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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.