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* m Daily EMERALD Fifty-third year of Publication VoIuiimi Mil UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEB. IS, 1052 NUMBER *1 Outgoing IRL Officers Art French f’hutu Ol TGOINti OFFICKKS TOR the Oregon high school International Kelutlons Imikuc nr*1, from left to right, Vice-president Susan Kandell, Jacksonville; Historian I)on /.anleker. St. Helens; President William Me A His ter, Medford; and Secretary-treasurer Jackie Hoo.nsnn, -Salem. High School Students Will Discuss World's Ills Two handled and fifty delegates from international relations clubs in Oregon high schools will be on campus this weekend to delve into problems of U.S. foreign policy. This is the fifth annual convention to be held here and is sponsored jointly by the University of Oregon and the Oiegon Education associa tion. One Topic “Refitting Germany into Europe" will be one topic to be discussed at the kickoff meeting this morning in the Student Union at 8:30. This ad dress will be given by Warren Tomlinson, head of the department cf history and foreign language at College of Puget Sound. Also speaking at the opening session will be Dean Jones, acting president of the university, who will welcome the delegates and John Swjurthout, head of the political science department at OSC. He will He Should Be Next Frosh President, if ... If past records hold true the outgoing president of the High School International Relations league meeting here this weekend should be president of Oregon's freshman class next year. William McAllister of Medford, present president of IRI., will he replaced tomorrow by a new leader elected by the group. The 1949-50 president, Wayne Carothers of Klamath Falls, came to Oregon the next fall and was elerted frosli president while thfi 1950 51 president, Robert Glass of Eugene, Is the present leader of the freshman class. speak on tlie major factors influencing U.S. foreign policy. Following the speeches there will be a panel made up by Earl Pomeroy of the history department, Charles Duncan, school of journalism; Charles Schleicher, political science department; and Tomlinson and Swarthout. Discussion Croups Next Following the initial meeting the delegates will break up into discus sion groups. Their discussions will be based on study guides furnished them by the political science departments of Oregon State college and the Oregon Education Association. A luncheon in the Su ballroom and further discussions will fill the afternoon and at 6:30 the annual banquet will take place in the ball room. Officers for the next year will be nominated at the banquet. Enter tainment will be furnished by Victoria Peres of Guatemala who will dance, and Kaare Sandegrcn of Norway who will play the piano. Five UO foreign students--Amir Nahrai of Iran, Patrick Spencer of Chile, Keide Miyoshi of Japan, Ulrich Tiunpener of Germany, and Manakkol . Venkataramani of India will give short talks. Saturday’s Agenda Saturday morning the delegates will meet with their discussion groups for the last time where they will prepare their reports. From 9:30 until noon the roundtable reports will be given, followed by comments from a panel including Warren Tomlinson, John Swar thout, Charles Schleicher, Orde Pinckney, and Michael Flaeh. From 8:30 to 11:30 Saturday evening there will be a social hour and dancing. New officers will also be selected on Saturday. Present officers arc: .William McAllister of Medford, president; Susan Sandell, Jacksonville, vice-president; Jackie Robinson, Salem, secretary-treasurer; and Don Zfinicker, St. Helens, historian. International Relations League officers, both old and .new, will meet with OEA and IRC officers for luncheon after the final meeting. These Fellows Had a Hot Time At the Beach A couple of follow* took their date i to the beach Saturday— | and camp back minus of few ' clothe*. It *cem* that they went wad j Ing, and the. men got slightly , wet. Mo they wrapped up In blanket* and hung their pant* up hy a fire to dry. The fire wa* hot . . . they for got to keep an eye on it . . . and their trouser* caught fire. So the men had to drive back to Eu gene wrapped up in blanket*. Thl* might have all been kept | *ccrrt, but they were noticed leaving ('arson hall about 5 p.m. Saturday after taking their ■ date* home. Annual 'Squeeze' Is Saturday Night The annual "Lemon-Orange Squeeze” will be held Saturday night after the Oregon-Oregnn State basketball game. The dance is a traditional mixer held each year for all Oregon and Oregon State students. This year dancing will be in the SU ballroom to the music of Jack Laughey and his six-piece band. During intermission at 10:45. the 1 Delt Trio and Harry Donkers on the harmonica will entertain. Admission is 20 cents per per 1 son. General chairman of the dance is Don Almy assisted by Janet ; Wick, entertainment: Harvey Wells and Diane David, decora tions, and Bob Simpson, publicity. Oreganos on Sale For Last Time Today i ! Oregana sales in the Co-op and Student Union will end today. Booths will be open from 11 a m. | to 5 p.m. • Cost of the Oregana is $6.75, al ; though it can be paid in two in stallments $3.75 now and $3 to 1 be paid later or taken out of break - , age fees. Pictures from last year’s annual '• will be on sale in the Co-op at the same time. Cost for the pictures 1 varies from 10 to 50 cents. USA Election Plan Sent to Committee By Majority Vote i nr L-r'/vproposed primary election plan was sent to com mitter by a vote of 15-5 in ASLO senate Thursday even ing. I he vote followed discussion of the two-part plan which pro vides for both an open primary ami party presidential nomina ting conventions. Its initiator, Senator-at-Larfre Virginia Wright, requested a vote on the two parts of the proposal separately and. following the mo tion to send it to a committee, stated: "If the majority is opposed, I would like to sec it voted down now." Needs Investigation Many senators stated they did not fully understand the plan and felt it needed further investigation, which the committee, not yet ap pointed, could give it. Some were partially or wholly against it. charging that the United Students association was meddling :n the affairs of the Associated Greek students. "• • • It looks to me like maybe we should thank some of these people for looking out for our in terests, ' stated Bill Frye, ser.atcr at-large. Criticizes Convention The senate was particularly critical of the presidential conven tion section of the proposal. Miss Wright admitted that it might contain errors, but restated her contention that it would create more student interest. And she explained that the con vention system would prevent a plurality from electing a presiden tial candidate. “One of your big points,-' Frye I countered, "is that it is going to create more interest. “There is more interest the way its is right now. Intele*t comes* from the party itself." Another point brought out was <Please turn to te<jc seven) ♦ ♦ ♦ Senate Refuses PT&T Proposal For 'Status Quo' The ASUO senate Thursday night rejected the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company’s* proposal for a "status quo" pcricxU in the phone controversy. The senate directed Dick Kading, phone committee chairman tc in form PT&T that the comper,y’» proposal called for unreasonable delay and was detrimental to stu dents. And it instructed the phone com mittee to file a formal complaint or to "take steps to reach an equitable solution to the problem. The company requested 60 to 00 days to Jiick up pertinent informa tion on the situation, promising to delay no longer than next fall term Kadir.g said. But, he con tinued: "I feei the delay is unreasonable. I think they would delay until faH* term ar.d thee put pay phones i» at OSC." If a complaint were filed, he re marked. he hoped one subserioer [ could be taken from each of the ; three schools presently contesting ’the tariff-Oregon, OSC 2nd Wil lamette. YM-YW International Festival Will Be Held Here Saturday A coffee hour and taJent show, dinner and a dance will be the main activities for the annual In ternational Festival sponsored by the YM and YWCA to be held on campus Saturday. Special guests at the festival will be foreign students from ten colleges and universities in Oregon, and all students on campus are in vited and urged to attend, Gen eral Chairman Marian Briner an nounced. Reservations for the dinner to be held in the Student Union at 5:30 p.m. must be made by noon today at the YWCA office in Ger linger. Registration for the festival will be in Gerlinger from 2 to 3 p.m.. Saturday, preceeding the coffee hour which will be from 3 to 5 p.m. in Gerlinger. A program of songs and dancer of their native countries by sev eral Oregon foreign students wi)V be presented during the coffee hour. Many foreign students at tending the affairs will be dressetl m the costume of their native countries. Warren Tomlinson, professor of political science from the College of Puget Sound, will be the maiiv speaker at the dinner. He has changed the originally annotmcecV topic for his speech - to lodlt Neighbors." Ihrga Bhutani. foreign student in journalism from India, will bo master cf ceremonies for the din ner. A mixer dance will be he’d from S p.m. to 12 midnight in Gerlinger annex. Cops Race Down University Street, Pistol Shots Ring Out os Traffic Court Conference Delegates View Car-stopping Demonstration By Al Karr Two policr cars raced up and down University st. in front of McArthur court and Howe field Thursday, one of them squealing to a stop as shots rang out. No, it wasn't a cops-and-robbers chase; it was a demonstration of driver reaction, stopping and pass ing distances as part of the traffic court conference which began on campus Wednesday and will end today. Conference delegates from 11 western states and other interested onlookers watched the proceedings along the sidewalk in front of Howe field, while the director of the demonstration narrated through a loudspeaker truck park ed next to the curb and policemen assisted in the proceedings. A police car drove down the street at a certain speed, stop ping when he heard a cartridge shot from a time reactor attached to the front of the car, in the first part of the demonstration. The reactor was set up to fire one cartridge straight down when a policeman riding in the car acti vated the machenism, and to fire the second when the driver began to apply the brakes. The cartridge shots left yellow marks on the pavement, enabling the reaction and braking distances to be meas ured. The second cartridge failed to fire on two of the three attempts, so those times only the total stop ping distance could be measured. The policeman driving the car was anticipating the first cart ridge shot, so his reaction time was shorter than what would reas onahly be expected ur.dei actual* traffic conditions, when a sudden occurance such as an accident, isr not expected by the driver. Stopping distance on the first attempt, at 20 miles per hour, \va»* 35 feet. On the second attempt, both shots went off. Measured re action distance was 14 feet, 10 inches, and braking distance was policeman walks the tape and ob serves the distance himself, so that he Will not fee offering- testimony 20 feet. 2 inches. (When measure ments are made after actual acci dents. the narrator explained, each on "hearsay" from anothei police man.) On the third trial (the seeoDrl earrtidge failing), at 40 miles per hour, the stopping distance was 98 feet, 4 inches, nearly 12 feet less (T’k&se turn to page siglu}