DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, September 30, 1941
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Working for 'Wings' ...
UNGrads 'Keep 'Em' Flying'
... At Randolph Field
Nebraska graduates are flying
and will be flying these planes as
every new class entering Randolph
field numbers UN students in its
ranks and every graduating class
has its share of Nebraskans.
Among the 285 aviation cadets
Who will complete their ten week
period of basic training at Ran
dolph on Sept. 27 are Earnest B.
Nennemann, Omar W. Hedrick
and Burdette L. Wertman, all re
cent UN students. They will move
to advanced fields as the final step
toward their wings and commis
sions in the army air corps.
Six Nebraskans Beginning
Six other Nebraska students are
planning to begin the course at
Randolph soon. They are Jim
Kirkendahl, Dick Ryan, Jack
Scott, George Souders, Bud John
son and Philip Van Curan.
Approximately 80 percent of the
potential pilots at Randolph are
former students or graduates of
colleges and universities, 126 dif
ferent schools being represented
in the latest graduating class.
Learn Fundamentals First
With new classes starting every
five weeks, first task for the
would-be pilots is the learning of
flying fundamentals at air corps
elementary flying training schools.
Then they move to Randolph field
for the primary phase of their
training.
Both ground school and actual
flying experience is on tap for the
students at Randolph where night
flying, aerial acrobatics, cross
country, formation and instrument
flying and other military tactics
are taught.
Randolph field is training 4,500
cadets annually under the expan
sion program. During the thirty
week training period, cadets are
paid $75 monthly plus food, cloth
ing and quarters.
Grad Exchanges
Music for Army,
But Not for Keeps
Having exchanged his trumpet
for an army scout car, Private
R. C. Buddenberg, formerly prom
inent in musical entertainments
and dramatic activities at the uni
versity, is now a selectee at the
cavalry replacement training cen
ter at Fort Riley, Kas.
Buddenberg performed in nu
merous Cornhusker concerts as a
student at Nebraska, and won sev
eral music scholarships. In addi
tion to the trumpet, he also ex
cels at the French horn, baritone
horn, and organ. At the university
Buddenberg received instruction in
the technique of organ-building.
He has already begun to take
part in replacement center mu
sical entertainments although he
has only been here two weeks.
He will receive basic instruction
in motors, weapons, and combat
work, and at the conclusion of his
13-week training period will be
sent to a permanent garrison in
the mechanized cavalry.
The University of Kansas i3
planning an enlarged program for
its Student Union this year. Fea
tured on the present schedule are
free bridge lessons.
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Cactus Plant Caterpillar
Only A Lowly Worm
Saves Nebraska Prairie
By Dale Wolf.
good has
been
At last some
found in a lowly worm.
This specimen that has shown
up his crawling brothers is the
"cactus caterpillar." The first
trace of this particular elongated
creeping animal came this sum
mer as Marion Pederson, a gradu
ate student in the agronomy de
partment, was doing research
work on a government refuge near
Valentine, Neb., this past summer.
His work consisted of research
on pastures, especially on utili
zation studies, plant development,
and deferred grazing. The first ex
perimental work began in 1937
when the government purchased
70,000 acres of prairie land in the
migratory waterfall refuge near
Valentine.
For the past four summors this
refuge has been the place of ex
tensive pasture studies. Each year
a graduate student from the
agronomy department has spent
his summer vacation finding facts
that will aid the farmer or rancher
in getting the most out of his na
tive grass pasture. This year,
while taking plant development
notes, Pederson noticed a certain
cactus plant which before had
been ruining millions of acres of
pasture land, and was now being
exterminated by some sort of
insect.
Discovery Important.
Naturally, this discovery was
very important because its work
meant that many acres of prairie
Extension Service Helps
Plan Defense Production
In connection with the present
emergency defense program, the
extension service of the Univer
sity of Nebraska plays an impor
tant part in assisting' farmers set
up their plans for maximum ef
ficiency in the production of the
much needed food materials.
Present aims of the extension
service are to encourage farm
products that are much in demand
such as poultry products, beef,
pork etc. and discourage surplus
products.
Thru the extension service, the
innumerable farm agencies carry
out their program to the farmer,
either directly or indirectly.
Brokaw Key Man.
The central-organization of the
Nebraska extension service is
headed by Director W. H. Brokaw
and Assistant Director H. G.
Gould.
Under these men are adminis
trative assistants working on pro
grams of organization and
methods in agriculture and home
making and on a boys and girls
4-H club program. In addition a
group of specialists in various
lines of agriculture and home eco
nomics is provided.
These specialists devote them
selves to state-wide work along
their respective lines, thru lec
tures, demonstrations, correspond-
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the Agriculture Conservation asso
ciation. His time is given to the
preparation and supervision of ed
ducational programs in connection
would be saved from destruction
by the cactus.
'S'his interest led to the further
study of its work, and to the study
of its growth and development.
Pederson caught several speci
mens of this worm and sent them
to the entomology department,
here at the university, for classifi
cation. The entomology depart
ment had no record of this animal
and could not classify it, so they
sent the specimens on to their de
partment in Washington.
Here it was decided that the
worm was a member of the cater
pillar family and that its common
name was "cactus caterpillar."
After some study, it was decided
that the cactus and the cactus
caterpillar maintained a biological
balance and therefore kept the
cactus from spreading too fast.
An example of how this bal
ance could be broken was dis
covered when the cactus was im
ported to Australia several years
ago. In a very short period of
time, thousands of acres of prai
rie land had been ruined by the
plant because the cactus cater
pillar was not present to main
tain this biological balance.
Therefore, when you see a soft
bodied, naked, and nearly limb
less worm, don't step on it; re
member it may be a "cactus caterpillar."
with the Agricultural Adjustment
administration.
Agents Carry Out Program.
Nebraska maintains on the av
erage about 90 agricultural agents
and assistants working in coun
ties or districts thruout the state.
All of them are working under
county extension organizations,
set up to give a complete exten
sion program with the men, the
women, and the boys and girls of
the farms in Nebraska. All these
agents carry on an educational
program in connection with the
agricultural conservation activities
as a part of their extension work.
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