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Two-Day Breather . .
Now that vacation is over and we are all attending clas
ses again at least those of us who aren't stranded by snow
drifts in the west we have the cheerful thought of final
examinations ahead.
Needless to say, now is the time to start reviewing for
those exams without waiting until the night before to cram
which is the usual procedure with the average University
student. ,
' In order to give students a better opportunity and more
time for their review, the Faculty Senate, with urging from
the Student Council, has called off classes on Jan. 17 and
18, Monday and Tuesday, before exams begin.
We wish to thank the council for their efforts and the
administration for finally realizing that students do need
this extra time as it is next to impossible for students with
one or two tests on the first day of the exam session to pre
pare well for those exams if classes are held and papers are
due right up until the last minute.
Now students have the two-day study period they have
been screaming about wanting for years. Let's see them use
, it ti advantage.
Campus News
In Brief
Graduate Club Round Tabic
discussion meet will be held at
7:30 p.m., Jan. 6 in Room 315 of I
the Union. The meeting will fea-'
ture the varsity debate team, j
which will present pros and cons i
m -Federal Aid to Education." j
Students who wish to apply for ,
housing in the Men's Residence
halls for the second semester ;
should make application at the ,
dormitory office, building C, on
or before Jan. 12, 1949. The ap-j
plications and waiting lists lor
the first semester will not be ,
used for the second semester.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellow
ship meeting Jan. 6, will feature
Glenn Peterson, pastor of the
Sherman Boulevard Baptist
church in Lincoln, who will dis
cuss methods of research used in
lesting the authority of scripture.
The meeting will be held in Room
316 of the Union at 7:30.
The House Rules and Library
committee will meet Jan. 6 at 7
p.m. in Room 14, of the Union.
Pi Mu Epsilon will meet at
6:30 p.m. in the Food and Nutri
tion building on Ag campus. All
pledges and activities are re
quired to ttend.
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Colorado Students
Filch Skeleton
The display skeleton was re
moved recently from the Denison
biology laboratory at the Univer
sity of Colorado, and latest re
ports still give no clue as to its
whereabouts.
Abductors of the skeleton en
tered the laboratory through two
windows one night. A biology de
partment professor slated that the
skeleton has practically no mone
tary value, since it has been in
use many years and a number of
bone-colleciing students have con
fiscated parts of it for souvenirs.
Commerce Frat
To Honor Grads
Delta Sigma Pi, professional
commerce fraternity, will hold its
congratulatory dinner on Friday,
Jan. 14, honoring Benjamin Kraf
ka, William Samuelson, John
Schaller, Donald Mathes, Francis
Anderson, Richard Mulder and
William Spikes, graduating mem
bers of the fraternity.
J. D. Thompson, assistant grand
secretary-treasurer of the organi
zation, will be guest speaker. Of
ficers for the 1949 year will be
installed.
Red Cross First Aid committee
will meet at 5:00 p.m. Jan. 6,
in Parlor A of the Union.
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SBtADUATIlVfi SEXIORS
Make your reservation for
Caps and Gowns NOW.
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Saying
BY PAT NORDIN
For the majority of the cam
pusites it was as hard to fall out
Wednesday morning as New
Year's day. Perhaps detecting the
resemblance, the general topic of
conversation ran to the big Eve
everyone insisting they had the
biggest party. Some of these
stories do prove interesting.
For instance, partyer Lee Harris
attended a party after a party
after a party and arrived home in
time to listen to the Rose Bowl
game. Biggest event was at the
Rome hotel in Omaha after which
Thelma Goldstein, Harvey Davis
and Don Stern threw another af
fair at the home of Martin Lin
coln. Irv Veitzer rested up a
whole week for this being true
; to Denver girl ,eva nuiiner.
Big day for Shirley Sabin and
j Carl Quisenberry was New Year's
! itself when they attended a wed
I ding their own. The Farm House
boys threw a gala ehivaree in
: their honor Tuesday night, com
i plete with horns and spotlights,
j In fact ,it was such a big affair
members of the local constabulary
also attended.
Another F. H. tying the knot
was Jim Mitkle who married Lois
I Thorfinson just before vacation.
I The holidays really did it though,
for such couples as Terry States
I and Roy Chelf, Joyce Rosenof and
Roily Groteluschen. and Tish
Gardner and Fred Hawkins de- J
cided to make it for keeps.
Snow, snow everywhere. So
! many people are snowbound that
! some one might easily write a
' poem about it. It could be en
j titled "Snowbound." Among the
ranks of these lucky people were
I Polly Ann Rickley and Scott
j Christian who journeyed to
I O'Neill follow ing their New Year's
Eve party at the Birch wood club.
' There are those who are looking i
j forward to Monday night and a :
i probable candy passing.
I Then there were Lorna Born-,
holt and Nobby Tiemann who j
were happily trapped in Ran-:
j dolph. Jacky Anderson and Don
I Morrison wished the storm could
ihave progressed farther east and
I lengthened their stay in Wash-
ington, D. C. Also snowbound,
i but not at all chargrined, were
Mae Tenny and Bob Bass.
Colorado 'Players'
Stage 'WinterseC
I Turning to Colorado Univer
sity's "The Silver and Gold," we
find that the Colorado Players'
:club recently presented Maxwell
Anderson's play, "Winterset."
j The same play, as a University
I Theater production at Nebraska
in December, won hearty applause
' Irom the critics. At Colorado, the
performance was given similar
praise. Special honors went to the
' student who played the part of
Judge Gaunt. His performance
! was described as a "perfect dem
! onslration that the only difference
I between a professional actor and
an amateur is that the former gets
! paid a great tribute to a young
ster in the field of acting.
C"i . . i ji t
News of the Day
Truman Advocates
$4 Billion Tax Hike
State of Union 'Good'
BY LEE HARRIS
President Truman Wednesday
stole the headlines away from the
raging blizzard in the mid-west
with his address on the "state of
the union."
The Chief-Executive, address
ing the joint session of congress,
said the state of the nation was
"good." He outlined in the latter
part of his speech several "short
coming" that the nation was suf
fering. The President advocated higher
taxes, standby price control, and
legislation covering public hous
ing, prepaid insurance and re
peal of the Taft-Hartley Act.
In his review of the great
strides the nation has taken in
recent years the President talked
of even greater strides that can
and will be taken in the future.
He hinted that should private in
dustry fail to the shoulder the
burden of expansion the gov
ernment might itself do this.
The President submitted an
eight point program against in
flation. The program embodied
some measures and legislation that
had been recommended before to
a republican dominated congress.
The feeling now is that the con
gress will go along on most points
with the President.
Asks Tax Raise
Mr. Truman asked the congress
to raise four billion dollars more
to provide a surplus in the treas
ury that would allow for the re-
uriivi
RADIO
Christmas vacation is over. Now
that all the students have helped,
put away the yuletide log and
have gathered up their belong
ings and dragged their white ele
phants back to school, we pause
for a minute to give one last sad
look at the past glorious vacation.
The radio department presented
a nice yul"tide gift to radio lis
teners with a clever radio fantasy
entitled "Shooting Stars."
Have you ever heard a star
talk? The great North Star's
booming voice was heard over
the Author's of Age's program.
The "North Star" was explain
ing to the "Littlest Star" how he
had one great shining hour during
the birth of Christ and how, con
sequently cannot shine as bright
as he did that night. The Littlest
Star was applying for a license
to shine. In case any listners did
not know, all self-respecting stars
must apply for licenses to shine.
Bob Lundberg played the "North
Star" and Clare Denton turned
in a top performance as the "Lit
tlest Star." When comes the time
to award the radio oscar of this
column to the best play and the
best actor, "Shooting Stars" will
rate high on the list.
The "gang" worked all Christ
mas vacation at KFOJt. Chuck
Johnson, Charlie Dugdale and
Lydia Nekuda represented the
radio section at KFOR. The two
MANY RADIO
JODS OPEN!
Many jobt in rod ic for Colleo
rro'med man and women. Tk
Notional Academy of Kroodcottinf
offers an occetuUd court in
rodio for 1 6 weeks beginning in
February, Marc or June, 1V49.
NATIONAL ACADEMY of EIOADCASTINE
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Wothinglon 1 0, D.C
duction of the 252 billion-dollar
national debt. The President rec
ommended that this additional tax
come principally from additional
cooperate tax.
A portion of the added tax in
come would be raised from re
vised gift tax and estate tax. And
"consideration" should be given
to raising personal income taxes
in the middle and upper brackets.
The eight point anti-inflation
program which the President
asked congress to enact:
1. To continue power to con
trol "consumer credit and enlarge
the power to control bank credit.
2. To grant authority to reg
ulate speculation on the commod
ity exchanges.
3. To continue export control
authority and provide adequate
machinery fur its enforcement.
4. To continue the priorities
and allocation authority in. the
field of transportation.
5. To authorize priorities and
allocations of key materials in
short supply-later he said those
allocations, plus price controls,
might be put to use in housing.
6. To exend and strengthen rent
control.
7. To provide standby author
ity to impose price ceilings for
scarce commodities which basical
ly affect essentia! industrial pro
duction or the cost of living, and
"to limit unjustified wage ad
justments which would force a
break in an established price ceil
ing." 8. The last point was to allow
government authorization of im
mediate study of adequacy of pro
duction facilities for materials in
critically short supply, and if nec
essary, to authorize Government
loans for the expansion of pro
duction facilities to relieve such
shortages and furthermore to au
thorize the construction of such
facilities directly if action by pri
vate industry fails to meet our
needs.
The President asked the con
gress to raise the minimum wage
to 75 cents an hour, enact Uni
versal Military Training and ap
ply the lessons of our Tennessee
Valley "experience" to other rier
basins in the nation. He repeated
other civil rights proposals which
won him the enmity of Southern
Democrats in the recent campaign.
,000 Stranded By Blizzard
Meanwhile, while the nation
listened patiently to its Chief
Executive. 8,000 travelers in the
Midwest were stranded in one
of the most viscious snow storms
in many years.
Many classrooms reflected the
effect of the storm as seats re
mained empty due to the absence
of many students in the western
part of the state.
The Nebraska forecast is for
clearing skies and continued cold.
The bhzzard has blown itself out,
but snow continued to drift. All
this was good news to the stranded
persons who are up to their ears
in snow.
Bills, Wiseman and Lucas, worked
at KOLN during the vacation.
Playwright's Matinee will be
back with the usual assortment
of 15 minute gems taken from
originals, by radio students.
e
There are some very good plays
coming up. An original by Helen
Piince entitled: "The Ghost and
the Politician" will be the lirst
production. Other good looking
scripts are: "At Home with the
Higgins," the story of a "nauseat
ingly typical American family."
The satire was written by Frank
Jacobs. Another is "A Thousand
Dollars," by Bob Johnson and
"Young Dilemma," by Nancy
Porter. For those interested in
creative" talent of university stu
dents, Playwright's Matinee is
the program to listen to.
Rumors have it that Edgar Ber
gen has put his buddy, Charlie
McCarthy, into the mothball chest
lor a spell. It seem that Kdear
! is going to tHke a long vacation.
He has sent Chai lie's clothes to
I the cleaners. Edgar is no dummy
, lor taking a vacation! (I'm sorry)
