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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1947)
The Weather Betty and Joe Eugene and vicinity: partly Betty Coed and Joe College con cioudy and cooler today .generally test candidates named on inside fair Wednesday. page seven. * VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1947 HNUMiljTiZL Emerald Is All-American Enrollment To Reach New High More Veterans, Out-of-Staters to Overload in '48 The already overburdened facili ties at Oregon’s institutions of higher learning will have to bear the strain of new record enroll ► ment in 1948-49, according to a re port by the Pacific Coast Commit tee of the American Council on Ed ' ucation. Even greater numbers of stu dents are expected to flock to Pa cific coast colleges and universities each year within the next two dec ades, according to population trends studied by the committee. “Wholly aside from the veterans, - there is reason for thinking of en rollments about double the past peak figures of 1939-40,” the report ' asserted. More Veterans - Quoting reports issued by the re search and planning divisions of the veterans administration, the committee revealed that the na tional peak of veteran enrollments „ in higher education will probably be seen in 1949. “The real squeeze in school facil >- ities will come in 1948-49 unless additional staff and classroom space is arranged for in the mean time,” the report declared. Increases Seen ' The committee estimated that some 17,000 persons of college age, k (18 to 21 years), are in Oregon as the result of interstate migrations of populations, and they expect . this figure to reach 25,000 by 1964. Of these prospective students, about 15 to 30 per cent will proba bly enroll in schools of higher* learning. „ Native born Oregon students of college age now number 65,000. A gradual decline from this figure is » foreseen by the committee until 1954, when the number of Oregon born students will begin a steady climb to an estimated 99,300 in (Please turn to page seven) Concert Series to Present Trauble, Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, Wagnerian sopra no and the second artist in the current concert series, will present a concert this Friday in McArthur court at 8:15 p.m. The success story of Helen Trau bel is truly the triumph that is pos sible in the United States. She be gan her vocal studies in St. Louis, where she was born, and was dis-j covered by Walter Damroseh, who | was guest conductor of the St.Louis '■ symphony when she was singing, j He made a scholarship possible for her and later Helen Traubel started capturing the admiration of thousands of listeners through j her broadcasts on the Telephone Hour, the Ford Sunday Evening; Hour, and the Kraft Music Hall. Then she announced that she wras going to retire from professional appearances to devote her time to Wagnerian opera. After her reappearances with a New York recital, guest star with1 the New York Philharmonic, and i her Metropolitan debut in “Die Walkuere” critics claimed she pos-1 1 HELEN TKAI BEL sessed the greatest vocal magnifi cence displayed in two generations. I Coeds Good Carpenters Girls Set the Stage for Theater's "TheMan Who Came To Dinner " By PAT KING Has anybody seen a crate of four penguins? How about a1 mummy case? Or maybe you might have run across a miniature city of 10,000 periplanata (cockroaches) equipped with ear phone to hear the mating calls? Students may not have seen any of the above mentioned lately, but they will if they attend "The Man Who Came to Oregana Pictures Billed for This Week Students living in the following houses will have individual photo graphs taken this week by Kennell Ellis studio for the 1948 Oregana: October 14: Alpha hall, Alpha Gamma Delta. October 15: Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi. October 16: Alpha Xi Delta, Kap pa Alpha Theta. October 20: Ann Judson, Delta Gamma. WORLD HEADLINES - By United Press LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Oct. 13- Russia supported the principle of Palestine partition in the United Nations today, virtually assuring a UNprogram aiming at giving Jews and Arabs separate and independent states in the holy land. 1A MPA, b 1ft., Oct. 13. An army-navy hurricane-busting team sowed dry ice on an Atlantic storm today with “technical success” but . exact details were withheld because of their “military aspects.” W ASHINGTON, Oct. 13. The LT.S. export-import bank today moved *;o ease the western European economic crisis by authorizing hard-press L e<^ Fiance to use up to §180,000,000 of its funds for emergency purchases of American coal and other desperately-needed raw materials. ROME, Italy, Oct. 14. The people’s bloc of communists and left wing socialists won out over Premier Aleide de Gasperi's Christian demo cratic party in a hard-fought election struggle between communism i. al,d Catholicism for control of Rome's municipal administration, nearly k complete official returns showed today. Dinner,” to be presented October 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 and November 1 in Johnson hall . . . and the unher alded, efficiency-plus stage crew will be responsible. Girls Show Skill Before most students were even thinking about the first play to be given this season, work was start ing on the set for the first produc tion. Many young ladies, who for mally considered themselves help less, have turned out to be first rate carpenters, plumbers, and | painters after donning the write overall uniforms of the stage hands. In fact, 'tis a lady, Miss Anne McGeorge, who is stage manager of the crew. Her assistant is Rob- J ert Carr. On her crew are Louise Clouston, property manager, and her assistants Lynn Renick and Margaret Randall; Robert Morton, j Ted Schultz, electrician and assist ant; and Charles Boice and Judy Hickman, painter and assistant. i “The Man” will have only one ' set, so one week was spent planning it and three weeks working on it. ; Scenery is built to professional standards so that it may be folded ; up for traveling if the show goes on the road. Workshop Prepares Set First the director, Horace W. Robinson, and 'the new technical director, Gilbert M. Williams, ; 1 worked out the design for the set : j and color scheme. Then the set ; was broken down into units which ! was prepared by the workshop | (Please turn to page eight) 1946-47 Daily Piloted By Marguerite Wright By SUSAN McCARRE Rated as excellent in almost every degree, the Oregon Daily Emerald received an All-American superior award from the Associated Collegiate Press for the 1946-47 year, it was an nounced yesterday. In revealing the award, Editor Boh Krazier explained that last year’s Emerald was judged for the first time in the top listing, that of schools with over 5,CKX) enrollment. Only ten other college papers in this bracket re ceived the All-American rating. Based on Survey The annual presentation arc based on surveys of news coverage, writing and editing, editorial page, headlines, typography and make up and departments and special features as judged by the National Newspaper Critical service of the University of Minnesota school of journalism. Editor of the 1946-47 Emerald was Marguerite Wittwer-Wrigh't, now on the news and editorial staff of the Oregon Statesman, Salem. Managing editors of the paper were Jack Billings, Bill Stratton, and Jeaanne Simmonds. Herb Penny and Bill Yates served as news edi tors. Commenting on the news of the award, Dean George Turnbull, Em erald adviser, said “Both Mrs. Wright and her whole staff are en titled to hearty congratulations on their achievement in getting back into the all-American class. “Last year was not an easy year, and everything considered, the showing made was remarkable. We are looking forward to a fine job by Bob Frazier and his gang this year.” The Pacemaker rating, only award higher than All-American, was earned by just two papers, the Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota, and the Daily Texan, University of Texas. Seventh Winner The Associated Collegiate Press critical service has recognized the Emerald with the All-American plaque in six previous years: 1944, 1942, 1941, 1940, 1939 and 1933. The Pacemaker award was won in 1938. Competing on a term basis, member newspapers of the service are criticized issue by issue and receive the relative ratings by the point system. For the upper brac ket dailies (over 5000 circulation), a first rating is given for Septem ber to January and the year’s rat ing, presented in the fall, covers the entire year’s work. Wednesday Movie Stars Robert Donat “The Count of Monte Cristo,” starring P.obert Donat, is the edu cational activities movie slated for Wednesday, October 15. The movie is a screen adaptation of the novel by Alexander Dumas. It features a reproduction of life and dress in Nineteenth-Century France. The movie will be shown twice, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in room 3, Fenton hall. $I5,000 Award ToDr.C. Clancy Given by Navy Dr. Clarence W. Clancy has re cently been awarded a grant for $15,000, which will finance the Oregon associate professor of biol ogy through a 23-month research period, according to Dr. Paul Ris ley, head of the biology depart ment. The grant, issued by the United States navy, was awarded to Dr. Clancy through recognition of his work in the field of genetics* development. Investigation of the action of specific genes is the general aim of the research program with par ticular study being concentrated on the development of eye color in Drosophila melanogaster, common ly known as the vinegar fly. The latter is one of the organisms ex tensively used for genetical inves tigation. Determine Eye Structure An attempt will be made to de (Please turn to page eight) Beards Appear On Soph Chins The first day of pre-Whiskerino beard growing by the male element of the sophomore class revealed more than a little fuzz on many a second-year chin. Some candidates for whisker honors were accused of throwing away the razor before the Sunday evening starting time but all denied this statement as well as refuting the charge that artifi cial hair-stimulants were being employed. For sophomores who might have missed' Saturday’s announcement concerning beard growing, the deadline is now at hand. The high sheriff of the contest, Jack Sehnaidt, has ruled that any Soph omore who has not been able to muster at least a promise of chin fuzz by tonight will be regarded as candidates for special beard-grow ing treatments to be administered by lid Anderson and the Skull and Dagger posse. The only excuse accepted by Sheriff Sehnaidt will be a medical certificate by a doctor approved by the Whiskerino committee. The posse has also warned that viola tors will be hunted clown in Port land next week-end and suggested that Sophomores not even pack their razor or shaving soap when leaving for the Portland football game.