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No Petitions ... ... iwdwl to work on the Em erald. Ik-iul editorial on page two of today’* paper telling how to K**t a portion on the eampiiH newspaper. VOL. LVI 56th Year aj Publication vmvmmmi or OREGON, eugene, MONDAY, mnuary 17, 1955 Chaplains Will Discuss Chapel Plans Tuesday The eventual building of a cum pus chapel and establishment of effective liaison between campus religious groups and student liv ing organisations will be among the Items on the agenda when the Student Chaplains association meeting Tuesday evening at the Student Union. French Lit Critic Lectures at 1)0 Wallace Kowlle, teacher of French literature at Bennington college In Vermont, will be a guest lecturer at the University for three days next week, Jan 26, 27 and 28. Sponsored by the University Lectures committee, Mr. Fowlie will speak on th<- topic, “Perma nence and Innovation in the French Novel," Thursday eve ning, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. In the Dad's Lounge of the Student Union. In addition to this public lec ture, Mr. Fowlie will attend classroom discussions and give Individual conferences. A teacher at Bennington for ten years. Mrs. Fowlie has also taught at Yale and the Univer sity of Chicago. He has written many books and essays and has won many honors and distinc tions for his critical press and his authoritative work on fiction and poetry. Traffic Violations Soar During 1954 SALEM-(AP)-More than 122, 000 persona were convicted of traffic violations in 1954, Secre tary of State Earl T. Newbry reported Friday. There were 6962 drivers licenses suspended, Including 3110 for driving while intoxicated. Newbry said there were 47,000 more convictions last year than there were the year before. The increase, he said, was caused by stricter enforcement. Tight-Lipped Boy Rescued From Jail ATLANTA (AP) — Seeing 3 year-old Larry Coltharp saunter ing along the streets, a policeman asked his name. "Larry,’’ answered the lad and then clammed up. The cop offered him an apple and banana which Larry took but he wouldn't talk. So off to detective headquarters they went where Larry sat in the office and munched content edly. But all he'd say was “name Larry.” It wasn’t long until his frantic mother phoned and Detective R. C. West told her the boy was safe and they’d bring him home. West suggested Larry might want fo speak to his mother. The hitherto tight-lipped Larry skipped over to the telephone and yelled: "Momma, I’m in jail.” Living organizational have been Informed of the meeting by Mau rice Bell, president of the chap lains group. Bell has urged ail organizations to be represented at the meeting. The Student Chaplains assoeia | lion was established last year, prl | martly through the efforts of Jo i Hutchon, Danforth graduate who | did graduate work at the Univer , slty last year. Miss Hutchon also : laid pluns for the eventual bulld | ing of a campus chapel on the | Oregon campus. Bell will outline the purpose of the association and the suggested ; duties for house chaplains at Tuesday's meeting. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wilson Will Speak Throughout State University President O. Mere- ] j dith Wilson will make five speeches in different parts of the state this week. His first talk will be Monday at Sweet Home, when he will ad dress the annual chamber of com O. MEREDITH WILSON Busy Week merce banquet on “Who Will Cast the Shadow?" Tuesday night, Wilson will speak on "The Lengthened Shad ow" before the Medford cham ber of commerce. He will speak to the Grants Pass chamber of commerce Wednesday on "The American Dream." Thursday he returns to Eu gene to address the local chap ter of the American Association of University Women. His topic wilt be "The Educator’s Dream." The busy president will wind up the week’s speaking schedule Saturday night when he speaks to the First Citizen’s banquet of the Eugene chamber of com merce. No topic has been an nounced as yet for the final speech. Write in English Newbry Is Asked SALEM (AP) — It looks as though some people in Indiana think the people of Oregon aren’t Americans. A letter came Thursday to Sec retary of State Earl T. Newbry from Decatur, Ind., asking for some pictures of Oregon. At the end, it said: “F.S. Write in English.” No Class Holiday For Jr. Weekend Granted by Deans There will be no holiday from • Iflwe* on the Friday before Junior Weekend,’ AHI'O Pre»i dent Bob Summer* announced late Sunday night. Summer* nald that the board of dean* wa* "very enthusia* tie” about the Junior Weekend activities bat felt that they couldn’t give the *tudent* Fri day a* a holiday on *uch *hort notice. The Senate had proponed the day off from cla**c* when the “Canoe Fete” on the mill race wa* recently restored a* an ac tivity for the weekend. Yearbook Orders Taken at SU, Co-op Orders for Oreganas will be taken at the Student Union and the Co-op this week. Bob McCracken, Oregaoa busi ness manager, has announced that only 2700 Oreganas will be printed this year and that 2400 of these have already been sold. The 1955 Oregana, McCracken said, will emphasize informal pictures and feature art work by Bob Fudge ar.d Dean McMullen. Pictures of seniors will be sep arated according to schools and an outstanding man and woman from each school will be chosen. WRA Carnival Set for Jan. 21 The 1955 WRA Carnival has been scheduled for Jan. 21 in the unfinished portion of the men's gymnasium, according to Joanne Jolley and Shirley Bostad, co chairmen of the event. All campus living organizations will construct booths for the car nival, Miss Jolley said. House representatives are re quested to meet Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the Dad's Lounge of the Student Union. Representatives who have not turned in themes for their booths may do so at that time. Any house not represented at the Tuesday meeting will be dropped from the competition, Miss Jolley said. Prizes for the event have not yet been decided upon, but will be announced by Tuesday. Proceeds from the WRA Car nival go toward a scholarship fund for freshman women. Tonight's Forum Features GO Man Everett Kassalcw, associate director of research for the CIO in Washington, D.C., will be a guest on the University of Ore gon Radio forum Monday night. The forum will discuss "The Role of Organized Labor in Our Economic System.” Wesley C. Ballaine, professor of business administration, will serve as moderator for the panel. W. J. Robert, associate professor of business administration, will also be a member of the panel. The forum will be broadcast over radio station KOAC at 8:30 p.m. FIRST ACT Publications Receive Aid A request for funds by the publications board was passed by the newly organized budget l>oard last week and was approved by President O. Meredith Wilson over the weekend. 1 he publications board had submitted a request for approxi mately $4400 which it planned to issue to the Oregon Daily Kmc raid ($3300) and the Oregana ( $1100). The budget board recommended to President Wilson that halt of that amount be ap proved. The money will come from the educational activities fund. Pub Board Meets In anticipation of a possible approval, the publications board met Friday afternoon and decided to compromise the $2200 figure so that the Emerald would receive $1575 and the Oregana$625. The action by the budget board was its first since its organization the latter part of fall term. I he board, which was set up for the purjMjsc of controlling the finances of the publications board, the Student Union board and the music and forensics programs, is composed of three faculty members and four students. Dean of Administration W. C. Jones is chairman of the group. Members Listed Other faculty members include Donald DuShane, director of student affairs, and J. O. Lindstrom, University business manager. Students on the board are Bob Summers, ASUO president; Bob hunk, third year law student; Pete Williams, senior in business administration; and Sylvia Wingard, first year law- student. Si Ellingson, director of the SU, is secretary of the board in an | ex-officio capacity. ..... Idaho Proposals May Help Stale BOISE IAP) — The Idaho House of Representatives may 1 go to work soon on two new bills designed to give Idaho construe- j tion firms and workmen an ad-1 vantage over out-of-9tate com- j petit ors. Rep. Perry Swisher (R-Bar.- j 'nof’k), chairman of the House | Economic Development commit tee, said Sunday that both bills i would be introduced in this ses ! sion by his committee. Meanwhile, Speaker R. H. Young Jr. (R-Canyon), said he | would place in the hopper Mon ! day the first two or three of the session’s “administration” bills designed to implement the' pro gram of Gov. Robert E. Smylie. He did not say what they would cover. Swisher said one of his bills would require contractors to hire Mother of Seven Has 51-Year-Olds RAHWAY, N. J. (AP) — An harassed and harried mother, with visions'of bottles and diapers dancing in her head, celebrates a noted occasion Monday. Five of her seven youngsters will be in the 1— year-old bracket at the same time. Her triplets—Peter, Jean, and Joan—reach their first birthday Monday. Hen twins—Nancy and Diane — don’t celebrate their second birthday until Feb. 10. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas C. Bur off also have two other children: Sandra, 7, and Arthur, 12. Says the 36-year-old mother with understandable lament: “It seems I do nothing but care for children all day long." Idaho residents and pay a pre vailing wage set by the state labor commissioner on all state projects. Swisher's other bill would give local bidders a five per cent pre ferential in bidding for contracts to be awarded by the state or by subdivsions of the state. Also under consideration, Swisher said, is a bill to permit goods in transit to be stored in Idaho without being subject to taxation. For lack of such a law, Idaho is now being bypassed as a warehouse state, Swisher said. Late News Briefs TIMMINS, Ont. (AP) — Four screaming children were burned to death here early Monday when fire destroyed a four-room frame house. The dead were Omer Carriere, 6 months; eJan, years, Maurice, 3, and Charon, 4. RANGOON, Burma (AP) — Yugosalvia has offered to equip a brigade of the Burmese army as a gift, and Burma will recipro cate with a gift of rice to the Yugoslav people. Yugoslav For eign Minister Koca Popovic an nounced the projected exchange of gifts. TOKYO (AP)—A sharp earth quake jolted Tokyo Monday. No damage was reported, although concrete buildings swayed for 30 seconds. TA1PEH, Formosa (AP) ~ Chinese Communists on Amoy Monday shelled Little Quemoy and two smaller Chinese Nation alist islands but stopped after heavy retaliatory fire.