. 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