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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1942)
Junk Needed For Defense AH students interested in clean ing up their houses of excess rub bled or in making: a little extra moaey, can contribute to defense by putting their faculties to work co cerning the following notice: Old cars, outmoded and out worn vehicles, old twisted pieces of metal are urgently needed by the nation. Surprising as it may seen. 10 “crates” or jaloppies can furnish enough metal to build a tank, and this national need provides an excellent opportunity foe getting rid of cars that are too old to use or sell. Judd Stauffer, head of the Lane county salvage committee which baa started the work of collecting ite ms of war usability from this area, has appealed to everyone to start looking for any such vital material. Those who may have old “Crates” to sell will receive 57.60 a ton for the metal. Price control wit. prevent all junk dealers from making more than a 10 per cent profit on such transactions, Stauf fer said. For those who would like to “spring clean” their houses, the salvage committee has declared that it wants to collect bundles of newspapers and magazines, rag ;, rubber, metals, and dyes. The exact steps to be taken in these collections will be an nounced soon. This is a fine chance for stu dents to contribute some material good to national defense and a general campus drive would probably reap surprising results. Kiitson Trip Gone; iMeniories Linger On By FRANZ KIBLEB 'Die sleepy expressions and poi SOW. oak of those students who went to Kitson Springs on the Westminster conference last weekend are gone, but the mem ories remain. 'movies include: toasted marshmallows, hot dogs, singing, holding hands before the fire, hikes and fishing (is the season open? i, discussions led by Dr, C '.‘well, a firelit group of earn est faces, a boy and girl in se rious conversation, talks by Dr. Means, Jim Bryant, and the old a ad new student officers. K b'ania Picnic Slated ICwamas are to attend an all day picnic Saturday, May 2, ac cording to F.ohda Harkson, presi dent of the sophomore women's honorary. The picnic is for all K, imas now oil the campus, in cluding old members of the or p,.-. • ’.ation, i flir. Townsend Talks Or. H, G. Townsend, head of t philosophy department, par t jutted in the forum discussion of I Mi Del’n Phi. legal fraternity. Id may night at 7:30 in the AVYS room, Geriiuger hall. I.. subject was "Knowing and r • .g, 'JI >> > \\ omen Leave Maureen Conklin and Jean Mc Mu: can. members of Canterbury cloh, left the campus Thursday jugtil for Berkeley where they wiU attend an Episcopal voea t ml conference for women stu det'., ^ ii<>lini>ls in Recital v 'rue Selim and Helen Horner, v.*iousts, will be presented in a i "*ial on Thursday, May 7. Hex T id >rwood. professor of music a s 'on need. .? sie Hoogasian, sophomore at V/iij-ne university, has recorded 310 (ales and other bits of folk hire belonging to Armenia’s past. Apply Now Applications for coat check manager and head usher for concerts should be turned in by Saturday, April 25. Major Jost Gets Army Promotion Major Charles E. Jost, Uni versity of Oregon graduate, has been promoted from captain at the army air base at Perrin field, Texas. He is on duty as post tech nical inspector there. Major Jost, who played three years of varsity basketball while he was here and was a member of Delta Tau Delta, was first commissioned in the infantry in 1925, but did not remain in the army. After spending two years with the Union Oil Company of California, he returned to the University as assistant basket ball coach for the 1928-29 season. On leaving his coaching position here.he went to March field, Cali fornia, for his primary flight training and was graduated from the advanced school at Kelly, Texas, in 1930. Speech Students Travel North Three speech students, Lois Bechdolt, Elva Jane South, and Betty Lee Stuart, completed a speech tour to the University of Washington and the College of Victoria last week. The group which left Wednes day, conducted two symposiums on the topic, “Youth in a Post War World,” in Seattle Thursday. They were entertained at lunch by the University of Washing ton’s women symposium club. Friday evening the group spoke at the College of Victoria. Miss Stuart took the political side. Miss Bechdoldt the economic side, and Miss South summarized the discussion. Bars at Random Better news for drab clad lads "a" forthcoming this week, when gratic music for army camps was decreed by Napoleonic Petrillo in a declaration to all union bauds, allowing- jazz for nil. Confusing news for followers of swing was the slightly press-agented per sonnel switch within several Man hattan orchestras. From Ted Weems for larger pay went old timer guitarist Allen Ruess, to equal oldster Jimmy Dorsey. Re cruited hastily to fill a rhythm gap in Weems’ band was former Savitt boxist Danny Perri. To shuffling Jan went ex-Shaw, Chester man, Mike Bryan; to Chester nobody. Dorm Head Leaves Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, di rector of dormitories, left for Olympia, Washington, Friday to attend a district conference qf Zonta, international service or ganization for administrative women. Dorm Meals Reset Dorm students will return to their regular 6 o’clock evening meal hour next Monday, it was decided at tire regular meeting of the dorm food committee Thurs day. "Sleep late, and, let the Mer cury Book service return your overnight reserve books to any carapus library before 9 a.m." That is the appeal being made by two enterprising Brown uni versity students who are setting up a book-returning service for a price, of course. The entrepreneurs. Vincent J. Luca and William P. Saunders, figure that many students would rather pay a nickel to be sure their books are returned and sleep. Quicksilver Contest Open Students of the University of Oregon and Oregon State col lege may still enter the contest sponsored by the Oregon section, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Prizes of $25 each are offered for the best papers in the fields of chemistry, geology and phys ics as related to quicksilver. The prizes are furnished by Horse Heaven Mines, Inc., one of the world's largest producers of quicksilver. Subjects The papers shall be in direct relationship to quicksilver. This can include all subjects and top ics relating to quicksilver. Papers shall be typewritten, double spaced, not less than 2000 words or more than 4000 words in length. Papers winning regional prizes will be submitted to the national contest where there is an oppor tunity to win one of three $100 cash prizes for undergraduate stu dents. To be entered in the na tional contest the papers must have illustrations suitable for re production. Deadline Papers must be submitted to Dr. Ira S. Allison, Education hall, Corvallis, Oregon, on or before April 20, 1942. HE CANT BUT YOU CAN ^ os, for tho remainder of tile term you ran cot a subscription to the Em erald for 75c tin* whole rest of sprinp term. Oregon ^Emerald Ii Co-ops Discuss Merger Plans Reasons for the recent rejection of amalgamation plans by the coed cooperative houses were dis cussed at a special meeting of house officers of men’s and co eds’ houses, April 16. Cooperative buying between the two groups and the possibility of hiring a joint manager to handle all buying and general managing of the houses were alternative suggestions made at the meeting. The question of amalgamation will not be brought )up again this year, it is expected. William Carlisle Dies in Eugene By PATRICK OVERLAND William S. Carlisle, former University of Oregon student, died in Eugene Monday after a long illness. He graduated from Eugene high school in 1938 and attended the University the fol lowing year. He was born in Dick enson, North Dakota. January 1, 1920. He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Carlisle; two sisters, Joy of Portland, Phyllis of Eugene, and a grandfather in Birming ham, Alabama. Funeral service is set for April 15 in Branstetter Sirnon chapel at 10:30 a.m. Give the folks a chance to see what YOUR daily Emerald looks like. For the rest of the term you can subscribe to the Emerald for 75c Phone 3300 Ext 354 Drop in at the office or give us a call Remember, only 7f*e, -mol nil other details taken care of. Oregon ^Emerald i-1 Library Gets Historic Pix" A new addition to the Oregon historical records survey, now on display at the library, is a part of the Angelus studio collection of historic photographs that is being unpacked at the University library. The pictures will be in cluded in the Oregon record room survey which the University is sponsoring. Dr. Dan E. Clark, head of the history department, who represents the sponsor on re search and education, has author ized the library’s keeninp photographs. The pictures, 598 in all, include subjects on agriculture, amuse ments, bridges, buildings, cities, domestic articles, and imple ments, Indians, industry, memo rials, naval vessels, persons, scen ic views, and transportation, all taken of Oregon. All the pic tures were selected from 10,000 negatives in the original collec tion. According to M. H. Douglass, librarian, some of the photo graphs will be on display dur ing the Library days, May 2 and 3. After that they will be placed in a vertical file in he Oreg<yj„ room for public inspection. A university of Oregon “athlet ic honor roll” shows more than 100 former Webfoot athletes now in the armed service of their country. ? it Your dad won't be like this. And neither will your boy friend in the service. * You can keep them informed and up to date by sending them the Emerald for the rest of the school 75c Uregdn'®'Emerald II