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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1947)
The Weather il j ■iiillk f PliflTI _ _ _ Food Saving Eugene and vicinity: intermit- H H II I I I I TW I I I Campus response Truman’S tent rain today and Friday, nol H I TB I I I I ■ ITI I _ I I l B I _ I I food-saving plan is discussed on change in temperature. JL l JBJ U ■ -L bI JLJIJL JLJUH !■ JL JLJUJU today’s editorial page. VOLUME XLIX __ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 16, 1947 NUMBER 23" Marines To Explain Reserves Corps May Set Up Weekly Training With Graded Pay From $2.50 to $5.50 for a two hour meeting one night a week is the financial part of the proposi tion to be presented by the marine corps this evening at 7:30 in room 105 physical education building. Major H. E. W. Barngs, of the Portland headquarters, will be present to explain the marine corps organized reserve system to interested veterans and non-vet erans enrolled in the University. Motion pictures will be shown dur ing the evening. According to Major Barnes, an organized reserve unit will be ac tivated in Eugene next month to share the proposed navy armory building, if a sufficient number of men indicate a desire to partici pate. Open to Non-Veterans The program is especially de signed to appeal to former marines and members of the marine corps volunteer reserve, but is also open to veterans of other services and to non-veterans in good physical con dition. Capt. F. E. O’Conner, represent ing the Thirteenth Marine Reserve district in Seattle, will explain the marine corps volunteer reserve pro gram to the group. An unconfirmed report received Wednesday after noon indicated that Captain O’Con ner would bring Victory Medals with him to be presented to former marines who can produce their dis charge papers. Lt. R. W. Deverrell, USMCR, re serve coordinator for the Eugene area, will take the names of stud ents interested in taking part in the local program. Ex-Marines Keep Rank Former marines signing up for duty with the local unit may re tain the ranks they held upon dis charge, according to Lieutenant Deverell, and former members of other services will be admitted to equivalent marine corps ranks. Some of the benefits listed by Lieutenant Deverall are: (1) Accumulation of service for pay purposes if called to active (Please turn to page eight) Hostess Judges To Pick Finalists See Candidates Page 7 A difficult task will be faced to night by six Homecoming hostess judges when they meet in Gerlinger hall to narrow a field of 24 can didates to five finalists. The judges are Howard Lemons, Stan Williamson, Sue Ferniman, Dawn Carson, Peter Kill, and Les Anderson. Miss Carson was hostess for 1946 Homecoming celebration. Jackie Wachorst, chairman of the Homecoming contest, has re quested that all candidates meet promptly at 7:30 p. m. in Alumni hall, Gerlinger. Short silks should be worn. Next Tuesday students will sel ect by ballot one of the finalists as the 1947 hostess. The 'Brains' Behind the Whiskerino This fine-looking crew of students is the 1947 Sophomore Whiskerino committee, now busily engaged in preparing for the annual campus event October 2 >. Pictured are from left to right, back row: Mild red Chetty, Jane Daggett, Phyliss Kohlmeier, Ale^c Murphy, Mac Epley, Dick Perrin, Bill Duhaimc, and Ed Anderson, Front row, left to right: Shirlie McCarton, Pan Newton, Helen Gatewood, Joanne Frydenlund, Barbara Vowels, Dick Neely, Bill Gre n, and Paul Huntzinger. Virginia Thomson and Dave Moore are not pictured. (Photo by Kirk Br tun) Leading Metropolitan Soprano To Perform for Local Audience Helen Traubel, who will sing in McArthur court Friday even ing, is rated the leading Wagnerian soprano by music experts. Among the honors accorded her have been command per formances before the king of Denmark and an appearance before the presidential family in 1946. Miss Traubel made he first public appearance as a singer at 12 when she substituted for her mother in a church choir. The home of Miss Traubel and her husband,Coenraad V.Bos, is CLL uaguna kjk^a.\..i±, vmviv oitvn go fishing. Bos will accompany Miss Traubel at the Friday concert at the Igloo. The November 11, 1946, issue of Time magazine featured the St. Louis-born singer on its cover. Writers of the magazine commen ted, “At first by default, and in creasingly by merit, Helen Traubel has become the greatest Wagnerian soprano singing in the world to day. She is the first great soprano at the Met to sing Wagner and nothing but ’’ Members of sophomore and junior honoraries will usher at the concert, which will be the second in the 1947-48 series. University Theatre Schedules Tryouts First tryouts for the second pro duction of the University Theatre under the direction of Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt will be held in Room 1, Johnson hall at 7:30 this evening. All those interested in any phase of piay production are urged to attend. German Club To Meet The Deutsche Gesellschaft will hold its first meeting of the year tonight at 7:30 on Gerlinger sun porch. Office vacancies will be filled and plans made for the coming year. Refreshments will be served after the meeting. University Band To Spark Rally The University band will lead the rally at Portland Friday night, Yell King Backlund an nounced yesterday. Students will meet in front of the Benson hotel at 8:15 p,m, and procede up Broadway to the Paramount theater for the rally. Backlund urged that girls atten-.. ding carry pom poms and men wear rooter’s lids. Telephone Changes Proposed Pacific to Replace Present Extentions With Pay Phones 151 EVELYN NILL Recommendations to change University dormitory telephones to a semi-public pay basis are under study by University officials after they were presented last week by Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. The proposal followed a survey by the company of all phones on the campus, University Business Manager J. O. Lindstrom stated. Thirty-two phones, including those in 21 dormitories and 11 office connections, would be affected,Mrs. Genevieve Turnipsced, director of dormitories, said she understood. Reasons Offered Pacific company officials stated three reasons justifying the change, declaring that such a system is cus tomary on campuses throughout the country. 1. Present tariff regulations un der which the company operates call for the semi-public installa tions where larger numbers of phone users are served. . 2. A change to semi-public would relieve demands on campus switch boards. 3. With the planned change to a complete dial system in Eugene, the pay system would protect the company and the University against long-distance calls. “University officials do not know what position will be taken on the recommendations,” Lindstrom said, "as they have just received the re (Please turn to page eight) University Passes 71st Year By VIRGINIA FLETCHER Seventy-one years ago today, October 16, 1876, the first group of students to enroll in the University of Oregon went through the in itial process of registration. There were 177 of them, 80 of whom were of college grade and 97 of whom were in the preparatory depart ment. What a different picture the campus must have presented to 1 those Webfoots making the first tracks across the annals of the historical pages of our institution. Started Without Funds All classes were held in the one campus building, Deady Hall, which was still under the process of construction. The infant college was without funds until the fall session of the state legislature ap propriated $10,000 a year for two years, to be used for physical im provements. This made possible the addition of rooms for teaching pur poses on the second floor and an a.ssembly room on the third floor, 1 a well, a sewer system, a board fence seven feet high around the campus, a piano, a portable tele scope, and $4,000 for scientific apparatus. The original faculty consisted of five members, three professors and two women teachers for the prep department. President John Wesley i Johnson was a stern disciplinarian, Deafly hall, shown at tlie graduation or one oi the University’s early classes was begun by citizens of Lane County in 1873 to house the state’s first institution of higher education. The building and campus were then valned at $50,000. who had driven an ox-team from Missouri to the Willamette valley at the aye of 5 3. Fun Frowned On Social life on the campus was almost non-existent. Study time was closely supervised and faculty permission had to be obtained in order to attend church entertain ments or lectures in the evening. The "theater” was frowned on, and dancing was taboo. The literary and debating soc ieties were the only forms of stud ent activities acknowledged by the (Please turn to page eight)