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
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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.
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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
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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,
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