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EMERALD
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Volimie Lin UMVER8ITV OF OREGON, El GENE, THURSDAY, lAM AKY 17, 1952 M MBKK 60
local Pay Phone
Calls Will Cost
104 on Monday
Local calls from pay telephones will cost a dime—-beginning
Monday.
That's what Louis Kade, local manager of the Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph Co. told the Kmerald Wednesday, lie
said that there would he few mechanical difficulties involved,!
since the ohortcs have alreadv been converted in the oast few
Newspaperman
Chosen to Speak
At Conference
One of the nation's foremost
journalists, James S, Pope, execu
tive editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, will be the Kric Allen
Memorial lecturer for the annual
Oregon Press conference, Feb. 22
23.
This annual gathering of editors
and publishers of dally and week
ly Oregon newspapers is sponsored
by the school of journalism and
the Oregon Newspaper Publishers'
association.
Pope will speak to journalism
students in classes and informally.
He will present the Allen Memorial
lecture, given in the memory of
the first dean of the sc'.iool of
Journalism, at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb.
2.
An outstanding fighter against
the Truman administration’s tight
er censorship of news. Pope is also
chairman of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors committee
on the freedom of the press. He is
a member of Slgrna Delta Chi, na
tional journalism honorary. He
served In the Office of Censorship,
Washington, D.C., from August
1943 to February 1944.
weeks in anticipation of (he tariff
hike granted last Friday by the
f’nblic Utilities commission.
"This is the first pay phone in
crease in history in Oregon," Fade
said. "The new rate was requested
by the company lust year, and the
10-eent charge is already in effect
in Washington and California.
Either one dime or two nickles
will have to be deposited to com
plete local calls after Sunday night,
Eade said.
The raise to 10 cents on local
pay phone calls was part of an
$834,441 annual increase in tariffs
authorized by the PUC on Friday.
The company had requested a
$.’>,188,000 annual rate boost.
Dick Kadlng, chairman of the
special phone committee Investi
gating pay phones, said Wcdies
day that action must be taken
quickly on the telephone company's
proposal to set up an intra-cam
pus exchange to handle campus
calls.
"We expected 10 cent pay phones
and now they're here,” KadiDg
said. "Now speed is important."
Hading said that he will dis
tribute. to living organizations
some time today, copies of the
phone company's suggestion ac
companied by a questionairc ask
ing for student reaction to the
plan. If student opinion is favor
able towards the plan, Hading said
that he will confer with the Uni
versity administration on the prob
lem. He said he hoped to get stu
^ dent answers by Monday.
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Emerald Feature
Helps, He Finds
Itosco Wright, editor and pub
lisher of the Heienre fiction mag
azine Kusifanso, saw a tangible
return on the feature story which
appeared on him in Wednesday's
Kmerald.
( ampus station KWAX called
him up and wanted an Interview.
He sold more than half his
magazines on sale at the Co-op
hook section.
Only Two Miss
Election Meeting
All but two of twenty three can
didates for freshman elections ap
peared at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the
Student Union board room to hear
Election Chairman Merv Hampton
describe campaign procedure. The
turnout, said Hampton, was "quite
surprising and very gratifying."
Tuesday, 24 hours before the
petition deadline, only eight candi
dates had turned up. Fifteen came
in Wednesday and there was a
chance, Hampton said, that even
more might be entered before the
deadline which was midnight.
Election campaigns, he said,
could start just after the deadline
but he thought most freshmen
would wait a least until this morn
! inK- Three University rulings on
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An Invitation to Snow-bound Californians . . .
COME ON UP, OUR WEATHER'S FINE
Bright sunshine broke over Eu
gene Wednesday, making this area
the only one with clear weather in
the Oregon and northern California
coastalstrip.
The clear weather should move
on, the bureau said, and predicted
cloudy weather for today, with
high temperature of 40 degrees
und a low of 30.
Weather bureau officials re
ported clouds over Portland, Salem,
Roseburg and Grants Pass Wednes
day. North Bend was mostly clear,
they said, although it hat; more
clouds than those over this area.
"Very unusual occurence," said
the bureau, "especially for this
time of year." The clearing follow
ed a storm which had included rain
and occasional snow anti is now
moving south.
Cause of the sudden clearing, the
bureau explained, was warm, dry
air moving into this area from the
middle Pacific sector, coming in
at higher levels than the cold,
moist air which is moving south.
The warm air settled in this spot, it
was pointed out, clearing the sky,
although only raising the maxi
mum temperature to about 46 de
grees.
"We know of the presence of
these warm air masses in the Pa
cific,” the bureau stated, "but it
is hard to predict where they will
go."
Scholarship Award
- Fmcrald photo by Fred Schncitcr
PHI SIGMA KAPPA’S Fred Italt/. (left) receives the congratulations
of Lynn S. McCrcady, representing the Sigma C'hi alumni, as he ac
cepts the Sigma Chi foundation scholarship trophy. The award,
given for the first time this year, went to the Phi Sig’s on the basis
of most improvement in scholarship over the past year. In the back
ground is Dr. Alfred II. Peacock, also representing Sigma Chi alums.
| Campus Selects
j GOP Convention
Oregon's spring-term mock po
litical convention will be based on
the procedure of the Republician
national convention, Francis Gill
more, general chairman for the
event, announced Wednesday.
A majority of the campus voted
for the Republican type conven
tion in a poll of living organiza
tions, Miss Gillmore said.
The convention, entitled "Op
eration Politics," will be held May
2 and 3 on the campus. It will give
students a chance to take part in
end observe how a political con
vention operates, she explained.
Chairmen for the convention
committees have been chosen by
Miss Gillmore, Sally Hayden will
serve as secretary, Ann Diolsehnei
der as historian and Dick Paul,
treasurer. Resolutions committee
chairmen will be Charles Zulauf,
pressure group chairman George
Smith and state delegations chair
man, Bob Ridderbusch.
Students interested in working
on any of the committees may eon
1 tact the respective chairman, Neil
| Chase, public relations chairman,
announced. He said a number of
workers are needed.
Duties of the delegation com
mittee will be to select the ehair
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Rabbi Nodel Is Active in Promoting
Better Jewish-Christian Relations
Jewish representative and one
of the principal speakers at the
fourth day of the World Parlia
ment of Religions will be Rabbi
Julius Josef Nodel.
Rabbi Nodel, who has been ac
tive in all forms of Jewish youth
work and organizations that aim
for the bettering of relations be
tween the Jewish and Christian re- j
ligions, is leader of Portland's
Temple Beth Israel and counselor
for the University's Hillel founda
tion.
Before his entrance into the
United States Naval Reserve as a
chaplain in 1941, Rabbi Node! was
a leading figure in the Cleveland
B'nai B'rith, the National Confer
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'Free India' Worker,
Bashir Minto,
To Discuss Islam
An active participant in the
"Free India” movement of Mohan
dis K. Gandhi, late leader of that
country, will speak to students
Wednesday on the religion of Is
lam.
He is Bashir A.hmad Minto, pres
ident of the United States Moslem
society and preacher ol Islam in
the United States since 1947.
Minto will address students and
faculty and participate in discus
sion during the fourth day of the
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—Eugene Register-Guard photo
BASHIR AHMAD MIN TO
World Parliament of Religions pro
gram which begins Sunday.
Minto began in the Indian gov
ernment as president of the Dis
trict Purnea Congress committee
in Bchar province. His active par
ticipation led him to engage in
social welfare work. He was twice
appointed to work in behalf of the
"untouchable” castes in India.
A governing Mohammedan group
in Lahore commissioned him to
work for the uplifting of the “un
touchables" in Malabar, Madras
and Bombay. He worked extensive
ly in a district near Bombay be
tween 1943 and 1945.
Minto’s activity in attempting to
bring about the independence of
India through a joint Hindu-Islam
movement brought about his im
prisonment by the British three
times on charges of civil disobedi
ence.
The Moslem Society president
has been active in international
Boy Scout work. From 1939 to
1942, Mr. Minto was elected Pro
vincial Organizing commissioner
for the Hindustan Boy Scouts in
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ence of Christians and Jews snd •
Jewish education committees.
Rabbi Nodel was contributing
editor of the "Jewish Review an
Observer" and served as Ohio
State chaplain of the Jewish War
Veterans of America.
Continuing his active interest irv
youth and social welfare work,
since his move from his Cleveland
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RABBI JULIUS NODEL
' Ohio poet as assistant rabbi of
the Jewish temple, Rabbi Model is
a member of the United Commit
tee for Civil Rights and the Gov
ernor's Committee for Youth in
Oregon.
Rabbi Node! will share the lime
light with Mr. Ahmad Minto. the
Islam representative, on Wednes
day, the fourth day of the par
liament. His main address will be
"O, How Love I Thy Law’’ or the
theology of Judaism at 1 p.m. in
the Student Union.
"Judaism in the World of the
Mid-Twentieth Century’’ will be
the topic of an address which he
will deliver at 8 p.m. in the Stu
dent Union.
'Hel!—help Week'
Plan Prepared
For IFC Meeting
Herb Cook, junior m business ad
ministration, will present his “hell
to help week" plan at IFC meeting
tonight in the Student Union.
But IFC President Dick Mc
Laughlin said a similar “help
week” plan was originated by he
IFC last fall during their retreat
at the Oregon coast.
"Due to more urgent things on
our agenda we haven't yet worked
out our plans for a 'help week,’ ”
he said. “We appreciate Cook's
suggestions and will incorporate
them with our other plans for the
week."
Cook introduced his plan for re
placing traditional initiation pro
i cedure with school and community
| services last Sunday. Using the
student affairs office as a. project
j “clearing house” fraternities and
| sororities would put pledges on
such projects as helping old and
disabled people, cleaning up the
millrace, beautifying the campus
and working with the Red Cross.
House presidents decided this fall
to concentrate first on the Hallo
ween party for Eugene children,
McLaughlin said. Then they for
mulated rules for this year’s rush
week, he explained, planning to
complete plans for a "help week”
winter term.
Open rushing, slated to open
Jan. 28 and run until two weeks
before the end of spring term, will
also te discussed at the meeting
tonight.