Picnic Time \VEATHER—Fair and warmer to day. High cloudiness Friday. High today 72. Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JUNE 2. 194!) NUMBER 146 Beware Men! Today Is Ladies Day KDUK Opens With 'Quack'; Reception Fine The University's new radio sta tion, KDUK uttered its first i “quack" yesterday at noon without incident. Reports indicate the signal was received in good order in both the yets’ dorms and John Straub hall. It was a quiet beginning for sta tion KDUK. The station was staffed in the control room by three radio men who worked un der the watchful eye of two re porters. There was no last-minute scram bling for a lost phonograph record, nobody lost his script, no radio tubes burned out just before the deadline. Utten Calm A few minutes before noon Chief Engineer Bob Litten entered the control room, calmly flipped the switch which turned on the trans mitter and slipped on the ear phones. “Presumably, Davy’s got the os cillators turned on,” Litten com mented. He was referring to Bob . Davy, instructor in speech, whose duty it was to turn on the oscil lators in the dorms. These devices relay the signal from the main transmitter situated in Villard, to students’ receiving sets in the dorms. Announcer‘Bob Hinz and Disc Jockey Norm Lamb were already in the control room when Litten entered. Lamb was preparing his list of records to be played and Hinz was looking over his script. With about a minute to go, Hinz rehearsed his opening speech. Lamb fumbled with his list of rec ord selections. And then—without cheering ovations—station KDUK was on the air! World-Shaking Words “Good afternoon,” came An nouncer Hinz’s opening words. “KDUK, the voice of the Ducks be gins operations at 12, Wednesday, June 1, 1949. KDUK ... is student operated and broadcasts on a fre quency of 1280 kilocycles with stu dios in Villard hall on the campus of the University of Orqgon in Eugene.” That’s all there was to it. Then the first record was played. It was “Sidewalks of Cuba.” Oregana Info Must Be Left at Johnson Oregana postage fees and for warding addresses can be left at Johnson hall June 6 and 7, according to Business Manager Olga Yevtich. Any other instructions con cerning delivery of individual or ders may be left with the staff on the Monday and Tuesday dates. Portland and Eugene students will be able to pick up the 1949 yearbooks, which will be com pleted about June 30, at distribu tion points in the two cities. Contest Winner Camera Insides Mystery, Braun Says Shouldn't a contest winning pho tographer know something about a camera ? Kirk Braun, national photo graphic journalism fraternity con test winner, doesn’t think so. “I don’t know anything about why these things work,” Braun stated as he pushed buttons and made lights flash on his press type camera. But even though he doesn’t know the “why” of camera opera tion he must know a little of the "how” for Braun has recently won a second place and three honorable mentions in . a national photogra phy contest. Last year he won a first place, three second spots, and a third place in another national contest. Braun, who spends most of his time in the dark recesses of the University’s photo lab in the ex tension building, bought his first press camera after the war. Be fore this his only picture taking had been with a “Brownie.” He started as a journalism ma jor before the war and when he re turned from the service decided it would be wise to learn photogra phy. Now photography is primary with him, and journalism has tak en the back seat. The Oregana published the first of Braun’s campus photos and he went on from there to take basket ball pictures for a Portland paper. Since that time he has worked for both major Rose city papers and has sent many free lance photos to national magazines. A pictorial series by Braun on how to take “football fotos” will be published in a national camera magazine next fall. Previous to his post-war camera interest Braun had done only a “little developing and printing in high school.” THIS IS A PICTURE of Kirk Braun, picture-taker, taking a picture of Kirk Braun taking a picture. Not only that, the camera which took the picture is on the right, taking the picture. The camera on the left is just a camera, NOT taking a picture. The harried look on Braun’s face? He was afraid the mirrors would crack, (Photo by Kirk Braun) Among his Portland paper as- , signments were several helicopter photos and some of the Vanport disaster. Braun will cover the Portland Rose festival in June for a Port-1 land daily. He had a page series on the new campus buildings at Oregon and OSC last Sunday. He sold his first picture to a “very tolerant” editor on the Eu gene paper. Former Student Pleads Guilty to Larceny Count Cecil E. Waltex’ Jr., 28, former student at the University of Ore gon, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of petit larceny arising from the theft of $68 from a Shell service station at 9th and High streets early Tuesday morning. Sentence of three months in the county jail was suspended. Walter was taken into custody at 4 a.m. Tuesday by city police. His identity was revealed by the credit card receipt he and two oth ers had used at the station where the theft had occurred. All the money was returned to its owner, Herb Fry, manager of the station. After the attendant at the ser vice station had put gasoline into the car Walter was in he noticed that over $60 was gone. By that tjme the car had left and the po lice were notified. Walter, who^completed his stud ies at the University last winter term, was captain of the varsity swimming team in 1949. Seniors Learn Chain Gang Shuffle In Completing Questionnaire Files ii you cion t yet nave mat cnan gang shuffle, graduating seniors, you’ll have a chance to acquire it before June 19. All seniors must fill out a ques tionnaire for the files in the alum ni office in Friendly hall as soon as possible, at which time they will receive information about com mencement, including marching, four tickets to the commencement exercises, and a calendar of events. The purpose of the questionnaire is to place names on the perma nent alumni record. Each regis tered graduate is Entitled to one year's free subscription to Old Oregon, alumni magazine, and a year's free membership in the al umni association, according to Les Anderson, alumni secretary. Because of the unknown demand, commencement tickets have been limited to four per graduate, but any extra ones will be available June 17. j The alumni office is open from , 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Robbers Plague Campus Houses Another outbreak of robberies was reported early yesterday morning as Chi Psi and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternities suffered losses. A total of $334 in cash and val uables was stolen from the Chi Psi lodge between 1 and 5 a.m. Lpsses included a $90 camera, a $40 camera, $75 wrist watch, $114 cash and a $15 pen. Stolen sometime between 2 and i 6:30 a.m. from the Sig Ep house were a $74 portable radio and $5 in cash. “You should print big black headlines telling the boys to keep their doors locked so this won’t happen," Mrs. Betty Heiken, sec retary of men’s affairs, told an Emerald reporter yesterday. Recently burglarized have beer the Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Sig ma Alpha Mu fraternity houses and an off-campus rooming house * * * Mortar Board Gals Dole Out Punishment This is it, fellas. Today is Ladies' Day, and viola tors of the following regulations will be punished in a water-bag' i session tomorrow at 12:30 in front | of the Side, according to Jordis Benke, Mortar Board ball promo tion chairman: 1. All men wear knickers. 2. No men may wear shoes on the old campus. 3. No cigar smoking on the old campus. 4. No walking on the sidewalks. 5. No one may say ''hello,” par ticularly on Hello walk. 6. All freshman men must wear green hair ribbons. ■Punishment will be administered to violators tomorrow by members of Kwama, in Skull and Dagger sweaters: Phi Thetas, in Druid scarves; and AWS, YWCA, and WAA cabinets and Mortar Board ball committee members in letter men's sweaters. Tickets on Sale Tickets for Saturday's ball, giv en in honor of the new Mortar Board members tapped during Junior weekend, will be on sale in living organizations until Friday noon. Unsold tickets and money will be collected immediately after lunch from ticket chairmen in the various houses. House representatives are Betty Pollock, Alpha Ohi Omega; Ann, Butler, Alpha Delta Pi; Theckly Arthur, Alpha Gamma Delta; Car men Fernandez, Alpha hall; Do lores Stenerson, Alpha Omieron Pi; Carol Udy, Alpha Phi; Jfcan Dewees, Alpha Xi Delta; Joan Risley, Delta Delta Delta. Dixie Haugen, Delta Gamma; Joan Cavey, Delta Zeta; Jessea Nasshahn, Gamma hall; Mary Fran Lorain, Gamma Phi Beta; Gloria Cooper, Hendricks hall. Jesalee Keffeler, Highland house; Barbara. Stevenson, Kappa Alpha Theta; Shirley Potter, Kap pa Kappa Gamma; Jane Carlisle, Pi Beta Phi; Barbara Murphy, Re bec house; Bernice Gartrell, Sigma Kappa. sue juaa, susan Campbell nan; Esther Abraham, University house; Eileen Lemley, Zeta hall; Joan White, Zeta Tau Alpha. In charge of living organization sales are Donna Willard, Myrna, Blizard, and Jean Dewees. Tickets will go on sale in the Co-op today until Saturday noon. Florence Hansen and Betty Jane Wright are in charge. At $2 per couple, ducats will also be sold at the door. Vocalist Lauded Oregon dance band fans who got a sneak preview of Ike Carpen ter’s orchestra, the band slated to play for Saturday’s ball, have re turned praising Johnny April, Car penter’s young vocalist. Until he signed with Carpenter, Johnny has never sung baritone; in fact, he won a national contest at Carnegie hall, sponsored by Look magazine, as “The best teen aged vocalist in the United Staten,” singing terjor. Ike Carpenter records will be played outside the Co-op this moon. Serenading living organizations to encourage attendance is the Theta Chi quartet. Arranging for these promotion stunts is Jordia Benke’s promotion committee, con sisting of Marilyn Thompson, Ann Gillenwaters, Connie Jackson, and 'Kathryn Carter.