Thursday, March 27, 1947
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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ON AG CAMPUS
Junior Livestock Judges
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Members of the Junior Livestock Judging Team which won fourth
place honors in competition with nine other universities at the
Denver Livestock show. Team members, from left to right, are:
Don Jensen, Ned Raun, John Branch, Dilliard Huffaker and Richard
Wahlstrom.
College Credit
For Summer Job
To Be Offered
Ag students majoring in Ex
tension will be offered a prac
tical course this summer as a
part of their college training, Miss
Ethel Saxton, Home Extension
supervisor, announced today.
Students in their junior year
will be placed as County Assist
ants to Home Demonstration and
County Agriculture agents for ap
proximately three months begin
ning June 15 and ending Sep
tember 15. Three hours of college
credit and an undisclosed salary
will be given for the summer's
work.
As part of a new plan to ex
pand the Extension service pro
gram the summer work will per
mit the student to obtain prac
tical experience in his field. The
new plan will allow -for eight
hours of extension work an in
troductory course in the spring
of the junior year, throe hours
of actual extension work dur
ing the summer and a seminar
course of extension problems in
the fall of the senior year.
Juniors who are interested
should see Miss Saxton or Miss
Atwood by April 1 to make plans
for placement in counties. Ex
tension offices are located in the
basement of Ag Hall.
Iowa To Offer
Grad Courses
In Home Econ
Four special opportunities for
training will be open to persons
who wish 'to do graduate work
in home economics during the
1947 summer session, according to
Dean P. Mabel Nelson, head of
the Division of Home Economics,
Iowa State College.
They are credit for attendance
at the American Home Economics
association annual meeting in St.
Louis, Mo., June 23 through 26,
and workshop in housing, tex
tiles and clothing and family re
lationships to be conducted at the
college.
The foregoing opportunities for
advanced study are offered to
teachers, prospective teachers,
dietitians, nutritionists with wel
fare and health agencies, exten
sion workers, women in business
and other home economists in
terested in intensive units of
study in the indicated fields. Ap
plications for admission to the
workshops will be accepted
through May 15.
Further information on courses
of training and procedure for ad
mission for the summer session
may be obtained by writing the
Division of Home Economics at
Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa.
Student Judges
Enter Contest
Next Saturday
Block and Bridle club expects
more than 100 contestants to enter
its annual student livestock judg
ing contest at the Horse Barn
Saturday, March 29 at 8:00 a. m.
Members of last year's senior
judging team, managers of this
years contest, stated that the en
trants will judge three classes of
beef cattle, hogs, horses and sheep.
The classes will include fat and
breeding types. Contestants will
be divided into Junior and Senior
divisions according to past experience.
Ribbons will be awarded to top
five -men in each class, according
to Prof. M. A. Alexander, club
spoonsor.
Judging will be over by noon
and reasons will be given in the
afternoon. Prof. M. A. Alexander
and Lyle Roberts, members of
the animal husbandry department,
will act as official judges.
Entomology Dept.
Establishes Grad
Research Grant
The Department of Entomology
at the college of agriculture today
announced that it will use a grant
of money from the Potato De
velopment Division of the State
Department of Agriculture to ex
tend its study of insect problems
of potato production and also to
finance a fellowship.
Dr. Ephriam Hixson, chairman
of the department, said a gradu
ate student will devote part of
his time to potato insect research.
A study of the relationship of in
sects to the leaf-roll disease which
is of fundamental importance to
western Nebraska potato grow
ers will be undertaken.
In addition, a more extensive
investigation of the control of
grasshoppers with several new
and promising insecticides is
planned. Dr. Hixson said grass
hoppers have long been serious
potato pests, especially under dry
land conditions, and he thinks
satisfactory control measures will
soon be found.
Research on potato insect prob
lems in eastern and central Ne
braska will also be expanded by
virtue of the grant of money from
the Potato Development Division.
Ag Newman Club
Elects 3 Council
Representatives
Jack DeWulf, Mary Arthaud
and Milton Greenwood have been
chosen to represent the Newman
club on the Ag Religious Council,
it was announced today.
The Ag Newman club an or
ganization of Catholic students,
was activated on campus this
winter. A discussion club is held
every Tuesday at 7:15 p. m. In
room 305 of Ag Hall. Father Is
nebalin, club sponsor, is in charge
of the discussions.
The functions of Holv Week will
be discussed at the next meeitng
according to Milton Greenwood,
club activities director.
Former Ag Man
Studies in Army
With the 8th Army in Sendai:
Pfc. Donald W. McDannel is
studying with the IX Corps Sen
dai Army Area School, where he
is taking a course in carpentry.
Sendai Army School is one of
the many functions which the IX
Corps offers a soldier to help
him attain courses of high school
and college level, and aid of a
vocational nature. Study of spe
cific subjects or practical handi
craft can be pursued in a full
time or part-time basis.
Pfc. McDannel is a graduate of
Thillips high school of 1945, and
attended university ag college. He
was affiliated with Beta Sigma
Psi fraternity McDannel entered
the army on 'Sept. 18; 1946. and
left for overseas on Dec. 6. 1946.
Southernaires
To Sing Here
The Lincoln Urban League will
sponsor the Southernaires quartet
in a concert on April 8th at the
Urban League Building, 2030 T
street.
The Southerners include au
thentic Negro music in their repe
toire. Music which has been
handed down from generation to
generation. Their tunes and mel
odies have been blended into songs
that express the deepest fervor of
an oppressed people.
Seventeen years ago the South
ernaires gained popularity with
the opening of their first radio
broadcast over NBC. Their week
ly Sunday broadcast at 9:45 is
heard on 200 stations including
KFOR.
In order to acquaint the com
munity with the Negro contribu
tions to American culture, the
League will hold the concert.
Tickets are on sale at Walt's
Music Store, 1140 O and at the
Urban League office.
Reverend Maier
Speaks to YM-YW
Reverend Sam Maier, Presby
terian student pastor, was guest
speaker for the weekly joint meet
ing of YM-YW held in the Home
Ec parlors Tuesday night.
Reverend Maier discussed the
problems in building a Christian
home and the many responsibil-
ties of marriage. I
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Block and Bridle to Honor
Col. Thompson at Banquet
Col. Arthur W. Thompson, na
tionally known livestock auc
tioneer from Lincoln, will be hon
ored for his "constructive work
for better livestock" by the Block
and Bridle club at their annual
Honor's banquet on Wednesday,
April 24, it was announced today.
The banquet will be held in the
XYZ rooms of the Student Union.
The auctioneer is known from
coast to coast and the Block and
Bridle club said "his knowledge
of values and his scrupulous fair
ness and honesty in the sales ring
has earned him the reputation of
America's leading livestock auc
tioneer." Col. Thompson has been a
prominent figure at all of Amer
ica's leading livestock shows. In
recent years, because of the
heavy demand for his services, he
has devoted most of his time to
Hereford cattle sales.
Others who have been similarly
honored in the past include: Bruce
McCulloch, for 50 years editor of
the Omaha Journal-Stockman;
Sam Hudson, pioneer Nebraska
rancher at Simeon; Chancellor
E. A. Burnett of the University of
Nebraska and first professor of
animal husbandry, and Elmer
Youngs of Lexington, Neb.
Virgil Nelson is chairman of the
committee in charge of the dinner.
Robert Hamilton, Eldo Meyers and
Norman Walker are other mem
bers of the committee.
Tickets will be available until
April 22 at the animal husbandry
building.
Block & Bridle
Block and Bridle club will
meet tonight at 7 p. m. in Room
208 Animal Husbandry hall.
New members will be elected.
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