Oregon
Emerald
yOLUME XLVJII Number 121
_UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1946
Women’s Houses Choose
Potential Weekend Ruler
Beautiful Girls Chosen, Sue Schoenfeldt States;
Judges to Select Finalist in Gerlinger, Oct. 9
Beautiful Homecoming Hostess candidates were announced
Friday for the annual ‘welcome girl” who will rule over the pre
miere celebration of fall term. Sue Schoenfeldt, chairman of the
^contest committee, released the names of all contestants who
have been chosen by their respective living organizations.
Contestants are to appear before the judges at 4 p.m. on
uctoner y in tne Aiumm nan or
Gerlinger. The girls are required
to wear heels and short silks.
The candidates are: June Clifton,
Alpha Delta Pi; Pat Aldstad, Alpha
Gamma Delta; Helen Ross, Rebec
house; Joan Edwards, Kappa Alpha
Theta; Joan Williams, Delta
Gamma; Toby West, Delta Zeta;
Marilyn Anderson, Alpha Chi
Omega; Barbara Chamberlain,
Susan Campbell hall; Mary Jay
Ham, Chi Omega; Annie Laurie
Bennet, Gerlinger hall; Bernice La
mour, Zeta Tau Alpha; Martha
Thorsland, Pi Beta Phi; Virginia
Givnan, Alpha Omicron Pi; Helen
McFetridge, Sigma Kappa; Nancy
Gloor, Alpha Phi; Sue Sullivan,
Kappa Kappa Gamma; Doris Sper
row, Hendricks hall; Connie Van
Allenj Alpha Xi Delta; Maryjane
Martyn, Gamma hall; Marilyn Row
ling, Gamma Phi Beta; Meredith
Nichols, University house; Jean
Norlen, Alpha hall; Sue Fernimen,
Highland house.
Judges who will choose one girl
from this group for Homecoming
Hostess are: Les Anderson, alumni
secretary; Tom Kay, ASUO presi
dent; Benny Di Benedetto, Home
coming chairman; Dick Williams,
educational activities manager; and
Sue Schoenfeldt.
Rooms Needed Badly **
Anyone with available rooms
for alumni visiting the campus
Homecoming weekend are asked
to contact Dorothy Rasmussen at
the Alpha Delta Pi house.
Druids Sign 544
Potential Voters
Total registration at the Co-op
booth set up by the Druids, junior
men’s honorary, came to 544 when
the booth closed at noon Friday, ac
cording to Marty Pond, Druid sec
retary. Republican registration
came to 249, with the Democrats
and non-partisans gleaning 295.
Men showed the greater interest in
politics, according to the figures.
Three hundred thirty-nine men reg
istered against 105 women.
The booth was open all day
Thursday and until noon Friday. In
cluded among early registrants Fri
day morning was President Harry
K. Newburn and family.
Pond termed student response to
the program “enthusiastic.” At
four different times during the
signup, seemingly ample supplies
of forms were exhausted. It was es
timated that two-thirds of those
who registered at the Druid booth
would not have otherwise done so.
“People decided to take an active
interest in this year’s elections,”
Pond asserted. He added that this
is the first time at the University
that registration of voters was car
ried out by students. Those who
failed to sign at the campus booth
may still register at the Lane coun
ty courthouse before 8 p.m. tonight.
—EMERALD photo by Don Jones.
THE 4‘BIRD” IS CBOSE BY . . .
Meal-ticket holders line up for chow in front of John Straub Memorial
hall.
Campus Talent
Scheduled for
'Hellzapoppin'
“Hellzapoppin'”, theme for the
Holnecoming asembly scheduled for
October 18 in McArthur court, will
feature new campus talent, hot and
sweet music, and other entertain
ment, according to Helen Hicks and
Tom Hazzard, co-chairmen of the
Homecoming committee.
Students, alumni, and towns
people wiil gather in the Igloo at
S-45 p.m. following the frosh bon
fire on 19th street. Master of cere
monies, Bob Moran, in conjunction
with Hick Savinar, Bob Whitely,
Don Edwards, Norman Lamb, Paul
Marcotte, and Kay Scheider, will
present a. program including the
rally squad, the presentation of the
noise parade award, the introduc
tion of visiting Homecoming guests,
and comedy sketches on life at Ore
gon.
All-Student Exam
Scheduled Oct. 28
, Forthcoming examinations of in
! terest to graduate and prospective
graduate students were announced
Friday by Mrs. Clara Lynn Fitch,
secretary of the graduate division.
; They will be held in Room 202 of
( Johnson hall October 28 and 29.
■ This graduate record examina
j tion is a measure of general educa
| tion in eight fields: mathematics,
i physics, chemistry, biology, social
studies, literature, fine arts, and
vocabulary, with an advanced test
in a major subject.
Two Sessions
Requiring two separate half-days
for completion the examination
will be divided into two sessions,
the first to be held at 1 p.m. Octo
ber 28, and the second at 8:30 a.m.
October 29.
A ]«.rge number of graduate
schools in the United States and
Canada recommend, and some re
quire, that the results of the grad
uate record examination be submit
ted as one of the credentials for ad
mission.
Aid to Sophomores
In addition to college seniors or
graduate students, the examination
will be of aid to sophomores both
as a measure of general knowledge
and as an indication of potential
ability in future fields of study. Re
peated after two years, in the ex
aminee’s senior year, it will serve
as an accurate index of his relative
gains from all sources in post-fresh
man study.
Application for this examination
must be made not later than Octo
ber 14, and should be addressed to
the Graduate Record Examination,
437 West 59th street, New York 19,
N. Y. Special application sets may
be obtained from the graduate of
fice in Johnson hall, or by writing
the New York office.
Saturday, Oct. 19 Free
For Homecoming Game
President Harry K. Newburn and
the board of deans have approved a
recommendation of the student af
fairs committee that classes be dis
missed Saturday, October 19 for
Homecoming; Saturday, November
9, for the UCLA game in Portland;
and Friday afternoon and Saturday
morning, May 9 and 10, for Junior
Weekeend activities.
EMERALD photo by Don Jones.
TRUCKIN’ ON DOWN . . .
A logging truck charges down Thirteenth between University and Kin
caid. (For more on the University traffic controversy, see editorial,
page 2.)
Kincaid Leads Thirteenth
In Pedestrian Crossings
By DOUG SEYMOUR
Corners of Thirteenth street are not favorite crossing spots
for Webfoots, a fifteen minute survey at the corner of Thir
teenth and Kincaid, showed Thursday.
From the period of 1:45 to 2 p.m. there were ten Ducks who
crossed Kincaid for every one who crossed Thirteenth. From
these figures it is assumed that most students cross the Uni
versity’s main bisecting avenue in the middle of the block
rather than at the corner.
A total of 697 persons crossed either Thirteenth or Kincaid
during the survey period. Six irresponsible ones jaywalked.
Pedestrians were not the only traffic on Oregon’s busy
corner. There were 196 cars which passed during the fifteen
minute period and also 32 trucks and one motorcycle.
Colonel Reed Describes
European Trek to Class
Speaker Charges Communists in Germany
With Former Nazi Propaganda Tactics
By JACK L. BILLINGS
Col. Robert W. Reed, former Army public relations officer
and present news editor and military affairs commentator for the
Kansas City Star, described his recent invitational tour of Europe
Friday before Dean George Turnbull’s senior editing class in
journalism.
Colonel Reed and several other prominent newspaper men
Employment Office
Offers Student Jobs
There is no dearth of jobs for
college students who desire part
time work, according to Lucile G.
Parsons, manager of the United
States employment service office
in the campus YMCA building.
“We have more jobs than we are
able to fill,” Mrs. Parsons an
nounced Friday, “and occasionally
one goes begging because there is
no one to take it.” She invited job
seeking students to contact her of
fice and to leave telephone number
and class schedules so they may
be reached quickly.
Veterans’ wives may also obtain
full or part-time employment
through the campus office, and em
ployers are invited to place orders
there.
Among offers currently avail
able are: night work at a local ho
tel, an evening service station job,
stable work, a full-time printer’s
position, weekend resort work, full
time sewing, soliciting on commis-,
sion, and janitor, laundry, and foun
tain jobs.
The average pay for part-time
work is usually 75 cents to a dollar
an hour, Mrs. Parsons said. Appli
cants who can fill skilled or profes
sional positions are also needed, she
added.
left the states in April of this year
and returned in June after visiting
the occupation zones of Germany
and' sections of nearby countries.
The party was provided with guides
and escorts by the Army and the
Allied Military Government.
Returning with an apparently
deep impression of propaganda
efforts of the Russian government,
Colonel Reed made it clear that the
Russian zone of occupation was fast
becoming a political segment of the
Soviet Union and might soon be so
far divorced from the other zones
as to make a consolidation impos
sible.
“The American peple have turned
their backs on one of the biggest
problems in the world today,’’ he
said. "We have no understanding of
the techniques of propaganda as
formerly practiced by the Nazis and
in practice today by the Commun
ists.”
He observed the Russians to be
exteremely uncooperative in Berlin
and tyrannical in their own zone of
occupation. He pointed out that
Germany is used to a master and
may be ripe for Communism. Hei
stated that Communism today is
not what it was in the time of Wh,rx
and Engels. “It is totalitarianism.”
Colonel Reed’s son, Bob Reed, is
a sophomore in journalism at th®
University.