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National Flower Bill WASHINGTON, April 14—(AP)— Rep. Allen (R-Calif.) today intro duced a bill to make the rose the United States’ national flower. Adopts, Marries, Dies Ex-Gov. Chase S. Osborn of Michi gan, who adopted a daughter at the age of 71, then dissolved the adoption and married her at 89, died today—“two days after the marriage”— (AP) Emerald Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OR OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1949 NUMBER 199 *■: t By Chuck Grell The final shot in the two-year battle for restoration of the Millrace has sounded. It took approximately two minutes last night for the Eugene city council to accept a report from the Millrace Park Association last night recommending that the council authorize that water flow in the Millrace again. The association has been instructed by the council to turn over $20,000 in matching funds to the city. The city manager, Oren L. King, will start the ball rolling on plans and specifications for restoration immediately. The report by the association cited two reasons for the re-installation of water in the race. 1. Three storms sewers feed into the Millrace. The cost of extending these sewers to the Willamette river would be more than the expense of filling the race with water which would carry sewage into the river. 2. The absence of water in the race when sewage is dumped into it presents a dangerous sanitation problem. Several more easements have been signed within the last few days and more are expected soon. Kieth Fennell, head of the Millrace Park association, expressed his thanks for the co-operation shown by the city council. He said that the matching funds would be turned over to the City of Eugene as soon as possible. 300 Girls Expected By AWS Three hundred high school girls will arrive on the campus Friday afternoon for the annual Associated Women Students’ weekend, according to Beverly Pit man, past AWS president and chairman of the event. Highlighting the weekend will be the all-campus vaudeville Fri day evening, the nickel hop Satur day evening, and Easter sunrise services Sunday morning. Satur * day noon there will be luncheon Gerlinger hall, at which time lead ers in women’s activities on the campus will be introduced and various phases of University life explained. Campus tours Saturday and an exchange dinner Sunday will com plete the program. The girls, all high school seniors, will be housed in the various women’s living or ganization. Dr. Cressman GivenfAward Dr. L. S. Cressman, head of the anthropology department and director of the museum of natural history, has been awarded a Gug genheim fellowship, according to announcement by Henry Allen Moe, secretary general of the John Simon Guggenheim Memor ial association. These fellowships are given an nually to assist scholars and art ists to carry on work of research and artistic creation. Dr. Cress man’s work will include a con tinuation of the study of the re lation of the earliest south-cen tral Oregon cultures to those of adjacent areas. He began this work in 1940-41 when he received the first Gug genheim fellowship to study cul tural material from Oregon caves compared with that from the Southwest. At that time, follow ing his study and visits to mu seums, Dr. Cressman authored the book “Archaeological Re searches in the Northern Great Basin. Plans for study under the pres ent fellowship including going to Mexico, southwestern states, and possibly central state museums. De. Cressman will take a year’s leave of absence from the Univer sity to do this work, which will begin next September. Oregana Editors Named Tomorrow Oregana editor and business manager for 1950 will be named Wednesday night when the educa tional Activities board interviews applicants. Only petitioner for the editorship is Larry Davidson. Jim Sanders and Harry Panian are seeking the business manager’s job. At a meeting the following week the board will interview ap plicants for Emerald editor and business manager positions. Deadline for Emerald petitions is April 15. Here It Is— Explanation On SpringVacation By. Gretchen Grondahl Earl M. Pallett, assistant to the president, cast some light on the shortening of spring vacation up his return to his office yesterday. At the meeting of the board of deans who approved the change, Pallett submitted three calendars for the academic year 1949-50. The deans voted to adopt the calendar shortening spring vacation to the length of the Thanksgiving holi days “because they believed that it was a better calendar. “Before, the week of spring vaca tion threw us in June. This was dif ficult for the faculty members who teach during both the regular and summer sessions, who had only a few days between the two. “The new system affords a week’s rest between the end of spring term, June 10, and the be ginning of summer classes.’’ Oregon State College’s calendar for 1945-50 also provides for June 10 as the end of spring term, but retains the full week of vacation between winter and spring terms. The Oregon board of deans dis approved of this scheme because it would permit only nine weeks of classes during winter term. The deans believed that the length of the three terms should be equal ized as much as possible, Pallett said. Under Oregon’s new calendar, winter term finals next year will begin on Friday, March 17, and end Wednesday, March 22. OSC final week ends on March 18. Both schools resume classes on Monday, March 27. Weather . . . Partly cloudy, but there will be little danger of rain. High will be about 64. Hurry, Hurry, Hurry, — See The Best Show In Town Requirements Change... New BA Program Under Study; Details Worked Out This Week Proposed changes in the requirements for business adminis tration students have not yet been definitely decided upon, Vic tor P. Morris, dean of the business school said yesterday. A staff meeting to work out the details will be held this week. The clrange-goes into effect next fall term and therefore will not effect those who graduate this June. Adjustments will be made for seniors next year. Dean Morris, in a comment to the Emerald yesterday said: “I’ll have a statement ready by the end of the week of the changes that are going to be involved. The program is not retro active insofar as juniors and seniors are concerned. Necessary adjustments will be made in all cases.” Federal Civil Service Topic Of Conference represent Federal civil service representatives will be on the campus this afternoon for an informal conference with students and fac ulty. This conference will be similar to the recent meeting with state civil service officials. A general public meeting open to all students and teachers will be held in Room 3 at 2 p. m. in Fenton hall. Karl W. Onthank, director of the University graduate placement service, will pre MUC. I Arnold Standing, assistant regional forester in charge of personnel at Portland will be the speaker at this session. James P. Cooley, director of the eleventh United States civil service region, will lead the dis cussion. Sectional meetings in six differ ent fields will begin at 3 p.m. Uni versity faculty members will pre side over these groups, and the Federal representatives will dis cuss the opportunities in their spe cialized fields. Opportunities for student inter views will be available after the discussion sessions. Meeting Schedule The sectional meeting schedule follows: “ECONOMICS” (8 Commerce). Calvin Crumbaker, head of the department of economics, presid ing. Bernard Goldhamer, former professor at the University of (Please turn to page two) IRC to Discuss Atlantic Pact Pros and cons of the North At lantic Security Pact will be aired in a four-man debate at tonight's International Relations club meeting, 7:30 p.m. in Westmin ster house. Speaking for the pact will be Hugh Smith of the law school and Lester Peterson, junior in pre law. Against the Security past will be Charles P. Schleicher, pro fessor of political science, and Walter Dodd, graduate student in political science. Glenn Morgan, IRC president, said “The Atlantic pact is one of the big issues of today. This de bate should bring out most of the arguments for and against it . . . and I believe it will be worth hearing.” , (*, WSSF Vodvil Ductas On Sale Today In Co-op With only four days remain ing before the lifting of the curtain on Friday’s All-Campus Vodvil show, preparations are rolling ahead on all fronts. Ticket sales begin in the Co op today, and continue in living organizations. The Co-op booth, manned today by Tri Delt fresh men, will be open from 10 to 5. “We expect an especially large sale in women's organizations, be cause they will want to buy tickets for their high school guests here for AWS weekend,” Ed Peterson, cam pus sales chairman, said yesterday. “The Vodvil will give them a taste of campus talent and fun, as well as showing them that the Uni versity can get behind a worthy cause." All proceeds of the Vodvil will go to the World Student Service fund, an organization serving students in war-devastated countries. The regular WSSF fund-raising drive, held during the winter term, fell far short of the expected response. Peterson credited his assistants, Diane Ford, Donna Gatton, and Bob Knollin, with distributing the tick ets to living organizations last week. Competition for the three perma nent trophies and the trip to Reno runs high in campus living and church organizations. The first round of eliminations took placo last night, with the remaining half scheduled to try out at Gerlinger Annex tonight. Finalists eligible to compete in Friday's performance will be announced in tomorrow's Emerald. "The general enthusiasm of the entries has been excellent,” Velma Snellstrom, program chairman, commented yesterday. “Many of the acts are using orig inal costuming and making their own props, such as paper trees. Not all of them are direct vaudeville material, but that is.perfectly per missable.” Tonight's eliminations schedule: Hendricks hall, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, (Please turn to page tu-o) ;