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I Oregon Emerald Fiftieth Year of Publication and Serznce to the University VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1949 NUMBER lift < ; Will Tap at ' Senior Ball & j * Chairman Names Patrons; Tickets On Sale at Co-op - Three new members will be . tapped by Druids, junior men's honorary, at "The ’49er's” Sen ior ball Saturday evening in 1 Mac court. The formal, all-cam pus dance will begin at 9 p. m. Wally Heider and his orches ; ' tra, who will provide music for ^ * the evening, come to the Univer t sity campus from the Terrace room of the Fairmont hotel. Andy Peele, first trumpet man with the group, has just returned from New York where he played with Tommy Reed’s orchestra at the Edison ho tel. f The names of the patrons and pa tronesses were announced yester jV day by Ann Woodworth, chairman in charge of patrons. They are Chancellor and Mrs. Paul C. Pack er, President and Mrs. Harry K. Newburn, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pal lette, Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Du Shane, Mr. and Mrs. J. Alan Wick ham, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil S. Fog dall, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford L. Constance, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hawk, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon L. John son, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney W. Little, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Horn, Air. and Mrs. Clifford F. Weigle, and Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Schleicher. Tickets, at $2.40 a couple, will be on sale today and tomorrow at the ,Co-op. Tickets are also being sold at the vets commons and will be sold at the door of Mac court Saturday evei?ing. House represen tatives are asked to hand in their receipts to Janet Beigal, tickets chairman, at the Alpha Chi Ome ga house by noon Thursday. Don't Be Alarmed, Easter Is Sunday SPOKANE, Jan. 18— (AP)—1The Spokane athletic round table will hold its Easter parade next Sun day. That is typical of the round ta ble, which holds its annual Christ mas party in July. Typical, too, is this notice to . members: “Food served from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. This doesn’t mean you must eat constantly.” «r Actress to Marry Mickey Rooney HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 18 (AP) — Film actress Marthat Vickers, 23, says she’s engaged to actor Mick » ey Rooney, 29, but they “haven’t made any definite plans as yet for the wedding.” Rooney’s divorce from Betty Jane Rase, Birmingham, Ala., beauty and mother of his two sons, becomes final in May. Miss Vick ers’ divorce from A. C. Lyles, film publicist, won’t be final until Sep tember. Rooney’s first wife was actress Ava Gardner. Pianist Showered With Honors; Eugene Concert Set for Monday Ever since he was ten, Robert Casadesus,'French pianist who will piay in McArthur court next Mon day at 8:15, has been showered with prizes, medals, and honors. Born in Paris in 1899, he was rais ed by his grandparents in an ex tremely musical environment. The pianist has four uncles who rank drove’s Musical dictionary. At ten years of age Casadesus re ceived “la premiere medaille” from the Paris Conservatoire. Other hon 3i-s followed, among them the title af Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by his native country. When he was 13, he played the celesta, extra gongs and bells for a French opera company, thereby learning by heart many operas of Bizet, Puccini, Massenet, etc. Dur ing World War I, the musician be came a soldier, and when the Peace Treaty was signed it was Casadesus who rataplanned the drums as Woodrow Wilson, Clemenceau and Foch paraded by. ROBERT CASADESUS In 1922 he married the girl who had siipceeded him as prize pupil at the Paris Conservatorie. The follow ing year while Robert taught piano to young American students, Gaby Casadesus received the highest honor awarded to women pianists at the school. The pianist came to the United States for the first time in 1935, when he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra under Hans Lange as so loist in the Mozart "Coronation" Concerto. Toscanini, in the audi ence, invited him to be his Philhar monic soloist the following season. Since then Casadesus has played with the Philharmonic every season since—an almost unique record. Appearing in Eugene under the auspices of the Eugene and Univer sity Civic Music association, the pianist makes his American home in Princeton, New Jersey. Now on his 15th consecutive sold-out American tour, his western engagements in clude performances in Seattle, Port land, Pasadena. San Diego, Sacra mento, Los Angeles and San Fran cisco. Chaney, Wright Picked by USA An independent and a member of a Greek house were named to the United Students Association fresh man ticket at a general meeting yesterday afternoon. John Caney, Nestor hall, was named to the number one position on the third bal'ot. One of the other three candidates, Bob Furrer of Sig ma hall, was eliminated on the first ballot; Bob Funk, Tau Kappa Epsi lon, eliminated on the second bal lot; and Hon Brown, Campbell Club, lost to Chaney’s majority on the third vote. • Virginia Wright, Alpha Xi Delta, was given a majority vote on the first ballot. Miss Wright, who advo cated the establishment of a freshman council, received more votes than her two opponents com bined. Contending with her for the second position nomination were Rosemary Beatty, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Clara Belle Roth, Rebec House. Former Dean of Men Dangerously III Dangerously ill at Sacred Heart hospital is Virgil Delman Earl, dean emeritus of men of the University of Oregon from 1931 to 1947. He is suffering from circulatory disease and hardening of the arteries. Ac cording to his physician, Dr. W. H. Chapman, his general condition is poor. Although Earl has been hospital ized for only the last few days, his condition has been steadily growing worse for the last six months. Alpha Phi Omega Calendar Sale On Alpha Phi Omega, national ser vice fraternity, will contact living organizations today for the calen dar sale which is a fund-raising drive for the student union. Kwamas are selling calendars at the Co-op while the Skull and Dag gers are selling them at the library. ISA to Hold Special Meeting A special meeting for Independ ent off-campus students will be held Thursday at 4:00 in room 101 P. E. The purpose of this meeting is" to consider the problems of organizing off-campus students in such a man ner as to give them more adequate representation in the ISA senate and that the social advantage and service programs of the ISA may reach a greater number of students. Present at the meeting will be Bob Davis, president of the ISA, who will outiine the plans and pur poses of the ISA and Bob Hender son who will lead the discussion on the problem of organization. All off-campus independent stud ents are urged to attend. The ISA is an organization for their benefit and can more successfully serve if it has the support of all. Reporter Obtains Story Firsthand By Joan Manning1 Upon arriving at the University Infirmary, I flashed one or my heal thiest smiles at the nearest nurse and asked' her where I could get some vital information for the Em erald. “Why didn’t you come sooner?” she asked. “You look as if you’ve been sick for days.” I took this remark as merely an insult and followed her into the doc tor’s office. She thrust a thermome ter into my mouth and jabbed a knife into my index finger. Next thing I knew I was in ward three with a pair of size 44 men’s pajamas. I strung them immediately with a safety pin and a handy piece of string which I always carry with me for just such emergencies. Then I strung them again. (I keep forgetting that if you pull on one end of a string, the other end is liable to come, too.) My little pal in white soon came in dragging a long affair behind her. The spike, she told me, was a needle filled with penciliin. “Too big,” I thought, “Must be a | joke.” But it wasn’t when she jab- j bed the dern thing into the tender flesh about four inches below my waist on the rear side! After a recovery period of about two hours and fifty-nine minutes, I i began to survey the situation. The beds, I found, are handy. They crank up. And ones feet, when one is in a sitting position, make very convenient racks on which to hang ones towels. I didn't sit up very much, though, Somewhat because of a very un comfortable feeling, but mostly be cause I saw a sign which said that there was a ten cent fine for sitting cn the beds. As I say, it took me two hours and fifty-nine minutes to recover. And then I discovered that I would get shot every three hours. I Wesley Jive Night Wesley house will have Jive Nite Wednesday from 9 o'clock to 10:30. All students are invited. Some of the boys who work in the kitchen and bring food to the inmates are rather cute. If one smiles, one is apt to get two des serts. One night I got four. The girl across from me was lucky. One day she had eight mas culine callers all at once. And one of them was a gentle man. I know he was a gentleman because when the nurse came in with the spike, he looked the other way. I had a visitor, too—about five minutes before visiting hours were over the fifth day I was there. It was my room-mate, Bessie, who had brought me the Saturday Ev ening Post. Just as she sat down, the lady with the RN pin popped a thermom eter into my mouth. It was difficult to talk so I fooled her. I took it out and put it into the steam of my vaporizing tea kettle. “Mighty clever" I thought. And how was I to know that the mer cury would go up to 108 degrees. Boy, did I give that nurse a scare! Push Plans For Dad's Weekend Housing Reservations Will Not Be Handled By Committee Heads With a theme for students of “Write a Letter to Dad," Dads Day planners, under the direction of Ed Anderson and Marie Lombard, have begun work on the annual Dads af fair. This year Dads Day will be the weekend of February 4, 5, and 6. Highlighting the 1949 Dads Day will bg the Dads luncheon, the Ore gon-Washington basketball game, a tour of new campus construction plus individual organization activi ties. Anderson pointed out that the Dads committee is not handling housing reservations this year, and recommended that students lose no time- in making individual reserva tions for their fathers. He said that, because of the ever-increasing num ber of Dads who come to Eugene for the weekend, it is virtually impossi ble for a small student committee to handle housing. The Dads Day directors said that, the emphasis this year will be on at tendance and on acquainting fath ers with the University. “It’s a won derful opportunity to show the bill - payer where the money goes,” said Anderson, “so bring him down.” Committee heads for the 1949 Dads Day are: Alex Murphy, regis tration; Beverly Miller, luncheon; Don South, basketball game; Mar jorie Peterson, budget; Joanne Fry denlund, special events; Sally Wal ler, hospitality; Mo Turner, decora tinns; Norm Morrison, promotion, and Jim Wallace and Jeannine Ma caulay, publicity. University Warns Parking Violators Violations of campus parking' regulations are increasing in num ber, impairing the efficient and safe servicing of University buildings. In the future, all cars parked in re stricted areas will be removed by a towing service with the cost charg ed to the owner of the car. Many cars have been parked in driveways and across roadways us ed in serving buildings or kept open because of fire regulations. The fuel service driveway at the Physical. Plant, the entrance to the Campus Postoffice, the south entrance to Johnson Hall, and the road to Susan Campbell Hall are the most-fre quent places at which violations oc cur. ’■ The Weather Eugene and vicinity: Foggy this morning. Cloudy this afternoon with possible scattered showers. High today 38. Bulletin X.VXKIXG, Wednesday, Jan. 19 (AP)—China’s executive Yuan Iia» decided to issue a cease fire order to nationalist armies and send a delegation to negotiate peace with the communists, a high official source disclosed today.