SC'S OWN CHANNEL 28 MAY BE AFFECTED
State P-TÁ Backs Educational Television Legislation
by Bob Krauch
LONG BEACH, Apr. 27—Endorsement of three State Assembly bills which could have far-reaching effect on educational television has been given here today by members of the California Congress of Parent-Teachers.
This was brought out in an interview with Robert H. Burgert, P-TA State Chairman of Radio and Television, who is also a member of the Governor’s committee on educational television.
William Sener, head of SC’s department of telecommunications, and pioneering Channel 28 at the Allen Hancock Foundation, is scheduled to speak here tomorrow before the P-TA’s radio and television conference.
The legislation before the State assembly affecting Channel 28, and all educational television, are AB 1587, AB 1588, and AB 2147.
“Assembly bill 1587 would permit school districts to join non-profit corporations for the establishment of educational television stations,” Burgert explained.
He cited as an example, the San Francisco Bay area association which is already in operation. The bill would put it on a legal footing, he said.
“Assembly bill 1588 would authorize school districts to contract with either a non-profit or a commercial station for producing educational TV programs,” he said. “In San Diego, there is already such a group—the bill would legalize it.”
“Assembly bill 2147, one of the Collier bills, empowers the state to spend $20,000 for a statewide survey of the educational Televisio nset-up,” Burgert said.. “This would allow the state to determine what areas are not
covered by the proposed educational TV channels, among other things.
“Educational television is only one phase of the six-day, state-wide P-TA convention,” he explained, “but we consider it to be an important one.”
Deadline for educational institutions and community groups to apply for TV channels was set for June 2 by the Federal Communications Commission.
“Extension of this deadline has virtually been assured, however,” he said.
“It does not look like there will be any actual state support of educational television,” Burgert said.
It looks like the general trend in California’s educa-• tional TV is to make permissive legislation whereby lo-
cal communities or areas, can go ahead on their own station planning,” he said.
Funds will most likely be raised on a local basis through grants and subscriptions—such as the P-TA, farm agencies, and the like, he said.
Dr. Sener will speak on the topic, “Operating and Programming of Educational Television.”
Other California state leaders in the educational TV field who will speak are Dr. C. C. Trillingham, Sup-“It looks like the general rend in California’s educa-erintendent of Schools for LA county. Francis Noel, State Department of education; Paul Reed joint committee on Educational Television; Klaus Lands-berg, general manager of KTLA-TV, and Mrs. Mildred Hale, Ninth District P-TA Radio and Television committee.
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Vol. XLIV
Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Apr. 28, 1953
No. 120
SC Group's Figures Differ From Recent Mobilgas Run Results
Using its own system for Judging automobile performance in the 1953 Mobilgas Economy run, the department of mechanical engineering will release figures May 13 that move the Ford “6” sweepstakes winner down to ?venth place, and the Lincoln Capri up to first place.
The SC-revised list will bo published in the magazine “SC En- j gineer."
SC Group Observes Feeling this new system to be superior to the ten-miles-per-gal-lon system used by the American Automobile Association, the mechanical engineering department persuaded General Petrdleum products, which sponsored the run, to allow two engineering students and one faculty member to observe the contest.
The run was over a 1206 mile course between Los Angeles and Sun Valley Idaho.
Under the SC system of figuring 100 per cent is considered an average performance. The Lincoln Capri drove away from the field of 26 cars with a performance of 138 per cent. It had no close competition. This rating is independent of any price class. Further figures could not be obtained. but a complete breakdown will appear in the magazine.
V**- 'Method Devised The new’ method of computing automobile efficiency will also not be revealed until the May 13 publication date. It is known that this method will show an efficiency and performance factor, )vhereas the AAA method is ilaimed by two engineering students to show only an efficiency ctor.
The students, M. R. Overholt R. E. Thee, made the run Edwin K. Springer, acting of the mechanical engineer-department. It is the first since the Mobilgas runs started in 1950 that SC engineers have been allowed to take part. Formerly, only students from the California Institute of Technology went along as checkers and observers. Cal Tech sent 54 representatives this year.
Group Checks Refueling The SC group left 9:30 Sunday morning. 14*2 hours before the competition began. They were at all refueling places and checked the refueling techniques. Officially, the group was permitted to as correspondents for its mag-
Overholt and Thee are mem-:rs of Pi Tau Sigma, honorary jnechanical engineering fraternity, the Society of Automobile Engineers. and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Kenneth P. Shadbourne. district manager of the Los Angeles territory for General Petroleum, accompanied the group.
FOUR TROJANS IN 'WORLD SERIES' (OF COLLEGE FLIERS)
After dropping a close meet to Mt. San Antonio JC last Saturday on the basis of the final safety points award, the SC Flying club is looking forward to the “World Series of Flying,” the National Collegiate Air meet May 8-9 in Minneapolis.
SC fliers tied for the first after the final event Saturday, but Mt. SAC gained the most points from the safety awrard and consequently flew away with the victory on 28 points. The Trojans had 21, Pomona, 18; and UCLA, 17; in the four-way meet at the Fullerton Municipal airport.
Bad weather caused the cancellation of two of the five scheduled events. In the 360 degree overhead landing test, Ron Thompson was third and Ed Cutler fourth in a Stinson Voyager, a 165 h.p. craft. Cutler was third and Thompson fourth in the 180 degree side approach landing. ’In the bombing event, in which water-filled balloons were used, the team of John Herceg, pilot, and Bob Rexanne, bombardier, placed second and Thompson and John Birmingham third.
Diane Cooper, a UCLA entrant, splattered the judges in her bombing run, scattering the official group.
The foursome making the trip to Minneapolis next month are Chuck Brown, George Asawa, Cutler and Herceg.
Poly Sci Honorary Admits 47 Pledges
Forty-seven new members of Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science honorary fraternity, were initiated at a dinner in Commons Friday night, Faculty Sponsor J. Eugene Harley said yesterday.
Dr. Harley, head of the political science department, is treasurer of the Lambda chapter on campus, and national vice-president of the fraternity.
County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, speaker at the dinner, was initiated as an honorary member. He related some of his experiences as City Councilman and as a member of the Board cf Supervi-
Phi Sig Pledge Relays Postponed
Row athletes have put awTay their liniment because the Phi Sigma Kappa relays were rained out.
“The relays wTill be run next Monday at 3 p.m., with the same rules applying,” chairman Ed Sta-vert announced.
“The postponement will give those who have not registered a chance to turn in their team entry blanks,” Stavert said.
Although 20 fraternities and 12
I	sororities are expected to take part in the event, only 21 houses ; have turned in entry blanks, he said.
Officers elected at the dinner for the coming year are Virgil Stevens, president; Jim Ivanoff, vice-persident; and Mrs. Alice Stanton Jones, secretary.
Lambda Chapter initiates are Vernon Adams, Janet Anderson, Ron Bartholomew, Dora Lee Call, Carol Campbell, Wendell Casey, Guillermo Castro, Mary Coate, James Craig, John Crossman, Paulo De Carvalho, Lordello De-Mello, John Doney, Richard Dryer.
Darrell Essex, Donald Fahler, Irving Feffer, Joan Field, George Flanagan, Sheldon Foreman, Edwin Grace, Ernest Gutter, Supervisor Kenneth Hahn (honorary), Roy Ito, George Jacklin, Bo Jansen, Richard Jarnagin, Jerry Johnston, Ray Jolly, Abdul Khu-zayim.
Richard Mahdesian, Alexandre Mattos, Joffre McLaurin, M. D. Miguelez, William Probert, Sher-w'ood Roberts, Frank Robertson, Wayne Shaffer, David Shirley, Harold Shrager, Elva Soper,* Pericles Spanos, Law'rence Spector, Mrs. Frances H. Stevens, James Tenner, Robert Walter, Peter Zana.
Daily Trojan . . .
Staff will meet tomorrow at noon in the city room. Copyread-ers, news editors, and reports must attend.
INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES HOLD CAMPUS TALKS
SC All-Americans To Be Footprinted
Jim Sears and Elmer Willhoite, SC’s 1952 all-American football players, will add their foot impressions to the long line of Trojan pigskin greats outside of Phelps Terkel tomorrow noon in a rally-ceremony.
Seven large industrial corporations will have representatives on campus this week to interview students graduating in June, ac-| cording to Ronald Winger, per- j sonnel counselor of the SC em- ! ployment bureau.
Combustion Engineering, incorporated, will have an employment Recruiting officer on campus today to interview' mechanical engi-j neers, while an RCA representative will see electrical engineers interested in television work. The Western Geophysics company of America will be looking for physicists, mathemeticians, and engineers in the geophysical field.
Also on campus today will be j a representative of the Whitehall ' Pharmaceutical company to see I men interested in sales work.
Chemists, chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, civil- engineers, and majors in finance, sales, and business administration will be sought by a visiting representative from the General Petroleum corporation tomorrow. Engineering students in the industrial and mechanical fields will also be interviewed tomorrow for jobs with the Owens Glass company.
Thursday the Burroughs Business Machine company will give interview's to sales, business, and commerce majors with at least one years sales experience, w'hile the Johns Mansville company will be interested in seeing industrial and chemical engineers.
Students desiring job interviews may fill out applications at the employment bureau, Winger said.
Final Preparations Set For ASSC Elections
AT RIVIERA
Martin Theme Song Heads Prom Program
“Tonight We Love,” the familiar theme of Freddy Martin and his orchestra, will be heard
at the senior prom May 16, from 9 to 1.
Martin and his smooth band will bring their famed theme song plus their unique, danceable arrangements to the Riviera Country club in the Pacific Palisades in just a little more than two short weeks to entertain the seniors in their farewell ball.
Two short weeks seem even shorter to Ron Bartholomew, prom chairman, for he announces, "Many of the bids to the prom are still in the Student Union
ticket office and are just waiting to be picked up.” Seniors can go to the ticket office with their
package-deal card and obtain their bids with no additional charge.
Bartholomew also said, “Junior class members, who voted to buy bids to the prom en masse, also may get their tickets along with the seniors at the ticket office now.”
The prom chairman announced that the colors for the occasion will be red and gold. “The decorations will be centered around flowers and the red rose probably will be the key,” he said. “Colored lights will add to th^ effect, and then, of course, there’s Martin’s sweet music,” Bartholomew added.
Fairbanks Sr. Film, The Iron Mask/ Slated
The silent and swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks Sr. brings his own- special brand of fighting and love-making back to the screen tonight in “The Iron Mask,” ninth movie in the Film Classics series.
A sequel to his “The Three Musketeers,” the film will be screened at 7:45 p.m. in 133 FH. The story is taken from “T h e Man in the Iron Mask,” and the memoirs of D’Artagnan and de Richelieu.
Fairbanks Sr., in 1929, W’hen the picture was filmed, was the most popular of all American and European heroes.
“He was not a Valentino to dream about, nor a Chaplin to feel sorry for,” said Roger Caras, program chairman. “But, he w'as every woman’s husband and every man’s future.”
Starring with Fairbanks, who w'as his own stunt man, are Marguerite de la Motte and Belle Bennett.
Directed by Alan Dwan, who handled many of Fairbanks’ and Mary Pickford’s films, the picture was highly successful in its day, Caras said.
BOB GERST
. . . spring campaign
HelpWeekBack On Troy Row
“Turn Hell week into Help week,” last year’s slogan of many fraternities along 28th street, will be repeated this spring, according to Chairman Bob Gerst.
A similar but more extensive program tentatively has been planned to aid the City of Hope, cancer hospital and research center at Duarte.
“Last year was the first time any university on the Pacific Coast utilized fraternity pledges for projects connected with university and civic betterment,” Gerst said.
“The purpose in back of Help week is to foster good will among various fraternities and to create friendly relations with the university itself,” he continued.
*	“This spring our proposed program calls for about 90 pledges who will do painting, landscaping, and uncrate furniture for the hospital. The City of Hope will provide all transportation between it and the university, and meals will be served during the time pledges are working,” he said.
Approval of the plan already has been given by AMS president George Gonzales, with administration officials expected to concur.
Last year’s Help week projects were confined to the campus, when pledges did constructive work in cleaning the university grounds, the Senate chambers, and the alumni pylon at the Walls of Troy.
Songfest Chairmen To Hold Drawings
Drawings for order of presentation at the IFC songfest, May 20, will take place this afternoon when fraternity songfest chairmen meet to agree on contest rules and regulations.
Chuck Singer, songfest chairman, said that later entry applications will be accepted at the 4 p.m. meeting at the Pi Kappa Alpha house. Fourteen houses have already entered the annual musical event.
Lucostics Staff Checks ID Cards
Elections Commissioner Jim Lucostic and his assistants yesterday began sorting 18,000 I.D. cards which will be used as identification for the big three-day election beginning tomorrow. The election crew will sort all day today in order to ready the files in time. If it rains tomorrow, Lucostic said that the voting booths
will be set up in the entrance to Bovard auditorium.
If the weather is good, first-day balloting will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Alumni park in front of Doheny library.
Voting will cease 3:30 p.m. Friday and Luscostic expects to complete the counting sometime Saturday morning. Election results will appear in the Daily Trojan Monday.
“I am glad that there are only two presidential candidates this time; it will mean a lot less work,” Lucostic said.
Run-Off Elections
Run-off elections for other candidates will be held Wednesday and Thursday next week.
Lucostic said that anyone with
an I.D. card is eligible to vote, including foreign and graduate students.
Ron Ettinger, architecture junior, was named by Lucostic to the election commission yesterday, replacing David Maddux, who had to resign becav.se he is a candidate for Commerce president.
Meanwhile, candidates and political party members are busily campaigning throughout the campus. Batttle columns for 65 candidates were turned in to Daily Trojan editor Chuck Sweet yesterday afternoon. They will be printed tomorrow in the political edition of the DT.
No More Battle Columns
Sweet said that no more battle columns will be accepted, but that glossy photographs of candidates will be accepted until 1 p.m. today.
Campus politicos gathered in
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huddles yesterday afternoon in the Student Union and mapped strategy, despite a temporary power failure that left them in gloomy shadows. The poster committee was also hard at work approving the myriad of billboards brought in by candidates.
Students will vote on more than 100 candidates contesting for 50 school posts in the election. Three constitutional amendments will also be up for student approval or rejection.
Most attention is centering around the three top ASSC offices. Presidential candidates are Warren Clendening and Arne Lindgren. Vice-presidential candidates are Radmilla Gogo, Virginia Witmer, and Mimi Shepherd, and secretary aspirants are Nancy Mispagel and Joann Peterson.
Constitutional Amendments
The first constitutional amendment, will restrict the elastic powers of the ASSC president to those defined in the constitution, by-laws, and Robert's rules of order.
Passage of the second amendment will make spring elections legal any time after April 20. The constitution now requires the election be held in May.
The third amendment stipulates that candidates have the required number of units completed by the end of the semester in which elected. This rule has always been followed, but exponents of the amendment feel that a written rule will avoid possible future confusion in eligibility for office.
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Damp Deluge Douses Troy as W-Man Sneezes
A steady downpour of rain which began shortly before noon caught SC students with their umbrellas down yesterday.
A Daily Trojan reporter put through a call to the weather bureau yesterday afternoon and was greeted with a loud “A-choo!” from the weatherman.
“Your report said it would clear up today,” the DT reporter said, “what happened?” “Somebody goofed.” the weatherman said, and hung up.
The official weather report for today, as reported by the United Press:
“Cloudy with some scattered showers mostly near the mountains. Warmer this afternoon with high temperature near 62. Locally windy.” __________________
YMCA-Sponsored Forum To Discuss Campus Politics
As the result of many questions received by the Senate as “whether student politics can be anything but a prestige struggle,” 15-minute talks by forum members, derived from campus political parties, will be sponsored by the YMCA at noon today in the SU International lounge.
A few of the questions are, “What can students do through parties?”; “What has your party done for the university?”; “How is your party different from the others?”; “Why should a person vote for candidates of your party?”; and “What are the goals of the party besides electing candidates, and have these goals been carried out?”
Expresses Disgust
Ken Kruger, All-U party leader, expressed his disgust with the uniting of parties for “political resource.” He said, “The obvious attempt on the part of some political parties on campus to unite merely for the purpose of politi-
cal expediency is an insult to the interests of representative student government.” He firmly believes that such a union is “in-compatable” and that it “violates all standards of political integrity.”
Democratic Way
Bill Van Alstyne, Unity party speaker and former independent men’s represenattive, emphasizes that his party “endorses affiliated students as well as independents and considers what is best for the entire university, rather than for one group.” He said this in regard to the question of what political parties do and how they differ. He also said, “I shall bring out the many real possibilities for student pow-er and accomplishment, if enough interested students get out to vote.”
Ron Bartholomew', TRG member and senator-at-large, said that his talk will center around the “democratic way of politics.”
SAE Volleyball Clash Goes On
Despite yesterday’s extended drizzle, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon sixth annual volleyball tournament got underway by transferring competition from the SAE house to the PE buiding .
Of the four games scheduled, onlv the match between the Alpha Delta Pis and the Zeta Tau Alphas was postponed, Dick Arnold. co-volleyball chairman, said.
“Weather permitting, today’s competition will get under way at the SAE house at 2 p.m..” Arnold said.
Today’s schedule is Kappa Delta vs. Kappa Alpha Theta at 2, Alpha Gamma Delta vs. Gamma Phi Beta at 2:40. Delta Gamma vs. Alpha Phi at 3:20. and Alpha Delta Pis and the Zeta Tau Alphas at 4.
Four second-round games will be played tomorrow afternoon, and semi-finals will be held Thursday at 2 and 3 p.m., Arnold said.
The final game will be played Friday afternoon at 3 at a location to be announced later.
Four previous tournament awards have gone to the Pi Phis who lost only once to Kappa Alpha Theta in 1948.
During the course of the tournament, an “All Sorority’ team will be selected from among the outstanding players of each group.
Student Handbook Ad Men Needed
Students are being offered the opportunity to make money in their spare time by the advertising manager of the 1953 edition of the student handbook.
A 15 per cent commission will be paid to those who get ads for the handbook.
Anderson requests interested students to call him at Richmond 8-9765. or leave their names and phone number at 403 SU.