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TROJAN
Troy Meets Top Cagers; Seeks 2 Big Wins
VOL. Lll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1960
NO. 56
Firestone Elected Board Chairman
Election of Leonard K. Fire- board, asked to be relieved of stone as chairman of the USC the chairmanship, saying that Board of Trustees which gov- he believed it should be rotated ems the fourt'i largest private among the membership.
university in the nation, was announced.
Firestone, a USC trustee since 1957. who has served as one of three vice chairmen of the board, succeeded Asa V. Call, a member of the board since 1929 and its chairman for the past 10 years.
Call, who will remain on the
His fellow trustees accepted his resignation with regret and unanimously adopted a resolution praising him for his years of service to his alma mater and his leadership of the trustees through difficult and formative years for the university.
Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of California since 1943, is also a member of the executive ^om-i mittee of the USC Board of Trustees and its committees on I a idemic affairs and planning. First Westerner Call, an alumnus of the USC School of Law, is chairman of I the board of the Pacific Mutual I Li.'e Insurance Co. and was the | first Westerner to be president Lack of comprehensive pro- of the Life Insurance Associa-gram planning has been one of tion of America, the inherent weaknesses of USC Active in USC alumni affairs student government, reports the for more than 40 years, he was ASSC Special Investigation Com- president of the General Alumni mission.	Association in 1931-32 and is
“There seldom has been an at- the donor of the Asa V. Call tempt to draw up a plan of op- trophy giv"n annually since 1932 erations and programs until the to the alumnus who has brought middle of the fall semester,” the greatest honor and distinc-Commission Chairman Kurt tion to USC each year.
Hahn says. “By this time much A leader in civ:' affairs. Call of the interest generated during is chairmrn of the finance com-the preceding election is lost." mittee for the Music Center, an ASSC President Bill Steiger- auditorium planned for down-walt’s Investigating Commission town Los Angeles to serve the was assigned to make an impar- entire Southern California area tial analysis and appraisal of by housing opera, symphony con-the ASSC governmental organi- certs and other musical events
ASSC Lacks Good Plans, Report States
Troy Camp Gets Financial Shot'; Four Groups Raise Total to $775
Project Needs $3100 to Send 100 Children to Summer Camp
zation and operation.
Report Praises
Hahn's report praises year's student government.
this
but
Just Appointed
Firestone was just appointed this week by the Board of Trustees to a special planning com-
Troy	Camp drive received a	Troy	Camp was conceived	i	Troy Camp is the university’s
slight “shot in the arm" yester-	12 years ago by USC stu-	only complete student project,
day as	co-tributions from four	dents.	Originally, it was fi-	'	Chairman McDiarmid emphasiz-
campus	groups raised the total	nanced	by the Trojan Chest.	Ied that no professional help is
of funds collected to $775.
New contributors are Chi Omega. $30; K ./pa Kappa Gamma. S3", Alpha Gamma Delta,
$30; Amazor-,. $25; and Knights,
$30. Als\ approximately $10 was collected from coin boxes located around the campus and in surround;ng vicinitiy.
Organizations which made their pledges earlier this week to the student organized, directed and financed project were Kappa Alpha Theta, $60;
S’gma Kappa, $90; in d Alpha Tau Omega, $30. In addition,
$435 was collected by members of the Troy Camp Committee at the USC-*\'ahington football game.
Falls Short
C^uck Sutton, head of the Troy Camp Finance Committee, said that the total collected falls short of the $3100 needed to adequately finance the pro-
Fifty girls and boys were ac- employed. USC students manage commodated the first year; the the entire program, “from rev-number has averaged about 100 eille until light« out,’* McDiar« campers every year since.	mid said.
The children, many of them The Troy Camp organizational first-time visitors to the moun- framework is divided into three tains, e n j o j swimming, water main parts. The fund raising safety instruction, crafts, horse- branch is responsible for raising back riding, sports and hiking, necessary funds by collection Through close relationships cans, pledges and special event*, between the campers and more Committees form an essentia! than 20 trained counselors, the part of the framework. The ZZm* children develop emotional se utive Committee comprise« the p^. curity and self-reliance, McDiar- top-level offices of the entire mid said.	Troy Camp project for the year.
Each day at the camp begins The General Committee com-with a devotional service and 1 prises the secretaries of the E» ends with singing and story tell- ecutive Committee members and ing around a campfire.	students interested In the camp*
University's Blueprint To Encourage Unity
HOPEFUL YOUNGSTERS - These two children are counting on contributions from the USC student body to send them to camp next summer. The annual Troy Camp
campaign is now underway to raise funds to send 100 children to the mountains for a week of swimming and hiking. It costs about $30 to send one boy or girl to camp.
points out the discouragment in mittee to evaluate the findings I getting programs approved. and make final recommendations j “This year's student govern- for a master plan that may have mept has taken unprecedented far-reaching effects on higher
steps to plan programs in advance, but, like so many other attempts, their efforts are discouraged by pigeon-holing tactics and other red tape.”
Last week, in a preliminary report on ASSC Financial Ad-
education in the West.
He is also chairman of the Trustees Committee for the USC Associates, a group of 60 men and women who support the uni-
Soviet Wives Leave Kitchen For Factory, Says Expert
ject and the 100 children who ! are scheduled to enjoy a week ported yesterday that the uniat Camp Buckhorn, near Idyll- versity's up-coming master plan
wild.
He added, however, that o pledges from other
President Norman Topping re- tween the American and foreign
students would be to give an ASSC-rvmsored party in hono*
will definitely consider the needs of the foreign students.
USCs 1.200 foreign students ! «This would draw both Row houses are as well as those of the rest of members and independents into
expected soon. All pledge cards the student population.
There’s nobody home in Soviet Union.
the
,	.	,	. ,	.	|	On the USC campus yesterday
versitys special protects.	Their ,	. ,	.	.	.	,
,	.	;and	today	for	lectures	and
first program last spring was	„ tx -j ti ™
ministration, the commission ,h, a»ardins of 510«. oaeh to c°u“ell'"5 Dav'f *■
called for an independent rev- cisM prefeMont elected by? ^ ,? i execu,lve4 secre' r * i   j j  i  	_	T ci 1V OI Til0 a\ 1T101 lOHil ASSOC13*
enue source for the student gov- graduating seniors from a gro in ' - r	n
emment and stronger financial r- 142 nominees for teaching ex- t^a(. ‘ al!ia"e °unse 01s,
cellence.
controls to insure proper handling of student funds.
More Searching The commission is currently investigating a number of other
Firestone was graduated from Princeton University in 1931 and immediately joined the sales department of the Firestone
“there's no use in going calling in the Soviet Union in the daytime; everyone’s ! either at work or in school .
It is not compulsory for worn- sponsible and courteous. In all en to work in the Soviet Union ! my time in Russia—and I was
today, Dr. Mace explained. “But ' free to travel wherever I wish-it is expected. It is regarded as od in my own car — I saw no the thing which must be done, fighting or quarrelling among If you're not a working woman, Soviet youngsters," Dr. Mace re-everyone looks down on you. It’s
as though you just weren't playing the game according to the rules.”
body-home rule, Dr. Mace told and faculty members
ported.
The Soviet rate of juvenile de-
| are due to be turned in to the committee by Jan. 6.
L’niversitv dornrtories are al-j so nledged to aid in the fund raising. Har”:s and University ; Halls are planning to collect 20 1 cents from each resident, an! EVK residents have planned to contribute ?1 each. Other dor- | mitories are attempting to have i each floor contribute $30. th? cost of sending one child to the camp.
Plan Raffle
Academically, it will consider the enlargement of the Intema-
social contact with the foreign students,” he said.
The president added that the
tional Relations and Public Ad- master plan will consider all the
ministration Schools—which include a large percentage of foreign students—into center.
other needs of the university— including urban renewal and a unified more extensive recreation I grounds for students.
“The housewives, whom Len- ¡students
points which it will present in Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron Iin promised would be ‘delivered at USC, are the ill or the aged
’ from the stinking kitchen,’ have w*1° bave become too old to 1 b: d the next 10	,
future report.
Ohio. He s e r V e i
Socially, the plan will concentrate on additions to the Student Union, thus making it more a center of campus life for both foreign and American students. The plan for such facilities
Mary Alice Herrick, chairman would foUow that of the FacuIty | i linquency appears low. Dr. Mace of the Troy Camp Publicity Center.
_	.	¡told students and faculty mem- | Ccmmittet, said that a raffle is
te few exceptions to the no- bers	a£	USC.	being planned for next semester
No	Values	'n hopes of raising annroximate-
, lv $300. The committee is at-“One	of	tbe	reasons this	may	| temnfing to award
young	hi_n set_
true is that Soviet
These include:	years in executive capacities in
1.	New recognition require-	Jacksonville,	West	Palm	Beach
ments that would call for de-	an(j ^ijami,	Fla.;	Los Angeles
tailed program and financial	an(j ^kron.
plans.	Became	President
2.	Spring semester respon.sibil-	was after serving in the
ities for newly elected officers	xavy a> an officer	during	World
and legislators in the areas of	\\-ar jj. that	he 'oecame	presi-
advance program planning and budget preparation.
3.	Legislative steps to assure program continuity from year to year.
4.	Areas in which the tools of management should be strengthened to assure the maximum responsiveness of services provided Boy Scouts of America.
by student government to the __________________________________
st udent body.
5.	Needed reorganization of the ASSC structure to eliminate overlapping and program duplication.
been ‘delivered’ all right — to the factory or the collective farms,” Dr. Mace reported on the basis of summer weeks spent in Russia.
Too Young “The women take to work those children who are too young dent of the Firestone Tire and , to be in school, some of whom Rubber Co. of California.	;are still babies. The youngsters
Vitally concerned with com- are placed in a ‘creche,’ a kind munity activities, Firestone of nursery right in the factory serves as a member of the cam- | or on the farm. The mother may oaign committee of the Com- return to the children for nurs-munity Chest and is on the ing purposes and sometimes at national executive board of the mealtime. Then she will go back
to her work.”
ues. In America,
a young person grammar schools will select may near one thing from his 150 hovs arv1 50 g;rls to attend parents, another from his church,
camp this vear. Selections will another at school and still an- ^ maf1p on the m e r i t of the other from the community.
work and have been pensioned, j people have no conflict in val-Life Different Family life is much different in the USSR, Dr. Mace said, because — among other things — the children must share in a group larger than the family circle.
“They lack the close ties that are present in the American family life,” Dr. Mace said.
“But their lives are uncompli-
Ea^t Side Boys’ Club and lo-
Today at 6:30 p.m. in the Commons, Dr. Mace will speak at a dinner meeting of more than 100 marriage counselors from all over the Southland. His sub-
prospective campers. The children will be between the ages of 8 and 12.
Officers of this year’s Troy Camp Exe utive Committte are Roy McDiarmid. general chairman; Chuck Sutton, finance; Barbara Nouguier, secreta y;
ject will relate to recent devel-cated by many of the conflicts j	opments in the field of marriage
which face young Americans. j	counseling. Some clinical psy-	?..arv	Alice Herrick,	publicity;
“Young Russians appear free, j	chologists and psychiatrists, who	Louise	Nocas, camper person-
outgoing and friendly. They are lalso do marriage counseling,	nel; and Bob Herzog,	counselor	best	ways,	at	the	present,	to	es
tablish	better	understanding	be- tries- Its Canadian subsidiary «
World Affairs Authorities to Attend Meet
USCs 37th annual Institute of World Affairs will open four days of discussions on “This Divided World” on Sunday at the Huntington-Sheratoo Hotel in Pasadena.
The institute will explore the realities of regionalism and area groupings of nations, discuss threats to peace in Latin America and wind up	its sessions
tion, orientation and	understand-	|Wednesday night	with the
ing car be achieved	by	foreign	theme. "Toward World Peace
students who live	in	campus	and World Order.”
dormitories rather than isolated j Among the speakers will be centers, thereby becoming more Nathanael V. Davis, president of involved in the American way Aluminum Limited of Montreal, of jjfe_	|	largest	international	aluminum
He suggested that one of the company in the world with interests in more than 30 coun-
However, the master plan, wF,*h will be announced sometime in April. 1961, will probably not consider an intemation-stereo or ai students’ center.
Dr. Topping pointed out that on several other university campuses such a center has failed because it has resulted in segregation of foreign and American students.
He felt that better integra-
well behaved and extremely re- I have been invited.
recruitment.
Death Smeli Penetrates Clean Morgue
Educators Must Face 16-Year Job
Educators have an awesome "* year responsibility to properly educate America’s youth while they are in grammar school, high school and college. President Norman Topping said last night in an address to the California School Board Association meeting in Long Beach.
“It is the responsibility of making certain that we provide, through our schools, the rignt kind of leadership and the ricrht kind of ‘'followership'’ for the crucial years that lie ahead," he said.
“We in California can hold <*ur heads higher than citizens in any other state in our nation.” Dr. Topping continued.
“I believe that there is no complex of education that can match c.urs, either in terms oi money spent on educating each student or 011 the quality of the education provided him. But there is still more to l>e don? if we. as a state, expect to maintain our role at the forefront of education, and if we. as a nation. expect to Maintain our leadership in the world.”
(Editor’s note: The following is the last article in a three-part series of interviews with men who work in the field of highway traffic, “M e n Who Work With Death.”)
* * *
By HAL DRAKE Assistant City Editor How do you describe the smell of death?
Do you talk about the clean offices that try to hide its presence with air conditioning and indirect lighting, do you chase ambulances with men who
scrape up the last bleeding remnants of those who fought it; or do you go where the routine of death is strongest — go t*j that over-sanitary, hyper-clean House that Death Built, the County Morgue?
“The body is brought in at the loading platform, placed on a gurney and stripped. The weight, color of the eyes and other measurements are taken.”
With its rows and rows of filing cabinets, the morgue might easily be little more than a refrigerated business office.
Coroner Announces Drop in Traffic Deaths
A decrease in traffic fatalities in Los Angeles County was announced recently in the County Coroner's annual report.
Presented to the Board of Supervisors by Coroner Theodore J. Curphey. the report covered activilies of the coroner’s office from July 1. 1958, to June 30, 1939.
“Motor vehicle fatalities decreased from 961 in 1957-38 to 908 in 1958-59,” the report stated. "CollLii'j» of vehicles ac-
counted for 504 deaths. 81 deaths resulted from non-collision accidents and pedestrian fatalities were 323.”
Police and safety officials have predicted a rise in automobile deaths this year due to the heavy December toll.
The coroner's office tested 411 drivers involved in auto accidents and found more than 20 per cent had drunk enough alcohol to be considered legally drunk.
And yet there is the indelible understanding that behind each | of those catalogued, cold-to-the-touch drawers lies something that once was called a human being.
“Before the autopsy, that is the actual cutting in to the body, the external surfaces are examined and any marks are recorded. Then, we remove the spinal cord.”
Dr. F. D. Newbarr, chief autopsy surgeon, has worked at the morgue for 23 years. He is a gentle, balding man who is highly regarded in his field.
“Toxicological analysis only consists of a good portion of the liver, one kidney and the stomach and contents. Oh, certainly, the body is sewed up right after the autopsy is completed." i In the morgue, bodies are kept at 4 degrees Centigrade, all ' neatly catalogued for disposal. A strong, bitter-clean odor hangs over the entire room.
Dr. Theodore J. Curphey,
. county coroner, stands by the j files.
“So this is what happens to them?” we asked.
I “Yes,” he said. "This is where they come when it’s all over.”
This is where they come when it’s all over. Where they go ’ from here is a spiritual matter, but this is where they come 'when its ali over.
WHO'S NEXT? — Don't think the world falls apart for everyone just because of one accident. To men who wort: with
death, the traffic casualty becomes just another entry on the daily work roster. No ffOuble, no tears - just routine.
the second largest aluminum producer in the free world.
To Speak
Davis will speak on “Order in International Trade” at a plenary session Tuesday at 8 p.m. He will share the platform with Philip A. Ray, U.S. undersecretary of commerce, who will speak on “Some Emerging Concepts of America’s Contribution to the World Community.”
Two speakers will be featured each night at sessions open to the public. Memberships in the institute are also open to the public as well as to college professors, teachers and students of world affairs.
Feature Addresses Sunday’s opening session at 8 p.m. will feature addresses by Methodist Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy and Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein, historian and former member of the German Bundestag. A defender of the short-lived Weimar republic against the Nazis and Communists. he had to flee his home-! land in 1933.
Monday night's speakers will | be Maxwell Cohen, acting dean I of the law faculty at McGill j University in Canada, and M. C.
I Chagla, India's ambassador to I the U.S.
Concluding speakers Wednes-I day night will be Whiting Will-I auer, U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, and William Sanders, assistant secretary general of the | Organization of American States.
There will be plenary sessions and panel discussions each morning and afternoon, Monday through Wednesday.