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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1949)
Cold Wave Seen; State Gets Snow Colder temperatures were fore cast for Oregon today in the wake of a snowfall that blanketed many cities and made highway travel hazardous. Snow fell yesterday through much of the Willamette valley, in Portland, and at Baker. Minor traffic accidents occurred throughout the state, and a woman rushing to her aged mother’s bed side was critically injured in a wreck near Klamath Falls. The Columbia river remained clogged with ice floes. Fishermen thought smelt were probably run ning in the Columbia—but they can’t be caught through the ice. Gillnetters gave up fishing until a thaw; at present, their nets freeze. One rumored fear was called un founded. The army engineers said the break-up of Columbia river ice will not harm Bonneville dam. Twice since the dam’s construction the Columbia has had as much ice as now. The Columbia river stream flow increased to 86,000 second -feet at Bonneville, boosting power output to some 370,000 Kilowatts. Power officials warned that continued electricity-saving was necessary, however. Several sawmills in Lane county which resumed operations Tuesday were threatened with closure again. The snow and cold weather made it difficult to continue logging. Potluck Dinner Westminster will have a potluck dinner Thursday, at 6 p.m. The ad mission is either food or 40 cents. YOUR ALL-AMERICAN DAILY 1 ' 1_Ou— Clip the coupon below and send the EMERALD to the folks at home! Immediate action will mean less letter-writing home. Eeven kid brother will be a Duck, so let him know what goes on. Complete campus cov erage for: Enclosed find $. for my subscription to the EMERALD. Name „ ‘ Street . ' 80 > • City.State Campus Calendar Women's Basketball Plans for women’s intramural basketball will be completed Thurs day, January 20, when the wom en’s house athletic managers meet in’room 121 at Gerlinger at 7:15 p.m. Managers are asked to bring the basketball entry blanks for their houses. The tournament will open Mon day, January 24, and is scheduled to end March 2. Thursday will be the last day for practice. Scabbard and Blade All members and pledges of Scabbard and Blade will meet to night at 6:30 in the ROTC build ing. This meeting is important, as plans for the Military ball will be discussed. Lutheran Meeting Lutheran Student association council meeting will be held Thurs day at 1 p.m. at Luther house.. U of O Ski Club Meet Tonight A barter exchange is to be held at tonight’s meeting of the University of Oregon Ski club at 7:30 in the bandroom of the Military building. Also scheduled for this evening is an explanation on the application waxes on slciis. The final plans for this year’s winter outing will be discussed at the meeting. All Ski club members and their guests wishing to go on this trip January 29-30, must pay their $100 reservation fee and se cure reservations for transporta tion at this meeting. Other activities that will take place, besides regular skiing, are the initiation of new members of the club, a schottische dance Saturday night, and a chance to ski at night in a lighted area. Archaeologist To Lecture Here "From Village to City,” a talk involving 6000 years of history at Jericho will be made by Dr. C. C. McCown, visiting professor of re ligion at 4 p.m. today in room 101 PE buildings. Sponsored by the University lec ture series, Dr. McCown’s lecture will explain the falling of the walls of Jericho. The archaeologist will illustrate his talk with slides and pictures of some of the first pottery made, irrigation systems in the Near East, and a rare clay statue of an early diety. Sigma Pi Sigma Sigma Pi Sigma, physics honor ary, will sponsor a public showing of “The Telescopes of Mt. Wilson and Palomar” Monday, January 24, at 4 p.m. in room 103 Deady hall. The picture is photographed with color and sound, and is one hour in length. There will be a short business meeting following the picture. YW Meeting YWCA flying speech committee meeting at 6:30 Thursday at the Y bungalow. All girls who signed up for this committee when joining the Y and all others interested are urged tg come. Plymouth Club Plymouth club will have the reg ular Thursday noon luncheon to day at the Congregational church. All Unicersity students are invited. Frosh Commission Tells Booklet Plans All upperclass girls may attend the upperclass commission meeting of the YWCA tonight from 5 to 6:30, announced Joan O'Neill Foul om, chairman of the commission. The commission is planning to put out a booklet for incoming freshmen girls and plans for the booklet will be made at this meet ing. Mrs. Foulom stated that she hoped the booklet could be finished this term 30 it could be mailed to senior high school girls an the spring. All girls attending the meeting must bring their own lunches. FOR THE BEST IN FISH AND SEA FOODS CALL 2309 NEWMAN'S FISH MARKETS We Deliver sa Breakfast Served Day or Night Dinners Sandwiches Chili French Fries Milk Shakes HARRY'S Snappy Service Cafes TWO CAFES THAT NEVER CLOSE 860 Olive 470 Willamette Machines, Teachers Here For BA Short Course By Kay Johnson The school of business adminis tration has visitors. Not the com mon garden variety of visitors, mind you, but special representa tives of the National Cash Register company of Dayton, Ohio, Robert D. Hughes and his assistants Stan ley Hager and Robert Torgesen, both of the Portland bra-nch of the ■company. They arrived replete with a bit more than the usual baggage. More specifically, two tons of the most modern accounting equipment. This they are employing to teach cours es in machine accounting to inter ested persons of the University. Monday, the first day of the course, saw seven classes, a high student interest and a total of 267 present to hear the lectures and see the demonstrations. These classes are brought to the University through special ar rangement with Dean V. P. Morris, of the school of business adminis tration and will be held in 206 Com merce from 8 to 3 through Friday of this week. A special class on bank applica tions will be given Saturday morn ing. A wide range of valuable sub jects is offered, including: accounts receivable and payable, window posting, labor distribution, and cost! and payroll records. Starting from Ohio, Mr. Hughes has worked west across the coun try and has thus far visited Ne braska, Utah and Washington col leges before his arrival to Oregon. He plans to go on to California af ter his stay here. His assigned area is half of the United States, one of the four divisions covered by rep resentatives of his company. He expressed his hopes that the cours es prove successful enough to war rant their permanent establishment on an annual basis. Student comment seems to indi cate that this is a valuable sup plement to their regular courses and brings them to more fully real ize some of the hitherto unknown possibilities and applications of ac counting. From this interest shown, indications are that Mr. Hughes’ wish shall be fulfilled. This Gal's Another Wiley WHAT CHEER, la.—(AP)— Helen Corrick scored 69 points as she paced the Keswick high school girls basketball team to 107-66 victory over Richland in the Keokak county tournament Tuesday night. It was the 17th straight victory for unbeaten Keswick. Phi Chi Theta All members of Phi Chi The’ta are asked to turn in schedules of their classes to business adminis tration office before Friday. pi You eesat help lock the door csgoinst Here is the story about a door that can be built to repel cancer, the deadly killer. The door locks only if two keys are turned. Science holds one key — your money can provide the other. Your dollars support: cancer research which some day may find the causes and cure of the disease; an education program that teaches men and women how to recognize cancer in its early stages, when immediate treatment can save their lives. Won’t you help us lock the door? Give as generously as you can. Give more than before to guard those you love. American Cancer Society, Inc.