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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1940)
SPORTS PAGE: Frosh Track Duck Tracks Z60ft EDIT PAGE: Millrace House Grades VOLUME XLI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940 NUMBER 110 Celebrating Libe Holds Open House Birthday Guests Welcome Today To All Sections The University of Oregon ’i ebrates the fourth anni . verran'i in its present building today, in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of printing. An open house in all the departments will be held from 2 to 5 and from 7 to 10 p.m. Numerous displays will be ex hibited on all floors of the library. Student private libraries submit ted in the prize contest will be in the main corridor. Also there will be books purchased during the current year from the income of Henry Villard’s gift in 1883. Displays Included There will be several displays in the browsing room including the Pauline Potter Homer collec tion of beautiful books, the Inter natinal Relations club library, and two types of model libraries. In the circulation lobby a col lection of water colors of Oregon wild flowers, a herbal display, documents commemorating the history of printing, a hand print ing press, and an exhibit of fine binding are some of the things to be shown. Burgess Room Open Old and rare books, manu scripts, and a collection of nine teenth century authors will be shown in the Burgess room on the. first floor. On the second floor there will be a map display, a showing of Braille books, and a demonstra tion of microfilm. Some interesting special col lections will be on display on the third floor. Old newspapers may be found in the basement of the library, and refreshments will be served in the staff room. IN TODAY’S EMERALD News .1, 3, 6, 7, 8 Sports .-.4, Edits . Campus Calendar .. 7 Bandbox . 2 Saturday, Deadline For ASUO, Junior Class Card Sales ASUO and junior class cards will not be sold after noon Sat urday, May 4, the educational activities office announced yesterday. Lost cards must also bg ad justed before noon Saturday; otherwise the vote will be forfeit, the office ruled. The move is designed to eliminate the type of last-min ute card-buying run which at the last campus election re sulted in an incomplete list of polling lists, a factor in the er ror in final tabulations. Those who fail to register for cards before the specified time will not be permitted to buy cards later, it was de clared, so Saturday noon, when the activities office closes, is the absolute deadline. <3 w» Poison Oak Plus Poetry Found Double-Trouble Seen while sniffling- about the infirmary: Coed sports-writer Nancy Lew is all by her only in ward two stuck in some bird-cage affair ... its general function—to keep the covers from getting too fam iliar with Nancy’s poison oak . . . Ditto for Jim Stubblebine. Wes Sullivan (the guy who writes those odes in the Emerald) being swarmed over by a drove of his hall-mates . . . they recite some of the poetry they’ve scrawled on some pink paper . . . Wes’ ward-buddies, Terry Millen and Bill Parker, burrow deeper down in their mattresses and jam their blankets over their eyes and ears. . . . The hospital roster featuring Beth Rowen, Nancy Lewis, Pat Howard, Margaret Pollard, Vir ginia Langstroth, Carolyn Holmes, Evelyn Moses, John Mer rill, Wes Sullivan, Terry Mullen, Bill Parker, George Hodson, Jim Stubblebine, and John Bubalo. Johnson Wins Moot Damages Jury Says Brown Must Pay $75; Hollis Presides By DON BUTZIN A jury of seven men and five women awarded Darrel Johnson $75 damages for injuries inflict ed by Betty Brown's dog in the first moot trial held by third year law students last night in the circuit court room of Lane county’s court house. Judge Or lando J. Hollis, law professor, presided at the case. The jury was influenced in its verdict by evidence submitted by the plaintiff’s attorneys, William F. Lubersky and Sheldon Parks, to the effect that the dog should have been more closely restricted by Miss Brown since she knew the vicious tendencies of the dog as exhibited in a previous biting incident brought forth at the trial. Defense attorneys Denton Bur dick and Kenneth Abraham were unable to convince the jury that the plaintiff should have known better than to continue holding the dog after it had allegedly growled as he was about to evict (Please turn to page three j Breakfasters Will Hear Dr. Aitchison Junior and Senior Women Will Meet Sunday at Osbum In the annual interclass break fast, the junior and senior wo men will meet at the Osburn ho tel this Sunday at 9 a.m. to hear a program featuring Dr. Beatrice Aitchison, popular woman speak er. Selections by the Kwama vocal trio, the Phi Beta instrumental trio, and Jeanette Gordon, violin ist, are also scheduled for the morning’s entertainment. The program will not be long, berak fast chaiman Karolyn Kortge an nounced, and will be over in time for the guests to attend church services. Barbara Fulton, in charge of ticket sales, reports that a larger amount of tickets have been sold to date than in any previous year, emphasizing the fact that all sales will cease Saturday morning. The breakfast room will be dec orated in a spring theme, with flowered place cards, and bunch es of spring flowers on every ta ble. Company 'E' Wins Inspection Honors In the weekly parade drill of the ROTC corps. Company E won top honors in the inspection with a high score of 110 points. The company was officered by Company Commander Fred Ad lard Qnd Platoon Leaders Dwight Near, Donald McAfee, and Leo Marian tes. Second place went to Company C with 108 points, third to Com pany F with 106, fourth to Com pany G with 105, fifth to Com pany B with 104, and sixth to Company A with 100 points. Museum to Be Open For LIbe Birthday In cooperation with the cele bration of the anniversary of the University library, the Art mu seum and art museum library will be open from 3 to 5, and 8 to 10 today. % Come Early or Late; Independents Dance By CORRINE WIGNES Early or late—with or without a date! This is the invitation for all independent University students to attend the informal dance in the third floor room of Gerling er hall tonight starting at 9 o’clock. According to co-chairmen Con nie Riddell and Bill Hodson, only campus clothes are acceptable. The girls may wear pinafores if they wish, and a charge of 2o cents will be made each student not a member of either indepen dent organization. All co-op and dorm students are invited to at tend. "If your date can’t come, you can come by yourself,” says Con nie. Dancing will continue until 11:30, and music will be furnished by popular phonograph records. Patronesses include Mrs. Frank Anderson, Mrs. L. R. Smith, Mrs. D. R. Riddell, and Mrs. J. D. Sut ton. What's a Pinafore? . (Courtesy of the Oregonian) Three girls shown above are doing their share in earrying out ttu> Junior Weekend theme, “Springtime in Vienna,” by modeling for tho accepted pinafore costume. From the left, they are Shirley Sullivan, Betty Walls, and Lityann Veatch. UO Will Promote Weekend Via Air Seventeen Oregon Students to Broadcast Over KGW, KOIN Tomorrow; Torbet Is Master of Ceremonies, Says Chairman Radio stations KGW and KOIN will put Junior Weekend on the air tomorrow afternoon, when a group of 17 University students ap pears in Portland for the broadcast, Jack Holcomb, weekend radio chairman, announced yesterday. One presentation will be heard from the Journal station, KOI3ST, from 12:45 until 1:00; and the second—entirely different will bo broadcast by KGW, the Oregonian, from 1:30 to 1:45. Holcomb said cti lci ttiicuigcmcata v\cic v*uni pleted yesterday with H. Q. Cox, production manager at KGW, and Stan Church, KOIN program di rector. “This is quite a step forward for Junior .Weekend,” Holcomb commented, "because it is the first time in 50 years that the event has been promoted by radio. Alan Torbet, junior in journalism, will act as master of ceremonies. The program settings will be the Oregon campus, and will consist of dramatizations, supported by the Delta Tau Delta quartet, a string quintet, and Jean Morrison, soprano soloist. (Additional details on t'ai/e S) Medics to Be Fitted Uniform measurements for sec ond-year students expecting to enter the University of Oregon medical school next year will be taken May 17, 11 a.m., in Ger linger hall, it was announced yes terday. Ode to Infirmary I hate to leave the infirmary. I've got to go back today. Although they've got me well again, I can not stay away. My ward-mate has a radio. I’ve classes all this morning. But I must know what Ma Per kins did About that nasty warning. —J. W. S. Engineer Group Meets in Condon Talks on Metals Will Be Presented; Banquet at Osburn For the first time in many years the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engi neers is holding its annual meet ing in Eugene. The meeting will begin tomorrow afternoon at 4 P-m. in Condon hall at which time several papers will be read. A symposium on the subject of metal deposits of the Cascado range will be carried on by Dr. Li. W. Staples, geology instructor, John Allen, Kenneth Watkins, and Kenneth Hamblim. Following thin there will be a paper by F. W. Libby on "Lesser Known Oregon Metallic Deposits." After the afternoon meeting, to which the general public is invit ed. there will be a private ban quet at the Osburn hotel. Tho evening program is being spon sored and arranged by members of the Condon club. Albert Burch from Medford wall give a short speech before the main addresn of the evening by Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geology and geography departments. Dr. Smith will speak on "Metals ‘oi’ the Philippines."