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VOLUME XLIV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1942
NUMBER 25
Service Men
To Get Copies
Of Alum Mag
Copies of Old Oregon, Univer
fT alumni magazine, will be
t to alums serving overseas,
according to an announcement
made Tuesday by Corinne Nel
son, president of Mortar Board.
With this announcement vari
ous men's houses in the alum
service contest for Homecoming
were spurred on to victory as
the final list of names is going
to serve as a directory for Mor
tar Board members.
Signs Delayed
Because of a fire in Kaye
Loomis’s sign manufacturing
shop, the appearance of the chart
to mark the progress of the vari
ous houses will be delayed until
Thursday or Friday of this
week.
Comparison of the first lists
Will be made this afternoon at
the alumni office. All prelimin
f'j lists should be turned in to
y Dorais, chairman of the al
umni service contest, 'or the al
umni office before noon today.
Lilly suggested that any house
not having done so already should
appoint a man to take charge of
the compiling and handing in of
these lists.
(Please turn to page eight)
Claypool Halts
Parcel Service
In the future, packages too
large for a local mail box must
be posted at the postoffice at
Fifth and Willamette streets since
the substation formerly located
the Claypool-Van Atta drug
store has been closed because of
lack of help in the store.
The University postoffice at
the physical plant will not handle
mail for students since this mail
service has been set up exclusive
ly for campus use and the mail
of University departments. J. O.
Lindstrom, University business
manager, said Friday that the
University has neither the equip
ment, space, nor help to handle
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Scrap Again In Season, *
Says UO War Council
By ARLISS BOOXE
Waste fat, scrap, and paper are
the next items to be collected by
the campus organizations for the
war effort, according to Marge
Curtis and Bill Lilly, who are
taking charge of the salvage de
partment of the student war
council for the campus. Miss Cur
tis and Lilly are assistants to
Len Barde, chairman of the stu
dent war council.
Representatives
Each living organization will
have one or two representatives
to collect the waste material in
boxes and save it for the collec
tions, they said. Miss Curtis said
that a truck may possibly be
engaged to collect the waste at
certain designated points.
Miss Curtis and Mr. Lilly at
tended a luncheon of the Lane
county war council at the Osborne
hotel. The council praised the
good work done by the students
and asked that they continue the
work. The scrap metal drive was
just the beginning, Lilly empha
sized, not the climax of the cam
pus war work.
Letters to Cooks
The Phi Theta Upsilon girls
under Miss Curtis will take
charge within their own houses,
she said, and other girls will be
appointed for the remaining'
houses. Lilly has organized a list
of men to take charge in the
men's houses.
A special committee, appoint
ed for boarding houses, will pos
sibly send letters to the cooks of
each house urging them to save
all extra waste fat and paper.
This committee will be headed by
Ruth Kay Collins and Ann Rey
nolds.
The names of all the cooper
ating organizations will be pub
lished regularly. The scrap col
lected will be sold to the butch
ers and scrap dealers in Eugene,
Miss Curtis explained, and the
funds will be given to the serv
ice scholars' fund for the stu
dents returning after the war.
Sinkers Sold
Rain Or Shine
Doughnuts, the round ones
with holes in ’em, will go on sale
at six booths on the campus
Thursday morning as the annual
YWCA doughnut sale gets off to
an early start—rain or shine.
Besides the doughnuts with
holes in them, special mocha
doughnuts will be sold for the
regular five-cents-each price.
Booths will be located at the
library, '.between the commerce
building and the Oregon building;
at Friendly hall, at the art school,
and the Co-op store.
Virginia Welles is in charge of
the all-campus sale, with Peggy
Wright in charge of sales girls.
Dorothy Hansen will act as cash
ier and keep accounts for the
sale.
Shirley McCloud will be in
charge of doughnut distribution
and will keep each booth supplied
with doughnuts throughout the
two-day sale. Marilyn Odom is in
charge of the booths.
The house sale of doughnuts
last week ended with more than
200 dozen sold to the various liv
ing organizations, acocrding to
Bonnie Umphlette, general chair
man of the sale. Beta Theta Pis
bought the most of any one or
ganization, setting a record of
nine dozen.
UO Journalists Schedule
’42 Shack Rat Shindig’
The ship isn’t sinking so Fri
^ ly afternoon at 3:30 the shack
rats will swarm aboard. Sigma
Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi,
the two national journalism hon
oraries, are sponsoring an all
journalism party. The typewrit
ers will be rolled back for the
dancing of Emerald workers, non
Emerald workers, faculty, and
B on-faculty.
No one will be turned away if
he studies journalism or likes to
play, eat, and sleep the stuff. Ad
mission is free so journalism ma
jors may save their box tops for
slogan contests.
General Chairmen Janet Wag
_staff, Margie Robinson, Theta
^ig, and Ted Goodwin, SDX, have
appointed administrative details
tc the following: Marjorie Major,
publicity; Ann Reynolds and
Carol Greening, cider and dough
huts, which will be dished out by
Barbara Lamb, Mary Ann Camp
bell, and Clarethel Roselund;
Connie Averill, announcements.
Russ Hudson, president of SDX,
will take care of the music, part
)of the decorations, and enter
tainment. Non-journalistic Earle
Russell will master the ceremo
nies. Theta Sig girls will invite
the faculty, and Mary Ann Camp
bell is preparing identification
cards for all guests. Sophomore
Clell Crane has been drafted for
the art work.
Chairman Jeff Kitchen of the
floor committee will see that the
SDX men are on hand to move
the furniture and sprinkle span
gles. No loyal SDXer will leave
till the journalism building is re
stored to its usual cleanliness and
order.
The words “cleanup commit
tee’’ are not used for diplomatic
reasons.
Captain Thomas C. Prunty
Disproves Popular Rumors
By DON MacKENZIE
The Oregon campus seems to be the home of several un
founded rumors, according to Captain Thomas C. Prunty,
enlisted reserve corps representative of the joint college pro
curement board.
"The general impression here at Oregon seems to be that
if a man joins a reserve program he will be allowed to stay
Thetas Pose for Fix
Oregana pictures will be tak
en Wednesday of the Kappa
Alpha Theta house at the down
town offices of Kennell-Ellis.
Dorsey Tickets
To Sell in Blocks
Tickets for the Homecoming
Tommy Dorsey dance will go on
sale Thursday at 8:15 a.m. in Mc
Arthur court, it was announced
yesterday by Dick Wililams, edu
cational activities manager.
Admission is $2.20 per couple.
To avoid confusion all tickets
will be sold to house blocks in
stead of to the individual stu
dents.
Each house will select one rep
resentative who will purchase
tickets for all members of his or
ganization.
It was urged by the activities
manager that living organiza
tions buy their tickets as early
as possible.
Campus Military Police
Called for Instruction
Lieutenant R. G. Davis has
called a meeting for those stu
dents in the advanced ROTC sec
tion who volunteered to do cam
pus military police duty. It is to
he held in room 2, commerce at
4:30 this afternoon. The meeting
is for those men who recently
volunteered for this duty in their
military classes.
The purpose of this meeting is
to discuss the methods for han
dling air raid alerts on the cam
pus, and will last for 30 minutes.
All MPs are asked to be there
promptly at 4:30.
Collection of scrap for the new
salvage drive on the campus
should be started at once before
any of the JajJ-slapping mate
rial is destroyed.
'.n school to finish his education.
This is a mistaken idea. He can
be called at any time but is left
in school just as long- as he is
not urgently needed. Because a
student who has a great deal of
college education is beter officer
material, the army wants to keep
them in school as long as pos
sible,” stated Prunty.
In the following statement,
Capt. Prunty clarifies any wrong
ideas students may have picked
up from unauthorized sources:
“By the end of 1943 the army
plans to have 7,500,000 men un
der arms. In an army of this size
there is urgent need for many
oficers. The average college man
is much better fitted for these
officer positions than the ordi
nary draftee. Higher education
is given much consideration in
choosing men for officers’ candi
date school. Other factors being
equal, the man with the college
education will ordinarily get the
appointment.
“The army feels that those who
enlist in the enilsted reserve
corps are officer material. They
must have the scholastic and
mental ability for officers before
they are admitted to the ERC.
After they enlist in the ERC it
is up to the student to keep up
in his grades and scholastic work
so as to prove that they have
what it takes to become officers.”
Prunty also pointed out that
the majority of the ten to twelve
thousand men being commis
sioned in the army each month
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Olin to Represent
Freshmen in ISA
Jack Olin, freshman in busi
ness administration, is the new
frosh representative to the ISA
senate, according to election re
sults received Tuesday night.
A meeting of the ISA senate
will be held Thursday at 4 p.m.
in 204 Chapman hall. All senators
must be there, it was announced
by Leighton Platt, vice-president.
Joint Board
To Interview
For Two Days
An estimated 1000 men attend
ed the assembly sponsored by the
joint Procurement board in Mc
Arthur court Tuesday.
Reserve classes were explained
by members of the board and fol
lowing the assembly they took
offices on the campus where they
will be available for personal in
terviews until Thursday noon.
All offices with the exception,
of the army enlisted reserve
corps are in the physical educa
tion building. The enlisted re
serve office is in room 2 com
merce. •
The board is on the campus to
distribute preliminary enlistment
material to interested men so
that they may have all necessary,
papers for enlistment when the
joint medical board arrives on
November 4.
Men who so desire will be en
listed, and sworn into all classes!
with the exception of the navy
air corps, when the medical
board arrives.
Preliminary Physical
Men who wish to enlist, in the
navy air corps will be given a
'preliminary physical and if this
is passed successfully they will
be sent, expenses paid, to Seattle
for final enlistment.
It has been suggested that, in
order to eliminate as much con
fusion as possible the following
schedule of conferences be fol
lowed today:
Morning: sophomores, juniors,,
and seniors in liberal arts, law,
education, and music.
Afternoon: freshmen in BA,
architecture and' allied arts, jour
nalism, and physical education.
Movie Pictures
Blood Bank Use
“The Heart of-Spain,” a movie
dealing with the use of blooil a
banks in the Spanish civil war,;
will be shown Thursday by,
Asklepiads, pre-medic honorary.
Asklepiads, who are in charge,
of the blood bank section of cam
pus defense, will also show the
movies "The Story of Appendi
citis,” and “They Choose to
Live,” the latter telling of de
velopments in the treatment of
cancer.
“The movies a.re not technical
in nature and will appeal to tho
layman as well as to pre-med
and science majors,” Tim Brin
ton, president of the honorary,
explained.'
The movies will be shown at a
matinee beginning at 4 p.m.
Thursday and at 7:30 that eve
ning, in room 207 Chapman. They,
will last approximately an hour
and a half. Admission is 20 cents,
and tickets will be on sale at the
door.
Open Letter to W.W.
Wendell Willkie, soft and silky
Purrs throughout the radio,
As he orates, and deftly states
The problems of this worldly woe.
I bet the boys with all the joys
Of beating off the German pan
zers
Wonder why this Willkie guy i
Doesn’t also give the answers. 1
—J.W.S, j