ets Tentative Government Nod On Mead Land
By Jini Forrest
Th&Mxras re
ceivedTlenlative approval
from the federal govern
ment on its plan to develop
an 8,000 acre field labora
tory at the Nebraska ordi
nance plant at Mead, ac
cording to Carl Donaldson,
University business man
ager. Speaking before an Ag ex
periment station council
meeting Friday, Donaldson
said that the University ex
pects to receive final ap
proval on the land grant by
tfcis summer so that de
velopment can begin right
away.
"Holding up the govern
ment's approval is the prob
lem of the old TNT load
lines that are contaminated
with marble-size explosive
materials scattered about,"
said Donaldson.
According to the business
manager, the University
must first prove to the gov
ernment that the area will
be completely cleared of
this surplus TNT for the
sake of safety.
Decontamination
The University is cur
rently working with the
Army ordinance corps to
find the best and most
complete method of decon-
Coed Elections
Ballot Revealed
Eighty-six coeds have been placed on the slate for the
All-Women's Elections to be held March 15 according to
Mortar Boards who co-ordinate the elections.
Organizations holding elections are Associated Women
Students (AWS), Independent women's Association uwaj
and Women's Athletic Association (WAA). !
Nominations for AWS PresI
dent include Jeanne Garjier
and Sharon Rogers.
Miss Garner's activities in
clude second vice president
of Delta Gamma, Lincoln
Project and AWS Board.
Miss Rogers has participate
Miss Garner Miss Rogers
ed In Panhellenic, Student
Council, WAA, Huskerettes,
AWS board and is secretary
of Kappa Delta.
Five members will be
elected to the senior board of
AWS by a vote of junior
class women.
Candidates
Candidates are Nicky Chris
tie, Martha Ewert, Mary
Knolle, Marlene Mueller,
Shirley Parker, Nancy Teder
man, Sukey Tinan, Linda
Turnbull, Celesta Weise and
Ann Witte.
Sophomores will elect seven
to the junior board from Pam
Hirschbach, Sue Isaacson,
Mary Kokes, Maggie Mc
Cracken, Honey Lou McDon
ald, Ellen (Herbie) Nore.
Kim Pohlman, Nancy Sor
enson, Pat Spilker, Susie
Stolz, Paula Warner, Karen
Werner, Susan Wood and
Karen Yost.
Freshmen women will vote
for seven sophomore board
members. Those nominated
include Diane Armour,
Joyce Baumann, Pat Edmis
ton, Kathy Farner, Maureen
Frolik, Beth Hemmer.
Janet Janssen, Carol Ann
Johnson, Phyllis Knipping,
Karen Schroeder, B i 1 1 i e
Spies, Jane Tenhulzen, Carta
Tortora and Kathy Vollmer.
Eligibility
AH women will be eligible
tn vote for AWS Dresident.
Only independent women will
vote for president and board
members of IWA.
Alfreda Stute and Claire
Vrba head the slate as nomi
nees for IWA president.
Miss Stute is a member of
Student Council, Union Advi-
Miss Stute Miss Vrba
sory Board, IWA junior
board, Lutheran Student As
sociation and is president of
Terrace Hall.
Miss Vrba lists her activities
as University Theater, New
man Club, Phi Upsilon Omi
cron, Alpha Lambda Delta
and IWA junior board.
Donna Johnson, Judy Mor
hart and Gisela Starck have
been slated for senior board
positions. Two will be elected.
Nine girls have been nomi
nated for junior IWA board
positions with six to be
Vis J:-h1hJ:
r if i
, temrnating the four load
lines.
Donaldson said that the
request for this land was
made one year ago after the
government declared the
15,000 acres of Mead ordi
nance plant as surplus land.
"The request for t h 1 s
government transfer of land
is the largest that has ever
been made by the Univer
sity," declared Donaldson.
Donaldson explained to
the council that the right to
use the land will be granted
immediately but will be
subject to the expiration of
some 50 leases and that the
transfer will be made in
"public interest" at a rate
of 5 per cent per year.
Twenty Years (
"The University will not
acquire full ownerrship of
the land from the govern
ment for 20 years," he
said, "and we will not be
able to physically move on
to the land for two years
or until most of the pri
vately held leases expire."
, A message on the finan
cial aspect of the field lab
oratory from Dean E 1 v i n
F. Frolick of the College of
Agriculture was read to the
council.
The message said that the
laboratory at Mead, which
is 25 miles from Lincoln,
elected. They include Kath
erine Anderson, Norma Coun
tryman, Carol DeGroot, Kar
en Edeal, Barbara Merritt,
Judith Polenz, Karen S a s s,
Sandra Weiher and Nancy
Whitford.
Six Chosen
Six coeds will also be cho
sen for sophomore IWA board
positions. They include Bar
bara Becker, Margaret Bohl,
Ann Gruett, Karen Leach,
Patricia Linquist, Marilyn
Severin, Sandy Schriner, Lin
da Smith and Janet Watson.
- Coeds who have, partici
pated in three intramural ac
tivities and WAA workers will
be eligible to vote in WAA
elections for president, secre
tary and treasurer.
Presidential nominees are
Mary Drishaus and Fran
Johnson.
Miss Drishaus is a member
of PE Club, Dean's Advisory
Board, UNSEA (slated for
Miss Drishaus Miss Johnson
state president), secretary of
Chi Omega, Coed Counselors
board, Pi Lambda Theta
president and WAA treasurer.
Miss Johnson has partici
pated in Home Ec Club, Ag
Union Chairman, Phi Upsilon
Omicron, VHEA and WAA in
tramural co-ordinator. She is
a member of Alpha Omicron
Pi-
The runner-ups for the of
fice of president in each of
the three organizations will
automatically become vice
president.
Legislature
Votes on Sale
Of NV Farm
A change in University hor
ticulture research procedure
may result, should LB437 in
troduced by Sen. Fern Hub
bard Orme, gain legislative
approval. '
The bill, authorizing the sale
of the University's 80-acre Un
ion Fruit Farm, is slated for
hearing by the education com
mittee today at 2 p.m. in the
East Senate Chamber. .
The farm was purchased by
the University in 1917 for hor-H
ticulture research which Uni
versity officials say can now
be conducted more effectively
in cooperation with commer
cial growers. ,
It is also known that addi
tional fruit research may be
conducted at the Mead Ord
nance Plant and the Horning
Farm near Plattsmouth.
LB52, introduced by Sen.
Joe V o s o b a of Wilber to
amend provisions for the ap
pointment of the Board of Re
gents, has passed the legisla
ture 41-0.
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will cost an approximate
annual figure in excess of
one hundred thousand dol
lars to maintain.
In the same message
Dean Frolick warned that
the field labortory will not
be a means to obtain ad
ditional staff members. '
The Ag experiment sta
tion council also heard re
ports from five Ag College
departments , that will be
most effected by the addi
tion of the land on what
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Vol.
74, No. 74
Douglas Slated for Assembly
Supreme Court Justice Wil
liam O. Douglas will be the
feature speaker for this
year's All University Convo
cation to be held April 5.
Justic Douglas, who was
appointed to the highest court
in the land in 1939 by Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, is one of
the nine members of the Su
preme Court.
His convoction topic will
deal with "Democracy vs.
Communism in Asia." He will
discuss the rising democratic
Student Tribunal Completes
Third Semester As Court
The Student Tribunal has
recently completed its third
semester as the University
student court.
The Tribunal handles cases
which are referred to it by
the Division of Student Affairs
and agencies of the Faculty
Senate. These cases deal
largely with minors in pos
session of alcoholic bever
ages an procuring alcohol for
minors. In the first semes
ter of this year, violations in
volving liquor constituted al
most 50 per cent of the total.
The Tribunal began oper
ating officially in the fall of
1957. The organization was
the result of a four' year
study made by the Student
Council. The Council made
an extensive investigation of
the student courts of 18-20
other universities.
The proposal of forming a
student court was presented
to the students in the Student
Council election of 1956. How
ever, it was not until Jan
uary 1958, that the Tribunal
charter was drawn up a n d
approved by a 2-1 vote of the
Council members. The Facul
ty Senate gave its approval
to the plan in March of 1958
and the final charter was
presented to the students at
a special election m that
year. Students endorsed the
Tribunal with a vote of 1,428
to 417.
Miss E-Week Competitors
Eight Nebraska coeds were
chosen as finalists last week
for the title of Miss E-Week
by the Engineer's Executive
Board.
The girl chosen as Miss E
Week will reign over the an
nual Engineering Week sched
uled for April 27 and 28. The
final selection will be made
via interviews before repre
sentatives from the engineer
ing societies Tuesday but the
MISS
Revealed as Miss E-Week
iiflll Iff Ik I
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the following: (from left, standing) Mari
lyn Hanschuh, Derrolyn McCardle, Karen
plans they are making for
use of the land
The five departments con
cerned included dairy hus
bandry, agronomy, horticul
ture, agricultural engineer
ing and animal husbandry.
The Mead land, which has
not been used since the
plant was closed, has 20 to
30 miles of roads, some
100 concrete magazine stor
age buildings and 200 50 x
40 foot wood frame, inert
. storage buildings as well as
institutions there, the impact
of Marxism and communistic
tactics in that part of the
world and the manner of re
pelling them.
The talk will also deal with
the race between Red China
and India for control of the
peoples' minds.
Justice Warren will also
summarize Western relations
with Soviet Russia and an ap
praisal of the ultimate out
come. Justice Douglas spent a
Applications for student
judges were made available
in April, 1958, after final ap
proval of the Tribunal char
ter by the Board of Regents.
The charter of the student
court provides for a member
ship of four senior judges, one
law student, two junior judges
and two faculty judges ap
pointed by the Chancellor. In
terested students must apply
to the Student Council for
membership.
Tribunal powers, as defined
by the charter, are to hear
cases referred to it, recom
mend a decision to the Divi
sion of Student Affairs re
garding each case and to es
tablish rules of procedure for
the Tribunal
Additional duties of the Tri
bunal require the printing of
its rules of precedure and the
keeping of a complete record
of its proceedings and actions.
The Tribunal rules of proce
dure were first printed in the
Daily Nebraskan in Septem
ber of 1958. One of the pro
visions of the procedural rules
was that a defendent was en
titled to an open hearing if a
written request was made to
the Tribunal.
The first open case was
heard by the Tribunal in Oc
tober, 1958, and concerned
minors drinking on University
property.
results will not be announced
immediately.
Miss Marilyn Handschuh,
20, is a sophomore enrolled in
Teacher's College and the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences.
Her activities include mem
ber of Builders, Cornhusker
staff, Kappa Alpha Theta so
rority, Cornhusker beauty
queen finalist and past Miss
Derby Day.
Miss Carol Kucera. 21, is a
senior enrolled in Teacher's
E-WEEK FINALISTS
finaHcf were
Case. Mti .Teannlc HTnrrlann Seated, ffrom
left) are Carol Kucera, Judi Zadina, Sue
leal Thompson and Bonnie Kuklin.
the four contaminated load
lines.
These structures will be
used as offices, reserarch
laboratories, machine
shops, garages, corrals and
grain storage.
"Some of the inert stor
age buildings, which are
movable on cement slabs,
will be torn down for lum
ber or moved to v a r 1 o u s
parts of the state and Uni
versity campus to be used
as garages for school buses,
The Nebraskan
decade of his life as a teacher
after graduating from Whit
man College in Washington.
He taught in Washington high
schools before taking his law
degree at Columbia Univer
sity and then served as a
member of the law faculties
at Columbia and Yale.
Upon graduation from Co
lumbia he decided to do a
field study of "the facts of
law and life among the Wall
Streeters." The results of his
work led to the reorganiza
Scrip on Sale Today
Scrip, a student literary
publication, will go on sale
today.
This publication is pub
lished by undergraduate
students of the University
in cooperation with the de
partment of English. It pre
sents the work of seven con
tributors in a 36-page issue
for sale at 35 cents a copy.
Car Slams Pole;
Ag Lights Flicker
Things looked pretty dim on
the Ag campus at about 10:20
p.m. Friday as a sudden
blackness lulled over the
campus with nary a light to
be seen.
The power failure happened
when a car crashed into a
light pole on 16th Street, just
north of the main campus.
The pole was moved about a
foot and the electric wires to
Ag campus were severed. The
power remained off until 1
a.m. Saturday.
Four University students
were riding in the car and
were injured in the crash, i
They were all taken to a local
hospital where they were
treated for lacerations and
shock and were released.
The car was totally demol
ished and damage to the light
pole were estimated at $150
by Lincoln police.
College. Her activities include
AWS board, past Coed Coun
selor board, Alpha Xi Delta
standards board, past Re
gents scholarship holder, past
Nebraska Sweetheart finalist
and past Outstanding Fresh
man Woman.
Miss Bonnie Kuklin, 18, is
a freshman enrolled in Teach
er's College. Her activities in
clude president of Sigma Del
ta Tau pledge class, Junior
Panhellenic representative,
storage, etc.," said Donald
son. Largest Area
The Mead field laboratory
will take 5 to 10 years to be
completely developed and
will constitute the largest
area the University has
where there is enough flex
ibility to carry out exteo
sion work, class work and
research work.
"Eventually the area will
have as much as 2,740 acres
developed under irrigation,"
tion of the Stock Exchange
At the time of his appoint
ment to the Supreme Court
Justice Douglas was serving
as chairman of the Securities
and Exchange Commission
He had been a member, of
the Commission for three
years.
Justice Douglas has writ
ten several books, his most
recent work being "Russian
Journey" published in 1956
Other books include: "Of Men
and Mountains," "Strange
Quad Strike
Initiates
Committee
Selleck Heads Call
Wednesday Meeting
The new student food com
mittee at Selleck Quadrangle
will meet Wednesday after
noon at 2:30.
The meeting is the begin
ning of results stemming from
a "hunger strike" last
Wednesday at Selleck. Ac
cording to Alfred B. Calvert,
Selleck manager, these results
include a closer understand
ing between dorm men and
officials and initiation of ac
tion to get Selleck menus
geared closer to student de
sires.
The "hunger strike" began
and terminated resident ex
pression of dissatisfaction
with meals at the Quadrangle.
The "newly enthusiastic" food
committee will begin a pro
gram designed at eliminating
a "communications gulf de
veloped between Quad offi
cials and students," stated
Calvert.
The committee will funnel
menu questions between resi
dents and Selleck officials.
The first meeting will be held
with the Selleck manager and
dorm dieticians.
Told
Red Cross assistant chair
man, Lincoln Project, assist
ant director of the Youth Em
ployment Service and a final
ist for Nebraska isweetneart.
Derrolyn McCardle, 19, is
a sophomore enrolled in
Teacher's College. Her activ
ities include Young Republi
cans, WAA, song chairman of
Kappa Kappa Gamma. sne is
a Cornhusker beauty queen
finalist.
Miss Karen Sass, 19, is a
sophomore enrolled in Teach
er's College. Her activities in
clude IWA sophomore board
member, secretary-treasurer
of Women s Residence Asso
ciation, cabinet member and
publicity chairman of the Lu
theran Student Association.
She was chosen as one of two
Outstanding Freshmen Inde
pendent Women in 1959-60.
Miss Sueleal Thompson, 22,
is a senior and enrolled in the
college of Arts and Sciences.
Her activities include Junior
Red Cross, Young Democrats,
past Miss Lincoln and Corn
husker beauty queen, first
runner-up to Miss Nebraska,
a Homecoming, Queen finalist
and a member of Alpha Phi
sorority.
Miss Judi Ann Zadina, 19,
is a sophomore enrolled in
Teacher's College.
Her activities include sec
tion editor of 1961 Cornhusk
er, AUF assistant of Organ
izations committee, NHRRF
orthopedic laboratory, Miss
Derby Day 1959, 1960 Corn
husker beauty queen finalist
and a member of Alpha Omi
cron Pi sorority.
The first Miss E-Week was
Sondra Whalen in 1958. Her
successors were Kay Livgren
Sidner, 1959 and Rhoda Skiff,
1960. j
said" Ralston Graham, agri
cultural editor for the de
partment of information.
Donaldson called upon
the members of the council
as well as the entire Ag
College staff to begin con-'
structive planning for when
the time comes in 1963 to
take over the land.
He called the acquisition
of this land, "one of the
greatest events ever to hap
pen to the College of Agriculture."
Monday, Mar. 6, 1961
Lands and Friendly People,"
"Beyond the High Himalay
as," "North from Malaya,"
"We the Judges," and an "An
Almanac of Liberty."
Many of these books relate
his vacation adventures of the
past several years. Justice
Douglas explains his love for
the outdoors at dating back
some fifty years to his child
hood. In an effort to over
come his handicap caused by
infantile paralysis, he began
hiking and climbing the Yaki
mas in his home state of
Washington.
The convocaton will be
held at 11 p.m. All University
classes will be dismissed for
the event.
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DOUGLAS
Gray Tells
Experiences
M.
In England
Prof. Glenn W. Grav. vefer-
an faculty member, of the
University history depart
ment, is DacK at nis desk fol
lowing a short leave of ab
sence to do research in En ff-
land.
Grav. who has been with the
history department for 30
years, comments about hi
basic interest in government
how it is established and
what causes it to change.
The "crisis" of FW.
land is of special interest to
mm and was the focal point
of his research.
The ousting of Charles I and
the subsequent Puritan Revo
lution represents a "turning
away from the belief in the di
vine right of kings," said
Gray.
Why, How?
Why did it happen? How
does it affect our government
today? Clues, Gray said, are
found in the diaries of such
men as Sir Edmond D'Ews,
the Wentworth family corres
pondence and the unpublished
documents of the House of
Lourdes Library.
bray hopes to publish his
findings in book form at a
later date.
His observations of the Eng
lish are a composite of "little
things" ... the friendliness of
the people, a belief that the
faction-ridden labor party will
be replaced in power by the
Conservatives or a new par
ty and the "tely'Vand "frig"
(television and refrigerator)
which are must items in every
home.
U.S. Covered
Gray also told of British
newspapers covering the U.S.
presidential election with
American rather than British
reports to "avoid interfering."
But the local silence was
broken once the results were
announced that such headlines
as "The Long Sleep is End
ed," he said.
Today on Campus
MONDAY
Farm Co-op conference, all
day, Student Union.
Faculty Round Tble Dis
cussion, Dr. Lavon J. Sump
tion, 7:30 p.m., 232 Student
Union.
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