56th lYar of l’ublication
V«L. LVI IMVEKMITY OF OKKOON', KIOENE, TIII KSOAV, JAM ARY 13, 1»53 NO. 5«
Jerry Harrell Named Editor
Senate Has First
Meeting Tonight
A full agenda will greet the
A8UO senate tonight when It
holds its first meeting of 1955,
The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m.
in the Student Union. •_
Among the items on the agenda
are: a question and answer ses
sion about registration proce
dures. in which the senate will
discuss registration with Clifford
Constance. University registrar,
and J. Spencer Carlson, director
of admissions; the report of the
budget and Mlllrace canoe fete
committees; appointments to the
rally board, and a discussion of
the University tent files.
ASUO President Bub Summers
said that Carlson and Constance
have been invited to the meet
ing to discuss registration pro
cedure in view of student com
plaints about the current proce
dure.
Bob Schooling, chairman of the
canoe fete committee, will re
port on the feasibility of hold
ing a “limited canoe fete" on
the mitlrace this spring.
The senate will also fill a va
cancy created when Senator-at
Large Gary West was dlsquall
! fled for carrying less than the
| required study load. *
Also under consideration will
be the test files at the library,
librarian Carl Hintz has indi
cated that the files will be j
I thrown out unless some pro-1
| vision is made to keep them up
I to-date.
The senate will review athletic j
recognition policy and consider |
a recommendation of the ASUO
cabinet that George Shaw’s num
! ber be retired.
DU Wins Reprieve
From 'Social Pro'
Delta Cpsilon fraternity has I
i been taken off social probation. j
i according to Ray Hawk, director
; of men's affairs.
The action was taken because
! of the fraternity's fall term
j grades and the general satis- j
factory attitude of its members. !
; Hawk said. The Dll’s were sixth
j on the list of fraternity house |
1 grades with a 2.51 average.
The fraternity was placed on
; indefinite social probation last
-pring term after a raid on a
; local flower gnrden.
Lomax Traces Growth
Of Oregon Industry
"Regional Pattern* of Indus
try" was the topic of last night's
browsing room lecture given by
A. L. Lomax, professor of busi
ness administration.
Lomax, who came to the Uni
versity of Oregon in 1919, has
written two books, "Lane County
Industry Survey" and Pioneer
Woolen Mills in Oregon.” He has
also had several bulletins pub
lished dealing with flax manu
facturing, commerce and indus
try of Oregon's coast ports, and
foriegn trade zones.
Library Receives
Diary of 1862
A diary kept by Evans S. Mc
Comas on his journey west over
the Oregon Trail in 1862 has been
presented to the University of
Oregon library by Mrs. Elma T.
Havemann of Eugene, niece of
the author.
The diary is a small book,
which McComas purchased be
fore he left Iowa for Eastern
Oregon. In this book he kept a
day-by-day account of his trav
els, the things he did and the
sights he saw. Mrs. Havemann
provided much material from
family scrapbooks and from her
own reminiscences for an intro
duction to the now-published
diary.
Martin Schmitt of the special
collections department of the
University library edited the
diary and put it in the form of
a “Journal of Travel.” The new
book was published by the Cham
poeg Press in Portland.
The lecture dealt with the way '
! industry has developed in the Pa- ■
elfic Noithwest. It began by out
lining the early industrial eco
nomic patterns.
Lomax stated that one of the
most important early industrial
factors was that the "Pacific
Northwest was a surplus pro
ducer in extracting raw ma
terials. A few moneyed individu
als were responsible for the in
fant start of industries.”
Some of the factors which cre
ated industrial expansion were
abundant power, a surplus of raw
material, technical advances,
and the availability of capital.
Lomax then used lumber as a
resource based industry. He stat
ed that "giant and naked moun
sides” soon appeared as the pe
riod of lumber exploitation ran i
Its course. The "up-to-date,” well
run mill now uses every splinter
of wood.
Lomax also mentioned the
electro - metallurgical industry
and the boon that cheap electric
power which can be gotten in the
Northwest is to the aluminum in
dustry.
Business Manager
Petitions Are Called
Petitions are being called for
the position of business manager
for the exchange assembly pro
gram.
The petitions are due Wednes
day at the ASUO offices.
A committee headed by Bob
Chambers, director of the ex
change assembly will select the
business manager from the pe
titioners.
US Heritage Is
Festival Theme
The Oregon Festival of Arts
program will begin Feb. 1, with
a full schedule of events built
around the theme, "The Ameri
can Heritage." The festival will
last until March 11.
The festival this year will re
veal the common appeal that all
the fields of art have produced
in the history of America. In
cluded in the program are lec
tures, exhibits, big-name per
sonalities, film presentation and
movies, concerts, recitals, and
conferences all tracing the rise
of American art.
This will be the second such
festival to be held at the Uni
versity. The first was in 1953
and centered around con tern por
ary art. According to Horace
Robinson, chairman of the Ar|
Festival Committee and profes
sor of speech, plans are being
made to make the festival an an
nual event with a different theme
each year.
Among those appearing on the
program for the Festival will be
Paul Draper, well known Amer
ican tap dancer, and David Mark,
author of the play "Captive at
Large-’ which will be given by
the University theater Jan. 28,
29 and Feb. 3-5.
An exhibit of Ivan L. Collins'
collection of historic wagons in
miniature will be displayed at
the Student Union Art Gallery
throughout the Festival.
President Wilson
Plans Speeches
President O. Meredith Wilson
is scheduled to make a scries of
speeches in the next few weeks
throughout Oregon.
On Monday, Wilson will speak
in Sweet Home, at the annual
Chamber of Commerce banquet.
His topic will be “Who Will Cast
the Shadow?”
"The Lengthened Shadow” will
be his topic on Tuesday night
when he speaks at the Medford
Chamber of Commerce banquet.
The Grants Pass Chamber of
Commerce will hear Wilson
speak at a banquet on “The Am
erican Dream.”
"The Educator’s Dream” will
be the topic of an address to be
given to the American Associa
tion of University Women on
Thursday night in Eugene.
Petitions Asked
For Senior Ball
Deadline for Senior Ball com
mittee chairmanships petitions is
Friday at 5 p.m.
Chairmen positions still open
are decorations, promotions, pub
licity, band, chaperones and tick
et sales.
Petitions may be turned to
Don Rotenberg, Sigma Alpha Mu,
Len Calvert, Alpha hall, or they
may be turned into the ASUO
jffice.
Seniors are particularly’ urged
to petition, Rotenberg said, al
though the positions are open to
all students.
Donna Run berg
Named Manager
Jerry Harrell, senior in jour
nalism, was named Emerald edi
tor by the student publications
board Wednesday night.
Harrell, who is currently new* ,
! editor of the campus daily, will j
; take over as editor Jan. 31,
Other petitioners for the post;
were Paul Keefe, senior in busi-1
I ness, and Dick Lewis, senior in
I journalism.
Donna Runberg, junior in jour
nalism, will become business
manager starting with the same i
I publications date.
Harrell succeeds Joe Gardner, I
senior in journalism, as editor, j
Present business manager is Jean
i Sarrdine, junior in journalism.
Prior to being Emerald news,
editor, Harrell was a sports J
writer and sports desk worker, i
a general-assignment reporter
and later Inter-fraternity council
reporter‘and ASUO senate re
poi ter.
I
During spring term last year i
Harrell was an assistant news i
editor.
His professional journalism j
work has included working as a j
reporter for the Myrtle Creek;
Mail during the summer of 1953
and as a reporter and desk work
• er for the McMinnville Daily;
News Register. He is the recip- i
Theologian Visits
Campus Friday
Robert Rankin, executive di- j
rector of the Rockefeller broth- ,
ers theological fellowship pro-1
gram, will be visiting campus
Friday in regard to the program.
The program is designed to
discover and develop new talent
for the Christian ministry. The
fellowships provide for one year
of study, and are not renewable.
They are for graduating seniors
or graduates who are uncertain
in regard to a vocation but who
are interested in giving serious
consideration to the possibility of
entering the ministry. They can
not be committed to the minis
try already.
Anyone who is interested
should contact Perkins, Chap
man 212, immediately. He will
arrange an interview with Rank-;
{in.
Nominations are made by uni
1 versity professors and by other
' qualified persons.
ient of the Myrtle Creek Mail
scholarship.
He is currently president of
Sigma Delta Chi, men’s profes
sional journalism honorary. He
was president of Phi Sigma Kap
pa during last spring term.
Miss Runberg, who has been
advertising manager this year,
was national advertising man
ager last year.
She is a member of Gamma
Alpha Chi, women’s advertising
honorary. She transferred to
Oregon from Lower Columbia
Junior college in Longview,
Wash., where she attended one
year. She is currently publicity
chairman of World University
Service.
The publications board an
nually selects editors and busi
ness managers of the three cam
pus publications, the Emerald,
Oregana and Pigger’s Guide.
Two editors and business man
agers are selected for the Emer
ald—one at the end of spring
term for the following fall and
part of winter term, and one dur
ing winter term for the remain
der of the year.
There are five student voting
members, two of which are the
Emerald and Oregana members,
who are ex-officio board mem
bers.
Business managers of the two
publications are also ex-officio
members, but are non-voting.
Salaries for the two positions
are each $70 per month.
Moll Reads Poem
At Friday Lecture
E. G. Moll, professor of Eng
lish, will introduce the winter
term Friday night lectures in the
Browsing room ^ith a reading
and informal discussion of his
latest poem, "At the City Gate.”
The poem, which is based upon
the Book of Ruth, is "a protest
against racial discrimination,”
Moll stated.
Moll has published ten books
of poetry and his works have ap
peared in major Australia an
thologies. The Oxford University
press has recently obtained per
mission to publish some of his
poetry in the World’s Classics
Editions.
The Friday night program will
begin at 7:30 p.m. Coffee will be
served.
UT Plans New Group
At Winter Open House
A new theater group is being
formed on campus.
Plans and policies of the group
will be discussed Sunday at the
University theater open house.
The group will produce plays, but
separate from those on the UT
calendar, a group spokesman
said.
The group will be made up of
any interested students, regard
less of experience or major.
Most of the work on their pro
ductions will be done by students,
with a minimum of faculty su
pervision. This would afford an
area of experience for those not
cast in main-stage productions.
The annual winter term thea
ter open house and elections
will precede the meeting of those
interested in the new group. The
open house will be in 102 Villard,
at 6:30.
Also on the agenda is the elec
tion of the new theater execu
tive board. All who attend the
open house vote on this board.
The board works with the staff
in selecting the list of produc
tions given on campus each year.
Nominated for the board are
Jim Wood, Jon Powell and Gor
don Howard, graduates in speech,
Jackie Jackson, senior in mu
sic; Joe Malango and Loanne
Morgan, seniors in speech; Mary
Lou Teague, junior in music;
Dave Sherman, junior in speech,
and Bill Veatch, sophomore in
music.
Ula Mae Hostetler and Ken
Kesey, sophomores in speech;
Joyce Niedringhaus and Carol
Emmons, freshmen in liberal
arts, and Tom Waldrop, fresh
man in speech. Two representa
tives from each of the five uni
versity classes will be elected.
Refreshments and dancing are
also on the program.