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Are Plenty Husky
VOLUME XLIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1942
NUMBER 53
UO Defense Plans Boom
Bacot Plans Extra Group
For New A Fairs Forums
THREE BELLS AND ALL'S WELL
'—Photo by Kay Sohriek
All may be well, but it’s still plenty cold in the air tower atop
the libe as the wee small morning hours roll around. Don Ellingson,
left, and Clinton Childs are two of many guards who give their
time to keep the watch for nearby planes, friend or foe. Their story
of the “night watch’’ as told to Emerald reporters at 3 a.m. yesterday
is reported below.
Three BellsandAllls_
Well What’s Going On
^ By JACK BILLINGS
“Don’t shoot! Our eyes aren’t slanted, oee?”
There they cowered, close against the outside wall of an elevator
shaft, in the glare of a flashlight, the managing editor with a speed
graphic grasped in a shaking fist, the reporter with a small notebook
clenched between chattering teeth. Each was pointing to his occi
dental^ arched optics.
But that’s almost the end of the story. Let’s start at the begin
BALL HEAD
Emerson Page is newly-ap
pointed chairman of the annual
Senior Ball. The ball, scheduled
for McArthur court January 31,
will be the first all-campus for
mal of the year. Page was ap
pointed Tuesday by Pat Lawson,
senior class president.
^Two New Pledges
Gregory Olney was pledged by
Phi Sigma Kappa and Robert A.
Johnson by Delta Upsilon, re
ported the dean of men’s office.
ning.
Once there was a photographer
with ideas and a reporter who
thought he liked excitement. One
night, after the paper was all put
to bed and tucked in, the photog
rapher decided he wanted to get
some pictures of a real live ob
servation post. The nearest one
appeared to be on top of the
University library.
Adventure Beckons
But of course the photographer
and reporter couldn’t just walk
up and say, “Hold it, boys’’ and
shoot_ the pictures. That was too
easy. They had to do it the hard
way. They had to sneak up and
“shoot ’em’’ when they weren’t
looking.
So, at 2:30 a.m. they kissed the
pressman good night and set off
through the street-lightless fog
to blaze new trails. Two-forty
five found them at the rear of
the library, barking shins and
things, looking for the fire es
cape leading to the roof. With
the speed graphic loaded, primed
and cocked, the photographer led
the way up a shaky step ladder
which made dubious connection
with the fire escape.
Remembering that two hands
were better than one the report
er mouthed his notebook and as
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Faculty Men
To Augment
Discussions
Plans are under way for a
series of study groups to supple
ment the recently announced cur
rent affairs forums, Dan Bacot,
executive secretary of the forums
and of the campus YMCA, re
vealed last night.
The study groups will meet
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes
day, following the forums. Group
members will discuss material of
fered in the forums, and faculty
members will offer additional
ideas. Stenographic reports of the
forums will be made by Janet
Wagstaff and Mary Peck, and
study group members will base
their discussions on the steno
graphic reports, Bacot said. Study
groups will meet in the YMCA
hut.
An experimental forum will
take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday
in 207 Chapman. Topic will be
“The World We Want Tomor
row.”
Plan Erb Talk
It is planned to secure Univer
sity President Donald M. Erb tc
speak on “Education and Peace”
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Petition Date Looms
In ASUO Job Offer
Would-be secretaries of the
ASUO must have their peti
tions submitted to the educa
tional activities office in Mc
Arthur court before 5 p.m.
today, according to Lou Tor
geson, ASUO president.
Candidates for the position
will be interviewed by the ex
ecutive committee at 4 p.m.
Thursday, Torgeson said.
A vacancy in the committee
was created when Bette Mor
fitt, elected secretary-treasur
er last spring, was graduated
at the end of fall term.
• NAMED BY F.D.R.
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President Roosevelt Monday
named Dean Wayne L. Morse as
a member of a 12-man war labor
board to adjust labor disputes
for the duration of the war emer
gency. Dean Morse is now in San
Francisco carrying out duties in
connection with his position as
Pacific coast maritime labor
mediator.
Dean Morse
Gains Post
Wayne L. Morse, dean of the
law school, was yesterday ap
pointed to a 12-man war labor
board empowered with the au
thority to impose final arbitra
tion upon disputants in any la
bor - management controversies
that might interfere with contin
uous production of war materials.
The defense mediation board,
of which Dean Morse was a mem
ber, was displaced by executive
order creating the new board. It
will absorb all the functions of
the old board and most of its
members.
Makes Own Rules
If necessary, the board may
use mediation, voluntary arbi
tration. or arbitration under its
own rules to effect a settlement.
However, the executive order pro
vided a procedure for settling
disputes that might interrupt vi
tal war industry work
1. The parties at issue shall
resort first to “direct negotia
tions or to the procedures pro
vided in a collective bargaining
agreement.”
2. Failing to achieve settlement
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Campus Split
Into Eight
Raid Areas
Plans for defense of the Uni
versity of Oregon campus have
now been nearly cofnpleted, ac
cording to Dr. Earl M. Pallett,
executive secretary.
Dr. Pallett, who was recently
appointed air raid warden for the
campus by the Lane county de
fense council, reported Monday
that the campus had been divid
ed into eight defense districts.
Two assistant air raid wardenn
have been appointed to be respon
sible for each district in time oi
air raid.
District A, which includes the
University press, health service,
pool, heating plant, and exten
sion building, will be under the
direction of Robert C. Hall, as
sociate professor of journalism
and supervisor of the press, and
Harry T. Shea, supervisor of the
men’s swimming pool.
Districts Lasted
District B. including the art.
and architecture building, Mc
Clure, journalism, Friendly, Vil
lard and Deady, will be handled
by Dr. Charles Secoy, instructo -
in chemistry, and Dr. Henry W.
Schoenborn, instructor in zoology.
District C, which will include
Fenton, commerce, Oregon, tho
YMCA and the YWCA buildings,
is under the supeiwision of Dr.
Daniel Gage, associate professor
of business administration, and
Dr. Waldo Schumacher, professor
of political science.
District D. taking in the area
from Condon and Chapman to tho
art museum and library, is to bo
directed by Willis Warren, execu
tive assistant to the librarian,
and James C. Stovall, instructor
in geology.
Cleric Becomes Warden
District E, to be captained by
Dr. Paul B. Means, head of tho
department of religion, and Clif
ford Stalsberg, University cash
ier, will include Johnson, the fac
ulty club, the drama studio, Hen
dricks and Mary Spiller hall, Su
san Campbell, and Gerlinger.
District F. covering the men's
dormitory, the news bureau, sev
eral small buildings and the ten
nis courts, will be supervised by
Dr. Kenneth S. Ghent, assistant
professor of mathematics—a-riffr
Lawrence E. Hartwig, assistant
professor of law:
District G, which includes tho
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Navy Clarifies Officer Traning Plans
Clarification of the require
ments for students at the Univer
sity who wish to enlist in the na
val reserve has been received
here by Dr. Howard R. Taylor,
head of the psychology depart
ment.
In order to qualify for enlist
ment, students must be native
born, unmarried citizens of the
United States and not under 19
or over 28 years of age on the
date of enlistment. They must
also meet the physical require
ments set up by the navy for all
classes of the rank of ensign.
Upper classmen Pri vile go ci
College juniors and seniors reg
ularly enrolled may be enlisted
prior to graduation provided they
submit a certificate from the
registrar of the school attended
that upon graduation they will
have the educational qualifica
tions required.
Enlisted students will then be
continued on inactive duty until
they have completed the work for
their college degree.
The educational qualifications
required by the navy are that
students upon graduation have
one of the following degrees:
bachelor of arts, science, educa
tion, philosophy, business admin
istration, commercial science,
journalism, laws, or any engin
cerning degree. They must also
submit a certified transcript of
their college record which must
include at least two one-semes
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