VOL. V	72	LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA. MONDAY, JULY 26. 1965	No. 10
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Professor Says War To Be Long
Even if the Vietnamese military straggle itself is terminated. the war will simply take the form of politics and moral issues and take years to resolve.
Dr. S. N. Chiu, visiting associate professor of history at USC. made the statement at a USC history and speech departments lecture on campus Wednesday afternoon.
He aaid before we can understand the Southeast Asian conflict we must study the Chinese Communist revolutionary strategy.
“The situation in Vietnam and Laos is reminiscent of the civii war in China from 1927 to 1919.” the history professor explained. “There can be little doubt that the strategy and tactics employed by the Chinese Communists have been adopted by their comrades beyond the frontiers (in Vietnam and Laos).
Examine Record
“In order to understand the problems arising from the insurgency in Southeast Asia it is incumbent upon us to examine the record of the Chinese Communist revolution-”
The visiting professor from Temple University explained that the Chinese Communists have officially attributed their success to three things: party organization, an independent army and the policy they called the “United Front.”
The importance of the first two are self-evident but the United Front, as Dr. Chiu explains it. is not just a theory.
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Opponents I estify On Hoover Project
DR. J. WESLEY ROBB
... Institute Speaker
Robb Visiting 19th Institute On Education
Dr. J. Wesley Robb, associate dean of humanities in the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences at USC is one of the ma>in speakers at the 19th Institute of Higher Educf tion sponsored by the Board of Education of the Met ho dist Church in Nashville, Tenn., this week.
Dr. Robb will address a general session on ‘The changing Profile of College Students.” He will also speak at the vesper service on the campus of George Peal>ody College Sunday.
The theme of the institute will be “The Church College: Its Nature, Responsibility and Opportunity.”
Dr. Robb is also chairman of the undergraduate department of religion at USC in addition to being associate dean of the college.
After lengthy discussion from the opposition, the City Council adjourned its session Friday to reconvene again this j morning at 10:30 a.m. for aj fifth day of hearings on the USC - Hoover Redevelopment Project.
In the first day. the proponents—USC and the Cultural Redevelopment Agency — dispensed with their presentation in one day’s hearing (four hours and ten minutes combined;. The opponents have extended its testimony by over 100 speakers to a fifth and possibly a sixith and seventh day.
A forty-eight-year resident of the USC-Hoover area charged Friday that the proposed plan before the City Council, was unrealistic and unfair.
‘Unrealistic and Unfair’
Miss Madge McElroy. who has lived in this area since 1917, said that it was unrealistic and unfair for this plan to force the elderly residents of the USC-Hoover area to sell at a low price and buy back at a high price with no cash to meet the demands.
Another witness for the opposition. Miss Vera Barnes, stated that no private university should be allowed to expand its business by removing other businesses in the area, such as grocery stores.
Miss Barnes further stated that grocery stores are more'
important than universities because one could survive without universities but we cannot! exist without food.
To File Suits On the third day of hearings. James Passow, co-ordinator j for property and home owner organizations, told the Council that about 200 property owners in the proposed USC-Hoover redevelopment area will file suits seeking higher prices for their property if the redevelopment plan is adopted.
Passow testified that the residents of the USC-Hoover area believe prices which would be offered for their property by the Community Redevelopment Agency would be too low.
He and other speakers warned that projected cost estimates prepared by the CRA are generally too low and fhe ultimate burden of the project would fall on all property taxpayers.
‘Financial Failure’
“The project will fait financially,” Passow warned and to approve it would be “to court disaster and bankruptcy.” Another opponent, attorney Floyd Norris. a!so warned that approval of the urban renewal project would result in protracted litigation. He said there are serious legal questions about CRA's right to take 120 acres in addition to 57 acres for expansion of USC. “We’re destroying the very
thing America is known for — a middle class,” Norris said. “You are turning over th»3 property to huge corporations. That's the reason the people are so disturbed.
“This is just like wiretapping. It may be good to catch criminals, but it is setting a precedent the public does not want. I ask that this be submitted to the people to 3e« what they want.”
Unable to Participate
Norris said that in the Bunker Hill redevelopment project there are 302 separate parcels and only seven are owned by former residents of the area. He said this shows that residents of the USC-Hoover area will not be able to participate in the renewal project.
James E. Conn. representing the Los Angeles Realty Board, asked that the program be shelved until the Bunker Hill project demonstrates whether redevelopment can be success, ful.
In some cities. Conn said, there have been few buyers for land within redevelopment areas and governmental agencies have been forced to sell parcels for as little as 22 cents on each dollar invested.
Buses for this morning's hearings at the City Council will be leaving at 10:15 a.m. from the intersection of Hoover Street and Childs Wav.
Two Computers Singing Programs by Telephone
Two computers, one at USC receives the sounds and con-
and the other at the W’estern Data Processing Center, are singing the latest information to each other via ordinary telephone—with the help of a data transmission device-The IBM 1974-2 data-box phone, first of its kind in the country, vocalizes the information into a cybernetic melody and is capable of transmitting and receiving data to and from any computer in the world that has a telephone nearby and the data box handy.
Converts .Messages This device converts computer messages into sound waves and sends a complicated tonal signal, similar to Morse code, over ordinary telephone lines to any data phone, which
verts it back to computer messages.
Data phone gives the USC School of Business and W'est-ern Data Processing Center a potentially unlimited computer capacity and is the first telephonic hook-up of the IBM 1974-2 to be put into operation in the country.
Installed Last Week
The data phone was installed last week on the USC campus and the hook-up was inspected by Dr. R. Clay Sprowls, director of Western Data Procec-s-ing Center; Dr. Allan J. Rowe, USC professor of quantative business analysis; and Thomas J. Dudley, director of the computer facility, USC Graduate School of Business.
EXAMSNE COMPUTER—Dr. Alan J. Rowe, (from left) USC business professor, Dr. R. Clay Sprowls, Western Data director, and
Dr. Thomas J. Dudley, director, ocmputer facility, inspect the new data phone installed on the USC campus last week.