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Wednesday night after the stolen
van he and two other boys were
riding in rolled into a ditch in west
Lincoln.
The 16-year-old lost control of
the van driving west on W. Holdrege
Street near N.W. 126th Street. The
gravel that covers that stretch of
Holdrege probably contributed to
the accident, Sgt. Gary Julifs of the
sheriff’s office said.
Officers from the Lancaster
County Sheriff’s Office were called
to the accident at 10:20 p.m.
Wednesday, Julifs said.
The driver was taken to Lincoln
General Hospital where he was
treated for a broken leg and pelvic
injuries, Julifs said. The other two
boys were not hurt.
While investigating the accident,
officers heard from Lincoln police
that the van had just been reported
stolen, Julifs said.
The van had been stolen from
Infolinc Computers, 3140 O St., be
tween 8 and 10 Wednesday night,
The owner also reported stolen
$765 worth of items inside the van,
including a 12-gauge shotgun and
shells, a cellular phone and some
clothes. The van was valued at
$18,000.
Brian Herting, the owner of the
store and the van, said the thieves
broke a window to get into the van
and found a set of keys in the glove
compartment.
All the property was recovered,
but the van was destroyed, Herting
said.
The two uninjured boys were
referred to the Lincoln police de
partment, where they were booked
EXPLOSIVE DEVICE
A small homemade bomb ex
ploded at the Lincoln School of
Commerce Wednesday night. No
one was hurt.
A security guard at Wiegert
Residence Hall, 1800 J St., heard
an explosion in the courtyard at 1:45
a.m., Lincoln police Sgt. Ann
Heermann said.
In the courtyard’s sand volley
ball court, the guard found the rem
nants of a 20-ounce soda bottle with
scattered aluminum pellets scattered
and an unknown liquid, Heermann
said.
Heermann said the bomb was
similar to “MacGyver” bombs Lin
coln police have dealt with previ
ously. Those bombs are usually
made with a 2-liter soda pop bottle
and a volatile cleaning chemical,
she said.
Arrest
Police arrested a 29-year-old
Lincoln man Wednesday evening
who they had been seeking for more
than a month for selling crack co
caine.
Police found Allan Zollicoffer in
his car at 5:28 p.m. in an alley south
of C Street, between 14th and 15th
streets, Heermann said.
After a 2-minute low-speed pur
suit around the neighborhood, po
lice apprehended Zollicoffer and
arrested him for delivery of a con
trolled substance.
Capt. Dwaine Bullock said un
dercover officers had bought crack
cocaine from Zollicoffer during an
investigation in September.
I Genocide victims remembered
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Sinner read poems written by geno
cide survivors, the German Russian
Choir sang and four German Russians
lit candles in memory of relatives they
lost.
Lutheran Rev. Fred* Wolff and Men
nonite Rev. Steve Ratzlaff spoke of
injustice to the crowd that gathered in
the State Capitol.
Ratzlaff reminded the crowd of the
plight of their ancestors and said he felt
the sufferings of the genocide through
the relatives he lost Remembering the
suffering of German Russians in the
1920s, he said, is the best way to keep
it from happening again. But remem
brance does not mean revenge.
“Vengeance is for God,” Ratzlaff
said, “not for us.”
Wolff emphasized the need to ac
knowledge the sufferings of German
Russians, but said many Americans
know little about German Russians or
the Soviet genocide.
The American Historical Society of
Germans from Russia (AHSGR) spon
sored the memorial service. AHSGR
is a national organization established
in 1968.
This is the first memorial service
for German Russian victims of Soviet
genocide conducted by the AHSGR’s
Lincoln chapter.
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Health officials say caterer not to blame for iUness
Health officials have found noth
ing wrong with the practices of a ca
terer that supplied meals to four
Greek houses at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln where scores of
people were sickened last weekend.
As many as 70 people became ill
on Friday with vomiting, diarrhea
and dehydration. Catering Manage
ment Inc., owned by Ron Pushcar,
supplied the food to the houses: Al
pha Delta Pi sorority and Chi Phi,
Sigma Nu and Triangle fraternities.
“We have no reason that people
should not consume food from this
catering operation,” Scott Holmes,
environmental health chief for the
Lincoln-Lancaster County Health
Department, said Wednesday. “I be
lieve they’ve got a good operation, a
clean operation. There's no reason
for us to suggest that people should
not get food from them.”
He said the illness appears to
have been food-borne. “Is it a specif
ic food? That’s almost impossible to
tell,” he said.
Because of the relatively lengthy
incubation period, he suspects a vi
rus was at work. It could be Norwalk
virus, Astro virus or Calci virus, the
three thought by the Centers for Dis
ease Control to cause about a third
of food-borne illnesses, he said.
No food tests can detect such vi
ruses, Holmes said, and other tests
that would identify the disease or
the food require high technology
that is beyond the capability of his
department.
He said it is likely the contamina
tion occurred because of poor hy
giene but he hasn’t determined
where the contamination occurred.
Health officials found no lapses in
hygiene or in the processes used by
the caterer. Holmes said it’s possible
the food that caused the illness
came to the caterer contaminated.
Pushcar noted that he had asked
the department to investigate the ill
nesses.
“We’ve very pleased that the
Health Department did not find any
thing (wrong) -in our sanitation pro
cesses or handling of the food,” he
said. He said he wanted to do every
thing possible to ensure that his
company’s standards were up to par
and that seems to be the case.
“Our company has served more
than a million meals on campus in
eight years and we have never had
any report of illness at all,” he said.
“We just want to ensure that we are
safe.”
Pushcar formerly was the food
service director for student unions
on city and east campuses. His com
pany has contracts to supply meals
to five Greek houses at UNL. All of
them remain his clients, he said.
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