Oregon
Emerald
Fiftieth Year of Publication and Sen<ice to the University
VOLUME L
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1940
NUMBER 100
/Miners Return to Work
A GROUP OF SOFT COAL miners end a two-week memorial-protest
work stoppage by going back to work in a U.S. Steel cor
poration mine near Bridgeville, Penn. More than 463,000 diggers were
scheduled to return to the pits. (AP Telephoto)
12 Easemenfs
Only Obstacle
To Millrace
Approximately 12 easements He
between the Millrace Park associa
tion and the successful completion
of its battle for the restoration of
the millrace, according to Kieth
Fennel, association secretary.
“We will attempt to secure the
remaining easements during the
next two weeks,” Fennell stated.
He added that there is no assur
ance that remaining millrace prop
erty owners will give their ease
ments to the association, but that
it is the intenion of the associa
tion to gain the easements if at all
possible.
The drive for easements has
heretofore been the chief stum
bling block in the restoration of
the race. However, there is still a
sizeable amount of money which
the association will have to raise
-to complete the fund to match a
millrwce appropriation voted in
city elections.
“Once the funds are raised, work
on restoration can begin immedi
ately,” Fennell noted. The associa
tion has been working for the mill
race association for some months,
during which time it has encoun
tered numerous obstacles, most re
cent of which was the controversy
with the Koke-Chapman printing
company, which filled a section of
the race for building purposes.
The Weather
Party cloudy, with a few possi
ble (Showers. High will be about 55.
This may be progressive weather
improvement. Rain yesterday—
- sunshine tomorrow ? Only the
weatherman knows.
Emerald Has New
Telemat Service
Beginning with this issue, read
ers will find a new feature in the
Daily Emerald.
Associated Press wirephoto ser
vice has been added to provide an
up-to-date picture coverage of
both local and national news.
The pictures are delivered via
air-mail to the Emerald office
daily.
Job Interviews Set
For This Afternoon
Students interested in summer re
sort jobs will be interviewed by a
representative from Crater Lake
national park from 1 to 5 p. m. to
day, according to Shirley Sylvester,
head of the student employment of
fice. Interviews will be held at the
employment office in the campus
YMCA.
UO Student Elections Moved
Ahead One Month This Year
Emerald to
Have New
Staff Plan
Stan Turnbull, familiar figure
in the Emerald “shack,” has
been promoted to assistant man
aging editor, taking over his new
job with this issue. Emerald Ed
itor Bill Yates announced the
change yesterday.
Beginning with this issue, a re
vamped staff under a new organi
zational plan has taken up its du
ties on the Oregon Daily Emerald.
The changes were announced
yesterday by Editor Bill Yates.
Under the new arrangement, the
news and editorial staff positions
will correspond more closely to
similar positions on metropolitan
daily papers.
The changes will also conform
in title more nearly to the actual
duties of the staff members.
The “news editor” will now be
known as the “city editor,” accord
ing to Yates. Bob Tweedell has
been appointed to that position.
The news editor, responsible for
making up the paper and “putting
it to bed” nightly, is handled on a
day-to-day basis by Chuck Grell,
Hal Coleman, Steve Loy, Vie Fry
er, and Diane Mecham.
Oregon Band
Sets Concert
Featuring 60 players and two
soloists, the University of Oregon
band will present its annual con
cert tonight at 8 in the school of
music auditorium.
' Margaret Holm, clarinetist, will
take the soloist’s part in Weber’s
Concertino for clarinet; While so
prano Barbara Detrick will give the
vocals for two selections from Wag
ner’s Tannhauser.
Other portions of the program,
under the direction of John H. Stehn
of the school of music, will include
selections by Bach, Weber, Wagner,
Strauss, Prokofieff, and Liszt.
Balloting Planned for April 27;
Nominations Five Days Earlier
By Betty Lagomarsino
Studentbody elections will be moved up one month and held
on April 7 this year, Bob Allen, ASUO president, announced
yesterday. Elections have traditionally been held at the end of
May.
Allen listed three reasons for the executive council’s decision
to change:
1. Elections will not collide with other late spring term ac
tivities, such as the Mortar
Board Ball.
2. The Pacific Studentbody
Presidents Association meets
the week of May 9th, and both
the president and president elect
should attend.
3. The president elect—who
will be installed June 2nd— will be
able to work with Allen. This over
lapping, Allen said, will result in a
greater continuity in student ad
ministration and save the new presi
dent from “learning the ropes" dur
ing his actual term of office.
Nominating Assembly
Since the Constitution requires
elections to be held five days after
the nominating a-ssembly, the as
sembly automatically falls on Fri
day, April 22.
Allen said that because Friday is
a poor night for the nominations,
the executive council plans to dis
cuss a new plan with the heads of
the campus political parties.
New Plan to be Discussed
If approved by the political heads
and by the council, a small meeting
without speeches will be held April
22 to pre» Ut the nominations in
conformity with the constitution.
Then on Monday or Tuesday night
preceding the elections a student
rally will be held in McArthur court
for nominating and seconding
speeches.
April 27 was selected for elec
tions, Allen pointed out, because
Wednesdays have proved the best
day for students to vote.
A new first vice president, to re
place Marv Rasmussen who was
seriously injured in an automobile
accident last week, will be appoint
ed within the next two weeks, Allen
said. The new officer will be in
charge of elections.
California Co-eds Feel Slighted
King of Hearts in Hot Water at Yuba
Whether Oregon girls are supe
rior to California coeds has given
one University of Oregon man an
unique amount of concern lately.
He is Jerry Smith who was voted
King of Hearts last February. Jer
ry’s concern centers mainly around
an Emerald story which quoted
him as saying “Girls at Oregon are
much superior to California coeds.
They are more down-to-earth and
natural in appearance and person
ality.”
The clipping with the quote
somehow reached the coeds at
Yuba college in California where
Jerry once attended school. The
Yuba coeds, to put it mildly, were
highly displeased. Typical com
ments were quoted in the Sacra
mento Bee.
Said one: “How do you like that!
And I thought Jerry was a nice
boy!”
Another ventured, “I never was
too concerned about Jerry, any
how. That goes double now.”
A Yuba college cheerleader said,
“Mmmmh. He doesn’t like us, eh?
That's tough. Our ‘friend’ certain
ly went high hat on us, didn’t he?”
Other exclamations included the
possibility Jerry is mad because
California girls “didn't fall all over
him” like Oregon girls.
What has Jerry to say about all
this ? When questioned by the Em
erald yesterday he said his pre
vious statement was “no reflection
on the girls at Yuba college. Some
of the best girls I know I went to
Yuba with.”
Nevertheless, he is not yielding
to the verbal lambasting given
him by the California girls. He
wants to qualify it only by giving
the overall picture.
“I said it in general terms and
not in individual cases,” he said.
“In general I still favor Oregon
girls.”
Jerry said he had no idea his
statement would infuriate the Cal
ifornia girls. He added he should
offer an apology to his Yuba col
lege friends.
Rass Hurt
In Vacation
Car Wreck
Marv Rasmussen, first vice
president of tW ASUO, is improv
ing in the Hillsboro hospital after
an auto crash that took the lives
of Bob Hendrickson, senior in bus
iness administration, and two oth
ers near Hillsboro Saturday.
Also killed were Gloria Fick,
Oregon graduate of 1947, and
Gilbert Hiles, Tongue Point na
val air station sailor.
Lola Mae Heagney-also a 1947
graduate, and three other sailors
were injured.
Rasmussen is suffering from
fractures of facial bones, basal
skull fracture, and a fractured pel
vis. He is expected to undergo sur
gery at the end of the week.
The crash occurred when the car
Hendrickson was driving collided
with a car bearing the four sailors
MARV RASMUSSEN
as Hendrickson attempted to pass
another car.
Bob Hendrickson was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl O. Hendrick
son, of Eugene. He is survived by
his parents, a brother, Dan, who
is attending Stanford university,
and two sisters, Judy and Mrs.
Mary Litchman, both of Eugene,
Funeral services were held yester
day morning at St. Mary’s Catho
lic church and interment was made
at Mt. Calvary cemetery.
A history major while at the
University, Miss Fick was a mem
ber of Gamma Phi Beta and Mu
Phi Epsilon, music honorary. Miss
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