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Japanese Students . . . ... havf some definite opinions about Gen. Mac Arthur, the peace treaty, ami other problems affeet 4og Japan. Tliey tell some of these view* in interview» with an Krn erald reporter. See story on page 8. Volume LIII n Daily EMERALD Fifty-third year of Publication UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE', FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 1952 NUMBER 86 'Island Interlude' to Keynote Dance •Spotlight of the Weekend will tie focused Saturday night on Dick Jurgens and the Senior Ball, sched uled for 9 p.m. In the Student Union balhoom. Ball planners term thin year's dance "Island Interlude" a "test case'' for future "name bands," pointing out that a fiance which turns out in the hlack may have some Influence in enabling other groups to be permitted to take the financial risk Involved In engaging an expensive orchestra. The Other Hide If, on the other hand, they as sert, the dance fails to clear ex penses, this could prove a powerful argument on the other side. Formal dress tuxedoes or dark suits for men and formals for wom en will be In order at the Ball. ' Flower# are optional. Decoration# workers will be working full-time today and Sat urday transforming the Erb ball room into a South Sea scene. Tak ing charge of clean-up after the dance will be the members of Junior Inter-fraternity Council. Sales End Today Ticket sales in the Co-op and Student Union will end at 4:30 p.m. today, with tickets to be on sale at the door Saturday. Prtce I is $2.00 a couple. Jurgens brings his orchestra, i which emphasizes sweet, danceable : music interspersed with variety numbers for entertainment, for its I second appearance on the Oregon 1 campus. The Jurgens outfit played 1 for the Senior Ball in the winter I of 1648. Jurgens' orchcatra, which fea tures Ray McIntosh, vocalist trumpeter, and A1 Galante, vocal ist-violinist, has broadcast over all coast-to-coast radio networks and appeared at such ballrooms as the Palomar, the Aragon and Trianon in Chicago, the Claremont hotel, Berkeley; and the Statlcr hotel and A.stor Roof in New York City, Some, Background Despite the heavy orchestra and radio schedule, Jurgens still super vises all the orchestra's full ar rangements himself. Experienced as a composer and arranger, Jur gens has to his credit such tunes as "One Dozen Roses,” "Careless, ' and "Elmer's Tune. '- the latter written in collaboration with an ombalmer, Elmer Albrecht. The orchestra is something of a brother act, with Will Jurgens, | Dick's brother, manager. Like Dick, Will served with the Marines during the war. • . . And the Guests Honored guests for Saturday night's ball will be Chancellor and Mrs. C. D. Byrne, Dean and Mrs. W. C, Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Donald DuShane, Mr. and Mrs. J. Alan Wickham. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hawk. Mr. and Mrs. Les Ander son, and Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wil liams. Official chaperones are Dean and Mrs. Sydney W. Little. Committee chairmen for the Ball are Dave Rodway, class president, general chairman; Carolce Tate, decorations; Kay Moore, tickets; John Gram, promotion; JoAnne Hewitt and Lillian Schott, pro grams; Barbara Keelen. chaper ones: and Gretchen Grondahl. pub licity. DICK JURGENS ‘Test Case' for Ciituro Pre-registration Begins Monday Advance registration for spring term will begin Monday, lasting through Friday for class enroll ment and until Mar. 8 for other • steps. From 1 p.ni. to i :30 p in. Satur day students may pick up registra tion material in the registrar's of fice, Emerald hull. Material may also be obtained Monday through Friday. Other steps in next week's sched ule are building of course pro grams with advisers and then en rolling in classes in department and school offices. I>eudllne Is Mar. H Students have until Mar. 8 to check with the office of student ■ affuirs (Hfter completing forego ing steps) and, finally, to obtain fee assessments and pay fees. If a student does not wish to pay soring term fees this term, he should file his cards in the regis trar’s office by Mar. 8, to be pick ed up for assessment and payment Mar. 31. Clifford Constance, Uni versity registrar, said. Students who nre unable to com plete advance registration in the allotted time should check with the student affairs office before Mar. 8, according to Cy Ellingson, assistant director of men’s affairs. This includes those who are uncer tain about returning to school spring term. Tips to Veterans Veterans on state aid have been reminded to check with the vet erans' counter in the registrar’s office during registration. Lack of money for fee payments is not considered a valid reason for not completing advance regis tration steps, Constance pointed out, since fees do not have to be paid until Mar. 31. Press Conference Opens CHARLEY V. BROAD El) An ImluHtrial relations expert . . . I OEN. ROBERT A. MCCLURE . . . anil an authority on psycho logii-al warfare. Optimism on Racial Issue Isn't Practical-Bingham Jusi because immediate tension doesn’t exist is no reason for hold ling an optimistic attitude toward j racial minority problems in the Northwest. That's what E. R. Bingham, in structor specializing in Northwest history, told a Wednesday after noon meeting of students and fac ! ulty members in the Student Un ion. At the meeting further steps j were taken toward reactivating \ j the University of Oregon chapter 1 : of the National Association for I the Advancement of Colored Teo ple. No immediate agitation against j negroes such as exists in the Mid- j I West is present here, largely be- ! I/O May File Phone Complaint! University of Oregon houses may file a complaint with the Pub lic Utilities commission of their own against the pay telephones, Dick Kading, chairman of the ASUO telephone committee, said ' Thursday. Oregon State houses have given a formal complaint to their lawyer to be filed with the rue. “We'll probably be called in any way when the OSC hearing' is leld,” Kading said. “But we're con sidering the advisability of adding veighl to our side by filing another •omplaint." Kading said, however, hat he wanted to be sure that the JO and OSC hearing would be held jointly if a complaint was filed. He was scheduled to confer by )hone Thursday night with Norm joetze, chairman of the anti-pay ihones group at OSC, on the ad visability of lodging a second com plaint. cause of the small number of ne-1 groes in Oregon, Bingham said. But we should be concerned be- i cause their number is increasing j and the problem always becomes, more acute when negroes come in 1 competition with other groups, he skid. He cited previous instances of racial discrimination in Oregon against Japanese, Chinese, and j Indians. Vestiges of prejudicial at- \ titudes remain, he said. "We hope that we can learn [ from the experiences of the Mid West and Southern California in dealing with the problem," the the speaker stated. "This is not only a local problem, but a global one, I believe reactivation of the campus chapter of the NAACP is a step in the right direction." At the business meeting, it was decided to delay election of offi cers until the next meeting in or der that more interested persons might be able to attend. Chair- j man Charles Aull, graduate stu dent in mathematics, appointed a j nominating committee consisting of Sherman Merrill, Philip Moore. I Chet Holloway, Carolyn Coffee and John Simmons. In discussion of the chapter's program, Kenneth W. Porter, vis lPlease turn to page eight) 1 Pope, Brooded, General McClure Are Main Speakers The 33rd annual Oregon press conference begins on campus to day. with all of the day’s events, beginning at 9:15 a m., held in the Student Union. Saturday the con- ' ference will move to the Eugene hotel. Brig. Gen. Robert A. McClure, chief of the army's psychological warfare branch, will give tonight's See page 6 for press confer ence schedule. banquet address on "Army Psycho logical Warfare" in the SU ball room. This afternoon the two other out-of-state speakers, James S. Pope, executive editor of the Lou isville Courier-Journal, and Char ley A. Broaded, director of indus trial relations for Fisher Flouring mills in Seattle, will talk. Banquet Tonight The banquet will begin at 6:45 j p.m. Pope will give the annual Eric ; Allen memorial lecture (honoring: the late journalism school dean). and Broaded will speak on "De veloping Good Employee Rela tions." Also included on the two-day program are: A talk on the Korean war by \ Dor.n Bonham, ex-war correspond ent and now editor of the Sweet Home New Era, A panel discussion of world jour nalism by Durga P. Bhutani, In dia; Wolfgang Meyer, Germany; and Wilhelmus A. Van Eekeren, the Netherlands; all foreign stu dents in journalism, Labor News An address on labor news cov erage by a labor publication editor, A talk on "Ethics and the Law" ! at today's luncheon, A panel discussion on the tele- j typesetter, a machine which makes ! it possible to replace a linotype ' (type-setting i operator with a spe- ' eially-trained typist. Talks on isolated paper, future profits and newspapering in the past. Ralph P. Stuller, publisher of the CoquilJe Valley Sentinel, will pre side over the conference. Walter Reuther, Labor Leader, To Speak Here "The Common Dominatcrs of Democratic Survival" will te the topic of W alter Reuther's speech to Oregon students in assembly at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Student Union ballroom. _ Reuther, who is president of the United Auto Workers union, an affiliate of the Congress cf In dustrial Organizations, is coming to Oregon as part of the Univer sity's 75th anniversary celebration under the sponsorship of the Uni versity assemblies committee. Presents Labor's Views Reuther's talk will be the first of two talks by outstanding lead ers in labor and management. Eric WALTER REl'THER UAW's 1st for OU's loth Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association cf America will speak for management some time in Match or April. Reuther was active in labor's fight for employer-financed pen sions and health insurance. He was instrumental in negotiating the first such program with Ford Mo tor company in 1949. Since that time more than one-million mem bers of the UAW-CTO have been covered by pensions wholly financ ed by employers and by health in surance plans for which the em ployer at least pays half. 'Vacation' Given Student Senators ASUO senate did not meet Thursday night, giving the student senators their first "vacation” since the senate convened this term. A loaded agenda has kept that body busy since Jam. 17. but said Bill Carey, ASUO president, it was time to get the meetings going the once-eve ry-tuo-week basis which is called for in the constitution. Next senate meeting will be Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in room 334, Student Union.