sim
ilar to an existing extension program
for agricultural producers called
"Managing for Tomorrow." Beyond the
development of a business plan, the
program also will assist in market
analysis, trend analysis and financial
planning.
The registration fee for the program1
is $125 per business.
"With the farm crisis, people need to
learn to adjust, to learn strategies to
improve their profit possibilities,"
Turner said. "Managing Main Street
Business will assist people with ques
tions about business retention, expan
sion and establishment of new busi
ness ventures," he said.
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Bereiiter battles Biifm
Candidates challenge each other's experience, policies
By Michael Hooper
Senior Reporter
Incumbent Doug Bereuter and Lincoln attor
ney Steve Burns, candidates for Nebraska's 1st
District seat in the House of Representatives,
have been sparring for voters' support, with
Burns saying Bereuter has supported bad policy
in Washington and Bereuter saying Burns lacks
"experience and demonstrative effectiveness."
Republican Bereuter said his eight years in
the House puts him further ahead in experience
than Burns, who, Bereuter said, also lacks "civic
involvement." .
"Bereuter's only civic involvement is by the
tax-payers' expense," Burns said. "I call that
(his work in the House) a job, not civic service."
Bereuter, from Utica, said that while he has
been in Congress he has been able to gain some
seniority and membership on two important
committees, the Trade Subcommittee and the
Banking Finance and Urban Affairs Committee.
Burns said that he has been involved with
civic affairs and "not at the tax-payers' expense."
He mentioned his service to Cedar Homes for
Children and volunteer work for the Lincoln
YMCA.
Burns criticized Bereuter's support for the
1985 Farm Bill and his continuing support of aid
for the Contra rebels of Nicaragua.
Except for helping farmers decide how much
they should produce, based on Marketing Certif
icate projections, Burns said, government should
stay out of farming for the most part. The farm
bill's main problem is that it allows farmers to
get their grain subsidized. Subsidies "are killing
the fanner," Burns said.
"Let the farmers be farmers," he said, "and
keep the government out of it.
Bereuter disagreed. He said subsidies serve as
"a safety net" for farmers when they cannot get a
good price for their products. Subsidies should
be given mostly to family farms, Bereuter said.
Both candidates agreed that limits should be
placed on productioa
One problem with producing and selling grain
is that there is a lack of a multilateral approach
to production of grain amongst the world's pro
ducers, Bereuter said. There should be some
agreement among the producers on price and
quantity of production, he said.
Burns said Bereuter should not have sup
ported the 1985 Farm Bill. It is evident the bill is
not working by looking at the price of grain over
its price last year, Burns said. For example, corn
has been selling for about 95 cents a bushel, yet
last year it was selling for nearly twice that
amount, he said.
"There's not a farmer today who can make it
on 95 cents a bushel," Burns said.
Bereuter, who voted for the $100 million
military-aid package for the Contra rebels of
Nicaragua, said he may support more aid to the
Contras. Bereuter said he hopes the Sandinistas
will allow the Contras to join the political pro-
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Bereuter Burns
cess. The military aid may help them put enough
pressure on the Sandinistas so that they may
gain access to the political process, he said.
Right now the Contras are not represented in
Nicaragua, Bereuter said. One positive thing the
Contras have done, Bereuter said, was to reduce
Sandinista involvement in Costa Rica, a demo
cratic country, and in El Salvador.
Burns said Bereuter was "foolhardy" in sup
porting the military aid to the Contras. That
money is not enough to help the Contras wage
and win a war against the Sandinistas anyway,
Burns said. A better approach to the conflict in
Nicaragua, Burns said, would be trading with the
Sandinistas and educating them.
"The more people are educated, the more they
move away from communism," Burns said.
Both candidates said they would only support
President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
on a limited basis.
"We need to keep a leash on Administration's
desire to deploy SDI," Bereuter said. He voted for
reductions in Reagan's proposed spending on
SDI, also known as "Star Wars." Bereuter said
Congress must limit testing and deployment of
SDI but continue to support research on SDI.
Burns agreed that research on SDI is needed.
He added that the military budget "is way too
high." With a trillfon-dollar national deficit, the
government r afford to continue spending
billions oi dollars on the military, Bums said.
Bereuter said he will not support cuts in Pell
Grants and Guaranteed Student Loans. He said
he does not expect Congress to make cuts in
financial support for college students.
Burns said Bereuter has not spent enough
time in his district to fully serve it.
Bereuter defended himself, saying that he has
spent most, if not all of the recommended 90
days in the district a year during his eight years
in the House.
In addition, Bereuter said he has done many
things for his district. He mentioned his success
in getting a grant for the new Missouri River
bridge at Nebraska City and funds for a new
airport at York as examples of projects he
encouraged.
Five lessons learned from Holocaust experience
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sons which could be learned from the expe
rience of the Holocaust. The first one is that we
now know that genocide is possible in our world.
The second one is that anti-Semitism is dan
gerous, and that we must resist it, he said.
"The third is that there is an absolute reason
for the existence of Israel," he said.
"If there had been a Jewish state then,
Auschwitz would have been destroyed by the
Israeli military," Wyman said.
The other lessons are that each of us must
take personal responsibility on each of these
issues and that the Holocaust was "a deep
tragedy for all of mankind," he said.
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