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Oregon# Emerald Vol. LXII I NIVKKHITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, I960 No. 8 IFC PROMISES BLOOD FOR AMANDA Bowles maligns GOP practices in Sunday talk By BARBARA Mt'RNAN and 4011N DASHNKY F.mcrald Staff Reporters Lashing out at the Republican foreign affairs record. Democrat ic Congressman Chester Bowles from Connecticut. In his speech at the University Sunday, stated that "We nre running out of our cushion of time that we have al ways had." HK RKKKRRKI) to the coming elec tion as a "big and decisive election," comparing it to the one in 1860 W'hen the country was at a crossroads as to where it was going, at what speed it was go ing and how it was going. He stressed the Importance of foreign affairs, remarking that while It is the domestic affairs that elect the Congressmen, it is the foreign situation which will determine the presidential elec tion. He used as an example the problem with Cuba, implying that if the Democrats had been in power, "we would have preventer! the Castro situation or at least deadened the effect". He accus ed the Republicans of sending two "playboys” as ambassadors to Cuba, who spent their entire time in Havana. He added that the GOP aided Batista by supplying bombs and ammunition for his battles with Castro. BOWLES ALSO criticized the Republican administration for its dealings with the "elite of the countries.” thus increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. Bowles earlier had questioned Nixon's statement that every thing is all right" and that the country has not slided in its re lationship abroad. •*TO BE SURE the Democrats have made mistakes," (in foreign affairs). Congressman Bowles continued, “But we have tried not to make the same mistakes twice." He implied that the Republican administration was “childish and unwise” in its handling of the foreign affairs situation, using as an example an old quotation from the French Revolution, “I must see where the mob is going because I am its leader." He also stated that the Demo crats understand the needs, wants and feeling* of the people, and (Continued on page 3) _ White section's tickets available Tickets for white shirt sec tion bleacher seats for Satur day’s game must be picked up today, according to ASUO spokesmen. Tickets are to be picked up at the Student Union or at the athletic department offices. After today the white shirt sec tion will be closed and no more tickets issued, spokesmen said. Only students who plan to sit in the white shirt section, however, need pick up their tickets today. AMANDA DAO LOOKS THROUGH dippings which have car ried her story to University students and citizens of Eugene. Amanda will undergo open heart surgery in Portland Oct. 27 and will need 19 units of blood for the operation. Last spring over $2900 was raised during a campus and city-wide drive to finance her ope ration. Emerald photo by Dave Sands Siama Chi sells members' services Sigma Chi fraternity auctioned off some 30 or 40 of its mem bers Saturday afternoon as sor ority house-boys for an after noon. The fraternity netted $74 by the sale of its labors, according to a report from one member. It was attempting to raise $150 to Convocation set for Charter Day All University classes will be dismissed at 10 a.m., October 19, for the official convocation of Charter day, according to acting president William C. Jones. Speaker for the convocation will be the president of the Car negie corporation, John William Gardner, who will speak on "Life. Liberty and the Pursuit of Mean ing." Feature of the meeting will be the robed processional of the Uni versity faculty and the awarding of the honors to distinguished citizens of the state. The University's seventh an nual observation of its founding in 1876 will open on October 17. In the evening of October 18 a special Failing Distinguished Lecture will be given by the em inent British author. Sir Charles P. Snow. His topic will be "Some Recent Thoughts on the Two Cul tures." The address, in recogni tion of the University's found ing, will celebrate the inaugura tion of the University's new Hon ors college. pay off a fine recently incurred by the house for drinking on an adjacent parking lot. Such Sigma Chi personalities as “Spanish Joe” McGinnis, “Batman" Alvord and “W o p” Gianinni were auctioned off. The auction was held at the scene of the offense, the Sigma Chi parking lot. About 150 persons, including representatives from six sororities, turned out for the .sale, the member reported. A car wound through campus streets previous to the auction advertising the articles to be sold and announcing the time and place via a loudspeaker directed at sorority houses. According to the Sigma Chi members, no further plans have been made to raise the remainder of the money to meet the fine. Freshmen honors j examination set College Entrance Examination Board tests will be given this | week for freshmen who wish to j apply for admission to the Hon ors College, according to J. Spen- j cer Carlson, Director of Testing. I The tests wdll be administered j in two sections: the aptitude tests on Tuesday evening, Oct. 4. and the achievement tests on Thurs day evening, Oct. 6. The tests will be given at 6:30 p. m. in Em erald hall. Applications are available at the testing center in Emerald hall, and should be filed by Tues day afternoon. Open heart surgery scheduled for coed By ANNEIXE DAVENPORT Emerald Staff Writer Inter-Fraternity Council will supply Amanda Dao with the 19 units of blood she needs for an cpen heart operation in Portland Oct. 27. Eric Larson, IFC president, made the pro mise last week. Amanda, an Oregon coed from National China, caught the interest of the University faculty and students and Eu gene citizens last May. A fund drive was launched then for her operation and $2300 was raised. Amanda has had a leaky heart valve since early childhood. Roundtable due on Measure Six A Need for Ballot Measure Six will be discussed by a roundtable group. Oct.. 4 in the Dads Room of the Student Union, from 7:30 to 8:30. Those participating will in clude State Senator Donald R. Husband, as moderator, and Ro 'and Bartel, John D. Phillips and Steve Schell. The proposed measure would make it possible for the state to borrow more than twice as much as it now can to construct school buildings. Under a self liquidating arrangement. Husband has been a Republican state senator since 1951. He is also a Eugene attorney and chair man of the State Interim Com mittee on Education which stud ies the problems of school dis tricts, and junior and community colleges. Roland Bartel is associate pro fessor of English and assistant dean of the college of liberal arts. John D. Phillips is chairman of the Student Union Board. He is also a Falk Fellow’ in politi cal science and a Wilson Fellow in history. Steve Schell. ASUO president, was a Falk Intern during the summer months in political sci ence and has served on several panels regarding ballot measure six. She will leave the University of Oregon Medical School Oct. 12 and expects to be back a few | days after the operation. She is | the wife of Dan Dao, a graduate ! assistant in the school of busi | ness administration. Donors will contribute the ! needed units of blood Oct. 28. Ac cording to a bloodbank spokes man, preferred donors are men with Type A Positive blood who i weigh over 180 pounds because I men have a higher hemoglobin I count than women. AMANDA’S ARRIVAL to the | University in the Fall of 1956 was prefixed with an almost un . canny background of coinciden j ces. A refugee from the Chinese | mainland, she had finished ner schooling in Formosa and was working in a Chinese airlines of ; fice when she met the U of O basketball team in 1954. It was during the summer and I the team was on tour in the Or ient. This chance meeting in creased an earlier desire to at ! tend the University. Amanda applied for admission and while this was being proces ' sed attended the University of Barcelona in Spain. This was in i 1956. THAT SUMMER she witnes sed an American woman having 1 difficulty purchasing overseas ail mail letters. Amanda solved the difficulty by translating for I her. The woman was Mrs. George P. Wickham, U of O Dean of Women; she and her husband ( Continued on page 3) Ike nixes confab WASHINGTON ( UPI I — Pres ident Eisenhower has rejected a neutralist suggestion that he meet personally with Soviet Pre mier Khrushchev on cold war is sues. He said he sympathizes with the neutralist motives in making the proposal, but does not be lieve such a talk would accom plish anything. Earlier the President had con ferred with British Prime Min ister Macmillan and Australian Prime Minister Menzies, as well as top foreign policy advisers. The three Western leaders urg ed the UN General Assembly to get on with its business, particu larly concerning disarmament negotiations. Demand re jected ST. LOUIS, Missouri (UPI) Senator Kennedy has rejected Vice President Nixon's demand he stop tossing foreign policy barbs, which Nixon maintains are aimed at President Eisen hower. Speaking at a fund-raising din ner in St. Louis, the Democratic presidential candidate denied Nix on’s charges and vowed he would keep pressing the points Nixon complained about. Home sees no summit WASHINGTON (UPI) — Bri tish Foreign Secretary Lord Home says he sees no use for another Paris-type summit meet ing unless it is certain to pro duce results. Speaking on TV, in Washing ton, the Foreign Secretary said, "I wouldn’t go into another sum mit myself without very careful preparation.” Nixon in capitol WASHINGTON (UPI) — Vice President Nixon spent the day in (Continued on pane 7) Heads of Houses to meet at 4 p.m. Heads of Houses will meet today in the Student Union at 4 p. m. Koom number will be posted. Annual dues of $4 from each living group will be collected at the meeting, according to Annelle Davenport, president. She reminded all living groups that a $5 penalty will be im posed on those not represented. Charter day, women’s rules, and a tea are on the agenda.