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Smoking, F’s cured,
hypnotherapist says
By Mary Nell Westbrook
Senior Reporter
You’re getting verrrrrrry
sleeeeeeepy....
Just as your head begins nod
ding and your eyes start feeling
heavy, your muscles relax and a
warm feeling caresses your body.
At this state of consciousness,
Curt Angove, a Lincoln hypnother
apist, can help a person stop smok
ing, lose weight, manage stress or
cam straight A’s at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, he said.
Angove advertises his service in
loc al newspapers and brings in a lot
of students, he said.
Although many people may be
critical of the benefits of hypnosis,
it cannot “fail,” he said.
“Some people expect the wave
of a magic wand and me to cast a
spell,” he said. Hypnosis is not a
“quick fix,” he said.
A normal person will use only
10 percent of the brain’s capacity
in a lifetime, he said, but hypnosis
teaches people how to use the other
90 percent of their brain.
Angove has been practicing
hypnosis for five years. For the past
two years he has devoted most of
his time to therapeutic hypnosis.
He also does stage hypnosis, which
he will perform Jan. 29 at Walpur
gisnachL
Hypnosis is a conditioning
process by which the patient learns
“guided imagery” and “progres
sive relaxation, he said.
When Angove first sees pa
tien ts, he determines their need and
then puts them under for about 25
to 30 minutes of hypnosis, he said.
The patient then receives a tape
to practice self-hypnosis at home.
The patient can come in for follow
up sessions for the next six months.
Angove charges $100 for seven
sessions.
If the initial tape doesn’t work
for the patient, Angove gives him
or her a subliminal tape that works
on the person’s subconscious, he
said.
When a person reaches “recep
tivity the message center in the
spinal cord acts on passive
thoughts, Angove said.
Hypnotherapy has been prac
ticed successfully for more than 30
years, beginning with Sigmund
Freud, he said.
Hypnosis is completely safe
because “you are in control,” he
said; the therapist just teaches
control.
Angove said a common form of
hypnosis is Lamaze, which is a
breathing exercise taught to preg
nant women to make 'abor less
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Wellman: poultry may beef up state’s economy
By Lisa Richardson
Staff Reporter
Americans are now buying more
poultry than beef, but according to a
University of Nebraska-Lincoln agri
cultural economics professor, cattle
producers shouldn’t feel corralled.
Allen Wellman said the national
increase in poultry consumption
could, instead, beef up the state’s
economy.
“I really think there is plenty of
opportunity here,” Wellman said. He
said poultry, beef and pork industries
in the state do not compete with each
other. There is enough feed grain in
the state for both poultry and beef
production, he said.
“Economy-wise,” Wellman said,
“we’d (the state) probably gain if we’d
expand chicken production, and we
definitely have the inputs to support
it.”
For the first time ever, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture has pro
jected that Americans consumed
more poultry than beef last year.
Judy Putnam, an agricultural
economist at the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, estimated that 78.2
pounds of chicken and turkey were
purchased by the average citizen in
1987, a 5.5-pound increase from
1986. Per capita, beef consumption
fell 3.9 pounds to 75.9.
The actual retail weight sold will
be released in February.
US DA projections show that poul
try consumption will continue to rise
in 1988. Americans will buy an esti
mated 66.0 pounds of chicken, 16.9
pounds of turkey and 72.8 pounds of
beef each this year, Putnam said.
Poultry production is already on
the rise in Nebraska, said Earl
Gleaves, UNL extension poultry spe
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Turkey production has doubled in
the past four years, he said.
Gleaves said one reason poultry
production is growing in the state is
that Nebraska can supply com and
soybeans for feed more cheaply than
other states.
Wellman said he does not expect a
big jump in poultry production here.
He said that currently, it appears
poultry production is not as profitable
as beef production.
“Cattle production can grow, hog
production can grow, poultry produc
tion can grow,Wellman said. “The
rate of growth will boil down to the net
returns of each of those enterprises.”
Both Wellman and Gleaves said
Nebraska’s situation is positive.
“Other states may be dropping beef
production, but Nebraska is not,”
Gleaves said. “The low cost of pro
duction here lets us compete in all
markets.”
The increase in poultry consump
tion is “nothing new,” Gleaves said,
adding that the trend is about 30 years
old. He said the lower cost of poultry
and, more recently, health concerns
are factors.
Wellman agreed the poultry indus
try has done a remarkably good job of
tailoring its products to consumers, *
although he said he thinks people are
paying for the added convenience.
“They have been tremendously
aggressive in expanding outlets for
chicken,” he said. “Livestock produc
ers can learn from the chicken
people.”
Child pom bill pending
LB 117 would make possession, sale illegal
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
and Eric Paulak
Staff Reporter
Nebraska legislators gave second
round approval, 30-18, Wednesday to
a bill that makes it illegal for a person
to possess child pornography.
The bill, LB 117, was introduced by
Sen. Carol Pirsch of Omaha, with the
intent to also make it a felony charge
on second offense to sell, publish,
lend, distribute or exhibit obscene
materials to minors.
An amendment proposed by Sen.
Stephanie Johanns of Lincoln deleted
this part of the bill by a 27-14 vote.
Pirsch opposed the amendment,
arguing that a misdemeanor charge
would not stop the distribution of such
materials to minors.
“In Lincoln there is a problem, and
to pay the misdemeanor fine is just a
cost of business, and then business
goes on as usual,” Pirsch said.
Johanns said the unamended bill
would exempt people who use the
material for educational purposes.
But it would not exempt a babysitter
with an adult cable channel from a
felony charge on second offense.
The maximum penalty for this
offense would have been a $10,000
fine, five years in prison or both. With
the amendment, the maximum pen
ally on the first offense and each sub
sequent offense could be one year in
prison, a $1,000 fine or both.
Sens. Ernie Oambers and Tim
Hall of Omaha and Sen. David Landis
of Lincoln said they were also con
cerned that a felony charge would be
too serious a punishment in relation to
the crime. The senators said they
thought the bill might be used against
people for whom it wasn’t intended.
Johanns said the felony charges
would hurt people who do not intend
to distribute the material to minors
more than anyone else.
“The more illegal you make some
thing, the more profitable it is for
organized crime,” Johanns said.
The bill will now advance to final
reading.
Students await annual model U.N.
By Mick Dyer
Staff Reporter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students are preparing to take over the
United Nations — at least for four
days.
UNL and Omaha’s Creighton Uni
versity students, as well as students
from universities in Kansas, Iowa,
Missouri and several Nebraska high
schools w ill gather at UNL for the 21 st
annual Nebraska Model United Na
tions Conference Feb. 10-13 in the
Nebraska Union.
The students will address topics
ranging from human rights in Israel’s
occupied territories to the standardi
zation of the opium trade.
Jeff Kluch, a senior computer sci
ence major and secretary general of
the conference, said people from a
variety of fields are involved each
year.
“You don’t have to be a political
science major to be interested in the
conference,’’ he said. “Last year the
secretary-general was a physics ma
jor; the year before that an anthropol
ogy major.”
Delegates have a lot of fun, but the
emphasis of the conference is on
learning, Kluch said.
“We look at it as being an educa
tional experience,” he said.
The four-day conference features a
keynote address by Malcolm Toon,
former ambassador to the Soviet Un
ion, and a three-day model of the
United Nations. Students assume the
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