the
Weather 'R Not
Much colder weather is expected to hit this
region Wednesday or Thursday and tempera
tures will remain low until around Sunday.
The mercury will slide to zero to 10 above and
highs will range in the 20's.
An
It Happened At NU t
Nebraskan business managers sometimes tur
gray and one bill received recently points ot
a reason. The efficient-looking statement n
ported a charge of ten cents, by a reporter ser
out for copy pencils in November. ?'
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Vol. 59, No. 41
Union Ballroom:
J I fl
ef For
Final Fling Dance with Bill Al
bers orchestra will be held Fri
day in the Union Ballroom with a
charge of 50 cents a person being
made at the door, Roy Boyd, chair
man of the Union dance commit
tee said.
The theme of the dance, centered
around Friday 13 and finals, will
feature huge dunce caps at one end
of the ballroom and ladders under
which the students must pass at
the door.
Entertainment during the inter
mission will feature Dale Joy, Uni
versity student, playing a trumpet
solo, Boyd said.
Boyd also announced that the
Candlelight Room will be open Sat-
Eisenhower Plan:
Soil-Bank
Draws NU
By JIM FEATHER
Ag Editor
Agriculture economists of the
University offered comments and
criticisms Tuesday on the newly
proposed farm program and Its
possible effects on the nation's
economy.
As outlined by Eisenhower Mon
day, the new proposal would take
40 million acres of farm land out
of production to cut down on crop
surpluses.
The "soil bank" was the major
point of a nine-point program sum
marized by the President in a mes
sage to Congress on the farm prob
lem which looms as a major issue
for the election year.
Dr. Kristjan Kristjanson, asso
ciate professor of agricultural eco
nomics and associate agricultural
economist, gav the following views
on the program:
"The soil bank program is offer-1
ed as a plan for reducing produc
tion, improving land use, and in
creasing the farmer's income.
"In my opinion, it will not re-i
suit in significant reduction in ag-!
riculture production. Past attempts
at reducing production with pro
grams of this kind have not been
successful," Kristjanson said.
"The soil bank idea does offer
the possibility for improved land
Fashion School
Fellowships
Now Available
Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion
Careers in New York City is offer
ing four Fashion Fellowships to
senior women graduating before
August 31, 1956.
The fellowships to Tobe-Coburn,
which cover the full tuition of $1150,
are being offered for the year 1956
1967. The New York school offers
them annually to encourage able
college graduates to enter the fash
ion field.
The students of the one-year
course have contact with the fash
ion industry through lectures by
important personalities, visits to
manufacturers, department stores
and fashion shows and have, ten
weeks of working experience in
New York stores and fashion or
ganizations. Senior women may secure Fash
ion Fellowship registration blanks
from the vocational office or the
Fashion Fellowship Secretary,
Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion
Careers, 852 Madison Ave., New
York 21, New York, Registration
closes Jan. 21.
Two Students
To Represent
NU At Meet
Glenna Berry and Richard Tem
pero have been selected to repre
sent Nebraska at the Oiristien Cit
izenship Seminar of the Methodist
Student Movement.
Tlie conference ' will be held
Feb. 12 tbrough 18 with the first
part being held in New York and
the second in Washington, D. C.
In New York, the delegates will
attend two session of the United
Nations and hear addresses on
world affairs.
Jn "Washington, the group of SO
delegates from 43 states will study
Congress, hear a Supreme Court
hearing and attend the opening ses
sion of Congress,
They wiU jear addresses by Har
old Stassefl on disarmament and
by senator Paul Douglas on eco
nomic issues.
Various other speakers will ad
dress the group on economic topics
as desegregation and the AF of L
CIO merger.
Correction
Fees for the academic year
VW Z7 mU be $'W, Instead "of '
a The Nebraskan erroneously re
ported is so editorial "Tuition
Hike." The funds will be allotted
tot m addition to the Union and
afw Student Health building.
once
(Friday
urday from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
The room will be lighted by tavern
candles on the tables. Juke box
will provide the music and re
freshments will be available. It will
be informal and students are in'
vited to drop in after dates.
Dance lessons will be continued
this semester at a date to be an
nounced later, Boyd said. They
will be held in five sessions and
will be a continuation of last se
mester's lessons featuring, lessons
in dances requested by the stu
dents. A Lincoln dance teacher will in
struct and the first lesson will be
on ballroom dancing. Sessions to
be spent on jitter-bugging are an
ticipated, Boyd said.
Proaram
Com m
en
use by taking marginal land out of
production. However," he contin
ued, "if marginal land is put into
the bank, there will be little ef
fect on total production."
"In my opinion, the solution to
the agriculture problem lies in di
rection of extending Public Law
480, the Schoeppel - Harrison Bill,
which, permits the U.S. Govern
ment to sell surplus commodities
in exchange for foreign currencies.
This program," he concluded,
"should be expanded and the for
eign currencies loaned to the par
ticipating countries for hydro and
other resource development proj
ects." C. R. Porter, Nebraska Crop Im
provement Association Secretary,
on the other hand. tat that
"Certainly the soil bank plan is one
way for reducing surplus and bet
ter the land for the future. It has
been very acceptable from the
standpoint of farmers and farm
organizations. They have given it
as deep thought as any." he con
cluded, "and they seem to regard
it highly."
Dr. Howard Otioson. associate
professor of agricultural econom
ic, also agrees that, "the pro
posal is sound, and will have more
long run effects on prices and
price controls. i
The Outside World:
Leaders Confer On Plans
By BARB SHARP
Staff Writer
After one hour and twenty minute conference, Republican congres
sional leaders agreed that chances were good that the bulk of Presi
dent Eisenhower's new legislative program would be passed by Con
gress. Senate Republican Leader William Knowland of California also
said it will be necessary to take a look at the budget situation on
April I before deciding what can be done about an election year tax cut.
Army Plans New Missile
A new 1500 mile range missile is the goal of the Army, according
to Gen. Maxwell Vaylor.
The service will spend more and more of its money to expand the
whole system of unmanned weapons, he said. The Army chief of staff
said tlie Army needs "a wide span of guided missiles to extend its
fire power horizontally and vertically."
Gen. Taylor said the Army will continue to improve its "Redstone'
short range bombardment missile, with a reported striking distance
of between 200 and 300 miles.
Farmers Respond Favorably
Nebraska state farm leaders responded favorably to the President's
proposed "soil bank" plan to take land out of production. The Presi
dent proposed that farmers be paid either in cash or In surplus com
modities for idling land and applying conservation practices.
Most leaders pointed to the long range prospects of the program
as being its strong point. Some thought the fact thai the farm problem
was outlined by the President miglit be of significant help.
Jordan Enforces Curfew
Armored cars rifbved through the deserted streets of Amman, the
capital of Jordan, with loud-speakers
i joroan cspiiai was under stria military control to the third
day of curfew after week-end violence by mobs demonstretinf azainst
the Baghdad Pact. Arab Legion troops with fixed bayonets patrolled
the streets where crowds had run riot
can officers.
Refugees Flee To Austria
Thirteen Hungarian anti-Communist refugees ' who crawled through
minefields and under barbed wire entanglements, reached the safety
of Austria and told Austrian police they fled because they found Me
in Hungary "intolerable."
To make the escape, a mother drugged tier year-old baby with
sleeping pills so the child would not cry out and awaken quick -triggered
Hungarian border guards. The refugees fled through the winter cold
with oo possessions except the clothing they wore.
NAACP Threatens Action
A Negro leader said Virginia Negroes win "wait and see" before
deciding on the action of the state is voting for public-supported private
schools to avoid desegregation. .
Virginians voted two-to-one to favor of public tuition grants for
parents who object to sending their children to integrated schools.
Oliver mm, aftorney for the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, said if Virginia does not show food
faith toward desegregating its schools, legal steps will be taken to
bring the state to line with the Supreme Court decision banning segre
gated classrooms.
Court 'Usurps Control'
Gov, Marvin Griffin declared that the people of Georgia "must
never surrender" to the decision by the UJ. Supreme Court which
bans segregation to public schools.
lie said Die Supreme Court sought to usurp control of stale-created,
state-developed and state financed schools and colleges.
Griffin told tlie Joint Session of the Georgia General Assembly
that maintaining segregation was "tlie most vital question that has
ever been before tins legislative body since the state was created,"
lie called lor passage of measures designed to circumvent the deci
sions of the Supreme Court.
Monday:
Registering
Procedures
Announced
Registration for the second se
mester will begin Monday, Mrs
Irma Laase, of the Office of Reg
istration and Records, has
nounced.
an-
omaenis naving 100 or more
hours as of Sept. 1, 1955, may be
gin registering at 9 a.m. Monday.
At 10 a.m., students with 95 hours
may register; at 1 p.m., 90 hours;
at 2 p.m., 80 hours; at 3 p.m.. 75
hours.
Registration will be open to stu
dents with 65 hours at 8 a.m. Tues
day. At 9 a.m., 60 hours; at 10
a.m., 55 hours; at 1 p.m., 50 hours;
at 2 p.m., 45 hours; at 3 p.m., 32
hours.
Wednesday registration will be
gin with students with 32 hours at
8 a.m.; 9 p.m., 25 hours: 10 a.m
15 hours.
At l p.m., students with any
hours on record may register.
Freshman, with no hours on rec
ord, will register by number. Stu
dents may pick up numbers at
Military and Naval Science Build
ing Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day from 7:30 a.m. until S p.m.
Poetry, Story
Entries Due
By March I
Entries for the Man Sandoz
short story contest and poetry con
test must be in the office of the
secretary of the English depart
ment, Room 107 Andrews Hall,
by 5 p.m. March 1.
For the best fiction stories there
will be a $50 prize given for first
place, $30 for second place, and
$20 for third place. In the, poetry
division the prizes will be $50 for
first place and $25 for second
place.
Entries for the short story con
test must contain between 3000 to
7000 words.
Entries for both contests should
be typed, double space, and in
triplicate. The name of the author
must not be on the manuscript.
These entries must be accompan
ied by an envelope containing the
official entry blank and include the
name of the contestant.
blaring, "Remain to your houses."
to sttacks on British -and Ameri
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Nickname Explained:
xRag Origin Unique
By CYNTHIA ZSCHAU
Staff Writer
. On the campus of the Univer
sity of Nebraska the word
"rag" doesn't stand for an old
dress or a dust cloth but rather
for the student newspaper, The
Nebraskan.
Although it may be used to
line dresser drawers or wrap
lunches in, as the name im
plies, this is not its real pur
pose. The freshmen wonder what
connection there could possibly
be between a rag and the school
paper; and even though upper
classmen are familiar with the
nickname, few know bow it
was acquired.
Back in 1895, F. T. "Rag"
Riley was editor of the Nebras
kan, a position which he held
for a record time of three
years.
Because his influence on .the
newspaper was so great, peo
Twelve Candidates Suggested:
Lambert, Fischer Added
or 'Outstanding Nebraskan' Title
The nomination of an additional
student arid one more faculty mem
ber for Outstanding Nebraskan has
increased the list of candidates to
twelve.
New nominees are Rex Fischer,
senior in Arts and Sciences, and
Dr. William Lambert, Dean of the
College of Agriculture.
Other candidates are Sharon
Mangold, John Gourlay, Glenna
Berry, Barbara Clark, Gail KaU-
kee, seniors to Arts and Sciences;
Bob Oberlin, senior in Engineering;
Dr. Arthur Westbrook, music pro
fessor, Ray Morgan, assistant pro
fessor of journalism; Dr. Harry
Weaver, associate professor of
botany; Dr. Adam Breckenridge,
Dean of Faculties.
Drop Slips:
enafe Discusses
Policy, Building Plan
cnancenor ciinora Hardin ans
wered several queries of faculty
members concerning University
policy and building programs at
the Faculty Senate Tuesday.
Hardin threw the meeting op
en to a general question and ans
wer session following the regularly
scheduled business, which included
accepting a report of the liaison
committee.
Plans for the married r'ident
housing development are due to be
put out for bids by February, he
said in answer to questions.
Plans for the addition to the
Women's Residence Halls and the
Student Health building are ready
to go out to bidders now, he said.
Plans for the addition to the Un
ion are not that far along, he
added.
The report of tlie liaison commit
tee included a recommendation to
be submitted to the Administrative
Council, concerning Arop slips.
Drop slips must be registered at
least one week before the end of
Dancers:
Champes
To Present
Indian Rife
Demonstration of an Indian ritual
dance presented by Dr. John
Oiampe, chairman ef the depart
ment of anthropology and Mrs.
Flavia Waters Champe, dance in
structor, will be a special feature
of the Cosmopolitan Club meeting
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. to tlie Un
ion Ballroom.
Tlie dance is based on the actual
and still -practiced annual Christ
mas Eve rites of the Matecbinas
in Gallup, New Mexico. It win be
presented by Mrs. Oiauxtpe and
tier croup of dancers, Champe win
give a commentary on the signifi
cance of tlie dances.
In addition, members will dis
cuss plans for the annual Interna
tional dance and floor show Mar,
17-
Membtrs are asked to present
ideas for a name for this year's
entertainment and to choose the
committee on which they wish to
work, according to Jean Beck, pro
gram chairman
Office Filings
For CCRC Open
Filings for City Campus Reli
gious Council offices have opened
and wiS continue until Tuesday,
Blanks may be obtained from
Glenna Berry at tlie PI Bete Phi
house and should be returned to
her.
Any member with a 1.7 average
is eligible. Offices open are presi
dent, vice president, secretary,
corrrKpondiiig secretary and
treasurer.
ple soon began to call it the
"Rag" after his nickname.
This term has been part of
the regular campus vocabulary
ever since.
However the University pa
per has not always had the of
ficial name of The Nebraskan.
The first campus newspaper
was founded way back in 1876
and ws called the His peri an.
It was published by the Uni
versity Hisperian Society.
In 1891 a rival paper, the
Lasso, began publication. After
a year its name was changed
to the Nebraskan.
For financial reasons the
two newspapers were forced to
merge in 1899. The paper then
became the Nebraskan-Hisper-ian.
Within two years after the
papers combined, the name
Daily Nebraskan was adopted
and has remained up to the
present time.
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Fischer Lambert
Fischer, said the letter of nomin
ation, is an outstanding representa
tive of the University not only
through his activities and scholar
ship, but through his deep sincer
ity and loyalty to his school.
classes for the semester, the rec
ommendation stated.
Dr. Floyd Hoover, director of reg
istration and records, said that sev
eral instances had been reported
In which the student had dropped
the course to good standing after
he flunked the final examination.
This recommendation, he said,
was to eliminate such instances.
There is no existing ruling con
cerning the matter now, he said.
Sr.o-&aII Dance
To Feature
'Cutest Baby'
"Eskimo Scene" will be the
theme of the annual Sno-Ball dance
to be held Febr. 11 at tlie Ag Col
lege Activities Building.
Tickets win be $1.50 per couple
and will be available in organized
houses and in the Ag Union booth.
A special feature of the dance
is the Cutest Baby contest. Last
year's cutest baby was Brock Dut
ton. Tommy Tomlin and his orches
tra will play for tlie event which
will be tlie first Ag College dance
of tlie second semester.
Bill Spilker, chairman of the
Ag Union dance committee, has
made the following committee as
signments: Marion Sullivan, dec
oration; Don Herman, publicity;
Jackie Dill, baby photo contest,
and Margie Rolof son, ticket sales.
Diestel Announces
Staff Additions
Addition of two non-commissioned
officers to tlie University
Army ROTC staff was announced
Wednesday by Col. Chester DiesieL
professor of military science and
tactics,
Tlie new staff members are:
VUuiier Sgt, Fleming Nance, who
recently returned from Nuernberg,
Germany, where lie served as a
training sergeant at the 10th TttlA
Hospital. His decorations include
the Silver Star and Bronze Star,
gt. 1st Class Donald Tauber,
whose last assignment was as sup
ply sergeant for tlie First Battal
ion, 47tb Infantry Regiment, to
Germany. His decorations include
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MIC CIVIUC CflMr,
4H Club Meeting
Tlie January meeting of the Uni
versity 4 H Club will be held
Wednesday evening 'at 7;) p,m,
to the College Activities Building.
Feature of this months meet
ing win be several reports on
Camp Miniwanca given by mem
bers who attended last year, A
regular business meeting will pre
cede the reports.
Hi-Fi, Abstracts:
dflSDC
A new rn-fi phonograph and a
selection of 500 records will high
light the opening of the Union's
new Music Room Thursday from 3
p.m. to 7 p.m.
By listening to the set, one is
able to bear every true tone pro
duced on a hi-fi record, D u a n e
Lake, Union Director, said. There
is no longer a muted sound which
is heard on an old record player.
New murals of the room were
painted by Corban LePell. They
are abstracts done in grey, black,
white and red. LePell will dis
cuss his work at the opening.
LePell's work has been exhibited
in the Exhibition Momentum of
Chicago, the Omaha Midwest Bien
nial, and the San Francisco Wa-
To Nominees
His intensity of purpose, honesty,
friendliness and congenial disposi
tion make him a truly outstanding
Nebraskan.
Fischer made the AH Big Seven
team, played in the East-West
game, and is president of Phi Gam
ma Delta.
According to the letter nominat
ing Lambert, he has performed an
irreplacable service to the Univer
sity through his trip to Russia last
summer and his study of that coun
try's agriculture programs.
Since his return he has tirelessly
attempted to report his findings to
University students who are inter
ested in learning of the effect of
the farm program on Russia's
economy. His sincere interest in th
University and its students mark
him as an exceptional person.
Outstanding Nebraskans fo r
last semester were Marv Stormer,
1955 graduate, and Dr. Cliff Haro
ilto, former chairman of the de
partment of chemical engineering.
Other nominations for the award
should be sent to The Nebraskan
office fa letter form. The letter
must be signed though the name of
the person making the nomination
will be kept confidential.
Deadline for nominations is Jan
18. The Nebraskan staff will select
one student and one faculty mem-
ner lor the title.
Thursday:
Program
Of Sonatas
Scheduled
Donald Lentz, Emanuel Wishnow
and Earnest Harrison, three mem
bers of the University School of
Music faculty, win present a re
cital of sonatas Thursday,
The program, one in a series
of faculty recitals, will be present
ed at 7:30 p.m. to tlie Union Ball
room. Tlie public is invited to at
tend. Lentz, professor of woodwind in
struments and conductor of tlie
University bands, will play the
flute. Harrison, assistant professor
of piano, will play tlie piano.
Wishnow, who will be playing
the violin and viola, is professor
of violin, conductor of tlie Univer
sity orchestra and tlie string en
semble, Tlie program wiH include Sonata
in F Ma)or by Bach, Largo, Al
legretto, Allegro assai e scher-
zando, played by Lentz, Harrison!
and Wwhnow fviolini; Sonata-Undine
by Reinecke, Allegro, Inter
mezzo, Aidama tranquilJo, Fuiale,
played by Lentz and Harrison.
Sonata to A Major by Brahms.
Allegro amabile, Andante tranqufl
lo. Ailegro grazioso, played by
Wishnow (violin) and Harrison:
Sonata by Debussy, Pastorale, In
terlude, Finale, played by Lentz
and Harrison,
Geologist To Talk
About Venezuela
F. Walker Johnson, Venezuelan
geologist and former Nebraskan,
wm be a fuest lecturer Wednes
day. Johnson is manager of the geo
logical department of a national
petroleum company.. He will dis
cuss "Venezuela A Good Neigh
bor" t 2 p.m. Wednesday to Mor
rill Hall, Room 20.
A native Nebraskan, lie attended
school to Weeping Water and
Lincoln and received his BJS. de
gree to geology from the Univer
sity,. Be did geologic epkrttkm to
Nebraska and California for the
Frkk Laboratory of Vertebrate Pa
leontology of the American Mu
seum of Natural Eisiory, Be has
been to Venezuela since JS36. I
His lecture is being sponsored
by tlie Vutverslty DepartnM-nt tA
Geology. It will he open ut the
jwblic.
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tercolor Show. He has also par -tkipated
to several local exhibit
tions. . -
Among the new records for On
room are: "Concerto for Jan'
Bands and Symphony Orchestras;' ",
"Dances of the Polivetzian Maid?
ens," Gilbert and Sullivan's over 7
tures to the "Mikado," and "Tbi
Pirates of Penzance."
Oberon's overture to "Don Pa.
quale," Ravel's "La Valse," Cbo
pin's "Mazurkas" No. J, , 35, 45
4.;, and 49, and Beethoven's "Misss .
Solemnis."
The old phonograph has been re paired
and the old records have
been re-catalogued and replaced. !
Paintings
Explained
By LePell
Corban LePell, whose two nur-J
als for the Union Music Room are ,
to be un veiled Thursday, is one
of the more widely-exhibited un-:"'
dergraduate artists.
LePell's work was chosen for a ; '
one-man show at the University'
last spring. He has been repre-,
sented for two years to the Xa- f
tional Watercolor Exhibition in San ; I
Francisco, in the Midwest Biennal,
Omaha, in 1954, Exhibition Mo- '
mentum, Chicago, in 1954, and has i
won two honorable mentions to AH-1
Nebraska shows. - J
One of LePell's watercolor paint- i
ings is included in the University
permanent collection and two oth- -ers
are in the student exhibition.
LePell's two murals for the
Music Room are more precisely ,
large paintings, which he describes '
as abstract impressionism. They
are intended to represent no mus- j,
ical instruments, he said, but to
convey the feeling of space. ;
Done in black, white and gray
with flashes of color, the paintings
vary in proportion and tone. The
horizontal painting contains more
cool colors and has been tentative
ly entitled "Saraband." The warm
er vertical painting, stretching
from ceiling to floor, has not been
titled yet, LePell said.
The murals are done to lacquer
on tempered masonite. "Lacquer
was used because it dries very
fast; for such a large 'surface
permanency was need ad," be ex
plained. Masonite is preferred to
canvas because it wul not split,
be said.
LePell was chosen to do the
murals by the Union Board of
Managers to November. Union
Director Duane Lake said that the
Union wished to have a University
student paint tlie murals and Le
Pell had been highly recommended
to them. "He's one of the most
outstanding young artists to this
part of the com. ry," Lake said.
Actual painting was done during
Christmas vacation. LePell wDl be
present at the opening of the newly-redecorated
Music Room, and
viH talk briefly on his painting.
LePeD is a senior from Wichita,
Kan.
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KRAIVCK
USMC:
Officer
To Rgvisw
ProcfFOin
Major F. R. Krabce, Marin
officer procurement officer, wi3
discuss the VlMiine office pro
grams available to college stu
dems Jan. 17 and 1$ from 9
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
He win be accompanied by tw
Marine sergeants and Navy
Chief. ;
Stodents interested to obtaL'.fcj
commissirirted rank to the Marina
Corps after frsdaaiksa tssy con.
tact the team while they arc ea
campus.
Informistka and literato jr.y
be obtained trtm & ctiStrge li
brarian prkir to Hie tws vteix.
Students may alao write d-ett-
ly to the Marto Officer Frware
mrti Offke, FuHw 423, UJ. Court
H';w, Uii Grand Aw.,
City , Ua.
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