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‘Mighty Mo’ arrives at Pearl Harbor to join USS Arizona I he histone battleship is destined to become a World War II museum By Brace Dunfonl The Associated Press PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — The USS Missouri, the ship where World War II ended, was brought here to join the USS Arizona, sunk in the 1941 Japanese attack that, for Americans, was where the war began. Some 20,000 people turned out for a huge beach party Sunday to welcome the 887-foot, 58,000-ton mothballed battleship as it com pleted an 18:day crossing from the West Coast. Air National Guard jets did a flyover, fireboats sprayed high streams of water, military bands played, public officials had brief remarks, Chinese dragon and hula dancers performed and the party climaxed at sunset with a fire works display. A flotilla of more than 100 boats joined the Missouri as “the Mighty Mo” was towed past Waikiki Beach. After it is towed into Pearl Har bor, it is due for a $1 million refur bishment that will create a muse um scheduled to open in January. It will rest near the Arizona, which is straddled by a gleaming white shrine. “We’re dealing with a historic landmark and a national trea sure,” said Roy Yee, president of the USS Missouri Memorial Asso ciation. “The marriage of this ship with the Arizona and the Pearl Harbor complex someday will gain an importance I think as great as a Statue of Liberty for the West.” It was on the teak deck of the 54-year-old Missouri in Tokyo Bay that Japanese Foreign Minis ter Mamoru Shigemitsu and U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur signed the surrender documents on Sept. 2,1945. The surrender came three years, eight months and 25 days after Japanese planes shattered a quiet Sunday morning with a sur prise attack on military bases, crippling the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor. The attack brought the United States into the war. A combat veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict, the Missouri was decommissioned in 1955 and placed on display at Bremerton, Wash., where it drew about 180,000 visitors a year. It was overhauled in 1986 and used in the Persian Gulf War before the Navy mothballed it again at Bre merton in 1992 to save operating costs of $24 million a year. SUMMER’S HERE! Where are you? Eurailpasses issued on tbe spot! Great gear for sale! Council Travel 877 East 13th St., Eugene Ti.tk.dt. Vim PtopU. (541) 344-2263 University of Oregon, EMU Building 1222 East 13th St., Eugene(541) 344-2263 Textbooks 35-50% off list price Bring your textbook information to Smith I amity Bookstore . • Author • Title • Edition We'll help you find used copies that will save you money! Always buying: • texts • paperbacks • Cliffs Notes • current magazines w Rainbow News Briefs Clinton visits school; Kinkel arraigned President Clinton visited Thurston High School June 13 after speaking at Portland State University’s commencement ceremony. He met privately with the May 21 shooting vic tims and their families for more than an hour, and he later spoke at an assembly in the school’s gymnasium. Clinton told the 700 students and faculty who attended that he is directing Education Secre tary Richard Riley and Attorney General Janet Reno to develop an “early warning guide” that will help schools and parents identify and respond to trou bled students. In a radio address earlier in the day, the president called the recent string of school violence a “litany of loss” and suggested it was a symptom of a culture that glorifies violence. During his visit, Clinton also spoke by phone with Teresa Miltonberger, the only victim still hospitalized. Miltonberger, 17, remains in serious condi tion at Sacred Heart Medical Center. She was moved out of intensive care and into a regular room June 11 and has been re ceiving in-room therapy. A hospital spokeswoman de scribed Miltonberger’s im provement as “incremental.” Kip Kinkel was arraigned Tuesday on 58 charges related to the May 21 shooting, includ ing four charges of aggravated murder. The minimum penalty for an aggravated murder con viction is life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years. Provost appoints two to interim positions University Provost John Moseley recently named the new vice provost for research and the Graduate School dean. Marketing professor Marian Friestad was named Graduate School dean, and arts and sci ences associate dean Thomas Dyke was named vice provost June 10. Both positions are interim, and they will continue until the University conducts a national search for a replacement. The appointments are intended to divide the responsibilities in the Office of the Provost that were formerly held by Stead man Upham, vice provost for research and graduate dean. Upham will leave the Universi Sr July 1 to assume the presi ency of Claremont Graduate University. Dyke joined the University chemistry faculty in 1974 and became associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1994. Friestad joined the Uni versity Department of Market ing in the Charles H. Lundquist College of business in 1987 and became an associate professor in 1994. She became the busi ness college doctoral program director in 1997. TWo professors get prestigous award The University faculty awarded accounting professor Helen Gemon and deceased East Asian languages and litera tures professor Alan Wolfe re cipients of the 1998 Charles E. Johnson Memorial Awards. The awards traditionally honor only one faculty member each year who has demonstrated excep tional service to the university and its community, but the fac ulty committee was unable to decide on a single recipient. Wolfe died in early 1998. He began his University career in 1980 when he joined the De partment of East Asian Lan guages and Literatures. He be came co-director of the Japanese language program late in the 1980s. He became head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures in 1995. Gemon, head of the Depart ment of Accounting, came to the University 20 years ago, be coming a full professor in 1992. Doctor Certifi Caftfomi Washing OtherS Other nai Gender Female M^le 1,938 1,743 SOURCE: UO Office of Communication EMERALD
