Friday, March 1, 1940
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Annual junior Ak-Sar-Ben
attracts 73 student showmen
Biggest entry in the beef cattle division with
26 collegians entering Shorthorns and Herefords
Seventy-three Ag men have al
ready drawn their animals for the
competition in the annual Junior
Ak-Sar-Ben, scheduled for March
16 on ag campus, Wayne Smiley,
manager of the show, said yester
day. With two weeks yet before the
student showmen go into the ring
in the annual contest to compete
"'iwfor the title of grand champion
showman, Smiley said that the en
tries this year would probably be
as large as last year's record
breaking number of 120.
All the horses available for
showing have already been drawn,
according to the animal hus
bandry department. Thirteen
horses are being groomed for the
enow.
Biggest entry so far is in the
beef cattle division, with twenty
six students signifying their inten
tions of showing Shorthorns, Here
fords, or Angus.
Students fitting animals.
Ten students have drawn sheep
and twelve have drawn dairy cat
tle. Smiley said that most of the en
trants are already fitting their ani
mals and preparing them for
showing, but that there are still
plenty of good individuals left in
all divisions except horses.
Awards will be given on the
basis of fitting for the ring before
the show, along with showman
ship in the ring.
Smiley urged that all students
interested go to the animal hus
bandry office and draw an animal
in order to get started fitting by
next week. Student workers are
assisting the competitors and the
barns are being turned over to the
entrants.
Award silver trophy.
Grand champion showman of
the show March 16 will be awarded
a silver trophy, according to the
manager. Ray Crawford, now a
sophomore, won the trophy last
year showing a sheep, lie is in
eligible this year because of last
year's triumph.
Prizes will be given in all five
divisions for the first five places
and the first and second place win
ners will be entitled to compete
for grand champion. Prizes first,
cane; second, tic; third, tie; fourth,
tie; fifth, ribbon. All prize win
ners will receive ribbons.
The Junior Ak-Sar-Ben will be a
whole week-end affair for Ag cam
pus, Lyle Roberts, president of
Mock and Bridle, student honorary
sponsoring the show, announced.
To start week's activity.
Friday night, March 16, the an-
Jobs disprove
home cc-vedding
inevitability
Home economics and marriage
are no longer the ' inevitable com
bination as is clearly seen by the
letters offering positions on the
desk of Miss Margaret Fodde,
head of the home economics de
partment. Six hiRh salaried posi
tions offered at the mid-year is
encouraging to home economic
majors.
Research has become a woman's
field and a research assistant in
housing is sought at Corvallis,
Oregon. A notice of an opening
for a home demonstration agent
was sent from Missouri.
Other positions.
Other positions offered for grad
uate students from Nebraska Uni
versity include educational advisor
of the National Dairy Council, in
structor in experimental foods and
household equipment at the State
College of Washington. Pullman,
Wash.; instructor of nutn Ion and
assistant in institution administra
tion at the University of Kansas
City.
While these offers seem out
standing in their salaries and op
portunities, the applicants must
have at least Master's degrees.
nual Junior Ak-Sar-Ben ball will
be held in the student activities
building and will start the week
end's activities. Gene Pieper and
his band will play as Ag men and
women gather to start the festivi
ties for the tenth annual event.
Finale of the week-end will be
the showmanship competition Sat
urday in the pavilion o fthe horse
barn where Ag men will compete
for the title of grand champion
showman. Special events will be
interspersed between the classes
during the evening.
Countryman
staff makes
policy changes
At a general meeting of all the
members of the Cornhusker Coun
tryman staff last Tuesday, Feb.
27, several Important pieces of leg
islation were enacted. Nearly all
of the regular staff members were
present and two motions concern
ing the policy of the magazine
were passed almost unanimously.
The first motion was to set a
definite number of subscriptions
or advertising required from each
member of the entire business
staff to entile him to a position on
the masthead of each month's
issue.
Beginning with the March is
sue all members of the editorial
staff will be required to contribute
either work or some usable writ
ten material for each issue to be
entitled to a position on the mast
head, according to the second mo
tion passed.
The masthead of the magazine
will be made flexible insofar as
the assistants and associates are
concerned, with the ones who have
contributed the most toward that
issue receiving the more impor
tant positions.
Spring party
tickets on sale
Tickets are on sale for the Ag
spring party March 9, Keith Gil
more, president of the Ag execu
tive board, announced yesterday.
Student salesmen are canvassing
the campus.
Chief social event of the spring
on Ag campus, the spring party
this year will feature the annual
presentation of the Goddess of
Agriculture, a senior home
economics student elected by the
home economics students, as Ag
men and women gather in the stu
dent activities building.
Theme of the event is a "south
ern lawn party." Lee Williams and
his Stepping Tone music will be
featured.
Ag breakfast
to feature Story
Another Ag college tradition
will be kept on Sunday March 17,
when the annual Pre-Easter
Breakfast will be held in the Ac
tivities building. The speaker will
be Reverend Bert L. Story, Dis
trict Superintendent of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. Last year
tlu breakfast was held at 6:13 in
the morning, but this year the
time is set for 7 o'clock.
The breakfaut is sponsored by
the Ag college religious council
vvhic his made up of eight students
two from each of the three
churches near the campus, one
each from the Y. M. C. A. and the
Y. W. C. A.; the ministers from
each of the churches, and the
Y. M. sponsor C. D. Hayes and
the Y. W. sponsor. The faculty
sponsor is Dr. T. H. Goodding.
An elaborate breakfast will be
served, accompanied by a regular
program with the room appropri
ately decorated. Chairman of the
affair is Don Crosier, and chair
men of the various committees
are as follows: refreshments, Dor
othy Peters and YW president, Pat
McMahon; program, Bob Messer
smith; decorations, Bob Wilson;
and tickets, Carol Voss and Mar
ion Peterson. Tickets will be
available beginning Monday,
March 4, and Uie price per person
is 20 cents.
Make two changes
in county agents
Two changes in county agricul
tural agents have been made in
Nebraska. Forrest J. Scrivner of
Hitchcock county has resigned his
position there to become manager
of a newly organized farm serv
ice company, and will move soon
with his family to Halgler where
he Intends to devote time to his
registered herd of Hereford cattle.
Greth Dunn, who has served as
agricultural agent in Dixon county
for six and one-half years, will
fill the vacancy.
Erville Hughes has resigned
from the Thedford district in the
sandhills to go with an insurance
company to manage farms. He
will be replaced by Jesse Skinner,
who is a graduate of the Univer
sity college.
Hathaway speaks
on vitamin research
All members of the faculty and
graduate students are invited to
attend a talk by Mr. I. L. Hath
away on "The Vitamin Research
of the Dairy Department" at 4
p. m. today in Room 106, Plant
Industry Building.
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Hynes-Sears
scholarships
announced
Omaha woman, Sears
Roebuck award 15 Ag
students $25, tuition
Two Hynes scholarships for $25
each and 13 Sears & Roebuck
scholarships have been awarded to
students for the second semester.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Mrs.
Margaret P. Hynes of Omaha
made available these awards to ag
college students.
Walter Crumbliss and Paul Mc
Millen were awarded the Hynes
scholarships. Sears & Roebuck
scholarship winners were Dale
Landgren, Robert Ranning, Oscar
Thomas, Gerald Abbenhaus, Law
rence Boydston, Warren Sahs,
Ronald Jerauld, Donald Brown,
Fred Patterson, Louise Gill, Ger
aldine Fouts, Jane Sherburn,
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Ag council plans
costume mixer
Costumes and masks for Ag
men and women will be In order
tonight as the social council plays
host at Its masquerade mixer in
the Student Activities building.
The first masquerade party to
be held this year on Ag campus,
added zest will be given by the
prizes being offered for the most
ingenious costumes, along with
novelty numbers that will be in
terspersed with dancing.
The party is a mixer and not a
date affair, Chairman Ray Craw
ford said. The price will be ten
cents for those who mask and 15
cents for those who are not cos
tumed. It is open to all university
students.
Norma Jean Campbell, and Delia
Marie Ingalls.
Among other requirements for
eligibility for the awards was that
the student had an average grade
of at least 80 with no flunks, con
ditions or incompletes and not
more than one grade in the 60's.
Students who had received either
a Regent's or Union Pacific schol
arship were not eligible.
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