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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1941)
EDITS: Dr. Erb#s First Four Years SPORTS: Ducks Gird For WSC Cats VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1941 NUMBER 27 They're Out to "Blitz the Beavers" wo.u. cu.u.ng committee cnairmen are working now to make the 1942 alumni fete, to be held No vember 28, 29, and 30, a statewide attraction for all Oregon alums. Front row, from left are, George Arbuckle, Maxine Hansen, Janet Farnham, Keid Farrell, Jean Frideger, Mary Jane Dunn, Don Walker and Russ Hudson, general chairman. Rear row, M irvin Gorrie, Gerald Huestis, Bob Whietly, Jim Banks, Ep Hoyt, Ray Packouz, Bob Ballard, and Herb Penny. (Courtesy the Oregonian) Jlujltti Out.... Student Cooperation In Blackout Slated By TED GOODWIN Advanced ROTC students, and campus organizations, will play a large part in tonight’s blackout. Acting both as reserve police and as filter center operators, junior and senior ROTC students have volunteered their services in aiding local author ities during the simulated air raid. The campus infirmary will make available the full extent of its facilities, Dr. Fred N. Miller, head of the health service, said. All the doctors will report for duty one hour before tho alarm and the infirmary will remain open for an hour after Senior Prexy Reveals New ClassOfficers Frank McKinney, senior in po litical science, is new vice-presi dent of the senior class, and Earl Holmer, senior in law, is new treasurer, Pat Lawson, class president, announced last night after interviews with the peti tioners. Appointments were made by Miss Lawson and Dorothy Jean Johnson, class secretary, in ac cordance with the senior class constitution. They considered the advice of the interviewing council, composed of Virgil D. Earl,”dean of men, James H. Gilbert, dean of the college of social science and senior class adviser, Miss Lawson, and Miss Johnson. Vacancies in senior class of fices were created when Bob CTiPrney, former president, and Mack Hand, former treasurer, were put on probation because of their spring grades. Miss Lawson automatically assumed the presi dency, but Miss Johnson, who could have moved to vice-presi dent, preferred to remain class secretary. BloCKGUt House dances will get started late. You cannot drive a car. If you try to light a cigarette, You won’t get very far. This business of a blackout ■^6 certainly a curse, But I s’pose were Hitler coming It would be a little' worse. —J.W.S. Grad Promoted Rudolph E. Hegdahl, Eugene, a former graduate assistant at the University and later coach at North Bend high school, now stationed at Hamilton field, Cali fornia, has been advanced in in fantry to the position of captain. This was announced Wednesday from Oregon military district headquarters in Portland. OSC Requests Major Return Oregon Sta.te college has decid ed to ask for return of their school of commerce, lost in 1932 in the same shuffle which took away Oregon’s recently returned upper-division science courses. University President Donald M. Erb was asked Thursday if he had any statement to make con cerning the OSv request. Dr. Erb replied, “No, I . e no state ment to make. This is a matter involving considerations of edu cational policy which should be left to the members of the state board of higher education for de cision. I have full confidence that members of the board will inves tigate the request with their usual care and reach a decision upon it based on educational merit.” Within a day after the state board of higher education had re stored major science work to the University, the OSC administra tive council unanimously ap proved a statement Wednesday declaring that since the board had “abandoned the principle of non duplication work in major fields,” commerce should be returned to Oregon State. This was seen by the council as “a first step toward the addi tion of major work needed to make Oregon State a more near (Please turn to page three) Friday Night Blackout Rules for City Listed I wish to call the attention of the students and faculty of the University to the official notice regarding the blackout Friday night, October 31. Let me again urge every member of the University community to observe both the letter and the spirit of this important defense demonstration. D. M. Erb Official blackout rules follow: 1. Warning of impending blackout will be sounded upon the sighting of bombing planes by outpost observers. Exact time indefinite. About 9 p.m., Friday, October 31. 2. Air raid warning will be by means of whistles sounded throug’hout Eugene. 3. Each resident is asked personally to see that no light is visible from outside. 4. Light no matches during blackout period of approximately 15 minutes. 5. During blackout dr> not cross streets. Remain where you are. 6. Please obey promptly any instructions given by air raid wardens, firemen, or policemen in your neighborhood. 7. Autoists—at sound of warning, drive immediately to curb, step, and turn off lights. Do not attempt to operate car with lights off. Do not stop on bridge or street intersections nor at exits to buildings. Do not block fire plugs. Do not double park. 8. One blast of whistles and signalling devices will indicate the end of the test. Street and all other lights then will be turned on. “It is the purpose of all concerned to make it a voluntary civic and patriotic undertaking and the public is urged to completely and fully cooperate with the army and civilian force's on such a basis,” Herschel R. Taylor, chairman of the protective division, Lane county defense council, said. Richter Visits UO Louis E. Richter, who taught Spanish last year in the Univer sity as a graduate assistant in Romance languages, will be on the campus this weekend for a visit. Mr. Richter has been teaching Spanish in the army airbase at Pendleton, Oregon. QoLHert A'p.'fietiteA Decision increases Dormitory Rates Next Term Dormitory rates will be raised $3 per month beginning winter tern1., J. O. Lindstrom, university business manager announced Thursday. The in crease, which will bring the monthly rate for board to $*26 per student, will be necessary because of advancing food costs and higher wages paid to employees, he declared. The decision was made after a survey of price indices and food costs was completed by a com mittee appointed by Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter. Since the dormitories are self-sustaining and not operated out of state funds, the increase is neces sary to balance income and expenditures, Mr. Lind strcm stated. The increase in wage rates from 30 to 3.5 cents per hour for student help in the dining rcoms will increase the per student cost 67 cents a month. The bureau of labor statistics index for whole sale food prices stood at 90.5 for September 1941. On the basis of this index food costs for 537 stu dents housed in dormitories will increase $8,635.65 for the present school year, or a total of $‘2.11 per student per month. Each point rise in the index will increase the student cost 15 cents per month and it is antici pated that the index may reach 100 before the end of tlie school year. Priorities Fooled By Fractional Man “Let’s see," mused Wes Sulli van, president of Campbell club, “9 goes into 150 16 and two-thirds times. Sixteen and two-thirds men have to go downtown and buy 9 yards each of drapery ma terial.” Campbell club’s problem in higher mathematics was created when it was learned that, owing to national defense, OPM, priori ties boards, and a bottleneck in the textile manufacturing indus try. only 9 yards of the material members wanted for new drap eries for their living room could be purchased by a single individ ual. And their house dance to night made it imperative that they have new draperies. With usual Oregon keenness and perspicacity Campbell club solved its problem, but still un solved is the question of what the two-thirds of a man will do at the house dance. the an clear. The health service will be available not only to students but to anyone in the University neighborhood. Extra nurses will be on duty and rooms will be pro vided with adequate light con cealment for emergency use. Care Urged Dr. Miller urges students to take all possible care to avoid ac cidents and requests that students refrain from asking for medical attention that can wait till morn ing. Insofar as possible, he added, emergency cases should be taken to the hospital. He asked stu dents not to call doctors away from their posts. The Eugene blackout is part of a series of maneuvers including all of northwestern Oregon-. The purposes are tWo-folci: 1. To pro vide an official test of U. S. army air combat and interceptor forc es. 2. To officially test the civilian defenses in this area. ROTC Called A staff of ROTC officers will be stationed in groups of two at points on the campus to sec that no University property is dam aged. These officers will be re sponsible to see that citizens in. their immediate area observe blackout rules. They will be iden tified by white arm bands and cards. They will be prepared to report violators of blackout regu lations and to answer questions, warn individuals about turning out lights, and safeguard life and property. The students working at the filter center in the downtown armory will be filtering informa tion as it is phoned in by lookouts stationed in the Lane county fil ter district. As a plane is detect ed, the information will be phoned to the armory where it will be filtered and transmitted to the operations commander in Port land. From Portland, planes will be sent out to engage the “ene-* my” aircraft. Canada Knows Of SDK Queen From Eugene, Oregon, to Win nipeg, Manitoba, is a long way, but the fame of Dottie Havens, Sigma Delta Chi’s "perfect type,” is a thing that transcends time and space. SDX officers received a letter Thursday from Jame K. Duff, a student at the University of Man itoba in Winnipeg, asking for a picture of Miss Havens. Duff explained that he had seen her picture in the Winnipeg Free Press, which had carried it fol lowing her election as the "per fect type.” He added that "I be lieve that, somewhere in my tra vels in that direction, I have met Miss Havens.”