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for allegedly firing shots
A man was arrested in North
Lincoln for firing shots Wednesday.
Lincoln Police Ofc. Steven
Niemyer was in the area of 28th and
Starr streets wheat he heard a noise,
Lincoln Police Ofc. Katherine Finnell
said.
v Police said Niemyer went to where
he heard people; and saw a man came
around a comer with a gun. ,
Niemyer Crested Terrance
Watford, 21,2&00 Dudley St, after he
had fired several rounds of a semi-auto
matic pistol into the ground at his home
following a disturbance, Finnell said.
According to police, when the seri
al number was checked on the gun, it
had been reported stolen from Perkins
County on April 5.
Watford was arrested for discharge
of a firearm in the city and possession
of a stolen firearm, Finnell said.
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—ELECTION 2000—
Debate focuses
on farm issues
By Brian Carlson
Staff writer
Republican Senate candidates
offered differing plans Thursday for
addressing the state’s struggling agri
cultural economy.
With a new farm bill scheduled to
be written in 2002, the issue will
come to the fore during the next
Nebraska senator’s term.
In a two-hour debate at the
Clifford Hardin Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education on the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln East
Campus, the candidates focused on
agriculture and natural resource
issues.
Four candidates who will appear
on the May 9 GOP primary ballot
participated: Attorney General Don
Stenberg, Secretary of State Scott
Moore, Scottsbluff agribusinessman
Dave Hergert and former state Sen.
John DeCamp of Clatonia. Omaha
businessman George Grogan, who is
not actively campaigning, did not
attend.
Stenberg, the GOP front-runner
in a March Omaha World-Herald
poll, said the government should
open foreign markets for farmers and
promote ethanol, biodiesel and other
“value-added” agricultural products.
The government also should pro
vide price insurance and possibly
raise loan rates to curb excess pro
duction, Stenberg said. Any proposal,
he said, must be able to gain passage
in Congress.
“The key is trying to get a fair
market price,” he said.
Hergert said the government
should raise loan rates to control the
overproduction that has led to low
commodity prices.
“It’s imperative that we get our
supply in balance with our demand,”
he said.
But Moore disagreed, saying
higher loan rates were incompatible
with production for a global market.
If the government raises loan
rates, he said, production will fall,
and U.S. farmers will be unable to
increase their share of the world food
market.
“I have the courage to tell you,
you can’t have it both ways,” he said.
As part of his farm plan intro
duced Wednesday, Moore proposed
that existing farm subsidies be tied to
factors beyond the farmer’s control,
including the strength of the dollar,
the level of world production and for
eign predatory trade practices. The
plan would encourage production
while restoring predictability to farm
incomes, he said.
DeCamp said the 1996 Freedom
to Farm Act was the “single crudest
hoax” played on farmers. He said the
government should assist farmers by
promoting ethanol and other indus
tries using farm products.
The candidates continued their
disagreement about the proper use of
the budget surplus.
Stenberg has said the surplus
” It’s imperative
that we get our
supply in
balance with our
demand.”
Dave Hergert
GOP Senate candidate
should be used for substantial tax
cuts. Farmers and ranchers would
benefit from the abolition of the
inheritance tax and the “marriage
penalty” and a reduction of the capi
tal gains tax, he said.
Moore agreed that the capital
gains and inheritance taxes should be
cut. But he favors using the budget
surplus to pay down the national
debt, then cutting taxes through
spending cuts.
Hergert said the surplus belongs
to the taxpayers and should be
returned to them.
DeCamp said he wants more
proof that the surpluses actually will
materialize, warning that “bigbub
ble.com” - the strong economy -
could soon burst.
Moore, Hergert and Stenberg all
expressed concerns about proposed
corporate mergers in the food indus
try, such as Cargill with Continental
Grain and Smithfield Farms with
Murphy Foods.
They also called for the preserva
tion of the family farm, an important
source of low food prices, and a sta
ble domestic food supply. Moore
quoted William Jennings Bryan, who
warned that cities would wither and
die if farms collapsed.
The candidates agreed that
European restrictions on genetically
modified food are unfair trade barri
ers that are not justified by science.
On the issue of deregulation of
the energy sector, the candidates
expressed disagreement.
Moore said Nebraska has benefit
ed from its unique system of exclu
sively public power.
Hergert and DeCamp said the
public power system should be dereg
ulated to benefit consumers.
Stenberg said deregulation might
benefit consumers, although private
power providers might be discour
aged from competing with
Nebraska’s efficient public power
system.
Although the candidates agreed
that the Endangered Species Act has
been too burdensome for farmers and
ranchers, Moore parted ways on a
remedy.
The candidates agreed that some
restrictions placed on farming prac
tices to protect certain endangered
species are enforced too zealously.
But while Stenberg, Heigert and
DeCamp called for a change in the
way the act is enforced, Moore called
for a complete revision of the act.
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