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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1946)
* L ,j L '' VOLUME XLVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, THURSDAY \PRIT IS igjfi ----~-7-— ■-----------U_' __ A umber 10o 'State Fair’ Queen Candidates Named Floats Replace Old Mill-Race Traditional Canoe Fete Given Shore Leave The old mill-race is empty, but the absence of its familiar waters will not detract from Junior Week end gaiety. The spirit of the tra ditional canoe fete has again be come amphibious and this year's .campus festivities will feature another colorful float parade. Dick Savinar, float committee chairman, has organized house living organizations into teams of two, and they will work together in both construction and planning. The Fiji lot will be available to any teams who wish to erect their floats in a convenient place. Houses have been allowed an in crease in the amount of money which they may spend on their decorations and rental. The for mer limit of $15 for each house has been raised to $25, or a total (Please turn to page si.x) Hendricks Hall Leads in Drive Exchange Dinners Aid Scholarship Campaign Topping all other contributions to the Dean Hazel Schwering Me morial fund, Hendricks hall, with its guests, Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, turned $38.50 in to the drive as a result of its exchange dinner April 11. A total of $262.75 was con tributed as a result of the 25 cent voluntary contribution from each girl, and this money will be used to build a scholarship for a junior girl, aimed to finance her through out her senior year. Other sororities, coops, and dormitories and their totals are listed in alphabetical order: Alpha Chi Omega, $12.50; Alpha Delta Pi, $10.75; Alpha Gamma Delta, $8.75; Alpha hall, $6.75; Alpha ,— -©micron Pi, $10; Alpha Phi, $10.25; Alpha Xi Delta, $6; Chi Omega, $17.55; Delta Delta Delta, $9.75; Delta Gamma, $10.50; Delta Zeta, $9.30; Gamma Phi Beta, $12; Ger linger hall, $6.25; Highland house, $7; Hilyard house, $8.25; Judson house, $8.75; Kappa Alpha Theta, $11.75; Kappa Kappa Gamma, $10; Orides, $6.50; Pi Beta Phi, $10.90; Rebec house, $5.75; Sigma Kappa, $7; Susan Campbeil hall, $9.50; and University house, $8.50. MEXICAN FILMS BILLED TONIGHT “Adventure of Chico,” and “Monuments of Ancient Mexi co,” will be shown tonight in 207 Chapman hall' from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Both features follow a Mexican theme. Stu dents, faculty members, and — townspeople are invited. Emerald Error The funds which may pos +. sibly be used for faculty sal ary increases next year amount to $500,000, not $50,000, as was erroneously stated in Wednesday’s Emerald. YOU CANT GO NEAR THE WATER Coeds Robbie Bowman, Martha Cleveland, and Marilyn Rowline gaze into the millrace bed and dream about the Junior Weekend canoe fetes of yester year. The 1946 festivities will feature a float parade in place of the traditional water event. * Student Panel to Discuss UNO Resolutions at Assembly Today As part of the program to ac quaint University students with the resolutions adopted recently by the Northwest Pacific College con gress concerning the students’ stake in the atomic age, this morn ing’s ASUO assembly in McAr thur court at 11 will feature a panel discussion of the PNCC. The assembly has been arranged by Lloyd Frese and Lois McCon key, University delegates to the Congress. Arousing campus inter est in current world problems as well as enlisting student partici pation in the debate of the resolu tions is the purpose of the assem bly. Members of the student panel include: Miss McConkey, Frese, Ted Hallock, Emerald columnist and campus bandleader whose in terest in the movement was in dicated by his criticism of the PNCC published in last week's Emerald, and Dorothy Bruhn, graduate, student majoring in eco nomics. Charles Howard, professor of law who formerly served with the army of occupation in Germany, will be moderator, and Victor P. Morris, dean of the school of busi ness administration and adviser of the One World club, will be available as a source of reference. “It seems to me that it is an excellent opportunity to join with the students of other colleges in the expression of interest in some of the problems of world organi zation,” Dr. Morris said in refer ence to the PNCC which will be under discussion. Each student on the panel will explain one of the resolutions for mulated at the Congress and the ASUO Urges Ducks To Attend Audition “Opportunities await those students with talent who ap pear at the all-campus audi tion to he held in Guild theater, Johnson hall', tonight at 7:30 p. m.,” assembly committee members said Wednesday. Not only will these students have a chance to participate in ASUO assemblies, but they will have a chance to take part . in University and local radio shows and Eugene civic pro ductions, which groups are al ways crying for talent and “new faces.” These groups of ten pay entertainers. “If you can sing, dance, or act, individually or in groups, the student assembly commit tee urges you to be ‘discover (Please turn to page si.rj reasons for coming to this decision. The panel will be informal and students are urged to interrupt the discussion at any time to ask questions or contribute opinions. The PNCC was held April 5 and 6 on the Reed college campus, Portland, where representatives from 31 colleges and universities in the northwest discussed world problems and the organization of the United Nations and formulat ed opinions and decisions concern ing these problems. Ballots will be distributed at the assembly today in order to ascer tain student opinion on the deci-. sions. The delegates receiving the greatest volume of student inter est and opinion in the shortest time will be sent to the United Nations security council meeting in New York with the purpose of submitting the resolutions. The Portland League of Women Vot ers and KGW are sponsoring this trip. Mimeographed copies of the resolutions will be circulated to those attending the assembly. In order to facilitate voting on the resolutions, ballots will be cir culated in classes in the next few days and polling booths will be set up at various places on the campus. Skull and Dagger, sopho more men’s honorary, will distri (Please turn to page six) Campus to Vote For Fight Finalists Twenty-five campus lovelies vic ing- for the honor of being Junior Weekend queen will parade before the critical eyes of a. faculty-stu dent judging group who will select eight finalists at 4 p.m. in Alumni hall this afternoon. The candidates who will be judged on their beauty, personality, and popularity, are requested to wear cotton dresses and heels. ASUO Cards to Vote Virginia Harris, chairman of the queen selection, said that all stu dents holding ASUO cards arc eligible to vote between 11 a.in. and 5 p.m. Friday in the Co-op. Pictures of the eight finalists will be posted in the Co-op Friday to aid students in making their selec tion of the ruler of the State Fair festivities May 10 and 11. The 1946 Junior Weekend queen and her court of four princesses will be announced in the Tuesday issue of the Emerald, after mem bers of Phi Theta, junior women's honorary, have counted the ballots. Names of the candidates and their houses are as follows: Pat Metcalf, Alpha Chi Omega; Ann (Please turn to page six) \ .—-— _ Writing Contest Deadline May 1 Marshall-Case-Haycox Scholarships Named Manuscripts ■ for the annual Marshall-Case-Haycox short story contest must be turned in to Room 4, Journalism building before May 1, W.F.G. Thacher, professor of English and advertising, announced today. All entries must be in duplicate although a clear carbon copy will be acceptable. A piece of paper bearing the author's name must be enclosed in an envelope on the face of which appears the name of the story. The envelope will then be turned in with the manuscript. All Eligible All regularly enrolled under graduates of the University a:ie eligible to submit an entry. The prizes are $50, first; $30, second $20, third. This contest is sponsored an nually by three Oregon alumni: Edison T. Marshall, Robert O. Case and Ernest Haycox, all of whom are now successful writers. It was originated by Marshall in 1916, the year after he left the University. Case and Haycox joined him later in financing the scholarship. After he left school, Marshall spent some time writing short stories before he enlisted in the army in 1917. After the war, he started writing professionally. During the next 20 years, Mar shall wrote many novels, short stories and magazine articles. His novel, “Benjamin Blake’’ was a Literary Guild selection and many others are equally well-known. One of his short stories, “The Heart of Little Shikara,’’ was awarded the O. Henry memorial prize as the best short story of 1921. Hunter, Explorer He is almost equally well known (Please turn to page three)