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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1943)
p Back the Attack With a Pack —See Column 4 Soldiers Plan Jirve For Sunday p.m. —See Column) 1 VOLUME XLV UNIVERSITY OR OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943 NUMBER 25 WSS Fund Drive Hits *258 Mark Casablanca, Alpha Phi, and Birch lodge are leading in con tributions to the World Student Service fund drive, according to the returns tallied last night at the YMCA for the semi-final re port. Approximately $258 has been turned in, with half the houses making reports by last night. Deadline for the drive, which started October 26, is November 9, and all money must be in by then for the final count. Anyone m;w turn in money at any time. ~^We haven't nearly reached our goal yet. Most of the houses which have reported haven’t made 100 per cent contributions yet,, but further funds may be turned in to Nancy Boles at the Kappa house before November P> Dvexplained Dorothy Rogers, cnairman of the campaign. Soliciting of the faculty start ed yesterday. Each member of the faculty committee has been assigned a department and will contact all the members of the faculty of that department. Four Enter ASUO Race For Council Four seniors will be considered b,r the executive council Thurs for the position of senior representative which was left va cant after the officer elected last year was declared ineligible. Lee Montgomery, Yvonne Torg ler, Charline Pelly, and Harry Skerry were the names given to thf^council as seniors interested in the position. These were gleaned from an all-campus nomination procedure which al lowed anyone to suggest names of possible seniors. The council will choose the new representative instead of having an all-campus election. The other candidates will be kept on file to give some idea of v/hich seniors are interested in positions in case i there are other offices to be filled during the year. Announcement of the new rep resentative will be made in Fri day’s Emerald. Fag Drive Takes Off Today to Meet Goal With a goal of 1S00 packages of cigarettes, the war board-spon sored cigarette drive starts today and will continue through Friday. Part of the cigarettes will be sent to the local USO to be g.\cn to the draftees, three different groups of which are scheduled to leave in November. The rest of them will go to the Camp Adair hospital. In order to reach the goal it will be necessary for every student to buy at least one package, Phyllis Horstman, chairman of the drive, said. Put in Boxes Members of Kwarna will take care of the collection in the various houses and will report the amount each house has contributed each, day. Boxes have been placed in the Co-op. Side, Villard hall. Friendly hall, and the newsroom of the journalism building for contributions by male civilian students and members of the faculty. To the left are the members of the committee who are shown "prac ticing up" handing over the packages to soldiers. Left to right they are: Dorothy Pryor. Doris Chapler. Phyllis Horstman, and Jayne Kern. The soldier is Warren Miller, air corps man. Assembly Gets Last Touches Final work on the production of “Out of This World,’’ one of the most original, informative, and amusing assemblies to ever hit this campus, started Tuesday night as the 29 members of Phi Theta Upsilon got to work on the last touches of the program. The script for the program, which will reveal to campus wo men the true facts of the campus situation, was written by Adele Riggs and Betsy Wootten How ard. Scenery for the “Out of This World” production has been made especially for the occasion by Ve lita Estey. Plans are being made for a snow ball rally to lead the cam pus to the assembly Friday night at 7:36 in Gerlinger hall. The ral ly squad will lead this snowball and all women cn the campus are invited. The Phi Theta assembly is an annual affair on the campus, but this year it is quite different from those of past years. Last year the program was in the af ternoon and was planned chiefly to introduce BMOCs to freshman women. In the past the program has been planned chiefly for freshmen, but this year it is very definitely including all Univer sity women. Soldiers Swing Out Sunday With Serenade for Campus By BON DITTMAN Owen Bailey’s all-army dance orchestra comes to the fore again, this time with an answer to the problem of what to do on Sun day. For this coming Sunday the boys will present their first con cert in swing at a place to be an nounced later. The time will be 3 j^m., and there will be no ad mission charge. The theme of Sunday’s enter tainment wiir be “Campus Sere nade,” which is the title of an original melody being prepared by Bailey especially for this per formance. The program will be made up entirely of original tunes, and of special arrange ments of many favorites. New Arrangements The keynotes of the show will be the many new arrangements which'no band has presented be fore. They were arranged espe cially for this 15-piece musical organization, and promise to score hits as they are “tailor made" for this orchestra. The program will include scores penned by Hay Thomas, Bob Parker, and Owen Bailey. Thomas was formerly staff arranger for (Please turn to page jour) Jack Cairns Wins Spot Jack Cairns, junior in pre-medicine, from Steiwer haU, was chosen vice-president of the independents at the election yes terday afternoon in Gerlinger, Doris Jones, ISA president, an nounced. "I am very happy about the results, but I haven't had time to formulate any plans yet,” he explained. Alice Buckingham, University house, was elected freshman representative on the ISA cabi net. The next cabinet meeting will be Thursday at 4 on the third floor of Gerlinger. The new offi cers will be introduced, and Cairns will preside. All senators are requested to attend and to bring the activity cards for their house members and the dues which will be collected this week. “A larger number turned out for this election than we have had at any previous election," Doris Jones revealed. The office of vice-president was vacated this fall by the res ignation of Charles Politz. asso ciate editor of the Emerald, who was chosen at the ISA elections last spring. Every fall a member of the in coming freshman class is chosen to i-epresent the frosh in ISA ac tivities. With the resignation of the senator from Spencer hall. Walt Graham was chosen to represent the house. Oregana Deadline Week From Today Oregana pictures for members of honoraries who do not belong to living organizations may be taken anytime until November 12, Helen Johnson, Oregana edi tor, said Tuesday. No special ap pointment is needed for these pictures. Unaffiliated seniors should have their pictures taken on No vember 10, if possible, Miss John son added. If this is not conven ient they may be taken any time before that date. Coeds Help Buy Bomber Capering this year in order to help purchase a bomber, Oregon coeds will have their annual fro lic on November 19. Buying a bomber is the November project of the Oregon Federation of Women’s clubs, of which the As sociated Women Students group is a member, it was announced Tuesday. When the bomber is bought, it will have “Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs” painted on its nose. The federation must raise §300.000 for the bomber, and has (Please turn to page two) War Children Speech Topic Dr. S. H. Jameson, professor oi sociology, will be the featured speaker at a lecture tonight sponsored by Pi Lambda Theta, education honorary society. His topic will be "Children in a World at War.” The meeting is open to all stu dents and faculty members and will be held in the YWCA bun galow' beginning at 8:35 p,m. All education majors and students in terested in education are especial ly invited. The campus chapter of Pi Lambda Theta will convent at the YWCA at 7:45, immediately before the public meeting. Mrs. Lucia Leighton, sc.; clary of the school of education, com mented that the lecture is of an important and interesting nature, and that all hearing it will spend a profitable evening. Af One Tims I won’t buy a pack f< r bi ddy, I'll just give the army r. . . . ine, And then perhaps some of my roommates Won't “borrow” from me all the time. — W.R L. HOME AGAIN ... .. . are these ROTC men shown here lounging in the day room e>3 tihclr new barraeks at the former Kappa Sigma house. The men, some !t> strong, returned Saturday afternoon.