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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1949)
Mu Phi Epsilon Plans Concert for Friday Alumnae of Mu Phi Epsilon, mu sic honorary, and its active chap ter at the University, will present their annual spring concert Tues day evening, February 8, at the chool of music auditorium at 8:15, Mrs. Frances Pickett, speaking for the publicity committee of the organization, announced yesterday. The concert is being given as a benefit for the scholarship fund of Mu Phi Epsilon. This fund, Mrs. Pickett explained, is used to pro vide money to aid deserving young musicians to continue their train ing. Miss Shirley Gay Williams, this year’s winner of the Mu Phi Ep silon scholarship, will appear on the program. Other Mu Phi Epsi Ion members who will take part in clude Nell Murphy Dickson, Kath ryn Asay, Majory Scobert Wilson, and Phyllis Gray Knox, pianists; Molly Bob Hardin, Wanda K. East wood, and Connie Elkins, violinists; Doris Calkins, harpist; Dorothy French, contralto; Margaret Holm and Barbara McMilan, sopranos. Keith Cockburn, cellist, Paul Stofft, viola, and Albert Marshall, flutist, will assist the group in an ensemble number. Instrumental and vocal com positions by Bach, de Fontenailles, Clokey, Frankel, Bernstein, Proko fieff, Ravel, Bayly, Verdi, Frank, Chabrier, and Benjamin will be giv en. A free will offering will be made at intermission. Well, Maybe It's Tasty as Horsemeat LONDON, Feb. 7— (AP)— Ever eat a beaver? Beaver’s meat was on sale for general consumption in London last week. It is being offered as an off-ration delicacy to persons who still feel hungry after eating the current 10 pence (16 cents) weekly ration of fresh meat. Beaver was on the menus of some restaurants, too, and it was causing confusion and discussion because the Beaver is not a familiar beast in Britain. A restaurant in Ludgate Circus had an encycloepdia handy so doubting customers could read for themselves, in the book marked “B,” that the Beaver is a fastidious creature, subsisting on water cress and the bark of the better tasting trees. How does it taste? Some said you could still taste the swamp in it. World Federalist To Talk on KUGN A guest on the “American Town Meeting of the Air,” to be heard tonight at 8:30 p.m. on KUGN, will be Cord Meyer, Jr., president of the United World Federalists. Others on the panel who will dis cuss the subject, “Do we need a new approach to peace” are Doro thy Thompson, columnist; David Owen, of the UN; and T. D. Thack eray, of the New York Post. Jobs Are Open In Civil Service U. S. civil service commission has announced an examination for physical science aid and biological aid to fill positions in various Fed eral agencies in Washington, D. C., and vicinity. The jobs pay from $2152 and 3727 a year. Applicants must pass a written test and have additional experience in either physical science or bio logical science. Appropriate college study may be substituted for the required experience. Applications and further infor mation may be obtained at any first or second-class post office Yesterday I tried to phone Liza, Beth, Susanna, Joan, Mabel, Ann, Leonora, Jane, Patricia, Dotty, Fay, Elaine, Mary, Alice, Eva, Helen, Sar a, Alma, Gladys, Ellen, Fanny, Adelaide, and Sue, And then, dear heart, I thought of you. The weaker the argument the Stronger the words, j 1j | § \ Ad Scholarship Offered by Firm A $250 scholarship for avdertis ing and marketing students was in stituted this year by the Joseph R. Gerber advertising company of Portland. Participants must have a GPA of 2.7 Or better. Marketing projects based on ag ricultural or manufactured pro ducts of Oregon are the basis of the contest. Dean V. P. Morris, school of busi ness administration, R. D. Millican, assistant professor Of advertising, and a representative of the Gerber company will judge the projects. Anyone interested in applying for the scholarship should contact Mr. Millican before February 16. Music Group Taps Eight in Ceremony Nu chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national professional women’s mu sic sorority, pledged eight women in formal pledging ceremonies held in Alumni hall Sunday night. New pledges are Madelon Adler, Frances Baum, Nancy Beaver, Mar jorie Carlson, Phyllis Higinbotham, Irene Phelan, Mary Phelan, Mary Robinson and Sylvia Whitford Wil liams. Members of Mu Phi are required to have a 3.00 G. P. A. and a rec ommendation from their music in strutcor as well as good musician ship. Driverless Auto Gives Man Trouble NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 7— (AP)—A minor traffic accident has Sidney Caplan talking to him self. It happened yesterday. A car backed around a corner, struck Caplan and crashed into a store. Only slightly hurt, Caplan rushed over to tell the driver a thing or two. That’s when the monologue started—the car was driverless. But that's not all—it was one Cap lan had packed a few seconds ear lier. IVCF Meet Slated Inter-Varsity Christian Fellow ship will hear Bert A. Elliot, mis sionary to Peru, speak at the regu lar meeting tonight at 7 in John Straub dining room. Hui 0 Kamaaina Hui O Kamaaina will meet to night at 7 upstairts in Gerlinger hall. Anger is the wind that blows out the lamp of the mind. By A1 Pietschman What with Roger Wiley’s great performance last Friday night, spe cial flowers and birthday greetings are more than justly earned. Now that the Dads’ Day Hostess has been proclaimed and Miss Vogue to be announced and the Moonlight Girl to be selected, about all that is needed to make beauty contests at Oregon complete is an “Off-the-campus Queen” contest Then we will have an even hundred gal quests a year. Too late we find that the aver age of the ‘‘Europe Since ’39” class has a 3.6 average. And the test is tomorrow! Well, someone has to get the flunks in school and with a bunch of 3.6ers we know who is in that class. Over the weekend we saw a vast array of appropriate presents for your Valentine at Carl Greve, Jeweler, Portland, Oregon. Your choice of lovely bracelets for gals and accessories for men. You can order by mail and also charge it. Some two weeks ago we sug gested an argyle sock contest. And promised that today that we would give out with the winner in the con test. Frankly, we are having a hard time deciding just who it is going to be. There have been so many good looking sox shown to us that we have had to judge and rejudge in our mind the best looking pair. And we have finally decided. The four cartons of Chesterfields go to a certain Alpha Phi. We will be very glad to give Mary Knox four cartons of the smokes if she will just let us know when to de liver them. And with the original prize goes the pack of Chesterfields to every girl in the house. Mary’s sock were, well kinda hard to describe. Red background and green and white cross-stitch ing. Before gals who entered the con test start throwing snowballs at us we hasten to say. that the decision was difficult and are sorry there weren’t more prizes. A pessimist is a man who feels that all women are bad. An op timist hopes so. COMING Tlnirsclay-Friday-Saturday * mam 'One of the pure mir acles of SO years of movies/"_THE NATION 'One of the great, un forgettable motion pic tures!‘‘JTHt NEW YORKER 'A remarkable artistic successI Will shock the worldl" —LI FI ALSO LATE NEWS Snow Delays Idaho Ski Race BOISE, Feb. 7 (AP)—The slalom races in the Pacific Northwest Jun ior Ski meet here were postponed again today because of the weather. The races were originally set for Sunday, but drifts and new snow made the Bogus Basin road from Boise impassable and they were first postponed until this morning. The downhill races were held Sat urday. Tournament officials said a meet ing will be held Wednesday night to determine what to do, because plows are needed to clear main highways blocked by weekend snow storms, it was doubtful if the Ba sin road could be reopened in the next few days. Meanwhile, Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood was snowbound over night, and 60 skiers were trapped at Tollgate in eastern Oregon. A snow plow rescued them today. Snowfall varied throughout the state, as low as an inch at Port land and more than a foot in some eastern Oregon sections. Drifts pil ed high in teh mountains and in southeastern Oregon. Some were seven and eight feet deep in Lake county, leaving almost all roads im passable. The Weather WEATHER . . . Mostly cloudy with showers of rain or snow today and Wednesday. (Notices for Campus Calendar should be turned in. in typewritten form, to the Emerald News Edi tor's office by 3 p.m. of the day preceding publica tion. Notices will not be accepted on Saturdays or Sundays.) Chorus rehearsal at Wesley house ' will begin at 6:30 Tuesday evening. Anyone interested in singing with __ the group is invited to attended. Wednesday morning chapel ser vice at Wesley house will begin uat 7:30. Coffee and doughnuts will be served from 7 to 7:30. Christian Science organization will meet Tuesday at 7:45 p.m. in the YWCA. All persons connected with the University are invited to - attend. Snow was so deep in southern Oregon mountains that the weather bureau at Medford issued a special flood warning. Calendar Wesley Chorus Chapel Service Christian Science DO YOU MAMBO? Why not coine in and let Jacklyn's Competent Teachers teach you the new Mambo and all the latest dances? Xo Charge for Guest Lesson and Dance Anlysis RHUMBA FOXTROT SAMBA WALTZ TANGO SWING MAMBA also TAP and BALLET Hours—Mon. thru Fri.—10:00 A.M.—10:00 P.M. SAT.—10:00 A.M.—6:00 P.M. QackLpn'i. Dance Studio 24 W. 7th Ave. Phone 235-W DO WE NEED A NEW APPROACH TO PEACE Whether you're pro or con you'll have a representa tive on the American Town Meeting of the Air to night. Look who is going to speak! ! ! CORD MEYER. jr„ Pres. United World Federalists DOROTHY THOMPSON, columnist and whiter DAVID OWEN, United Nations T. O. TTIACKRKY, New York Post Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 8:30 p.m. on KUGN—1400 on dial Securing world peace on a sound basis requires ac tion now. For information a sound program of action, write or phone your Eugene Chapter of UNITED WORLD FEDERALISTS 16 E. Broadway Phone 76 For Federal World Government with limited powers adequate to assure peace through United Nations. UNLOCK HER HEART WITH Possession rUFUM by CORDAY IS RUE 0 E LA PAI X. PARIS $2.75 to $65 plus tax A Want to be treated like a king? POSSESSION beats a diamond ring? TIFFANY-DAVIS 797 Willamette St.