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ASUO Election Contested (Continued from page one) chance that the election results would be declared null and void by the constitution committee. ASUO Vice - president M e r v Hampton called the contestation a ’ “malicious piece of skullduggery’’ and said that there “existed behind it nothing but a revenge motive and a consuming desire to make trouble.” “The very nature of the charges indicate clearly,” Hampton said, “that the petitioners were search ing desperately fo revery possible flaw that could be found in the election machinery.” ASUO President Bill Carey term ed the charges "ridiculous” and said that he was “convinced that the election committee worked sin cerely” and “within the spirit of the constitution.” President-elect Pat Dignan stat ed that he could see no grounds for declaring the election void. Vice president Helen Jackson agreed with Dignan that she could see no ground for contesting the election and said that they seem to be “making a case out of not much.” ed to think that there was no Brighter Homes Hobby Shop 858 Pearl Open Tues. & Thurs. eve. When contacted by me *t,meraiu Monday night, one of the letter’s signers, Ridderbusch, stated that he actually didn’t want a new elec tion and was “very happy with the results.’’ He said that he wanted just to “point out a few things that are wrong.” Just what those “things" were Ridderbusch declined to state. Hampton, who as vice-president was in charge of the elections, said that two law students, John Sabin and Lester Pederson, were look ing into the case. He said the com mittee hoped to have an open hear ing before the constitution com mittee. K. J. 0*Connell, president of Jaw and chairman cf law and chair man of the committee, had no statement to make on the charges. Campus NAACP To Meet Tonight Williaim S. Van Meter, deputy commissioner for the fair employ ment practices division of the state Bureau of Labor, will speak on FEPC at a meeting of the campus chapter of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Col ored People tonight at 7:30 p.m. PST on the first floor of Gerlinger hall. Van Meter’s address is one in a series of talks on race relations and civil rights sponsored by the cam pus NAACP. IT'S PLAIN TO SEE ... Taylors is YOUR spot for fun, food, friendly folks. THE NEW Taylors Campus Coffee Shop Traditions Begin Today at UO Junior Weekend traditions will begin officially on the campus to day, according to Dick Morse, tra ditions chairman for Junior Week end. The first violators of traditions will be listed in Wednesday’s Em erald, and the female violators will receive their punishment at the Fenton Pool and the male vio lators on the steps of the Student Union. The diagonal walk from the Student Union to 13th ave. is the official “Hello Walk" this year. Freshmen women are requited to wear green ribbons in their hair. Freshman men are to wear Ore gon rooters’ lids. Painting of the Oregon “O” on Skinners Butte, scrubbing of the Oregon Seal on the SU diagonal walk, and the annual freshman sophomore tug-o-war at 3 p.m. (PST) Friday adjacent to the Kin caid bridge will highlight the week’s traditions. NACP Officers Visit University Naval aviation cadet procure ment representatives will be on th< campus today and Wednesday tc interview men interested in the navy’s flight training program Lieut. Com. S. R. Fallander will bt in Emerald hall to meet with in terested students. The naval aviation cadet trailer will be in the parking lot behind the Student Union building. It is equipped with operating aircraft radio and radar equipment, a cut away jet engine and many other displays of equipment now being used in naval aviation. All persons interested are cordially invited to inspect the exhibit trailer, Fallan der said. 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Eisenhower won the Republican nomination for | president of the United States on | the second ballot at the UO mock | convention in Eugene Friday right. "Ike'’ swept the nomination : away from his closest rival, Sen. j Robert A. Taft of Ohio, at the end of the four-hour session which saw state after state pile on the Eisen | nower band wagon in the final bal i loting. Keynote Speaker Gov. Val Peter son of Nebraska called the conven tion "very fine." “I hope that this is indicative of what will happen in | Chicago in July,” he said. Results of the second ballot were i G59 for Eisenhower, 293 for Taft, I 247 for Gov. Earl Warren of Cal | ifornia, 1 for Paul Hoffman, former head of ECA, and 1 for Sen. Carol Reece of Tennessee. A Warren movement, started \ when Bill Linklater, head of the | Oregon delegation and a member i of the Taft committee swung be hind the governor, was headed off by “Ike” supporters during the second ballot. Warren men protested the action of permanent chairman Marko Hagaard in cutting off revision of state ballots during completion of the second balloting but the con vention, by standing vote, decreed that the vote should stand. Student delegations didn’t lose a chance to push the state or terri tory they represented. Delegates for Alaska wore fur-trimmed par kas; those from Hawaii had cotton print sarongs; Texas delegates were attired in cowboy boots, jeans and ten-gallon hats. And they got Gov. Peterson into the act too. Florida presented him with an orange; Georgia awarded him a blossoming peach bough; Kentucky came through with a mint julep and the honorary title of Kentucky colonel. Waldo, Theta Chi’s publicity hungry house dog, jumped into the limelight again when he appeared on stage decorated with Taft signs and proclaimed an example of “The Democrats going to the dogs.” Maryland, who had heard the baby-kissing adage attached to politicians, presented Governor Peterson with a luscious brunette. (The governor came through with the expected kiss.) Jealous of such attentions for the governor, Permanent Chairman Mike Haggard expressed hope that he would "receive a delegation from the Virgin Island:;.” During the balloting California, with its 70 votes, stayed behind their favorite son candidate, Gov. Warren, all the way. New York gave 85 votes to Eisenhower and 11 to Taft on the first ballot: shift ed to 75 votes for “Ike" and 25 for Warren on the second. Powerful Illinois supported Taft on the first ballot, gave 40 of its GO votes to Warren on the second. Ohio with 56 votes stayed in back of Taft all the way. Pennsylvania's 70 votes, split between Taft and Eisenhower on the first ballot, went on “Ike" on the second. The second ballot Taft landslide started when the Iowa delegation swung 22 votes to Eisenhower. Tennessee and Nebraska followed suit. That was enough to give Eis enhower the necessary majority. Eisenhower was nominated by Carson Moore of Oklahoma. Taft was nominated by a member of the * Ohio delegation. Convention chairman, Francis Gillmore was enthusiastic over the success of the affair. "It was great,” she said. “The enthusiasm and work students did was wonder ful,” she stated. Miss Giillmore said that the mock convention ’committee re ceived letters of congratulation from Gov. Earl Warren of Cal ifornia, a representative of “Ike,” Harold Stassen of Minnesota, Ore gon’s governor, Douglas McKay and any Oregon politicos. The platform adopted by the convention calls for international control of weapons including the atomic bomb, a strong protective miiltary force, condemnation of Communism but protection of in dividual rights, statehood for Alas ka and Hawaii, repeal or revision of the Taft-Hartley act, farm sup port prices and civil rights legis lation. A plank in the platform favoring enactment of a national health pro gram was rejected by the conven tion. Gov. Peterson, in his keynoted address, bitterly attacked the pres ent administration which he said was marked with "incompetence, corruption, five per-centei's, mink coats, scandals, influence peddlers, Gen. Vaughn, a letter-writer and other impediament not necessary to mention.” Peterson said the Democratic