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.
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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
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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.
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