Weather FORCAST FOR Eugene and vicini ty party cloudy today and continu ed warm weather. Low last night 46 degrees, high today 78 degrees. Dope! SENIORS! For the straight dope on graduation requirements and procedure, see story on page 2. VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1949 Vl’YIDIPD 100 Grades, Personality Essential for Job-Hunter By Anita Holmes You want a job? Check your personality. Raise your grades. Keep letters of rec ommendation from summer em ployers. Learn technical skills of your field. This is the advice of Karl W. Onthank, director of graduate placement who has been doing personnel work with the Univer sity for 17 years. The Annual spring ‘‘you want a job?” rush has been swamping his Emerald hall office for the past several months. Looking at job-hunters from the employer angle, Director Onthank has found many of the clues lead ing to a good post-graduate job. "Character and personality in terest many prospective employ ers more than technical skills,” the iirector believes. "Some don't even mention the technical side.” Will he cooperate and work well with subordinates? Do you like to have him around? Does he pay his bills ... is he honest? Has he any objectionable quali ties? Will he take responsibil ity? These are some of the first questions employers ask Onthank about applicants from the Uni versity. “Company men are sought,” he aas discovered. “They look at a iob from the management point of view . . . don’t just work eight hours, go home, and forget the company." Technical Skills Important Although personality traits are important, technical skill can't be overlooked, especially in such lines as chemistry, accounting and den tistry. However, “surprisingly small" technical requirements are needed in many jobs. Grades in your major field are the yardstick of this technical skill, Director Onthank points out. Employers DO look at grades, he emphasizes. “The better your grades, the better your chances of getting the job,” according to the rapid-talk, ing personnel man. Executives rea lize that all won’t make top grades, “but a coaster in school will probably be a coaster on the job.” Campus activities are also meas ured. What students accomplish in activities—not simply what of fices they hold—is important. “Successful experience in sum mer jobs is one of the best recom mentations a student can have,” Onthank stresses. Employee-seek ing me* are impressed with com plimentary letters from previous bosses.” “You want to hold your job? Don’t think you have to be vice-president of the firm week after next. Do a little extra work. Ask questions about du ties of the man above you. This advice has come back to Director Onthank's office through men who hired University gradu ates. Their main criticism was aimed at students unwilling to "start at the bottom and work up." They forget that necessary knowledge plus an opening leads to advance ment. Director Onthank has been “pleased with the number of stu dents willing to work in small com munities this year.” His office is linked with all of Oregon, parts of California, and mainly, other northwestern states. “Opening the door to a job" is Onthank’s business. He helps fu ture graduates organize their re sources to find work. Actually win ning the position and holding it are out of his department. Carpenter's Band Hired & For Dance iKe carpenter s youtnrui orcnes tra, which has won plaudits from Variety, Billboard, Radio Daily, and Time magazine, and was tagged “the new band sensation of the year’’ by the 1948 Disc Jockey poll, has been engaged for the Mortar Board ball June 4, it was revealed yesterday. Recently featured as musical di rector for Frankie Laine, the slow talking, 24-year-old Southerner will bring his piano, orchestra, and entertainers, including the red haired Dumont twins, for his first appearance on the Oregon campus. In its brief year of existence, the Carpenter orchestra has brok en records right and left. Hired to fill an engagement at Tommy Dor sey's Casino Gardens for a week end, they were held over for six repeat engagements. On their opening night at Horace Heidt’s Trianon ballroom they broke a three years’ attendance record. During Easter week at Balboa Beach the group played before 4500 dancers to the tune of 21,500 paid admissions in six days, “the best business since Stan Kenton.” In the Pacific Northwest the band has played at Jantzen Beach and on a theater tour with the Hoosier Hot Shots. Johnny April, named by Look magazine “the best teen-aged vo calist in the United States,” will appear with Carpenter here. No Diploma Causes Big Inheritance Loss SACRAMENTO, Calif.—(AP) — Lack of a college diploma cost George Harvey Clark $25,000 to day. In 1923, his grandfather died leaving him $25,000 on condition he earn his college degree by the time he rached the age of 25. Other wise, the money would go to the Sacramento city schools. Clark hasn’t been graduated from college as the will stipulated, but sought the money anyhow. The third district court of appeals up held a lower court today. He can’t have it. Band Leader ..... IKE CARPENTER . . . Piano stylist Millrace Cries; Echo Scatters The millrace’s plaintive cry of “Water! ’ will be heard all over the world beginning this week. A letter asking for contributions is being sent to more than 20,000 alumni in the United States and 13 foreign countries by Les An derson, alumni secretary. Signed “The Millrace,” the let ter says in part: “My story may change. The fam iliar willows that still droop to ward my banks may not be doomed to wave over a dry bed. Canoes may once again glide over my soft rippled surface. “Yes, there’s hope for me . . . if you’ll do something to help right now.” Women Journalists Honor Outstanding Underclassmen Carp Catchers Star in College Big Celebration PORTLAND, May 18—(API — Vanport college will celebrate its third anniversary tomorrow—and it may be something of a water carnival. The campus that was put out of business temporarily by last year's Memorial day destruction of Van port is again overlooking rising flood waters. Students will be building dikes, digging holes for sump pumps and filling sandbags. Stunts such as sack races planned for tomorrow's celebration are being switched to bare-handed carp catching con tests. There also will be log rolling and rowing contests. The vast parking area behind the former Oregon Shipyard Ad ministration building, where class es are now' held, is under water from the Willamette backwash. Classes will go on, however, un less the water rises to 25 feet—7 ifeet above flood level. It is due to I hit 23y2 sometime Saturday. Former AP Fashion Editor To Give Matrix Table Address Lorna Larson artel Grctchcn Grondahl will bo honored this evening at Theta Sigma Phi’s Matrix Table as the outstanding treshman women in pre-journalism at the University. Anita Holmes will share honors as the outstanding woman in the soph 'more class. 1 J lie annual formal banquet, honoring women outstanding journalism, literature, and the arts, will be held at 6 p. m. at the Eugene hotel. Miss 1 lohues was named out standing freshman woman in journalism last year. This year she has served as associate editor of Old Oregon. The freshmen wo men have worked on the Emerald Old Oregon and the Oregana this year. Miss Dorothy Carew, a journalist experienced in many fields writ ing both at home and abroad, will be featured speaker. Miss Carew was the Associated Press fashion editor in Paris before the war and for the past several years has been woman’s financial writer for the AP in New York. She has the distinction of being one of the corps of reporters which followed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor on their honeymoon across the continent. Her journalistic ex perience also includes also includes covering the disastrous Hartford, Conn., circus fire several years ago. Miss Carcw is a member of Theta Sigma Phi and attended journalism schools at the University of Wis consin and Ohio State before be ginning her journalism career.