n Daily EMERALD Fifty-fir.it year of Publication Volume Mil I'MVKICSITV <>l OKKOO.N, M (.IM , TChMOAY. NOVEMBER I»TT»iT NHIBKI- * Sale of Buttons Begins in Eugene Homecoming Hutton sales will begin in downtown Kugenc ;m Metz. Homecoming finance chairman. Alpha I’lii Omega, national men's service honorary, will sell bnttons in the downtown area and Shnil and Dagger, sophomore men's honorary, will have charge of Spring field sales. • his year's (|uota for button sales has been set at 5CXXJ. Goals iur miii-H are apringneia, tuu; k;u gene, 1200; and campus, 2500. The remainder will be srid at the alumni registration tables Home coming weekend and In the public schools, Metz said. All Eugene high schools arc be t lng contacted starting today by ' committee workers under the di rection of Sally Hayden. Buttons will cost 10 cents. The revenue from the sales is expected to pay for three-fourths of all Homecoming expenses other than the dance and the alumni luncheon, Metz stated. All living organizations will be contacted for sales before Wednes day It was announced. Events Remain "Homerorning event* will run off ns scheduled on Friday, Nov. 23 even though Stan Kenton will be playing an engagement in Kugene on the name night," Mike Lally. Homecoming dance chairman, an nounced Monday. The bonfire rally will start at 8 pin. on Nov. 23 and will be followed by an informal dance in the Student Union fishbowl. There will be no admission charge. Questions had arisen concerning the conflict with the Kenton ap pearance, but Lally and alumni di rector Lea Anderson asked that committees go ahead with sched uled events. Voting Booths Open Voting booths for Homecoming Queen selection will be open today from 9 a m. to 4 p.m. in the Co-op and the Student Union. Today is the last day to vote, according to Nell Chase, queen selection chairman. Student body cards must be presented at the booths, Chase said. The 1951 Ttomecoming queen will be an nounced Wednesday. The six candidates up for the Homecoming queen are Jody Greer, Mollie Muntzel, Barbara Bates, Lyn Hartley, Nancy Miller, and Helen Jackson. In previous years the winner had the title of hostess. Last year's winner was Lee DeJarnctte. UO Water Ballet Depicts Seasons "Seasonal Watermoods,” this j term's water ballet, will be pre sented by Amphibians, women's swimming honorary, at 8 p m. , Wednesday and Thursday nights' in the men’s pool. The various swimming numbers ' done to music will be butlt around the four seasons of the year. The j four main numbers are "The Foot ball Heroes" r f n Hi, “Christmas Toys” i winter). “I'll Take Ro | mancc" (spring) and "Fireflies” ! isummer i. Participating in these and other j numbers will be Amphibian mem j tiers plus four men, Pete Van ; Dyke. Jim Allen. Yoshinobu Ter ; ade, and Allan Wakinekona from the men's swimming team. "This year's show promises to be ; the most outstanding and interest j ing we have put on yet.” Jean jSkordahl, co-chairman of the show, I said. | Tickets are now available at j Gerlinger hall. Student Union, men's physical eduaction building, j and the Co-op. Price is 60 cents. Rigger's Guide To Go on Sole 'Che 1051-52 logger's Guide* will lx* available* next Monday, lU'iordin)* to huHim-ss managcr, Brnre* Wallace*. The guide will contain the names of all students with their address, telephone number, class, and major. There will also be a faculty directory, a list of offi cers of campus living organiza tions and honoraries, and Ore gon songs and traditions. The directory will sell for 50c and will be sold in the Student (inion. California Game Pairings Listed Pairings for Thursday night's Oalifomia-Oregon football send-off rally at Union station for the California game have been an nounced by the rally board. Men's houses arc to pick-up the women's houses they are paired with at 6:50 p.m. Thursday. The rally is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. House pairings are as follows: Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma Nu; Alpha Delta Pi, Sigma Alpha Mu, McChesney; Alpha Gamma Delta, Chi Psi; Alpha Omicron Pi. Sigma Chi: Alpha Phi, Alpha Tau Omega: Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Upsilon; Ann Judson, Philadelphia. Carson 2, Kappa Sigma. Cher ney; Carson 3, Sigma Phi Epsilon. Stitzer: Carson 4. Tau Kappa Epsi lon, Sederstrom; Carson 5, Nestor, Hunter: Chi Omega, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Delta Delta Delta, Camp bell club, Sherry Ross; Delta Gam ma. Phi Delta Theta; Delta Zeta, Phi Kappa Alpha, Sigma; Gamma AGS Considers Sponsoring Jazz Associated Greek Students, campus political organization, will consider sponsoring Jazz at the Philharmonic at a meeting at 4 p.m. today. Larry Dean, AGS president, said Monday. Dean said an AGS committee meeting Monday was in favor of hacking the band for a perform ance next Monday night. It will be necessary to present the proposal to all Greek houses and secure in dividual house opinion, he stated. Fraternities and sororities will vote on the proposal this evening in house meetings, Dean explained. Stu McCollom, who, together with six other Oregon students, ! has indicated willingness to pro-1 vide the $2500 guarantee necessary ! to book the band, said Monday he had obtained use of the Eugene armory for next Monday. However, he said nearness to Homecoming activities and the lack of "poten tial" in seating capacity in the armory (3100 seats) have caused him to consider dropping the pro motion. McCollom said that if AGS agrees to sponsor the musical en semble. he will be in a position to make arrangements for McArthur court for the band's appearance. A University policy will not allow private promoters to schedule events in McArthur court. Monday is the last available date for booking the band before it dis (Please turn to fage eight) Survey Produces 13th Street Data By Bob Southwell New rlata on the 13th ave. pedes- | ■ trian problems will soon be avail able through a traffic survey made ' of all cars traversing the Univer- ; sity campus via that street. For two nights last week and j two days of the previous week six men stopped about 3,000 cars on 13th avi between University and Kincaid sts. to ask questions con cerning destination, origin, and j purpose of each trip along the j street. The resulting information ! will be compiled and analyzed by j the Eugene traffic survey group to ■ aid the city council in solving the j problem. At the Oct. 22 city council meet ing the University requested in stallation of standard traffic sig nals at Kincaid and University sts. to replace the unofficial and disre garded signals now there. Wants Campus Traffic Limited | I. I. Wright, physical plant su- I perintendenc, believes the statistics j obtained in the survey will confirm i his stand for holding campus traf fic to a minimum, and having four way stops on 13th at Kincaid, Uni versity, and Onyx sts. However. Larry Thompson, who is in charge of the traffic survey, pointed out the statistics may reveal a large percentage of 13th st. traffic as University-bound, thus making re I strictions undesirable. Thompson defined the problem j I by explaining that while 13th st. is J an artery of the Eugene street lay- i out and is therefore a through j street, there is a need for the ac- I commodation of the large number of University students who must cross between Kincaid and Univer sity sts. between classes. "Since pedestrians and cars don’t mix, serious consideration of the prob lem is warranted," he said. Major Eugene Traffic Problem The resulting situation has made | the LTniversity's segment of 13th ] ave. a major Eugene traffic prob j lem and has thereby stimulated : the traffic survey just completed. (please turn tn page eight) Pay Telephones Get Complaint A complaint has been lodged with George H. Flagg, public utili ties commissioner in Salem, con cerning the installation of pay telephones in university and col lege living organizations. Monday, officers of the Oregon Federation of Collegiate Leaders mailed the complaint to Flagg to gether with a resolution passed at a recent convention of OFCL pro testing the action of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. ASUO President Bill Carey is sending out a similar complaint on behalf of the ASUO. The statements were filed alter it was learned no hearing regard ing the controversy could be au thorized until formal complaints were received by Flagg. I Dismantling of 128-foot Brick Smokestack Proves Long and Interesting Process By Al Karr "Okay, let ’or go!" The workman astraddle the smokestack 125 feet in the air pushed a large piece of stone off the top, and wide-mouthed onlook ers watched the stone hurtle to the ground and land with a tre mendous crash. Work on the task of dismantling the smokestack of the -old steam plant was in process. "That fella up there, a real steeplejack, will hack off pieces of that sandstone rim and push ’em over until the rim is taken care of," the workman’s partner on the ground told the reporter. Originally 128 feet high, the smokestack has been torn down * three to five feet from the top since dismantling began last week, I anil the worker on the top of the stack will soon he ready to begin bringing down the bricks. Worker is Veteran "He used to do steel construc tion work in Chicago where they really get up high. Highest he ever worked was 280 feet in the air. Spent 15 years working for the Chicago Bridge and Steel com pany.” We gazed upward at the lofty worker, and saw him chipping away at the rim, one leg inside the stack, and the other hanging over the outside. lie and his equipment were tied to the inside of the stack. Fart of the old steam plant re placed by the new heating and power plant, the smokestack is located between University and Onyx sts, behind the science build i in£, now under construction. The I steam plant building will become | an annex to the school of architec ! ture and allied arts when that I school expands across University street. "He'll have to bring the rest down the inside in a bucket, brick by brick," his partner on the ground said. "When he gets that rim finished, it'll All clear! Do it again!" The worker above was ready with another chunk, and his partner, seeing the roped-off safety area on the ground was clear, waved his red flag. The "steeplejack" moved the loose chunk off the ledge, it hurtled over the top, and crashed to the ground. "It'll take about a month to get the whole thing down," the ground man continued. "He'll take down four to eight feet of the stack a week, handing down bucketfuls of brick inside to men below.” Bricks Are Valuable ‘'Why not just push the smoke stack over?" we asked. "Oh. no. We can't do that. In surance company won't let us. The bricks are too valuable. And the University's gonna sell them. Lotta money in bricks.” "Hey. All clear down there?” We looked up, saw the stack man's grimy face peering over. "Yep. push er over!” Another speedy descent and booming thud. Onlookers cast ap preciative glances at each other. We walked away with the crash echoing in our ears; the chipping of the workman’s hammer con tinued. rhe 13th ave. survey is just ona Portion of a $25,000 project spon sored jointly by Eugene. Spring 'ield, Lane county, and the ‘lata lighway department, according to Eugene city manager Oren King. The traffic survey will analyze the traffic routes through vital traffic zones by determining tho origins and destinations of tup?'. Parking facilities available in downtown Eugene have already been examined. By appropriating $2,000 for the route analysis and $13,000 for thim parking survey, Eugene contrib uted $15,000 to the project whilo Springfield donated $500, Lane county $15,000, and the state high way department $5,000. Three Main Questions The six interviewers on 13th ave. based their survey on three prin cipal questions. They asked <1) where the cars were going and where they came from, to deter mine what percentage is through traffic and what peicentagf is University; (2i the reason for eaclv trip; and (3t, if tourists, where they stopped in town, so spontane ous tendencies in traffic loirtcy may be discovered. A traffic counter also was on the scene. Besides counting the total number of cars passing thiouglv the area, he recorded all the turn ing movements from each lane. Be cause of this latter duty, a man was necessary instead of the me chanical counter used in the pre liminary determination of 13th ave. traffic volurr-. Every effort was made to con duct the survey during a typical' traffic situation. Wednesday Thursday of the first week were chosen as typical days for morning interviewing; Monday and Tuesday of last week were chosen as typical for questioning between 2 p.m and 10 p.m. The eastbound traffic w;* j questioned at the University s„ intersection and the westbound*, traffic was questioned at the Kin caid st. intersection. Action Left to City Council Action on the survey’s data will be left to the city council. Its prin cipal problem on 13th ave.—wheth er or not traffic should be routed on Kincaid and University sts. be tween class periods—is now being studied by the Eugene traffic safe ty commission. However, the traffic survey will include an analysis of the situa tion, which could affect the com mission's and council's action. Ac cording to Thompson, this analysis will include this question: ' What trips would be inconvenienced by the closure of 13th st.?" Thompson indicated a large per centage of 13th ave. traffic may be due to habit, rather than con venience. Consequently, the survey may reveal that a number of Eu gene and Springfield residents are using 13th ave. when 19th *ave., Willamette st., or 11th ave. would provide a much more direct route. Campus Bigwigs —by Bibler SU DIRECTOR Dick Williams waves flag lor new poliey.