The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, April 10, 1952, Image 1
Last Paper This will be the last Issue of The Daily Nebraskan until after uprlng vacation. The next issue will be published Thurs day, April 24. the mm VOL. 51 No. 124 Vole of 6000 CornhuMken LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VACATIONI Spring vacation will of flclaly begin at 8 a.m. Friday monitor and classes will resume at 8 a.m. Wednesday. The office of the dean of student affairs an nounced that no classes would be dismissed in spite of bad weather conditions. Thursday, April 10, 1952 CC AiTurayFuC$ 144 'Sisters' COUNCIL POSTS More Filings Still Needed In 4 Colleges Unless at least two candidates file for each position as college representative to student council, no elections for that college will be held. The same Is true of junior and senior class offices. In the Student council filings, colleges which have filed double the number of representatives al lowed will be voted upon, while those with one candidate for a position will not be reiJics-.ted on the Council. Law, Dentistry and Pharmacy, and Arts and Sciences are the colleges with an insufficient number of candidates filing- as of noon Wednesday. Agricul ture, Engineering-, Teachers, and Business Administration have well over the required number and elections will be held for these colleges. The number of students who have filed from each college Is as follows: Arts and Sciences four (two women, two men). Agriculture five (three women, two men). Dentistry and Pharmacy one man. Engineering six men. Teachers 11 (eight women, three men). Business administration five (one woman, four men). Law one man. The number of college repre sentatives on Council will be: Arts and Sciences three (at least one man, one woman). Agriculture two (one man, one woman). Dentistry and Pharmacy one representative for both colleges. Engineering two. Teachers three " (at least one man and one woman). Business administration two. Positions for junior and senior class offices which need more candidates before elections can be held are: junior class secre tary; senior class president and vice president. Filings to date include: Junior Class President two. Vice president two. Senior Class President one. Vice president one. Secretary two. Treasurer two. Coed Counselors two. Inter-Fraternity Council four. Men's dorm and coops one. Corn Cobs three. Builders three. Tassels three. Coed Counselor board has selected 144 coeds as Big Sisters for the 1952-53 term, President Elizabeth Gass an nounced. New Coed Counselors will be installed Sunday, April 20. Big Sister work with women entering the University each fall in an eltort to help tnem Decome acquainted They also sponsor several parties for new students, a Christmas tea and fenny uarnivai. New Coed Counselors wno will serve as sophomores next year are the following: Poll Ackerson. Dorothy Ahl grim, Rita Angell, Mary Ida B a r n d s. MaryMaude Bedford, Cathryn Bethscheider, Dixie Bor- gaard, Donna Eorgaard, Marilyn Bourck. Marilyn Brewster, Beverly Browne. Kay Burcum, bherrill Clover. Carol Cockerill, Marilyn Corenman, Joann Cunningham, Anita Daniels, Beverly Davis, Jean DeLong. Adeline Dubas, Carol Duey, Marlene Dumke, Marilyn Eaton, Marion Ekstrom, Mary Ellerbruek, Donna Elliott, Iilene Frailey, Mary Fuelberth, Delores Garrett, Carol Gillett, Madeline Gourlay Dorothy Grabbe, Pat Graham, Karen Hag- arity, Marilyn Hamer. Joan Hawthorne, Nancy Heg. strom, Nancy Hemphill, Martha Hill, Joyce Hobbs, Barbara Hof, Nancy Hoile, Cora-Ann Hoshor, Rose Hrouda. Janice Jaco, Marilyn Johnson, Marlys Johnson, Natalie Katt. Charlene Katz. Kathleen Kelley, Kay Kinsey, Jo Ann Knapp, Jo Ann Koclemba, Ann Kokjer, Joyce Laase, bhlriey Langhus. Wuma Larson, Ann Launer, Shirley Lewandowski, Helen Lomax. Mary Ludl. Virginia Mann, Mary jane Manes. Ann McKamy, Jeanne Mc Duffee, Shirley Mead, Barb Med lin, JoAnn Meyers, Elaine Meyer, Elaine Miller, Carole Moistead, Margaret Moore. Yvonne Moran, Patsy Moran, Marilyn Mueller, Eileen Mullarky, Doris Myers. Shirley Nash, Lou Nelson. Shirley Ochsner, Choloryce Ode, Nadine Osborn, Carol Patter son. Mary Lou Peterson. Betty Pepler. Barbara Peters, Janet Ouinn, Ruth Randolph, Mar- earet Ray, Marlene Rees, Bernita Rosenquist. Nancy Rutledge. Robyne Ryder. Mary Anne Schlegel, Claudette Schultze, Dor othy Sears. Jeanette Selk, Kathleen Shank, Helene Sherman, Carol Sievers, Ann Skold, Margaret Smith, Mil dred Snyder, Barbara Sorenson, Sally Jo Speicher, Leone brencer. Rita Stapelman, Jean steffen, Susan Stoehr. Jody Stout, Ellen Svoboda, Miml DuTeau, Charlotte Trumble, Lynn Turner, rauneii Wenke. Anne White. Ardell Wil helm, Barbara Wiltse, Julia Yost. Those who will serve as jun lor Coed Counselors are as fol lows: Lois Anderson, Norma Carse, Marjorie Eriksen, Mary Clare Flynn, Georgia Hulac, Marilyn Lehr, Mary Jane McCullough, Nancee Peterson, Mary Janet Reed, Gloria Saults, Flora Schrier, Beverly Taylor, Helen Jean Utter- back and Nancy Whitmore. Coed Counselors who will be seniors next year are the following: Julia Bell, Lee-Ellen Creasman, Joanne Eppard, Lois Gearhart, Joan Hines, Barbara Lucas, Mar garet McCoy, Shirley Posson, Penny Sloan, Mary Ann worrall Wirsig, Tinkham Elected To District 'Ys' Council Alpha Lambda Delta Pledges 'StzMMS&MM ,st : ivy ' '' mmmmmmsmmm M f . Sgmm it a n . llsSi vi- ill I f l r . 't D 1 ! I V W Lav Slhydesill'S Law students having high scholarship and outstanding work in extra curricular Law college activities were hon ored Wednesday evening at the annual Law Association banquet at the Cornhusker notei. Seven seniors, au 01 wnom ApruS KAM CONVENTION Courtesy The Lincoln Star OUTSTANDING FRESHMEN . . . Alpha Lambda Delta, honorary scholastio fraternity for fresh men women, will initiate 23 pledges Sunday, April 20. All University freshman women with 7.5 averages are eligible for membership. The new pledges are: (1. to r., front row) Fat Gra ham, Kay Yeitcr, Janet Rash, Madeline Gourlay, Janice Emry, (second row) Jeanette Selk, Marilyn Johnson, Fay Thoreson, Marilyn Brewster, Phyllis Colbert, (third row) Carol Wright, Janice An derjaska, Joan Vanderhook, Kary Burcum, (fourth row) Helen Hccht, Nancy Peiling, Joan Nalicky, Mary Walti, (fifth row) Jane Brode, Joyce Laase, Joyce Bennington, Marlene Rees and Virginia Holloway. Aggies Announce midway Concessions, Parade floats For 1952 Farmers fair Eighteen Ag college organiza tions have entered floats in the 1952 Farmers Fair parade atid 13 have entered Midway concessions, according to Don Leising chair man, and Elizabeth Gass, midway chairman. The parade will also include a color guard and the Rodeo Queen at its head, followed by a pep band and Goddess of Agriculture who will be riding on the home Economics club float. A Univer- John Wirsig, city YMCA presi dent, and Donna Dee Tinkham, Ag YW program chairman, were elected Nebraska district council members of joint YMCA-YWCA at a district conference at Wes leyan university last weekend. Sam Gibson, executi e secretary of the University YMCA, was elected district adviser, along with Mrs. Jean Swinbank of Wesleyan. Wirsig and Miss Tinkham will work with the two co-chairmen elected at the conference in planning YMCA-YWCA programs for the district. The conference, held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, featured two addresses by the Rev. Gus Fere, Baptist student pastor at the University of Kansas. He spoke on Christian leadership. Saturday workshops included discussions in administration pro gramming, work camps and Bible study. A banquet was held Saturday night. Sunday morning the conference closed with a communion service led by Dr. Carl Bracy, chancellor of Wesleyan university. One hundred delegates from 18 chapters in ten Nebraska colleges attended the conference. 'Y's' Announce Summer Meet At Estes Park "For Thine is the Power." This will be the theme for the Estes Student YMCA-YWCA 'con ference to be held June 11 through 19 at Association camp, Estes Park, Colo. The conference is open to college students in the Rocky Mountain district, which in cludes Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas. Cost of the conference per per son will, be registration, :iu.u; board and room, $30.50; transpor tation, about $16.50. The campus YWCA has a conierence iuna available to help pay for part of these expenses. Recreation as well as meet ings will be Included in the con ference program. Horseback ridintr. square dancing and moonlight hikes will be social highlights. , For further information contact Nita Helmstadter at the YWCA office, Ellen Smith hall, or at 1531 S street, phone 2-5332. sity ROTC Honor Guard will fol low the Goddess of Agriculture. Organizations entered in the parade are Loomis hall, Love hall, Ag Men's club, Block and Bridle, Farm House, Ag Build ers, Alpha Gamma Rho, Ami klta, Voc-Ag, Soil Conservation club, Ag Economics club, Ag YWCA, Tri-K, Ag Country Dancers, University 4-H club, Home Ee club and Phi Upsilon O micron. The parade will be held Satur day, April 26. It will form at 9 a.m. In front of Love library, and will start at 9:30 a.m. From Love library, it will move south on 12th street to R street from R it will travel to 11th street and on to O street, and follow O to 16th. It will follow 16th to vine, Vine to 33rd, and 33rd to HoldregC: street. It will then go down Hold rege to Ag campus, where it will travel around the Ag campus mall. Floats will be judged at several points during the parade. A traveling trophy will be awarded to the first place winner of the parade. Second and third place awards are a cup and . a plaque, respectively. They are also traveling awards. Organizations and their themes for the concessions are Univer sity 4-H club, Talent Show of "Fiesta Frolics;" Tri-K club, pen ny pitching; Loomis hall, "Lar riet Harriet;" Alpha Oununa Rho, "Sock 'Em Good;" Farm House, "Ring Your Candidate;" Ag Builders, "No Siesta at Aggies Fiesta;" Ag Men's club, bingo stand; Soil conservation club, darts and balloons; Block and Bridle, "Hit the Bull;" and Love hall, Home Ec club and Ag YWCA food concessions. The Farmers Fair midway will be in front of the Home Eco nomics building on the Ag campus mall. Miss Gass, chairman of the Midway, announced that conces sions will open after the parade at 11:30 a.m., and will be open until the rodeo starts at 1:30 p.m. Midway committee chairman are Rocky Yapp, Lee Messer smith, Terry Barnes, Mary Jane Barnell and Leland George. (pwuwt if : rvA '1 Li , Courtesy The Lincoln Star TMCA-YWCA OFFICERS . . . John Wirsig (standing, left) was elected district council member of joint YM-YW at a district con ference at Wesleyan univei-sity. Sam Gibson (standing, right) was elected district adviser. Donna Dee Tinkham, not shown, was also elected district council member. Wirsig and Miss Tink ham are University students. Gibson is executive secretary of the University YMCA. Also shown in the picture are Donna Seppalla (seated left) of Doane College, who was elected co-chairman, and Mrs. Jean Swinbank of Wesleyan, another district adviser. Co chairman Victor Dye of Wesleyan, who was elected at an earlier meeting. Is not shown. f By CHARLES KLASEK Staff writer Andy asked the new pledge, "Are you fond of moving pictures, Pete?" "Sure," he answered readily. "Good boy. Then maybe you'll heln me eet half p dozen down out of the attic." We'll never forget the time when the football coach was giv ing his boys a hot pep talk before the big game. He worked himself up to the point where not only the squad, but he himself was sobbing with emotion. "Now men," he ceggea wun a broken voice, "go out on that field hallowed with the blood off your grandfathers and fight." . The team went out to ao or aie and the coach was well pieasea with his performance until a lowlv sub walked, over ana whacked him on the vack. "Come on, Toots," he said sternly. "G e t hold of your self." Good news! It looks as though win ter will re scind in its threat to spoil spring vacation. The weather today will be fair and warmer with the temperature reaching a high of 50 degrees. There was that absent-minded professor who was toying with a dissertation on Spinoza, when his sister phoned to say "You must do something about the news paper; it printed a story of, your death this morning." He answerec, "Dear, dear! I suppose we must send flowers." . "7 Warmer P.M. Headlines By CHARLES GOMON Staff News Writer Earthquake Jars City Of Lincoln LINCOLN A slight earth quake shook Lincoln Wednes day morning although ap parently only office workers in tall downtown buildings felt it. The "shake" was one of a series which apparently hit hardest in Oklahoma City area but spread as far north as Omaha and Des Moines and to the south to Austin, Tex. Parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas were affected. A federal seismograph at Wesleyan university showed earth tremors lasting for four minutes, according to Prof. J, C. Jensen, professor of physics and astronomy. Jensensaid this was the first tremor he "had , ever heard in Lincoln. He termed it a "mild shock." Recorded at 10:31 a.m., the earthquake was supposedly felt by a number of University students. Several reported that they felt a slight shake during their 10 o'clock classes. President Asks For Special Steel Laws fight to involidate Truman's order for seizure of the plants. Some of the major steel mills were closed, and workers, whose union had agreed to work under government seiz ure, were crying "Lockout." Many of the steel compan ies, however, declared that the situation had to b3 clari fied before they could make operating plans. WAS HINGTON President Truman Wednesday asked congress to establish "specific terms and conditions" by law for government operation of the seized steel mills. The request was part of a special message the president sent to congress on the .steel situation. The message came at a time when the steel in dustry was opening a court Missouri Threatens 1000-Mile Stretch COMPILED FROM NEWS though predictions from WIRES The Big Mo swelled to a new record size Wednes day, according to some ob servers, as its torrents reached flood stage along a 1,000 mile, stretch north from St. Joseph, Mo. At Omaha the water was up to 20.4 feet Wednesday, al- the weather bureau say the crest will hit 28.5 feet, well above the flood wall designed to hold back 26.6 feet. The estimate is nearly six feet over the crest reached in 7943 and nearly four feet over the all-time known high mark established in 1881. Wood Appointed To Head Flood Aid rank in the upper 10 per cent of their class scholastlcally, were presented as new members of the Order of the Coif, national honorary law society. They are: Lewis E. Pierce, William F. Fuhr, Jack A. Solomon, William J. Berquist, Donald R. Kanzler, Wilfred W. Nuernberger, and Marion W. Faddis. Recognition was also given the following: The 1952 winners of the Allen Moot Court competition, Russell R. Strom, and Asa A. Chrlsten sen and the runncrsup in the competition, John M. Gradwohl and Edward F. Carter, Jr. The Board of Advisors whose members supervised the 1952 Moot Court Competition: Dean L. Donoho, chairman first semester; Harrison F. Russell, chairman second semester; Harold C. Frlchard, John S. Miles, Donald L. Brock, William B. Brandt, Harry A. Curtiss, Richard H. Tobler, Jay L. Dunlap, Richard L. Spangler, and Gladwyn A. Young, r e 1951-5Z start or the Ne braska Law Review, quarterly publication of College of Law students: Pierce, Editor in Chief; Donald H. Kelley, Fuhr, Solomon, Wil liam E. Morrow Jr., Donald R. Ravenscroft, Gradwohl, Emory P. Burnett, Jean A. Caha, Bruce L. Evans, John H. Faltys, William H. Grant, John D. Knapp, Robert J. Steininger, Charles K. Thompson, Paul D. Dunlap, and Robert W. Green. Speaker at the banquet was Roy E. Willy of Sioux Falls, S. D., chairman of the House of Delegates to the American Bar association. Guests included Chief Justice R. G. Simmons; Supreme Court Judges Faul E. Boslaugh, Elwood B. Chappell, Fred W. Messmore. Adolph E. Wenke, John W. Yeager and Edward F. Carter; County Court Judge Harry Spencer; George Turner, Supreme Court clerk, and John Baylor. New Husker 'Book Staff Announced Agnes Anderson, Janice Harri son, Muriel Pickett, Beth Rohwer and Marv Stromer are new staff members of the 1953 Husker Handbook. The staff was chosen Wednes day by the editors and business manager. Shirley Murphy is edi tor; .Harriet Wenke, managing editor; ana Bob Peterson, business manager. Husker Handbook staff will meet each week at 3 p.m. Tuesday in we Diuaent council omce. "Each staff member will be in charge of two sections ex cept the 'Activities Array' sec tion head," Miss Murphy said. "Because of the length of the ac tivity section, that staff member will only have the one responsibility." Miss Anderson is in charge of tne sections on "Social Sessions" and "Husker Homes." She is a freshman in Teachers college. She is associate editor of Builders Special Edition and a Scarlet and Cream reporter. "Husker Highlights" and "Your Year" will be headed by Miss Harrison. She is a freshman in arts and sciences. Miss Harrison is a reporter for The Daily Ne braskan. Miss Pickett, a freshman In Teachers college, will handle "Husker Helpers" and "Money Matters" sections. She is a Scar let and Cream and First Glance reporter and a Cornhusker yearbook worker. "Activities Array" will be headed by Miss Rohwer. She is a sophomore in agricultural college. She is also a Cornhusker section head and a Builders worker. Stromer will be in charge of "Sports Spotlight" and "Campus Conduct." a new section replac ing "College Classes." He is a and committee sponsorsnips. freshman in arts and sciences. Positions are open on all Ag .Stromer is sound manager for. Union committees. Applications the University theater and a Red 'may be filed in the Ag Union ao Cross worker. tivities office. LINCOLN Gov. Val Peter son Wednesday called to active duty Brig. Gen. Warren Wood, Gering publisher, to serve as senior officer of the Nebraska National Guard, to "put our troops and equipment in a state of readiness to relieve the flood situation in the best possible manner." Between 1,500 and 1,600 Na tional Guardsmen will be available to Wood if they are needed in evacuation, rescue and cleanup work, according to Brig. Gen. Guy N. Henn- inger, Nebraska adjutant gen eral. Peterson declared that he would not call on the federal government for aid "until Ne braska has done everything possible to solve its own prob lem." Before requesting federal aid, he said, "I will call the legte1 ture ii to special ses sion and ask it for the money.". The governor has a $50,000 storm emergency fund which he could use. Lincoln May Have Auditorium Bond Issue Tuesday of the city auditorium advisory committee, the asso ciated auditorium architects and the mayor and city coun cil. A less fav6red alternative was the building of a stripped down "inadequate"- auditorium with funds now on hand. LINCOLN An additional $500,000 bond issue appears now as the next logical step toward the realization of Lincoln's dream for a new city auditorium. That was the opinion ex pressed at a meeting late NU Students Have Photos In Exhibition Six University students will have photographs represented in a 50-print traveling exhibition of the Kappa Alpha Mu photo-journalism fraternity, which is hold ing a convention on the campui this weekend. The exhibition will be dis played at the convention and then will be sent to all chap ters of KAM. The six students who are represented among the "best 50" photographs from the seventh annual KAM National Collegiate photograph contest are Ann Carlson, L. J. Zajlcek, Duane Nielsen, Nadine Mori arty, Herb Lehman and Lois Eddy. The contest photographs, of which there are more than 200, are on exhibit in the University art galleries, secoond floor, Mor rill hall, until April 27. The national convention begins Thursday and the first business meeting will be at 2:15 p.m. in Burnett hall. At 3:30 p.m. dele gates will begin a tour of the p!i torial journalism laboratories and the KAM show in the art gal leries. Thursday night a dinner will be held in the Union ballroom. Clifton W. Edom, Missouri, will give the main address on "Kap pa Alpha Mu, Past and Future." After the dinner, a demonstra tion on "Making Sound Movies" will be given by Wendell Hoff man and associates at West Sta dium photo lab. Friday's events will feature ad dresses by Gov. Peterson; Edward Steeves, United Press; John White, Heiland corporation; Frank Quinn, Eastman Kodak company; Ed ward R. Farber, Strobo Research; James Dunlap, Lincoln air sta tion; Robin F. Garland, Graf lex company; Richard Hufnagle, Lin coln; Jere Compton, Omaha. A convention banquet will be held Friday evening at the Lin coln hotel. Dr. N. B. Blumberg will be toastmaster and George Yates of the Des Moines Reg ister will be principal speaker. The photography contest in cludes four divisions news, sports, pictures story and feature. Two main classes, amateur and professional, enable students to compete on the same basis as other students in the same class. The professional group includes all KAM members and students earning half their income from photography. The Rho chapter award, started by the University chapter, will be presented to the school whose representative wins the "best print" award in the show. The student's name will be engraved on the plague. Rho chapter officers are as follows: Duane Nielsen, president; Dick Axtell, vice president; Miss Moriarity, secretary; Pat Beck, treasurer; Lehman, photographer, grapher. ' Union Closes The Union will remain closed from Friday morning until Wednesday morning during spring vacation. The Corn Crib, however, will close at 1 p.m. Thursday after noon and open again Wednes day. The main dining room (par lors ABC) closed Wednesday night. Applications Due Today For Ag Union Positions Applications are due Thursday for Ag Union committee chairman Seven Senior Soloist fWSvS v - IJIPIILJIIIII V rr;ft wi Ltd NFk Tyf r.Afy is f i .ij:.!. . i.,, J Courtesy The Lincoln Star CONCERT STARS . , . Seniors In the department of music chosen by their classmates were presented in concert with the University symphony orchestra Tuesday night. The soloists were (L to r., seated) Peggy Bayer, soprano; Janice Liljedahl, cello; (standing) Denny Schneider, cornet; James McCoy, pianist; Warren Rasmus sen, bassoon; Barbara Gilmore, organ; and Jack Anderson, baritone.