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VOLUME LI
Fifty-First Year of Public at icn and Service to the University
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31,1949
NUMBER 22
Sophomore
Whiskerino
Theme Set
“Stubble Stumble” will be the
theme of the Sophomore Whisker
ino, Dick McLaughlin, general
chairman announced Wednesday,
Tickets are being sold in all
mens’ living organizations and will
go on sale Monday in the Co-op
Price is $2.40 including tax. A lim
ited number will be available, de
clared Lillian Schott, ticket and
program chairman.
On the ticket committee are
i | Shirley Hillard, Janeth Youngs,
Pat Rice, Shirley Ildstad, Marjory
Fulton, Margaret Powne, Joan
Skordahl, Marilyn Thompson,
Donna Buse, Joy Trieman, Joan
Cavey, Jessie Bennett, Sue Bach
elder, Herb Lombard, Tom Jacobs,
Dave Eisenburg, Marian- Smith,
Don Za-vin,' Renee Johns, Louise
Carsillo, and Betsy Erb.
The program committee includes
Marianne Weiby, Virginia Kellogg,
Nancy Wright, and Elizabeth
Waddell.
Stan Turnbull
Homecoming
Hostess Head
Chairman of the Homecoming
Hostess selection wjll be Stan
Turnbull, junior in journalism,
Willie Dodds, general chairman,
announced Wednesday.
Committee members selected by
Turnbull from petitions are Betty
Wright, junior in architecture and
allied arts; Janice Hughes, junior
in liberal arts; and Pat Mullin,
sophomore in liberal arts.
Women chosen by the living or
will be contacted sometime today
concerning the selection of candi
dates, Turnbull stated. Candidates
names must be submitted by 1 p.m.
Tuesday to Miss Wright at the
Delta Gamma house or to other
members of the committee.
Candidates are to be selected on
the basis of poise, charm, appear
ance, and ability to talk easily
with people.
Women chosen by the living or
ganizations must have either soph
omore, junior, or senior standing
in the University. In addition,
candidates must have been on
campus previous to this year.
Gamma Phi Betas 'Adopt'
Second Dutch War Child
wmma rm r>eta sorority Has
recently adopted a 6-year-old
Dutch child, Nellie Bierkems,
through the Foster Parents Plan
for War Children, Inc., of New
York.
This is the second Dutch child
to be adopted by the Gamma Phis.
They also contribute to the sup
port of another 6-year-old, Egbert
Vangener, and plan to adopt
another child in the *ear future.
The sorority corresponds with
the children. It receives letters
from them via the Foster Parents
office which translates them into
English.
Neither of the children’s fathers
is living. Egbert’s father died in a
German concentration camp dur
ing the war.
The sorority began the project
upon recommendation of its na
tional office two years ago. Many
other chapters of Gamma Phi
throughout the cpuntry have also
adopted the plan.
Each member of th house con
tributes money which is sent
monthly to the Foster Parents
organization. They in turn send
food and clothing to the children.
Script Writers Wanted
Students interested in writing
radio scripts for presentation at
the Homecoming game are asked
to submit petitions to Ann Caro
son at the Gamma Phi Beta house.
Further information may be ob
tained from Jack Dugan, McChes
ney Hall.
Foreign Movie
Club Organized
Thursday Night
The showing of two series of six
foreign films each is planned under
the sponsorship of the Foreign
Movies club, organized at a meet
ing of the University students,
faculty members, and twonspeople
last night.
The movies, which will be shown
at the Mayflower Theater, will be
spaced as evenly as possible
throughout the school year, and
will be fitted in with the Univer
sity program, said Jack Baldock,
manager of the Mayflower. .
Members of the Foreign Movies
Club will be admitted to the pic
tures at a cut rate, with their sea
son tickets. Tickets for the series
of six may be purchased for $3.00,
including tax, making a cost of 50
cents a picture. Those who join
the club will hold a membership
card which will be punched, in
stead of having separate tickets
for each film. Students who pur
chase the $3.00 season ticket will
receive a pledge card which will
not be transferable. Membership
cards of the townspeople will be
transferable.
The general public will be ad
mitted to the foreign movies for
70 cents, or 80 cents for loge
seats.
Season tickets will be available
beginning Monday afternoon in the
office of Rene L. Picard, assistant
professor of romance languages.
Mail orders will also' be received
(Please turn to page eight)
Homecoming Dance
Heads Called For
Petitions for Homecoming Dance
committe chairmanships are now
being accepted by Jerry Smith,
dance chairman.
Chairmen are needed for the fol
lowing committees:
Decoration; patrons, and pro
grams; tickets; clean-up and pro
motion.
Petitions must be turned in to
Smith at the Phi Gamma Delta
house by 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Press Conference
To Start Saturday
One of the largest high school press conferences will start
Satin day \\ hen more than 400 high school delegates and advisers
register at the School of Journalism.
'Plus 23rd annual convention is predicted to be one of the
most comprehensive in history, according to Laurence R. Camp
bell, journalism professor and executive secretary of the group.
'Phe delegates represent 00 high schools throughout the state.
1 1 1UXN
Delegates and advisers arriv
ing today will register between
1 and 10 p.m. Registration will
resume Saturday morning- be
tween $ and 10.
Scheduled to address the con
ference is Charles A. Sprague, ex
Oregon governor and editor-pub
lisher of the Salem Statesman. His
topic, “Journalism as a Career,”
will be at 9 Saturday morning.
NAGY TO SPEAK
The closing speech, “World Af
fairs in the Newspaper,” will be
presented by Ivan G. Nagy, assist
ant professor of political science.
Nagy formerly served as the first
secretary of the Hungarian legation
in Washington.
Nine student-conducted panels,
directed and participated in by the
delegates will cO\fer discussions of
newspapers and yearbooks. ‘More
attention is being given this year to
the smaller mimeographed papers.
NEW FORUM
For the first time a yearbook for
um will be held, thus widening the
field covered by the conference.
Once a year the conference brings
together the Oregon Scholastic
Press and Oregon Association of
Journalism Advisers. Each school
may send four official student dele
gates with the journalism adviser.
There is no limit on the number of
unofficial delegates that may at
tend.
ROTC Cadets Starve
Advanced ROTC students must
wait longer for their monthly pay
check, the Military Science De
partment said this week.
Eugene Shivers
On Coldest Day
Eugene had its coldest October
day on record Thursday.
Temperature Thursday morning'
descended to 24 and only slightly
higher thermometer readings were
predicted for this morning.
Official Weather Bureau records,
started in 1890, show only two
days approach yesterday’s low.
They wore last Wednesday and
Oct. 28, 1917. On both these days
the temperature was 25.
Eugene's cold wave is caused
by a northeast wind bringing cold
air down from Northern Canada.
Slogan Chosen
For Homecoming
“Oregon—Then, Now and To
morrow” was selected Thursday
as this year’s Homecoming slo
gan, stated Willie Dodds, general
chairman.
Jim Wallace, senior in journ
alism, submitted the winning
suggestion. As a prize he will re
ceive free admission for one
couple to the Homecoming dance
on Nov. 19.
All Homecoming events, in
cluding the float parade, sign
contest, and dance, will be based
on this central theme.
Homecoming weekend will be
Nov. 18 and 19.
Controversial Singer to Appear Here
. Wagnerian soprano Kirsten
Flagstad, who will appear at Mc
Arthur Court Wednesday night, is
now continuing her second post
war North American tour in spite
of criticisms of her allegedly pro
Axis sympathies.
Both of Madame Flagstad’s
tours have stirred up controversies
about her activities during the war.
When the United States entered
the war with Gemany, she left
New York’s Metropolitan Opera to
return to her husband in Norway.
Although the singer is a Nor
wegian citizen and was not compel
led to remain in the United States*
during the war, many persons felt
that her actions indicated sympa
thy for the Nazi side. Her husband
was outspoken in his support of
the Axis.
CHARGES DROPPED
Madame Flagstad abandoned her
career during the war. She satis
fied Norwegian authorities to the
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extent that they cleared her of
charges of being a Nazi sympa
thizer at the end of the war. Her
husband is now dead.
Flagstad’s first post-war tour
of the United States took place in
1949, and consisted of ten appear
ances in Eastern cities. Nation
wide attention was drawn by the
protest of Philadelphians to her
apperance in their city. The re
mainder of the 1947 tour, however,
attracted little adverse attention.
TOURED ENGLAND
The Metropolitan Opera did not
contract her again for its Wagner
ian Cycle; however, she made ex
tensive tours of England, the Con
tinent, and South America. In 1947
the singer made a charity appear
ance at Albert Hall, London, under
the sponsorship and at the request
of Queen Elizabeth.
Madame Flagstad’s second Am
erican tour also has drawn contro
| versy. The directors of San Fran
cisco's War Memorial Opera house
(where the soprano recently ap
peared as a featured artist in the
opera season) opposed her appear
ance on grounds that her war
record was dubious.
Because the Opera House pro
vides the only adequate opera fa
cilities in San Francisco, the opera
company contested the decision to
ban her. Eventually a reversed de
cision was drawn from the board.
Flagstad sang in the opera house
for one matinee and one evening
performance.
CRITICISM
Among her opponents in San
Francisco were veterans’ groups,
including members of the War
Memorial board, which veterans
elect. Bitter criticism came from
board members; their original neg
ative decision was reversed by only
one vote.
The opera season would have been
cancelled had not the board per-|
mitted Flagstad to appear.
The Eugene appearance of the
soprano has drawn only one com
plaint, also based on Madame Flag
stad’s war record. Since her origi
nal clearance by the Norwegian
Minister of Justice, she has receiv
ed two additional clearances from
the government of her country.
LOCAL SPONSORS
Local sponsors of the concert
are members of the Eugene and
University Civic Music Associa
tion. The Wednesday-night pro
gram will include selections from
Wagner, Schubert, Brahms,
Strauss, and others.
During U.S. tours, Madame Flag
stad has received uniformly fav
orable comments from music crit
ics. One of the latter, Virgil Thom
son, declared that ‘‘Flagstad's
voice is the dream voice of all
time, and never has it seemed so
lovely (as during her post-war
appearances).”
To this the National Concert and
Artists Corporation, which acts as
Madame Flagstad’s booking agent,
added the following:
"American critics have, of
course, been speaking thus of Flag
stad ever since the historic night
of her Metropolitan Opera debut
in 1935. In Europe the Great Nor
wegian is even more wildly idolized.
Following her first post-war series
of concerts here she left again for
Europe, where she appeared in
opera and concert in Zurich, Swit
zerland, and gave the charity con
cert at Albert Hall.
“Repeating her initial post-war
triumph (the 1947 tour) she re
turned to the United States in the
winter of 1948 to demonstrate that
she is ‘incomparably the most dis
tinguished of living singers’ (from,
the New York Herald Tribune),
then left again for the aforemen
tioned fabulous European and
South American tours, from which
she returned in the Fall of 1940.'*