Remodeled Mac Court Sees Side Posts Out, Balconies In OREGON'S McARTHUR COURT, currently undergoing extensive alterations, will seat 10,000 people when it is re-opened for the 1954-55 basketball season. The remodeling, which includes the addition of east and west balconies, will cost ahoiit $*30,000, or $10,000 more'than the original cost of the building. McArthur court is unique among college pavilions in that no tax funds were used for its construction. By Jerry Claussen Emerald Reporter McArthur Court, Oregon's ‘Tg- • loo" field house of the 1920’s, I will be fit for kings of the bas ketball court after its extensive remodeling and seating additions are finished’ in the near future. Biggest improvement to the 27-year-old building is the addi tion of balconies at the east and west sides suspended above the old second-floor level seats. With - two balconies, one above the other, added to each aide of the' playing floor, seating capacity in McArthur Court will lie raised from approximately 8200 to j 10.000. This will make it the tenth largest basketball court in capacity in the nation, rated right behind Oregon State's $1, 800.000 coliseum, according to athletic department officials In order to place the balcon- j Campus Briefs • Barbara Hogard, Caroles* Witt, Gwendolyn EUis, Joanne Burns, William Stoner. George Low and Elliot Carlson were con fined to the infirmary Thursday, according to hospital records. f Old and new members of the Student Union dance com mittee are to meet Monday at 4 p.m. in the SU, according to Don Pacvk. chairman. 0 There will be no Friday at Four in the Student Union fish bowl today. • “Ic ha bod and Mr. Toad," will be the movie shown at 2:20 and 5 p.m. Sunday in the Student Union ballroom. A Walt Disney technicolor production, the film has Basil Rathboae and Bing Crosby as narrators. Admission is 30 cents. • Canterbury club. Episco pal student group, will meet in Corvallis Sunday at 5:30 p.m. with the OSC Episcopal group. Students wishing transportation are to call Father Ellis at 5-7908. ies above the second floor seats, some of the upper part of the building had to be almost com pletely rebuilt. To take the load of the balconies, two wooden trusses have been placed over1 each side of the building and attached to the old interior wood trusses. This takes the building weight off the side posts and j puts it all on the corner posts of the building. Good View From Sides Removal of the side posts will1 give fans an unobstructed view from the side seats, an improve ment long overdue for games and other events which attract near ly 500,000 spectators to McAr thur Court annually. With the comers taking about 10 times more weight than prior to the building changes, concrete bases 13 feet square have been put in to help absorb the weight. New stairs have been built from the main floor to the sec ond floor with new steel towers on the four corners of the build ing to hold stairways to the out side and up to the new balconies. Lower balconies will have six rows while the top balconies will; contain four rows of seats which spectators may reach from an aisle along the rear of each bal-1 cony. The balcony angle will be ; quite steep and the view of the playing floor will be improved. \ Cost S13 a Seat Cost of remodeling will be about $230,000 or $13 per new seat. Construction of the build-1 ing was begun in the early 1920‘s, j After several delays the concrete j and steel structure was finally completed in 1927, at a cost of about $220,000. Since that time, only one ma jor change has been made. Be tween 1949 and 1953, new roll away bleachers werev installed on the ground-floor sides of the playing floor and theater-type seats were put in portions of the balcony. All original costs of the building have come from stu dent fees and donors, not one cent having ever come out of tax funds, according to Ted Bouck, athletic business man ager. Work Began April 1 Although the inside is nearing See The World Famous OLYMPIAN The typewriter with these special features: • FOUR EXTRA CHARACTERS • NEW HALF-SPACE FEATURE at Eugene's Exclusive Dealer Stevens Typewriter Co. 112 East Broadway Phone 4-9115 completion, the outside stairways will still require another month of work in order to get the building completely done for the 1954-55 hoop season. Work was begun last April 1, The revamped plant's first formal showing will be Oct. 19, during the inauguration of Uni versity President O. Meredith Wilson in conjunction with Uni versity Charter Day. Basketball action will begin Dec. 3 when Oregon plays Santa Clara and Oregon State meets California in a doubleheader. Patronize Emerald Advertisers i Theater Announces Cast for Bernardine' Scott Lehner, junior in speech, will play the leading role of Bu ford Weldy in the University theater’s production of "Bernar dine." UO Mothers, Dads To Meet Jointly The Mothers’ Club and the Dads’ Club of Eugene will hold! a joint meeting Wednesday at 7:3<) p.m. in Gerlinger hall. Main speaker of the evening j will be University President O. Meredith Wilson. Officials from the student affairs office will discuss scholarships and student life on the campus. Mel Gustafson Is president of the Dads' club, and Mrs. Paul E, Price is the president of the i Mothers' club. Portland State's Enrollment Up 743 PORTLAND - < APi - Portland State college enrollment at the j close of registration is 2363. more than <14 per cent more than last fall's total of 1620. The stale board of higher edu cation had expected an increase of only about 300 students. When the increase turned out to be more than 700, the board gave the college the equivalent of eight more fulltime instruc- r tors. Whiskerino Ticket Sale Begins Monday Noon Tickets for the Sophomore Whiskerino will go on sale at the Co-op and the Student Union. Monday at noon. They may also be purchased from freshman girts who will be giving flying speeches at men's living organ izations during the dinner hour Monday through Thursday. FLAMING PASSIONS and VIOLENCE IN LUSTY. LAWLESS ROME! ! jlj! I i .. ■! . ! Iaii nanine mon honored picture af the year... M-G-M presents William Shakespeare’s JULIUS CAESAR Starring! MARLON BRANDO JAMES MASON JOHN GIELGUD LOUIS CALHERN EDMOND O’BRIEN ^ * nnA FIRST TIME at regular prices THRU SAT. - "GLEN MILLER STORY" i!|: _vj*ne ] B with JEFF RICHARDS • RUSS TAMBLYN • TOMMY RALL, jj m\ mn i fmas mm w mm wucsiFf * fcMaMMn MW* ««■ ..... ... 6' *'**•<». • «w »b> ■ EM . m -mm no • SNMH OONfN • 1ACX WMWCS FRI. & S4 T.‘ Waiting"—Jean Simmons "Coroner Career"—Randolph Scott Frederick J. Hunter, assistant professor of speech, who will di rect Mary Chase's latest work, has announced the rest of tin* ^a.st for the show. "Bernardtne" jpen.s a six performance run on Oct. 21*. Lehner has been seen by Uni versity audiences in 11 roles since he came to Eugene in 1952. Last summer he played the like able but lazy Ensign Pulver in "Mr. Roberts," Cato Dove In the period farce "Forbidden Fruit," and had roles in the other summer productions. Last year he played the sly and mischlev ions Joxer Daly in "Juno and the Paycock" and the year before he was Harry Beaton in “Brlga doon" and Tony Lumpkin in "She Stoops to Conquer." Pat Johnson, senior In speech, will play Ruth Weidy. Miss John son was seen last year as Mercy Lewis In "The Crucible." I^oretta Mason, junior in speech, will play Enid Lacy, the "Bernadine" if the show. Miss Mason played Penelope Toop in "See How They Run." Other cast members include 3ruce Holt as Arthur Beaumont, Jail Monte as Selma Cantrick, Jloria Begenich as Jean Can trick, Sonja Dalton as Helen, Joe Malanga as Tub Grinet. Darrell