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Nebraska Press employees also were given blood tests, pulmonary strength tests and chest x-rays be cause several experienced upper-res piratory symptoms, said Dan Ross, assistant director of Nebraska Press. Ross, who will become the in terim director of Nebraska Press Thursday, said there were two areas of concern: air circulation and con taminants in the air system. “There are areas of the building that fresh air doesn't reach,” he said. “This is an old, old building.” Ross said people in the areas with out fresh air started to get headaches and other fresh-air-deficiency symp toms. The other concern is that there may be contaminants in the duct sys tem, Ross said. He said that possibil ity was why employees were being tested. Complaints, he said, include head aches, runny noses, sneezing and other upper respiratory symptoms. He said the ducts that carry air through the building have not been cleaned in more than 60 years. Employees are being tested for total blood count, respiratory func tions and two lung disorders other than Legionnaires' disease, a letter from the University Health Center to the Nebraska Press said. “It’s worrisome,” Ross said. “What happens is, if you feel a little bad one day ... you don’t know if it is a bad day or if it’s the building doing it to you.” Michael Jensen, the electronic media manager at Nebraska Press said some kind of bird matter was in the ventilation system. He said feath ers were found floating around the offices from time to time. Dried bird droppings also are in systems, he said. “That’s the biggest area of con cern,” he said. Jensen said he also had been tested, but he had not seen any results. “There’s a little bit of trepidation there,” Jensen said. But he said he had no second thoughts about going to work in the morning. “I wouldn’t go that far,” Jensen said. “We’re all pretty committed to the work we are here to do.” Jensen said people have received feedback from private doctors and one person was told not to come back to work until the problem in the ven tilation system was located. Nelson Picks 5 for Nebraska By Kelli Bamsey Staff Reporter Eight, nine, 10, 22 and 24 would be Gov. Ben Nelson’s lucky numbers if the drawing Wednesday night pro duces them. Those five numbers were produced by Quick Pick for the first official lottery ticket of the new Nebraska Pick 5 game. Nelson bought the ticket from Gas ‘N Shop on South 48th Street. “This ticket is a winner in any event,” Nelson said before the ticket was bought, “because the money spent on it is put toward Nebraska educa tion and wildlife.” If his ticket is a grand prize win ner, Nelson said the money would go to charity. 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UPPER LEVEL 1300 Q Street • 476-0111 Man chases, respects tornados By cnns Hegarty Staff Reporter When Ken Dewey moved to Nebraska 21 years ago, his relatives warned him: “The weather there is awful.” “That’s great,” he said. “That’s the point.” Dewey is a professor of climatology in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln department of meteorology. Over the years, he has taken photos of storms and trained Lancaster County storm watchers. He’s even chased tornadoes. This summer, Dewey will be among die first Nebraskans to take part in a federal tor nado chase study out of the University of Oklahoma. Dewey said Nebraskans had not been al lowed to participate in the study before be cause Nebraska was considered outside the region. But, Dewey convinced the researchers that including Nebraska would increase their chances of spotting a tornado this summer. Dewey said researchers had gone to great lengths to get close to tornadoes. “They have totalled cars, wrecked them in ditches,” he said. “They have photographs of one tornado that was one or two car lengths in front of them,” he said. One of the researcher’s goals is to set a box called a “turtle” directly in the tornado’s path so it can pick up the box. Dewey said that meant getting dangerously close to the tor nado. But he doesn’t worry about his safety during tornado chases. “If you did, you couldn’t do this,” he said. Dewey said there was a natural high that came from chasing tornadoes. “There is a rush, but it’s more than that,” he said. “Its the knowledge we’ve gained study ing these storms. We’ve learned what the safest locations in houses are, so we design buildings that can better withstand tornadoes.” Dewey said the rush came with a healthy dose of caution. “We have a serious respect for the power of nature, and although we take more risks than the average public, they are calculated risks. We are trained to do this,” he said. Dewey has chased many storms on his own, but his research has always been in other areas, such as snow and ice studies. Last year, though, he started researching tornadoes and other severe weather. He and graduate student Natalie Williams recently “There is a rush, but it's more than that. It's the knowledge we've gained studying these storms. ” KEN DEWEY climatology professor completed a study of over 34,000 tornadoes. “The irony is that I have trained people in spotting storms, and I have gone out on my own, but I have not been conducting research,” he said. “I’m finally getting around to what I came here for.” Dewey and Williams used data from the National Severe Storms Forecast Center. They studied all tornadoes in the United States from 1950 to 1994, except for those in Alaska and Hawaii. Part of their research found that the tornado season was starting earlier every year. Dewey said this finding would affect many things. “If the season is getting earlier and earlier, we’re going to have to start scheduling our severe storms awareness week earlier, we’re going to have to start scheduling our training sessions earlier and start alerting the public that severe weather will be coming earlier,” he said. Dewey said this year was an exception. A jet stream stuck to the south prevented the severe weather season from starting, he said. Dewey said one goal of tornado research was to find out whether the assumptions and beliefs people held about tornadoes were true. He said many often were not. For example, he said, many people think they should open their windows during a tor nado and the southwest comer of a house is the safest part to go to during a tornado. Both are wrong, Dewey said. One tornado myth, however, was surpris ingly true. “People always told me, ‘If you want to see a tornado, go to Grand Island,’” he said. Dewey and Williams studied tornadoes in Nebraska that occurred since the 1920s and found that Grand Island was a hot spot that has been pummeled by tornadoes over the years.