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Speech Squad Names Topics Robert. D. Clark, assistant pro cessor of speech and dramatic arts in the University, and director of the symposium, recently named the thirty students who will com prise the symposium squad this year. This quad, maintained by the ASUO, will speak in groups of two of three before any organiza tion in Oregon upon their request. Organizations interested in having them appear should contact Mr. Clark in the speech department. The topics under study for this term are the Columbia Valley Authority, and Pan-American re lations. The students will be pre pared to speak and lead discus sions on these subjects at the be ginning of winter term this Janu ary. Members of the CVA group are as follows: Dale Frederick and Arnold Porter, both of Eugene; Lewis Knight, Beverly Carroll. Donald Dole, Carolyn Jacobs, all of Portland; Dedo Misley, Oregon City; Leland Cramer, Rose burg; Ellen Riechers, Tillamook; Marylu Diamond, Boise, Idaho; and Jack Cummings, Berkeley, Calif. Preparing to discuss various phases of Pan American relations are the following students: Karen Martin and Robert Naper, both of Eugene; Sherley Morrison, Mary Jo Morton, Nancy Peterson, Shir ley Hough, Floyd Hinton, Sam Benveniste, Gordon Halstead, and Robert Van Vactor, all of Port land; Ann Brady, Nyssa; Robert Reeves and Barbara Bozorth, both of Salem; Barbara Wells, Indepen dence; Geneva Davis, Prineville; Kenneth Neal, Westfir; Della Jane , Cable, Hood River; Miriam Tes | arch, Opportunity, Wash., and I Elliott Motschenbacher, Roseburg. Speech Meet Director To Talk About Contest K. E. Montgomery, director of plans now underway for the Wil lamette Valley Forensic Institute being held here on December 8, will talk with students today at 4, at 107 Friendly. There are many opportunities for taking part in extemporaneous, oratorical, and after dinner speaking. All students who are interested in taking part in the contest should attend this meeting today or see Montgomery personally. This institute is a practice tour nament being held in preparation of four other contests which will be held at various times during the year. -^ack-the-Beanstalk (Continued from Page one) rate of about three feet every two or three minutes.” There is very little danger from the flow of lava, asserted the vol canologist, but dangerous near the base of the volcano when it is spouting ash and “bombs of lava. ’ The bombs are blown out of holes in the floor of the crater measur ing from 3 to 50 feet in diameter, he stressed. Throws Out Bombs “Traveling at the rate of about 800 miles an hour even a small bomb can do a great deal of dam age to a person if hit by one,” ■ asserted Dr. Williams. “One bomb |j almost hit my wife when observing H the action of the volcano from the iSedge or the crater.” | These violent actions of the vol tcano come without warning and ®ywhen the white cloud of steam begins to darken wtih ash and bombs, then it is time to run for jjthe base and a short distance away ^Safety, he said. “It is only near |4he base of the volcano that there Wt much danger from the falling ®mbs, ’ said Dr. Williams, “for ®h and lava is blown almost verti ft1 in*-° air and travels out but [ Tea Today to Honor I Mrs. Harry Newburn University faculty women will honor Mrs. Harry K. Newburn at a tea today in Alumni hall of Ger linger hall from 3:30 until 5:30 o’clock. Eugene women interested in the University are invited to attend. Mrs. Adolf H. Kunz, social chair man for the Faculty Women's club, will be in charge of the event and assisted by Mrs. Anibal Vargas-Baron. The receiving line will include Mrs. Orlando Hollis, Mrs. New burn, Mrs. Burt Brown Barker, Mrs. Frederick M. Hunter, Mrs. W. S. Averill, Mrs. R. V. Mills, and Mrs. L. S. Cressman. In charge of pouring will be Mrs. John R. Snellstrom, Mrs. Truman A. Chase, Mrs. Earl Mc Nutt. Mrs. Paul Van de Velde, Mrs. Henry M. Gunn and Mrs. Elisha Large. a short distance from Parioutin’s base.” “The heat of the flowing lava is about 1100 degrees centigrade, and flowing lava gives off blue fumes of ammonia chloride,” he asserted, “as the lava comes to the surface it has a steely surface and is so viscous that it is diffi cult to drive a pick into it. Flow ing lava gives off a hissing noise and flows about the rate of walk ing speed.” Comparing the lava flow to a glacier’s movements, Dr. Williams said: “After leaving the cone the flowing lava hardens on the top and bottom to a depth of 20 feet in a 60 foot deep flow, and only the center is left fluid. The new flow, peculiar to the Parioutin vol cano, flows under the old flow, dislodges it and carries it some times for a half a mile.” New Lava Flows Many times a rumbling is heard in a mass of hardened lava, that has been deposited there previous ly by an old flow of a month or more old. Steam can be seen to rise from this spot in the lava mass and soon a red spot will appear, to be followed by a new flow of lava that has seeped through the old flow, he asserted. “This happened near our camp site once,” said the volcanologist, “and we lost one building before we could move it from the path of the flow.” In August, 1943 a little volcano rose out of the lava near the base of Parioutin and' for 80 days, while the large volcano was silent, it blew out bluid bombs with great velocity and intensity, de clared Dr. Williams. But when the small volcano became silent, Pari outin once again became active. Like Oregon Scenery Before the eruption of Parioutin the landscape was similar to Ore gon near the Cascades, but after the eruption the landscape was blighted, he said. “Land having a mantle of ash two or three feet deep will take centuries before it will be if any use agriculturally, but land with only six inches or less of ash improves the crops,” stressed Dr. Williams. “Not be cause of benefits to the soil in the lava ash but because it will help keep moisture in the ground.” Volcano Still Active “One-eighth of a cubic mile of ash has been blown out of the volcano and lava has flowed about six miles in all directions from Parioutin,” he declared. The volcano is still active and it is hard to determine how long it shall continue to be active, he said, but it will probably last for another two or three years. Dr. Wiliams showed a series of kodachrome pictures taken of Parioutin volcano and the sur rounding countryside, showing the damage wrought by the action of the volcano. He showed many night and day shots of the volcano in action. Dr. Wiliams was intro duced by Dr. L. S. Cressman, head of the anthology department, who told of the founding of the lecture series in memory of the late Dr. Condon. Former Stars Lead in Play The cast for Saroyan's “The Time of Your Life” was announced Tuesday by the director, Horace W. Robinson, assistant professor of speech and dramatic arts. The richly-alive, unconventional drama will drift across the University Theater Guild stage December 1, 4, 5 and 6. Holding down leads in the play will be Lewis Vogler, re cently seen in “Ladies of the Jury,” and Estelle Shimshak, who also played a prominent role in B a 11 a r d’s court comedy which opened this term’s campus drama season. Characters in the plot and the Guild members portraying them include: Nick, Clifton James; Joe, Lewis Vogler; Willie, Charles Simpson; Tom, Craig Beeson; Kitty, Estelle Shimshak; Dudley, Floyd Stapp; Harry, Dale Fred erick; Wesley, "Lloyd Damaschof sky; Lorene, Maxine Knorr; Blick, Bob Miller; Mary L., Majory All ingham; Krupp, Emerson Hoog straat; McCarthy, John McDon ald. Kit Carson, Jack Miller; Elsie, Jacqueline Flug; Drunk, Paul Marcotte; Sailor, Donnel Wingate; Killer, Pat Kimmick; Streetwalk er, Pat Smith; Anna, Muriel Light; Lady, Lynn Renick, Arab, Lee Pe trasek. KORE Editor Speaks To Reporting Classes Mrs. Laura Bryant Nidever, radio news editor for KORE in Eugene, spoke this week to re porting classes. She explained the technique of news editing for radio and told of the different kinds of journalistic writing used in radio. Her talks were illustrated with sample stories from the KORE news room. Mrs. Nidever was graduated by the school of journalism in 1939 and her husband, John Bruce Nidever, attended the University of Oregon in 1935 and ’36 as a social science major. Journal Publisher (Continued frnm t>age one) utes as compared to LaGuardia field where one lands every eight minutes. Next stop on the journey was Guam, a larger island 35 miles long and six or eight miles wide. If is staffed by 200,000 men who live in specially constructed per sonnel living quarters and officers’ quarters. The harbor has room for 800 ships and there are several air strips and an eight-lane high way. It is regularly inhabited by 2300 native people who are ex tremely patriotic in Jackson’s esti mation. They bought $240,000 worth of war bonds from money they had saved and hidden from the Japanese. Everyone that was able to work obtained jobs working for the navy. Scotch and Beer Guam was chief headquarters for Admiral Nimitz who has des cribed as a very nice old man. He was very pleasant to the men, ac cording to Jackson, and seemed interested in raising flowers and shrubs. Jackson related that of ficers could get Scotch highballs at 10 cents each or 20 cents on the black market. Manila was the "next stop. Here they were received by a very con genial General MacArthur. He was very good looking for a man of his age and dressed casually in khaki shirt and trousers on the island, Jackson commented. His ribbons and medals were never displayed except for dress. Pin Cushion Bay Six hundred ships were sunk in Manila bay, the publisher said, and he added that it resembled a pin cushion because there were so many masts sticking out of the CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY Phi Theta Upsilon regular meeting Pan-Hellenic meeting WAA executive council meeting YWCA party at 4:00, refreshments and entertainment for everyone Kappa Kappa Gamma dessert Alpha Xi Delta open house All active and prospective mem bers of Alpha Kappa Delta, so ciology honorary, meet at the Kappa Alpha Theta house, 4 p.m. Zeta Tau Alpha open house from 6:30 to 7:30. Alpha Omieron Pi open house from 6:30 to 7:30. THURSDAY WAA cabinet meeting Student Religious council meeting Wednesday Set at Wesley as Jive Night All students are welcome to attend the weekly Jive Nights at Wesley house. The house is open for dancing each Wednesday night between 9 and 10. Dancers may choose between slow, dreamy num bers and jitterbug tunes from the record collection. bay. Sometimes three ships were piled on top of each other. Destruc tion was more noticeable here than on Guam, because there had been more modern buildings and civili zation. Many of the important structures in the main part of town were shelled beyond recog nition. Jackson said that the Fili pinos are all either very rich or very poor. Twice as long as Guam but with little more area, Okinawa was covered on the next lap of the trip. It is an island with a semi-temp erate climate inhabited by Japan ese who live in flimsy houses on a subsistence level.This is an army base with much traffic during the time Jackson was there. Next Stop: Tokyo Communication between naval vessels was very highly develop ed. This was carried on by radar and radio so that all the vessels in the fleet were in contact instantly. When Hirohito decided to cease fighting, the fleet assembled with in four days. They formed a mays of ships 20 miles long and five miles wide. Tokyo bay was next on the list of stops. At the entrance the bay is similar to some of the harbors on the west coast. Fuji mountain might be compared to Mount St. Helens, Jackson commented. He saw such Japanese implements of warfare as the one man submarine and the suicide bomb. The Japan ese were very courteous to the conquering Americans, he said. 'Grand Finale As a climax to his tour, he wit nessed the signing of the surrender on the Missouri. From a vantage point above the gathering, he watched the representatives of the various nations arrive and take part in the ceremony. According to Jackson, the Rus sians were the best-dressed men at the surrender. The Americans wore ordinary battle uniforms while the Russians were bedecked with gold braid, he remarked. The Japanese delegates woio varied costumes, he said. One ho described as wearing a morning coat of sleezy material which looked like a homemade affair. Others wore wilted shirts, he said, No one spoke to the Japanese, except to direct the signing of the surrender, until the Japanese ap proached to discuss a misplaced signature on the document, Jack son related. For all types of classified ads, come to the Emerald Business office, room 5, journalism building. This year all classified ads must be paid in advance. \ FOR ALL TYPES OF CLASSIFIED ADS