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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1952)
Float Parade To Roll at 4 p.m. The Junior Weekend float pa r .de will begin today promptly at 4 p m. (DST) assembling at 4th and Willamette. The parade route is down Willamette to 13th. up 13th to University st. and from Univer-: sity to McArthur court. All floats will begin assembling ct 3:30 at the railroad depot and i position in the parade will be de- [ termined by arrival at the depot, j Floats must remain in original or- j der because a tally of the parade' positions will be given to the1 ji dges for judging of the floats. Any arrivals after 4 p.m. will be d'squalified. Parade Chairmen Nor ira Hultgren and Jim Owens an nounced. The judging committee com-: posed of Carlisle Moore, associate professor of English; L. N. Marx, a-sociate professor of psychology; r. B. Slocum and Dick Bailey of t.;e Bailey Lumber Company, will he stationed at the City Hall throughout the parade. Floats will be judged equally on originality, i adherence to the theme and qual ity of workmanship. Rules for the parade are maxi mum height—12 feet, and maxi rr im cost—S”0. The awards for the* v, nners consisting of two cups for f -st place, will be awarded at the al.-campus sing tonight. The parade will not be discon l med if it rains, but will continue a ong the regular route until it is completed. W . i.1. ' ■ _" Bowerman Instrumental in Ending 'Dink' Wearing by UO Freshmen Freshmen no longer are forced to wear freshman caps throughout the year. The man responsible for this i state of affairs exerted his influ ence to abolish the old hat rule at a time when he was in charge of enforcement of traditions! He was one of the few ASUO vice-presidents who have gotten: into disputes with ASUO presi- | dents. And he once had the mod- [ esty to remark that, although he 1 was vice-president of the student j body, he didn't have the ability to | head the campus Music committee.! Now known to track fans| throughout the Pacific Coast, his name is Bill Bowerman. Vice-President Bowerman. a Duck football and ' track performer, was elected vice- j president in the spring of 1932. In January, 1933, while presiding j over a meeting of the Traditions j council, Bowerman strongly argued | in favor of elimination of the frosh lid tradition. When he felt that the moment j .vas opportune, he called for a vote, and the decision was 11 to 9 in favor of continuance of the tradi tion. However, Bowerman ruled that several of the 11 negative vot- j ers were members of Skull and' Dagger who were present only for Jebate and did "not belong to the tradition group proper." "Therefore." Bowerman stated, ‘it is apparent that the wearing jf freshman caps will no longer be j enforced here." It was quite appal of the celebrated > D’or say fragrances DIVINE LE DANDY INTOXICATION D'ORSAY FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY SPECIAL Yes! Three Lig ^2-ounce flacons of eau de toilette in these ’ great fragrances. Wonderful opportunity to get to know all three...Intoxication, the champagne fragrance...' Bpicy, sophisticated Le Dandy ... and heavenly Divine. You’ll love the delightful, value-ful Try-Packet for a change-of fragrance ... and a glamorous gift idea, too! ! *RICE PLUS TA* : *7iff ham* - "2b auid ■ fith 8c Willamette 1950 Franklin [ out. since Bowerman wm In charge of enforcement. Widely Hulled The move was widely hailed by campus officials, including Chan cellor \V. .T. Kerr, Dean of the School of Law Wayne Morse; and Basketball Coach Bill Reinhart. Bowermun's dispute with ASUO President Bob Hall occurred dur ing the previous term. A quiet poli tical scene was suddenly shattered when Bowerman issued a state ment to the Emerald, charging Hall with running "what virtually amounts to a dictatorship" and try ing “to run the whole show in the student body." "If Hall is to be a second Mus solini,” Bowerman wrote, "let him say so, and I will meet him on those terms.” Specific Complaints Offering some specific com plaints, the present Duck track mentor stated: "Before the committees were ap pointed last spring. I asked Hall to consider me for the head of the athletic committee, inasmuch as j that was the line in which my i major interest was centered. His I answer was to appoint himself. I was named head of the music com-1 mittee. I know nothing about mu-' sic, and considered it poor judg ment on Hall’s part to name me to 1 that position.” Hall did not answer the charges,' but Emerald Editor Richard Neu berger, now a prominent Demo cratic politician, wrote a lengthy! editorial, asserting that neither Bowermnn nor Hull whs greatly ut fault. ■ ■“““ Hot Under tlie~t'ollur “In our opinion," Ncubergei wrote, “Hall niado his mistake' when ho appointed Bowermnn head of the music committee. It is easy j to imagine a big six-footer like Bill Bowermnn, who raced 80 yards with a ball under his arm against the Washington Huskies, getting hot under the collar when present ed with the chairmanship of the music committee after he had asked for a similar position on the athletic board.” The editorial also pointed out ; that it was a precedent for the ASUO president to head the ath letic committee, and Hall's status as a letterman gave him a claim to that position. The issue died as suddenly as it had arisen. Two O's To Be Prettied The painting of the Oregon "O" on Skinner’s Butte, and the scrub bing of the Oregon Seal on the Student Union walk, will both tnke place at 8 a.m. today, Dick Morse, Junior Weekend tradition* chairman, has announced. The "O” will be painted by mem-1 be is of the Junior Interfraternity Council, with the •‘assistance” of members of Order of the “O". The scrubbing of the seal, which will also be done by freshmen, will have the assistance of the lettermen, also. Yes! You can still go— OREGON HAWAIIAN TOUR of 1952 We still have airline reservations and hotel space available for tour members. W’c will put you on a wailing li-t for steamship space (last year wc secured space for the entire group in this manner) or secure a more expensive room so that you may return with the group on the Lurine. For a wonderful 6 weeks in the Islands — and summer school too — Join the Oregon-IIawaii Tour. Fly to the Islands via United. Housing at the lovely Edgewater Hotel. Planned sightseeing and social events. Return via Matsons Lurline. June 20th — August 10th *593.00 EUGENE TRAVEL SERVICE Dial 5-8431 CLASSIFIED Place your u<l tit either the Ktu tlt-nt I'll Ion nniln dealt or the Emerald “Shuck”; or lull 5-lftll, eat. 21# between 2 uml 4 p.m. Itutn*: Flint Inacrtlon 4o per word; aubaequeut Inner! Ion* 2c per word. • WANTED RIDE TO EAST COAST after flnuls. MUf.s, Sigma Hull. 5-9538. 121 # L0ST LOST Ray - Run »un(jUw.n'H. Specially gfound, Saturday, April 20. Reward of ordinary aunglaaaea. Jerry Uuiley, TKK, Ph. 5-1002. 120 • FOR SALE _ CONV. 1018 C1IKV. All cxti;. i. Phone 4-1821. 123 Four Campaigners Here Next Week Oregon's busy 75lh anniversary assembly schedule will be even busier next week when four presi dential candidates will speak. They arc Gov. Karl Warren of California, Harold Stusson, presi dent of the University of Penn sylvania and Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Ford Foundation, and speaking for Gen. Dwight I >. Eisenhower, Republicans; Sen, Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Democrat. Warren will lead off the week's addresses Monday In u 1 p m. assembly in the Student Union ballroom. Tuesday Hoffman, who haa not d< </lured himself an a GOP candi date but who Is prominently men tioned as a possible nominee, will speak at I p.rn. in the SU ball room, and, at 8 p.m., Kefauver will give an address In the ball room. Warren has been campaigning In the state this week. A member of the Republican party liberal wing, he is u supporter of Kisen hower, although he Is campaigning on his own hook. Hoffman is a former head of tho Economic Cooperation association, past president of the Btudebakef corporation, ex-chairman of the automotive safety foundation. Kefauver, who made the head lines with his committee's investi gation of crime throughout tho nation, is battling party colleagues for the Democratic nomination left wide open with President Harry Truman's announcement that would not be a candidate. Ke fauver has won every primary ho has entered except the lust one, in Florida, which he lost to Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, is also an Eisenhower supporter. He was a leading candi date for the Republican nomina tion in 1911, but has not fared so well this year in most states. Subjects of the speeches havo not been announced. JOB OPPORTUNITIES Mon are wanted for summer work in canneries at Milton-Free* water, Ore.; Walla Walla, Wash,; and Portland. Wages are estimated at about $1.21 per hour. Men and women are wanted as councilers at summer camps in Oregon, Washington and Califor nia. General Motors Proving Ground engineers use high speed moviefi, taken at up to 12,000 pictures a second, for analysis of automobile behavior. I