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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1949)
Fire Precautions At UO insure Against Disaster By Marjory uusn “The fire condition at Oregon is generally very good,” was the comment yesterday of 1.1. Wright, superintendent of the physical plant. Because of last Sunday’s disaster at Kenyon college in Ohio, where nine boys died as a result of a dormitory fire, a survey of fire conditions at the University seems especially timely. Campus fire protection will be greatly increased, according to Wright, upon the completion of the new branch of the city fire depart ment at 17th and Agate street across from Hayward field. This station, now under construc tion will be completed by May 15, and will be in operation by July 1. It will have two trucks and will be operated by four men. The station will be first to answer University calls, according to Lester Barker, city fire marshall, and will be backed up by the downtown divi sion of the department. Although some of the buildings on the campus are not of fireproof construction, they are all amply protected, Wright said. Susan Campbell hall, Hendricks, Mary Spiller and the vets’ dorms, as well as the clas9 buildings are not fire proof. However there are alarms, fire hoses, standpipes, and extin guisners, as Well as me caeayco in all of these buildings. The dormitories are inspected by the state fire inspector once a year and meet all state regulation, ac cording to Mrs. Genevieve Turnip seed, director of dormitories. Fire drills are heeld at least once a month in all girls’ dorms but none are held by the men. If the boys hear the alarm they know it is the real thing, Mrs. Turnipseed said. As an added precaution for vets’ roms, there is a direct tele phone line from the dorms to the fire department. John Straub hall and the newer campus buildings are fireproof, and the new women’s dorm will be completely safeguarded against fire. A fire there, Wright noted,, would affect only one room. Deady, oldest building on the campus, is insulated with earth between the floors and ceilings which also make it partly fireproof. “If we ever do remodeling at Deady, we will have a lot of dirt to contend with,” he added. One of the greatest fire hazards, according to Wright, is the non-ob servance of No Smoking signs. In the past 18 months, there have been five fires, all small, in and at University buildings. It is thought that four were caused by cigarettes, and one, at McArthur court, possi THRU SAT. MAYFLOWER NOW march 5 THEATRE — Box Office Opens 6:30 — Showing- At Regular Admission Prices "OPERA LOVERS MAY REJOICE THAT AT LAST A FULL LENGTH OPERA HAS BEEN PRODUCED AS A MOVIE WITH THE FINEST ITALIAN SINGERS"—N. Y. 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La tourette, now professor of missions and Oriental history and chairman of the department of religion at Yale university, spoke on the topic “The China That Has Been.” Due to an overflowing crowd Tuesday, the second and final in the Condon lecture series sponsored by the Oregon System of Higher Education, has been changed to the auditorium of the music school at 8 tonight. At that time Dr. Latour ette will give a picture of the China of today, the influence of the Occi dent in China, and tell the direction China is now moving in. “The old China was held together by a group of ideas,” Latourette stated in Tuesday’s lecture. These ideas sprang from Confuscianism, which purpose was for men to real ize an ideal state of society on earth. Confusianism is based on three things, Latourette said. They are loyalty to the family, optimism about the universe and human na ture, and consideration for others. The Chinese feel til at man by na ture is good, therefore government should be based on reason and ex ample, not force. Dr. Latourette named the fac tors which maintained Confuscian ism in China to be the state, educa tion, the family, and general cus toms or mores. The first two means have disappeared and the other two have proven inadequate, Latourette noted. However, China's civilization worked very well for 2000 years and on the whole did much for the coun try. Its pattern spread all over Asia. “Confuscianism ceased to be creative and was moving only on inertia,” the speaker said. Reasons bly by spontaneous combustion. Wright emphasized that care on the part of the students in extin guishing cigarettes and in not al lowing trash to accumulate were the best fire preventives. He also suggested that dormitory residents should know how to handle equip ment in emergencies. SKI BUS SCHEDULE Leave Willamette .. Saturday—7 :30 A.M. Willamette . Sunday—7 :30 A.M. MT. HOOD . 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