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the .... : ! i i it it - jK . t if PA 1W7 n n v n ft i i.i i , it y Volet of bOOn Cornhutktrt LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VOL. 51 No. 125 Thursday, April 17, 1952 I !v T V FLOOD FIGHTERS . . . University students leave to help in the battle against the mlffhty Missouri. Departlnr from Fresby House are (1. to r.) Bill Tratt, Bud Bitner, Dave Carro and Neil Trabert. (Daily Nebraskan Photo.) Students Build Dikes, Feed Flood Workers By DICK RALSTON Feature Editor While most students relaxed and slept during spring vacation, others living near the Missouri river basin were not so fortunate. Many of these students, whether directly affected by the flood or not, volunteered their services in building dikes to hold back the flood waters and in evacuating families in the flood area. Gary Ashbaugh, sophomore from riattsmouth, spent 64 hours in four days carrying: sandbars. He was helping- build dikes around the city water works to keep the water from being- contaminated by the flood. The two main wells, he re' ported, were sandbagged to the top and a 12-foot sandbag dike was built around the pumping station. The water reservoir was protected by a six-foot dike. Sand bags were first brought in by train, he said, but the tracks were closed and they had to be brought down the river by barge. Walter Wright, freshman from Onawa, la., helped from Thurs day to Sunday in en effort to save NUCWA To Choose Executives New officers will be elected by Nebraska University Council For World Affairs Thursday eve ning. Joan Krueger and Charles Gomon were nominated for president by the executive council. Other slate nominations are Sally Hall and Jean Speidel, sec retary; and Allan Gartinkle and Pat Allan, treasurer. Additional nominations will be accepted from the floor. . Virginia Koehler, president of NUCWA, has announced the election meeting will be held at 1 p.m. in Room 108, Burnett hall. "To vote, members must present membership cards," Miss Koehler said. "Membership cards for next year will be given out from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room 309 in the Union Thursday." Varsity Dairy Club Sponsors Annual Contest Vtersity Dairy club's annual livestock and products judging contest will be held Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19. au Ag college students are eligible to enter. The dairy products contest will held Friday afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Dairy Indus try buildings. Dairy products included in the contest are milk, ice cream and butter. Prof. P. A. Downs will officiate during the products contest. The daily livestock judging con test will be held Saturday morn ing from 9 a.m. to noon in the dairy barn, with Lennie Miller of ficiating. Dairy breeds included in the contest are Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, Brown Swiss and Milk ing Shorthorns. igmeen- Eighteen juniors and seniors will be vying for class offices in the May 5 election. Forty four persons have filed for col lege representative to the Stu dent Council. Ronald Raitt, John Lowe and Donald Pieper are candidates for the senior class presidency. Running for vice-president are Students Need Record Slips To Vote Blue slips bearing student's cumulative record hours, scho lastic averages and college are required for each voter for the Student Council and class elec tions May 5, according to George Cobel, Student Council president. These slips, Cobel explained, will be used to determine the voters' class and college becaure identification cards are not -always accurate. Hf.' ,-. 1 I H Onawa from complete inundation Wright was engaged in filling sandbags ana moving furniture. He explained that although a seven foot dike was completed around the city of 4,000, it is not expected to hold and two or three feet of water is ns pected to cover the town. Wright said he was impressed by the help that poured in from the outside. "People from all over the state were there helping us," he reported. Men were not the only ones helping wage war on the flood. Elizabeth Way, senior from De catur, reported that she and other women volunteered their services to the Red Cross and worked day and night serving sandwiches and coffee to volunteer workers. Don Larson, also a senior from Decatur, reported that al though Decatur itself was high enough to prevent flooding, farmland to the south was be ing threatened. Bulldozers were used to build dikes along the I river bank, he explained. A snow fence stuffed with straw was put up between the dike and the bank to protect the dike from debris. The dike is holding, he said, but water is backing up from floodinc farther down the river. Larson said he helped put up snow fence, move furniture, move livestock, evacuate people and flood basements. Basements are flooded with pure water, he ex plained, to keep otrt the muddy Hood waters. Denise Bohrer, sophomore from Centervule, la., said that in Omaha engineers had been work ing continuously for over 60 hours. Miss Bohrer worked with a Red Cross unit feeding the men. She said it was hard to get the men to stop long enough to eat. "Some of them hadn't eaten for a day and a half," she said. The engineers, she explained, were building up dikes to keep them higher than the rising waters. They never left the Job, she said, and the Red Cross workers had to take the food down to them. "It was so close to the flood," exclaimed Miss Bohrer, "that you could stick your fingers in the water." Miss Bohrer said that most schools in Omaha were closed to enable students to help battle the flood. Sales To Open For Friendship Picnic Tickets Tickets for the April 29 Friend ship Picnic, sponsored by Religi ous Welfare council, will go on sale in the Union at 1 sm. Thurs day. Names of foreign students who will accompany students to the picnic will be available Tat the time tickets are secured. The picnic will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Pioneer park. Cars, how ever, will leave the Union be tween 5:30 and 6:15 p.m. Lois Lawrence is student chair man of the committee in charge of the picnic. Cotner house is re sponsible for transportation to Pioneer park. Presby house will handle invitations, and Lutheran student house is responsible for publicity. Ag YMCA-YWCA will provide food. Don Winkelmann and Frank Major Jr. Irving Thode, Sally Adams and Barbara Young are candi dates for senior class secretary. Vying for senior treasurer are Jack Warren and Arnold Stern. Rockford Yapp and James Weber are seeking the junior Students may obtain the slips in the office of registration and records, B7, Administration buildir-g throughout the week from 3 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 8 a.m. until noon on Satur days. Slipj are available on Ag campus in Doctor Hixon's of fice, V06, Ag hall. Thj? slips will also be used duriig registration, May 12, 13 and, 14. File'.-For O IT Hn T. J. Th To Jo omi Flood Cuts, Extends NU Vacations By DARLENE PODLESAK Staff Writer The Big Mo played a surprise role in some University s students' spring vacation plans. It inter rupted some of them, cut others short and extended a few. Dirk Schultz, Bob Day, Jack Ladds and Don Collins are stranded on the other side of the Missouri. While they were vacationing in New Orleans, La., the Missouri river blocked their route back to Lincoln. At present they are trying to get a pass to cross the river to Ne braska. Pat Roach spent her vacation making sandwiches. She and her mother made them for flood re liefs workers in Sioux City. j Tia Davenport is spending an "extended vacation " in Chicago.! She is waiting for train to bring her back to Lincoln. Judy Morgan spent part of her vacation helping her parents move out of their farm home before the flood came. The National Guard helped Margaret O'Connor, Kathy Mel- vin and Neala O'Dell get back to school. The three girls were taken out of the flooded area by am phibian duck. The flood also interrupted Mary Beermann's vacation. She and her parents were forced to move out of their farm home near Dakota City Sunday. She spent the rest of her vacation on dry land. A National Guard duck came to the rescue for Kay Burcum. It took her out of the flooded area in time for her to get back to Lin coln for University classes. Helen Jean Utterback wasn't .taking any chances about coming I back to school late. She started out from her home in Shenandoah, la., a day early. She didn't get stranded anywhere along the way. Instead, she came back to school a day earlier than classes were to resume. . Jackie Orr returned to Lincoln via the air. At the time she left South Sioux City, the airplane was the only means of transpor tation out of the flooded area. Anita Lawson attempted to drive back to Lincoln from Macedonia, la. However, she was unable to obtain a pass to cross the Missouri. An unsched uled bus that happened to be co in? across the river enabled her to return to Lincoln in time for classes. Barb Hemphill turned journalist during her spring vacation. She took over her father's duties in his newspaper office at Tekamah while he was out covering the flood. A plane trip from Chicago to Lincoln was an unexpected fea ture of the vacation of Sue Gor ton, Sally Hall, Ting Lilly and Pat LiOder. me girls were in Chicago when the flood came. They weren't able to return by train because there weren't any trains going tnrougn to Lincoln at the time The Missouri flood did have its brighter side for Ann Leuder. cal school in Omaha were dis missed so he is able to spend his -unexpected vacation' in Lin coln. Axfell Heads KAM National Chapter Dick AxtelL junior in the Col lege of Business Administration. was elected national president cf Kappa Alpha Mu during its an nual national convention here last week. Axtell, laboratory assistant to Dr. Ray F. Morgan of the photo journalism department, is spe cializing in photography. He is also vice president of Ne braska's Rho chapter of KAM. It is the first time a Univer sity of Nebraska student has been elected to a national of fice of the photo-journalism honorary. class presidency, while Robert Hasebroock and Georgia Hulac are running for junior class vice president. Candidates for secretary of the junior class are J. Benedict and Beverly Jackson. Allan Garf inkle and Jim Matson are running for Junior class treas urer. Four persons have filed for representatives to the Student Council from the College of Business Administration. They are Dick Huebner, Harriet Wenke, Bennett Martin and Stan Sipple. Candidates for Council posi tions from the College of Arts and Sciences are J. Benedict, Robert Hasebroock, Jean Davis, Joyce Johnson, Sally Hall, Ken neth Rystrom, Charles Kiffin, Shirley Hamilton and Lyle Den niston. Dale Reynolds, Charles Beam, mpsomi urges Fight Against To Our Readers Thousands are homeless today in the Missouri River valley. The Missouri river is on the rampage and is not sparing lives, homes, possesions nor land. The damage wrought by the raging waters of the Big Muddy is al ready estimated in millions of dollars. Stated and federal governments, the Red Cross and the Salvation Army have already swung their machinery into gear .to raise funds to rebuild and rehabilitate the devastated area. The Daily Nebraskan feels that the 5,280 University students, safe from the waters of the angry Missouri, could dig deep into their pocketbooks and help the people whose lives have been affected by the Big Muddy. The Nebraskan will accept contributions from University stu dents, faculty members and organizations for one week, for flood relief. Checks should be made out to The Daily Nebraskan Flood Relief. All checks and cash shouid be sent or brought to The Nebraskan office in the Union basement They will then be deposited in the office of the director of commercial enterprises, W. C. Harper. Members of the Student Council shall decide Wednes day which flood relief agency shall receive the money. Council members unanimously voted approval of The Ne braskan's relief campaign. The Big Muddy has brought disaster to thousands. Could 5,280 niversity students, through donations to The Daily Nebraskan Flood Relief fund, lessen nature's burden on these people? P.M. Headlines ; - By CHARLES GOMON Staff News Writer Roaring River Surges Toward Omaha While 8,000 men feverishly added tier after tier of sand bags to already immense dikes, the mighty Missouri River, gathered its waters together in the flat country around Blair for the surge on Omaha. President Truman flew from the nation's capital to Offut air force base outside Omaha to obtain a first-hand evalua tion of the situation and to confer with the governors of seven mid-western states about the flood problem. The president remained in Omaha two and one-half hours after surveying the flood devas tation from the air. As he pre pared to return to Washington, Mr. Truman termed the situa tion, "Very acute," and added that there was no necessity for recurring floods. The president told the seven governors, -"We've fooled around long enough. It's time for action." Governor Val Peterson called the Nebraska legislature into specal session Thursday to ask the legislators for half a mil lion dollars in flood relief funds. After Nebraska has done everything possible to pull it self out of the Missouri's silt, the governor will ask for fur ther funds from federal tax moneys. Gov. Peterson said Monday he thought it was the state's duty to exhaust all local capabilities before going to the federal treasury for aid. Meanwhile, in Omaha and Council Bluffs, last minute dike preparations were rushed Music Society To Give Last Concert The fine arts ensemble recital at 8 p.m. in the Union ballroom Thursday will be the last concert of the season sponsored by the Friends of Chamber Music so ciety. The regular group, consisting of Emanuel Wishnow, professor of violin and conductor of the University orchestra and string ensemble, violin; Rosemary Madison, cello; Truman Morse man, second violin; Max Gilbert, viola, and Gladys May, piano, will be reinforced by guest art ist Jack Snider. Snider, a graduate of the Uni versity and now an instructor of brass music, is a member of both the Omaha and the Lincoln Sym-1 phony orchestras. j The program for the last con cert will include '"Haydn Quartet i in G Minor, Opus 74, No. 3." The Terry Barnes, Barbara Raun, Lura Harden and Dixie Bor gaard are seeking posts as Council representatives from the College of Agriculture. Eight men from the College of Engineering have filed as candidates for Council repre sentatives. They are Robert Young, Bob Peterson, Mac Bailey, Gary Jones, John Ras musson, John SavageG. David Alkire and John Wirs.g. The largest group of persons have filed for representatives from Teachers college. The 13 candidates are Joy Wachal, Nancy Whitmore, Jane Calhoun, Bernita Rosenquist, Dick New ell, Diane Hinman, Richard Shu bert, Ronald Smith, Phyllis Armstrong, Carol Jean Patter son, Donna Folmer, Sue Brown lee and Sharon Cook. Edwin Perry, Howard Tracy and Charles Lawson are seek ing the Council position from n n to completion in anticipation of the crest expected Thursday night. The river will rush be tween the cities to a depth of 31.6 feet, an unprecedented 12.4 feet above flood stage. Two-thirds of Council Bluffs was empty and silent except for national guard anti-looting patrols. The orderly evacua tion of some 26,900 persons was accomplised over the week end amid the roar of bulldozers and the rumble of dump trucks. The hill area of Courcil Bluffs was jammed with vehicles whose owners fled the flood area. The Abraham Lincoln high football field was turned into a trailer park. Practically every porch in the vicinity was covered with stored furniture. Many homes resembled hotels with as many as 15 flood-displaced persons living with the occupants. One resident ft the Bluffs tacked a sign over his door when he fled the lowlands. The sigft declared, "I shall re turn." Officials said the amazing amount of work done on the dikes on both sides of .the river gave residents at least a 50-50 chance of coming through the battle victorious. Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of army engineers and original designer of the Missouri River dike and levee system, called the flood "the greatest the white man has ever seen coming down the upper Missouri River Basin." He added that he thought there was a chance of winning. Tonight penoa in Haydn's life in which xnis quartet was composed is con sidered to be the period of his greatest artistic achievements. The second number will be "Trio for Brahms. Composed in 1865, this work is the only great one con ceived with this unusual combin ation of instruments. Student tickets can be bought for 75 cents and general admis sion will be $1.50. KK Ticket Sales General admission tickets for the Kosmet Kiub Spring Show, "Girl Crazy," will go on sale Wednesday. Reserved seat tick ets will be available Thursday. Tickets can be obtained from Kosmet Klub workers. The play will be presented next week April J3. 24 and 25. osvs: ,OM$l$,l Law college. Only one student from the College of Dentistry ' filed for Council representative. No one filed from the College of Pharmacy. According to the- Student Council constitution election by laws at least two persons must file for each office before an election can be held. Therefore, there will be no balloting for representatives to Council from Pharmacy and Dentistry col leges. Complete information includ ing class, college, affiliation and activities for each cf the candi dates for class offices and Stu dent Council will be in Friday's issue of The Daily Nebraskan. Candidates for Student Coun cil representatives from Uni versity organizations have not been announced; They will be elected by their respective Croups, k n n n iiu Bog M Approximately 200 Report Wednesday T. J. Thompson, dean of stu dent affairs, Wednesday afternoon urged all University men to re port to flood areas in an effort to protect Nebraska lives and property from destruction by record-shattering Missouri river flood wates. Students who miss classes to aid in the flood battle will "not seriously jeopardise their schoolwork," according to Dean Thompson. Although Chancellor Gustav- son was out of town, Dean Thompson reported that the Uni versity urges students to jom in the fight against destruction. He based the policy. upon talks with all University deans Wednesday morning. Dean Thompson advised " stu dents to wear old clothes, boots or high-top shoes, gloves and hats. Replacements are needed on the flood dykes, he said, to relieve men who are "all worn out" after several days of fighting the "big Mo." Students have been urged to re port to flood areas through local radio and newspaper announce ments, according to Dean Thomp son. NU Students Report Between lao and 200 university students have reported to the State Employment service for work in flood areas, the service office has reported. The response to a radio re quest for volunteers has been "wonderful" among University students, an employment service official told The Daily Nebras kan. Wednesday's quota, the of ficial said, was filled easily. Volunteers reporting to the service office have been sent to the Omaha branch to be placed at crucial points in the flood area. Workers sent Wednesday worked during the afternoon and night. : The number of workers if any needed Thursday was not known by the Lincoln office Wednesday afternoon. The quota will be set lhursday morning following a re port trom Omaha on Hood con ditions and labor requirements, Pre&by House Aids Presbyterian -Cong regational Mudent house Wednesday joined the State Employment service in an effort to recruit University students for work in the Omaha flood area. Approximately ten s t u d e nts were secured directly through Presby house, according to Mary Lou Hawk, activities director. The house, she said, also con tacted all University fraternity houses and informed them of the employment service's volunteer program. Extension Service Ready The University Agricultural Ex tension service stands ready to help locate feed and seed supplies for the flood-stricken area along the Missouri river, E. W. Janike, associate of the service, has an nounced. At the same time, he said that county agents in all of the flooded counties are "pitching in" and helping with relief. Agents have reported to the University that feed and seed supplies may be needed later. Livestock from lower ground has been moved higher and is being cared for by relatives and friends of farmers in bottom land, according to Janike. Four NU Students Win Photo Contest Awards At a Kappa Alpha Mu awards, banquet Friday evening, Herb Lehman ' Del Hardine. Lpnnard1 Zajicek and Lois Eddy were pre sented awards for their winning,' entries on the national colleg:ate photo competition. In the professional division Leh- E, entries f six Nebraska P 3f hlS! students were selected for the 50 picture story, "The Intruder." print tg show which wiu Harding's picture story, "An be displayed on campuses through Evening with the Great Togo," i out the country. Student Council Revises Election Publicity Rules Hearings on the proDosed Sto dent Council by-laws were held iby the Council Wednesday. I For reasons of clarification, Ruth Raymond urged the Coun cil to change article four, section three sub-section "j" which read "Publicity in The Daily Nebras kan shall be factual and of equal coverage." Miss Raymond's ob jection was that with the present wording, iuture Council members could interpret this to mean edi torial policy. . Section j" was deleted and the Council reworded sub-section "i" to read, "The Elections Committee shall be responsible for furnishing The Daily Ne braskan with non-partisan pub licity for all candidates and further, such publicity includ ing pictures, campus affiliation such candidates shall be af forded equal prominence in the said newspaper. This sub-section is not intended to restrict, direct or supercede the editorial policy of the Daily Nebraska," Approval of the revised copy of e Gill's Answering a call from Thurs ton county, the Extension servict sent 300 cots to Walthill Sunday for emergency purposes. Janike and Henry Bctt took the cots them by truck. The cots are being used, by the Red Cross in their emer gency housing in the Walthill public schcools for people from Dakota City who have fled their homes. Ag Colleges Confer Representatives from four mid west agricultural colleges will meet at the University Thursday 10 inoouize cnoris to assist Mis souri river flood victims when flood waters subside. Institutions to be reDresentort include Kansas' State CaUeeo. Manhattan: Iowa State Collect Ames; South Dakota State College, Brookings; and the University College of Agriculture. Dean W. V. Lambert of the University college called the meeting. Discussions of ways and means of assisting farmers with land restoration, seed supplies, feed supplies, cropping prac tices, restoration of home and farm equipment are on agenda for the meeting. Kansas State representatives are expected to report their ex periences in fighting the 1951 flood in Kansas. Out of the conference is ex pected to come recommendations for joint informational materials and other aids in the flood area particularly in Iowa and Nebras ka. Efforts of the agricultural col leges will be coordinated with civilian defense and other state and federal agencies. Meets With Truman James E. Lawrence, University journalism professor and editor of the Lincoln Star, met with Presi dent Truman Wednesday to dis cuss measures for dealing with the flood emergency. Lawrence is chairman of the Missouri Basin Survey commis sion. Seven midwestern governors; Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of army engineers; and Raymond M. Foley, housing and home fi nance agency administrator, also attended the meeting. Governors included Peterson of Nebraska, Stevenson of Illinois, Anderson of Soutn Dakota, ttruns- dale of North Dakota, Beardsley of Iowa, Kohler of Wisconsin and Anderson of Minnesota. The President flew over the flood area before the conference. 14-Mile Road Flooded Between Blair, Neb., and Mis souri vauey, lowa, wnere mere used to be 14 miles of roads, there is now only water. Dr. Clyde C. Mitchell, professor of agricultural economics, said Wednesday. Mitchell, who accompanied Dean W. V. Lambert of the College of Agriculture in a plane trip over the flood area, reported that 20 to 30 tractors are frequently seen atop the highest hills in the basm country. Some of the hills have been not high enough to protect machinery, however, as Mitchell reported seeing mufflers of tract ors sticking above the flood wa ter. Some farmers, he added, real ized that fighting the raging waters was useless and simply left their equipment without any effort to move it to higher ground. won third place in the professional division. M tne amateur division, z,a:iceK won second place with his picture story, "Spring?" Miss Eddy's picture story, "Mod ern Dance Step," won third place the proposed by-laws -will be voted on at meeting. the next Council George Wilcox, elections chair man, reported that 62 students has filed for Class offices and Coun cil positions. Wilcox said that since only one applicant had ap plied from Dentistry, that college would not hold an election. Phar macy had no one aoDlv and thev will not have an election. The elections committee. Wil cox said, will print Dosters ursrinr the students to vote and will dis tribute buttons to the voters. The Council gave unanimous approval to plan forwarded by The Daily Nebraskan for flood relief. The campaign to solicit funds for flood relief will be sponsored by the newspaper and funds will be distributed to appropriate relief organiza tions. The drive will begin Thursday morning ana win run lor one week. Names of donors and their contributions will be published in the jassas jmi1PTT so tpecilied. 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