‘BLIND DATE’ SET FOR NOON
Doubts expressed yesterday that there may not be a “Blind Date” event have been erased, and the program will start at noon today in Bovard auditorium.
The program committee was informed that the stars who were slated to appear would not be available, but
final arrangements for the appearance of two alternate stars were completed yesterday.
Virginia Huston and Lawrence Tibbett Jr., both of Paramount studio, will be two of the dates for which eight students will compete. Lucky O’Keefe, UCLA home-
coming queen, will be the third date.
The fourth date, whose name will not be revealed until the program, will furnish the comic element in the show, said Norm Vander Hyde, chairman.
Carl Bailey, KXLA disc jockey, will emcee the show
which will feature competition among eight students. A band will play as the contestants vie among themselves and try to date the guests. Neither the guests nor the eight competitors will see each other.
Finalists chosen in an elimination contest held
Mar. 1 are Jean Gesford, Rita Marie Guerra, Beverly Hiess, Dolores Holmes, Phil DeBrier, Edward Hart. Ray Hunter, and Hamilton Langley.
The four students who win will spend an evening at the Biltmore Bowl dining
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pOKS OF anticipation and apprehension dot the faces of the "Blind Date" contestants [ho are slated to vie for the company of Hollywood stars in Bovard today at noon. Left right are Phil DeBrier. Kappa Alpha; Rita Marie Guerra. Delta Delta Delta; Ham Lang-iy. Delta Tau Delta; Ed Hart. Sigma Phi Epsilon; Jean Gesford. Alpha Omicron Pi; and [ay Hunter, Beta Theta Pi. Not pictured are Dolores Holmes, Alpha Delta Pi, and Beverly
Hiess, Pi Beta Phi.
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Troian
Vol. XL!
72 Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Mar. 8, 1950 Ni*ht phon® RL 5472
No. 90
enate Faces Battle ver Initiative Plans
ASSC President Bob Padgett and senators enter the ring tonight for another round in Lwrangle over initiative proposals submitted by two colons.
j According to Padgett, the difference in the two proposals is strictly in the time ele-
jnt. George Woolery’s plan could conceivably take seven to eight months before it
Iched lhe .'tudents in an election for approval or rejection. ______—Thc Georye Bermant plan would
reater-U Releases >ore Survey Totals
Complete tabulations of two survey questions show that overwhelming majority of SC ients drive their own cars to jl, and 85 per cent of these bn the city streets, lational Students association, -time barb in the side- of the Senate, received a 3-1 vote favor of affiliation in regular istration. Only possible error could have crept into these pres was that out of the 1718 ^pleted forms, only 694 questions answered either yes or no. unanswered forms were tabu-in with those that answered In’t know” to the question, pie totals for regular-registra-were released by Allen A. Ar-, vice-chairman of the Greater-^ommittee. late yesterday, mother significant figure reached [he still incompletely tabulated llts showed 695 students were
|ep. Douglas Iks Today
lifornia's unemployment prob-will be discussed by Helen igan Douglas, (D-Calif), 3 15 at Hillel nouse. he will speak on “Congress and |Peopl?,” and discuss the posi-of women in politics. Cali-(ia's industrial problems, and rights.
rs. Douglas, first California to sit in Congress, has as representative from the district since 1944. She is th ruiking member of the lign Affairs committee.
[strong supporter of the United ins. Mrs. Douglas was ap-altemate delegate to the ?ral Assembly by President lan in 1946.
Ipresentative Douglas fought en-Vnt of the Taft-Hartley act worked for its repeal in the t Congress. She introduced Douglas-Mahon bill which ed atomic energy in the hands ivilians and kept atomic, pat-under government control.
not interested In a car pool as against 406 ayes.
Questions concerning orientation of students showed that more than a 2-1 majority favored some sort of schooling program on SC traditions, history, leadership, and stu-' dent government.
A slight majority said that a freshman course covering this materia! was not advisable. The an-i swers wer? about 5-1 against having a compulsory course in this ! orientation. Seven hundred eightv-five were* in favor, and 692 were against giving unit credit if such a course did exist.
Figures lor the College of Letter?. Arts, and Sciences were broken down separately on the NSA issue showing that out of a total of 653 completed LAS forms. 197 were in ! favor of affiliation, and 63 against.
Senator-at-Large Bob Scoilin, j who suggested tlie “don't know” clause in the controversial question. said that the significant figures are the yes and no votes, not Lhe unanswered ballots.
Arthur said that this survey represents a 45 per cent sample of the students, higher than most polls ever hope to achieve.
The sought-after report was handled by Arthur and John Lathrop. head of the parking subcommittee.
Penny Pitch Booth Opens
Trojans who have been limbering up their pitching arms can prove their skill today in the Trojan Chest .penny-pitching contest.
Sweaters, shirts, blouses, and j scarves are among the prizes offered to those who can ring a bell, j suspended over a pirate chest, the most times by hitting it with pennies.
The coin-chucking contest will take place on the island in Uni-i versity avenue in front of Bovard auditorium from 8:30 to 3.
At 3:30. the prizes will be p're-j sented. A check is to be given every time the bell is hit.
reach the students for a vote within five weeks, as the senators amended it last Wednesday.
Padgett said that under the Woolery proposal an initiative presented to the Senate in October or November would not be voted on until the ASSC general elections the following May. Under Ber-mant's amended plan, no more than two initiatives could be voted upon by the student body within any 10-week period.
Woolery said that his proposal could be amended to plug the holes caused by the long waiting period.
The Woolery plan did not come ( up for action in the last meeting of the senate. •
Changes in procedure also are slated to come up for action tonight. Proposed variations from the customary’ procedure is that a copy of* the agenda of the Wednes-
■	day night meeting be in the hands of the voting senators no later than the Monday preceeding the meeting. Padgett said.
Exactly who may call for a roll-call vote i* *the Senate meeting also will be decided tonight in the procedure division. At first the altered rules read that only major-! ity members could call for the vote. This plan was scrapped as too hot
■	to handle, j 1
Engineering Model Show Opens Today
Small-scale construction moves in on the student lounge today as displays of model highway, harbor, and plant facilities are set up for Engineering week.
The models include an exhibit of i a four-level highway intersection, the proposed Marina del Rey yaeht harbor, and the Hyperion sewage I disposal plant. The exhibit also will be open tomorrow.
Television star Ann Sterling, engineering queen, will present the I 'Beaver'’ trophy to the luckiest and fuzziest engineer on Friday at noon.
The Biegler Memorial Scholarship award also will be presented at noon to the graduating student with the highest scholastic average.
Trojan Chest Calendar
TODAY—
Noon: Blind date contest, Bovard auditorium.
2-4: Preliminary ukelele contest at Tau Kappa Epsilon house.
All day: Penny pitching in front of Bovard.
TOMORROW—
Neon: Barrel day parade.
3:30: Freshman Frolics dance, student lounge.
Finals of ukelele content held at dancc.
FRIDAY—
7:30: “Mr. Trojanality” play presented, Bovard auditcrium.
Color TV
Geer Sells Patent Rights
Another step toward color television w'as taken at SC with the announced sale of color television j receiver patents by Dr. Willard 1 Geer, associate professor of physics, [ to Technicolor Motion Picture corporation.
| Dr. Geer sold his patent, rigl-ts on the all-electronic, direct-viewing ; color receiving tube, that he in- j ■ vented some time ago in his SC laboratory, to the world's largest color film company for a “substantial sum.”
The corporation has announced that it will spend more than $500,-000 in developing the commercial and professional applications of the Geer tube.
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Chest Bills Barrel Pull
Sorority and fraternity pledges will do their bit to help meet the $10,003 Trojan chest goal when they pull kegs in a Barrel day parade tomorrow* at 12:45 p.m.
Clothing themselves in masquerade dress the neophytes will pull the barrels in the parade which will pass down the Flow, University avenue, and almost every comer of the campus.
Students will be asked to throw j coins into the barrels, said Bill Warfield, chairman. The pledge which collects the most money by the end of the parade will be de- ' clared the winner and will receive i a prize.
Warfield urged the organizations ; which have not notified him about ' their parade entries to do so im-mediatelv.
Fraternity
. . . presidents meet in 300 Student Union, 3 p.m.
top-Gap Run Starts Tonight
Troy Adopts Vienna School For WSSF Aid
Half of the World Student Service fund’s allotment from the Trojan Chest will go for direct aid to the University of Vienna, Lois Wel-lenweber, WSSF chairman, said yesterday.
Colleges in the Los Angeles area have adopted the Vienna school and are directing their foreign aid to that city. This fits in with the nationwide “adopted city” plan that is being carried out from the municipal to the college level, and eventually, WSSF directors hope, to the individual student level.
WSSF's share of the Trojan Chest is 60 per cent of all remaining money after $5500 has been set aside for Troy camp. The goal of the drive is $10,000.
“All of the appropriated money will be spent for supplies in this country, and the goods will be sent to the Vienna school. That way there is no chance of mismanagement,” she said.
Dr. Oscar Bock, professor of language at the University of Vienna who is on a good-will tour of the United States, told an SC audience last month that the main student needs in his country are text books, clothing, and medical supplies. Thirty Viennese students are with Dr. Bock in the U. S.
Rhoades Gives Forum Speech
Jonathan Edwards was the first real American philosopher, said Dr. Donald H. Rhoades, assistant professor of systematic theology, at the Philosophy Forum yesterday afternoon in Bowne hall.
As a philosopher. Edwards towered above all in his age and has found few peers in a^y age, said Dr. Rhoades.
“If Jonathan Edwards had produced nothing but his Enfield sermon. ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,’ ” said Dr. Rhoades, “he would have made his place in the realm of letters.”
Edwards’ basic philosophy may be divided into his theories of being. causation, value, knowledge, and methodology.
Edwards. Dr. Rhoades said, performed a great service to religion and to philosophy in his studies of Calvinism, its weaknesses and its great strengths.
In his failures and successes. Edwards stands like a beacon, lighting the way of truth. Dr. Rhoades said.
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BIG BRASS busily engaged in polishing up Trojan Chest script. Shown left to right are Buck Sherlock, producer; Dolores Peterson and Gordon Ewing, stars; and Joe Tiifenbach/ author of book and lyrics. Show will climax week's fund activities. -*
Chest Wants $'s
Class Appeal Starts Today
Contributions to Trojan Chest will be solicited on a class-to-class basis today and tomorrow. Amazons, Spurs, Knights, and Squires will visit all 9 and 10 o'clock classes to gather donations.
Collectors will have envelopes in which students can place their contributions and designate which charity they want to receive the
Trojanality Show
Sets $900 Goal
Trojan chest charities hope to net $900 when the “Mr. Trojanality” comedy hits Bovard auditorium Friday night, said publicity chairman Ron Crawford.
Eighteen hundred tickets will go on sale at noon tomorrow on a “first come” basis at the ticket office, 209 SU, for
-—*50 cents apiece. No activity card is
-	_ .	needed.
Sloan, Piver Lead in Vote
Today s Headlines
by UNITED PRESS
le Experimental Theatre group; cooked up a three course re-J
It of student-written one-act t ys lor their opening perform- J 8:30 tonight.
[Clarissa.” Sherman Martin: “No for Trace.” Sol London; andj Pan Is Dead ” Jack Gariss be presented for the edification j drama gourmets. The plays are! Scheduled for a lour-dav run at the) ftop-Gap theatre. 3730 South lloover street.
“Clarissa” depicts a struggle between t.he spiritual and physical worlds. Sarah, a modern actress, tries to prove that e renowned restoration actress Margaret La Fol-[ette didn't fulfill the responsibilities of a true actress.
Margaret's spirit, which is caught >etween heaven and hell, returns it the rehearsal of a play aboul ler life. She and Sarah both try 0 determine where Margaret's final
SHERMAN MARTIN Awaits Critics
resting place should be by acting out a scene from one of Margaret's plays.
] Corrinne Chernin has a difficult | acting assignment in that she must play three parts—that of Sarah, Sarah as Margaret in the modern play, and Sarah as Margaret in a scene from the 17th century play.
Miss Chernin. a member of Zeta Phi Eta, national honorary speech and drama sorority, played the female lead in the Experimental Theatre groups production of “Wurzel Flummer" and appeared in the Bovard productions of ‘ Antigone” and ‘‘Morn to Midnight.” Nancy Brannon, who plays Margaret's spirit, is a veteran on the Stop-gap stage, having appeared in 12 Experimental Theater group productions. She also played in “Anna Christie” last year.
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Britain, France Pledge Peace
LONDON, Mar. 7—King George VI of Great Britain and President Vincent Auriol of France tonight pledged their countries to work “forcibly and tenaciously” to prevent another war.
Bridges Trial Nears End
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 7—The perjury-conspiracy trial of Harry Bridges moved to within an estimated week of its finish today after Federal Judge George B. Harris denied a defense motion to strike the testimony of 10 ex-Communists who had said the longshoreman leader was a Communist.
House OK's Alaska Bid
WASHINGTON. Mar. 7—The House voted today to make Hawaii—“the crossroads of the Pacific”—the 50th state. Only last Friday, the House apvrov,ed a companion bill to bring Alaska into the union as the 49th state.
Schedule for workers in the Trojanality booth today follows:
9-11—J. Mittleman.
11-1—D. McDonald, A Ardanaz.
1-3—J. McElderry, B. Merril.
funds. Contributions also may be dropped in the containers which will be circulated in the rooms.
First reports available on other collections show the drive is picking up momentum but the S 10,000 goal still is far from being reached.
Four hundred dollars was collected by Alpha Phi Omega in a
Why will Bovard sell out? That's easy to answer, said Crawford.
“Everything — Buck Sherlock's producing, Bill Mays' original mu-i sic. Gordan Munfcrd’s arrange-In leading position for Mr. and ments—everything looks and sounds
professional. This is no ordinary student show.”
Sherlock has brought together 15 of the loveliest coeds on campus for the chorus. Crawford glowingly described the dance routines in-
Will you kindly permit the student representative from the Trojan Chest to present the case for the 1950 drive. He will probably take not more than five minutes of the 10:00 class period today and tomorrow.
A. S. Raubenheimer, Educational Vice-President.
Miss Trojanality are Jim Sloan, j Alpha Phi Omega, and Bingo Piver. Pi Beta Phi, according to the latest i tallies.
In close running for Mr. Trojanality are Jay Roundy. Sigma Chi; Stan Case, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Bob 1 Buckberg, Tau Delta Phi; Byron Reynolds. Beta Theta Pi; and Bob Milbourne, Theta Chi.
For Miss Trojanality Lois Wol-lenwebei*, Alp.ha Omicron Pi; Helen Harker, Alpha Phi; Carolee Counts, Kappa Alpha Theta; Dee Cooper, Gamma Phi Beta; and Patti Pippert, Alpha Chi Omega are all near the top of the list.
Voting closes Friday at 3 p.m. Votes must be in ink to be counted.
The winners will be announced between the first and second acts of ‘‘Mr. Trojanality,” and the check
TROJAN CHEST HONOR ROLL
Goal ............................... $10,000
Amount Received .............. S 1,484
Per cent of goal _________________ 14
Sigma Alpha Mu ...____________ S 24.50
Chi Omega ..........................$126.00
Soroptimists ........................$ 14.00
Trojan Knights	undisclosed
eluding Beverly Badham, Joan Warde, Gayle Penrose, Ellagene Kennedy. Barbara Vierheilig.
“All red-blooded American boys will 'agree with me,” he said. Specialty numbers of Beverly
Red Spy Secrets Told
WASHINGTON, Mar. 7—A former Soviet*official said today that Russian diplomatic couriers openly carried American wartime secrets to Moscow through the lend-lease pipeline.
The testimony was given to the House UnAmerican Activities committee by Victor Kravchenko, a wartime member of the Soviet purchasing commission in Washington.
Monday night visit to University College classes.
Dr. Shelden D. Elliot, dean of the School of Law, expressed satisfaction with the schools first day contribution of $93. Volney Brown Jr., chairman of the drive in law school and a counselor at the Troy camp for underprivileged children last summer, pointed out that law students contributed an average of 48 cents per student.
Official
Notice
Students enrolled in LAS who will complete the two year prepharmacy requirements by June and plan to apply for admission to the School of Pharmacy in September are requested to notify the Registrar’s office by April 1. Supplementary app'ications required of all pharmacy applicants may be obtained at the office of the School of Pharmacy or at the Office of Admissions.
(signed) C. R. Bergland
Assistant Director of Admissions
Heiss and Lee Jones, written by will be presented to Dennis Murphy, Mays, have been incorporated into chairman of the Trojan chest.	the show. Miss Heiss will also play
Twenty percent of the goal has the harp during a dream sequence, been reached with three days to go. Jack Colton, in the role of Tommy Bob Hopkins, co-chairman, said Trojan, will be in a dance feature yesterday.	i with Martha Stout.
Ancient Figures Come To Life for Lit Club
Characters who have stirred audiences to laughter since the days of- Aristophanes came to life last night for a modem audience at the SC Literary club meeting.
The fool, the old man. and the braggart soldier as used by Shakespeare and earlier authors were portrayed by dub members under the direction of John Shepherd, teaching assistant in speech and professional radio actor.
Each type was shown in three scenes from various plays to bring out its basic characteristics.
Members put aside their literary interests for a brief half hour to plan for future meetings. Committees were named to organize reception, refreshments, clean-up, and to select a name for the group.
Dr. William B. McCoard, faculty sponsor, urged that each member read his favorite bit of prose or poetry at the next meeting.
“It might be exciting,” he said, “or it might be horrible. Do you want to place your bets now?” Plans to read selections from Kenneth Fearing. T. S. Eliot,
Stephen Vincent Benet, Charlotte Mew. A. E Housman. Thomas Hardy, Ernest Dowson, Siegfried Sassoon, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and John Ciardi, professor of English at Harvard university.
Officers named were Marilyn Hinsch, club chairman, and Alan Snyder, program committeeman.
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