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Mudbinrite No fl'esf For M en Sfudenf Workers the mm OnDikes By SALLY HALL News Editor Sandbags, sand boils, thick ankle-deep mud and sleepless' ness. These were tne mam ingredients of life on the levees for some 800 Univer sity men. Filling sandbags was the first step in the seemingly endless pro cess of reinforcing dikes. The back-breaking monotonous work had to be done and among the -workers were Art Kuhl, Larry Nordhues, Lon Dischner and Jim Jackson. They had been shoveling sand all night and in the under stating manner of men engaged in heroic but dull work said, "We're awfully tired of sand." University students were also a vital part of the chain of men passing sandbags to be stock piled for emergency use along: levee tops. Gene Eno, Pete SIu sar, Pete Kaestner, Milo Bra bee, Hyle Thibaalt, and Dean Jamison had been on the dikes Friday for 72 hours with little or no sleep. They were to sign up for 12 hour shifts, but "most guys signed for double shifts 24 hours straight." Ira Epstein and Dan Fogel had been helping with emergency dike-building for over 24 hours at the Omaha airport, where many University students were concen trated, and were planning on go ing home for some sleep. They took a bus going south and soon found themselves passing sand bags again. The whole levee Is a picture In, grey. The muddy Missouri, dirty sandbags, grey buildings, black mud, and grey men. Many students spent the night in sandbag "telephone booths" where telephones connect the entire Omaha levee system. The burning of carbon lamps covered them with small car bon particles and Dick Cordell's normally blond hair was as a continuation of the over-all freyness, VOL. 51 No. 127 Voice of 6000 Cornhutker LINCOLN, NEBRASKA CGWOfO!fi) Monday, April 21, 1952 Morse WSBI it a n n FSS Six hundred eight students will receive recognition at the -!4tn annual Honors Convoca tion Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Coliseum. Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon will be main speaker. The convocation honors Uni .versity students and student or ganizations which have earned superior or high scholarship. Included in the list of hon orees will be the names of SPUE dents Pat Peck To Direct KAM Work Pat Peck was elected president of Kappa Alpha Mu, photo-journalism honorary, at a business meeting and election of officers inursday evening. Miss Peck, a junior in Arts and aciences, was treasurer of KAM the past year. Other new officers are Leon ard Zajicek, vice president; Wilda Weaver, secretary, and Del Harding, treasurer. During the business meetine. f roi. ti. t , Morgan. senior students who during the two preceding semesters have been in the upper three per cent of their respective colleges and of those who will have been on the Honors list since matriculation as fresh men. The list will also include the names of those students recog nized as being in the upper 10 per cent of each class of each college or school. In addition, announcement of prizes and awards will be made. Precedure at the Convocation will not differ greatly from past years, except for one major change in the printed programs. Students in the upper 10 per cent of their class will have their names listed only once and the organizations to which they belong will follow the name. In the past all honorary or ganizations were listed and names of members included. The only honorary organiza tions to be listed this year will be those that have 33 per cent of their membership on the honor rolls at the convocation. Seniors who have been on the Honor roll since their matricula tion will be seated on the stage in caps and gowns. These sen iors will be given special certi ficates. Senator Morse, Republican from Oregon, will speak on "Ethical Standards in Govern ment." He is a member of the senate committee on armed forces. Morse received his masters and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He earned his L.L.B. at the Univer sity of Minnesota and finished with a J. D. degree from Colum bia university. He taught as an assistant professor at Minnesota and Oregon. He became a dean at sponsor of KAM, dicussed the photo comoeti JtaTones was another student &;'ei W "a?al n- ine with the telenhone svs- rr 'uu..'" ",e university tern. His job was to help ISosCu" Itnw Meinniib tern. His job was to help Keepi . t ui u Morgan gave a few pointers on nuuga i uniting oiuvuiiiiT ut iiuw ' lr- . . ; lying loremen or changes and Jj " ;:' 7,V " . f supplying information to other points along the levee. The link between dike tele pnones ana a central ornce are small switchboards along the levees. At one point, Don Hewitt and Jack Heckenlively were op erating one of the switchboards with no previous experience. They nad been on the lob since Wednes day and their only comment was, "What's been going on at school?" Emergency work kept many students working day and night. Ed Berg. Bill Beltzer, Jack Gardner, Larry Noruin and Jack Warrick were rushed to a dike break Thursday night and "threw sandbags into that crazy water until we thought our arms would break." lication. "Action, expression and composition are very important in making a news picture-," he said. Stanley Sohl, co-sponsor of the organization, read a list of rules for the photo portfolio to be exchanged with the Univer sity of Bengal, India, next fall. Sohl said prints for the port folio must be on double-weight paper 8"xl0" or larger. "If the prints . are mounted, they should be on. single weight mounting Doara wnn no Doraer snowing," ne explained. The portfolio will contain ten prints with not more than one print from each individual. "Only members of Kappa Aloh Mu are eligible to enter prints in the port folio," he added. Forty-eight outstanding University students were named members of Phi Beta Kappa or Sigma Xi Friday evening at the annual joint meeting of the two top-ranking campus honorary societies. Joe N. Gifford, Mrs. Lois Bryson, Marilyn R. Olson, R. Thomas Griffith, Alice J. Heiss, Dick H. Risehe, Dorothy E. Smiley, Jac Holze, Nancy B. Koehler. Kuvatt. auelvn Sorpnsnn. Ruth r.. Snrpn- jean cj. ixiomis, Jonn is. McKey nolds, Raymond G. Marvin, Mari lyn Moomey, Albert M. O'Dell Jr., Dr. Douglas Merritt Whitaker, provost of Stanford university, was the principal speaker. Dr. Whitaker, who is widely known as a biologist and zoologist. spoke on "Science and National Defense." Five students were elected to memberships in both Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary schol astic society, and Sigma Xi, na tional honorary scientific society. They are William A. Barrett Jr., Ralph B. Emmons, Chris E. E. Kuyatt, L. Bonney Varney. and Jerrold M. Yos. Three others who had pre viously been named to Phi Beta Kappa were elected to Sigma They ' are Richard Cutts and Ralph W. Kilby and Andrew T. ' sneeis. - New members of Phi Beta Kappa, all of whom rank schol- astically in the upper tenth of the senior class and have com pleted basic group requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences, are as follows: Lyle D. Altman, Barrett, Mar- jorie E. Bratt, Andrew P. Boris, Ladd Li. Duryea, Ralph B. Emmons, Flood Donations Contributions to The Daily Nebraskan Flood Relief fund totaled $23 Saturday morning. Donations were received from the following: $3 Anonymous $5 Maud Melick Ted Durst Ward (10 Mabel Strong The drive will continue 'hrough Wednesday. Cash or checks made out to Daily Ne braskan Flood Relief should be brought or mailed to The Ne braskan office, basement, Union. Names of donors will be printed unless otherwise specified. NU Sandbag Fillers t&&. Arris (pwuwL JhadiA. . , Caunnr Ttw Lincoln Sute Journal TIRELESS WORKERS . . . Among the flood workers in Omaha Thursday and Friday were ap proximately 1,000 University students who filled sandbags, passed them aloivr the dikes and filled in dirt 4ikes. Shown here are (kneeling, I. to r.) Joe Beber (not a student) and Harold Wallace; (standing-. L to r.) Ward Hansen, Wayne Faber and Richard S. Skamser. Ag Sfudenfs To Vote Tuesday For Goddess Of Agriculture Thirty Ag college senior women 1 Myrna Westgate Hildenbrand.jand Denim dance Friday. Students will vie Tuesday for the title of i Ruth Hofmeister, Donna Hyland, are to wear cotton and denim the Goddess of Agriculture in an all- Betty Kelso. Lois Larson. Annette! Ag student election. jLuebbers, Carrie Pederson Mes- The Goddess of Agriculture will ton, Shirley Miles, Lavonda Mur be presented at the Cotton and, doth, Darlene Podlcsak, Rita Ren Denim dance Friday. The dance is rd, Eernadine Robb, Joan Raun, a feature of annual Farmers Fair, 3oan Sharp, JoAnn Skucius and wmcn will be Friday and Satur- Jane wenaorn. By CHARLES KLASEK Staff Writer By CHARLES KLASEK Staff Writer Brigands demand your money or your life. Women require both. Dear . old April is hold ing true to its r e p u t ation. There will be more showers today, but ft is expected to ret warmer with the tem P e r atur e reaching a bith of 66 de trees. Rain Two recent graduates of the University were interviewing ao- plicants lor the job of private sec retary. One Amazonian creature had excellent references, but the two men were not enthusiastic after she waddled out. "I don't think she'll do," said one. "There's too much of her in the first place." His colleague tdded, "That goes for the second place, too!' sen, Donald E. Varney, Marilyn Willey, Yos and Patricia Wiedman Dr. W. K. Pfeiler. chairman of the department of Germanic languages and literatures, was made an honorary member of the organization, and Dr. W. H. Werkmeister, chairman of the department of philosophy, an alumnus member. Associate members of Sigma Xi, all of whom have shown "marked excellence in pure and applied science courses," are: Buele Balderston, Barrett, George E. Cobel, Cutts, Ralph B. Emmons, Harvey W. Headley, M. James Holm, Kilb, Kuyatt, Nar enda P. Loomba, Richard J. Mc Manee, Richard K. Mohler, Rich ard B. Murray, Lyle W. NilsonJ Roger S. Norall, Marvin B.i Rhodes, Eugene E. Robinson, Robert F. Sand, Sheets, John F. Stone, Janice E. Teter, Miss Var ney, Roy E. Walker, Yos and Winifred C. Zacharias. FC3IS By DON PIEPER Managing- Editor OMAHA An angry Mis souri river is clawing ana hammering at dikes around Omaha today dikes which an estimated 1,000 University men helped to build. Those men sloshed over muddy levees, manned radio telephones, filled sandbags and directed traf fic with volunteers from Omaha as a record 30.24 foot crest swept southward. Their efforts, which had the sanction of University administra tors, received unqualified praise from flood officials. Mayor and chairman of the flood steering committee, Glenn Cunningham, told The Daily Ne braskan that the participation of University students in the flood fight was the "grandest gesture" he had ever know. He said that it was the "duty" of the people of Omaha to help in the battle, but citizens from all over the state were represented in the student action. He added that he "would always be indebted for your help in this period of crisis." "Your fresh workers did a good deal to put the job over the hump at a time when we were really worried," Russell A. Hand, direc tor of the labor battalion, told The Daily Nebraskan. He explained that the labor pools were desper ately low when the men arrived from Lincoln. Hand also pointed out that men of university age were the best for flood work because they were in the best physical condition. They can, and have, worked more than twenty hours at one stretch, he added. The Big Seven flood fighting The fifth annual celebration of University by James Green, per National YWCA week began at c0i j:, ,v, v,o v, Thackrey Miss the University Sunday, and will was proud to live in the same state Mini 1 nnnlmiin imlJ On.,Jn ... ' vwvi, iviniaiw v.uiiLilluc until. Odiuiuaj. ITS Oregon in 1931 and served un til 1944. Before he was elected senator in 1945, Morse did several social legal assignments for the state of Oregon, the U.S. department of labor and the attorney gen eral. His work in the field of law has been recognized with an honorary L.L.D. from Cornell university and other honorary degrees from Drake and South Jersey universities. Chancellor R. G. Gustavson will preside at the convocation and Rev. Arthur Crisp of the United Evangelical and Re form church will give the in vocation. The University Symphony or chestra, directed by Prof. Eman uel Wishnow, will play. Fifth Annual YW Week Begins Here A student panel on world af fairs for all University students will be held at Eilen Smith hall at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday. Ginny Cooper will be moderator, and the panel will be composed of foreign students. The remarks of the panel will be followed by discussion from the floor. Thursday evening there will be a splash party at the city YWCA for YW members. The members will meet at 7 p.m. at Ellen Smith hall. Sally Matteson is in charge. Window displays showing cam pus and community activities of the YW will be in downtown store windows. Radio and television programs will carry announcements about the week. Special tribute will be paid by such programs as Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy show, Paul Whiteman's Teen Club, Calvacade of America, Breakfast club and Arthur God frey. s with men who would leave every thing to help fight another city's battle. Hand and Green both said that students will not be needed after Monday. They agreed that local workers would be able to handle the job after that time. However, a bulletin from the mayor's office urgently requested all flood workers to remember that the crisis would not end when the crest passed. In fact, the bul letin warned that "this desperate situation may continue another week." Although the Omaha trouble is under control, men are still needed to control the river as it rolls south. T. J. Thompson, dean of student affairs, who promised every assistance and considera tion in making up missed school work for flood volunteers, said that this offer still stands for any student who is scholastically Continued On Page 4 Waiting On The Levy :5 Vt t- fi7 U-y r W? ( 1 i ft'-? 'L ! A 'v fti fS'"l l ib lih ' v , Hlr f. -7 f l xf t : . -a n mmtmmtmnKist ..,i..j..T n M ft. REST TIME ON THE LEVEE ... At the level of Ave sandbags above Missouri flood waters, thesa men Friday were painting sandbags along m levee south of the Ak-Sar-Bec bridge. Sandbags wera being stockpiled in cist of dike breakage and rest periods were few. University students are (L to r.), Sally Hall, Daily Nebraskan news editor, Pete Slusar, Milo Brabec, Ira Epstein, Hyle Thibault, and Dean Jamison. (Daily Nebraskan Photo.) Matike Predicts Sellout for 'Girl Crazy' day. The election will be held from B a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday In the Ag Union. Ag student are to vote for five candidates in order to have their vote count. Ag seniors eligible for Goddess or Agriculture are: Barbecue Tickets Ticket sales for ti e Farmers Fair barbecue have been ex tended to 4 p.m. Monday. They may be obtained in the Aff Union. The Farmers Fair rally Mon day night will sti rt at S p.m. In front of the College Activi ties building. AU Ag students are urged to attend. The presentation will be made at intermitwlon of the dance by the service cotnmfttee of Home Ee club. Jo Meyer is In charge, with Cathy Melvin as assistant. The Farmers Fair Whisker King will also be Drcscntcd at the Patricia Achen, Alice Anderson, dance, and will reign over it along full week before Farmers Fair Mary El!n Anderson, Mary Jane with the Goddess of AgricultureJaccording u Frank Sibert, Fair Barnell, Nita Bellinger, Mary Ann .Whiskers will be judged Thurs- board president. Buck, Dorothy Cappell, Luella day night in the Ag Union. Moriarl giber announced that Thurt Cooney, Joan Engelkemier, Elea- Boards will judge the beards, day and Friday have been de nor Erickson, Dolores Kstermann, starting at 7:30 p.m. dared as Jews days, and girls widnce tiaia, Mary Ann orund- Bobby Mills and his orchestra may wear Jeans to classes if man, Jean liargkroad. Iwill provide music for the Cotton1 the like. t . ' I It s L " A 4 I S) , 4 ill " 'w I! -ii ii i i '! JL., I LOOK OUT. . .It looks as if man-crazy Betty Lester Is pulling a reverse on the title as she tries to capture Hank Gibson during I practices for Kosmet Klub rehearsals for the spring show, "Girl Crazy." (Daily Nebraskan Photo.) Lab Play Tryouts Set For Monday Tryouts for "The Tenor," one of three University laboratory thea ter plays to be given in May, will be held Monday afternoon from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Room 205 Temple building, Tryouts were originally sched uled for April 18 and 19. "The Tenor," by Frank Wede kin, is a satire on professional singers. It concerns the hardships and love affairs of a tenor. The production, which ends In a murder, has parts for three women and five men. The three plays, "The Tenor, "The Astonished Heart" and Ways and Means." will be pre sented May 7 and 8 in the Temple building. Dr. Keller Speaks To Church Group Dr. Aolphc Keller of Geneva, Switzerland, one of the leaders of the World Council of Churches, was eucst sDcaker at St. Paul's Sally Jo Spcikcr has been an- Methodist church Sundav nlchL pointed as faculty solicitations! The Council of Churches in chairman for the All University; Lincoln was the sponsor of the Fund. She replaces Sandra Walt joint meetine for students. The ion the AUF board following Miss meeting was preceded by a lel I Wall's resignation, (lowship dinner at the church. Tickets for the Kosmet Klub production of George and Ira Ger shwin's "Girl Crazy" are expected to be sold out when the show opens at 8 p.m. Wednesday. "Tickets are going faster than they did last year," according to Gerald Matzke, KK member in charge of sales. Matzke said people are buying tickets more readily because "they know what the show is and that it will be better than last year's production." The show runs three nights Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the Nebraska theater. The theater capacity is approximately 1,200, Matzke said. Of these, 750 will be used each night for re served blocs in the main floor and I upper and lower balconies. About 350 individual reserved scats will 'be sold for the first 15 rows for leach performance. AUF Appointment ::1 S P. -' I 3" 1 1 'it ii if,. r- .V'. Si. v ft? ff