Oregon
Emerald
SECTION THREE
UNIVERSITY OK OREGON, EUGENE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1945
VOLUME XLVII
Number 49
BETTY DITTO
One of the University candidates for Victory Queen, Miss Ditto,
sponsored by Sigma Kappa and the Eugene Lions club, topped the
list of candidates when votes were last counted Friday.
High School Pre§s Meets;
Year’s Officers Chosen
One hundred and fifty-nine stu
dents and faculty advisors, repre
senting 52 Oregon high schools,
met Saturday, November 24, on
the University campus at the
nineteenth conference session of
the Oregon High School Press
Association.
Dale Norton, editor of the
Franklin High Post, student news
paper of Franklin high school in
Portland, was elected 1945-46
president of the association and
Ed Harvey, editor of the Beaver
>»ston Hummer, Beaverton high
school paper, was named vice
president. Editor of Lincoln high
school’s Cardinal, Jacqueline
Younger, of Portland, was elected
secretary.
Speakers for the meeting in
clluded W. A. Dahlberg, head of
the University division of speech
and dramatic arts; Roch Brad
shaw, of the editorial staff of the
Eugene Register-Guard; William
Mishler of J. K. Gill Company,
Eugene; and all members of the
journalism school faculty.
Aid in Discussion
Students assisting in the discus
sions were Mary Margaret Ells
worth, senior in journalism;
Jeanne Simmonds, new editor of
the Emerald; Marguerite Wittwer,
managing editor of the Emerald;
and Doris Spearrow. Miss Spear
row presided over the convention
_ as vice president, the office which
she held when the association last
president, Moshe Lenske of Lin
coln high school in Portland, is in
the service.
Registration, a general session
and election of officers in the
morning was followed by a lunch
eon for all student delegates at
John Straub hall. The afternoon’s
program included a film and
forums for the discussion of edit
ing, printing, business, and mimeo
graphing.
Commenting on the success of
the meeting, Acting Dean George
Turnbull, of the school of journal
ism said, “The one day program,
made necessary by the limited
housing and feeding conditions
worked out better than was ex
pected and the visiting delegates
seemed well pleased with the pro
gram.”
The European corn borer spread
its destructive plague through 75
to 90 per cent of stalks examined
in six southeastern Pennsylvania
counties in 1945.
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V-Queen to Appear at Premiere
Four University Women in Contest
For Hollywood Jaunt, Date With Star
Chosen for their beauty,
personality, and other “queen
ly” qualities, four University
coeds will be introduced to
night as finalists in the Lane
county Victory queen contest.
With a minimum of $5,000
bonds credited to each girl, the
following finalists were announced
Friday:
Kay Baird, University house;
Kathy Robbins, Alpha Delta Pi;
Betty Ditto, Sigma Kappa; and
Sallie Timmens, Gamma Phi
Beta.
The girls will provide an added
incentive to Lane county bond
buyers when they appear on the
stage of the MacDonald theater
tonight. A big bond premiere with
tjie purchase of any denomination
of a bond required for admittance,
is slated to begin at 8:30 p.m.,
when the University candidates
and three other Eugene girls will
be introduced.
The contest orflciaily closes
Dec. 8, but the Lane county
finals will not take place until
a later date. The exact time has
not been set, Harold Wyatt,
manager of the MacDonald
theater, said Monday.
Wyatt disclosed that three
judges from Salem, will score the
contestants on the basis of 75 per
cent for the amount of bonds pur
chased in her name and 25 percent
for “queenly” qualities.
One girl will tie chosen to rep
resent Lane county In the state
finals at Portland. She auto
matically receives the votes ac
credited allithc Lane county con
testants after winning the coun
ty contest and thus goes to Port
land with the baching'of all of
Lane county.
Two girls will be chosen for the
state finals—at least one from
outside Multnomah county—for a
trip to Hollywood, a screen 'test,
and a date with her favorite movie
star.
Pictures of the four University
finalists are on display at the
Oo-op, where bond applications
are being taken by Mrs. Gerda
Brown. One vote is given with
each purchase of an $18.75 bond,
and the buyer may vote for tl*o
girl of his choice.
Campus Kiddies Ask Santa
For 0i fts, Gadg ets, Grades
By GLORIA SMITH
With the aid of a tattered pigger’s guide, a pencil, and the
obsolete jangling communicatory system in the Emerald office,
(sometimes referred to as the telephone) this Christmas survey
reporter merrily dialed the numbers of various living organiza
tions in an attempt to discover what little items would make
Oregon students the happiest on Santa’s annual visit.
Blindfolded and with the aid of a pencil to point at random
on any page of the student direc
tory, the reporter chose victims.
Responses were found to be in
comprehensible, rational, absurd,
intelligent, unintelligible, bare,
decorous, and interesting, to say
the least.
And so, we are presenting to
you the unbiased and unabridged
statements given in answer to the
question, “What do you want for
Christmas ?”
Pat Crosby—“A bed that doesn’t
sink in the middle.”
Mickey Davies—“Five new tires
for my car.”
Tony Malatore—“A house moth
er, 21 years old.”
Bill Pickens—"More beer and
wider sidewalks.”
Ted Fehly—“A big, beautiful
blonde.”
Pat Powell—“A car.”
Marian Sorenson—“A 4 point.”
Jean Carpenter—"A fur coat.”
Jim McClintock—“A new green
jacket for Puddles.”
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TO THE
STUDENTS
and Faculty of the
U. of O. from the
Management &
Staff of
KORE
Jim Windus—“Something about
5’6”, 125 pounds, light brown hair,
and—”
Mary Ellen Struve—“A swim
ming pool.”
Gamma Phi Beta house—“The
return of the fraternities.”
Marilyn Sage—“$5,000, but I’d
be happy with ten.”
Kate Ownby—“I want to gp
home.”
James Chan—“I don’t know.”
Sally Bates—“A nice convert
ible.”
Larry Neer—“A skirt.”
Pat Amordl—“Someone back on
the campus.”
Dick Clark—“Every state in the
union to be as nice a place to live
in as California.”
Shirley Walker—“A barbecued
pork sandwich on white and two
bottles of beer.”
Howard Col'fey—“A dead beav
er.”
Nadine Tobin — “Phonograph,
black dress, and John.”
Shirley Minea—"For the fellows
to come home.”
Jim Beyers—“A nice movie star,
maybe Lauren Bacall.”
Dodie Bednar—“A slinkey black
dress.”
Deane Bond “A discharge from
the enlisted reserve corps.”
Itenee Cowell—“A trip home to
Honolulu.”
Sue Sehoenfeidt—“A ear, so I
wouldn't have to walk to classes.’'
Thetas—“Seven Saturday nights
per week.”
Unidentified Heroes
Squelch Blaze in Omega
Two unidentified heroes saved
John Straub hall from ruin
Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m.,
when they grabbed hoses and
put out the fire which was be
ginning to blaze in the basement
of Omega hall. The fire started
in a pile of debris, wood, and
gunny sacks. Due to the absence,
of any other visible cause the
boys blamed the blaSe on spon
taneous combustion.
The fire department was
called but the blaze was ex
tinguished before their arrival.
WISHES
YOU
MERRY CHRISTMAS
and
HAPPY NEW YEAR