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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1948)
Oregon Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1948 VOLUME L NUMBER 52 Go Ahead Given on Libe Addition First US Tour In 10 Years For Choir Boys The Vienna Choir boys, who will appear in McArthur court next Monday night, were first organized 450 years ago for the performance of religious music in the court chap el in Vienna. The choir, consisting of boys ranging in age from 8 to 12, on its first American tour in ten years. Impresario S. Hurok introduced them to this country in 1932. Since then they have performed here for six consecutive seasons. Sponsored in Eugene by the Eu gene and University Civic Music association, the choir will sing sac red songs, folk music, and probably an operatic selection. Hundreds of applicants are re jected each year, since membership is limited to 60. But some vacancies must be filled annually to replace those whose voices have changed. Rigid scholastic and musicla exam inations must be passed for mem bership. The boys not only receive musi cal training, but a general educa tion, including arithmetic, spelling, geography and history. Breen to Speak Here Tomorrow Dr. Quirinus Breen, associate professor of history and social sci ence, will discuss “The Quarrel of Rhetoric and Philosophy” Thurs day at S p. m. in Room 207, Chap man hall, Dr. Rudolph Ernst, chairman of the University Lecture Series committee, announced yes terday. Dr. Breen is the first University faculty member to appear as a guest of the Lecture Series com mittee this year. He received his BA degree at Calvin college in 1920, and was awarded a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1931. Dr. Breen served as minister in midwestern churches from 1921-24 and from 1926-31. Author of a book “John Calvin: A Study in French Humanism,” he has contributed to both religious and secular publications. At the University since 1938, Dr. Breen was assistant professor of history and political science at Hillsdale college, Michigan from 1931 to 1933 and professor of his tory and political science at Al bany college, Oregon, from 1933 until he accepted his present posi tion. SDX: Sellard to Report Convention Sigma Delta Chi will meet to morrow at noon in the Vets memor ial building, according to Don Mc Neil, president of the mens’ profes sional journalism honorary. Don Selard will report at the meeting on the national convention of the honorary which he attended in Milwaukie, Wisconsin. Choir Here Monday PICTURED ABOVE is a portion of the world-famous Vienna Choir Boys scheduled to appear here Monday, December 6. This will be their first U.S. visit in 10 years. Lambda Chi Alpha Colony to Be Installed Lambda Chi Alpha, will install its 126th national chapter at the University Saturday. The installation ceremonies, pre sided over by national officers, will climax a year and a half as a colony on campus. Colony President Bill Davis will accept the charter from Tozier Brown, national chancellor, who will direct the installa tion and present the mam ad dress at the banquet Saturday evening. Assisting him will be Ralph Newton, travelling secre tary, and the degree team from the Lambda chapter at Oregon State college. Other events on the three-day program will include a smoker, for mal initiation of pledges, tour Of the campus, and a formal banquet and dance. Attending the dinner dance will be representatives of the Portland Alumni association, the Portland and Eugene Mothers clubs, delegations from nearby chapters, University officials, and parents. The new chapter will have 30 charter members, of which 23 are in school at the present time. In ad dition, there are 15 pledges and 5 transfers from other schools. The Oregon Lambda Chis became a colony in April, 1947, through the efforts of two transfers, Bob Huff man of Oregon State, and Jack Puf finbarger of the University of Ne vada. As a colony of men lived together in the dorm during their first year on the Eugene campus before obtain ing a house of their own on Pearl street. They met the national fra ternity’s requirements and their pe tition for chapterhood was granted at the national convention last sum mer. I • • • • Board Asks Bids on $735,000 Job PORTLAND. Nov. 30—(AP)—The state board of higher education accepted final plans today for a $735,000 addition to the University of Oregon library. Advertising bids for con struction was authorized. This addition, intended to increase book capacity by 100,000 volumes and seating capacity by 500, is the final project to be financed under the funds provided in the state building appro I U 1 cl l IV M I U! J _v*T *J. The board also rescued the Vanport extension center from financial difficulties occasioned by extra expense in moving and a drop in student fee income. 1 feretofore the center had op erated entirely on fee income and had built up a surplus of $103, S45, finance chairman Henry Ca bell, Portland, reported to the board. This year estimated expen ditures have jumped to $350,530 with income estimated at $196,495. The board authorized use of the past surplus and an additional $50, 190 to keep the center in operation this year. A headquarters at Oregon State College for a proposed National Guard Aircraft and air control squadron was approved. The board agreed to lease the govern ment a 500-foot-square tract In one of the farm pastures for 25 years at $1 per year. Summer session budgets totaling $363,311 for 1949 were approved. It is an increase of $67,437 over a year ago. Last year the fee income more than met the budget, making un necessary use of a contingency re serve provied by the board, Chan cellor Paul Packer reported. A similar “guarantee fund" was pro vided again this year. Detailed in stitutional budgets are to be pre pared later. Other action included the fol lowing : Appointment of Dr. Henry Gunn, director of elementary teached training, as laison officer between the state system and city school systems to work on solution of crit ical elementary teacher shortage. Provided funds for completion of combined physical plant warehouse and shops building at University of Oregon, already under construction. Approved purchase of Falcon restaurant property by Universi ty of Oregon to clear site immedi ately adjacent to new Erb me morial building. Received resolution from Oregon association of real estate boards urging more courses in real estate and related fields at the University and state college. Generous Friends Save Girls Pride This, is one of those stories where you can’t use names or places be cause it involves a woman’s pride. But it is authenticated by a doz en pilots of an air lift squadron where the story is treated with top secret delicacy. When the squadron departed from its base in the United States, the wives and children were, of course, left behind. The trip to Germany was made with little ad vance preparation. Almost every husband in the outfit left a full quota of business matters and oth er worries at home. Among those who were left by this sudden re-deployment was the wife of a highly-regarded junior officer. She and her two children continued to make their home near [ the base so they could have the company of other families of the squadron members. Because it has become a closely knit little community of stay-at homes the news has quietly beer sent to Germany that this wife and mother is dying of tubercu losis. The husband, who has one of the toughest jobs in the squadron, is happily unaware of the true sit uation. His wife’s letters have been gay and light-hearted because she knows how much he has to carry. Occasionally her letters have made admissions, of no apparent consequence, that she had lost a little weight, that she felt a bit tired for a day or two, because he wondered why she had not taken a certain trip or atteended a cer tain party. Her friends—unknown to her— thought it was time to take a hand and tell their husbands in the squadron. They wrote the true facts that a woman's pride was withholding. Now the commanding officer has heard the full story. He has taken the matter up with higher head quarters. “He will be the first man from the squadron to go home,” the com manding officer said. “We'll get him out as quick as we can. The only thing that is worrying me is how to make him go without tell ing him the truth.’’ A lot of members of that squad ron would like to go home, too, but they arc all willing to give this man No 1 priority. —The Kansas City Star ] Council Considers Legal Step i no advisability ol incorpor ating the student body will be investigated by a special com mittee set up by tbc AUSO ex ecutive council at their meeting Monday. President of the three campus political parties were each ask ed to appoint one person to serve on the committee because the council wants to “try to cut across all political linos and make the in vestigation for the benefit of the en tire student body. Hank Kinsell and Art Johnson, members of the executive council, will complete the five-man commit tee. Incorporation would give the stu dent body more control of its finan ces and would make it an organiza tion legally responsible for itself and its funds. While incorporation has been us ed by other colleges, including Uni versity of Washington and Wash ington State, it is not necessarily advisable for this campus it wa3 pointed out. “We want to improve our grow ing student body and strengthen student government as much as possible," a council spokesman ex plained, “and as other colleges have successfully incorporated their stu dent bodies, the executive council wishes to consider the plan's advis ability for the Oregon campus.” The functions of the committee will be to study possible plans of in corporation and to bring a recom endatiou, listing advantages and disadvantages, to the executive council. Evening versus morning assem blies were also discussed by the council, for the purpose of insuring bigger student turnouts. Evening assemblies break into study hours, it was pointed out, and 11 a. m. on Tuesdays and Thursday was sug gested as a more favorable time. Steve Button was appointed to in vestigate. Special Pullmans For Cotton Bowl The Oregon Journal announced yesterday that it will charter Pullmans and possibly a full spe cial train to the Cotton Bowl game at Dallas. Yesterday’s announcement is the first definite information from any source on transporta tion to the game. Tentative de parture date, according to the Journal, is December 28, with the return slated for January 6. In regard to Cotton Bowl tick ets, athletic business manager Howard Lemons has announced that students may apply any time after Friday. The ducats will be mailed to them at their residences.