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YOLUME XLIX _UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE THURSDAY, \I’R1U 8. 1948 XUM !iER ]08*
WORLD
HEADLINES
(WASHINGTON, April 7—The
senate today confirmed the ap
pointment of Paul G. Hoffman to
head the huge European recovery
'program. The unanimous vote was
• taken less than 24 hours after the
Studebaker corp., president was.
j: nominated by President Truman.
Senate action cleared the decks
for a quick start on ERP. Hoffman
l - told reporters he would move fast
in launching the plan to check
1 Communism and avert economic
chaos in Europe.
After a 90-minute meeting with
the committee, the automotive ex
ecutive said he was ready to start
work at once on establishing the
'. ERP organization. His formal
title will be Administrator for Ec
onomic Cooperation. Congress has
authorized $5,300,000,000 for ERP’s
first year but its cost over the
projected four-year period is ex
pected to be close to $17 billion.
\ WASHINGTON, April 7—The
i house public lands committee to
day approved legislation to bring
the territory of Alaska into the
Union as a state. The commit
tee acted after adopting an am
endnUnt to eliminate specific
recognition of Indian tribal
rights in land. The question was
postponed for later congression
al action in a separated bill.
The measure sponsored by Al
askan delegate E. L. Bartlett,
now goes to the house rules com
1 mitee. That group will determine
i ’ the conditions under which the
( measure will be debated in the
house.
V
!*-' WASHINGTON, April 7—John
• L. Lewis today was ordered by an
old nemesis to appear in federal
court Monday to show • why he
should not be held in contempt for
failing to call off the strike of 400,
000 soft coal miners.
Federal Judge T. Alan Golds
borough issued the order against
the United Mine Workers’ boss. It
was Goldsborough who last year
levied a $3,500,000 fine against
Lewis and the UMW on another
contempt citation. The supreme
court subsequently reduced the fine
to $710,000.
GbhL,'"’’OUgh said that if Lewis
could not explain satisfactorily why
j he should not be held in contempt
he would go on trial April 14. He
signed the order at request of At
torney General Tom C. Clark.
Lewis has been under federal
L court order since Saturday night
to direct his striking miners to re
turn to work “forthwith.” Thus far
he has given no hint that he will
order them back. Instead, Lewis
today sought to set aside the court
order directing him to end the 24
day strike.
Clark’s petition to Goldsborough
charged that Lewis and the union
, '"“knowingly, wilfully, wrongfully
and deliberately disobeyed and vio
lated” the restraining order. It also
charged that, besides making no
attempt to end the strike, Lewis
and the union “have encouraged,
caused and engaged in a strike”
affecting a major industry.
Lewis filed a motion with federal
•yourt asking that the temporary re
straining order be shelved.
Helen Ross Featured
At Matrix Table Meet
Helen Ross, noted mystery story writer and member of the
faculty at the University of Washington, has been chosen as
featured speaker at the annual Matrix Table sponsored by
Theta Sigma Phi, women's national professional journalism
fraternity. The formal banquet is scheduled for April 16 at the
Eugene hotel.
Three hundred invitations are being sent throughout Oregon
today to prominent women in journalism in Oregon. Theta
Sigma Phi alumnae, and the outstanding senior woman in each
living group. Acceptances should be phoned or mailed to the
Student Concert
Features Music
Of U.S. Artists
Contemporary American music,
including the first Eugene per
formance of a piece by Milton Diet
erich, school of music, cello, in
structor, will be presented in a con
cert given by Phi Beta, women’s
national music and drama organiz
ation, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia,,
men’s national music fraternity,
this Sunday at 4 p.m. in the music
school auditorium.
Vocal and instrumental solos and
ensembles are included in the pro
gram, which according to both or
ganizations, is intended to advance
the cause of music in America, and
to familiarize the public with com
positions produced by contempo
rary Americans.
Dieterich’s work, “O God of
Mercy,” an anthem, will be per
formed by a mixed double quartet
with organ accompaniment. This is
one of 25 published compositions by
the member of the faculty string
quartet.
In his second year on the Oregon
faculty Dieterich is also organist
and choirmaster at the St. Mary’s
Episcopal church in Eugene.
Douglass Moore, whose music
will be featured, is now professor of
music at Columbia university, and
has received the Pulitzer music
scholarship, the Guggenheim fel
lowship and the Eastman publish
ing award. He composed the opera,
“The Devil and Daniel Webster.”
“Night Soliloquy” by Kent Ken
nan and “By a Lonely Forest Path
way,” by Charles Griffes, who
studied under Humperdink in Ber
lin, are also on the program.
journalism school.
The outstanding freshman and
sophomore women in journalism,
chosen by members of Theta Sig
ma Phi will be introduced' at Mat
rix Table. New members, chosen
on the basis of scholarship and
journalistic service, will be tap
ped, according to Maryann Thie
len, chapter president.
All junior and senior women in
the journalism school are annually
invited to the banquet and for this
reason they will not receive special
invitations. Students wishing to at
tend should sign up at the jour
nalism school.
Matrix Table is a nationally
sponsored affair honoring women
in journalism and is held by all
Theta Sigma Phi chapters in the
United States.
ROTC to Drill
For Army Day
An Army day parade on the ROTC
drill field at 1 p.m. today will mark
the awarding of war theater med
als to 29 ex-GI students by Colonel
Frank R. Maerdian, professor of
military science and tactics.
[ European theater medals will be
presented to Anthony J. Conroy,
William T. Green, Robert D. Ste
phenson, David B. Williamson, Har
old W. Beyers, Walter L. Miller,
Robert F. Phillips, Fritz Giesecke,
John Kauffman, and Wilson Rich.
Asiatic-Pacific theater medals
will be receved by Henry Steers,
Howard Steers, Earl Walters, Mel
vn R. Bandle, John C. Beeley, S. G.
Heflin, Jr., Robert B. Merrifield,
Morris Merrit, Max D. West, Rich
ard L. Clark, Dewey Rand, Charles
R. Rufner and Richard B. Smith.
American theater medical recip
ients will be Wayne A. Roecker,
Steve Gann, Carl S. Miller, Leland
Lenneville, and James Terjeson.
Band Man
Trombonist Freddie Keller and
his orchestra will provide rhythm
for the annual Frosh Glee
Keller to Use
'Romance in
Rhythm' Style
“Romance in Rhythm” will style
the music of Freddie Keller and his
orchestra when he plays for Satur
day night’s Frosh Glee dance. This
will mark the second year that Kel
ler and his orchestra have played
for the annual semi-formal affair,
which will be presented from 9 to
12 in McArthur court.
The Keller group, Instrumented
by five saxes, six brass and three
rhythms, will meature singing star
Judy Bevin, Eddie Bench’s piano
and vocal arrangements, and Bob
Crowley, billed as “tops in trum
pet.”
Behind Freddie Keller, top trom
bonist for the orchestra, is experi
ence with such top-rank name com
bos as Jack Teagarden, Les Brown,
and Jan Garber. He has also ap
peared in Universal motion pic
tures, and the Coca Cola spotlight
band shows. While leading his own
grouj
Freddie Keller’s study of music
led to his winning first place in the
State Instrumental Solo contest for
trombone in 1936, after which he
attended the Portland university
school of music on a state scholar
ship. Following his graduation he
formed his own orchestra now com
posed of two alto, two tenor, and
one baritone saxes, three trumpets,
three trombones, one bass, one pi
ano, and a drum section.
University
Remodels
Old Villard
New Wing to House
Additional Theater
For Speech, Drama
Preliminary plans for the re
modeling- of Villard hall and tho
addition of a wing to contain the
new theater of the speech and
drama departments were approved!
Tuesday by the building com
mittee of the Oregon state board
of education, I. I. Wright, super
visor of the physical plant, said
yestei'day. The proposed plan wilt
provide dressing rooms and prac
tice rooms, as well as seating
space in the theater for at leant
425 persons.
The construction of the wing
and the remodeling of the present
building must be kept within a
budget of about $450,000, as the
plan now stands. The concrete ex
tension of Villard will be made to
the east side of the building.
When the plan has been com
pleted the building will house tho
entire speech and drama depart
ments, with classroom space on
the second floor of the hall. The
present guild theater in Johnson
hall which seats approximately
125, will probably be remodeled
for more class room space.
This project was recently auth
orized' by the state board of high
er education.
Lecture Series
To Begin Soon
Opening the University lecture
series for spring term will be Dr.
Clarence Faust, director of the li
brary at Stanford university, who
will speak April 15 on "The Con
troversy Over General Education.”
Dr. Faust is a former dean of the
college of liberal arts at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Dr. A. Close of the University of
Bristol, England, will speak on
"Goethe” on April 22.
Dr. Rudolph H. Ernst, chairman
of the University lecture series,
stated that the series is designed,
for students but are open to fac
ulty members and townspeople.
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Co-op to Lose Original Manager
McClain Recalls Many Years at Co-op
By VINITA HOWARD
Watching the University Co-op
grow from its small beginning in
1916 until this year when its total
sales are expected to hit near the
$500,000 mark, has occupied most
of M. F. McClain’s business life.
McCxain, who will retire, effec
tive May 1, has been the Co-op’s
only manager in the 32 years since
the Co-op first opened in what is
now the University pharmacy. Be
fore taking over the job of mana
ger, McClain had been in business
in Eugene, having graduated from
Oregon in the class of 1906.
Managing the Co-op has not al
ways been easy-going, McClain
said when interviewed yesterday.
When it first opened its doors to
students it was unable to secure
credit for purchases, had little fi
nancial backing and at one time, in
order to keep operating, had to
take credit with J. K. Gill in Port
land for about $17,000. Now one of
the Co-op’s services to students is
cashing checks, which total about
$1,000,000 a year.
Another time in Co-op history,
the student body had to sell the
store to a downtown Eugene drug
gist in order to pay a resigning
coach »his back salary, which to
taled $3,500. That was in 1918 and
the Co-op went out of business until
1920. When the Co-op re-opened it
was located in the building which
is now the Smorgasbord.
In order to gain capital backing
for the store and secure credit, Mc
Clain and two faculty members or
ganized the University Supply
company, and sold shares to faculty
members. That succeeded in tiding
the Co-op over the rough spots and
helped gain credit with publishers.
By the middle-twenties, with its
feet now on firm foundations, the
Co-op started to retire the supply
company by buying back its stocks
and in 1939, when Chapman hall
was built, the Co-op moved into its
present location on a 20-year lease.
McClain married another Ore
gon graduate, Mabel Eaton, class
of 1905, who was for many years
employed as circulation librarian
here.
McClain recalls many changes
which have taken place with the
Co-op and on the campus. When
the Co-op started only three em
ployes were needed to operate it;
now 24 full-time employes are re
quired and during the fall term
rush 70 workers are employed.
Few buildings were on the cam
pus when McClain first enrolled at
Oregon. The football field was lo
cated where Oregon hall is and his
class, which was the largest up to
that time, had 46 graduating sen
iors. About 800 students were reg
istered when the Co-op opened in
1916.
■McClain has no definite plans as
to what he will do after his retire
ment, but until 1950 he will be re
tained to work part-time in the
store.