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Page 6 Daily Nebraskan Tuesday, November 4, 1986 PAID ADVERTISEMENT Another VIEW... "The ability to see things as they are, to deal realistically with facts and figures, is an essential quality for an official who must handle finances and tax policy. Mrs. Orr has that ability. ' ' jinndai) M orld-35rrald ilwuuuum limn 11 c Unsigned articles are the opinion o( The World-Herald. : 1 i 5 il Oct. 26, 1986 Sie Understands the Job Kay On the Better Choice For Governor of Nebraska Nebraska's economy is one of the main challenges that will confront the woman who becomes Nebraska's 36th chief executive in January. Commu nities from the Missouri River to the Wildcat Hills are counting on state government to help them develop jobs and opportunities for people displaced by the agricultural depression. Attracting and keeping job-creating businesses requires maintaining roads, schools and public services at a high level of quality. It requires a tax sys tem that raises enough money without being a disincentive to commerce. Nebraska, consequently, needs a leader as well as a manager in the governor's office someone who has not only the courage to cut a program but also the wisdom to know when a program must be strengthened instead of cut. Kay Orr offers that kind of lead ership. In her work as chief of staff in the governor's office and, since 1981. as state treasurer, she has demon strated mental toughness, efficiency and the ability to work with business and civic leaders. She has a realistic view of what the governor's office can . and can't do to help promote economic development. ; - Perhaps this reflects her experience in state government. Mrs. Orr rejects the notion that a governor can single handedly cause private-sector jobs to materialize. She seems to understand that one of the government's roles is to maintain a climate that stimulates growth, investment and job creation in the private sector. Toughness and efficiency are only two of the characteristics that make Mrs. Orr worthy of support. She also displays management skills and an ability to relate to people. These qual ities should help her be an ambassador for Nebraska, as well as a governor who can work with the Legislature. Helen Boosalis, the Democratic nominee, has some of the same qual ities. When she was elected mayor of Lincoln in 1975, she became the first woman to be mayor of an American city of more than 100,000 people. Few women could have had the political success Mrs. Boosalis has had without being efficient and tough and without having management skills and an abil ity to work with people. In her campaign for governor, Mrs. Boosalis wants Nebraskans to believe that she would be an effective gover nor because she was an effective mayor. However, on more than one crucial point. Mrs. Boosalis has taken a position that can't be defended and then tried to defend it. giving the im pression of confusion in the campaign. In a speech Aug. 8, Mrs. Boosalis said her goal would be to move the state toward a tax system in which the state income tax, the sales tax and the local property tax would each provide one-third of the total revenues. She wasn't the first Nebraska poli tician to advocate a tax sys tem. But she may have been one of the first to suggest that the job could be done without an increase in sales or income taxes. When asked what she meant, Mrs. Boosalis said it would hap pen over time, through economic growth. How long would it take? She didn't know. The ft-'r'S tax plan dropped from her campaign speeches. Mrs. Boosalis told audiences for several weeks that Lincoln gained 3,100 manufacturing jobs during her two terms as mayor. What she didn't say was that Lincoln lost more man- ufactunng jobs during that period than it gained. State Labor Department fig ures indicated that Lincoln had a net loss of 1,509 manufacturing jobs during the Boosalis1 years. When Mrs. Orr challenged Mrs. Boo salis' job-creation record, a Boosalis aide acknowledged that, indeed, Lincoln had a' n5t loss in manufactur ing jobs. No W "the" Boosalis campaign has taken the position that the decline would have ben greater without Mrs. Boosalis efforts"' Mrs.'r Boosalis made this statement Aug"8: "We can continue to improve services without an increase in the tax rat: In my eight years as mayor of oW capital city, neither the sales tax nor;: the property tax in creased." As recently as nine days ago. she insisted twice in a meeting with a group of editors that property taxes had not increased during her ad ministration. Speaking to the Downtown Kiwanis Club in Omaha Fri day, she said: "During the eight years I was mayor, the sales tax rate re mained the same; the property tax de creased slightly." But Lincoln property taxes did in-' crease while she was mayor. From the last year of the previous administra tion to the last year of Mrs. Boosalis' second term, the amount of property taxes budgeted by the city rose from $13 million to $21.7 million, an increase of 67 percent. Perhaps Mrs. Boosalis meant that property tax rates didn't rise. BuL-t&at would be irrelevant, consideringjgjat Lancaster County property waS. Re appraised twice during the Boosalis years. A reappraisal has the effect of lowering rates without lowering the amount of taxes paid. Perhaps she meant to say, as she said on other occasions, that property taxes rose less than the increase in the Consumer Price Index, or that the city took a reduced share of residents' in come. But she didn't say that. She said, flatly and inaccurately, that property taxes didn't increase. And she said it more than once, indicating considera ble confusion on an important point. The case for electing Mrs. Boosalis governor isn't helped by her confused claims of being a job-creating mayor who kept Lincoln's taxes from rising. The differences between the two candidates are further illustrated by their positions on Referendum 400, more familiar to many Nebraskans as Legislative Bill 682. Mrs. Boosalis sup ports the referendum, asserting that the 1-cent increase in the state sales tax rate isn't a tax increase because it would be offset by reduced property taxes. Mrs. Orr opposes the refer endum because it would raise the sales tax rate without guaranteeing property tax relief. Mrs. Orfs position is realistic. LB 6S2 would raise the sales tax rate. It is a tax increase bill. It would not guar antee property tax relief. The ability to see things as they are. to deal realistically with facts and fig ures, is an essential quality for an offi cial who must handle finances and tax policy. Mrs. Orr has that ability. We believe that Kay Orr would be the bet ter governor, and we encourage Ne braskans to vote for her Nov. 4. 3" Reprinted with permission from the Omaha World-Herald Company. Paid for by The Kay Orr For Governor Committee Mark Hunzeker Treasurer. 20'5ParkAve Lincoln NE68502 I-back has surgery Jbs may Ibe ttaDngtn By Chuck Green Sports Editor Nebraska's injury situation at I-back deepened Monday as Keith Jones underwent surgery to repair damaged ligaments in his right thumb. Jones was scheduled for surgery Monday night. The surgery was to be performed by Lincoln orthopedic sur geons Tom Heiser and Pat Clare. "The doctors don't seem to feel there's any way they misdiagnosed it," Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said, "if that's the case (atom ligament) then I guess there's no other way to handle it other than to go in and repair it surgically." Osborne said that a 5 to 6 week recovery time could be expected for this type of surgery under normal cir cumstances. That would mean that Jones would miss the Cornhuskers' three remaining regular season games. "We won't know until the surgery is complete," Osborne said, "but it does look like there's a possibility that he would be unable to play the last three games of the season. "If that's the case, then Tyreese Knox would start at I-back," Osborne said. Knox, a 5-11, 215-pound sophomore from Daly City, Cal., said he thought it was unfortunate that the injury occurred "with the situation we already have as far as the I-back depth goes," but added that he was happy to be given a chance at the No. 1 I-back spot. "It's a situation where I get to move up a step," Knox said. "Hopefully, I can go out and prove that I can handle the job." Knox, who has been timed at 4.4. seconds in the 40-yard dash, is only a fraction of a second, slower than Jones, who's best time in the 40 is 4.33 seconds, making him the fastest Husker in history. Knox said that he and Jones had planned to study together Monday morning for a test in a class they have together. He said that Jones was hint ing that his hand was hurt. "I didn't think it was that serious until I heard it from him," Knox said. Osborne said the first evidence that Jones had a problem with is thumb didn't surface until Sunday morning, when he and senior tight end Mark Diaz came into the training room with injuries. Diaz broke his hand during Saturday's game and will be in a cast for up to four weeks. "We thought that after the game Saturday we had no problems," Osborne said, "but then these guys came in." Osborne said the injury is one that could be left alone until after the sea son had ended, but doctors were con cerned that waiting up to four weeks to repair the ligament damage would further complicate matters. diilZ Jones "The ligament could shrivel up and you might not get a good repair," he said. "To my knowledge, we've never played a player in a way that would impair his long-term well being, and I think this would have been a case like that." NU to try to extend streak By Rich Cooper Staff Reporter Nebraska's volleyball team will try to extend its Big Eight record to 9-0 Tuesday night at the Nebraska Coli seum when it faces Kansas State at 7:30 p.m. The No. 6 ranked Huskers, who defeated Oklahoma Saturday night to clinch a bye in the Big Eight Cham pionship Tournament Nov. 21-23 in Kansas City, will be trying to extend their 54-game winning steak over Big Eight opponents. Nebraska coach Terry Pettit said Kansas State has a very big team. Five of the Wildcats' six starters are over six feet tall. They're a strong blocking team, and if Nebraska doesn't play well, Kansas State could give them problems, Pettit said. The last time Nebraska played the Wildcats was Oct. 22 in Manhattan, Kan. The Huskers won that game, 15-1, 15-5 and 15-6, behind the hitting of Enid Schonewise, Virginia Stahr and Kathi DeBoer, who collected 12, 1 1 and 10 kills, respectively. "Virginia Stahr and Enid blocked their first two plays and after that, they (KSU) kind of backed away," Pettit said. "I'm sure they have learned a lot from that game and I expect them to definitely come at us." Pettit said that the next two weeks will be the last chance Nebraska will have to practice for days. If the Huskers, are to make any major adjustments, NU tennis team sweeps Nebraska's Robert Sjoholm won the singles championship while Steven Jung and Mike Marsh took the doubles title at the Hurricane Invitational in Tulsa, Okla., last weekend. Sjoholm defeated Oklahoma State's Jack Salerno 6-3, 6-0 in the semi-finals of the singles championship, then defeated Chris Toomey of Oklahoma 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 in the final match of the singles bracket. In the semi-final match of the conso lation singles, Nebraska's Pat Carson defeated Oklahoma State's Paul Pearce 6-1, 601. Last year at the Big Eight tournament, Pearce defeated Carson in the No. 3 singles match. Carson was then defeated in the finals of the consolation bracket by teammated Ken Feuer, 6-2, 6-4. " In the doubles bracket, Jung and Marsh defeated D. Lobo and Chris Schatz of Oklahoma State in the semi final match, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the finals. The other Cornhusker doubles team of Carson and Steven Jung weredefeated by Oklahoma State's Salerno and Robin Scott, 6-4, 6-4. In the doubles final, Marsh and Jung defeated Salerno and Scott 6-3, 6-3 Nebraska outscored Oklahoma State 7-3 in matches won and outscored Oklahoma 4-0. Sweet 16 Rank Team Pts. 1. Miami 80 2. Perm State 72 3. Oklahoma 70 4. Michigan 69 5. Arizona State 57 6. Nebraska 53 7. Alabama 49 8. Texas A&M 40 9. Auburn 38 10. Arkansas 29 11. Washington 23 12. UCLA 21 13. Ohio State 20 14. North Carolina State 15 15. Arizona 12 16. Southern California 7 Pettit said, they'll have to work on them then. Pettit said the key areas that Nebraska has to work on are serving and passing: He said both those areas gave the team problems in its loss to No.7 ranked Texas Thursday night. , Pettit said ne thinks the team is playing well but sometimes is incon sistent. He said he thinks his team is mentally and physically capable of get ting to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament if the players improve their passing, serving and consistency. The Wildcats are led by Shawnee Call, who is averaging 3.6 kills per game and leads the Big Eight with 330 kills. Kansas State is 2-5 in the Big Eight, and 12-12 overall this seasoa Weightlifting contest tonight at NU Coliseum The Nebraska men's, women's and co-rec Olympic weightlifting competi tion will be tonight in the basement of the NU Coliseum. Lifting for men and women will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Coliseum weightroom and no advanced entries are due. The snatch lift will be first, followed by the clean and jerk. The total of the best lift in each event will determine the weight class winners. Four participants will consti tute a team for intramural all-university point purposes. The meet is open to graduate and undergraduate UNL students. Only one weightlifting club member will be allowed per team. Additional eligibility rules may be found in the 1986-87 Cam pus Recreation Handbook. Entrants must provide a gym uni form consisting of a shirt, shorts, shoes, socks and weight belts if so desired. T-shirts will be awarded to the top lifter in each weight class. The team champion will be determined by the total weight they lift in relationship to their body weight. ; j ... ' : - . ' , ... ,4 . . - . ... i. mi: PAID ADVERTISEMENT