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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1948)
The Weather Western Oregon: Considerable cloudiness and occasional showers Friday and Saturday. VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE FRIDAY, APRIL 16. 1948 NUMBER 114 Finalists Chosen for Junior Weekend Queen Students To Vote For Fete Ruler Queen to Open Weekend Festivities At All-Campus Sing Ten junior women, five of whom will rule in the Junior Weekend court May 7 to 9, were chosen as queen finalists last night in the eliminations held at Alumni hall, Gerlinger. The winning candidates include Patty Beaton, Mary Joy Hamm, Mary Handelin, Jean Hern don, Mary Lou Hill, Jean Huffman, Mary Lou Klepper, Sally Schilling, Donna Stageburg, and Nancy Swem. Judges included Hank Kinsell, general chairman of the Weekend; Bill Russell, Eugene businessman and University alumnus, and Lyle Nelson, University director of in formation. Joanne Amorde re placed Sue Fernimen, queen of the 1947 Junior Weekend, who was un able to attend the judging. •Students will .vote for the Week end court from the finalists on April 21. Ballots will be counted by a group of Eugene businessmen, Who will not reveal the name of the queen until just before the All Campus Sing on Friday night of Junior Weekend, when she will be crowned. Moms' Letters Due for Mails Letters will be sent this week to each living organization and to all Mothers’ clubs throughout the state, inviting mothers to the Uni versity for Mother’s weekend, May 7, 8, and 9, according to A1 Pietsch man, promotion chairman. Nancy Peterson, housing chair man, requested that mothers stay in the sororities and dormitories, although a small number of Eu gene homes will be available to ac commodate the mothers. May 4 has been set as the deadline for arrang ing housing. Students wishing fur ther information concerning hous ing of mothers are asked to contact Miss Peterson at the Alpha Phi house. The April 22 Emerald will be a special “Mother’s Week-end” edi tion, Marilyn Turner, chairman of publicity, said. Special stickers to be used in sending this edition home to mothers will be distrib uted to the living organizations. Off-campus students may obtain these stickers at the Co-op. Mary Stadelman, hospitality chairman, requested each living or ganization to be open for the moth ers’ visit Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Mothers are invited to the’Junior Prom and seating arrangements will be made there for them. All-Out Registration Drive Planned for University Today Ad Meet To Open At 1 p.m. University of Oregon’s advertis ing conference will open at 1 p.m. today with Merle W. Manly, sec retary-treasurer of Botsford, Con stantine, and Gardner, advertising agency, opening the meeting with a discussion of agency work. Frank Coffin, assistant director of radio station KGW, will continue the Friday afternoon session with radio as his topic of discussion. Saturday’s morning sessions will begin with a speech on newspaper work by J. B. Twiford, Portland Oregonian, at 9 a.m. At 10:30 a.m., Art Markewitz, vice-president oi Bushong’s, will tell the students oi the technical field. A11 Invited All interested students, as well as advertising major's, are invited to attend, Dr. R. D. Millican, pro fessor of advertising, said. The two day sessions will be held in room 105, journalism building. Gamma Alpha Chi, women’s ad vertising honorary, will serve cof fee or coke at 3 p.m., between the two discussions. An informal dinner, honoring the speakers, will be held Friday eve ning at the Anchorage, at 6:30. It will be sponsored by Alpha Delta Sigma, men’s advertising honor ary. All interested students may attend. The University advertising con ference is sponsored by Alpha Delta Sigma and Gamma Alpha Chi. Notice: Burglars Spare This Safe It is a sad state of affairs when a man can’t get into his own safe, but that’s what happened to Charley Hastings of the Uni versity postoffice. A student wanted some stamps early Thursday morning and Charley couldn’t open the safe. “Needs graphite,” he mumbled as he fought the lock. It took him a half hour to open the stubborn combination, Hastings said. Young Republicans shown grouped around their Co-op booth, ready to handle the expected last minute rush. Back row: Jim Conner, Bill Davis, AI Thomas, Darrell Thompson, (seated) Larry . Lau, Sallie Timmens, Art Wahlers. (Photo by Kirk Braun) Anita Holmes, Barb Heywood To Receive Journalism Awards Anita Holmes and Barbara Hey wood will be introduced as the out standing freshman and sophomore women in journalism at Theta Sig ma Phi’s Matrix Table this eve ning. Miss Holmes, freshman, has done outstanding work on the Emerald and Old Oregon during the year Don McNeil Gets '48-49 SDX Gavel Don McNeil, junior in journalism, was elected yesterday to the 1948 49 presidency of Sigma Delta Chi, national men’s journalism frater nity, at a luncheon meeting at the Del Rey cafe. McNeil assumes his gavel:wield ing duties from Ross Yates, senior in journalism. Another junior in journalism, Larry Lau, was elected vice-president of the organization. John Benneth, junior in journal ism was re-elected secretary, and Warren Mack, junior in journalism, was elected treasurer. and is an honor roll student. Miss Hey wood has worked on the Em erald for two years and was re cently appointed associate editor. Last year’s winners were Phyllis Kohlmeier and Helen Sherman, outstanding freshmen women, and June Goetze and Bobolee Brophy, outstanding sophomore women. Matrix Table, sponsored annual ly by the women’s national profes sional journalism fraternity, will begin at 6 p.m. in the Persian room and east dining room of the Eu gene hotel. Helen Ross, mystery story writ er and head of the creative writing department at the University of Washington, will be the featured speaker. Honored guest will be Lu cille Saunders McDonald, Univer sity alumna and editor of the Sun day section of the Seattle Times. Claire Lewis, junior in music, and Wayne Sherwood, senior in music, will sing semi-classical songs as the musical portion of the pro gram. Ten pledges to Theta Sigma Phi will be tapped during the evening. Scouts to Stage Circus in Mac Court Saturday The 1948 Boy Scout Circus for the Oregon Trail council will be held Saturday night in McArthur court, Roger Bales, council execu tive, said. The demonstration of Scout skills and activities will * begin at 7:30. Seats are not re served. Scout units from all central western Oregon will merge early Saturday to perfect routines and polish for the bi-annual affair. Indian Dances Featured on the program will A be Indian war dances performed by a full-blooded Indian and Scouts under the direction of ■ Dean McCorkle. The dances will be performed in full costume. All phases of Scouting are to be represented in the two and one half hour pageant. Cub scouts will entertain with animal acts and circus ringmasters. Scouts will demonstrate numerous skills such as wall scaling, fire by friction, bridge building and first aid. Sen ior Scouts will fly model airplanes, perform wig-wag flag signalling and show a rescue at sea using the breeches buoy. The eight-man chariot race has, in past circuses, provided numer ous thrills and spills. Teams from each contesting troop will pull two-wheeled chariots around the arena in the fashion of ancient Roman entertainment. Alpha Phi Omega club, campus preparatory group for the nation al service fraternity, is cooperat ing with local Scout officials in staging the show and selling tick ets. Ted Baker and Gene Gould are heads of the club's community projects committee. A committee from Oregon State college’s Delta Eta chapter of the fraternity will also send a com mittee to assist in supervising and administration of the circus. Tickets are on sale with mem bers of Alpha Phi Omega club at 50c per couple. Townspeople may purchase family tickets at J. C. Penney’s or from Boy Scouts. Proceeds will pay for summer Scouting at Camp Luckey Boy on the McKenzie river. Booth For Registrants In Co-op By LARRY LAU Today has been set aside by campus service groups in a next to-last-minute drive to increase student registrations for may pri maries. A special booth has been set up in the Co-op and deputized students will be on hand from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to accommodate those who wish to make themselves eligible. Registration deadline is April 20. Townspeople, office seekers and office holders continued to wag their heads in amazement this week as figures released by the county election board revealed that University registration is continu ing to keep pace with general reg istration throughout the county. Record Possible Should campus registration top 2000, student votes, for the first time in county history, will com prise 5 per cent of the total. Number one target for Webfoot votes will be the $20,000 bond is sue which, if passed, will res'toie water to the millrace. Secondary objective will be the two man race for the Republican nomination for the presidency between Harold L. Stassen and Thomas E. Dewey. President Harry S. Truman is un opposed on the Democratic ticket. Number three target will be the five-man gubernatorial race. John H. Hall, seeking to retain his office, is being opposed by Glenn Acker man, Douglas McKay and John Peyton on the Republican slate. Lew Wallace is unopposed on the Democratic ticket. Cordon Opposed Oregon's senior senator, Guy Cordon, is being opposed for re election by two Democrats from Lane county, Manley J. Wilson and Louis A. Wood. Opposing Harris Ellsworth, Republican, for re-elec tion as congressional representa tive from the 4th district is Rob ert L. Parsons, Republican, and Ea rner B. Sahls'trom and William F. Tauton, both Democrats. Incumbent secretary of state, Earl T. Newbry, is being opposed for re-election by George H. Flagg, Republican, and Byron A. Carney and A. M. Silverman, both Demo crats. George Neuner, present at troney-general, is being opposed by Stanley Jones, Republican, and William B. Murray, Democrat. Voters will find numerous bond issues to improve roads, drainage, increase fire-fighting equipment and build new substations, and to annex additional territory to the city of Eugene. The county-mana ger plan, one of the most contro versial issues to come before the electorate in many years, will also be on the ballot.