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VOL. 96 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 . 89
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4 By Jdi Goodwin
* - Staff Reporter
PALMYRA — In 1957, when
other 7-year-olds were trading Hank
Aaron baseball cards for Mickey
Mantles, Richard Pugsley was trad
ing a set of golf clubs for a shotgun.
Pugsley’s telling transaction may
explain why he handcrafts reproduc
tions of Civil War era weaponry for
a living today.
The Otoe County resident is the
world’s only builder of old-style
Gaffing guns — 10-barrel, crank
operated field guns designed by Chi
cagoan Dr. Richard Gatling at the
height of the Civil War.
The mechanics of guns have al
ways underscored Pugsley’s inter
est in the machines, Pugsley said,
which is quite the opposite of the
macabre obsession many have ac
cused him of harboring.
To the machinist Pugsley, assem
bling a Gatling from solid blocks of -
brass and steel is completing a three
dimensional puzzle alluding to sim
pler, more traditional times, he said.
Pugsley said he relished his con
ception of pre-industrial American
life over the mass-production-based
society to which it gave way.
“How long does a computer last
anymore? Three years?” Pugsley
asked rhetorically. “Thompson guns
are 90 years old and they still work.
Firearms interest me because they
Were built to last”
Shooting for success
In 1989, Pugsley decided he
wanted a Gatling. He couldn’t af
ford the gun, so he set out to teach
himself how to build it. Pugsley
closed the gun shop he operated for
Please see GATLING on 3
By Jim Goodwin
Staff Reporter
Students burning living room furniture to
offset the sharp price increase of natural gas
heating, take notice:douse the davenport. Next
month’s bill should be lower.
Peoples Natural Gas representatives gave the
forecast Tuesday to a small State Capitol assem
bly of senators and staff concerned about
January’s rise in gas prices.
Donald Nordell, customer service director
for Peoples Natural Gas, said if the gas com
pany received expected lower supplier costs next
month, customers’ February statements should
go down.
Nordell said he expected supplier prices to
drop from the January price of about $4.15 per
million-cubic feet to about $2.85 per million
cubic feet next billing period.
A typical Lincoln customer uses a monthly
average of 16,000 cubic feet of gas, costing
> MitVofdMte will
cost closer to $6832, Nordell said.
Two factors account for the shock custom
ers may Save received after opening this month’s
bill,
January’s below-average temperatures and
the West Coast gas company’s recent low stor
Nebraska’s gas prices, like those of other
states, are subject to national demand because
gas is distributed through an interstate pipeline
Please see GAS on 6
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
The prosecution rested its case against Riley
Washington Tuesday and defense attorneys
wasted no time attacking the prosecution’s wit
nesses.
^ < The first major evidence from the defense
was video evidence that contradicted three pros
ecution witnesses ’ Identifications of the former
Husker wingback.Three witnesses said they saw
Washington wealing a red tanktop. Videotape
_ ifom the KwikShop showed him wearing a black
T-shirt.
Washington is on trial for the shooting of
Jermaine Cole on Aug. 2,1995, at a Kwik Shop
on 27th and W streets. He is charged with sec
ond-degree attempted murder and use of a fire
arm to commit a felony.
Special Prosecutor Ronald Lahners ended his
case with the testimony of two police witnesses
who said they checked the area around the Kwik
Shop. However, under cross-examination, they
said they could not find evidence of shots fired
at the Kwik Shop. t
Sgt. Donald Arp said officers checked the
fence along the east side of the parking lot and
the house behind and areas around the parking
lot for spent shells and bullet markings, but found
nothing.
Please see TRIAL on 3
Student’s death in Cather Hall
classified accidental by police
From Staff Reports
The death of a University of Nebraska-Lin
coln student found in his residence hall room
Monday night has been ruled accidental, the
UNL Police Chief said.
Chief Ken Cauble said senior Paul
Wolfendale, 28, had been dead about two to
three days when he was found hanged by a belt
in Room 407 of Cather Hall, 609 N. 17th St.
The Lancaster County medical examiner de
termined the death was accidental, Cauble said.
Investigators would not say why die death, which
had been rumored as being a suicide, had been
classified as an accident.
Investigators would not say where in the
room Wolfendale was hanging or to what the
belt was attached.
UNL police received a call from Cather Resi
dence Director Joel Johnson at 9:50 p.m. Mon
day. Johnson had been investigating a foul odor
reported by fourth-floor residents when he dis
covered the body, Cauble said.
Please see DEATH on 6
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