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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1941)
War to Visit Eugene; Air Raid, Blackout Set A practice that has been used to a great advantage in com bining enemy aircraft in Britain and tried with gratifying results in this country will be initiated on the west coast Octo ber 31, when Eugene and Lane county will undertake its first blackout and simulated air raid, The blackout will take place between 9 and 10 on the evening o? October 31. Whistles will be blown 12 minutes before the actual blackout begins. Every one is urged to keep off the streets and cooperate in making the blackout successful. Herschel E Taylor, chairman of the Lane County Defense Council, an nounced. Living organizations and meet ings will be requested to darken all windows during the few min ute,a between the warning siren and the all clear signal. Ct necessary police will control traffic during that time, it was announced. Planes will be flying over the city in order to deter mine the effectiveness of the blackout. Helping at the armory during the maneuvers will be 30 ad vanced P.OTC students volun teering their services with local volunteer workers. A. complete list of blackout rules appeared in an earlier Em erald and will be published again before blackout date. Lieutenant Ray F. Siegenthaler of the air corps is in charge of a fitter center to be used during extensive maneuvers in detecting “enemy” planes in the Eugene area The filter center will be located in the downtown armory and will consist of an operations board representing Lane county. Ci vilian volunteers will be sta tioned at vantage points through out the county and. on spotting planes, will phone the information to the filter center. Here it will be filtered” to ascertain the number, type, direction, and al titude of the planes. US army planes will be sent out from Portland to be “detected." Information received in Eugene will be phoned to Portland and the operations officer there will send out combat planes of notify anti-aircraft batteries. Soph Bears (Continued from page one) Sheriff Jim Burness and his posse will mete out suitable punishment to offenders after that date. Committee chairmen for the dance met Wednesday to discuss plans, and announced that the theme and surprise features of the dance would be revealed in the near future. Homecoming (Continued from page two) will begin next week. Jim Banks will handle mail promotion for the fete and Chuck Boice will handle radio publicity. Both are juniors in journalism. Mary Jane Dunn, sophomore in arts and letters, was appointed as secretary to Hoyt. _ Yet to be announced are the heads of the Homecoming dance committee and the state public ity committee. These positions and members of the various com mittees will be filled Monday and probably announced in Tuesday's Emerald. £x6 PHOTOS i /N3£Mr/FUC OSH > "C0LVTQOE Ft/V/SH ALL COMPLETE ~ 2F0R^°'° HAVE THAT CHRISTMAS PHOTO TAKEN NOW! BISHOP Studios ICO E. 11th Ave. Eugene fynxun the Pulpit By ELSIE BROWNELL Christian Science The lesson sermon topic for 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. services at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, will be “Doctrine of Atonement.” Sunday school will be held at 9:30 and the Wednesday evening testimonial meeting at 8. Catholic Mass will be held at the St. Mary’s Catholic church at 6:45, 8, 9:30, and 10:30 Sunday morn ing. The Newman club will meet at 2:30 in the YMCA hut. Baptist First Baptist church will start its University Sunday school at 9:45 and the worship hour at 11 a.m. Dr. Vance H. Webster, pas tor will speak on “The Battle of the Jungle.” At 5:45 the young people will meet for their prayer meeting in the men’s classroom and at 6:15 the University, high school, and junior high school BYPU will hold a joint meeting in the chapel. Rev. J. J. Rey of Junction City will show slides on his work in the American Sunday school union. Dr. Webster will speak on “Who Is Jesus Christ” at the 7:30 service. Congregational Professor J. L. Casteel will conduct the adult class of the 9:45 Sunday school at the Congrega tional church. The 11 o'clock worship will be on the “Third Commandment.” The youth wor ship program is scheduled for 6:45 and will be followed by a discussion conducted* by Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Kossack, advisers of the Plymouth club. First Christian E. F. Leake, pastor at Hood River, will conduct the 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. rally services at the First Christian church. Bible school will start at 9:45 and Christian Endeavor at 6:15. “It Isn’t True" will be the topic of the morning worship service at the Presbyterian church Sun day. The church is observing fam ily Sunday and parents and chil dren are to sit together. The morning anthem will be “Build Thee More Stately Mansions.” At 6 p.m. the young people are to meet in the chapel and have as their topic, “Meeting our Com munity’s Needs.” The evening Notre Dame now has a flying field near its stadium. *1075 EVERSHARp"] #■/%* Skyline Pen 1 ® vA and Repeater Pencil both GUARANTEED , FOREVER. Two-tone *triped j » caps—harmonizing solid col- i or barrels. Gift case. ON CREDIT itNoEitriCost^ i 1 Defense tax on Pencil Onlv gospel service begins at 7:30 and will be on “The Greatest Work in the World.” Westminster House The regular morning service at Westminster house has been can celed but J. D. Bryant will lead the evening service at 6:30. Methodist The First Methodist church will have as its speaker for the morning service next Sunday, 11 o’clock, Dr. Paul B. Means, new professor of religion at the University. His subject will be “Why Missions.” Dr. Means was for a number of years a mission ary in the Far East and will base his lecture on his own experience. Wesley foundation will meet at the Methodist church fon^a symposium led by Lorene Mar guth this Sunday at 5:30. The theme of the discussion will be “Religion on the Campus.” Ra mona Jones will lead the worship service. Preceding this meeting a social tea will be held at 5. Lutherans Lutheran students will meet at the YWCA bungalow Sunday at 2:45 p.m. to go to the Oregon State campus. They will tour the OSC campus at 4, followed at 5:30 by a fellowship conference in the memorial union. Topic of the conference will be “Witness ing for Christ in Our Social Li?sn>’ 5 “GREATEST ?’s OF RELIGION” Sunday Evening at 7 :30 Oet. 19—“Who Is Jesus Christ” 11 a.m.—“The Battle of the Jungle” FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Dr. V. H. Webster Broadway at High ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 13tli and Pearl Sunday Services—8 and 11 Student Vespers—6-6:30 Student Canterbury Club—6:30 Wednesday—7 a.m., Communion, Gerlinger Hall Rev. E. S. Bartlam, Rector Phone 4606 or 4808 Miss Caroline Hines, Student Adviser Ph. 4605-J or 4808 Dinner-Dancing with Art Holman /# and His Orchestra It Brings You Fun and Relaxation” EUGENE HOTEL DINIltG ROOM AND COFFEE SHOP Serv Yur Self Laundry PLEASE DAD SAVE MONEY for That all important social affair have your laundry done at the SERV-YUR SELF LAUNDRY. Shirts finished, 12c Phono 2S73-W 1253y2 Pearl