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The Oregon Daffy EMERALD Vol. LX l NIVEKSITY OF OREGON, EUGENIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1959 No. 57 Inauguaral speech Hatfield outlines educational policy SALEM (AP)—A selective admission system for colleges phis the institution of a state scholarship fund for higher ed ucation were recommended Monday by Gov. Mark Hatfield in his inaugural address prepared for delivery to the 50th Oregon Legislature. Among the recommendations included in Hatfield’s stand on Oregon's educational program were an increase in the membership of the Board of Higher Education from 9 to 12 and in that of the Board of Education from 7 to 9. He proposed the transfer of Oregon Technical Institute to the Board of Higher Education with its*location to remain World News IN BRIEF Johnson plan wins WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen-; ate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson's compromise to end the Senate's fight over anti-filibuster rules was approved Monday night. The senate’s okay of the proposal climated a four-day imttle. The compromise allows two-thirds of the senators present and voting to cut off debate. The new rule improves somewhat the chances of passing new' civil rights legis lation. Space contract let WASHINGTON (UPI) - The government Monday ordered con struction of a space capsule that will carry a man into orbit around the earth and bring him safely back. The contract for the space ve hicle has been let to a St. Louis | lirm McDonnell Aircraft Corp. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it will take at least two years to build i the satellite capsule. The cost will be about 15 million dollars. Atlas death predicted CAMBRIDGE, Man*. (UPIi - America'* four-ton Atlas satellite is exjiected to <lie next week after Mime f>00 trips around the earth. The Smithsonian astrophysical observatory said the so-called "talking satellite" should make its final orbit about Jan. 21. The observatory said it did not know exactly where the Atlas will plunge to a fiery death. Jury gets records CLAYTON, Ala. (UPI1 — A circuit judge Monday turned over voting records to a grand jury here instead of to the Federal Civil Rights Commission. The grand jury also refused to re lease the records despite a fed eral court order setting a dead line of tonight for the surrender of the documents. The commission wants the rec (Continued on page 8) Marianne Foster wins Marianne Foster was elected the University's candidate for the title of Winter Carnival queen in an election Friday. She will compete with candi dates from other schools for the ci own at the Carnival, which will be held Feb. 13-14, at Mt. Hood. New students to meet There will be an orientation week meeting for all new stu dents at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Student Union. Acting Dean of Men Bill Den ham and Dean of Women tiolda Wickham address the meeting. in KJanriath Falla. A second technical institute wan proposed for Multnomah county. Other recommendations Other educational recommenda tions Included lengthening the school year, a study of school financing and construction, re vising the rural school district law, and an expansion of the school program with considera tion of the gifted child. Hatfield asked for sweeping re organization of the state govern ment, and hinted that it should increase income taxes on persons in the lower brackets. The Republican governor told the Democrat to-controlled Legis lature it should adopt an interim committee recommendation that the governor be given power to reorganize state departments, boards and commissions. Any such plans proposed by the gov ernor would be subject to legis lative veto. Ideas renewed Hatfield also renewed his plea for a convention to rewrite Ore gon's 100-year-cld constitution. Outgoing Democratic Gov. Rob ert D. Holmes in his farewell message also supported the reor ganization and constitutional convention proposals. Hatfield's hint of higher taxes for low bracket taxpayers came in this statement: "To meet our current and ur gent needs, I commend for your attention revision of our income tax to increase participation in (Continued on page S) E-UCMA concert features pianist Eugene Istomin, one of Amer ica's major concert pianists, will appear tonight at 8 p.m. in Mc Arthur Court to give a program of works of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Chopin. Istomin, 33, is currently on an American tour and gave a per formance Monday night in Port land. This fall, the pianist will make his eighth European tour, with concerts scheduled in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Hol land. Istomin has recorded on Colum bia Masterworks records and has played throughout Australia, the Far East and South America as well as Europe and North Amer ica. Ho rnftde his debut in 1943 with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy and the New York Philharmonic under Rod 7.inski. Since then, he has played with these and other major or chestras. Istomin's program includes "Fantasy, Opus 77,” by Beet hoven; “Sonata in M-Sharp Ma jor, Opus 78," by Beethoven; "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel,” by Brahms; “Variations on the Name ‘Abegg'’’ by Schumann; a nocturne and waltz and "Polonaise in A-Flat Major,” all by Chopin. RICH A Id) AKMOl'R University Assembly speaker Armour fo give assembly lecture The University AiidemUy today will feature humor writer and Fnglish professor Richard Ar mour. Armour will present his lecture, "It All Started With Eve”, in the Student Union ball room at 1 p.m. Armour has written more than 4 000 humorous poems and hun oreds of articles and reviews for more than 100 magazines in the U. S. and England. His light verse has appeared in The Satur day Evening Post, The New York er. Esquire, The Readers Digest, and other national magazines. Best selling author The Scripps College English professor has written several books ranging from biography and literary criticism to humor ous and satirical national best sellers as “It All Started With Co lumbus.” "It All Started With Eve,” and more recently "Twisted Tales From Shakespeare.” Aimour's scholarly background includes a Ph.D. -from Harvard, a Harvard research fellowship in England and a Ford Foundation fellowship in Paris. He has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Texas, as Ameri can Lecturer at the University of Freiburg in Germany and several other U. S. universities and colleges. I-egioii of Merit winner Critics have linked him with Ogden Nash as a writer of humor and described his verse as "un excelled" and "needle-sharp." Armour was twice awarded the Legion of Merit in the second World War. He served as an of ficer with anti-aircraft aitillery and as a member of the War Department general staff. A Coffee Hour at 4 p.m. in the S. U. will give the audience a chance to ask questions about Armour's ballroom speech. In Today’s EMERALD Social calendar . 8 Duck Tracks . 4 Honors program . 6 Miss Pitigliani discusser her art. 3 Committee to air budget argument By MIKE FORRESTER Emerald News Editor A public meeting to discuss the problems of higher education, especially the recent budget and building controversy in the state, will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. today in the SU. Main participants in the discus sion will be William Jones, dean of administration; Harry Alpert, dean of the Graduate School; Willard Thompson, director of Public Services; and a student committee of Bud Titus, ASUO president; Dune Ferguson, vice president and Senators Diana Scott, Peter Wengert and John Gustafson. W. C. Ballaine, professor of business economics and president of the University chapter of the American Association of Univer sity Professors, may take part, according to Titus. Originally, John P.ichards. state Chancellor of Higher Education, was scheduled to be in the dis cussion, but he was called to Washington. D.C. unexpectedly. Persons in the audience may ask questions of the panel mem bers, according to Titus. According to Gov. Robert D. Holmes, Oregon voters expressed the desire for no new taxes in the last election. Consequently, the State Board of Higher Educa tion’s budget was cut last year, and a 20 million dollar building program for all the state's col leges and universities will receive no action. Bond issue pending In order to get the funds for building. Holmes said Friday that he will ask the Legislature to ap prove a 70 to SO million dollar bond issue to be submitted to the public in a special election. Meanwhile, the special student committee has decided to investi gate salary scales, building needs, the state tax structure and other related topics. They will publicize the results of their study. Saturday, at Corvallis, student body presidents from five of the state’s six colleges met to discuss the education situation. They wrote a letter to Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield expressing their concern about education financing in the state and said that they hope "that the budget requests for the biennium 1959-1961 be in no way reduced.” Investigation planned The group also drew up a reso lution for the Oregon Kederation. of Collegiate Leaders calling for awareness of the higher educa tion situation in the state by stu dent leaders. The purpose of today’s meeting is to get information for the pub lic and for the student committee relating to the needs of higher education and the circumstances in the present debate over higher education financing. Pique! address stresses policies By DOUG MYERS Emerald Staff Writer Howard S. Piquet, a specialist in international economics, spoke on "Economic Theory and Po litical Economy” to an overflow audience in the S.U. Tuesday. He is in Oregon studying its economy , relative to foreign trade. His current position is the I Senior Specialist in International Economics in the Legislative Ref erence Service of the Library of Congress. ‘Institutional economists’ Piquet began his address by de claring that the tradition of po litical economists is to develop policies, and that the "institu tional economists” are not doing enough of it. He stated that cur rent economic theorists are taking too much refuge in mathematics, and that there should be more pure theor izing. He went on to say that "I don’t know anyone who influences the public less than institutional eco nomists,” and he feels this state of affairs is harmful to our coun try. He urges stepped-up trade with other lands, especially Japan, for if "we lose Japan, we lose the Pa cific.” He stated that rightly or wrongly, Japan has the idea that the U.S. is discriminating against them in matters of trade. (Continued on Page 6) The Berlin Crisis' topic of IRC meeting “The Berlin Crisis” will be dis cussed by L. C. Marquis, instruc tor of political science, today at 7 p.m. in room 101 of the SU. Franz Langhammer, instructor of foreign languages, will lead the discussion and answer period that follows. Marquis will outline the back ground of the Berlin' crisis, and discuss some of the underlying circumstances and implications' leading up to the current situa tion. Marquis was born in Germany and came to America before World War II. During the war he returned to Germany with the army, and has since been to Ger many for two short visits. He ob tained his BA degree at Black Mountain College in North Caro lina, and his MA at UCLA. Mar quis has taught at UO since 1954. He has had several articles pub lished, including one in the Yale Review last year, and one in the Northwest Review this year. Langhammer has taught at UO since 1956. He has lived in Ger many and spent the past summer there. Langhammer obtained his BA and MA degrees at North western University. The meeting, sponsored by the International Relations Club, is open to students and faculty. It will be dismissed in time for those wishing to attend the E-UCMA conceit.
