Fuzz Fest Comes Off at 8:30
Beards Follow
On Sunday AM
Donahue's Top Hatters
Primed for Whiskerino
By BETTY JO BLEDSOE
Oregon Webfoots will swing out
at the Whisker dance of the year to
night at McArthur court to the
“top-hat rhythm” of A1 Donahue
and his orchestra. Donahue, who
uses solid combination of rhythm
and swing, will broadcast over sta
tions KUGN and KORE during the
evening, playing for some 1,000 per
sons expected to attend the dance.
Donahue’s many engagements
all over the United States have lent
his music a versatile quality which
adds to the pleasure of the listening
as well as the dancing audience,
dience.
The combination of intermission
entertainment, A1 Donahue and his
orchestra, and the festive attitude
of the participants should make to
night’s Whiskerino one of the best
in Oregon history.
Short silks will be in order at the
dance which is to be held from 8:30
p.m. until 12:30 p.m. Tickets for the
Whiskerino dance will go on sale
at the educational activities office
in Mac court from 8 a.m. until 12
noon today. They may also be pur
chased at the door. The price per
couple is $2.40 including tax.
Kay Becker, chairman of the
iWhiskerino dance decorations com
mittee, announces that everyone
available Saturday morning will be
urgently needed at Mac court to
J^elp decorate for the dance.
Popular Met Star To Appear
In Mac Court Monday Night
Housing Allotment
Confirmed For UO
Official confirmation of the addi
tional housing allotment made to
the University by the Federal
Works administration has been re
ceived by Will V. Norris, Univer
sity engineering supervisor. The
Emerald carried an unofficial an
nouncement of the allptment in its
Thursday edition.
The allotment consists of two C
shaped, two-story buildings to be
moved here from Camp Adair, near
Corvallis. Each unit has 24,000
square feet of floor space.
Norris said that he expected the
buildings, which will be used for
classroom and office space, to be set
up and ready for occupancy in time
for next fall term.
Judges To Defuzz Whisker
Champion as Dance Feature
Beard Contest Winner to Receive
Intermission Shave by Charley Elliott
Tonight will find the “befuzzed” Oregon campus emerged
in the traditional celebration of the annual sophomore Whiske
rino. This year’s beard brawl at McArthur court promises to
be outstanding with both Webfoot and OSC entertainment to
be presented.
Preparations for the big night at the Igloo have been in
progress for more than a week with evidences of many an
Housing Sought
For Press Confab
Work has begun to find housing
for the expected 150 high school
students attending the high school
"*press conference here December 6
and 7, according to Leonard Jer
main, instructor of journalism and
chairman of the arrangements com
mittee for the conference.
The high school press conference
is held annually, to enable high
school editors to improve their own
papers as well as give general in
formation in the field of journal
. ism. Later in the year a committee
of faculty members and students of
the school of journalism judge the
papers in a high school newspaper
contest.
The conference will be climaxed
by a banquet at the Osburn hotel
Friday evening, the actual meetings
ending Saturday at noon.
Sigma Delta Chi, national pro
fessional journalism fraternity, will
hold a formal initiation at the ban
quet.
Members of the otner committees
for the conference are program
committee, Warren C. Price, chair
man, and Hilliar Kreighbaum and
Carl Webb. Robert C. Hall is assist
ing Jermain on the arrangements
committee.
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murals featuring the now well
known Samson and Delilah, and
the dunking of those who wouldn’t
neglect their razors.
Entertainment at the dance will
include the presentation of the Win
ners (of the Betty Co-ed—Jde Col
lege conest and the bearded win
ner of the Whiskerino contest
chosten by the audience’s applause,
which will be judged by campus
barber, Charlie Elliott. The win
ner of the beard contest will be
shaved at the dance following the
presentation of his prize. Each
winner will receive an engraved
cup. The shaving will be done by
Charlie Elliott and Bob Ringo,
chairman of the Whiskerino con
test.
Committee heads for the dance
are: publicity, Laura ofson; Betty
Co-ed—Jde College contest, Bob
Miller; beard growing contest, Bob
Ringo; dance decorations, Kay
Becker; patrons and patronesses,
Anita Hager; entertainment, Jor
dis Benke; ticket sales, Joe Conroy;
programs, Renee Cowell.
Brahms Concert Sunday
The weekly concert held Sunday
in the Browsing room of the library,
will this week include Brahms’ Pi
ano Concerto, from the record col
lection of Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Glhent.
LAUMTZ MELCHIOR . . .
“The Greatest” heroic tenor who will appear here Monday.
Melchior Concert
Begins at 8:15 p.m.
By LAURA OLSON
Accompanied by his own orches
tra, Lauritz Melchior will arrive in
Eugene Monday afternoon. He andl
his company will appear in McAr
thur court at 8:15 p.m. Both mem
bers of the ASUO and the Eugene
Civic Music association are eligible
to attend the concert if they pre
sent educational activities or mem
bership cards.
The concert star has won univer
sal acclaim as the Metropolitan Op
era's greatest heroic tenor. He is
known as the concert world’s most
sought-after artist, and has made
many guest appearances over the
radio. Recently Melchior made his
debut in motion pictures when he
appeared in "Thr ill of a Romance.”
The Great Dane is the first artist
to tour with his own orchestra. He
is also the first concert star to char
ter planes so that his tours may be
more extensive. This fall, Melchior
will visit 60 cities.
Melchior recently returned to
Denmark for the first time in seven
years. The occasion for this trip was
the 75th birthday of King Christian
X who issued a decree for a com
mand performance by Denmark’s
“most distinguished artist and one
of her most loyal sons.” On the same
trip he sang for allied occupation
troops in Europe.
JVs Play Today
Oregon’s junior varsity, coached
by John Warren, will tangle with
the Oregon State t'rosh football
team on Hayward field this after
noon at 2 p.m. The University
band will pjay, and the junior
varsity rally squad will lead the
cheering, under the leadership of
Jack Schnaidt, junior yell king.
Students are asked to enter the
field through the west side of the
grandstand and cross to the east
side of the playing field.
Continental Tour
Begun by Morse
Wayne L. Morse, Republican sen
ator from Oregon and former dean
of the University law school, left
the United States Wednesday for
Europe on a five-week trip which
will take him through France, Ger
many, Austria, Italy, and the Med
iterranean.
The senator described his trip as
unique in two aspects. He will pay
his own expenses, and he is not
searching for material to use in an
investigation.
Senator Morse will also visit Rus
sia if it proves possible to get the
necessary government permit with
out extended delay.
After returning from Europe in
December, Morse hopes to be able
to keep several speaking engage
ments in Oregon which were can
celed by his recent illness.
UN Reception Pleases College
Delegates, Portland League Told
Lois McConkey Putnam, 1946 graduate of the University,
and Troy M. Strong, student at the College of Puget Sound,'
spoke before the Portland League of Women. Voters in the
| Benson hotel, Portland, Wednesday noon concerning their re
cent trip to New York to present the resolutions of the Pa
cific Northwest College congress to the American delegation
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The resolutions were drawn up
last spring at Reed college where
62 delegates from 31 northwest
universities met in the first PNCC.
Later these resolutions were ap
proved by 47,000 college students
represented at the congress.
The speakers said that the re
ception given them by the Ameri
can delegation, by Trygve Lie,
secretary general, and others,
strengthened their hopes that a
national college students' congress
and even an international one may
be formed.
Lois Putnam described the ac
tual presentation of the Resolu
tions to the American delegation.
“The importance of giving adult
students a voice in world affairs
was expressed,” she said, "and we
were assured that the door would
always be open to us.”
She described the setting of the
United Nations meeting and the
great, great privilege of seeing
particular leaders from all over the
world.
New Physical Plant
Officially Accepted
The University Friday officially
accepted the new physical plant, lo
cated north of the infirmary on
Onyx, from the contractors, Stein
Brothers of Eugene.
The building, which was built at
a cost of $37,000, will house the Uni
versity paint and plumbing shops,
and electrical and heating equip
ment. It will be under control of C.
Ken Weidmer, superintendent of the
physical plant.
Lawrence and Lawrence, Port-*
land architects designed the new
building. The University will occu
py the structure as soon as housing
equipment and furniture being
stored in it can be moved out.
This addition to the physical
system gives the University ono
of the most modem plants on tho
Pacific coast.