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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1948)
[Soles Classes Hear Lafferty On Grocery 8iz Grocery jobbing as a stable • business not lending itself to spec ulating or plunging was discussed in the sale management class of Dr. N. H. Cornish Thursday after -noon by Paul Lafferty of the R. E. Lafferty & Sons firm of Eugene. Lafferty explained the qualifica tions for salesmen in the whole sale grocery line and said that per sonal appearance, ability to talk, and ability to get along with others were three of the most im portant factors. It may be a. tough comedown for ■ college graduates to begin their gelling career in the warehouse and driving a truck, he said, but six months of that kind of exper ience will make a man a more able salesman when he goes on the 1 road. Boom Over , The speaker pointed out that for the grocery line the boom was ►over and it was again becoming a buyer’s market. He said that the : HEILIG :: TODAY & SAT. Hopalong Cassidy Ths Maurauders plus Devil Ship 1 FRIDAY 13th JINX BREAKERS MIDNIGHT SHOW Ghosts! Vampires! Skeletons! Spooks! * “VAMPIRE’S GHOST” Tickets now on Sale r — SUN. thru WED. HER LOVE DREAMS - CAME TRUE! GINGER CORNEL ROGERS WILDE It-iitidfo ^ ypu_ i ' MAYFLOWER NOW & SAT SUN THRU WED. 2 Great films Brought Back to Thrill you Again! Irene Dunn * Robert Taylor MAGNIFICENT : OBSESSION . plus Deana Durbin . Leopold Stokowski " 1QQ Men And a Girl" Vet Enrollment Up 13 Per Cent Nearly 13 per cent more veter ans were enrolled in Oregon’s col leges and schools at the start of winter term than were counted ?arly in fall term, Richard Men der, veterans administration train ing officer here, reported today. As of January 31, VA rolls showed 19,623 ex-GIs in schools, in increase of 2241 over figures for the end of last October. This is about 200 below the all time classroom crest of early Decem ber. Job Training Down In contrast to schools, on-the job training has dropped off stead ily since its peak of a year ago. Veterans in training under em ployers numbered 3957 at the end of last month, only 40 per cent of last year’s high. Schools of higher learning, which account for the majority of all veteran trainees, listed 13,498 at the end of January, about 2000 more than in the first month of fall term but just 24 less than a year ago. Farm training, now classified as day is past when a salesman’s big gest problem was to attempt to ration out the scant stocks in the warehouse and still maintain his friendship with his customers. He related that today competition is stronger than ever and a salesman must again use demonstrations and all the sales arts to stay in the running. National advertising has become the biggest asset to selling in the grocery business, concluded Laf ferty. Taylor to Attend Stanford Meeting Dr. H. R. Taylor, head of the department of psychology, will leave Saturday for Stanford uni versity, where he will attend a meeting of west coast psycholo gists. The committee will visit in stitutions and survey facilities for training in clinical psychology. Dr. Taylor, with another com mittee member, will visit the Univ ersity of California and the Univ ersity of Southern California dur ing the coming week. The meeting was called as a re sult of the greatly increased de mand for clinical psychologists an ticipated1 by the Veterans Admin istration in connection with its hospital program. institutional, was taken by 947 ex-GIs at latest count, and nearly 1800 were inflight training. Disabled veterans under pub-,' lie law 16 include 1486 in Oregon schools and 1086 in job training. Rehabilitation training, though greater than a year ago, has not expanded since last October. During January, 716 ex-GIs en rolled under the federal education program for the first time, in cluding 58 disabled veterans. COPY DESK Dick Gehr Marilyn Madden Walt McKinney Dizzy Turnbull, shrdlu I RIDERS To Portland and Seattle New Chev.—Bob Bechtle Friday 2:30. 1374 Onyx—Ext. 335 Lau Promoted To Edit Board Larry Lau, columnist of the Ore gon Daily Emerald, has been named to the paper’s editorial board, Editor Bob Frazier an nounced this week. Lau's duties will mainly be advisory, and he will continue to contribute frequent edi torials and columns to the Emer ald. The only junior on the editorial board. Lau has written for the edi torial and sports departments of the Emerald. Other members of the paper's ed itorial board are Jonathan Kahan anui, graduate of the school of journalism, Bert Moore, editor of Old Oregon magazine, Ted Good win, Register-Guard writer, Bill Stratton of the Athletic News bu reau, and Jack Billings, graduate instructor in journalism. Four Harvard university build ings still standing were used by Gen. George Washington to bar rack his troops in 1775. 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If you wish, you may receive the well known Marine training under competent in structors; obtain high school and college credits, or training in a trade. You are invited to engage in sports, recreation, parties and dances. You may even be paid to visit Virginia, Southern California or North Carolina with other young men from your community during the summer. It is possible to earn from $157 to $350 per year in your spare time, depending on your rank (reservists receive promotions!). All this, and you're still a civilian! So, if you want to share the prestige and tradition of the finest, phone or visit your local Marine Reserve Headquarters. There is a spot for you. w. otn Ave., tugene Or See Lt. JACK L. BILLINGS, Rm. 3, Journalism