Oregon Delegates
Reject Press Bid
The University of Oregon dele
gation to the first convention of
the Oregon Collegiate Publications
association, held at Linfield col
lege tills weekend, voted against
ratification of the group’s consti
tution and declined a bid for mem
bership in the organization.
In addition to Oregon, schools
represented at the convention
were Linfield, Lewis and Clark
college, the University of Port
land, Oregon College of Education,
and Southern Oregon College of
Education. All but Oregon ratified
the constitution and became char
ter members of OCPA.
Declines Membership
The Oregon delegation declined
membership on the basis that such
a small group did not represent
enough Interest in the program to
justify formation of an OCPA. The
Oregon students at the convention
expressed an opinion that should
Oregon State college, Willamette
University and one or two other
Colleges join the group, the Uni
versity might be Interested in join
ing.
Members of the Oregon delega
tion w'cie Elsie Schiller, Emerald
editor; Joe Gardner, Emerald news
editor; Jerry Harrell, assistant
news editor, and Sally Ryan, Ore
gana associate editor.
Outgrowth of OFCL Confab
OCPA was an outgrowth of the
fall meeting of the Oregon Feder
ation of Collegiate Leaders, held
at Reed college. At the meeting,
several colleges in the state ex
prer ed an interest in the forma
tion of a collegiate press associa
tion.
With this suggestion in mind a
group of students from Linfield,
OCK and Portland organized the
convention and drew up a pro
posed constitution. Invitations to
the two-day convention were sent
to all Oregon colleges and univer
sities.
Speaking at the program were
David Eyre, managing editor of
the Oregon Journal; Marlowe
Branagan, sports editor for the
Journal; Philip Bladine, editor of
the McMinnville Daily News Reg
ister; and Ron Moxness, reporter
for the Portland Oregonian. Verne
Duncan, Linfield college, was con
vention chairman.
Officers elected at the conven
I tlon are as follows: Harry Pease,
OCK, president; Duncan, vice
president; Esther Snook, SOCE,
secretary-treasurer; John Chris
rnan, Portland, social secretary,
and Evelyn Neai, OCE, informa
tion director.
Houses to Submit
Queen Candidates
All living organizations have
been requested to submit their
candidates for Junior Weekend
queen by 5 p. m. Friday, accord
ing to Ward Cook and Jack Boett
cher, co-chairmen.
Names of candidates should be
turned in to Pat Beard, Gamma
Phi Beta, Cook said.
Candidates must be junior wo
men with a minimum 2. accumu
lative GPA and a 2. GPA last
term.
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No Block
For Duck
Parties
Preview
j lie j nter-iratcrmty council
voted Thursday night to elitn
inate traditional “block par
ties ’ following the Friday
night vodvil show Duck Pre
view weekend.
Court Recesses Daily Case
The trial of John Daily, senior in
mathematics charged with trying
to extort money from a Eugene
housewife, recessed Friday after
noon after District Attorney Eu
gene Venn brought in a ‘'surprise
witness."
I he witness, Uoy Haldeman of
Drain, identified Daily as the man
he saw while parked on Goodpas
ture Island road one afternoon
early in December with a woman
he knew as Mrs. Roy Henderson.
He told the jury the woman,
whose first name he understood to
be Thelma, was not the same Mrs.
Henderson as the complaining wit
ness in the Daily case. She is Mrs.
Mary Ellen Henderson.
Daily is accused of trying to get
favors and money from Mrs. Mary
Henderson. It is charged that he
told her he had compromising pic
tures of her parked with Halde
man on Goodpasture road.
State Calls 11
Eleven witnesses were called by
the state Friday and Venn indica
ted he would call another "six to
eight' witnesses before resting his
case.
Among the other witnesses was
Detective Edward Bunch who
chased a man around Skinner's
Butte Jan. IS after accompanying
Mrs. Henderson there to deliver
money. Bunch said Daily was the
man he chased.
West Point Trip New
For UO Debate Team
For the first time in history,
the University of Oregon will send
a debate team to the West Point
National Invitational tournament
UO to Hear
Noted Writer
Henry S. Commager, one of the
most prolific writers of American
history, will speak at 8 p. rn. next
Monday in the Student Union ball
room.
The widely-known educator and
writer, who is currently a profes
sor of history at Columbia Univer
sity, will speak on "The Conduct
of Foreign Policy.”
Some of his books on foreign
policy and American history in
clude "America in Prospective,"
"The Heritage of America” and
"The Rise of the American Na
tion." His books on American doc
uments is used as a text on the
University campus.
Commager's Ph.B. degree was
obtained from the University of
Chicago, and his M.A. from the
University of Copenhagen, Den
mark, the following year. He la
ter returned to the University of
Chicago for his Ph.D
Prior to his professorship at
Columbia university, Commager
was with the history department
at New York university.
sponsored by the United States
Military Academy.
The University debate squad
was invited to participate in the
tournament on the basis of its
record for the past year. The invi
tation was announced by the reg
ional West Point committee at the
Linfield Forensic Tournament of
Champions. March 6. Only recent
ly were enough funds secured for
the team to make the trip.
Oregon anti Washington State
College were the only two colleges
from the Northwest region, which
includes Oregon, Washington, Ida
ho, and Montana, to receive invi
tations to the tournament.
The debate team of Karl Harsh
barger, senior in speech, and Don
Micklewait, junior in economics,
have been chosen to attend the
tournament, which will be held
April 21 to 24 at West Point. This
will be the first time the men have
been on the same team. During the
past year they were on different
teams, but both have won honors
for their outstanding debating, ac
cording to Herman Cohen, director
of forensics. Cohen will travel to
West Point with the team.
Thirty two colleges from all
parts of the United States are
expected to participate in this
meet. “Among these there will be
both large and small schools rep
resented, bringing the top debate
squads of the country into compe
tition," commented Cohen. The de
bate topic will be “Free Trade.’’
Bunch also said Daily, after his (
arrest on Jan. 28, refused to sub
mit to a lie detector test and
made a statement at the police
station outlining the details of the j
No Petitions,
Primary Nears
Silence, complete and all en
veloping, surrounds the campus
political scene today. Candidates
still refuse' to say if they will or
won’t run for office and ASl'()
President Tom Wrightson has
not received any petitions for
the primary.
Wednesday is the deadline for
filing for spots on either the
Associated Greek .Students or
Cnftrd Independent Students
primary ballots. This year, for
the first time, the campus Mill
see an open primary, one in
which the students get to choose
the party for which they wish to
vote.
( ampus political experts were
predicting that no primary pe
titions would appear in Wright
son’s office until Wednesday af
ternoon. As one of them put it.
“when the deadline comes, a line f
will probably extend from the
third floor to the Strident Union
fishbowl.”
The Independent party has
declared a ’’hands off” policy
toward the primary, and the
AS Co senate also voted to do
nothing except run the election.
The Greek party has so far is
sued no statement as to its
stand.
Police Arrest
UO Students
Seven University students were
arrested by the Oregon State Po
lice near Florence Saturday and
i charged with illegal possession of j
I alcoholic beverages.
The students were arrested near!
Westlake, south of Florence, and
were charged with illegal posses
sion. Six of the students pleaded
guilty before Florence Justice of
the Peace C. S. Carlson and were
fined $15 and costs apiece. A sev
enth student was fined $50 and
costs on a charge of destroying
state property by tearing down
road signs.
Carlson would not divulge the
names of the students when con
tacted Sunday. He did say, how
ever, that there were “two or
three boys’’ and the rest were
girls. .
Dorothy Kopp. president of
Kappa Alpha Theta, later con
firmed a report that the women
involved were members of her so
rority. She did not disclose their
names. Bob Glass, president of
Phi’Kappa Psi, also admitted that
some of the men involved were
members of his fraternity. He said
that a total of four men were in
volved, but would disclose no
names.
crimo. Bunch was not permitted to
speak of the statement as "a con
fession” because of objections by
Defense Attorneys William Bartle
and Edwin Allen.
Speaks of ‘Colleagues’
Mrs. Mary Henderson testified
she has received no threatening
calls since the chase on Skinner’s
Butte Jan. 18. She said more than
one man might have been involved
in the attempted extortion, ex
plaining her caller spoke of “my
colleagues” and “my associates.”
Lee Scroggs, a policewoman
who impersonated Mrs. Mary Hen
derson on a trip to Goodpasture
Island Road to deliver "money”
told of seeing a person in the
brush, ostensibly waiting for the
money. She did not identify that
person as Daily.
The defense indicated Thursday
that mistaken identity would be the
line of defense. They asked several
witness if the man they saw had
a scab on his face. None had seen
the scab. Daily, the defense said,
had a scab on his face at the time.
The Emerald was unable Sunday
night to reach attorneys in the
case for further comment.
The council's action follow*
(<^ presentation and discussion
of a policy stressing the aca
demic side of University lifa
■ ^,,r’ng this year's preview week
end.
Presenting the policy wer*
weekend co-chairmen, Jerry Far
row and Don Bonime, with com
ments added by Les Anderson,
University alumni director and ad
viser for the weekend.
Final Flans Later
Groups not yet contacted con
cerning weekend policies wera
Heads of Houses and Inter-don*
council. Final plans will be com
pleted in later meetings witlt
these groups.
Other items discussed at tba
IFC meeting concerning the week
end were a slightly revised hous
ing policy, which was explained
by Bob Porter, chairman of men’s
housing, and the naming of housa
representatives.
Main item in the proposed policy
change for the weekend is in tb«
program, beginning with a period
from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. Friday,
which will be conducted similar to
| high-school ‘‘career days.”
•What to Take?’
Listed on the weekend schedule
jas "What to Take?” the perick
will be composed of epen-houso
! sessions in the various depart
; nients, with professors and in
I struetors present to answer ques
tions.
(
! _ It will entail explanations of
I course offerings in the variou}
! schools, and will provide oppor
| tunities for individual participa
I tion in the discussions.
It had been suggested earlier,
at a meeting of all chairmen ft r
the weekend, that paired parties
m living organizations, similar to
those formerly held after the vod
vil. be held in this period.
This was suggested after week
j end officials had already decided
■ to begin the vodvil show at 10
p. m., which is a later hour than
• had formerly been the custom.
Referendum Petitions
Turned in Wednesday
aii jivuuuiui caning ior a rcrer
eruium on the Eugene city council
decision to establish industrial
zoning in the area near the Mill
lace will be turned over to City
Recorder Henry Beistel Wednes
day, according to Hale Thompson,
attorney for the group which is |
opposing the. decision.
Thompson, attorney for the Citi-j
zena Zoning association, which is
opposing the recent council zoning
of the area, and Victor P. Morris,
dean of the school of business ad
ministration are holding the com
pleted petitions until that date.
Both have urged anyone holding
completed petitions to submit
them as soon as possible. Morris
will accept them at his office in
Commonwealth hall. Thompsons
office is at 874 Willamette St.
Thursday has been established
as the official deadline for filing
the petitions. City Attorney John
Remington said Friday that under
his interpretation the law states
that the petitions must be submit
ted within 30 days of the time of
council passage of the ordinance.
The ordinance did not become ef
fective until March 9 when Mayor
V. Edwin Johnson signed it.
Thompson said the bearers of
petitions must certify each signa
ture. and that signers must be reg
istered voters living within the
City limits. Members of the Zon
ing association have urged all Uni
versity students who are eligible
to sign the petitions. The attorney
said those who wish to sign peti
tions may do so by calling 5-6874,
5-3976, 5-7196 or 5-1866,
Thompson also explained that
the association will meet tonight
at s m Commonwealth hall for t
final session before the filing
date.
UO Next Place
For ISA Confab
The University of Oregon wj 1
be the site of next year's region; !
convention of the' Independent
Students association, the group
decided at its meeting at Oregon
State Saturday.
Attended by independent stu
dents from colleges in Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho, the con
vention will be held during winter
term next year, Hollis Ransom,
head of the Oregon delegation an
nounced.
Tom Shepherd, senior in politi
cal science, was elected convention
secretary for the coming year.
Other officers elected were Eldon
McClure, WSC, ’president: Don
Dieterick, OSC, vice president, and
Betty Cowen, WSC, corresponding
secretary.
Oregon’s delegation led tfyee,
discussion groups during the twe
day meeting at OSC. Shepherd
was moderator for discussions on
"Is organization necessary for
participation in student govern
ment ? and “Planning and organ
izing conventions.” Ransom lead
a discussion on "Participation in
local living group activities.”
Besides Ransom and Shepheid,
Oregon's delegation included Sally
Berlow, Russ Cowell, Mania Gehr
man, Harriet Hornbeck, John Vaz
bys and Jackie Wardell.