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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1948)
I The Weather ITIw* t Hollywood's Here Eugene and vicinity: increasing I I IB I I I m I -linuny I i.lU r \ is.ts the Ore ' cloudiness with widely scattered I fl || I -■ I fl I %l K°n «“»P»s-and lets his read • showers today; cooler. U J. I. JJ U U1 7* know fhe 8COOP- See Pa»e v two. ' VOLUME XLTX • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE WEDNESDAY, KKHRUARY IS, 1948 --NlAl liKR SS Dull Named To PNCC Delegation Faculty Members Accorded Official Status at Meet Paul S. Dull, assistant professor of political science and history, has - been appointed faculty representa . tive to the Pacific Northwest Col lege congress. Dull will accompany Warren Mil ' ler and Bob Allen, student dele gates from Oregon, to the meeting on the Whitman college campus, Walla Walla, Washington, March 3 to 6. This is the first time in the three-year life of the congress that faculty members have attended with official status. Charles Leigh Wheeler of San Francisco, past president of Ro ■ tary International and member of many welfare and charitable or ganizations, will be the featured speaker on the Marshall Plan sec tion of the student congress. . College Delegates ' Whitman President Wilslow S. Anderson also announced that 16 colleges have thus far made plans to send delegates ’to the meeting. - Delegates will soon receive a 25 page syllabus which will include questions to be discussed, back '* ground of the problems, and sug » gested reading on the topics. Dull has taught at Oregon two years. Before that he was at the University of Washington, where - he was connected with the far eastern institution. He has pre viously worked with the depart ment of state and was assigned to . cover the United Nations confer (Please turn to page three) <r # Exploration Films On 'Free Flicks' Bill 1 Tonight’s audio-visual movie of ferings are “The Bottom of the World,” about the south polar ex - plorations, “The Tragedy of Mt. Everest,” the story of Captain _ Noel's expedition to climb Mt. Everest. This film also depicts the customs of the people in the sur rounding area. Third of the movies is “Kraka ' toa,” a movie about volcanoes. The » first showing of these pictures will begin at 7:30 p.m. in room 207 Chapman. University to Host Celebrity Stassen, Presidential Aspirant, To Speak Saturday at Mac Court The former governor of Minnesota and now candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Harold E. Stassen will appear before the student body of the University and Eugene townspeople in a meeting Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in McArthur court. The topic for Saturday night’s meeting has not been announced. Stassen will also speak Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Oregon press conference banquet at the Eugene hotel. His address Friday night will be on “The Struggle for Freedom.” Before arriving in Eugene for the press conference banquet, Stas sen will make a series of stops at small towns in the Willamette valley to make short speeches. He will fly to Bend early Saturday for a meeting and then will fly back to Eugene for his campus speech. In a recent campus poll Harold E. Stassen was selected by the students as their choice for the next president of the United States. Winning Essay to Receive Philo Sherman Bennett Prize Announcement of the Philo Sherman Bennett prize for an essay on political science has been released by Dr. Waldo Schumacher, chairman of the award committee for 1948. This prize, totaling $50 this year, will be given to the Uni versity student submitting “the best essay on the principles of free government,” under the terms of the bequest. The two subjects chosen for the 1948 contest are: “The Place of Third Parties in American Politics” and “The Status of Civil Rights in Oregon.” Essayists may pick whichever subject they are most Faculty to Install B.C Honorary Three members of the Romance language department will leave! February 27 to install Beta Iota j chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, Span ish honorary, at the University of British Columbia. Making the trip will be D. M. j Dougherty, head of the department, L. O. Wright, professor of Romance languages and Clarence Kraft, in structor in Romance languages and national president of the honorary. Following the installation the Oregon professors will attend a Seattle executive conference of the Northwest chapter of the Ameri can Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Wright is national AATSP president. The conference will settle plans for an annual meeting of the asso ciation in April at the University of Washington, in commemoration of Miguel Cervantes’ 400th birth day. The three will return to the Uni versity February 30. interested in for their topic, al though the papers will all be judg ed together and only the one prize will be given. rfhe contest rules state that a.,/ undergraduate in the institution is eligible to compete. The essay it self must be 6000 words or less and follow strictly the standard doc umentation practices. Deadline for the contest is May 15, 1948. Full information may be obtain ed from the announcements on the bulletin boards of all University academic buildings, or from Dr. Schumacher and the other two members of the award committee, L. D. Epstein and R. W. Smith. University Seniors Receive Awards Graduate scholarships and store service awards at the University of Pittsburgh have been awarded to five University of Oregon seniors. They are Betty J. Bennett, Benja min Elder, Jr., William Hodgson, Alfred Schmachel, and Charles Slaymaker. All are enrolled in the school of business administration. The students will work part time in Pittsburgh department and spe cialty stores while attending school. Order Yearbook Now, Says Business Head Oregana Faces Cut Unless Enough Copies Are Purchased by Tomorrow's Deadline OLGA YEVTICH Mu Phi Epsilon Plans Silver Tea Patronesses of Mu Phi Epsilon, women's music honorary, will hold their annual silver tea this after 1 noon at the Delta Delta Delta -house from 3 to 5. Proceeds from ! the tea are used to benefit the Mu I Phi Epsilon scholarship fund. This scholarship is available to women music students. A program of American music will be presented by active mem bers of the honorary at 3:30 and 4:15 p.m. “Suite for Clarinet and Piano” by Halsey will be given by Margaret Holm, accompanied by Wilma Jean Wilson. Dorothy Schaer will present a medley of American folk songs, a string bass solo. A trio consisting of Marie Perry, Joyce Davis, and Virginia Burt will sing “Perhaps to Dream” by Doug las Moore and “ABC Sharp” by John Pasher Howard. They will be accompanied by Pat Heinrich. Wilma Jean Wilson is president of the local chapter. President of the patronesses is Mrs. John H. Beck. Mrs. Wickham to Talk Mrs. Golda P. Wickham, dean of women, will speak on “Plans for College” Thursday evening at a meeting in Coos Bay of high school senior women of the area. Olga Yevtich, business manager of the 1948 Oregana, stressed the importance of ordering yearbooks in the educational activities office before 5:30 tomorrow in an an nouncement made yesterday. She said that sections of the book are now being printed so a decision concerning the number of books to be issued will have to be made im mediately. In case a sufficient number of Oreganas is not ordered. 4000 books will be printed instead of the 4200 authorized by the educational activities board. Miss Yevtich said this cut of 200 books may not be necessary if enough orders are placed by Thursday morning. The business manager stressed that a. partial payment of $2 can be made with the remaining $4 to be paid before April 15. She said this plan was instituted for the benefit of students who want Ore ganas but cannot pay the full amount now. Any cut in quantity will definite ly not affect the quality of the 1948 yearbook. Miss Yevtich added. The educational activities office in McArthur court is open from 8 to 12 noon and 1 to 5 p.m. daily. Chances Open To Upperclassmen Examinations which will offer junior and senior students the op portunity of participating in spe cial training programs in the fields of engineering, mathematics, chem istry, physics, meteorology, and metallurgy have been announced, through Karl Onthank, dean of personnel administration. The ex aminations will be given in April by the board of U. S. civil service examiners. Onthank stated that this is the first time that such examination;! have been open to juniors. He ex plained that qualified students who pass the examinations may receive provisional appointments prior to completion of their college work. They will enter upon duty after graduation. Onthank added that a full de scription of the program, jobs open, and sample questions for the examinations may be obtained at his office in Friendly hall. Prominent Oregon Publishers to Speak at Conference By CONNIE JACKSON Friday’s opening sessions of the Oregon newspaper publishers as sociation conference will feature - talks and forums led by prominent newsmen of the state. Leading off with the topic “Mak ' ing Grass Roots Grow” will be 1 William L. Blizzard, publisher of - the Oswego Review. One-time pub lisher of a California paper, Bliz zard holds a masters degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. During the war he served ■ _ with the navy. v ‘‘What and Why Is a Cartoon,” a discussion of some of the prob lems of cartooning, will be given by Quincy Scott, editorial cartoon UTst on The Oregonian for the past 17 years. He is known as one of the most capable men in the car tooning field. William L. Thorniley, J. Walter Thompson Company, Seattle, wi\l speak on “Advertising—Yesterday and Today.” Thorniley has an un usual hobby, that of collecting old type faces, and he is expected to tell of some of his experiences, and opinions of how small town news papers are regarded by advertisers. Assistant news editor of the Ore gon Journal, David Eyre will talk on the American Press Institute seminars. At the joint faculty and confer ence luncheon Friday noon, Dr. Harry K. Newburn, president of the University, will discuss the cur rent situation at Oregon, and some future plans. After lunch, Dr. Laurence Camp bell, journalism professor, will open the afternoon program. His sub ject will be “Let’s Give the News paper Reader a Lift.” Following Campbell’s talk, Charles E. Gratke, foreign editor of the Christian Science Monitor and second annual Eric W. Allen Memorial Fund lecturer, will speak on “Covering This Foreign World.” Gratke is an alumnus of Oregon and a recognized authority on for eign news coverage. Clifford Kaynor, Ellensburg Daily Record, Ellensburg, Wash ington, will discuss “Organization and Our Publisher Problems.’1 Chairman of the Nation Editorial association’s non - metropolitan daily newspaper committee, Kay nor has taken an active part in state and national newspaper asso ciation activities. Managing editor of the Eugene Register-Guard William M. Tug man will discuss the program for accrediting journalism schools. He served recently as the newspaper representative on the accrediting committee which inspected three California journalism schools. Tug man is president of the board of trustees of the Eric W. Allen Me morial Fund. “The Struggle for Freedom’’ is the subject of Harold E. Stassen, candidate for the nomination as president of the United States. For mer governor of Minnesota, S'taa sen will speak at the annual ban quet Friday evening. Saturday, three group break fasts will be held, and following these will be conference forums The ONPA will hold its semi-an nual meeting at 11:30 a.m. follow ing the forums. “Early Oregon Newspaperment I Have Known” will be the topic of Fred Lockley, editorial writer and columnist for the Oregon Journal. Lockley will address the closing luncheon Saturday noon. Officers of the press conference for the fol lowing year will also be elected at the luncheon.