SPORTS:
Staters to Play
Webfoot Five
Again Tonight
M. H.DOUGLASS
! U.O.LIBRARY
VOLUME XLII
UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1941
NUMBER f>G
PRESS CONFERENCE . . .
Minety Journalists
Register for Meet
Annual Conference Draws Men From All
Parts of State to Discuss Problems, New
Developments in Field of Journalism
By NEVA HAIGHT
Ninety newspapermen registered today for the twenty-third annual
Oregon Press conference. The first session of the conference at 9:45
in the journalism building brought together publishers, editors and
writers from ail over the state to discuss problems and developments
in the journalism field.
President of the conference, W. Verne McKinney, co-published of the
Hillsboro Argus, was head of the opening sessions and appointed the
CONFEREES
Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the
Oregonian, active OXI’A member
M ho totok part in yesterday’s panel
discussion.
W. Verne McKinney, Hillsboro
Argus, press conference head,
.»
Roy Brown, president of the Na
tional Editorial association, will
spealc on “Selling the Home-Town
* Newspaper" today in his capacity
as publisher of the San Rafael
(California) Independent.
Giies French, Sherman County
Journal, ON PA president.
following committees: nomina
tions — Lars Bladine, McMinnville
Telephone-Register, chairman;
Wallace Sprague, Salem States
man; Douglas Millarky, Burns
Times-Herald.
Resolutions: Sheldon F. Sackett,
Coos Bay Times, chairman; Hugh
Ball, Hood River News; Thomas
Nelson, Junction City Times; and
Donald J. Sterling, Oregon Jour
nal.
Necrology: Elmer Maxey,
Springfield News, chairman; Hen
ry N. Fowler, Bend Bulletin; and
Hugh McGilvree, Forest Grove
News-Times.
French Appoints
Giles L. French, president of the
Oregon Newspaper Publishers’
association, appointed on the reso
lutions committee for the ONPA,
E. R. Aldrich, Pendleton East Ore
gonian, chairman; Lars Bladine,
McMinnville Telephone - Register;
and Merle Chessman, Astorian
Budget.
At the convention banquet given
last night, Dean Wayne L. Morse
of the law school praised the work
done by newspapers in support of
the Fair Labor Standards act, and
predicted that laborers and em
ployers would make great strides
in the next 12 months toward more
stable labor conditions.
Draft Act Explained
Lieut.-Col. Elmer V. Wooton,
state director of selective service,
explained the workings of the sys
tem and complimented newspapers
on their work in explaining the
ruling to the public at a luncheon
held at noon at the Anchorage.
Speakers in morning sessions
included Richard B. Dudman, Palo
Alto, Calif., associate in the Front
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CONSTITUTION
Independents
Outline New
Organization
Woodruff Declares
'Six-Man Council'
Class Government
A “six-man council” type of
government will guide the “new
frosh class,” now being organized
by independent forces on the cam
pus, Chuck Woodruff, independent
leader, said yesterday.
In describing the plan Woodruff
said that it was “patterned after
the type used with success in Cali
fornia, midwestern, and eastern
schools.” It has been found par
ticularly successful at the Univer
sity of Minnesota, he said.
Council Elected
The council will be elected from
the class as a whole, and council
members will elect officers within
itself. It will be composed of the
six candidates receiving the high
est number of votes in an election,
which will be open to all persons
recognized as freshmen by the
University.
Candidates for the council must
comply with the same rules that
govern other ASUO offices, such
as scholarship regulations and
years in school. They will nominate'
themselves, however, Woodruff
said, in explaining features of the
plan new to Oregon.
Examination Set
An examination will be conduct
ed over Gregg's Parliamentary
Law and tpe principles of student
government about a week before
nominations. Anyone will be eligi
ble to take this test. Those who
pass will be eligible for nomina
tion.
Classmen will vote for three can
didates under a preferential voting
system. No fee will be charged
for voting privileges.
'Boughing' to WSC
I hate to comment on the game,
But I guess that I should try.
“The Cougars came from out the
north
And made the tall fir fly.”
—J. W. S.
They Whittle While They Work
Singers Hobbies Vary
By MILDRED WILSON
On the stage they may seem
to be enormous, awe-inspiring
individuals, just a few minutes
removed from the battlefield, and
perhaps prone to such hobbies as
collecting red Russian beards —
but investigation finds that the
Don Cossacks who will sing at
McArthur court next Tuesday
evening, really have comparative
ly mild pastimes.
For instance, if you happen to
talk to Wassily Flustikoff he is
apt to whip a camera out of his
pocket and snap your picture
(probably with your mouth open).
Flustikoff is a Russian candid
camera fiend.
Jean Beresoff
Then, possibly, Jean Beresoff
may invite you to join him in a
game of four-handed Russian soli
taire which he originated and de
veloped—and which only he under
stands. As yet there hasn’t been
a real game played because no
one but Beresoff can grasp its
finer points — and there is even
doubt about Beresoff.
On the more serious and in
tellectual side Micheal Bojanoff
writes for his relaxation, in fact
is master of 22 languages—and
Eugene Gabayeff collects stones
from all over the world as a geol
ogical avocation.
Vladmir Lazarev
Vladmir Lazarev, the artist of
the group, does charcoal carica
tures of his comrades and unusual
faces he notices while traveling.
Thoroughbred horses are the main
interest in the life of Akim Teri
choff, who keeps a complete and
up-to-date scrapbook on the sub
ject.
As a group the thirty-four gi
gantic Cossacks are addicted to
a game of Russian dice which
they play for such stakes as but
tons, cigarettes and pictures of
pretty girls.
Serge Jaroff
Probably the most startling
pastime of all belongs to the dim
inutive choirmaster, Serge Jaroff.
He whittles. Nothing creative—
no modernistic figures, trees, an
imals or doll chairs. Just simple,
old-fashioned whittling which, al
though it may appear rather pur
poseless, is extremely relaxing, ac
cording to Jaroff. A medium
sized slab of wood usually lasts
him about a week.
BOB, THE BROTHER OF BING
On Friday, the night of January 17, Bob Crosby and his Bobcats,
Dixie swing band, will supply the music for the Senior ball. The dance
is the first formal of this term and the last class of ’41 social function.
Both Bob and Brother Bing spent their boyhood in Spokane.
DIXIELAND BAND LEADER . . .
’Glam our Boy 'Crosby
Balks at Nicknames
DISCUSSIONS
Dean Announces
Lecture Series
Early Winter Term
Slated for Love/
Marriage Speakers
Another “love and marriage”
series of lectures, to be given early
this term, was announced yester
day by Karl W. Onthank, dean of
personnel.
The lectures will last over a per
iod of three weeks, and there will
also be discussion groups held af
ter the lectures.
Last year these lectures were
also given. Faculty members and
authorities on the subject spoke to
the students and then the students
held discussion groups in their
houses.
Miss Billie Christensen is the
student chairman for this year’s
series.
Dean Onthank declared in re
gard to the series on “Love and
Marriage” that will be heard this
term: “I compliment the commit
tee on arranging an excellent ser
ies and on their practical and ef
fective interest in a field of inter
est which is of large importance
to them.”
BA Honorary to Hold
Discussion Meeting
"Lost Individualism,” a talk giv
en by Professor C. G. Howard at
the last Beta Gamma Sigma fall
term meeting will be the topic of
the business administration honor
ary's meeting discussion Tuesday
noon in the Side.
Plans are being shaped for the
students’ business conference of
the stfhool which brings Portland
businessmen here for talks with
students.
By ADELE SAY
"Has anybody seen my gal?"
warbled Bob Crosby on his first,
personal appearance on a Spokane
theater stage when he was thir
teen years old, and then he balked
on the next notes and ran off the
stage.
Since then /ns voice and his
name have become famous along
with his orchestra and many a
stage has beckoned him.
Dark Hair
With dark hair, brown eyes, and
of a becoming height, he his the
freshness o? perscnaliiy of his bro
ther Bing, and the nit of music in
his smile.
Bob swung a mean tennis rack
et, played basketball, and football
at high school and Gonzaga uni
versity which he attended for two
years. He was tennis champion of
Spokane in 1929.
Likes Handball
Right now, Bob finds handball
an appealing game, and radio ex
ecutives wiio take him on at the
Athletic club in New York city
are slightly startled at the power
in his musical dhow.
Bob’s most prized possession is
an Irish shilling for good luck;
though he doesn’t believe in num
eralogy and fortune telling.
Sang With Weeks
The first big job he had in his
own line was singing with Anson
Weeks and his orchestra. He was
very late for his first appearance
as the Crosby bow-ties slipped, and
he finally had to get a bellboy to
help him out.
Bob dresses conservatively and
dislikes any mention of the term
‘‘glamour-boy.’’ When he gets very
j excited, he ruffles his hair like a
symphony orchestra conductor.
I This human baton likes to live
in the city, and also to read mys
teries in bed. If he couldn’t sing
or lead an orchestra, Bob says he’d
like to be a lawyer.
Bob’s epitaph is already written.
With typical Crosby humor it
reads, “Here Lies Bob Crosby, Who
! Once Stood on His Own Feet."
CONTEST
Best Letters
Written Dads
Win Oreganas
Yearbooks Signed
By President Erb
Go to Two Winners
Two 1941 Oreganas, autograph
ed by University President Don
ald M. Erb, will be given to the
boy and the girl writing the best
letters inviting Dads to attend an
nual Dad's day ceremonies Feb
ruary 7, 8, and 9.
The contest was launched yes
terday to find the perfect all
round letter of invitation. Dead
line for the contest has been ten
tatively set at January 25.
Copies Distributed
Copies of winning letters will
be distributed to campus living
organizations, whose members will
send them to theri dads as invita
tions to the week-end ceremonies.
The contest committee asks that
letters be general and informative,
and recommends that they stress
departmental displays in which the
dads may be interested. They also
suggest that other features of the
week-end be played up, such as
the banquet, the Oregon State bas
ketball game, and the dedication
->f the gates.
Oates to Open
Highlight of the week-end, ac
cording to Stan Staiger, chair
man of the affair, will be the ded
ication of the gates on Eleventh
street at the west end of the
campus. The gates were purchas
ed, in part, with money donated
by the Dad’s association.
Staiger said he hoped for a par
ade through the gates south to
Thirteenth street. Presumably the
entire student body would take
part.
The banquet will be held Satur
, probably in Gerlinger.
Valentine Winner
As Yet Undecided
No winner has yet been picked
in the “Ideal Valentine Gill” con
test, judges report.
Photos of the 54 (contestants
were taken at the University news
bureau Thursday afternoon, but
judges have not had sufficient time
to select a winning photograph.
When the winner is chosen,
probably early next week, her pic
ture will be sent to Life Magazine
where it will be printed with oth
er “Ideal Valentine Girl” pictures
from major colleges and univer
sities throughout the country.
Dr. Link to Discuss
Analysis, Psychology
"The Factor Analysis Method in
Psychology” v/ill be the title of a
speech to be given by Gordon W.
Link, graduate assistant in the
psychology department.
He will speak to a psychology
research symposium meeting Mon
day at 7:30 p.m. in 324 Condon
hall. Although the meeting is pri
marily for psychology majors, the
meeting is open to everyone.
Exams Required
The placement examination
required of all new undergradu
ate students will be given this
Saturday morning, Jan. 11, at j
9 o’clock in 207 Chapman, ac- !
cording to C. L. Constance, as
sistant registrar. Students who 1
miss the examination are sub
ject to fine.
NOT ENOUGH BASKETS
• • •
Ducks Miss Fire
As Cougars Nab
First Series Tilt
Webfoots Drop First Conference Hoop
Game by 48 to 39 Scorer Paul Lindeman
Scores 16 Points to Spark Visitors Attack
By KEN CHRISTIANSON
Sports Co-editor, Oregon Emerald
“Rough and ragged” characterizes Oregon’s opening confer
ence game Friday night at McArthur court. Washington State,
"fresh" from two losses to Oregon State, out-passed and out
scored the Ducks to win, 48 to 39. Both teams play again tonight
at 8 p.m.
A total of 20 fouls were called by the referees—15 of them on
Washington State. The entire game was ragged from an Oregon
point of view; the Ducks held off the swift Cougar passing
attack in the first half with a
tight zone defense; then in the
second half, the Ducks simply
couldn’t stand the gaff. Washing
ton State, according to observers
of the OSC-WSC series, did not
play the brand of ball against the
Webfoots that they did against the
Beavers in the second game. But
the ball — a-la-Jack-Friel — was
plenty good enough to bottle up
the fumbling Oregons.
Cougar Average Best
Washington State took 77 shots
from .the floor and made good on
22 of them. Oregon took 53 shots
for 14 counted field goals. Batting
average: WSC .285, Oregon .264.
The usual dashing and shooting
Ducks failed to shoot as often as
in former games.This was due to
the way in which the Cougars
clung to the ball. Despite the ap
parent superior height advantage
of the Oregons, the Cougars gained
their share of rebounds with Paul
Lindemann and Ray Sundquist
taking them off the boards.
Each team got 45 rebounds
during the course of the game.
Lindemann won high point hon
ors for the game with 16 points.
Oregon’s Vic Townsend was next
witii 15, followed by Hank An
derson with 12. V’ern Butts of
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POSTLUDE . . .
Band Presents
Sunday Concerts
Press Conference
Will Hear Program
In Music Building
A musical “postlude” to the Ore
gon press conference will come
to the campus Sunday afternoon
at 3 o’clock in the music auditor
ium when John H. Stehn and the
50 youthful musicians of the Uni
versity of Otegon band play a free
program, their first concert of the
1940-41 school year.
Seven varied melodies and a
group of four romantic composi
tions, scaling musical history from
the eighteenth century to the pres
ent decade of the twentieth, will
be played by the band.
The program will open with two
classical selections, Bach's “Pre
lude and Fugue in B Minor," and
Beethoven’s "Coriolanus” overture.
These will be followed by four
light sketches from Tschaikowsky’s
“Nutcracker Suite” — “Overture
Miniature,” “Marche,” “Dance of
the M i r 1 i t o n s,” and "Russian
Dance.” Also in the romantic
vein will be the “Festival Over
ture” by Robert Schumann.
Mr. Stehn is arranger of Debus
sy’s humorous piano composition,
“General Lavine, Eccentric,” which
he has given a band adaptation.
Two numbers less well known to
Eugene- audiences will be “Ronde
d’Amour” by Westerhout and the
first movement to Borodin’s sec
ond symphony. Conductor Stehn
will relinquish the podium to Art
Holman, popular band leader and
a member of last year’s graduat
ing class, for the direction of
"Tropical," which was written by
Morton Gould, composer of "Pav
ane” and well known for his radio
work.
Sidelights on Oregon Press Conference Delegates...
After missing several confer
ences through ill health, Edgar Mc
Daniels, former conference presi
dent, came up from North Bend,
where he publishes the Coos
Bay Harbor, one of Oregon’s best
known weeklies. Mr. McDaniels
says that he is feeling better than
he has for years.
Another publisher who has had
to miss some sessions is Thomas
Nelson of the Junction City Times,
back this time for the first time
j since 1937. Mr. Nelson spends his
“spare time” inventing useful gad
gets for the back shop, of which
he has a number to his credit.
Brodie Attends
George H. Brodie, former Ore
gon student, now in charge of the
business end of the Oregon City
Enterprise, was one of the in
terested participants in the confer
ence. Mr. Brodie, whose father
the late Edward E. Brodie, was
three times president of the Ore
gon State Editorial association,
had not been on the campus for
I several years.
A. E. Voorhies, publisher of the
Grants Pass Courier, was one of
the notable absentees this year
Mr. Voorhies, father of Earl E
Voorhies, Oregon graduate of
1922, is recovering from a recent
il’ness. Noble D. Stanton, adver
tising manager, and Rex Tussing
city editor, represented the Cour
ier.
Others Here
Vernon Churchill, of the Mc
Cann-Erickson advertising agency,
and Leith F. Abbott, advertising
manager of the Southern Pacific
in Portland, together with James
A. Orrnandy for the S. P. passen
ger department, were among those,
noticed at the sessions.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Mellinger
were over from Tillamook. The last
time Mr. Mellinger was in town
he came over with a “hill-billy”
orchestra made up of prominent
Tillamook business men with music
for a hobby.
Son Attends U. O.
Roy A. Brown, publisher of the
San Rafael, California, Independ
ent, president of the National Edi
I torial Association, who is on the
conference program this morning,
is the father of Wishard Brown,
Oregon freshman in journalism.
Claude E. Ingalls, editor of the
Corvallis Gazette-Times, groped
his way through the fog and
reached the conference in an hour
and a half from Corvallis.
Former Emerald Head
Douglas Muilarky, manager of
the Harney County News-Times
at Burns, is here for the confer
ence. Mr. Muilarky was editor
of the Emerald 21 years ago.
Robert K. Allen, a former man
aging editor of the Emerald (1931)
and Mrs. Allen (Velma Farnham)
were interested listeners at the
conference sessions. Mr. Allen, who
is a son of Dean Eric W. Allen, is
a member of the Oregon Journal
advertising staff in Portland.
E. B. Aldrich, editor of the
Pendleton East Oregonian, was on
hand early yesterday morning. His
son-in-law, “Bud” Forrester, in
charge of athletic publicity for
Oregon State college, was sitting
alongside him.
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INFORMAL
Dance Program
Will Change Hall
To 'Wonderland'
Game Precedes
WAA Dance;
Tickets Cost $1
By BETTY JANE BIGGS
Using a ceiling of 1000 blue and
white balloons and midst a snow
scene of paper skiers and 50 real
fir trees, WAA will present Its
annual Winter Wonderland to
night in Gerlinger hall following
the Oregon-Washington State bas
ketball game.
Changing this year from the
traditional formal atmosphere, this
evening's dancing costume will be
informal—short silks and heels—
according to Betty Morfitt and
Pat Vandeneynde, co-chairmen.
Prom a snow-camouflage band
stand, Eddie Gipson and his or
chestra will provide the dance mu
sic. Gipson’s music has become
well known on the campus from
his engagements at other social
activities, including the Gamma
Alpha Chi formal, and footbal^
rallies.
WAA members who are in
charge of various sub-committees
for the dance include: Janet Farn
ham, decorations; Dorothy Horn,
orchestra; Mary Ellen Smith, tick
ets; Bobby McClaren, programs;
Ruth Hartley and Marge Dibble,
upblicity; and Arlene Millard, pa
trons and patronesses.
Tickets are on sale at all men’s
living organizations for $1.
George Root Speaks
To Advertising Staff
George Root, educational activ
ities director, gave suggestions for
selling advertising to Eugene mer
chants at the local staff meeting
yesterday afternoon in Friendly
hall. The increased purchasing
power and size of the Emerald
market from the University’s high
enrollment and tying in advertis
ing of certain products with the
social program should be kept in
mind when contacting advertisers,
Root advised.
Ron Alpaugh, layout production
manager, outlined a new plan for
better cooperation between the lo
cal advertising and layout staffs.
Each ad salesman is to turn in in
formation about his accounts, in
cluding business and merchandis
ing policies, various departments
in the store, and the best selling
articles in each, new articles which
are suited to the college student,
and suggestions on satisfactory
handling of the account.
Business manager Jim Frost
added that the layout department
would enlarge its activities this
term to help more extensively in
selling lineage. Last term it aid
ed mainly the Wednesday and
Thursday staffs handling men’s
and women’s advertising editions.
Frost also warned writers to make
copy suited to local conditions.
Owners to Get Cards
Athletic cards loaned by their
owners and taken away from the
holders at any of the previous bas
ketball games, will be returned to
their owners only upon payment of
the price of one general admission
ticket at the ASUO ticket office
in McArthur court.
Hereafter all tickets taken at
the games will not be returned,
Ed Walker, ticket manager, an
nounced last night.