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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1990)
suite 9 Liquor I 2137 Cornhusker MACCABEE Award w inning premium beer from Israel Now available in lounge & liquor store i Suite 9 private stock .6pk $2.99 (save $1.00) l Bass Ale.6pk $4.99 (save $1.50) In The Lounge: MAUI LAGER (Hawaii) 75^ _ :_i MWMI "Buffaloes .tigers, razorbacks, JAYHAWKS, MUSTANGS, COUGARS, OWLS, RAMS, WILDCATS, BADGERS, LONGHORNS, LIONS, BOBCATS AND OTHER ASSORTED WILDLIFE A GATHER HERE ANNUALLY. ^ When mid-terms are one for the books and the call of the wild beckons, chart a course to South Padre Island this spring break South Padre Island offers something for every species-from Bobcats to Buffaloes Wild or tame. As the premier coastal destination in Texas, South Padre offers balmy tempera tures, beaches as broad as your imagination and ample accommodations from high rise j condos, to camping on the beach Take a refresher course to South Padre Island this 4 spring break and discover a vacation play ground that’s a breed apart ^ For free Spring Break Information, 4 call the South Padre Island Visitor and .J Convention Bureau at 1-800*343-2368. By Connie L. Sheehan Staff Reporter Tuesday, 10:35 a m. . . . The quiet of the depot reflected the recent end of holiday break Only the rush of traffic from 10th St. and an occasional rise of voices from the back shipping room filled the 30-year-old building. Bill Wilt, agent and manager of the Greyhound Bus Station at <M0 P St., said the station is quiet now, but business will pick up again closer to Spring Break. Two people, a young man on a bench and an older gentleman using the telephone at the back of the station, shared the waiting room with four vending machines and an occasional travel-by-bus poster Wilt said the majority of travel ers are either elderly or students, and he was surprised by the num ber of students who use the bus to commute between Lincoln and Omaha. Mike Barrett, a student at North east High School, was waiting for his ride home since returning on the bus from Omaha. Barrett said he uses the bus to visit relatives in Omaha, and while we talk his ride arrives, honks, and Barrett quickly gathers his belong ings. The waiting room was empty now except for one. Donald E. Pohlmann has fin ished on the phone and returned to his seat for a quick sack lunch His luggage pulled around his feet, he quickly greets with a smile when asked for a little of his time. Pohlmann accepts the intrusion good-naturedly, and his easy-going manner belies the fact that Pohlm ann travels with what most people think of as a handicap. Pohlmann has been blind since age eight, when glaucoma finally took the Cartial vision he had had since irth Pohlmann doesn’t see being blind as a restriction to travel. “Travel can be frightening even for those who do see,” he said, adding that often older people are afraid to travel alone. Pohlmann, a piano technician, has arrived in Lincoln to tune pi anos for Concordia College in Seward, one of the contracts he has in central Nebraska. Asked if he liked to travel by bus, Pohlmann just smiled and softly said, “Well, I’ve been doingit for 42 years.” Pohlmann said he has traveled the bus systems of Nebraska since graduating from the School for the Visually Handicapped in Nebraska City, where he learned the art of tuning pianos. Pohlmann has accumulated “bus stories by the dozens” over the years. “One time, I was on a bus when we hit a hog,” he said. “But we never did find the hog." Another time, Pohlmann was riding a bus which took sideroads into small towns to drop off mail. “We came up over a (hill), and* there were two farmers in pickup trucksgoing in opposite directions, visiting,” he said. The bus had to go down into the ditch to miss them, he added. Even with all of these stories, Pohlmann emphasizes that travel ing by bus is a lot of fun, too. “Because 1 don’t see and I don’t have a car, I get to meet a lot of interesting people (traveling by bus),” he said Pohlmann said he uses the bus for his work trips, but has traveled longer trips with his two adopted sons and his wife, who also is blind. Pohlmann said he appreciates the “helping hand” system pro vided by Greyhound, where a blind person can take a sighted assistant along on the same ticket. “So, for us four, this has been the cheapest method of travel," Pohlmann said Asked if he is close to retiring brings another laugh “I will be 60 on my next birth day, but I’m not even thinking of retirement because I've got a boy in the sixth grade," he said the conversation closes as a young student from the college lets herself and the street noises in, and walks over to introduce herself to Pohlmann as his ride to Concordia Now, the depot sits empty until the afternoon bus arrives and de posits the next load of varied trav elers Only the sun moving across the tiled floor and the voices from the back room keep the vend- fTI ing machines company. I "J