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Palmyra resident re-creates Civil War-era Gatling guns GATLING from page 1 19 years and, for the next six months, toured the Smithsonian and other museums that had origi nal Gatlings on display. He made rubbings and took measurements of the guns. Upon his homecoming, and with the help of a machinist friend, Pugsley be gan building his dream gun. “I learned to build everything from scratch, right down to the screws,” Pugsley said. “You can’t just go to Ace Hardware and buy Gatling gun pai^s.” Eight years later, Pugsley crafts a 9-millimeter, 32-inch barrel ver sion, as well as the full-scale 54 inch one and three sizes in between. The 54-inch model requires about 1,000 hours to build. Pugsley produces only two a year, despite frequent 84-hour work weeks. Cur rently, he’s got five on back order. Weighing 300 pounds, the gun’s essential accessory is either a two- or four-wheeled white oak carriage, called a caisson. The gun’s 10 barrels spit out a steady barrage of bullets as quickly as its operator can turn the crank. Fully dressed, the gun costs a minimum of $55,000, a fraction of the $250,000 an original fetches. Pugsley said taking on a Gatling-armed soldier in die Civil War while equipped with the stan dard muzzle-loader of the day was akin to squaring off against other world technology far more ad vanced than today’s guns. “It would be like going against a phaser-equipped Martian while carrying an M-16,” he said. Also among Pugsley’s arsenal of weapon-building know-how is the Hotchkiss revolving cannon, another dirowback to the Civil War era. The five-barrel artillery piece “comes in all sizes, shapes and cali bers.” Pugsley said he built 1 - to 6-foot barrel versions of the crank-oper ated cannon. To do what he does, Pugsley is federally licensed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. His annual $3,000 Class 10 license permits him to build approved bombs, missiles and mines. Of course, all Pugsley wants to build are the Gatling and Hotchkiss guns he calls his children. Pugsley crafts all his wares with the $250,000 worth of milling, tooling and welding equipment he has cramped in a 24-by-30-foot garage on his small acreage 6 miles southeast of Palmyra. Unassembled drums, center shafts and other Gatling parts awaiting completion are strewn among the blocks of brass and steel similar to those from which they were milled. Pugsley said he could charge more for what he does, but didn’t want to because, unlike his wealthy patrons, money wasn’t his motiva tion. “I’m the only one in the world who does this,” Pugsley said. “If it’s going around and it’s got more than one barrel, I made it.” Lied gets small fund raise; UPC given half its request By Sarah Baker Staff Reporter The Lied Center for Performing Arts got drastically less funding than it requested, while the University Pro gram Council received almost half its budget increase request from the Com mittee for Fees Allocation Tuesday night. The Lied Center requested a 40 percent increase in its 1997-98 bud get request, an amount totaling $128,000. Instead, CFA allocated the Lied a 5 percent increase from the 1996-97 budget, totaling $96,233. Members of CFA said they had various reasons for not approving the Lied’s request. According to a sub committee report, the council didn’t think the Lied Center’s schedule war ranted an increase greater than 5 per cent. “It is difficult to determine the Lied Center’s need for additional funding, and thus, we could not justify an allo cation increase of 40 percent,” the re port stated. The subcommittee stated that the Lied’s budget gave students too many discounts on. tickets. Students can get tickets for 50 per cent off the public price. However, when they buy tickets in bulk, students I get up to a 60 percent discount. In 1994-95, students paid only 41 per cent of tickets’ true value. The way the budget request was written also complicated the subcommittee’s decision. “This task was especially challeng ing since many specific amounts have been recatcgorized since last year and major portions of next year’s budget are still undetermined,” the subcom mittee stated. Also discussed at the meeting was the University Program Council’s bud get recommendation. UPC asked for an increase of $9,090, which is a 9.6 percent increase from last year’s bud get. CFA later recommended and ap proved a 5.62 percent increase for UPC, or $6,300. The committee based its decision on the essential work that UPC does for university students. The commit tee didn’t outline how UPC should spend the money. “The new budget allows for the UPC to allocate its funds in any area that it chooses,” CFA member Tina Carter said. “Needs change on cam pus from year to year; that’s why we didn’t specify funds.” m mm NEW YORK BAGEL 13th & Q • 438-0088 99C Breakfast & Pizza Bagels -Half Off 50% off on all food & drink —with student ID— -@ForO Buy one, get one FREE — all items— With student ID Not valid with above offers "MfDELiVERY" t AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION® 1101 Newport Avenue, Suite 303 of Nebraska Omaha, NE 68152 1-800-LUNG-USA Of neoraSKO H ____-...£142_i_:_; ' . ■.wmmmm-- — ' ^ I Defense delivers video evidence TRIAL from page 1 Several witnesses previously testi fied that three shots were fired. Lahners showed there were gaps in the wood fence, but Chief Public Defender Scott Helvie said the gaps were only about /4-inch wide. Nebraska State Patrol Sgt. 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