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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1944)
VOLUME XLV NUMBER 61~ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25. 1944 IRENE GRESHAM . . . • • Oregon’s “Bonds Away Girl” and Arnie Mills, master of ceremonies of Saturday’s program shown just after the selection of Miss Gresham was announced. Love and Marriage Discussion Sunday Sunday, January 30 is the date set for the annual Love -■end Marriage series on the campus when students and faculty members will have an opportunity to get together and discuss problems relating to love and marriage questions of all students. The meeting will be at 2:30 in the afternoon. Dr. R. R. Huestis, professor of zoology, speaking on the biological angle, j-/. o. dcc, cLssi&LrtiiL pruiessur of sociology, the psychological angle, and Dr. Wesley G. Nichol son, on the religious aspects, will lead the discussion. Following this main assembly, individual meetings will be held in all the houses either Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday nights. These will be in the form of fire side meetings and each house will 4fciye a choice of leaders for the discussion. Some of the leaders will be Dr. R. E. Cushman, professor of re ligion; Mrs. E. E. DeCou, secre tary of the YWCA; Mrs. Jim Bry ant, director of Westminster house; Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel; Mrs. William Jones, wife of Professor William Jones, head of the political science de partment; Mrs. Carl Kossack, (Please turn to page three) Red Cross Cup ■Rotates Monthly The house which earns the most hours each month working for the Red Cross will receive a cup, acording to Jean Frideger, chair man of the campus war boaid. The cup will not become a per manent possession of the house but will rotate from house to house. Last week the Chi Omegas earned the most hours with 51 and Sigma Kappa and Casablanca lodge were second or third with and 19 hours respectively. ^ This week's schedule is as fol lows: Tuesday, Hillcrest, Hilyard; Wednesday, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Thursday, Laurel, Lombardy; Friday, Mill, Pi Beta Phi; Saturday, Rebec, Sigma Kappa. Casaba Games Net Two Wins Oregon basketball teams won two and lost one in games played over the weekend. The civilian Ducks lost their fourth conference game to Washington, 56 to 47 Sat urday night, the ASTU quintet beat Willamette 44 to 39 Saturday night, and the air corps’ “Mets” ran down Rubenstein’s Oregon ians to the tune of 52 to 36 Sunday afternoon. The Washington-Oregon game was the tightest conference game played on the Igloo floor this sea son. Only six players from either side got in the game and five of these made 14 points or better— three from Washington and two from Oregon. Hamilton of Oregon held high scoring honors with 19 points. Also for Oregon was Phil lips with 17. High for Washington were Mallory and Mar, both with 16. Also at the 14 mark was Nich ols. Half Lead In the first half Oregon led all the way until just before the half ended, although by never more than 4 points. The second half saw Washington pull away until at one time they had a 10 point lead. The Oregons were not fast enough to keep up with the Hus kies so they changed from a man to-man defense to a zone defense. Washington with great passing skill kept pulling the man who was supposed to check under the net away and then sending a man in to make the basket. Playing a losing ball game for (Please turn to page three) $260,360 Title Won byTri-Delt Portland Bond Rally Planned Oregon's bond sales climbed to $260,360 Satur day noon at the close of the war board-sponsored :ampus drive and Irene Gresham, Delta Delta Delta, received the title of “Bonds Away Girl" after a close contest in which the top five girls changed' from day to day. The winner was picked from the five finalists by a committee composed of Anse Cornell, man ager of athletics, L. K. Shumaker, director of low er division advisory group, Lt. Col. Worth Wicker, 70th division, Camp Adair and Glenn Hasselrooth, Register-Guard reporter. The stars and veterans who put on the bond battalion progam Saturday afternoon were scheduled to serve as judges, but were unable to do so because they had to leave for a program in Salem. According to a letter received by Jean Frideger,, chairman of the campus war board, the treasury department is planning a, program for Miss Gres ham in Portland. The letter was signed by David Eccles. executive manager of the treasury depart ment, Oregon war finance committee of Portland. The other four finalists were: Jean Carkin, Alpha Omicron Pi. -IS,025: Sue Stater, Delta Gum ma, 31.S75: Jean Villain, Alpha Delta Pi, 28,075; Betty Sprague. Kappa Alpha Theta. Miss Gresh harn received 20,800 votes. The finalists received ?orsag'es and Miss Gresham received a bouquet cf roses from Chase gardens and a. bracelet from, Skeie’s jewelry store. Army Will Get Together for Military Dance By SHAUN McDERMOTT For the first time since the army initiated its various pro grams at the University of Ore gon. the ASTU, including Engi neers, Foreign Area and Lan guage students, and ROTC, are combining efforts and are going to sponsor the formal Military Ball, which will be held February 5 in McArthur court with Owen Bailey and the GI orchestra sup plying the music. Since the days of early summer plans have been springing up among the soldiers and students to hold a formal which would com pare with, if not surpass, the vari ous dances of pre-war days. With the augmentation of the military personnel in tire past few months hopes have turned into reality, and the various social committees, with Lt. Dwight H. Near as mil itary social adviser, are now plan ning arrangements. Though the program is still in (Please turn to l'a;ie three) No Snow or Ice Contrary to '43 January 24, 1943: Maximum 26°; minimum 9°. January 24, 1944: Maximum temperature 46c; minimum 37°. Last year January 24 was tlie coldest day of 1943 according to the Eugene weather bureau rec ords. On that day there was eight inchs of snow in Eugene and the weather was reported as “snow ing and light fog-’ with precipita tion at .13. Yesterday, from the meteoro logist’s point of view, there was a "showering conditon,--’ similar to the same day of 1942 when the maximum temperature was 54; minimum 40; and it snowed one minute and shone the next. Dr. Morris Plans Confab Tentative* plans are being made for a Pacific coast confer ence of the Sarnegie-Endowed International Helations club on the Iniversity of Oregon cam pus, aeording to Dr. Victor P. Morris, dean of the schoot of business administration. He stated that definite plans can not be made until a letter off confirmation is received freive the Institute. The total victory Teague, re cently organized on the campus under the sponsorship of the Please turn to /'age jour) Vandeneynde Elected Prexy Of UO Dads; Averill Retires At their annual business meeting held in Guild theater1 Saturday afternoon with President Ed. F. Averill in the chair, the Oregon Dads: 1. Voted to promote and support national and state legis lation designed to assist returning soldiers to resume and com plete their interrupted education; Orientor’ Carveth Wells To Lecture Thursday P.M. Carveth Wells, distinguished explorer, author and engi neer, is scheduled to appear at an all campus assembly Thurs day, 8:45 in MacArthur court. He will lecture on the subject ‘‘Countries Behind the Battlefronts." Professor of engineering in London, railroad builder in Canada, surveyor in Malaya, explorer in Central Africa, lecturer CARVETH WELLS and at various other times soldier, naturelist, motion picture produc er Carveth Wells is the most ef fective public speaker available, according to Karl W. Onthank, chairman of the assembly com mitttee of the University. As an official orientation lectur er for the war department, Mr. Wells spent most of spring' and summer, 1912. speaking- about Africa to officers and men in camps all over America. The bu reau of public relations of the war department says of him: “He has been graded ‘top notch’ in every camp where he has appeared.” All University students, faculty and townspeople are invited to attend this one-hour lecture which is being incorporated into the study course of ASTU students. ■ M l I 11!|| me .'Mothers' suggestion of a mem orial scholarship in honor of Pir. Donald M. Erl>, late president of file Ini versify; H. Elected officers and mem bers of the executive committee; I. Passed a resolution express ion the organization's deep sees© of loss in the untimely death ef Dr. Erl). 5. Heard Yefim; President Or lando John Hollis's informal state ment of liis ideas of how the Uni versity should carry on at one-# its educational program for regular civilian students coming in from the high schools and it*? program for the returned soldier whose education had le i u Inter rupted by the war. It was decided to have the or ganization write and < -■ ... n >ricr w rite the members of . ■ Oregon congressional delegation . : 1. e in terest of legislation to ;•> I : teran soldiers in carrying for their educational program T;.-' mem bers a re to be asked, t . < •* write the chairmen of comtvj‘.*» con sidering such leg,sin r! • , ging their favorable cot 1 tion, Soldier Aid 1 It was the im let: .g cf those present then M- t ..te leg }'lease turn lo £ , )