Students Urged
To Write Moms
All student* lire urged to
writ i* their mothers, inviting
them to Mother'll Weekend which
in held In conjunction with Jun
ior Weekend on May 13-15.
Students should write their
mothern immediately, no that
they can make reservation* for
their stay in Eugene. One hotei
has already been filled for the
weekend.
The all-campus sing will be
held .Sunday afternoon this yearj
and students should Invite their
mothers to attend the sing.
There will be a breakfast and
general business meeting in the
Student Union ballroom follow
ing registration Saturday morn
ing from 8:30 to 10:30. A lunch
eon la scheduled for Saturday
noon.
On.* of the main highlights of
the weekend will be the tea, spon
sored by the Eugene Mothers'
club, which will be from 2 to
1:30 p.m. on Saturday in fler
llnger hall. This tea is especial
ly for mothers, but campus wom
en may also attend.
Hui-O-Kamaainos
Seek Hula Student
Hut-O-Kamaaina. Ha w a I i a n
club on campus, it looking for .
a girl who would be willing to
be part of the entertainment at
a club-sponsored fishbowl mixer
and at the dub's annual luau.
which will be held on April 20
and 30 respectively.
The group seeks to find a girl
ami teach her the basic funda
mentals of dancing the hula. A
similar skit was given and re
ceived with much enthusiasm last
year.
The girl picked will be given
a gift and a free ticket for two
to the luau. Also srte will have
the opportunity to learn the fa
mous dance of the islands.
Any girl interested should
contact Andy Toribio at 34078
or Hal Chang at Hale Kane as
soon as possible.
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S11 Currents
Arthur Scene
Today in SU
At this week’s Friday-at-Four
a scene from ’’Arthur” will be
presented.
A student combo will play
several songs, and Bitsy Mills,
junior in sociology, will perform
a monologue. The master of cere
monies will be Sam Vahey.
Coffee-Hour Forum
Members Will Meet
All members of the Coffee
Hour Forum will meet today at
4 p.m. in room 302 in the SU.
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| Could you past a 6th-grade exam?
What is the tallest mountain in the
UnitedState*? Which American colony
did Roger Williams establish? Who
discovered the Pacific Ocean? ... If
you think your kids have it easy at
school, here’s a chance to test yourself
on 10 questions they have to answer.
2 20-page book condensation: “Tiger
of the Snows.’’ "It has been a long
road to the top of Everest,” says the
Asian nativewhoconquered the world’s
highest summit. "From a ragged coolie
to a wearer of medals who rides in
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Thrilling story of Sherpa Tenzing, and
how he climbed to the top of the world.
3 Lure that hooks fishermen. Why on
earth do folks stand in ice-cold water
for hours just to catch a few panfish,
when chances are they'll only catch a
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4 Beware of hitchhikers! One hiker wore
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hack off his head. Here’s a warning
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J You CAN be a stockholder. It used to
be that almost all investors in common
stocks were wealthy. But today thou
sands of wage earners are buying stocks
on time, same as autos and refrigerators.
Story of the Monthly Investment Plan:
new way to own a share of American
industry—for as little as )3 a week.
5 They're inventing the drudgery out of
farm life. One machine milks a hun
dred cows in 21 ■> hours flat. Another
scoops up eggs the minute hens lay ’em.
There’s even one that doles out feed to
cattle, blows a horn to tell the critters
to come and get it! Amazing peek at
new labor savers down on the farm.
7 Don’t drown! Do you know the safest
time of day to swim? ... what to do if
you get a sudden leg cramp? . . . how
to stay afloat even if you can’t swim a
stroke? ... how to give the new method
of artificial respiration that the Red
Cross recommends? Here are eight
simple rules that can save your life.
3 Do European women make better
wives? Why are our servicemen mar
rying them at the rate of 500 a month?
Why do these marriages outlast those
to u. S. girls by 3 to one? Here, in their
own words, are the reasons why so
many of our GIs are picking European
brides instead of the girls at home.
^ My most unforgettable character.
Princeton’s Dean Gauss would berate
a boy in class, then spend all night solv
ing his troubles. He’d end a riot with
a word, brave a hurricane to watch
football ... and, best of all, he taught
you to think. Here’s the prof who gave
his students hell—and made ’em love it,
| Q Are A-bombs poisoning our atmos
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clouds from A-bomb tests are contami
nating people, upsetting the weather,
possibly deforming unborn children.
But evidence shows these reports hove no
basis in truth. Here are reassuring facts
behind the sensational scare stories.
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11 The Poles among us. They landed here
12 years before the Mayflcncer; they
saved our first colony from collapse.
They’ve given us musicians like Sto
kowski, patriots like Pulaski, sports
champs like Musial. Story of 6 million
Americans with a capacity for hard
work—and a flaming love of freedom.
|2 • t°©h off 150 pounds! “A year ago, I
weighed 337 pounds. I couldn’t cross
my legs; I needed help getting my
shoelaces tied. But today I weigh only
187—and almost anyone can accomplish
the some thing." Here, to inspire anyone
who’s overwe;ght, is Mar TarnofFs
own story of how he shed 150 pounds.
|3 My adopted Japanese brother. It be
gan when Yashichiro wrote the Wra,
Jennings Bryans: “I come to America,
be your son?” The Bryans declined —
but one night he stood bowing at the
door: “My parents, I am come to your
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| ^ pipeline into our uranium supply.
If you saw raw material for A-bombs
being dug at the biggest mine on the
continent, you’d feel protected from
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R«-ds seized a key union thru which
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13 Drama in real life. Suppose you had a
3-year-old daughter. Then suppose you
discovered that the hospital had given
you the wrong baby—and she wasn’t
yours. Could you bring yourself to give
her up in exchange for your real child?
True story of a couple who faced just
such a shattering choice.
Golden rogue: Benvenuto Cellini. The
‘ touchiest swordsman in 16th-century
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lives; took women as he pleased—and
battle only brought laughter to his lips.
Yet this swaggerer created some of our
most exquisite gold treasures. Adven
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|7 Artificial insemination. Today, thou
sands of women with sterile husbands
have babies this way. What is the tech
nique? Does a woman feel guilty, bear
ing the child of a man she has never
seen, can never know? Does a father
accept a child not his owm? Revealing
report on a hotly debated procedure.
| g Private enterprise for public pur
poses. Most of us expect rivers to be
f controlled and “improved” by public
authority. But Wisconsin has turned
one over to a private company. Here’s
how it controls floods, gives free trees
to farmers, teaches soil conservation
. —without charging taxpayers a cent.
19 Angel of the madhouse. From the day
in 1841 when she saw four insane
people chained in a frozen, filthy cell,
this Boston spinster vowed she’d have
the mentally ill treated as human be
ings. Story of Dorothea Dix, one of
the most distinguished (and forgotten)
women America has ever produced.
20 Ba«*io City Music Hall. Did you know
that GIs, mothers-to-be are whisked in
side when lines are long? That each
Roekette gets a week off a month?That
an operatic film—which the manager
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21 lke’« narrow escape. In ’44 a hundred
Nazis sneaked across enemy lines into
France. Their mission: to trap Eisen
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strange and wonderful act of Provi
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22 Do-It-Yourself? Not me! Build your
own boat? Fix your own drainpipes?
Why not? It’s fun! It’s easy! And it’s
cheap—just 25t for plans. (Of course,
you’ll have to mortgage the baby for
tools, materials, plus the doctor’s fee
for that mashed thumb.) Corey Ford
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23*™ >°u o delinquent parent? “The
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24 What organized labor wants. Says
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2 5 How to grow old and like it. Your
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26 W**8* *s * Mormon? He believes the
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27 The sun: tomorrow’s power plant?
Sunlight has already b^n harnessed to
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23 Bringing the antibiotics up to date.
Today, penicillin and other antibiotics
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hopeful new possibilities—arid dangers
— of so-called “miracle drugs.”
29 It pays to increase your word power.
Does “glutted” mean glued together,
lascivious, disemboweled, or filled to
excess? Adding new words to your vo
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