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SUMMER	TROJAN
Vol. XII	Los	Angeles,	California,	Monday,	August	19,	1957	No.	13
Fire Perils Doheny Library
■—Courtesy L.A. Times
READY FOR ACTION—White-shirted Charles Miller, assistant librarian at SC, gets a final check on his breathing apparatus from a fireman before entering a smoke-filled section of Doheny Library to assess the extent of fire damage.
—Summer Trojan Photo bv Jack Towers
RUINED ARCHIVES—Burned vol umes of magazines and newspapers testify to the "thousands of dollars" in losses caused by last week's Doheny fire. SC officials are hopeful that some of the charred back issues may be restored or replaced.
Visiting Violinist Offers 2 Concerts
William Kroll, well-known violinist who is teaching at SC during the Post Session, will give a pair of free public recitals at SC in the next two weeks. The first will be given Thursday evening and the next on the following Thursday, August 28.
Each concert will be heard in ------------------
Hancock Auditorium at 8:30. j At SC this summer, Kroll is In Thursday’s concert, Kroll teaching two classes. They are will play the Sonata in C Major string and piano chamber music from Opus 2 by Mozart and the! and individual instruction in Sonata in F Major, Opus 24. by violin. This is the Eastern
Beethoven. He will also be heard in the Sonata in E Flat. Opus 18, by Strauss. Emanuel Bay, pianist, will accompany the violinist.
Three More Sonatas Three more sonatas will highlight the August 28 program. Kroll will play the Sonata in B Flat Major, Opus 15, by Mozart; Sonata in C Minor, Opus 30, Number 2, by Beethoven; and Sonata in D Major, Opus 9-4. by Prokofieff. Lillian Steuber will be the pianist on this program.
Kroll, who is a visiting professor of music from Peabody Conservatory, came to SC from the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, Mass., where he is co-head of the chamber music Study «group.
Native New Yorker A native of New York, he studied at its Institute of Musical Arts and the Royal Academy of Berlin. As first violinist with the Coolidge String Quartet, he has appeared in concert in the world’s major cities.
musician’s second summer at SC. He taught classes during the
1956	Post Session, also.
Popenoe to Talk at Parents' Meet
SC MW SCHOOL TO HOST FEDERAL TAX INSTITUTE
The proper relationship between attorneys and accountants in handling income tax matters for their clients will be the theme of the 10th annual Institute of Federal Taxation at the SC School of Law Thursday through Sunday.
Current tax problems facing corporations, partnerships and persons living under community property states will be discussed by 29 speakers from throughout the nation. Tax matters of interest to life insurance underwriters will also be on the program.
The respective roles of lawyers and accountants in tax practice will be outlined by Dean Erwin N. Griswold of Harvard Law School and John W. Queenan, C.P.A. of New York City.
Dr. Paul, Popenoe, executive director of the American Institute i of Family relations, will give one of the principal addresses at the fourth annual West Coast 1 Conference on Preparation for Parenthood at SC Thursday through Sunday.
Dr. Popenoe will speak on | ‘‘The Emotional Climate of the Family’» -at 3:45 p.m. Friday in FH 133.
Discussion topics at the con-
•	ference will include “The Role of the Husband in Labor and Delivery,” “Prevention of Pos-! ture Defects in Infancy,” “Laying the Foundations of Mental. Health in Early Childhood,” and | “Nutritional Advances in Ob-1 stetrics and Pediatircs.”
Also speaking during the con- j ference will be Dr. Miles New- ; ton,. University of Mississippi psychiatry professor; Dr. Arnold Kegel, SC gynecologist; Dr. James A. Peterson, SC marriage counselor and sociology professor: and physicians, nurses, obstetricians, physical therapists and psychologists from throughout the nation.
Actress Mala Powers will be a model at the “Maternity Morale” fashion show and tea, at which officers of the League for New Parents will be hostesses. The show-tea will be held Saturday at 4 p.m. in the YWCA. Door prizes will be given.
All interested parents, future parents, physicians and professional workers may attend, according to Dr. Mary Jane Hun-gerford of the AIFA education department, conference director.
Registration fees for single meetings will be 50 cents; for a full day’s session, $2.50: and for the entire conference. $6. A week’s workshop for nurses and physical therapists* will be held following the conference. Registration for this is $25.
Additional information may be obtained by contacting Mrs. Leila Randall in the Student Health Center, RI 8-2311, Ext. 262.
Cause Still In Question
By GARRY SHORl Summer Trojan Editor
The newspaper room of Doheny Library remains charred today following a fire of “undetermined origin” that roared through the basement of the building early Tuesday afternoon.
The blaze, which for a few minutes threatened the entire five-story structure, sent hundred of studious students scurrying outside to watch the excitement.
Ventilators in the basement tunneled billows of ¿moke out many of the main floor windows.
According to Acting Hoad Librarian Hazel Rea, actual damage to the myriad asfwspapers and periodicals des< ' ed in the fire is not yet known.
Thousands of Dollars
“We can’t say exactly how much damage has been done, but it will run into the thousands of dollars,” she said.
The fire, which started sometime between 1 and 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, appeared to have begun ioj a stack of newspapers directly under a shelf of old volumes of the London Times.
The blaze spread rapidly up the shelf to the ceiling of the windowless room. From here it sped across the ceiling, eating old paint and destroying many volumes stored on higher shelves.
Originally Thought
It was originally thought that a cigarette caused the blaze, despite the “No Smoking” rule which prevails throughout the SC library.
However, an arson investigator indicated over the weekend that the blaze was not caused by a cigarette.
“I can’t say what did caus* the fire,” Investigator Norman Jackson said. “But I can tell you what we believe didn’t cause it.”
He rattled off a lengthy list of possible causes, none of wlvch had enough evidence to make them tenable. “You take it from there,” he said.
Although cautious, his statement seemed to leave the door open 4o the possibility that the fire might have been started deliberately. But he would not confirm or deny this. Jackson will be on campus for more investigatory work this week.
According to Miss Rea—acting head librarian in place of Lewis Stieg who is presently- in Turkey—there are two entrances to the newspaper room. They are supposed to be locked at all times.
Quite Easy
“However,” she added, “it is quite possible that one of the employees might not have closed the door tightlv earlier in the
dav.”
The rest rooms are located about 10 steps down the hall from one of the entrances. The possibility of student access to the room would therefore be quite easy, she said.
“No undergraduate students are permitted in the basement,” Miss Rea added. “Only graduate students and students with special permission for research are allowed in the newspaper and magazine stacks.” And. she said, these students must use the only entrance by the periodical desk on the main floor.