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tin ion that all pickets would be withdrawn from company loca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,
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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.
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* 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.
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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.
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BELL TELEPHONE
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