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KATIE DOLEZAL, 10, of Lincoln gets her face painted by Jhoni Kucera from Clowning Aroundat a fund-raiser
for the Lighthouse, a place for high-risk teens. More than 1,000 attended the event.
Textbook orders on schedule
By Joshua Gillin
Assignment Reporter
UPS workers who were on strike
and professors’ late orders weren’t
enough to delay most textbook deliver
ies this fall, campus bookstore man
agers say.
Managers at University Bookstore
and Nebraska Bookstore said last week
that steps had been taken to ensure
prompt delivery of textbooks, despite a
15-day nationwide strike by members
of the Teamsters union.
Most orders had been rerouted or
reordered through different delivery
services to keep shipments on schedule.
Gwen Plummer, assistant manager
at University Bookstore, said most
book orders were on schedule. The
bookstore took steps to keep textbook
deliveries on track for the fall semester
once the strike started, she said.
Plummer said the store reordered
several shipments through the U.S.
Postal Service and other private deliv
ery services. Shipments stuck in UPS
hubs were canceled, she said.
“It (the strike) has slightly delayed a
few books ... but right now we’re antic
ipating to be ready for school the way
we usually are,” Plummer said.
“Eyerything is taking longer, though.”
Nebraska Bookstore promotions
manager Terri Nielsen said the only
problem the store has experienced is
shipping orders from the outlet’s Big
Red Collection. She said the company
used UPS to ship orders in the past, but
like University Bookstore, the store has
rerouted orders and contracted with
new services to deliver books and mer
chandise.
“We don’t seem to be having too
many problems with the strike,”
Nielsen said. “We’re still selling books.
It’s business as usual.”
Ken Johnson, Nebraska Bookstore
general manager, said the strike would
only affect shipments ordered by pro
fessors at the last minute. He said most
textbooks were in stock, but the store
would have to take special steps to
ensure quick delivery of late orders.
“We’ve got a few holes in the text
book department, but mostly we’re all
right,” Johnson said. “I don’t think most
students will be affected.”Plummer
said University Bookstore also would
get late orders in as soon as possible.
“There’ll be probably some time
issues where we’ll want to use FedEx to
get it here faster,” she said. “We’ll try to
use the best and least expensive way
possible.”
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Stubblefield gets
prison for murder
A Lincoln woman was sen
tenced Friday to 24-80 years in
prison for the 1996 murder of a
23-year-old University of
Nebraska-Lincoln student.
Julia Stubblefield, 34,
pleaded no contest in the 1996
stabbing death of her former
boyfriend, Michael R. Pleskac.
His body was found near the
front entrance of his house at
1801 N. 26th St. on June 24,
1996. He was asleep when he
was stabbed once in the back
with a butcher knife.
Stubblefield must serve 12
years before being eligible for
parole.
Suspects sought in
double homicide
Lincoln police detectives
have no suspects and no solid
leads in the early June double
homicide at a west central
Lincoln apartment, said Capt.
Jim Peschong.
The bodies of Duane
Johnson, 35, and Harold
Fowler, 32, were discovered by
police the afternoon of June 14
in their apartment at 801 S.
Ninth St., Apartment 5.
Peschong said that when the
bodies were found it appeared
they had been there a few days,
and an exact date of the
killings has not been deter
mined. Police think the men
were killed sometime between
June 9 and 14.
“The investigation is con
tinuing and we have a number
of things we’re following
through on,’’ he said.
Little more about the inci
dent is being disclosed by
police.
Man charged in
laptop thefts
A string of laptop computer
thefts at UNL this summer
ended when Omaha police
arrested a man July 29, UNL
Police Sgt. Mylo Bushing said.
Curtis C. Paul, 31, of
Omaha was charged with sev
eral counts of theft, Bushing
said, after UNL police issued
a statewide search following
his last theft in late July.
A bystander was able to
help police by giving a physi
cal description as well as the
license plate number on the car
in which he drove away,
Bushing said.
A search warrant for Paul’s
apartment in Omaha led to the
discovery of numerous other
computers, electronic equip
ment and bicycles that were all
believed to be stolen, he said.
All four of the computers
taken by Paul were recovered,
Bushing said.
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