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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1944)
VOLUME XLV NUMEBR 56 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1944 Pin-up Girl, Heroes, Comedian on Tap At Saturday Sale National Pin-Up Girl Ramsay Ames, along with Edgar Kennedy, popular comedian, and five war heroes will be on the campus Saturday, boosting the sale of bonds by a specially arranged program in McArthur court. The Hollywood Bond battalion, consisting of Ramsay Ames, Edgar Kennedy, Captain John S. Young, US army, Ser geant Lloyd B. Seeney, IS army, boatswain mate 1st class J. 1’. Nixon, US navy, Sergeant Edward J. Burma!), US marine corps and seaman first class J. J. Roybol, US navy will parade from the Eu gene hotel to McArthur court. Admission will be by a $25 war '■^fcfnd, servicemen admitted free. The five war heroes who were wounded in action will tell of their experiences in battle. Miss Ames recently played in an Olson and Johnson production called “Crazy House” and Edgar Kennedy is known as the bald headed comedian who usually plays the part of a henpecked hus band. Tickets may be secured at any issuing agency for war bonds. Houses which have purchased war bonds for their candidate for “Bonds Away Girl” will receive a number of tickets corresponding to the amount of bonds bought. Gl’s Hand Lacing To Service Fives The stock of the ASTU 3920 cage squad shot high this week end as the Brainbusters defeated the highly touted Camp Adair Trailblazers 30 to 17 and romped over the Florence Coast Guard Station 68 to 38. The Army-Duck quintet stopped the Camp Adair offense with their zone defense and out-ran and outplayed the Ic^fest guard team. Saturday night the Army-Web foot five established themselves among the top teams on the coast by whipping the tough Trailblaz er five. The Trailblazers held the top-ranking Albina-Hellships to within one point of a tie. If the ASTU cagers can down the Wil lamette crew they will be in posi tion to challenge any team in the Northwest league. The game Sunday was preceed ed by a swing concert by Owen Bailey and his band. The innova tion proved highly successful as the crowd enjoying the mixture of jam and basketball. Stacks of Scrap Collected by A DPi’s “We worked like fiends!” com mented Jeanne Hall, Alpha Delta Pi, referring to last week’s paper drive, and as a result her house will receive the six records award ed by the war board to the winner. Gamma Phi Beta and Hilyard house were runners up in the scrap collection held in conjunc tion with Eugene’s special paper -?fnve. With the help of a dozen am bitous coeds and a large five-ton truck, Florence Hintzen and Bib bitts Strong, co-chairmen of the salvage committee, collected tons (Please turn to page four) Co. B Awarded Title of Wolves; Pi Phis Take Cup Company B. of the Engineers walked away with the “King of the Wolves” title with 3.5 tickets apiece at Saturday night’s Nickel Hop and Pi Beta Phi won top honors in the popularity poll for girls with a total of 445 dances, netting 522.25. Coming in a close second to the army was Campbell co-op which received honorable mention and vying for second and third places among the girls were Chi Omega with $18.40 and Delta Gamma with $16.40. The $5 prize of records for the Number One Wolves will be equal ly divided between the Phi Delt and SAE houses which composes Company B. Betty Ann Keup, representing Pi Beta Phi, received the silver trophy awarded to the winning girls’ house between halves of the Army-Coast Guard game Sunday. Tri Delt, Alpha Phi Lead "Bonds Away Girl" Race Annabel McArthur, Alpha Phi candidate, and Irene Gresham, Delta Delta Delta, are leading the race for the title of “Bonds Away Girl’’ with a total of 250 votes each. Lois McConkey, Alpha Chi Omega, is third with 25 votes. These are all in addition to the 25 votes rereived when the bond was bought as an entrance fee. To count, bonds must be bought between January 16 and 22. Russ- Yank Likes US. "I do not want to be called the Russian 'cellist any more," says Gregor Piatigorsky, the world factious virtuoso who appears here in recital Wednesday night at 8 p. m. “I am now an American cit izen. I have my home in the Adi rondacks, where my son was born. America is my spiritual as well as physical homeland now.'’ The veteran American 'cellist was born in Jekaterinoslaw, Rus sia, in 1903, and at 15 was solo violincellist of the imperial opera in Moscow. He made his first American tour in the autumn of 1929, scored an immediate success, and is now a great and popular figure in the musical life of the country. In the past 13 years Piatigorsky has played more concerts in the United States and Canada than any other ’cellist. He has given al most 600 ’cello recitals and played some 125 times as soloist with major American orchestras. Short Story Contest Deadline March E March 1 has been set as the deadline for entries in the annual Marshall-Case-Haycox short story contest. All stories are to be hand ed in to W. F. G. Thacher, pro fessor of English and advertising, by that date. The contest is open to any reg ularly enrolled undergraduate, ex-' cept previous prize-winners. Com petitors are limited to one orig inal short story, but there are no specifications as to length or subject. Each entry must be sub mitted in duplicate, but one copy may be a first carbon. The en tries should be typed, double spaced, on one side of the paper. The author's name must not appear on the story. It should be written on a piece of paper and put in an envelope, on the face of which appears the title of the story. Pr izes for the contest aggregate 5100, divided either into two or three awards. Judges will be an nounced later. Alums to Organize ‘Union’ Committee Oiogon alums agreed to "organize a committee which will work with the students to coordinate student union efforts” at their an nual homecoming meeting Saturday afternoon. This decision was reached after Nancy Ames. ASUO president, and Ann Leo, senior representative on the executive council and chairman of the student union committee, presented the up-to-date facts on the student union movement. Miss Ames advised the group that the students of '44 ha.ve a strong desire that the planning of the building should be facilitated as much as possible now so that when building materials are avail able, its erection will be completed quickly and easily. Mrs. Leo described the actual progress last term on the drive, including a description of actual funds now available, and the recent recommendations of the state board of higher education. Nominated for president for the organization were Dr. Blair Holcomb, Portland, and Lynn Parr, Marshfield. Election will be by mail and all ballots must be postmarked not later than February 2. Doris Hack, acting alumni secretary announced. Robert Miller, Portland, and Robert Lucas, Astoria, were nom inated for vice-president. The association passed a resolution honoring the memory of the late Dr. Donald M. Erb. Orlando J. Hollis, acting president of the University, was introduced and spoke briefly to the group. Edward Bailey, acting alumni president, assured Mr. Hollis of full support or the alumni association. Beavers Bow To Webfoots Oregon’s Webfoots trimmed Oregon State college Saturday night in McArthur court when they trampled the Beavers by a score of 52-33. It was Oregon's first triumph in conference play. The Ducks took the lead at the start of the game with a basket by George Bray, followed by one from Wally Borrevick. The score was then tied at 4, 6, 8 all. After the first 8 minutes Oregon pulled away and at halftime they had a lead of ten points with a. score of 22 to 12. Oregon State failed to penetrate the Webfoot defenses in the sec ond half and by the final five min utes of play the Oregon quintet was ahead with a score of 47 to 23. Hobson then sent in a team of sub stitutes which held their own until little "Happy'' Lee broke loose for 3 points in the last minute of play. Leading scorer Guard Bob Hamilton gave the Ducks 13 points, which were mostly one handed push-shots. Another high scorer for Oregon was Forward Em Danner with 10 points. The Beaver high scorer was Center Hal Buddy who had 11 points. Odeon Meeting Tonight All members of the Odeon com mittee will meet tonight in the symposium room upstairs in Friendly hall. Students Urged to Write Dads Now With Dad’s day just four days away, it’s time for all students to get on the boat and invite their | fathers and mothers to the campus for next Satur- j day, January 22, according to Bob Hemphill, gen- i eral chairman of the annual celebration. i Students were urged to write home last week I inviting both mothers and dads to come down, but I it is still not too late to get an airmail or special I delivery letter off that will serve as a personal ' invitation to the affair which will feature a Dad’s 1 luncheon at the Eugene hotel Saturday with Ernest Haycox, famous author of western stories, as guest speaker. Hotel reservations should be made immedi- i ately as the hotels are crowded every weekend. | Reservations for the 1 o’clock Saturday luncheon [ should be made immediately through the dean of j men’s office in Johnson hall, Jean Taylor, chair- j man of the luncheon, announced Monday. Mr. Haycox will talk to the luncheon group on the subject “Dads Belong to the Human Race,” and other special entertainment is being planned. Immediately following the luncheon the annual meeting of Oregon dads will take place in the Guild theater in Johnson hall. New officers will be elect ed at that time. At the right is a picture of Marian Schaefer, junior in business administration, and Norman Mannheimer, returned ROTC man, writing letters ;iome to invite their fathers down for the weekend event. juniors Meet Tonight All juniors will meet tonight in 105 journalism at 7:30 p. m., to discuss Junior weekend. Mar ian Gage, junior class president, stated that all juniors should attend the meeting-. Frosh Attempt UO Politics In their first bout with Oregon politics, freshmen will gather Thursday evening at 7:30 in Vil lard hall to adopt a constitution and nominate officers, Harry Skerry, ASUO first vice-president and in charge of elections, remind ed freshmen that they must have at least one-fifth of the members of the class present for a quorum. At the meeting, the constitution proposed by the ASUO executive council will be presented to the embryo politicians for their con sideration. It may be amended by the cla*ss at that time with one exception. The preferential ballot is required under the by-laws of the ASUO for all classes. Nominations for officers may be made up to the time of the meeting but must be accompanied with a certificate of elegibility and declaration to run. Elections* will be held Friday from 10 a. nil. to 3 p. m. Philosophical Essay To Win Rebec Prize The George Rebec prize of $25 will be awarded for the best essay on a philosophical subject submit ted by an undergraduate student this year. The essays must be sub mitted by March .15. Students may confer with members of the fa culty of the department of philos ophy on any question in regard to the preparation. General rules are: 1. the essay must conform to standards of good English, in spelling, punctua tion, syntax, and style. 2. it must be typed on one side of standard typewriting paper and should not exceed 10,000 words. 3. it may present any philoso phical view, provided it shows ade quate familiarity with the history and literature of the subject. 4. it must be a coherent and unified presentation of a single topic and not a series of arbitrary or disconnected opinions. 5. it must show genuine intel lectual effort on the part of the writer rather than simple com-* pilation from sources.