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Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Apr. 7, 1953
No. 105
FORMER COED MAKES POLITICAL DEBUT
Six Candidates From Troy in City Election Today
Classroom Soliciting,
Contests Swell Fund
by Gary Kreutz
Trojan Chest activities rolled into high g ear today with money from classroom collections pouring in, said Chest Chairman Bill R osensweig in an early morning interview.
1953 Trojan Chest week officially bega n yesterday as committeemen made collections in the late-afternoon extension classe s, and Bob Hildenbdand, collections chairman, said that University College classes will be approached tonight.
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by Chuck Sweet Six candidates in today’s municipal election can list “SC” as their party label—and one former Trojane has already won the title of youngest and prettiest campaigner in the current political race.
She’s Rosalind Wiener, 21-year-old 1952 graduate, who is seeking the Fifth District City Council seat left vacant by George P. Cronk, who is not running for re-election.
Miss Wiener, who received her degree in public administration la6t year, is conducting a regular old-fashioned “grass-roots” campaign in her district. SC and UCLA students are helping her in the race, in which eight other nominees are entered.
Clean-l'p Campaign With her home as her headquarters. Miss Wiener is waging a “clean up the council” campaign.
She’s handing bars of soap to housewives, telling them to “clean up the council.” To those who wear glasses, she presents lens cleaners to help “see the council in its i.ue light.” At the neighborhood butcher shop, she tells customers that she’ll trim
ROSALIND WIENER . . . youngest candidate
waste from the City Council just as the butcher trims waste from meat.
The pretty SC graduate became interested in the City Council race in her job as manager of “Wonderland,” a youth center in Laurel Canyon. She said that the juvenile narcotics problem in her
area needed closer scrutiny and that she decided to do something about it.
Dope Problem
Miss Wiener, who pounds the pavement five hours a day in precinct work, says “rehabilitation and understanding of narcotics users, rather than jail sentences for offenders, will put dope addicts back into a useful place in society.”
She advocates stiffer penalties for dope peddlers.
Asked about her campaign, she said, “It’s real homespun. The largest contributor gave me $50, so you certainly can’t say I have th£ big money backing me.” Campaign workers gather at her home each night to address campaign materials—and also to drink coffee and watch TV.
No Deals “We’ve got the friendliest political headquarters in' town,” she said.
Asked about any “deals” she might have made .to win the election, Miss Wiener said, “I’m too new and too young to get mixed up in a crooked deal.”
She said she’s hoping for a place in a run-off election, which is practically assured because of
HUGH C. WILLETT . . . seeks re-election
the large number of candidates in the race.
Her biggest asset in the campaign?
“I’m a woman. And there are no women on the City Council now,” she concluded.
In another close race, School Board Member Hugh C. Willett,
director of university archives and formerly director of admissions and president of the National Collegiate Athletic association, is opposed for re-election by Mrs. Carnell J. Barnes, social worker, who once attended SC.
The Rev. George W. Haskell, pastor of the Western Knoll Congregational church and a part-time university faculty member, is also running for election to the Board of Education.
Another aspirant for the City Council is Robert Wilkinson, 32, who received his engineering degree from SC. Wilkinson is campaigning to represent the Third District. Fifteen other candidates are in this race.
Bowron Faces Fight
Los Angeles’ Mayor Fletcher Bowron, who left SC’s School of Law in 1912, faces a stiff fight for re-election from two major candidates—City Engineer Lloyd Aldrich and Congressman Norris Poulson.
A turnout of 52 per cent of the city’s 1,043,010 registered voters is predicted in today’s election. A general election May 26 will decide a number of races which are expected to be reduced to runoff battles after today’s balloting.
So Long to Love' Opens Tomorrow
As interest mounts on campus I which have plagued other male
Not the Wild Blue Yonder *¥>★★★★
Camp Slated for Air RO
More than 100 cadets from SC will be sent to air force bases this summer for four-week training periods, it was announced yesterday by CoL Bob Arnold, commanding officer, SC Air Reserve Offioer Training Corps unit.
The cadets probably will go to the Hamilton air base or to the Nellis base in Nevada. The majority going are between their Junior and senior years.
Start June 22 Most of the men will start the AFROTC summer camp program June 22. although a few air force bases plan to run second camps beginning July 20 and July 27.
It will be the first taste of military fife for many of them. A 16-hour processing and orientation period will confront them on they* first day at camp.
They wiH be given the same
status regarding accommodations, PX privileges, and social aspects as West Point cadets insofar as the base facilities permit.
Orientation
The training program’s primary emphasis will be orienting the cadets to a better understanding of the aircraft, and its place as a weapon in the Air Force mission.
Flights in various types of military aircraft, aircraft inspection, aircraft equipment and mockups, navigation techniques, and flight planning are some of the indoctrination which the cadets will receive.
Instructors of the various phases of the training program will be operating personnel at the bases. Tactical officers will supervise and counse Ithe cadets to determine their ratings at the completion of the program.
SC BECOMES 'SHERIDAN U' IN MOVIE GRIDIRON SAGA
Universal-International has found out in the past two weeks that SC has been hiding a wealth of motion picture talent in its football uniforms.
During the Easter vacation SC became Sheridan university and its Rose bowl stars became great gridiron guns In Universal’s picture “All-American,” which concerns itself with “big-time” college ball.
Elmer Willhoite, George Bozanic, and Frank Gifford have speaking parts. The rest of the SC team are stand-ins and extras.
Willhoite, SC defensive guard and recently turned pugilist, who plays for one of the three mythical cinema teams, Sheridan, Dartmore, and Midstate, approaches a member of the opposition during a tough tilt and growls, “What’sa matter fella.*
What happens to the “fella” Universal would nqt
say.
SC quarterback Bozanic plays another “Man-Moun-tain Dean” part. George playing quarterback for Midstate has been flippered in the jowls by one of the tougihies from Sheridan. In the next huddle Bozanic makes it known to his teammates that they’re out to “get” the culprit.
Gifford, SC haifback now with the N. Y. Giants, and who has been out at the International lots for a month instructing the celluloid stars about football, is made to look all-wet by Tony Curtis, quarterback star of “All-American.”
Gifford, playing the part of the campus upperclass impresario, decrees that Curtis should be spanked for sitting where underclassmen shouldn’t sit. Curtis heaves Gifford into an adjacent pool which happens to be the sajne one that is in Doheny Memorial park.
Of course, Doheny isn’t Doheny in the picture. The name for the library is Owen Carter Memorial library and the same goes for the park.
Shooting also took place on the Bovard practice
fields.
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RICHARD M. THOMAS . . . first-hand account
India Problems Topic of Talk
Indian problems, religion, and life in villages and teeming cities will be outlined today at an In-tercultural club meeting in International lounge at 3:15.
Richard M. Thomas, regional secretary of the World Student Service Fund, will use colored slides to emphasize his first-hand account of life in India. The subject of his lecture will be “India, A Pictorial View of a New Nation and a New Power.”
Thomas, in the summer of 1950, attended two educational meetings in India for the WSSF. These meetings drew professors from America, Europe, and Southeast Asia to discuss the role of the university in international understanding and social development.
On this trip, Thomas visited a cross-section of Indian universities and colleges. He saw what these schools were teaching to help combat the poor living conditions in villages and slums.
During the course of his stay, Thomas met the president of India, Prime Minister Pandit Nehru, and other leaders in politics and education.
Dr. Michel Saleh is chairman for the meeting.
Daily Trojan . . .
. . . staff will meet tomorrow at noon in the city room. Reporters and copyreaders must attend.
Final Plans Formulated For May Alumni Day
Final preparations for next month’s Alumni day were formed
last week by alumni, students, and faculty.
Graduates from the “horse-and-buggy” days to the most recent recipients of diplomas are being invited to participate in the allday affair. While small children are attending a nursery, the families will take part in the program.
Most of the schools and colleges will present special events, exhibits, and lectures. There will be a family luncheon on the lawn adjoining Founders hall.
The day will start with a spring
practice of the varsity football team on Bovard field. A series of demonstrations by the new television station also will be given. All the campus,tours will be conducted on open tram cars with decorations for the occasion, according to Worth Bernard, general chairman.
A baseball game between the faculty and alumni will be played on Bovard field after lunch. Fraternities and sororities will put on open house during the evening.
The Schools of Commerce, Law, Medicine, Dentistry, Education, Engineering, and Liberal Arts will present special events for their alumni.
CREED; 1923 FILM, SCREENS HERE TONIGHT
“Greed,” the film that critics say gave birth to realism in movies, brings the story of a woman’s lust for money to the screen tonight at 7:45 in 133 FH at 7:45.
Directed by Erich von Stroheim in 1923, the film, starring Jean Hersholt, Zasu Pitts, and Gibson Gowlancf, is the sixth in the Film Classics series.
Although a box office failure, the film brought forth Miss Pitts’ and Hersholt’s greatest dramatic portrayals, according to the critics.
Based on Frank Norris’ novel “McTeague,” the movie was an attempt by von Stroheim to bring artistic accuracy to the screen. “He followed the story exactly,” Program Chairman Roger Caras said, “even to the point of breaking into a love scene to show a bird in flight when the author compared the two.”
Erich von Stroheim Jr. will at-
Consul-General Of Switzerland To Give Lecture
Dr. Walter Schmid, Switzerland’s consul-general, will present an illustrated lecture on his home country Thursday afternoon at 3:30 in 335 FH.
The program is sponsored by the German club.
A 10-week European tour, including accredited courses in the German language and civilization, also will be offered as an extension of the German club’s service to students planning to travel abroad this summer.
tend the show to speak of his father’s work tin the film, which had to be cut from von Stroheim’s original four-hour production to the present hour and 40 minute version.
Tickets for tonight’s and the eight remaining films will be on sale at the door for $3.
Reining Takes Olson s Post As PA Head
Dr. Henry Reining Jr., professor of public administration, will take over the duties of Emery E. Olson Wednesday as dean of the School of Public Administration. The temporär^ appointment will be in effect until Sept. 1.
Dean Olson was granted a special leave of absence for five months to serve as an executive with Sterling Electric Motors, Inc., of Los Angeles. He will continue as a member of the California State Personnel board.
Last year Olson was in charge of planning a graduate program in organization and management at the University of Ankara, Turkey. *
Professor Reining recently returned from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he acted as a consultant to the United Nations in the establishment of an international training center in Public Administration. He has been on the SC faculty since 1947. For 10 years he was education director of the National Institute of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.
for tomorrow night’s opening of the Varsity show production “So Long to Love,” it was teamed that every major radio, television’, and motion picture studio in Hollywood will be represented in Bovard auditorium.
Studio interest seems to be running high over the talents of Ed Earle, Chuck Perchesky, and Rene Cefalu, who play leading roles in the show.
Film personalities who have promised to attend are Donald O’Connor, and Lurene Tuttle, who played in the movie “Niagara,” Frank Loesser, who composed the music for “Guys and Dolls”; Alfred Newman, double Academy award winner in music; and Mel-vina Fox, from 20th Century-Fox’s talent department.
Thomas Understudy Perchesky, a student of John Charles Thomas ,has been called by Thomas “the brightest singing talent I have seen in many years.” Perchesky has a rich, powerful voice which should easily overcome the poor acoustics in Bovard
singers in past varsity shows.
Earle has been under observation for some time by many of the picture studios in town, and Miss Cefalu has already broken through radio and TV barriers and appeared in dramas in both mediums.
“So Long to Love” is a musical comedy, directed by, and partially written by, Earle. Title song of the show was written by Earle and Ted Donaldson who also worked together on several other numbers.
Trojan Chest
Proceeds from the show’s four-night stand in Bovard will go to Trojan Chest, a charitable institution at SC which annually sends underprivileged children from the Boyle Heights district of Los Angeles to Troy camp in the San Bernardino mountains.
Tickets for “So Long to Love” are on sale by members of Spurs, Amazons, the cast, and at the ticket booth in front of Student Union.
Tickets cost $1.
TROJAN CHEST WEEK
WEDNESDAY
“Mr. Trojanality” contest voting begins 10 a.m. in front of Student Union.
Classroom colections 10 a.m.
Pie-throwinjr contest noon-3 p.m. south of Founders hall. Grand opening of the 1953 Varsity show 3:30 p.m. in Bovard auditorium.
THURSDAY
Classroom collections 10 a.m.
Trojanality contest voting 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Second performance of the Varsity show.
FRIDAY
Trojanality contest closes at noon.
Afternoon dance 2-5 p.m. on the Commons terrace.
Third performance of the Varsity show.
SATURDAY Final performance of the Varsity show.
Budd Entry Wins Contest
Winner of a $15 award for the brochure advertising the annual student spring art auction May 20 is- Talman Budd.
Budd is an art student majoring in painting and sculpturing. He came to SC after receiving a B.A in foreign service at George Washington university, Washington, D. C.
The winning design, which was chosen from more than 100 sub-
mitted, is a cartoon figure of an auctioneer holding up paintings and drawings. It will be used both on brochures and posters.
Proceeds of the public auction, which Will be held at Harris hall, will go to the fine arts student fund and to the student whose work is sold. The fund is held in reserve to supply scholarships and loans to eligible art students
Tomorrow Chest activities will begin with the Trojanality contest. a pie-throwing contest, and the Varsity show.
Balloting Soon
Balloting for “Mr. Trojanality” will begin tomerrow morning in front of the Student Union and continue Thursday and Friday. Thirty-three candidates for SCs male “Queen” are in the contest and John Witt, Trojanality chairman, said that any SC man can ,be entered by making him a write-in candidate.
“There are great personalities on campus, and students should indicate by their votes the outstanding man at SC.” said Ivan Rose, assistant chairman.
Votes cost 10 cents each, and anyone can vote as many times as he or she likes. Last year's race became so hot that some supporters began writing checks, he said.
Pie-Throwing
Pastry pushers will have their chance tomorrow from noon to 3 p.m. when all campus politicos submit to a pie barrage. Ted Harper, pie-throwing chairman, yesterday selected Hugh Kelley, SC law student, as barker for the hurling exhibition. Last year’s contest netted more than $180.
Bowie pie company is supplying 300 day-old pies to be auctioned off to the highest pie-throwing bidder. The action will take place on the lawn between the administration building and Founders halL
Net« $192
The Chest drive, so far, has netted $192, according to financial chairman Lenore Monosson. The major portion of the proceeds has come through mailed contributions by faculty members.
“The response by the faculty
has been wonderful,” said Dort ha Fox, faculty solicitations chairman.
Many of the letters also contained requests for Varsity 3how
tickets.
Friday Dance
Further money-raising ideas will include an afternoon dance Friday on the Commons terrace. Sponsored by the Greater University committee, the dance will feature a four-piece combo and refreshments at the newly reopened coffee shop.
Tickets for the hop are being sold by GUC members.
Proceeds of the drive will go to Troy camp, YVVCA, World Student Service fund, Red Cross, YMCA, and the Community Chest.
Candidates
Candidates for Mr. Trojanality are Jim Biby, Ron Bartholemew, George Bozanic, Jim Bragg, Bob
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Robot Out for Blood
CANCO CHARLIE gets a briefing from Red Cross Worker Barbara Williams on how to conduct himself when he parades about the SC campus Thursday. The seven-foot talking robot will urge Trojans and Trojanes to donate to the blood bank.
Campus romeos will have to take a back seat Thursday because it’s going to be Charlie’s day!
Charlie, a seven-foot, walking, talking, half-ton tin can man, has volunteered his services to pro mote SC’s spring blood drive. He will
spend the day wooing campus
lovelies and alerting all who will listen to the necessity for donating blood.
SC’s blood drive is scheduled for Apr. 21-24, when Red Cress bloodmobiles will be on campus.
“The time to give blood is now,” Charlie will say, before the polio epidemic strikes this summer.”
Charlie, who runs by remote control, will tell how the blood derivative, gamma globulin, will reduce or eliminate the crippling effect of polio and how blood is saving lives in Korea.
Blood Drive Chairman Sallv McGrath, who has already met Charlie, says “It’s unCANny, you just CAN’t resist him.' He’s my CANdidate for Mr. Trojanality!”
The mechanical man is controlled by the same principles involved in governing robot target planes and guided missies. Hi.; body is 11 feet in circumference and contains electronic equipment which enables him to walk, talk, roll his eyes, and wave his arms.