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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1948)
Club Honors BB Champs Plymouth club will hold its an nual banquet and dance Friday night honoring the Congregational college basketball team. This af fair follows the final play-off of the church league men's division. Members of the team are: Dick Moll, Jim Ekstrom, Winnie Carl, Dick Cramer, Don Fair, Bob Kingsbury, Wes Nicholson, Harold McIntyre, and Bob Charelton. The banquet will be held in the church dining room at G:30 p. m. There will be a charge of $3.50 per ylate. Short silks and suits will be in order. The dinner will be fol lowed by dancing and recreation in the Plymouth house. Special en tertainment will be provided. Anyone interested in attending should call the church office im mediately for reservations. Couples will be welcome but it is not ex clusively a date affair, plate. Short silks ami suits will with Treva Rice, general chairman and Wes Nicholson, master of cer emonies. are: Glen Morgan, dance: Elizabeth Howes, banquet; Deane Axtell, tickets: Isabelle Lowry, phoning; Marge Griffeth, public ity, and Treva Rice and Wes Nich olson. entertainment. Sales Manager To Visit Campus Unmarried men interested in the fields of merchandising-, sales, and advertising may contact E. B. Newsom, sales manager for the western division of the Vick Chem ical company, who is on the cam pus today. Newsom may be contacted through the office of Karl W. On thank, dean of personnel adminis tration, in room 6 Friendly hall. Newsom will interview unmarried men between the ages of 20 and 27 for the Vick sales and merchandis ing program. WORLD HEADLINES | By United Press SALEM, Ore., March 2—A pre liminary petition to repeal the 1947 income tax act which automatical ly increased state income taxes by lowering exemptions when the vot ers defeated the proposed sales tax in October was filed here today by State Farmers Union and the State Federation of Labor. If the signa tures of 18,969 registered voters cun be obtained by July 1, the in itiative will be on the general elec tion ballot next November. If approved by the voters the act would be retroactive to January 1, this year. Under its provisions per sonal income tax exemptions would be set back to $1500 for married couples and $750 for a single per son. WASHINGTON, March 2— Senate President Arthur H. Van denberg left tiie door open today for tiie Republican party to draft him as its 1948 presidential nom inee. Tiie Michigan Republican, a strongly potential draft candi date, refused a yes-or-no answer to tiie question whether he would accept tiie nominalion. He said it was impossible to give a flat an swer without knowing what tiie future may bring. He declined to speculate on “utterly improbable contingencies.” But he repeated that lie is not a candidate. LONDON, March 2 Nineteen persons were killed tonight when a Sabena airlines Dakota from Brus sels. Belgium, crashed and burned as it attempted an emergency land ing at fog-bound Heathrow airport. Officials said that 10 of the 19 pas sengers and aall three crew mem bers aboard were killed in the crash or burned alive in the wreckage. Nineteen bodies were receovered. P R A G L E , Czechoslovakia, March 2—Two issues of the IT. S. COMPLETELY REMODELED KAMPUS KAFETERIA Low priced, well balanced meals BREAKFAST — LUNCH — DINNER OPEN 7 a. m. — 7 p. m. j 1249 Alder To swish under our new ballerina skirts— to peak out at the hemline- -duster ruffled petticoats in plaid taf feta and demure dotted Swiss. Also, formal slips. W e have a new selection of shortie coats itx pastel colors. the WeA,t<fCiie£ltOfi{Le Phone 4323 895 E. 13th information service bulletin, re porting western reaction to the Communist coup on Czechoslo vakia, have been outlawed by the Communist-dominated govern ment, the U. S. embassy an nounced today. The embassy reported receipt of a letter from the National Press Cour, that the Feb. 27 and 288 editions of the bulletin had been banned and would not be distributed by postal authorities. WASHINGTON, March 2— Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., told steel executives today that their recent increase in steel prices added fuel to the inflationary spiral by stiffening labor's de mand for third-round wage hikes. He also suggested to President Benjamin F. Fairless of U. S. Steel Corp., and A. B. Homer, head of Bethlehem Steel co., that their action had heightened public demand for price and al location controls. Both indust rialists countered that the rise was justified by higher costs which gives no leeway for wage boosts. Everyone Hits for Points (Continued from page five) for the Webfoots and gave big Vince Hanson fits, broke a four game scoring drouth with a tip-in, and Wilkins’ one-hand pusher put Oregon in front 32-24, which the Cougars cut to 38-32 at halftime. In the second period, the Web foots stayed hot with Bob Lavey, Roger Wiley, Reedy Berg, Stan Williamson, and Bob Don adding counters. The closest the Washing ton Staters could get in this half was a 48-40 deficit after five min utes had been played. Hanson High The Pullman quint’s big center Vince Hanson found the range to take game honrs with 16 points, to wind up with a season’s total of 220 points, in his last appearance in a WSC uniform. Bob Elliott, with 11, and Ed Gayda's 10 were next in line for the Cougars. The Ducks scoring punch was distributed among nine men, with Wiley's 12 second to Wilkins. Bar telt and Lavey wound up with 9, Williamson 8, Seeborg 7, and Berg 6. All told, the Webfoots took 82 shots from the floor and hit 28 of these for a percentage of .341. From the charity mark, the Oregon team also had their sights ad justed, making 17 of 27 attempts. The win by Oregon gave the Cou gars a three-one edge in this year’s series, although the Webfoots ac tually outscored WSC in the four games. ARE YOU SICK OF BEING ROBBED? ! Then try us j For Watch Repairing ffiristoirg Jewelers Established 1869 620 Willamette Phone 595 Chairman Tells Drive Progress Chi Omega and Alpha Tau Ome ga are leading in Red Cross contri butions, according to Collections Chairman Marguerite Johns. Miss Johns has asked that house representatives turn in thei^ mon ey to the Co-op between 4 and 5 each afternoon. Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Phi, Alpha Omicron Pi, Delta Gamma, and Chi Omega are assisting with off-cam pus collections in the Co-op each day this week. The collections committee con sists of Janis Hughes, Florence Hansen, Sally Moore, Barbara Ness and Joe La’vadie. Mary Dundore Set As Lead in 'Opera' Mary Margaret Dundore, sopho more, will play the lead role of Polly in the cast of “The Beggar's Op era,’’ announced Herman Gelhau sen, director of the production. Sal ly Peabody, originally scheduled to sing the part, has returned to Washington. Other replacements are Gloria Chellis, freshman, for Shirley An derson, sophomore, and Eleanor Culver, senior, for Miss Dundore, as Ladies of the Town. The opera, accompanied by a small orchestra, will run three nights in May. Mr. Gelhausen toured the United States for two years with the original Beggar's Opera company several years ago. , MORE MUSIC?. i There are more than 2^009 school bands and orchestras in Jnited States schools, according to ;he National Association of Musid VIerchants. CAMPUS SHOE SHOP On 13th between Alder and Kincaid CHECK THESE W. 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