.VOLUME XLVIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Number 15
, EUGENE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1940
TEX OLIVER TO QUIT
AT END OF SEASON
_ See Story, Columns 4 and 5
Mister T’ To Spark
Homecoming Fete
By BETTY BLEDSOE
Jack Teagarden, "King of the Blues Trombone,” who will
furnish musical entertainment for the "Home for Homecom
ing” dance jamboree, is the expert’s choice for the trombonist
of the All American band, Marty Pond, chairman of the dance
committee said Wednesday. Teagarden will be the first name
band to hit the Oregon campus this year, when he plays at Mc
Arthur court, October 19 at 9 p.m., following the day’s festivi
ties.
Famous for his blues singing when he played trombone for
Paul Whiteman, he has included almost every one of the great
blues tunes in the enormous repertoire of his own orchestra and
plays many top tunes in the blues idiom.
REPERTOIRE OF FAMOUS TUNES
A few of his better known arrangements which will be in
cluded in the October 18 program are “St. Louis Blues,”
“Memphis Blues,” “St. James Infirmary,” and “Tiger Rag]”
featuring his well known theme song “I’ve Got a Right to Sing
the Blues.”
^ “Mister T” was only twenty-two years old when he hit
New York in 27, but he had been playing and singing the
blues up and down the Mississippi for seven years by that time.
Joining Ben Pollack’s band he kept right on.
During that period he and Glenn Miller evolved “Basin
Street Blues” in its present form. Six years with Paul White
man followed, and then the formation of his own band and a
top spot among the country’s leading bands.
EXPONENT OF BLUES
A total of thirteen tunes ranging from 12 to 40 years'in age,
all of them playing important individual parts in the story 6f
this nation’s musical evolution, are heard in Teagarden’s last
picture, Paramount’s “Birth of the Blues,” starring Bing
Crosby and Mary Martin.
In 1944, the popular monthly magazine Esquire ran what
they called “Esquire’s Jazz Book of 1944” which featured a
selection of the All American jazz band picked by sixteen
judges who were selected by Esquire to act as a board of ex
perts.. Called by all, “the greatest exponent of the blues,” both
with voice and trombone, Jack Teagarden was listed the ex
pert’s choic^ as the trombonist for the All American band.
New Seating
Arrangement
To Pack Igloo
Board Okehs Billings
Emerald Appointment
What the educational activities
board did:
1. Approved a seating arrange
ment for the University concert se
ries so that 6600 people can be ac
commodated in McArthur court. If
all townspeople attend who have
purchased tickets the new seating
arrangement will be sufficient if
past attendance records of not more
than 50 per cent of the student body
attend.
2. Set Nov. 12 as the deadline for
ordering the 1947 Oregana.
3. Approved the appointment of
Jack Billings, senior in journalism,
as managing editor of the Emerald.
4. Approved funds for a faculty
alumni reception to be held during
Homecoming.
In order to accommodate the in
creased enrollment of the Univer
sity as well as the faculty and
townspeople at the Concert series,
the south balcony of McArthur
court will be used to seat a total of
6600.
Activities board chairman Dick
Williams feels that the seating will
be sufficient if past attendance rec
ords of not more than 50 per cent
continue.
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ISA Senate Holds
First Meet Tonight
Independent politics will take vis
ible form tonight when the senate
of the Independent Students asso
ciation holds its first fall term meet
ing. The meeting will take place in
Room 107 Commerce building at
7:30 p.m., presided over by Dale
Harlan, president of the ISA senate.
All council members of the ISA
executive council are requested to
be present at the meeting, Harlan
said.
Senators from independent or
ganizations who have not as yet
been announced in the Emerald
are: Gerlinger hall, Lorelee Moore
and Betty Jo Hansen; Villard hall,
Si Garnett and Jim Taylor; Rebec
house, Nora Peterson and Billie Mc
Cartney; Alpha hall, Kit Draham
and Harriet Tozier.
Campbell club, Jerry Mosby; Hil
yard house, Marilyn Wright and
Amelia Diamant; Yeomen, Clay
Meyers, Donald Taylor and Gordon
Halstead; Orides, Trudi Penny,
Kathy Dobson and Colleen Mariott;
Hendricks hall, Myrl Sikes, La
Verne Gunderson and Charlene
Thurston; Vets hall A, Henry How
ard, Bob Lindstedt, Bill Rooney and
Kirk Braun.
Vet hall B, Ed Georgeeffen and
Bob Bombarde; Vet hall C, Richard
Neely and Bill Hahrarahn; Vet hall
D, Ross Yates and Bob Bailey and
i Vet hall E,- John Malcolm and Cliff
Bevens.
UEKAL.D A. -TEX” OL.1VEH . . .
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Head Mentor Announces
Resignation From Staff
President Newburn Lauds Coach's Work
During Tenure of Five-Year Contract
• By BERNIE HAMMERBECK 1
(Emerald Sports Editor)
Gerald A. (Tex) Oliver, head football coach at the University
of Oregon since 1938, early yesterday afternoon submitted his
resignation to President Harry K. Newburn. The resignation,
effective upon the completion of the current football season,
dispells all rumor as to his return as head coach next year.
Oliver is currently serving the final year of a five-year con
tract, and with the hiring of next year’s coach by the athletic
board scheduled for some time early this winter, speculation had
run high as to whether or not Oliver would return.
In a statement made shortly before he stepped on the practice
field yesterday afternoon, Oliver said "I have decided to move
into other fields. I have definite plans for the future, which at the
present time do not include coaching.”
"I have enjoyed my stay in Eugene with its fine people—and
| have made many friends.” t
When asked what effect the resignation would have upon the
men on his squad, Oliver added ‘‘I believe the boys will play just
as hard—if not harder. And as for myself, I will work just as hard
because I like to win.” ji
President Newburn, when asked for a statement, said “Natur
ally we are sorry to know that Tex Oliver has decided to sever
his relations with the University of Oregon. His work here has
been of high caliber, and he has succeeded in putting on the field
at all times an interesting and colorful team.”
_ (Please him to page jour)
ASUO Exec Council Passes
On 3 Major Recommendations
What the ASUO executive council did:
1. The ISA request for more polling places was granted. «
2. Major letters will be granted to men in minor sports.
3. Tom Hazzard’s selections for women members of the rally
squad were approved.
Howard Lemons, Independent Students Association presi
ucm., sou a ieu.er 10 tne council at
their Wednesday meeting request
ing more polling places on the cam
pus for the coming ASUO elections.
He stated that such an arrangement
would enable more students to vote.
Lemons also requested that equal
numbers of delegates from each
political party be on hand at the
booths to prevent fradulent voting.
Further preventing illegal voting he
asked that students be required to
show an educational activities card,
which would be stamped on the back
side showing that the vote had been
cast.
Following discussion of Lemon’s
recommendations, the council un
animously approved them.
The council approved the award
ing of major letters to men engaged
in any of the seven types of sport,
which the school participates in
now, with the approval hanging fire
until approval of the same requesf
was granted by all five of the other
northwestern institutions involved.
Anson Cornell, who wrote the let
ter recommending such action, re
ferred specifically to, football, base
ball, basketball, track, swimming,
golf and tennis.
Tom Hazzard’s selections for wo
men members of the rally s quad,
were approved by unanimous vote of
the council. His recommendation
included Patty Beaton, Barbara
Vowles, Diane Meade and Marguer*
ite Reardon. j