I/O Student Receives
Canadas Silver Cross
By Anne Ritchey
Emerald Atvtieni Newt Editor
A modest hero more anxious
to talk about construction pro
ject* and power possibilities In
Canada than his own heroic deed,
Ih Bill Hromyk, sophomore in
education from Vancouver, B.C.
Hromyk last week received a
telegram from C. T Batten, pro
vincial commissioner for British
Columbia, Informing him that he
will receive the Slver Cross from
the Governor General, as chief
acout for Canada, for Having a
man's life last Hummer.
There la one Investiture held
per year for all Much medals
given It will Is- held at Ottawa
later In the year. That such
awards are rare is evidenced by
the fact that only three were
given in the entire nation last
year.
What Bill dlil was this: In
swum through Icy waters of the
Nechako river, 150 miles from
the coast, to save a drowning
man who had been upset frtfcn a
i aft in the rapids area of the
river.
The man. In his middle twen
ties, had been on the raft with
two others, who were pushed to
the opposite Hide of the river 0v
the tide and later taken from
the area in a helicopter.
The three, and Hromyk. were
all members of an engineering
crew of approximately 2,000,
working on the Nechako dam.
The dam itself is the third-larg
est earth-filled darn on the North
American continent, and has
been planned since 191k.
The dam and its purpose are
on a very large scale, and Bill
calls the project "one of the
greatest things undertaken in
this magnitude."
Kor its construction, 11 miles
of tunnel were dug, from the
coast to the mountain area. A
small corps of engineers and ge
ologists were pioneers for it. go
ing to the region in 194k.
High secrecy surrounded their
work for some time, especially
after rumor spread that the
Aluminum company of Canada
was employing the engineers.
Power proved to be their mo
tive, and they were investigating
the vast untapped resources of
the area. It is now used for an
aluminum-producing plant,
which is 40 miles from the dam’s
50 Dead, Many
Missing After Flood
SYDNEY, Atistarlia (AP)
Evacuation of about 10,000 per
sons from three flooded town* in
N<*w South Wales began Sunday
night.
The new evacuations will
boost the number of persons
driven from their homes to about
50,000 in four days of floods.
Police put the death toll at
near 50, including persons who
have been missing for more than
21 hours. Hundreds of other per
sons are listed as "unaccounted
for."
All 3,500 inhabitants of Nar
rabri, 360 miles northeast of
Sydney, began leaving town as
floodwaters surged higher.
In the other two towns being
evacuated, Maitland and Single
ton, the water level dropped four
feet but the menace of disease
grew, Maitland and Singleton
are about 250 miles south of
Narrabri.
The town of Warren, on the
Macquarie river, was threatened
as rising waters broke through
sandbag barriers. Only tree tops
showed above the muddy water
i nthe farming area around Wai*
ren.
Nearly 100,000 square miles of
land have been inundated and at
least 50 communities have been
hard hit.
' now-completed, huge generator.
Bill thinks of the dam and Its
work us an example of the re
sources and opportunity in Ca
nada, which will expand in re
lation to the building-up of
cttlea."
"Canada and South America
will be the frontiers," he says
with a smile. "Expansion In the
United States has almost come
lo a halt. Everything here has
b<M»n discovered."
Willoughby Party
Aids Charities
BUFFALO, N. V. <AP» Walt
Willoughby’s all-night h o u s e
party for charity ended Sunday i
with more than 2,200 guests
signed in and a monster hang
j over for the host.
Willoughby said guests pledged
more than 200 pints of blood to
the Red Cross, bought more than
1,000 tickets for a crippled chil
dren’s benefit basketball game,
dumped more than two truck
! loads of old clothes and toys in '
bn-: nine-room home, and pledged
everal hundred dollars to vari
ous charities.
The 30-year-old i ns u r a n c e |
•alesinan provided all the food
and drink for the shindig. Guests
wet e asked only to pledge a do
nation of some kind lo some
: charity. Everyone in the city was
invited through a new spaper ad-j
vertisement.
The cleanup detail swept out f
a hundred broken glasses and
100 broken beer bottles but Wil
loughby said that none of the
damage was “malicious." He re
ported there wasn't a cigarette j
burn in the place.
Willoughby estimated his tab
for the party at about $3,000.
AOPi Housemother
Is Honored at Tea
More than 150 alumnae, fac
ulty members, housemothers and
friends of Mrs. Andrew F. Rapp,
Alpha Omicron Pi housemother,
attended a tea Sunday afternoon
given for her by members of the
active chapter and alumnae.
Mrs. Rapp, who has served the
chapter for fourteen years, will
retire at the end of this term.
Co-chairmen of the tea were
Mrs. Gordon Reeves, preseident of
the alumnae, and Mrs. Frank B.
Reid. Members of the active chap
ter served as hostesses.
The lowest official tempera
ture recorded on the Nor th Am
erican continent was 82 degrees
below zero. It was recorded in
February 1947 at a lonely air
force base in the Yukon called
Snag.
Meeting to Be Held
On Hawaiian Tour
For All UO Women
An'Informal gathering for all
co-eds Interested in a University
of Hawaii tour, as planned by
Pan American airways, will be
held Tuesday at 6 prn. in the Cat
sori hall living room.
Mrs. Hetty Mendenhall, tour
leader from Oregon State college,
will be on hand to answer ques
tions concerning the Hawaii tours
and to show films put out by Pan
American on Hawaii. Mrs. Men
denhall has planned and operated
the Hawaii tour for Pan Ameri
can for six years.
A style show of appropriate
tour clothing will hr; presented in
formally by Kauffman’s of Eu
gene. Hawaiian co-eds will also
present part of the entertain
ment. Refreshments will be
served.
All University women inter
ested in Hawaii are welcome to
attend the affair, according to
Mrs. Agnes Biotti, Carson house
mother and tour chaperone.
Racing Driver Dies
After Four-Car Smash
"bAYTONA BEACH, Kla. IAP)
A1 Briggs, lake Worth, Flor
ida, racing driver who was crit
ically burned in a four-car srnash
up here Saturday, died shortly
after midnight Sunday.
The accident sent two other
drivers and three spectators to
the hosiptai and cut short the
125-mile Nascar race for modified
stock cars.
Hospitalized in addition to the
30-year-o!d Briggs were drivers
.Jack Bowsher of Springfield,
Ohio, and Jimmy Thompson of
Monroe, N. C. The injured spec
tators were W. A. Wood and Don
ald Pemberton, both of Chatta
nooga, Tenn.. and Jack Smith of
Sandy Springs. Geargia.
Bowsher and the spectators
have been released from the hos
pital. Thompson is suffering from
back and possible head injuries.
Miss Monroe Named
Chief Night Editor
Mollie Monroe, freshman in
journalism, has been named Em
erald Chief Night Editor by Jer
ry Harrell, Emerald Editor.
Other new members of the
Emerald night staff are Bev
Chamberlain, freshman in liberal
arts; Tish Lambert, sophomore
in liberal arts; John Sheaffer,
junior in business; Elton Eng
strom, sophomore in liberal arts;
and Elliot Carlson, freshman in
journalism.
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Japanese Democrats
Lead in Election Returns
TOKYO (AP)--Japan’s Demo- i
crats, favoring closer ties with 1
the Communists, took an early
lead Monday in returns from
Sunday's national election —
which broke all voting records.
Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoya
ma’s Democrats captured 93 of
the first 215 seats decided in the
race for 467 seats in the lower
house of the Diet parliament.
Liberals Second
Second were the equally con
servative Liberals with 60. The
left wing Socialists had 35, the
flight Socialists 24 and minor
parties and independents 3. The
Communists had not yet won a
single race.
The early vote counted was
from rural districts, which are
conservative.
The rural vote was supporting
Hatoyama's policy of trying to
be friends with the Communist
powers as well as the United
States. He also favors rearming
Japan.
77 Percent Voted
Unofficial tabulations showed
37,990,034 voters—77.4 per cent
of those registered—cast ballots.
This eclipsed the previous high
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health insurance compulsory be
ginning this year.
of 36,100,401 in 1952 and under
scored the keen interest of
voters.
The Socialists, who vigorously
oppose rearmament and are
against Japan’s current close
ties with the United States, were
holding their own in rural dis
tricts.
Liberal* Downed
Haytoyama’s Democrats
dumped incumbent members of
former Prime Minister Shigeru
Yoshida’s Liberal Party in sev
eral races. The Liberals held the
most seats, 180, in the old house.
If Hatoyama’s rural vote
strength carries over into the
cities he could collect as many
as 200 seats. This would be short
of a majority but enough to earn
him another term as Prime Min
ister.
Conservative Party
Political observers predict that
if the Democrats overpower the
Liberals, the two groups prob
ably will combine into one large
Conservative Party, on Matoy
ama's terms.
The Right Socialists tend to
ward a neutral role in the cold
war. The Left Socialists range
from neutrals to pro-Commu
nists. The two Socialist wings
also plan to merge after the elec
tion.
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