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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.