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.
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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.