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Vol. XLIV
Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, May 5, 1953
No. 125
WEARY POLITICOS CO AT IT AGAIN
22 Vie for Offices in Election Run-offs
by Chuck Sweet Twenty-two weary politicos hit ne campaign trail again this eek in search of run-off vic-ories in elections tomorrow and hursday.
Five of the races are expected break a deadlock between the 11-University party and the coal-ion of Trojans for Representa-áve Government and Unity party, "he two groups each elected nine randidates in last week’s election.
An additional five successful candidates did not carry party 'bels in the first campaign. Hottest races in the run-off re those for ASSC vice-presi-;nt and for Senior class presi-nt. Radmilla Gogo, all-U, who fed Virginia Witmer 1124 to 879 i the first election, will have to ick up a good portion of the 855 tes given Mimi Shepherd in the t round to keep her lead.
TRG Support As both Miss Shepherd and Miss Vitmer ran with TRG backing, ik’s conceivable that a number of liss Shepherd's followers will ive their support to Miss Witmer. In all run-offs, however, usual-r fewer voters turn out than for lie regular election. This fact may iter any “dope sheet” or pre-ection prognostications.
Just 13 votes separated George oot, all-U, and Jim McGregor, RG-Unity, in their battle for "enior class president. Key to vic-ry here may be third candidate rry Courtney’s 119 votes. Root McGregor 530 to 517 in the ~t election.
tan Bickman, all-U, who polled in the regular election, op-„s TRG-Unity candidate Carol aw in the run-off for senior president. Miss Goshaw gar-303 votes in the first elec-Two other candidates col-a total of 459 the first
time, so there’ll be plenty of campaigning to pick up those marbles.
A similar situation is found in' the run-off contest for the Junior class vice-presidency between Le-nore Monosson, all-U, and Mimi Belyea, TRG. They polled 197 and 180 votes, respectively, in the first election. Three other candidates controlled a total of 226 votes in the regular election, enough to change the complexion of the race considerably.
Bob Gerst, all-U, and Bob Wal-lach, Unity-TRG, fight it out for presidency of the Sophomore class. Gerst received 242 votes and Wallach 198 in the first election. The 98 votes of Ted Gardner and 44 votes of Doug Peake—both eliminated from the race—may decide the contest.
Sophomore Veep
Only three votes separated all-U candidate Minnie Brown and TRG Betty Metzger in the regular election race for sophomore veep. Four other candidates with a total of 338 votes probably hold the key to the outcome of the run-off. Miss Brown led the first time, 195 to 193.
The outcome of the voting for independent women’s representative rests with those who cast 62 ballots for Marguerite Cooper in the first election. Bette Dobkin, 77 votes, and Vickie Brown, 65, will contest in the run-off. Miss Dobkin is backed by Unity; Miss Brown is unaffiliated.
Bob Jones, who ran without a party label, is opposing John Ren-aldi, all-U, in the Architecture presidential race. They emerged with 93 and 66 votes respectively, and will contest for the 32 garnered by Robert Skinner.
Bob McClennan, also unaffiliated, and Jack Kyser, all-U, will be wooing Jess Gelkerson’s 29 voters for the vice-presidency of
Architecture. McClennan led Kyser 88 to 66 in the first election
Gene Eppen’s 16 votes will decide the outcome of the engineering v£ep race. Bill Coleman, all-U, edged Franz Worth, who didn’t carry a party label, for first place.
Tom Parent, all-U, led Bob Carpenter, TRG, 689 to 651 in the election, for AMS vice-president, but 559 votes for two other first-round candidates hold the key to a win by either candidate in the run-offs.
With offices split between the parties evenly in the first election, it was evident that students voted their own conscience rather than a particular party line, especially in the presidential and secretary races, where candidates of opposite parties won by approximately the same margins.
The election of three women to senator-at-large posts out of a total of nine promises an attrac-tive-looking senate next year. Only three women ran for senator-at-large; all three won.
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THS IN MASKS' DRAMAS BEGIN RUN THURSDAY
yths in Masks.” three one-act plays written and directed dents in art education, will be presented Thursday and y at 4:15 p.m. and 10:15 a.m., respectively in 101 Harris here is no admission charge.
Indian legend, “Box of Daylight,” tells the story of the 1 origin of the moon and the inhabitants of the earth, lor will describe the events as the aetion unfolds on the ^Authentic Indian music is used as accompaniment, masks were made under the supervision of Paul B. itant professor and director of art education.
productions show the value of creative expression in
__ssroom,” Flick said. “The students in the art class write
the plays, make the masks, and design the stage settings. Through these processes the students develop an integrated understanding of art and literature.”
Students participating in the plays are Rose Cekada, Goldie Harcus, Imogene Kehn. Mrs. Helga Mennig, Milton Nelms, Kenneth Swinhart, and Ann Titnons.
DJ GRANT TO MC TAU DELT CHASE'
Disc Jockey Johnny Grant will be master of ceremonies for the Tau Delta Phi’s seventh annual “Chase” at the Riviera Country club Saturday night.
In addition to Freddy Martin’s orchestra, the Lancers, April Stevens, a surprise queen guest star will be on
hand, said Entertainment Chairman Sherman Weiss.
“Several specialty acts we have scheduled should complete the evening of wonderful dancing and entertainment,” Weiss said.
The Martin band will play from 9 to 1 a.m. and a second band will provide music during intermissions.
“The entire Riviera parking lot has been leased for the evening to provide free parking,” Weiss said. “Dress is sport, with cocktail dreeses for the women.”
The “Chase” is an All-U dance sponsored jointly by the SC and UCLA Tau Delt chapters. Students from both universities are invited. Bids are $3 per couple and may be purchased from any Tau Delt or by phoning Richmond 88059, or at the door of the “Chase” at the Riviera Country
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JOHNNY GRANT . to emcee 'Chase'
Film Classics Slates Letter To 3 Wives'
One of the best mystery-come-dies to come out of Hollywood in recent years, “A Letter to Three Wive«,” will be screened tonight at 7:45 in 133 FH.
Tenth in the series of Film Classics presentations, “Letter” features an all-star cast including Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Southern, Kirk Douglas, and Paul Douglas.
Directed by Joseph L. Mankie-wicz, the film is a sophisticated slap-stick comedy with a surprise twist ending.
Tickets cannot be purchased for individual pictures, but series tickets may be purchased at the ticket office, SU for $3. The series is sponsored by the Delta Kappa Alpha, honorary Cinema fraternity.
club Saturday.
Through this dance, the Tau Delt chapters raise money for the fraternity’s scholarship fund which each year sends a deserving student through college.
Based on service and scholastic achievements, the scholarship was won last year by John Moore, UCLA basketball star.
L. A. County Museu m Has No Financial Problem, Says Official
by George Lasezkay
he financial crisis facing many ;ing museums in the country ot a problem at the Los An-es County museum.
The financial problem of mus-ims. art galleries, zoos, and other ee public functions was set forth the Sunday issue of This Week agazine. The article showed that any of these institutions were nthering financially and outlined -asures to circumvent an almost rtain death.
No Problems Charles F. Gehring, assistant anager of the County museum, aid in an interview’ yesterday at the museum neither has nor xpects to have trouble of this ind
Gehring said that a yearly appropriation by the County Board of Supervisors provides for ttie operation and maintenance of the museum. Contributions from private persons help enlarge the collections in history, natural sciences. and art.
William Randolph Hearst, from 1946 to the time of his death, contributed $250,000 and many ob-
| iects of art from his private col-' lection. Gehring said.
Private Contributions Most of the failing institutions were dependent on private contributions for survival, Gehring said,
and the period of accumulating
vast personal wealth is gone.
With the loss of this source of income, museums, art galleries, and zoos have turned a coldly practical eye toward commercialism They sell books and post cards, miniature reproductions of famous pictures, and even charge admission for special events.
The L.A. County museum maintains a bookstore which grosses
$1500 a month, but Gehring said it is operated more as a public convenience than as a source of revenue.
Appropriations Given County supervisors appropriated $623,000 this year to run the museum. Of this sum, $25,000 is set aside for improving museum collections and exhibits, he said.
To supplement the appropriated money and the book store revenue, the museum has an association which costs members $10 a year, and students and teachers $5. | Members receive notices of com-
ing events, special book prices, and are allowed to use museum facilities for research.
As a contribution to public education, the museum entertains 40,-000 students during the year and broadcasts Chamber Music every Sunday afternoon from 3 to 4.
Program Broadcast
SC’s radio station, KUSC, broadcasts the program on an FM band and records it for release later in the week. The cinema department has also made educational films in cooperation with the museum, and the movie industry has relied on it for background material.
The museum has been featured on television programs “City at
Night,” “Success Story,” and “In Our Times” Museum attendance usually shows a marked increase after the shows.
Attendance figures for the first three months of this year show that 183,427 persons visited the museum compared to 1^1,222 for the same period last year, and 160,628 in 1951.
The museum was opened to the public in 1913. Two buildings have been added since then, one in 1925, and the other in 1929.
Noon Luncheon To Precede Brazilian Fete
President Fred D. Fagg Jr. has invited Brazilian Consul Dr. Antonio Correia de Lago, Vice-Consul Raul de Smandek, and eight Brazilian professors at SC to luncheon tomorrow noon.
The luncheon, to be held in Commons, will precede the showing of a film on the Amazon river area and the presentation of a Brazilian flag to Dr. Fagg in 133 FH at 1:30 p.m.
The film, made and financed by Vice-Consul De Smandek, an SC graduate, will show points of interest in Rio De Janeiro, the industrial city of Sao Paulo, and the state of Minas Gerais (general Mines), a South American center for gold, diamonds, and iron ore.
Consul Dr. De Lago will present a Brazilian flag to Dr. Fagg as a part of a program to make American students better acquainted with Brazil.
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PREVIEWING SONGS which will bemused.by campus women's groups as their themes at "Jukebox Jamboree," YWCA carnival, are Barbara Swendenborg and Tam Toney, program chairmen; and Sue Pendleton, operation and maintenance. Fete is Friday.
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Jukebox Jamboree'Set
It’s always fair weather when good fellows get together, and when the YWCA and SC sororities decide to pool then- talents, it’s a “Jukebox Jamboree.”
The Jamboree, which will be held at the Y Friday night from 7 to 12, will feature refreshments, games, and approximately 15 to 20 sorority booths representing popular and classical records. Highlighting the festivities from 8:30-on will be the Acacia combo, which will furnish dance music to add to the evening’s enjoyment, Chairman Nancy Mispagel said.
Tickets are now on sale for 25 cents at the YWCA and will be sold at a special bootth in front of the Student Union tomorrow through Friday.
“It will be a closed Row Friday night,” Miss Mispagel said, “so we’re hoping that the Row will come to the Y and make the Jamboree a success.”
According to Miss Mispagel a prize will be awarded for the best booth. All proceeds \vill go to the YWCA.
Korean GIs May File For New Cal-Vef Aid
18-Year-0 Id Schoolboy Is SC President
SC will have a new “president” today.
In observance of the annual Boy’s Day in Citizenship and Government, President Fred D. Fagg Jr. will turn over his duties symbolically for the day to Earl Luff, 18, boy’s personnel vice-president at Dorsey high school. Luff is interested in dentistry, and will be taken on tour of the new clinie building of the School of Dentistry while he is on campus.
Thé State Department of Veterans Affairs is accepting applications for “Cal-Vet” educational assistance from California veterans of the Korean war under terms of a special statute passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor last week.
Eligibility was extended to Korea veterans on terms substantially the same as those which have enabled some 35,000 veterans of World War II to continue their education with state assistance.
Bearing an emergency clause, the new law became effective Apr. 23. It extends the definition of a veteran for purposes of educational assistance to include “any person who served in the military or naval service of the United States during the period June 27, 1950 to a future date to be established by proclamation of the Governor . .
In addition to requiring a discharge under honorable conditions and a minimum of 90 days’ service—unless discharged due to a service-connected, disability — the
enactment specifies that a veteran may not receive Federal and state educational benefits simultaneously.
The state may assist a California veteran with payments not to exceed $1,000. These may be applied toward tuition and fees, and may be prorated toward subsistence not exceeding $40 per month. The subsistence payment may be increased ten dollars for purchase of books and supplies.
The Department’s Division of Educational Assistance doe? not expect many Korea veterans to enroll with state assistance right away, since such veterans still have to exhaust Federal GI Bin aid.
To qualify as a “California veteran” under the law, an ex-serviceman must have been born in this state or must have been a bona fide resident thereof when he entered the military service under which he qualifies. Or if he was a minor when he entered the service, he must have resided in California for six months immediately prior to becoming a serviceman.
Pre-Legal Society Initiates To Hear SC Law Professor
Prof. Moffatt Hancock, professor of law, will be guest speaker at a banquet this evening in Commons preceeding the initiation of 30 new members into the Black-stonian Society. The banquet starts at 5.
Prof. Moffatt will speak on “Privileges Against Self-Incrimi-nation” which will deal with recent Senate committee investigations.
The Blackstonian Society is a national pre-legal honorary fraternity.
Following the banquet, new members will be initiated in Commons lounge. Initiates are Janet Anderson, Nick Apple, Jerry Baker, Mathew Byrne, Ralph Callen,
Robert Carlson, John E. Carroll,
Warren Clendening, Paul Gilbert, and Willis Henderson.
George L. Hudson, Warren B. Hughes, Arne Lingren, Robert Maners, Philip Marantz, Paul Marx, Thomas McCarthy, Shirley Merriam, Henry Moore, and James E. Paul.
John J. Quinn, John Ray, Frank D. Robertson, William Rosens-weig, Wayne Snaffer, Charles
Sweet, James Tenner, Tony Ward, Robert Warren, and Leonard Zus-man.
• Faculty sponsor for the group is Dr. J. Eugene Harley. Officers are Larry Spector president; Wen dell Casey, vice-president; and Elva Soper, secretary.
Senate Quiz Into Vote Discrepancy Sought by Unity
Unity party will move to reject the Elections commission’s report this afternoon in the special Senate meeting until election files can be re-checked for possible errors in
tabulation.
Senators will convene at 2:15 this afternoon in the Senate chambers to consider election results.
Party Chairman Bo Jansen yesterday cited shortages in the number of signatures recorded in the election as compared with the number of ballots marked. He says that this may mean that some students were allowed to go through the polls a second time.
If the Senate rejects Election Commissioner Jim Lu-costic’s report, and the discrepancies are proved, it will mean another school election.
Jansen will submit his six-point recommendation when the Senate convenes at 2:15 this afternoon. His recommendations will be:
1—That the report of the elections commissioner not be approved.
BO JANSEN challenges results
2—That	an impartial commission be established to make
a check to see how many of the registration cards have been duly certified as having a vote cast for them.	•
3—After	the check, if it is found that there is a discrepancy of as many as 200, the Unity party will call for a complete new election.
4—Until	this check is made, the Unity party will recommend that the run-off elections not be held.
5—That	new members shall be selected for the Senate Investigating committee before a new election is held.
6—That	George Gonzales resign the committee chairmanship, and that Jim Lucostic have his appointments to elections commissions approved by the Senate.
“On the basis of the irregularities we have found so far, we cannot believe that they (the irregularities) were accidental,” Jansen said.
Unity party workers spent yesterday afternoon in the AWS office counting the number of signatures on ID cards obtained in the election.
Jansen said that he will ask for Gonzales’ resignation because he (Gonzales) did not appoint his five-man commission according to Senate regulations.
“Either senators or Senate-approved workers should serve on the commission; George appointed neither to his comission,” Jansen said.
Clendening, Maners Get KappaSig Dunk
There is a tradition at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house of dunking members in the Alumni park pond whenever they cut up too much or win some school honor or office.
Warren Clendening ASSC president-elect, and Bob Maners, yell king-elect yesterday at noon received this dubious honor when fraternity brothers rewarded them for their success in the spring election.
“Warren is getting all cleaned up for the dirty business of running the school,” one observer remarked during the bathing episode.
Sigma Chis Win Race in PledgeRelays
A four-man Sigma Chi relay squad won the 18th running of the Phi Sigma Kappa pledge relays yesterday in 2:33.9, 14 seconds slower than the relays record
The Sigma Chi runners outdistanced the Kappa Sigma and Ph! Sigma Kappa teams for the victory.
In the sorority roller-skating relay, Pi Beta Phi pledges rolled to victory despite the handicap of having only three skaters. Alpha Chi Omega took second place.
The Sigma Chi team consisted of Burke Anderson, Chuck Kha-lert, Ron Wilson, and Rotus Harvey.
Record Vote For Pharmacy Posts Tallied
While student apathy kept 70 per cent of eligible Trojans away from the polls in the recent ASSC elections, an enthusiastic campaign in the School of Pharmacy encouraged almost 90 per cent of the school’s students to vote for their officers.
Probably the highest school percentage vote in the history of SC, the large turnout was largely due to the increased enthusiasm brought on by the controversial issues involved in the campaign, according to John Sanders, publicity chairman.
Sanders also credited the student interest to the fact that two pharmacy students, George Root and Joe Newman, took active part in the ASSC elections. Root was candidate for senior class president and Newman was campaign manager for the All-U party.
Tallying a 60 per cent greater vote than his nearest opponent (140 to 56), Bob Atkinson, Phi Delta Chi, was swept into office
on a platform of an extended orientation program, greater pharmacy representation in ASSC, and regular monthly assemblies.
Other officers are Stan Jones, Phi Delta Chi, vice president; and Fern Martz, a write-in candidate, secretary-treasurer.
“If the university as a whole could develop the same enthusiasm that was shown by the School of Pharmacy,” Sanders said, “investigations of student apathy would not be needed and representation would be more equitable.”
AFROTC Expects Increase In Flight Class Enrollment
More applicants for AFROTC flight training are expected now that Air Force is cutting the active duty tour for flying applicants from four to three years. Brigadier General Matthew K. Deichelmann, AFROTC commandant, said recently.
The three-year period includes the 13 months spent in flying training.
An annual goal of 11,500 flight-training applicants has been set beginning in 1955, Gen. Deichelmann said. Approximately 2,000
of the 6,800 AFROTC cadets graduating this spring have applied for the training which is a substantial increase over last year, when only 800 out of 6,500 graduating applied, according to the general.
The period has been cut to three years because more men are needed immediately since the Air Force’s ruling to expand from 95 to 143 wings. “This number has sharply reduced the number of non-flying officers required for ROTC,” Gen. Deichelmann stated.
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