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Senate Agrees On Wednesday
For Voting On Alaska Statehood
Compiled by Mary Ann Mov/ery
(Compiled from the wire* of Associated Frew and United Press)
Tlicn senate agreed Wednesday to vote on Alaska statehood
next \\ ednesday. Meanwhile, Sen. George A. Smthcrs (D-I''la.)
filed a motion to send the hill back to committee for further
hearings. I'nder his motion the committee would he asked to
'study a proposal by Sen. Mike Monroney (D-Okla) that
Alaska and Hawaii be given "commonwealth” status some
where between statehood and territorial standing.
Democratic leader Iirnest W. McFarland of Arizona said
both sides in the statehood fight had agreed to end the argu
ment which already has tied up the senate for more than two
weeks.
'J he first time agreeable to all hands was next Wednesday,
when final debate will be limited to two hours for each side.
Smathers agreed to amend his recommittal motion to include
study of Monroney’s "commonwealth” plan, which would re
quire a constitutional amendment.
The 14 North Atlantic treaty powers ...
... met Wednesday In Lisbon, Portugal to approve the rearmament
of Western Germany and speed the creation of a 1,400,000-man Eu
ropean army.
The prospects for success at the crucial ninth NATO conference
were so bright that U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made plans
to leave Lisbon Sunday a week ahead of schedule.
The most Important woik of the conference actually has been done
In London, where the Big Three foreign ministers worked out a com
promise formula with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenaur to
bring West -Germany into the projected European army.
ltearmed German units would fight in the supra-national European
nrmy alongside contingents front France, Belgium, Holland, Luxem
bourg and Italy. The European army in turn would join U.S., Canadian,
British. Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic
forces under the supreme NATO command of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower.
United Nation negotiators ...
. . . rejected for the first straight day Wednesday a ‘'bobby-trapped"
R.-d attempt to name Russia a "neutral" in the Korean war.
Of the three remaining major issues blocking quick peace in Korea,
Red insistence on naming Russia as one of six neutral supervisors to
enforce the peace was the only one which brooked no compromise. Both
the questions of repatriation of war prisoners and construction of Red
airfields can be settled. U.N. negotiators believed.
The Allies rejected Russia on the ground that, although not fight
ing Korea, Russia is a "sponsor” of both Red China and North Korea.
American battle casualties . . .
...in Korea now total 105,841, an increase of 333 over last week's
report, the defense department said Wednesday.
The figures represent total casualties from the beginning of the
Korean war whose next of kin have been notified through last Friday.
The number includes 18,347 deaths, 75,068 wounded, 10.042 missing,
095 captured and 1,389 previously mission but returned to service.
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The first U.S. Marine draftees ...
... to enter a combat zone since World War II landed today in the
biggest batch of Marine replacements yet sent to Korea.
The 900 leathernecks, nearly half of them conscripts, marched off
the transport Gen. William Wiegel at an east Korean port in sub
frccczing weather as the sun shone brilliantly on the snow-covered
ground.
A 'strong' earthquake . . .
... centered between 20 and 30 miles northeast of Victoria, B.C. was
recorded Wednesday by the Dominion Astrophysical observatory.
A scientist at the observatory said the quake apparently was cen
tered in the Ran Juan island group in the Georgia Straits.
Officials said the quake, which shook windows and knocked dishes
from shelves, was "about three on the scale of intensity from one to
10. It was described as the most intense quake felt in the Victoria
district since August, 1949.
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CIO shipyard workers . . .
... in New York voted 50 to 1 to empower their officers to call a
strike Mar. 1 against eight east coast shipyards of the Bethlehem Steel
company if contract negotiations are not concluded successfully, the
union announced Wednesday.
The union has asked a 20-cent wage increase and other benefits in
contract talks which began early in December and resumed, after a
long adjournment, on Feb. 15.
Two Portland aliens ...
. . . and one from Seattle were ordered deported today in Seattle,
Wash, on charges they are or were members of the Communist party,
District Kmmigration Director John P. Boyd said. Casimiro Bueno
Absolor, 46, Portland cannery worker; John L. Stenson, 67, Portland,
and Pocleno Mendoza Torres, 47, Seattle .were ordered deported from
the country after the finding of their hearings were upheld Wednes
day by the national immigration and naturalization board in Wash
ington, D.C., Boyd said.
Boyd said Absolor and Torres were natives and citizens of the
Philippine Islands. He said Stenson was a citizen of Norway.
Exine Anderson
To Give Concert
Exine Anderson, assistant pro
fessor of music, will present a so
prano concert at 8 p.m. tonight at
the School of Music auditorium. A
former member of the Metropoli
tan Opera, Miss Anderson began
teaching voice students at Oregon
this year.
The recital will consist of classi
cal, oratoria and contemporary
numbers. Stacey Green, associate
professor of piano, will accompany
the soprano.
This is not Miss Anderson's first
appearance at Oregon. She ap
peared with the Symphony orch
estra in a program presented last
fall. Miss Anderson will also be
singing with the Eugene Gleemen
next Tuesday.
The Friends of New Music in
Portland will hear her in the near
future, accompanied by Henri Ar
cand who recently gave a concert
here. She will perform the Hinde
mith "Daa Marlcnlcbcn” cycle
then.
Miss Anderson's concert tonight
will consist of Bach’s "St. Mat
thew Passion,” first the recitative,
"Although both heart and eyes
o’erflow" and then the aria “Lord
to Thee X proffer"; Max Bruch’s
cantata, "Cross of Fire,” the aria
"Ave Maria”; Johannes Brahms’
“O Wuesst ich dock den Weg zu
ruech”; Joseph Marx's "Und ges
tern hat er mir Rasen gebracht”
and "Selige Nacht”; and Richard
Strauss's "Caecilie,” in the first
and second groups.
The second half of the program
will be devoted to French and con
temporary groups including Pou
lenc's "Deux Pomes,” ("C” and
"Fetes Galantes”) and his "Bleu
et”; Victor Staub's "L'Heure De
licieuse”; Gustav Klemm's "Lon
don Rain"; John Alden Carpenter’s
"When I Bring You Coloured
Toys”; and Richard Hageman's
"Miranda” and "Music I Heard
with You.”
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Thursday, Feb. 21
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UO Students Urged to Contribute
Creative Work for May Workshop
Creative work of all types is
being accepted now for the cre
ative art exhibit and stage show
to be held May 9 through 16.
For the second time this year
the creative ability of students on
the campus will be brought to pub
lic attention through the program
known as the “Campus Work
shop.”
An art exhibit of student work
will be shown in the Student Union
art gallery and in the browsing
room throughout Junior Weekend.
For thin exhibit students may en
ter poetry, short stories, private
book collections, ceramics, sculp
ture, painting, drawings, archi
tecture, weaving, printing ' and
photography.
Stage Show in May
On May 16, a stage show is to be
presented in the Student Union
ballroom featuring the outstand
ing selections from students works
submitted in these categories: one
act play, original songs, musical
compositions and interpretive
dance.
Both the art exhibit and stage
show will be open to the public.
Orville Collver, general chair
man and head of the SU browsing
room committee, who sponsor the
event, states that the '‘workshop”
program is designed to aid the stu
dent with his work up until the
deadline on May 2 of spring term.
Work Must Be Original
Entry material may be submit
ted at any time for suggestion and
criticisms. "We want to produce
a good finished program and it
will require much working over,’’
Collver said.
All work must be original. Stu
dents who plan to participate may
submit their names now to the
browsing room librarian, Bernice
Rise. Entries will be accepted
until May 2.
The committees assisting Cofl
ver include: Donna Covalt, art ex
hibit; Los Frolen and Jim Albert
son, browsing room exhibit; Lloyd
Hanson, stage show; Catherine
Black and Dave Barney, litera
ture; Jerry Pearce, drama; Roscoe
Wright and Nona Silva, publicity.
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