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Page A Dr. Hooper Receives Tribute; Helped Dentistry 40 Years Former Dean Versatile Dental Pioneer The Doily Nebroskon Tuesdoy, November 4, 1958 Photographer, poet, inven-j About 40 busy years have tor of an automatic chicken 'been devoted by Dr. Hooper feeder and a grapefruit spoon to initiating and encouraging these are a few of the side- j programs for improving den lines of a man whose main tal education. interest is dentistry. Last week this man. Dr Bert Hooper, former dean of the College of Dentistry, re ceived a statewide tribute for his contributions to dental ed ucation and to the profession. More than 200 members of the College of Dentistry Alum ni Association, which Dr. Hooper helped form, honored him and his wife during the Annual Homecoming Reunion in Lincoln. i 'Will the end result be good for the patient?" is the ques tion used by the former dean to analyze a proposal. "If the answer is yes," he said, "then it's good for the profession." Dean 19 Years Some achievements of Dr. Hooper and his colleagues during his 19 years as dean of the College of Dentistry are: Adoption of an Aptitude It Happened at NU Past Campus Issues Often Same As Now What were the issues and big news stories on the Uni versity campus a year ago, two years, three years find five years ago at this time? A lot of them seem to be the same as occurring on the NU campus today, and contro versial issues seemingly com mon to every semester's edi tion of a campus newspaper also took the spotlight. Homecoming Over Last year at this time Home coming had just ended and AUF had just begin its annual drive. The Union was begin ning its plans for an Aspen ski trip. Still raging as controversy was the C. Clyde Mitchell case and argument rocked the Stu dent Council as a motion was presented to restrict funds ob tained from the student body for the social benefit of cam pus organizations. Two years ago at this time Homecoming and AUF were in the news as well as t h e Mitchell case. Coach Pete Elliott was praised editorially in the Nebraskan after the Huskers had upset Missouri for their third season win. Social Rules Questioned The Chancellor asked for a budget hike and received a communication from the IFC asking for a clarification of the University's social rules. ANebraskan columnist questioned the method of se lection of the Homecoming queen. Three years ago the Kos met Klub Fall Review was banned by the Faculty Com mittee on Student Affairs be cause of "questionable taste" on the part of the master of ceremonies. Nebraska had won its third game of the season under Coach Bill Glassford who had been under fire all season from fans, students and sports writers. Students had come out in favor of a two-week final ex am schedule and five finalists i had been announced for AUF I Activity Queen. Glassford Attacked Five years ago Bill Glassford was in the middle of another attack; writers were sounding his death bell. Fourteen men's organized houses had an nounced their candidates for UMOC Ugliest Man on Campus and an editorial in the Nebraskan asked: "Have you been chosen a queen this fall? Or a prince? Or a Some-thing-est man on campus?" A fraternity was placed on social probation after a Uni versity professor charged that a pledge class abducted a stu dent out of his class before a pledge sneak. An editorial questioned the use of the two-day exam pe riod given to students before the semester tests. Issues change, but many of the news events common to a campus paper are the same year after year. J 'Students Cover Beats, Lose Sleep Round the clock cover age of today's election will result in little sleep for Uni versity journalism students. Beginning at 8 a.m. this morning and lasting until ? or 3 a.m. tomorrow morning, students in journalism 171, 181 and 176 will prepare a special 16-page edition. Two pages, a front page and a local front page will be set in type. Copies of the experimental newspaper will be sent to Nebraska ed itors for criticism. Dr. Wil liam Hall, J-School director, said. Dick Ramage and Bob Martel will co-edit the elec tion edition with Del Hood as managing editor. Thirty three students will make up the news staff. Outside World The Air Force will shoot for the moon again sometime during the next week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced. Formal guesses on chances of success issued with the announcement are for 25-1 odds on reaching the vicinity of the moon. Demo Landslide Predicted The final 1958 Gallup Poll survey predicts the Democrats to win control of the House in today's election by greater margins than they did in 1954 or 1956. In areas outside the South, which is usually solidly Democratic, they were polling 54 support as compared to 46 for the KepuDlicans. Polls Open Till 8 All Nebraska polling places will be open until 8 p.m. to night. Secretary of State Frank Marsh has predicted a turn out of 474,000 Nebraskans at the polls. What Price Bigness New Yorkers why buy the longer and wider 1959 cars will be paying higher prices to park their buggies in many of the city's garages. Fifteen to 20 per cent more to park will be charged, with a discount going to regular customers. The de cision was reached by the Executive board of the Metropoli tan Garage Board cf Trade. Hoffa Predicts Massive Union Teamster president James Hoffa has predicted he will eventually lead a mighty Teamster Union of 4,500,000 mem bers spanning virtually the entire transport industry. "We will not be stopped by the McClellan committee, laws or the courts," Hoffa said. Hoffa now leads the largest union in the nation, with 1,600,000 members. Guinea Recognized President Eisenhower has formally extended diplomatic recognition to the independent government of Guinea, a form er French territory. Gas War May be Over Lincoln's gas war may be on Its way out after two weeks. The Lincoln Journal reports that prices may go up during the coming week. The reduced prices have spread to Green wood, Elmwood, Waverly and Eagle. 'Dr. Zhicago' Nobel Price winner Boris Pasternak said he was happy that he wrote "Doctor Zhivago." . The Soviet author said he was sorry about all the "noise" he caused In the Kremlin, but he felt he had to write the prize-winning novel. Testing Program by the Am erican Dental Association. The program, now used by all dental colleges, has raised the caliber of students and of teaching, Dr. Hooper ex plained. The end result, he added, has been a better class of dentists. Gaining voting privileges for faculty members in t h e American Association of Den tal Schools. Previously only deans could vote. Easing student's financial burden by allowing dental stu dents to pay for their educa tion evenly throughout several years. This lessened the num ber of students who had to drop out at the beginning of the second year when the need for purchasing instru ments increased the financial load. Memberships Large If Dr. Hooper's accomplish ments as an educator and a prothodontist may be judged by the number of lecture in vitations, publications and membership in honorary groups, they are many. From high school days when he invented an 8-day an tomatic chicken feeder. Dr. Hooper's manual dexterity has been an asset. It helped him decide to enter the den tal profession. It has helped him utilize every Inch of his office space through what he calls "gadgetry." It has been important in his research developing instru ments and procedures for im proving dentures. The . Immediate Denture Technique was pioneered by Dr. Hooper. This technique trys to make dentures appear natural by maintaining a pa tient's facial characterijtics and reproducing accurately the appearance and align ment of the teeth. Photography Employed Photography is another hobby Dr. Hooper has utilized in his profession. He recorded the Immediate Denture Technique on film. He reputedly owns the world's largest colored motion picture library concerning dentures. Parts of it have been shown to nearly every state dental society as well as in Europe. Football, a field seemingly removed from dentristry, has been influenced by Dr. Hoop er's inventions. During the 1920's he built a sighting device for m o v i e cameras which could be used in filming football games. This led to the use of films in coaching the teams, a pro cedure first used by Nebras ka, next adopted bv Harvard. 'Joke' Sells A number of years ago, Dr. Hooper's inventions influ enced another field. He de vised a "grapefruit eating spoon" as a joke. The gadget received publicity from Cali fornia to London and Dr. Hooper soon received large orders for the spoons. Poetry writing is also en joyed by Dr. Hooper. "It soothes my nervous system takes me to a world sublime," he says. The "Dentist's Pledge" written by Dr. Hooper has been adopted and published by the American College of Dentists. It was placed in the commencement programs of many of last year's dental graduates. EARLY VOTE J 7t "Hi r . ': MAL DOIIRMAN (left) and Joe Hart, both seniors, fill out their sample ballots in the Young Republican Model Election held Monday, a day before the general election. Seated in the booth is sophomore YR Gloria Tictjen. 450 Vote (Continued from Page 1) UNITED STATES SENATOR Roman L. Hruska 227 Frank B. Morrison 200 GOVERNOR Victor E. Anderson 234 Ralph G. Brooks 190 STATE TICKET Lieutenant Governor D wight W. Burney 254 Frank Sorrell 194 Secretary of State Frank Marsh 314 Leonard Foster 135 Auditor of Public Accounts Ray C. Johnson 290 J. R. Kelley (deceased) . .146 State Treasurer J. Monroe Bixler 256 Richard R. Larsen 178 Attorney General Clarence S. Beck 316 William E. Crubbs 139 Kailwav Commissioner Joseph J. Brown 252 J. McReynolds 183 CONGRESSIONAL TICKET Representative in Congress First District Phil Weaver 223 Clair A. Callan 123 Representative in Congress Second District Glenn Cunningham 176 Francis M. Casey 80 Representative in Congress Third District R. D. Harrison 149 Lawrence Brock 102 Representative in Congress Fourth District A. L. Miller 154 Donald F. McGinley 103 NON-POLITICAL TICKET Judge of Supreme Court Second District John Yeager 259 Judge of Supreme Court Fourth District W. O. Baldwin 136 Fred W. Messmore 127 Judge of Supreme Court Sixth District Edward Carter 238 Member State Board of Education Sixth District Raymond M. Gilmore ... 233 Member State Board of Education Fifth District A. J. Crabtree 230 REGENT OF THE UNIVERSITY Third District William Spear 176 Richard E. Adkins 135 REGENT OF THE UNIVERSITY Fourth District B. N. Greenberg 212 Margaret A. Christensen 120 Vet Reports Demand Promptness "Promptness" and "ac curacy" ought to be the rules for all school-going veterans this fall, not only in their classroom work, but also in their monthly GI training re ports. A. H. Duxbury, manager of the VA Regional office in Lincoln added that the month ly certifications of training are "keystones of the Korean GI Bill." Under the law, VA must have a certification each month before it can pay a vet eran his GI allowance. Duxbury suggested that the certifications should be sub mitted to VA as soon after the end of the month as possible and that veterans must look over the certifications to be sure they're accurate. He added that prompt, ac curate certificates mean prompt VA checks. 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