"Cannery Row'
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945
Rise Stevens
Due May 2
. . . see col. T
VOLUME XLVI
NUMBER 108
Council Dockets
Conklin Sign-off
Upon her return to the campus,
Audrey Holliday, ASUO president,
Monday commented on Gene Conk
lin’s announcement that he intends
to resign as student union chair
ram. Said Miss Holliday: “Until
such time as Mr. Conklin presents
his resignation to the executive
council, and is accepted, he will
nominally remain student union
chairman.”
The council will meet at 4 o’
clock this afternoon.
RISE STEVENS
Concert Series Stars
Ijtise Stevens May 2
Rise Stevens, young American singing start of opera, concert,
radio, and motion picture fame, will be heard in McArthur
court Wednesday, May 2, at 8:15 p.m. under the auspices of the
Eugene civic music association. Seventh number of the civic
series, this concert will be open to members and University
Vesper Choir
Plans Concert
For April 27
To pay expenses of a trip Sun
day, April 29, to sing in a concert
at Reed college, the vesper choir
is selling tickets for a concert in
the school of music auditorium
Friday, April 27, at 8 p.m. John
ette King, Hendricks hall, is ticket
sale chairman, and tickets, costing
35 cents each, should be secured
from her by Wednesday.
The concert is varied to include
two groups of sacred music, two of
secular music, and a fifth of more
modern tunes. Early English mu
sic, folk tunes, and campus tunes
will be sung.
Assisting Helen Luvaas, director,
"Still be Betty J. Taylor, accompan
ist, and Thelma Wick, Jerine New
house, and Enid Smith, soloists. In
contrast to the choir selections,
the University string quartet will
played a Haydn quartet.
Today’s World
MARSHAL STALIN proclaim
ing Russian entry into Berlin,
announced the fall of Frankfurt
on the Oder and said Red army
troops were within four miles of
the heart of the German capital.
^AMERICAN INFANTRYMEN
on southern Okinawa have killed
11,738 Japanese. Enemy losses
were announced by Adm. Ches
ter W. Nimitz in a communique
which also reported the destruc
tion of 126 planes in the Okin
awa area.
ALLIED TROOPS of the 15th
group have smashed to the river
Po at several points, while units
of the British 5th and 8th armies
roared in the same direction.
# * *
THE UNITED STATES would
retain control of strategic Paci
fh^bases after the war under a
compromise trusteeship plan re
ported under study for presenta
tion to the United Nations con
ference.
students only.
Born in New York City of Nor
wegian and American parents, Rise
(pronounced Reezuh) has been
singing ever since she appeared as
a ten-year-old prima donna on a
local radio program. Later she
sang in an opera comique series
as the leading lady and when only
10 she started serious vocal work
with Mme. Schoen-Rene. She sup
plemented this by a three-year
course at the Juilliard school of
music.
Turned Down Bid
Miss Stevens had the courage
and good sense to turn down her
first bid from the Metropolitan
opera and an offer from Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer. Instead she went
abroad for further study, toured
Europe and South America, and
Revolutionary Changes Made in Plans
For 7th War Loan Drive; Four Days
Intensive Action Must Total $108,000
fjuni&i l/Oeelzend Schedule
The schedule of events for the 55th annual Junior Weekend
was announced today by Co-chairmen Ed Allen and Jean Kirk
wood. Following the theme “Mardi Gras,” events planned
promise three days packed full of fun and excitement for the
campus. The scheduled events are:
Thursday, May 8
All Campus Clean-up
Friday, May 4
Oregon Mothers' meeting in Gerlinger . 2:30
State Execeutive Board in Gerlinger . 2:30
Water Pageant by the Amphibians
Dinner at living organizations . 6:00
All-Campus Sing in the Igloo .-. 8:00
Saturday, May 5
Oregon Mother's meeting in Guild Theater . 10:00
Baseball game (Law School vs. B.A. School) athletic field . 2:30
Mardi Gras parade . 4:00
All-Campus picnic . 5:00
Coronation of the queen ... 5:00
Junior Prom in the Igloo. 9:00
Sunday, May 6
Church services. 11:00
Dinner at living organizations. 1:00
Sunlight Serenade at Music School . 3:30
Committee chairmen for the weekend are: Ed Allen and Jean Kirk
wood, co-chairmen; Mary Margaret Ellsworth, coronation; Betty Butler
and Anita Young, publicity; Joann Holstad, executive secretary; Char
lotte Calder, finance; Janet Douglas, tickets; Ann Van Valzah, cam
pus picnic; D. Lu Simonsen, All-Campus Sing; Signe Eklund, Junior
Prom; Bob Hamilton, traditions; Mary Corrigan, campus clean-up;
Jim Lund, baseball game; and Beverly Ayer, queen selection.
returned with wide stage experi
ence and critical laurels. She was
now ready for the Metropolitan,
and made her debut as Octavian in
“Rosenkavalier.” The news maga
zine, Time, hailed it “the most suc
cessful debut,” and wrote that “for
her, even the morosest critic pro
phesies an expansive future.”
(Please turn to page four)
FLYING FILM
“Cannons on Wings," a film on
the airplane industry, will be
shown at 7:30 tonight in 207
Chapman hall, under the spon
sorship of the school of business
administration. All students are
invited to attend. The show is
open to the public.
Courtesy Register-Guard
SPROUTED WINGS AND FLOWN AWAY—James C. Stovall, assistant professor of geography, has
trained over 620 pilots under the civilian pilot training program, and those who have gone to war among
them have won enough medals to cover the bulletin board pictured above with Mr. Stovall.
Stovall Collects Ex-Students’ Pin-ups
By MARYAN HOWARD
Even though his former CPT
students are scattered all over the
world in different branches of the
armed forces, James C. Stovall,
assistant professor of geography,
still keeps up correspondence with
them. To prove it, he has photo
graphs of over 120 of the men and
women whom he trained to fly and
he claims they have won more than
enough medals to cover his bulletin
board.
Under the civilian pilot training
program, which began on the cam
pus in October, 1939, Stovall acted
as coordinator in training students
here in such ground school courses
as aero-dynamics and in actual
flight training at the Eugene air
port. After July, 1942, the flight
training was moved to Klamath
Falls since after war began it was
prohibited west of the Cascade
mountains.
Both men and women could en
roll in the CPT program and after
meeting its requirements the men
could enlist in any of the armed
services as a cadet, with the chance
of becoming an officer soon. After
July, 1942, however, the men were
required to enlist first and then
take flight training.
Stovall has trained over 620 pi
lots under the CPT, and their suc
| cess may be judged by the fact
l that in the first five of his groups
to enter the army air corps, not
one of his students washed out,
By MARILYN SAGE
With a record-breaking prece*
dent set for them by previous Uni*
versity of Oregon bond campaigns,
the committee for the seventh war
loan drive has revealed its blue
prints. ■
In five ways will the seventh war
loan drive differ from the sixth,
according to Bernice Granquist,
chairman of the campaign of May
8 to 12.
First, the campus goal has been
set at $108,000, which means that
in the future, somewhere in the
Pacific theater, an F4U Corsair
navy fighter bought by Oregon
students will see action. A panel
in the plane will inform the crew
of the fact—if the drive quota is
met.
Second, there will be no down
town soliciting. All bonds and
stamps to be counted in the cam
paign must be purchased at the
Co-op from Mrs. Gerda Brown, who
will handle the actual selling in the
drive. Students are urged to write
their parents immediately for
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Student Power
Recomnended
By PCPAMeet
By JEANNE SIMMONDS
That student government should
be a definite and powerful admin
istrative body on each campus was
one of the conclusions reached by
representatives of 18 northwest
colleges and universities when they
met for a Pacific Students Presi
dents’ association conference last
weekend. The University of Ore
gon delegates to the Seattle meet
ing were Audrey Holliday, ASUO
president, and Joseph Grimm, sen
ior representative on student
council.
The association, formerly a
coast-wise organization, during
wartime has divided the schools
and universities into regional
groups.
Also resolved by the delegates
was that the college papers should
be student controlled, and should
be allowed to criticize the execu
tive council. An Oregon-sponsored
plan for an intercollegiate sym
posium, substituted for interschool
debates, was initiated. The Univer
sity would be the headquarters for
this group and the meeting ground
of other schools during discussions
of country- and world-wide prob
lems.
A furthering of university and
community fellowship was a point
stressed at the discussion. Due to
the university’s importance to the
community, a coordinating body
was suggested that would bring the
two groups into closer relation
ship. Community problems could
be investigated by students under
this system, and, under the tute
lage of professors, could be solved
by the students.
More authority should be rele
gated to the students by the ad
ministration, it was suggested at
the meeting. Although the admin
istration should retain a veto pow
er at all times, more actual stu
dent government should be exer
cized, the council concluded.