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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1948)
City Prepares To Honor Gretchen Gretchen Fraser, Olympic ski champion, will enter Eugene May 21 to be a guest of honor at sev eral city banquets, the Mortar Board ball, an Oregon ski club din ner, a football game and other events during the weekend. The winner in women’s slalom racing will make her first appear ance on the campus at the ball Fri day night. After an official tour of the city Saturday morning, she will lunch at the Delta Delta Delta house, be honorary referee at a football game on Hayward field that afternoon, and be feted at a smorgasbord dinner given by tha Oregon ski club that evening. Also present for the weekend Will be Jack Meissner, ^Oregon cross country skier, and Gene Gil lis, previous Olympic competitor. Meissner will be honorary guest at an Obsidian chief’s breakfast Sat urday. The film “1948 Winter Olympics” will be shown for the first time on the west coast at Roosevelt junior high school Saturday. In color, the Hans Thorner movies taken in St. Moritz, Switzerland, will have two showings, at 7 and 9. Student tick ets are 75 cents. Mrs. Fraser will make a personal appearance. Other scheduled appearances will be at a forum luncheon by the Eu gene chamber of commerce, a Mc Kenzie river boat trip, and an Ob sidian spring banquet on Friday. Saturday the skier will be hon ored at an Obsidian princess break fast, and Sunday she will be hon orary leader of a ski trip to Sun shine shelter. The trip will start with a ride on the McKenzie river. A sign-up sheet will be in Hender shott's for those wishing to join the trip. Sunday Recital Set For Music Students Ten voice students will sing so los and duets at a program Sunday at 4 p.m. in the music school audi torium. Selections will be taken from op era, late 19th century French and contemporary vocal literature. Emerald Classifieds All classified is payable I" advance at ths rate of four cents a word the first insertion, two cents a word thereafter at the Emerald Business Office. . Classified deadline is 4:00 p.m. the day irior to publication. LOST: Red billfold on old campus Reward. Contact Marilee Yeager Zeta hall. (134) FOR SALE: Fender skirts for ’35 ’36 Ford or late model Chevro let. $15. Call 4553. Bob Oas. Participants, Students of Denton Rossell, are Marilyn Griffith, Don Jordahl, Jean Lichty, Ruth Lau rene, Barbara Detrick, Elden Pen tilla, Janet Nelson, Denny Marvin, Mary Hawkins, and James Kays. NEED a thesis typed? Call Springfield 9620 for prompt, ac curate typing service. Choice ot pica or elite type. Fifty cents per 1000 words. Minimum, fifty cents. Free carbon copy. (134)' APPLICATION PHOTOGRAPHS i. One day service. Call Nolph'S Salon. Phone 5847-W. Laraway Bldg. (150) FOUND: Several bandanas and watch. Inquire at Co-op. WANTED: Will pay for ride tff University from slightly above Walterville. R. E. Wright, Rt. 2 Box 264 Springfield. (135) Jp v ittle 1 oy lue ^ Would blow his horn. <3,0 weaving through traffic too fast; Twas a great mistake To blow and. not brake. And Fate upset him at last ! V>V, .»* TvlV- f'~i‘ ff-V. »■ The air turns blue, too, when a reckless Boy Blue turns up in crowded traffic! Other motorists curse him—pedestrians fear him—and no wonder! Speeding is the prime cause of accidents—it kills 10,000 persons a year. And remem ber—50 miles an hour may be safe on good roads, on open highways—while 20 can be dangerous in bad weather or heavy traffic. Speeding is driving too fast for conditions. Drive as though your life depended upon it—it does! SPEND, SAVE SECONDS LIVES