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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1947)
The Weather ti I PI Eugene and vicinity, mostly cloudy *OwO riail today with little change in tern- whv was this Plan shelved? See perature. editorial comment on page two. VOLUME XL1X _ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 41. 1947 “ ' NUMBER .14 Hail Takes Governor's Oath Rally Plans CallforGirls To Escort Backlund Urges Pre-Game Turnout To Downtown Rally This is Sadie Hawkins rally day! Tonight at 6:45, women’s houses will pick up the men with whom they have been paired and gather for the pre-game serpentine on Alder between 12th and 13'th. Organization pairings were listed on page eight of yesterday’s Em erald. Yell King Johnny Backlund has requested a large turnout tonight, since the game tomorrow with the University of Idaho is Oregon’s first conference game at home, and the last till tfte Homecoming game with OSC. “This is our last chance till Homecoming to exhibit our spirit,” Backlund said. The serpentine will leave the forming point as soon as all or ganizations arrive, proceeding to downtown Eugene for a 20-minute program of songs and yells. The procession will follow the same route as before, with the Univer sity band in the lead. Backlund also urged that every living organization on the campus have at least one large banner ready by tonight. Men are to wear rooter’s lids and women are to carry pom-poms. —-- I Westminster Plans Hallowe'en Party A Hallowe’en program, ghost stories, dancing and refreshments are included in the activities plan ned for the Westminister House Halloween party Friday from 8 to 12 p. m. All University students and their friends are invited to attend. A University Mourns (An Editorial) Earl Snell, who had been governor of this state for five years, is dead. Nothing the Emerald can say will help. Nonetheless the Emerald does wish to extend the sym pathies of the University student body to the families of Governor Snell, Secretary of State Robertas. Earrell, Jr., and Senate President Marshall Cornett. Our sincere good wishes go to Governor John H. Hall, along with the hope that he will continue in the manner so long associated with Governor Snell. BULLETIN SALEM, Ore.—(UP)—A state funeral will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Oregon house of representatives for Gov ernor Earl Snell, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., and Senate President Marshall E. Cornett, the governor’s office announced last night. WSSF Drive to Open Monday; Goal Set at Dollar Per Webfoot The World Student Service Fund drive scheduled to begin on the campus Monday will aim to acquaint students with the needs of their contemporaries throughout the world, Chairman Mart Pond said Thursday as he disclosed that the Webfoot con tributions would throw a $100 pass Asia-ward at the Univer sity of Rangoon, Burma. • By stipulating the destination of funds collected Pond be lieves that everyone will be more aware of the urgency of the Gamma Alpha Chi Taps 13 Women Gamma Alpha Chi, national wo mens advertising society, tapped 13 women on the campus during the dinner hour this week. Tapped were Susann Grether, Cheryl Hill, Betty Bushman, Mary Liz Hendrickson, Janet . Beigal, Dorothy Wightman, Mary Hib bitt, Billijean Riethmiller, Mari lyn Turner, Joan Mimnaugh, Mar jorie Foster, Sally Waller, and Jackie Wachhorst. The requirement for member ship in the society, announced Maryanne Hanson, president, is active participation and interest in the advertising field. Planning Battle Strategy Marty Fond, chairman of next week’s World Student Service Fund drive, briefs his committee generals on campaign strategy. Front row,left to right,are Dick Randall,Sally Waller, Tom Hazzard.and Pond; rear, Bill Munroe, Helen Sherman, Jtordis Benke, Bev Pitt man, and Oliver Larson. (Photo by Kirk Braun) drive. Scholarships of $150 will be granted Burmese students as well as the $1000 grant to the library which was dynamited and burned by the Japanese. Competition is being eliminated this year in the hope that contrib utors will consider the need, and' support the drive on it’s own merits, Pond said. A dollar per student is the goal with green but tons being presented as receipts. WSSF is a relief organization of American school and college stu dents and professors for assistance to students and professors in the universities o f war-devastated countries. Relief is administered through the offices of World Stu dent Relief in Geneva and Shang hai. The fund has been commended by the United Nations for its ex cellent work in colleges and uni versities throughout the world. En larged operations of WSSF is con sidtered an essential part of UNESCO’s world-wide reconstruc tion and rehabilitation campaign. Onthank Returns After Trip North Karl W. Onthank, dean of per sonnel administration, said Thurs day that there are many job open ings for those who will graduate in December, and that those who will want placement should register with him. The dean also announced that there are numerous calls from bus . inesses that operate training pro grams for prospective employees. Anyone interested who will grad uate before June, should register early. i June graduates were also ad vised that they should make ar rangements before that time, par ticularly those interested in jobs involving special training. Position Not to Liking Of State's New Chief SALEM, Ore.—(UP)—John H. Hall, dark-haired, 48-year old Portland attorney, was sworn in as governor of Oregon before a grieving assemblage yesterday eight hours after Gov ernor Earl Snell and his immediate successor, Marshall Cornett, were found dead in the wreckage of a vacation plane. Former Governor Jay Bowerman administered the oath to the new chief executive at 3:05 p.m. before a crowd of 80 in the governor’s chambers. “I am carrying on a job not to my liking,’’ Hall said after GOVERNOR HALE (Courtesy Register-Guard) me uuci Lcicmony. nail s side during the inauguration was his attractive blonde wife, Alice. Funeral Next Week It was announced that the funeral of Snell, Cornett, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., and Pilot Cliff Hogue, who were killed together when their plane crashed near Dog Lake, Ore., six miles north of the California border be tween Klamath Falls and' Lake view, will not be held until after Monday. Cornett, president of the state senate, normally would have suc ceeded Snell to the governorship. But with Cornett's simultaneous death with Snell, flail, the third in line as speaker of the house of representatives, becomes chief ex ecutive. TPiffv fnrpst raripprs anrl nthf-'p volunteer searchers fanned out over a wide area of the Dog Lake country Wednesday night and early yesterday to reach the wreckage of the governor’s plane in a remote mountainous area at 7:35 a.m. Hunting Guns Bent Three bodies were inside the smashed cabin, wiih hunting guns bent and twisted about them. The plane, with its airspeed indicator set at 3 35 mph, had slithered through mud for 75 feet, sheared off several small trees, and pancaked with tremendous impact against a group of hillside saplings. All the occupants were severely injured. Snell suffered apparent multiple fractures of the head and face. Farrell was hurled outside the plane. Searchers bore the bodies out of the wilderness on strechers_some of them hurrie'dly slung together with boughs apd coats. Grieving' frignds awaiting at the Klamath Falls-Lakeview highway positively identified the bodies, and from there the bodies were moved in ambu lances to a Klamath Falls mortuary. When word was flashed to the capital by Sheriff Henry A. Cassidy that the bodies had been identified, flags were lowered to half staff throughout Salem and at Oregon State college. Work virtually came to a standstill in state offices. The secretary of state’s office was closed when notification of Far rell’s death was received. That office is not authorized to function until a new secretary is appointed by Hall. Mrs. Snell was under a doctor’s care at home. Her son, Lt. (jg) (Please turn to page six) Graduate Students to Cooperate With Atomic Energy Scientists Close cooperation between the University of Oregon graduate school and the newly established graduate school of nuclear engin eering at the Hanford atomic en ergy project in Richland, Washing ton, was urged in a resolution pass ed by the state board of higher ed ucation in its meeting Monday. The facilities available at the Hanford project for work in nu clear engineering will make the graduate school one of the most un usual and outstanding in the na tion, Dr. Eldon Johnson, dean of the graduate school, said. The plan j of General Electric Company | which operates the Richland plant for the government, is to recruit persons of university and college level for actual work on the atomip energy project. Those persons em ployed will be given an opportun ity to take courses and seminars under outstanding teachers. Cours- M es and seminars taken may count toward a graduate degree. Plans Two-Fold The plan of the school is two fold, to give the project better workers and also to afford college and university graduates an op portunity to study and do work in nuclear engineering, Johnson said. Provisions have been made for a (Please turn to page three)