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An old-fashioned Christmas is in progress at the Nebrsaka State Historical
Society, where more than 100 years of "Christmas past" are represented in
seasonal displays.
In the Wright dining room, an early 20th century family gathers around
the traditional tree before sitting down to a Christmas breakfast. Gifts include
a 1917 washing machine, a Lionel train and linker Toys (retail 55 cents).
The sod house display includes a Christmas tree fashioned from a tumble
weed wrapped in cotton. A favorite gift of pioneers in the 1870s was oranges,
then a rare treat in the Midwest
The Historical Society 1500 R St., is open daily, 8 ajn. to .5 pjn. and
Sunday, 1 :30 to 5 p jn. " , -
Bicentennial debates draw
entries from five colleges
Debaters from five north-eastern Nebras
ka colleges will be corning to UNL Tuesday
to compete in the second round of
Bicentennial Youth Debates (BYD),
according to UNL debate coach James
Klumpp.
The debates tie sponsored by the
Speech Communication Association and
financed by the National Endowment for
the Humanities, a federal agency. CBS
news anchorman Walter Cronkite, ILS.
Sen. Barry Goldwater and National Merit
Scholarship Director Joseph Block are
BYD National Advisory Council members,
Klumpp said.
Four students advanced to Tuesday's
district competition from the Oct. 31
local debates at UNL.
Gigi Hall and Kent Brink advanced in
both extemporaneous speaking and the
Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Klumpp said. In
extemporaneous speaking, debaters
randomly draw one of the 14 Bicentennial
topics for a seven-minute speech. -
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate topic was
"Resolved: American political parties have
been dominated by socio-economic elites."
Chan Taylor and Christy Bauer advanc
ed in local competition for persuasive
speaking, after speaking on "Is Federalism
obsolete?" . ...
The two top winners in each of the
three district categories will advance to the
sectional competition Jan. 31 at Creighton
University in Omaha, Klumpp said. The
first place sectional winners will receive
$1,000 scholarships, second place winners
will receive $500 scholarships and third
place $250 scholarships.
The first place winners from sectionals
will advance to regional competition in
April, Klumpp said, where they will be
competing for 510,000 in scholarships.
The final round of competition will be
June, 1976 at the House of Burgesses in
Williamsburg, Va., he said.
The debate topics, which are set by the
American Issues Forum, another
Bicentennial program, change with each
round of competition.
Next Tuesday's debates will be based
on the topic, "A more prefect union: the
American government."
Senior attends conference
on food, population policies
The difficulty of establishing food and
population policies to meet world needs
was one of many topics discussed at a
three-day U.S. affairs conference in late
November.
Alan Thorson, a senior premedical, ag
ricultural economics major, was selected by
the College of Arts and Sciences to repre
sent UNL at the 27th annual UJS. Military
Academy's Student Conference on UJS.
Affairs at West Point.
"Food and the Population" was dis
cussed in a small group Thorson attended.
Authorities meeting with the group were
John StovaJl of the USDA and Tim Sulli
van of the American Freedom From Hung
er Foundation, Thorson said.
The majority of the small group agreed
food aid and population controls should
be linked and increased literacy could help
solve the problem, he said.
The group could define world hunger
and population problems, but couldn't
establish the mechanics needed to solve
them, he said.
Thorson said they decided world hunger
is a concern for the United States because
hungry people are unstable and likely to
become hostile to America.
Thorson whose transportation was paid
by the College of Arts and Sciences, will
make an evaluation of the conference for
the college, he said.
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