Readings Will Herald Holidays
University of Southern California
Vol. LV
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1963
NO. 57
Astronomer Recalls Fear Of Dam Split
^ A Few Words
Massey to Help Students Retell Christmas Story
The Christmas story will be told in traditional readings by actor Raymond Massey along with music and tableau by USC students when the university presents its annual Christmas Convocation tonight at 8 in Bovard Auidtorium.
Students will be admitted
on a first-come-first-served basis according to Bob Jani, director of special events. “The number of entrants to
The holiday season carries more with it than the the Pr°gram will depend upon merriness of parties and singing. It brings with it an air of thoughtfulness — of what the world has been doing the past year, what it will be in the future.
The past year has left the world, the nation and. on our local scene, the campus much to think about. speciai events office"~hesaid The world has had to deal with Cold War brush fires that singed many countries. The nation has under-not “particularly amaze" one ffone one of its most trying crises with the death of its ofgC S USC professor, a survey on president and the campus has both weathered the
By GREG HILL
The Baldwin Hills dam disaster, while a totally tragic surprise for numerous faculty members and students, did
the number of ticketholders who attend. Tickets for a closed circuit television presentation in Hancock Auditorium are still available in the
Joint Sponsorship
Under the joint sponsorship Alumnae Coordinating Council and the univer-
the campus revealed yester- storm oi the speakers controversy and passed through s^y-s Qu]turai Events Com-
day.
Dr (iibson Reaves, associate professor of astronomy j
phase one schedule.
of its Master Plan 16 months ahead of
mittee. the convocation will feature the USC Chamber
But as we enter this joyful holiday season and we Singers under the direction of and a resident of the area di- enjoy the abundance of our nation both in the material Dr beneath the dam. be- and spiritual areas, we also are concerned with the |future. It is here that our hope lies, for
rectly
lieved the Baldwin Hills struc
ture was unsafe for some time that we assert influence.
Charles Hirt.
Also featured on the convo-it is here cation program will be USC's 80-voice Concert Choir, di-
RAYMOND MASSEY
. . convocation speaker
And as we enjoy more than any other time of rected by Dr. James Vail, and the year the spirit of brotherhood and the concept of the combined USC Glee Clubs, mutual love, respect and goodwill familiar to most with 60 voices under the difaiths, we should be thinking of what we could accomplish if we carried these ideals with us throughout the
prior to Saturday's tragedy.
“When T first moved into the neighborhood I became convinced that the dam was unsafe,” Dr. Reaves said. “Although at the same time I year.
became convinced that my j ^ world that exhibited the desire for peace and own home was safe because jg0od cheer that we will experience during the next
two weeks would not have to be concerned with the crises of the past, for they would not exist in the
of its location.
Conducts Study
rection of Sheldon Disrud.
Preceding the program, the university's Brass Ensemble, directed by Robert Marsteller and Ronald Broadwell. will play from the tower of Bovard Administration Build-
Cage Ducats Co on Sale At Cut Rate
SPIRING SPIRIT - Inspired by an editorial in the Daily Trojan, "Wanted: Santa," the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs rounded up funds to sponsor a
campus Christmas tree. The 27-foot giant evergreen, decorated with glitter and styroform balls, stands for all to see at crossway in front of Student Union.
The astronomy professor | future, said he studied dams and read I With these few words of thought, the reports and articles on reser- iDaily Trojan staff join in wishing each and every-voirs released by the^Depart-|0ne the happiest holiday, the merriest Christmas and
the hopes that the New Year will bring peace, happi- convocation will be a live tableau, presented by USC's
^
Tickets for either afternoon
or evening sessions of the Los
Angeles Basketball Classic
will be made available at spe-
_ . . P ,	cial rates to student activity
mg. Organist for he convo- book ho,ders_ usc tjcket
Kindly Benefactors Campus Christmas
Raise
Spirit
ment of Water and Power.
Although he revealed his ness and prosperity to all. fears to neighbors and city
cation program will be James entire c. Pressler.
Live Tableau The closing portion of the
Bv DALE KEAOUGH
The tremendous tree cost lighted by Operations and
Lashed to the lamppost at S40. and another S50 went for Maintenance.
the corner of University Ave- decorations, including styra-: rue and Childs Way is a 27- foam balls, red plastic ribbon, foot hunk of Christmas Spir- assorted glittery stuff and
Since the eager Christmas-spirit-spreaders bought the
officials. Dr. Gibson said he' was either laughed at or ignored.
“Now that this has hap-1 |pened I'm in a predicament,” he explained. “I was embarrassed by being teased, now I'm embarrassed by being right.”
Another Victim
Among USC faculty and students victimized by the Baldwin Hills disaster, Dr. William B. Storm, professor
drama department, with Dr. John Cantelon, university chaplain, reading the Christmas story from the Gospel j according to St. Luke.
Actor Massey is currently I starring as Dr. Gillespie in I the television series “Dr. Kil-Dr. Carlos Prio Socarras, pay has been reduced by 60 dare.” former president of Cuba, de-per cent and the work day scribed Fidel Castro as a raised from eight to
Ex-Cuban President Blasts Fidel Castro
USC countless sacks of do-it-your Glee self snow-flock.
it — compliments of Men's and Women's Clubs.
Impressed by a Daily Tro- because jan editorial about the possi bility of a Christmas tree for rud, director of the glee clubs the university. Glee Club and assistant director of spe-members decided to be the cial events, explained. “But
. trfe Friday night, they decid-]o£ b|j(, administration was ed to keep it m a safe place the hai.dest Mt
until it could be brought to “This wasn’t done last year campus. The back yard of the
Dr. Storm's home in
paranoid, ego-maniac and born revolutionist during an on campus speech yesterday.
The former president, speaking through Mexican born USC student interpre-the ter Hector Orci, addressed his
of the fiery fiasco Kappa sorority house provid the year before,” Sheldon Dis- ed the haven.
Village Green was completely: remarks to an audience of indestroyed by the flood. Other ternational relations students.
Carolyn Gorden, vice president of the Women's Glee Club and a member of the
faculty residences in the Village Green apartments
If Fidel Castro had taken and homes and over Cuba in 1940 he would nearby suffered have been a Nazi. Today he
benevolent benefactors to be- this year we just couldn’t ^ Delta sororitv aidedimU(* anC* water damage to a is a Communist,” he said.
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stow the tree.
With funds they from Troyland, the
stand the bleak, barren spot earned in the campus center."
Glee- To prevent pranksters from
Clubbers purchased a gigan- repeating the destruction of tic 27-foot evergreen from a two years ago, the tree will Christmas tree lot at 9th and stand under heavv guard this
Alameda Streets in L. A.
year. It will also be flood-
Warren Distributes Scholarship Forms
Applications for the USC- ticipate with representatives flock the tree. Cambridge summer 1964 from other countries in after- “This study program are now avail- noon seminars on British in- Xannen able. Dr. Neil D. Warren, stitutions. 20th century Eng-
in the decorations, which were made over the weekend at the KD house.
The towering tree was towed to campus yesterday by a panel truck, where it was erected by a strong-armed committee of the Men's Glee Club.
After bedecking it with or-naments. daredevil members ‘of the crew climbed to the top of the 27-foot phenomenon to
lesser extent.
Dr. Storm, whose home at 13986 first
Dr. Socarras claimed that “anyone who speaks of mis-
S. Cloverdale was the erable conditions in Cuba one below the catch [when Castro took over is ei-
basin under the dam. esti-;t.her mistaken or ignorant.” mated his loss at S60,000. j j_je saj(j before Castro came Police Warning	to power the people had com-
"We had one hour's warn- plete liberty and there was ing from the police, but we work enough for everyone.
“But today.” he said, “the
one
dean, of the College of Let- lish literature and Britain ters. Arts and Sciences an- and international relations
nounced yesterday.
“Candidates for the vaca
Interested students should tion course must have at pick up the forms in the LAS least a 2.5 grade-point aver-office, 200 Adm., Dr. Warren age.” Dr. Warren said. He exadded.	plained the student's person-The Cambridge study pro- ality will also be considered.
really didn't expect the dam
to go,” Dr. Storm explained.!
“My wife, Harriet, and our I
three children. Bill. 14, Gay, |
10. and Don, 5, and I were all j
dressed casually for the day! “This may be jour last ‘O and we got out with just the
.clothes we had on. i Many USC faculty members living in the Troydale hair-dryer the spunky•spray-, development were unable to
er, added a flock of flakes and • drive to or from their homes descended to safety.
One disenheartened ber expressed his view of
hours per day.
He previously won critics nine approval for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in the Pulit-
“Lawyers and engineers are zer Prize winning play “Abe
no longer necessary in Cuba,” he maintained. “Lawyers who have not been deported now park cars and engineers have no buildings to build. Public works projects are now conducted by the Russians.” Most of Cuba's physicians have left the country and. according to Dr. Socarras, Castro, in order to compensate for their departure, has initiated a 2-year medical course open to everyone.
Lincoln in Illinois.” Massey also starred in the motion picture version of the same play.
He has starred in such plays as “Idiot's Delight,” "Pygmalion," “Ethan Frome.” “The Doctor's Dilemma” and “Candida" with Katherine Cornell.
Broadway Actor The actor also played on Broadway in "John Brown's Body" with the late Tyrone Power and Judith Anderson.
“It is not too difficult to and later with Anne Baxter.
become a doctor anyway,” he said. “There are not
manager John Morley announced yesterday.
Morley said activity book holders may exchange their coupons and $1 per session for tickets to all six sessions of the Classic.
The tournament will be held the afternoons and evenings of Thursday. Dec. 26; Friday, Dec. 27; and Saturday. Dec. 27.
Activity book tickets may be exchanged at the ticket office. 209 SU. from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The ticket office will not be open Dec. 24 and Dec. 25.
The Classic’s opening round on Dec. 26 will feature USC vs. Pittsburgh at 9:15 p.m. Other action will see Michigan clash with New York University. Illinois meet West Virginia and Yale go against UCLA.
The Michigan-New York University game figures to be one of the tournament s best contests.
Both are among the nation's top teams and NYU has the man picked in many quarters to be “Play-er of the Year.” His name is Barry Kramer and he was the na-
Massey has performed in many more than 70 motion pictures, drugs used in the country Foremost among these are tion s second leading scorer anymore, and a physician “East of Eden." “David and last season, averaging better only has to pick a number of Bathsheba,” “Arsenic and Old than 29.0 points a game as a prescription and prescribe Lace” and “Prisoner of Zen- well as it.	da.”	bounder
excelling as a re-
Beauty Queen Reforms'
Baum,’ ” watcher warned.
But armed with a woman’s
Although the program is opened to sophomores, juniors and seniors, it is design-
gram brings Trojans to the English Univeristy for a month to study modern Britain — its government, litera- ed primarily for juniors, lure, international relations, fine arts and philosophy'.
In addition, students par-
because streets below them mem-(were washed away.
In the muddy aftermath of
lhe
task disappointedly, however. the dam tragedy, Los Angeles claiming “We didn't flock the \Mayor Samuel Yorty request-
By JERRY LABINGER 7-inch lass with light blue There are certain things eyes, an adundance of brown young girls should not do hair and an expressive nosa ; while going to school, and es- that wrinkles when she Ipecially. Catholic school.
Shooting craps, for in stance, is not highly recom i mended. Neither is j pockets.
smiles. Margaret defeated representatives from several local colleges to become picking queen. It was the first time she had entered a beauty con-
But these two avocations test-
tree, we just snowed the cam pus.
;ed President Norman Topping] 'and the administrative heads!
“After the tree comes down of UCLA and Cal Tech to j Last summer more than 30 tomorrow," Disrud said, “we j nominate members for a “blue' Trojans participated in the will donate it to a worthy or- ribbon" fact-finding board to!
phanage.”
But. while beauty contests and all that are nice. Mar-exploits are extraordinary
program.
investigate the incident.
TO CONFERENCE
IFC Chief Journies East
A lack of all these qualities zen by the Constitution.
He urged delegates
tO !
Interfraternity Council Clark, a graduate of the and constituted authority.” ! guaranteed to the U.S. citi-President Bill Dahlman rep- University of Texas and a
resented the university's fra- vice president of Delta Tau was displayed during the as-ternity system at the annual Delta, told the conference sassination of President Ken National Interfraternity Con- participants that “the frater- nedy, Justice Clark claimed, held recently7 nity system has proved to be
an effective testing ground that only a full appreciation nearly' a for the practical application of these precepts will help
I were practiced, and refined.
; by’ a sprightly, devil-may-icare eighth grader named £aret s other Margaret McDonald while at- mor^ the j tending Beverly Hills Catho- variety. For instance, her ll-I He School.	licit” eighth grade activities.
With a rollicking start such ,^0W <*°eS °ne ^ as this, it would seem that ^ootmg craps and p.ckmg ___, pockets:
the
necessary device and a bit of atcc, u- ™ - y Damon Runyon ingenuity, floors and rotund guards ^ ^ ^ pIa3tic contain.
er," Margaret relates, and all I had to do was push a button and the dice would swirl (Continued on Page 2)
ference (NIC) in New York. Dahlman joined
thousand other Greeks in the of theories taught in the develop men fit for the “fra-
trek to the 54th annual meet- classroom but-not experienced jng. Graduate delegates from as part of any organized cur-the 60 member fraternities of riculum.”
the NIC attended, as well as several hundred undergraduate delegates such as Dahlman.
The conference, which drew delegates from 3,500 chapters at 365 colleges and universities, was highlighted by an
The justice also stressed the great need for a program to educate the public, college
make the Bill of Rights the; guiding force in their lives. The legal authority stated pointing out .hat fraternity j
members are fortunate to( have a college education andj therefore more able to as-
ternity of man, the greatest sume this responsibility.
fraternity of all.”
A similar plea to fraternity men was made by Irving Dil-liard, a Chicago newspaper columnist and former editor-
administrators and students ial page editor of the
in the values of fraternities.
He emphasized that fraternities were founded on such basic precepts as “religion,
Louis Post Dispatch.
Major legislative a c t i o n j taken during the meeting j was reorganization of the NIC. A new office of “presi-1 dent-elect” was created and St.'a second vice presidency was added as an administrative
young Margaret was destined P°^tSthat-3 npe(led are for big things — with high AU tndt 3 fences, steel bars on the up per
at the exits.
Margaret, however, “reformed” in time and developed (a most apropos word) into a young lady of superior looks, and an enthusiastic, unconventional, sea r c h i n g mind.
In fact, she could almost be called a normal 19-year-old iUSC coed with average hab-: its like trapping and training hawks, lugging a camera around in her purse and taking pictures for the El Rodeo, as well as interviewing stage personalities and Tro-
Staff Rests For Holiday
The Daily Trojan staff began its vacation from publication during the wee hours this morning following production of this issue of the paper.
Editor Dan Smith said the I jan athletes for the Montreal staff will return for the final
address by Supreme Court brotherliness, tolerance and!cherish,
Justice Tom dark.
I respect for the country, la#/i practice
Dillard maintained that the post, first dutjT of the fraternity; These changes were report-: member is to appreciate, to edly made to relieve the work to protect and to load of the conference presi-the basic freedoms > dent.
CAR QUEEN — Margaret McDonald, 19-year-old psychology major, holds a spray of roses emblematic of her win in the Dodger sports car races queen contest. She defeated Dee Castor, Oxy (I) and Kathy Curtis, UCLA. ^
| Star.
Her latest activity was reigning aa queen of the sport3 car races at Dodger Stadium last Saturday and Sunday.
effort of the semester immediately following the Christmas holidays. He 3aid the staff will begin work on the
Jan. 6 final edition Jan. 2. Last day to submit story ma-
j A well-piuporUoued 5-£oot,j terial in 132 SU wii( be Jan. 3.