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Vol. 59, No. 31
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Friday, December 2, 1955
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Bazaar Items
The YWCA Christmas Bazaar
is being held through Saturday
at Rosa Bouton Hall, from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. Shown above fin
ishing items to be sold are (from
left) Sally Laase (seated); Mar
cia Mittelstadt, Marilyn Mousel,
Carolyn Orr and Connie Berry
(seated). According to Marilyn
Beideck, chairman, the Bazaar
Seating Arrangements:
MB To Feature
Sideline Tables
Tables to seat; 1000 people
are being set up in the Coliseum
for the forty-third annual Mili
tary Ball tonight, according to
Joe Krause, Air Force ROTC
Wing Staff member.
The new arrangement will
make it possible for organized
houses attending the ball to be
seated in blocks-
The program will begin at 8
. Closing Hours
Because of the Military Ball to
night, closing hours for all Univer
sity women have been set at 2
a.m. Paula Broady Wells, AWS
president, announced Thursday
that no overnights will be granted
either in town or out-of-Lincoln.
p.m. with a concert by the ROTC
band. Following the grand march
of senior ROTC cadets and their
Eligible Bachelors:.
All-Women's
To Select Six
Candidates have been announced
for six Eligible Bachelors to be
chosen at an All-Women's Elec
tion Tuesday.
Voting will take place in City
Union from 10 to 6 and in Ag
Union from 8 to 6, Barb Clark,
Elections chairman, announced.
Students must present their identi
fication cards in order to vote.
The Eligible Bachelor candidates
are:
Hank Baum, Brown Palace sen
ior in Teachers College; Bob
Brown, Alpha Tau Omega senior
in Business Administration; Don
Bacy, Phi Kappa Psi junior in
Engineering; Gary Burchfield, Al
pha Gamma Rho junior in Agri
culture. Don Deterding, Delta Upsilon
Junior in Business Administration;
Rex Ekwall, Canfield House Men'
Dormitory, junior in Business Ad
ministration; Larry " Epstein, Sig
ma Alpha Mu sophomore in Arts
and Sciences; Don Erway, Delta
Tau Delta junior in Business Ad
ministration; Wendell Faeh, Ag Men's Club
eophomore in Agriculture; Rex
Fischer, Phi Gamma Delta senior
ir. Arts and Sciences; Emil Gade
ken, Beta Sigma Psi sophomore in
Dr. Hoiberg:
Heidelberg
Still Affects
Students at Heidelberg still be
have in a genuine "Student Prince"
fashion, Dr. Otto Hoiberg, associ
ate professor of sociology, reported
at a NUCWA meeting Thursday
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the basis of
trips to Ger
many, one for
three years
during the
post - war per
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Hoiberg showed colored slides of
vnrtniiE nhnasa nf flerman life.
Among the slides were a picture of
the Cathedral at Worms where
Martin T.nfhnr mnrlfl his famOUS
proclamation, one of a German
wtdding party and of the Free
University at Berlin.
A slide was shown of a church
Completed
will provide a welcome solution
to the Christmas gift:shopping
problems faced by many Univer
sity students. Committee mem
bers include Miss Mousel, Miss
Laase, Karen Newton, Sara
Jones, Carolyn Edwards and
Ruthie Rosenquist. A varied
assortment of items suitable
as gifts include: home-made
ladies, the Honorary Command
ant will be commissioned.
Finalists for the honor are
Peggy Baldwin, Janice Carman,
Gail Drahota and Phyllis Sher
man.1 The remaining three final
ists will be named Miss Air
Force, Miss Army, and Miss
Navy.
Their escorts will be Air Force
Cadet Col. Earl Barnett, Army
Cadet Col. Charles Goman, Navy
Cadet Capt. Richard Hill, and
Air Force Cadet Col. James He
witt. At the conclusion of the cere
mony, Eddie Howard and his or
chestra will complete the pro
gram with dancing from 9 p.m.
to 12 p.m-
Tickets for the ball may be
obtained from any ROTC senior,
at the booth in the Union, or at
the Coliseum this Friday.
Tickets are $3 per couple, $1
for spectators.
Election
Tuesday
Engineering; Charlee Garst, Theta
Chi sophomore in Engineering; Lee
Harris, Sigma Chi senior in busi
ness Administration;
John Heeckt, Norris House soph
omore in Arts and Sciences; Jack
Harris, Sigma Chi senior in Busi
Lindsay, Sigma Phi Epsilon jun
ior in Teachers College; Gary Lu
core, Pi Kappa Phi junior in Busi
ness Administration; John Nelson,
Theta Xi junior in Arts and Sci
ences; Dick Reische, Beta Theta
Pi junior in Business Administra
tion; 1
Len Schropfer, RAM Men's
Dormitory, junior in Teachers Col
lege; Roger Scow, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon senior in Business Admin
istration; Ed Snyder, Acacia soph
omore in Teachers College; Jim
Souders, Selleck Quadrangle jun
ior in Engineering;
Jack Talsma, Phi Delta Theta
junior in Arts and Sciences; Char
lie Trumble, Farm House junior
in Agriculture; Jim Vanek, Kappa
Sigma senior in Business Admin
istration; and Lonnie Wrasse, Al
pha Gamma Sigma senior in Ag
riculture; No publicity is to be done on
Election Day, Miss Clark stated.
Candidates may be disqualified if
this rule is broken, she added.
Atmosphere
Germany
in -Heidelberg which was so bit
terly contesetd for by the Catho
lics and Protestants during the
Reformation that a wall was built
dcwn the aisle which divided the
church intd Catholic and Protes
tant halves.
The trend has been toward smal
ler churches and smaller congrega
tions, Hoiberg said. This is expect
ed to promote a closer understand
ing between the members of the
congregation and the minister.
Some congregations once reached
13,000. t
When Hoiberg was in Germany
last summer, he was a representa
tive of an exchange program which
discussed the role of the layman
in American church activities.
The United States has helped
Germany in various ways, Hoi
berg said, but the greatest way is
through this exenange program.
It gives both countries a better un
derstanding and appreciation of an
other way of life.
Courtesy Lincoln Journal
candy and cookies, felt col
lars, ceramic jewelry, stuffed
toys, Christmas- cards, and
wrappings, and ashtrays. The
purpose of this .bazaar is
to provide Christmas merchan
dise for the students and to earn
money which will be used to fi
nance the campus YWCA activi
ties, Miss Beideck said.
NBC Plans
To Televise
First Game
University basketball team will
open the cage season Saturday
against Iowa in a game nationally
televised by NBC-TY from Iowa
City.
The probable starting line-up for
Coach Jerry Bush's Huskers will
include Rex Ekwall and Charlie
Smith, forwards; Don Smidt, cen
ter; Lyle Nan'nen and Norm Coufal,
guards.
Iowa is defending Big Ten
champion and is rated by sports
casters as one of this year's po
tentially great teams. Their attack,
built around Big Bill Logan and
Deacon Davis both ail-Americans,
is one of the most formidable in
the midwest.
Cornhusker mentor Jerry Bush
will feature his "pony express
trio," consisting of sophomrcs
Gary Reimers (5-11), James Ku
backi (5-10) and James Atwood
(6-3), for relief work.
Bush is a little concerned over
his team's ball handling but gen
erally the NU offense is begin
ning to take shape.
Other Huskers who will make the
trip include Jim Thorn, Bob Mer
cier, Dudley Doebele and Bill
Wells.
Majors:
Ag School
To Begin
New
A system of departmental, majors
for the four-year curricula in Agri
culture has been adopted by the
faculty, announced Dr. Franklin
Eldridge, Associate Director of
Resident Instruction.
The new plan will begin next
fall and will replace the present
system of group majors, he said.
Two of the group majors, general
agriculture and technical science
groups, were retained by the fac
ulty to be used as the fundamental
curricula on which the department
al majors will be based.
' If a student wishes to major in
animal husbandry for example, he
may use either general agricul
ture or technical science as a base,
and still have a majority of his
courses pertain to the animal hus-(
bandry field.
If he desired a technical field,
he would likely follow the latter
base; and if desiring a more broad
education of his choice, he would
follow the general agriculture base.
Eldridge announced that the gen
eral agriculture major has been
kept, especially for those students
not planning on continuing their
education beyond the B. S. degree,
or who do not plan on doing highly
technical work in agriculture.
Students enrolling for the fall se
mester of next year will be subject
to the new system. Those presently
enrolled may complete their course
of study under the present plan,
or transfer to the revised system
if they so desire, he said,
Since the general agriculture cur
riculum was retained, a student
may follow it, or one of the follow
ing definite departmental majors:
Those based on the general ag
ricultural curriculum: Ag econom
ics, Ag extension, Ag journalism,
agronomy, conservation, animal
husbandry, dairy production man
agement, dairy products manage
ment, dairy products technology,
entomology, poultry husbandry and
vocational education.
Those based on the technical
science curriculum: technical agro
omy, animal husbandry, dairy pro
duction technology, dairy products
management, dairy products tech
nology, entomology, horticulture
and plant pathology.
Plan
Depledging
By SAM JENSEN
Managing Editor
Interfraternity Council rejected
Wednesday a proposal to legalize
spiking by a decisive voice vote.
The, proposal originated in a
special committee headed by Jan
Pickard, Kappa Sigma, and was
one of 14 changes offered to the
IFC in the
form of com
mittee recom
mendations. The IFC also
made changes
in existing pro
visions for de
pledging, plac
ed Rush Week
rules in the by
laws and ta
bled the pro
posed schedule-
Nebraskan Photo
Gomon
for next Rush Week.
Charles Gomon, Sigma Nu pres
ident, opposed the committee's so
lution for fhe spiking problem and
said that the proposal "reduces
the IFC to hypocrisy when it is
seeking recognition as one of the
nation's outstanding IFC's" and
"it can't enforce its own policies."
By adopting such a policy as
this, Gomon said, the IFC would
become "weak and vacillating
incapable of standing on its own
feet." He said that the committee's
proposal would reduce the pledge
pin to "insignificance" and that
the active pin would also lose its
importance.
Pickard said that the purpose of
the committee's motion was to
place "spiking in its proper per
spective." Marvin Breslow, Sigma Alpha
Mu, speaking in favor of the com
mittee's plan said the IFC is be
ing realistic and is accepting what
it can and what it cannot do. Con
trary to ""some wild-eyed things
in the paper," Breslow said, an
"inquisition" of pledges would not
be possible. It is not the respon
sibility of the IFC, he said, if a
"fraternity wants to prositute its
own pin."
Another major action of the aft
ernoon involved a -change in Rush
Week rules which added a provi
sion that if a person depledged
Sicgol Describes Plant
Proposed For Nebraska
A nuclear power plant to pro
duce 75,000 kilowatts of electricity
proposed for Nebraska by the Con
sumers Public Power District was
described Thursday morning at the
Nuclear Energy Institute by Dr.
Sidney Siegel, technical director
of Atomics International, a divi
sion of North American Aviation,
Inc., which will construct the
plant.
Dr. Siegel said: "The sodium
graphite type reactor, designed for
the power plant by Atomics Inter
national, would' contain about 200
fuel rods in the 'core,' or area of
the machine where atojnic fission
takes place.
"Heat produced would be ab
sorbed by a liquid sodium system
circulating around the fuel rods,
and transferred outside the reac
tor to produce steam in the con
ventional manner. This steam would
then drive turbogenerators to pro
duce 75,000 kilowatts of electricity."
Dr. Siegel, who was associated
with the initial development of the
submarine reactor, explained that
the sodium graphite reactor pro
posed for Consumers is the same
general type machine which Atom
ics International is now construct
ing near Los Angeles as part of
tne. Atomic Energy Commission's
program for the development of
commercial power from nuclear en
ergy.
He said the latter reactor, called
the sodium graphite experiment,
will be completed early next year.
Present design for this machine
calls for the production Df 20,000
kilowatts of heat. A program to
convert this heat to 75,000 kilo-.
watts of electricity is now under
consideration, he added.
The sodium graphite reactor ap
proach to economical power , is
considered promising for a num-
Appointments Due
For Cornhusker
Independent students and mem
bers of organized houses who- have
not had Individual Cornhusker pic
tures taken should make appoint
ments, according to Carol Unter
seher, associate editor.
Appointments maybe made at
the Cornhusker office. ,
Women may make appointments
for next week, and men may make
appointments for after Christmas
vacation.
Pictures are being taken at Ed-holm-Blomgren
Studio, 218 So. 12th.
Provisions Altered, Rules Put
after a period of 30 days from his
pledging, he would be allowed to
pledge another fraternity after an
other 30 days.
The rule, before amendment,
only stated that men depledging
during the first 30 days of pledge
ship could not pledge until the fol
lowing semester. The change was
made to make the provisions con
cerning depleding more equitable.
IFC members also voted to
place Rushing rules in the by-laws
of the organization. Rush Week
rules are now in the IFC Constitu
tion. An amendment by Gomon stated
that Rush Week rules would not
be able to be changed at the same
meeting at which they were pro
posed. Nebraskan
Features
Glassford's successor as
Cornhusker football coach
has been picked, reveals
The Nebraskan in a by
lined story by Bob Cook
on the sports page. Though
the name of the coach is
not known for sure, "it has
been definitely established
. that he has been chosen.
See sports page for de
tails. Admiral Arleigh Burke,
Chief of Operations for the
United States Navy, is
featured in the fifth "Chal
lenge" column on today's
editorial page. In an arti
cle specially written for
The Nebraskan he explains
status and strength of the
American Navy in the
present Cold War.
Other recent contributors
to the column have been
Erwin Canham, Harry
Truman, Cardinal Spell
man, Cecil deMille, Nor
man Vincent Peale, Gen.
Alfred Gruenfher, A d 1 a i
Stevenson,- Herman Wouk,
Sen. Walter George and
Nathan Pusey.
Court eny Sunday Journal and Stat
Siegel
ber of reasons, Dr. Siegel said.
"Good heat transfer properties
and the high boiling point of the
metal which permits, it to absorb a
large quantity of heat without an
increase in pressure are some of
the properties of sodium which
makes it an attractive 'coolant'
for a power reactor."
The possibility of utilizing the
radiations produced by the reactor
also was discussed by Dr. Siegel.
"There is a wide range of applica
tions of the gamma ray radiations
from the reactor. Practically all
fields of medicine, industry, and
science have use for nuclear radia
tions in furthering the research, de
velopment and manufacturing pro
grams in their respective-fields."
Freshman
Honorary
ames 9
Alpha Lambda Delta, national
freshman women's scholastic . hon
orary, initiated nine members
Thursday, President Nancy Salter,
said.
Pledges initiated were Helen
Barnette, Jean Bennett, Martha
Danielson, Joan Kluge, Naomi
Kroerpr, Janet Lovseth, Betty
Parks, Patricia Schaller and Dar
rina Turner.
After the initiation ceremony,
Mrs. Walter Blore of Lincoln spoke
on Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi
requirements.
Membership in Alpha Lambda
Delta requires a 7.5 average for. a
minimum of 15 credit hours or an
accumulated average of 7.5 for the
freshman year.
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The schedule for Rush Week
that was submitted by the commit
tee was sent back to committee
as were proposals 11 through 14,
which were not considered for lack
of time.
A proposal to have a Rush Week
at the beginning of the second se
mester was defeated. Other minor
considerations concerning rush
cards and rush phamplets were
also approved.
The IFC also decided that a rule
stating that rushees were not to
Nuclear Energy Institute:
Uses 01 Atomic Pom
Shown In Union hhihi
By MARIANNE THYGESON
Staff Writer
The first clear picture of how
atomic energy can be harnessed
and applied to business and indus
trial uses was explained at the
Nuclear Energy Institute at the
University Thursday and Friday.
The display on atomic energy is
exhibited in the Union main
Lounge. The cost of the display
was reported to be fifty thousand
dollars. The display consists of five
exact scale models " showing how
atomic energy may be used in busi
ness and industry. A complicated
electrical system is required to
keep the precision models in op
eration. The display includs models of
three types of research reactors
presented by Atomics International,
which is a division of North Ameri
can Aviation International.
These include the medical reac
tor, the pool type reactor, and the
solution type reactor. All of these
types of reactors can be used for
food preservation, medical re
search and treatment, agriculture,
and plastics and metal manufac
ture. A scale model of the 75,000 kilo
eatt nuclear power station, of the
Sodium-graphite type, proposed for
the Consumer's Public Power Dis
Starr1 s: Talk' Stresses
Creative Uses Of Atom
The initative, foresight, and
courage being demonstrated by
private and public organizations in
developing the creative uses of
atomic energy is consistent with
the historic pioneering spirit which
has led our nation to its position
of world prominence.
So said Dr. Chauncey Starr, vice
president of North American Avi
ation, Inc., and general manager
of the company's Atomic Interna
tional division, in a banquet ad
dress Thursday evening before the
Nuclear Energy Institute.
Dr. Starr's address, presented
at a dinner meeting to educators,
businessmen, and industrialists
from leading Nebraska organiza
tions, was part of the two day In
stitute, sponsored by the Nebraska
Resources Division and the Uni
versity. The two principal "products" of
atomic fission, heat and radiation,
were described by Dr. Starr, to
gether with an analysis of how
these products of the nuclear age
are being developed and utilized
to the economic, social, industrial,
and scientific benefit of all man
kind. "When an atom splits," Dr.
Starr explained, "there is a re
lease of radiation, such as gamma
rays, similar to but more power
ful than X-rays; neutrons, which
are tiny 'bundles of energy'; and
just plain heat but lots of it."
"The radiation products are al
ready being put to good use in the
scientific, industrial, and medical
fields, with a great deal of prom
ise for further application. Dra
matic results have been obtained
by the use of radiation products
in medicine's battle with cancer
and other diseases. The petroleum,
textiles, chemical, and food and
drug industries have demonstrated
marked progress in the utilization
of radiations in their respective
fields.
"In the power field, where the
heat from fission is the key pro
duct, there is no question as to the
technical feasibility of producing
electricity from the atom," Dr.
Starr said.
"A 'double-barreled' approach to
make the most economical and ef
ficient use of atomic energy is to
Kprovide an installation which reaps
the benefits of both heat and radia
tion from the fission process," Dr.
Starr pointed out.
"The reactor project proposed
by' the Consumers Public Power
District of Nebraska offers the
possibilities of such an approach,"
he said.
In By-Laws
come in contact' with fraternity
men during rush week was im
practical and impossible to en
force. Other business of the IFC at its
Wednesday meeting included th
selection of Bill Tomsen, Phi Delta
Theta, as a delegate to the na
tional IFC meeting, a report on
the annual IFC Orphans Christ
mas party and a resolution to have
the annual IFC Ball, if arrange
ments could be "made with the of
fice of Student Affairs.
trict for use in Nebraska was also
included in the display. The possi
bility of establishing such a nu
clear power plant in Nebraska wai
frst discussed in 1953.
A formal application for the con
struction of a sodium-graphite re
actor plant was made to the AEC
in March, 1955. Upon its approval,
construction is expected to be com
pleted in 1958.
General Electric presented a
model at the display which demon
strated the operation of a plant
means of radiation.
The schedule and speakers for
Friday are:
"Industrial Use of Isotopes,H 11
a.m. to 11:45 a.m., W. E. Cham
berlain, Director of Special Pro
jects, American Machine and
Foundry Co.
"Isotopes in the Field of Agri
culture," 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m., Dr.
Paul Pearson, head of biology sec
tion of Medical and Biology Divi
sion of the AEC.
"Food Processing and Preserva
tion by Irradiation," 2 p.m. to 3:15
p.m., Lt. Col. Belmont Evans,
Institute for Armed forces, and Dr.
B. S. Schweigert, American Mean
Institute Foundation
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
3: IE p.m., discussion led by Chan
cellor Hardin.
Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star
Starr, .
Although heat and power repre
sent only a fraction of the cost of
industrial products, industry can
not locate and expand in areas
where these commodities are lack
ing, Dr. Starr explained. "'The lo
cation of low-cost electrical power
usually determines where industry
will go, and how fast it grows.
"The added availability of atom
ic "radiations creates a fertile field
for the location and expansion of
several industries."
"As an example," Dr. Starr
said, "the rapid strides being
made in the food and drug sterili
zation using radiation methods
point to the establishment of in
dustrial plants in areas where the
old requirement, heat and the in
gredient, radiation, can both be
provided. Low cost power, not only
generating commercial electricity,
but also providing process heat
and steam, are also in great de
nt a n d by industries whose pro
ducts afe receptive to improve
ment by radiation.
"Not the least important of our
various industries, the field of agri
culture also has received benefits
from the atom."
Dr. Starr observed: "Particular
ly in our great western areas, up
on which the nation depends so
heavily for the produce of our
farms, fields, and ranches, there
have already been striking devel
opments in agricultural methods
resulting from the application of
the radioactive atom." 1
Dr. Starr concluded by observ
ing that "although we have al
ready seen significant results from
the peacetime atom, it is only
through our continued research
and development that we will fully
realize the almost limitless bene
fits in store for mankind from this
new tooL"
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