Broxvnville man
decides to run
for House seat
By Lisa Richardson
StaffReporter
Corky Jones announced his
candidacy Friday for the U.S.
House of Representatives, saying
that Nebraska needs a leader with
“calluses on his hands.”
The 56-year-old Brownville
farmer stepped down as national
presidentof the American Agricul
ture Movement last week to run
against Republican incumbent
Doug Bereuter.
Jones criticized Bereuter for
supporting what the House hopeful
called the Reagan administration’s
failed economic policy.
“Bereuter has continued to sup
port policies that don’t work in the
face of devastation and foreclo
sures,” Jones said.
Current economic policy is to
blame for such problems as a de
clining standard of living, the
doubling of the national debt and a
half-million farm failures, he said.
The solution to these problems
lies in a “common-sense ap
proach,” he added.
Jones said revitalizing the pro
duction industries of manufactur
ing, farming, ranching, mining,
timber and oil would help solve
these problems.
He said the United States should
not import goods that can be pro
duced here, and fair prices for these
products should be guaranteed. In
reference to the farm crisis, Jones
said, Congress should legislate
prices that exceed the cost of crop
and animal production.
Jones said he also would like to
spend more money on agriculture
education, as well as other forms of
education.
When asked about Nebraska’s
proposed low-level nuclear waste
dump, Jones said that under no
circumstances should the dump be
located where it could contaminate
the Ogallala Aquifer, the largest
source of groundwater in North
America.
That would be a fatal disaster,
he said.
In reference to U.S. spending
policies, Jones said he favors a
strong defense, but money should
be spent on conventional forces
instead of expensive weapons sys
tems such as the Strategic Defense
Initiative, known as Star Wars.
The United States should con
tinue humanitarian aid to Central
America, Jones said, but continued
military aid is wrong.
“This (the Midwest) is the Cen
tral America I’m worried about,”
he said.
Libertarian Ron Paul to campaign today
(PAUL from Page 1
rector for the Nebraska Libertarian
Party, said, “Our platform is based on
individual rights and responsibilities
with freedom for all.”
Paul was elected to the U.S. House
of Representative* .^s a Republican in
1977 and was re-elected for an addi
tional three terms, said Eric Rittberg,
Paul’s advance man.
While in Congress, Paul was a
ranking member of the Banking
Committee and House sponsor to the
U.S. Gold Commission. In addition,
Paul worked to re-establish the gold
standard and curb the Federal Re
serve, Rittberg said.
Massengale pleased
Regents appoint Omtvedt vice chancellor
By Bob Nelson
Senior Editor
The University of Nebraska Board
of Regents appointed Irvin Omtvedt
as the vice chancellor of agriculture
and natural resources Saturday.
Omtvedt, who served as interim
vice chancellor since August 1987,
will be paid $95,500, up from
$84,700.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chancellor Martin Massengale said
—:
he was pleased to have Omtvedt as
vice chancellor.
“He’s an outstanding man and a
nationally respected administrator,”
Massengale said.
Massengale said Omtvedt’s salary,
which is higher than his own, is not
unusual for vice chancellors of peer
agriculture institutions and it is actu
ally slightly lower than normal.
Massengale said it did not bother
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Corky Jones, a candidate for the U.S. House of Rep
resentatives from Brownsville, announces his candi
dacy at a press conference Friday at the Capitol.
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