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lavy yields exhibit space :o atomic group
The United 8tates Navy moved lover to make room for the Coun-Icil on Atomic Implications at the |World Inventors’ Exposition now lin session at the Pan-Pacific au-lditorium.
The navy offered to share its I booth at the exposition when the IcAI approached the inventors too | late to be alloted space.
Council Films When the Council found that Ithe space was inadequate for the (showing of its films, the Coca-..qompanv^ then of-iAm'-to' w/uke- room	S&3
eace-seeking organization.
Jim Roberts, public relations chief of the CAI, said yesterday the exhibit of the atomic [paintings by Ed Levitt and Ray iJacobs, former Disney studios ar-jtlsts, attracted wide attention dur-fing their first showing last night.
The pictures were procured by the CAI through the cooperation of W. Bradford Shank, atomic scientist of the Manhattan project, who has been an unofficial sponsor of the Council since its formation on campus last February.
Large Attendance
The Inventors’ Exposition has been attracting 20,000 iiersons a day since It opened, according to Information released by Pfin-Paci-fio officials.
The two films which the Council present to capacity aud.ences at its opening last night are “Tale of Two Cities," and “One World or None.”
These two films, produced by the army and the National Council on Atomic Implications, were shown on campus last semester. “One World or None” finished a week’s showing in Bridge hall Friday, where it played to full houses.
Roberts said the booth at Pan-Pacific is in charge of B. J. Showers and Bill Oliver, both SC students and CAI members.
Tlie pictures by Levitt and Oliver depict scenes of Los Angeles before and after an atomic war, Another scene entitled “Last Days” presents the artists’ version of the last days of the earth after chain reaction begins.
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OF HOLOCAUST, pStfwsd afcero- nt tihp Bikini experiments, is one of the aims of the Council on Atomic Implications as it carries out its program this week with its booth at the World Inventors' Exposition at Pan-Pacific auditorium.
Budget cut closes VA contact office
by Cliff Dektar
Announcement of the abandonment of the campus contact office of the veterans administration effective July 31 was made here Friday by Charles W. Martin, senior VA contact representative at SC.
The move was made In compliance with orders from Washington to reduce VA personnel in this area by 300 persons, and stems from recent cuts made in the VA appropriation by the economy-minded 80th congress.
Contact offices now maintained at UCLA and LACO will also be discontinued at the same time, according to a spokesman for the contact division of the VA.
Martin and his two assistants, Fred F, Jaegle and Paul O. Buhl, will leave SC for other assignments.
“Veterans will he able to set information formerly furnished by tne coft 12 c t"TiITnSIPIfiSl’’downtown. office of the VA at 1031 South Broadway, or at the Los Angeles regional office, 1380 South Sepulveda boulevard. West Los \ngeles,” Martin said.
Martin also stated that contact
Apley interview termed error as co-stars quarrel' off-stage
Registrar's
Notice
The Office of the Registrar announces that there are a number of positions available to graduate students, teaching assistants or other mature persons with clerical experience to asnist in registration from July 28 to Aug. 9 inclusive.
Any person who is interested In earning this extra money during the two weeks period should apply to T. E. Davis, Assistant to the Registrar, Owens hall annex.
Bringing Bob Downing and Nancy Brannon, husband and wife in the forthcoming campus production of “The Late George Apley,’’ together for an interview was a mistake. The pair seemed as incompatible offstage as are their counterparts. Roger and Amelia, In the Kaufman-Marquand comedy.
Miss Brannon, lovely Kappa Delta, looked charmingly pensive as this reporter approached her booth in the Wheel for a prearranged luncheon date.
“Couldn’t you find somewhere else to sit," she inquired sweetly as we slid onto the seat beside her.
As we rose tentatively, she ex-* tended her hand. “Oh, don’t leave. I didn’t mean that, really. Sit down, and let’s talk about me.”
Miss Brannon proceeded to remind us that she was first seen on campus In last semester’s varsity show, “GI Bill.” Now a speech major, her early ambition was to go into personnel and social work. “Then I gave the graduation speech in high school, and every inch of ham came out.”
“And now that it has appeared, it is sliced very thick, believe me.” Downing, arriving late, had seated himself across the table from us, and was beaming benevolently at Miss Brannon.
Miss Brannon cast a vindictive eye in our direction. “You don't intend to interview him?”
We said we had considered the possibility.
Miss Brannon looked aghast. “I see you haven’t been in the newspaper business very long. After all what can you write about him? He's obnoxious, but after you’ve said that there is nothing more to say.”
Downing disagreed. Since com-
ing to SC in November, 1M6, he has appeared in some ten or
twelve productions, he told us. He also undertakes an occasional acting assignment for the Compton Community Players and the Long Beach Playhouse. Downing has been known to rehearse three dif-
terent productions in one day.
Downing’s Immediate ambition Is to play Danny in “Night Must Fall,” and he uses every opportunity to plug the show to local directors. Miss Brannon would favor any role which offered a change from the tyrannical wives she has portrayed recently.
“Not that I don’t play them well,” she confessed.
The two players favor the stage over screen and radio for a career. “However,” Downing added, “an actor’s future is such an uncertain affair that he does well to consider every possible outlet for his talents.”
“Apley,” is directed by Miss Frieda Meblin of the drama department. The play is scheduled to open Thursday night at 8:30.
Luncheon ...
FRIEDA MEBLIN
. . . directing
. . . Phi Delta Kappa, men’s education honorary, Thursday noon in the basement of Student Union. Tickets may be purchased at 365 Administration. John M. Ewing, Victoria college, Toronto, will speak on ‘ The Canadian Angle.”
offices in Long Beach and Santa Ana would remain open.
The SC office of veteran affair* said that it will do everything in its power to aid veterans with problems on campus.
Cuts in the force of training officers on campus will also be mad* effective the first of the month but the exact extent of thess changes are not fully known by the SC training office at present.
Dr. Don D. Prosser, director ol the SC guidance center, which is jointly operated by the university and the VA, said recently that the economy cuts will have no effec' on the operation of the center.
L. C. Chapman, manager of the Los Angeles regional office of the VA, said that he did not believe that any reduction would be made in any of the medical or denta’ services now provided by his office.
VA representatives on camptu said recently that the reason foi the discontinuance of the privileg* of purchasing student activity books was due to an interpretation that only compulsory expenses can be charged to tlie government under the provisions of the GI bill.
This is the second economy move directly effecting SO made by the government within the last month. The first was made when it was announced June 27 that student activity book* would no longer be available to veterans on the GI bilL
Clinic faces increasing demands from veterans
Readjustments to the pressures of civilian life—crowded housing, dead-end Jobs —coupled with their military experiences are increasing the demands of veterans for psychiatric care, a recent report to the veterans psychiatric clinic executive committee reveals.
Directed by Dr. Roberta Crutcher, the clinic has helped to complete psychiatric .............. —	-------------- rehabilitation for more than 450
Jordan to lecture on attitude formation
Scheduled to lecture on “The Formation of Attitudes and Their Measurement” this afternoon at 3:15 in room 206 Administration building is Dr. Arthur M. Jordan, professor of educational psychology at the University of North Carolina.
In his lecture today he will study the influence of various social factors such as boy aoouts and moving pictures on the formation ol attitudes in ctiildieu, with wn-P*>aa<«i the uupoj tance of oer-
rect child training.
“Our attitudes are important because they determine what we do,” states Dr. Jordan. “By the time we are 12 years old our basic attitudes towards life are pretty well set. In religion they vary from complete unbelief to absolute faith, and they are measured by means oi a simple graph on whifh are written many statements concerning religious outlook. Tlie Individual checks those things with
which he agrees.
“The attitude of the average person towards religion today is a complicated story," continued the professor, “but I believe that, though church attendance may fall off, people are really as interested in religion as they always have been.”
▲ graduate of Raudolph-Macoji college, Va. Dr. Jordan received his AC A. at Duke university, Durham, N O., at a time when it was
still called Trinity college. He earned his doctorate at Columbia university, New York, and after doing experimental work at the University of Chicago taught eight years at the University of Arkansas. Since then he lias been at th University of North Carolina.
Dr. Jordan is the author of several texts, including “How To Study,” -Children's Interests to Reading," and ’‘Educations! Psychology "
veterans, who were not eligible for government care, since it was originally organized.
An 80 per cent increase in applications in tlie last four months is taxing the clinic’s services to tlie limit.
Immediate expansion of clinic facilities and development of a network of community psychiatric clinics, to avoid ‘economic and human waste,” is priority number one, according to Dr. Crutcher.
'The plight of many servicemen did not come to the attention of military psychiatrists, Dr. Crutches maintains, and they are now finding adjustments too great and need help.
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