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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1949)
Eugene'Y' Sponsors Burma Talk Miss Katherine Khin Khin, YWCA worker from Burma, will speak at the Eugene YWCA, 1076 Willamette street, Saturday at 2 p.m. on the place of the YWCA in Burma. Campus YWCA cabinet mem bers will meet with Miss Khin Khin at a breakfast Saturday morning and she will also be pres ent at a dinner for city and Uni versity board members and their husbands Saturday night. Anyone interested in meeting Miss Khin Khin can, in addition to attending the afternoon talk, at tend an open tea to be held Sun day from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Fred Miller, 2412 Kostein street. Vice-president of the Rangoon YWCA, Miss Khin Khin is also a journalist and novelist. She serves as foreign correspondent for the Girl’s World of Rangoon and is the author of two novels. Born in Burma 38 years ago, Miss Khin Khin became a Chris tian at sixteen and, was ostracized by members of her Buddhist fam ily for several years. She obtained her BA degree from Judson col lege, paying her way through school by selling articles in Eng lish to the Rangoon Gazette and lwriting for the Rangoon Sun in Burmese. According to Miss Khin Khin, Burmese women have a greater amount of freedom than those in .most countries, being able to make decisions without first consulting their husbands and having charge Of the family’s finances. This high status is assured to Burmese wom en because an ancient Buddhist law provides that women can have their own property and are entitled to one-half of their husband’s prop WANT TO BARN i $-9900 A YEAR? / / Then here’s your chance to enter a business offering an opportunity for unlimited earnings . . . plus the satisfac tion of rendering a worthwhile community service. Many of our representatives earn $4,000 to $9,000 a year, and more! To find out more about the opportunities offered to you in a life insurance selling career, send for our free booklet. If you appear to have the quali fications for success, our man ager in or near your community will explain our excellent on the-job training course and the famous* Mutual Lifetime Compensation Plan, which provides liberal commissions, service fees and a substantial retirement income at 65. 1 THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY of NEW YORK 34Na$MuStfMl N«wYoik5,N.Y. FIRST IN 40 AMERICA FOR FREE BOOKLET ADDRESS DEPT, f NAME , ■ .. A) PRESS— i Frankie Laine Here for Show, Dance Tonight Frankie Laine, popular singer, and his piano accompanist will pre sent an evening of dancing and entertainment at the Eugene arm ory tonight from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., assisted by a Portland band. Tickets for the evening can be purchased at the Appliance Center, 70 10th street west. General ad mission charge is $2.40, with stu dent tickets priced at $1.65 provid ed student registration cards and a clipping of the nightly Frankie Laine announcement appearing in the Register-Guard are presented at the time of purchase. Laine is flying to Eugene from Seattle this afternoon and will make a personal appearance in the Appliance Center at 5 p.m. if the plane arrives on time. He will ap pear in Portland tomorrow. Short silks and suits are in order for the evening. UO Motorists (Continued from page one) and organizational purposes, and to pay the salaries of the officers of the newly-organized national CAC and the local “districts.” It is plan ned to publish a list of stations and garages offering CAC discounts, so that members may take advantage of them wherever they are driving. Oregon students have jumped at the idea, of course, which offers a saving in operating their automo biles. Membership of the local CAC district will be limited to 1000 mem-* bers, Nickerson said. Membership cards may be obtained at Wick’s Richfield station, at the Bee Line garage, or from Nickerson. All Student Group CAC is an organization of, by, and for students. Its policy form ing officers and all members are students. It operates with an informal, ver bal agreement with the service sta tions and garages, and may termi nate business with them any time. Nickerson emphasized, however, that Wick’s Richfield station and the Bee Line garage had been very cooperative in getting CAC started here in Eugene. Best Vaudeville Actor (Continued from page one) ity and length,” Johnson stated. “However, there will probably be about 12.” House representatives will re ceive postcards in the next few days assigning the day and hour for their organization to enter the eliminations. In order to avoid wasting the time of students par ticipating, the eliminations will be conducted in three shifts from 6:30 p. m. to 9:30 p. m. both nights. Themes Due Representatives will also be ask ed to report the theme and number of participants for their organiza tion’s act by return card, postmark ed not later than April 6. Billijean Reithmiller, chairman of judging arrangements, is now arranging for two separate groups of five judges each, one for the eliminations and the other for the finals. Acts will be rated on a point basis from one to five on main points: (1) originality; (2) audience re sponse; (3) perfection; (4) appear ance; and (5) respectability, erty. Miss Khin Khin has been in the United States since August, at that time attending the first YWCA international study confer ence on women and world recon struction held at Columbia univer sity. She is stopping here on her way from San Francisco to Seat tle, where she will board a ship to return to Burma. High Price Kisses from college presiaenrs come high, but Karin Rolph, Reed college coed, gladly gave $5 in a campus drive to raise funds for war-wrecked overseas colleges to get this smack on the cheek from E. B. MacNaughton, Reed college president. (AP Wirephoto) Investigated Charges of an unspecified na ture have been preferred against Gen. Clayton L. Bissell (above) it was announced in Frankfurt, Germany, by headquarters of the United States air force in Eur ope. The charges are being in vestigated to determine if they warrant a trial by courtmartial. (AP Wirephoto) Admiration must be expressed for anybody who can remember enough of what happened at the cocktail party to testify about it in court. Free Tickets for Special Recital Bv SvmDhonv Offered Students Free tickets for a special recital given by several artists of the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra next Friday afternoon may be ob tained today by students at the educational activities office in Mc Arthur court. The recital will begin at 4:15 in the music school auditorium and is in addition to a full concert to be given by the complete group of 90 musicians Friday night. Editor, Business Petitions Due Petitions for editors and busi ness managers of the 1949-50 Ore gana and Emerald are due in the educational activities office early this month. Deadline for Oregana petitions is 5 p.m., April 8, and for Emerald petitions 5 p.m. April 15. Any student, man or woman, is eligible to apply if he considers himself capable. Applicants for the Oregana po sitions will be interviewed April 20 at 7:30 p.m. Weekend Petitions Deadline Today Petition deadline for Junior Weekend subchairmanships is set for today, Bill Lance, promotion chairman, reminded yesterday. Positions are available for chairman of radio, posters, skits and flying, newspaper advertising, and window displays. Petitions should be left at the Sigma Nu fraternity. Wentworth Takes Over Women's PE | Rosamond Wentworth, associate professor of physical education, has assumed the duties of Janet, Wood ruff, associate professor of physical education, as chairman of the de partment of women’s health and physical education while Miss Woodruff is on sabbatical leave. r The evening concert begins at 8:15 and is a part of the Eugene and Civic Music association series, to which students are regularly admitted by showing registration cards. , Dimitri Mitroupolis, noted con ductor, will conduct both perform ances. Only one ticket per student will be granted at the educational ac tivities offices until the music audi torium capacity has been reached. Students must also present their; registration cards. The office is open from 8 to 12 a.m. and 1 to 5 p.m. Since the seating capjacity in the music school auditorium is only 600, no outsiders may attend the program. 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