Recent car vandalism prompts
Crime Stoppers reward offer
From staff Reports
A recent spree of vandalism to
vehicles in Lincoln has prompted
Crime Stoppers to issue a $1,000
reward for information leading to
the arrest of the person or persons
responsible, the Crime Stoppers
coordinator said.
According to Lt Lee Wagner of
the Lincoln Police Department, car
windshields and side windows have
been shot with a BB or pellet gun
or car tires have been slashed.
At least 100 cars have been
vandalized since November, includ
ing 15 to 20 Monday night in north
east and southeast Lincoln, Wag
ner said.
Bob Fixter, the president of
Crime Stoppers, said the award
was approved Tuesday and will be
in place for 30 days.
Marjorie Shriver, public rela
tions chairwoman of Crime Stop
pers, said the award money comes
from donations and fund-raisers.
“We hope the reward will en
courage someone to come forward
with tne information eventually,”
she said.
Anyone with information about
the vandalism should call Crime
Stoppers, she said. Informants will
remain anonymous.
Drug
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ted.
Boot camps are “cruel and un
usual punishment,” Walker said. “You
will be able to find people to support
the bill, but look at who those people
are,” Walker said. “The Nazis would
support it; they loved the idea of regi
mentation. The Ku Klux Klan would
support it; they already wear uni
forms.”
The committee also heard testi
mony on LB976, which would estab
lish drug-free zones around all ele
mentary, secondary, post-secondary
and vocational schools, as well as
playgrounds, youth centers, public
swimming pools and video arcades.
Sentences for manufacturing, dis
tributing, or possessing controlled sub
stances within the drug-free zones
would be harsher than convictions for
the same crimes anywhere else.
Sen. Carol McBride Pirsch of
Omaha, one of the bill’s sponsors,
said the purpose of the LB976 is to try
to do something about the early age at
which children begin to use drugs.
She said the bill would work best if
large signs were posted around the
drug-free area.
“The signs will remind dealers to
leave our children alone, that we arc
determined to slop drug use in our
kids,’’ Pirsch said. “The signs will
also carry a message to our children
that drugs aren’t acceptable.
The committee also heard LB904,
sponsored by Sen. Paul Hartnett of
Bellevue. The bill would require stu
dent teachers or interns to have pro
fessional liability insurance. The in
surance would cover accidents in
classrooms while student teachers or
interns are in charge.
Childs
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seals’ coats, making the coats worth
less to the hunters, he said.
The killing of the seals has gone
from 200,000 per year to less than
6,000, he said.
Greenpeace began in 1971 as a
mission, not to save an animal spe
cies, but to stop nuclear testing, he
said.
A group of Canadians and Ameri
cans chartered a fishing boat and sailed
to an underground nuclear testing site
on an island off the Pacific Coast of
Canada.
The group’s intention was to park
the boat close enough to the island to
halt the testing, but the group was
stopped by U.S. Customs and forced
to turn back, he said.
A welcoming party greeted the group
when it returned to Canada, and even
tually enough support was generated
to stop testing on the island within the
year, he said. The island is now a bird
sanctuary, he said.
Greenpeace also is working to
prevent the killing of dolphins during
tuna fishing. Dolphins arc caught
accidentally in tuna fishing nets and
drown or arc killed in the boat’s
machinery, he said.
Work is being done to stop the
killing of African elephants for their
ivory, to ban fluorocarbons which
damage the ozone layer, and to pre
serve the Amazon rainforests, he said.
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buying handguns, he said, the bill
would help stop “impulse killing.”
Gerald Spahn, a Lincoln gun owner,
said he is against the proposed legis
lation because it would restrict pri
vate property.
“It’s my personal property, he
said, “and why should I have to ask
the stale of Nebraska if I can sell it?”
Robert Welsh, owner of Shots
Indoor Shooting Gallery in Omaha,
said the bill would “inconvenience
the honest, everyday citizen.’
Several officials attended the press
conference in support of the bill, in
cluding U.S. Rep. Peter Hoagland of
Nebraska and Nebraska Attorney Gen
eral Robert Spire. State Sens. Jim
McFarland of Lincoln, LaVon Crosby
of Lincoln and John Weihing ofGer
ing, co-sponsors of the bill, also were
present.
Ashford said LB642 is expected to
be debated in the Legislature on Fri
day or early next week.
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