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THE NEBRASKAN
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Scuttlebutt
BY RALPH GRAVES. t jj
"How do you like Nebraska?"
everyone asks. "Can't answer that"
is the reply and we are right
where we started. Since arrival
on the campus the NRO's have
been constantly molested on this
topic, and from what I gather no
one has given anybody a satis
factory reply. At least they are
still asking the question.
Trouble is most of the fellows
haven't had time between classes
and drill to get around to many
of the outside activities. CouW
be that if you asked them if
they think they could learn to
like Nebraska they : would ask
"Show me something first." This
would constitute not only some
thing on the campus to be able
to write home about but some
thing to occupy their extra min
utes in the day. Some of the
fellows are pledging "frats' and
being interested in the pledges of
sororities too. As a majority, the
fellows aren't getting in on what
they would like to and therefore
are discontented. Study worries
dampen their spirits more than a
little also.
If the next time you pop this
question to an NRO and he says,
"Why the heck should I like it,"
just let it go and don't argue. We
may like it, someday.
Former Student
Sees 19 Months
Of Intense Action
Corporal Roy G. Jeffers, former
student, has had 19 months of in
tense action, according to the 13th
Air Force in the Philippines.
Joining the famed "Long Rang
ers" group of the 13th "Jungle
Air Force" at New Georgia in the
Solomon Islands, Jeffers has par
ticipated in more than 110 air
raids and alerts from Munda
Island, up through the Admiralty
Islands, and the Netherlands East
Indies.
Citations.
Among his many citations, Jef
fers holds one Distinguished Unit
Citation for the "Ploesti of the
Pacific" faids on Balikpapan,
Borneo; seven battle stars on his
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign ribbons;
Good Conduct and the Armament
Technician's Badge.
As an armorer, Jeffers' part in
the Southwest Pacific was loading
anti-personnel fragmentation of
bombs, and 1,000 pound demoli
tion bombs. Additionally, as flight
chief armorer on a B-24 Liberator,
he was responsible for installation
of bomb fuses and the correct
functioning of the plane's ten
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NEWS IN BRIEF
by
RILL ROBERTS
DIFFERING points of view on
the question of peacetime con
scription occupied the nation's
headlines this week.
In a nationally broadcast speech
Tuesday, President Truman asked
for a program of universal peace
time training for all youths 18
years of age. The President sug
gested that all young men be in
ducted for one year of army serv
ice, and if later found disqualified
for military life, they be given
training for possible employment
in future war industries.
TAKING A DIFFERENT tack
from that of the President, House
Republican Leader Joe Martin
followed the chief executive's
proposal with one of his own,
asking for a world agreement to
abolish conscription.
Statements of leading congress
men indicate, however, that the
issue of peacetime conscription
will not be partisan in character.
Both parties contain violent ad
vocates and opponents of such a
system.
DEEPLY DISTURBING to
Washington political observers is
the President's apparent indeci
sion in regard to industrial con
flicts. The vigorous leadership of his
predecessor seems to be lacking
in Truman's do-nothing attitude
toward the labor-management
situation. And in congress the
same situation prevails with all
senators and representatives
avoiding the question like a hot
potato.
PREDICTING a foundation
shaking "boom and bust" if price
controls are not continued, OPA
Administrator Chester Bowles vig
orously warned Tuesday against
hasty termination of price con
trols. He made no forecast as to
when controls might be dropped,
but said their extension beyond
next June 30 is "absolutely es
sential."
Half Notes
by
Shirley Stcrpleton
Congratulations to the new
pledge classes of the music soror
ities Delta Omicron, Mu Phi Epsi
lon, Sigma Alpha Iota and fra
ternity Sinfonia.
The music faculty will present
its second recital of the year Sun
day, Oct. 28, at 3 p. m. in the
Union ballroom. The program
features Miss Sara Davis, cellist;
Mr. Don Lentz, flutist; Mr. Wil
bur Price, violinist, and Mr. Earn
est Harrison, pianist.
On the calendar for next week
are tryouts for leads in the annual
Messiah Christmas program. .
Sunday the Sinfonia Mu Phi
Alpha men's honoraryprofessional
music fraternity will attend a din
ner given in their honor by Dr.
and Mrs. West brook at their home.
Along the platter clatter is Tom
my Dorsey's RCA discing of Pine
NOTICE!
CHANGE IN SOCIAL DAB CLASS
Meets 7:30, Wed., Oct. 31
Not Tues., Oct. 30
Union Ballroom
University Museum Plans Novel Collection
Of Exhibits for 'Stay-at-Home' Nebraskans
Plan U. of N. Wildlife Exhibit
To help stay-at-home Nebras
kans in more fully understanding
the beauties of their native state,
the university museum plans for
a new permanent collection of
natural life exhibits.
Known as the "Hall of Nebraska
Birds and Mammals," the collec
tion will include 16 large inset
cases, each an exact replica of a
typical Nebraska landscape.
Funds for Project.
Funds for the exhibit will not
come from tax money, but will
be raised thru a public subscrip
tion campaign under the sponsor
ship of the University of Nebraska
Foundation. Perry Branch, direc
tor of the foundation, stated that
a minimum of $56,000 is needed to
build the collection
The cases in the new exhibit
will range in size from 10 feet
long and six feet wide to 20 feet
long and 12 feet wide. "Every
effort will be made to reproduce
Nebraska wildlife in exact detail
down to the smallest blade of
grass," stated Museum Director
C. B. Schultz.
Leading Preparatory.
Some of the foremost taxider
mists and landscape artists in the
midwest will be employed to re
creat outdoor Nebraska. Even
the grass and rocks and soil will
be exact reproductions, said Di
rector Schultz. The exhibits will
be located in the big hall on the
lower floor of Morrill hall.
Include Animals.
Included in the collection will
be bobcats in the rocks and pines
of the Wildcat Ridge country in
western Nebraska, a den of red
foxes in the heavily wooded re
gion of the Nemaha river valley
in southeast Nebraska, and beav
ers at work constructing a dam
on Beaver creek in southwest Ne
braska. Wapiti, coyotes, bison, raccoons,
muskrats, mule deer, antelope,
badgers, blue herons and prairie
dogs will all have their own ex
hibits depicting the habitat na
tural to them.
Wild Game.
Thruout all of the exhibits will
be dozens of varieties of common
Nebraska birds. One exhibit will
be devoted to wild game no longer
found in the state, including
mountain lions and big horn
sheep.
The museum plans to utilize the
"maze" type of display in ar
ranging the cases in the hall. This
new type of display uses winding
corridors to make each case stand
out thru an arrangement such that
only one case can be seen at one
time in the visitors progress thru
the hall.
Top's immortal "Boogie Woogie."
Perhaps bigger news is Tee Dee's
new orchestral version of "Hong
Kong Blues," also a natural for
spell-binding listening. On the
reverse side of this oriental ex
cursion is "You Came Along,"
sweet as only the Dorsey style
can make it.
In the offing in the music circles
for Lincoln is Bartlett and Rob
ertson piano duo sponsored by the
Lincoln Symphony for their first
program of the year. It will be
worth taking in.
McElhaney Tells
Of Bar!) Women's
Activity Awards
Activity pins will be awarded
to outstanding unaffiliated women
by the Barb Activities Board for
Women, according to Jane McEl
haney, president.
Miss IIcLlhaney announced that
the board would inaugurate a
point system whereby students can
qualify for the pins. Awards will
be made at a banquet in the
spring.
Tennis Tourney Reaches
Final Stage; Betas Lead
Quarter-final matches now be
ing played in the fall tennis tour
nament find three Beta racquct
eers still in the running. Fourth
round results are to be posted by
tonight, according to Intramural
Director Lou Means.
The pairings:
Basts, A TO, a. Weeds, Wary.
Harrptt, Beta, va. -lanih, ATO.
t'rassmaa, Bet, re. Miller, Ploiwwr.
W. Mt.tir, Navjr, . winner Basra,
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C B. Schulti, left, director of the University of Nebraska Stat
Museum, and Perry W. Branch, director of the University of Ne
braska Foundation, look over plans for the museum's "Hall of
Nebraska Birds and Mammals," which is to be a new permanent
educational exhibit of Nebraska wildlife. Tax money will not be
used. Funds for the exhibit will be secured from interested citizens
throughout Nebraska by the University Foundation.
V. T j
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stood up throughout the war
TIKE the famous old ship, your telephone has comt
through the war with colors flying.
What other aid to modern living has been so depend
able under all conditions and so free from mechanical
troubles?
During the war years, when so little new telephone
apparatus could be made for the home front, even equip
ment made many years ago by Western Electric has
served you faithfully and has been a national asset in
tune of war. Quality shows best when the going is tough.
Western Electric, supply unit of the Beli System, fa
now tackling its biggest peacetime job. Furnishing
materials and equipment to meet the System's immedi
ate needs-then to carry out the System's $2,000,000,
000 post-war construction program-premises record
peace-time production and a level of employrt
higher than in the years just before the wa.
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