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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1943)
Professors Watch Air, Prepare Lessons, Too By TED GOODWIN There were some last week to whom the snow was no sur prise when they awoke in the morning. While the campus slept, their ears were tuned to the feathery falling of flakes as they listened in the little green hut near the campus where civil ian observers keep a 24-hour watch against attack by hostile planes. During the night these watch ers are professors who find the hours in the remote quiet of the lookout station may be well spent in preparing lessons for the next day. Some peruse “outside read ing” so they can give points in lectures not covered by the text. ■ iers read for pleasure. Story Gone Warren C. Price of the jour nalism school recalls with min gled regret and frustration a story in a popular magazine, in which he was well involved when his relief stepped into the room with a cheerful greeting. Asso ciate Professor Price still doesn’t know whether the hero returned to his rather plain, but pants wearing wife or remained with the fair and buxom damsel to whom he had confided his un happy life. The magazine was gone when Mr. Price once more mounted his post, but he oriented himself with effort and at the end of his four hour shift found himself with enough work outlined to keep a Mshma’i journalism class on its ■lb for at least a wTeek. Filter Center It is a military secret how many flights have been reported to the local filter center, but it is no sccfet that a plane can’t go very far in this area without be ing detected and reported. The filter center in Eugene is oper ated by civilian personnel under Captain Ray Siegenthaler and his staff of three officers and five enlisted men. The filter center receives tele phoned descriptions of every flight detected, which means vir tually every aircraft of any type that flies over this area. A huge map table is used in plotting the positions, direction, number, and probable mission of the planes. Dangerous for Japs •Should a plane remain uniden !ed, which indicates that it may be an enemy, the rest would be up to the Fourth Fighter com mand of the US army air force who would engage the craft from one of its numerous fighter bases. The teamwork that would send a Jap plane blazing out of our sky has been thus organized om Lt. Gen. J. L. DeWitt of of the Western Defense command down through the air forces. Fi nally, civilian volunteers are on guard 24 hours a day up and down every coast line, much the same as those professors in the green shack on the hill. Awake Next Day, Too Early in the organization of the filter center and spotter sta tions, the one on the campus was manned by student volunteers. The spirit was willing but it was found that student spotters often had conflict, or difficulties in keeping their appointments ac curately. When the professors were giv en a try, they showed that they could stay awake and study at night as well as any sophomore and could go him one better . . . they could stay awake in class the next day, too. Gallery Offers (Continued from page one) range. This is also true of the subject matter, which, for the most part deals with Latin American theses.” The prints have such titles as “Little Mulatto from Lima,” “As sassination,” “Tropical Night,” “The Mystic Cock,” and “It’s Always the Same. Represented on the exhibit are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ec uador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pana ma, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. A similar exhibition composed predominantly of United States prints is traveling through the Latin-American countries. Pants Makes the Man (Continued from page one) longer as available as it once was, befoi-e officer candidate schools and other training elements began turning out thousands of officers each year. When it is possible to purchase these pants ready-made, the price is around $15. Advanced ROTC students are on government pay, however, and their uniforms arc paid for on an allotment of the pay each term. When the uniforms arrived re cently at ROTC headquarters, it was found that only 26 pairs of trousers were included. Every student now has coat, cap, and other articles of uniform as pre scribed by Colonel C. L. Samp son, ? ? ?, and by the war depart ment. To forget suspenders for a mo ment, juniors are asking, “What’s holding up the pants?” In the Arctic North or Tropic Clime Tell Him He's Your VALENTINE University wCO-OP** ’Eve’ Depicts War Living (Continued from /'age one) mg, as tragedy is absorbing. None of the actors deserve the slight praise “adequate.” With out exception, their understand ing of character was thorough, and competent. Alan Foster as the private who defends the “hot rock” is fresh and convincing. Pres Phipps, as the southern aris tocrat, Private Francis Marion, has lines that tie the play togeth er, both comic and serious, and he muffs none of them. Norma Baker, as the girl Janet, gains assurance as the play pro gresses, and escapes from the role of ingenue into a real character. Notable for an authentic voice and appearance as the mother is Margie Robinson, this same com ment may be applied to William Countryman. Lill and Sail Bird are funny and pitiful characters on the loose, and they were well handled by Helen Holden and Betsey Stef fen. Among the soldier characteriza tions, it is impossible to single out good performances. They can only be listed and recommended: Earle Russell, Harold Larson, Richard Landis, Roy Dyer, and Saule Barde. Nisma Banta should be men tioned for making her part as Pepe the Filipino girl the shadowy, dusky thing it was meant to be. Robert Over, Clinton Hill, Peter Chiolero, James Whisenand, Neve na Delloff, Saily Clark, complete the extremely long cast list. It should be mentioned that be cause of the many scene changes, partial sets were designed by stu dents against a background of black. Two scenes are played be hind a thin screen used with spot lights to create a supernatural impression. The use of music in one scene was good and height ened the emotion, but the tech nical difficulties of a P. A. system made portions of the music too loud. The one fault in the play struc ture is the ending, which is anti climatic. However, the original manuscript with which Robinson worked at first was even more awkward, and any tinkering \ftas entirely to the good. ADPi Pledges One Marjorie Major, junior in jour nalism, pledged Alpha Delta Pi last night, according to reports from the office of the dean of women. Women Help (Continued from page two) conversation is taught by Mrs. Wright each evening from 7:15 to 9:15 o’clock in Friendly hall. Students enrolled', she explained, want to become conversant for travel or to understand a little of the spoken language rather than to study it in literature. “The class is more for fun, as it were,” Mrs. Wright commented. Coed Crew (Continued from page one) 90 seconds and two and a half minutes. Their first duty, they say, is building the flats on which the scenery is painted. Then the flats are painted and set up on the stage in Johnson hall. They built the cabinet, fence, and posts for the pier scene. “It’s hard work, but a lot of fun,” commented two of the girls. “We’ve been living in these dirty, white overalls for the past week,” they added. Work often lasts until 1 or 2 a.m., and Wednesday a few worked from early afternoon un til show time. They are already wllllillHlilllllllllllUililuiilllllllllllllllllllillllllllillimilMinilllllllllllllllllllilillllHIIIillillltlll Oregon Emerald Night Staff: Betsy Wootton, night editor Barbara Jones, assistant Solicitors: Arliss Boone, Adv. Mgr. Mary McClintick Office: Ann Graham Jacqueline Eastman Betty McTavish Layout: Gerd Hansen City Desk Staff: Kelly Snow, City Editor Betty Lu Siegnian Marty Benke Ruth Chappell Lila Howe Jon Snillib Edith Newton Vic Huffakcr, copy boy at work on sets for the Guild Hall theater production. The crew included: stage man ager, Yolande Pouteau; assistant stage manager, Ruth Matthews; switchboard operator, Katherine Korn; property manager, Elaine Lakefish; others, Barbara Ran dolph and Aileen Clark. Some rather technical work concerning telephones made the girls draft Richard Landis to as sist them in some of their work. Last Stage of Plans (Continued from page one) son I believe every student should co-operate to make this year’s Military Ball one of the most suc cessful ever held,” stated Childs. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $1.50 and no balcony tick ets will be sold. There will be a guard at the door to check and see that abso lutely no corsages are worn. George Carey and his orchestra will play for the affair. With war conditions, and traveling difficul ties as they are, Scabbard and Blade decided to save money, so no big name band was hired. At 10:15 the Little Colonel and her staff will be announced. Cap tain Pat Cloud will pin the cape around the Little Colonel’s shoul der and officially commission her. Fanfare will then precede the marching of new Scabbard and Blade pledges through an arch of crossed sabers to the Little Col onel, who will pin pledge ribbons on them. Following this the grand march will begin. The Little Colonel ac 17"-' "" — CAMPUS CALENDAR “The Metallurgy of Magnesium and Aluminum” will be the sub ject of a talk to be given by W. E. White, senior in chemistry, at the regular meeting of the chem istry seminar Tuesday afternoon at 4 in 103 McClure hall. A social swim for men and wo men will be held Friday evenings from 7:30-9 in Gerlinger hall. Westminster will hold open house Friday night from 8 to 12. companied by Cadet Colonel Mal com Almack will lead. In honor of President Roose velt, the Star Spangled Banner will be played and a special dedi cation given. There will be a sur prise display in the decorations. Programs have been designed in red, white, and blue with a picture of Roosevelt on the cover, according to Hugh Muir, program chairman. Harry Says: Late permission for the Military Ball means you will want to come in afterwards for an extra special Snappy Service Sandwich. Because of our 24-hour service you may be serv ed at any hour of the day. 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