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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1942)
Ex Hawaiian Student }Reports on Pearl Harbor By RUTH VAN BUSKIRK Since Bob Westover entered the University of Hawaii a little over a year ago he has had experiences which would have been incredible under ordinary circumstances. Going to Hawaii primarily to see the islands, the nineteen-year-old Portland boy liked them so well that he remained and entered the University of Hawaii as a business administration major. A11 went smoothly until Decem ber 7 when the whole order of life changed completely. The Uni versity was closed and the boys were taken from the ROTC into the territorial guard. From there Westover went into the blood bank hospital ap,d later into the FjEJI fingerprinting agency. v-jeventeen days after the at tack on Pearl Harbor when West over and others classed as “tour ists" were put on board a convoy to return to the United States, they left a drastically changed Hawaii. Blackouts every night bad restricted activities to a mini mum; gas had been rationed to ten gallons per,month; theaters were closed; and an acute food shortage was felt temporarily un til shipping conditions were im proved. “Everyone was immediately urged to plant gardens on all available land," Westover stat ed, “and in that and all things the people showed an extraordi nary spirit of cooperation. We were evacuated Christmas day, and arrived in San Francisco New Years eve," he continued, d it wasn’t until then that we lihd time to collect ourselves and try to unravel all the jumbled events of those past three weeks -—since December 7, 1941!” Asked the general attitude and his own feelings the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Westover stated: “Everyone was in a daze—like they’d just awak ened from a nightmare and were groping around for something real to confirm the feeling that it 'wasn't so’. In fact, it was aft ernoon before I believed that it was really an attack—and I saw it!” Home Ec Enrollment The home economics depart ment opened the fall term with enrollment a little lower than lU year. Miss Mabel A. Wood, head of the home ec department, an nounced that the food classes will shortly begin work on bev erages, while the beginning cloth ing groups are making pajamas. A Mexican exhibit is on dis play now in Chapman hall. New articles have been added to last year's display. During the year the cases will be changed. Jam for Breakfast (Continued from page two) For discophiles, anti-Millerists, purists, and “Le Jazz” hottists there is still a prayer. Barney Bi gard, ex-Ellington black stick ace, has taken over the Trouville stMd from Lee & Lester Young. T j combo is the last stand for jazz. Amongst a varied personnel emerges 52-year-old “Kid” Ory, who plays like Bessie Smith sang, comes from New Orleans, and played with “King” Oliver. The crystal, non-artificial clarinet of Bigard himself rises above the ‘tone’ school and achieves the ab solute beauty of untarnished ex pression. B.B. and the men take over the eleven p.m. CBS spot if it’s still there. Portland is. at best, musically “cleaned.” Woody Hite is in the navy. And no one seemed to wear a black arm band for long. Joe Dardis is still going. Bill Johns, e ^ite tram man, has taken over the remnants of Hite's bunch (I fail to see how that band was ever anything but a remnant musically) and Babe Binford has the Uptown. Old Oregon Plans Service Issue In order to render a more com plete and personal service to for mer Oregon alumni now scat tered about the globe, it has just been announced by the alumni of fice that the December issue of Old Oregon will be dedicated to the alumni in the service. The alumni association’s rec ords are being compiled for ad dresses and news for the forth coming issue. Last spring, a sim ilar record was included giving a partial list of addresses, but the December issue of the magazine will be devoted entirely to the Oregon alumni now in the service of his country. LeaveGranted Instructor, Caverhill Enlists in Navy Beverly Caverhill, reserve as sistant and library instructor at University of Oregon, has been granted a leave of absence to serve with the navy. Mr. Caver hill has the rank of Yeoman, sec ond class. He is in the intelli gence division, and may be as signed to instruct the Japanese language. Mrs. Ellenore Bendroth Caver hill will assume her husband’s position in the University li brary while Mr. Caverhill is in service. Plan Peace (Continued from page tzvo) velopment, in cooperation with the national government. Before the war Russian school children, in classes corresponding to our senior high school year, had received preparation neces sary for the study of calculus and other advanced mathematics. For the six preceding years each youngster had' five hours of math ematics per week, deliberateely correlated with courses in phy sics and chemistry. What They Do Since June, 1941, the children of the people who are desperate ly defending the ruins of Stalin grad in the same war we are fighting have been taught to read maps, use compasses, take measurements, make and follow plans, and make other practical wartime uses of their mathemat ics, chemistry, and physics. Despite the changes that will come to our social, political, and economic institutions America will ably meet the competition of a more exact and scientific post-war world. Our children will be educated to understand, to calculate, and to plan. Chinese Girl Lectures Miss Cecilia Sien-Ling Zung, a Chinese lawyer, lived in Granduate house on the Mills college campus during two months of lecturing in the San Francisco bay area. Regent Elected Prexy A. J. Olson, University of Min nesota regent, has been elected president of the National Associa tion of Governing Boards of State Universities. Carl Sandburg is the most pop ular of living American poets, ac cording to a survey of University of Kentucky English students. Alum Office Aided In Service Hunt Keeping track of Oregon alums is a comparatively easy task for the already-busy alumni office, according to Roselind Gray, sec retary of the University Alumni association. While most enlisted men write to the campus office from their service stations, ranging from Iceland to the tropics, drafted alumni are kept in contact by a plan worked out by the Ameri ican alumni council in coopera tion with the war department. Each draftee is required to fill out a card, along with his induc tion papers, stating his collegiate training and former college ad dress. In turn, these cards are then mailed to various alumnae groups throughout the nation to be added to former records. Response from alumni in the navy, army, and marine corps has been more than adequate, as most letters include news of other alumni usually in the same service stations as the writers. Parade of Opinion (Continued from f'agc tzco) meaning of news stories to such an extent that a reading of the newspaper accounts gives a dif ferent interpretation to the news item. 4. Note the source of the ilews. UO Alumni Schedule Patriotic Homecoming Elmer C. Fansett, secretary treasurer of the University Al umni association, is already mak ing preliminary plans for the first war-time Homecoming in more than 25 years. Slated for the first week in November, the annual celebration will be held in full accord with recent transportation and rationing programs. ... A report of an official United States army communique, read verbatim, is quite different from a report from “usually reliable sources.” “Not Facts 5. Don't report radio war news as facts . . . Because an account of some event is heard on a news cast does not necessarily make it a fact. Even though the original listener heard the account per fectly, when it is reported to suc ceeding individuals, it becomes colored by the interpretations of the various recounters. 6. Regard opinion and conjec ture as such . . . This caution is especially applicable to news com mentators who frequently express their opinions relative to the fu ture progress of the war. Three University of Texas art professors are painting postoffice murals for the federal government. Radio Class Fills Reserve Needs A course offered especially ' o meet wartime needs in the !;c'!d of electrical measurements in Do ing given this fall at the Univer sity. The course will include < Je mentary radio theory and pi no tice, particularly in short v.,v.e, according to Dr. Will V. Norris, professor of physics, who an nounced the new class. Only requirement for Uo* :g the course is securing perm. a_ sion of the head of the depart ment. Giving four hours' credit, electrical measurements w 111 consist of two lectures and two laboratories a week. It is expect ed to be of value to students pre paring for army and navy com munications work. The course will be includ' d in University curricula for the du ration. Dr. Morris ot The Dollies Dr. Victor P. Morris clean of the school of business adminis tration, was away Thursday and Friday of last week at The Dalit *», where he spoke to the Oregon State Teachers association. The subject of his speech was "Dy namic Forces in the Post -War World.” What Could Be Better % For an Ex-Webfoot Soldier or Sailor's CHRISTMAS GIFT? THE EMERALD • HE WILL ENJOY NEWS FROM HIS ALMA MATER n *3 .25 a term .00 a Year Oregon W Emerald Phone 3300—Ext 354