DAILY NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY, JULY; 2D, 1951
PAGE 4
NU Business Research Head Makes
-Study of Omaha's Metropolitan Area
Families in Omaha's metro
politan area enjoy incomes higher
than the average of 17 other similar-sized
areas representative of
all sections of the nation.
This is reported by Dr. Edgar
Z. Palmer, head of the University
of Nebraska Business Research
Department, in a study based on
the 1950 census.
Dr. Palmer found that Omaha
area families had average in
comes of $3,508 contrasted with a
$3,283 average for all the report'
ing areas. The highest reporting
area showed an average $3,788 per
family, and the lowest $2,584.
According to Dr. Palmer's study,
Omaha has. in comparison with
the other reporting areas:
(1) Slightly smaller households;
(2) More people moving into
the area;
(3) A larger proportion of the
school-age population in school;
(4) A larger percentage of the
population employed ia the area;
(5) Fewer persons 65 years old
and above in relation to the area's
working population.
Dr. Palmer said Omaha's met
ropolitan area includes Douglas
and Sarpy counties in Nebraska,
and Pottawattamie in Iowa. The
other similar-sized reporting areas
representative of all sections of
the nation ranged from Duluth
with 253,400 persons to Louis
ville, Ky., with 576,700 persons.
Ttie Omaha area population is
listed as 365,400.
in general, the Omaha area
makes a fine showing as compared
with the average," Dr. Palmer
said. In addition to having aver
age incomes $225 larger than the
average area, Omaha's smaller
households indicates less crowded
living conditions. He said the
larger than average migration to
the Omaha area demonstrates the
growth and drawing power of
Omaha.
Dr. Palmer explained that per
sons 65 years old and above in
the average area constitute 20.8
per cent of the total civilian em
ployment, contrasted with the
average elsewhere of 22.3 per cent.
The figures were prepared in this
manner, he said, to measure 'tne
actual and potential burden of,
supporting older persons upon the
city's working population."
Omaha area workers are dis
tributed by class almost exactly
as the average of the other areas
There is 79.1 per cent privately
employed; 10 per cent working for
local, state and national govern
ment; and 10.2 per cent self-em-
nloyed,
"Of these the highly important
group is the self-employed. The
ments, professional men in their
own offices, and the independent
workers comprise this class which
we usually refer to as that of in
dividual enterprise," Dr. Palmer
said. "This class is rapidly be
coming extinct. In ten jrears it
has dropped from 16 to 10 per
cent. Larger business firms are
taking the place of the small con
cerns."
Dr. Palmer was at a loss to ex
plain why clerical workers con
stitute 19.5 per cent of the total
civilian employment in the Omaha
area, contrasted with the average
of 13.9 for the other reporting
areas.
Transportation and public util
lty employes constitute 16.2 per
cent of the total workers in the
Omaha area, which is far above
the 8.9 per cent average for the
other areas.
"In the field of small manufac
tures Omaha has come up rapidly
and is now almost up to the aver
Palmer said. "It is in the heavier,
age of the other areas," Dr.
metal and machinery industries,
that the area is still lacking."
50 Geologists
Studying Soil
Fifty of the foremost midwest
ern geologists are studying the
nature and significance of soil
and mineral deposits laid down
by glacial ice sheets in Nebraska
and adjacent states.
The eleven-day field conference
includes study of surface expo
sures of glacial and related oil
deposit areas in southeastern
South Dakota, western Iowa, east
ern and southern Nebraska, and
northern and western Kansas, ac
cording to E. C. Reed, associate
chief of the University of Ne
braska Division of Conservation
and Survey.
The group will study glacial
formations in the Lincoln vicinity
Thursday morning and near Falls
City Thursday afternoon.
Representatives from Ohio, Il
linois, Minnesota, Missouri, Kan
sas, Iowa, South Dakota, Colo
rado, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mary
land and Nebraska are attending
the conference. Geologists and
soils experts from federal agen
cies in Washington, D. C. are
also members of the party. This
is the fourth field conference on
glacial deposits held in various
parts of the U. S.
North America was invaded by
Psychological Drama Marks
Half-Way Point at Hayloit
By Bea Bentel
For a month and a half Hay
loft Summer Theatre has been
presenting exceptionally fine en
tertainment in the field of com
edy and mystery, but this week
the play that marks the half-
one established since her faithful
care in his drinking days.
Marie becomes more involved
in her affairs with the young ath
lete, and Doc meets "Turk,"
played with muscle by David
Andrews, coming from one of the
bedrooms one morning. Driven
four huge ice sheets beginning
about 1,000,000 years ago and
ending about 8,000 to 10,000 years
ago, according to Mr. Reed. Three
of them invaded Nebraska, two
of which covered eastern Nebras
ka. The glaciers brought with
them huge quantities of soil
which forms the basis of eastern
Nebraska's rich farm land; and
large quantities of sand and grav
el which have supported small
industries in Nebraska for many
years.
W3l 0t lvJJl ito a point of horrible-anger, he
probably be remembered by ."-jsneaksthe bottle of whiskey he!
aire goers as uic iiiuk BUl,h forotten for a vear out of
presentation of the season.
"Come Back, Little Sheba," a
the house and disappears for a
night. Lola hides her fear from
psychological drama in two acts Marie and a former boy friend
by William Inge, is this week's wn0 nag come to dinner when
play which kept Monday's audi-she discovers the bottle missing,
ence an an almost suspended state I The next morning Doc returns
as each curtain fell. Practically home drunk, and in a scene well
airaiu 10 tuip jot ivar vi luor.-; played, Mr. uirard portrays the
ing the spell, they well rewarded fear , bejng dragged to the hos
Alexandra Jack and Lou Girard jtai by two friends, while Miss
in what seems to be their best -jack cringes in fear of his mad-t
performances of the season. jness. A week later Doc returns,
"Doc," is capably played by Mr. j and things are straightened out
Girard, who finds life tedious with to a plausible satisfaction,
his still child-like wife "Marie"! This week's drama is one which
Alexandra Jack. When young, Lincolnites should not miss. It
the promising doctor and beautiful is a presentation of understanding
girl had Joyfully shared each' acting in which Lou Girard and
other's comoanv and found neces-! Alexandra Jack not only play
sity in an early marriage at the their parts to perfection, but real-!
expectancy of their illlgitimatc 1y live and breathe each word. If j
child. The young couple had the remaining Hayloft presor.ta-j
given up the doctor's growing pro-1 tions equal even half the perfec-j
fession and moved to another .tion of "Come Back Little Sheba,",
town, when they at temped to be-j the group or fine New York actors
gin a new life. At the beginning. is in for a very successful season,
of the play. Doc has re-cstab-l The cant of characters Include
lished a small business. As the the postman, Arthur Howe; Mrs.
years have progressed, Marie's Cofmann, a next door neighbor, I
beauty and neatness have some- Paulle Clarke; the milkman, Rob
what faded, though her childlike rt Sh.-irpnaek, a local nctor;
love of music and young folks Hruce, the boyfriend, Rlrh Miller;
have remained as they were in txl Anderson and Klmo Huston,
the past. Living in happy mem- two Alcoholic Anonymous friends,
ories, she is Incapable of under- Toby Britton and Dwight Smith,
standing Doc's fears for "Mario," , also local actors.
Elizabeth Caldwell who is a young! Hayloft presentations for the
art student living with the couple rest of the season will be: 24 July,
and interested in a love-making '"Here Today"; SI July, "The
younjt athlete. Doc has become High Ground"; August, "The Im
staunch in neatness and proper-' portance of Being Earnest"; 14
ncss, trying to forget his past August, "Meet The Wife"; 21
mistakes and cured alcoholism, yet August, "The Winslow Boy"; 28
living the fears of the past fori August, "The Ninth Guest"; 4
Marie. He has the problem of September, "Biography"; and the
spoiling his child-like wife, per-final production, opening Septem
haps in the fear of losing her, ber 10, vill be "Charlie's Aunt"
Wanted: Rider to New York
June 26. Help drive, share ex
penses. Call Jo Hoff 2-7371.
'Dull!' Expresses Attitudes
Of Summer School Students
Dull!
That's the way most students
feel about the last few weeks of
school.
The term papers that they post
poned until instructors began to
demand them: the day-by-day re
ports that they were supposed to
to have kept and the books that
they didn't read because they
didn't have any tests in it before
the final.
These students succumbed to
the ancient disease known as post-
ponitus.
"Do it now," could well be the
motto of the students as they
spend the wee hours of the morn
ing preparing the assignments that
they should have done weeks ago.
"I'll do better next semester"
is always their cry. They usually
begin the next semester by keep
ing up, and then, well, somehow
they begin to have coffee or go to
a show or "out" with the kids and
get behind in their studies. It
happens every semester.
Rare indeed is the student who
is not behind in something by the
end of the semester. With an
"I'll do it tomorrow" attitude, they
do the things that,are much more
fun than studying.
Approximately 20 to 23 hours of
the day are spent in serious study
toward the end of the semester by
many students. They spend their
daylight hours In the library fer
reting out information.
During the fall semester, this is
much easier for the average stu
dent to bear. The weather is
usually cold, and not very good
ofr other activities anyway. But
in the summer, picnics, baseball
games, swimming and numerous
other activities are so much more
inviting than is studying. Many
potential "9" students only get
"5" because they just didn't get
around to doing their assign
ments.
During the course of studying,
the student usually paces the
room, turns o nthe radio, reads the
latest magazines and finally
grudgingly sits down to work. He
finds himself unable to concen
trate, and as a result takes twice
as long to accomplish the ap
pointed task.
It happens every summer.
Ecker, Former
Associate Editor
Of 'Time,' Here
Allan B. Ecker, former associ
ate editor of "Time" magazine
will conduct a round table discus
sion Friday, July 20, from 1-3
p.m. in Koom u 5 Burnett.
The first half hour of the dis
cussion entitled "The How and
Why of a News Magazine" will be
devoted to a description of the
operations of 'Time' as a news me
dium. The remainder of the per
iod will be a question and an
swer session.
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