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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1950)
VOLUME LI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24,1950 NUMBER 64 “ Morse Set For Speech Today at 4 Senator Wayne Morse will tell campus Young Republicans about “Politics and Their Effect on Uni versity Students” today at 4 p.m. in 3 Fenton. Morse is conducting a two day campaign in Lane County before he files as a candidate for Repub lican renomination to the U.S. Senate in Salem, Wednesday. The meeting is public, and is co-sponsored by the Young Repub lic a n s and the “Webfoots for Wayne,” a student group organ ized on cross-party lines to cam paign for Morse. LEADS PROGRESSIVES A forrher dean of the Univer sity Law School, Morse's one term in the Senate has placed him with the leadership of the progressive element of the Republican party. As yet only one opponent has filed against Morse for the Re publican nomination. He is Fred Robinson, a Medford haberdasher. ^ Robinson's platform is “to vote with the rest of the Oregon dele gation.” NO PARTY-LINER A self-styled “Constitutional Liberal,” Morse’s voting record in the Senate does not show party line adherence, but balloting on WAYNE MORSE issues. He was one of the few GOP senators to vote against the Taft-Hartley bill. Morse arrived in Eugene Sun day. Monday he spoke to a jour nalism class, the Lane County Morse group, and a naval reserve (Please turn to page three) Frosh Nominees Asked by USA * Petitions for USA nominations in the forthcoming freshman elec tions must be turned in by 4 p.m. today, party President John Day announced. The steering committee will in terview petitioners tonight at the Alpha Xi Delta house following a 6:30 p.m. meeting. Women will be interviewed at 7, men at 8 p.m. Final party candidates for the two top frosh offices will be elec ted Thursday by the party mem bership at a genera! assembly meeting in Room 3, Fenton, 4 p.m. Ballots will be cast for steering committee recommendations. Fur ther nominations will be accepted from the floor if they are backed by ten seconds. The two nominees winning the majority votes will run on the USA ticket. Day stressed the need for meet ing the petition deadline. Accord ing to the USA constitution only petitioners can be recommended by the steering committee or nom inated from the floor. Petitions may be turned in to John Day, Minturn hall; Ron Phil lips, Phi Kappa Sigma; or Sue Michel, Carson hall. Oregon's Man of the Half-Century M >\ X $ K ) UV. i iAl > C V-Jv'J i' RV TIME MAGAZINE didn’t really print a special edition (but the Emerald will, Saturday) for Dads’ Day, but here at Oregon, Winston Churchill has taken a back seat to “Dad—Oregon’s Man of the Half-Century.” On the cover is Wesley G. Nicholson, president of the Eugene Ore gon Dads’ club, flanked by Dads’ Day Chairman Gerry Smith and Karl Onthank, executive secretary of Oregon Dads. (Emerald Photo by Deane Bond.) Dads' Day Lunch Tickets Now on Sale; Straub Capacity Sets Attendance Limit Dads' Hostess Finalists Told Names of the three Dads’ Day hostess finalists were revealed late Monday by Dick Lee, chairman of special events. Finalists are Mrs, Richard Chambers, the former Bobbie Bagley; Mrs. Patrick J. O’Toole, the former Harriet McGill; and Mrs. Fred P. Thompson, the for mer JoAnne Johnson. Pictures of the three hostess candidates will be taken through the courtesy of Kennell-Ellis for display at the Co-op later this week, Lee said. They will also be shown at the four registration points for Dads’ Day Saturday, when visitihg fathers will elect the winner. The hostess will be introduced during half-time of the Oregon Washington game Saturday night at McArthur Court by the presi dent of the Oregon Dads. Finalists will greet dads on the Saturday morning train. Judges in choosing the finalists were four faculty and two student body representatives. Voting on the 15 candidates were Golda P. Wickham, director of Women’s Af fairs; Karl Onthank, director of the graduate placement service; P. W. Ellis, professor of econom ics; Capt. Robert Greiner, of the military science department; Art Johnson, ASUO president, and Lou Weston, ASUO second vice presi dent. Weather . . . Partly cloudy, with snow flurries Tuesday and Wednesday. Colder. “Dad—Oregon's Man of the Half Century” will be feted at the an nual Dads’ Day luncheon at 12 noon Saturday in John Straub din ing room. Tickets at $1.25 each are now on sale at the graduate placement office, Emerald Hall. Luncheon chairman Donna Buse Monday urged students to buy their tickets immediately, since sales are limited to 500 persons. ROOM NEXT YEAR “We're sorry we can't seat, everybody, but next year there’ll be room for all in the new Student Union banquet room,” Miss Buse explained. The luncheon program will be broadcast over fcOAC for the con venience of students and fathers who are unable to attend. Basketball game tickets for Sat urday night’s Oregon-Washington game may be purchased by the Dads when they register. These tickets will enable fathers to sit with students in Sections U through W or alone in sections AA and BB reserved seats. Athletic cards will admit stu dents to the game. SIGNS ASKED House sign contest chairmen were urged to complete plans for living organization "Welcome Dad” sigr.s by decorations chairman Nancy Kuhnhausen. Special emphasis may be placed on the “Dad—Oregon’s Man of the Half-Century” theme, Miss Kuhn hausen stated. Rules for the contest include: 1. Sign cost must not exceed $10. 2. Judging will take place i Friday afternoon, Jan. 27. 3. Signs ! must be two-dimensional and may j not have movable parts. Campus Tours Planned for Pop Hospitality for Dad while on the campus next weekend will be stressed by campus tours, special welcoming- church services, a n d open houses and dinners in the living organizations, Anne Case, on-campus hospitality chairman, discloses. An organized tour of campus highlights will begin Saturday af ternoon immediately following the meeting in Johnson Hall, Guides will be members of Phi Theta Up silon, junior women's honorary, and Skull and Dagger, sophomore men's honorary. Miss Case urges all students to show their dads the campus along the suggested route, whether or not taking advantage of the orga nized tour. First to bo shown, from the out side only, will be the uncompleted Erb Memorial Union. A thorough survey of Carson Hall and the University Theater will be made between 2-5 p.m. Fathers will have a chance to see the million and a half dollar wom en's dorm, complete except for the dining room and landscaping. The organized tour will end with the library addition and the new music school building. Added attractions which Miss Case suggests as points of interest are the Art Museum and Museum of Natural History, both of which will be open from 2-4 p.m. The art school will also be open. Men students and their fathers may also wish to visit the P.E. School, Miss Case said. Journalists Bill Childs For Confab Marquis W. Childs, author-re porter-columnist, will present the main address at the 31st annual Oregon Press Conference, sched uled Feb. 17 and 18 by the School of Journalism and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Childs, who will report on news coverage in Washington, will be the fourth Eric W. Allen Memorial Fund lecturer. Fund trustees an nually bring an outstanding jour nalist to Oregon to speak at the conference. Columnist Childs will spend Feb. 1G with journalism students and faculty. The following day he will speak in the new University Thea ter. The ONPA conference pro gram continues through Feb. 18. WISCONSIN GRADUATE Childs was graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1923 and immediately began his news paper career. After W'orking for United Press, he joined the staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He made the first of his many trips abroad in 1930. One trip led to the writing of a 1936 best-seller, “Sweden—The Middle Way.” Since 1934 he has been Wash ington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. When h 9 MARQUIS CHILDS started his column, “Washington Calling,” the United Features Syn dicate was swamped by the great ( Please turn to page three) Bill Kirkpatrick Named to Court Bill Kirkpatrick, sophomore in business, was named sophomore representative to the student traf fic court by the ASUO Executive Council Monday night. Kirkpatrick was an aide to the safety director at Treasure Island during his period of Navy service. He advocated more effective safe ty regulations on 13th street, and cooperation with the Eugene po lice department in making the street blocking sign more easily visible. He also favored extension of student court authority after it has proved itself in its present jurisdiction over student traffic violations. Other petitioners were Cecil Daniel, Dick Lee, Jim Bradford, and Don Ford. The Council’s request to the Publications Board to take over the publication of the Ore-nter, freshman orientation booklet, was turned down, First Vice President Ed Anderson reported. The Board felt that the Ore-nter was essen tially an administrative rather than a student publication. (Please turn to page eight)