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The Fraternity All B Team On Page 3 For The Iconoclast See Page 2 U . iv f7 rfi MV AM MY Vol. 31, No. 72 Union Activities Medi Marilyn Heck was elected presi dent of the Union Activities Board Monday, March 26. Miss Heck is a member of the Union Board of Managers, Vice-president of Kappa Kappa Gamma, the Cornhusker Managing Editor, a member of Theta Sigma Phi, secretary of Gamma Chi and past member of the Builders Board in charge of the Student Directory. Kay Deppen and Virginia Marx ere the Senior Board members Miss Deppen is a member ' of Orchesis, corresponding secretary of Kappa Alpha Theta, Personnel Chairman and a member of Pi Lambda Theta. Miss Marx is a member of Chi Omega, Newman Club, NUCWA, a Student Union Assistant and chairman of the Talks and Topics committee of the Union. Sharon McDonald, Judy Douthit, Terry Mitchem, Dorothy Beechner and Judy Decker are the Junior Board members. Miss McDonald is Activities Chairman of Kappa Kappa, Stu dent Union Board, Section head of the Cornhusker and membership chairman of the YWCA. Judy Douthit is a member of Tassels, Coed Counselors, chair man of Spring Day Committee, Publicity Chairman of Delta Delta Delta and Union Film Committee Chairman. Terry Mitchum is a member of the YWCA Cabinet, vice-president of Gamma Phi Beta, chairman of the Union dance committee, mem ber of Alpha Lambda Delta, AUF Board member in charge of In dependent Solicitations and mem ber of Hungarian Student Proj ect. Cancer: Cromwell Wins Honor For Study A University professor-of chem istry has received additional rec ognition for his pioneering research activities along the' lines of anti cancer drugs. Dr. Norman Cromwell, has been selected to be chairman and dis cussion leader of the opening ses sion of an international conference on anti-cancer drugs, scheduled in New York. City Thursday through Saturday. Attending the conference will be Internationally recognized basic scientists and .hysicians engaged in cancer research. Among the speakers will be Alexander Had dow, director of Chester Beatty Reasiarch Institute, Royal Cancer Hospital, London, and C. P. Rhoads, director of Sloan-Ketter-ing Institute for Cancer Research, regarded as the two top authorities In their field. The conference is being jointly sponsored by the New York Acad emy of Sciences and Cancer Chem otherapy National Service Center of Washington, D. C. It is hoped that a review of the anti-cancer drugs will aid the at tending scientists in evaluating the real effectiveness of the dugs now being used and help suggest steps to be taken to improve their ef fectiveness in the treatment of cancer. Dr. Cromwell, who has done considerable research in the field of cancer chemotherapy, said that pone of these anti-cancer drugs, called alkylating agents, have yet proven to be a cure for cancer. But, he said, several have been found which show a temporary ef fect on some forms of the disease in man. Schramm: Geologists To Honor MU Professor Emeritus E. Schramm, professor emeri tus of the University department of geology, will be honored in St. Louis next Tuesday for "distin guished service to petroleum geol ogy." Associated with the University for nearly 50 years, Professor Schramm will receive an honor ary membership in the American Faculty Members Attend Workshop Two University of Nebraska home economics faculty members took part in a meeting of the Education for Family Finance Workshop Alumni in Kansas City, Kan., last week, Hazel Anthony, assistant profes sor of vocational education, and Dorothy Larery, assistant profes sor of home economics, both have participated in summer workshops in Family Finance Education spon sored by' the University of Den ver and the Institute of Life In surance, j Teaching materials and pro cedures were discissed at the meeting. Board: (Elected President Judy Decker is AWS Notifica tions Chairman, Coed Counselor, corresponding secretary of Delta Delta Delta and Student Union Special Activities Chairman. Dorothy Beechner is a member of Red Cross Board, Coed Coun selors, Spring Day Central com mittee and pledge trainer of Alpha Chi Omega. Miss Diane Knotek is past presi dent of the Union Activities Board. Commenting on the election, Miss Knotek said, "the Activities Board is under very able leadership and should do an outstanding job next year because of the exceptional abilities of the board members." Health Day: Wen tier eature Speaker The guest speaker for the ninth annual College Health Day is Dr. Herbert Wenner, according to Dr. Samuel Fuenning, Director of the Student Health. Nationally known in the field of viruses, Dr. Wenner is presently a research" professor at Kansas University. The Health Day lectures will be given on Thursday and Friday. Dr. Wenner has three talks scheduled while on the University Campus. The first will take place at a Luncheon which will take place in Parlor Z in the Union. The topic will be "Education: Most Impor tant Factor in Virus Disease Con trol." The price for the luncheon is $1.25 and - reservations can be made by sending them to the Stu dent Health Center. The second talk will take place at a Student Convocation at 4:00 in Love Library Auditorium. The topic will be "The Great Struggle: You vs Viruses. The third" talk will be held Fri day at a Graduate and Faculty seminar in Bassey Hall, Room 202. The topic will be "Cultivation of Viruses." Ag Engineers To Meet Walter Carelton, Assistant Di rector of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, will speak on "Agricultural Engineering Where to in Education?" at a special meeting of the Nebraska Student Branch of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers to be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. in room 209, Agricultural Engineering Building, Agricultural Campus. Spring Day: snagemeier Reveals Cominittee Workers Spring Day committee workers were announced Tuesday by Dick Hagemeier, chairman. Hagemeier stated that approxi mately 72 students who comprise the Spring Day committees will begin work sometime this week. Newly selected workers for Spring Day, scheduled for all day May 3, are: Events Committee (Gary Berke, chairman): Priscilla Eckrich, Mary Jane Wilhite, Janie Johnson, Kathy McCrady, Sharon McCormick, Roy Meierhenry, Jody Reeves, Charles Keyes, Dewain Association of Petroleum Geolo gists. Having a membership of 12,500, the association has honored only 22 other geologists with an honor ary membership. Professor .Schramm, a native of DeWitt, joined the University in 1908, and became professor and head of the geology department in 1936, serving until 1953. He obtained his bachelor degree from Oklahoma University and his master's from the University. Mr. Schramm also took two additional years of work in the University's Law College, specializing in mining law. The Nebraska educator has served for many years with geolog ical surveys and consulting geolo gists for various independent com panies and organizations. Many of his high students trained at the University of Ne braska have reached high execu tive positions with American oil companies. Living in Lincoln, he is serving as curator of mineral and rocks for the University's State Museum and is consulting geologist for oil and mining companies. - 'rlr)!)i'i4 H A( tZsJ M Rifle Team Winners The members of the winning Army rifle team in the University of Nebraska rifle championship match are 1st row, left to right: Army: ROTC Rifle Team Wins First Match The Army ROTC rifle team won the first annual University of Ne braska rifle championship match which was held last week. The Army team posted an 1857 score to better the Navy team which posted 1852. The AFROTC team was third with a 1812 score. John Landers of the Navy led the match with a 380. Ron Dawson was high man for the winners with a 378. Dawson recently received na tional recognition when he fired a 392 in a Big 7 match. His score in that match was one point under the National Intercollegiate record. The scores of the Army team were Conley Cleveland's 372, Roy Keenan's 371, Dick Woolley's 369 and Dave Mossman's 367. The winning Army team will re ceive a traveling type plaque, which will be awarded by Colonel Chester J. Diestel, professor of military science and tactics. C i s n e y, Roger Wehrbein, Bill Jameson, Larry Hendrix, Denny Elder, Jim Brown, and Larry Ro tert. Publicity Committee (News, Bob Ireland, Chairman): Sharon Fang man, Ellen Stokes, Jane McLaugh lin, and LaVerne Rogers. Publicity Committee (Art, Mary Lynn Stafford, Chairman): Bobbie Jorgensen, .Paula Hemphill, Bar bara Milnitz, Janie Simmons, Janis Crist, Malou Parrott, Sarah Sma ha, Sally Jean Mil'er and Tom Kraeger. Finance and Tickets: Jean John son, Sylvia Rigg, Nancy Beal, and Jean Sell. Parade Committee (Lyle Hansen, Chairman): Polly Doewing, Jackie Kapplin, Sandra Davidson, Deanna Barnett, Patricia. Flannigan, Betty Parks, Anita Hall,- Margaret Hook, Elizabeth Smith, Jackie Shaffer, Nancy Bell, Gloria Scarlett, Har riet Zadina, and , Arlene Nord strom. Faculty Committee (Bobbie Holt and Judy Doughit, co-chairmen): Muriel Mossing, Sandra Reimer, Judy Jervis, Sandra Jo Simmons, Sandra Sorensen, Ann Shaffer, Polly Doering, Sandy Hazlett, Kay Gregory, Carole Yerk, Carol Trip lett, ,Sonia Sievers, Marianne Pe tersen, and Elaine Veskerna. Tickets for the Spring Day Bar becue and the Farmers Fair Ro deo will be priced at 80c apiece, Hagemeier announced. A special combination ticket will be sold for $1.50, he added. The Faculty Senate voted at their last meeting to allow Spring Day to run one full day this year. Innovations in the events include the inclusion of Farmers Fair Board with rest of the ceremonies. Competition will be featured in the morning between organized houses. In the afternoon the annual Rodeo will take place. The Student Union birthday party will also be a part of Spring Day. The Union will feature refresh ments at half price. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Cadets Woolev, Keenan, Dawson; 2nd row, Cleveland and Moss man. The Army team will be awarded a traveling type plaque Carnival Of Entertainment: All University Stag Scheduled Tonight It's "Stag time" at 7 p.m. to night when the Union holds its first All University Stag party. A carnival of entertainment, in cluding wrestling, judo, magic acts, pistol shooting, smorgasbord and free door prizes will be on tap. Prizes which will be awarded by Husker football coach Bill Jen ningsinclude a Michael Stern suit valued at $67.50; Roblee shoes, valued at $15.95; a Van Heusen shirt valued at $5, a Wimbley tie valued at $1, and two belts, valued at $2.50 each. Other prizes in clude four McGregor sports items: Baby Ivy slacks valued at $7.95, a bay Cardigan jacket valued at $7.95, a pair of bay Bermuda shorts valued at $5.95 and a bay knot T-shirt valued at $4. Tickets for the entire program and smorgasbord cost 75 cents each and con be purchased at the Union or at the door Wednesday evening before the show starts. An added attraction nine attrac tive coeds have been selected to help serve at the smorgasbord. uiris wno win neip serve are Mary McKnight, Kay Nielson, El len Stokes, Joan Riha. Sally Wen. gert, Jackie Miller, Sharlene An thony, Jody Carlson, and Ann Wade. The program will be MC'd by Lincolnite Bill Morton, better known as "Morton the Great." Morton worked his way through the University with his magic act. For 22 years Morton has been per- torming magic throughout the na tion. The Lincoln showman claims doing over 10,000 shows during his career. All tickets and money for the Stag, must be turned into the Union Activities Office before 5 p.m., according to Jon Bicha, ticket sales chairman. House rep resentatives who have not returned their tickets by that time will be charged for the number of tickets issued them, Bicha said. Ag YM-YWCA The Ag YM-YWCA are- under taking a service project Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Ma lone Community Center. Everyone is invited to help with the painting for either the com plete day or a portion of it. Car3 will leave the student house at 34th and Holdrege at 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. for those who wish to par ticipate. Blizzard Stalls NU By BARB SHARP Special Staff Writer YW and YM members could very well write a sequel to John Greenleaf Whittier's classic "Snow- bound." After attending a Y conference at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, the Y members were completely "snowed" on the return trip home. . The three cars carrying the Y members home were marooned at various places all of them small and all of them within 30 miles of the Cppitol City with no way to get home. Approximately 22 .students left the NU campus Friday for Lawr ence to participate in KU's Y Week-end. The conference started with pre liminary meetings Friday night. Saturday evening, the students YlH i Y Members Spend 3 Nebraskan Photo by Colonel Chester J. Diestel, professor of military science and tactics. Courtesy Lincoln Star Lincoln Journal Novak Dibiase Miss Cornhusker!!: Coeds To Compete For Beauty Queen For the first time, the Univer sity will submit a representative in the Miss Nebraska contest for the Miss United States title, ac cording to Sam Jensen, member of the Innocents Society. The Innocents will select "Miss Cornhusker" from 12 finalists. Any University coed may enter this contest. Application forms may be obtained in the Union Ac tivities Office. Brief interviews will be held by the Innocents on April 2 from 8:00 to 10:30 a.m. in the Union. Ap plicants will be contacted for the time of their interviews. "Miss Cornhusker" will be chos- Union: Style Show To Feature Nine Queens Nine of the twelve beauty queen finalists and Nebraska Sweetheart will model for the Union Spring Style and Talent Show. This event will occur March 31 in the Union Ballroom at 8:00. The models are: Charlene An thony, Jody Carlson, Mary Jane Coe, Elaine Eggen, Mary Hepper- len, Reba Kinne, Carolyn Torrence, Francis Van Houten, Sharon Quinn and Charlene Ferguson. Fashons include sportswear, bathing suits, formal attire and casuals, all pointing towards spring's newest design. Group: attended a concert by Louis Arm strong, and later a dance in honor of the KU game, featuring Satchmo. After attending church together Sunday morning, the three cars left Lawrence in a rainstorm expecting to arrive home late Sun day afternoon. The rain, however, changed to snow about as soon as the students crossed the Nebraska border. A truck crashed through a bridge on Highway 2 near Otoe, which neces sitated a detour and by then, there was approximately S or 6 inches of snow on the highways. The snow kept coming down, and drifts six and seven feet high forced one car to pull over, and the occupants spent couple of very anxious hours at a farmhouse. Finally, a group of cars decided to try to go on to Lincoln. A rather Ireland, McKnight PoSc !c VlTGUir By GARY RODGERS , Staff Writer Jack Pollock, Bob Ireland, and Mary McKnight were elected gov ernor, lieutenant governor, and secretary of state respectively of NUCWA Mock Legislature Tues day. PolloQk is Managing Editor of the Daily Nebraskan, member of the University Young Republicans Club, Sigma Delta" Chi pledge, member of Sigma Nu and a junior in Business Administration. Ireland is News Editor of the Daily Nebraskan, member of the Young Republicans Club, pub licity chairman of the IFC, pub licity chairman of Spring Day, Kosmet Klub worker, member of Sigma Chi and a sophomore in Arts and Sciences. Miss McKnight is vice-president of junior Pan Hellenic Council, secretary of the Young Republican Club, AUF, Builders, a member of Delta Gamma and a sophomore in Arts and Sciences. At the NUCWA meeting Tues day evening, the group discussed the agenda, and the committee meeting were scheduled. The 22 bills to be introduced were also distributed. Committee meetings will begin today, with the first meetings, those of the State Resources com mittee and the State Affairs com mittee, beginning at 3 p.m. in the Union. The Welfare committee meets at 4 p.m. and Law Enforcement at Nebraska Supreme Court: Moot Court Competition Moves Into Final Rounds The final round in the University Allen Moot Court competition will be held before Nebraska Supreme Court justices Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The contestants are: Dominico Caporale and Willard en on the basis of beauty, poise and personality. Shari Lewis, the winner of the Miss Nebraska con test last year, will crown the win ner. The winner of tlie state contest Nebrackan Pbota Shari Lewis at McCook will receive a trip to Los Angeles to compete in the Miss United States Contest. The 12 finalists will attend a banquet to be given by the In nocents. The finalists will be pre sented at the first performance of the Kosmet Klub show, and "Miss Cornhusker" will be crowned at the second perform ance by Shari Lewis. The winner will also receive a trophy. 2 Mows 0a unexpected turn into a snow bank caused the occupants of a car driven by Carol Smith to abandon the car and make the rest of the trip other also headed for Lincoln. After spending five or six hour3 early Monday morning in the car, sitting with huge snow drifts on either side, the Y members greeted the arrival of a snow plow with the same emotions the pioneers must have had when the Indians were gathering for a last attack and the cavalry appeared over the hill. ' . The remainder of the trip was slow. The cars would crawl about one-quarter of a mile, and then wait anywhere for an hour to two and one-half hours for the plow to dig out a semi-trailer truck or a bus, before another quarter mile could be travelled. After spending 32 hours on the iV 1 Wednesday, March 27, 1957 Win: 7 p.m. Wednesday. Thursday at 7 p.m. the meetings of the Finance and Education committees are slated. Committee members and lobby ists are urged to contact the com mittee chairman for the room number and the bills to be dis cussed at the committee meetings, according to Louis Schultz, NUC WA board executive committee chairman of senators. Committees are as follows: Fi nanceTom Henderson, (chair man), Wayne Thompson, Fred Swartz, Sara Jones, Loren Lind quist, Ted Smith; Education Wynn Sniithberger (chairman), Gail Walling, Jim Hunkins, Jim Youngscap, Judy Douthit, Judy Combs; Law Enforcement Sax ton Crawford (chairman), Sanford McConnell, Lloyd Castner, Tom Munson, Margaret Marshall, John Kastl; Welfare Darinna Turner (chairman), Dick Spencer, Jim Hyink, David Widman, Kay Mc Kory, Glenn Sperry; State Affairs G 1 e n n Hossman (chairman), John Balder, Barbara Millnitz, Bob Grimit, Ron Worholaski; State sources Larry Voss (chair man), Rita lone Carrol, Dick Fos ter, Sam Hall, Bob Krumme, Wayne Hennesy. The Weather Partly cloudy skies with tem peratures in the 40's will prevail Wednesday. Little precipitation is expected. Lorensen versus Marshall Becker and Norman Krivosha. Hearing the arguments in the Supreme Court Hearing Room at the Capitol will be Justices Paul Boslaugh, Fred Messmore, and Adolph Wenke. The public is invited to attend the session. The case will involve the ques tions of whether a city may pre fer local businessmen in award ing contracts even though an out-of-town bidder makes a lower bid and whether councilmen should re imburse a city for money paid out by them on an illegal contract. Also beginning Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the Law College's Moot Court room will be the queater finals of the competition. Those sophomores competing are: Wednesday William Dill and Robert Hill, versus Joseph Bald win and Francis Barrett. Friday Philip Sorensen, Thompson Snyder, and Richard Walentine versus Dwain Jones and David Keene. The two winning teams will compete next spring in the finals. Winning freshman teams in the first round of the Moot Court which was held last week, were: Harlan Hubka and Wincel Nel son; James Duggan and Charles Kokes; Charles Beal and Richard Fellman; Tony Winey and James Winter; Thomas David and Dick Hartsock, Gretchen Christopher Arlyss Welch and Rose Green; Ed ward Heitman and. John Mingus; Lawrence Sandberg and Butler Shaffer; Dr. William Swindler and Gwendell Hohensee; Alvin Rose, Feichtinger and William Ander son; and Edward Vacovsky, Fred erick Wanek and Richard Whit man. 'Reprints' Explained Due to the limited circulation of The Dally Nebraskan Monday be cause of the blizzard, several stories were reprinted In Tuesday's edition, accounting for the unusual ly large number of stories run both days, acordlng to Fred Daly, edi tor. The Umi road since leaving Lawrence, the cars finally pulled into Lincoln. In a space of five miles, the students counted 35 cars aban doned in ditches and snow drifts. There is no place like Nebraska thank heaven commented Y members as they brushed the last of the snow out of Jackets, hair and eyes and headed for home and bed. Over-all conference chairman was Micky Mills, president of the KY at Lawrence. Attending the conference were: Barb Sharp, Carol Smith, Marfo Hornady, Eev Ellis, Terry Mitch em, George Moyer, Boyd Burhocp, Evonne Einspahr, Janet Johnrton, Betty Wilson, Mr., and Mrs. Dick Thornton, Eiff Keyes, Fhjl Bon ner, Jan Lichtenberger, S a r Laszlo, Julius Szabo, Steve Takaes, Louis Motoar, and Charlie Keiae'i, Cps shop