. VOL. LV
UNIVERSITY OF OBKOON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28. 1954
NO. 75
WATERS WISE
Amazon Flooded;
Streets Blocked
several streets and most of the
yards at Amazon flats, housing
project for married students, were
. inundated by rising waters Wed
nesday night following the nearly
two inches of rain that fell be
tween Tuesday and Wednesday af
ternoon.
Although entrances to most of
the housing units, 'especially in
the single unit dwellings, was
blocked by water at 11:30 p.m.
Wednesday, no one had been forced
to vacate the houses, according to
Malcolm O. Mau, graduate in ar
chitecture, who is manager of the
housing project.
(However, it was reported ear
lier that one family had already
. moved out. Mau did not verify this
. when he talked to the Emerald
reporters on the scene.)
Water in the area will have to
raise another eight inches before
any of the dwellings will be in
danger, according to Jeffrey L.
Shute, senior in art. Shute is as
sistant manager of the project.
Although floods in the Amazon
area are an annual occurrence,
Mau said that Wednesday’s flood
was the worst he had seen in the
four years he has lived in the proj
ect.
Water had reached the running
boards of cars parked along some
of Amazon streets. Almost all of
the yards were completely flooded,
and residents were finding it diffi
cult to reach the housing units.
There was a backflow of water
in some of the drains along Hil
yard street, and 19th avenue in
front of Eugene high school was
completely under water. The
school building appeared to be
above the water level.
Residents of the project were
moving belongings out of wood
sheds used as storage rooms, Carl
Weber, senior in business and a
resident of the project, said.
The water reached a level Wed
nesday night six inches higher
than in previous years, Weber re
ported. He also expressed the opin
ion that the flood was the worst
he had seen in three years.
Continued rain was predicted
Wednesday night by the weather
bureau.
No ASUO Senate
Meeting Tonight
The ASUO senate will not meet
I this week. The next meeting of
■ the senate has been set for next
I Thursday at 6:30 p. m. in the
Student Union.
Petitions for the'vacant senate
at-large position may be submit
; ted until 5 p. m. next Thursday.
The vacancy occurred when Bob
Funk was ‘appointed at ASUO
vice president, taking Don Collin's
post when he was unable to re
turn to school.
ASUO Pres. Tom Wrightson1
was reported ill with the flu and
in the infirmary Wednesday.
Tugman Upholds Criticism
Of McCarthy-Wechsler Case
By Carol Beech
The editorial criticism directed
toward Senator McCarthy in the
recent McCarthy-Wechsler case
w(i actually in the interest of
every newspaper editor and every
citizen who is protected under the
rights of the first amendment
*Willlam Tugman, editor of the
sophomore honors classes at a
member of the faculty, told the
sophomore honor's classes at a
coffee hour yesterday.
Tugman told the group that 11
newspaper editors, members of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors and on the ‘freedom of in
formation' committee, were re
cently asked to investigate the
McCarthy-Wechsler case which
was being conducted behind lock
ed doors.
When it appeared to the
committee that McCarthy was
using unconstitutional tactics
and when he agreed to
• make the manuscripts of the
hearings public, they were made
into a special committee to study
the possibility of an infringement
of the rights of citizens under the
constitution of the United States.
, Endangered First Amendment
“Our purpose was not to defend
f Wechsler nor blast McCarthy, but
■ to investigate the facts and find
where the senator had endangered
the rights of every newspaper ed
itor and every citizen under the
L .laws of the first amendment,”
^ fTugman reported.
‘ On April 25 and again on May
5, James Wechsler, editor of the
• New York Evening Post, was
called before a closed meeting of
McCarthy’s investigating commit
tee to answer questions about two
• books he had written when he
was a student at Columbia uni
versity.
Wechsler admitted that at the
time he had been affiliated with
the Young Communist league as
a teenager, but, that after a trip
to Russia shortly after he had
graduated from college, he left
the party and wrote two more
books denouncing communism.
Tugman and his colleagues
agreed that Senator McCarthy
had a perfect right to question
Wechsler about his books, but
that he stepped over the line
when he cross-examined Wechsler
at length on the policies, the
views and the employees of the
New York Post.
Violated Wechslers Rights
Tugman told his audience "the
minute McCarthy began to ask
these highly personal questions
about the editorial policies of
Wechsler’s paper, he was violating
Wecbiers rights as a citizen and
as a newspaper man under the
constitution.”
The committee^of eleven voted
unanimously that Senator McCar
thy’s tactics had abused the con
gressional privilege of inquiry.
Four out of the eleven (includ
ing Tugman) went even farther
and declared that this was a pres
ent and immediate threat for
which they criticized the senator
very severly, he said.
McCarthy then asked the other
seven on the committee to investi
gate these four men. He called the
two reports a majority and a min
ority report, which Tugman says
is not true—that they were simply
unanimous and supplementary
reports. At this point, the com
mittee banded together in all-out
opposition against the senator.
OSC Tickets Gone;
More at Colosseum
The athletic office in McArthur
Court has reported that all its
tickets for the Oregon-Oregon
State college basketball game Fri
day night at Corvallis have been
sold out.
An additional 3000 general ad
mission tickets will be put on sale
at 9 a. m. Friday at Gill Coliseum
in Corvallis. Oregon students who
have not already purchased tic
kets for the game will not be as
sured of seating Friday night, the
athletic office reported.
Standard Oil Man
Campus Lecturer
The president of the Standard
Oil company of California, T. S.
Petersen, will speak on campus
at a University assembly sched
uled for Tuesday, Feb. 9. Peter
sen's topic will be "Big Business
Meets the Challenge of Change.”
Petersen will also address an
informal coffee hour gathering
sponsored by the Student Union
coffee hour forum committee.
The speaker is a director of the
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
company, the American Petroleum
Institute and the Western Oil and
Gas association. He is a trustee
of the California Academy of Sci
ences, a member of the San Fran
cisco Bay Area council and the
Business Advisory council for the
U. S. Department of Commerce.
Petersen, who is now the con
sulting professor of marketing for
the Stanford university graduate
school of business, originally join
ed the company in Portland, where
he was a service station attend
ant during 1922. He served in sev
eral positions throughout seven
of the western states before he
became a division manager in Sac
ramento in 1931.
In 1938 Petersen was named
general manager of Standard Sta
tions, Inc. He later became assis
tant to the president of Standard
Oil of California and manager of
the Employee relations and per
sonnel department.
Subsequently he was named
general manager, of sales in the
marketing department. He was
elected to the board of directors
in 1942. Later the same year he
was named vice-president.
He was elected president of the
company six years ago. A grad
uate of Washington high school in
Partland, Petersen attended the
Field Artillery Officer’s Training
school at Camp Zachary Taylor,
Ky., during World War I.
"Now 58, Petersen is a resident
of Hillsborough on the San Fran
cisco peninsula. He is married and
has one son. Born in Utah, he
moved to Oregon when he was 16.
UO Receives
Science Grant
UP) The National Science foun
dation Wednesday granted $15,000
to the University of Oregon for
scientific research. The grant was
one of 100 made principally in the
biological and physical science
fields.
I. M. Niver, professor of mathe
matics, will direct the project. The
University of Washington received
a similar grant for $10,000.
Business-Education
Meet Held Today
uver 100 educators and business
men will be on campus today for
the West Central Oregon Area
Business - Education conference.
The Business Community’s Stake
m Education” has been chosen as
the conference theme.
According to C. F. Ziebarth, as
sociate professor of business and
chairman of arrangements, the
conference was designed to bring
educators and business men to
gether to gain a closer understand
ing through group discussions. At
these discussions they try to dis
cover and utilize improved meth
ods for more efficient use of re
sources, to dispel misunderstand
ings and to work for solutions to
common problems.
Groups Cooperate
This conference, the first to be
held on the University of Oregon
campus, will include business men
and educators from Albany, Cor
vallis, Eugene, Springfield, Cot
tage Grove and Roseburg.
Oregon State college, chambers
of commerce, public school, gen
eral extension division — Eugene
Northwest Christian college and
the National Association of Man
ufacturers are working in cooper
ation with the University in order
to make this conference possible.
Program Listed
Registration for the conference
took place in the auditorium of
Commonwealth hall at 9 a. m. to
day. A fee of $4 was charged.
Program for the day will in
clude :
Morning Session:
9.30 to 10 a. m. — A welcome by
Victor P. Morris, acting presi
dent, University of Oregon.
Hintz. Will Attend
Chicago Meeting
Carl W. Hintz, University li
brarian, will attend the mid-win
ter meeting of the American Li
brary association at Chicago. Jan.
31 to Feb. 6, reports J. F. Lauber.
library administrative assistant.
While there, Hintz will represent
Oregon at a conference of state
and regional representatives of the
Association of College and Re
search libraries, and at meetings of
the committee on cooperative mi
crofilming projects, which con
cers the microfilming of news
papers.
Y Petitions Due
Monday At Five
Petitions for YWCA officers are
due at 5 p. m. Monday. Both elec
tive and appointive positions are
open.
Blanks for petitioning may be
picked up and returned at the YW
CA office in Gerlinger hall. ASUO
petitions are not to be used.
Interviews of the petitioners
will be held between Feb. 3 and
15. Two candidates for each elec
tive position will be announced be
fore elections on Feb. 18.
10 to 11:10 — Addresses: CHf*.
ford E. Maser, dean of the
school of business and tech
nology, Oregon State college:
Eugene Caldwell, vice-presi
dent and general manager,
the Hyster company; and Job*
Richards, vice-chancellor, Ore
gon State System of Higher
Education.
11:10 to 12 noon — Buzz ses
sions directed by Sam Rod
way, president, Eugene Cham
ber of Commerce.
Luncheon Session:
12“tU° n30 P‘ m- “ Address:
rne Business Community'll
Stake in Education — HoW
Can We Cope with the Prob
lems?” by E. B. MacNaugfi
ton, chairman of the board;
First National Bank of Port
land.
Closing Session:
2.00 to 2:40 — Buzz sessions di
rected by Sam Dorway, presi
dent, Eugene Chamber ct
Commerce.
2:50 to 4 — Panel discussion e#
questions developed in busm.
sessions. Moderator: Roy CL
McCall, head of the spech de
partment, University of Ore--,
gon. Summary: William <J.
Jones, executive director*
Western Interstate Commis
sion for Higher Education.
The morning and closing ses
sions will be held in the auditorium..
of Commonwealth hall and tho
Iuncheon in the Student Union.
Court Claims
Legal Ground
Wednesday night’s student court
meeting was quiet, with but a hint
of J. Kelly Farris’ recent, much
publicized efforts to get out ef.
paying his fine. James Givan,
second-year law student, appealed
his violation fine on grounds that
"the court s legality should be es
tablished.” Givan presented sl
check for his total parking fine,
which had written on the back
that, until he had written proof
of the court’s authority to impose
fines, he would not pay his.
Don Rotenberg, court chairman,
assured him that the State Board
of Higher Education had issued a*,
statement that the student court
did have a recognized legal basis.
A copy of a letter of authorization
is now being sent to the court from
interim University President Vic
tor P. Morris. Givan’s case wai ■
postponed until the next regular
meeting of the court.
Harvard Law Scout ■’
To Interview Students
Louis A. Toepfer, assistant dean
of Harvard university law school,
will be on campus, Feb. 10, to
interview students interested in at
tending Harvard law school, Rob
ert D. Clark, assistant dean of the
college of liberal arts, has announ
ced.
Clark asks that interested stun
dents leave their names with hirn.
in the liberal arts office in John
son hall sometime before Toepfer’s
ir rival.
Moon Is Blue Opens Run;
All Tickets Sold Out
me Moon is Blue,” F. Hugh
Herbert’s controversial adult com
edy about a young girl and an ar
chitect, will open Friday night
in-the arena theater under the di
rection of Horace W. Robinson,
associate professor of speech.
All seats for the 18 performance
run of this third production of the
University theater have been sold
out, according to Gene Wiley,
theater business manager.
Gloria Lee and Donald McDon
ald will play the leads in the open
ing performance. They will alter
nate with Helene Robertson and
Harry Smith for the rest of the
run in the two lead roles of Patty
and Don. Clarence Suiter will play
David, and Tom Angles will plav;
Patty’s father.
The show will be staged by Rob
inson in a “three-quarter” arena
style, where the audience sits ocv
three sides, enabling a minima ra
of scenery to be used on the fourth,
wall.
A combination backing for both
the observation platform of the
Empire State building and Don’*,
modern apartment has been work
ed out through the use of drapes.
Lee Jackson, assistant director
of the show, will act as stage
manager for the run. Cyrus F^ryar
will handle props and Gold Ryals
will operate the lights for tho
comedy.