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I NIVKHHITV OF OREGON, EL'GENE, THURSDAY, OC TOBER 28, 19M
NO. 26
Chairman Announces
Noise Parade Rules
Rules for the Homecoming
noise parade have been an
nounced by Dick Van Allen, pa
rade chairman. Representatives
from paired living organizations
will meet at 2 p.m. today in the
Student Union to discuss the
rules and other details.
General rules for the floats
are:
1. Vehicle must be one single
• conveyance. Semi-trucks ar*
permlssable, but not extra
trailers.
2. The vehicles must have the
name of the oganizations on
both Hides of the float. There
will be a 10-point penalty if
the names are missing.
3. The parade will start at 6:30
^ p.m. and will conclude at
/ approximately 8 p.m.
4. The parade will form on
University street with the
head at 19th. Vehicles will
v assume their places in line
on a first-come, first-served
basis. Floats may begin for
mation on the right side of
University street soon after
3 p.m. Any entrants not in
place by 6:15 will be penal
ized 20 points. All floats
should enter University
street from 13th.
The parade will follow the
^ general Homecoming theme, "Sh
. Robinson Reviews
'Teahouse' Theme
The story of American Ma
nes given the tank of injecting
noeratic beliefs into an East
culture formed the theme of
k ding in the Browsing Room
hsesday night by Horace W
liobirson, associate professor of
sp'ech and head of the speech
department.
Robinson read “The Teahouse
of the August Moon,” and intro
ductory remarks were given by
Robert D. Horn, professor of
English. The comment, "Pain
makes men think, thought makes
men wise, and w’lsdom makes life,
1 endurable," by one of the char
's acters in the book formed the
; general theme of the play.
, Horn described the play as a
j "Combination of comedy and
» truth.” The locale of the play
■1 was Okinawa.
Boom, Hello, Hello Again.”
Floats will be judged on sus
tained noise in the one-block
judging interval, spirit of those
on the float and following the
float and Ingenuity and origi
nality in noise making.
SU Fishbowl Party
Observes Birthday
The Student Union's birthday
wiK be celebrated with a party
next Wednesday In the Fish
bowl.
Bob Pollock, SU board chair
man. and Donna Shaffer, direc
torate chairman, will cut the
cake. Free coffee will be served
by the SU hospitality committee.
The celebration, which marks the
fourth year that the SU has
been in operation, will be spon
sored by the Student Union
board.
Theater Seats
Still.Available
Tickets are still on sale at the
University theater boxoffice for
the first production of the cur
rent season, Mary Chase's "Berna
dine.”
The office will be open every
afternoon this week and next
' week between 1 and 5 p. m.
Tickets are one dollar each. The
show opens Friday, plays Satur
day and the following Tuesday
through Saturday.
“Bernadine” has Scott Lehner
and Loretta Mason, both juniors
in speech. in its lead roles. Leh
ner plays “Wormy” Weldy, a
teen-age boy who is trying to be
a wheel in his crowd. Miss Mason
plays Enid Lacy, the ‘‘Bernadine”
of the show.
The production is under the
direction of Frederick J. Hunter,
assistant professor of speech, and
has settings and lighting designed
by Howard L. Ramey, technical
director of the theater.
Annual AWS Auction
Postponed One Week
Postponement of the annual
AWS Auction to next Friday,
preceding the Friday at Four,
of that day, was announced Tues
day by the chairman of the event.
Judy Carlson. The large percent
age of students leaving the cam
pus to attend the Washington
game caused the change.
Tryouts of the sorority pledge
class skits will be held next Wed
nesday. from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m.
and next Thursday from 3 to
5:30 p.m. Each pledge class will
be notified of the time for its
audition. The three winning
groups will be auctioned off to
the highest bidding men’s or
ganization immediately follow
ing the presentation of its skit
in the Student Union Fishbowr
starting at 3:30 p.m.
Men's groups may request the
, pledge classes to serve dinner
and entertain at their houses for
one evening.
Choice pieces of rummage col
lected in the drive among wom
en's living organizations last
spring term will also be sold
at the auction. Proceeds from
Homecoming Finalists
;> Interviewed Tonight
Final eliminations for this
year's Homecoming queen candi
* dates will be held this evening in
( the Student Union. The candi
i dates are asked to wear short
{ silks for the 10-minute final
f interview.
t Woods to Give
i Piano Recital
William Woods, pianist, will
play a concert tonight at 8 p.m.
in the auditorium of the music
school.
W'oods, an instructor of piano,
is a graduate of the University
of Southern California with both
bachelors and masters degrees
in music.
His program tonight will in
clude Sonata in A major (Opus
Posthomous), by Franz Schu
bert; Variations for piano, by
Aaron Copland; Nocturne in E
flat (Opus 55, No. 2.) by Chopin,
and the Ballad in F minor (Opus
52), also by Chopin.
Five finalists will be selected
tonight from the 12 candidates
now remaining. A Homecoming
queen will be determined from
these five in an all campus elec
tion to be held on Nov. 9, 10 and
11.
The 12 candidates still in the
running and their interview
schedule follow:
Lois Powell, Sigma Nu and
Delta Gamma; Barbara McNabb.
Alpha Chi Omega, and Patty
Fagan Sigma Chi, Chi Psi, Pi
Kappa Alpha, Delta Tau Delta
and Phi Kappa Psi. at 6:30.
To be interviewed at 7 p. m.
are Jill Hutchings, Phi Delta
Theta; Loretta Mason, Sigma
Kappa, a rtf Audrey Mistretta,
University House.
Betti Fackler, Chi Omega; Ann
Erickson, freshman men's dorms,
Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, and Diane David,
Susan Campbell at 7:30 p. m.
The final three are Loie Mead,
j Theta Chi; Mary Jane Rud, Sigma
S Alpha Mu, and Joyce Bearden,
Phi Sigma Kappa and Alpha Tau
I Omega, at 8 p. m.
this and all other AWS-sponsored
events go to the group's scholar
ship fund.
The winning pledge classes
auctioned last year were Alpha
Chi Omega, Kappa Kappa Gam
ma and Pi Beta Phi. They were
bought by Alpha Tau Omega.
Phi Delta Theta and Alpha hall,
respectively.
AGS Attacks
Primary Vote
The policy committee of Asso
ciated Greek Students will rec
ommend that the party go on
record as opposing the all-cam
pus primary election when the
group meets this afternoon at
Alpha Chi Omega, according to
Bob McCracken, AGS president.
The all-campus primary, open
to all members of the Associat
ed Students of the University of
Oregon, is held on campus at vot
ing booths set up by the ASUO.
Under the old “closed primary'’
system. AGS held the primary at
member living organizations
only.
Nearly 300 persons signed pe
titions circulated by AGS last
spring term urging the end of
the all-campus primary. At that
time the AGS party endorsed a
nominating convention patterned
after those used by national po
litical parties.
The proposed amendment
which would have abolished the
all-campus primary was defeat
ed. however, even though it had
more votes for than against.
Two-thirds of the total votes cast
(1166) were needed to pass the
measure and it received only 996.
Both campus political parties.
AGS and United Independent
Students, favored the all-campus
primary when it was on the bal
lot in the 1953 election. The
measure was passed at that time.
1199 to 411. The all-campus pri
mary then replaced the former
closed primary, which was con
ducted by each party among its
own members.
Also on the agenda for today's
meeting are: discussion of a card
filing system listing AGS mem
bers who are potential petition
ers for campus offices; more en
thusiasm within the party, and
committee appointments.
Morse Speaks
Today in SU
Senator Wayne L. Morse will
address a University assembly
today at 1 p.m. on the topic “The
Political Issues of 1954."
Today’s 1 o’clock classes were
held at the same hour Tuesday
so that students may attend the
.assembly, according to Robert D.
Horn, chairman of the University
assembly Qommittee.
Morse is currently in Oregon
“stumping" for Senator Richard
WAYNE I>. MORSE
Orpgon Independent
Students to Rally
Tonight for Team
A rally for the coming Univer
sity of Washington game will be
held tonight at 6:45 in McArthur
j court, Sally Stadelman, rally
j board chairman, announced Wed
! nesday.
Theme of the rally will be “Fed
' Up,” to denote the fact that
1 Oregon is fed up with the way
Washington has defeated them
for the last five years.
Pairings for the event are:
* Alpha Chi Omega, Phi Gamma Delta;
j Alpha Delta Pi. Delta Tau Delta; Alpha
I (lamina Delta, Philadelphia house; Alpha
Omtcron Pi, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Alpha
I Phi, Delta L’psilon and Kappa Sigma;
I Alpha Xi Delta. Lambda Chi Alpha ; Ann
Judson, Barrister Inn and Gamma iiall.
Carson hall. Beta Theta Pi, S:gma Chi,
Vest or hall, and Sederstrom ; Chi Omega.
Alpha hall; I>cha Delta Delta, Camp
bell Club; Delta Gamma. Theta Chi; Delta
/eta, Chi Psi; Gamma Phi Beta. Omega,
Sherry Kn«s, and Yeomen: Hendricks,
Sigma Alpha Epsidon, Tau Kappa Epsi
lon and French hall; Susan Campbell,
Sigma Alpha Mu, Cherney, and Sigma Nu.
Highland house. Phi Sigma Kappa;
Kappa Alpha Theta. Phi Delta Theta;
Kappa Kappa Gamma. Alpha Tau Omega;
Pi Beta Phi, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Pi
Kappa Phi.
Rebec house. Merrick hall; Sigma Kap
pa, Phi Kappa Psi; University house. Hale
Kane; Zeta Tau Alpha and Phi Kappa
Sigma.
L. Neuberger, Democratic can
didate for the US senate. He has
agreed to confine today’s talk to
issues rather than personalities
involved in the political cam
paign.
Currently the senate’s only In
dependent, Morse once described
the record of the Eisenhower ad
ministration with the statement,
"No runs, no hits, too many
errors.” Morse left the Republi
can party shortly before the 1952
presidential election.
He was elected to the senate
in 1944, and resigned his post as
dean of the University law school
to take his seat in the senate.
He taught at Oregon for 15
years before his election.
Prior to his election to the
senate, Morse served on several
state and federal government
commissions. From 1936 to 1939
he was special assistant to the
US attorney general, and then
served as administrative direc
tor for the attorney general’s
office.
He was an arbitrator for the
US Department of Labor from
1928 to 1932, and was instru
mental in the settlement of an
Oregon Longshoremen’s strike
during that period. He has also
served as a member of the Ore
gon State crime commission.
Morses talking feats in the
senate, particularly on the tide
lands oil and atomic energy ques
tions, made him the all-time sen
ate talking champion. His record
was set during the tidelands de
bate, when he held the floor for
22 hours, 26 minutes.
He joined senate democrats in
July to fight the administration
sponsored atomic energy bill. De
spite Morse’s 6, 8 and 12 hour
speeches, however, the bill was
passed on to the house by a
57 to 28 vote.
Morse's home is in Eugene.
Senate to Discuss
Coming Elections
The ASUO senate will meet
tonight at 6:30 in the Student
Union. Among the items to be
discussed are the freshmen
; graduate elections and Charter
day.
This week's senate agenda:
0 Roll call
0 Minutes
0 Appointments
0 Election report — Hollis
Ransom
0 Senator aw'ard report
0 Rifle team discussion
0 Charter day
0 NFCL
0 Game seating
Prices Still Dropping
As Gas War Continues
The price of gasoline might
go down to 20 cents by next Mon
day, according to the owner of a
local gas station.
The gas price war began two
weeks ago when two new Lucky
7 stations opened in town and
posted the price of gasoline on
their banners. Members of the
retail gasoline association went
to Jim Phillips, Northwest man
ager for the Lucky 7 company,
and asked him to take down the
displays.
Phillips refused and told the
association that he felt that “the
people are entitled to know what
they will pay for their gas.’’ The
association member told Phil
lips that a gas war would result
and began to cut their prices.
As a result, gas is now selling
for 22.9 cents a gallon instead
of the usual 31.9.
Most of the stations in town
are now meeting the competi
tion price, but the owners of the
smaller stations don’t like it.
They want the price war to end
soon, although few of them have
any real hope that it will.
The manager of one station,
owned by an oil company and
run on a commission basis, said
that he hopes the price war “goes
on all winter.”
“We are doing more business
than we ever have before,” he
said.