The Daily Nebraskan
Friday, December 8, 1967
World
Governor Norbert T. Tie
raann told a Legislative
Council study committee
Wednesday, that a constitu
tional revision convention is
"desperately needed" in
Nebraska.
He said such a conven
tion is "the only reasonable
way" the state government
al charter can be truly
modernized.
Last minute opposition by
the Nebraska Farm Bureau
Federation defeated the Tie-mann-supported
bill (Lb 2)
on final reading.
Atty. Gen. Clarence A. H.
Meyer told the committee
that substantial public
support is needed for suc
cess of the measure.
Meyer along with Secre
tary of State Frank Marsh
oppose the governor's sug
gestion to discuss a "short"
ballot at the proposed con
vention. Tiemann said he was only
emphasizing the "short"
ballot as a discussion topic.
He said he did not want to
be recorded as advocating
the ballot
LINCOLN JOURNAL
An encounter with a UFO
was reported Sunday by
Herbert Shirmer, Ashland
policeofficer.
Shirmer described the ob
ject as f o o t b a 1 1 shaped,
about 20 feet long, and 14
15 feet high, with a catwalk
like ring and a series of red
blinking lights around the
center.
Shirmer discovered the
object south of Ashland
near the junction of Hwys.
6-63 about 2:30 a.m.
He returned to the police
station about one mile away
at 3:00 a.m. Shirmer cannot
account for the half hour
loss in time.
The only evidence found
near the site was a bit of
molten metal.
Two more reports of UFO
sitings were made south of
Lincoln in the vicinity of
Denton, Tuesday between
Hand 11:30 p.m.
An unidentified woman
caller reported seeing an
object with two blinding
lights, flying at tree level
while returning to Lincoln.
The second report came
from four persons at Cristo
Key home for boys in Roca.
LINCOLN JOURNAL
A second phase in the Cy
prus crisis is expected by
United Notions officials.
The first phase, the Turkish-Greek
showdown intend
ed to bring about withdraw
al of outside troops from
the island, is now proceed
ing. But these officials be
lieve the Turkish Govern
ment will not be satisfied to
end its push for a basic so
lution of the Cyprus feud
with only a withdrawal of
Greek and Turkish forces,
and a strengthening of UN
units.
They believe Ankara in
tends to reopen the internal
Cypriot question of constitu
tional guarantees for t h e
Turkish Cypriot minority on
the island. They think at
would be logical for Turkey
to do so once the Greek
Army is withdrawn.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR
"Washington is busy with
rumors, speculation, analy
ses and partial facts as to
why McNamara will move,
at sometime in the future
(as yet unspecified), to the
World Bsr. There are so
sources of reliable informa
tion. Only President John
son knows the entire story
and he has not disclosed
much.
Generally, those close to
the President claim John
son did not force McNa
mara to leave, and those
close to the Kennedy fam
ily have hinted that McNa
mara was deliberately
cropped by the President.
Jane; Bestow, ttf the New
York Times, has given per
liaps the most plausible ex
plamation of the event
leading up to McNamara 's
transfer: Washington hat
long known that McNamara
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wanted out but would not
leave until his job and na
tional interests were in good
shape.
There seems little doubt
McNamara knew of a pro
posed transfer to the World
Bank earlier this year. The
question being raised now
is if McNamara knew in ad
vance of the actual nomina
tion submitted to the World
Bank by President Johnson
on November 16. Kennedy
implications are that the
Secretary of Defense did
not know.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR
The second human heart
transplant in the world
took place Wednesday Dec.
6 at the Malmonides Hos
pital in Brooklyn.
Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz,
heart surgeon at the hospi
tal, replaced a 2 -week-old
baby boy's defective heart
with one from a two-day-old
Philadelphia child that had
just died because of gross
deformities at birth.
The replacement heart
failed to save the child, who
died 3 hours later. Other
attempted heart transplants
have been successful
though.
In 1964, . Dr. Kantrowitz
successfully preformed a
heart transplant on a pup
py, However, the first trans
fer on the human heart in
history occured recently in
South Africa, at Cape Town.
The failing heart of a 55-year-old
Louis Wahkansky
was replaced with the heart
of a 25-year-old woman.
Washkansky is currently in
excellent condition.
LINCOLN STAR
President de Gaulle's re
newed appeal for an inde
pendent province of Quebec
proved "intolerable" to
Prime Minister Lester B.
Pearson.
Pearson was applauded
by the House of Commons
when he announced the fu
ture of the Canadian con
federation would be decid
ed in Canada by Canadians.
Another press conference
remark by President de
Gaulle, that Israel had
started the June war in the
Middle East, prompted the
Israeli Government to ex
press its "deep regret" and
label de Gaulle's statement
as "an historic falsification
and severe insult to the
Jewish people and Israel."
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR
Agronomy
Awards Go
To NU Club
The University of Ne
braska Agronomy Club re
ceived top honors at the
American Society of Agron
omy (ASA) convention in
Washington, DC, this
week.
William J. Amen, a senior
in Plant Pathology from
Lincoln, was elected na
tional president of the Stu
dent Activity Section of
ASA.
Amen was responsible for
preparing t h e Nebraska
Agronomy Club's entry into
national competition with
50 other clubs. For this
first place national award
the Nebraska Agronomy
Club wiU receive $200 and a
trophy.
Membership, attendance
at meetings, programs and
money-m a k i n g activities
were the basis for judging
Another member of the
Nebraska Agronomy Club,
Chuck Jttricek, won the Na
tional ASA speech contest
Amen won me same con-
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RON HULL, assistant director of KUON, spent 11 months in Vietnam advising their
Educational Television Network.
Education First Effort
Of Vietnam Broadcasts
Hull: VSIA Programming Attempt
To Reach Out To The Population
By CHRISTIE SWARTZKOPF
Junior Staff Writer
The only answer to the
situation in Viet Nam is ed
ucation, according to R o n
Hull, assistant director of
KUON-TV, who spent 11
months last year in V i e t
Nam as advisor in TV pro
gramming and production
to the South Vietnamese
government's TV proiect.
His position with the
USIA K United States Infor
mation Agencv) was a part
of the first effort in TV
broadcasting in the country.
The project's primary pur
pose, be said, is to reach
out to the people with edu
cation. ""We first had to decide
what areas would do the
most good on TV for the
people," he said. Hull and
his staff of 27 Vietnamese
worked with four main
agencies of government the
Ministries of Educa
tion, Psychological Warfare,
Agriculture and Health, in
teaching the people about
themselves and their coun
try. The broadcasts were
done in the Vietnamese lan
guage from two cities, Sai
gon and Can Tbo, the larg
est city in the eMkong Del
ta. Before the installation of
the broadcast tower in Sai
gon, programs were broad
cast from a video tape in an
airplane which flew over
Saigon continuously f or s i x
hours.
Saigon had over 5000 pub
lic TV sets located in parks,
m vacant lots and by busy
streets. "I never saw lets
than 125 people at a set,'"
Hull remarked.
In addition to these two
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strictly Vietnamese p r o
grams, the American
grams, the American
broadcasts to its troops up
country shared time with
the Vietnamese. Hull
pointed out the long history
of domination by foreign
governments Chinese,
French and Japanese that
the people of Southeast Asia
have been subjected to.
"One of the big problems
of the foreign government
that was in power was that
they couldn't communicate
with the people," Hull said.
Domination by a foreign
government has come to
mean exploitation of t b e i r
Vietnamese breadbasket
and "many of the Vietnam
ese people feel the Ameri
cans have come to do just
the same thing," be pointed
out
OWN FATE
When asked about the
war effort Hull said, "The
educated people want to de
termine their own fate
they don't want Commu
nism. They are thankful
for American help.
""The problem does not
lie in the cities where the
people pay taxes and tup
port the war effort, but in
the surrounding fields
where the people feel the
Americans have come t
take over their country."
He continued, saying that
most of the people m the
countryside fearfully take
oo stand, supporting the VC
when the VC are in their
village and the Americans
in the Americans' presence.
In reference to American
military action in Viet
Nam, Hull said. "I wish
we weren't as aggressive
as we are"
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He advocates protecting
the cities in a holding ac
tion and diverting the rest
of the money the U n i t e d
States is spending on mili
tary operations for health
and education in the cities
of South Viet Nam.
Hull made one qualifica
tion, however, for the de
escalation policy he advo
cates. He said that the
United States' military ef
fort should stop the troops
coming down from the
North.
"We can't just pull out,"
be said in reference to total
de-escalation. "Every ally
we have in Asia would bate
us if we did."
D03HNATION
The United States' fail
ure to follow through would
be a green light to aggres
sor nations seeking to domi
nate in Southeast Asia, Hull
said.
He further pointed out
that the only thing standing
between the people and
domination by a foreign
power in other Southeast
Asian nations of Thailand,
Tiawan and the Philippines
is American ail
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Ford Cuts Funds
National Merit Phases Out
Four Year Scholarships
EVANSTON, ILL. T h e
Naitonal Merit Scholarship
Corporation (NT JSC) will
phase out its four-year na
tional scholarships next
year, and will replace them
with a less costly program
of one-year, $1,000 awards.
The change is a result of
a cut-back in the amount of
funds granted to the cor
poration by the Ford Foun
dation, according to Harold
Harding, NMSC's director
of information. Ford has
supplied funds for all the
national awards in the past
The industrial, or spon
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sored scholarships, w
not be affected by the
pending change, Harding
said. The sponsored awards
comprise the bulk of the fi
nancial assistance given out
by the corporation t here
were about 1800 sponsored
awards made last year, and
only 600 national awards
but the national scholar
ships have always been re
garded as the more pres
tigious of the two kinds of
awards.
According to Harding, the
corporation plans to award
about 400 national scholar
ships next year, and none
the year after. It will phase
in the one-year awards dur
ing the same period.
CONSTANT LEVEL
The NMSC official said
the total amount of financial
aid given out by the cor
poration over the next two
years would remain at about
the level of last year's aid,
which be estimated at
$7.3 million. Sponsored
awards will makeup a larg
er percentage of the total,
however. Harding predicted
that 2,000 sponsored awards
would be given this year,
and about 24200 next year.
Since 1956, when the cor
poration was founded, sev
eral hundred high school
students have been chosen
from among the National
Merit finalists each year to
receive the national awards
last year there were 11
000 finalists K Every state
was given a quota of na
tional awards, with the win
ners from each -state being
selected by a national board,
composed mainly of college
admissions officers.
The awards were given
for a four-year period and
ranged in amount from $100
to $1,500 per year. Accord
ing to Harding, the national
board selected recipients
more on the basis of factors
like their high school per
formances and extra-curricular
activities than their
sccres on the NMSC's quali
fying test. The test Hard
ing said, has served mainly
to decide who the finalists
will be.
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The sponsored awards,
most of them given by cor
porations or private donors,
usually establish one or
more criteria for the selec
tion of recipients. Harding
explained that "commonly,
the criterion is that the re
cipient be the son or daugh
ter of an employee of t h e
sponsor. There are others,
however some of the spon
sors want recipients who
are .going to a particular
school, or come from a par
Behleii Lah To Add
New Accelerators
Two new atomic accel
erators are being added to
the Behlen Laboratories on
the campus to aid students
in the study of and ex
perimentation with atomic
collisions, according to
Prof. M. Eugene Rudd, di
rector of the installation
program.
The accelerators were
purchased with an equip
ment grant from the Na
tional Science Foundation
at a cost of $65,000, Rudd
said. He added that the
foundation win also help fi
nance experimentation with
a separate research grant
Foot-Nihbler Stalks
Yale Library Coeds
NEW HAVEN, CONN.
(CPS) A phantom foot
nibbler is at large in the
stacks of the library at Yale
University. He has attacked
at least four women three
graduate students and one
professor's wife during the
last four weeks.
According to descriptions
given by one of the nibbled
girls and the campus police,
the assailant crawls up on
all fours and attempts to
kiss or bite the feet of the
girls studying in the stacks.
In at least one incident, a
girl's shoe fell off. and the
attacker began biting her
toes.
The attacks have taken
place during the af ternoon
and evening w the second,
fifth, sixth and seventh floor
stacks of the library.
One graduate student who
was attacked over two
weeks ago said she heard
footsteps but ignored them,
and then was aware of a
person standing above her
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ticular state, or even a par
ticular county."
Like the national awards,
the sponsored awards are
based on need and cover
four years of college educa
tion. The new program giving
$1,000 awards for one year
will go into effect this
year, according to Harding.
He said that about 500 of
the one-year grants will be
made to seniors graduating
this spring, and about 1,000
of them the following year.
to be made later.
The accelerators will
be used for atomic and not
nuclear physics experimen
tation, Rudd said. He ex
plained that the accelera
tors will produce a beam
of high-speed ions that will
bombard the atomic shells
of atoms, but the new
equipment will not generate
enough speed to force the
beams through the shells
to the nucleus of an atom.
Rudd said the accelera
tors will be used specifical
ly in studying ionization (the
induced loss of atomic par
ticles! and excitation (a re
action giving off light).
for a long time.
"All of a sudden I felt
somebody kissing my feet,"
she said. "Here was this
guy on his hands and knees
kissing me. I screamed but
everybody ignored me."
The attacker, who had ap
parently crawled into her
study booth from the side,
fled, when she began
screaming.
The girt, a Vassar grad
uate, said, "I've had some
strange passes made at me,
but never anything like
this." A week later the same
girl came back from mak
ing a phone call to find
water ail over her books
and notes.
Security Director John
Powell said campus police
are looking for "a white
male, six feet tall, slender.
100-170 pounds, with dark
blond hair and a fair com
plexion." Powell believes
the attacker is "probably aa
emotionally disturbed per
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