Oregon daily emerald., July 12, 1973, Page 3, Image 3

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These are only part of the 1,200 boxes of the papers of former Senator Wayne Morse, who is donating
his papers from 24 years of service in the U.S. Senate to the University Library.
Morse’s papers placed in
University’s library
The papers of Senator Wayne
L. Morse, including his
senatorial papers from 1945-1969,
have been placed in the
University library.
“I am very pleased,” com
ments Senator Morse, ‘‘To make
a gift to the University of Oregon
Library of the complete files of
mv United States Senate office
papers and materials ac
cumulated during my 24 years of
service in the U.S. Senate.
‘‘I have been advised by ar
chive authorities that it is a very
valuable collection of historic
documents for research purposes
during the period of 1945-69. It
contains a great many very
valuable papers. The estimated
value of the collection was placed
at between $50 to 100 thousand by
archives officials.”
Some 1.200 cartons of letters,
documents, and other records
were shipped from Washington,
DC., and are now being in
ventoried and arranged for use,
according to Martin F. Schmitt,
curator of special collections in
the University Library.
The major part of the Morse
collection consists of the
senatorial papers which include
all the letters to and from the
senator from constituents and
others asking and giving advice
or asking for help, or agreeing or
disagreeing with the senator’s
position on public matters.
There is also a large file of
correspondence between the
senator’s office and various
agencies and departments of the
federal government.
With the correspondence are
files of bills introduced by
Senator Morse, hearings, and
congressional reports.
The largest single file in the
collection, accprding to Schmitt,
relates to the Vietnam War and
United States intervention in
Southeast Asia—which Senator
Morse opposed from the outset.
The collection also includes
Morse’s campaign papers, and
his political and personal
correspondence There are files
relating to his career as Dean of
the University of Oregon School
of Law, and his service as ar
bitrator in labor disputes in the
1940’s.
Personal files in the collection
date back to the senator’s school
days in Wisconsin and also in
elude records of his ranch
operations.
Earlier. Morse had given the
Library his personal law school
files for the period 1936-1938,when
he was special assistant to the
Attorney General of the United
States and served as director and
editor-in-chief of the Attorney
General’s Survey of Release
Procedures.
Senator Morse points out that
the project under the attorney
general resulted in the
publication, under his (Morse’s)
editorship, of five volumes on
Pardon. Parole, Probations,
Prison Administration, and
Federal Criminal Statutes.
The Senator had also
previously given the University
School of Law all of his files for
the period of 1941-1944 when he
served as a public member of the
National War Labor Board.
“The University of Oregon
considers the political papers of
Wayne L. Morse to be one of the
greatest gifts the University
Library has ever received,
University President Robert D.
Clark said. “Certainly, they
constitute some of the most
important political documents in
the State of Oregon and possibly
in the Pacific Northwest.
Spanning, as they do, 24 critical
mid-century years in the nation’s
history in which Senator Morse
played a prominent role, these
materials are an invaluable
research resource which
University scholars will explore
for years to come.
“The fact that Senator Morse
was once a member of the
University faculty and Dean of
the Law School and that he was
an active and vigorous par
ticipant in some of the most
critical issues facing the nation in
this century adds to the value of
the collection,” Clark continued.
“The University is proud that
Senator Morse has chosen the
Library as the permanent
repository for his papers.”
Senator Morse said that he and
Mrs. Morse were especially
pleased to make the gift to the
University because “after all I
owe everything to the people of
Oregon for the opportunity they
gave me to serve them in the U.S.
Senate for 24 years.”
He added that he wanted
particularly to thank President
Clark and Schmitt for arranging
the agreement with the
University so that the gift can be
kept together in a special section
of the University library and
made available, after it has been
catalogued, to research students.
An inventory and guide to the
Morse papers will be produced by
the University library. Once this
guide has been prepared, the
collection will be available to
scholars by permission of
Senator Morse.
‘Doonesbury’
muffled
BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) —The Buffalo Courier-Express Tuesday
suspended use of the cartoon strip “Doonesbury” for one week,
claiming a series about Pat Nixon and another about Watergate in
vestigators were tasteless
“The comic strip is supposed to be funny, and this wasn’t,” said
executive editor Douglas L. Turner.
The newspaper said the panel’s creator, G.B. Trudeau, drew a
“tasteless series of panels concerning Mrs. Richard M. Nixon’s
private views and a fictional interchange with Watergate in
vestigators.” It was the second time in two months that the newspape
suspended the use of Doonesbury.
“His (Trudeau’s) basic thrust is the same as our basic thrust as
reflected in the editorials,” Turner said. “But we must not assume
guilt.”
He said it had been reviewed by several different editors and they
had all reached the same conclusion.
“The strip is usually funny,” Turner said. “In fact, it’s my
favorite one.”
The newspaper said it would resume carrying the strip,a satire of
current events, when the particular series ends Monday.
Attorneys aid dean choice
Chief Justice Kenneth J. O’Connell of the Oregon Supreme Court
heads a group of five prominent attorneys who will advise President
Robert D. Clark in the selection of a new Dean of the University Law
School.
Dean Eugene F. Scoles has resigned his post, effective July 1,1974, to
return to full-time teaching.
In addition to O’Connell, those agreeing to serve are Attorneys
Elmer Sahlstrom of Eugene and William Deatherage of Medford,
representing the Alumni Association, and James Harrang of Eugene
and R. W. Nahstoll of Portland, representing the Law School Board of
Visitors.
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