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.Vol. 49 No. 73 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA U Theatre Moves To Wesleyan Stage The University Theater has fi nally found a stage. For the re mainder of the season the campus dramatic group will use the Plainsman theater of Nebraska Wesleyan for productions. The transaction, definitely com pleted after several days of dis cussion, resulted from last week's closing of the Temple Theater. The theater, labeled "a definite fire hazard," was declared unsafe for any large group of people. Two Tlays Cancelled. Commenting on the types of plays to be produced, University Theater Director Dallas Williams stated, "Due to the complexity of the sets, the large casts and trans portation difficulties, the previ ously scheduled plays, "Othello" and "I Remember Mama," cannot be presented., "Instead, a pair of comedies, "... But Not Goodby" by George Seaton, and "Yes and No, by Kenneth Home will be presented. The Seaton comedy will be given Friday, March 18, and Saturday, March 19. The Home play is slated for Friday, April 8, and Saturday, April 9." "A special statement will be made later to season ticket hold ers,"" added Dr. Williams. "Each season ticket holder will receive a letter in the near future." Tickets to Sell at IMainsman. Tickets for persons not holding season tickets will be sold at the Plainsman Theater the night of Civil Service OffcrsTraiiiing To Engineers On - the - job training during school vacations through the Civil Service will be offered to engineering students who have completed at least two years of college and are interested in a career in federal agencies. Students from Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Da kota, may apply until Jan. 26, 1949, for appointments next summer. Successful applicants will be given positions for the summer months paying $2,498.28 a year, if they have completed two years of college, and $2,724 if they have completed three years. During school, on-the-job trainees can retain their status on a non-salary basis through the remainder of their college terms. They can then return to the payroll dur ing future vacations or on a per manent basis after vacation. Applicants should contact Sec retary, Board of Civil Examiners, Corps of Engineers, 1709 Jackson St., Omaha 2, Nebr. Cornhusker Pictures All Cornhusker pictures must be taken by Wednesday, Jan. 12, according to Jerry John ston, editor. After that date, no pictures will be accepted for publication in the 1919 Corn husker. Fred Chad Elected Gamma Delta Head Officers for the coming year were elected at the Gamma Delta business meeting Sunday night, according to Harlan Echtenkamp, president. Elected were Fred Chael, presi dent; Jean Fenster, vice-president; Eleanore Erickson, secretary; and Don Mueller, treasurer. Gamma Delta is the Missouri Synod Luth eran young people's group on the campus. Rev. H. Erck is the stu dent pastor. Plans were also discussed for the alumni banquet held in March. Dick Schleusener, Lauren Endorf and Edith Roesler were elected to be in charge of the. banquet. cudTi each performance. No tickets will be sold at the University Theater box-office. Price of tickets will remain the same or $1.20. The Wesleyan the ater holds 572 or about the same as the Temple auditorium. Watch "The Daily Nebraskan" for further announcements and changes. Janike Named State 4-H Head by Regents Edward W. Janike, of Omaha, was recently appointed the new Nebraska state 4-H club leader, succeeding the late L. I. Fris bie. Janike, who for nearly four years has been secretary of the Courtesy Ilncoln Journal Ed Janike resigned that post, effective Feb. 15. The announcement was made Saturday by the Omaha Live stock Exchange and the Nebras ka College of Agriculture Exten sion Service, following his selec tion by the Board of Regents. Graduated in 1930. Janike, a graduate of the Uni versity of Nebraska in 1930, with a major in animal husbandry, was active in collegiate circles. While attending college, he was a member of the livestock $1000 Gutenberg Book Award Open For New Entries Additional entries may still be submitted for the Gutenberg Award of $1,000, the Book Indus try Committee of the Book Manu facturers' Institute has announced. The award will be made to the author whose book "most pro gressively influenced American thought" in 1948. Entries must be sent to the Book Manufacturers' Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, New York 18, N. Y., by Jan. 31, 1949. Anyone may submit as many entries as he wishes, but submission must be made on reg ular entry forms which may be obtained from the BMI. Entries, now being received from the public, book critics, pub lishers and others, will be judged by a panel of nationally-famous persons early in 1949. The award is being offered to encourage the writing and reading of books which are important in our na tional life. Exam Schedule Error The final exam schedule as published la Sunday's "Daily Nebraskan" contained one er ror. Examinations for classes meeting at 4 p. m., five or four days, or Mon., Wed., Fri., or any one or two of these days were placed under Saturday, Jan. 22, and Monday, Jan. 24. Exams for these classes will be riven Monday, Jan. 24. s - ' ,11111.1,111.1., - t r- i Hi i I LJ LJ Tuesday, January 11, 1949 Cornhusker Gels 'New Arrival9 "Pardon me, but your addition is showing!" Such is the typical comment of the majority of people entering the Cornshucks office this week. The humor magazine has indeed outdone itself and has doubled its office space. Besides being larger the office is now soundproof or nearly so with the addition of a series of beaverboard panels. Stated Jack Schirmer, Corn shucks editor, "We are naturally pleased with the new arrival. Omaha Livestock Exchange, has judging team which won na tional championship honors. He was a member of Alpha Zeta, Scabbard and Blade, Block and Bridle club and the Farmer's Fair board. From 1930 to 1932, Janike was in the extension service as as sistant state animal husbandry specialist. The following years found him as district extension supervisor, director of animal husbandry educational work and director of the livestock exten sion program. Meanwhile, he continued 4-H organizational and instruction work. Knows Nebraska Livestock. II i s thorough knowledge of the Nebraska livestock industry was one of the reasons why he was selected in 1945 to the post of secretary of the Omaha Live stock Exchange. Serving on many civic committees, Janike has filled that position with com plete satisfaction. Chancellor R; G. Guslavson and Dean W. V. Lambert of the College of Agriculture praised Tiis appointment, stressing the fact that Mr. Janike's ideal qualifications and unusual abili ties will insure progress for 4-II club work in the state. Officers Elected By Newman Club Jack Jacobs, Oshkosh, was elected president of Newman Club at a meeting in the Union Sunday. He succeeds Raymond Menuey, who became treasurer. Other new officers are Dick Guhin, vice-president; Jean Blaha, recording secretary; Jean Bradley, corresponding secretary; Mary Libershal, historian; Jim Rich, social chairman and lecturer. Newly appointed committee chairmen are: LaVern Popken, in tellectual activities; Eileen Dierig and Fred Novak, program; Bob McDonald, publicity; Neil Camp bell, religious activities; Jack De Wulf, campus activities; Harold Luchtel, province activities; James Brundage, inter-faith activities; Joe Zoung, sports. Bill Introdcued in Senate To Aid School Finances A bill enabling the federal gov ernment to participate in the fi nancial support of schools was in troduced in the United States Senate last week by. Senator Elbert D. Thomas, democrat, of Utah. Support for the measure, which in the same form was adopted by the Senate in the 80th Congress by at vote of 58 to 22, is bi-partisan. Senator Taft, who introduced the bill in the last Congress, en dorsed the new bill in behalf of the republican sponsorship. Minimum Set The amount involved is $300,- 000,000 per year for the purpose of helping the states, particularly those in greatest need, to provide schools for all children and to help equalize educational oppor tunity by setting up a minimum foundation school program. The bill seeks to provide for every child in the United States an ex penditure of no less than $50 per year for education. EMirecltoiry Sales peon Tuesday Long-Awaited Booklet Finally Reaches Stands The Student Directory is now on sale. This year's much-discussed, oft-postponed edition of the complete student-faculty lists was offered to students Monday night at all organized houses. The 50c, pocket-size book is done up in red and white Regents Elect Thompson As President C. Y. Thompson of West Foint was elected president of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents at the annual meeting Courtesy Lincoln Journal C. Y. Thompson of the board Saturday, Jan. 8. Robert Devoe of Lincoln was elected vice-president. Election of officers are held annually by the six Regents members; other members of this year's board include Frank Johnson, Lexington, out-going president; J. L. Welch, Omaha; Stanley B. Long, Grand Island and George Liggett, Utica. John K. Selleck, general busi ness manager of the University is corporation secretary. Other business included a re port by the state fire marshal condemning the Temple theater ! ' ij Prepsters Show Enthusiasm Over First 'Scarlet and Cream9 High school students have re acted "with enthusiasm" to the first issue of Scarlet and Cream, according to M. J. Melick, editor of the Student Foundation paper for high schools. Published late in November, the four-page paper contained news of the University of interest to the secondary school pupils. It told of building and beautification plans, In Proportion to Wealth In accordance with the terms of the new federal aid bill, no state will receive less than $5 for each child and school age. The money appropriated is to be issued by the federal treasury to the state treasuries and expended at the direction of the educational de partments of the respective states. Allocation of the funds to the states is to be directly in pro portion to the number of children to be educated and in inverse pro portion to the wealth of the state. In states where schools are main tained for separate racial groups, such schools will receive federal funds in proportion to the ratio of the minority groups to the total population of the state. An important item of the bill provides that control of education policies shall remain in the hands of the states and their localities. Federal control or influence of the educational program is specifically prohibited. this year. It contains names, ad- dresses, phone numbers, school year of students, and names, ad dresses, phone numbers, offices and titles of all faculty and ad ministrative members. Printing: Difficulties Arise. The 1948-49 Directory had been promised to students before Christmas vacation by the Stu dent Foundation. Likewise, the Cornhusker Printing Co. had promised all copies of the Direc tory to the Student Foundation in time for sale then. Printing dif ficulties, regardless of the con tract, slowed publication of the Directory for weeks after its ex pected completion. An intensive Directory sales cam paign will take place this week about the University under the di rection of Audrey Flood, business manager. House sales planned in Law, Ag, Sosh, Library and Union are being headed by Nancy Por ter, Gloria Pinney and Ginnv Koch. Bud Gerhart, Foundation treasurer, will handle the check out booth. Lawrie Heads Directory. Editor of the Directory this year was Peggy Lawrie. Under her di rection, Foundation workers checked IBM lists given to the group by the University. When student and faculty information was complete, with the help of University personnel and the Telephone Co., it was submitted to the printers. This work, and all ad soliciting, was completed two months ago, reported Miss Lawrie. and upon the suggestion of Comptroller John Selleck, the board approved that an engineer and architect make recommenda tions for the use of the building. The Regents also voted to change the name of Northeast residence hall for women to Amanda H. Heppner hall, in honor of the former dean of women who died last month. Thirty-seven appointments and 18 resignations were also ap proved by the board. Clarence A. Sooter, assistant professor of en tomology, resigned effective Dec. 31 social events, sports, personalities and study aids of the University. At least 60 answers have been received in response to a request by the editors to submit news for an "exchange paper" made up of strictly high schools news. These schools have written to Miss Me lick or Virginia Koch, exchange editor, enclosing articles, news items or copies of their papers. The appointed "reporters" of the Nebraska high schools have written such comments as, "We are very interested in this fine opportunity" and "We are looking forward to this paper very much." Letters have been sent to the Foundation paper in a stream both before and after vacation, said Miss Koch. There is now an abundance of material for the next issue of Scarlet and Cream which will be published imme diately by the staff. Evinger to Speak At New York Meet Professor Morris I. Evinger of University of Nebraska Civil En gineering Department will deliver a paper before the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers in Hotel Com modore, New York, Jan. 19-21. Professor Evinger's paper, "Con struction Engineering Education Present and Future," will be pre sented before the Construction Division of the Society. Some 2,500 civil engineers are expected to attend the 17 sessions of technical divisions which will feature the meeting of the 96- year-old society, oldest national engineering organization in the country.