Knocked-Out Fall!
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VOLUME XLVITI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 11,1946
Number 16
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(Cut Courtesy Oregonian)
DUCKS PLUG STUDENT UNION . . .
Sig Eps display theme which is being used to promote interest in a new student union union building.
rlomecommg Program to Feature '
Student Talent in McArthur Court
Show to Follow Annual Frosh Bonfire;
Newburn, Haycox Oliver Will Broadcast
Talent program plans for the “Home for Homecoming” cele
bration will feature acts by many student artists, co-chairmen
Helen Hicks and Tom Hazzard, announced Thursday. The pro
gram will be presented Friday, October 18 from 8:45 to 10:15 p.m.
in McArthur court and a part of the evening’s entertainment from
9:30 to 10 p.m. will b^broadcast.
The talent program will follow the Frosh bonfire Friday eve
lung, the co-chairmen said.
Giving their welcome to the 1946
Homecoming during the broadcast
will be President Harry K. New
burn; Ernest Haycox, president of
the Oregon alumni association and
famous Oregon writer; and Football
Coach “Tex” Oliver.
Some "of'the'acts on the program
Will be: the Evans Cantrel Quartet,
which features songs done in the
Pied Pipers style; the Theta Chi
Barber Shop Quartet; and Lynn
Rennick, vocalist. Also featured will
be the antics of Bob Moran, Don
Edwards and Norman Lamb.
Other members of the Homecom
ing talent program committee are:
!?&y Schnieder, properties; Donna
Mae Lyons, clean-up; Nila Desing
er, publicity and Moe Thomas, pro
grams.
The talent program will be one
of the highlight attractions of a
Homecoming on the Oregon campus
with the highest enrollment in his
tory.
Visiting Alums to Meet
At Gerlinger Saturday
Visiting alums during Homecom
ing weekend will meet at a lunch
eon Saturday, October 19, in the
Gerlinger sun room at 12 noon.
Tickets for the luncheon will be sold
on Friday and' Saturday morning
at the alumni registration; The cost
is 35 cents per ticket and 200 pur
chasers are expected.
Kwamas will make the luncheon
arrangements and the Phi Thetas
will serve. Beryl Howard is in
jjharge of the luncheon and has an
nounced that menu will bexihicken
pie, salad, rolls, cake, coffee and
tea.
Large Enrollment
Aids Union Plans
The record student enrollment
this term of 5600 has eliminated one
of the three stumbling blocks to
the building of the student union
building.
Last spring, President Harry K.
Newburn named three principal
difficulties that must be overcome
before the student union plans
could be completed. These were:
first, raising of gifts so that a bond
issue could be made; second, an in
crease in enrollment to at least
4500; and third, approval of the
building plans.
Among the activities of the union
last spring, a drive was conducted
for $300,000 for the building. The
educational activities board ap
proved an appropriation of $2500 to
help finance the campaign, which
was expected to run between $10,
000 and $12,000. Also helping to
raise funds, the students remitted
part of the student building fees
toward the union.
Wally Johnson, junior in business,
was renamed student union chair
man by the executive council at the
close of the spring term to serve
again in ’46-’47.
Petition Deadline Set
Deadline for petitions on the
Sophomore Whiskerino commit
tees is October 18. Petitions should
be turned in to Reed Grasle, Kap
pa Sigma; Cliff James, Sigma *
hall; or Margy Weeks, Delta Zeta.
Work Continues
On Amazon Units
Veteran students’ prospective
250-unit housing project on the
Amazon flats continues under Fed
eral construction and at the latest
reports from the office of Dr. Will
V. Norris, University supervising
engineer, completion is expected
sometime around winter term.
The apartments will be two
rooms with the living room and
kitchen combined and one bedroom
with a small bathroom. Any veter
an waiting for housing should be
sure he is signed up on the waiting
list in the veteran’s office in the
basement of Johnson hall. It takes
approximately nine months for
housing to come through for a vet
eran after he has signed up.
No solution has been reached yet
for the flood problem at Amazon
flats, but the office of the supervis
ing engineer was assured that Uni
versity officials and federal author
ities were working on a solution to
the problem.
WALLY JOHNSON, UNION MAN
Thousands See
Stellar Display
“The greatest display of falling
meteors since November 27, 1884,
was viewed by thousands Wednes
day night in Oregon,’’ stated J.
Hugh Pruett, Pacific director of
the American Meteor society.
Four experienced meteor coun
ters in Eugene calculateed that the
average number of meteors which
fell per hour at specific times were:
7 p.m., 588; 7:30, 1212; 8, 3,996; 9,
2,004; 9:45, 24; 10:30, 12.
Meteor Climax
As the sun sank down in the eve- |
ning sky, the meteor show began
and increased to a climax at about
8:45 p.m. The “shooting stars”
came in bursts and averaged more
than 40 flashes a minute.
To those who thought the heav
ens were falling, astronomers give
assurance that the solid head of the
Giacobini - Zinner meteor itself
passed this way some eight days
ago and 131,000 miles away, leav
ing a week-long “trail” of tiny par
ticles of matter ranging from the
size of a grain of sand to a few pos
sibly boulder size.
Mavericks
These maverick particles, attract
ed by the pull of the earth into the
ionosphere, beyond the strato
sphere, were consumed in the in
candescent heat of their own speeds,
which is about 14 miles per‘ second.
It was figured by Mr. Pruett and
the counters that the average per
son could see 9,990 falling meteors
if there were no moon. Since the
average person can see only a fourth
of the sky at a time, it was estimat
ed that in the dark of the moon 40,
000 meteors would fall per hour.
Although the heaviest falling of
the meteors occurred Wednesday
night, a few were seen last night
also Tuesday night.
Wesley House Throws
House Party Tonight
Tonight from 8 to 12 p.m. at
Wesley house, there will be a house
party for all students. Dancing,
games, stunts, fun and fellowship
will be the bill of fare for the eve
ning.
Herb Willis, Larry Sheriughau
sen, Bob Rynerson and Emily Au
tenreith are in charge of the rec
reation. Food committee is headed
by Susie Michel and Joanne Loper. i
Klamath Falls
Barracks Voted
For School Use
Last spring’s hot scrap over the
marine barracks at Klamath Falls,
was tentatively settled in Salem
this week, when the state board of
higher education, by a vote of 4 to
1, decided to acquire them for use
as a vocational school, contingent
upon the state emergency board ap
propriating funds for operating ex
penses until the next legislature
convenes.
Application to take over the bar
racks must be filed by next Tues
day, with the war assets adminis
tration and members expect the
state emergency board to call a
meeting Friday, to vote on appro
priations. The board of education’s
recommendations included a proviso
that part of the barracks be used
for veterans and the rest used by
the Klamath school system.
This decision by the board was
made after reviewing the freezing
order passed last spring, which
stopped all action until October 15l
Members of the board were: Gov
ernor Earl Snell, Secretary of State
Robert Farrell, Rex Putnam, state,
superintendent of public instruc
tion, Paul Spillman, and May Dar
ling, who was the only diissenter on
the board. O. I. Paulson, state di
rector of vocational education, es
timated that the first enrollment
at the Klamath barracks would
come to 400 or 600, raising to more
than 1500 the fifth year of opera
tion.
Judges To Name
Hostess Finalists
Sue Schoenfeldt, chairman of the
Homecoming committee, said
Thursday that the names of the
five hostess finalists will be an
nounced Saturday. Polling will take
place all day Monday in the cam
pus Co-op to choose the “Home
coming Hostess’’ of 1!>46.
Students will have to present
their educational activities cards
t > vote. Pictures of all five finalists
will appear in the Saturday issue
of the Emerald.
Honor Awarded UO
A certificate of distinction,
given by the war department,
was received in President Harry
K. Newburn’s office Saturday.
Signed by Secretary of War Rob
ert P. Patterson, the certificate
was awarded to the University
for its part in training soldiers in
the Army Specialized Training
program durng World War II.
What Police PshaaImgU?
Mud Hits Amazon Flats
By BOB WHITELY
There s nothing like the Amazon mud flats during Oregon’s
Monsoon ...
With the coming of the first fall rains this week, the Univer
sity housing project was bogged down in a sea of mud. If weather
conditions in October can churn up the Amazon flats into a sea
of mud now, it is possible that the University may have to furnish
eacn apartment with a suitable row
boat come January and February.
The main question that is frankly
worrying some married veterans,
rowboat or no rowboat, is “When
are the houses going to be ready?”
University officials hope for the
best . . . late fall or early winter
term; the students who are work
ing on the project hear from the
foremen that they hope the project
will be finished late winter or early
spring term, and the veterans who
are living in one room with their
families are hoping for some kind
of miracle to happen, period.
Don’t blame the men who are
working out there. It’s hard to walk
around with both feet feeling like
they were immersed in a glue pot.
Grave concern is expressed over the
onrush of water that invariably
finds its way to the Amazon flats
during the flood season. University
officials and the army engineers
are perplexed over the vexing prob
lem of having an inland lake at the
front door, but so far nothing def
inite has been planned to remedy
this minor matter. One veteran, afw
ter viewing the scene yesterday,
bitterly quipped, “at least the kids
can sail their boats out there. .
To the 250 desperate veterans
seeking a home, the housing list for
the Amazon flats project is their
Bible. The question that they are
asking themselves is when.