Santa Cop auction raises
money for needy children
By Jenny House
Staff Reporter
The fifth annual Santa Cop auction
will be Saturday at East Park Plaza
Mall, 220 N. 66th St.
More than 140 items or services —
from holiday baked goods to a foot
balLautographcd by the No. 1 Ne
braska football team — will dc auc
tioned to raise money to buy gifts for
needy children.
The Lincoln Police Department
and the Lincoln Police Union started
the Santa Cop Program in 198t.
Officers had noticed tnat certain
families with children seemed to fall
through the community’s assistance
programs, said Lincoln police officer
Tom Duden, the union’s vice presi
dent.
Police noticed tnat sometimes
families just couldn’t afford holiday
gifts.
“We tried to step in and help,”
Duden said.
About 1,500 children receive gifts
and 50 additional families receive
holiday meals from the Santa Cop Pro
gram. The annual auction has grown
each year.
The program was growing so
much, Duden said, that the Lincoln
Action Program now helps distribute
the holiday gifts.
“If we didn’t do something,” he
said, “wc would have had to hire indi
viduals to work on the Santa Cop Pro
gram”
In previous years, Santa Cop has
collected gifts or money from clubs,
organizations, fraternities and sorori
ties. Other businesses in Lincoln have
offered discounts to people who bring
in toys for the program.
1 his year, organizers requested re
sponses from families participating in
tne program, he said.
”It is realty tremendous to get cards
from the kids thanking us for their
Christmas gifts,"’ Duden said. “Some
times tne smiic on their faces is
enough to show now our program has
a positive effect in the community.”
Tnerc will be a new twist to the
auction this year: Cook Family Foods
will proviuc entertainment.
At 2 n.m.. Mrs. Claus will tell sto
ries. Magician Gayle Beckwar will
perform at 5 n.m., and Calliope Clown
Aliev No. 4(J goes on at 6 n.m.
The merchandise will go on display
at noon, and the auction will begin at
7 n.m. Anyone interested in helping
out can contact Duden through Lin
coln police.
On the same day of the auction, at
Lincoln High School, the
Homebuilders Association will build
rocking horses to be distributed by
police.
Additionally, the Homebuilders
Association has made a catalog that
parents can use to choose gifts for their
children; officers will deliver these
gifts, as well.
Law & Order
Bomb threat leads to arrest
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter
When you forget to pay your
parking tickets and your car gets
towed, it’s best to keep your cool.
Christopher Eitl, 335 N. Eighth
St. No. 505, became incensed when
his car was towed Wednesday, po
lice said. The 25-year-old Lincoln
man called the police department
about 4 p.m. to complain.
Eitl continued complaining, po
lice said, and he was referred to Lt.
Allen Soukup. Police said that
while talking to Soukup, Eitl threat
ened to bomb the police station and
Soukup’s house and children.
Police arrested Eitl at his apart
ment about 9 p.m. He was arrested
on suspicion of threatening to use
explosives. He was taken to the
Lancaster County jail.
Eitl gave a written apology to
Soukup. Police did not find a bomb.
•i- NARCOTICS
A veteran Lincoln photographer
was arrested Wednesday on suspi
cion of manufacturing a controlled
substance. Police seized 11 pounds
of marijuana with a street value of
$100,000.
Francis Zabloudil, 8100 N.
Hazelwood Drive, was arrested at
his photography studio at 2544 O
St. When the Lincoln-Lancaster
County narcotics unit served a
search warrant at 3:50 p.m., it dis
covered a growing room and plant
growing equipment.
About 50 marijuana plants were
confiscated, police said. Zabloudil
also was arrested on suspicion of
possession of more than a pound of
marijuana.
An anonymous CrimeStoppers
tip alerted police to the marijuana
operation.
Zabloudil has been a profes
sional studio photographer for 36
years in Lincoln.
UNL hosts Antarctic exhibit
Erin Schulte
Staff Reporter —
The University of Nebraska State
Museum will host a presentation Sun
day that lets Lincoln residents take the
role of an Antarctic explorer.
Karl Kuivinen, a polar researcher
for the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln and director of the Polar Ice Cor
ing Office, will set up a polar field
camp in the museum to show how re
searchers endure the cold weather. The
camp will include tents, communica
tions equipment, ice drills and a small
weather station.
Also, polar clothing will be dis
played (Mi mannequins, and movies on
Greenland and Antarctica will be
shown.
“It will provide kids an experience
like we have.” Kuivinen said.
The interactive program will be
from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. as part of the
Sunday Afternoon with a Scientist
program.
Kuivinen has spent 12 field sea
sons, which last about one to three
months each, in Antarctica and 20 in
Greenland ice drilling. Ice drilling al
lows researchers to collect ice samples
that are hundreds of thousands of
years old, Kuivinen said. Chemical
and physical properties of the ice de
termine what seasons, environment
and temperatures were like in the past.
Clint Rowe, a climatologist, also
will be at the presentation to explain
how to record weather information.
Rowe has set up weather stations in
Greenland, Kuivinen said.
The program coincides with the
opening of an art exhibit, “The 7th
Continent,” by Alaskan artist David
Rosenthal, said Debra Meier, super
visor of exhibits at the museum. The
exhibit opens Saturday.
• Rosenthal spends part of each year
painting in Antarctica with the support
of the National Science Foundation,
Meier said.
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