Monday, December 10, 1962
The Daily Nebraskan
Page 3
Cook's Disputed Bid
Judged Acceptable
Board Nullifies Olson's Claim
The disputed bid of $634,
456 from the Cook Construc
tion Co. of Lincoln was
accepted Friday by the Univ
ersity Board of Regents for
the gerneral construction of a
library at the College of Agri
culture. The contract was awarded
after Regents spent over an
hour listening to the legal
pros and cons of the decision.
The next lowest bidder, Ol
son Construction Co., disputed
Cook's low bid as not comply
ing with the bidding instruc-
Regents
Acquire
New Land
Approval Given
To Two Contracts
For a purchase price of
$225,000, the University Board
of Regents moved Friday
toward acquisition of one
third of a block of property
at the northeast corner of 12th
and Q streets.
The Regents approved ne
gotiation of an agreement
with the Consolidated Invest
ment Company, owner of the
four and a half lots adjacent
to the University's city cam
pus and directly south of Tem
ple building.
Business Manager Carl Don
aldson said the land is being
acquired as a future building
site, but that no definite plans
have been made.
The land has a 225-foot
front on Q street and a 150-
foot front on 12th street. About
half of the property is the site
of a one-story building, hous
ing a printing shop, barber
shop, and a used-car business.
The other half is a parking
area.
Mr. Donaldson said the busi
nesses now occupying the
building will be allowed to re
main until definite use of the
property is decided upon.
The Board also authorized
the sale of four lots in Omaha
to the Bishop Clarkson Hos
pital for the price of $64,600.
The property is located at the
northwest orner of 42nd and
Harney Street.
In other action, the Board:
Approved the contract for
a metal building at the Box
Butte Experiment Station at
Alliance to Lumir Peltz Con
struction Co. of Alliance,
which submitted the low bid
og $8,640.
Approved a low bid of
$9,198 from the Sanborn Com
pany of St. Paul, Minn., for
an eight - channel Thermal
Writing Recording System.
The machine, which will re
cord velocity, temperature,
and other factors at eight
different points simultaneous
ly, will be used by Prof. Tur
gut Sarpkaya of engineering
mechanics in his research on
the measurement of forces on
various shaped objects, such
as missile-shaped and wing
shaped. 'Agribusiness
IsExpanding'
Gardner
Agriculture is big business,
and it's expanding at a rate
of nearly four per cent an
nually, said the Associate
Dean of the University of Il
linois College of Agriculture
here in a recent address to
some 250 agriculture students.
Dr. Karl Gardner, speak
ing at the annual Profession
al Opportunities Conference
held in the Ag Activities
building, noted that retail
sales in agriculture total over
$100 billion annually. "Agri
culture is even bigger than
the Federal Government," he
noted.
. The graduates of the Illin
ois College of Agriculture av
erage, over $10,000 annually,
with incomes of nearly $14,
000 a year for those in "agri
business", Gardner continued.
This shows, he said, that
graduates in agriculture
slightly exceed in income the
average for all college grad
uates. Quoting Abraham Lincoln's
latter to his step-brother, Dr.
Gardner said "the real rea
son you want to sell (the
family farm) is because you're
too lazy to work with it."
"If you're willing to work,"
he continued, there are many
opportunities over 'five
tnousand agricultural occupa
tions in the official labor de
partment job description
book.
tions, and, thus, not eligible
for consideration.
Olson, who bid $643,831 on
the general contract, con
tended that the Cook bid
should be thrown out because
Cook failed to submit bids on
two alternates which were In
cluded in the call for bids
by the University. One of the
alternates asked for a price
If precast concrete rather
than tile was to be used; the
other for a price without some
concrete benches and window
boxes.
The Olson company, whose
price on the general contract
without alternates, was $9,375
higher than Cook's, contended
the alternates were a part of
a single proposal and that
since the Cook Company ig
nored the alternates, its bid
was incomplete and should
not be considered.
The disputed contracts ori
ginally came before the Re
gents at their meeting on
Nov. 17 but action was de
layed to permit attorneys for
the contesting bidders to be
heard.
The University's legal rep
resentative Charles Oldfather
told the Regents that he rec
ommended the Cook bid be
considered if they decided
against the inclusion of the
alternative project's.
The Regents awarded as
sociated contracts, not in dis
pute, as follows: mechanical,
Newberg & Bookstrom, Lin
coln, $142,152; electrical, Mod
ern Electric, Lincoln, $152,
400; elevator, O'Keefe Ele
vator Co., Inc., Ojnaha, $10,-950.
NU Receives
Grants, Aids
For Research
More than $900,000 in re
search grants, fellowships,
and gifts was accepted by the
University Friday morning
from outside sources.
The largest grant was one
for $398,949 from the U.S.
Public Health Service to sup
port the Mental Retardation
Clinical Research Center, un
der the direction of Dr. Ce
cil Wittson, chairman of the
University's department of
neurology and psychiatry at
the College of Medicine in
Omaha.
Among the gifts wag stock
valued at $10,000, from an
anonymous donor for the bene
fit of the University State
Museum.
The research grants in
cluded: $55,000 from the National
Science Foundation, to sup
port research in theoretical
physics by Dr. Paul Gold
hammer and Dr. H. S. Valk.
$3,000 from the Nebras
ka Department of Agriculture
and Inspeciton for research
by Dr. John H. Lonnquist in
the breeding of high amylose
hybrids for industrial utiliza
tion. $31,000 from the National
Science Foundation for re
search by Dr. Allen R. Edi
son of the department of elec
trical engineering for the
modeling of electromagnetic
waves in a turbulent medium
using acoustic waves in wa
ter. WTOL0OKAT'0WUrTEA5!Frr
U)K A BOOK, AND EACH Mt6 If
(T lUtKt A PA6E IN THAT BOOK...
THERE OJEET0O
10 maw),
MISPRINTS
NEW OUTLOOK,
ML
Dr. Palmer
To Give Up
Old Position
Dr. Edgar Z. Palmer, who
has kept track of Nebraska's
retail sales for the past 15
years, ww give up his posi
tion as director of the Uni
versity's Bureau of Business
Research on Feb. 1.
He will remain with the Uni
versity as a member of the
Nebraska Field Mission at
Erzurum, Turkey, where the
University is assisting the
TurKisn government in build
ing Ataturk University.
The Board of Regents ap
proved Friday the appoint
ment of Dr. Palmer as pro
fessor ot economics at Ata
turk University.
A native of Pennsylvania,
Dr. Palmer came to the Uni
versity in 1946 as head of the
department of business re
search in the College of Busi
ness Administration. Prior to
that, he was a professor of
economics at University of
Kentucky for 18 years.
He is given credit for en
larging the College's monthly
publication, "Business in Ne
braska," which analyzes each
month more than 800 retail
sales reports from individual
Nebraska businesses. The
publication has a circulation
of 8,000 copies.
Dr. Palmer said he began
the sampling of retail sales
in 1947 after the U.S. Depart
ment of Census discontinued
its sampling on a state-wide
basis in Nebraska.
Dr. Palmer's retirement
from the directorship would
have been mandatory next
July because of age. Dean
Charles S. Miller of the Col
lege of Business Administra
tion said no successor to Dr.
Palmer has been found as
yet, but it is possible, he
said, that an acting director
would be named next month
for the remainder of the
school year.
In other personnel changes,
the Board accepted the resig
nation of Dr. J. William Holl,
associate professor of me
chanical engineering. A mem
ber of the faculty since 1959,
he will accept a similar po
sition on Feb. 2 at Pennsyl
vania State University.
The Board also awarded
Faculty Summer Research
Fellowships, valued at $1,000
each, to these staff mem
bers: Nicholas Babchuk, sociolo
gy; Louis Crompton, Ross
Garner, Lee T. Lemon, and
James L. Roberts, all of Eng
lish; Robert H. Hurlbutt III,
philosophy; Wallace C. Pe
terson, economics; Carl J.
Schneider and Raphael Zaris
ki, both of political science;
Jessup M. Shively, microbiol
ogy; T. M. Stout, geology;
Luh C. Tao, chemical engi
neering; David Trask, his
tory; and Mumtaz H. Zaida
and E. J. Zimmerman, both
of physics.
Singers Concert
Features Carols
The house was packed twice
yesterday for the two per
formances of the University
Singers Christmas Carol Con
cert. The 106 red-robed cloi
sters performed in the Stu
dent Union ballroom in front
of a setting of blue
The program included sev
eral Christmas carols, an
advent cantata by Johann Se
brastian Bach and a motet
for advent.
Soloists in the appearances
were Shirley Nunns and Judy
Tenhulzen, sopranos; Leland
Flickinger and Willard Mar
quardt, basses and Kenneth
Scheffel and George Mech
ling, tenors
Campus
Calendar
TOMORROW
FACULTY SENATE, 4 p.m.,
Student Union.
FOREIGN FILM SOCIETY,
series of short films, 7 and 9
p.m. Nebraska Theater, 12th
and P.
SIGMA XI, annual open
house, 7:30 p.m., 1517 O.
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN
MILITARY ENGINEERS,
meetine. 7 n.m.. 234 Student
Union. Dr. T r e v i s of the
geology department will
show slides on current work
being done in Arctic regions.
Eight Debaters
Compete in Meet
Eight University debaters
journeyed to Winfield, Kan.
for a debate tournament this
weekend.
Gary Radii and Steve
George won three and lost
three of their debates. The
team of Mike Culwell and Tom
Chandler won three and lost
three.
Ken Mahlin and Bob Cherny
won three and were defeated
in three. Bud Kimball and
Bill Harding won two and
lost four of their debates.
WELCOME HOME? In a scene from
"The Visit," Burgomaster (Don Sobolik)
left foreground welcomes Pedro (Curtis
Greene) and the wealthy woman who re
Dedication Planned
Woods Cornerstone
To Be Placed Friday
The University's India As
sociation has collected $225
from its members and has
sent the sum to India's Na
tional Defense Fund as t h e
group's contribution to t h e
Himalayan border dispute
with China.
The Association, made up
of Indian students studying at
the University, collected the
voluntary contributions fol
lowing the passage of t h e
resolution in its general meet
ing setting up a committee to
handle the fund-raising.
The resolution also ex
pressed the Association's sin
cere appreciation and thanks
to the people and the gov
ernment of the United States
for their sympathy and as
sistance to the government of
India in their conflict with
Red China.
The contribution 'was sent
to India's Embassv in Wash-.
ington to be added to the Na
tional Defense Fund of India,
a fund established by India
for voluntary gifts of money,
which will be spent directly
for the defense effort by In
dia, and to aid victims of the
conflict.
Rajindar Kumar Maniktala,
graduate student in civil en
gineering and member of the
Association's executive com
mittee, said yesterday, "We
mb a real oigaraff
llllllllB if
-v ' I ' " - - v-5 - s 1
T.V I sT v.-
' xSfr" - ! y-i -1
' I i v..fr
is; I j r. .
Si:-..:. I rtj- ; i.:?::ii::': 1 .y -r-iw. .iSSSS
pHH ; I 1
ST ,s imW" : . ....... .. J x : ,W 'SiSKi. i
r I ::;p S-:v:-- ' " $
I " , - jif rfwaiaw v-ti ... I
I f WEST COAST gWlANS fr'" yt J I
jp l :::::::::::: ::::Sv: ::::. :::::-:::::::::::::-.:::: - ....: -::r ,. :-" v -yi-Jv:.- :'.::. . .f. .:.:::.. :::: : .
I (I J vi 1
MnriBlirtli'iiliwoWMW i "i -t.-: :
He best tcbscco rnc!:cs t!:s fcssf
"In
have been approached by
some non-members offering
voluntary contributions to
either the National Defense
Fund or the Border Opera
tions Relief Fund.
Because the Association
cannot accept donations
from either Indian students or
residents of the United
States who are not members,
Maniktala said, "Non-members
who wish to contribute
to either fund can send their
gifts directly to the Embassy
of India, Washington, D.C.
Such gifts should be drawn in
favor of one of the funds or
the other."
Read Nebraskan
Want Ads
) 1182 B. I. Beyoolda tCgbacca
7
tf
lijj
turns to take vengeance on an old sweet
heart (Leta Powell Drake). "The Visit"
will be presented by University Theater
Wednesday through Saturday.
Lincolnite Begins
Endowment Fund
Mrs. Grace Cartney of Lin
coln has given the University
a new $10,000 endowment fund
to be established as a scholar
ship in her sister's name.
The fund has been estab
lished in memory of Mrs.
Cartney's sister, Nettie Hoov
er, a longtime resident of
Davenport, Nebr.
Income from the fund, ad
ministrated by the University
of Nebraska Foundation, will
be used to support scholar
ships for worthy graduates of
Davenport High School.
Mrs. Cartney is the widow
of Mr. C. C. Cartney, prom
inent Lincoln businessman
who died in 1956.
Two scholarships may be
awarded each year. Awards
will be determined by the
Committee on Scholarships
and Financial Aids at the Uni
versity. 111
a - hava a
II II W l ! Bl
Comm. Wlutiu-Btlaa, N. C.
few
Chairmen
Evaluate
Program
Students To Help
MB's, Innocents
At a meeting Sunday the
two chairmen of the Mortar
Board Innocents Speakers
Program decided on a new
means of getting speaking
engagements.
Susie Moffit, Mortar Board
chairman and Joel Lundak,
Innocents chairman for the
project, decided to use Uni
versity students from each of
the many cities in the project
to make personal contacts
with civic leaders in their
hometowns telling about the
project and setting up speak
ing engagements.
These students will be
asked to attend a meeting at
p.m. Dec. 19th in the Stu
dent Union in which the pro
ject and the students' roles
will be explained.
In the speakers project,
members of the two senior
honoraries travel to different
civic organizations through
out the state and give
speeches telling about the
University.
The speeches concentrate on
two phases of the University
student life and activities
and facts about the Institu
tion which make it well-
known nationally.
Lundak mentioned a few
examples of facts which are
generally not known about the
University that it Tanks
ninth in alumni listed in
Who's Who in America-that '
the University is one of three
schools in the nation selected,
as a national curriculum study
center in English and that
the University has the larg
est extension service in the
world.
According to Miss Moffit,
the purpose of the speakers
project is basically to pro
mote the University to the
people of the state "to sell
them, not on the idea of
sending their kids to the Uni
versity, but on the idea of
giving their support to the
institution interestwise and
moneywise."
it -v V
y
BLCK'H
HM WMH W UTI i N wTt jgi f 1 1 Hlf ij bit i?..-T t- ll ' i i.
n n n f3fi