56lli Year of Publication
VOL. LVI UNIVERSITY OF OREOON.~ EUOKWE, FRIDAV. JANLAHY 21, 1953” NoTw
'State Fair'
Follows Game
The University's own "Stale
Fair," the 19!>f> WKA Carnival,
opens tonight immediately after
the Oregon-Oregon State basket
ball game in the men's unfinished
gym.
Sixteen booths will be in oper
ation, and decorutionH will follow
the "State Fair" theme, accord
ing to Joanne Jolley and Shirley
Boidad, general co-chairmen.
Admission will be 25 cents and
scrip for the booths and for re
freshments will be sold inside
the door. Profits of the WRA
carnival go toward a scholarship
for a freshman woman.
Knt ranee Changed
Entrance to the carnival will
be through the west entrance
lather than through McArthur
court as in the past. The change
was made this year because of
the large number of students
which entered last year without
paying, according to the co
chairmen.
Judges for the event will be
Si Kilingson, Student Union di
rector: Miss Marian L. Perry,
WRA adviser, and Nicki Powell,
president of WRA. The houses
with the winning booth will re
ceive a 10 dollar prize. L^uil
year'* winner*! were Lambda Chi
Alpha and Rebec house.
Oregon students are urged to
attend the carnival, and Oregon
State students are also invited,
according to Miss Bostad.
Booth themes and sponsoring
organizations follow: "Hit the
Hoop,” Alpha Phi and Alpha Tau
Omega; "Telegram Booth,” Al
pha Della PI, Phi Gamma Delta
and Beta Theta PI; “Hoop a
Kappa and Sponge a SPE,” Kap
pa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Phi
Epsilon; "Shave a Balloon," Re
bec house and Lambda Chi Al
pha; "Dunk-a-Theta,” Sigma
Chi and Kappa Alpha Theta;
"Dump Water on a Head,” Phi
Kappa Psl and Chi Omega;
"Hoop a Leg," Alpha Chi Omega
and Phi Delta Theta; "Throw A
Pie,” Delta Upsilon and Alpha
Gamma Delta; "Coin Toas,” Su
san Campbell and Sherry Ross;
"Roulette,” Campbell club and
Orides; “Fortune - Telling," Tau
Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Xi
Delta; "Camptown Races,” Delta
Delta Delta and Delta Tau Del
ta; "Squirt A Candle,” Ann Jud
son house and Kappa Slgha;
"Wheel of Fortune," Pi Beta Phi
and Theta Chi, and "Marriage
Bureau," Carson, French and
Nestor halls.
Viva la Papa
Greets Dad
"Viva la Papa" is the theme
selected to greet the dads for
thin year * Dad's Weekend, ac
cording to Barky Herman, sign
content chairman.
The winning theme was entered
by Sally Allen, sophomore In for
eign languages, and Jody Bran
don, sophomore in liberal arts.
"Viva la Papa" will be the cen
tral theme of all weekend events.
The signs made by each living or
ganization will feature the theme.
"The judges for the sign con
test wfll be selected next week.
All living organizations■ are re-;
quested to send a representative
to a sign contest meeting to be
held Monday at 4 p.m. in the
Student Union," Herman stated.
President O. Meredith Wilson
will be the main speaker at the
luncheon to be held in the Stu
10 Greek Houses
To Clean 'Race
A Millrace cleanup campaign
will begin Saturday at 1 p.m.
when lower classmen and pledges
of 10 Greek Millrace houses head
down to the Millrace to clean up
the debris.
According to Kd Balsinger,
chairman of the cleanup, pledges
and lower classmen from the fol
lowing houses will go to work on
the mud and brush filled water
way: Sigma Phi Epsilon, Kappa
Sigma, Sigma Nu, Phi Kappa
Psi, Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Phi,
Chi Psi, Beta Theta Pi, Lambda
Chi Alpha and Phi Sigma Kap
pa.
The city plans to provide
means of transporting the trees,
bottles and junk that the work
ers collect frorfi the water. Since
the Race cannot be drained, a
thorough cleanup job will be im
possible.
The project is expected to take
at least two hours. According to
Balsinger, three different groups
will be formed to clean the three
blocks of the Millrace from Pat
terson street to past the Sig Ep
house.
dent Union, Feb. 5. Topic of Wil
son'* speech has not been an
nounced.
Dad's weekend hostess candi
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White Shirts,
Pom-poms
Set for Game
Men and women will have un
til 7:30 tonight to get scats in
the lower bleachers for the Ore
gon-Oregon State basketball
game, according to word from
the athletic department. The
game will start at 8 p.m.
Only men in white shirts and
women in white blouses or sweat
ers will be allowed to sit in the
side bleachers. The women in
white blouses will occupy the en
’tire west side if the court, and
the men in white shirts will be
seated on the east side.
Married students who wish to
sit together and piggers will be
required to sit in the north and
south end sections.
Order of the O, lettermen’s
club, will enforce this seating ar
rangement, according to Betty
Anderson, rally board chairman,
and Doug Clement, “O" presi
dent.
For the first time in many
years, every woman will be pro
vided with a pom-pom to wave
during the game.
The yellow and green rally
| i-ticks will be distributed
; throughout the women’s section
at the first of the varsity game.
In order that none of the pom
poms will get lost between
games, they will be picked up
again before the end of the last
half. Miss Anderson added.
Ike Requests
Power to Aid
WASHINGTON IAPi- Presi
dent Eisenhower was reported
Thursday night to be considering
asking Congress for special au
thority to use United States nav
al and air power to help evacuate
Chinese Nationalist troops from
some Islands along th<? Red China
coast if necssary.
These troops would then be de
ployed elsewhere for the defense
of Formosa and the Pescadores,
which the United States is com
mitted to help Chiang Kai-Shek
hold against the Chinese Reds.
Two congressional leaders, who
stipulated that they not be named,
said that if the President decides
to ask the evacuation authority,
he might make the request by
Monday. There was some talk
that he might make it personally
to a joint session of Congress, but
this was uncertain.
The Chinese Reds have assault
ed, and claimed the capture of the
little island of Yikiangshan, and
are menacing the Tachen slands,
200 miles north of Formosa, the
island bastion of Gen. Chiang Kai
Shek.
But just what islands would be
evacuated presumably would be
determined by military develop
ments.
Secretary of State Dulles was
reported to have told congression
al leaders at a briefing session
Thursday that the administration
would like to have the evacuation
authority.
Dulles and Adm. Arthur W.
Radford, chairman of the joint
chiefs of staff, met with congres
sional leaders in a closed session
; at the State Department for about
90 minutes Thursday morning.
The National Security Council,
composed of Eisenhower and top
officials, then had a session.
With regard to the use of the
resources of the US 7th Fleet
! operating in the Formosa Strait,
and transport craft for with
drawal of Chinese Nationalist
forces from some islands, two
1 problems were said to have been
j put up to congressional leaders
at the meeting with Dulles:
1. Generalissimo Chiang has
asked for US help in the Tachen
! Islands, which have been under
Red bombardment and artillery
fire.
The presumption here is that
the kind of help Chiang wants is
that which would strengthen the
defenses of the island —: more
planes for air cover, more ammu
nition and supplies for his Amer
ican-equipped forces.
But Chiang may have to with
draw from the Tachens, even if
American supplies are increased,
should Communist pressure be
come too great. However, he has
no facilities for evacuation of the
20,000 or so troops defending
these islands and would need
American help to get them out.
2. Some of the many islands
which Chiang holds along the
China coast are regarded by A
merican military men as having
no real value. American authori
ties feel that the Nationalist de
fenses overall could be streng
thened if there was a regrouping
of Chiang's forces. Here again
there is a question of the re
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Greek Week Plan
Approved by IFC
<_»reeK weex was set for the
first weekend of spring term at
an Inter-fraternity council meet
ing Thursday night.
The group adopted the Greek
week committee report, set the
date and scheduled a Friday night
dinner to be followed by an in
formal street or tennis court
dance.
Saturday activities, as set by
the committee, will include ath
letic contests such as chariot
races and a bicycle marathon,
with a dance to climax the week
end activities in the Student ball
room that night.
The committee report was
adopted despite some opposition
on the grounds that establishing
Greek week as a tradition would
have to ge done gradually. Gary
Jones, president of Theta Chi, al
so said that there were too many
activities during spring term at
the present time to schedule such
a full program.
IFC will present the program
to the Panhellenic council with a
plan that both groups join in
sponsoring the program.
Andy Berwick, president of
Beta Theta Pi. moved that IFC
go on record as opposing the
WRA carnival in future years
but later withdrew' the motion.
The matter came up after IFC
Peter Williams said the carnival
was “getting to be kind of a
headache and doesn't do the Uni
versity any good."
Berwick asked. “Why should
the fraternities be taxed for the
activity?”
Jones suggested tabling the
motion until after this year’s
carnival so that the group could
study the financial loss and wTork
involved.
Berwick withdrew his motion
when the group voiced fear that
the Emerald would "splash the
story across the front page” and
thus ruin the chances for a suc
cessful carnival this year.
Jones then withdrew his mo
tion to table the original motion.
Williams said that the matter
would be considered again after
this year’s carnival when data on
the matter was available and
someone could “come to the
meeting and plead the case for
the carnival.”
Bob Pollock, president of Sig
ma Chi, moved that all houses
interested in building floats for
the canoe fete apply to the can5e
fete committee.
The motion came as a result of
the canoe fete committee's re
quest to determine which houses
should build floats.
A maximum of 10 floats can
participate in this year’s canoe
fete.
The group passed Pollock’s
motion stipulating that houses
along the Millrace be chosen first
with the other houses being se
lected by chance.
Dorm Counselor
Applications Due
| Applications for dorm counsel
' or positions for next year are
being called for by the office of
student affairs.
Men interested in becoming
head counselors or assistants
should make an appointment to
talk with Ray Hawk or Brad
Blaine in the student affairs of
fice as soon as possible. Head
counselors should be graduate
students and assistants must be
undergraduates who have had
experience with University cam
pus activities.
Danforth Fellows
To Be Selected
Senior men or recent gradu
ates who have done no previous
graduate work may apply for
Danforth graduate fellowships
by contacting P. J. Powers, as
sistant professor of romance
languages.
The Danforth foundation, an
educational trust fund in St.
Louis, Mo., is accepting applica
tions for the fourth class (19551
for men who plan to enter gradu
ate school in September and who
are preparing for teaching ca
reers.
Applicants will be accepted
from the areas of natural and bi
ological sciences, social sciences,
humanities and all fields of spe
cialization to be found in the un
dergraduate college.
Applicants should contact
Powers, University liaison offi
cer for the foundation, in Friend
ly 314 for further information
regarding the fellowships on or
before Feb. 1. Completed appli
cations must be in by Feb. 13.
The fellowships are funda
mentally “a relationship of en
couragement” throughout the
years of graduate study, carry
ing a promise of financial aid
within presci ibed conditions as
there may be need. The maxi
mum annual grant for single fel
lows is $1800 and for married fel
lows, $2400.
A Danforth fellow is allowed
to carry other scholarship ap
pointments such as Fulbright
and Woodrow Wilson concurrent
ly with his Danforth fellowship.
If a man receives a Danforth ap
pointment, together with a
Rhodes scholarship, Fulbright
scholarship, or Woodrow Wilson
fellowship, he becomes a Dan
forth fellow without stipend un
til the other relationships are
completed.
All Danforth fellows will par
ticipate in the annual Danforth
Foundation Conference on Teach
ing, to be held at Camp Mini
cawa. in Michigan during the
summer.
Qualifications of the candi
dates listed in the announcement
from the foundation are: men of
outstanding academic ability,
personality congenial to the
classroom, and integrity and
character, including faith and
commitment within the Christian
tradition.