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Two-Band Dance
For the first time in many years, there will be two hands,
one hot and one sweet, playing in McArthur court for the
Homecoming dance next week end. Although both bands are
familiar to many University students, neither of them is
within the category of "big-name.”
This may be disappointing to some students but the
reasoning behind the decision to ding a “big-nan'ie" for the
dance is sound.
This is the way Bill Monroe and his committee figured
it. When big bands like Dick Jergens and Alvino Rey came
to the campus last year, the sponsoring groups lost money.
The dances were undeniable successes, but many found the
price of the ducuts a little to rich for their pocketbooks.
If a big band had been secured for Homecoming, the tickets
would have probably cost $3.50 or more per couple. Veterans,
who will not receive their first G.I. checks'of the school year
until Nov. 1. might have found this levy a little rough.
One smaller hand would have given the dancers little or
no variety in rhythm. But with two smaller bands, everyone
will get a taste of his favorite type of music and more im
portant, the tickets are selling for $2.50 a couple.—B. B.
'Tis A Pity
Virginia Warren will not speak in Mac court tonight.
This is regrettable in a way.
The cute blue-eyed daughter of the Republican candidate
for vice-president, Karl Warren, who WILL speak in the
court tonight, might have accomplished something, her father
probably cannot.
Were Miss Warren speaking instead of her father, we'd bet
that a lot of you guys taking off for Portland this afternon
would have rearranged your schedules so as to hear the pretty
Cal sophomore and still get to the Southern Cal game to
morrow.
But, since the campus will be most likely nearly deserted
bv tonight, it is hoped that the few students remaining join
with townspeople in attending the V arren speech.
It would be sad indeed if the University did not make some
kind of a showing for the man most people consider to be the
next vice-president of these United States.
OregonWEmer/vlr
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--The Lowdown
Petrillo Ban Wreaking Havoc
As Good Platters Decreasing
By BUD HUltST
The record ban imposed on the
industry and the public by our
buddy Petrillo has already start
ed to wreak havoc in the record
shops. The issue of good plates
is slowing down and it is be
coming increasingly hard to find
good, new stuff on wax. There is
some hope of a settlement, how
ever. Last week Petrillo proposed
a new plan and submitted it to
the disc industry.
If the manufacturers agree to
the AFM suggestions and these
are found to comply with the
Taft-Hartley law, the platter
makers can return from the wilds
of New Jersey and Long Island
and again go to work in the open.
It all boils down to this: Pe
trillo’s proposal is to set up a
trusteeship which would handle
all funds from royalties paid into
a central depository by the man
ufacturers. Thus, all expendi
tures such as hiring musicians
for free concerts and free public
dances would be designated sole
ly by the AB’M.
This marked the first move Pe
trillo has made in writing to the
industry since the ban went into
effect New Year’s day. It is a
bit of a retreat and opens the
door, ever so slightly, towards
settlement of an uncomfortable
issue. That is how things stand
up to us today. Now let’s see
what is left on the market for
us to review and you to listen to.
Pickin’s are pretty slim. Per
haps the best of the current crop
is Billy Butterfield’s WHAT’S
NEW and WILD OATS—Cap.
15186. WHAT’S NEW, Billy’s
theme, doesn’t quite cook up the
nostalgia that it should. When
Billy was a young kid blowing
this Bob Haggart tune atop a
Bob Crosby outfit it was some
thing to hear. Now the band is
sloppy and, although Billy plays
hard and right, it is obvious that
the “good old days are gone for
ever.”
WILD OATS is a different
story. It is an original by some
guy we never heard of, with an
arranging credit to Billy. It em
bodies hot tempo, lively ensem
ble work and an especially good
tenor solo by a youngster named
Bob Levine. The final band cho
rus accumulates a rocking beat
and the whole outfit sows wild
oats all over the place. It is good
listening and makes you wanta
jiggle all over. That’s the Low
down.
In Retrospect
By JO RAWLINS
One Year Ago
Gripe of the month: Coffee
was upped to 10c per cup—for the
benefit of frosh - there was a
time when it cost 5c per cup and
a do-nut for good measure.)
Page one story: “Rated as ex
cellent in almost every degree,
the Oregon Daily Emerald re
ceived an All-American superior
award from the Associated Col
legiate Press for the 1946-7 year.”
Suggestion of the week: Asso
ciate Editor Maryann Thielen
came forth with the idea of a Go
To-Hell Week. Too many AWS
weeks made Miss Thielen “tired
of smiling and tired of being told
to smile.”
Two Years Ago
Rain: Amazon flats was bogged
in a sea of mud, Bob Whitely,
Emerald reporter, writes. “If
weather conditions in October
can churn up the Amazon flats
into a sea of mud now, it is possi
ble that the University may have
to furnish each apartment with a
suitable rowboat come January
and February,” Whitely said.
Good Old Days: Cokes at the
game this afternoon will sell for
one nickel and anyone who pays
ten cents is simply a sucker,
reads an Emerald editorial.
Don’t We Wish: “Approval of
a resolution to allow the Univer
sity to block the campus por
tion of Thirteenth during the
changing of classes was given by
the Eugene city council Monday
night,” reads a page one story by
Reporter Bill Yates. (Now Editor
Bill Yates!)
Panhellenic Changes
Rushing Regulations
Open rushing on the campus will
begin Monday and will last for one
month, Margaret Rauch, Panhel
lenic chairman, announced this
week.
According to Miss Rauch, rush
ees may fill out preference slips
two weeks from Monday, October
25, and houses may then extend
bids to the rushees.
A change in requirements for
rushees from out of state was also
announced by Miss Rauch. Stu
dents from another state are re
quired, this year, to have only a
two point GPA or a decile of five.
"In MY Opinion
• • •
To the Editor:
In regard to the item concern
lug the question of whether or
not to publish editorials concern
ing world affairs. Although I be
lieve that occasionally world
news is not out of place in the
j editorial page discussions, I feel
that it would certainly take the
; pleasure out of reading the Em
j erald.
| While it is true that a large
j part of the students read the
sports pages first 1 always turn
to tlie editorial page, and 1 might
add, read all of it, before 1 read
anyoof the other items.
I have always found the edi
torial page interesting and quite
often amusing. Especially the
writings of Lurry Lau and Kirk
Braun. When I want the deciph
erings of our national and world
problems, I read one of the met
ropolitan dailies. When I want
entertainment I read the edit
page of the Emerald.
Let's keep it that way.
I only have one piece of con
structive criticism—let’s move
the gossip column to another
page and have a few more items
like “Mosaic” and “Jake."
Gene Gould
To the Editor:
You asked for opinions; here’s
mine.
Like many others who grab for
a copy each morning at the Co-op,
I enjoy the Emerald but look else
where for general news. Students
who will rend national and inter
national reports at all. get them
sooner and more of them in larg
er papers. But no other publica
tion covers campus news, and
FROM OUR READERS
that's what most of us look to
the Emerald for.
You might do a highly selec
tive job of screening world news,
choosing a bit here and there.
But tins is exactly the technique
most often used by other papers
for slanting the news—selecting
only parts of it, and playing it
up or down, to give a distorted
impression.
Your space limitations would
make it impossible to present a
fair and rounded report. You'd
have to “pick a side,” and then
in fairness carry a statement in
your masthead regarding which
prof you studied economics un
der. (Of course, if you picked my
side it'd be OK—with me.)
As for editorials, one of your
prime responsibilities is to use
your influence to better condi
tions here in your own territory
—the campus. However, some of
your best work recently has been
in regard to events occurring
outside this sheltered oasis—e.g.,
your intelligent commentaries
on October 5 and 13, concerning
the two cases of suppression in
California and New York, both
strands in the fabric of totalitar
ian methodology, currently being
woven in the guise of Super
Americanism.
The pattern is deceptive and
needs to be exposed for what it
is.
Don’t be too modest to try.
There's no surplus of enlighten
ment. You apparently have more
independence and social con
science than most of the profes
sional oracles, who voice the
same slant and chant. . . .
John F. Valleau
Once Over
Lightly
By JEANNINE MACAULAY
During classes today, all eyes
will be on road maps instead of
text books and the caravan for
Portland will probably start in
the middle of eleven o’clocks.
Just enough time to run once over
lightly, some stuff and junk, be
fore .someone packs me in their
bag.
Oh, yes, all the A Chi O sen
iors are thumbing their way to
Janet Beigal’s home in Portland.
She will entertain the ladies en
mass—or is it en mess? BYOSB,
bring your own sleeping bag.
George LaDu, ex-Oregon man
is putting on quite a deal at a
Portland hangout. Jean and
George Armen, Phyllis Kohl
meier, and Bill Stratton are
xmong the slated guests.
Blowing in on October breezes,
the news of recent weddings fill
the UO compus, AOPi, Bev Short
to Jimmy MacNamee; and Jackie
Xetz, Sigma Kappa, to Bill Lob
hart.
Romantic verse hasn’t gone
out of style as yet. Nan Dixon,
ChiO, recovered quickly from a
recent illness—The reason was
the handiwork of Paul Hunsinger,
DU. He sent her a potted plant
and a hand WRIT “get well -
poem.
Hear that Joanne OINeill
spends her time shooting behind 1
chairs and playing SMOO—some
new game—! Hope it’s not con- ^
tagious.
After three years of carrying
a shiny piece of metal beside her ,<
DG pin, Shirley Jones has only
the anchor left. Reminds me of
an old song—“For Every Man
There’s a Woman” — where’s
mine ?
The AGD pledges can be seen
carrying boxes of old clothes
from door to door—claim they
are collecting clothes for “THE
NAKED CITY.”
Jelly Bean Riethmiller is look
ing kind of sad nowadays—could
it be that the weather is no long- .j
er FAIR?
Phi Sigs are looking through
rose colored telescopes in search
of their Moonlight Girl. Rumor
has it that the boys are going ;
around asking lovelies, “Has the
moon lit on you yet?”
Campbell club reports the mar
riage of Dick Dyer to Betty Gey
er, last Thursday. Also Lloyd
Dwiggins, Campbell boy gave a
sparkler to Patty McGregor from
Rebec.
Raymona Frank, the scream .
girl of TKE, was a supposed
write in on the Homecoming
Hostess ballot. The TKE house '
thunk up this fictional damselle
and campaigned for her in the 4
traditional “sing a sweet little
song” way. &
Lorna Anderson, Tri Delt is of
fering one frosty bottle of orange £
pop for the best name submitted
for her new, maroon, car—car
that is, four wheels and possibly 6
a motor.
Now you see it, now you don’t.
This describes the situation in the
Alpha Phi house, with respect to
Maggie Wells’ Phi Kap Sig pin «
from Cliff Mallicoat. Good news
—she has it again!
The long arm of ADPi Pat Kir- 4
by reached out to grab the bridal J
bouquet at a recent California *
wedding. Watch out fellows!
Last and most important come *
the engagements—Janice Peter
sen, Alpha Phi, sent word down,
via a candy box, to tell of her t
coming NOV. 8th, marriage to
George Wallace, ATO; Theta ,
Florence Englis announced her
engagement to ATO Pete Miller;
and Sue Mercer, Pi Phi, showed
her ring from Jack Daily.