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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1949)
Singing, Comedy Routines Terrace Dance Features Vaudeville Herb Widmer and his combo plus top student comedy and singing will add up to terrace enjoyment this afternoon, according to Norm Morrison, promotion chairman of the Red Cross drive, who will em cee the program. A Tri Delt ukelele quintet, Kappa Sig quartet, music school trio, and a comedy routine featuring Frank Rauch and Gay Baldwin will per form in front of the library. The program, to benefit the Red Cross is scheduled for 4 p.m., if dry wea ther prevails. Dancing will follow. There will be no admittance fee, but Kwamas will collect Red Cross contributions. A senior in art and architecture, Herb Widmer has been popular as a musician on the campus most of his four years here. The combo has played for Junior Weekend events for the last three years. He also provided music for the last terrace dance two years ago, held in con nection with Junior Weekend. Barbara Henton, Margo Spang ler, Nancy Starkweather, Beverly Belle-Isle and Cornelia Hoppe will make up the Tri Delt quintet. In the Kappa Sig quartet are Henry Haight, Reedy Berg, Harry Gester, and Dick Shirley. The singing trio from the music school will be Claire Lewis, Wayne Sherwood, and Jim McMullen. Last night Red Cross general chairman Sally Waller, together with Donna Mary Brennan, col lection chairman; Dard Whitney, co-chairman of off-campus collec tion and Norm Morrison spoke for five minutes on the “Mimi and Bob” radio program. A booth has been placed in the Co-op this week for contributions to the drive. Student speakers have talked at all living organizations on Red Cross, also. House representatives have been requested to turn in their money and material to Donna Brennan at the Theta house before dinner to day. Oregon VOLUME L Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1949 NUMBER 98 Campus Car Owners Suffer As City Bans Street Parking No Relief Seen In Near Future By UO Officials A recent ruling of the Eugene city council to enforce the law against overnight parking will greatly affect the UO campus, ac cording to a report of the police de partment. “The ruling stated that there will be absolutely no exceptions,” stat ed a department spokesman. “This will mean that students parking cars on campus streets overnight will be liable to fine.” It is possible for the University to provide some parking areas, especially for those living in dor mitories. However, according to the director of information, Lyle Nelson, no action has been taken by University authorities. Areas which will be particularly ( inconvenienced by the new regula tion will be the Millrace, Alder street, and the “hill,” where many fraternities and sororities depend on street parking. Parking at any time has already been outlawed on Alder; however, houses have been able to park their cars on cross streets heretofore. The action of the council was made to relieve present congestion, and to increase safety on city streets. Commenting on the situation, ; Alpha Tau Omega president Bob Easter said, “I don’t know what we’ll do with the cars unless we stack them on the roof. “We would be glad to comply with any reasonable ruling of the council,” Easter continued. “How ever, this new regulation leaves us with absolutely no place to park.” Kappa Sigma is in a slightly bet ter situation, according to Presi dent Jack Donald. “We have re cently graveled an area in front of our house which will hold about five cars,” Donald stated, “and have improved the parking lot in back. This still leaves us with ex tra cars—we’re sunk as far as they’re concerned.” Pistol Ends Life Of Oregon Student Warren Pinner, 19-year-old freshman in liberal arts, shot and killed himself Wednesday evening at his home, 2495 Jeffer son street. Pinner’s mother, Mrs. Anne Yahn, discovered his body when she entered his room about 5:15. No reason could be found for his suicide. He had recently been ill with pneumonia, but had recov ered. Petitions Taken For Weekend Marge Peterson and Larry Da vidson, co-chairmen of the Junior Weekend picnic, announced that petitions are now being accepted for the chairmanships of food, dec orations and cleanup committees at | the picnic. Petitions will be turned in at the Chi Omega house not lat er than March 9. Mary Stadelman, in charge of the sunlight serenade for Junior Weekend, also announced that pe titions for chairmanships of pro grams, decorations, arrangements, and contacts for the sing will be accepted at the Tri-Delt house, with March 9 the deadline. Junior Prom Makes Money, But— Financial Outlook Glum For All-Campus Dances; Similar Trends Evident at Many Other Universities By Coralie Nelson “The downward trend of attend ance at campus dances is not pe culiar to Oregon,’’ according to Dick Williams, director of educa tional activities. All the campuses he visited re cently in his tour of student union buildings were experiencing the same trend. Many of the union di rectors Williams interviewed voiced the thought that there is no reason for this falling-off of at tendance and that it can only be hoped that a turning point will be reached soon. A sui’vey of the seven annual major campus dances during the past two years shows that every dance has gone down financially. Only two—the Homecoming dance and the Junior Prom—can be de pended upon to carry a consistently high budget. The 1946 Homecoming dance was a financial success. In 1947 a def inite decline was indicated, and in 1948 the profit was still lower, netting a total of $180. Sophomore Whiskerinos of 1946 and 1947 were reasonably success ful, but the ’48 Whiskerino was a financial failure. The Senior ball is normally a failure—even when Dick Jurgens’ band provided the music in 1948— but did not lose as much money in 1948 as was expected. Military Ball Biggest Flop In 1948 first post-war Military ball was the worst financial fail ure the University has had in danc es of recent years. Over $700 was lost on the function, and while the amount of loss was less this year, it was still a failure, going $300 “in the hole.” Nevertheless, one school in 1948 lost $1800 on its Military ball. The Frosh Glee broke even in (Please turn to page 2) N. Milstein, Noted Violinist, Due Next Week Violinist Nathan Milstein, who will play at' McArthur court next Wednesday, March 9, has other talents outside the music field. The man who has appeared no less than 33 times as soloist with the New York Philharmonic Sym phony orchestra has had several paintings in the first exhibition of “Art by Musicians.’’ He likes to play ping pong, and is proud that he once beat Heifetz, who is called the champion of this sport among musicians. Milstein is also an experienced chess player, is deeply interested in political and philosophical lit erature, and likes gin rummy. When students hear him at 8:15 next Wednesday, they will be lis tening to a man who has played for enthusiastic audiences on three continents, but who “started to play the violin not because I was drawn to it, but because my moth er made me.” Now he says that he loves music like he loves his right hand; it is an actual part of him. Students will be admitted to the concert on presentation of their student body cards. Campaign for Red Cross MINSTRELS CANVAS University soliciting contributions for the. Red Cross. In the picture, from left to right, are Fred Schneider, Tony Geremia, Marlys Sinclair, Barbara Patterson, Sue Smiley, Sally Beach, Gordon Marx, and Stan Clark. Photo by Dick Revenaugh Frosh Basket 'Bair Planned After Game Oregon's Class of '52 will play host at the all-campus Basket "Ball" tonight after the game in Gerlinger annex. The dance, which is the only frosh activity scheduled for this term, is based on the basket ball theme, and is open to all students. Surprise entertainment is being planned by the dance en tertainment committee headed by Bobby Chambers. Music will be ‘ a la record, with refresh ments available on the mezzan ine of the annex. Tickets for the dance are sell ing for 50 cents. They may be purchased either at the door or through house frosh council repre sentatives. Campus clothes arc in order. Since many OSC students arc ex pected to be in town for the game, they will also be invited to the dance. Decorations will be yellow, green, black, and orange, with an eye toward inter-school relations. If tonight's dance is successful, the frosh council plans to sponsor other all-campus events, including dances and a class picnic spring term. This is an attempt to reacti vate the freshman class, which was left entirely without a function af ter the cancellation of the tradi tional "Frosh Glee” earlier this term. Committees for the dance, elected by the new council are Dick Mc Laughlin, dance; Dick Stout, fi nance; Tony Geremia, clean-up; and Bob Funk, publicity. Class officers John Chaney, Bob Gitner, Shirley Hillard and Virginia Wright have also been working in conjunction with the dance committees. Opening Night Play Features All Male Cast One of the first amateur pro ductions of "Command Decision” will be performed tonight when the Guild theater curtain goes up at S on the fourth production of the cui'rent season. Director of the Wil liam Wister Haines’ realistic war drama is by Ottilie T. Seybolt. The play has an all-male cast with Dave Ocstreich, Gene Deutschmann, Bob Croisant, Cliff James, and Frank Fairly playing leading roles. Tickets can be pur chased at the Johnson hall box of fice any time today from 10-12, and 1 through curtain time. The setting, executed by techni cal director William Schlosser, is the command headquarters of Gen eral K. C. Dennis in England. The play, credited as the first good war drama of the second world conflict, deals with the problems of command. Release for the play, which was a smash broadway hit with Paul Kelly, was just recently given. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pic ture with Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, and Van Johnson, will reach Eugene two days after the play’s run ends on the campus, giv ing students and townspeople a first hand opportunity to compare the changes made in plays for their adaptation to the screen. Other members of the cast in clude Ken Neal, Earl Taylor, Gor don Erickson, James Shaffer, Bob Miller, Ronald Gunseth, Jack Evans, Bill Wilson, George Dorris, Bob Chambers, and Wayne Wag ner, Phil Bcvans, and Bob Nelson. Ken Neal is assistant director. « The Weather Partly cloudy today and Saturday with little change in temperature. Expected high for today is 58 de grees and low tonight of 38.