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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1947)
Fund Benefits Three Students Three University art school stu dents, Alfred Staples, special stu dent in interior design; Norma Driscoll, junior in drawing and painting; and Mary Lewis, junior1 ja sculpture, were awarded tuition scholarships from income from the Ellen M. Pennell scholarship fund. The late Mrs. Pennell was con r.ected with the University of Ore gon from igOS until her retirement in 1932. While with the University, she served at various times as as sistant in the English department, instructor in the school of archi tecture and (allied arts, assistant dean of women, acting dean of y/omen, and assistant in the li brary. Upon her death in 1941, Mrs. Fennell's estate, valued at over $11, €00, devolved upon the University of Oregon. The income of the ma jor portion of the estate was to be a sed for the payment of tuition of deserving students in the art school. -— Dr. Dixon Receives Research Contract A research contract from the U. S. naval research' office has tven awarded Dr. W. J. Dixon, as sociate professor of mathematics, Dr. A. F. Moursund, head of the mathematics department, an nounced this week. The funds are to extend over a period from September 2, 1947, to November 30, 1948, to furnish nec essary personnel and facilities for research in mathematical statis tics. Specifically, the study is di rected toward the development of distributions of simplified statis tics. "During the war it was found nec essary to have statistical proced ures which caidd be applied more rapidly than those previously devel oped,” Dr. Dixon said. He explained that this project is an outgrowth of developments started during the war. • I Dr. Dixon did undergraduate work at Oregon State college, and! graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. He was awarded" a Uoetofate at Princeton in 1944. Forest fires burned enough lum l.er in 1946 to build 200,000 five room houses. Ninety per cent of all t res are due to carelessness. 'Gold Diggers'To Have Bad Time To protest the lowering hemline, rising operating costs on dates, and the pseiido-sophistication of coeds, the men stu dents of Whitman college in Walla Walla, Washington are holding a “We Hate Women Week” during which the campus males will completely ignore all campus females. The men claimed that they were moved to action by the^social and financial burdens imposed by girls described as “gold divfrinv sophisticates.” It was decided by the men to deprive Like Children? Santa Needed Are you a born actor? Do you have a magnetic personality, es pecially attractive to children? If you do have both of these traits, plus a jolly, rotund laugh, you may be one of the men tiiat Dean Karl Onthank is looking for. One local store already has placed a request with the cam pus employment agency for a man to play Santa Claus in theii toy department. Other similar positions will prabably be avail able soon, Onthank said. Men interested in holding one of these positions on Saturdays until school is out and full time thereafter, are asked to see Dean Onthank in the employment of fice in Friendly hall. Norm Van Brocklin (Continued front page four) ute by a Williams touchdown pass. Sharing ball-carrying duties with left halfback Williams is 175 pound Bill Beitz at fullback, who does most of the plunging duties for the Vandals. Despite his light weight, Beitz has displayed plenty of power this season. Idaho performs from the Notre Dame box offense, a formation in troduced by Dixie Howell this sea son. Probable Starting Lineups Garza Dotnr Chrobot Eeklund Me land Stanton Stoeven Johnson Leicht Bell' Holcomb LER LTR LGR C RGL RTL REL Q LHR RHL F Smith Kiilsgaard Dana Paasch McCormack Overgaard Barnes Moffett Diehl Williams Beitz the Whitman girls oi meir iavu rite indoor sports by refusing to speak, telephone, or otherwise communicate with them. _ These plans were decided upon only after the college psychology department had assured Whitman campus leaders that the shock of buying cigarettes and coffee would not produce irremedial psych neuroses effects upon the girls. The Whitman males are also minimizing feminine suffering dur ing the period by sitting on dif ferent sides in classrooms and similar segregation in other mixed groups. Traditional niceties favor ing the fair sex are also abolished, the gals must open doors for tfiemselves. The only exceptions to the rules will be in the case of married stu dents who may converse with their wives on the subjects of price of food, light, and rent, the condition of Junior’s health, and deductions from the budget to be used as hubby’s beer money. As reported in the Whitman Pio neer, the men hope that after this week the gals will show more fa vor to shorter skirts, lower date expenditures, and better spirit in general. Eight Pledged To Honorary The University of Oregon chap ter of Sigma Delta Chi, profes sional journalistic fraternity, has pledgesd eight men, Ross Yates, president, announced Friday. Fledges include Warren Mack, Rex Gunn, Dan Sellard, Merle Pugh, Wallace Hunter, Larry Lau, Roy Williams, and Tony Swint. All pledges are required to wear a linotype slug bearing their name around their necks for one week beginning yesterday and to attend the next SDX meeting in the Side at noon November 6. Pledges will be initiated later in the term. Davidson to Speak About Aborigines Dr. D. S. Davidson, associate pro fessor of anthropology, will speak Monday, on “Some Popular Mis conceptions of the Australian Ab origines" at 8 p. m. in 103 Deady hall. Sponsored by the University chapter of Sigma Xi, national sfcience honorary, the- lecture will be public. Saturday Staff Day Manager Bob Bechtle Assistant: Bob Zundel Layout: Mamie Chan Elizabeth Kelley Kay Lindberg Ruth Jasmann Sales: Lynn Fritchman Bob Coy Mamie Chan "Spook" A school of mackerel is so large it sometimes stretches 10 miles in length and a half mile in width, according to skippers of the At lantic Coast Fisheries Company’s trawler fleet. | Fresh Hand Dipped Chocolates SUGAR PLUM CANDY SHOP I’hone 412S 63 Kast 1!roadway • Pocket-size, table model or console —there isn't a size or make of radio that we can't make work better Alsu complete line of records Radio Laboratory 7oS 11th St. [Emerald Classifieds atfofC'wc^ rwordtt^seH^ LOST: DU pin, call George More two cent, a word thereafter at the Emerald Business Office. i . head, 1128. (.oO) Classified deadline is 4:00 p.m. the dav >rior to publication. ________— WORLD HEADLINES PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 31. Dr. R. L. Sexton, personal physician to Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug, said tonight the secretary was “recovered” and would be dis charged from medical care “as soon as I can talk to the other physicians who attended him. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 31. Ail 18 persons aboard the missing Juneau-bound Pan American airways DC-4 perished when the craft crashed head on into Mt. Tamgas and explod ed, the coast guard rescue crew radioed from the scene tonight. The rescue crew repbrted that although only four bodies had been found, there was no possi bility that any of the passengers or crewmen could have survived the impact of the crash and the liaming explosion that followed. ADAK, Aleutian Islands, Oct. 31. Round the world fliers Clifford Evans and George Truman arrived safely at Adak in the Aleutian is rands at o:ou p.m. irou on the first leg of their 1,700-mile flight from Shemya at the western tip of the Aleutian island chain to^ Ermdorf field near Anchorage. STOCKTON, Cai., Oct. 31. , Two low-flying planes bombard ing tire College of Pacific cam pus with leaflets today, a few - hours before the championship COP-San Jose State football ^ game, were forced down by a sheriff’s air patrol plane and the pilots arrested, T leaflets _ urged tlie Pacific football team to -drop dead.” LONDON, Oct. 31. Britain’s La bor government tomorrow faces^ its first big electoral test since the economic crisis became a menace almost as grim as war and politi-. cal experts predicted big conserva tive gains. Millions of voters in England and wares will elect 3,199 munici pal councillors in 392 boroughs. _ Newspaper polls have indicated that up to 31 per cent of voters^ who supported Labor in the great landslide of 1945 may change their - allegiance. Leaving crop residues on the sur- - face of the ground has a marked effect in reducing wind erosion. 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