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    The Weather
Clearing and continued cold
with dlmlnlshinr winds Wed
resday. Thursday,' fair and
warmer. High, Wednesday,
15-20 east to 30-35 west.
Only Daily Publication
For Sludpntt Al The
Vniveriity of Nebraska
Vol. 50 No. 100
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Wednesday, March 8, 1950
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l"N AT NU Sue Allen, chairman of the model UN conference
steering committee, and Ted Sorensen, assembly president, work
together to iron out problems arising in preparation for the con
ference. Delegates from organized houses and other groups repre
senting nations will gather for the first conference plenary session
on Friday, March 17. The issues raised at the first meeting will
be turned over to four committees which will study and vote
on them. The resolutions which emerge from the committee
sessions will then go back to the floor for further debate and
voting. Delegates and spectators will also hear three speakers
during the course of the conference.
First Aivard ....
BABW to Cite
Barb Activities
A BABW Achievement award will be offered for the
first time this year to an independent woman's organiza
tion or house, according to Joanne Learning, BABW presi
dent. The award will become an annual presentation of
String Quartet
Will Present
2nd Concert
The second concert of the se
ries instituted by the Friends of
Chamber Music will be given
Thursday, March 9, at 8 p. m. in
the Union ballroom.
Professor Emanuel Wishnnw
will play first violin: Max Gil
bert, viola: Rosemary Madison,
cello: Truman Morsman, second i
violin; and Gladys May, piano, j
The first number on the pro- j
cram will be in the Quartet in ;
D Minor-K 421 by Mozart. The ;
quartet is divided into four
movements: Allegro moriorato,
Andante, Allegretto (mcnucto),
and Allegretto, ma non troppo.
Three impressionistic tone pic
tures, called Paysage (land
scapes) bv Bloch. will be the
second selection. The piece
evokes in turn northern, alpine,
end African themes.
The Piano Quartet in F minor.
Op. 34. by Brahms, noted lor its
varying moods and tempo, will
be the third number on the pro
gram. It is divided into four
movements. Allegro non troppo:
Andante, un poco adagio: Alle
gro (Scherzo); and Poco-soste-nuto
Allegro non tropio.
The instrumentalists will be j
seated in a semi-circle with the
platform against the north win- I
dews.
Students tickets will be sold j
for 75 cents. Adult tickets are
SI. 50.
T Thomas to Tell
Of Tibet Trip
If you've longed lor adven
ture in forbidden Tibet, let Low
ell Thomas, jr., take you there
through his motion picture lec
ture "Out of This ' World: A
Journey to Lhasa "
The first part of the film and
lecture tells the story of Thomas
and his father, Lowell Thomas,
sr, and their prodigious journey
through an incredible region
which took Ihcm nearly a month
in each direction; passable only
on foot, by mule, or yak.
He tells first of traveling
through the bamboo rain forest
of the Southern Himalayas,
through the region of the mon
soon where the annual rainfall
is more than two hundred and
fifty inches, and up steep moun
tains covered with rhododen
dron and thousands of wild
flowers, including thre hundred
and fiftv varieties of orchids.
Almost the entire journey was
made at altitudes higher than
the summits of the hishe-t
mountains in the United States
Then comes the main part "f
the lecture and film, lite in the
little-known city of I .hre-a 1 ife
Lhrh.'inpf.H in renturies.
Lowell Thomas, jr, sitisorecl
by the Mortar Bonds, will pre
sent his lecture and motion pic-
tore s.t Rl Paul's
Met hod ist
rh,,rh i i irr.in VfHnriav
mcht, March Tickets will be
Board
Women. It will be made on the
basis of campus activities, bet
terment of house, and scholastic
standards. BABW members ap
proved the plan at a board meet
ing Monday night.
The first award will be made
at the annual
Spring Recog
n i t i o n tea,
held to honor
barb women
who partic
ipate in acti
v i t i e s. The
traveling pla
que will be
awarded to
the house or
org animation
which has
achieved the Leamini
most in the three discussion
of the award. The name of the
winning organization will be
placed on the plaque each year,
under the BABW crest.
Point!, for Award
Points will be given in each
division of the award. The house
or organization with the most
points will receive the plaque.
! M,,u'oi-r 40 TWr cent of the
points must be in the campus
division, 40 per cent in better
ment of house: and 20 per cent
in scholastic. House representa
tives to the barb board will be
responsible tor reporting the
group activities in house better
ment and scholarship, while
BABW will record achievements
in the campus activities divi
sion. The following list of activities
! will be considered for points.
! Campus: Homecoming float;
Pennv Carnival: Coed Follies;
j Ivv iiav sing: Homecoming house :
'decorations; Hello Girl: Beauty
i Queen finalist; Typical Nebraska I
r,.H- Honorary Producer, and
Col-Agi i-Fun. 1
Betterment of house: Pall and
Spring parties; formals; sicakcrs
at meetings; parties for wives
(no dates): parties for orphans,
etc; laculty guests; students
guests at dinners, teas, etc.;
group church attendance, hour
dances; special teas or dinner.
iiitramurals.
the Barb Activities Board for
'Mil
Scholastic; university average house Wednesday evening, April
for house; average required for I j5 7;30 p. m. The open house
initiation or living in house; no 1S especially directed to begin
dorm slips for si. week period. j njng engineering students to
Kncouraee Activities I HCqUaint them with the various
The award, similar to the 1 phases of engineering education,
EKie Ford Piper Achievement i especially the work of the Ag
award presented to sororuirs
each year, has been established
to encourage and reward par
ticipation by independent wom
en in campus activities.
BABW aKo recognizes inclc
lendent women in activities in
inriiviriually each year at the
Recognition tea. At that time,
women who have earned 100 or
more activity points receive
BABW activity pins. Last spring,
nineteen coeds received the ac
tivity recognition.
Teachers College
To Honor Seniors
i Graduating Teachers college
' seniors w:ll be honored at an
infoimal collee hour in the I n
1 ,on lounge from 5 to C p. m. on
i Sunday. Marc h 19.
1 Cards have been mailed r.i
seniors in the college for reser-
! vations.
Guests may oe un'"(-'"
rr1 in n
J to the meeting
i Seniors wu".crve a hostesses.
70 M.P.H. Gusfs
Bavver Bindings
There is no place like Nebraska!
That was just what University
of Nebraska students were think
ing Tuesday afternoon as a 53
mile-an-hour wind whipped
through the campus.
Turning familiar surroundings
into a topsy-turvey condition, the
more-than-traditional March
Concert
At Union
March 12
The University Symphony or
chestra will present works by
Mozart, Wagner, and Berlioz at
a concert Sunday, March 12, in
the Union ballroom, under the
direction of Emanuel W ishnow.
The concert will begin at 4 p. m
Featured on the program will
be a selection of two-piano
numbers played by Earnest Har
rison and John Blyth, both fac
ulty members at the University
School of Music. '
The selections from "The Car
nival of the Animals," a satirical
collection of pieces, was written
for two pianos by saint baens.
The music is of caricature style,
and the individual pieces repre
sent different animals.
Fourteen imitations will be
I played by Harrison and Blyth.
! They are: Introduction and
j Rov'al March of the Lion, Hens
and Roosters, Wild Asiatic Don
kevs. Turtles. The Elephant,
; Kangaroos, The A q u a r i u m.
Those witn uing tars, me
Cuckoo in the Depth of the For
est, Pianists, Fossils, The Swan,
! and Conclusion.
"Pianists"
According to Union music
committee members, who are
rninnim tho concert. "Pian-
1 ists"'is the most entertaining of
the imitations which the two
men will do. The number is a
satire of the traditional long hair
pianists.
The orchestra, under the di
rection of Emanuel Wishnow,
will plav selections from "Sym
phony No. 41 K. 551" by Mozart,
"Vorspiel and Isoldens Libestod
Tristan and Isolde" by Wagner,
and "Roman Carnival" by Ber
lioz.
The Mozart symphony is in
four parts: Allegro vivace, An
dante c a n t a b i 1 e, Allegretto
(Menueto), and Molto allegro.
Vnlon Sponsors
The Union music committee
sponsors faculty recitals and
concerts, programs by the Uni
versity Singers, and recitals by
other campus music groups. This
is done in cooperation with the
School of Fine Arts.
Marcia Pratt and Rod Rikrs
re
in cnarEe lMc ...... v..
Sunday, assisted by otner mem-
here of the committee. The
1- ,
fair will be open to the public.
Orchestra personnel includes:
Violins, Aleta Snell. Kathleen
Forbes. Norman Splittserber,
Jeanette Hause. James Steven
son. Alice Saunders. Jane
Goeres, Irene Roberts. Pamela
Kinne. Ruth Johnson. Elinor
Flanagin. Gayle Henkcl. Manlvn
Hammond. Ruthann Lavine. Ei
leen Oelnch. Virginia Loejoy.
Jov Schwartz. Dorothy Boland.
Viola plavcrs include Roma
Johnson. Marilyn Harms. Russel
Janet Cla-k. Martha Christian
sen, and Arthur Murphy, faculty
member.
Cello: Janice Liljedahl, Ruth
Bergstraesser. Richard G u y,
James Christiansen, Kathleen
Burt. Jeanette Dolezal and Carl
Puckett, laculty member
Bass: Maijorie S Farmer.
Keith Stephenson, Dale Read.
See Orchestra, Page 4
Ag Engineer Open House
ncludes
1 Ag engineers win nuiu an u(rn
engineers. Other engineering stu
dents s.re also invited, according
to Howard Hogan. who is in
charue of the open house.
Hichlightmg the open house
will be a tour of the Nebraska
tractor testing lab. The lab is
the only one of its kind in the
world.
From a count taken June 25,
1949. 413 tractors have been
tested at the lab since its estab
hshment in 1919. Its purpose is
to protect the farmer from un
scrupulous manufacturers and
false advertising.
State Law
It is now a JSeOrasKa si.ue
1,m,' that a stock model ol every (
make and type of trac tor be test-
ed at the testine lab lie fore it j
is put on the market in the slate.
The law also stipulates that the
manufacturer must provide and
maintain a complete stock of re- j
placement parts in t:'e state.
I Since its oei;Miiii";
I (Continued on Page 4;
winds broke windows, blew stu
dents in front of cars, and ripped
rooting from the temporary
buildings.
Dust Storm Begins
A minature dust storm accom
panied the blasts. Cinders, used
a few days before on slippery
sidewalks, were earned into the
air. Dust and flurries of snow
joined with the cinders to hinder
visibility. Dust and small rocks
littered the approaches to all the
buildings.
Temperatures in the twenties
froze the light snow of the morn
ing, leaving the sidewalks a sheet
of ice. Walking against the wind
and on slick sidewalks was al-
most an impossibility
Many students, unable to keep
their balance, were blown into
the paths of cars. Others grabbed
at telephone poles in an effort to
stav on their feet. It was not un
common to see a person leaning
against the wind Imost sta
tionary. Buildings Damaged.
But while students were strug
gling to return from classes, the
University buildings were faring
much worse. Windows in Bessey
hall were blown in by the wind,
shattering glass over some of the
rooms. Classes in one zoological
lab were dismissed as soon as the
windows were broken.
Roofing on temporary build
ings was steadily picked off. Tar
paper and other debris were
stopped by shrubbery Or were
left to run with the wind. An old
smokestack near the Phi Kappa
Psi house, tottering under the
wind, finally gave in to the more
than gentle taps, and fell to the
ground.
A barbershop window next to
Earl Woods was al;;0 broken,
City Story Same
It was much the same story in
downtown Lincoln only on a
much bigger scale. Store windows
were broken in Magee's and Wal
green's. Bricks from the Nebras
ka hotel fell on cars below dam
! aging seriously at least one ear.
Other damages to store fronts
and to cars were reported in
many sections of the jown.
The wind storm beg.lh Tuesday
morning with all appear.- lees of
a blizz.ird. About noon me snow
stopped, but the wind only in
creased in velocity. By mid-afternoon
the wind had slackened
but was still making walking
miserable.
The weather bureau at the
University reported that an aver
age 53-mile-an-hour wind blew
most of the day. Winds up to 70
miles an hour were recorded;
hnu'pvcr these were strone winds
in small gusts and not for more
than a minute. Temperatures
I were in the twenties and were
I falling steadily as snow began to
j fall again in the late afternoon.
UNICrOffiTial
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Ncbra.-ka students will hear
about the United Nations Inter
national Children's Emergency
fund when Grace Holmes,
UN1CEF representative, vi.Mts tlie
campus Thursday.
She will speak before repre
sentatives of various campus or
ganizations at a 4 to 5 p. m. col
Ice hour. Mrs. Holmes' other
Lincoln activities will include a
ra'iu address and a luncheon.
The presidents of state wom
en's organizations and Lincoln
women interested in UN1CEF
are sponsoring a luncheon lor
Nlis. Holmes Thursday noon in
Parlor Y of the Union. Later,
thev will conduct her on a tour
around Lincoln,
i before she took on her job
I with UN1CEF. Mrs. Holmes
' was ac tive in Red Cross work.
Hir duties took her among pris
i oners ol war and in other fields.
I esving
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Tmrmt TFSTlvrrin rk
' process of being tested. It is pulling the test car with the last I may make appointments for in
fractor acting as an extra load The building in the background is j terviev s at the psychology clinic
J the tractor testing lab. a 118 Burnett belore Monday.
Chimney Slumps
To Wind s Bumps
It withstood the blast of Stan
Kenton's Innovations. It with
stood the elements in sub-zero
Weather!
But when "la vent a la Ne
braska" blew in with the seventh
day of March, the much dis
cussed and cussed wall-papered
singing silo on "S" street suc
cumbed. Oflen termed as the Phi Psi's
Carillion tower, a lone chimney,
two stories high, has been
standing amid the wreckage of
one of the campus clean-up cam
paigns for several months.
Perhaps some lucky person,
rr.ry have won a fortune in the
chimney parley for the 50-mile-an-hour
wind leveled the hollow
structu e to the ground.
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Ag YM Dance
City and Wesleyan YM's and
YW's will be guests of the Ag
YM Friday evening at a square
dance.
The Ag YM is sponsoring the
evening "o help the six Y groups
become better acquainted. The
Ag College Country Dancers will
assist with the program.
Grand march will begin at 8
p. m. in the Activities building:
the goodnight waltz at 11 p. m.
will officially end the dancing.
High School Pep to Zoom
At Builders Conference
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Lead to Disease
Unless you'd like to spend
some time with pmk eye or
trench mouth, Dr. Samuel Fuen
nine. director of the Student
Health advises students to re
frain from using "community"
towels and cups.
According to Dr. Fuerming, the
primary precaution against the
two diseases is personal habits
of cleanliness.'
One of the major causes of
trench mouth, the doctor pointed :
out. is a dental defect. With such 1
a defect the resistance to the dis
ease is decreased. If one is nor
mal. Dr. Fuenning continued, it
is hard to get trench mouth. I
The epidemic of the disease
last vear, he said, was passed ;
from "cup to cup and from spoon
to sixwin. and "the ha;n was
never broken." I
In prevention of pink eye. it
is esecially important to keep
from rubbing one's eyes after
handling a public article, stated :
the doctor. He warned students (
that some types ol tne oisease
are highly contagiou...
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Rag Staff Undisturbed
By Herculean Gales
Possibly the one spot that re
mained undisturbed amid the
Tuesday gale was the Rag office.
While news of disaster flowed
in, the editors calmly sent re
porters forth to cover all phases
of the big blow. One enterpris
ing cub gathered hair-raising ac
counts while sipping cokes in the
Crib, with one ear to the radio.
A late afternoon flash an
nounced that Poochie Rediger
had collided with the Teachers
College building. Extent of dam
age to the building has not yet I
been determined
Some students paused while
blowing across campus long
enough to be interviewed.
"I can't keep my feet on the
ground," complained one coed.
"It's scaring me to death,"
called another, in passing.
"Fell down in front of the Uni
Drug four times," said a third.
Nothing Like It
A photographer was noted in
action at the Union, 'recording
expressions of incoming storm
victims.
An European student paused
long enough to comment, "I've
never seen anything like Ne
braska!" Several hundred Ne-
When Nebraska high school-
rs meet in Lincoln niaicn io
and 17 for the basketball tourna-
ment. over 300 will be guests
of the Nebraska Builders at a
pep convention.
The first ol its kind to be
held at the niversity, the con
vention has been planned by the
new projects committee of Build
ers to instruct and discuss pep
group problems.
The two-day convention plans
include that of an welcoming
breakfast on Thursday morning
followed by discussions and
rallies to a climaxing mass rally
Friday noon.
Jim Williams, head of new
prejects committee, and overall
chairman of the pep convention,
has built up a program of dis
cussions and concerning rallies,
finances, and constitutions of
high school pep groups for the
students.
Novak to Speak
Tassels. Corn Cobs, the yell
squad and Builders workers will
: participate in the two-day event.
! Special speakers will include
I George "Potsy" Clark. Univer
sity athletic director. Tom No-
' va'k. and other Nebraska ath- i
; letes.
"The highlight of the conven
. tion," says Williams, "will be
the mass" rally rounding off the j
event Friday morning at 111
a. m." It will include the rally i
led by University yell squad j
members, a speech by Novak. ,
. "What School Spirit Means to
a Team," and a talk by Frank j
Piccolo, yell king.
, Discussion Periods
1 The opening event of the con
1 vention will be a breakfast held
in the Union ballroom Thursday
morning. This will be followed
by discussion periods headed by
I Tassels and Cobs. They will be
divided into three groups: fi
; nance; constitutions and organ
ization; and skits, yells
antj
: rallies.
Following the discussion pe
riod, a mass meeting will be
held in which high school yell
squads will model their cheer
leader outfits. It will also in
clude s movie on the Univer
sity card section and skits by
various campus organizations.
Open to both high school and
University students will be a
Union juke-box dance in the
ballroom Thursday alternoon at
3:30 p. m.
Talks On Activities
Talks on women's and men's
activities on the Nebraska cam
pus will highlight the Friday
morning coffee hour in the
Union. aKthryn Rapp Clem
and Rod Lindwall, Tassels and
Cobs presidents, will explain
campus organizations and acti
vities to the prepsters.
A tour of the campus Friday
afternoon will round off the
convention.
Committee chairmen for the
event are Patsy Dutton, discus-
siofis: Darrell McAve. Richard
Mevers. Elsie Christian sen
i r i s 1 1 a n s en.
and Sally John-
Nancy Benjamin
son.
Tassels who will participate in
PsvcholWist
Campus
Maj. Jerome Sacks, of the
army clinic psychology program,
will visit the psychology depart
ment of the University Monday,
Match 13.
The psychology department
has announced that Maj. Sacks
will sjeak on training programs.
The address will be he! i in
seminar room 447 at the library
at 11 a. ni.
Individuals who would be in
terested in interviewing Maj.
aacs .unrig niciay anejiiouo
braskans seconded the motion.
Disaster threatened The Daily
Nebraskan when telephone com
munications were cut The plight
of couriers, detailed to deliver
copy to the Lincoln Journal
plant for printing, led sports
scribe Karabatsos to volunteer
the use of his car for delivery.
He steadfastly refused to go
along with the car, until his
sports page was completed.
No Skirt Problem
Fashion editors went into ac
tion, planning new and fantastic
styles It was noted that
pencil skirt did not react to any
great extent in the high winds.
Male voices raised, demanding
something more suitable lor Ne
braska gales.
A mystery developed. How do
wind-buffetted coeds in shingle
bobs manage to look like some
thing between Veronica Laka
and Medusa?
G. I.'s congregated to tell tall
tales of Pacific hurricanes. "You
should have been on Okinawa,
scoffed some. "This is nothing.
Thus, while the Nebraska Ho
tel spit bricks in all direction
and TV aerials took oh new
shapes, the Rag staff raced an
other deadline.
the discussion groups are Shirley
Allen. Joel Bailey, Jean Blaha,
i Mardelle Buss, Janet Carr, Peggy
Judd, Jane Linn, Jo Lisher,
Mary Smolik, Marilyn Vingers,
Barbara Durland and jayne
Wade.
Cob discussion leaders will be
Dick Kuska, Harry Carpenter,
Jerrv Warren, Arlen Beam,
Chuck Widmaier, Bob Rogers,
Burton Holthus. Bill Olson. Bob
Parker, Rex Pettijohn, Bruce
Kennedy and Wendy Gauger.
Girls, Boys
Staters Plan
'50 Reunion
For the first time either of
the groups were organized in
Nebraska, a joint reunion of
Boys' State and Girls' State is
being planned.
Inaugurated by delegates from
Boys and Girls State of 1948, the
reunion is scheduled for Satur
day. April 29. Former Staters
from the years 1946, 1947 and
1948 will be invited to the re
union. Chairman of the reunion
steering committee is Pon Chinn,
Governor of 1948 Cornhusker
Bovs Slate. Other members of
the steering committee are: Doris
Carlson, Joan Krueger. Willa
Hill, Janet Glock, Sally Kjeison,
Bill Adams. Bud Eitner, Dave
Sjogren and Jim Justice, all
members of the '48 summer ses
sions. Invitations
With the sponsorship of the
American Legion and the Legion
Auxiliary, the group plans a
dance and program in the Union
i ballroom, invitations wm ue i:-
sued to lormer governors oi uic
States, in order to have them
presented to the reunion, and of
ficials and counselors.
Besides presentation of former
governors and officials, tentative
plans for the program include
two skits one from the girls
and one from the boys group,
plus special entertainment.
The following co-chairmen
have been named for the re
union: Toastmasters, Krueger
and Bitner; publicity chairmen,
Carlson and Adams; registration.
Hill and Chinn; decorations,
Glock and Justice: and refresh
ments. Sally Kjeison and Dave
Sjogren.
The steering committee decid
ed to restrict the reunion to
members of the '46-'48 sessions
because during the war the
States were not held and the
laspe in ages would be too great.
The two governors of last sum
mer's sessions will be invited to
the meeting.
T"IWI CJ,r in llrll
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, llliorilial LollCC
Theta Sigma Phi, women's
professional journalism sorority,
will hold an informal coffee hour
on Thursday, March 16, to
acquaint women journalism stu
dents with the organization. The
coffee hour will be at the Pi
Beta Phi house, 426 No. 16th,
at 4 p. m.
I Theta Sigma Phi aids the
j Journalism school in its work
with state high school news
papers. Pupcrs are rated and dis
cussions lor improvements on
the papers are held,
j The group plans to publish a
pamphlet on the forthcoming
; United Nations conference to be
' held al the Univers.ty. Elizabeth
Schneider of Fremont is presi
dent of the group.
Mrs. George Turnbull. chapter
sponsor, w ill be a special guest
j at the collc-c hour.
(1.2Q pel person.