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Senate Will Replace Committee Chairmen
Replacements for two committee chairmen lost through graduation will be chosen when the ASSC senate meets j Wednesday night in the student senate chambers.
‘•We will have to replace Bob McClymonds. chairman of the Greater University committee, and Milt Dobkin, chairman
of the rules committee—two men *-—--— [
who gave Invaluable service during the past semester." Johnny Davis,
ASSC president, said Friday.
The senate also will hear reports | irom the election commission and
Crooks Cache
Stolen Goods Found in OC
WILLIAM C. MULLENDORE
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Association of Commerce, and the Harris Trust and Savings Bank ot Chicago.
chair, covering 11 Mr. Muliendore has been presi-j dent of Southern California Edison ’aramount in 1933, for nearly four years. He joined company's real et- i the utility in 1925 as special coun-In 1934 lie took | se>, became its general attorney 111 theater operations 1^29 and its vice-president the next
year. He was executive vice-presi- I frustrating and time-consuming
the orientation program committee.
The election commission will discuss the operation of the new system for registering voters. Every person who registered for classes is j now a registered voter and can take part in the spring elections by pre-! renting his ID card. This card will i be checked against a cross file to j detennine definite eligibiitiy.
The ASSC. the Associated Stu-i dents of Southern California, is the j organization which directs student j ~a'cl‘e affairs and coordinates them a ith , Detective Sgts. C. N. Aselin and the administration, faculty, and | R R Groth indicated that the
, community.	booty might be part of the property
The organization is open to reg- i stolen by James U. Tangemian. who i ularly enrolled day students. Exec- I was convicted on six counts of : utive officers are elected for one burglary last year. Tangerman is
Loot valued at several thousand dollars, including checks and money orders for $45-00. was uncovered by workmen dismantling Old College.
University division police are now-seeking victims of burglaries in this area since 1945 in an effort to return the property found in the
Silverstein Takes Over in Top Spot
President of the Coilege of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Al Hix. today announced his resignation from that office. He will be succeeded by Jack Silverstein. vice-president of LAS.
Hix plans to aid the new president temporarily until the changeover is made and may then remain on the council to
* work with the publicity chairman. b #	_	"Two outside jobs and my wor«
Editor Shuffles Trojan Staff For Spring
on the Daily Trojan and Wampus in addition to regular school work make it impossible for me to devote the time necessary to properly carry out the duties of LAS president,” Hix explained.
PLAINTIVE WAIL
■ Besides.” he added. ‘Tm sure
my mother didn't raise her boy to be a politician."
Former editor of lhe Wampus, Hix at present writes a weekly column ior the Only Trojan and i*
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DRS. CHARLES PAIT, and John F. Kessel recently received a giant of ,3113,000 to further their studies on the polio virus. They have succeeded in isolating 12 strains of the virus during the past two years at SC.
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sity of Michigan law school and book procurement reduced time ex-was awarded an honorary degree ol penditure to a matter of minutes, doctor of laws bv SC last year
now serving an indefinite term m San Quentih.
LOOT IS VARIED Included in the booty, which had been stuffed under a wooden staircase in Old College, were books, purses, wallets, checks, money orders, government bonds, and one German P-38 pistol.
Many of the checks were subsistence payments to veterans attending SC. All government checks ! bookline shuffle, legistere amaze ruic| bonds have been turned over ment when the new deal on text-
Booklines Now Thing of Past
Veterans, long accustomed to the
Research by Grant
The School of Medicine, which has just classified a new
An almost complete reshuffling ot the Daily Trojan staff for the spring semester has been announced by Editor Jerry Maher.
Grelun Landon. last semester's news editor, ha-, been elevated to the post of managing editor, following the graduation of Lloyd Hearn. Hearn, who is continuing graduate work, will remain with the DT in an advisory capacity.
Chuck Denton, news assistant for two semesters and more recently in charge oi the Week in Review, will step into Landon's j old job as news editor. Maher said.
Holdovers from iast semester's; top stafl include Diana Griffin, womens editor, and F. R. Ashley and Jack Gregg, desk editors. Otherwise new face-, appear in all the lop jobs.
BETHEL, CANN
John Bethel has been named ieature eaitor. and Clin Dektar on e^^oriai board. His ouisitie will edit the sports page. Besides jobs include work with the local Ashley and Gregg. Ray Noll has production office of Time maga-i been named to fill one ot the va-cated desk fed.tor spot-. Three silver5tein has autaidv begun to cle-k editors remain to be named. lay QUt a scheduIe of events
A :is;ant desk editors named to	for the coming semester. At a mee;-
da.e includ Stan Cann. Art An-	jng with a half dozen council men-
iria ia:i. Reid Bundy. Harvey Died-	bers last week, he made tentative
erich. and Ursula Baumann. One	plans for an LAS dance early ui
post remains to be filled here.	March, a theater party, the cqn-
A1 Hix and Sid Bernstein, hold-	tinuance and expansion of LAS
AL 'PETER PAN' HIX . ‘I'd as lief be a Brownist'
Strain of the family of poliomyelitis Virus, received a SI 13.500 overs cn the editorial board, will week, a banquet honoring LAS Dean grant last week from the National Foundation for Infantile be joined by Bill Dow. John Clark, Tracy E. Strevey. and the estab-Paralysis for the study of the relationship between different i Bundy, polio viruses. The grant was three times the size of the one	downs, bowles
to secret service agents.
Detectives Aselin and Groth are still seeking the following persons
received last year.	*-
Twelve strains of polio virus have been studied in the past two years by Dr. John F. Kessel. head of the department of bacteriology ana parasitology, and Dr. Charles Pail, assistant professor in the depart-
ior when he delivered the commence-
STRAIN ISOLATED
Nine of the strains have been
"The plan has more than met j whose names appeared on articles ment> *n cooperation w ith the Los expectations," said George E. Neill,: recovered from Old College: Adam- * Angeles Count\ hospital, ment address. He is a director of! textbook manager and one of the j son> Charles L.; Attlesey, Waiter the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- guiding hands in the new system. , Hamlin; Benedict, Mary; Brady, merce and a former director ot j -But it had been tried successfully ; Donald Steward; Brown, Gilbert the national body. He was president i by many other schools and was (Farrell; Bruner, Frank Delano, of the local chamber in 1944. j merely adapted to the situation j	MORE VICTIMS
Before coming to Los Angeles in here.”	Chambers, Robert David; Cohn, j ^ias been identified as belong
1923. Mr. Muliendore was an as-1 ^he procedure was threatened Abdel; Conforti, John; Cook, Adele j ing 10 stl11 a l!urd group, sistant to then Secretary of Com-	‘	A	T A"n''lQp
merce Herbert Hoover, and a special representative of the American Relief administration in London and Berlin after World War I.
SC's Physical Assets Double
Four news desk assistants have also been named: Art Me ch. Ralph Mann. Biil Roupen. and Don Sorenson. Three others will be named later.
Ken Downs, be-bop. jazz, and dixieland columnist, will aid Bethel a; assistant feature ediior. Bet-tv Bawles takes the assistant's job
SCs total physical assets, now S25.915.7S0.28. have more than on the distaff side
found to belbng to one group, and doubled in the past decade, but Handing the top news stories
Labor Law DebateToday
with an early washout when a, Jones: De Loach, Wells Donald; water pipe sprung a leak and began De Mots, Jack Louis; Drake. Har-to tlcod th# basement of EVK. land Arthur Jr.; Felts, William W.; Thirteen hundred orders already Hamilton, Arthur Wales; Hunter, were assembled there, but they Willis Otis; Hutton. Jack S.; Isaac, were rescued before high tide and 1 Max; Johnston, Joseph Eugene; there was little damage.	i Law, Ronald Dee.
Nonveteran students still secure Lerner, Bjrle D.; McGrath, John books in the usual manner, but R^Ph- Pettit. Eth\l P.; Piccorilio, lines will be reduced by the 5200, Pat Alfred: Plummer. A.: Pontious, veterans accommodated under this j	» Rausc^> James Philip; Sa-
lew system.
“Should the Taft-Hartley Act be Repeakd?“ will be the subject under discus ion by two prominent ceiving warehouse only: Los Angeles attorneys today at
roni. Alfred Jr.; Saul. Arnold Bar-
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Books for me fo lowing courses ard char,es. Wegman Ralph Sam
will be sold from the central re-
lishment of a plaque to be awarded
each season to the winners of the BMOC-faculty volleyball and baseball games.
PETITIONS READY
Because of the change. Silver-stein also plans to reorganize the LAS council entirely and will have applications available in the counselor of men's office. 225 Student Union, this week Monday througtt Wednesday.
'“I should particularly like to emphasize.” he warned, "that any-
two to another. Another strain, iso- during the same period its en- °f the days ahead will be senior one wishes to be on the coun-lated only in the SC laboratory, j dowment fund of $2,112 433.14 has reporters John Eccleston. Dieder- Cjj semester must fill out an
increased only 25 per cent. Financial Vice-President Robert D. Fish-A virus from Los Angeles’ current er. told the university board of and worst polio epidemic in history j trustees last week m his annual re-has been isolated but not studied,} port.
Dr. Kessel said. It will be six montns i The endowment fund ii much cr a year before researchers know smaller than tho::e of coinprrab.ie whether it is a new strain or falls j institutions although SC ranks into one of the three groups al- about 12th among the nation's uni-ready established.	i versities in student enrollment,
GRANT TO HELP	Fisher said. Most universities and
The new grant will provide the , colleges with larger endowments SC men with the means to carry : have fewer students than SC. out similar studies on at least 100 j ENDOWMENTS *\XTR\CT strains ot virus isolated from ail j Attributing the university's sua-parts of the world wheie polio ex- ( cess jn providing education for its
ich. Ralph Brom\ Don Moyer, and application. This includes even stu-
Margery Johnson. Jack Jones. Hix. and Downs will continue their respective columns. Two columnists will in all probability be selected
a-xr. Maher indicated.
Die. Curtiss and an as yet un-
dents who were on last semester's
council."
Silverstein added that he would like to continue the practice of having representatives on the council from as many as possible of the
m d second man will handle the divisions and departments in LAS
stiff job of editing the Week in and is in hopes that at least one
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FRED G. GURLEY . . . working up
Frosh to Get Straight Dope
in the Law auditorium. Margolis will handle the af-ive side of the argument and d Lund will take t.he neg-
Chemistry 122aL. 122bL. and 122yL; accounting 40. 50. 55. and 56; finance 100. 104. 130. 150. and 175; general business 55. 60. 125, and 140; management 130 and 136; marketing 51, 64. and 105; trade stuaents are invited, an- j and transportation 22; economics ('ed Bill Hogoboom. president j 53a. 53b, and 100: general engineer- I ie SC Bar association. Hogo- ing 107a. 109. and 160; English 50a. i preside at the discus- 50b, 60a. 60b. 156a, and 156b; gen-I eral studies la. lb, 51. 54a, and 54b. !
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Scientists See New Uses For Electron Microscope
three other institutions in the United States on the grouping of polio viruses.
Dr. Harold Pearson, associate professor of bacteriology and parasitology, is working 011 methods of growing pclio virus in culture 111 the hope of speeding research. So far, polio virus has been found to grow only in contact with live tissue and not in a test tube.
Dr. Kessel has been working on i polio research since 1935, the year after Los Angeles' first great epidemic of the crippling disease. Be-
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Counseling service for men is available at the Counselor of Men’s office, 225 Student Union, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Women may obtain counseling at the Dean of Women's office from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
by Reid Bundy
The two SC scientists who recently photographed the gene with an electron microscope said last week that they now believe they can take a picture of almost anything in a cell.
•'This means that we should be able to begin to learn a great deai more about many virus diseases such as poliomyelitis ^nd influenza.” the two scientists—Dr. Daniel C. Pease and Richard F. Baker-told the DT last week.
The viruses causnig these ais-eases have been seen with the electron microscope before, but only sfter they were isolated from cells, tissue could be I They have never been seen with- of an inch th:
Df penetration. They will not go through more than a few hundred thousandths of an inch of solid material effectively. This has been the big stumbling block in using the electron microscope on biological materials.
The electron microscope used by the scientists was a gift to the School of Medicine from the Mudd foundation. It is housed in a research room in the basement of the Allan Hancock foundation building.
METHOD DEVISED Drs. Pease and Baker first devised a method so that slices of it only 1 250.000th When this tech-
New Rushing Plan Outlined
Changes in fraternity rushing to give rushees and fraternities opportunities for wider selection have been announced by the Interfraternity council.
Three changes have been made.: tween 1938 and 1940. he and other j
An open house Row is planned to ! researchers found that different
give all interested men access to strains of polio viius existed. 'World „ ,	„ ,	^	War II interrupted research, but it
all houses. Rushees will be given
daily information of their eligibility
in each house. Time of pledging
has been limited to four weeks.
The open house Row will be held Tuesday and Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m. It gives an opportunity to interested men to investigate ail fraternity houses without formal invitations.
Names of rushees who have visited a house and were found unsuitable for admittance will be
skill, ingenuity, and imagination of its faculty and staff in working with limited funds and facilities," Fisher pointed out that endowment iunds enable universities to attract superior teachers and to cai;-ry on projects which bring distinction to the schools.
The financial report disclosed that SC depends upon student lui-| tion for 60.8 per cent of its annual income. Fees totaled $8,190,566.09 for the year that ended Aug. 31.
BUDGET S13 MILLION Instruction accounts for a total of 66.2 per cent or current univer-; sity expenses, and educational and general expenses last year were
Fagg, Davis Greet Campus Newcomers
Fred D. Fagg Jr.. president ot j February saw the last of many of the university, and John P. Davis our people—some of whom had con-jr.. ASSC president, today jom m tnbuted greatly to life in our corn-welcoming new students and lac- munity. We are sure, however, that
ultv to the SC campus.
vou will start in where these others
In letters to the students, botn have left off to continue to build speak optimistically of the semester a greater university.
We begin the second half of this school year with optimism for the future and pride m hard-earned
ahead and of the future development of the university.
President Fagg's letter follows:
The opening of a new semester j accomplishments, today gives me a welcome oppor- The fall semester saw great tunitv to extend the university’s j strides in student government. cordial greetings to all new stu- j Among other things, one of the dents and faculty members. I re- j greatest homecomings of all time gret that a strep throat prevented I was produced, increased efforts were my meeting incoming freshmen in made toward the building of <t S3,135, 910.73. The school's budget person at an assembly last week, student hospital, book store lines for the year was the largest in its in Bovard auditorium. I always look : were shortened by a student-pro-history. totaling approximately $13.- fonvarcj to SUCh a gathering.	posed system, and an international
The face of the campus is al- house was procured. Student ad-ways chaneing. Even in the two: ministrative problems were dis-short weeks between semesters j cussed on many occasions in join: there have been many changes. Old meetings so that difficulties might College is all but gone. We will I be ironed out. break ground soon for the new; The immediate future will see a
has been revived intensively since 1945.
Police Alter Parking Limit
Police announced Friday that the j contracts- 6-3 Per cent: Allan Han- classroom-office structure for the: Trojan Chest drive, several fine so-
500.000. Fisher said.
Other income percentages listed in the report include student activities, including intercollegiate athletics. 6.5 per cent; auxiliary activities. 15.2 per cent; government
cock foundation, 5.7 per cent; gifts, 2.6 per cent; and miscellaneous income, 2.9 per cent.
Copy Deadlines For DT Ads Set
DT Staff
in cells where they do their age.
. . . members will report tomorrow at 1 p.m. to the Senate chambers for a meeting and assignment*. All students in copyreadmg aad wporting claasses must attend.
1- niQue was perfected, it v as almost inevitable that genes would be seen TISSUE SLICED	j in “giant” chromosomes taken from
Before they could photograph the the salivary glands of fruit flies, genes, the scientists had to develop they said.
a method of slicing tissue in ultra- Chromosomes are the carriers of thin sections.	genes in all living things. In man,
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two-nour parking restrictions recently posted on Menlo avenue. Exposition boulevard, and in Exposition park are to be permanent, turned in to the counselor of men ! They will also be rigidly enforced.
(each morning by the house rush j Citizens have long complained chairman.	| about the lack of parking space
This list can then be checked by j around Exposition park. The Park rushees to see if they are still eh- 1 department, observing the good re-g.b:e for pledging 111 that particular : suits of the two-hour limit during huuoe. If they are listed as dropped i the museum exhibit and lack of from the house of their choice, | lunch debris, put the pressure on to j DT business oifice. third floor Stu-they can continue rushing for any ! make the two-hour parking per- i dent Union, by noon, two days be-other house in which they are in- 1 manent.	| fore the date it is to appear in
terested.	j Police warned that parking vio- the paper.
Limitation of pledging time to lators may escape tagging once or : Deadline for news copy to appear lour weeks each semester does not j twice but aie certain to be tagged j in the Daily Trojan is 4 p.m. the affect the informal rush penod. i eventually.	' day before publication.
Copy f-_ c. v . . li the Daily Trojan mus
be in the
College of Letters, Arts, and Sci-1 cial events, and the spring elec-ences on the same site, and for the j tions under the new system ot new student cafeteria building be- registration.
hind the Student Union.	It is our hope that you new stu-
Great things are ahead for the j dents will find your place in our university, both in the development great university quickly, participate of its physical plant and its stature in one or more of its many activi-as a leader in the field of education 1 ties, and contribute vitally to its and research.	growth. Student government is do-
My best wishes to all of you tor mg its best to have its voice heard a successful semester of advance- by the one means which justifies ment in your studies and extra- its existence—initiating and carry-curricular activities.
Fred D. Fagg Jr.
President ASSC President Davis’ letter:
It is with enthusiasm that we welcome you new students to Troy.
ing out constructive psagrams.
It is, then, in the spirit of enthusiasm and anticipation that we welcome you to SC.
John Davis Jr. ASSC President