HAPPY NOEL AND WHAT'S MORE: LIVE TO SEE 54
PROFESSOR'S COMPOSITION TO BE HEARD OVER CBS .
A recent composition by Prof. Halsey Stevens, ihead of the department of composition in the School of Music, will be heard over the CBS network, Sunday at 6:30 a.m.
Stevens’ “Improvisation on Divinum Mysterium” for organ will be broadcast by E. Power Biggs in his CBS
series.
This work was given its first performance in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City recently by Alexander Schreiner and will be performed in several Los Angeles churches during the Christmas holidays.
The professor has also completed a new orchestral work, “Triskelion,” which will be played by the Louisville orchestra in March and will be broadcast coast to coast.
It will also be recorded for commercial distribution. Stevens was commissioned by the Louisville orchestra, under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, to compose the piece.
At the annual meeting of the Florida Composers League in Tallahassee on March 20, Stevens will conduct his “Green Mountain Overture,” the “Triskelion,” and a group of choral compositions.
He is now completing his Trio No. 3 for violin, cello, and piano, commissioned by the University of Redlands School of Music, for performance on Mar. 16.
REREGISTRATION
Spring Semester Sign-Ups Slated
Preregistration for the spring semester will begin Tues-lay, Jan. 5, 1954 for one week.
Only present SC students are eligible to register early. Adviser’s cards, for use at adviser conferences, are now ivailable in Owens Annex, Door B. The time schedule can
be completed later.
oreign Study irants Offered y Ford Group
The Ford Foundation is offer-g scholarships and fellowships students who wish to begin or )ntinue studies on the Soviet or st European areas during the lademic year 1954-1955.
This program is intended to ]p meet the urgent need for rger numbers of men and wom-with deeper knowledge of irsc critical areas, it was rented.
Awards will be made only to tizens of the United States and liens permanently residing in fie United States who intend to come citizens.
The Ford Foundation expects make awards of three types: aduate area training scholar-ips; pre-doctoral area research aining fellowships; and post-toral area research-training llowships.
Graduate area training scholar-ips are offered to graduate stunts combining their advanced aining in a profession, field, or scipline with integrated study the Soviet or East European ea.
They are available for the first, nd, or third year of study in ch programs, to persons not er 30.
Applications should be submit-by Feb. 15, 1954, in order to considered. Awards will be an-unced by May 15.
Application forms and further formation about the program y be obtained from the Ford undation (Overseas Training d Research) 575 Madison Ave-e. New York 22, N. Y.
The class schedule bulletin will be available at the Information Office building by Monday, Jan.
4.
Preregistration schedule is: F-H—Tuesday, 9:30, Jan. 5. I-L—Tuesday, 10:30 a.m., Jan.
5.
M-N-«-Tuesday, 1:00 p.m., Jan.
5.
O-S — Wednesday, 9:00	a.m.,
Jan. 6
T-Z—Wednesday, 10:30	a.m.,
Jan. 6
A-B — Wednesday, 1:00 p.m., Jan. 6
C-E—Thursday, 9:00 a.m., Jan.
7
Any letter—until 12:15	p.m.,
Saturday, Jan. 9
Registration hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
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Students to Leave Campus For Christmas Vacation
Visiting Chemist To Speak Today In Science Hall
John G. Aston, professor of chemistry’ at Pennsylvania State
College, will speak before the Chemistry Research Conference this afternoon at 4:15 in 107 Science Hall on “Rotation in the Solid State.”
“Prof. Aston is an outstanding physical chemist,” Prof. Sidney W. Benson, SC chemistry department, said yesterday. “He has had a long and brilliant career
in thermodynamics and the relationship of light to the molecular structure.”
Professor Benson said that Aston will talk about his recent work with molecules and substances. He will discuss how many molecules, under certain conditions, still rotate freely even though they are a part of a sdlid.
Faculty Tours in East Told
Some 18,000 students will vacate campus this afternoon as the University closes for two weeks of Christmas and New Years holidays.
Students will not be the only ones away from the
classrooms as about 30 faculty members also plan to
leave.
They will be touring the Eastern convention circuit of professional and scientific organizations.
Leaving for Washington, D.C., will be Commerce Dean Lawrence C. Lockley who, as vice-president of the American Marketing Association, will address its convention Dec. 27-29. Dr. Clyde W. Phelps, professor of economics, will take part in this meeting and that of the American Economic Association.
Library
Dr. Roger Swearingen, assistant professor of international relations, will visit the Library of Congress to complete studies on the Far East before going to the New York Headquarters of the Ford Foundation in connection with his campus project for the organization.
A Chicago convention will be attended by Law School Dean Robert Kingsley and SC law faculty members Orrin B. Evans, Carl M. Franklin, and Victor Net-terville. It is the Association of American Law Schools’ conclave Dec. 28-30.
In the same city the Modern Language Association will be attended Dec. 27-29 by Professors of- German Harold von Hofe and Ludwig 31 Marcuse.
History Meet
Speakers at the Dec. 28-30 Chicago meeting of the American Historical Association will be Dr. Colin R. Lovell, associate professor of history, and Dr. Donald W. Rowland, professor of history.
Dr. Aileene J. Lockhart, associate professor of physical education and chairman-elect of the National Sections of the Association of Girls’ and Women’s Athletics, will address the organization at its Dec. 27-31 Chicago meeting.
Dr. Dwight D. Bolinger, professor of Spanish, and Dr. Dorothy McMahon, assistant professor of Spanish,	h	e
American Assofli^^^^^^^fech-ers of Spani
Chicago
The Ami Society even attended Dec.
H. Moehlman, of church history?
He is also takin National Association Instructors at Evansto in the Biblical Society on 30 at which Dr. Eric L. Tit
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WHICH DOOR ON CHRISTMAS EVE?
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Les Angeles, Calif., Friday, Dec. 18, 1953
No. 62
Five days of sermonizing on traffic safety by the Daily Trojan are concluded today. Perhaps some have thought we overburdened the student body with our fervent admonishing.
But we feel sure that at least one Trojan or Trojane will call our warnings to mind while traveling the blood-splattered holiday highways and ease a leaded foot off the accelerator. We feel that at least one DT reader will turn down that “one for the road.” We believe at least one SC student will wait till it’s safe to switch lanes in heavy traffic. We even sincerely feel that a lifetime maiming or even perhaps a death may be averted by our weeklong harping on highway safety. And further, that you may meet Santa Claus on Christmas instead of a character named Death.
And when tempted to make it just a wee bit sooner, first weigh those staggering odds of a fewT extra minutes or the substitution of a black-shrouded home for a holly-decorated one.
It only has to happen once and doubtless to one who always thought “That never will happen to me.” Few anticipate the ghastliness of a violent death, and moreover one that is completely useles^^Lives can be of much more advantage. It is considered hongnH^to lay down one’s life for his principles, but must tb#8c principal ideals be wanton speeding and drunkenness? It just 8pces one lapse of consciousness, one slippery one straying over the white line.
The Daily .Trojan does not like to illustrate its front pages with ^|a^Ml|Rof the Grim Reaper to give horrible examples
of tranHjfl«B|^^ Inf the life of merely one Trojan is safe-"SfijjsijHP * ■■Ur*	/
guarded^iffiMiiBiHWMHy in our efforts. So with today’s issue we clBse shop	holidays	with a wish for all the joys
kof the season >to lw|kstowed upon our readers and with the |ope that yo^Jl all .jwhhack, pjfoykally intact, to read these once moF.
106, County Morgue Viewed By DT Reporter
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DT STAFFER MUGGED — Don Desfor followed the process from patrol wagon to the jug,
to get an eye witness account of the atmosphere and facts in a drunk tank and jail.
cribe Tells of Drunk Tank
by Don Desfor
It began nuzzled close to a fggy, tight skirted blonde, and round up hanging on to a whirl-floor. It started in a bar and ided behind bars.
The liquor’s gone. Only the [ckening odor of stale wine, uskey. beer, and gin, from a indred mouths, intensified by |ie stench of body movements and
-k drunks, remains.
|I saw a naked drunk, who had to make a tie for his neck it of his clothing, tear the “un-hmovable slick waxed canva6 ids irom his padded cell.
On Board X saw a guy strapped to a
board. It was the only way to j keep him from attacking others j
and destroying himself.
In one of the individual cells s
few feet from the board, a young, screaming chap, let continual facial soap applications dry on his face.
An epileptic was hauled out of the fish tank and put in the cell next door. A VD was in the next cell and a TB in the cell after that. The victim in one cell collected gum wrappers or any other scraps his fingers could scrape beneath the cell door. He methodically arranged his booty atop his neatly folded blanket and mat-
tress. His hands were raw from scrubbing every inch of his cell.
Misdemeanor Tank But most of the drunks, either steady customers or usually law abiding citizens, are in the misdemeanor tank, along with pimps, perverts, and bookies.
That is unless you injure someone while drunk driving. Then it’s a felony charge and you may get to be issued blue denims and be assigned a bunk in the tank on the fourth floor.
Between 2300 and 2500 are lodged nightly at the Los Angeles City Jail. Inmates vary from mis-
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ndation is specifically fin aiding studies that problems of state and Ivernment, human rela-[ industry, the business __e and its consequences, population structure, race relations, problems of urban civilization, social security, and public administration,” said a Haynes Foundation representative.
Students must be citizens of the United States and candidates for a doctoral degree in one of the social sciences to be eligible for a fellowship.
Applications may be sent to the Haynes Foundation, 607 South Hill Street, no later than Feb. 15, 1954.
Winners will be announced Apr. 1 and the grant will start July 1 to run for one year.
Grants similar to those offered for the 1954-55 year have been awarded by the Foundation the past five years.
Fern Scneder, student maj istration, i a Haynes, a gradu SC last a fellow:
s of lifting oil
will be demon-k‘Halls of Science,” levision program on	4, Sunday at
3 p.i ______
Carrol	Beeson, professor
St petroleum engineering, will be *the principal lecturer. He ,vill be shown on the TV pro-stin, technical service engineer of the Axelson Manufacturing Company; John Stoddard, sales representative, and Donald Knox, gas lift engineer, both of the National Supply Company.
Working models of oil wells will be shown o nthe TV program. These same models were acclaimed for excellence at the recent International Petroleum Exposition at Tulsa, Okla., Bee-• son said.
“Halls of Science” is produced each week by Ed DeRoo of the telecommunications department and directed by Carroll ra of KXBH.
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Librar Hours Ann
by David C. Henley
Department 106 in the Hall of Justice Building is not exactly the type of place where you would want to meet your friends. That is, if they are still living, for Room 106 houses the Los Angeles County Morgue.
Here, dead bodies are brought to be examined to determine how, when, where and by what means they died when the circumstances surrounding their death indicate that they died as a result of violence or from natural causes without medical attention.
We were fortunate enoug! be taken on a tour of the yesterday by Victor L.
Chief Deputy Coroner of geles County. The purpose visit was two-fold. We want get some fac^g about the ha ing oi bodies and we also desir some iofprmative statistics about' traf
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were	Intones., one of
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IHi^'4 per cent o] killed by automl lol in their blood.
pedestrian as well as the in be at fault. He also 37.1 per cent of all >d had been drinking.
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laboratory we were the viewing room. A cadaver was stretched out on a
table ready to be identified by its family. It was a 60-year-old man, killed in an automobile accident. He had a ghastly black bump on his head, the size of an apple. When he was hit by thenar, he was catapulted 80 fe^^Hough the air. The rest of ^^^^nken body was a mass of t^^^Band welts.
Next ca This is t deceased are ed, and weighe for the' autopsy. V that 62 per cent of t customers are autopsied fairly high in comparison Massachusetts and New hich autopsy only 32 and cent of their dead.
Storage Room Next the processing chambers : storage room. Here, we ! onted with 15 or 20 under ^wte sheets. iting^^B washed espec-ning allage's
uestion him further on s Office.
acts purely as an officer. He coor-unds himself s in the var-; office, inpathologists, in ballistics, fingerprint e cooper-
himsel; ious
eluding invi chemists, s; photographers, men. He also ation of the law.
837 Traffic
Last year, 8.500 vestigated by the roner. Out of these,1 to traffic accidents, would certainly be a good reckless drivers, the ones v of no one else but to pay a visit to the Morgue. What they wc^^B^e might shock the reck-lesswss out of them.
Then perhaps when they have the urge to take “one more drink'’ and feel that they can beat the world, they will think of those still, misshapen bodies stretched out in Room 106.
The main university
be open Saturday,^
Jan. 2 from 8 a.m.
On Dec. 21, 23, 28' library will be open fr<^
to 5 p.m. On Dec. 24 from _ ___________
to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
new members represent ountries—Brazil, Burma, Jindia, and the U.S. lly Westmore head of the keup department at Paramount Studios for the last 26 years, was made an honorary member.
Westminster Club Elects Officers
Larry Rains was elected president of the SC Westminster Club for the coming term, at a meeting last Tuesday night in Westminster House, 854 West 36th Street. He succeeds Dick Kirt-
land.
Other officers elected were Terry McKelvey, vice president; Marsha Dowdy, secretary; and Cameron Burley, treasurer.
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Dece/5ron Problem for Drivers
★ ★ ★ ★ usk Dangerous Time
by Roy Page
Dusk is a problem that exists
for all drivers. It is the trickiest
time of the day, and the most dangerous, according to the California Highway Patrol.
One of every three pedestrians killed in traffic accidents during the winter months dies between 5 and 8 in the evening. One-fifth of all traffic fatalities occur during these same early evening hours, warns the Patrol in reviewing winter driving.
“Dusk is the time of deception,” Patrol Commissioner B. R. Caldwell pointed out recently in commenting on these fatality figures.
“Other vehicles seem to disappear. Pedestrians are lost in half light and shadows. At about this time headlights seem to be almost useless and people fall victim of eerie distortions.
“You may feel that your headlights do not help you to see at dusk, and this may be partly true.
It is also true, however, that the
other driver will see your headlights much sooner than he can see your car without the lights,'* Caldwell reminded.
The commissioner offered two simple precautions that will help protect motorists and reduce the danger of these twilight tricks. They are:
1—Slow	down and be prepared to make emergency stops.
2—Turn on your headlights early—don’t use parking lights.
“Sundown is the most dangerous time of the driving day. Your visibility is limited. Remember that the same problem exists for all other drivers. It is most im-partant that all drivers recognize the danger and drive accordingly.’*