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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1949)
Fiftieth Year of Publication and Sendee to the University UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1949 VOLUME L NUMBER 95 Your Support is Needed A LOYAL SERVANT of the Red Cross offers a dollar bill to Renee Johns, freshman in liberal arts, and Jim Cusick, sophomore in busi ness, to show that the money contributed on this campus stays here to benefit students. Freshmen Plan Post-Game Hop University freshmen will plaj host to stud?nts from both the Eu gene and Corvallis campuses witl a post-game Basket “Ball’ Friday night. Slated to take place in Gerlingei annex after the UO-OSC game the dance will be the only fresh man class event this term. Ticket, for the dance, a date affair, will b< 50-cents per couple. Freshman rep resentatives of living organization will handle tickets, and ticket; will be available at the door. The dance, which was plannei by the new freshman council, i the first in a proposed series of so cial events. All Oregon State students invitee to the dance. AP Correspondent In Talk Thursday ^ A veteran press association cor respondent who’s been in Japan . since the first day of American oc cupation will speak on the campus L this week. ■ He’s Duane "Spike” Hennessey, for 42 months an AP reporter, will . speak on “The Last Time I Saw Tokyo” in room 105, McClure, at 4 p.m., Thursday. The talk is spon s sored by the University chapter of , Sigma Delta Chi, professional . journalism fraternity. » leather . . . Rain will probably come back 1 into the picture, tomorrow. The 3 weatherman says that we are in - for partly cloudy skies, and that we may possibly have a few show 1 ers during the day. The tempera ture is expected to rise to 53. Millrace Fill Continues Ked Lross Campaign This Week Officially underway since yes terday, the Red Cross campus drive will furnish much activity during this week, promised Sally Waller. Today, student luncheon and din ner speakers will appear at living organizations. Contributions may be made to booths in the Co-op and to repre sentatives in each student living organization. All Students Included Off-campus students are being reached through special effort this year, said Miss Waller. Attempts will be made also to show veterans the benefits they may receive through the Red Cross. Entertainment plans are in pro gress for a program in front of the library Friday, according to pro motion chairman, Norm Morrison. Nationally, the drive begins to day. No Goal as Yet No definite goal has been set for 1949 campus Red Cross drive but Drive Chairman Sally Waller said yesterday that in consideration of benefits received by University stu dents there should be 100 per cent contribution. Campus aid is primarily to veter ans. Red Cross chapter home ser vice workers assisted veterans in countless problems last year from emergency financial aid for food and rent to counseling and guid ance, according to Mrs. Cora Pirtle, director of the Lane County chap ter. The girls who “posed pretty” for photographer Kirk Braun are Carol Irvine and Dulcy Renne. Both girls live at Susan Campbell hall. Race Association To Gather Tonight Kven as the luigene Register-Guard carried news of a. “gen tlctaan s agreement concerning the tilling of the millrace by Koke-Chapman company, dirt was being dumped into the race adjacent to the company’s property on Broadway avenue. Keith hennell, millrace association officer, had "no comment” to make on the continued tilling of the race by the company, winch plans eventually to build on the site. Although Koke-C h a p in a n plans to run a pipe under the till, thereby enabling millrace wat ers to pass, ASL'O President Bob Allen has stated that " if Koke Chapman isn’t stopped, then other property owners up and down the Millrace will also be able to fill in.” Allen pointed out that not all prop erty owners may put pipes under their fills, as Koke-Chapman has done, which would definitely put a stop to restoration plans. Elaborating on his “no com ment,” Fennell ventured that there may be news later in the week. As sociation officers will meet tonight to discuss the situation. Oregon Men Place In Harangue Contest Fred Risser and Jim Tucker, stormed through 41 two-man de bate teams to tie for second place with Oregon State College in the junior men’s debate division at the Linfield Invitational tourney, last Friday and Saturday. Weber College, of Ogden, Utah, captured first place in this division of the tourney, which included 30 universities and colleges from all over the west. 'Macbeth' Play Road Company Presents Show In Mac Court Reserved seat tickets are going' rapidly for “Macbeth,” which will play in Mac court tomorrow eve ning at 8:30. General admission tickets, 60 cents for students, and $1.20 for adults, will go on sale at the door of the igloo tomorrow night at 7:30. The Johnson hall box office, open from 10 to 12, and 1 to 5, is re ceiving requests from high school groups, as well as adults, for bloc seating at the Margaret Webster production. Miss Webster has been acclaimed the finest Shakespearean director of the contemporary American stage. This is the first time she has taken one Of her plays off Broad way and on a tour of the country. John Holland and Carol Goodner head the cast with Alfred Ryder. The professional company trav els by specially constructed bus with a full size wardrobe room. The intricate set for “Macbeth” has been constructed so it can be set up l in one hour. A Story in Moods—at the OSC-Oregon Cage Tilt Woe . . . Go • . « 6 i Glow . . .