SC Honoraries Tap New Members
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1959
NO. 63
Blue Key Takes 16 Men Students
SC Pair Finds Havana Hot Spot For Honeymoon With Revolution
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1h« Communist country.
Panel member'- on “Red China Report" will ho Groree Char. SC gradual student from Red China. Dr. Theodore Chen, panel moderator and head of the A-iat'c studi«« department. Rob-r>t «"'oh^n, t'CL\ graduate stu-r’~nt who visited Red China in 1°" »nd Jim Bylin, Daily Trojan editor.
Lived In China Char, educated in Ppkin® \m**riran School and the Cat hope University. Peking, lived in Communist China until July. 1950. As !>n educator, he taught in four Chinese universities before his denariure. His current occupation deals with theatrical dance.
Cohen was one of 41 America ns who defied the wishes of the Denartment of State and visited Red China after attending the Moscow Youth Festival in 1957. In China he observed hospitals, prisons, universities, collective farms, factories, and saw cultural and nvUtary achievements. lie will discuss these observations and illustrate them with 50 colored slides.
Chinese Were Friendly Cohen re?)orted that the Chinese people were friendly and helpful and seemed to like the American trave’ers in soite of the differences between the two countries and anti-American propaganda.
In addition to 1he slides. Cohen will show his Peking opera jacket and a National military uniform.
The program is sp<«isored by Della Phi Epsilon, foreign service and foreign trade fraternity, under the direction of President Frank Simpson.
ter. Four honorary members were also appointed.
Those men “tapped" by the fraternity are Stan Arkin. senator-at-large: Dayle Barnes, sen-a1or-at-large and past Squire president: Jim Bylin, Dailv Troian editor: Bob Chick. AMS vice president, Mike Donohew, senator-at-large.
Tom Hodges. Men’s Judicial Council: Wallv Karabian, junior c'ass nresident:	Denny Kouri:
. Knights vice president and Men s Judicial Council: Larrv Lichty, ^enator-at-large; Mike Loshin. ^enator-at-larce: John McMahon. M^n's Tudicial Council and Tro-. lios Chairman. Jim Stewart, ^ongfest chairman:	Garv	Z’m-
merman. IFC president; Joe Tare«;. Daily Trojan managing editor: Joel Fischer, past Senate Parlementarian:	and Dick
Block, “outstandine” band member were also chosen.
Graded on Service
The selection of new men is based on scholarship, leadership, character, and significant service given to the university. Green said.
The four honorary members chosen were Dr. J. E. Harley, nrofes^or of nolitical science: Dr. Paul Saltman. associate professor of biorh^mistrv and nutrition: Dr. William Snyder, assistant professor of philosonhv; and Dr. Jerry Wulk, counselor of men.
Banquet Planned
An initiation banouet honoring new members will be held next Tuesday. Dr. Norman Topping will be the guest speaker. Actives and initiates will meet tomorrow at noon in the international students lounge.
B’ue Key has 104 chanters in colleges and universities throughout the United States. The chapter at SC was initiated in 1932. A local honorary known as the Bachelors w a s in existence at CC before the advent of Blue Kev.
ROBERT COHEN
. . . UCLA Graduate
Drama Sets Four Plays
Four one-act plays including an original written by an SC' graduate student will be presumed tonight at 8:30 in Stop Gap Theatre at Exposition Blvd. and 37th St.
"The Tea Concession" by Hen-rv Hemp-Blair. an SC graduate student and presently an in-•tructor in the speech department of Lonf Beach State College. will be one of the four to be enacted by members of the experimental theater class. Class members will also direct the performances.
Some of the students who will be seen in the plays are Tom Costello and l.ois Kimbtvll, wiic appeared oil last weeks Playhouse 90 telev ision product on. lyd Mast in, Michael O'Neil and Nina Shaw.	«
Law School Eliminated InMootCourt
The SC School of Law’s two-man team got to the quarterfinals in the National Moot Court Competition in New York City last week before being eliminated by Rutgers Univer-
sit V.
The team, consisting of Ernest Schag Jr. and Thomas Lisle Schechter, both graduate students. defeated the University of Tennessee and the University of Kansas in the first two rounds of competition.
Contestants were judged on the basis of written briefs and oral arguments on a pre-selected case. All of the teams argued the same case.
This was the first time SC has advanced to the National finals.
Earth Weight Is Increasing
The earth is getting heavier by nearly three and one-half million tons each year, reports Dr. John Russell, head of the SC astronomy department.
Dr. Russell said recently that the great mass of meteor fall which annually strikes the earth is a “mere drop in the bucket.” however in relation to the lotal weight of ihe earth.
Only in the “incredibly distant future" could this added weight have any bearing on the earth's rotation, he pointed out.
The meteoritic particles which pelt the earth are generally of two main t.vpcs: iron meteorites, from five to 25 per cent nickle. and stony meteorites, composed mainly of iron, magnesium and silicon.
The largest category of particles are in the 1 ^100 to 100/-i 000th of an inch class. These particles account for anywhere from 1.000 to lu.ouu tun» a day.
Dr. Russell said that the fall of meteoritic dust “will never compete with smog” in the pollu-1 lion of th« air w« breathe.
By EDGAR VILLASENOR
Hot Havana is not for honeymoons.
At least, that’s what SC student Orlando Ortega' thinks after having spent his honeymoon in the revolt-torn Cuban capital.
Ortega, a senior in mechanical engineering, was born in Cuba and is a naturalized American. He went to Havana during Christmas vacation, meeting his I wife there.
“When I arrived in Havana,” he said, “everything was quiet, and people and business were going on as usual.
“But as the days rolled on, people began retreating from the i streets, as if w-aiting for something to happen.”
Rebel Advancement
News of the advancement of Fidel Castro’s rebels did not reach Havana until Dec. 3l. however. On that dav, Castro had his first face-to-face encounter with Batista troops in Las Villas province. Ortega pointed out.
“All of a sudden you could see I the streets deserted, giving the usually gav city a very sad look.” he said.
"But if the 31st didn’t look like a holiday, the picture was entirely different the next day.” Batista Into Exile
On New Year's eve. Dictator ; Fulgencio Batista announced his resignation and fled to Trujillo's Dominican Republic.
“From our hotel window' we ! could see people overflowing in-! to the streets, celebrating Ba-j tista’s departure,” Ortega said.
“They were all Fidelistas now.” (Followers of rebel cnief-tain Fidel Castro are called Fidelistas.)
"Around 9 that morning all of Havana became hysterial. Men and women were wearing red shirts and blouses and black oants, the colors symbolizing the 26th of July movement. That was the day in 1956 when Fidel Castro landed with 80 men in Oriente province, from where he led them, and thousands more, to victory over Batista.
“What seemed like a innocent i show of happiness developed j soon into mass rule, however, Ortega said. “Around 10 a.m.
HOT HONEYMOON—Orlando Ortega, senior mechanical engineer at SC, whose honeymoon in Havana was abruptly terminated by the chaos caused by Batista's flight into exile and the rebel attack in Cuba, shows a copy of the official rebel newspaper Sierra Maestra to Daily Trojan reporter Edgar Villasenor as he recounts his adventure.
mobs began attempting to destroy everything Batista had built.
‘‘Gambling casinos were the worst losers,” he said. “Chips and cards were thrown all over. ! as many of the casinos were | ransacked by the mobsters. Loot-: ing was the order of the day.” Parkins Meters Wrecked Even the parking meters, a Batista innovation, failed to es-| cape the fury of 1he crowds. ¡Houses of the proteges of the
former dictator w^ere destroyed and looted.
Ortega said that soon a paralyzing strike gripped the entire ! city. It had been apparently ordered by the Fidelistas as a ! show of force against the re-. maining Batista elements.
“Around this time,” Ortega i said, “police cars manned with die-hard Batista troops started {roaming the cities of Havana, ! engaging in active fighting with armed civilians.
“All night we listened to the crack of pistols and machine guns as the armed civilians were fighting Batista loyalists,” he said.
“Early on the following day, 4000 well-armed rebels entered the city. All with beards and long-hair. We were told to go to the American Embassy to get | ready for evacuation.” he said.
Young Rebels
On their way. however Ortega and his wife were stopped at every corner by 15 and 16-year-old boys carrying rifles and machine guns. “Not until we showed them our American papers would they let us go on,” he said.
There were about 400 Americans gathered at the hotel at that time. Ortega said. A great number of the rebels were “staying” at the hotel, where they mingled with the Americans. There were a number of women. fully armed and in war clothes, among the revolutionists, he said.
Protected By Flag:
None of the Americans were given anv food or allowed to go outside during their stay at the hotel.
“However, we were treated with great courtesy. Some Americans made good friends with the rbels, w'ho were always willing to pose for pictures.” he said.
“We left the hotel in the evening in a convoy protected with the American flag, to go to the airport where chartered planes were waiting for us,” Ortega said.
Exiles Return
"There were many people who had been exiled bv Batista returning home in planes chartered by Castro followers. Relatives of the exiles, as well as rebel j welcoming officials, were all over the place,” he said.
“Airplanes carrying tourists back to the U.S. were leaving 1 every two hours, however, there [was no commercial activity at i all.” he pointed out.
The weary Ortegas arrived in Miami early the next morning from where they continued immediately to Los Angeles.
Phi Beta Kappa Taps 17 Scholars
In recognition of outstanding scholastic achievements, 17 students at SC were named to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholarship society yesterday. Initiation for the 13 men and four women will be held
next Tuesday.	i
Those selected were Richard j Amerian, James Edward Bylin. I Harlean Mari Carroll, James Robert Cassady. James Michael Donohew, Paul Raymond Ennis. Delmar Howard Evans, Margy Jean Gerber, Mrs. Mary K. Gorman. Charles Warren Israel and Judith Lee Jacobs.
Others chosen were Joseph Frank Jares. Diane Christine Roberts, Andrew Ragland Set-zer. Hobart Hugh Smith. Alan David Waxman and Paul Mau-ritz Wilson.
First Fraternity
Economist Predicts Tax Rise
A forecast of this year’s pat-,	, ,	terns	in government spending.
Phi Beta ^^Ppa	was	founde	]abor	unions, taxes and monopo-
rlll6	J	.IT	^	rllll	ma>' ^ found in the Jan-
**	uary	Economic Letter by Dr.
Lawrence C. Lockley. dean of the School of Commerce.
“We can expect a government which has a Democratic majority to make every’ effort to increase the flow of purchasing power to consumers.” Dr. Lock-1 ley says. “Thus, all sorts of projects which can quickly generate purchasing power will be regarded with favor.”
Military Spending; Military expenses will be	in-
i eluded in these	projects.	Dr.
Lockiev endorses	adequate	de-
fense spending but predicts it i will be approached with such en-Seniors Are Eligible	thusiasm that little consideration
Seniors are	eligible for	consid-	, w-jj ^ gjven	balancing	the
eration	if they	have	completed	i fe(jeral budget.
40 or more units at this univer- j Companies not holding govern-sity, and if ^heir j?rade average ment contracts are already having difficulty, he claims, although
College and was the first Greek letter organization in the United States. It was originally a secret society with the usual oaths, grips and mottos, but this requirement of secrecy was abandoned in 1831.
It wasn’t until 1929 that the chapter at SC was established. During its 29 years of existence on campus, more than 1400 student members have been elected.
The principal consideration for election is scholarship. The students eligible include candidates for AB or BS degrees with liberal arts majors, and candidates for a PhD.
is at least 3.10. Election meetings are held twice a year—in the fall and in the spring.
No more than 10 percent of the senior class may be elected.
So far this year, the elections from the senior class amount to
it is not yet common knowledge. Prosperity exists “only where the manna of government payments happens to fall.”
One method by which contracts are distributed is on the
five percent, with five more to basis of dividends to stockhold-
be added in April.
The officers of the chapter at SC are Prof. Anton Burg, president; Prof. Theodore Chen, first vice-president; Professor T. J. Anderson, second vice-president; Prof. Colin Lovell, treasurer; and Howard Patmore, secretary.
Protein Probe Undertaken by Med Students
Distrust of Americans SC Biologists By Orientals Reported Contribute to
Blood Health
Medical science, with the aid of graduate student Esther Allen,
is another step closer to learning how cells make protein, an essential ingredient of all body tissues.
Mrs. Allen and Dr. Richard Sehweet from the City of Hone Medical Center reoorted th^ir research into oroteins to the Pacific S,r»ne Biochemical Conference. Such research is important since disease can be cau«ed bv a lack of the proper kind of protein cells.
The two scientists reported on their research into enzymes W'h’ch give amino acids, the buildin^ blocks of nrotein mol°-cules. the necessary energy to join toother into proteins.
Different Pattern«*
Each of the manv thousand« of proteins is unlike everv other because the body, in some unknown wav. pu+s the 15 amino aci^s toother in a different pattern. The result is that each nrotein has the unioue amino acid composition and seournce it needs to function property.
Mrs. Allen and Dr. Sehweet. who are the first research team to synthesize proteins in a test tube outside a living cell, pre-nqr<*d enzvmes from guinea oig •iver to activate Ihe amino acids into bonding together to. form protein.
The scientists discovered that after being activated, the amino acid is then transferred to a comnlex «ubstance called ribonucleic ac>d.
Heredity Involved
"This finding is of great interest since it has been known for some time that nucleic acids are involved in heredity and thus control the pattern of proteins which is characteristic for each individual,” Mrs. Allen said.
These sludies indicaie that it may now lie possible to study directly the_chemical stages in protein synthesis and how these are affected by heredity.
Many of the countries of the I Orient do not wish to be out-j vvardly allied with the United I States because they feel Amer-| ica will let them down as she has other countries in the past. | two foreign correspondents told 1 an audience at Town and Gown
I yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. O. H. King are i correspondents who have re-| turned to this country after 10 j years of travel and work in the j Orient. King was an AP corre-| spondent and one of three news-j men to be in Korea when the ! Communists launched the attack there. His wife was a special correspondent for the Dallas i News and is a specialist on East-| West relations.
Cannot Trust US “The people of Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaya j are very concerned over the [ Communist infiltration, but feel they cannot completely trust in the United States to help them,” Mrs. King pointed out.
The primary reason for this, she said, is that America has lost face over Korea for not stopping the Reds more thoroughly there, and lost even more respect over Hungary.
“These people feel that the US was completely responsible for ! what happened in Hungary. Therefore, they fear that if a similar situation arose in their ! own country all they would get from America would be sympathy as did the Hungarian reb-| els.”
India Distrusts Everyone On the other hand, India distrusts everybody, she said. “They believe American facts are as . had as Moscow lies. Unfortun-’ ately. through their socialist program, they are slowly entering the Soviet orbit.”
According to Mrs. King, Japan is in the middle of the road, j They have accepted many of the I democratic reforms of McArthur I but Communist infiltration is I also doing effective work.
•'The Japanese are rather calculating and are cold opportunists. If it comes to a decision
j I’m sure they’ll side with the | country that can do the most ' for them materialistically,’' she said.
Nationalist China is complete-| ly dependent on American support. she continued. Hong Kong, on the other hand, looks to no country for help “simply be-| cause they know it is useless. The port stays open only because Red China needs it for its imports and exports, but everyone on the island knows the Communists can take it at any time they want.”
Korea Supports US South Korea, said both Mr. j and Mrs. King, is the staunchest supporter of America. ‘‘They had the unique experience of living under Communist rule and being liberated from it. They would rather die than be dominated by the Reds again,” Mr. King said.
"They know what it is to hear a midnight knock on the door, to fear one’s friends and neighbors, to exist on a substarvation diet, and to see their families destroyed. To them, appeasement only means eventual surrender to a living death,” he stated.
These people even continued to lie our friends after the Korean situation was bumbled. King pointed out. "At one time the entire State Department under Acheson was determined to •give’ Korea to the Reds because of the secret agreements made at Yalta. Truman tried to change the situation, but he meant w'ell and that was all.”
Appalled By People “We were appalled by the complacency cf the people when we returned to America,” he said. "I guess the trouble is that too many people agree with Bertrand Russell’s recent remark that ‘It is better to live in Russian slavery than to use the weapons we have dev eloped today.’ ” “However, people forget that there is something worse than death,” King concluded.
New knowledge of how the body forms heparin, a substance used to prevent fatal blood clotting, is being uncovered by a two-man team working in the SC School of Medicine.
Dr. Walter Marx, professor of biochemistry and nutrition in the School of Medicine, and Leonard Spolter. graduate student. reported on their latest findings to the Pacific Slope Biochemical Conference held at UCLA Dec. 30.
Spolter told the group how he had ground up cancerous cells of mice, added radioactive sulfate, and then extracted and purified heparin from the mixture.
Heparin is always present in human blood, but only in minute quantities. •
The new knowledge could lead to more effective treatment for people suffering from various forms of heart disease, Dr. Marx said.
Heparin is also used for removing fat from the blood and thus helps to prevent hardening of the arteries.
Scientists are trying to find out how the body makes the substance. The manufacture of the drug from animal tissue is expensive and injections into the patient must be watched to protect against hemorrhages.
“If we can learn how heparin is made in the body, science might be able to control its formation and release into the bloodstream. One day this might do away with the need to give heparin by injection,” Dr. Marx said.
Today's Weather
ers. As a result, many firms have reduced or discontinued their dividends, he says.
Right-To-Work Laws He also predicts that labor unions will trv to outlaw state right-to-work laws by amending the Taft-Hartley Act, and other legislation will be sought to make union membership virtually compulsory.
“The larger unions» should extend their coverage by taking in labor groups associated in labor processes — either those which work on materials prior to, or subsequent to the processing of the maior union. Thus, we could
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” Dr. Lockiev believes.
Journalist Wins Borden Scholarship
Trojans may stow away tlieir raincoats tor the day anil enjoy crisp, partly cloudy weather with a predicted high temperature 65.
j awarded by the Borclen Company Foundation to Nita Biss, a ; sophomore in the School of Jour-I nalism. for outstanding scholastic achievement during her ; freshman year.
Miss Biss maintained a straight 4.00 point grade average for a total of 31S units of college work, the highest average of anyone in her freshman class.
She is the third SC woman— and the second journalism major —to receive the Borden Prize. Her name will be inscribed on a plaque in the Founders Hall lobby, along with the names of previous winners: Rivko Avru-tin. 1956; and Gayle Moss. 1957.
Miss Biss is 18 years old and a graduate of Van Nuys High School, where she was editor-in-chief of its student publication, the Mirror. She was also a member of the senior women’s honorary society and a Sealbearer in the California Scholarship Federation.
She attends SC on a Laura Platt Memorial Scholarship. Besides her work as a reporter on the Daily Trojan, she is secretary of the Hillel group on campus and scholarship chairman for her dormitory. Harris Plaza.
Professor Wins Award
Dr. Paul Kotin, associate professor of pathology at SC, has been awarded a senior postdoctoral fellowship to the University of Wisconsin by the National Science Foundation.
Foundation officials said the fellowships were awarded to scientists of demonstrated ability and special aptitude for productive scholarship in science.
Dr. Kotin will spend his award year in cancer research at Wisconsin next summer. He has gained national recognition for his research in which he produced lung cancer in mice with smog.
unions.
Minimum Wage
“There is great interest in increasing and in extending the minimum warre. The amount should go to $1.25 an hour, and kinds of emplovment not previously covered should be included under this general umbrella. Retail and service trades should be included,” he says.
Workers who are unemployed by technotogical changes probably will “find permanent support” if federal supplementary unemployment benefits become permanent, as Dr. Lockley forecasts.
Unions Losing Members
Unions are dissatisfied that their membership is not increasing in proportion to the growth of the labor force, he says. Thev are losing membership, which represents revenue, at a time when they feel they need at-ditional revenue to influence legislation in order to increase membership.
“The Painters Union, which used to be one of the leading craft-type unions, has recently become an industrial union, so that it could reach back into the factory to cover painting or finishing done on pre-fabricated components.” Dr. Lockley says.
"Other unions are becoming pugnacious. Still other unions are attempting to gather even 'unrelated industrial activities into their fold to maximize revenue.”
Taxes Will Rise
Dr. Lockley also predicts that taxes will increase during 1959. Some pressure will be directed at modifying the federal tax system, but he feels little, if any. change will result.
“Mere and more, people asking that the ‘government’ do something about whatever troubles them. Support for agriculture, for marine shipping, for some sorts of aviation, for schools, for hospitals, for flood control and power generation, for highway construction and for a large number of additional ac-(Continued on Page 2)