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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1942)
U- OF ORE. P£GE 2: Gunpowder, Syrup, and Sugar Shortage PC PAGE 4: Diamond Squad Girds for Battle VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942 NUMBER 116 .......I.. —Photo bv Wes Sullivan HELEN JOHNSON AND ROY NELSON ... . . . associate editor and managing editor of the '43 Oregana. /Ul-/JmesiicG*t Sullivan Names Oreqana Staff Roy Nelson, freshman in journalism, was named managing editor of the 1943 Oregana, and Helen Johnson, sophomore in physical education, was named associate editor at the annual yearbook banquet last night at McCrady’s cafe. Wes Sullivan, 2%wly-elected editor, made the appointments. Nelson, assistant managing editor of this year’s book, will Future Flyers Meet Tonight Clarifying the new army air corps program which will enable college men to pledge service to Uncle Sam and still finish their education, Lt. Col, William A. Matheny, of the army air corps, will address a mass meeting of interested students this evening in 203 Villard hall at 7:30. All men between the ages of 18 and 26 may enlist in the pro gram, no matter what their uni versity class, it was emphasized by Lt. R. C. Ingalls, public rela tions officer, who is preparing the program for Lt. Col. Matheny's Thursday stay. Speaking to ROTC students at 1:10 Thursday afternoon, Col. Ma theny will be accompanied by Lt. C. H. Brainard. recently graduat ed air cadet; Lt. James A. Car Vin, and Lt. R. C. Ingalls. ^Following his short speech this evening Lt. Col. Matheny will show two reels of sound films de picting the life of an air cadet at the training base. Also on the movie program is a picture, “Wings of Steel.” Answers to personal problems will be given by the staff of vis iting officers and applications for army air corps training will be given to those desiring them at the meeting. Public Relations Officer Ingalls urged all men even slightly inter ested in the flying aspect of the service to come and hear full par ticulars on the new army plan. (Please turn to t>agc eight) Sour Grapes ■foSC has got BA The evening papers drool. Now we'll have to start a clamor for An engineering school. —J.W.S. be in charge ot photography and mounting. Miss Johnson, who served as ivomen’s editor this year, will have charge of copy and captions for the annual next year. Activities editor will be Mildred Wilson, junior in journalism. Jean Frideger, sophomore in business administration, was named soci ety editor. Co-schools editors will be Jo anne Dolph, freshman in English, and Barbara Lamb, sophomore in journalism. Maxine Tripp, junior in sociology, and Claire Lyon, jun ior in romance languages, are to serve as coeditors in charge of living organizations. Sports The Oregana reached over to the Emerald to pick its sports editors. Coeditors in charge of athletics will be Erling Eriandson, sophomore in journalism, and Fred Treadgold, sophomore in journalism. June Hitchcock, freshman in journalism, will be women’s sports editor. Bill Roth, sophomore in busi ness administration, will act as assistant managing editor. He will have charge of studio proto graphs next fall. Promotion di rector will be Charles Politz, freshman in journalism. Fred Gong, freshman in art and act ing art editor of the book this year, will be art editor of the 1943 publication. In charge of the office staff wall be executive secretaries Vir ginio Wells and Flora Kibler. Miss Wells and Miss Kibler are both freshmen in arts and letters. (Please turn to page eight) Sing Ticket Sale Tickets for "Of Thee I Sing,” will go on sale today at 8 a.m. in the educational activities of fice. Heads of all campus living organizations should make sure that the signs for the Winter green rally are ready by 6 p.m. Friday. See story page 8. Miss Biggs, Kitchen Get 'Money* Jobs Betty Jane Biggs, Emerald ad vertising manager, and Jeff Kit chen, assistant educational activ ities manager, were appointed business managers of the Emer ald and Oregana, respectively, at a meeting of the educational ac tivities board Wednesday after noon. Miss Biggs, a junior in journal ism, has been active on the Em erald since her freshman days, and at the pi-esent time writes a weekly column for the Yuba City Herald, a California paper owned and edited by her father. Last year’s Betty Coed, she is this year’s promotion manager for Junior Weekend. Kitchen Kitchen, a junior in political science, is a charter member of Druids, junior men’s honorary. Miss Biggs will succeed Fred O. May, senior in journalism, to the Emerald position. Kitchen will take over the Oregana duties from Emerson Page, senior in business administration. Two other students were inter viewed by the board for the Ore gana position. Jim Prior, fresh man in business administration, Edith Newton, freshman in jour nalism and Emerald reporter, both applied. Miss Biggs was un opposed for the Emerald job. Board Men Members of the educational ac tivities board, who interviewed applicants, presided over by Dr. Donald M. Erb, University presi dent, in the absence of the regu lar chairman, Dr. Earl M. Pallett, executive secretary and registrar, were: Faculty representatives — Dr. Dan E. Clark, head of the history department; C. G. Howard, pro fessor of law; Dr. Theodore Kratt, dean of the school of music; J. O. Lindstrom, business manager of the University; Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel administration; (Please turn to page eight) BETTY JANE BIGGS, JEFF KITCHEN . . . . . . new business managers for the Emerald and Oregana, re spectively. (Photo hi; Kcnnoll-KlUs) Orides, Yeomen Dance Orides and Yeomen will dance Saturday night at their spring in formal, Hayfever Hop, from 8:30 to 11:30, in the master dance room in Gerlinger hall. This dance is being planned to take the place of the usual print-r^nd-cord dance sponsored by the independent or ganizations. Frank Herman and Edith New ton are chairmen of the affair. Men Still May Schedule Exchanges By MARJORIE YOUNG Unless the interfraternity court-* cil follows the load of heads at houses and votes to ban ex change desserts from the campus, the recently enacted ruling by the women will not accomplish its major purpose, that of saving1 time and energies for national de fense, an Emerald investigation revealed last night. According to word from the dean of women's office, it is stdl permissible for men's houses to schedule desserts and to invito members of women’s living or ganizations to attend. IFC Meet A meeting of the IFC today, will discuss the matter and take action on it,»according to Porky Andrews, this year's president of the council. Whether or not the men decide to abolish desserts, one of the purposes of the heads of housed action will bo accomplished, that of saving money for the women’:* organizations, Nelda Christenson, president of this group, said. Schwering Confirms Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women, said that “it was true" that the men’s houses could holt# desserts, but that “the girl* couldn't very well go to them," because it would be going against a ruling made by their own rep resentatives. According- to Mrs. Schwering, several houses hav<* decided to replace desserts with firesides during the weekends, thus relieving congestion during the week. Closed Weekends Since closed weekends begin in two weeks, all campus pig ging, including desserts and fire sides, must of a necessity be* concluded for this term, a report from the dean of women’s office stated today. Piggers must for feit dates and begin cramming starting May 11. UO Birdmen Pass First lump Passing all sections of the gov ernment secondary ground school final 100 per cent, 19 students made an “exceptionally good rec ord,” according to J. H. Vaughn, district ground school inspector, who administered the final Wed nesday afternoon. Adding this to the score of pri mary students, who were tested last Friday and where only two students missed one section of a four part final, Vaughn said local men had earned top score for this CPT civilian pilot training dis trict. He especially commended ground school instructors Ben Wohler and Orville Vardy for their work in instructing the stu dents. “Considering this is the first program they have taught, the results are extraordinary,’’ he complimented. Both primary and secondary students will begin actual flying in Klamath Falls the end of this week, according to James C. Sto vall, CPT coordinator. Primary students have been leaving all week and a mass exodus of sec ondary students is expected today and Friday. Trainees will live in a commun ity arrangement, all being quar tered in one huge building which was part of a recent fair exhibit. Cots will be placed at pne end of the hall with study tables and dining facilities at the other. Louis Soukup, flight operator# will pay for food and' lodging fee the embryo pilots and has ar arranged for a station wagon !r> transport them to and from thei Klamath Falls airport. Primary students will receive training in Cub planes and sic ondary men will be instructed one-year-old Fairchild mono-* planes, M5-B and a Waco biplane. Flight instruction will be com pleted by July 1. Coordinator Stovall again com mended all flying students fen their continued interest in the» course despite the disadvantage of being unable to fly while study-4 ing ground school.