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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1947)
Weather Today Pep Ki 111T . V Partly cloudy and warmer with Mgh temperature near 78 de grees. Ash Honor H)iflee Change Friday A special plea has been issued by Martin Pesek, Yell King, that all organized houses scheduling hour dances Friday night change dance times from 7:30 to 6:30 p. m. Pesek explained to the Daily Nebraskan that this change is necessary because of a near con flict in time with the projected street dance scheduled downtown at 8:30 p. m., Friday. The Yell King announced that the Chi Omegas and the Phi Psi's have already changed their hour dance time and their eat ing hours in an attempt to in sure 100 percent attendance at the first rally of the season. He expressed a fervent hope that other organized houses and indi viduals would also arrange their 'Mainstream' Posts Literary Prizes of $150 "Mainstream," the new literary quarterly, which will observe its first year of publication with the appearance of a fall edition, an nounced Monday a series of an nual literary awards under the sponsorship of the magazine. Four awards of $150 each will be offered. Two of these awards will be presented for the best un published short story and poem or groups of poems by American college students. The other two awards will go to the best story an poem sub mitted by members of trade unions. This year's competition will end March 21, 1948. The winning stories and poems will be pub lished in "Mainstream." Judges will be the editors of "Main stream," including editor-in-chief Samuel Sillen, Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Howard Fast, Meridel Le Suer, Theodore Ward and Arnaud d Usseau. Manuscripts should be ad dressed to the Mainstream Awards Committee, 832 Broadway, New York 3, N. Y., with accompany ing return postage. Frankie Carle To Play Here Friday Night Pianist-composer Frankie Carle, who brings his orchestra to the Turnpike Friday, offers a twist on the usual success story. Carle ran away from hia first solo professional job, stricken with stage fright. Two years later how ever he was back in show business for good, leading his own band. He gave this up to join such sldemen as Gene Krupa, Jack Teagarden, Jack Benny and Toots Mondello under the leadership oj Ed McEnelly. In 1939, once more fronting his own outfit. Carle discovered he had been "discovered" by Hor ace Heidt. Heidt recognized "Sun rise Serenade" by Carle as a modern classic, which it became in time. Now Frankie once more has his own organization. His only daughter, Marjbrle, sings for the band. Just to keep things as well integrated as possible, Marjorie is married to a member of the band, the piano player who alterr nates at the keyboard with Frankie himself. Flu Shots Offered By Health Service The Student Heauth Service is now offering influenza virus vac cines to all student on a volun tary basis. The service will be given with out cost. Dr. S. J. Fuennlng, di . rector of the service, advises that students interested should .report during the month of October if they want the best results. The vaccine is also offered to faculty members and employes at cost. VoL 48 No. 11 program for Friday In accord ance with the scheduled time of 7:30 p. m. The pre-game rally will pro gress from the Union to N and O streets at 12th street and end at the street dance site. Two bands will provide music at 12th street in one of the first all-city football celebrations since 1941. 'Alumnus,' Grid Tabloid Back in Print THE NEBRASKA ALUMNUS football tabloid, a supplement to the monthly magazine of the same name, is being published again for the first time since before World War II. The football tabloid is published after every Nebraska football game to fulfill the great demand of the many alumni living out of Nebraska. Mr. Fritz Daly, sec retary of the Alumni Association, said that the association hopes to continue publications in following football seasons as long as the demand shows that it is wanted. The LINCOLN JOURNAL and the OMAHA WOPLD-HERALD furnish the association with foot ball stories and pictures. Re ports on schol activities are also included in the paper. The tabloid was published seven years preceding the war during football season but was discon tinued because of the shortage of paper, office help, and inadequate printing facilities. Hurlbut Urges 8-Point Petrol Research Plan Professor L. W. Hurlbut, head of the agriculture engineering department, Tuesday suggested an eight point research program to help free agriculture from complete dependence on petro leum. Addressing a petroleum con ference sponsored by the Uni versity of Illinois and the Amer ican Research Foundation, Prof. Hurlburt pointed out the depen dence of farm production on pe troleum. World war II, he con tinued, emphasized the possibil ity of loss of this irreplacable resource. To Save Petrol. He offered eight areas of re search to make more efficient use of petroleum: Development of different sources of power; re search on new sources of liquid fuel; improving present fuels; improving present engines; in creasing efficiency of transporta tion of farm products; de termining the most economical methods of cultivation; matching engines and fuels for greatest ef ficiency, and studying ways to eliminate war, the greatest waste of resources. World Federalists To Meet Today The Nebraska chapter of the United World Federalists will hold an organisational meeting in Union Parlor X at 7 p. m. Thursday, for members of the UWF and for interested students, Eugene Berman, chapter secr tary, said Wednesday. For World Government. Berman stated that a meeting will be held next week to dis cuss the principles involved in a federal world government and the present practicality of such an international organization. Tonight's meeting will plan a membership drive and a program and list of activities for the coming year. Matters of policy and stands on current issues will also be discussed. . LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Lippitt Gives Meditation At Vespers Service Planned By Campus Religion Groups Tonight will mark the initial service of All-Campus Vespers. The meditation speaker will be the Rev. Gordon L. Lippitt, ex ecutive secretary of the Uni versity Y. M. C. A. His topic will be "Dogged Faith," and as sisting Mr. Lippitt in the service will be the Vesper Choir, a group of 30 voices under the direction of Kay Wochester. The services for the year will be held at the chapel of the University Episcopal Church on the corner of 13th and R streets at 5 p. m. Miss Camilla Palmer, Vespers chairman, stated that a meeting place relatively isolated from the turmoil of the campus will serve as an excelent background for the programs of meditation which have been planned for the year. The planning committee, com prised of Miss Lulu Runge, faculty adviser, Rev. John Leuke, student pastor advisor, Miss Palmer as student chair various student groups have out lined the year's program to cen ter around "Faith" and its vari ous aspects as it applies to the student in his campus life. All-Campus Vespers are spon sored by the Religious Welfare Council and are interdenomina tional. The aim. of the group is to provide a half an hour of quiet meditation during the midst of a busy campus routine in order to gain a clear per spective of life. Bizad Plaque Given by Gold Placed in Sosh A new plaque has been added in the west corridor in the Social Science Hall explaining the principles and ideals of Beta Gamma Sigma, bizad honorary lne following inscription is on the plaque: "Beta Gamma Sigma. Founded to encourage and re ward scholarship and accom plishment in the lines of busi iness activity. To promote the improvement and extension of education in the science of bus! ness administration. To foster principles of honesty and in tegrity in business practice. Al pha Chapter of Nebraska, Col lege of Business Administration." This plaque was contributed by Mr. Nathan Gold, an honorary member of Beta Gamma Sigma, international bizad honorary which is composed of a limited number of men and women se lected from the upper class of the college. It is the only scholarship honorary recognized by the American Association of Collegi ate Schools of Business, and is comparable to Phi Beta Kappa in the Arts and Sciences college. Indiana Zoologist to Tell Sigma Xi About Genes Dr. T. M. Sonneborn, professor of zoology at Indiana University, will speak at the initial meeting of Sigma Xi scientific research society, at 7:30" p. m. Monday, Oct. 6. in the general lecture room of Avery Lab. Dr. Sonneborn's topic will be "Beyond the Gene"., and he will atempt to explain in a general way what has been learned about the plasmagenes and what may be guessed as to their relations to genes, , Thursday, October 2, 1947 To Union i(sird AWS Waives Point Limit For Council Ed war Trumble, bizad junior, was elected to the student union board by the student council at its meeting Wednesday in room 306 of the Union. Trumble was one of the four Oldfather Announces Rhodes Data Announcement has been made that application blanks for Rhodes scholarships to Oxford University, England, are available in Dean Oldfather's office in Social Sci ence building at any time. These application blanks accompanied by two letters of recommendation from the staff must be turned in not later than 4:00 p. m., Oct 22 at the dean's office. In addition to ordinary appoint ments, there will be a limited number of War Service Scholar ships available to men who at any time since October 1, 1940, were between the ages of 10 and 25 years, and have completed one year of war service. Candidates are required to have completed one year of college or university work. Selection is made on the basis of literary and scholastic ability and attainment, qualities of man hood, exhibition of moral force of character, and physical vigor. The selection committee, headed by Dean Oldfather, includes Profes sors David Dow, L. W. Lancaster, H. W. Manter. and C. E. McNeill. The preliminary selection will take place Oct. 12, 1:00 to 5:00 p. m., in the dean's office. Those eligible are urged to ap ply. Further information will be found in Dean Oldfather's office. AmiualJournalisniRaiiquct rickets Co on Sale at $1.25 Tickets for the annual jour nalism awards banquet, scheduled for Thursday. Oct. 9, are now on sale at the journalism office in University Hall 104, Dr Swindler, head of the department reported Wednesday. Sales will continue untu noon Thursday, October 9, for $1.25 per ticket. D. R. Fitzpatrick, editorial car toonist of the St. Louis Post Dis patch, is the featured speaker. VA Personal Service Data Veterans eligible for benefits under PL 16 or PL 346 may take advantage of the personal con sulting service which the Veter ans' Administration has estab lished. The service Is intended to aid the veterans who will be helped more by talking over their prob lems with qualified individuals than by obtaining medical treat ment or written information. It does not deal directly with ques tions relating to subsistence, pen sion or rating for which other VA services are responsible. Veterans who will profit most by discussions with the personal counselors are those who feel concerned about home problems, school, work, or training difficul ties, or disturbances in connec tion with his adjustments to so cial life. Marital problems, prob lems of parent-child relationships. worries about plans for the fu ture or about the feelings of in adequacy, or other mental con flicts which often interfere with the individual's ability to do his best work will be dealt with. A letter from the Veterans' Administration explaining the service states, "It would probably Issues Plea Secretary candidates recommended in a let ter from Duare Lake, union di rector, on behalf of the union board. He was elected by the plurality of four votes over Donald Wiq gins, arts and science junior who headed the list of union board recommendations. 12 Applicants. The four men recommended by the board were chosen after in terviews with the 12 applicants Sam Lerner, former Bizad ju nior, did not return this fall. The two others recommended were Robert J. Easter and Spence Phil lips. Jo Ackerman was recalled to office as secretary following the AWS ruling last Thursday per mitting her retention since no other women on the campus meet the requirements of the council constitution. At the reguest of the com mittee studying NSO President Harold Mozer called the next meeting of the council at 7 p.m. next Wednesday. The full report of delegates sent to the NSO con vention in Madison Wisconsin will be heard at that time. The rally committee reported ticket sales for the Missouri mi gration will be held Oct. 15 to 24, allowing time for unsold tickets to be returned to Missouri. Ar rangements have been made through the Columbia, Missouri chamber of commerce for dining facilities in two conveniently lo cated churches. Filings for existing vacancies on the council will be delayed until a check has been made to de termine which members elected last spring are not now in school. Mozer said this is to permit the filling of all vacancies at one time. Palladian to Hoar Chancellor Talk "The Chancellor Looks at the University" will be the topic of a speech by Chancellor R. (J. Gustavson at Palladian hall in the Temple building at 8:30 p. m., Friday, Oct. 3. Palladian's custom of inviting anyone who would like to attend its meetings will hold for Fri day's meeting. The speech will be the first in a series of lectures concerning university students' interests. It is sponsored by the Palladian Literary Society. Counseling Released be an unusal type of person who did not at some time or other have a problem or worry whi -h he would like to discuss with someone whom he felt he could trust and in whom he had con fidence. Experience in schools and industry has shown that when a person takes advantage of the opportunity .to think freely about and discuss personal, social, or other matters of concern with a trained counselor, it is often pos sible to discover more ways of handling these matters." The discussions will be strictly confidential since the matters can be of highly personal nature. Conferences with the personal counselor will have no effect or bearing on pensions or other re lationships to the VA, according to the letter. No reports of such discussions become a part of the veteran's records. Veterans may arrange to see the personal counselor through their vocational advisers, training officers, by letters, or by tele phoning 2-7665-Ext. 56. The ad dress of the Personal Counselor is Room 514. Veteran Building. 12th and "O".
