Tuesday, July 18, 1967
Poge 2
Summer Nebroskan
Cast Chosen for 'Loosebough
Continued From Page 1
Appearing in t h e leading
role as Lieutenant Lawrence
Loosebough is Clint Jake
men, graduate student from
Fremont His companions
on a mistaken flight to the
moon are: Sergeant Elder
wood, Mike L. Messmer,
senior from Kansas City;
Sergeant Finney. David
Peterson, Lincoln junior;
and Sergeant Sokolski. Wil
liam Turek, senior from Ge
neva. ''Earth people in the fan
tastic comedy are T.V.
commentators and army
personnel. Huey Rowe-An-derscn.
graduate student
from Baton Rouge, La., will
be seen as "First T.V.
Face." The "Second T.V.
Face" is Everett Lawton,
Syracuse senior. Sara Chris
tiansen, a junior at Lincoln
Northeast High School, will
appear as a W.A.C Sergeant-
Her commander,
role of Jan Johnson, grad
Colonel Robbins. is the
oate student from Portage,
Wis.
LL Loosebough. the "first
mate on the moon" in this
improbable comedy, soon
finds other groups are join
ing him and his men in set
ting up a hardly manage
able colony on the satellite.
Leading a group of glam
orous Russian . actresses
turned spacewomen is Com
rad L u d m i 1 1 a Krepkina,
played by Sara Boatman,
graduate student from
Peru. Members of her par
ty are: Anya, Mary Meckel,
Lincoln senior; Natasha,
Linda Essay, junior from
Alliance; arid Olga. Pamela
Moore, senior from Tulsa,
Okla.
Leading a party of U.S.
Air Force Women to the
moon ' is LL Betty Burns,
played by Cberylene A
Schick, junior from Grand
Island. Members of the
W.A.F. party are: Soe El
len, Linda Bawcom, gradu
ate of Lincoln Northeast
High School; Henrietta, Ja
lie William. Wood RJver
graduate student; and WO
ma. Rita Benesch, gradu
ate student from Omaha.
Adding to the confusion
on the moon is a group of
Russian spacemen, led by
Major Ranevsky, played by
Don Mohr, graduate stu
dent from Bessemer, .Ala.
His companions are Dmitry,
Phil Kite, graduate student
from Auburn; Fyodor,
James Sellmeyer, graduate
student from St Louis, Mo.;
and Vladimir, Marcus Arm
strong of Lincoln.
Field Day
Held Early
Concord, Nebr. Beef
Field Day at tbe University
of Nebraska's Northeast
Station here is being held
today, a month earlier than
usual, because experimental
cattle have made such good
gains. Walter Tolman, sta
tion beef researcher, said.
One set of heifers and one
f steers will be ready for
njarket by Field Day, which
will begin at f p.aL, be
Tolman summarized the
ictur experiments to be re
ported: "Corn silage, supplemented
with soybean meal, was fed
. to one lot of heiiers, while
another lot received silage
supplemented with urea.
Soybean meal gave a slight
ly" higher gain, but costs fa
vored the urea supplement
slizhtly.
Steers were fattened at
two different levels of alfal
fa ta lage, wUa and with
out additional protein con
centrate. Dae lot of mixed steers
and heifers received full
com teed on pasture. An
other" lot will receive so
corn until brume pasture
becoBe$ short or dry.
Log of heifers were fed
ratio with three different
c-omlJLnations of alfalfa hay
and com. The rations were
supplemented with vitamin
A. minerals and stilbestrol,
but nut with protein.
A ratability judging con
test to be held at the Field
l)ky wiU give stockmea i
opportunity to estimate the
effect f rrerficish ea car
cass value, Tolmaa ssid,
since some f the beliefs
used bj tbe alfalfa hay and
con tests will be too fat by
July XI.
lir. Frank Eater. Chair
man of the University of Ne
braska Animal Science De
partment, will discuss the
place of cutability selection
in a stockman's overall pro
gram of producing the most
oeeiraUe possible beef lor
consumers' tables.
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be blocks tbe scenes for "Loosebough tbe First." Below, members of tbe Russian dele
gation are about to kill each other to one of the final scenes.
Nebraska Steak Display
Wins First at Convention
A Nebraska display ti
tled. "High Quality Steaks
Don't Just Happen." was
awarded a blue ribbon rat
ing in tbe 1967 communica
tions contests held annually
by the American Associa
tion of Agricultural College
Editors.
Announcements of tbe
awards were made July 10
on tbe University of Ne
braska Cast Cinpai.
bere the Association held
its national meeting.
The blue ribbon display
was a cooperative effort of
the Visual Aids Section of
the NU Department of In
formation. Bart Stewart
and Clifford Hollestelle, NU
visual aids specialists
beaded up the project
Runners-up with red rib
bon ratings were in five
classes.
A iisplzy prepared tor the
National Grasslands Confer
ence being held in Nebras
ka, also developed by tbe
Visual Aids Section, re
ceived a red award
Several wstkiy press ser
vices of the Department of
Information, spearheaded
by Dan Lutz, Grant John
son and Mrs. Janet Huf.b,
assistant Extension editors,
were among tbe red rib
bons, as well as the entry in
magazine press services
also authored by Johnson
Program Awarded
An educational television
program tilled "Fashion
18C7-1967" produced and
hostessed by Mrs. Janet
fiuss and a series of slides
on tbe home economics
journalist photographed by
Richard Dudls, photograph
er. Department of Informa
tion, also rated a red rib
bon. Tbe agricultural editor of
the Kansas Ctry Star was
cited July 12 for bis ot
standing contribution to ag
riculture. Boderkk Tstb
bull received tbe Renbca
Brigbam Award.
Tbe Reuben Brignam
award presented at the ;
closing banquet Wednesday 1
evening if given annually i
to a person ia the fields of
agriculture or home eco
nomics who It tot an active
AAACE member but who
has contributed to either
field through information. J
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It was first presented in
1947 and is named for the
late Reuben Brigham. pio
neer agricultural college
and USDA editor and found
er of the Division of Infor
mation Programs of the
Federal Extension Service.
Turcball b e g a n bis Jour
nalistic career as a report
er for tbe Kansas City Star
and then held many posi
tions on the Weekly Star
Farmer, tbe Star's farm
publication. He became ag
rirnltsra! editsr for the
daily paper in 1961 where
bis job includes a report on
the grain trade, coverage of
important agricultur
al events and writing the
Star's editorials on agricul
tural topics.
This year's Award recipi
ent has been honored by
many organizations. He re
ceived the first National
Grange iward in i&cogni
tion of distinguished and
outstanding service to agri
culture of the nation and
was honored by lite Kansas
State Farmers Union for
Service to Kansas Agricul
ture and tbe Farm Family.
Honorary Degrees
He holds honorary state
farmer degrees from the
Kansas and Missouri Fu
ture Farmers, in addition
to an honorary American
farmer degree from the Fu
ture Farmer of America.
Tumbull is also an honor
ary member of tbe Univer
sity of Missouri Agricultur
al Alumni organization an
recognition of service to the
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university and to agricul
ture. Turcball is currently
serving his second term as
president of the .American
Royal Livestock and Horse
Show in Kansas City. He
has also been president of
the American Agricultural
Editors' Association and
the Farmers Club of Great
er Kansas City.
The editor is a member
of the Newspaper Farm
Editors of America and tbe
agriculture committee of
tbe Kansas City Chamber
of Commerce where be
serves as chairman of tbe
balanced farming subcom
mittee. Over 350 agricultural col
lege editors, their wives
and children from across
the nation attended the con
vention. AAACE is composed of
agncuitural and home eco
nomics information work
ers from the Land Grant
Colleges and Universities
of the 50 states and Puerto
Rico. U.S. Department of
Agriculture Informa
tion specialists and aspoci
a t e members including
those representing tbe agri
culture news media. Its lo
ta! membership is about
550.
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Specialization Has Become
A Block in English Language
By Mary Ia Wallace
The following was written
for a NU School of Jour
nalism depth reporting
class.
With an estimated one
million words in the Eng
lish language, the average
educated man uses three
out of a hundred words
and may recognize only as
many as six in a hundred.
Even the best educated
barely know one out of ten
words in the language.
Why this great discrepan
cy between the words we
could use and the words we
can use?
In one word, specializa
tion. Specialization is the title
awarded to the burgeoning
growth of modern scientific
studies. Each scientific field
must borrow, adapt, com
bine, coin or create new
words to describe its ob
jects, concepts, qualities
and forms of action, says
Mario Pel of Columbia Uni
versity in his book, Lan
guage of the Specialists.
Fields divide into sub
fields, and they divide
creating then- own special
languages with their own
specialized meanings, until
they specialize themselves
completely out of the lay
man's comprehension, says
Pei.
Dictionary Help
And does the average
man meet the challenge
with the latest comprehen
sive dictionary?
He does not He cultivates
the specialized vocabulary
of his own occupation and
ienores the language jungle
of tbe rest of the world's
specialists. Or at least he
tries, although it comes at
him daily In newspapers,
magazines, radio, television,
Iii Short Course
Homeiiiakers Receive
Vacation, Education
Nebraska homemak
ers will get a "Vacation
with an Education" at a
Homemaker's Short Course,
according to Ethel Saxton,
University of Nebraska dis
trict extension supervisor.
About 40 women have reg
istered for the coarse
July 18-31 at the Nebraska
Center for Continuing Edu
cation. Tbe course is de
signed to stimulate, devel-.
op, train and cultivate the
borne maker so she can im
prove tbe quality of ber
borne, ber community and
the world she lives in.
This is the first year such
a course has been offered
and it is sponsored by tbe
Nebraska Council of Home
Extension Clubs and the
University of Nebraska Co
operative Extension Ser
vice. Miss Saxton said Univer
sity cf Nebraska faculty
members will teach courses
in Nebraska history and lit
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even street corner conver
sations. "Specialized languages
are increasing so fast that
only specialists can under
stand specialists," says Dr.
Robert L. Hough, assistant
dean of the University of
Nebraska College of Arts
and Sciences.
Dr. Hough believes that
part of the cause for this
situation is the natural ten
dency for specialists to
create an in-group, out
group atmosphere with their
own private language. On
the other hand, there are
the newer sciences such as
psychology and sociology
that try to improve their
academic image by emulat
ing the hard factural ter
minology of the basic
sciences with a specially
created jargon of their own.
The result? Very little
communication, but a lot of
pretentious polysyllables
about relatively simple con
cepts. '"A good science writer
should write like Heming
way," Dr. Hough said,
"short paragraphs, short
sentences, active voice. The
scientific journalist must
erase the idea that it is im
possible for laymen to un
derstand scientists," Hough
pointed out
Growth Problems
What specialized lan
guages are posing the big
gest growth problems to
day? As the cold war grows
hotter and tbe space race
hastens, more military and
space operations make the
daily news. Vocabularies In
these allied fields range
from ABC (Atomic, Biologi
cal and Chemical weapons)
to Zero G (weightlessness).
erature as well as the po
litical economic situation of
the state. There will also be
classes offered in public
speaking and youth commu
nity problems. Each aome
maker will attend a two
hour class in the morning
and one in the afternoon.
Evening activities include
a poetry reading by Mrs.
Joyce Urbaura and a con
cert by tbe Duane Shulz
family of Lincoln. There
will also be a Centennial
Style Revue.
Homemakers will be tak
ing tours of the State Capi
tol. Sheldon Art Gallery.
Mueller Planetarium and
Morrill Hall and the Ne
braska State Historical So
ciety. At Sheldon Art Gal
lery there will be a display
of prints from the Library
of Congress. Miss Saxton
d thee were pecia'!y
obtained from the Nebraska
Public Library Commission.
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According to Language of
the Specialists, these re
lated languages are a con
glomeration of words de
rived from classic mytho
logy (Project Apollo), ab
breviated terms (Radio De
tection and Ranging), and
classic language roots
(strategy from Greek).
Counterbalancing man's
drive to dominate man and
space is the growth of the
medical profession and the
science of biochemistry.
Medical terminology is as
old as Hippocrates and as
new as tomorrow. The Fath
er of Medicine used words
like "cranium" and "pha
rynx," but "streptomycin"
was brand-new to the last
generation. Fortunately,
with the leaps in medical
knowledge, has come some
increasing sophistication in
the laymans understand
ing. Biochemistry, like medi
cine, owes most of its termi
nology to the ancient
Greeks methyl, for ex
ample, is from Greek methy
(wine) and yll (wood).
As the chemistry of life
becomes more important to
man's struggle to gain con
trol over himself, abbrevia
tions like DNA for deoxyri
bonucleic acid, or ACTH
for adrenocorticotrophic
hormone become vaguely
comprehended house
hold terms.
Computers
In the language of corn
put e r s, well-understood
household words like "gar
bage." "dummy", or "ad
dress" take on new mean
ings. This could be part of
the reason that, according
to Language of tbe Special
ists, the new field of com
puter science is plagued
with ambiguous words and
misconstrued terminology.
Even scientists in a new
communications - related
field could not resist set-
Nebr. Delegation
Attends Council
A delegation of ten Ne
braskans will attend the an
nual meeting of the Great
Plains Agricultural Council
at College Station, Tex.,
Aug. 3-.
Arnold Heerwagen. range
conservationist of the Soil
Conservation Service who
is stationed in Lincoln, will
speak on "Prottems of
Management of Ranch Op
erations to Adjust to Fluc
tuating Forage Yields."
Other Nebraska delegates
include: Dr. Howard Otto
son, director of the Univer
sity of Nebraska experi
ment stations; Dr. John
Adams, director of cooper
atve extension; Heasty I
Reesman, state director of
Farmers Home Administra
tion; Charles Brodersen
and Robert Zink. ASCS;
Dale Jaedicke, SCS; John
MueMbeier, council secre
tary; Ed Finigan. FCIC;
and Keith Myer, SCS.
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where "garbage" is mean
ingless computer informa
tion, "dummy" is repeated
ly used storage words, and
an "address" is a comput
er memory location.
For those of the ln-group
these terms are easy to
understand. But even a
background in classical lan
guage is little help to the
out-group in the world of
COBOL (Common Business
Orientated Language),
FORTRAN (FORmnla
TRANslation), and UNI.
VAC (UNIVersal Automatic
Computer.)
What's being done to help
the layman understand the
specialist?
"Journalists are definite
ly waking up to the prob
lem, and that's a hopeful
sign," Dr. Hough stated,
"but the problem is never
ending. Even broader edu
cations can only teach the
non - specialist enough to
know he's ignorant."
The answer to the grow
ing nnderstandabllity gap,
Dr. Hough feels, may be
schools to train journalists
in the specific scientific
fields.
"We need writers who aro
trained well enough to thor
oughly understand the
scientists," he said. "Writ
ers who can then adequate
ly and understandably ex
plain the scientist's ideas
to the laymen."
This type of specialist, he
believes, can splice the
broken communications link
between scientists and the
people whose lives they
work to improve.
Conferences
To Be Held
Economics of swine pro
duction and causes and
treatment of pig scours will
be two of the principal top
ics discussed during a pair
of swine conferences here
Aug. 3.
The Seventh Annnal Ne
braska SPF Swine Confer
ence and Eighth Annnal
George A. Young Confer
ence for Veterinarians on
Advances la Swine Repopu
lation will meet Jointly on
that date
Veterinarians convene for
the Swine Repopulation Con
ference Aug. 2 and will
join the Specific Pathogen
Free (SPF) swine pro
ducers and co-operators for
their conference Aug. 3.
SPF swine are raised un
der stringent sanitation and
disease control conditions
to make swine raising more
profitable and also to fur
nlsh animals for research.
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