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President George Bush greets members of Mad Dads in Omaha on Friday afternoon. Bush
named Mad Dads, an anti-gang, anti-drug organization, the 126th Daily Point of Light in his
“1,000 Points of Light” program.
Bush in Omaha to support
Daub, award Mad Dads
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter
First Lady Barbara Bush spent
part of her birthday Friday with
out her husband, as President
George Bush made his second trip of
the year to Nebraska.
Bush was in Omaha to speak at a
fundraiser for Hal Daub and at an
award presentation for Mad Dads, an
anti-gang, anti-drug group in Omaha.
Daub’s fundraiser in the Peony
Park ballroom was complete with
chandeliers and live big-band music
provided by the Omaha All-Stars.
The luncheon, which drew 700 ol
Daub’s supporters, raised S2(K),(KK)
for Daub’s campaign for the U.S.
Senate.
Outside, a group of Lithuanians
protested in support of a free Lithu
ania.
Bush told the crowd inside that the
agreements he and Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev signed last week
“can help create a better future for
the community of nations.’’
At the summit, Bush said, he and
Gorbachev signed a bilateral agree
ment that would eliminate most stock
piled chemical weapons. They also
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signed protocols limning nuclear test
ing, he said, which would create
unprecedented improvements lor on
site verification.
I he two leaders also signed a trade
agreement in which the Soviet Union
would create new markets for Ameri
can products and new jobs for Ameri
can workers. Bush said he will send
the trade agreement to Congress once
the Soviet legislature passes key
emigration laws.
The Soviets also pledged to buy at
least 40 million metric tons of grain
lrom the United States during the
next five years. Bush said.
Although the United Stales and
the Soviet Union arc relaxing ten
sions, Bush said the United Stales
still must support the determined ef
forts of the Baltic republics to gain
freedom and ensure that German
reunification goes as the German
people want it.
And although the emigration of
Soviet Jews is at an all-time high.
Bush advocates an “unfettered emi
gration,” he said.
An agreement the two leaders signed
to increase undergraduate student
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Two new plaintiffs testify in fraud case
By Mark (Jeorgeff
Staff Reporter
Testimony continued last month in a Lan
caster County Court preliminary hearing
involving two University Nebraska-Lin
coln students’ consumer fraud allegations against
a Lincoln automotive repair shop owner.
Two new plaintiffs, Kurt Broer and Jack
lynn Finbu of Lincoln, and three new witnesses
were used May 11 in the plaintiffs’ ease against
Judson Cushing of Judson Automotive Ltd.,
601 N. 27 St.
Brocr’s testimony alleged that he paid Judson
Automotive for new pistons for his car engine
but received used pistons instead.
Broer, a UNL graduate, said he brought his
1970 Porsche 911 to Judson Automotive near
the end of April 1988.
Broer said he and Cushing agreed upon a
repair bill estimated at $2,500 without new
pistons. But the repair bill eventually escalated
to $3,500 and included new pistons, he said.
Broer said he notified Cushing the day after
he received the $3,500 bill and told him to
proceed with the repairs and use new pistons.
In December of 1988, Broer said, he went to
the repair shop to find out how the repairs were
progressing. He said he observed his car’s
engine with the exposed pistons “looking black
and marked up .... (They) did not look like
new pistons to me.”
Although the pistons appeared used, Broer
said,Cushing assured him that the pistons were
new.
Broer said Judson Automotive later raised
the repair bill to $4,700.
In February of 1989, Brocr said, he and his
father met with Cushing to discuss the price
changes on the bill and whether the pistons
were used or new.
At that meeting the parlies agreed on a
$3,800 repair bill, Brocr said.
Brocr said he paid Cushing $3,800 on Feb.
1, 1989.
“We accepted the fact of new pistons being
put in ... We trusted his word,” Brocr said.
Steve Dworsky, an cx-Judson Automotive
employee, said he overheard Brocr and me
chanic Steve Barber discussing the reuse of
Brocr’s old engine pistons. He said he also
heard Brocr tell Barber he thought new pistons
would be used.
Detective Sergeant Domgard of the Lincoln
City Police Department’s White Collar Crime
Unit (WCCU), was assigned to Cushing’s case
in December 1989.
During a search on April 13,1990, Domgard
said Cushing assured him that the pistons pul in
Brocr’s car were new and that he could find the
receipts.
Domgard said Cushing located the receipts
for the new pistons ordered for Brocr’s vehicle.
Investigator Geff Gade of LPD’s WCCU,
said that on April 25, 1990, he received a
facsimile of the receipts from European Auto
Products and Parts Business (EAP) of Sun
nyvale, Calif.
The information showed that Cushing or
dered new pistons and then returned them to
EAP for a refund, he said.
Another new plaintiff, Jacklynn Finbu, said
she brought her 1977 Triumph TR7 to Judson
Automotive Ltd., for repairs in September 1989.
Finbu lold one of Cushing’s mechanics not
to fix anything until the amount of damage was
determined, she said, and she was told the
estimate would be free.
Finbu said she discovered a week later that
“the employees had taken the engine head off
and look it to a machine shop.” That was done
without her consent, she said.
In November, 1989 Finbu said, a Judson
employee told her she would need her engine
rebuilt, with an estimated cost of $ 1,500-2,000.
At that time, Finbu said, she did not discuss
leaving her vehicle at Judson Automotive or a
possible storage fee with any employee. But in
March 1990, she said, a Judson employee told
her she would need Cushing’s approval to get
her car back.
Finbu said Cushing allowed her to get her
inoperable car the next day and she was told by
another employee that its parts were in the
trunk.
She said she was surprised to sec her car
engine tom apart at Cushing’s repair shop
because she had never given permission to do
so.
‘‘There was rust on the parts, the distributor
was missing, and there was no break fluid in the
system,” Finbu said.
She said her father contacted LPD’s WCCU
in March 1990, to tell them about her problems
with Cushing’s repair shop. After discussing
the problem with LPD investigators, she re
trieved her vehicle, Finbu said.
The court’s decision to bind the ease to the
Lancaster County District Court or to dismiss
the charges is expected near the end of June. L
Check arrival time
creates problems
for some students
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter
Because loan checks don’t arrive
until halfway through the summer
session, some University of Nc
braska-Lincoln students using Stafford
loans to help pay for summer classes had
to scramble for money to prepay tuition.
Those students who were unable to
come up with the money to cover tuition
until their loan checks arrived were
dropped from classes for which they had
preregislercd, said Phil Gosch, president
of the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska.
According to John Beacon, director of
scholarships and financial aid, summer
aid applications distributed in late March
stated that Stafford loan payments would
be made halfway through students’
summer sessions, yet some students still
anticipated receiving their loan payments
in time to pay the advance tuition for
summer classes.
But Gosch said the financial aid office
had plenty of time to notify students
receiving Stafford loans of the changes,
yet failed to do so.
“They made it easy for themselves,”
he said.
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