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Page 2 Thursday, November 11, 1982 Daily Nebraskan Miss Black UNL to be chosen The Miss Black UNL pageant will be Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Ball room. Pageant officials this year are trying to establish an ongoing scholarship fund for the Miss Black UNL pageant, Carla Johnson-Kimbrough, head coordinator for the pageant, said. Contestants for the 1982 Miss Black UNL pageant are: Paulette Jones-Brown, a senior journalism major from Chicago, 111.; Macy Williams, a senior majoring in art education and home economics from Morris, Okla.; Andrea Kimberly Walker, a senior theater major with minors in dance and music from Cranford, N.J.; Rosalind Moore, a freshman journalism and performing arts major from Omaha; Cynthia Smith, a senior fashion merchandising major from Omaha; Anita Bennett, a senior fashion merchandising major from Omaha; Cynthia Hunt, a sophomore fashion merchandising major from Omaha; and Brenda Pope, a sophomore architecture major from Omaha. Tickets are $2.50 in advance and $3 at the door. Event urges smokers to quit The Great American Smokeout, an effort of good nature to encourage smokers to give up cigarettes for 24 hours, will be next Thursday. The nationwide event is sponsored by the American Cancer Society, but thou sands of other organizations, businesses and hospitals join the effort. The 1982 goal of the smokeout is to get at least one if every five smo'kers to give up smoking from midnight Wednesday to midnight Thursday. The Great American Smokeout is now in its sixth consecutive year as a nationwide celebration. A booth in the Nebraska Union will offer chewing gum and lollipops to people giving up smoking, according to a Lincoln ACS spokesperson. To raise money for the society, members of the Sigma Nu fraternity and the Alpha Chi Omega sorority will run to Iowa State University in Ames for Saturday's NU-1SU football game. In 1981, according to a survey con ducted by the Gallup organization, just over 16 million American smokers at tempted to give up cigarettes on the Smokeout Day.