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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1941)
Nationally Recognized Oregon Alumna Returns When a nationally recognized Oregon alumna returns, she is kept so busy that ordinary question and answer interviewing is out, as the visit Monday of Miss Vivien Kellems, class of 1918, proved. Miss Kellems is said to be the only woman manufacturer of elec trical equipment in the world. She is founder and president of the Kellems Products company which manufactures cable grips. She applied the principle of the woven straw tube whose grip becomes stronger according to the pull of the object being held to the elec tric cable and developed an indus try which is reportedly making her over $50,000 a year. Grips Used grips were used to pull 1,500,000 feet of one-fourth inch wire through electric conduits of the Chrysler building, when it was recently rewired. They are now being adapted to many needs of defense, being used on mine sweepers and battleships. She recently adapted the ap pliance for household use, doing the experimenting herself in her own modernized kitchen in West port, Connecticut. There she uses varying sizes to hold brooms and other utensils. Outstanding Woman Although this celebrated Ore £6„n graduate is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and was honored as the outstanding woman in indus try by the National Association of Manufacturers, she is definite ly feminine. She was selected one of 13 best dressed women in pub lic life by the Fashion academy. Miss Kellems spoke informally to the University house mothers as they sewed for Bundles for Britain Monday afternoon, relat ing with vim and humor the his tory of her business and the prob lems it is now facing because of defense work. ^ Defense Difficulties “Defense,” she said, “has brought us many-,difficulties. Not only has securing material be come hard, but we have had to do many things we once thought impossible in connection with fill ing defense orders.” She related how her older bro ther invented the gadget but thought it useless for marketing, and how she marketed it thus starting the business which is now fourteen years old. “Before that.” she added, “I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a. cable, let alone a cable gripper. I thought you just pushed a switch and the lights went on.” Bottle Cover “A man phoned one day asking if we could make a covering for a bottle,” she said telling about one of the company’s most un usual jobs. “I thought it a friend playing a joke so asked, ‘Do you have the bottte?’ When he said he did, I said we could do any thing, so he brought the bottle. It turned out to be a huge cham pagne bottle about two feet high and correspondingly wide. They wanted a covering for it because it was to be used to christen a new train, and were afraid the shattering would injure bystand ers. We made a jacket for it, and that was the story behind the first run of the Orange Blossom Special. I think they filled the bottle with ginger ale.” Miss Kellems is small for a business magnate, being five feet two in height. She has blue gray eyes and light brown hair. She wore a simple black dress, a black toque with a tassel, and a red jacket. She carried a silver fox scarf. The only jewelry she wore was a large sapphire ring and a sapphire necklace. Newshawks Meet Emerald beat reporters and special writers will meet at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Emerald news rooms, Bob Frazier, news editor, announced Thursday. Persons un able to attend the meeting should see Frazier at once, he said. Copy-desk workers, under Man aging Editor Ray Schrick, met in the news room last night for a brief business meeting. KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING BUT Do it right by making your home especially warm and comfortable with auxiliary electric heat and a good lighting system. Municipal Electric and Water Utilities Dr. Earl Pallett Attends Registrar Conference Dr. Earl M. Pallett, University registrar, returned Wednesday from the sixteenth annual confer ence of the Pacific Coast Associa tion of Collegiate Registrars. He was accompanied by Clifford L. Constance, assistant registrar. There were over 100 represen tatives at the conference, in formed Mr. Pallett. Mr. Con stance, who was treasurer of the organization last year, led a dis cussion group called the “Regis trar's Workshop." During the conference repre sentatives from Oregon, Wash ington, Nevada, California, and Idaho compared notes on athletic eligibility rules. “It was one of the finest of all the conferences I’ve attended," said Dr. Pallett. “There were some excellent papers presented on crediting, vocational educa tion, and other problems of the registrar." At UO Art School Mrs. Mabel A. Houck, secretary and librarian of the architecture and allied arts school, says she will soon have to start a lost and found department for the art school if students there continue to lose things as they have in the last few weeks. At present Mrs. Houck has in her office one cigarette case, one fountain pen, two rings, two fountain pen tops, one coin purse, one man’s jacket, a small sum of money, and one pair of pigskin gloves, all waiting for owners to claim them. If these things are not called for at the art school library with in the next two days they will be taken to tlfe University depot lost and found department. Lost Goods Visual Education Begun By Extension Division Audio-visual aids in education is the new extension course being offered in Albany, the general extension department announces. Dr. L. F .Beck, professor of psy chology, is the instructor, assist ed by A. E. Palmer of Albany. In St. Helens fundamentals of public speaking is being offered. This course is under the super vision of H. L. Keats Jr., staff member of the Portland exten sion center. Chamberlin Punctures (Continued from page one) Soviet union, two and one-half times larger than the United States, thirty times larger than Nazi-conquered France, "simply cannot be knocked out by blitz krieg attacks.’’ Bern Sellin, who played a vio lin solo, "Perpetual Motion,” by Carl Bohm, was accompanied by Phyllis Grey. Fire Marshal (Continued from page one) Meanwhile, living organizations are staging general cleanups and removal of obvious hazards. More attention is being given to monthly fire drills, and students as a whole have been made aware of the importance of the coming inspection. In several instances, fire drills are being carried out under realistic conditions, with smoke bombs being set off a few minutes before the drill. Houses are organizing individ ual members into definite groups of fire wardens, and new extin guishers have been ordered, or old ones refilled. August 31 was the date of the wedding of Arne G. Rae, ’22, to Miss Peggy Maguire, Chicago, 111. Mr. Rae is assistant profes sor of journalism at the Univer sity of Illinois. Oregon ^Emerald Thursday Office Staff: Betty Schalock Suzie Mack Kathryn Dunn Lois Clause Millicent Besson Winifred Wallace Betty Ann Stevens Norma Trevarrow Friday Advertising; Staff: Anita Simons, manager Walt Dickinson Sid Lakefish Barbara Thompson Betty Currell Copy Desk Staff: Herb Penny, city editor John Mathews Edith Newton Betty Ann Stevens Carol Greening Margie Robinson Joanne Dolph Kay Davis Winifred Wallace Night Staff: Duncan Wimpress, night editor Marilyn Wiley, assistant Dick Shelton Eldon Wolf Jim Watson Betty Isaac Janet Wagstaff Ted Bush Virginia Steele CanuxuA' Gale-tuba/i Yeomen initiation is set for to night at 7:30 in the YMCA house. Orides members and indepen dent women may get their Coed Capers tickets today in the lower floor of Gerlinger hall. Libe Hours Shifted By Turkey Day Layoff Owing to Thanksgiving and vacation for University students, the library hours will undergo a change next week. Hours for the circulation, ref erence, and periodical depart ments follow: Wednesday, No vember 19, close at 6 p.m.; Thurs day, November 20, closed all day; Friday, November 21, open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, No vember 22, open from 9 a.m. to 6 p. m.; Sunday, November 23. open from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. The reserve department will close at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Fri day, and Saturday. They will open from 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday, and will be closed all day Thurs day. FIlltHLV I SMOKING GENUINE FILTERS FOR MEDICO PIPES ;] PACKED ONLY IN THIS RED S BLACK BOX HI ■ m_■ t_ boBaTTieriiierwnm-cooissmgRc, iiujis juiuo», uan«,* and nicotine in pipes, cigarette and cigar holders. BY CAM BUY LOW TRAIN PARES for THANKSGIVING ON SALE WED. NOV. 19 PORTLAND $J#75 ROUNDTRIP (Plus 14c Federal Tax, Total $2.89) Lv. Eugene 12:15 P.M. or 4:15 P.M* Wednesday, November 19. RETURNING Special train leaves Portland, Sunday, November 23 at 6:30 P.M. SPECIAL PARTY FARES For parties of 15 or more traveling together. COACH SAN FRANCISCO . . . $13.80 LOS ANGELES. 22.30 KLAMATH FALLS . . . 5.05 (Federal Tax of 5% not included) TOURIST (Plus Berth) $15.50 25.05 5.65 OREGOH vs. WASHINGTON at Seattle, Nov. 22 Special low fares for 15 or more traveling together on train leaving Eugene 5:10 P.M. Friday, Nov. 21 ROUNDTRIP SEATTLE COACH *6«7S COACH-TOURIST (Plus Berth) *9«S5 (Federal tax of 5% not included) Tickets and Information at Booth on 13th Street, between Oregon and Commerce Bldgs., or phone 2200. ^ Sponsored by ASSOCIATED STUDENTS* UNIVERSITY OF OREGON --———————