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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1952)
World News Capsules Oregon Phone Strike Over; Employees to Get Back Jobs Compiled by Donna Lindbeck I lie tcli plmne strike i river in Oregon. The general manager for I’aeifie Telephone an<! Telegraph company in the states says lies been notified by the CIO Communications Workers tin ion that all pickets would be withdrawn from company loca tions before this morning. !'• A. Drcsslar, general manager, said: I lie company will re schedule all employees who have not been working regularly as soon as feasible, on an orderly basis.” thin apparently moans that telephone company workers who re fused to cross picket lines of striking Western Electric company em ployees wil get their regular Jobs back. A settlement has been reached in the telephone strike in Northern California and Nevada. Now federal mediators In New York are trying to bring about a quick end to the Western Electric strike. The steel labor dispute promises ... . .. . two developments Monday. First, Monday is the first of two deadlines for Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. He said last V.*ek he Intends to order a raise in pay for CIO steelworkers on Mon Mlay or Tuesday unless the ste« l companies reach sotne agreement. And there hasn't been a sign of any agreement. In congress, Sen. William Knowland is pushing hard on the Repub lican move to over-ride Truman's seizure of the steel mills. The meas * lire is a legislative device. It is a rider attached to an appropriations k bill, which would forbid anyone on a federal payroll from doing any thing to carry out the president’s order. Knowland insists there is a good chance of marshalling the two-thirds majority votes needed to get action. Senate debate will start Monday. A race car hurtled out of control . . . ... into a crowded grandstand Sunday killing four persons and in juring 50. Tiie shocked crowd of 10,000 persons saw Gordon Reid's “Engle Stanke" special shoot from the race track at Dayton, Ohio. Reid, 29, t he father of four daughters, was killed instantly. Flood watchers in the Middle West,. . . . bouyed up by signs that on the Missouri, at least, the flood is slowing down a little, now are fearful of rain. The army division engineer at Omaha, Brig. Gen. D. G. Shingler, flew down over the Missouri Sunday to Kansas City on a survey trip. He said he's afraid what rain could do to tributaries of the Missouri and Mississippi. There was only slight rain Sunday. A warm air movement from the Gulf of Mexico makes rain most likely Immediately south of the present danger area. The only hope for a break in the Korean truce ... .. . deadlock appeared to be in the top secret prisoner exchange dis * missions Monday in Korea as staff officers discussing armistice super vision met again at Panmunjom. . Allied and Communist representatives assigned to prisoner of war talks worked secretly on new proposals reached by each side during a * two week recess. Gen. Matthew Ridgway has described the outlook for a truce as un certain unless the Allied delegates sacrifice their principles. He added that the Allies would not do so. Ridgway also has expressed the belief that the UN troops could severely defeat any offensive that the Reds might launch now. * Backers of Sen. Taft and Gen. Eisenhower... .. . will battle it out across the country this week for 200 delegates * to the Republican presidential nominating convention. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s supporters expressed confidence they would pick up a majoiity of the delegates and help close the Ohio senator's current lead. A United Press tabulation now show 208 dele gates for Taft and 116 for the general. . The big prizes are the 150 delegates to be selected in primaries in New York and Pennsylvania on Tuesday. In addition, New York Re " publicans will select 10 delegntes-at-large later. Pennsylvania already has selected 10 delegates-at-large. Other states chosing GOP delegates this week include: Louisiana 4, - Arkansas 9, Colorado 18, Utah 14, Georgia 13 and Arizona 14. Meantime, Tuft headquarters said a memorial asking Eisenhower to spell out his views on 21 controversial issues, ranging from the Tuft-Hartley law to administration policy in Korea, is being circulated , throughout the nation. ♦ ♦ ♦ * FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover deplored . .. ... Sunday the statistics that show crime on the increase all over the nation—in the country as well as the cities. More and more young - Offenders arc being fingerprinted he said, and more and more show . previous records. In major crimes, auto thefts showed the biggest in * crease last year—15 per cent. Editor Selection Dates Changed Dates of two Student Publica- j tions board meetings have been changed, in both cases to a Mon day night from a Tuesday. On May 5, the board will Inter view candidates for Emerald editor and business manager and Ore ntcr editor. Petition deadline is noon on May 2. The meeting was previously scheduled for May 0. On May 19, the board interviews petitioners for Student Directory jobs. This meeting was formerly set for May 20. Dance Chairmanships For Ball Available Chairmanships for the Mortar Board ball, May 24, are now open, with petitions due Friday. Positions open include those of general chairman and the follow ing committee heads: promotion, publicity, decorations, tickets, pro grams, chaperones and clean-up. Petitions should be turned in to Marilyn Thompson, Delta Delta Delta, Jeanne Hoffman, Kappa Al pha Theta, or at the Mortar Board box, third floor of the Student Union. Over 200 species of birds have been identified in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Military Honorary Elects Kershaw New officers of Scabbard and Blade, military honorary, were se lected at a meeting last week. They include: Alan Kershaw, president; Alan Babb, vice-presi dent; Wallace Early, treasurer; John Gamiles, secretary. Kershaw is a captain in ROTC, Babb a 1st lieutenant, Early a 2nd lieutenant and Gamiles a 1st sergeant. Under the honorary's new re organization plan, begun by John Eply, three new directors were ap pointed. These included Don Collin, director of publicity and promo tion, Bill Mikkelsen .director of personnel and Dave Karr, director of service. Some animals can survive tem porary temperatures as low as 100 degrees below zero. r Williams, Fahlman Represent SU At Conference Dick Williams, director of the Student Union, arid Clyde Fahl man, SU directorate chairman, will attend the National Conference of Associated College Unions at Okla homa A&M in Stillwater, Okla homa, this week. Williams is repre8enting the staff at this conference and will be a work session leader in addi tion to serving on the Resolutions committee. Fahlman will represent the directorate. While the pair are at the confer ence, they will make another bid to have the 1953 conference at the University. This was also suggest ed at the 1951 conference. MAY 1st The last day for purchasing memberships in the Co-op for the school year 1951-52 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CO-OP Until Bell Laboratories scientists design an electric mouth that can pucker, the human model is here to stay. But we have built a machine that can imitate human vocal characteristics — from the slatc-pcncil squeal of a girls’ cheering section to the basso rumble in a men’s dining hall. Sound being a basic raw material of the Bell System, we have pioneered in the science of speech. Measuring the properties of your voice leads to better and cheaper ways to transmit it. Keeping the world’s best telephone system growing for our country is a big and challenging job. There arc opportunities for college men with the right qualifications not only with Bell’s coqrs of research scientists,.but also in engineering, operations, and administration, with the Bell Telephone Companies and Western Electric, the System’s manufacturing and supply unit. Your campus placement office will be glad to give you more information. i BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
