Defense Workers Sought...
Dean Onthank Issues
Call for Student Help
Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel administration, announced
Monday that he was looking for men and women on the campus who
have special qualifications for University defense work. Several hun
dred students registered at the special table for this purpose in Mc
Arthur court Monday.
The personnel office is using regular state blanks for this pur
pose. These will be compiled and segregated into different types of
Athletic Card
Sales Reach
All-Time High
Athletic cards admitting stu
dents to $14.75 worth of sports
events during the next two terms
went on sale again yesterday at
registration for $6, plus the ten
per cent sales tax.
The tempting array of basket
ball games, baseball games, ten
nis, swimming, and track meets,
combined to up the total sales to
an all-time high of nearly 2800.
The tickets may be purchased
during the remainder of the week
on the second floor of Johnson
hall. Cards may be purchased in
one payment or on the install
men plan, four dollars now and
two dollars spring term.
An intensive drive is planned
for later in the week, to be car
ried on by house representatives.
Exact dates will be announced by
Harry Prongas, chairman of
the card drive.
Music School
To Give Opera
Paul Valti, American lyric-dra
matic tenor of the San Francisco
Opera company, has been chosen
by Sigurd Nilssen, professor of
voice, for the part of Turridu,
tenor lead, in the production of
the opera “Cavaireria Rusticana”
to be given by the music school
in the spring.
The other leads, all University
music students, are: Margaret
Zimmerman, Santuzza; Lolita
Pierson, Lola; Beth Siewert, Ma
ma Lucia: Ray Leonard, Alfio.
Dr. Theodore Kratt, dean of the
onusic school, will conduct the or
chestra.
Persons interested in singing
in the chorus, especially tenors
and basses who can read music
are invited to see Mr. Nilssen in
the music building. A larger cho
rus than the one now rehearsang
is needed to produce the opera.
Cornish Contributes
To Oregon Magazine
Two of a series of articles by
Professor N. H. Cornish of the
school of business administration
have been published in the Ore
gon Merchants magazine.
Carrying the titles, “The Sig
nificance of Returns and Ex
changes” and “A Reduction of
Returns and Exchanges Through
Better Salesmanship,” the arti
cles are based on information
gained in surveys of retail stores
in Oregon by Professor Cornish’s
research Btudents.
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Dean Onthank Head
This work is being coordinated
by Dean Onthank, acting as stu
dent personnel head of the newly
formed University defense coun
cil. It will be his job to fill up
the ranks of the already formed
skeleton crew of faculty members
in the new council.
He needs especially men and
women qualified in first aid work,
especially those with certificates
from the oyB Scouts, Red Cross,
or other such organizations;
those with life-saving training;
radio operators, preferably with
amateur licenses; those who have
had fire-fighting experience,
such as is given in the civilian
conservation corps; those with po
lice experience; men or women
switchboard operators, repair
men, installers, and linesmen; li
censed chauffeurs and experi
enced truck drivers; those with
extensive nursing or home-nurs
ing experience; and experienced
stenographers and typists.
Blanks Obtainable
On the available blanks, which
may be obtained in the dean of
men or the dean of women’s of
fice between 10 to 12 a.m. and
3 to 5 p.m., students will be asked
to show the extent of their ex
perience in their particular line.
“If each one has a job to do,’’
said Dean Onthank, “there will
be much less chance for panic
and hysteria in time of emer
gency.
Banquet to Fete
Football Squad
A banquet honoring the Univer
sity’s 1941 football squad will be
given Thursday night at 6:30 in
the Osburn hotel by the Eugene
chamber of commerce and Lane
county alumni association. Feat
ured entertainment of the eve
ning is to be a motion picture of
the Oregon-Washington game.
Originally planned for Decem
ber, the meeting was postponed
because of blackout. Carol Wil
liams, banquet committee chair
man, has expressed belief that
conditions now permit the affair
to be held with safety, and ex
pects a large attendance from
throughout the state. Harris
Ellsworth, editor of the Rose
burg News-Review and president
of the Oregon alumni association,
will preside.
Aviation Psychology
Offered in New Book
A volume of abstracts on avia
tion psychology was received re
cently by the psychology depart
ment, from the national research
council committee on the selec
tion and training of aircraft pi
lots.
The volume is now available
to anyone interested in the sub
ject, in the office of Dr. H. R.
Taylor, head of the psychology
department, in Condon hall, and
it may later be placed in the Uni
versity library.
Three Girls Pledge
Two sororities pledged three
girls the end of last term, accord
ing to the dean of women’s of
fice.
Alpha Delta Pi pledged Fran
ces Jeanne Villair and Lilas L.
Todd. Colleen Collins was pledged
hy Alpha Phi.
Pot and Quill will meet with
Sally Allen this evening at 7:30.
Those members, new or old, who
desire transportation should
meet outside the newspaper room
of the library at 7:25. Initiates
are requested to bring an original
manuscript to read.
Master Dance, special business
meeting Tuesday, 5 o’clock, sun
porch, Gerlinger.
Mu Phi Epsilon, national wo
men's music honorary, will hold
a business meeting at 7:30 to
night in Gerlinger hall.
The Christian Science organ
ization will meet tonight in Ger
linger.
German History Seen]
In New Library Book
A new book received at the
circulation department of the
University library is “The Ger
man’s Double History of a Na
tion” by Emil Ludwig.
This book devotes only a few
pages to Hitler and the rest to
the history of Germany. It is the
author’s purpose to explain the
causes and effects of deeds and
events in the German way.
Oregon Newspapermen
Oregon editors and publishers will convene on the %fliversity cam
pus Friday, January 9, in the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the
Oregon Press Conference.
Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Portland Oregonian and president
of the g#;up, will preside, and a number of University people will
take part, according to the program issued by George S. Turnbull,
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retary of the group.
Problems of special interest to
newspapermen are scheduled for
discussion with emphasis being
placed on the news in war time,
taxes, wages and hours, circula
tion and subscription prices, na
tional advertising, and the law of
the press are other topics.
C. L. Kelly, professor of busi
ness administration, will discuss
‘‘Taxes in War Time: What to
Figure on and How to Figure It”
Friday morning. Dr. Paul B.
Means, professor of religion who
spent 10 years in Malayasia and
3 in India, will explain ‘‘The Am
erican State in Southeastern
Asia” at the Friday luncheon.
Charles M. Hulten, assistant pro
fessor of journalism, will describe
‘‘Press Law: Oregon Develop
ments up to Date” Saturday
afternoon.
Charles M. Hulten will act as
toastmaster for the no-host
luncheon Saturday, and Eric W.
Allen, dean of the school of jour
nalism, will be toastmaster for
the annual banquet.
Ford Sammis of Los Angeles,
director of public relations of the
Pacific Coast Petroleum Industry,
will represent the Pacific Adver
tising association, addressing the
conference on “What to Expect
in National Advertising and How
to Handle It.” He will take the
place of Don Belding, president of
the advertising group, originally
scheduled to speak on the topic.
The broadcasting crew of the
senior editing class will present
a skit entitled “What We See in
the Oregon Papers.” Members of
the group are Mary Lois Dana,
Mimi O’Donnell, Charles Boice,
and Ted Harmon.
Governor Charles A Sprague,
Dr. Donald M. Erb, and other
notable authorities will also ad
dress the conference.
Robert E. Ballard, ’34, former
ly a postal clerk at McMinnville,
has been called to active duty
with the army.
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