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HtBK LIBRAE $a What Is the Midwest? 5 1961 Docs It Grow Too Well? fie Plague of, Plenty 'JUL IRC Nebraska County : Fields sis By Dave Mak-na Back In the 1940's, a farm er named Bob Beckwith de cided the sandy bottomland coil on his farm in Dodge County, Nebraska, needed a shot in the arm. The soil got it, and out of the incident grew a million-dollar head ache tor Dodge County. The needed boost, Beck with figured, should come from some form of fertilizer. Finally in Omaha he found two tons of commercial fer tilizer for which he had to pay nearly $100 a ton. Fate took a hand when he applied the fertilizer. It was put on w ith a corn lister be cause "We didn't have fertil izer spreaders then." Beckwith made about two rounds around the field when one side of the two-row lister got "plugged up" and broke. "I finished the field by just fertilizing every other row of corn because of the broken side," he said. The fertilized corn was about twice as high as the 23 Davs Of Classes Remaining Lincoln, Nebraska, Teachers Star Closed Circuit Classroom Nebraska high scTiool teach ers attending the University of Nebraska Language Insti tute are taking part in a long planned University first closed-circuit television. The 53 teachers, attending to strengthen their French and Spanish before returning to their own Nebraska schools, are observing a group of students taught by particularly adept teachers. The use of the closed, KUOX-TV network, which originates and goes no further than one building, has a unique purpose to allow a large group of high school teachers to "visit" a typical classroom without being in the room itself. The long-range possibilities of such programming, still considered in the experiment al stage at the University, are numerous, and include the fa cility to observe without de tracting from the teaching process. , Two rooms adjoining the "studio-classroom" contain cameras trained on the stu dents and their teacher. The high school teachers attending the institute sit in assembly in another room in the same building and observe through an ordinary television receiv er. Dr. Charles Colman. chair man of the University's de partment of romance lan guages, believes the system will help the teachers up grade their methodology and technique as well as strength en their background of sub ject matter. The two demonstration teachers, Frank L. Pitcher, a French teacher from Boulder, Colo., and Edward Hernandez, a Spanish teacher from Corn ing. Calif., and a University of Nebraska graduate, were chosen because of their ex ceptional ability in the class room and their ability to dem onstrate technique. Uses Oral Method Dr. Colman explained that (Continued on Page 4) Beethoven, Sears, By Sylvia Rodehorst Looking for a typewriter, an 1888 copy of Sears and Roe buck's catalog, a recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or an issue of Pravda? Love Library provides all these and more as part of its services for students, faculty, and Lincoln residents. The library has 669,938 cata logued volumes, according to Walter Farley, associate di rector. These are bound pub lications. They do not include the 7,000 periodicals received yearly by subscription or the government documents which number "between 50,000 and 7i,000." Each year about 28, 000 volumes are added, he said. Books are found, according unfertilized rows, and, Beck with added, "The neighbors really took notice, and after that, more and more fertilizer was used around here." That Was Start That was the start of a march of tenocracy that has resulted, the country over, in one of America's greatest strengths and one of its greatest problems. The only consolation for Dodge County, Nebraska, is that its misery is shared by practically every county in the giant green grain belt. The headache, of course, is a thing called farm sur pluses. The difference between the pains in Dodge County and the nation is only in degree. In Dodge County the peren nial headache throbs at the million-dollar rate. National ly, it pounds away by the billion billion upon billion upon bi'.lion until Ameri cans, having established an immunity to the very word nivi.-,',. .. . ..- V A "A is J "Visiting" classroom via television. Cameras in adjoining school language students. Teachers see without being observe classroom technique. to their subject matter, in one of the four reading rooms or in one of the eight levels of stacks. The Humanities and Science reading rooms are on second floor of the library and the Social Studies and Educa tion rooms are on third. "Among the books is an up-to-date, representative group of textbooks and children's books," Farley said, "and courses of study are also available." These are located in the northeast corner of the education reading room on third floor. Love Library is also a de pository for most publications of the United States govern ment. This means that the government assigns the docu ments to the library, free of "billion," simply reach for another aspirin. How did this headache get started what has caused it to grow and is there a remedy? Many Americans believe and certainly hope there Is a long-range reme dy, but meanwhile, as in all modern medication, there have been painkillers. There was the Henry Wal lace variety, the Ezra Taft Benson variety, and now a new one compounded by Drs. John F. Kennedy, Orville Freeman, and a six-month-old Congress. The newest is admittedly only a painkiller. It carries in its title the Emergency Feed Grain Pro gram the word "emergen cy," indicating that it only hopes to ease the throbbing until a more lasting cure can be found. For the billion-immune Americans, the long series of aspirin has set up a similiar mental immunity. . . . and Another Billion Nationally, it has become another farm program and more billions. In Dodge in NU TV First i .. i: - "-'A seen. In another room of - aiiKM. uu,-- - f. m - s - or Pravda-Love Library Has It all charges but postage,' for safekeeping and so Nebras kans can have access to them. The documents room is also on second floor. Microfilms One of the newest services open to the public is the mi crofilm department, located in Room 103 on first floor. Here the library has. on microfilm all issues of the New York Times from 1875 to 1S22 and from 1953 to date, the London Times from 1785 to 1947, the Washington Post from 1912 to 1928, Pravda and Izvestia from 1938 to 1948, issues of the German newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and the Berlin National Zeitung, the French Le Temps, the Boston Eve ning Post, Christian Science County, it is another aspirin and more millions. But what about a more permanent remedy? Can a plan be devised that will get at the seat of the trouble, an adjustment that will bring supply somewhere nearly in line with demand .and cut down surpluses to the pro portions which can be consid ered a strategic reserve? President Kennedy has proposed t h a t the problems of different commodities be place squarely in tiie laps of farmers, to work out pro grams in cooperation with the U.S. Department of . Ag riculture and for the approv al of the Congress. The pres ent emergency feed grain program is perhaps a point er in the direction agricul ture and Dodge County must go, to reduce supply to manageable proportions.) That's the headache too much supply and not entugh demand. But how did our ag ricultural metabolism get so out of kilter? ! Nationally, it is like trying Summer Nebraskdn rooms scan volunteer high b" VII the same building, teachers Monitor and San Francisco Chronicle, and the London Courier, Daily Herald and Morning Post It also has films of English books before 1640, the John Quincy Adams Diary, records of the German Reichs and copies of Sears and Roebuck catalogs from 1888 to 1959. Is sues of magazines such as Military Review, Journalist, and Advertising Age are on microfilm, as well as records of U.S. government patents from January 1950 on. Other periodicals are kept on about 2,400 microcards. These -are postcards, each containing from five to 40 pages of reading matter from magazines. They are put on a micro reader machine which to diagnose a tennis elbow on an octopus. But at the Dodge County, Nebraska, level it is easier to apply a stethoscope in search of the actions, reactions and count eractions that may be the source of the headache. Even here the person who applies the stethoscope may find he is like the man who reaches up to remove a piece of fly paper from his ear only to plaster another to his elbow and another to his nose and so on until the strips of fly paper have become a sticky, binding strait-jacket. Dodge County is located on the eastern edge of Nebras ka, 36 miles northwest of Omaha, the state's largest city, and 51 miles north of Lincoln, the state capitol. The county is approximate ly 22 miles square with a bit of land sticking out of its southeast corner like a thumb on a mitten. The fer tile farming county is bounded by the Platte River on the south and the Elkhorn on the northeast. 2 Winners Chosen by All-Staters The climax of three weeks of campaigning for "Ideal All-State Boy and Girl" at the University of Nebraska ended in victory for a Lincoln and a Wayne high school student. Elected by student body vote were: Mike L. Karel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Karel of Wayne; Jean Marie Groth, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Groth of Lincoln. Announcement of the win ners came at the annual All State final banquet. The two were chosen from a field of seven Nebraska high school finalists previously elected by their housemates. Mike Karel, "Ideal All State Boy," completed his fourth All-State fine arts course at the University this year. He sang the leading role in the All-State produc tion of "South Pacific." Jean Marie Groth will be a senior in University High School in the fall. She is an outstanding vocal student and sang the leading role of Nellie in the University High School's production of "South Pacific" as well as the All State's same production. Peace Corps Interviews The Washington, D. C, rep resentative of the Peace Corps will be on the campus Friday, July 7, for interviews. Details are available at the office of the Division of Stu dent Afairs. Ag Adult Education Instructor Visits NU A national leader in the field of adult education in agriculture, Dr. Carl Lamar, is serving as guest instructor for summer session classes in vocational agriculture at the University. While in Nebraska, the Uni versity of Kentucky professor will' work with groups of vo cational agriculture teachers i n developing community programs for adult farmers. magnifies the print to read able size. The room itself is about half the size of a reading room, but Miss Barbara Moore, who has worked at the library for nearly ten years and is in charge of the microfilm room, said that it actually holds a great deal of reading mate rial. "What we house in here wouldn't be possible to house in the two reading rooms up stairs,", she said. The microfilm department was opened to the public in September 1960. It is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day except Sunday. Added features in the micro film room are three typewrit ers provided for the use of In 1952, one of the heaviest storage years in the coun ty's history, over eight and 'one-half million bushels of grain were stored on the farm. In that same year, the state-wide total for on-the-farm storage was listed at nearly 400 million bushels. Today Nebraska has a warehouse capacity of 437 million bushels. It would take a granary 20 feet wide, 15 feet high, and more than 300 miles long to hold all that grain. . There are 18 grain eleva tors in Dodge County; in Fremont alone there are four. These four grain sky scrapers are worth $776,985 for tax purposes, and cost almost one-third as much as all the homes built in 1952 in the county seat, Fremont. In the state there are about 1,300 commercial elevators of this type with a total ca pacity of 100 million bushels. ' It also takes $31,515.05 a year for the county office of Agricultural Stabilization and 11 Plague of Plenty? Much of the reading space on today's inside pages Is taken up with a story dealing with a midwestern problem the plague of plenty. To some there may not be a plagu of plenty, only a needed production of crops for a rapidly increasing world population and emergencies. However, to everyone there is what has become known as a farm problem. This phrase farm problem becomes a part of every election campaign and a part of the major battles in almost every session of Congress. It is something about which we talk in billions be it billions of bushels or billions of dollars. To Dave Malena, a senior student in the School of Jour nalism depth reporting class, there was a challenge in try ing to explain that phrase farm problem in a way that would make it more understandable to everyone. To do this he picked one county in the midwest Dodge County, Neb. He believed that it would make more sense to reduce the problem into millions, instead of billions. He believed it would make more sense to look at the forces and counter forces in one county and then see if they didn't apply to much of the midwest. His story, which literally took weeks in preparation, was published in The Nebraska Farmer and in the Fremont Guide and Tribune. It has since received notice from a number of the nation's largest newspapers. This story starts at the top of Page One today and is continued on pages Two and Three. See Pages 1, 2, and 3 For Summer Enjoyment To make your summer more interesting and to keep you informed on what is going on on the NU Campus, you will find the usual special summer items on Page Four. They include the University television station schedule, the summer session schedule, and a suggested reading list. See Page 4 Don't Let Mosquitoes Spoil Summer Fun, Says Scientist Holiday , weekends, picnics, cook-outs and outdoor play usually bring good times and mosquitoes. All summer long, certain kinds of mosquitoes always present an irritating problem to outdoor living, and children at play. Several things can be done to reduce mosquito annoy ances, says Robert Roselle, University of Nebraska Ex tension entomologist. Here are some steps homeowners can take: 1. Drain all objects con taining water such as auto mobile tires, rain, gutters, tin cans, and all other water containers. This is necessary to reduce breeding areas for mosquitoes. 2. Spray street drains, catch basins, and other areas that cannot be drained. students and a record depart ment complete with three rec ord disks, about 400 records, and 1,000 musical scores. Miss Moore said, that the record department was trans ferred from the school of mu sic four or five years ago and is now under the supervision of the Humanities depart ment. These records are not recreational. Farley said that they are actually the "reserve books for music courses." The rec ords include classical music, readings from Shakespeare, Carl Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay poems, and collections of Franklin Roose velt's speeches. The records (Continued on Page 3) Conservation, the custodian of the surpluses, to operate and take care of the stor age. These expenses, too, art going up every year. Stomach Pains First Dodge County had pains of a different kind when the county was just an infant The youngster then was concerned with hunger and plagues. In 1856, the first settlers, John and Arthur Bloomer, no more than got their first crops planted when heavy snows and biting winds killed their wheat seedlings. There were no crops the first year. In 1872, already in the mid dle of a drought, the county was hit by another plague. This time great clouds of grasshoppers destroyed everything in their path ia hours. In 1888 one of the world's worst blizzards struck at the county's live stock. Just a few good years later, drought again. James (Continued on Page I) Temperature 70 Degrees Wednesday, July 5, 1961 3. Change bird bath water two times each week. 4. Spray areas where air conditioners and other cool ers drain with pyrethrum. 5. Use insect repellents. 6. Spray shrubs and other mosquito-resting areas with DDT or chlordane. As a spray for adult mos quitoes, use 1 pound of 50 per ceni uwr wettable powder, or 1 pound of 40 percent chlordane wettable nowder to 3 gallons of water. Spray all sunaces wnere adult mos quitoes are likely to rest such as under Dorches. around foundations, inside surfaces of porches, garages, screens, tree trunks and shrubbery. DDT sprays should not be an. plied to privet hedge, how ever, as it may cause plant burn, Roselle cautions. For treating fish pools without killing fish, use 1 ounce of o.l per cent pyreth rum spray per 100 square feet of water surface. This is also desirable to reduce the hazard to birds and other an imals. Every person should have a good mosquito repellent, Roselle states. Repellents containing diethyltoluamide have been excellent. Other repellents include ethyl hex anediol, dimethyl phtalate, dimethyl carbate and ida lone. Some of these are com bined under various trade names. For the itching bites that will occur, surfadil, or calamine lotions will ease the itch. Always read the label care fully when using any insecti cide, he warned. Usually all cautions, uses, and limita tions can be found on any in secticide labeL i V it. V i' f t ' 1 , r