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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1938)
Barris' Band Replaces Amheim; Set to Pace Oregon Homecomers Orchestra Will Come Direct From Grove; Root, Herzog Make Change to Combat Adverse Campus Opinion Harry Barris and his orchestra, straight from an extended engage ment at the Cocoanut Grove, where they close November 1, will play at the annual Oregon Homecoming dance, November 5, instead of Gus Arnheim’s orchestra. Rushed investigation of possibilities of bringing Barris to Eugene was made late Friday by George Root, educational activities director, cillU IIICIIIWCIO CXiC dance committee when adverse campus opinion was encountered with the previous selection. Contract Not Signed As contracts had not been signed, a hurried meeting of Bob Hezog’s dance committee was called yesterday afternoon and the opportunity to engage Harris ac cepted. Artificial paim trees will deco rate the court and a special “oasis” will be constructed for the patrons and patronesses. The cen ter of the court will be adorned with a huge colored lighting piece. Panels will cover the corners and will be in harmony with the dance theme. Awnings will decorate the bottom of the balcony and a spe cially designed orchestra platform will be a high spot of the decora tions. Harry Barris will also play for a special ASUO concert which will precede the dance. Student body cards will admit students. All alumni who have paid their alumni dues will be admitted. Semiformal dress will be worn, ENDS TONIGHT -Plus Jack I/.idi'n in “l’liautoiu Gold” ENDS TONIGHT GINGER ROGERS _ DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Jr. I*. THl HK-OMMOHCT'H’1 Plus: Akin Tumiroff DANGEROUS TO KNOW” announced Bob Herzog, chairman of the dance committee, and tux edos will not be in order. Herzog further stated that one o’clock per mission has been granted to wo men students. The price of admission to the dance will be $1.50 per couple. Working with Bob Herzog on the dance corpmittee are: James Buell, assistant chairman; Lilyann Veatch, programs; Margaret Wil liarps, patrons; Mary Henderson, refreshments; Wanda Milledge, secretary; George Heilig, lfioor; Ralph Alden, orchestra; Steve Winquist, decorations; Ken Ship ley, tickets, and Clair Hoflich, clean-up. Committee Members To Contact Stations Publicity Programs For Homecoming to Be Broadcast Radio programs- advertising the 1038 Oregon Homecoming will he broadcast from nine Oregon sta tions if tentative pians of the | Homecoming committee are car ! ried out, Dick Watson, generai chairman, said yesterday. Several members of the com mittee will contact stations and alumni groups in Portland today to carry out arrangements for the programs. He added that time on tlie Franz bakery and the Fahey Brockman programs may be given over to Homecoming publicity if present, arrangements go through. A network program, to go over stations KORE, Eugene; KSLM, Salem; KEX, Portland, and KAST, Astoria, may be broadcast Tues day or Wednesday of the Home coming week, Watson said. In addition to that, individual programs and spot announcements may- be presented over KGW and KOIN in Portland. Plans are also being investigated, he continued, to send 15-minute transcriptions to radio stations in Bond, Roseburg and Medford. The Portland alumni association will be contacted today by mem bers of the committee in an at. tempt lo have that organization prepare programs for additional Homecoming publicity in Portland. * STARTS • SATURDAY! 1A.M. Permits Granted Coeds For Big Dance Closing hours for University women after the Homecoming dance Saturday night, Nov. 5, was extended this week to 1 a. m. by Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women. Late hours for the dance were granted by the dean in answer to a special petition from the student affairs committee. The Homecoming committee announced that the dance will end at 12:30, giving the co-eds and their escorts 30 minutes for the long, long trek homeward. First NYA Payroll To Total $3543.65 NYA workers will receive $3543.65 in their first payroll of the year, it has been announced. NYA jobs, which are under the supervision of Dean Onthank’s per sonnel department, include work in nearly every University depart ment from September 19 to Octo ber 15. Three hundred and eleven stu dents are employed under this gov ernmental aid system,'297 of these being undergraduates and the re maining 14 graduate students In the University. The payroll shows $3360.65 in pay checks for under grads and $183 for graduates. The manner, of payment will be changed this year, according to Elinor Stevenson, secretary to Dean Onthank. Pay checks will be mailed out directly to students from the WPO office in Portland at their Eugene addresses, instead of through the University as has been done in the past. 11,000 Emeralds Set For Alumni Mailing Aimed at acquainting the "old grads’’ with the 1938 Homecoming preparations on the campus, 11,000 copies o fthis edition have been printed, and a copy will be mailed to each alumnus in the Northwest. Through the cooperation of the j Homecoming publicity committee! and the editorial staff of the Emer- [ aid, this issue is designed to pro- ! vide all the necessary facts and1 information relative to full enjoy ment of "Oregon’s Biggest Home coming” by the returning alumni. Distribution of the paper to the ■ “old grads” will be handled through the Ailumni association under the direction of Elmer C. Fansctt, alumni secretary. Warm Welcome (Continued from page one) a stencil, “Welcome Back Alums,” on its window and the downtown district will be decorated with Homecoming flags.. Print 2000 Posters Advertising the “biggest” Home coming, Payne said, 2000 posters are being printed for circulating in nearly every Oregon city and 10,000 mailing stickers, carrying a cartooned account of Homecoming activities, will be ready for dis tribution at noon today. The stick ers will be available near all cam pus mail boxes from now until Homecoming and are also to be handed out to every living organ ization on the campus. Hides for the Homecoming signs will be mailed to each living or ganization Monday, Payne said. The signs, which must embody thej theme, “Oregon Is Going Places,” must be completed by 5 o’clock Friday afternoon of the weekend and lighted by 7 o’clock. The sign judges will make their round of the houses after 8:15 that evening, during the noise parade, and their results will be announced during halves of the Oregon-Idaho foot ball game Saturday. The signs must not cost more than $15, the committee ruled. Judges Selected Judges for the sign contest, as selected last wee kby the Home coming committee, are: E. Palmer Hoyt, general manager of the Morning Oregonian, Portland; Ro ! land Davis, Portland, president of 1 the Oregon alumni association; j Merle Chesman, Astoria, publisher of the Astorian Budget; Prof. N. B. Zane, University art instructor, and George Godfrey, head of the i University news bureau. All of the judges are prominent Oregon ! alumni. To bring the entire student body in closer contact with Homecom ing, Payne said, the committee will distribute copies of the com plete program to all students | shortly before that weekend. THE FALCON ... Fine Food and Refreshments 1426 Onyx St. Phone 351. “ON THE CAMPUS'* Quarterback Club Rouses Oregon Spirit; Speeds Aid For Homecoming Program ' Organ of Eugene Junior Chamber Plans To Instill Campus Enthusiasm Among the Downtown Businessmen Formed to stimulate Oregon spirit in both the University student body and the downtown business districts, the Eugene Monday Morn ing Quarterback club is rushing plans to aid the school in publiciszing its “biggest" Homecoming, November 4, 5, and 6. The club will aid the advertising committee in decorating ten busi ness district show windows and stenciling “Welcome Back Alums” Members of the club have pledged themselves to co-operate in every way possible with the Homecom ing committee, Claire Kneeland, representative of the group, said, to make this the biggest and best alumni celebration in the school’s history. Came with Oliver The Quarterback club was start ed as a functioning organ of the Eugene Junior Chamber of Com merce early this year with the advent of Tex Oliver, new grid mentor, to the Oregon campus. Leaders in the club are Ed Mon teith, president of the Junior Chamber, who has charge of pub licity; Ralph Newman, general chairman; Claire Kneeland, pro gram chairman, and Coval Smith, chairman of the rally committee. “We’re trying to instill a real college spirit in Eugene business men,” Mr. Kneeland said. “To get that, we are doing everything pos sible to raise the campus spirit behind the new theme, 'Oregon Is Going Places,’ and communicate that feeling to downtown men.” Hope for Calliope Illustrating the fact that the club is really behind the Univer sity, Kneeland said that plans are being pushed to get a steam cal liope for rallys. The club has also agreed to sponsor a float in the Homecoming noise parade. Programs of the club, which have included talks by Coach Oliver and his assistants, Howard Hobson, basketball coach, and moving pictures of football games, have been designed to bring the civic bodies closer to the Univer sity. Kwamas Enlisted To Aid in Grads' Registration Registration of graduates ot the University, who return to the campus for Homecoming week-end, will be held Friday and Saturday, November 4 and 5, in the lobby of Johnson Hall, Ruth Towney, student chair man, has announced. Kwama members, who will register the alumni, will begin their listing at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon, continuirjj until 6 that evening. Saturday, regis tration will begin at 8 a. m. and will close at 6 p. m. In prepara tion for their parade at Satur day afternoon’s football game, all “Order of the O" members must turn in their name, the sport in which they won their emblem, and the year won, to registration officials before 1 o’clock Saturday in order to be ' eligible for the traditional march on Hayward field. Big Sign to Feature Campus Decorations Mallicoat Has New Idea in Designs for '38 Homecoming A huge antimated sign, to he put up in front of Johnson Hall, will be the high spot of the cam pus decorations for Homecoming week-end, chairman of the decora tion committee, Dale Mallicoat, an nounced yesterday. “The decorations are going to be entirely new and different this j year,” said Mallicoat. “In place j of the old paper sign, ‘Welcome ■ Grads’, which has been up in front i of Johnson Hall for the past few years, there will be a colorfully lighted sign with a new slogan.” No decision has as yet been reached on what slogan the com mittee will use or what the central theme for the decorations around the campus will be. “Crepe paper will not be wrap ped around the trees in the usual fashion of past years,” stressed Mallicoat. “We are promising something different from anything that has been used before.” The Homecoming signs, con structed by the various living or ganizations on the campus, will bear the slogan, “Oregon Is Going Places.” Alumni Committee Named For Weekend Word of appointment of a Port land alumni committee to aid the campus Homecoming committee in rushing preparations for the 193S alumni weekend was received yes terday by Elmer Fansett, alumni secretary. Members of the committee,: which was appointed by Roland' Davis, president of Portland alumni, are: Flossie Radabaugh Steckmest, '28; Joe Freck Jr., ’31; Robert Mautz, ’27,and Mr. Davis, ’28. The committee will aid the cam pus directorate in arranging radio programs, publicizing the week I end in Portland groups, and ar ranging for Homecoming window decorations in downtown Portland i stores. Dick Watson, general Homecom ; ing chairman, and Phil Bladine, i publicity chairman, will contact the group in Portland today to start arrangements for the Home coming publicity drive. RCA-Victor Radios, $23.50-285.00 RCA Victrolas ., . . $44.95-400.00 Emerson Radios ....... ,.; $9.95 WRIGHT’S Hroadwny ami Oak St. l’liono •f* 4 4 «• *5* 4 4 4 * * 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 + GRADS! iinanm DROP IN FOR COMPLETE ONE-STOP SERVICE Windshield Transfers U. of O. Reflector Plates P o me to v ASSOCIATED “0 n tlle Campus ft i New Housing Planned for Tropical Fish A new housing program for fish has been daopted by the zoology department for the tropical fish tanks in Deady hall. An aireator has been installed in the tank which not only heats the water to the proper temper ature, but also provides it with sufficient oxygen to keep the diminutive tropical fish swim ming happily. Illuminated by a red light, the aireator is situated under a pile of rocks, and oxygen bubbles up through the water. In order to keep the water clear, a water filter has been in stalled in the tank, which filters the water through .charcoal and “glass wool" to make it ideal for its inhabitants. Alumni Get-Together Planned for Armorg Eugene alumni completed ar rangements yesterday afternoon to hold the second annual alumni “get-to-gether” Saturday after noon of Homecoming, Nov. 5, at the Eugene armory, 7th and Oak streets. Because of the warm reception which nearly 500 alumni gave the “get-to-gether’ last year, Elmer Fansett, alumni secretary said in speaking for the Eugene alums, the local business men decided to hold it again this year. The gathering, which starts at 4:45, immediately following the Oregon-Idaho football game, gives alumni a chance to meet old bud dies they haven’t seen in years, sponsors of the idea explained. All friends of alumni and of the University are invited to the gath ering, they said. New PE Building Will Open to Visitors The new physical education building and all its facilities will be opened to visitors on the cam pus Homecoming weekend, ac cording to announcement from the physical education department yes terday. In past years special guides have been on duty to show visitors through the building and although no definite announcement has eben made, it is expected that this ser vice will also be continued this year. Bonfiie to Climax ) Big Noise Parade] Climaxing the homecoming noise parade Friday night will1 be the annual bonfire and rally with indications pointing to one of the oesc in history. . . T Under direction of Martin Reig, a committee composed of Jean Miller, Barbara Fierce, iNeuan Stone and Jim Pickett, is organiz ing a crew of workers for the actual construction of the fire. At a new location, 19th and Ferry streets, the bonfire will be at the end of the line of march of the parade. The University of Oregon band, the Oregon football team, Coaches Oliver, Cole and Mikulak will be in attendance. Eugene merchants have assured nearly unanimous support in dona tion of materials for the fire. Attempts are being made ac cording to Reig to obtain a fire works display for use at the fire. If possible a green and yellow combination will be worked out. 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