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Emerald Exclusive... Senators Robert A. Taft (R Ohio) and Wayne Morse (R-Ore.) present their views on the Taft Hartley Labor Law. See their let ters to the Emerald on Page 2. n Daily EMERALD m VOLUME LH UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1951 NUMBER m Business Manager Post Open A business manager for the Oregon Daily Emerald will be named this afternoon by the Stu dent Publications Board. Petitions for the position are due at 3 p.m. today in the administra tive offices of the Student Union. Petitioners will be interviewed by the publications board at 4:30 p.m. in the Chambers room on the third floor of the Student Union. Board members will meet at 4 to S>k over the petitions. If neces ry, a night meeting of the board Will be held. Reorganization Adapted A complete reorganization of the financial system of the business side of the daily was adopted by the publications board at a meet ing Tuesday. This was decided after it was reported that the Emerald was approximately $400 below its advertising budget for winter term. This $400 was taken- out of the photography, engraving, and tra vel items of the 1950-51 Emerald budget, thus removing the deficit. Under the new system, the'busi ness manager will be paid on a commission basis rather than the straight salary previously paid. Don Thompson, who was business manager under the old plan, will be allowed to petition along with other students this afternoon. The motion setting up the new plan was worked as follows: “Student Publications Board re quests petitions for the position of business manager of the Oregon Daily Emerald to take office (Please turn to page seven) Virginia City Actors to Appear Here ■w TWO ACTORS of the Virginia City Players’ Company go through a scene from one of their melodramas. The company, which has become nationally known for its presentation of these old-time plays, will per form here Saturday. Indiana Editor Chosen Conference Speaker Tom H. Keene, editor of the Elkhart, Ind., Daily Truth, will be the main speaker at the thirty-second annual Oregon Press Conference, scheduled for the Oregon campus Feb. 16 and 17. Keene, who has been a newspaperman for 42 years and editor of Tike Truth for 34 years, will speak as the fifth Eric W. Allen Memorial .Fund lecturer, according to Alton F. Baker, publisher of the Eugene Register-Guard and chairman of the fund trustees. One of the leading journalists I of the country, Keene, general manager of his newspaper as well as editor, has had a long and suc cessful career. In 1948, he received the second annual Minnesota award to a news paperman for "service to journal ism of a high order over'a period of years.’’ Keene, who is also the past pre sident of the Hoosier State Press Association, and the Inland Daily Press Association, will remain in Eugene a few days after the con ference to meet with journalism students. On Feb. 20 he will de liver an address in Portland to the professional chapter of Sigma Del ta Chi, national men’s joumalis , tic fraternity. ' Arrangements for the press con r ference program here are now be ing' made by Conference President * Lueien P. Arant, publisher of the iSpter Democrat-Herald; Oregon Newspaper Publishers’ Association President Walter W. R. May; ONPA Manager Carl Webb, assist ant professor of journalism; and Gordon A. Sabine, dean of the School of Journalism. TO SPEAK AT UO Tom H. Keene Gay Nineties Melodramas Featured by Troupe The Virginia City Players, pror fessional stock company whose summer activities in Alder Gulch’s historic old restored mining Camp have attracted nationwide, interest in such publications as Holiday and Theatre Arts, will visit the University at $:15 p.m. Saturday. The players/are made up of a group of actors whose experience includes professional and collegi: tickets are 70 cents. Weather Due To Improve Weather conditions will be back to winter norms by Sat urday, the United States Weath er Bureau at the Eugene Air port reported Wednesday. Cloudy skies and rising tem peratures are scheduled for to day with some possibility of snow followed by rain Friday. Normal winter weather should prevail this weekend, the bureau said. According to the government meteorologists, average Eugene temperature for this period of the year is 45 degrees during the day. Night-time temperatures vary between 35 and 40 degrees. The mercury dropped to 21 de grees in Eugene Tuesday even ing. Bend was reported to be the coldest- spot in the state Tues day with a reading of 12 degrees below zero. When they appear at the SU Saturday night, they will present the “Bale of Hay Varities,” a lively Gay Nineties variety show. The fast-moving melodramas, which are enhanced with the addi tion of entre-acts, curtain raisers, and after pieces will be presented in the Student Union ballroom. Tickets for the show will be on sale the remainder of this week in the lobby of the SU. Student tickets are 50 cents; general admission 75 cents. • The troupe uses authentic Gay Nineties costumes according to Dori Barsness, wife of the com pany’s director-manager. High button shoes for the ladies and stiff, detachable collars for the men are included. Much time is required to get in and out of these outmoded dress fashions, he said. SU Board Needs New Member For the second time within a month the Student Union board will have a change in membership. In a Wednesday night meeting, the board voted to replace Herb Nill with a member from the ASUO Executive Council. Nill, who is first vice-president of ASUO and an automatic mem ber of the board, had earlier re quested that he be relieved of hia position on the board because of conflicting working hours. ASUO President Barry Moun tain suggested the change at last week's meeting. According to the motion passed Wednesday, Moun tain will appoint an Executive Council member to represent Nill on the board. Mountain said he will make the appointment at Monday's Execu tive Council meeting. Final approv al will be made by the SU board. The board emphasized the fact that the new member will be a rep resentative of the office of first vice-president and will have a voice in board action but not a vote. Other business taken up by the board included a report from Dir (Please turn to page seven ) Byerly Gives Last Quake Talk Tonight Perry Byerly,_ Condon lecturer for 1951, will conclude his series of two lectures at the University at 8 p.m. Thursday when he speaks in the Student Union. "Earthquakes—Their Effects and Mitigation” will be the topic which Byerly will discuss Thursday. He is the sixth speaker to appear in connection with the Condon lecture series, which is designed to make science research known to the lay man. in terms he can easily undei^ stand. Byerly discussed the causes and the geographical distribution of earthquakes in his first lecture on the Oregon campus Tuesday. His series of six talks, sponsorei I by the Geological Society of the Oregon Academy of Science, will conclude Tuesday and next Thurs day at Lincoln High School in Portland. Among the fields in which he has done research are earth struc ture, roots of mountains, and energy in- earthquakes. Who's Coffin? Me, of Corpse A mysterious epidemic of coughing broke out in the Stu dent Health Service Wedpes tiay afternoon. Doctors, nurses, and patients in the office all ex perienced sudden fits of cough ing. But neither the cold wind out side. nor an undiscovered virus could be blamed for the epide mic. Examination of the situation revealed that the janitor was cleaning out a sink with Drano. Mortar Board Awards Plaque Alice Maier, Helen Jackson, and Stephanie Scott were awarded the Mortar Board Plaque at the senior women’s honorary's annual Smarty Party Wednesday night. The plaque is given annually to the three sophomore women who earned the highest grades in their freshman class. Presentation of the award was a feature of the party, which honor rd 67 freshman women who earn ed a grade point average of 3.00 or higher this fall term. Miss Maier and Miss Jackson are sophomores in liberal arts, while Miss Scott is a sophomore in archi tecture and allied arts. Entertainment at the party in cluded numbers by a trio from Hui O Kamaaina, Hawaiian club, and Max Pierce, accordionist.