Allied Forces Start
Sudden Offensive
Compiled by Dave Cromwell
From the Wires of the Associated Press
Allied forces struck out today in a sudden offensive on the
western front. Tank-infantry teams by nightfall had re-captured
three towns.
The attack by an army that had been in retreat since late No
vember came only a few hours after General J. Lawton Collins
said American forces “will certainly stay and fight” in Korea.
The U. S. army chief of staff said troop replacements will be
gin to flow in two or three months. One new regular army divi
sion will be organized. National Guard units will be called into
service. Some replacements for American troops already are go
ing to the front.
Draft Regulations Were Changed Monday...
... by President Truman, to permit 18-to-26-year olds to volunteer for
21 months of military service. Regular enlistments run for a longer per
iod.
The President further directed Monday that all youths volunteering
for the armed services must do so through their local draft boards.
Under his order, the volunteer must file an application with his board
for voluntary induction. This is required whether or not the volunteer
has been registered.
Two Veteran Aircraft Carriers...
. . . one of them the “fightin’est ship in the Navy,” came out of moth
balls Monday.
The USS Essex, credited with destroying thousands of tons of enemy
fpping, 1,531 Japanese planes, 25 warships and 86 non-combatant ships
ring World, War II, and the Bon Homme Richard, were recommission
ed in ceremonies at the Bremerton shipyard.
General MacArthur Was Responsible...
. . . for “unsound deployment of the United Nations forces and a mo
mentous blunder” in Korea, charged war correspondent Homer Bigart,
Pulitzer prize winner in 1946 for international reporting.
Bigart said this nation no longer can afford to “string along” with
MacArthur.
Oregon Motor Stages...
. . . tied up since Thursday by a strike of central bus terminal workers,
resumed service to Willamette Valley and coast points today.
Formal Dedication Ceremonies...
. . . were held in Corvallis Saturday for Gill Coliseum, Oregon State
College’s $1,800,000 sports pavilion. It is. one of the worlds largest sus
pended arch buildings.
OSC basketball players from as far back as 1902, when the sport made
its appearance on the campus, were introduced by Slats Gill, Beaver
basketball coach. The wife of the inventor of basketball, who is a house
mother at the College, was a guest of honor.
The Orange and Black team celebrated the dedication with a decisive
defeat of the Washington Huskies’ basketball team, which had been un
defeated in its last 11 starts.
An Iron-Fisted Hurricane Socked...
. . . Victoria and southern Vancouver Island Monday, causing thous
ands of dollars worth of damage. It was the worst blow since December
26, 1934. The wind blew steadily at more than 70 miles an hour for three
hours before slackening off.
Education Took The Spotlight...
... in the Oregon State legislature Monday, with introduction of the
first batch of bills to make drastic changes in the state’s school system.
Included were bills to reorganize the state department of education,
let school districts adopt new tax bases, enlarge schoool districts, have
the state superintendent of public instruction to be appointed by the
board of education, give the board enlarged authority, reorganize and
recodify the school laws, improve teacher training, have the country
school superintendents appointed by rural school boards and school
board chairman increase vocational and adult education, give teachers
more money, improve school guidance, and have uniform report cards.
Executive Council Fills Vacant Posts
oevertu vacant puota wcic aiaicvi
Monday night by the Executive
Council.
Merv Hampton was selected
junior class president. His pre
vious activities include, President
of Druids, Secretary of Skull and
Dagger, General Chairman of Sop
homore Picnic, Promotion Chair
man of Sophomore Whiskerino,
Food Chairman for Oregon Picnic,
Oregana Staff, ASUO Traffic
Court, Senior Ball Ticket Commit
tee, Junior Prom Ticket Commit
tee, Junior Weekend Radio Pro
motion Committee and Duck Pre
view Campus Tours and Assembly
Committee.
Dave Rodway was named gene
ral chairman of Dad’s Day. He
Ilia (JICYIUUO CAJ1C11C11V/C ao,
Homecom’n? Bonfire Committee
1948, Sophomore Whiskerino Dec
orations Committee 1949, Military
Bail 1950, AU Campus Sing Com
mittee 1950, and Junior Represent
ative 1950-51.
In his program, Rodway called
i for immediate action on Dad’s Day
J plans. Several old committees will
I be consolidated, he said.
With the unanimous recommend
! ation of the senior class officers,
[ Leslie Tooze waa named to senior
j class secretary by the council. She
! has been in the following activi
| ties: vice-president Student Union
! Board, Gamma Alpha Chi, Assem
bly Committee, and U of O Blood
! Drive, ARC.
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The News in View
PVT. HUBERT REEVES learn
ed that he will have to lose both
feet and part of both hands as
a result of frostbite when he was
wounded and left for dead in
Korea. The 19-year-old Joliet,
111., veteran, shown in a Japan
hospital, has been in the Percy
Jones Hospital in Kittle Creek,
Mich., since his return to the
United States. (AP WIRE
PHOTO)
AWAITING SHIPMENT TO
KOREA frorti San Francisco is
Marine Corp. Albert L. Ireland,
32, of Cold Springs, N. Y., who
was wounded five times in World
War II. Ireland obtained permis
sion to “ship out” for combat
duty from Marine Corps Com
mandant Gen. Clifton B. Cates.
The corporal has four Purple
Hearts for wounds he received
at Okinawa and is entitled to an
other for a wound received earl
ier at Guadalcanal. (AP WIRE
PHOTO)
ROTARY PRESIDENT Arthur
Lagueux, Quebec banker and a
Roman Catholic, in a statement
said his organization is a world
fellowship of business and pro
fessional men of all political and
religious beliefs and not a secret
organization. His statement was
in answer to a Catholic decree
forbidding clergymen to belong
to Rotary Clubs. (AP WIRE
PHOTO)
u* uiMiis poster child for 1951, Ko.>eri (juai-i-y > uuuus>uie,
Jr., 12, shows Presklent Truman the airplane splints supporting;
his polio-weakened arms \vhile visiting the White House. The boy was
stricken in 1M9 while at his family’s home in Kuckville, N. Y. The
president, Larry told reporters, “said he was really pleased to meet
me.” (AP WIREPHOTO)
GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (right) is greeted by King Fred*
erik IX of Denmark in Amielborg Castel, Copenhagen. General “Ike”,
on his information gathering tour of the Atlantic Fact nations,
was received by the King in a half-hour audience before beginning
his conference with Denmark’s defense chiefs. (AP WIREPHOTO)
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RISE IN CONSUMER and wholesale prices from the beginning of
1048 to the end of 1950 are shown in the above charts. Food prices
led the increase in new consumer prices reached in 1950. Farm prices
scored the largest increase in the wholesale field in 1950, with food
and industrial prices close behind. (AP WIREPHOTO)