'Axe' Wins National
Top Prize
Given SE
Newspaper
By RALPH OLIVE
Of the Regiiter-Guud
Staff members of the Axe,
South Eugene High School
Itudent newspaper, gained
national recognition last week
for many hours of hard work
this year.
The Axe won "the Medalist
award of the Columbia Scho
lastic Press Assn. of Colum
bia University, New York.
The Medalist is the highest
award that goes to any news
paper in the association, and
is based on all-around excel
lence. This year Madras High
School, with an enrollment of
450, and South Eugene, which
has 1,600 students, were the
only Medalist winners in Ore
gon. Judges consider writing,
editing, makeup, editorials,
creative literary work and ad
vertising. Newspapers published from
April through December of
1961 were judged in the con
test Thora Williams, now a
journalism major at the Uni
versity of Oregon, was editor
of the Axe last year, and
Carol Leuschel is editor this
year.
Miss Leuschel, with her as
sociate editor, Valerie Clark,
takes over-all responsibility
for the Axe's news and edi
torial policies. The two of
them edit all news copy, and
make up the paper. John
Crowder, sports editor, is re
sponsible for his own pages.
The Axe is published every
two weeks, and the Sunday
night of publication week is a
busy time for the Axe edi
tors, all second-year journal
ism students. This is the
time when they meet at the
home of Alyce Sheetz, jour
nalism adviser, to review
copy and take care of last
minute details.
Mrs. Sheetz teaches two
classes of journalism. The
first-year students take on
various reporting, writing and
editing tasks. The top edi
torial positions are filled by
the second-year students.
News is covered thoroughly
through the beat system. Re
porters check with depart
ment heads and individual
South Eugene
Pep Club Members Sell
$300 Worth of Programs
By ELLEN
South Eugene Pep Club mem
bers sold over $300 worth of
programs and guides at the an
nual basketball tournament
last week. This
was a $50 in
raw
crease over last
year's sales.
Forty-four girls
each had more
than $30 i n
sales and may
attend the SEHS basketball ban
quet tonight free of charge.
Pep Club chairmen for this
project were Carol Van Nuys,
Jean Pine, Marilyn Strausbor
ger, La Fern Rust and Judy
Jacobsen.
Dorothy Ghent, South senior,
was presented the Daughters of
the American Revolution Award
for Good Citizenship, for South
High.
An estimated 10 South Eu
gene students are planning to
attend the DECA State Confer
ence in Medford, March 23-25.
At the conference Dawn
Chambers and Judy Saks will
enter the salesmanship and pub
lic speaking contest. David Stro
nach is submitting a manual on
cameras for judging and Jim
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Junior High when he
learned that dozens of
pairs of corduroy pegtops
and dozens of long-tailed
shirts are in stock NOW
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The Axe, South Eugene High School student newspaper, has
Pi17P joined the distinguished ranks of the Medalist award winners,
X 1 1,C tne t0p prize 0f the Columbia Scholastic Press Assn. Staff mem
y hers, shown with their adviser, Alyce Sheetz, are, from left, Gary
WinilCr Leeper, business manager; Valerie Clark, associate editor, Carol
Leuschel, editor, and John Crowder, sports editor.
teachers throughout the
school. Feature stories are
newspaper, and Mrs. Sheetr
an important part of the
said some particularly good
feature stories have been
turned in this year to fea
tures editor Judy Moore.
As editor. Miss Leuschel
sometimes finds it difficult
to get just the right story for
the best page makeup.
"We find we have a lot of
little stories," she said
"Sometimes we need longer
lead stories."
Generally, though, there is
no shortage of news, but
there are other problems.
"We always hit a snag of
some kind," Miss Leuschel
said. "Every issue, the make
up gives us the most diffi
culty." .
This happened in the
SMITH
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ual on skis.
Three South Eugene students
received college scholarships re
cently. Venita Ferguson won a
$25 Soroptimist award and will
compete for the $2,500 scholar
ship. Ken Ward and Dave Rod
man obtained United States
Bank scholarships of approxi
mately $1,200 each in the "work
college" program.
Kris Brooke, senior, was re
cently chosen Girls' League
February Girl of the Month. She
was chairman of the senior
fashion show for the charity
drive, was sophomore princess
for the 1059 SEHS Homecom
ing, and is a member of Varsity
Rally Squad.
Jester Hairston will be in Eu
gene Saturday for the fifth Ne
gro spiritual festival. All city
junior and senior high school
choirs will participate in the
program to be held at North
Eugene High. Tickets for the
performance may be obtained
from any of the music depart
ments in the city.
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March 9 issue, when the edi
tors had the problem of work
ing in 19 pictures of candi
dates for student body of
fices. Gary Leeper, business man
ager, is responsible for sell
ing advertisements. Both
Leeper and his ad salesmen
have accounts, whom they
contact regularly. Leeper has
found that the firms that
start advertising early in the
year usually stay with the
Axe, but it is hard to find
new business.
"It doesn't expand too
much," he said. "Our big
gest advertisements are from
the clothing stores."
The Axe is financed pri
marily through advertising
revenue. The budget is filled
out with help from student
body funds. No tax money
goes into the newspaper, Mrs.
Sheetz said.
Sports editor John Crowder
has a special problem, be
cause of the every-two-week
publication schedule. All
sports are covered thorough
ly, so Crowder has a lot of
news to pack into each issue.
Important games often break
after the Axe goes to press.
Crowder can't get the story
on that game in the next is
sue, but he normally writes a
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HANDLING MEN:
The Key to Supervision
General Extension Division
offers its
ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES
for SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL
Course starting March 26 in Harris Hall
Basement, County Courthouse
A survey at the elements of business organization and the role of
the supervisor and foreman, Basic economics and how this universal
law pertains to the businesi at hand, production planning, follow
up, quality control, communications, and the supervisor's respon
sibilities to his crew, to his superiors and to the public. Basic prin
ciples of developing leadership and directing a work force. This
Is the same course Oregon Technical Institute provides to Oregon
firms for training their supervisors.
Participants can register for the ten Monday night
classes at the first meeting March 26 at 7 p.m. Class
fee will be $38.00 including text and necessary
materials.
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story explaining the team's
standing, and what future
prospects will be, depending
on the outcome of the game.
The Axe has a circulation
of 1,800, including 100 copies
that are mailed throughout
the country. Most of these
are on an exchange basis with
other newspapers. Sandy
Gowins, circulation manager,
is in charge of both local and
mail distribution.
The Columbia Scholastic
Press Assn., founded in 1925,
is an organization of school
publications sponsored by Co
lumbia University, with a
governing board that includes
deans and directors from the
university's schools and di
visions. How does it feel to advise
a newspaper that wins a na
tional award? Here is the
reaction from Mrs. Sheetz:
"I'm really thrilled with
our award. It's the first time
in my seven years of advising
high school papers that my
paper has won. We've had
many first class ratings, but
so few Medalists are award
ed. It's sort of a joke among
journalism advisers that the
judges toss the papers, and
the ones that stick to the ceil
ing win the Medalist. We had
the glue this time."
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St. Francis
Body Builder
To Speak
At Assembly
By GERALD WOLF
George Eiferman, former "Mr.
America," will present a dem
onstration on body building at
a National School Assembly,
Friday at 2 p.m. Since winning
the National A.
A.U. "Mr. Amer
ica" title, Eifer
man has been
presenting phys-
i c a 1 education
variety pro
grams, inter
spersed with music and numor.
Four students presented a
debate panel at the Parent's
Club meeting Thursday eve
ning. The topics discussed
were compiled from monthly
homeroom discussions, iney
were: 1. Resolved that teen
agers should own their own
automobiles; 2. Resolved that
teenagers should be permitted
use of the family automobile.
The positive side of the panel
was presented by Marcia To-
mich and Randy Taylor, tne
negative by Sheila Rodgers
and Gary DuTell. Timothy
O'Neil, student body president,
served as chairman.
Sister Marian James repre
sented the Sisters of the Holy
Names, who teach science in
Oregon and Washington
schools, at the National Science
Teachers convention in San
Francisco last week.
About 3,000 teachers were
present at this convention,
which was held for the first
time west of the Rocky Moun
tains. Franciscans and Senior Sev
en sang for a banquet of the
Archdiocesan Council of Catho
lic Women on Sunday and
Monday.
Preparations for "Songarama
62". to be held May 7 and 8,
are under way. Mr. and Mrs.
Dale Cooley, directors, an
nounced that groups, soloists
and special arrangements are
starting to be organized.
Princess' Secretary
To Marry Banker
MONTE CARLO, Monaco IM
The American private secre
tary of Princess Grace and the
nephew of British novelist
Somerset Maugham will be mar
ried Friday In this Riviera prin
cipality. Miss Fhilis Blum, 29, a New
Yorker, has been secretary to
the former Grace Kelly for four
years. Her fiance is Julian Earl,
34, a London banker.
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From boxes to boxcars handling your ship
ment is an engineered science on Union Pacific.
Shipments from and to the Pacific Northwest
start with well trained and experienced 'space
engineers.' These Union Pacific experts com
bine the latest methods In materials handling
with specially designed rail equipment, to deliver
the goods . . . farm or factory fresh.
Automatic traffic controls, giant locomotives,
microwave and direct-dial communications, all
combine to provide dependable transportation
. . , smoothly and swiftly, hour after hour. This
Is the modern way to run a railroad the auto
mated rail way.
Under Twenty
Overuse of Pet Expressions
Kills Conversation Quickly
By MELVA WEBER
Do you ever find yourself
thinking, as you listen to a
friend talk, "If she says 'really'
once more, 1 m going to
scream!"?
Most people, but particularly
the talkative types, develop
habits of using a pet word or
expression, over and over. Even
if it's the most exciting item
you've heard for a month, you
will wince if your friend fin-
Willamette
Tamy Busk
Named Girl
Of Month
By KATHT MAHER
Chosen as February Girl of
the Month was Tamy Busk, jun
ior. Tamy was chosen on school
spirit, which she has displayed
well during her three years at
mm Willamette. She
-ViV5 has been active
O- 4 il'l in school affairs
n d activities
ind is currently
manager of the
itudent store
A
ind chairman of
decorations for the 1962 Prom.
The senior class of '62 will be
pounding the pavement this
Saturday March 24 to collect pa
per for a drive to raise money
for the senior gut. rnis is one
of the many money-making
drives coming up and sponsored
by the class.
Senior announcements are
currently being printed and the
cards have been finished for de
livery soon. Orders for caps and
gowns have been sent in and
are expected to be received soon
also.
The class of '52 slipped by
the class of '62 in a basketball
game held Friday, March 9. The
score was a close 34-32 for the
contest. Principal Earl ,Vossen
officiated and both teams had
cheering sections. The game
was used as a project to make
money for both classes.
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EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD,
ishes off every sentence with
"D'you know what I mean?"
You might cure the habit, but
kill the friendship, if you broke
in every time to say, "Yes, I
know what you mean."
Hammering away at a favor
ite word or expression is disas
trous to effective conversation.
Listeners get distracted wait
ing for the next eruption of
your "pet word. The trouble
is, speakers are almost never
aware that they have this an
noying habit. Those who are
lucky enough to have a blunt,
tactless brother or sister will
probably learn about their
speech mannerisms, through
taunts and mimicry. But u you
don't have a helpful jeering
section of this kind, you might
have a discussion with your
friends close friends would be
best on "what words are we
saying to pieces, this term?"
Starting every remark with
"Look" is the mark of the Super-Urgent
speaker. Without
knowing it, he's using the word
to grab you by the lapel. Other
Urgent types grab lapels at the
end of every line, by saying,
"Right?" "Am I right?" or, "You
know?"
Net Loss Revealed
WASHINGTON M The Air
Transport Assn. said Wednes
day final figures show the trunk
airlines had a net loss of $34,
053,000 last year. The 1961 loss,
the first for the trunk airlinea
since 1947, compared with a net
profit of $1,188,000 in 1960.
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Wed., March 21, 1962 Page 9B
The Talking Bully is the one
who wants to hold the stage
while he thinks up what he's
really going to say. He'll start
out with, "What I want to say
is this:" He fills in with words
like "actually" and "frankly" to
help him gain time, for the poor
fellow usually is a slow thinker.
The Timid Interrupter opens
with, "May I ask just one ques
tion?" If you wanted to be un
pleasant about it, you might an
swer, "Yes, you may. And you
have. Better, however, be leni
ent with the repetition habits
of your friends. You probably
have a few such habits your
self. Right. Really. You know
what I mean?
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Funds Approved
For Indian School
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
The House of Representatives
Tuesday approved more than a
million dollars for the Chemawa
Indian School in Oregon and
$41,544 for the Fort Clatsop Na
tional Memorial, Rep. Walter
Norblad, R-Ore., reported.
He said the bill provides $1,
018,000 for operation of the
Chemawa school near Salem,
plus $92,500 for repair and
maintenance and $50,000 for ma
jor alterations.
The Fort Clatsop money is
for operation, maintenance and
rehabilitation of physical fa
cilities. THERE
IS
A DIFFERENCE
IMPERIAL
for '62
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