uf s olicifefi odd Tops More Than $9,000 Collected The largest total ever collected by the All University Fund was received through solicitation in the 1952-53 drive. The sum surpassed the AUF foal of $8,000 by $1,012. This NU Receives $9,000 Grant-ln-Aid For TV Great Plains Topic Set For Series The University has received a $9000 grant-in-aid for a series of 39 half-hour recorded television programs explaining the signific ance of the Great Plains area to American history. The Educational Radio and Television Center, through the National Association of Educa tional Broadcasters, made the grant possible. The University received the largest grant of six educational institutions which were awarded in the nation-wide competition. The grants ranged from $3500 to $9000. THE SERIES will be prepared 1953 MB Program Announced Arch Of Sabers, Guard Included The 41st annual Military Ball, which traditionally opens the campus formal social season, will be held Friday night at the Coli seum. Activities of the evening will pen at 8 p.m. with a concert by the University ROTC Sym phonic Band. The program will continue with the entrance of the color guard, a performance by the Pershing Rifle Crack Squad, the entrance of the Saber Guard to form an arch for the Honorary Commandant and the presentation of the senior cadet Hours Switched Associated Women Students Board has announced a re versal in closing hours Friday and Saturday nights. This change of Friday closing hours to 1 a.m. and Saturday to 12:30 a.m. Is a tradition made annually to give women students an extra half hour the night of the Military Ball. According to AWS. no ex cuse will, be 'accepted If a girl is Ute Saturday night. officers. Following the presenta tion of Honorary Commandant and the five finalists, a waltz for the Honorary Commandant and her attendants and their escorts and a waltz for the senior officers and their ladies will open the dancing to the music of Paul Neighbors and his orchestra. . THE SIX finalists for Honor ary Commandant, who were se lected from 40 candidates by student vote are: Barbara Adams of North Platte, Mortar Board member and Cornhusker editor; Barbara Bell of Lincoln, Mortar Board member and Cornhusker associate editor; Sue Ann Brown lee of Omaha, member of Associ ated Women's Students Board and Mortar Board. Donna Folmer of Lincoln, Coed Counselor; Cynthia Holyoke of Pasadena, Calif., member of Red Cross and Women's athletic As sociation; and Mary Jane Weir of Sioux City, la. The winner was chosen by members of the Candidate Officers Association, which spon sors the ball. Her identity will not be revealed until the ball. SPECIAL GUESTS will be Col. James H. Workman, professor of military science and tactics; CoL Joseph A. Stenglein, profes sor of air science and tactics; and Capt W. O. Gallery, professor of naval science and tactics. Chairmen of the committees re: Grand March Jerry Bingham; publicity Mac Bailey; master of ceremonies Frank Sorenion; presentation Marvin Stromer; and coliseum arrangements Robert Bachman. Finances . Alfred Blessing; program, invitations, seating Daniel Wolkensdorfer; decora tions Phalanx, Arnold Air So ciety; Honorary Commandant Mac Bailey; color guard, ushers, crack iquad Pershing Rifles, parking University police and Saber Guard George Karabat sos. Applications Open For RCCU Group Applications for membership In the Red Cross College Unit's Urban League committee are now being accepted by Billie Croft, chairman. Committee activities will in clude helping grade school chil dren with crafts, art and games and assisting in the work with high school youth by leading panel discussions and instructing dancing. Direction of a choir made up of boys from 14 to 19 years is also included in the newly formed committee's plans. . "Suggestions for other project Ideas will be welcome," said the chairman," as the committee is so new.' The Urban League Center is located at 2030 T St. where most of the commltte's work will take place on afternoons from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. in the evening. Interested students should contact Bilne croft im mediately at 2-7875. Interview times will be announced later. By .$1,012 ' year $1,340 more was collected than last year. . For the seventh consecutive year AUF has achieved its monetary goal. During this drive the most money was collected in the shortest time. All divi- by the university's television production unit under the direc tion of Jack McBride, assistant director of television, and Leo Geier, production assistant Tele vision production is a unit of the Department of Public Relations, George S. Round, director. The first 13 programs of the Nebraska trilogy will be pro duced from the University State Museum, telling the chronogical story of the various forms of marine and animal life that in habited the Plains millions of years ago. Dr. ,C. Bertrand Schultz, director of the museum, and his staff will conduct this series. - THE SECOND series of 13 programs will deal with the en trance of the first man on the Plains, giving the archaeology, anthropology and history of the first "native Americans" and their relatives, the Indians of the Plains. E. Mott Davis, curator of the University Anthropology Museum, will head this second series, using other members of the University staff In combina tion with Marvin F. Kivett, di rector of the Nebraska- State Historical Society Museum. Beginning with the entrance of the white man on the Plains, the final 13 weeks will treat early explorations, expanding frontiers, trading, outposts and the building of the West down to the settling of the land and the growth and patterns of prairie towns. DR. JAMES C. Olson, lecturer in the history department, exe cutive secretary of the Nebraska State Historical Society and su perintendent of the Society's Museum, will present the third series. The University television pro duction plans to film this 39- week series for presentation on Nebraska t e 1 e v is i o n stations shortly after the first of the year. The series also will tie in with the state's centennial ob servances, the sesquincentennial year of the Lewis and Clark Ex pedition, and the sesquicentennial year ol the Louisiana Purchase. As part of the agreement of the grant, the University will offer the program to the NAEB for telecasting nationally by ed ucational television s Rations. . LEO GEIER. television rxroduc- tion assistant, said that the grant will pay for only part of the cost ior such a program. The rest will be taken care of by depart ment appropriations. The erant is intended to help the Univer sity do a significant series which it could not accomplish with its own resources. YWCA Hanging Of Greens To Feature Group Caroling The Hanging of the Greens. an annual YWCA event, will be held Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Ellen Smith Hall. All members of YW are in vited to attend. Tickets are being sold at Ellen Smith Hall and organized houses for 30 cents, Mary Ellerbrock, general chair man, announced. Committees include: Marilyn Talbot, program chairman; Pat Smith, Colleen Turner, Shirley Irwin and Dot Osbourne, Martha Glock, refreshment Afll 717C1, Urban League Aleiv Tov Library for Lincoln Children m m , Students To Collect Toys Beginning The University YWCA and the Urban League are sponsoring for young Lincolnites a toy library similar to the book-and-record variety patronized by adults. On Saturday mornings chil dren between the ages of four and 11 will be able to come to the Urbaif League at 2030 'T St. to select and check out a toy '.for a week. Each participating child will have an Index card and rec- cords kept will indicate the con dition of the. toy when it is re turned. TOYS, SUCH as a doll car riage, scooter and large toys will be available if the child has taken fairly good care of prev iously borrowed toys. "Adop tion" papers granting ownership will make it possible for girls to "adopt" dolls of which they seem particularly fond. Janice Osburn, University YWCA director, visited a similar toy library in Providence, R. I., one of the four in the United States, reporting that children lined up a half -hour before opening time. BEFORE IT can begin opera tion the toy library must con tain toys. Toys needed are dolls, puzzles, games, and all sorts of childrens recreational equipment that encourages imaginative play. Collection date for the library has been set for Dec. 12. Direct ing the project are Beverly Hol comb and Janet Quinn. Approxi mately 50 Other students parti cipated in a work party which completed preliminary planning and active construction of dis In Drive sions on the solicitations board surpassed any previous collec tions except organized houses and ag campus. OFFICERS DURING the cam paign Were Rocky Yapp, presi dent; Joy Wachal, vice-president in charge of solicitations; Har riet Wenke Campbell, vice president in charge of publicity; Carl Mammal, treasurer, and Phyllis Armstrong, secretary. The official report was re leased by Mammal. The date of the drive was from Oct. 5 to 19. Speaking of the success of the AUF drive President Rocky Yapp said, "The successful out come of our annual ' drive is a positive indication that the stu dents and faculty of the Uni versity are aware of the needs of their fellow-men and by their generous response during the past campaign have set an ex cellent example for other cam puses to follow." THE PROCEEDS and their sources were: auction, $1,548.50; booth during new student week, $1,148.26; ag campus, $282.50; denominational houses, $209.98; AUF Filings Filings for 15 , All University Board positions, two assistant treasurers and an office head will close Dec. 11. Applications may be obtained in the AUF of fice, Room 306, Union and should be submitted to Rocky Yapp, AUF president. Any student who has been an AUF worker, has a 5.0 average and Is in good University stand ing may apply. faculty, $671.25; independents, $1,049.31; organizations, $258.00; organized houses, $441.35; so rorities, $1,772.37; fraternities, $1,331.86; Medical School in Omaha, $227.03, and AUF Board. $74.50. The money is divided among the following groups: The Com munity Chest of Lincoln re ceived 35 per cent which amounts to $2,840.12. The Omaha Community Chest re ceived 35 per cent of the Medi cal t School collection which amounted to $79.45. CANCER RECEIVED 20 per cent or $1,880.90, World Univer sity Service received 25 per cent or $2,297.98 and American Heart received 15 per cent of $1,463.80. Five per cent is allowed for ex penses which amounted to $450.65. The faculty money is not di vided by percentages but equally among Cancer, WUS and Heart since the faculty members give to Community Chest in a sepa rate donation. Also approxi mately 3. per cent of the .5. per. cent "set asldefor expenses is used. The remainder is put into an emergency fund. - The officers for next year are Phyl Colbert, president; Jean Steffen, vice-president in charge of solicitations; Mary Jane Mapes, vice-president in charge of publicity; Carl Mammal, treasurer, and Cynthia Hender son, secretary. chairman; Carolyn C o n k 1 i n g, Kathleen Lang, Donna Stephen son and i-Uen sabin. Nancy Hegstrom, decorations chairman; Judy Kroft, Colleen Ohslund, Karen Krueger, Mari lyn Imig, Kathleen Anstine and Jo Ann Carr. Virginia Bauer, invitation and ticket chairman; Marilyn Staska, Dian Morgan, Zoe Cody, Ellen Sabin, Kay Yerk, Vivian Lem mer and Kathleen Lang. Bonnie Splichal, publicity chairman; Phyllis Kaplin and Edith Nauen. play shelves for toys and room decorations. A LIBRARY of this nature has many benefits, according to Sid ney Alexander, executive secre tary of the Urban League. While there will be no penalty for breakage, children will actively develop some sense of responsi- t " j ' " " ililP Toy Library Planners Representatives of the Univer-- of the toy library. Members .. vun- - j TTpKon r of the' policy committee are sity. YWCA and the Urban (standin from the left) Joyce League talk over the operation Laase and Fletcher Bell, and Volume 54, No. 32 m If 12)02 We Animal Opening Set Leigh, Sobolik To Head Cast The University Theatre will present its second production "The Male Animal" by James Thurber and Elliot Nugent, starting Wednesday at 8 p.m. Barbara Leigh and Don Sobo lik are in "the leading roles of Ellen and Tommy Turner. The play is concerned With the uproar in the life of Tommy, a young professor at a Midwestern university, who becomes in volved in an academic contro versy. , Tommy's life is further com licated by the visit of Joe Fer guson, the greatest football player the university ever had and to whom Ellen, Tommy's wife, was once engaged. Tommy gives a dissertation on the male animal and he himself becomes a male animal fighting for his mate. MEMBERS OF the supporting cast include Ruth Ann Richmond as Gwendolyn; Ann Corcoran, Patricia Stanley; Donald Blauw, Wally Meyers; Morse Weisgurt, Dean Frederick Damon; Carle ton Holmes, "Nutsy" Miller; Al lan Kenyon, Michael Barnes; Richard Marrs, Joe Ferguson. Joyce Fangman will take the part of Mrs. Blanche Damon; William Klamm, Ed Keller; Margot Hunt. Myrtle Keller; and Harry Parritt, newspaper re porter. Director of the play is Dr. Grace Meeker, visiting professor in dramatic art. Technical direc tor is John Tolch and assistant director, Jane Laase. . PROPERTIES CREW includes, Charles Peterson, manager Carol Jones, Jane Felger and Jean Weddte. Peggy Larson- is managing the wardrobe com mittee, assisted by Carol Ander son and Chere Houdersheldt. Make-up is directed by Marion Uhe, assisted by Gloria Koll morgan. light and sound are headed by Harriet Greenlee and Marv Stromer. The play is interpreted in the madcap spirit of a Thurber car toon, but also makes a serious comment on the current issue of academic freedom. The production will run Dec. 3 and 5 and the 8th through the 12th. The tickets are $1.25 in cluding tax. Team Ranks Upper Half In Judging Competition From a field of 37 teams com peting at an international con test in Chicago, Saturday, the University livestock judging team placed in the upper half in the ratings. Team members Don Johnson, Del Kopf, Dale Reynolds, Ber nard Wallman and Dale Van Vleck, under the direction of Prof. Prof. M. A. Alexander, will return Tuesday. To Sponsor December 12 bility in caring for the toys and wll be encouraged to take rea sonable care of them, he said. The library will also help to de velop a healthy attitude toward sharing. Students from the Urban League and the University YWCA will serve as Saturday morning librarians. Crosby To Spgk gi Tsi2is A Wednesday ffl I 4 'V- A ' LINCOLN, A J! TK ' fix in rrfir3 ..... j .3 I l V Courtesy Lincoln Star GOVERNOR CROSBY Down Slips Sent Out To 1350 Underclassmen Sent Majority By Tuesday 1,350 students will have received one or more down slips. Of these, about 450 students were down in two or more subjects. However, Lee W. Chatfield, as sistant dean of student affairs, said that many of these downs are due to illness or unsatisfac tory work in one test and do not necessarily indicate failure. FRESHMEN AND sophomores receive the most downs. There are three categories of down slips: "I" or incomplete; "C", in dicating unsatisfactory work, but redeemable; and "F", whith shows failure. The new system of having downs at the end of the fourth and tenth weeks instead of the sixth and twelfth was set up to aid the new students. . Chatfield said that by finding out a student's deficiencies be fore the semester is too far along, the student can.be aided by the faculty or helped with study habits. Janet Kuska Receives Three Top 4-H Awards Janet Kuska. a freshman i in College of Agriculture, received first place awards for achieve ment, leadership, and citizen ship Saturday during the 4-H Club national competitions in Chicago, 111. Miss Kuska's awards were a decisive factor helping to put Nebraska, with Kansas and No. Carolina, in the lead in the na tional ratings. Winners Of Fall Moot Court Annual Competition Named Winners of the fall round of the Moot Court trials' annual competition for University law students, were announced by the College of Law. Eleanor Knoll and Janice Lindquist, Kenneth Legg and Richard Hansen will compete in the spring term of the trials be fore the Nebraska Supreme Court. Asher Geisler and Claire Johnson will also appear in the spring competition. Second round winners are Robert Berkshire and Robert Johnson, Bernard Packett and Eugene Wohlner and Jerry Mas- sie and Bill Sherwood. NAMES OF the winning team in the spring competition will be inscribed on a plaque located in the halls of the Law building. Freshmen winners are Allen Edee and Robert Baumfalk, ...l.v.--.-WW"JW- Courtw Sundtr Journal and Star (seated, from left), Buzz Har gleroad, Norma Dunn, Marilyn Johnson, Jan Osborn and Elsie Parson. NEBRASKA All Students May Attend; $1.50 Tickets Gov. Robert Crosby will ad dress the annual Business Ad ministration recognition banquet on "Morality in Taxation" Tues day at 6 p.m. in the Union Ball room. "Operation Honesty," Crosby's tax plan, was presented at a kick-off mass meeting at the capitol Nov. 20, where he ad dressed representatives of 45 state-wide organizatoins. THE CROSBY tax plan is a "two-fisted moral campaign for full returns in the "scandalously' low assessed personal property tax field." Crosby said at this time that the tax burden of real estate would be lessened by about 25 per cent if a full return of personal property could be secured at a reasonable value during this coming assessment period. The banquet is open to all University students, announced Charles Battey, president of the Biz Ad executive council. The tickets are $1.50 and are avail able in the business administra tion office or may be obtained from council members. NATHAN GOLD will present ten William Gold prize keys to freshmen who ranked highest in the business administration field. Also to be presented are the new members of Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary business ad ministration fraternity. Recipients of the following scholarships will be revealed: General Electric Scholarship, Miller and Paine Scholarships in Business Research, O. N. Magee Memorial Scholarship, Edward R. Wells Memorial Scholarships. W. G. LANGWORTHY Taylor Scholarship; Nebraska Associa tion of Small Loan Companies Scholarship; and Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. Scholarship in Accounting. Earl S. Fullbrook, dean of Col- IFC Schedules 4 Food Sessions . Four more sessions on handling and preparing food will be held within the next three weeks by the Inter-Fraternity Council in conjunction with the Public Health Service. THE TWO sessions on food service offered to busboys and waiters will be held in Love Li brary Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Dec. 8. Cooks, second cooks and house mothers are offered sessions on food preparation in Love Library Auditorium at 2 p.m. on Wed nesday, and Dec. 9. All of the sessions will be con ducted by Tom Gable, public health engineer for the Univer sity. Frank Piccolo, Joe Brown ana Parker Ceesen, Valjean Mc Curdy and Ronald Lahners, Richard Huber and James Bur bridge, James LaRue and Alan Crounse, Marvin Holscher and Don Hochberger and Kenneth Baugh and Clarence Beam. Other first year winners are Thomas Clear and Sheldon Green, Thomas Healey and Ste phen Flansburg, Donald Rohde, Robert Munroe. and James Han cock and Hal Bauer and Robert Roeder. The Outside World Big Four Meet OK With British Cabinet Eden Expects Early Conference By WILLIE DESCII Staff Writer British Foreign Minister An thony Eden announced to the House of Commons that the Cab inet has agreed to Russia's offer of a Big Four meeting in Berlin. Eden stated that he had every reason to believe the United States would agree to the con ference and that the four foreign ministers may meet at an early date. In addition to approving the Big Four meeting, the Cabinet also approved of Churchill's pro gram for the Big Three meeting in Bermuda this week with President Eisenhower and French Premier Joseph Laniel. Eden added that the Russian note means that the Soviet gov ernment is prepared to meet with1 the United States, Britain and France "without conditions." However British press reports have contended that Washington did not take such an optimistic view of the prospects for four power talks. US Agrees Too Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has indicated that the movement with world-wide pc United States will agree to the i tivitics and ambitions. Tuesday, December 1, 1953 miglif Still Available lege of Business Administration, will present the honored students and Charles Battey will act as toastmaster. Production Director Announced Jensby Named By Masquers Wes Jensby, graduate student, has been named director of th 1954 Nebraska Masquers' pro duction to be given Jan. 12-15. "Pure As The Driven Snow" or "A Working Girl's Secret" will be the Masquers' eighth annual production. Written by Paul Loomis, it will be directed in melodramatic 19th Century style of acting. Jensby has directed the Mas quers' productions for the last two years. He directed "George Washington Slept Here" and "The Cat and the Canary." Morrel Clute has been chosen technical director and Jean Sand stedt is production manager. Dallas Williams and Frank Buck will supervise the production. The cast will be selected primarily from the Masquers organization, which includes Charles Peterson, president; Marian Uhe, vice-president; Pat Loder, treasurer; Ruth Ann Rich mond, parliamentarian; and Mar ilyn Kennedy, historian. Other members are: Mary Stromer, Katy Kelly, Doris Bil lerbeck, Kathy O'Donnell, Pat Hahn, Jean Sandstedt, Eleanor Guilliatt, Hank . Gibson, Dick Marrs, Morrel Clute, Shirley Fries, Kay Barton and Bill Wal ton. The purpose of Masquers is to stimulate an appreciation of the theater. Several years ago th Masquers presented another mel odramatic production, "Curse You, Jack Dalton," which was produced in 19th Century style similar to the play scheduled this year. ; Delegates Attend IFC Conference ' Bob Hasebroock, Bill Devries and Frank M. Hallgren, assist ant dean of student affairs, at tended the undergraduate con ference of the National Interfra ternity Conference in Cincinnati Nov. 27 and 28. Hasebroock and Devries, pres ident and secretary of the Uni versity IFC respectively, parti cipated in panel discussions on stamping out "hell week" and improving the campus IFC and scholarship improvement. Agronomist Tours State On Discussion Series First in a series of discussions on soil testings, their interpre tations and the use of fertilizers, was held Monday at Tecumseh by M. D. Weldon, extension agronomist of the College of Agriculture. Other discussions will be held at Hastings, Tuesday; North Platte, Wednesday; Alliance, Thursday, and Norfolk, Friday. The meetings are intended to interest county agents, soil con servationists, Vo-Ag teachers, farmers and businessmen in as sociated fields. offer made by Russia for a Big Four ministers' .meeting. In a statement prepared for a House committee, Dulles said "We do not look on the confer ence table as a place where we surrender our principles, but rather as a place for making our principles prevail. That is our resolve one which, I am confi dent is backed by Congress and by the American people." The matter will be discussed in detail this weekend at the Big Three meeting in Bermuda by president Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and French Premier Joseph Laniel. A final decision will be made at this conference. Atrocities Charged Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief U.S. delegate to the United Na tions, charged that Soviet offi cers in charge of North Korean prison camp commands were re sponsible for thousands of atro city torture cases and deaths. He also charged that these atro cities were used as a policy weapon against its foes. Lodge said that world ' Corn- j munism was a single, political