End of TRG Bewilders Politicians
Southern
Galrforoist
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL XLVIH
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1956
NO. 60
PHARMACEUTICAL HEIROGLYPHICS — Two
students search for the components of a prescription — a hard task. SC Science Li-
brarian Mrs. Gertrude Lcbell assists in translating European prescriptions which stump many California druggists.
DECIPHERING
Translating Prescriptions Require Expert Personnel
Reading a doctor’s handwriting is often difficult enough, but combine it with a foreign language and you have the problem that Mrs. Gertrude Lobell, science librarian at SC faces almost every day.
‘•Deciphering” European prescriptions ha* been an unofficial part of Mrs. Lobell s work during the eight years she has been at SC.
Because she was born in Austria and has worked as a pharmacist. Mrs. Lobell has been given the task of translating the prescriptions received hy the School of Pharmacy from various druggists who are unable to make them out.
Immigrant Prescriptions
The prescriptions are either given to druggists by recent immigrants to this country or sent to friends or relatives by people behind the Iron Curtain, where the drugs are unavailable or too expensive.
Most of them come from druggists in California cities, but Mrs. Lobell has received them from the Midwest and even directly from Tel Aviv and Athens.
Although Mrs. Lobell has always had requests, they have been averaging one a day since the School of Pharmacy, in a September issue of West Coast
Druggist, offered her services to the pharmaceutical profession.
Breezes Through Latin The more common European languages give Mrs. Lobell no trouble, but she does have difficulty with some of the Slavic ones.
Ladislaus Bodor, Hungarian-born former pharmacist now working in the main SC library, has been able to translate most of these, however.
If the prescriptions are in Latin. Mrs. Lobell, with her pharmacy experience, is able to breeze through them.
"Latin is almost a universal pharmacists’ language,” she said. “It is used exclusively by those in Europe.”
She feels that American schools of pharmacy should not discontinue teaching Latin to their students.
The main problem in deciphering the prescriptions is determining the American name for the drugs mentioned or finding suitable substitutes for the foreign drugs not available here.
Consults Drug Lists By consulting various international drug lists and asking the Los Angeles representatives of foreign pharmaceutical houses, Mrs. Lobell has been able to do this in almost every case.
Before coming to SC, Mrs. Lobell was a reference assistant in the Schenectady, N.Y., public library and also had done research for eastern pharmaceutical firms.
Taking her degrees In the customary European order, the reverse of our system. Mrs. Lobell received her Ph.D. in chemistry and master’s in pharmacy from the University in her native Vienna, and her bachelor’s in library science from Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, after coming to the United States, in 1940.
Each A Challenge
Although she finds each prescription challenging, the job of translation is in addition to her regular library work, so Mrs. Lobell was somewhat surprised one morning to read this note received by the School of Pharmacy:
“We have read in a pharmaceutical bulletin that your librarian makes a hobby of translating 6uch foreign prescriptions. Please let her try this one.”
Accompanying the note was a •prescription illegibly written in Polish.
Mrs. Lobell’s translation went out by return air mail that afternoon.
SUNKEN TREASURE
Gambling Divers
Seek $1,000,000
DARWIN — (UP)—Japanese r falvage experts are gambling 170.000 in hopes of getting more than a million dollars in sunken bullion.
The Okadagumi Company of fokyo has bought the remains »f four ships lying on the bottom of Darwin harbor where they were sunk in a World War II air raid Feb. 19, 1942.
There has never been an official denial that one of the ships, the American destroyer Peary,( had more than a million dollars worth of Philiopine’s gold aboard when she went down. The other three ships bought were the Meigs. Mauna Loa and Zealan-dia.
Darwin Beachcomber
The salvage company paid a Darwin beachcomber. Carl Atkinson. $70,000 for rights to the •hips. Atkinson has owned the four hulks for more than 10 years after “buying" them right after the war for a few hundred pounds.
Skindiver Atkinson salvaged two trucks from the freighter Mauna Loa in 1946. but when Australian customs officials tried to collect duty on them, he calmly dropped the vehicles back into the ocean.
Three years later the officials changed their minds and Atkinson was allowed to land dutyfree any material he salvaged from the four hu^s. The trucks
were again raised and brought ashore. They were found to be in astonishingly good mechanical condition with the tires still inflated.
Trucks Aboard
Atkinson said there are at least 100 more trucks aboard the Mauna Loa which he has never bothered to salvage. Although he has made a careful search of the Peary, Atkinson claism he has never been able to locate the bullion. It reportedly was put aboard the destroyer just prior to the fall of the Phillipines, and still was aboard when Japanese planes bombed and sank the ships here.
Amateur Digger Strikes Rich Find
HONEOYE FALLS. N. Y. — (UP)—Hundreds of relics dating back to the Laurentian culture, 3000 B.C.. are reported in a rich archeological find at Honeoye Lake.
Original work at the site, an 85-acre tract about one-half mile south of U.S. Route 20A. was carried out by Harry Schoff of Holcomb, an amateur arche-ologist.
Schoff turned up tome 20 burial pits which produced skeletons of a people described as of the Point Peninsula culture, dating to the time of Jesus Christ.
Pan Highway Opens Areas In Venezuela
CARACAS — (UP) — Paving of two six-mile sections of Venezuela's part of the Pan Ameri-man Highway, south of Aren-ales, will complete a vital hemispheric road link.
It will open newT areas to agricultural and economic development, and provide a scenic route over which tourists can drive for 600 miles in perfect comfort.
The new Pan American Highway link will serve an area that includes over 65 per cent of this country’s 6.000.000 population. Already thousands of settlers are moving into the rich bottomland south of Lake Maracaibo heretofore inaccessible. The Agrian Institute of Venezuela has begun plans for a 50,000-acre agricultural colony in the area. It will be populated largely by immigrants from Europe.
New Link Made
Driving time from Caracas to the Columbian border has been halved to 16 hours. Paved roads, well marked with modern route signs, with speed limits in open stretches of 55 miles per hour, replace a tortuous dusty route that made the drive a real strain for both driver and passengers. Cargo carriers have found that the new road reduces their carrying cost per ton over the route by some 40 per cent. Farmers and cattle raisers all along the way are now making greater profits. The trips to market are faster—and perishable goods arrive much more quickly.
Police Explore Abrams Death Murder Angle
Caltech Head Ente Case, Defends Scho
By JIM BYLIN
An ingenious method of shooting invisible, odorless, carbon monoxide through the thin back wall o* Sheldon Abrams’ one room bungalow while the UCLA political science student slept unsuspectingly is the latest supposition concerning the April 20 edath by officials closely connected with the revived investigation.
Investigators disclosed that a car may have been backed up to the rear wall which cradled the head of Abrams’ bed on the other side. By the use of a commercial cylinder, carbon monoxide may have been pumped through the wrall causing a lethal 71 per cent saturation in the student’s blood.
Authoritative books on poisons note that ceilings and walls are easily penetrated by carbon monoxide.
Recent reports said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was going to step in on the investigation. John Malone, chief of the Los Angeles FBI office, told the DT that, wrhether it was an accident or murder, the FBI is “not interested because it’s out of our jurisdiction.”
When asked about other aspects of the case, Malone said that, of course, the bureau is following it very closely, but that he had “no comment to make on the matter at this time.”
Caltech Enters Investigation
Caltech has also entered into the investigation with a telegram from President Lee A. Du-Bridge to Hugh M. Burns (D-Fresno), chairman of the State Senate Committee on Un-American Activities. The telegram requested further information from Richard E. Combs, committee counsel, concerning reference in a significant letter written by Abrams to “five Stalinist students” at ending the Pasadena school.
This important letter, according to Sombs, told of Abrams attending a meeting in Pasadena with the Caltech students, a representative of the French Communist Party, top local Communists, and several Trotskyites.
Because of the large amount of material in the apparently ransacked room. Combs surmised that the killers probably overlooked this letter.
Abrams Wrote I'p Meetings
Attending such a meeting and then “writing it all up” was probably Abrams’ indiscretion, Combs said.
Combs also added that this w^as important to the committee in that it was the first evidence in this country of the new “popular front” unity in the party line, set dowTi by the new Soviet Party Boss Kruschev last February.
President DuBridge, in wiring Senator Burns, said “I am gravely concerned about the statement made in your committee hearings concerning the acivities of an alleged Stalinist group among Caltech students. We have had no previous indication of the existence of such a group.
“I respectfully request you provide us with such additional information as will assist us to investigate and take prompt and appropriate action.”
Dr. DuBridge added that the campus isn’t carrying on any classified wrork and that for such work off campus, clearance by appropriate military security agencies is needed.
Another Killing Investigated
The mysterious happenings surrounding the Abrams death has also caused the resurrection of an eight-year-old killing of another UCLA student—Everitt Hudson.
Hudson was found in 1948 in the basement furnace pit of a dormitory. State investigators gathered evidence that showed he had been lowered into the pit after death.
It appeared that possibly both Hudson and Abrams may have been on the edge of turning states evidence on Communist contacts.
If new evidence in the case continues to grow, Chairman Burns, Sen. John F. Thompson (R-San Jose) and Combs have voiced the opinion that they may refer the case to Attorney General Edmund G. Brown and District Attorney William B. McKesson.
SC Engineers Dismiss Class To Hear Panel
A panel discussion on “What Industry Looks for in College Graduates” will keynote an all-engineering assembly today at 11 a.m. in 133 FH, it was announced Friday.
The panel will consist of outstanding men from various industrial fields, according to Dr. Robert E. Vivian, dean of the SC School ot Engineering. All engineering classes will be dismissed at 11 a.m. to permit attendance at the assembly.
Professor Homer Grant, head of the SC Industrial Engineering Department, will be on the panel. Professor Grant will be the discussion moderator.
“A good turnout at this assembly will promote additional activities in the future,” said Rod Barfield, assembly committee chairman.
SC Freshman Popular Radio Disk Jockey
By ANDY ARLOTTO
The “Village Idiot,” known for the “Fungus Show with music that grows on you” prowls SC’s sidewalks.
SC students see him everyday—particularly freshmen.
Ken Cotier is the name. He is a freshman majoring in telecommunication.
An “oldtimer” on radio, Ken Cotier recalls the day’five years ago when at 13 he applied for his first radio job and was turned down. Mutual Don Lee Station KVOE told the Anaheim High freshman to “wait for next summer.”
Cotier couldn’t wait. He took a survey of how many Anaheim High students were familiar with Station KVOE — “only eight students had heard of the station.” Survey in hand, Cotier returned to the station w'here he had met defeat. This time he was hired.
Intensive Training
KVOE disk jockeys then put Cotier through five months of radio “boot camp.” A Saturday afternoon program from 12 to 12:30 p.m. was his rew'ard for lessons well learned.
The Monday after his birth as a disk jockey, Cotier’s station w-ent independent and changed its call letters to KWIZ. Radio KWIZ AM-FM serves Orange County and Long Beach. At the same time his show was increased to an hour.
The Cotier show caught fire. By the time he was a junior at Anaheim, his program had mushroomed into a daily affair: 4 to 5 p.m. during the week, 12 noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. That year “Pulse” rated his “Turn Table” show as “the most listened to program in the Orange County - Long Beach area.”
“Students so crowded the show,” Cotier related, “that we had to quit having audience participation such as on-the-air dances. Theaters complained that their business was slumping due to our program,” he laughed. A “Turn Table” fan club suffered the same “too-big” malady and w'as disbanded when it boiled over at 7000 strong.
Cotier’s “Turn Table” specializes in rock and roll, popular, Dixieland and zither disks. Saturday and Sunday night’s showrs reach an estimated audience of 700,000 according to Cotier.
The frosh disk jockey declared his program a “public service” featuring:
1.	Music for love from 10:30 p.m. to midnight.
2.	No commercials after 10 p.m.
3.	Weather and the time to keep the populace of lover’s lane posted.__
Notice
Will the person who mailed currency to the DEPARTMENT OF COLLECTIONS D«c. 10 please come to the office to identify the account to which it should be credited.
Capt. B. K. Culver.
TNE Calm Over Probe To Be Held
Many Investigations Haven’t Hurt Long
Theta Nu Epsilon, long a threatening shadow' over SC student politics, is about to come under its almost-annual investigation by opposition politicians on the ASSC Senate. Ex-TRG leader Dave Gershenson suggested the investigation last w'eek, and a committee will be appointed and go to work after the holidays.
Gershenson says much for his evidence, claiming that he has names, signed papers and “men and women willing to testify.” It is generaly accepted that the now-partlyess party leader was once a member of TNE and knows much.
TNE leaders, however, are unafraid of investigation. Since then-President Rufus B. von KIeinSmid outlawed the Tong after World War II, investigations of TNE activities have been almost as annual as student elections.
Like this year, TNE members and leaders always get far less exc;ter1 Ir- :	tions than
does their opposition.
Joe Cerrell, TNEs perennial enemy in campus politics, characterized matters of investigation well at TRG’s final meeting.
"We presented Dean of Students Bernard Hyink (now on leave with a Middle Eastern university) with all sorts of evidence proving TNE’s existence, membership and work,” he said. The dean asked the men who presented the evidence, "What am I supposed to do?”
Typical of administration and faculty feeling toward TNE is the thought of the Student Activities Committee that the Tong is a student problem. As long as TNE’s illegal activities are kept at a minimum and can’t he proved, little action will be taken by the university.
“We do nothing worse than our opposition,” on'’ accredit*^ TNE member said. Even violent TNE haters can’t find great fault with any Tong political action since the Spring. 1954 election, when TNE supposedly stuffed ballot boxes for successful presidential candidate Bill Van Alstyne and then tried to blackmail BVA into following Tong orders.
Bare Resistance Remains to Halt TNE Organization
By JERRY A. BURNS
Student leaders swam in a sea of confusion Friday after the breakup of the Trojans for Representative Government political party.
Campus politicians on both the outlawed Tau Nu Epsilon side and on the ex-TRG side floundered in the heavy surf of bewilderment at
what turn politics must take
soon.
As of now, TNE apparently holds the upper hand, as organized resistance is non-existent on the surface. It is obvious, hovyever, that TRG leaders are not rolling over and playing dead.
Unified Party
A new party, featuring new people and fewer but more unified fraternities and sororities, is now in the making. Leaders are to include Dick McAdoo, senior president; Greg Taylor, Blue Key president; and Joe Cerrell, ex-TRG leader.
Dave Gershenson, who resigned as TRG head only minutes before the Thursday night end of the party, may also carry lots of weight in the new organization.
Houses Will be Dropped
But the new party won’t be TRG with a new face. Several TRG houses, tainted with TNE's red and green colors, will get the axe. Also some houses whose support of TRG was very small will be missing from the new party.
New faces might pop up on the party’s scene. When argueing for the life of TRG, Gershenson said that the party’s potential presidential candidates w'ere Larry Sipes, junior class president; Dick Walker, former sophomore class president; and Morton Schoenherr. LAS president.
New Faces
“No new candidates will come from a new party,” Gershenson said in his futile efforts for TRG. Inside sources say that a newf face or two must be found to save a new party.
TNE reaction to the surprise move was one of confusion. Im
Official
Notice
Dr. Paul E. Hadley has an nounced that the Letters, Arts and Sciences’ advisement office will be open for council-Ing on the following days: December 19, 20 — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
December 21—9 a.m. to 12 noon.
December 26, 27 — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
December 28 — 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Dutch Carillon Plays Chimes For Christmas
WASHINGTON (UP) — A 49-bell carillon, given to the United States by the Netherlands as an expression of gratitude, will be played as part of a program which precedes President Eisenhower’s Christmas message.
Spectators at the annual "Pageant of Peace” celebration on Dec. 20 will see the President throw a light switch signaling the start of American tree-lighting ceremonies at embassies and bases all over the world.
He will be accompanied by traditional chimes from the carillon, w'hich was presented to the United States by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands as an expression of gratitude from the Dutch people for assistance the United States gave during and after World War II.
A Dutch writer thought of the idea of giving a carillon — a product which his country manufactures. Carillon playing flourished in 17th century Holland and remains one of that nation's famous traditions.
mediately after the TRS breakup at 11:45 Thursday night Tong and ex-TRG men migrated to Julie's Restaurant. Tong faces beamed when the pianist pounded out several bars of "Happy day on the birth and nourish-fight song.
Next day, however, the tune was not so happy. TNE didn't know. Anything could be in the wind. TNE’s usual advantage of surprise wa. now in the proven hands of McAdoo, Taylor, Cerrell and company.
Cerrell the Key
Cerrell, admitted elder of SC politics, will claim a lesser part in the new party. He said the same thing regarding this year s TRG, but was the key man in the break-up move.
Cerrell, decked out in his Christmas Show Santa Claus costume, was the fitting figure in the final death of TRG. For it was Joe, then three years younger, who worked night and day on the birth and nourishment of the party.
The hands that molded th® party also destroyed the mold.
“TRG cannot get any more candidates with the stigma attached to its name on campus,'* he cried to the final meeting at the Acacia fraternity house.
Death Kiss
Joe Cerrell was clad in red with black boots when he put the kiss of death on TRG. After his heated talk, fraternities, sororities and independents voted 21 in favor of dissolutionment, three opposed, and two abstained.
Houses sticking with Gershenson for TRG's life were Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority. Alpha Om-icron Pi sorority and Delta Tau Delta fraternity. AEPhi and AOPi stuck because they have always been strong TRG supporters, and the Delts refused to jump ship because their Dick Walker has always been close to Gershenson.
Able Leader
Abstainers were Zeta Beta Tau. Gershenson's own house, and Phi Gamma Delta, whose representative didn’t know what his members wanted.
Dave Gershenson showed more ability than many TRG members had given him credit for when he was pressured by a snowballing move for TRG break-up.
“I’m in favor of complete reorganization, but this is a terri-ble time to dissolve the party.
Official
Notice
The Christmas recess for all University students will be from Dec. 19-Jan. 1, inclusive.
All University Offices will be closed from Friday noon through Tu^day (Dec. 21-25 incl.) and from Friday noon through Tuesday (Dec. 28-1an. 1 incl.).
E. C. Bolton R. D. Fisher A. S. Raubenheimer.
JUNIOR DISC JOCKEY—Surrounded by a few of his fans, SC freshman and popular Orange County disc jockey Ken Cotier has been spinning platters over radio waves
since he was 13. Cotler s show is presently heard Saturday and Sunday evenings over station KWIZ, 1480 on the radio dial. Cotier is a telecom major at SC.
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