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★ ★★★ ★★★★ stronomers Plan Meet
More Than 500 Head Toward LA
The first gathering of its kind ever to be held in the west will convene in Los Angeles next Monday when the first annual Western Regional Conference of Amateur Astronomers begins a three-day meeting.
Walter de Palma is president of the Los Angeles Astronomical society, the organization which will be host to the visiting stargazers. Sessions will be held in the administration building on campus.
More than 500 amateur scientists will converge on Los Angeles the mecca of modern astronomy—from Seattle to San Diego nd as far east as Colorado.
“In addition to the business of he conference,” said de Palma •ecently, “the proximity of the 'rorld famous Mt. Wilson and alomar observatories has stirred interest to a high pitch. Visits to hese institutions loom large in he visitor’s plans.”
The three-day session will be evoted to the presentation of apers on various phases of tronomy, prepared by promin-t amateurs, along with address-by such noted professionals as rs. Edwin Hubble and R. S. ichardson of the Mt. Wilson-lomar staff, Prof. Walter Haas the University of New Mexico, d F. Hugh Pruett of the Uni-rsity of Oregon.
SOUTHERN
CA LIFORNIA
Summer News
VOL. IV
72 LOS ANGELES, CALIF., MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1949 NO, 19
iack Market Babies Slid erious in Calif.
The black market in babies in alifornia is still “extensive and rious,” a leadnig SC social orker said Friday.
About the only wray to defeat is for adoption agencies to ex-nd and improve their services, the opinion of Marian B. Nich-son, lecturer in social work.
She will conduct the first In-tute on Adoption Practice in ial Work on campus Aug. 25-for 60 men and women through-t the state who are engaged in placement of children in fos~ homes.
Dean Arlien Johnson of the ool of Social Work, faculty arm an for the institute, has ed Helen D. Cather and Bes-Irvin of the State Department Social Welfare as consultants the three-day workshop, he institute will discuss all s of adoption—work with na-1 parents considering giving heir child for adoption, prepa-n of the child for placement, ;tion of the home for the ", work with prospective adop-parents, and supervision fol-ig placement.
VISITORS TO THE first annual Western Regional Conference of Amateur Astronomers, which begins its three-day meeting next Monday, have begun making plans to visit the Palomar observatory, site of the n ew 200-inch Hale telescope. More than 500 amateur scientist will be on campus for the convention.
me, Farmer Go East
ro faculty members of the a department, Bill Blume Harbert Farmer, will attend annual conference of the rsity Film Producers asso-n at Pennsylvania State ge next week.
KTRU Going Commercial
One of the two radio stations on campus is going “commercial” according to a release in a recent Variety.
According to that newspaper for the entertainment industry, KTRU (formerly KTRO) has applied to the Federal Communications commission for permission to accept commercials for the fall “to give experience and to develop ‘intelligent sensibilities’ in broadcast personnel.”
Officials of KTRU could not be reached for comment Friday evening, but Variety said the station has requested that the FCC hold hearings on “proposed regulations governing low-power campus stations,” with a view to including commercials with their on-campus broadcasts.
KTRU is operated by students under faculty supervision. Until recently, its call letters were KTRO. However, it was learned that the call letters for the radio on the Wake Forest Victory ship were the same and the campus radio station was forced to adopt the new identification.
Whereabouts of Collie Dog Sought
wmie waiting lor her husband to get out of class last Tuerday, Mrs. Wolfson was bitten by a brown and tan Collie.
She told the Summer News Friday that unless she can find the dog, she will have to take antirabies treatment.
Mrs. Walfson said the dog appeared to be young, and was marked like a Collie. A student, who said the dog had been following him around the campus for several days, told her that he had called the owner who lived on 82nd street, and at the time te dog bit her, he was waiting for the owner to come pick him up.
Anyone knowing where the dog might be, or where its owner can be located should bring the information immediately to the Editor’s office, 424 Student Union.
Christian
. . . Science organization will hold its weekly meetings at 12;30 on Wednesdays In the Little Chapel of Silence for the remainder of the postsession.
Booklines End For Veterans
Believe it or not, vets, here’s a way to stay OUT of lines.
Manager Thomas Sherwood of the University bookstore said Friday that if persons attending school on the GI Bill would come in Aug. 29 and 30 (the Monday and Tuesday after the end of the postsession) and fill out book
purchase blanks, they could escape the textbook queues when the fall semester begins.
He added that book lists for the September semester would be ready at that time. Books themselves, he said, would not be picked up until the start of the semester.
Club Bills Law
Dr. Reuben Law, dean of the School of Education, Brigham Young university, Utah, will address the weekly noon luncheon of the Education-Administration clttb Wednesday In the Student Union grill.
His topio will be “Professionalism in Teacher Education.”
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Pix, Paint
A $45,000 expansion of SC’s cinema department, oldest and largest of iti kind among the world's uni* versities, was announced Friday.
Major improvement will be installation of a $30,000 developing machine which will be able to handle 2400
feet of 16 mm. motion-picturt film an hour.
Newly designed and built to SC specifications by Cinema Arts and Crafts of Hollywood, the film-processing machine will give the campus one of the finest 18 mm. film laboratories in the nation.
CONTRACT AWARDED
A $15:030 contract has been awarded to Myers Brothers, building contractors, for remodel* ing of the. cinema department building at 959 West 35th place. New cutting and editing rooms are being built, a building which will house the developing mach-ine is being renovated, and faculty offices are being re-arranged.
The cinema department Is headed by Prof. Slavko Vorkapich, famed as the originator of montage effects in motion pictures. He came to SC last year after a distinguished career as a director in Hollywood.
WAR EFFORT The U.S. Air Force, Signal Corps and Navy have sent special groups of officers to SC to learn
movie production.
The department boasts a new sound stage, two recording room$ for both disk and film recording, a 100-seat theater for both 16 and 35 mm. projection, a scene doolC and machine shop for set con* struction, a still-photography’, studio, dark rooms, editing rooms and many seminar and class
rooms.
The production program is being expanded ^rapidly. Students are now filming “Alma Mater/ a story of the University, and art just completing “Thinnest Slice,” a documentary depicting tht method developed by two scientists in the 9C School of Medicine for cutting tissue specimens 500,-
000	slices to the inch.
SC’s cinema department was founded 21 years ago with the sponsorship of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1932, a bachelor of arts degree in cinema was offered. This was the first time this had been dont by an American college or university. In 1935, a year of graduate study was offered, leading to the degree of Master of Arts. SC is still the only university offering this degree in cinema.
Bunche Sets Last LA Appearance
The SC Council for UNESCO Friday urged all students who can to attend the Shrine auditorium program Thursday evening for the final Los Angeles public appearance of UN Mediator Dr. Ralph Bunche.
Tickets for the affair are on sale at the University ticket office for $1.
After leaving the Southland, Dr. Bunche will resume his potf, as head of the Trusteeship divif> ion of the Security Council of the UN.