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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1950)
A Man in a Hole... Furious Activity in Gaping Basement Offers Chance for Questions, Answers By SISTER MARY GILBERT He’s always in the hole. He doesn’t belong to the under ground, but he spends most of his time there. And if you’re trying to “dig up” a feature, Jim O’Donnell’s your man. He’s overseeing the ex cavation for the new science build ing. “Is that your bull dozing?” I began experimentally, as I skirted the huge pit between the journal ism school and the press. Jim signaled a truck driver to go ahead. “Where are they taking all that dirt?” I asked. Simple Logic “They’re using it for a fill at the new University heating plant,” he told me. “They can’t build here till they have a hole and can’t build there till they haven’t one.” A scoop full of earth cascaded into a waiting truck. “What a tremendous mud-pie potential,” i reflected. Out loud, I said, “What’s that yellow monster over there ?” “That’s a turn-a-pull,” Jim ans wered. “Sometimes they call ’em scrapers. They can go about 25 miles an hour except when they get caught in this stickum. Then it takes a pushcat to get ’em out.” “Pushcat?” I queried, trying to spot the animal. “Bulldozer,” he translated ami ably. We watched the 40-thousand dollar toys cavorting through mud. Just Like Magic “They can’t tip over,” he as sured me as one of the frisky yel low giants waddled over a mini ature mountain. “They’re electric ally controlled.” I shifted my gaze anyway, just in case . . . “And the other equipment?” I urged briskly. Two draglines lift dirt onto trucks which carry about four yards of gumbo each trip, the fore man explained. It takes about two minutes to load a truck, and they total 40 trips or so a day. "If the mountain won’t come to Mohammed,” I muttered. “What’s that?” As Clear as Mud “I said, ‘Are you going all the way to China?’ ” He4 tipped his hat back and squinted in my direction. “Hard to hear above this rac ket,” he yelled. “How far down do you have to go?” I shouted back at him. “Twelve feet. We’ve been work ing 10 days, and it’ll take another week or 10 days to get there.” Still in Hole Mentally, I subtracted the days I don’t have class from 10. Then I multiplied by the number of frayed nerves. “Science is wonderful,” I screamed with the best smile I could work up on short notice. “And the riveters probably will get here for summer school, if not be fore.” Jim looked a bit puzzled. “On the heating plant,” he be gan, “we have two cats and ...” I left him in the hole. Business Manager Petitions Now Due Applications for Summer Emerald business manager are now being accepted by Dick Williams, Student Union Di rector, in his Union office. A student planning to attend summer session is preferred for work on the semi-weekly summer publication. Pay will be on a commission basis. NATIONAL DEFENSE WEEK, MAY 13-20 fyly the AS BIG AS A MOOSE that’s our JUMBO BURGERS “a meal in itself" JUMBO BAR B Q 873 E. 13th Universities ANNE PEARCE Famous University of Southern California Alumna, says: * ‘Make my cigarette your cigarette. Smoke milder Chesterfields.” (W APPEARING IN "I WAS A SHOPLIFTER" A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE \ *By Recent National Survey SEELEY WINTERSMITH MUDD MEMORIAL HALL W M m m m »J» « » Mn i n n » AMefffCAS CCll£G£S TAey're M/lOffif Tfiey’re TOPS/~fSfi0/>TS w/rv rue un/tvLtssmn ppaop Cuyyrif.hr 1950, Lcorrr & Muxs Tomoco Co.
