VOLUME LI Fifty-First Year of Publication and Service to the University UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1949 NUMBER 11 Oregana Meeting Tonight The 1950 Oregana open house will be held tonight from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the McArthur Court offices, for students interested in working on the coming edition. Staff members will be on hand for interviews, with refreshments and entertainment on the evening agen da. Hank Panian and Barbara Stev enson are in charge of this year’s open house, and have arranged for entertainment by Allan Barzman, Marcia Knosher, and Gerry Pear son. Members of Phi Theta Upsilon, junior women’s honorary, will serve refreshments during the evening. ■ Students will be interviewed for a wide variety of work, including layouts, typing, writing, and sales. Those interested in the art staff should bring samples of their work. Work on the 1950 Oregana will be gin this fall and continue through winter term. The book goes to press in the spring for delivery to stu ^ dents at the end of the school year. Members of the Oregana editor ial staff have already completed much of the planning for this year’s book. At the present time Ruth Landry, associate editor in charge of living organizations, is supervis ing living organization pictures, which are being taken at the Ken nel-Ellis studios. When these pictures have been taken, one of the biggest Oregana jobs will begin—that of assembling the living organization pictures in preparation for engraving. This work is handled by the layout staff. Students interested in journalis tic aspects of the book will find op portunities to assist in writing many Oregana stories. Most of the stories are handled, by the staff which will be organized this fall. Some are written by the upper staff or by assigned students. Editor Larry Davidson lias ten tatively listed as honor guests Mad eleine Crump, who has been a faith ful Oregana worker for several years, and Moses the Cat, another staunch Oregana retainer. Guests may take advantage of a guided tour of the Oregana offices. Auto Victim Released Robert Kingsbury, injured in a freak automobile accident early last week, was released from the Infirmary Monday. Kingsbury was > injured when struck by two steel poles in the car in which he was riding. Future Coeds Meet Jim Aiken, Players In Sightseeing Visit Eight charming football fans paid a surprise visit to the Uni versity of Oregon football team Wednesday night during the din ner hour at John Straub Hall. The girls, all ardent support ers of the team, are seniors at Eugene High School. They are Katibel Brunton, Joanne Green, Dona Hart, Audrey Jones, Jackie Pallett, Connie Seymour, Janice Taylor, and Jean Webb. Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, director of dormitories, intro duced the dinner guests to Coach Jim Aiken. Fullback Bob San ders in turn introduced the girls to other members of the team. They received a hearty wel come. The men gave a rousing rendition of ‘‘Oregon Our Alma Mater” for their guests. Council Studies High Dorm Cost High living costs at University dormitories will be discussed at tonight’s ASUO executive council meeting, set for 7 p.m. in President Art Johnson’s office. Complaints and recommenda tions on registration procedures will be discussed and an informal report' to the faculty is planned. Progress reports on the place ment of “hot boxes’’ for sugges tions and criticisms and on the movement for more effective sing ing of the'pledge song at football games will be made. ■ Organization of a talent finding and recording system to facilitate the gathering of entertainment for campus functions will be brought up. The feasibility of cleaning the water of the Millrace and possible sites for Junior Weekend festivities are slated for debate. Also on the agenda are discus sion and approval of the rally bud get, and study of the possibility of chartering some form of trans portation to out-of-town football games, such as an Oregon train to Portland. City Health Board Kills Race Chlorination Plan Suspect Held In Co-op Theft; Loot Recovered Merchandise valued at $800 sto len from the University Co-op store Monday night has been re covered intact by city police, who discovered the loot in a parked car. James Cameron, 21, of Fort Worth, Tex., driver of the car, is being held in custody. Early Wednesday morning, Offi cer F. L. Fillmore discovered the car filled with the stolen goods parked on Monroe St. near Sixth. Cameron was arrested about 9:30 a.m. after detectives had hidden near the car for more than eight hours. With his arrest, officers filled the police department prop erty room with articles apparently taken from the Co-op and, perhaps, in other thefts. When questioned, Cameron ad mited the burglary of the campus store but denied that he had been involved in any other thefts. Officers-spent -a quarter of an hour unloading his car. Included in the booty were the cameras, cig arette lighters, and cigarettes tak en from the Co-op plus a quantity of baseball equipment, religious literature, typewriters, fountain pens, and miscellaneous clothing articles. Discovery of an Oregon State baseball warmup jacket and another from the Sacramento Pa cific Coast League professional club indicated that some of the thefts might be traced to Corvallis and California. Radio Auditions Today Auditions for all students inter ested in doing dramatic shows for radio during the quarter will be held today. They will be from 3 to 4:30 p. m, in room 304 Villard. Tex Beneke Br ToWi/lcm «.p2*,JSK5*« ra' nesday Tex Beneke and his orches-1 tra, one of the country’s leading dance bands, will appear at Eu gene’s Willamette Park Wed nesday, Oct. 12. Beneke’s band will be one of two name orchestras to appear in Eugene, this month, with Les Brown booked for the Sophomore Whiskerino Friday, Oct. 28. The versatile Beneke is equally capable as a band leader, saxophon ist, and vocalist. His biggest re quest number is “Ida,” which has an all-time sales record of 1,500,000 copies. “Ida” was Beneke’s first vo cal with the Glenn Miller orchestra in 1938. VOCAL FAVORITES ■ Other Beneke vocal favorites are “Chattanooga Choo Choo’ and “Kalamazoo,” while the most popu lar of his sax renditions are "Em braceable You” and “Body And Soul.” * TEX BENEKE Beneke began his musical career with the Miller band when it was organized in 1938. During the war the band broke up, and Miller, then a major in the army, disappeared on a flight to Paris in 1944. Two years later, the band was reorganized with Beneke as new leader. The orchestra was first called the “Glenn Miller Band with Tex Bene ke.” After a year on the road, Bene ke was given full billing, and it has since been known as the “Tex Bene ke Band.” BATON READY Carrying on the original Miller musical tradition, Beneke still car ries Miller’s trombone on all trips. It and the leader's baton will be ready for him should he ever return. Old Miller hits such as “Moon light Serenade,” “Tuxedo Junc tion,” “In the Mood” and many others are standards in the band’s repertoire, as well as current fav orites. Weather ... Partly cloudy with a few light showers and periods of sunshine to day and Friday. High today, 65. By BOB FUNK Hopes for a clean niillrace grew dimmer this week as both .the Hu gene Health Board and the City of Springfield expressed inability to cope with the situation in the immediate future. Chlorination of sewage-contaminated race waters had been suggested by Millrace Association President Dr. M. V. Walker last week. lira meeting held Monday evening, however, the Health jjucuu ucuueu uennueiy not uo recommend” chlorination of the water. Board members felt the effect of the' chlorine would be unreliable and expensive. The board’s report will be presented to the Eugene City Council at their meeting next Monday. NO DATE SET Meanwhile, City Manager Fred Cheatham of Springfield stated that he didn’t know “just what year Springfield will he able to build its new sewage disposal plant.’’ Springfield sewage is now being disposed of in the Willamette River resulting in the contamination of the recently re-opened millrace. The new plant must be built as soon as possible in order to satisfy new state requirements. ENGINEERS TO REPORT Cheatham explained that “we are now working on plans for a sewage disposal plant. Engineers are surveying the area for location, and how soon we can afford to build will hinge on their report.” Springfield voters approved a $250,000 revenue bond for sewage disposal in November, 1941. How ever, as yet no bonds have been issued. “First,” declared Cheatham, “we have to figure out a way to pay those bonds back. In 1944 we began to assess each sewage-system user $5 per year. In January of this year we raised the rate to $12. “From these assessments we have accumulated around $48,500 to date. We anticipate an annual Picture Schedule Men’s living organizations which will have their Oregana pictures taken today and to morrow are as follows: Today—Sigma Chi and Sigma Phi Epsilon. Friday—Theta Chi and Lamb da Chi Alpha. The pictures are taken at the Kennel-Ellis studios in down town Eugene. income of $30,000 from future as sessments. This is the money that will be used to construct and main tain our new sewage disposal sys tem.” NO PROMISES Cheatham sounded one note of optimism in that some engineera have told him unofficially that funds now on hand and those in view will be sufficient to handle the disposal plant. This would mean construction of the plant in the not-too-distant future. However, the city manager would not speculate as to any ap proximate construction date. Dr. Walker's original suggestion on clorination had been that some local group finance the project. He pointed out that the Millrace As sociation had sufficient funds in its own treasurey to chlorinate the “two-milc-long” water hole. The Millrace Association has as yet taken no further action on the water pollution. Newspaper Week Now in Progress “Freedom Goes Where the News paper Goes.’’ That’s the slogan for the 10th anniversary of National News paper Week, now in progress and sponsored by the Newspaper As sociation Managers, Inc., nation wide publishers’ organization. This slogan has set the tone for a coast-to-coast celebration that provides newspapers with the op portunity of taking advantage of the services of their own industry and emphasizing their value to the community. The week began Oct. 1 and con cludes Saturday. Theme for this year’s program is “Rediscover Your Home Town.’’ Local newspapers are re-selling the community to its citizens by bring ing before the public every trade, industry, and profession which serves that area. For the second time an award will be presented to the newspaper doing the best job of observing the week. Draft, Cloud Energy, A/r Combine To Pound Duckland with Rain, Hail Up-drafts and down-drafts caused many Ducks.to scurry home as fast as possible after 11 o’clock Wednesday. Unstable air and differences in energy in the clouds caused these drafts, which resulted in the familiar frozen pellets known as hail stones.. Damage caused by the downpour was -limited to knocked-down walnuts and leaves, clogged -gutters with subsequent rivers to cross, and some very wet and sorry Webfoots. The storm, which struck Eugene around noon, was localized in this immediate vicinity, according to Harlan Rinard, director of the Eugene weather bureau. Hail storms such as this are unusual for this part of Oregon, but sometimes occur in the fall and spring, Rinard said. Occasionally, there may even be one in summer.