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Regrets Expressed At Soldiers' Leaving —See Page 2 Winter Honor Roll Increased by 30 —See Page 4 ;VOLUME XLV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 15, 1944 NUMBER ;•) ^ —Courtcsv Oregon Journal TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS .... • • • of success on the campus, this group of YWCA workers and the whole campus will observe the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the YWCA at the I'nivcrsify, Special guest will be .Mrs. \V. (!. Beattie, the first president of the group when it was organized in 1894. Shown here are, from left, Joan l)olph, new president; Virginia Beattie, cabinet member; Mrs. Beattie, and Mrs. Elizabeth Fox DeCou, executive secretary. Back row, from left, Beverly Padgham, outgoing president; Mrs. V. X. Freeman, advisory board member, and Sirs. William Jones, advisory board member. YWCA To Open Golden Anniversary Fete 1 omorrow; Birthday Cake on I ap ^^Congratulations and a birthday cake with 50 candles*will be in older tomorrow as the YWCA on the campus opens a two-day cele bration of its 50th anniversary. Thursday afternoon the program will open with a student assembly at 4 o’clock in the music building auditorium. Joan Dolph, YWCA president-elect, will preside. The entire campus and all local people are invited. Honored guest for the affair will be Mrs. W. G. Beattie, organizing president of the Y when it came into existence on the campus 50 years ago. She will be escorted by liSiiwg'randniece, Virginia Beattie, sophomore in liberal arts. Another special guest will be Mrs. F. L. Chambers, a member of the original Y group here. -She will be escorted by her granddaughter, Leslie Brockelbank, junior in lib eral arts. Speaker at the anniversary assembly will be H. L. Dillin of Linfield college. His topic will be •’What Tomorrow Holds.” Mrs. Wm. C. Jones will introduce the speaker. Also giving brief talks will be Beverly Padgham, present YWCA president, and Mrs. Elizabeth Fox DeCou, executive secretary of the Members of the sophomore com mission of the YWCA will usher under the direction of June John son, president of the group. Helen Luvaas will be at the organ to furnish special music. The invoca tion will be given by Dr. R. E. Cushman. A fireside will be held in the YWCA bungalow Thursday even ing at 7 with the freshman com mission and the girl reserves in charge of arrangements. Ann Scripter and Marie Morgan will be the co-chairmen acting for these gffcups. Lois Clause, vice-president elect of the Y, will preside at the first half of this program which -has been planned in two parts, the first part concluding at 7:30 so j (Please turn to page three) Courtesy Register-Guard GEORGE TURNBULL Turnbull Made Dean Pro Tem George Turnbull, professor of journalism for 27 years and ad viser for the Emerald for most of that time, was appointed acting dean of the journalism school at the state board of higher education meeting yesterday. He will suc ceed his good friend, Dean Eric \V. Allen, who died March 5. . “I feel honored that I have been selected to carry on in this situa tion,” he said. “Of course, no one could be found really to take Dean Allen’s place. My immediate task is to carry out his projects and policies along the line he planned. “I think that this is not the time for one so new on the job to be very specific about just what he is hoping to do. I have had a fine op portunity to observe Dean Allen's high ideals and effective methods. I believe in them and for the im mediate present I can do no better (Please turn to page four) Junior Weekend Theme ContesJ: Closes Friday Canoe fetes are out for the dura aion. So is the splendid pageantry of the Arabian Nights and the South American Way. The magic and costly color which have typi fied Junior Weekend celebrations at Oregon in the past have been put aside. This year Junior Weekend will be on a strictly wartime schedule and budget. But the ideas will be just as good, and the entertain ment will bo just as bright and sparkling as it has been in the past,. Friday at 5 p.m. is the last time that themes for the weekend can be submitted to Blanche Svoboda, chairman of the contest. Entrants should remember to place their en tries in envelopes and put their names only on the envelope, (Please turn to page three) Two airplanes, a P~51 Mustang pursuit plane and a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber, will be sponsored by the University of Oregon with the $260,360 worth of bonds sold during last term's drive. A decalcomanie dedicatory panel with the University of Ore gon, Eugene, Oregon, on it will be sent to the factory to Bond Sellers Paced by UO According to all reports in the Treasury department so far, the University of Oregon topped the nation in last term’s war bond drive. R. W. Coyne, field director of the war finance division, in a letter to Mrs. F. W. Blum, chair man of the schools-at-war program said, “I am sending under sep arate cover some marked copies of the campus clip sheet. These indicate achievements which have been considered outstanding up to this time. Oc course, the sales rec ord of the University of Oregon overshadows these reports.” Other schools which are high on the list are still way behind the §260,360 total sold on the campus in a. 10-day drive during the fourth war loan drive. Southern California sold §100,000 worth, UCLA. $137, 000, Marquette university $50,000 and the University of Minnesota, $8,000. Students who worked on the committee backing the drive were Jean Fridigcr, chairman of the campus war board; Mary Bentley, BWOC speaker's committee; Anne Craven, publicity; Florence Hint zen and Bibbitls Strong, judges; Phyllis Horstman and Mary Bush, memorial fund; Barbara McClung, signs; Beverly Goetz, servicemen; Yvonne Torgler and Marty Beard, program, and Marge Allingliam, secretary. Enrollment Totals 1255 By Tuesday night 1255 stu dents had registered in com parison with 1811 at the same time last year. This is a 31 per cent decrease. Of the 1255 reg istered, 207 are men and 1018 are women. Star Ezio Pinza’s Operatic Triumphs Begun in Rome. Repeated in America Student Interest Shown In Short Story Contest Contributions arc now coming in for the Marshall - Case - Haycox short story contest, announced Professor W. F. G. Thacher, who is in charge, and many more are expected before the March 20 dead line. Prizes aggregating 5100, prob ably to be given in three groups, $50, $30, and $20, will be awarded o the winners. Two copies of the manuscript must be submitted by each con testant, although one may be car bon. The author's name should not be on the manuscript, but on the face of the envelope. With a long scries of successes behind him as one of this genera tion's foremost basso singers, Ezio Pinza will appear at McArthur court, Monday, March 20, under the auspices of the educational ac tivities board. He made his operatic .debut in "Tristan" at the Teatro Rca.lle del! 'Opera in Rome, where he re mained for two years. |He has sung under Arturo Toscanini, and played several successful roles in Italy. In 1926 he came to this country, and, following his initial appearance with the Metropolitan in New York, was an immediate success. In addition to the Metro politan, he has appeared with the Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Montreal Opera com panies. He has a repertoire of over (Continued from {•age three) j be placed in each plane and a copy j of the panels will be sent to the j campus. Sponsoring the planes conies un der a regular governmental pro ! gram in which a school may "buy" : any one of six planes in accord lance with the total amounts pin - | chased in war stamps and bonds. The P-51 ($75,000) is one of tho i high-altitude fighters and is the | fastest airplane in the world at any altitude. Powered by a single, 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled 1,525 h.n. engine, and equipped with two speed, two-stage supercharger, the P-51 has a speed above 400 mi!< a per hour. It has a wing span of 37 feet and is 32 feet long. The Mustang is being built for bot?\ the American air forces and the British RAF. One of the most effective attack bombers, the B-25 (175,000) wad the first United States Army bomber to sink an axis U-boat. It has a maximum speed of over 300 miles per hour and a cruising range of over 2,500 miles. Tho Mitchell was recently equippe I with a. new all-metal nose section in which two .50 caliber machine guns and a 75-ram cammon have been installed. This is the first j time a plane has carried so largo a cannon, and is has proved par ! Please turn to pcie/c three) Betty Coed, Joe College To Rule This Saturday At Sophomore Dance Betty Coed and Joe College, tra ditional representatives of college social life, will reign again Satui day, March 18 at the annual sopho more dance. Ushering in the offi cial spring, March 20, the theme of the dance is ‘‘Spring Fever." Candidates for Betty Coed have already been chosen. All civilian men are eligible for the title of Joe College. Time and place for judging will be announced later. Men may grow beards, but no offi cial judging on the best crop of whiskers will be done this year. Popular recordings o the best in bands will supply th music in lieu of an orchestra, and short silks will be worn. Newly appointed chairman heads are Nannette Holmes, -wphomore in liberal arts, chaperons; and Mary Corrigan, sophomore in journalism, tickets. There will bo representa tives in the soldiers’ living quartern to sell tickets. Civilian studentn* will obtain their tickets from mem bers of Skull and Dagger, sopho more men’s honorary. Riordan Commissioned Lieutenant Stanley L. Riordan, who graduated from the Univer sity in 1938, has repor ted for duty at the Carlsbad army air field; Carlsbad, New Mexico. He wan commissioned Decmber 9, 1942, upon completion of officers’ candi date school at Miami Beach, Florida.