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Building’s air causes worries
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
Andrea Shahan, a designer at Ne
braska Press, said Monday she was
not worried about being tested re
cently for Legionnaires’ disease.
“Not yet,” she said. “Not until we
get the results back.”
Shahan, like other employees of
the Nebraska Press, located in the
former Union Bank building at 14th
and Q streets, was tested for the dis
ease and other lung disorders after
the air quality of the building was
called into question. This acute res
piratory infection is caused by bacte
ria that often contaminates water or
soil.
Employees will have to wait until
Friday for test results.
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. '
Nebraska Pick 5, played by choos
ing five numbers between one and 30
or having numbers chosen randomly,
is the latest game of the state lottery.
Matching all five numbers pays a
grand prize of $30,000, with up to ten
winners per drawing.
Each play costs $1. The winning
numbers are chosen at random by a
generator, unlike a televised drawing.
If more than 10 people match all
five numbers for one drawing, the
grand prize will be equally divided
among all winners. A ticket with four
matching numbers pays $225; three
winning numbers pays $5.
Lottery officials have high hopes
for the new Pick 5 lottery game.
“You never really know results
until you have a product active, but
we think the game will do very well,”
said Brian Rockey of Nebraska Lot
tery. ...
Kim Christie, an employee at Gas
‘N Shop, also was optimistic.
“I expect the Pick 5 to do very well
because it is a Nebraska game only,
and all of the money from the game
goes to support Nebraska,” she said.
Rockey said the chances of having
at least one grand- prize winner with
every drawing were good because
picking 5 numbers out of 30 would be
easy.
Requests from players and retail
ers for a big prize with better chances
to win are what brought the new Pick
5 game to reality, Rockey said.
Both Nelson and the director of
the Nebraska lottery were on hand
Monday to kick off the game. All
who bought a Pick 5 ticket at the
location could turn a wheel to win T
shirts, caps, magnets, scrapers and
sports bottles with the Nebraska Lot
tery lOgO.? as’
Nelson’s spin won him a Nebraska
Lottery T-shirt.
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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.
