Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service
Emerald
to the University
VOLUME L
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1949
NUMBER 138
Today’s World
U. S. Senate Passes
Flood Control Bill
WASHINGTON, May 20—(AP)
Squashing another series of econ
omy efforts, the senate today
passed and sent back to the house
a bill carrying $751,000,000 mainly
for flood control and waterways
projects.
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Columbia River Crest
Drops One Foot
PORTLAND, May 20—(AP) —
The crest of the Columbia river’s
spring freshet was reduced by al
most a foot through the storage of
water at Grand Coulee dam, the
North Pacific division corps of en
gineers reported today. The pro
gram was planned in cooperation
with the Bonneville Power admin
istration and the Bureau of Rec
lamation.
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Navy Transport
Tops Capacity Record
SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 20—
(AP An aircraft carried more
than 300 persons for the first
time in history yesterday when
the navy’s huge Marshall Mars
flying boat flew here from Ala
meda, Calif., with 308 men.
This broke the old record of
269 persons, set by a sister-ship,
the Caroline Mars on a San Di
ego to Alameda flight March 4.
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Ford-UAW Peace
Talks Are Threatened
DETROIT, May 20—(AP) Peace
talks between the Ford Motor
company and the United Auto
Workers (CIO) in the 16-day-old
Ford strike stood on the verge of
collapse today.
Threatening the talks on the
very day the federal government
put a mediator on the scene was a
heated dispute over starting time
for negotiations on a new union
contract to replace the one which
expires next July 15.
The company, with 102 produc
tion workers idle in the 16-day old
strike, refused to agree to contract
talks urging the strike, specifical
ly not before June 1.
* * *
AEC Accused of
Subversive Activity
WASHINGTON, May 20—(AP)
Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) ac
cused the atomic energy commis
sion today of keeping loyalty sus
pects “under cover” on AEC pay
rolls for over 10 months.
The senate investigation was
touched off by a disclosure that a
Communist, Hans Freistadt, had
been granted a fellowship under
the AEC’s multi-million dollar stu
dent aid program.
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Coulee Dam Becomes
Biggest Power Plant
COULEE DAM, Wash., May
20—(AP) At a signal from Pres
ident Truman, Grand Coulee dam
across the Columbia river took
its place today as the largest
producer of electric power in the
world.
Nearly 3000 miles across the
nation at the White House,
President Truman tapped a gold
telegraph key that put into op
eration the dam’s 10th major
generator.
* * *
Last Shanghai
Air Link Severed
SHANGHAI, Saturday, May 21
-—(AP) Shanghai’s last air link to
the outside world was snapped to
day and even the sea lane was
menaced by beseiging Chinese
Communist troops.
'Faithful 14' Attend Senior Meet;
New Assembly Set for Tuesday
I was there . . . Where were YOU seniors?
Only fourteen members of the University’s class of ’49 could be
lured away from their shack, or the stacks, in order to attend the senior
meeting in Commerce hall on Thursday evening.
All “missing persons” will be given an opportunity to shake their
senior slump next Tuesday evening when Senior Class President Robin
Arkly and his faithful fourteen will meet again in 105 Commerce hall
at 7 o’clock.
The business on the agenda includes the election of a permanent
class president and secretary, and the gift to be given to the Univer
sity.
The ’49ers will also pan out the plans for their annual farewell
picnic, which will feature lots and lots of ..: and will take
place at.on.at. o'clock.
Seniors, your vote may fill in the blanks.
Beauty
F E S T IV At QUEEN
— Margret Thors, daughter of
the Minister from Iceland, visits
an orchard during her reign as
Queen of the Apple Blossom
Festival at Winchester, Va.
Phi Eta Sigma
Initiates 17 Men
Phi Eta Sigma, national fresh
man scholastic honorary, initiated
17 men Thursday night at Alumni
hall, Gerlinger. A banquet at the
Cafe Del Rey followed the cere
monies.
Any man who during his fresh
man year made a 3.5 GPA his first
term or a 3.5 cumulative for his
first three terms is eligible for
initiation into the group.
New initiates were Gerald Berre
man, Wayne Blair, Daniel Domreis,
John Evans, Donald Ford, C. Rob
ert Groth, James Hart, Gene John
son, King Jones.
Richard Kading, Robert Leik,
Gerald Paine, Richard Parker,
Wayne Parpala, Kenneth Rosenlof,
William Southwell, and Arthur
Matsuda.
. Vergil S. Fogdall, director of
men's affairs and adviser of the
group, was principal speaker at the
banquet.
The Weather
Probably All Wet
WEATHER — Eugene and vi
cinity—mostly cloudy with occa
sional showers today, improving
: to partly cloudy with widely scat
j tcred showers by Sunday after
noon. Slightly warmer today with
a high near 70 and a low of 50.
Oppotunity for
French Study
Offered Student
The Committee on International
Affairs and Scholarships has an
nounced the receipt of a letter from
Jean de Lagarde, consul general
of France, offering an opportunity
for an exchange of students be
tween the University of Oregon
and the Sorbonne for one or two
years.
A young French student, from
an old French family of some emi
nence, wishes to study at a Pacific
coast university. His family will
provide room and board for an
American student, studying at the
Sorbonne, while the family of the
American student, preferably liv
ing in or near Eugene, would fur
nish room and board for the
French student.
Anyone interested in such an ar
rangement (he must have had at
least two years of college French)
should contact either Gordon
Wright, associate professor of
history, or D. M. Dougherty, head
of the foreign language depart
ment, within the next few days.
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Sources close to the Shack re
vealed Friday that plans were
still progressing for the picnic
which will begin at 10 a.m. Sun
day. Shackrats intending to go
on the outing should meet at the
Shack where transportation to Fiji
meadows will be provided.
When contacted by the reporter,
Bill Yates, starting pitcher for the
Emerald editorial team, declared,
“No matter what happens, it will
be rough competition, but I know
that we will not win by a score of
33-0.”
The Emerald editorial staff is at
least^three deep in every position
and plans to win by making use of
the unlimited substitution rule.
(They apply this rule to any sport.)
Yates inferred that if things got too
rough, he would let Bob Frazier.
Marge Goodwin, or any other Em
erald editor past or future have a
hand at heaving the ball across the
plate.
Phyllis Kohlmeier, former finan-1
cial and incidental fund editor, has
resigned her position. June Goetze,
has been appointed to fill the post
and asks that anyone attending the
picnic pay her the fifty cents cover
charge.
The editors-in-chief of the Play
Day edition, Bobolee Brophy, June
Goetze, Diana Dye, and Barbara
Heywood, have asked that anyone
with a “set of wheels” register
same at the Shack before noon to
day with an estimate of how many
people can be accomodated.
AWOL Students Draw Penalty
MONMOUTH, May 20—Oregon
College of Education slapped a
penalty today on the four students
who disappeared overnight and
touched off a state police hunt.
The four, who went to a Wed
nesday night ball game and did not
return, were placed on probation.
Any further disciplinary action,
the college said, “must await the
outcome of further investigation.”
A college spokesman said the
men stayed away because of “en
tirely personal reasons on the part
of one student.”
The students came back to the
campus yesterday afternoon.
The four were Bert McConnell.
Sam Ramey, Bob McKecber, and
Wayne Hubbard.
Students Study
International
Living Group
With its immediate objective tho
investigation of the possible estab
lishment of a cooperative interna
tional living organization at Ore
gon, a group of students of differ
ent races has embarked on a stiitty
of racial prejudices and philosophy
on the campus.
According to Marge Truchon,
cne of the members of the group,
the study grew out of a series of
three forums at Westminster house
on the national, Eugene, and cam
pus racial situation. Topics discus
sed were brotherhood, America as
the Negro sees it, and internation
al houses on other campuses.
“From talking to some of the
Negros," said Ray Steed, another
member, yesterday, “we got to
know about their philosophy and
way of looking at things. We de
cided that we should do something1
about it and make a study; we’re
rather new at the thing.”
Miss Truchon stated that tho
group’s primary objective is “to get
better acquainted and create better
feeling between races by getting to
know each other.”
The group expects to ask for and
receive advice from local churches.
White, Negro, Chinese, and Japan
ese students are already members*
and representatives of campus Jew
ish groups will be invited.
“The idea of the forums was
touched off by the recent contro
versy over the relocation of the
Ferry street Negro settlement,"
Miss Truchon believes. When a
group of Negro houses were con
demned to make way for the ap
proach to the proposed new Ferry
street bridge, public sentiment
against their relocation in residen
tial districts was highly vocal.
Editors Smug...
Despite Alleged Ad-Vantage
The braggadacio of certain huck
sters and mendicants who loiter ov
er their knitting and tiddly-winks
in the back environs of the hallow
ed Emerald shack is due for an ab
rupt revision come May 22.
Sneaking into print via the only
means they know, an advertise
ment, these lowly interlopers emit
ted blasphemous utterances de
signed to besmirch the fair names
of the upholders of the glory and
tradition (oh hallowed traditions!)
of the press and the public and the
student body of the University of
Oregon and the faculty members of
the University of Oregon, etc.
It little behooves the editorial
staff members of the Emerald (or
any old newspaper) to consort pub
licly with these aforementioned
moneymen.
However, in a sense of duty to
the readers and to the paper, the
Emerald editorial staff, chivalrous
above all, has collectively consent
ed to engage in a contest—weap
ons chosen by fair and impartial
arbitration board—on the soft
greensward of Fifi meadows during
the annual Emerald picnic festivi
ties.
When the shadows fall, the van
quished admen will have long since
fled in shame, routed by the boom
ing bats, the flawless fielding, ami
the Herculean hurling of the
editorial experts. The mat-maulers
and copy-cullers from the under
world of the newspaper business
known as the Emerald will be mir
ed in the ignomy of defeat.
All hail! to the valiant and vic
torious versifiers in prose who
breathe vigor, action, and romance,
seasoned liberally with humor and
human interest, into the news col
umns of the Oregon Daily Emerald.