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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1952)
•Union Picket Remains As 13th Ave. Institution By Erik Norgaard For 921 days a picket has been plaoed in front of Saunder’s Super ior Cleaners and Dyers at 643 E. 13th ave. in Eugene. “They won't let the Union in” says the peaceable, stout lady who is posted there today and who seems rather bored by walking around day after day on the same spot. 'NOT A STRIKE, WE ARE LOCKED OUT’ is painted in big red letters on the sign she carries. Why a Picket? “So the employer here is against lotting your union in?” "Well, I don’t know about that—”. “But do the people who work in there want to join?” “Well, I don't know about that either”, she admits and explains: “You see, we have a girl at the laundry union’s office down town, and she comes up here and takes care of all those things. It’s not ^that I am unemployed, I just want "l to help here.” Never Better! “We do not want to become members of any union,” said a lady who worked at the place. “We could not have it better than we Baritone to Give Concert Sunday William O'Leary, graduate stu dent in music, will present a bari tone voice concert at 4 p.m. Sun day in the School of Music audi torium. William Woods, graduate student in piano, will accompany him. On the program will be numbers by Bach, Handel, Caldara, Rosa, Puccini, Massenet, Wolf, Strauss, Read, Dougherty and Diamond. “The Christmas Oratorio” by Bach will furnish the opening num ber “Mighty Lord and King all Glorious”; then Handel’s “Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves”, Caldara’s “Come raggio di sol”, and Rosa’s “Star vicino” will complete the first group. The second group will consist of operatic numbers—Puccini’s "No! Possibil non e” from “Le Villi”, and Massenet’s “Salome! Salome!” from “Herodiade”. The third and fourth groups are German, consisting of four num bers by Wolk—“Der Gaertner”, “Cesang Weyla’s”, “Anakreon’s ^f?rab”, and “Tretet ein, hoher Krie ger”, and four by Strauss—“Breit uber mein Haupt”, “Lob des Leid ens”, “Ach weh! Mir ungluckhaf 1en Mann”, and “Wie sollten wir geheim sie hallten”. The fifth and last group is the modern section, consisting of Read’s “Nocturne” and his “The Unknown God”, Dougherty's “Tap estry” and Diamond’s “Some where.” O’Leary taught voice at the mu sic school last year and has sung in the University Singers and Choral Union. Violinist Moves Schedules Concert Larry Maves, violinist and sopho more in music will present his sec ond recital on campus at 8 p.m. Monday in the music school audi torium. He will be accompanied by Winnafred May, sophomore in mu sic. The program will consist of three major numbers — Gail Kubik’s “Sonatina”, Johar.n Sabastian Each’s "Partita for solo violin in B minor”; and Edouard Lalo’s “Symphonie Espagnole, Opus 21”. Australian bushmen enjoy a diet which includes ants, caterpillars, eicadas and other insects, as well as snake meat. have it now. The picket has been here such a long time that she is nearly a sort of advertising and we have got completely used to it.” According to Hazel’Erickson at the Laundry and Dry Cleaner’s local, the fight started almost three years ago, when some of the work ers were not allowed to join the union by the employer. Keep on Fighting ‘‘We have pickets at two other places here in this town, and they are all getting full pay for their job. Now we will just have to keep on fighting until we get other or ders from our main office.” So in the meantime the picket still walks around outside the cleaner in all kinds of weather, only diverted by an occasional per son who stops for a few moments to talk with this picket who is now almost an institution on 13th ave. 1953 Site Chosen For SU Conference San Francisco won out over Eu gene as the location for the 1953 National Conference of Associated College Unions, but for the first time in history of the association it was necessary to talle the mat ter to the convention floor to de cide on a location, according to Dick Williams, CU director. Williams and Clyde Fahlman di rectorate chairman, have recently returned from the conference which was held last week at the Oklahoma A&M Student Union in Stillwater, Okla. Williams said the annual con ference will probably not be held on the West Coast again for about five years and at that time “we hope that it will be held in Eu gene.” Williams represented his staff at the conference and was a work session leader, in addition to serv ing on the resolutions committee. Fahlman represented Oregon stu dents at the conference. More than 300 delegates from 89 college attended the four day meet. Both Hahlman and Williams felt the conference to be very construc tive. Fahlman stated tha tthe in terchange of ideas on the function ing of college unions throughout the United States was a worth while experience. Fahlman was also impressed with the hospitality shown them, but commented that the union at Stillwater was "over commercialized, with four novelty shops, two clothing stores and a hotel incorporated into it”. Election of officers was held at the conference, and Charles D. Owens, Student Union director at the University of Washington, was elected president. Lou Day, direc tor of the Student Union at the University of t’ennsylvania, was elected vice-president. UO Band Begins Two-day Tour The University Band, under the direction of Robert Vagner, asso ciate professor of music, will go on tour Thursday and Friday, visit ing Harrisburg, Newberg, The Dalles (where they will stay over night) and North Marion high school outside of Portland. Featured with the band will be Malcolm Norton, baritone, in “The King and I” by Rodgers and Ham merstein, six first clarinets in von Weber’s “Concertina”, and Yvonne Reed, first trumpet, on “A Trump eter’s Lullaby” by Leroy Ander son. The group expects to be back by 5:30 p.m. Friday. UO Convention Plans Finished mnmica jrom page one) the University’s ROTC army drill team and ROTC air force drill team; Gov. Peterson’s official par ty; a motorcycle police escort; the Eugene Junior Chamber of Com merce's float; the Junior Young Republican’s float; Elmria high school’s 60 piece band; and the sheriff’s posse. Also in the parade will be University and Eugene high school students demonstrating in support of their candidates. Over a Thousand Expected Scheduled to particiapte as state delegates Friday night in the Mc Arthur court will be 1195 students from almost every house on cam pus. Seating charts with instruc tions as to where delegates will sit have been sent to the houses. The delegates will assemble at their assigned places as soon as they ar rive. Signs with the names of the states wiil be located on the floor. Nancy Pollard, decorations com mittee chairman, states that the committee plans to transform Mc Arthur court into a reasonable fascimile of the 1948 Republican nominating convention. The court will be decorated with flags of the various states and pictures of the candidates. The floor has been di vided into four sections. A speaker's platform with mic rophones will be erected and nu merous other mikes will be scatter ed throughout the floor. Candidates and Platforms Brief descriptions of the can didates’ platforms have been fur nished by Francis Gillmore, gen eral chairman. Candidates and their platforms are: Gov. Earl Warren: world cooper ation; success of the United Na tions; a bipartisan foreign policy; foreign aid; continuous fight against Communism; peace; hon esty in government; fight against inflation; individual freedom; free enterprise; social progress, not so cialism; social security; and con servation of natural resources. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower: renew ed assurance of America's two-par ty system; honesty and integrity in government; conservation of natural resources; deletion of reck less and excessive spending and taxation: unity in government; and intelligent handling of foreign af fairs. Urges Informed Leadership Harold Stassen: trained and in formed leadership for America; worold cooperation; fight against Communism; unity in government; intelligent foreign policy. Sen. Robert Taft: agriculture; cooperatives, government assist ance in marketing, price supports; PE Group Elects Evonuk President Gene Evonuk was elected presi dent of Fhi Epsilon Kappa, na tional physical education frater nity, for 1952-53 Tuesday evening. Other new officers selected at the meeting included Fred Adams, vice-president, Emmett Williams, secretary, Don Schmidt, treasurer, Harold Haines, historian-editor, and Milton Kotoshirodo, sergeant at-arms. clean government; bipartisan for eign policy; maintaining national defense; fight against Communism. The schedule for Friday night’s convention is as follows: The opening of the convention at 6:30 will be by temporary chair man Francis Gillmore, followed by the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner” by the Elmira high school band. The invocation will be given by Father Evan Williams, St. Mary’s Episcopal church. Roll Call Alphabetic The roll call of delegates will be read in alphabetical order by con vention clerk Tom Barry. V. E. Johnson, mayor of Eugene, will welcome the delegates from the various states. Keynote speak er, Gov. Peterson will be intro duced by Dean Orlando J. Hollis. Following Peterson’s address committee reports will be given by Bob Ridderbusch, credentials com mittee; Ray Morgan, rules; and George O’Dea, platform. Haggard May Be Chosen A permanent chairman will be chosen by the delegates. The per manent chairman committee ex pects that the chairmanship will be filled by Marko Haggard, poli tical science instructor. George O'Dea, chairman of the committee which drew up the party platform, will read the pro posed resolutions. Resolutions to be read by O'Dea will pertain to support of the United Nations; in ternational control of weapons of mass destruction; economic aid for undeveloped nations and state hood for Hawaii and Alaska. The resolutions Will be incorporated into the party platform unless they are voted down by the dele gates. Favorite Sons Expected Nominations of presidential can didates will be made by certain individuals. The nominating com mittee anticipates the nomination of several “favorite sons.” Nomi nating speeches are limited to five minutes, followed by one-minute secondary speeches. Short demon strations by delegates and pep bands will follow the nominations. Actual balloting will take place after the nominations have been made. The convention's choice for the presidential nomination will be announced after the balloting. Dr. Wesley Nicholson, Congres sional church, will give the closing prayer. Sally Hayden and Maxine Hill will act as recorders and Bill Bailey as sergeant-at-arms. There are some six thousand bituminous coal producing com panies in the United States. AGS Win Posts (Continued from page one) 244 votes over Milan Foster (USA) with 134. For senate representa tive, Janet Miller had 35 number one votes to Mary Whitaker’s 18. Elected as senate-at-large rnera bers were Mike Lally (AGS), Jody Greer (AGS), Don Collin (USA), Judy McLoughlin (USA), Franck Gillmore (AGS), Ben Schmidt (USA), Bill Frye (AGS), Ma:y Alice Baker (AGS) and Don Pa: r (AGS). Voting Scattered The voting on the senators was very scattered, as shown when tke votes were distributed following the counting of the president bal lots. There was no straight lire party vote, the ballot counting’ committee reported. The amendment to the ASUO consitution which provides for freshman clas selections to be held between the fifth and eighth week of fall term was approved by a vote of 1600 yes votes to 390 ro. There were 19 invalid ballots. Co-op Reps Barbara Keelen and Joan Ftac'e macher were elected to two year terms on the Co-op board as junior representatives and Ann Bank head as the sophomore representa tive for the one year tej-m. Ben Schmidt (USA) received 20 number one votes to top the list of senate-at-large candidates who re ceived votes for ASUO president. Jim Lancaster (USA) and Alex Byler (AGS) each had 15, Mike Lally (AGS) 10. Judy McLoughl n (USA) and Don Collin (USA) nine each, Karl Harshbarger (non-parti san), eight, Bill Frye (AGS) six, and Jody Greer (AGS), A1 Karr (USA) and Jim Light (AGS) ea:.h had four. HE1LIG Starts Today “Barefoot Mailman” Robert Cummings & Terry Moore also “Magic Carpet” Lucille Ball & John Agar j Starts Today “An American in Paris” !ANEio43i Now Playing “New Mexico” Lew Ayres & Marilyn Maxwell i also “Fixed Bayonets” Richard Basehait & Micheal O'Shea SHISLER’S FOOD MARKET Groceries — Fresh Produce — Meats Mixers — Beverages — Magazines — Ice Cream OPEN FROM 9 A.M. DAILY & SUNDAYS TILL 11 :00 P.M. 13th at High St. Dial 4-1342 Coupon in * every special J Prell carton * *7i^awff-jha{dd. 8th & Willamette 1950 Franklin