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Pusagiree Elecfiitamin I 01 MM Council 0)Ms Vol. 44, NO. 39 Wednesday, December 13, 1944 War Council Plans Show Feb. 23-25 " 'Til Johnny Comes Maching Home, the 1945 war show will be given Feb. 23, 24 and 25 in three evening performance in the Union ball room rather than Feb. 9, 10 and 11 as previously sched uled, Lucy Ann Hapeman, direc tor, announced today. The change was made to avoid conflict with the forthcoming theatre production which will re quire an unusually large staff in eluding many of the people needed for the war show. There will be no Sunday afternoon matinee due to the band concert which was previously scheduled for the afternoon of the 25th. Miss Hapeman announced that tryouts have been completed and the remainder of the show will be cast as soon as the script is finished, probably by the end of the week. Jo Ann Kinsey and Billie Trombla are to be in charge of the dance routines and Peggy Shelly will work with the vocal chorus with the assistance of Mr Donald Glattly. Elizabeth Lamb will design the costumes again this year and the Home Ec club will supervise costume construction. The director expressed the hope that all crews would be completed before Christmas vacation. Any one who desires to help with the show may contact Miss Hape man at 2-7545. Guest Speaker, Violinist Appear On Ag Program Rev. Ray Kearns will be guest sneaker and Professor Carl Steckleberg, violinist, guest solo ist for the traditional ag college Christmas program at the Col lege Activities building at 8 p. m. tonight for students, faculty and the public. Margaret Ruth Heim and Peggy Larson will take part in a special candle lighting service in which thirty candles are lighted, one for each of the thirty years of Christ's life. Excerpts from the Messiah and other seasonal choral num bers will be sung by the ag col lege chorus under the direction of Mrs. Altmas Tunis with Myron Roberts at the organ. Barbara Gooding and Arch Briggs will sing solos from the Messiah. The committee In charge of the program includes: Edith Pum- phrey and Edgar Hamm, co chairmen; Helen Mortenson, pro gram; Peggy Larson, decorations; and Julia Crom, publicity. Sigma Alpha Iota Initiate 6 Dec. 10 Six upperclassmen pledges of Sigma Alpha Iota, professional music sorority, were initiated Sun day morning at the music school in a pre-breakfast ceremony. The new initiates are Lorraine Brill, Doris Chamberlain, Frances Farnsworth, Helen Laird, Mar garet Modlin and Shirley Walsh Union Schedules Caroling, Siesta Films This Week Christmas caroling and three siesta films fill the Union calendar far this week. With organists Myron Roberts and Ruth Way, caroling will be continued thru Friday in the lounge from 12:20 to 12:50 each noon. "March of Times,H Texas" and ' "Wealth of . the AndesV are the three films to be shown, in the lounge at 5 p. m. today.. Stuart Sons Add $3500 To Memorial An additional donation of $3,500 was made to the Charles Stuart Memorial Scholarship Fund, by sons of the late Charles Stuart, Capt. James and Charles T. Stuart. The Charles Stuart Memorial Scholarship is an annual award to a male student above fresh man rank, administered by the college of agriculture. Captain James Stuart, now somewhere in Germany, and Charles T. Stuart, expressed the hope that over a period of years this fund could be developed to give agricultural education to many more deserving students in the study of the field of agricul ture. The late Mr. Stuart was Inter ested in the various programs devoted to the development of Nebraska agriculture. His sons are honoring the memory of their last father by helping to carry on one of his greatest interests. Announcement of the dona tion was made by Perry Branch, director of the University of Ne braska Foundation. Dr. C. Young, Paleontologist, Visits Morrill Dr. Chung Chien Young, promi nent paleontologist and geologist, is now on the campus studying the exhibits in Morrill Hall. He was sent to the United States last May, by the Chinese government as one of 34 members of the Technical Committee of Missionary Resources Commission in China. The commission is made up of engineers and busi ness men whose scope is to study electric powers and industrial plants all over the United States. Dr. Young is the only pure scien tist in the group. He is concerned primarily with building up good will between United States and Chinese scholars, and to study re search and exhibit facilities with a view to post-war co-operation between the scientists of the two countries. Dr. Young is especially inter ested in the displays in Morrill Hall which were taken from the Great Plains of the United States, because soil conditions there cor respond closely to soil conditions of most of China. U.S. President Awards Navy Cross to Zacek Ensign Edward C. Zacek, UN graduate of '42, has been awarded the navy cross by the President of the United States, it was re vealed by the navy department Wednesday. Ensign Zacek's citation reads: "For extraordinary heroism as wave commander during the am phibious assault at Salerno, Italy, September 9, 1943. Undeterred by fierce opposition, Ensign Zacek courageously proceeded through heavy enemy gunfire off the as sault beaches and while leading a wave of tank lighters to desig nated landing positions was seri ously wounded in 'the head and hip. "Disregarding his own grave condition, he persisted with the landing operations and ordered the unloading to be continued and boats retracted for return to the (See NAVY CROSS, pae 2.) Meetis "to Bet Pflew atie Union Stages HolidayParty Saturday Nite BY ELEANOR KNOLL. 'Twas the week-end before Christmas vacation when all thru the campus . . . the rumblings of down-slips and hissing of tests were nicely forgotten in a Sat urday evening's entertainment . . . at the Union Christmas party. The plans were all made by the Union with care, in hopes that the students would cut lose and eat ice cream and cake (given away on third floor from 10 to 11:30 p. m.) or brownies and cokes (found in the lounge from 10 to 12 p. m.) AST Band Plays. The AST band in the ballroom from 8:30 to 11:30 and caroling in the lounge from 10 to midnight will have all settled down with plans for a long evening of free entertainment. The students will be heard to exclaim ere they walked out of sight of the Union "Merry Christmas to all, and oh what a night!" Pat Lahr hopes. Staff, Reporters Of 'Nebraskai? Throw Big Party Shades of St. Nick, the Ne braskan business manager, Jo Martz, finally broke down and agreed to finance a Christmas party for the reporters and the staff. After carefully remov ing the shotgun from behind Martz's head, the editor scheduled the shindig for Monday afternoon at 4 p. m. All reporters, ad salesmen and staff members must sign up today on the sheet of paper pasted on the back-side of the post in the middle of the Ne braskan office. See? P. S. It lays here In small type that the Cornhiuker, too, is having a party Thursday afternoon. Students Begin 'Beavering9 Early For Peace Meet As the miniature peace con ference gradually gets closer to University of Nebraska students, debators are not the only ones pouring over volumes of post war planning evidence and material. The attention of the students has been turned to reading post war material pertaining to such things as what will Russia do after the war? Will France be strong enough politically and economically to handle self gov ernment immediately? What will Great Britain do concerning Italy? To help students become informed about these subjects, the univer sity library contains unlimited sources of material and is add ing new books and periodicals to its shelves regularly. New Books Added. The following books are among those which have been added to the library during the past month. A list containing the call numbers and a short description of each book is posted in the main read ing room of the library: "Sahara; The Great Desert," Gautier; "Gauging Public Opinion," Hadley Cantril; "The Letters of Alexander Woollcott," Alexander Woollcott; "Plenty of People," Warner S. Thompson; "Arctic Manual," Ste fanson; "Left Hand, Right Hand," Sitwell; "Jpan's Islands of Mys tery," Price; "The Americas and Tomorrow," Prewett; "The Pacific World," Osborn; "Searchlight of Peace Plans," Wynner; "Global Georgiaphy," Renner; "The Neth erlands," Riemens; "The Fourth Year," Mclnnis; "Wind in the Sahara." Bodley: "The., Heart of New Hampshire,'r Weygant. '! ' " Due to a discrepancy in the number of ballots received and the number of voters signing for ballots, the Student Council has contested the class presidential election held Tuesday and will call a new election in the near future, according to Gene Dixon, chairman of the elections com mittee. In the senior class balloting there were 70 ballots counted for Junior Division Students Make Class Schedules Second semester registration blanks for Junior Division stu dents are being completed this week. Each student should ar range to see his adviser imme diately and check his schedule for next semester. At the registration conference the schedule of studies for the second semester will be prepared in detail on the work sheet and the official registration blanks. These forms will be checked and signed by the proper officials. Students must call for them at the Junior Division office during the week of early registration, January 8-13 and present them to the Assign ment Committee for checking. College of Agriculture students will follow 'a slightly different procedure, details of which will be announced later by the Junior Division office. K. O. Broady Writes Article On Extension Dr. K. O. Broady, director of the university extension division his written an articles entitled, "The School that Comes by Mail," which appeared in the October issue of the Good Housekeeping magazine. In his article, Dr. Broady maker the statement that "We in the United States believe in the prin ciple that all boys and girls, no matter where they live, or the kind of homes from which they come, shall have the same op portunities for schooling." Small schools are being consolidated into larger ones and bus trans portation provided. But with all this, inequality still exists in many areas which a bus cannot reach. This is where correspon dence study comes in." Supervised correspondence study is a plan by which all sub jects can be offered in high schools that do not have teachers for all subjects needed. It is also a means of bringing courses to boys and girls who are physi cally handicapped or who live in isolated areas who cannot get to school. Program is Broad. Already in more than one-half the states, correspondence centers are in full swing; others are be ing undertaken. With the aid of these centers, many boys and girls are given the opportunity for an education who otherwise would not be able to secure one. After the war, correspondence study is the answer for many men and women whose education has been interrupted. Partly because of their age, and partly because of the fact that they work, it will be impossible for them to go to regular schools. Coed Counselors Give Christmas Tea for 'Sisters' Coed Counselers will hold a Christmas tea Friday, Dec. 15, from 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. in Ellen Smith hall. The tea is for all university women, Gloria Mardis, president, announced Tuesday, and Coed Counselors are to in vite their little sisters. Marion Greenwood is In charge of the music that will provide entertainment foV the lei.'' Jean Whedon, Student and 69 for Harold Ajjdersen, Progressive, and in the junior class election 76 votes were cast for Leslie Jean Glotfelty, Progressive, and 73 cast for Bill Sakayama, Student. Count Disagrees. The election was contested due to the fact that the number of ballots received and the num ber of voters signed did not cor respond. On ag campus there were 13 names signed on the vot ing lists for senior class president and 16 ballots were found in the ballot box. In the ag junior class election 34 names were signed on the voters list and only 33 ballots were "received. Because there was no validation stamp available at ag college, none of the ag ballots were validated. On city campus 243 voters signed the lists but only 240 votes were cast. Gene Dixon, as chairman of the elections and judiciary com mittees and acting in place of Harold Andersen, president, who was not present for the counting, called a meeting for Wednesday at 5:00 in room 313. The meeting will be closed and a new date will be set for the election. Uni Singers Give Concert December 17 The sixth traditional concert presented bv the University Sing ers will be held in the Union ball room Dec. 17. Two performances are sched uled to accommodate the num ber of people who wish to at tend. One will be at 3:30 and the other at 5:00 and admission cards may be obtained free of charge at the Union Office and at the ag finance office. The chorus of 100 voices will be directed by Dr. Arthur E. Westbrook, and will present an unusual program of Christmas carols from other lands including France, Spain, Russia, England and Germany. A string quartet composed of Miles Dreskell, Ernest Harrison, Ann Golz and Mary Alice Ziegler will play, and organ numbers will be played by Myron Roberts and Vesta Zenier. Christmas trees, the guiding star, candleabras and other Christmas decorations will pro vide the setting for the program. K State College Adds Courses In Aeronautics PITTSBURG, Kas., (ACP). The administrative council of the Kansas State Teachers college of Pittsburg has approved the addi tion to the curriculum of several courses in aeronautics, President Rees H. Hughes announced re cently. The new work in aero nautics has three aims: (1) to train aviation mechanics, (2) to train teachers of aviation me chanics, and (3) to train teachers of pre-flight aeronautics for the secondary schools. Some such courses had former ly been offered in the depart ments of industrial arts, mathe matics and physical science, but now new courses have been added and all are grouped together with Prof. J.A.G. Shirk, head of the mathematics department, as co ordinator. Attention Seniors All seniors wishing to be graduated in either January or May must turn in their ap plications for degrees or cer tificates to the administration office by Saturday, Dec. 16, ac cording: to the registrar's office. Applications may be obtained fro in. jthe administration, pt flee.