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Jhiin)soii T Cnlesid .Vol. 59, No. 40 EZoff, Orwg Pictured above during new-ly- hired coach Pete Elliott's visit at the Nebraskan Press Club luncheon are (left to right, stand ing), Sam Jensen, managing edi tor, Elliott, Dick Fellman, edi tor, Athletic Director Bill Orwig, 'Actor's Holida: Union To Of One-Act Plays Jan. 18 "Actor's Holiday," an array of oneact plays, will be presented Jan. 18 at 8p.m. in the Union Ballroom. The plays include "The Boor" by Anton Chekhov, "The Stronger" by August Strindberg, "A Pound on Demand" by Sean O'Casey, and "Aria Da Capo" by Edna St. Vin cent Millay. After the performance, coffee will be served in Parlor B so that the audience will have a chance to talk with the cast, Clare Hinman, member of the Union 1 f The Outside World: Ike Urges 'Soil Bank' By BARB SHARP Staff Writer President Eisenhower proposed taking about 40 million acres of farm land out of production to cut down on crop surpluses and told farmers that they would be paid to put this land in a "soil bank." The acreage is better than 10 per cent of the total land now planted to crops, but its removal would pot cut production by that large a percentage as the plan aims to retire much of the poorer land. Ex perts predicted that under this plan farmers would get 750 million to billion dollars additional income. This "soil bank plan" was the major point of a nine-point pro gram outlined by the President in an 8000-word special message to Congress on the farm problem, looming as a major issue for the elec tion year. Most of the other points were concerned with changes in existing programs. Eisenhower also advocated taking the two-cent-a-gallon federal tax off gasoline used on farms. A dollar limit on price support payments was also proposed by the President. He did not say what he thought the dollar limit should be but it should be high enough "to give full protection to efficiently operated family farms." There have been criticisms that under the present system some big corporation-type farms were getting pay ments running into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Quakes Six earthquakes shook Mexico's leading Pacific Coast resort, packed with North American visitors. There were 106 reported in jured and heavy damage was the result of the cjuakes. No U.S. citizens were reported among thasj injured in the holiday center jammed with 35,000 inhabitants and thousands of tourists. The blocks, first major Mexican quakes in two years, were felt over a wide area of southern Mexico. In Mexico City, the capital 195 miles north of Acapulco, site of the heavy damage, skyscrapers swayed. When two quakes followed the first in Acapulco, the population panicked. It was during this period that the majority were injured by flying glass, falling beams, tumbling walls and collapsing roofs. Sev trtl fires started. LINCOLN, ' - .. " m, 1 fefellifMlji f ! wriest .:? iliit iX" Jlllll' ' . V t, I 1L J' :-::Sm! ' . . v.: .;. ,, J W" $ Vsf and (seated) Fred Daly, news editor, Marvin Breslow, student member of the Board of Publi cations, and Barbara Jelgerhuis, copy editor. Elliott expressed to the staff and guests his happi ness to be at Nebraska, and said he was pleased with the football Present Quartet Board, said. Tickets for the event go on sale Wednesday at the Un ion ticket booth. The cast includes Mimi Kelly, Lee Krieger, Frank Hamilton, Lil lian Little and Stuart Vaughan. Vaughan is director and narrator of "Actor's Holiday." He was trained in England at Old Vic and Stratford-on-Avon theaters, and has worked with the new Shake speare Festival at Stratford, Conn. "The Boor" by Anton Chekhov has been called a comedy of bad manners. The story is about Bur ley Smirnov, a retired Army ofG- PS Injure 106 NEBRASKA material at the University. In other Press Club business, Fell man presented a report from the National Collegiate Press Convention which he attended in November with George Madsen, Nebraskan business mana ger, and John Gourlay and Mike cer, wno comes to collect a aeot from Madame Popova, a widow in mourning. Since he hates women and she despises men, they find each other equally cranky and stubborn. They almost fight a duel before they realize that they have fallen in love. An old-world cafe is the setting for the meeting of two actresses at their off-stage worst in Strind berg's "The Stronger." The two actresses learn startling things about each other. A comic moment is provided by Sean O'Casey in "A Pound on De mand." The anecdote concerns, Jerry and Sammy who are both trying to collect from the Irish Postal Savings Plan what is right fully theirs. However, they have come to the wrong post office and are not sober. Eventually a police man has to eject them. Edna St. Vincent Millay 's "Aria Da Capo" uses the conventional forms of the theater. Figures from the greek drama and Comedia D 'Arte are used to point up simple ideas about the foolishness of wars and the emptiness of sophistication as an answer to life. Eating macaroons and prattling about Cothurnes, Columbine and Pierrot, the symbols of foolish ness, open the scene. The stage manager tells them to clear the stage so that the shepherds can play their scene. Although the two shepherds start out amiably enough, they begin to quarrel and finally murder each other. Colum bine and Pierrot return and sweep the dead bodies under the ta ble. The stage manager says that the audience will forget. The two agree and go back to eating ma croons and pratteling gaily. Miss Kelly understudied Mary Martin in "South Pacific." She was the star of the Broadway pro duction and road show company of the musical "Finian's Rainbow." Krieger worked in the national company of "South Pacific" as a comedian. Besides doing work in television and summer theatre, he has appeared in night clubs. Miss Little hardies the character roles in three of the four plays. She has toured with the road com panies of "Death of a Salesman" and "Goodbye, My Fancy." Hamilton has appeared on tele vision shows such as "The Ed Sul livan Show," "The Colgate Com edy Hour" and "The Frank Si natra Show." He also appeared in Broadway performances of "The Skin of Our Teeth" and "Tonight in Smarkand." Yearbook Pictures Due In Two Weeks Two weeks remain for individual Cornhusker pictures to be taken, John Gourlay, editor announced Monday. Students interested in having pictures taken should contact the appointment, he said. Cost of bav ins the Dictures taken is 2.50. nav- able at Edholm-Blomgren Studio when the pictures are taken, Gour lay added. Tuesdoy, January 10, 1956 Nebraskan Fnoto Shugrue of the Cornhusker. Mem bers of the Board of Publica tions were present at the meet ing to offer suggestions to staff members and reporters interest ed in applying for staff positions on next semester's Nebraskan staff. Hardin States Athletic Policy In Letterip . . See Page Two Music Room To Feature New Hi-Fi The Union's new music room will formally open Thursday for all stu dents and faculty members from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served and a door prize will be given. The main attraction of the room is the new hi-fi phonograph. By listening to it one is able to hear every true tone produced on a hi fi record, Duane Lake Union Di rector said. The normal frequency of a human being is 15,000 to 18,000 cycles per second The machine produces from 30 to 30,000 c.p.s. Thus, the better tone quality, he said. When a recording orchestra is playing, every tone made by each instrument can be distinctly heard without disturbance There is no longer a muted sound which is heard on an old record player. With the hi-fi set, there is a se lection of 500 records, he said. Among these records are "Con certo for Jazz Bands and Sym phony Orchestras;" "Dances of the Polovian Maidens" from Prince Igor; A record demonstrat ing what hi-fi is; Gilbert and Sullivan's overtures to the "Mi kado" and the "Pirates of Pen zance." Oberon's Overture of "Don Pas quale;" Revel's "la Valse;" Cho pin's "Mazurkas" No. 35, 3, 9, 45, 48 and 49; and Beethoven's "Missa Solememnis." The old machine has been re paired and the o.d records have been re-catalogued and replaced. The music room has been redecor ated and new murals have been painted for the loom by Corbin La PelL Stebbins To Discuss Genetic Problems Dr. G. Ledyard Stebbins, pro fessor of genetics at the Univer sity of California, will give three lectures at the University this week. Dr. Stebbins, a past president of the Society for the Study of Evolution, currently is conducting research in the production of hy brid and polyploid types of forage Plants," published in 1950. He will discuss "The Synthetic and Experimental Approach To the Study of Evolution" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Bessey Hall Au ditorium. On Wednesday, he will talk on "The Use of Evolutionary Principles in Plant Breeding" at 4 p.m. in Agronomy Hall Auditor ium. 1 "New Light on the- Origin of Species" will be the subject of his lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday in Mor rill Hall Auditorium. Hiring Of Coach, Housing Units Approved At their Saturday meeting, the Board of Regents approved: A $16 allocation for Student Facilities Revenue Bonds (Union and Student Health building program) payable out of tuition F o rm a 1 ized Pete El liott's contract on terms pre viously publi cized. Approved a pilot plan for married st u- dent housing on the Ag Cam' pus, with Courtesy Lincoln Journal housing for 40 score. couples to begin construction soon. Elected Dr. Earle Johnson of Grand Island president of the Board of Regents. Dr. Johnson, a Grand Island phy sician since 1917, succeeds J. Leroy Walsh of Omaha as president. He was vice-president. Dr. B. N. Greenberg, York physi cian, was elected vice-president and John Selleck, University comp troller, was reelected secretary. The $16 allocation will be taken from tuition revenues beginning Mar. 1. Eleven dollars of the allo cation is allotted for the Union building and maintenance pro gram. Six dollTs and fifty cents will be used for retirement of the principle and interest of the reve nue bonds and $4.50 is slated for maintenance and operation of the Union. The remaining $. will be used to retire the principal and interest on the new Student Health Build ing and will also be paid each se mester from tuition revenues. Both buildings are part of a $3,- 750,000 revenue bond issue. The resolution was passed to satisfy the bond companies which bid on the issue. Previously, the allocation was to have been $5 for each building. Pete Elliott's appointment, with terms including an annual salary of $12,000, employment on a three year basis and giving Elliott the rank of associate professor, was formalized. Reeent J. Lerov Walsh of Omaha sueeested that the Regents com mend Athletic Director Bill Orwig for his handling of the situation. Chancellor Clifford Hardin read a Dreisared statement including the terms of employment Elliott and Orwig had agreed on and recom mending formal approval by the Regents. There was no contract prepared. Hardin asked the Regents to ap point Elliott in the same general procedure followed in the appoint ment of other University staff mem bers, on the terms of the agree ment. Chancellor Hardin's statement al so recommended a commendation for Orwie and exDressed complete confidence in Orwig's handling of the athletic department. "I am convinced that Coach El liott has the character, personality Honor Roll Lists Story By Miller "The Colonel Dudley Company, Inc.," a short story by Dr. James Miller, acting chairman of the department of English, has been listed in the Roil of Honor of "The Best American Short Stories, 1955." Miller's story appeared in the Spring 1954 issue of "Prairie Schooner." A "Prairie Schooner" short story, "A Matter of Price," by Robert Bowen, was reprinted in the collection edited by Martha Foley. The story appeared in the Summer 1954 issue. Also listed in the Roll of Honor was "Mindine Ramones," by Wal ter Ballenger, from the Spring 1954 issue of "Prairie Schooner." Other stories listed as Distinctive Short Stories were "The Fence," by H. E. Francis, Fall issue; "The Wrong Way Home," by Robert Fontaine, Summer issue; "Handy man," by Hoke Norris, Summer issue, and "When The Sky Is Black," by Gene Marine, Fall is sue. All selections were from 1954. Newly Elected The newly elected officers for tthe city YWCA and Ag YWCA, are shown above. The city YWCA officers front row, left to 1 !w5 ' BmimnA J? Iimi mil J V rf - i U s v. j '- "7 v . i '-kf . - - - a -v , 1 ' and ability to head the Cornhusker football program in an excellent manner," The Chancellor said. He also said he felt that Elliott would provide the high type of lead ership in dealing with young men that the University desires. Regent C. Y. Thompson from West Point moved that the Chancel lor's statement be written into the board's minutes because there was no contract in existence. John Selleck, comptroller, pre sented the pilot plan for married student housing on the Ag campus. Immediate plans include construc tion of four units at an approxi mate cost of $400,000. The units would house approxi mately 40 families, at a cost of $10,000 per building, Selleck said. New Engineering Editors: arson, Berger, Dempster To Head Blue Print Stall New staff members of the Ne braska Blue Print, College of Engi neering publication, have been an nounced. Barry Larson has been named general manager with Roger Ber ger and Laurie Dempster as co-editors. Ross Brown will serve as business man ager. Larson is Kosmet K 1 u b business man ager, secretary of the Ameri can Society Ot Nebraskan Photo Civil Engi- Miss Dempster neers, a member of Engineering Exec Board, Phalanz and Phi Wednesday: Entries Due For Bridge Tourney The Union recreation committee is sponsoring a bridge tournament Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. Thi ne w intra-campus tourna ment, will be held annually, said Director of Activities, Judy Kap lan. "We hope to bring this tourna ment up to a point that houses and participants wi 1 get activity points," she said. The response so far has been very good, she said. Those houses still wishing to enter must have their team registered by Wednes day. Each team should consist of a captain, his partner and two alter nates. A traveling trophy and plaque will go to the wiiuiing house; the runner-up will receive a deck of plastic cards. James Porter, assistant profes sor of architecture will supervise the tournament. Houses entered are: Phi Gamma Delta, Chi Omega, Sigma Chi, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Delta Delta Delta, Sigma Kappa, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Gamma, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Gamma Phi Beta, Presby House, Canfield (Selleck Quad) and Gustavson II (Selleck Quad). Plans Not Definite For Library Course The Nebraskan erroneously re ported Friday that definite plans had been made for a pilot course in methods of using the library. The idea of having such a course is only one of numerous possibil ities, Bernard Kriessmann, assist ant director of libraries said. Complying with a suggestion made by a Nebraskan columnist, the library has installed road maps showing the location of sec tions in the social studies and humanities reading rooms, he add ed. YWCA Officers ' - 'I' (t1 right, are Beverly Deepe, Sarol row, left to right, Ellen Jacob Wilt se, Jody Chalupa, Barbara sen, Sue Simmonds, Janice Aah Rystrom and Mary Thompson, burn, Charlotte Sears, Evonne Ag YWCA officers are, batik Einspahr and Nancy Wilson. Construction site will be on the north side of Holdrege, from 42nd to 46th Streets. Long-range plans include con struction of seven and nine addi tional units ' two separate con struction projects. The four units to be constructed soon will cost approximately $400, 000. - ' The Regents also approved the plans and specifications for Lyman Hall, new pharmacy building, and accepted the deed to a farm in Dixon County from CD. Haskell to be used for agricultural experi mentation purposes. Dr. Johnson, long time Grand Island physician, succeeds J. Leroy Walsh of Omaha as president of the Board of Regents. $ ? is UL27U Nebraskan Photo Larson Berger Gamma Delta. He is a senior in engineening. Berger is a junior in engineering, a former AUF Board member and Selleck Quad. Miss Dempster is a sophomore in engineering, layout editor of First Glance, a member of Blue print Pub Board, and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Brown is a senior in engineering and lives at Sellek Quad. ' Other editorial staff members are lay-out, Vic Musil; feature editor, Bob Young; copy editors, Sonia Heshberger and Larry Spear; campus editor, Bill Tagney; photo grapher, John Zinnecker; artist, Dave Linstrum; assistant feature editor, Nancy Isgrig, and assist ant campus editor, Jay Schnoor. Jim Souders is advertising man ager and Harry Dingman is circu lation manager. Others on the business staff are treasurer, John Fagan, promotion manager, Lee Miller; assistant ad vertising manager, Don Bray and assistant circulation manager, Bob Simmonds. Illinois To Drop English A Recent announcement was made that the University of Illinois plans to discontinue all sections of fresh man non-credit English starting in I960. The idea was proposed in Febr uary last year, and was accepted by the University senate this fall. The reason given by the Univer sity of Illinois was that it should not be a university's job to teach high school English. It was also stated that the University could not afford to continue with their pres ent program due to the large an ticipated enrollment. Dudley Baily, assistant' Professor of English, said when interviewed that the University does not con template making a similar change. He said that the University does not expect as great an increase in enrollment as the University of Illinois does at the present time. The anticipated increase in popu lation for Illinois is ten per cent, while that of Nebraska is less than one per cent, Baily said. He said that the present English A program is comparatively inex pensive and therefore is no major problem. He also felt that a uni versity should have a flexible Eng lish program that will suit the needs of a!l students entering th University. i Coutttay Llns-om t-tar Shown 1