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Daily Nebraskan
Tuesday, November 4, 1986
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"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. ' '
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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.
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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.
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