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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1950)
y Weather . . . Cloudiness with occasional snow flurries is the prediction for today. Low this morning, 28, with a high of 35 later in the day. m J16ITAT EMERALD VOLUME LI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1950 NUMBER 57 Co-Chairmen Named For 'Dimes' Campaign Betty Jean Wright, junior in architecture and allied arts, and Kay Kuckenberg, sophomore in liberal arts, have been appointed co-chairmen of the campus March of Dimes drive by a Eugene Junior Chamber of Commerce drive committee. The nation-wide dime campaign will begin on Jan. 14 and end Jan. 31. Present campaign plans include a dance at Willamette Park following the Washington-Oregor basketball game the night of Jan 27, Evan Davies, Eugene drive publicity director, stated Wednes day. Receptacles in the form of small iron lungs will be placed in the Co-op, restaurants, stores, and other business concerns on the University campus and throughout the entire city. Further plans will be formulated and committee members selected immediately for the campus cam paign, Miss Wright reported Wed nesday night. The co-chairmen were selected from petitions submitted to the Eugene committee by interested University students. Committee members will be picked from the remaining petitions] SU Board Picks Kuzmanick, Jones as.Heads Lester Jones, junior in physical education, was elected chairman of the University Student Union Board at a regular meeting Wed nesday. Antionette Kuzmanich, senior in education, was named secretary by the unanimous vote of the board. Jones has served as temporary chairman of the board since the beginning of fall term when the board was organized. The beard approved the “peti tion and interview’’ method of sel ecting standing committees of the new Student Union. Petitions for committee chairmanships will be examined by the board, and chosen after personal interviews with each applicant. COMMITTEES NAMED Standing committee members will be chosen by the committee chairmen after examination of the petitions by the board. Standing committees selected to function upon completion of the new Union were games, music, movies, book and browsing room, art gallery, special attractions, dance, publicity, workshop, house, “trouble-shooter,” and personnel. WILLIAMS OPTIMISTIC Chances for the opening of the new building before Junior Week end, May 12, are excellent, Dick Williams, Student Union director, said at the meeting. Mrs. Wesley C. Ballaine, wife of Dr. Ballaine, professor of business administration, was named direc tor of the inter-collegiate bridge tournament on the campus, begin ning Feb. 23. An average grade-point of 3.476 for the 14 members of the board was announced by Jones. Lowest grade point on the board was 2.5, with two members receiving a 4.0. Change Set For June 11 Ceremony Baccalaureate and commence ment sei'vices for the University will be combined this year, Presi dent Harry K. Newburn announced Wednesday. The combined cere mony will be held at 2 p.m. Sun day, June 11. The purpose of the change, which has been approved by the Board of Deans, is to encourage larger attendance both of students and parents, and of alumni and friends of the University. The move will make it possible for students, parents, and others to get home the same day, where as with an evening commencement it was necessary for most of them to stay over. Principal speech of the combined program will be the baccalaureate address. An outstanding national religious leader will be obtained to make this address. The President’s charge to the graduating class will be eliminated to keep the cere mony to approximately the same time as the former commencement exercise. The move has been discussed with campus and local church leaders. Wars to Go On As Snow Bullets Fly Over U.O. By Ken Metzler SOMEWHERE ON SORORITY ROW, Jan. 11 (Special)—Armies all along this several-block front Wednesday night rallied their forces in preparation for expected snowfights as the weatherman forecasted more snow for this area. Battle-weary coeds expected new onsloughts Thursday and were preparing to dig in to defend their respective fortresses. The. Weather Bureau predicted cloudiness with occasional snow flurries Thursday with a low tem perature of 28 in the morning and 35 later in the day. NO CASUALTIES Fighting broke out on many sec tors during the day Wednesday but official communiques from all armies reported no casualties. Lt. Commandant June Fitzgib bons of the 1461st Chi Omega Div ision said no purple hearts were given out to her fighters—only blue hands. An official statement (Please turn to page eight) Huntingdon Prof ReplacesMeans During Absence Dr. N. P. Jacobson, professor of philosophy at Huntington College in Montgomery, Ala., has been ap pointed as acting head of the Uni versity religion department, tem porarily replacing Dr. Paul B. Means. Dr. Means will return from Singapore for the 1951-52 school year. He is now studying political influences on religion in Singapore and surrounding areas. After two years of pre-medical work at the University of Wiscon sin in 1930-32, Dr. Jacobson start ed school at Emory University in Georgia. He received his bachelor of divinity degree there, earning his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Chicago. Dr. Jacobson joined the Navy as a chaplain in 1943. He served 21 months, mostly in the South Paci fic. He has written articles which have been published by the Har vard Theological Review and the Journal of Religion. Urban, Deuel Get AGS Endorsement For Council Posts Hoh Deuel and Will Urban will he endorsed hv the Associ ated 11reek Students for appointment to the ASUO Executive Council. The decision was made at an AGS representatives’ meeting W ednesday. Deuel will he recommended to the council for senior representative and Urban tor junior representative. Yesterday's action by the AGS followed an earlier decision Smoldering Iron Causes Damage A smoldering iron caused slight damage to stocks at the Westgate Shoppe at 13th and Kincaid streets last night. Helen Naugle, manager of the women’s store said an iron was left on in the upstairs alteration department. A fire truck answered the call about 7 p.m. yesterday. Marriage, Family Speaker Author of Sex Publications By GRETCHEN GRONDAHL Lr. Lester A. Kirkendall, lecturer for this \ ear\s Marriage and the Family Series, which starts next Tuesday, is an author of several sex education publications as well as an experienced lecturer. Dr. Kirkendall's publications include “What It Takes to be Popular,” “Understanding Sex,” “Dating Days," and “Sex Ad justments of Young Men.” The speaker, now professor of family life education at Oregon State College, came to the OSC campus from the University of Illi nois. For three years he served as Director of the Association for Family Living in Chicago working with marriage and family adjust ment problems. He was a specialist in marriage and family life at the University of Illinois YMCA. During the war years, Dr. Kirk endall served as consultant for school sex education programs, and also taught a course in prepara tion for marriage and family life for American servicemen at the (Please turn to page seven) Ticket Sale Continues For OSC-Oregon Game A few tickets are still available for the Oregon-Orcgon State bas ketball game Friday in Corvallis, Athletic Business Manager How ard Lemons said Wednesday night. Sales will continue today and Friday at the Athletic Ticket Of fice, McArthur Court, to both stu dents and townspeople. Tickets are $1.50 each. Lemons advised students to be in their seats by 7:30 to be as sured of a place in the special section reserved for Oregon root ers. to endorse only one candidate for each of the Greek positions. Tho final choice rests with the Execu tive! Council, which will also piclc a USA sophomore and junior rep resentative Monday. Candidates for AGS endorsement were nominated at the meeting from names recommended by the party's steering committee and others submitted from the floor. Seeking endorsement were Bill Carey, Herb Nil], Stan Turnbull, and Urban for the junior position and Curt Finch, Dick Neely, Marge Petersen, Velma Snellstrom, and Deuel for the senior delegate’s job. Miss Snellstrom was nominated from the floor while the others had been recommended by the steering committee from petitions submitted to them by each house Tuesday. Turnbull, after a first elimina tion vote, withdrew in favor of Nill who then opposed Urban for the endorsement. All decisions were made by ma jority vote in secret ballot. Former AGS repre entatives to the ASUO Council were Bill Lance and Phil Patterson; former USA Council members were Anita Holmes and Ron Brown. All four resigned at the end of fall term. The United Students Associa tion will make no formal recom mendations for Executive Council replacements, according to John Day, USA president. Oregana Debts Due The payment deadline for Ore ganas will be 5 p.m., Monday. Payments can be made at a booth in the Co-op today through Saturday or at the Ore gana office in McArthur Court from 3-5 p.m. Traveled Violinist Joseph Szigeti Noted for Many Uniaue Concerts By BOB FUNK Violinist Joseph Szigeti, who will appear at 3 p.m. Sunday at McAr thur Court, has led a life of unusual variety since his entrance into the field of concert music. Not only has he played in many of the world’s orthodox concert halls, but also at such places as an esperanto concert in London, where everything was sung in that ton gue. He has played to “horizontal” audiences of bed-ridden patients at a sanitarium in Switzerland, to a gathering of Red Army soldiers, and before an audience at the as sembly hall of the Palestinian Agri cultural College of En-Charod. The violinist has introduced many new works for violin - Prok ofieff’s Violin Sonata in F minor, Stravinsky's "Divertimento,” Bar tok's “Portrait," and he recently re introduced Alban Bergs’ long-neg lected Concerto and Sonatas for violin and piano. Ernest Bloch has written a num ber of works especially for Szigeti, Bela Bartok wrote a rhapsody for violin and orchestra, and “Con trasts’’ for him. Szigti enjoys food to the fullest extent. “My culinary taste is so catholic that I would hesitate to give you any one favorite menu. It would be sad indeed if a much trav eled virtuoso could ‘boil down’ his preferences to one of two menus!” The ‘‘greenish, unctuous Toareah soup of Australia" stands high on his list of culinary preference, how ever. Among his acquaintances, Szi geti counts George Bernard Shaw. The two met on at Atlantic cros sing, at which time they discussed the ‘‘good old days" in music. Shaw and Szigeti both found it regret table that Albert Einstein is the only living notable who really looks like a violinist.