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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1943)
—Large Field of Opportunity Open For WAVE Seamen, Officers Overseas service with the WAVEs is a possibility which many girls have considered since the navy changed its rules regarding this branch. A comparatively small number, however, have been sent out of the United States as yet. Recruits are assigned to do office work, radio, communica tions, store-keeping, mechanics, and aviation ground work. If a girl has special skill or training such as typing, secretarial. operators of business machines, bookkeeping, radio, or photogra phy she will have a better chance of promotion and pay increases. Officers Requirement .Women between 20 and 49 with college degree or two years of college and two years business or professional experience are eli gible to apply for officers’ can didates in the WAVES or SPARS. Those who qualify are trained at Smith college in North ampton, Mass., or Mount 'Hol yoke, South Hadley, Mass. Apprentice seaman applicants must be between 20 and 36 and must have had at least two years of high school. Among schools which train WAVES and SPARS for various skills are Indiana uni versity, Bloomington, Indiana, Oklahoma Agriculture and Me chanical college, Stillwater, Ok lahoma, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Georgia State college for women at Milledgeville, Georgia. Clothing Allowance Given Base pay for apprentice seamen S5Q a month and it can rise to ^5 for chief petty officers. Commissioned officers receive $116 as ensigns, and lieutenants (senior grade) are paid $296. On arriving at training school the WAVE or SPAR receives $200 clothing allowance. The training period averages four months. The first months is spent mostly in indoctrination ^.into navy life. Afterwards some are assigned to active duty, and others receive special training. Northwestern university's first five football teams were coached by their captains, and the first •'salaried Wildcat coach was a j^fiyer. Eor a neatly tapered haircut try the Kampus Barber Shop, 849 E. 13th Street. C. M. Max well and Leo Deffenbacker.-—Adv. Pre-Med Honorary Elects Nine Members Nine students were elected into Asklepiads, pre-medical honor ary, at a meeting Monday night, according to Reed Gurney, presi dent of the honorary. Those elect ed were: Irving Puziss, sopho more: Jack Edwards, sophomore; Gilbert Ching, senior; Bob Muel ler, sophomore; Eugene Lan dretli, sophomore; Paul McBride, sophomore; Dick Johns, sopho more; Wilbur Linde, sophomore; P^alph Odell, graduate. To qualify, a student must be at least a sophomore. Election is on the basis of scholarship and character. Dr. Erb Expects (Continued from page one) to accelerate through summer sessions and other means. Credit will be given for any educational training they received in service. There will also be disabled and some able-bodied service people who will want to be special stu dents, vocationally-minded and possibly not interested in a de gree. These may require some specialized courses or special sec tions of existing courses.” Dr. Erb stated that the college must be ready to give service but that we can expect the special cases not to be very numerous. Seal Sale (Continued from page one) lodge; Jean Watson, Kappa Al pha Theta. Those houses that did not send representatives to the meeting yesterday should contact Bever ly Carroll at the Alpha Phi house so they can secure seals. No sales will be made until the drive starts, Miss Carroll explained. A goal of $300 has been set. .Eternally Feminine Rmphasis on the lively, flattering little tricks ot detail, so feminine where by a dress takes on certain individualitv and charm. Unexpected color contrasts, subtle draping, frivolous but tons and bows make even the most practical fashions more pleasing. 14. C^Ot<C<Hv &. Co-. APPAREL SHOP 1050 Willamette Phone 1084 CAMPUS CALENDAR Delta Phi Alpha, German hon orary, will meet tonight in the seminar room of Friendly hall. New members are to be chosen. Members of the campus war board will meet today at 4 p.m. at McArthur court, announces Jean Frideger, head of the cam pus war board. Mr. YV. Nicholson, of the First Congregational church, will lead the YWCA forum at 4 today. The covered dish supper will follow at 5:30. Beverly Padgham will give a short talk on World Fel lowship, Lois Claus will lead a brief meditation, and Flora Kib ler will lead group singing. Post-war Plans Subject of Forum “Problems of post-war plan ning in the light of the Moscow Conference" will be considered at the second in a series of monthly forums conducted by the exten sion division, the League of Wo men Voters, and the American Association of University Wo men. Dr. Victor P. Morris, dean of the school of business adminis tration, will lead the meeting, which will be held Thursday eve ning at the Lincoln high school in Portland. Members of the panel are David Robinson, attorney Melvin Arnold of the Portland Electric company, Mrs. L. Tooze, and Ralph Rasmussen. Dr. Morris addressed a meet ing of the American Association of University Women in Port land Saturday on the subject, “Problems Prefacing Peacemak ing." Wednesday Advertising Staff: Annamae Winship, Manager Betty Sailor Jeanette Smith Virginia Harris City Desk: Edith Newton, city editor Marjorie Young Bill Lindley Norris Yates Liz Haugen Night Staff: Henry Tobey, Ervin Webb, Co-night editors Pat Maloney Molly Connel Victory Dinners Report (Continued from fui/c our) which requires each member of a living organization to “buy her way’’ into dinner with the pur chase of a 10-cent defense stamp. Houses who announced partici pation in the drive were: Lom bardy lodge, Laurel lodge, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Kap pa Kappa Gamma, University house, Hilyard house, Highland house, Birch lodge, Alpha Gam ma Delta, Sigma Kappa, Delta Gamma, and Hillcrest house. Coe college, Cedar Rapids, la,, acquired an 87-acre tract of land near Vinton for campus biolo gists. BONDS Please Don't Save Money, Begs Uncle "Save your pennies" ?—No, don't. The director of the mint of the United States treasury de partment has asked that all pen nies go back into circulation be fore the pre-Christmas demand approaches because of the short age of necessary metal used for making- small coins, especially pennies. Although the output of pen nies in the last three years has totaled nearly three billion pieces, orders at present are breaking all records. One of the chief rea sons for this is the good old American habit of hoarding small coins in penny banks, glass jars, and bureau drawers. Even the Indian head pennies, commonly collected can have little special value as there were nearly two billion of them coined. Pennies should not be returned to the mint, but should be re turned to the channels of trade in the community. One way in which this may be done is to sub stitute war savings stamps for coins that are held as savings. In the last three years nearly 10,000 tons of metal have gone into the making of one-cent piec es alone. That same amount of metal would go a long way in making implements of warfare for our armed forces. Turnover High in Health Service With the exception of one pa tient, Lois Pringle, the infirm ary's roster has had a complete turnover. All of the other occu pants have been released and four new patients have been ad mitted. They are: Winifred Casterline, junior; Charles Pyrados, lan guage; Virginia Travis, fresh man; and Richard Ulrich, engin eer. Lost Items Still At Post Office Many items that have beer, found on the campus since th>: beginning of the fall term hav* not yet been claimed at the lost, and found office, according- to A. H. Tyson, mail and freight, clerk. Articles found last week were: one Webster's Collegiate diction ary, a Hammond's Self-Revisin:.: World Atlas, a Basic Training Manual, a Survey of Social Sc once textbook, and. a Gamma PM Beta pledge manual. Also, eight pairs of gloves an ’ mittens, 21 bandanas, a kelly green novelty purse, a silvc r heart pin, and a brown loath-, e elephant lapo! pin were turned m, Michigan State ASTs are get ting out their own newspaper. --—“” tSE6W tindcr-arm Cream DeodotrcR-i f s.ife/y | Steps Perspiration: i fCBMlS 1. Docs not rot dresses or men’s shirts. Docs not irritate skin 2. Nowaitingtodry. Canbetrsed right after shaving. 3. Instantly stops perspiration for 1 to 3 days. Prevents odor. 4. A pure, white, grcasclcss, stainless vanishing cream. 5. Awarded Approval Seal of American Institute of Launder ing for being harmless to fabric. ABanking <Jf eadkfiua lie/i'lr Students are cordially invited to open accounts at Eugene's largest bank. EUGENE BRANCH UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK Head Office—Portland MEMBER EDIC TREAT HER WITH CANDY ON THANKS GIVING Delicious, fresh, hand-dipped can dies of all kinds in attractive gift box es of all sizes and prices at ANTIPA’S 83 E. Broadway Phone 4128