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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1943)
^Spar Recruiter Hits Eugene; Girls Interested Asked to Cal I To interview interested persons and answer questions, Miss Cherokee Seiler, S 1/C of the SPARs, will be at the Eugene hotel this week. In order to qualify for officer training, a girl must be between 20 and 49 and must have a college degree or two years college and two years professional or business experience. Seaman applicants must be between 20 and 36 and have had at least two years of high school. Eugene applicants who are ac- ----. cepted will be guaranteed round trip transportation to Portland “where they will be interviewed and given physical examinations. If they pass average tests, they will be sworn in. From there trainees are sent to the Biltmore hotel training school at Palm Beach, Florida. Officers are trained at Mount Holyoke col lege in Massachusetts. On arriving at the school, each trainee receives $200 for clothing allowance. After a month's, orien "LADDIE" with TIM HOLT "Take a Letter Darling" OSALIND RUSSELL tation, which includes learning' rules and traditions of the service, each girl is assigned to duty at a coast guard base. Base pay for an apprentice seaman is $50, plus a certain amount for subsistence if the SPAR is stationed at a base where convenient facilities are not provided. Work to which a SPAR may be assigned is mostly administrative, including clerical, and some radio. Bob Cummings, former radio announcer and at present S 1/C doing personal relations work for the coast guard on the coast, was in Eugene last week to arrange for observation of SPAR week. WAA Initiates Girls At Annual Ceremony Girls who were initiated into the W.A.A. Tuesday evening were: June Buckles, Wynnetta Ruth Cramer, Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Pat Mahany, Vera Fair, Nancy 804 Willamette and 917 Willamette Evening in Paris Gift Sets $1.00 up Musical Powder Boxes $6.49 ■ Colognes Assorted Odors .$1.00 Manicure Sets $5.00 Cut Glass Smoker's Sets $1.29 Plastic Picture Frames 98c Alum Risks Life To Bring in Plane Refusing to bail out of his badly damaged ship because it would have crashed into the city of Ips wich, England, Lt. Max G. Sim mons, ’41, was recently cited for bravery beyond and above the line of duty. Lt. Simmons was the nav igator aboard the Flying Fortress which was returning seriously damaged, from a raid on Gelsen kirchen, November 5. With only one engine working, the horizontal stabilizer shot off, and its nose smashed by a propel ler that had flown off a shattered engine, the stricken Fortress reached the Br itish coast. Gaylord ordered the crew to bale out, point ed the ship toward sea, set the automatic pilot and prepared to bale out after them, when the damaged controls threw the ship into a steep dive. He scrambled back into the plane, pulled the ship up a bare 200 feet above Ips wich, and succeeded in making a crash landing in a field outside the city. All members of the crew returned safely. Due to his heroic efforts to keep the Flying Fortress, “Lucille Ball,’’ from crashing into Ipswich, Gay lord will probably merit a decor ation. Baker, Elaine Moseley, Eileen Moseley, Janet Douglas, Bette Rose, Elsie Ball. Marjorie Allen, Barbara Young, Beverly Hauser, Patsy Griffin, Lois Twining, Mercedes Foley, Jean Murray, Marguerite Losli, Gloria Kelly, Yvonne Smith, Dor othy Herman, Marguerite Driscoll, Beatrice King, Shirley Gray. Charlotte Wicke, Dorriss Wein berg, Jeanne Karris, Barbara. Ste phens, Dolores Brown, Betty Ingebritson, Phyllis Balsiger, Ar dyce Mast, Jackie Kenfield, Lydia Williams, Marie Medley, Nadya Ramp, Margaret Hughes, Ann Mc Gillicuddy, Maryan Howard, Lou ise Fletcher, Betty Jean Thomp son, Elaine Burnham, Helen Woh ler, Evelyn Stephens. Ruth Hansen, Frances Meier, Donna Cook, Nancy Ke’laher, Ter ry Watson, Dorothy Hayden, Mar tha Hoch, Martha Bucknell, Marie Swan, Dorothy Payne, Sally Jeff cott, Wanda Lu Payne, Beverly Jacob, Joyce Wamples, Mary Pat ton. Beverly Listman, Grace Ed wards, Mary Lou Chase, Jackie Bog; n, Florence E. Hall. Melissa Snyder, Phyllis Byers, Mary Lou Jackson, Marilee Huffman, Bev e’ly Davis, Dorothy Williams, Pat O'Hara. 1 Have a “Coke”= Good winds have blown .you here ... a way to say “We are friends’’ to the Chinese China knew Coca-Cola before the war. Where Coca-Cola is on hand today, to Chinese and Yank alike, Have a “CtfAt?” are welcome . 1 ^ words. Around the globe Coca-Cola stands for the pause that re- ( freshes,—has become a symbol of good will. 1 BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. OF EUGENE | = Coca-Cola It’s natural for popular narr.ea to acquire friendly abbrevia tions. That’s why you heat Cxxra-Cola called “Coke”. I 01943 The C-C Co., Hillcrest Lodge Wins Over Thetas for Volleyball Title Hillcrest’s eight, red-hot from their previous battles with the Pi Phis for the right to enter the finals, banged a 46 to 23 win. over the colorful Thetas to give them the intramural yolleyhall title yesterday afternoon in Gerlinger hall, jeans, plaid shirts, and spirit were not enough to give the Thetas the push to stop the Hillcrest onslaught. In the first ten minutes of play the score sea-sawed back and forth; the teams were both tense and over-anxious. The last part of the half saw Hillcrest pull away to & 25 to 11 lead, as they started hitting' their stride while the The tas still remained jittery. Non-rotation type of play feat ured the second session and the Thetas put their star, Mick Riley, at the net. She showed signs of game tension, but executed several beautifully angled spikes. How ever, Eetty Crabb, center front for Hillcrest, matched Mick's net work, and the victors continued to build up their advantage. Mary Ann Delsman’s ferocious overhand service which netted ten points for the winners figured largely in the outcome of the game. Polly Gordon and Dorothy Hayden, as well as the rest of the Theta backfield, could not handle Mary Ann’s cannonballs until nearly the end of the game. Martha Hock, Theta captain, deserves considerable mention. She has managed her team all sea son anti should receive much of the ci edit for their successful sea son. Tonight, Gerlinger hall will again be the scene of mu°h ex citement as the two all-star teams Cattle at 5 o'clock. Five Culprits Placed On Disciplinary Pr© The five boys who voluntarily confessed to the painting of green, and yellow "O s" on the Oregon State college memorial union, building have been placed on dis ciplinary probation for the re mainder of this term, Karl W. Ou thank, secretary of the student disciplinary committee, announced yesterday. They will also share the cost of removing the paint from the building. Another boy has been placed on disciplinary probation for both fall and winter terms for painting1 Benny the Beaver. IllS Signal Corps lineman and his comrades are X building and keeping open the telephone lines that help to coordinate attack and defense in every battle zone. ?sol only on land, but also at sea and in the air, telephone and radio equipment made by Western Electric is helping to bring Victory closer. 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