VOLUME XLV11
_UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE.
I'HURSDAY. MAY 23, 1040
Number 131
Lois McConkey Named UN Delegate
University Delegate to PNCC
To Represent Northwest in NY
Troy Strong, College of Puget Sound Student
Chosen As Co-Representative to Fall Meeting
Lois McConkey, senior in economics, and one of the Oregon
delegates to the Pacific Northwest College congress, has been
selected to be one of the two Northwest representatives to
attend United Nations conference meetings next fall.
Troy Strong, from the College of Puget Sound, will be the
other renresentativp
Selections were based upon writ
ten reports of the reaction in the
schools to the student resolutions
and the publicity on the congress,
which was held at Reed college
April 5 and 6.
Miss McConkey was informed of
her selection by Karl W. Onthank,
dean of personnel administration,
who phoned her Tuesday night,
►she immediately called her mother
ifi Portland, but she had already
been notified by KGW, co-sponsor
oi the contest with the Portland
League of Women Voters.
Having secured only a 36 per
cent participation in polling opinion
of the student congress, she did
not expect to be one of the two
to be sent to the United Nations
conference, she said.
According to the plans of which
Lois has been notified, NBC net
work and the National League of
Women Voters will entertain the
two delegates on their trip.
Monday night Lois will be intro
duced at the state convention of
women voters which is being held
in Eugene.
At the Reed college conference,
Lois was secretary of the group
discussing social and economic
^i/oblems and assisted in drawing
up the final resolutions.
Among other honors won by Lois
while attending the University was
princess in the 1945 Junior Week
end court, rally squad chairman for
three years, and homecoming
Chairman in 1945. She is a member
of Alpha Chi Omega.
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LOIS McCONKEY
Co-Op Cash Receipts
Due for Refund Saturday
The University Co-op store
will refund five per cent of all
purchases to students who
turn in their cash register re
ceipts by Saturday noon, May
25, according to Marion F.
McClain, manager.
Special envelopes are avail
able at the Co-op for thrifty
students who have saved their
receipts and who want to get
their share of the profits.
Campaign Publicity Subject
To Judiciary Approbation
To prevent future questionable campaign literature from
being distributed on the campus during student elections, the
ASUO executive council Tuesday drew up a request asking
the judiciary committee to draw up rules to make those re
sponsible for the future issuance of such material subject toj
discipline. The suggestion, which was passed almost unanimous
ly oy council members, was amend
ed with the added request that the
committee establish severe penal
ties for infraction of the rules, and
that such penalties be enforced by
the disciplinary committee.
Annual Banquet
The annual executive council
dinner, at which old and new mem
bers will be entertained, has been
set for 5:30 Tuesday evening at
the Mirror room of the Eugene
hotel. Dean Virgil Earl, adviser to
the council, and Mrs. Earl, and
President and Mrs. Harry K. New
burn will be guests of the group.
Every student will receive an
Ore-nter when he starts registra-:
tion next fall term, it was an-)
nounced by Ed Allen, president of'
the student body. A fund of $290.04,
appropriated last year for the 1945
Ore-nter and not used, will be
turned over to the educational
activities fund, earmarked for the
1946-47 publication.
Official Approval
The approval of the executive
council was reaffirmed when the
Appointments of Marguerite Witt
wer, Emerald editor, George Pegg,
Emerald business manager, and
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Reporter Relays
Bachelor Ball Hints
By Gloria Smith
Said the scheming young man
with a date for the Mortar Board
ball, “I expect an orchid, steak, and
coke plus.” The smile on the face
of the Oregon coed may or may
not have indicated that the young
man’s wishes would be fulfilled.
Orchids or onions, steak or sand
wich, coke plus or minus—the
Bachelor Catcher’s ball is destined
to prove successful, judging from
coed comment.
Transportation may prove a
stumbling block, but after quizzing
a few coeds, this reporter might
suggest that a little imagination
will save taxi fare. Surprising
modes of travel were revealed after
a little investigation.
Girls may have a little trouble
convincing their dates that the
sample tubes of lipstick to be dis
tributed at the ball are not for
Correspondent J. Allen Installs
New Officers at Assembly Today
Tonight’s Topic:
Race Problem
Bill Barry to Discuss
Negro-White Relations
An aspect of the American scene
which is rapidly gaining more at
tention—Negro-white relationships
—will be discussed by Bill Barry,
executive secretary of the Portland
Urban league, at a meeting of the
University anthropology club to
night.
Open to the public, the meeting
is at 7:30 on the sun porch of Ger
linger hall. Students taking an
thropology courses are especially
invited since they are eligible for
membership in the club, Robert
Campbell, president of the group,
said.
“Mr. Barry is one of the best and
most alert speakers I have ever
had the pleasure of hearing,” Dr.
L. S. Cressman, head of the an
thropology department, said.
Barry is a graduate of Overland
college and took graduate work at
the University of Pittsburg. The
Portland chapter of the Urban
league was started last year as a
branch of the national organiza
tion, under Barry’s direction.
The purpose of the league is the
advancement of the Negro popu
lation in securing jubs and the
placing of well-qualified Negroes
in responsible positions. The pres
ent problem facing the league is
to better relations between the
Negro and white populations.
This will be the second lecture
before the anthropology club since
its reactivation last month. All
members of the club are invited.
Those who have not paid their dues
are urged to do so at that time.
Refreshments will be served. Char
is Bradt is in charge of the pro
gram.
Lettermen to Receive Athletic Awards;
Phi Theta to Present Scholarships
A full program including the installation of newly-elected
ASUO officeis, presentation of athletic awards, announcement
of scholarship winners, and an address on the current events in
Spain by war correspondent Jay Allen, is on the docket for the
ASUO assembly at 11 in McArthur court this morning.
Mr. Allen, a graduate of the University school of ionrnalism
will install Oregon’s 1946-47 stu
dent government officers.
Athletic awards will be given all
varsity basketball, varsity swim
ming, and frosh basketball letter
and numeral winners.
Warren Webster and Charlene
Thurston, the freshman and fresh
man woman with the highest grade
point average for the first two
terms, will be awarded ASUO
scholarships. Phi Theta Upsilon,
junior women's honorary, will an
nounce the winners of two three
term tuition scholarships and one
$50 scholarship. These awards have
been made to three junior women
whose grades and ambition warrant
the financial help needed to com
plete their graduation require
ments. Funds to provide the
scholarships were earned by Phi
Theta members by ushering at
athletic events and concerts, Marge
Skordahl, out-going Phi Theta
president, revealed.
Drawing from his experiences as
a war correspondent in Spain, Jay
Allen will discuss aspects of the
eternal problems in that strife
stricken nation.
A contemporary of Palmer Hoyt
and Phil Brogan, Allen is a mem
ber of the campus chapter of Sigma
Delta Chi, national professional
journalism fraternity. Co-author of
the book, “All the Brave,” Allen
has also represented such papers
as the Chicago Daily news, the
Chicago Tribune, the London News
Chronicle, and North American
Newspaper Alliance. He got his
start on the Eugene Morning
Register under City Editor Horace
Burnett.
Allen narrowly missed death in
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Vets to Sponsor
Gleemen Concert
The Eugene Gleemen, under the
direction of Dr. Theodore Kratt,
dean of the University school of
music, will present their annual
spring concert at McArthur court
Tuesday, May 28. All the veterans’
organizations in Eugene are spon
soring the program, with the pro
ceeds going to the Veterans’ Me
morial Building fund.
The concert, which will be the
second home appearance this year
for the group, will feature a mu
sical memorial, "That Peace May
Prevail,’’ honoring the nation’s
dead in the Spanish-American wa r,
World War I, and World War JT.
The narrative part of the tribute
was written and will be delivered
by G. E. Gaylord, a member of the
Gleemen. The musical end will in
clude songs which were popular
during each of the three wars;
"Requiem,” a tribute to war dead
by Robert Louis Stevenson and
Sidney Homer; and "The Dawn of
World Peace,” which is a portion
of Tennyson’s prophetic poem,
“Locksley Hall” set to stirring
music by R. S. Stoughton.
Another highlight of the program
will be a group of solos by Albert
Dunn, baritone, a freshman in the
school of music.
NOTICE
The ISA election scheduled >
for today has been ’called off.
There will be a meeting of the
ISA Senate Tuesday.
UO American Legion Post Solicits
New Members at Meeting Tonight
By Bill Craig
An veterans are urged to attend
the meeting of the University of
Oregon post of the American Le
gion tonight at 7 p.m. in 207 Chap
man with Commander Ab Wilson
presiding.
It was decided at the last meet
ing of the University Post that the
membership fee worild/be $3. Of
this amount, $2.50 is sent to the
state and national headquarters,
while 50 cents remains in the local
post fund.
The American Legion has made
a fast start toward becoming the
strongest veterans group in the
United States. As of today the
Legion promises to speak in post
war years as a voice for almost
12,000,000 veterans of World War
II.
No sensible observer, inside the
organization or out, imagines that
the Legion can recruit even as
many as half of this vast group
into actual dues-paying member
ship. If it ever signs as many as
five million in one year it will have
accomplished a minor miracle, of
ficials say.
Approximately 1700 veterans
are attending the University, and
50 of them are already members
of the University Post. With a goal
set for at least 200 charter mem
bers by the end of the spring term,
the local post has inaugurated a
membership campaign.
In this new membership lies the
hope of the American Legion for
continued service. A greater,
stronger, and more productive Le
gion is in the making—the two
war American Legion. It is des
tined to become the greatest bul
wark of American institutions in
the history of the nation. For in
this two-war Legion there will be
welded the know-how and enthu
siasm of the veterans of two great
wars dedicated to preserving in
peace the ideals for which they
both fought in war.
Two-Fold Prestige
But there is another side to it.
Membership in the American Le
gion carries with it a prestige that
is two-fold. It is the hallmark of
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