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Further plans of the army spe
cialized training progTam at the
university materialized yesterday
as contracts were signed and ar
rangements completed for the or
ganization of the STARs on ag
campus.
With the arrival of the first
contingent of a unit of STARs to
be housed at the new home eco
nomics building, Nebraska readied
itself as an official home and
training base of air corps, engi
neers, and reclassification of sol
diers for some time to come. The
STARs (specialized Training and
Reassignment) are men who are
to be classified for further train
ing at other centers; some to go to
engineering schools and some to
basic training. Some will be on
the campus but a few days others
will remain as long as a month.
Present plans are to handle a
maximum of five hundred men.
No ROTC Activation Date Set.
Date of activation of the ad
vanced corps of the ROTC unit
still remains in question. Negotia
tions have been started, it was
learned, but no official date of the
activation was released. Rumors
that several individuals had al
ready received their orders and
that the Student Union had been
submitted a contract to feed 350
men for forty-five days were not
confirmed by either military or
administrative officials, and re
main ungrounded as yet.
Vol. 43, No. 53
Lincoln Nebraska
Sunday, April 18, 1943
OKI Accelerates Smmraeir
worts doh 51 Week SessoOT
Peckworth Appears
iefore ASCE Meet
Tomorrow in Union
Howard F. Peekworth, na
tionally known civil engineer, will
appear before a meeting- of the
student ASCE chapter tomorrow
evening at 7:30 in room 315 of the
Student Union.
Peckworth, assistant to the sec
retary of the American Society of
Civil Engineering, is an authority
on post-war planning in the en
gineering societies, and is also an
authority on employer-employee
relations.
Tours Mid-West.
He is given special assignments
and does much traveling among
chapters. At the present he has
been touring the mid-western col
leges.
Mr. Peckworth will be present
at a dinner meeting of the officers
of the ASCE. Professor H. J. Kes
ner of the civil engineery depart
ment and Roy Green, head of
Western Laboratories will also be
present.
"Offerings will be as extensive
as in former years, and the uni
versity plans to operate an accel
erated program by lengthening
the summer session to a summer
quarter," stated R. D. Moritz,
dean of the summer school, when
he announced that the university
will definitely hold a summer
session.
He continued, "Instead of 12
weeks, the schedule will operate
six days a week instead of five,
thereby shortening the session to
ten weeks.
Can Earn 12 Credits
"The ten week session will be
in two parts of five weeks each,
Students may register for six
hours credit in each session,
thereby making it possible for
them to earn 12 hours in the en
tire summer session. Some courses,
however, will be continuous, and
students registering for these
courses will be required to attend
both sessions in order to complete
the work."
Mr. Moritz pointed out one ex
ception to the above plan: engi
neering courses will operate an
entire quarter of 12 weeks, and
classes will also be held for six
days each week.
Change Time Schedule
The dean stated, concerning the
time schedule printed in the sum
mer school bulletin, "The summer
school bulletin was prepared at an
early date, before it was known
what the government require
ments would be in operating the
military courses. Consequently, it
is now necessary to change this
previously announced time sched
ule to accommodate the require
ments of the government. When
the government has completed its
schedule, the summer school ses
sion class hours will be an
(See SUMMER SESION, page 4.)
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PROFESSOR R. D. MORITZ.
Theta Sigma PhVs
Initiate 5, Hold
Election of Officers
Theta Sigma Phi, honorary
journalish sorority held its spring
initiation and election of officers
last week.
Those initiated were: Mary
Ellen Sim, June Jamieson, Marilyn
Fulton, Barbara Hess, and Mary
Louise Babst. The new president
is Mary Louise Babst; vice-president,
Mary Ellen Sim; secretary,
June-Jamieson; and Marilyn Ful
ton, treasurer.
L. M. Reed
Addresses
Graduates
L. M. Reed, personnel director
of the Transcontinental and West
ern airlines, will speak to seniors
and graduate students Tuesday at
9:30 in sosh 306. He will discuss
the future of and opportunities
in the air industry.
Appointments for individual
conferences with Mr. Reed may
be made in Prof. Bullock's office,
sosh 306. Mr. Reed will be on the
campus for two days.
Announce
Sorority
Sing Plan
Order in which the sororities
will appear in the annual Ivy Day
sing, May 1, was announced yes
terday by the AWS board, spon
sors of the sing.
Following are the houses and
song leaders and the order in
which they will sing. The sing
will start at 2:15.
( hi OntfM, TjMiort lWk.
Alpha Phi. Ronia Blba.
Kappa Kappa Gantma, Bfitty Hohf,
(See SORORITY SING, page 4.)
'Born on Farm, 'Kettering's
Life Depicts 'Success Story'
iss Efflorley Speaks
About (British Youth
. . . Tonight in Union
Originally scheduled as the
principal speaker for the annual
honors convocation at the co
liseum, to be held at 10:45 Tues
day, the university and Lincoln
will play host to a man whose
rise to fame followed the classic
American course from a rural
boyhood to a place among the
giants of the nation's industry and
commerce. He is Mr. Charles
Franklin Kettering, who with the
title bt vice president of General
Motors, is also an inventor and an
executive by virtue of his great
conrtibutions to scientific develop
ments in which his firm is inter
ested. Speaking at a chamber of com-
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0. F. KETTERING.
merce banquet at the Cornhusker
Monday night and the following
Tuesday at the honors convoca
tion, which is open to the students
and the public, the man who was
born on a farm near Loudenville,
Ashland county, O., Aug. 29, 1876,
will remain in Lincoln for a two
day visit.
Educated at Country School.
He was educated in the coun
try district school, the Loudenville
hieh school: Wooster (O.) Normal
school and the Ohio State univer
sity at Columbus, graduating from
the latter in 1904.
Completing his collegiate work,
Mr. Kettering taught for a while
in a country school. Later he en
tered the employ of the Star Tele
phone company at Ashland, O.,
as an installation man. Going to
Dayton, Mr. Kettering Joined the
National Cash Register company,
serving In the capacity of inventor
and engineer for about seven
years.
In 1916 Mr. Kettering estab
lished a research laboratory in
Dayton which in 1920 was taken
over by the General Motors cor
poration. In 1925 this laboratory
was moved to Detroit and com
bined with other research opera
tions.
Discovers Ethyl.
Since his research activities!
were taken over by General Mo-
tors, he and ha men have con
tinued to contribute to the Im
provement of the automobile and
other products of the corporation.
Ethyl gasoline, Duco finishes,
crankcase ventilation, balancing
machines, harmonic balancers, to
mention only a few, came out of
his research organization.
In the past few years, the two-
cycle Diesel engines, which power
the streamlined trains, were de
veloped by his research labora
tories. This type of engine has
possibilities of entirely revolution
izing railroad equipment and oper
ation. From a high of over 200
pounds per horsepower, the weight
has been cut to only 16 pounds.
Fuel and operating costs are low
ered and speeds increased to over
120 miles an hour.
"Boss Ket's" widespread Inter
ests have led him into many other
fields. He is the inventor of the
fever machine which gives prom
ise of curing man of many ills
which were heretofore incurable.
These machines are now in dally
use in many of the leading hos
pitals of the country. Dr. Ketter
ing says the next great advance
in science will have to do with the
nature of man and the world. Dis
coveries in biological chemistry
and medicine will help to make
man's stay on earth much more
happy and with much fewer ills,
he contends.
His philanthropic and educa'
(See KETTERING, page 4.)
Miss Louise Morley, daughter of ,
the novelist and poet, Christopher
Morley, just back from an exten
sive speaking . tour of . England,
will speak on ''Young Britons at
War" in the Student Union ball
room at 8 o'clock tonight under
the auspices of the office of war
information and the office of civil
ian defense.
In November of 1942, Miss Mor
ley went to Britain to study first
hand the impact of the war upon
British youth, and to observe the
contribution of young people of
Britain to the war. She made a
survey of both the youths' volun
teer and full-time work.
Miss Morley is telling her story
to" students of American univer
sities and colleges. She worked
closely with young people in the
armed forces of the governments
in exile stationed in London, to
learn of their' work on the fight
ing fronts in Europe as well as
in the underground movements, to
learn of their aspirations for the
future.
Her visit carried her into many
circles such as the woman's land
army, the women's services, set
tlement houses, Y groups, boys'
clubs, girls' clubs, Scouts and
Guides, air training corps, army
and sea cadets, school children
and university students, farmers
and factory workers playing their
part on the home front.
In a summarized statement of
her observations of the British
youth in war, Miss Morley says:
"Britain s young people are meet
ing many of the acute shortages
in manpower in necessary civilian
work in war production. Their
leisure time is spent in training
to increase their potential contri
bution, in supervised recreation
and in learning civic responsibil-
(See MORLEY, page 4.) I
Sprague Mail
Stops Short;
Mumps!
Daily Nebraskan staff mem
bers, disturbed by the absence of
mail from Elmer Sprague, Daily
columnist called with the ERC,
received word yesterday of the
status of Sprague.
e
An unsigned postcard dated
Fort Leavenworth, Wednesday,
April 14, read: "Elmer Sprague
was sent to the hospital today
with mumps."
The Daily Nebraskan anxiously
awaits news from Sprague.
Tassels Choose 24 New
Members for Coming Year
. . . At Rush Tea Yesterday
Tassel's, women's university
pep organization, elected 24 coeds
to pledge membership for the com
ing year at a formal rush tea yes
terday afternoon at the Alpha Phi
house.
Those women elected to mem
bership and the groups they rep
resent include: Nina Nix, Alpha
Chi Omega; Dorothy Caress, Al
pha Omicron Pi; Regina Hoyer
and Mary Lou Weaver, Alpha Xi
Delta; Virginia MacDonald, Chi
Omega; Roberta Burgess, Gamma
Phi Beta; Patricia Terhune, Kap
pa Delta; Jeanne Guneel, Kappa
Kappa Gamma; Jean Glotfelty,
Pi Beta Phi; Florence Wilkenson
and Betty Parker, Sigma Kappa.
Helen Bernasek, Wilson Hall;
Selma ; Fincksten, Raymond Hall;
Bessie Kaye Hiebenthal, Mildred
Engstrom, Olive Pope, Suzanne
Pope and Joyce Crosby, barbs-at
large; Ruth Heim, Mary Ellen Mc
Farland, Peggy Larson, Marilyn
Behm and Jane Johnston, ag col-lege-at-large;
and Joyce Adcock,
Rosa Bouton hall.
A membership quota of two
girls from each sorority house,
seven unaffiliated members-at
large, eight ag college members
and several members represent
ative of women co-op houses con
stitutes the membership of Tassels.
Each year a rush tea is held to
fill the quota of membership from
the various groups.