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Prairie Schooner Issue
Features Early Nebraska

Lincoln (UPI)-- A broad
sample of Nebraska's literary
tradition is contained in
a 266-page Centennial issue
of the Prairie Schooner,
University of Nebraska literary
quarterly.

Featured are early-day
letters, diary entries, prose
and poetry along with prize-
winning selections from the
Centennial literary contest.

Gov. Norbert T. Tiemann,
in a foreword, said the issue
"reflects the richness,
diversity and strength" of
Nebraska's cultural contributions
to America during
its first one hundred years
of statehood.

Editor Bernice Slote said
the Centennial issue emphasizes
the first third of the
state's century of statehood
"because those were the
fabulous years and the time
least known and understood
in relation to the arts."

Presented are new views
of Willia Cather, Mari Sandoz,
John G. Neihardt and
Wright Morris. There are
also stories by Elia Peattie
and Louise Pound and memories
of George Woodberry.

The quarterly includes
sections of Lincoln in 1894;
the cultural life of Omaha
in the 1880's and "Life
Without Headlines" in the
smaller communities before
1900.

Poetry works are by Myra
Thorngate Barber, James
Cole, Howard McKinley
Corning, William Walter De
Bolt and Paul Zimmer.

A short story by William
Holland, a 1963 University
graduate serving as a helicopter
pilot in Vietnam, and
a special section, "New
Verse by Young Writers,"
are among contemporary
works.

Home Ec Teachers
To Meet in Lincoln

Lincoln (AP)--Nebraska
home economics teachers will
emphasize clothing and textiles
at an annual conference
at the University of Nebraska
in Lincoln starting Tuesday.

More than 250 are expected
at the three-day meeting in
Nebraska Center for Continuing
Education on the agriculture
campus.