NE?'~.. 8TATE\HI~I:L ~Qi;gi-£*i:ti:;:s"·F" 1500 ~""'sYl\E:BT . ·.....·..·",:'·':i,.\<:" THE WAYNE' H_D.~~i.".p j.-.:.·.~H~ ." . ONE-HUNDRED FIF'TH YEAR' WAYNE. NESRASKA,68787, THURSDAY. JUNE25, f981 THIS ISSUE TWO SECTIONS. 22 PAGES Drug 'Trial Begins for;Owner ofWinsidt!'.":' As the three-cocru, felony-drug. District Court frl." 01 a 27-year-old Wlns.Lde. lavern owner ground Into Its third day Wednesday. -',._--~----< ~ttorn~ .tcc.tho-de'eAse "lid pi osecotlon-­ Jury Panel: sparred over testimony from a Omaha based state patrolman ~Ith Nebraska State Patrol Investigator Eight MeR, James Avery ~ the man who has testified / /J he helped wrestle Chertes Weible to the ground before handcuffing the defendant during the Dec 19, 1980 drug rOlld - on the Four Women stand, defense attorney Vincent Kirby open ed his cross examination with a barrage of In a two-hour session that all but ex­ qceattons hausted the Wayne County jury list Otrecunq hiS questtcns et the sergeant's Monday, eight men and four women teaumonv regarding the errest of Weible, were selected as [urors 10 hear Kirby Questioned Avery about his posttton evidence in the state's case against during fhe Winside man's alleged attempt to Charles Weible, 17, Winside. escape the drug bust scene Weible, who Is on ,trial for "hacgc5 fha' «'$vfted -trcm a December drug AVERY, WHO waited al the courthouse raid In Winside, Is a Winside tavern most of Monday and all day Tuesday to owner and the son of Wayne County tesfHy, 'Joel the scene wIth the help 0' special SherUf and Mrs. Don (Butch' Weible. pr osecvtor Thomas DeLay Once relatives and close friends were Re!ipondlng to questtons from Det.ev. El'KCUSed from the 45 names called for Avery told the lury thaf he was outstce near the start of Weible'',i trial in District the door of the Dale BU!iskoht home In Win cccrt. the list had dwindled side when Weible bolted 'rom the house and As Monday mornin9's jury selection beeceo lor Sgl Ray Brown, whO wes sten process continued under the direction ding near the police undercover van of District Courf JUd~ Richard 'The defendant ran directly al Sg! Garden, challenge.. and no-shows Brown He ran Info Brown, fell. go' up and eliminated all bur the 24. ran In the other direction, Avery told thc Twelve of these were struck Irom the lury Ihl - six by the special prosecutor At the time we got him stopped, tne Thomas DeLay and Sill by attorneys lor cetendent fhrew the pack.ef towerd the Ihe defense, Vincent Kirby and Reber-t van," the police sergeant continued Bartle ~ leaVing e eecnv 11 Kirby, on cross examtneuon. asked Avery 8'1' 11.51 p.m. the lollowing jurors had 10 place himself In the scene for the (ury been sworn '0 hear the Weible case Avery silld he wee about 10 to 25 feet away Debra Allemann, Wayne; Harry Irom Ihe Irani door and Sgl Brown, who Emil 8argholz, rural Wayne; Ricky L teslilled Monday was about "80 lee' or so' Barner, Waynel MarVin Dranselka, lrom the Busskohl home's Ir ont door rural Wayne; Wallace Giese, Wakefield; Shirley Jean Hamer, KIRBY, relying on pre v Ious tesumoov Wayne! Richard G, Keidel, Wayne; Jill from Brown Ihal ttte scene W6S dark. asked Elaine Kenny, Wayne; Richard Lesn. Avery when he saw Ihe plastic packet a Wayne; Dorothy Meyer, rural Wayne; packet two to-eosrc chernIsis have tesuueo Harold J Olson, Wayne; and Er-wm SWbrand!, Wakefield Sec TRIAL PagoDA Defendanf Charles Weible, righf, listens as defense attorney cross-examines an undercover agen1. Formers in Replant or Recover Dilemma Golf-Ball Hail Batters Winside Area's Farms, Crops Den Bowers' bean Held looked like a cr!v THE HAIL STORM ripped through a long "I REPLANTED 80 acres of beans after that seed was washed out by Sundays fOg range early Sunday mornIng and narrow strip of land WInside farmers the last hall storm. I may have to replant storm. Sc ~ld Eh1~ Thle~' ce-s ~!e!d 11.~d Jec} ogain ami jusi nope tnat me crops get ripe "The beans won't come back," said son Brockman's corn field And Jim Reba's done In a sfrlp 'between 1 and 2 miles Wide yet," Thies said. The farmer said that Barry. "Some of the area we~replanted Is allalla ueto And Delmer I<remke's pasture and many miles long Reports on fhe Federal Crop Insuranc:e representatlve5 washed out. The whole ground was solid The wtnstoe area termer s: uetds were distance covered by the storm ranged tram were expected to Insped the area about white Sunday morning." bette-eo by a bee .... y hall slorm between 4 15 miles to 80 miles ThursdaY· The ASeS office checked d8mage Barry said that the pasture area was so and 5 a m Sunday Hail was r epor ted to be Some farmers in the Winside area said on_Monday. cold eeeeeseof the hall that he was unable the stze 01 golf balls they believed the storm came from Ihe nor Thies reported that the malor portion of to finish fixing fenc:e In one of the areal NOW THE FARMERS must play a thwest while others thoughf it came directly the damage was done In 8 strip of land about which was hit hardest. walflng game They will wail for Federal Irom the west All agreed that It was one 01 1 or llh miles wide. He added that les, Crop Insurance inspectors and hall ad the mosl severe storms to ever hit that area severe damage was rec:orded In a strip MOST OF the farmers ~Id they arepro­ Ioetcrs fa check out the damaged fields Several Iermer s said fhe storm apparent about three miles wide. tected by c:rop Insurance but none know Then, they must cectce whether fa replan! Iy switched dtrecuoos during Its course Brockman's farm was hit this time but what the Insurance representatives wilt or leave the crops and hope that they will Aller travelling east or southeast, It seemed missed 18~f week's storm. "Here. I thought I decide when they visit the farms. recover from the damage E Ilher choke is a to reverse Its path and head westerly Some w8slucky last t1O'ul·" Brock-men ~!d. "A;,d, "!1 tha liisur,aiiCa. COtIlp.&t')Idoesn'T warn qembte 01 SOrTS at tne termer-s reported thaf hall lasted then another hall storm c:omes along." to pay, If they want me to replant and see Most of the fields are saturated by raIn nearly an hour Another one of the area farmers who was what I get, then be,ns are about the only and hall and will take anywhere Irom ~ days "The /lItle hail stones came 'rom the west hit by the hall both tlm.es Is Den Bowers. thing I can go" back wJth:' said Larry to 2 weeks to dry By the time a farmer can and the bIg ones came from the' last," said Farmer's Hands Hold Hailstones. Bowers said that he farms at 7 different Bowers, brother of Den. "It'sdamn near the -. gel lnlo his field, replanting will be a big Den Bowers whose farm 15west and north of places and 5 were hit by the hall. ~:;~~.~! July ~nd Irs getting ~re"y late to risk. Chances are slim fhat the crops will Winside, Bowers sutlered some damage on And the most shocking evidence lev tn the and was piled up II had to be pushed off of rlpen by bervest time Farmers who Intend the west side of his house and yet had ditch whe-e wasbed-out top sell (overed the highway," said Jack Brockman and "TWO MILES south of here. people didn't Farmers who were hit by the hall also to chop corn for silage would be In a slightly Ilowers destroyed on the east side thousands of hailstones. Even late Monday, Eldon Thies who farm west and north of get hit. First, the hall came from the west. were c:oncerned about the cost of replanting, better po-sltion the stonesc-stflt the size ot pheasant Winside Then, the big stuff came from the 'east," "We're In a bind/I said Thies. "We'lIlultsrt II larmers choose Instead to not replant, SIGNS OF Ihe storm were all too ap eggs ·were two or three teet deep In some For Thies and several other farmers, the Bowers said. "Our steel buildIngs look like ond walt to see what to do. There Is nothing they face the possibility that the bettered parent, Monday Passersby could see corn paris 01 the dttch hall was especially discouraging. They were they were hit with a hammer." we can do right now." crops may never recover and will produce shredded to Its pettte stalks and beans strip "The lee was about lour teet deep In the hit by hall lust last week and had replanted The Bowers tamlly had replanted nearly uttte If any revenue ped of their leaves ditches, The shiff was about golf ball size once. They may replant more soon. 100 acres after the Jast storm and most of seeHAIL. PI" lOA By RandalL Howell He's a doer, net a watcher. He's 8 believer, not a doubter. He's a competitor, not an also-ran. He's Wayne City Administrator Phil Kloster. And, he's working to make government work, at a ·tlme when many feel It doesn't.