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VOL. XLVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1956
NO. 4
Smog Plays Role in Lung Cancer
PODIUM CIRCUIT
Debaters to Meet New Staff Mentor
Next V lows a n
Flight Cadets Sent Plane For Training
I The Air Force has assigned a four-place Navion to the SC Air Force ROTC which will be ; used this year in cadet flight \ orientation.
A Nevion LIT is a small cruiser originally built as a civil-| ian aircraft by North American. The Airforce uses this type of plane to transport staff members to and from small airfields.
The plane, one of 109 assigned to colleges and universities throughout the country, will be used to motivate greater participation in senior Air Force ROTC and eventual air careers.
TADPOLES TOO
Science Teacher Need Answered
by Bill Hinckley
What has the shortage of sci-j ence teachers to do with a new i hormone that makes bullfrogs out of tadpoles in record time?
Actually nothing at all, but ) both of these phenomena are ! matters of concern to Dr. Nor-! man Kharasch, SC professor of i chemistry.
with other major community problems of the area, for example, air pollution.
“Concerted Effort”
Many Cities Are Polluted, SC Professor Reveals Before State Committee
By David C. Henley City Editor
Smog has a definite role in the development of lung cancer.
This was the startling testimony given by Dr. Paul Kotin, associate professor "Like air pollution;’ he con- of pathology, at a hearing held by the Assembly Public Health Subcommittee yester-tinued, “solution of the science day afternoon at the State Building in downtown Los Angeles.
teacher and scientist shortage requires a concerted effort of adequate magnitude. Partial and inadequate measures only confuse the basic issue.
“From a survey made with Professor Henderson,” Dr. Kharasch continued, “we find that the number of students preparing for careers as teachers of
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a four-page statement read to ass emblymen and reporters, Dr. Kotin said
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; meeting lol-asl Saturday of nearly 30 directors of debate and speech departments at c leges and universities throughout ihe Southland at SC.
With Prof. James H. Jackson of Pasadena College presiding, a schedule listing 12 tournaments was drawn up and approved.
All students interested in speech are urged to attend next week's meeting, reported Debate Captain Bob Croutch. It is not necessary to be a speech major to join the debate squad, he addod.
“This year’s squad has the potential ability to l>eeome the most outstanding squad 1o represen SC since the record breaking teams which followed World W ar II,” said Croutch.
One of the most important dates on the schedule is the Western States Speech Tournament at College of the Pacific at Stockton, Nov. 29, 30, and Dec. 1.
In Atlantic City, at the 130th national meeting of he American Chemical Society, Dr. Kharasch took the floor to discuss a new thyroid hormone drug made The plane will be flown in ! b>' sc chemists and being tested	Dhvsica, scie™ is nracti
from Albany. N. Y„ by Lt. Col. ! on tadpoles, and to present pa-1 the Ph>sical sc,ences 15 practl* James Briggs, professor of air Per containing a possible solu-science at SC, and will be hous- j ^*on	science teacher scared at the Hawthorne airport.	city.
SC AFROTC cadets will re-	Co-Author
ceive 35 hours of flight instruc- The paper, entitled "A Critical tion and the same amount of j Experiment Toward Solving the
About SC Radio Moms About Colleg
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club and Southern California radio listeners heard ASSC Pi'esident Carl Terzian speak on “Look. Mom. I'm in College.”
“I plan to show that high school and college students are not the ‘bad kids’ that they are painted in national publications,” the student leader said before appearing in front of the 400-member club.
R.adio stat ion KPOL < 1540 kilocycles 1 is carrying Terzian's address at 9 a.m. direct from the group’s clubhouse at 3201 Los Feliz boulevard.
Included in the talk will be a discussion of the campus life and opportunities for new students, and the academic and extra-cur-ricular phases of education at SC.
“We must attack the idea that youth is going to the dogs," he said. “Many college sudents across the nation have a larger share in local, state, and national government and affairs than do most adults.”
BOB CROUTCH
. . . winning squad?
Two practice tourn aments have been planned at Santa Barbara and Los Angeles City College. Everyone trying out for the SC debate squad will attend these two tourneys.
Other events scheduled for the debate squad include a Speech Clinic at El Camino College, Oct. 6; individual events tournament. UC at Santa Barbara, Oct. 26, 27; practice debate tournament, LACC, Nov. 2, 3; Western States Speech Tournament, College of the Pacific. Stockton, Nov. 29, 30 and Dec. 1; novice tournament at either Valley Junior College or East Los An-eles Junior College, Nov. 17; and the Occidental College tournament, Dec. 7 and 8.
Also scheduled is the UCLA individual events tournament, Feb. 15, 16; Pepperdine College debate tournament, March 8. 9; Claremont Men's College invitational tournament. March 16; Pasadena City College Tournament. March 23, 24; and the SC Pentathlon, May 3.
It's Your Last Chance to Buy Activity Books
Tonight will be the final night of the evening schedule that students may purchase activity cards and have their photos taken. The time will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in th« Student Lounge.
However, students may still purchase their cards during the day until 4:3(1 p.m. Friday. The day schedule runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
When students purchase the activity cards for Si2, they will receive a claim check and a ticket to the Oregon State football game.
ground school. Pilots from the air science faculty will take cadets to bases and other air force installations throughout the area, giving them opportunities to see the diverse arms of the service in actual operation.
The new program has received full approvel of the Civil Aeronautics Administration which actually operate, administer, and supervise the program.
Science Dilemma,” was co-auth-ored with Dr. Robert B. Henderson, assistant professor of chemistry at Long Beach State College.
In presenting the paper Dr. Kharasch pointed out that “A realistic plan to alleviate the critical shortage of trained science teachers and scientists in the rapidly expanding Southern California area ranks equally
cally zero. This is actually a surprising situation in view of the excellent opportunities that such careers offer to young people.”
Give Prestige
The program the two scientists propose assures science teachers in high schools and junior colleges the recognition and prestige their work deserves, and will give them a place in the “scientific sun,” according to Dr. Kharasch.
It is thought that the new drug may be useful in he treatment of persons suffering conditions stemming from underactive or overactive thyroids.
WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP
Survivor Tells Sea Disaster; San Diego Freeway Rerouted
South Lauds Adlai s Policies
NEW ORLEANS. (UP)—Adlai E. Stevenson drew applause from Southerners today when he asked them to accept the Supreme Court decision against segregated schools as “law-abiding citizens.” Then he attacked the Republicans for "stubborn opposition” to “every new idea.”
Stevenson was applauded twice when he took up the touchy item of segregation before a crowd estimated by police at 4.000 in MacArthur Park at Little Rock, Ark.
The Democratic presidential nominee later flew to Newr Orleans to take up the cudgel against the other party. To President Eisenhower’s remark last week that the Democrats were “walking into the past backward,^” Stevenson had a reply.
He said this was “strange criticism." coming from “a party that has always had to be dragged into the future backwards . . . that has stubbornly opposed almost every forward looking step.”
NEW YORK—One of the five , survivors of the ill-fated freighter Pelagia yesterday told a Coast Guard Board of Inquiry that an unidentified vessel passed within 100 yards of their lifeboats but failed to see them.
The ship broke in two and sank off the coast of Norway i Sept. 15 and 32 crew members ! were lost.
didacy now’ rather than wait until he returns to Los Angeles.
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NOTHRIDGE — The San Fernando Valley campus of State College was opened officially Monday in ceremonies at the 165-acre school.
Dr. Howard S. McDonald, president of State College, told the assembled officials and students that within 10 years he permanent buildings which will replace the present bungalows
The witness, able bodied seaman Lawrence Rediess. 28, of Central City, Colo., told the
board he sighted the lights of j wif]'house 10,OOO^tudents.' the unidentified vessel during j the night. He said he fired 12 1 flares — all he had — but many ' failed to ignite.
Ike Promises High Farm Prosperity
PEORIA. 111.—(UP)—President Eisenhower last night promised the farmers that the GOP Full Income Parity program would lead their plows to the brightest peacetime agricultural prosperity in years.
The chief executive, in the first major farm speech
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ngu per cent gard to amounted ceit” for i Mr. Ei:
•tion campaign, saui upports fixed at 90 parity without resupply conditions “mockery and de-■ farmer.
lbower flew here from Wa shington yesterday afternoon to speak in the massive field house of Bradley University. He was scheduled to fly back to Washington shortly after his address, which was carried nationally by radio and television.
Ike Sets Blame Since taking office the President has seldom attacked the Democrats with such vigor as he did in this address. He blamed the decline in farm prices after World War II on the political expediency of the Democrats. He said they operated their farm program with "synthetic farmers behind Washington desks and tarming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil.”
Eisenhower recalled his now famous 1952 campaign speech at Kasson, Minn., when he came out for full parity. He said then, in advocating a fair share of the national income for the farmer, "a fair share is not merely 90 per cent of parity — it is full parity.”
He Meant That
The President and other Republicans later explained that he meant lull, or 100 per cent, parity in the market placc. In other words, he believed that reduction of surpluses by the government would improve the farmer's position in the market.
“Full income parity is a full share of our country's good times," he said.
“In a free agriculture," he continued, “farmers attain that kind of parity only in the market place. That's what I spoke for at Kasson four years ago— the attainment of that full share for the farmer—the preservation of a free agriculture. That's what I've been working for. I
On the subject of parity, Mr. I shall keep on working for it.”
The other vessel turned on its lights and searched the area but failed to locate the lifeboat.
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SACRAMENTO — The California Highway Commission adopted a freeway routing yesterday for relocation of some 11.3 miles of state sign route 78 between Vista and Escondido in San Diego County.
Plans of the Division of Highways call for expenditure of $8,250,000 for a four-lane freeway. The route, recommended by State Highway Engineer G. T. McCoy, generaly paraes the existing highway. Beginning of construction will depend on availability of funds, the commission said.
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EN ROUTE WITH NIXON— Pat Nixon took over briefly for her ailing husband yesterday and told an Oklahoma City Republican rally that we are “willing to work night and day in our attempt” to re-elect President Eisenhower.
The auburn-haired wife of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, who was suffering from laryngitis and virus influenza, relieved him for about two minutes on the platform of Oklahoma City and drew a tremendous cheer from the crowd of more than 1,100 jamr'ed into the Skirvin Tower Hotel ballroom.
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HONOLULU — Los Angeles Attorney Milton Golden announced yesterday he w ill seek ■lection as mayor of Los Angles when his friend Norris ’oulson ends his current term i office.
Golden and his wife are here >n a combined business and ideasure trip carrying credentials from both Poulson and •jOV. Goodwin J. Knight.
He made the announcement today while paying his respects to Honolulu Mayor Neal Blaisdell, saying he had decided to announce his can-
The enrollment this semester at this third state college campus in the Los Angeles area reached 1,500 full and part-time
students.
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BILLINGS, Mont.—Teenagers, estimated by police to
INDIANS
Group Plans Gandhi Fete As Memorial
The birthday of Mahatama Gandhi, the martyr of India, will be commemorated by the Indian Student Association next Tuesday.
The Commemoration will be presided over by the Acting Dean of Students, Clinton A. Neyman. Included in the program will be a talk on Gandhi’s life by Judith Tyberg, a student of Dr. Rad-haknishanan, vice president of India. Films on the same subject will also be shown.
The Association yesterday asked students interested in taking part in a panel discussion on the various aspects of Mahatama Gandhi’s life and its impact on the world to contact Brahama D. Sharma. Sharma. secretary of the group, may be reached at the Chemistry Department, Science A105, Ext. 286.
The Commemoration will be held in the International Student Lounge at 4:30 p.m.
Junior Class Council Openings Announced
Petitions for membership in the junior class council will be available tomorrow, Larry Sipes, junior class president, announced.
The petitions are to be picked up at, and returned to, room 215, Student Union, he added.
number “a rough 500,” thronged a downtown sore yeserday when a local radio station announced that “Alvis” would be there.
The station, KOYN, was broadcasting from the store by remote control in observance of its first anniversary on the air.
At the appointed time a monkey dressed in a black and red cowboy suit and carrying a guitar appeared. A sign on its back read: “I’m Alvis.”
The appearance of the animal brought shrieks from the crowd, expecting to see “Elvis” Presley, the rock-and-roll recording star.
The stunt also brought a | groan from Station Manager j Robert Eubanks. ‘‘They let the air out of my getaway car,”
| he said.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.— Democratic Vice Preside n t i a 1 ; Candate Estes Kefauver last ! nigh* blamed President Eisenhower for the defeat of school construction and atomic power | plant bills in the last session of | Congress.
The Tennessee senator said j Mr. Eisenhower “did not care | enough to direct and organize the Republican minorities in : Congress" in support of the j school construction bill.
Kelauver added, “Mr. Eisenhower turned on the heat w'hich I produced the heaviest lobbying in this session of Congress to defeat a Democratic sponsored ! bill that would have provided 1 for the Federal Government to build atomic power plants.”
Class Changes
Corrections in Fall semester schedule:
CINEMA: add 440b (2) Adv. Sound 10-11:50 F 1229 Wiegand Cine 104a COMMERCE: B.A. add 462 (2) Mgmt. of Small Ind. 8 TTh 1578 Class Br 110 Fin: reinstate 467 (2) Real Estate Law 8 TTh 1746 Bowman Br 204 EDUCATION:	TT:	change
room 456a, 456b, 457a, 457b to FH 112
ECONOMICS: change 532 ’to FH 110 ENGLISH: add 100z (3) Engl, for Foreign Students 9 MTWTF 3764 Anx 20.3 change 100a H3717 to FH 121, 250b 3782 to FH 108, 300 R 3800 to FH 114, 352a to FH 106, 442 to FH 110, 493a to FH 209
ENGINEERING: Chem: change 204 H2903 to Sp B 205, 441a to j Sp B 204 Elee: change 485 to ¡ Anx 104 drop 325L H3106. 329L : H3115, 471 H3190, 482 H3206, 545a H3230, 556 H3255, 560a , H3260 Gen: drop 104 H3305, 106 j H3314 Mech: add 525a (3) Engr. ! Anal. 1:15 MWF H3575 Engr 104c drop 530a H3578. 4<2 H3552. \ 512 H3563 Petr: add 303L (1) Petr. Prod. Anal. 2:15-5:05 Tu H3603 Engr 300 FRENCH: change 204a to FH I
I that "studies on the occurrence i of lung cancer in terms of frequency, geographic susceptibility, occupational exposures and 1 sexual differences in its incidence strongly suggest that at-i mospheric pollution may play a role in its development.”
Dr. Kotin, together with Dr. Hurley Motley, director of the eardio-respiratory laboratory at the School of Medicine, made the revelation yesterday after five years of research in the field of lung cancer in its relation to air pollution.
“We have observed and demonstrated the presence of known potent cancer producing substances in the atmosphere,” Dr. Kotin testified. "In all cities where the atmosphere ha? ’*c<?n tested «for these agents they have been found,*" he added, pointing out that the Los Angeles smog problem is not peculiar to this city alone.
“Our problem is not having pollutants that other cities do not possess, but rather having them present in greater concentrations for more prolonged periods of time.”
“Los Angeles,” he continued, “is peculiarly unfortunate in that not only are these cancer-producing chemicals present, but other chemicals that are present during the highest concentrations of smog make the biological activity of these carcinogens more likely and more efficient.” Pollution Problem In discussing how the air pollution problem could be eliminated in this area. Dr. Kotin said that “laundering of the atmosphere would sufficiently reduce the concentration of these chemicals so that a person could live his normal three score years and ten before the cancer-causing agents could produce a cancer.”
But Dr. Kotin also said the local problem is world-wide and “I would not for one minute suggest that the Los Angeles problem can be solved independent of solving the problem elsewhere.”
Dr. Kotin, in speaking of the effects of the polluted air, said an average healthy person at present can recover rapidly and completely from a smog attack as soon as the smog is removed.
Should Pass Exam He defined an average healthy person as one capable of passing an insurance physical examination or able to maintain a job requiring moderate physical activity.
"No one questions or denies the adverse effect on people on the irritant level,” Dr. Kotin told the assemblage.
“Recovery from the irritating effects of smog is rapid and
Rodeo Editors To Meet Today
Newly-appointed editors of the 1957 El Rodeo will meet today at 2:15 in SU 326 for a run-down on their respective responsibilities, according to the yearbook's editor, Tom Pflimlin.
Persons interested in working on the yearbook are advised to check in with Pflimlin today between 1 and 3 p.m.
“Experience, credit, and a chance to work your way up is the reward awaiting any prosective yearbook workers,” Pflimlin said.
Secretaries, writers, and layout personnel are needed for the book, slated to be the largest in history, he added.
Activity points will be awarded to sorority and club members.
MATHEMATICS: change 3201 completç following restoration H5168 to FH 202	of	a	non-smoggy	environment.
ROGER J. TRAYNOR
Justice Praises SC Law School
No evidence of previous exposure can be found. Further, there is nothing to indicate that repeated exposures produce greater effects than earlier exposures.”
"In other words, no increasing susceptibility to the effects of pollutants on the acute level ha» been demonstrated.” he stated.
Rapid Recovery
A sick person may have a severe reaction to smog, he said, but even these people recover rapidly and almost completely to the pre-exposure level when air pollution is over, he continued.
"One must remember that agents eap«*uie of inducing can-rzr may be active at a time when all known tests for lung function or the examination of the lungs reveals no evidence of their activity. It is only after the development of the cancer that one can go back and 6tudy possible causes.”
Smog Dangers Life, Love, Job Claim Experts
Smog can be fatal to industry, marriages, and even life itself if more knowledge and control of it is not immediately developed.
This was the warning given to the State Assembly Public Health Subcommittee yesterday by noted scientists, professors of medicine, and pharmacologists.
Dr. Dermot Taylor, professor of pharmacology at UCLA who investigated the 1952 London smog disaster w hich killed nearly 4000 people, said that coronary cases were the first to go, respiratory cases next.
So little was known about the prevention and effects of smog during the London siege. Dr. Taylor said, that “few knew what had happened until the attack was over.”
In Donora. Pa., w here half the population of the small city was wiped out by the sagging smog, testifying authorities said prevention and cause of the attack was not known.
Dr. Leslie A. Chambers, director of research for the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District, warned that if air above Los Angeles stagnated for several days under a 500-foot inversion ceiling, the public would simply stop breathing.
Work and health, even the marriages of Los Angeles citizens, could be effected by smog, stated Dr. H. T. Brickman, assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA, “because smog changes their attitudes and may even make some "psychological cripples become mental invalids.
California Supreme Court Justice Roger J. Traynor might be a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, but he s a man who appreciates SCs highly-ranked School of Law.
“You men are to be congratulated on your choice of law school.” the juror told a luncheon meeting of Nu Beta Epsilon legal fraternity yesterday in the Commons.
He was introduced to the group by Ray R. Goldie, president of the SC chapter of the national law' organization.
An ex-professor of law at Cal, Judge Traynor was formerly the tax consultant for the California State Board of Equalization and the United States Treasury Department. He was deputy attorney-general for the state before being appointed a Supreme Court associate justice by Governor Culbert L. Olson on August 13, 1940.
Visiting Los Angeles with the
other judges of the court. Traynor was high in his praise of SCs School of Law.
“It is a pleasure to speak before the excellent students and | fine faculty here.”
Judge Traynor gave what Goldie called a “terrific send off” to the law school. This was the judge's initial speaking en-' gagement before Nu Beta Epsilon.
“Your law school teaches well how to ‘block and tackle in law,” Judge Tra\nor said.
Much of the judge's talk concerned his experiences in law’ and jurisprudence. He explained to the eager students and faculty the various ways to get a case before the state Supreme Court.
With Judge Traynor as an j honored guest was Judge David j Coleman of the Superior Court. ! The SC chapter of Nu Beta Epsilon is named the Coleman ; chapter after the noted juror, Goldie explained.	J
Official
Notice
The graduate courses in Religion will be offered by the Southern California School of Theology in cooperation with the University of Southern California at the University Methodist Church building. 817 West 31st Street.
For room schedule see notice posted at the office of the School of Theology, 3411' j South Hoover Boulevard (second floor), and on official University bulletin boards.
Graduate students who desire to obtain their diploma* from the University of Southern California register and pay their tuition in the usual manner through the registration facilities of the University.
John D. Cooke Acting Dean. Graduate School A. S. Kauhenheimer Educational Vice-President