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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1943)
Sign of Topsy-Turvy Times; Jobs Call for Students’ Aid By ANNE CRAVEN Times have changed at the University employment office, Miss Janet Smith, employment secretary, said. Instead of more students than there- are jobs as in pre-war days, there are now more jobs than there are students to fill them. Wages have gone up too. At one time 35 cents an hour was the average wage. Now the office thinks nothing of getting 60 or 75 cents an hour for the students. Fall term registration figures show that of the 2958 students enrolled in the University 703 were supporting themselves 100 per cent; 384, 75 per cent; 410. 4)0 per cent; 357, 25 per cent; 2G6, 10 per cent; and 830 contributed O per cent to their support. Of these 830, only 112 were men. Imagine “University students work if. heir way through school with ev 'cry kind of job imaginable," Miss flmith said. Some work at the ice •plant, some as night watchmen fit lumber mills. The United States Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Filbert In sect laboratory, has spent $2400 for student help in the last four years. One boy washes windows at a hotel, another is an assist ant cook in a hotel. Boys arc hired as assistants at small an imal hospitals and to wash dogs for people at the hotels. Girls model dresses, suits, and coats for salesmen. University students have worked on many victory gardens all over Eugene. They have also weeded spinach, picked up fil berts, and done other such work to alleviate the acute shortage of farm hands caused by the draft and war work. lambs One student takes down dan gerous limbs, another cleans off roofs and eaves, and others take care of children at hotels. Of the students working their way through college only 80 are on NYA in comparison to more than 400 of previous years, Miss Smith states.!. There probably will be no NYA at all next year. Miss Smith felt that there would be plenty of jobs available for stu dents next year making NYA un necessary. Many large companies write to the employment office for stu dents. Among them are Firestone, Goodyear, Boeing Ah-craft, Bank of California, Borden Milk com pany, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Campfire girls, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Reserve banks, Fuller Paint company, Hawley Pulp and Paper company, Jantzen Knitting mills, Lockheed Aircraft, Swift and company. United Airlines, Pan American airlines, United States Weather bureau, Standard Oil. Texaco, Spool Cotton company, Schaeffer Pen, Planters Peanuts, and many others. On File Application blanks for most of these companies are kept on file in the employment office. The graduate file in the office has been very successful and proved an aid to a great number of students, Miss Smith said. Af WELCOME SOLDIER STUDENTS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF .. OREGON w 1)0 .1 of \\ rl\ KNOW that whatevor you nun tlo — wherever you may ho — you w ill oiiuy \ our best in those turbulent years ar, for vour countrv and ours! FAREWELL 1943 GRADUATES j GOOD - LUCK ! I ^BROADWAY* uieaung append-^ dry yoodi 20 St 30 East liioadwior Drive Collects Ton of Tin Cans In cooperation with a city-wide scrap drive, 2000 pounds of tin cans collected during' the year by the scrap committee of the cam pus war board were turned ever to the city to be sent to Portland. These 2000 pounds were collected in four drives and stored on the campus until orders could come designating- where they should be sent. The last drive for this year was held Thursday morning when the Lane county truck picked up the cans along with those from Eu gene which were being collected throughout the week. “We certainly ppreciate the cooperation students have shown,’.’ Marjorie Curtis and Bibbets Strong, co-chairmen of the scrap drive committee said. “There was a very good showing all year.’’ Tin cans and fats will be col lected next year, they said, and anything else that the war board decides is needed. Besides tin cans and fats, 70 pounds of records were collected by the committee this year. University and Lane county trucks were used to collect the scrap. ter a student graduates and re ceives letters of recommendation, copies of these letters along with a list of the subjects he took while in school, his experience, and his objectives are kept on file so that the student may use them when ever he needs them. This file saves the student from having to get new letters of recommen dation. Joint Recital Heard May 18 A joint recital by William Shis ler, Hex John Underwood, and Vir gene Lindley, will be heard in the music auditorium at S p.m.. May 18, Rex John Underwood, profes sor of music at the University, will open the program with the first movement of Mozart’s “So nata in B-flat major." “Souvenir de Moscow” by Wieniakske, “Ca price No. 13" by Paganini-Kreis ler, and “Variations on a Theme" by Corelli-Kreisler will also be played by the violinist. Virgene Lindley, pianist, will present “Ecossaises” and the first movement of “Sonata Path ctique," both of which were writ ten by Beethoven, “Impromptu in A-flat" by Chopin, and Saperton’s “Cubanola." William Shisler, al so a violinist, accompanied by Everett Fulton, will play the first movement from Mendelssohn’s “Concerto" and "La Folia" by Corelli-Kreisler. Helen Nahm of the University of Missouri is new director of the Hamline university school of nursing. ONPA Picks Campus For 1943 Conference The annual convention of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers' association will be held on the campus June 18 and 10 with two nationally known speakers as guests, according to Jack D. Bla dine, president. James Forrestal, under secre tary of the navy, will be the main speaker at the Saturday evening banquet of the convention. Nel son Rockefeller, coordinator for Inter-American Affairs in WasFf ington, D. C., is to address tfu? Saturday noon luncheon of the meeting. Congressman Harris Ellsworth of Roseburg will make the trip West with the two speakers from the national capital. Other state and government officials are slat ed to have parts in the confer ence. LOVELY FLOWERS FOR THE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE There is nothing that adds more thrilling, joy to graduation day than a bouquet of lovely blooms or an exquisite corsage. We have a varied selection of fresh, attractive flowers at moderate prices. Eugene’s Flouer Home 13th and Patterson Phone 654 DEARER IN THE FUTURE THAN YOU CAN REALIZE! The years ahead will make your graduation photograph more treasured . . . by yourself and all who love you. STUDOS WE WANT SECOND HAND BOOKS FOR BOOKS THAT WILL BE USED AGAIN NEXT UNCERTAINTY AS TO THE FUTURE MAKES IT IM SOME OF THE BOOKS YOU MAY