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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1952)
Staples in Browsing Room Talk on 'Agate Fantasies' “Agate Fantasies” will be dis cussed by L. W. Staples, professor of geology, at 7 :30 tonight in the browsing room lecture at the Stu dent Union. The lecture will consist of lan tern slides of agate sections and other minerals as seen in ordinary and polarized light. Staples will discuss the origin of agates and exhibits of agates and books on the subject will be on display in the browsing room. Don Adams, president of the Eugene Mineral Society, will lead discussion following the lecture. Staples has been at Oregon since 1939. He previously taught at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology, Stanford and Oregon State. A new mineral was discovered by Staples in 1935. He named it “austinite," after a favorite Stan ford professor and minerologist, Austin Flint Rogers. Staples is a fellow of the Amer ican Mineralogical society and the Geological society of America. He v.as formerly chief geologist for the Horse Heaven mines at Horse Heaven, Oregon, a geologist with the Michigan Geological survey and consulting geologist of the Isle Royale Copper company in Michigan. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Xi Sigma Psi and the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering. The American Journal of Sci ence and the Mineralogist maga zine have published articles by Staples and he also has a section on micro-chemistry in the book “Introduction to the Study of Minerals.” New Co-op Circulates Blanks To Residents of Amazon Project The temporary board of direc tors for the Webfoot Consumers Co-op has met and appointed com mittees for the organizing of a co op store. Membership in the co-op will be on a strictly cash basis and the store will follow the same sales slip reduction plan that is being used in the co-ops in Chap man hall. Application blanks have been printed and are being circulated in the Amazon housing project. Any persons interested in joining the co-op may call Ed Kellogg, Jesse Himmelsbach or Jerry Thornburg. Thornburg, a member of the tentative co-op board, has gone to San Francisco co coniatL a. warehouse there. He plans to make arrangements to stock the store with Co-op label goods. A man will be sent to Portland to contact the co-op warehouse lo cated there, also. Provisions will be made where by a limited number of persons may come into the co-op on an ex tended payment plan calling for a $27.50 membership fee. In such a case, only the regular $25.00 membership fee will be refundable upon withdrawal from the organi zation. At least 60 shares, fully paid, will be necessary for the opening of the Webfoot Consum ers Co-op, according to the organi zers. THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Goes on Record! Just released! For the first time in history, a handsome 78 r.p.m. two record album of Oregon songs featuring the University. Band and University Singers in “Mighty Oregon, As I Sit and Dream’at Evening,” “Oregon Pledge Song,” and other special ty numbers. Recorded on the campus by the Recorded Publications Company of Camden, N. J., America’s leading publisher of custom phonograph records and albums, this album brings you professional high fidelity recording of the “Songs of Old Oregon.” Each record is processed and pressed by RCA-Victor on non-breakable vinylite-filled compound, and comes in an attractive green and yellow album that will make a perfect addition to your album collection. The perfect gift or souvenir for all students and alumni is on sale at three convenient locations on the campus. Pur chase yours now! Reasonably priced at, $3.00 per copy (Packaged for mailing — $3.15) NOW ON SALE Main Desk, Student Union Alumni Office, Mezzanine, SU Co-op This Week at Oregon MOVIES EDUCATIONAL FILMS. "Intolerance" (1916) will be shown on the educational film program tomorrow evening (Wed nesday, April 30) in 207 Chapman Hall. There will be two showings, beginning at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. LECTURES Arnold Toynbee The Lessons of History 8:00 p.rrr. Thur., May 1 McArthur Court Dr. Lloyd W. Staples m Daily EMERALD AcitAT