EDITS:
Emerald Workers
'Let Down Hair'
SPORTS:
Les Steers Plans
Longest lump Yei
VOLUME XLII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941
NUMBER 130
Colonel Lyon
To Announce
ROTC Choices
'Big 50' Will Sign
Contracts Before
Coming Vacations
Fifty sophomores who will take
the advanced military course
next fall will be announced after
the final drill May 29, according
to Col. Robert M. Lyon of the
military department. Twenty al
ternates will also be announced.
The “big 50” will sign con
tracts before leaving for summer
vacations in conformance with a
requirement from the selective
service, which will defer ad
vanced ROTC students since
they may serve as officers upon
graduation. Alternates will re
ceive letters to their selective
service boards requesting them
to grant temporary deferments
until their status is determined
next fall.
Principals and alternates must
meet in Room 1 of ROTC head
quarters at 3:15 p.m. May 29 for
final instructions. They will be
given their physical examinations
prior to the opening of the Uni
versity next fall.
The advanced course in mili
tary requires five hours a week
and is a three-credit course. Com
pletion of the course plus a six
weeks’ summer camp between
the junior and senior years qual
ifies the student for appointment
as second lieutenant in the in
fantry reserve.
Qualifications met by the suc
cessful candidates include : a GPA
of 2-point or better, superior
military grades, the filing of an
application describing the -candi
date’s activities and interests,
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New Address Asked
OnLastNYA Checks
NYA checks for May 16 to
June 7 period will not be issued
until after the close of school, so
it is especially important that
each NYA worker put the ad
dress to which he wants his
check sent on his last time card.
Work must be completed on or
before Saturday, June 7, and time
cards must be signed by student
and supervisor and turned in at
the payroll office by 5 p.m. Mon
day, June 9.
To avoid delayed payment, stu
dents are urged to do this before
they leave the campus. Time
cards not signed will not be hon
ored. They should be turned in
at the payroll office, not at the
NYA office.
Students interested in applying
for NYA work next fall should
leave their name and address
with the NYA secretary, 112
Johnson, so that blanks may be
mailed to them during the sum
mer.
Pome No. 150
All the houses have their pooches
entered in the Dog Daze show.
They’re primped up and put in
their prime.
As I contemplate this action, I
wonder which house
Is in line for the gravy this time.
—J.W.S.
Richardson 'Sues'
To the Tune of $255
By FRITZ TIMMEN
Don Richardson, law school senior, is seeking; heart balm damages
to the tune of $255.10 from Robert Recken in the last of this year's
moot trials at the Lane county court house Thursday evening at 7:30.
Richardson invited a young lady to come to the campus from
Portland for Junior Weekend and went to considerable expense to
Saturday Sees
Canine Capers
Johnny Lee's Men
Play for 'Dog Daze'
At Informal Affair
By HERB PENNY
Last social event of this term,
the Frosh Glee, will bark off Sat
urday evening in the Igloo. The
dean of women’s office has an
nounced that 1 o’clock permis
sion has been granted for this
year’s final campus dance.
"In the Glee,” said Dance
Chairman Oglesby Young, "the
freshmen want to show the rest
of the school what they can do.
Decorating will be done entirely
by freshmen. In this dance every
one is cooperating.
"Both ‘majority’ and the ‘reg
ular” freshmen classes will back
the Glee,” Young announced.
"This dance will be the first co
operative effort of the two class
es.”
Johnny Lee
Music for the Glee will be fur
nished by Johnny Lee, who will
be playing for the first time at
Oregon. Lee’s orchestra will come
from Portland.
The annual freshman dance
will last from 8:30 to 12 Satur
day evening. Tickets are $1. An
informal affair, short silks will
be in order for the coeds.
Theme for the dance will be
"Dog Daze,” and will be carried
out by an election of the most
popular dog on the campus, who
will be named "King of Campus
Dogs.”
An impartial committee will
choose a panel of six campus
dogs from which the dog king
will be selected. The committee
will be named later. The selection
will be made during intermission.
'41 Club Selects
Executive Board
New executive board members
of the ’41 club, educational or
ganization, were elected Tuesday
at the last yearly meeting.
Those elected to executive posi
tions include: secretary-treasurer,
Pat Lawson; publicity director,
Pat Vandeneynde; board mem
bers, Bette Christensen, Joanne
Riesch, Bernard Somers, Betty
Dolan, Nina Ray McCulley, Fran
cis Wise, and John Lund.
UO Play Production
Noted by Magazine
A scene from the University’s
production, “Idiot’s Delight,” pre
sented here last spring, is men
tioned in the Eighteenth Tribu
tary Theatre yearbook, a record
of dramatic activities published
by the,Theatre Arts magazine for
its July issue, according to ad
vance notices.
The yearbook is a survey estk
mating the mounting influence of
the tributary theater on Amer
ican drama.
prepare for her entertainment.
Reeken wrote her a letter,
without Richardson's knowledge,
that caused her to remain in
Portland. When Richardson dis
covered the action, he immediate
ly ordered his lawyers, Clyde
Angerman and Bob Tavens, to
bring suit against Reeken.
The itemized list of damages to
be asked is: clothes, $45; phone
calls to Portland. $2.10; flowers,
$5; tickets, $3; mental anguish,
$200.
Hugh Collins will act as coun
sel for the defense. Brock Miller
will serve as clerk, Dave Remen
teria as bailiff, and Floyd Hamil
ton as sheriff. Orlando J. Hollis,
professor of law, will preside.
Students who wish to serve on
the jury are asked to turn their
names in to Miller before Thurs
day afternoon.
Famous Musician
To Lecture Here
Two lectures, one on the class
ical theme and the other on sym
bolist and impressionist arts, will
be given by Dr. Arnold Elston,
musician, Wednesday at 3 in the
music school and at 7:30 Thurs
day in Friendly.
Dr. Elston, wrho has attended
many American schools of music
as well as several universities in
Europe, says he considers the
classical theme, his topic of Wed
nesday afternoon, the type of
theme characteristic of Beeth
oven. It is called classical because
those who followed Beethoven
used this musical structure.
In Thursday’s lecture the spe
cific arts to be discussed arQ im
pressionist painting, symbolist
poetry, and impressionist music
covering roughly the period from
1870 to 1900.
Torgeson Appoints
ASUO Committee
For Coming Year
By MARY WOLF
Main ASUO committees were
outlined and members appointed
by the newly-elected president
of the student body, Lou Torgc
son, at the first executive com
mittee meeting of new officers
last night.
Committees are: class activi
ties organization committee, ex
ecutive council student card drive
committee, and rally and yell
squad committee.
Members of the class activi
ties committee are Jim Frost,
ASUO second vjee-presidenlt;
Torgeson, and three class presi
dents. The purpose of this com
mittee is to organize a program
of class activities. Class budgets
will be worked out with the ac
tivities office. Faculty advisers,
already appointed, will sit in on
these meetings.
Joe Gurley, manager of the
1940 drive, Bob Calkins, ASUO
first vice-president, Frost and
Tqlrgeson are members of the
student card drive committee.
They will promote the sale of
athletic cards next fall.
Rally and yell squad commit
tee members are Becky Ander
son and Bob Lovell, senior rep
resentatives to the executive
council; Les Anderson, head of
the rally squad; Earle Russell,
yell king, and Torgeson.
Formerly the rally and the yell
squad worked together. The com
mittee’s purpose is to carry out
the idea of this year’s executive
council to separate the two.
They intend to draw up plans
on different activities which the
two will carry on as separate
units this year.
Missing Student
Found in Nevada
Laurance Moore, Oregon stu
dent missing since February 28,
was found Tuesday in Las Vegas,
Nevada, Portland police report.
No details of his disappearance
and discovery were included in
dispatches. Bond of $200 was
posted when he disappeared.
DR. GALLUP JR.
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Courtesy Kegister-Guard
Polling public opinion is the side job which Dean Eric W. Allen’s
editing class has taken over the past few weeks. Directors of the poll,
shown above, are Bill Fendall, left; Betty Keller, seated, and Frank
Meek.
Kwamas Name
New Members
Soph Honoraries'
'Girls in White'
To Initiate Sunday
Next year's "girls in white"
will receive final initiation into
Kwama, sophomore women’*
service honorary, at 8:45 Sunday
morning at the Pi Phi house, ac
cording to Marge Dibble, presi
dent.
Kwamas were "tapped" at tho
Mortar Board ball Saturday on
basis of "outstanding activities^
high scholastic rating, and dem
ocratic spirit."
Following the formal ceremony,
new members will be honored
guests at a breakfast at the An
chorage.
Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean
of women, and Mrs. Alice B. Mac
duff, assistant dean, will con
gratulate the girls on their
achievements. Miss Dibble, Mary
Ellen Smith, vice-president, and
Nancy Riesch, secretary-treas
urer, will also speak.
Kwamas for next year include:
Grace Babbit, Mary Bentley,.
Marge Curtis, Phyllis Gray, Neva
Haight, Rhoda Harkson, Rylla
Hattan, Kay Jenkins, Betty Kin
caid, Barbara Lamb, Elaine Mc
Farlane, Micky Mitchell, Robs*
DuPuy, Mary Robinson, Janet
Ross, Dot Routt, JoAr.n Supple,
Mary Jane Terry, and Yvonne
Torgler.
Medical Honorary
To Show Movies
Today in Chapman
Asklepiads, pre-medics’ honor
ary, will sponsor the showing of
three reels of film tonight at. 9
in 207 Chapman. The movies wiJl
portray human reproduction and
development, the heart and how
it works, and blood vessels and
the circulatory system. Dr. A. L..
Alderman, assistant professor of
zoology, will lecture.
Tickets, which cost 20 cents,
may bo obtained from members
of the honorary and at the door.
ASUO to Sponsor
Special Rail Rates
For homegoing Ducks the
ASUO is sponsoring special stu
dent rates on Southern Pacific
trains leaving June 5, 6, 7, and 3.
A booth will be situated be
tween Oregon and Commerce
buildings during the final week.
Both one way and round trip
for ticket sales and information,
fares will be available at reduced
prices. Parties of five or more
may obtain special rates on Cali
fornia bound trains, it was an
nounced. Round trip tickets will
be valid until September 30.
Pay Slips
All students who have done
work in the activities office
in May, are requested by Miss
Mary Graham, secretary, to
come in immediately and sign
their payroll slip.