SIX
DAILY NEBRASKA!
Summer yields rich harvest
for misseum digging parties
As this summer began to draw
to a close, museum expedition
parties excavating in various
places about Nebraska and the
United States started back to
Lincoln and the university. Where
the 100,000 pounds of fossil ma
terial gathered by the eight field
parties is to be stored is some
what of a problem for Dr. E. H.
Barbour, director of the museum.
Tons of bones are excavated
and sent to the university labora
tories every summer, but with the
aid of WPA, a record yield was
gathered this year. C. Bertrand
Schultz, assistant museum director
and director of the field parties
said, "This was by far the most
successful summer in the history
of the museum. Both In quantity
and quality, the 1939 yield repre
sents an all-time high."
Baby mammoth's skull
A perfectly preserved skull of a
baby mamoth, complete with
teeth and tusks was one of this
season's interesting discoveries.
The tiny skull which is about a
foot in diameter, one-fifth the
natural size, was found near
Gordon in association with the re
mains of an animal resembling a
muskox.
Through a knowledge of geo
logical formations, it is possible to
select locations in which it is
almost definitely known that fos
sils will be found. Nebraska is one
of the richest fossil grounds in the
United States, according to Mr.
Schultz. No dinosaurs, however, he
added, are found here. That is be
cause Nebraska was covered by a
sea during the age in which these
particular types of reptiles lived.
Some relatives of them are found
here.
Take colored movies.
When a group of bones are
found they are carefully shel
lacked, wrapped In plaster cf paris
and burlap, crated, numbered and
sent to the museum workrooms.
Colored movies were taken of
all the excavations and will be
shown this winter.
In intereseting contrast to the
enormous bones tisually associated
with thoughts of fossils were the
minutely small bones found in
New Mexico caves. Mingled with
divers material from the bottoms
of the raves, the bones have to be
separated with a pair of tweezers.
Considerable quantities of horse,
camel, deer, bison, rodent and car
nivore bones were obtained during
the summer, which will provide
the museum with several needed
mounts in the horse and camel
to!!. -it ions.
Texas work successful.
The p:trty in Texas brought
hcK ,1 large nnd valuable collec
tion of artifacts and bison re
run :n Tli great number of dart
poi'.'s. knives, and other human
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tior. .f the stntc prevented a
la i t;, r appropriation.
Ttif homecoming dinner, spon
sored by the council on adminis
tration, nave Uie faculty the op
portunity to meet new members.
Preceding the dinner the chancel
lor introduced members of the
faculty and administration seated
at the .speakers table. They were:
Dr. Hiwold Stoke, dean of the
graduate college; Colonel Charles
A. Thuis. It. O. T. C. commandant;
F.. K. DuTeau, alumni secretary;
Dr. A K We.itbrook, director of
the hi ml of fine arts; Miss Helen
Ho"p, 'lean of women; Dr. B. L.
Hooper, dean of the college of
dentistry; Dr. Frank Z. Click, di
rector of the graduate school of
Hoci'i! work, and Carroll Chouin
ard, director of the editorial and
publicity department.
MU Hosp, new dean of women,
gpok.! anil expressed the hope that
her office would be looked upon
as i clearing house for furthering
the welfare of women students.
Dr. Hooper explained that the
faculty of the college of dentistry
is now at work adapting its edu
cational program to requirements
of the middlewest.
Dr. Westbrook told. of his plan
to make the university campus and
th entire state more music-conscious,
and Mrs. T. F. A. Williams
of the department of sociology
told briefly of her experiences In
Uie Brltihh Isles this summer.
Kuykendoll appointed
D. W. Kuykendall, '31, of the
Robert I Paschal high school at
Fort Werth, Tex., has been ap
pointed an instructor in commer
cial education at Iowa State Teach
er college, Cedar Fall-. While at
Nebraska., Kuykendall was part
time secretary of the school of
journalUfa,
implements found in association
with piles of bison bones, together
with the several evidences of char
coal about the area, indicate to
university scientists that this site
was probably the scene of a great
buffalo hunt thousands of years
ago.
Sites excavated and the individ
uals in charge of them are as fol
lows: Gordon, E. E. Brier, DeWitt;
Crawford-Harrison, Thompson M.
Stout, department of geology;
Hemingford, William Homey, Lin
coln; Broadwater, Paul Burkhold
er, Fremont; Oshkosh, E. L. Blue,
Lincoln, and Jack Graham, York;
New Mexico caves, Frank Bell,
museum staff; and Canadian, Tex.,
William Hendy, North Platte, and
John Adams, Curtis. Excavations
were also carried on near Brady,
Maxwell, Lexington, Gothenburg,
Bridgeport and Harrisburg.
Ag registry
has increase
20 more men, 10
more women register
Enrollment of freshmen men on
the ag campus is 20 percent
greater than at this time a year
ago, according to W. W. Burr,
dean of the college. Further, the
records show over a 10 percent
increase in the number of fresh
man girls on the campus, the dean
stated.
Added enrollment has created
a problem here as elsewhere in
the university and some class
schedules have necessarily been
shifted in both agricultural and
home economics subjects, as well
as shown the need of increasing
seating capacity in certain rooms.
In a letter to L. F. Seaton, oper
ating superintendent. Dean Burr
cited the need for adding seats in
classrooms to accommodate a
Husker Home Plate station
keeps baseballers running
There's a new eas station for
Husker fans to patronize, what
with the Husker Home Plate sta
tion at 17th and R having come
into existence.
Five Husker freshman baseball
players, along with varsity second
baseman Dow Wilson, have banded
together in a co-operative busi
ness, and right now are attempt
ing to get the patronage of cam
pusites. The freshmen. Lawrence Schma
deke of Bradish; Bob Wiles, Seb
Manzitto and Angelo Ossino of
Omaha, and Carl Max of Fremont
greater number of students this
fall. He also states that about a
dozen sophomores have been asked
to drop out of one of the agricul
tural engineering classes in order
to make room for juniors and
seniors who are required to take
the course.
do the work at the station, while
Wilson is business setter, book
keeper and general manager.
Coach Wilbur Knight of the
Husker baseball team leased the
station recently, and the boys are
already at work.
It's a job for the group, and as
Ossino, brilliant pitcher from
Omaha Central high says, "If we
don't get business, we don't eat."
Ossino also gave your reporter a
little sales talk stressing how
cheap the station's prices were for
car washes, etc. but maybe that's
getting into free advertising.
Schmadeke, brother of Lloyd
Schmadeke, who finished his
pitching career for the Huskers
last spring, is a southpaw pitcher,
while Ossino is a right hander.
Wiles caught for Omaha Tech
last year, Max played first base
for Fremont, while Manzitto was
right fielder for the Central team.
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