Fifty-third year of publication
Volumn IJV UNIVERSITY OF OKRIiON, KUGKNK, MONDAY, 1AM ARY ID, 1953
NUMBER 54
High Water, Slides Isolate Eugene;
Rain-swollen River Floods Valley
By Len Calvert
Emerald Aulttant Newt Editor
I Ik \\ i I Lunette valley is in for heavy flooding today, accord
ing to weather reports received Sundat from radio stations and
tlie United States weather bureau. *
At 5 p.ni. Sunday all roads leading out of Eugene except one
"ere closed either by high water or slides.. Highway 99E was
reported closed by flooding at Harrisburg. Highway 99S was
closed by water at Drain, Yoncalla and Oakland, while state!
highways 30 and 38 were reported to be closed by high water and
•slides respectively.
1 he Willamette highway (58) was closed by a slide above Oakridge
and the McKenzie highway was closed by high water just above Kinn
Kock. Highway 9GW was still open late Sunday, but surface water
was reported over the road at Monroe.
r-ugene police were stopping
traffic through the Glen wood area
between Eugene and Springfield
due to high water. On the Oregon
toast highway 101 is closed just
south of Coquille.
In the Eugene area, residents
along the McKenzie and Willam
ette rivers were preparing to move
or were moving from low lying
areas. About 90 families living in
The weekend's rain brought
the inillrace to the top of its
hunkH early Sunday morning and
water creeped into the yards of
Gamma Phi Beta and Beta
Theta Pi, but damage to the mill
race houses was averted when
the water receded at approxi
mately 9 a-m.
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trailer houses in Glenwood have !
been moved to the Lane county
fairgrounds on West 13th avenue
by the Red Cross disaster crew
working on a 24-hour schedule.
Crest Reached
The Willamette river was ex
pected to crest at 13.5 feet at 3
a.m. today. Flood stage for the
river is 12 feet. The McKenzie
liver was reported to be rising at
the rate of .5 foot an hour late
Sunday afternoon. It was expected
to crest at 17.5 feet at the Co
burg bridge.
In western Lane county the
Siuslaw river was out of its banks
at Cushman where about two feet
of water covered the highway. In
eastern Lane, a Southern Pacific
railroad fill was in danger of be
ing washed out at Lowell. Resi
dent Engineer Ray Overholter said
that railroad crews in the Lowell
area were also being kept busy
clearing small slides off the
tracks.
The weather bureau has warned
that the rain may continue for two
more days and storm warnings
were hoisted for inland waters
from Cape Blanco north to Tat
oosh. Wash. Winds were predicted
from 30 to 60 miles an hour.
GAMII.ES NAMES CHAIRMEN
Committee Petitioners
Wanted for Dad's Day
Committee chairmen for Dad's
Day weekend ana a call for peti
tioners for committees have been
announced by John Gamiles, gen
eral chairfnan of Dad’s Day,
scheduled for Feb. 7 and 8 on the
campus.
Cpjyunjttee chairmen are Carol
Lee Tate, reception and hospital
ity; Gary Meredith, sign contest;
Jim Light, special events; Druids,
junior men's honorary, hostess ■
selection; Joan Cartozian and
Norma Hultgren. ticket sales, and
Dads' luncheon and Bob Ford and i
Ward Cook, promotion and pub
licity.
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Editor Petitions
Due at 5 Today
Applications for editor of the
Oregon Daily Emerald are due
today at 5 p.m. in the office of
Dick Williams, Student Union
director.
Williams, who is secretary of
the student publications hoard,
has requested that all petition
ers for the Emerald’s top execu
tive spot see him personally
when they turn in their appli
cations. i
The student publications
board will select the new editor
On Wednesday with interviews
beginning at 7:30 p.m. The two
editors-a-year plan is part of a
new policy instituted by the
board lust spring.
First Advertising Meeting
To Hear Association Leader
The first in a series of meetings
with top-ranking professional ad
vertising people will be held Tues
day at 7:30 p.m. in the Student
Union. George Griffis, vice-presi
dent of the Advertising association
of the West, will be the speaker.
“Careers in Advertising" will be
the topic discussed by Griffis who
has spent 25 years in the advertis
ing business. The meeting is open
to all University students.
He is director of plans and mer
chandising for the Pacific National
Advertising agency in Portland.
Also a free lance writer, Griffis
has a background which includes
newspaper, radio, and agency ad
vertising.
Sponsors of the series which
wil include four other meetings
winter and spring term are Gam
ma Alpha Chi and Alpha Delta
Sigma, campus professional adver
tising fraternities.
The Advertising Association of
the West, the Oregon Ad club and
the Lane County Ad club are work
ing with the campus groups in ar
ranging the series.
KWAX Turntables
Foil Radio Staff
By Turning Tables
KWAX staff members found
themselves in an embarrassing
position Thursday night, locked
out of their control room while
the turntables turned merrily.
Someone accidently shut the
control room door and it locked.
No one was in the room at the
time and all that could be done
was to look through the windows
at the still moving turntables
playing their records.
The transmitter was cut off
while the staff waited patiently
for Radio Director Glenn Starlin
to get a key and let them back
in to continue broadcasting.
Petitions for committees may
be picked up in the ASUO box
on the third floor of the Student
Union and turned in here or in the
special events room SU 303.
Make Reservations
Gamiles urges all students plan
ning to have their fathers attend
the weekend to make motel and
hotel reservations now.
All students should write per
sona] letters to their dads, invit
ing them down for the weekend.
A special letter will be published
in the Emerald later in the week,
which can be cut out and sent
home, Gamiles said. Space will be
allowed for a personal note to be
added to the printed letter, he
stated.
The hostess will be selected by
Student vote this year, and the
thre^ finalists will be featured in
picture and story in the Emerald,
Gamiles said.
Trophies Awarded
Rules for the sign contest will
be published later in the week.
Trophies will be awarded in the
sign contest; first and second
place for the most dads registered
and first place for the most fresh
man dads registered. Trophies
will be presented at half-time at
the Oregon-Idaho game.
Events planned for the week
are the Dads’ Day luncheon, bas
ketball game, the annual business
meeting, dinners in living organ
izations and attendance at Eugene
churches. The University play,
"Death of a Salesman” will also
be presented during the weekend.
Students will also have an op
portunity to give their dads a per
sonal tour of the campus and the
new buildings, Gamiles said.
Gamiles was selected 1953 Dad's
Day chairman by the ASUO sen
ate at its regular meeting Thurs
day night.
Petitions Due Wed.
For Frosh Election
Petitions for freshman elec
tions are due Wednesday at 5
p.ni. in the ASUO office on the
third floor of the Student Union,
according to Mrs. Helen Jackson
Frye, ASUO vice-president. Peti
tions may also be obtained at the
ASUO office.
Sprague Declares U.N.
Is International Forum
The United Nations provides an international forum where disputes
may be brought, discussed and resolutions passed which have great
educational benefit for the people of the world.
This is the principal value of the United Nations, Charles Sprague,
editor and publisher of the Oregon Statesman and recently delegate to
the U.N., told a group of Oregon ----___
aiumm sunaay night.
Speaking at the first alumni
fireside of the year in the Dad’s
lounge of the Student Union.
Sprague declared that he takes “a
large measure of satisfaction in
the steps it rthe U.N.) has taken.”
Sprague cited the 54 to 5 deci
sion of the General Assembly fa
voring the Indian Korean peace
proposal as a propaganda defeat I
for the Soviet bloc and a victory \
for (1) peace and 12) the prin
ciples of human rights which are
opposed to forceful repatriation.
"The 60 members are men of na
tions,” the Salem editor said.
"They function as nations.” f Ask
ed in the question period following
his talk whether world govern
ment. as advocated by the World
Federalists, might be advanced in
1955 when the U.N. charter comes
up for revision, Sprague’s answer
was “No.”)
Economically Too
The granting of independence to
colonies and trustee-countries must
be regarded economically, as well
as politically, Sprague said.
“You have to consider each sepa
rate case, its capacity for political
and economic independence. There
are conflicts within the countries
and pressures from outside and
sometimes independence is not
realistic.”
Questioned on the Reds-in-the
U.N. issue, Sprague said that three
points must be considered when
looking at the problem:
1. Protection of the security of
the United States.
2. Protection of the integrity of
the U.N. as an international or
ganization.
3. Protection of the integrity of
American nationals.
Sprague said that Americans
should keep in mind that the U.N.
is not a subsidiairy of the U.S.,
that it is an international organi
zation and has no secrets of its
own, that other countries have
Communists there, and that no
U.S. secrets are communicated to
the U.N.
Asked if he thought there
would be any major changes in
U.S. policy in the U.N. with the
new administration in Washing
ton, Sprague replied:
“We (the delegates) are an
agency of government. We work
under instructions. I think we feel
in general thut the policies of Eis
enhower’s administration will be
quite close to those of the present
administration. There may be
changes in emphasis . . but the
goals wall remain the same.”
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Student-Faculty
Party Set Tuesday
Students will have an opportun
ity to become better acquainted
with faculty members at an Apple
Polishing party sponsored by the
AWS Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m.
in the SU Dad's lounge.
Campus clothes are in order,
announced Dorothy Kopp, chair
man of the affair. Light refresh
ments will be served.
SAE Appeals
IFC Decision
To Levy Fine
Sigma Alpha Epsilon has ap
pealed the decision of an Inter
Fraternity council tribunal held
Thursday at which the fraternity
was found guilty of illegal rush
ingand fined $150.
The IFC tribune met Friday to
hear the fraternity’s appeal. As a
result of the second hearing, the
tribunal moved that the case
should be referred to IFC as a
whole when that group meets
Thursday night.
The tribunal also made two rec
ommendations, according to Dick
Morse, IFC president. The group
recommended reducing the penal
ty against the five rushees and
that IFC amend its constitution
dealing with illegal rushing. The
tribunal also suggested that in
stead of fines being levied against
fraternities for illegal rushing the
houses be punished by having
their pledge quotas cut.
As the case against the SAE’s
now stands, Morse said, the de
cision of the tribunal holds, but
inal settlement will be made at
IFC meeting. ,
Last Thursday the tribunal rul
ed that four of the five rushees
involved in the SAE incident
would not be allowed to pledge
any house until fall term, 1953.
A fifth student, a transfer, was
allowed to continue through rush
week. However, in the Friday
meeting the tribunal ruled that
he would be subject to the same
penalty as the four other men and
he was not allowed to complete
rush week.
Speech Cancelled
By Judge Bayly
Day T. Bayly, Lane county
judge facing recall action, will
not speak tonight under the
sponsorship of the University of
the University of Oregon Young
Republicans as previously an
nounced.
According to Bruce Holt,
Young Republican president,
Bayly was forced to cancel his
planned appearance at the Os
burn hotel because of poor
health.
Bayly, who has been charged
with “failure to cooperate with
county employees and lack of
proper qualifications to hold of
fice”, was to have spoken on
“Court house conditions and
problems.”
The recall action is sponsored
by a Lane county ’’Recall Bayly
Commtitee.” Special recall elec
tion is set for Thursday.
18 Fraternities Pledge 147 Men
During Winter Term Rush Week
One hundred and forty-seven
men pledged 18 houses at the end
of formal men’s rushing Saturday,
according to the office of student
affairs.
According to the figures re
leased by that office 165 men
signed up to go through rush week
.which started Monday. During the
week six men dropped rushing,
leaving 159 possible pledges. Of
this number ten failed to finish
the required steps during rush
week. Two men were not pledged.
The Emerald will publish the
complete pledge list Tuesday. It
will be released by student affairs
late Monday morning.