Acting President
To Be Chosen Today
—See Column 5
Conference Games
Begin Friday Night
—See Duck Tracks
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1944
VOLUME XLV
NUMBER 43
WAA Fun Night Offers Coeds
Variety of Sports—With Food
The girl’s gym in Gerlinger hall will be open to all coeds Friday
evening, January 7, from 7:30 until 9:30 for the second WAA Fun
Nig** of the school year.
Detailed plans for this event were completed at a meeting' of the
WAA cabinet Tuesday afternoon, with promises of “a sport to please
everyone, and food besides”.
On the main floor of the gym two games of basketball will be
played. Tumbling and gymnastics will be on the stage, making use of
the famous characters, “The Buck” and “The Horse”.
A variety of games will be found in the social room, including
card games, bingo, darts, and checkers. Table tennis and shuffleboard
will be played on the sun porch, and there will be square dancing in
the dance room.
The outdoor gym will offer badminton, volleyball, and deck ten
nis.
The swimming pool will be open, and Miss Helen Petfoskey,
WAA adviser, stated that “This time there will be less chlorine in
the pool, and the water will be cooler.” Girls may wear their own
suits.
According to Beverly Goetz, WAA president, the “biggest ham
burtjers that money can buy—with everything -will be on sale, along
with’ cokes.”
Morse to Speak
On WLB Policy
Wayne L. Morse, dean of the
law school and public member of
the national war labor board, will
give a public address before the
chamber of commerce forum Fri
day noon, January 7, at the Eu
gene hotel. The meeting is open
to all interested.
I^an Morse’s topic will be
“Stabilizing Policies of the WLB”,
including some brief impressions
of Washington, D. C. He has re
cently returned from a seven
months’ visit to the capital where
he appeared as a member of the
war labor board.
ROTC Man Defie
Schmaltz Fans;
He Bought a Harp
By TED GOODWIN
Defying the "You can't take it
with yous” and scoffing at the
army’s hardships, Pfc. Jim Gib
son, ROTC, nightly fills the halls
of Company D with the vibrant
strains of harp music. Not harp,
mouth, or harp, jews, but real,
live,' palpitating deep throated
chords like those that through
Tara's halls, or “The Human Com
edy” sounded.
Jim is a die hard, he admits it.
At Camp Roberts last summer
while the terrain burned and the
world sang of pistol packin,’ Jim
fiddled. He fiddled with a venge
ance. For one thing he refused to
play schmaltz like his public de
rruy^ded drove most of them to the
PX with his renditions that last
year made him one of the fair hair
ed boys of the music school. There
were those few in Roberts who en
joyed arias and such but even
they wondered at his most pro
gressive move to date.
The company was on the dry
| range and in Camp Roberts that
means dry. Ah, but were deviat
ing. One private remarked that
he had spent something like 25
bucks in San Francisco that week
end when Jim quietly announced,
“I spent $1,500.”
^tWhat’n’ell for!’’ Everyone
gathered around.
“Bought a harp.” That settled
it, he’d bought a harp and the
company went back to dry firing.
That rather pretentious instru
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Red Cross
Room Opens;
Help Needed
The Red Cross room on the third
floor of Gerlinger hall will be
open from 3 to 5 p. m. today, Carol
Wicke, head of the Red Cross,
said. Girls should wear cotton
dresses or blouses and cotton ker
chiefs.
Miss Wicke announced that a
total of 1800 bandages were roll
ed last term.
At the present time there are
only three instructors, Marty
Beard, Mary Minor, and Mary
Stanley. Former instructors who
are planning to take the refresh
er course Saturday morning,
should go to the Red Cross room
Thursday to practice, Miss Wicke
said.
Besides the girls who roll band
ages, there are 20 girls knitting
watch caps for the navy. Miss
Wicke stated that these caps
should be finished by the end of
this month.
Feature Writers
To Meet Today
All students who are now writ
ting feature stories and columns
for the Emerald are asked to at
tend a meeting of the feature staff
in the editor’s office in the journ
alism building at 5 o’clock this
afternoon. All who have written
columns for the Emerald in the
past or who would like to write
feature stories are also invited.
Dads Urged
To Reserve
Seats Early
Despite obstacles, there will be
a Dad's day luncheon as usual this
year although it will be under
slightly different circumstances.
Rationing and the problems pre
sented by having the army using
the usual dining room employed
for such affairs, did cause trouble,
but it was all solved finally by de
ciding to have the affair at a
downtown dining room.
The luncheon, which will ac
tually be a banquet, will take
place at the Eugene hotel at 1:30
p. m., January 22. Reservations
should be, made as far in advance
as possible, Jean Taylor, chair
man of the luncheon committee,
said Wednesday. Tickets are SI
per person and reservations should
be made at the dean of men's of
fice.
Ernest Haycox, well-known au
thor of western fiction, will be the
guest speaker at the program and
other entertainment will be an
nounced later.
Reservations for the luncheon
can either be made by students
on the campus or sent in advance
by parents. Mothers are welcome
at the affair, too. All fathers have
already been sent a copy of the
Oregon News letter which tells
about the luncheon and has a cou
pon which can be sent to the dean's
office to make reservations.
Hotel reservations for parents
coming to Eugene for the Dad's
celebration should be made as
soon as possible, according to Bob
iHemphill, general chairman of
Dad's day.
Mailing Service
Reduces Hours
With fewer students mailing
packages since the holidays are
over, the package forwarding
service in the Co-op store will op
erate only four days a week in
the future, no service being offer
ed Tuesday or Thursday.
On other days the service will
be carried on as usual with the
service opens from 3 to 5 on Mon
day, Wednesday, and Friday aft
ernoons and from 10 to 12 Satur
day morning.
The mail service takes pack
ages to the post office, charging
a rate of 1 cent a pound, with a 5
cent minimum.
Prexy to be Picked Today
Two Days Left
To Purchase
Ball Tickets
With two days left until tlio
Senior Ball makes its appearance
Saturday night at McArthur
court, the dance committee met
yesterday with Dean Hazel P.
Schwering, Mrs. Alice B. Mac
duff and Dean Virgil D. Earl to
cheek over final plans and to dis
cuss reports of each chairman.
According to Mary Wright, the
tickets are still going fast, but
they will be available for pur
chase at the door Saturday eve
ning and may be bought this week
in the educational activities of
fice located in McArthur court.
Tickets sell for $1.10 a couple,
Miss Wright stated.
The dance will feature the music
of a Portland band, Bill Fisher,
and intermission time will be
highlighted by two announce
ments. General Chairman Char
line Felly will award an order of
phonograph records to the ticket
representative and organization
who have the greatest percentage
of sales. She will also announce the
name of the nian who has sold
the most tickets to the dance and
he will be rewarded by a kiss from
Janet Marugg, the Oregon Dream
Girl.
The Senior Ball committee is
asking all seniors interested in
decorating for the dance to be at
the Igloo Saturday morning to
help. Decorations will be simple
but effective, declare co-chair
men Sue Sawyer and Edith On
thank, and will carry out the
“June in January” theme.
Duck Hoopmen Travel
For Northern Tilts
The University of Oregon
basketball team pulled out of Eu
gene at 6 a. m. this morning en
route to Seattle. They will meet
the University of Washington
Huskies Friday night and Satur
day night in the first northern
division conference games for
both squads.
Coach Hobson announced that
his probable starting lineup would
consist of Bob Caviness and Dick
Humphreys, forwards, George
Bray, center, and Bob Hamilton
and Bill Phillips, guards.
Captain William Regan, Marine Corps Flier,
Reports on Dive Bombing of Jap Positions
The invasion of Bougainville
was made possible in part by dive
bomber pilots like Captain Wil
liam Paul Regan, student of the
University in 1940, who has just
returned from aerial action in the
South Pacific to the marine corps
air depot, Miramar, California.
Captain Regan has participated
in 36 missions against Japanese
shipping and ground operations.
In giving an account of the dis
embarkation at Empress Augusta
bay, he said, “We were ordered to
take part in the invasion and
busied ourselves by dropping
smoke bombs as our boys landed.
When the Jap counter-attack be
gan we strafed their troops at a
low altitude. This interference
gave our troops the opportunity
to organize a strategic beach
head.”
As part of a flight sent out to
intercept a Jap task force off
Rendova island, Captain Regan
assisted in the sinking of a de
stroyer.
‘‘I made the first dive and my
bomb hit just off the bow,” he re
counted. “Two pilots behind me
had better luck and they both
made direct hits.
“After pulling out of the dive we
started to make our rendezvous,
when we were attacked by 30
Zeroes. One of them gave me a
close chase.”
Captain Regan, who was in
formed of his recent promotion
to captain upon his arrival in Cali
fornia, withdrew from the Uni
versity to receive his flight train
ing at Jacksonville, Florida. Ho
won his wings at Miami, Florida,
in July, 1942. He is a member of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Oregon's next president will
be chosen at a meeting of the
state beard of higher educa
tion, today in Portland. At
that time, the board will dis
cuss recommendations made
by Frederick M. Hunter,
chancellor of the state sysj
tern of higher education, and
the advisory council, repre
sentative group of faculty
members.
An acting president will be
chosen to preside over the
University until such time as
the board selects a permanent
president.
Baker to Lead
Hop ice Cutting
Give W. R. Baker, assistant pio
fessor of physical education, a
crowd of people—sober, sweet,
dull, dramatic —the wider the var
iety the better as long as they’re
all out for fun, and he'll break the
ice in any arena. As recreational
director for Emerson Fosdick’a
Riverside non-denominational
church in New York, he proved
that he can do it. Mr. Baker will
lead the, dancing- at the ISA Can
teen mixer Saturday, January 35.
While living in New York City,
he was called upon to "get things
going” among groups of old men,
young men and women, children,
and women's groups. Parties from
the public high schools and priv
ate schools in the city proper and
in Harlem, were combined, under
his hand, and everybody, unless ho
was descended from a long lino
of wallflowers and corner-warm
ers, had strictly a good time.
A graduate of University off
Oregon, Mr. Baker went east after
receiving his degree, earned his
master's degree at Columbia uni
versity, and then taught at Colum
bia high school in South Orange,
New Jersey. While at Oregon, he
played varsity baseball for three
years, soccer, and was well-known
in most athletics. He worked as
freshman baseball coach for
awhile after graduation.
"As to mixers, I can mix them
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Vested Choir Sets
Recital for Sunday
Pvt. Lyle Larson, of the air
corps, will be guest soloist with
the all girls vested choir under
direction of Helen Luvaas, sopho
more in music, Sunday, January
9, at 5:00 in the school of niuslo
auditorium.
Father Bartlam, Saint Mary’s
Episcopal church, will give the
meditations-. The service is inter
denominational and is sponsored
by the student religious council
on the campus.
Included in the serve . _ "'The
Lord’s Prayer" by Malt ' Hess
This House” by Brahe. t ; hi:io
Eyes" by Mendelssohn . b eau
tiful Savior" by C > .. ..sen,
which will be present u ;y Pvt.
Larson and the chon.
Retta J. Rippey is to b- ! r_ or
ganist.. Westministi r hou e :s in
charge of decoration- • •.bora
of the air corps wii i . s ush
ers for the service.