Choice '68. the nationwide Time magazine-sponsored balloting of students, will be held in conjunction with the ASSC run-off election tomorrow.
Choice '6S is designed to find out which candidate for President is preferred by students. Thirteen candidates are listed on the ballot. In addition, there are two questions dealing with Vietnam and another with the urban crisis.
Over 200 colleges and universities across the country are participating in the election tomorrow and Thursday. The ballots will be sent to the Univac computer center for tabulation and analysis immediately after the election. The results will be announced 10 days later.
The candidates are Fred Halstead, Socialist Workers Party; Mark Hatfield. John Lindsay, Richard Nixon, Charles Percy, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller and Harold Stassen, Republicans: Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy. Democrats; and George Wallace, American Independent Party.
President Johnson and the late Dr. Martin Luther King are also included on the ballot. Their names were not withdrawn due to early printing and distribution of the ballots.
Students may uTite-in the candidate of their choice if he is not included on the list. Hubert Humphrey, now a presidential possibility, must also be written in.
The first of the two questions on Vietnam is: "What course of military action should the
U.S. pursue in Vietnam?” The voter has a choice of five responses, including 1) immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces, 2) phased reduction of U.S. military activity, 3) maintain current level of U.S. military activity, 4) increase the level of US. military activity and 5) “all out” U.S. military effort.
The second question asks: “What course of action should the U.S. pursue in regards to the bombing of North Vietnam?” The possible responses are 1) permanent cessation of bombing.
2)	temporary suspension of bombing. 3) maintain current level of bombing, 4) intensify bombing and 5) use nuclear weapons.
The question on the urban crisis is: “In confronting the ‘urban crisis.’ which should receive highest priority in government spending?” Replies are 1) education, 2) housing, 3) income subsidy, 4) job training and employment opportunities and 5) riot control and stricter law enforcement.
The ballot, which resembles a data processing card, is marked by punching out small rectangles opposite the candidates and responses.
Voters are asked to make three choices for president. The first choice will be tabulated in the Choice ’68 election; the second and third choices will be tabulated for statistical analysis.
The voter is also asked to indicate his age and his preference of political parties. If the voter is a foreign student, he is asked to indicate that instead of a party preference.
Runoffs, Choice 68 voting tomorrow
The ASSC Board of Inquiry will meet today at 2:15 p.m. to consider appeals of the ASSC election by Gary Rafferty and Ralph Lippman,
If the appeals are defeated, Rafferty will face Bill Mauk in the presidential run-off tomorrow. Rafferty trailed Mauk in the primary balloting, but votes for Lippman and write-ins forced the run-off.
Rafferty’s appeal, released to the Daily Trojan, the ASSC and the Board of Inquiry Friday afternoon, claimed such points of protest as:
1.	Lack of ballot control by impartial officials;
2.	Irregularities of polling booth hours and placements;
3.	Lack of poster display booths;
4.	Limited availability for foreign student voters;
5.	A question of control between ASSC President Marty Foley and Norm Wilky, vice-president of student activities.
Lippman’s protest will apparently be based on charges that both Mauk and Rafferty spent more than the $200 allowed in the Election Code Tor presidential candidates.
The Board of Inquiry is impowered to insure fair and proper elections. It does not have to act unless it feels the elections were not fair and proper under the rulings of the Election Code.
In filing his protest. Lippman withdrew his endorsement of Mauk given when primary results were announced Thursday night. “I’m still a candidate,” he explained.
Rafferty is also considering that Lippman is still a candidate by refusing to debate with Mauk until his protest is heard. The board, however, ruled the election valid Thursday night. Unless it overrides its previous decision, the results will stand.
Tomorrow’s election will also include run-offs between Suzanne DeBall and Jane Lindenthal for vice-president of university affairs; Steve Turner and Ron McDuffie for junior representative; and Tom Levyn and Peter Salvatori for sophomore representative.
Results of the ASSC election and student referendum ballots will be announced at the close of the Glenn Yarbrough concert in Bovard tomorrow night.
Yarbrough-calm, honest singer
By ANDY MILLER SoCa) editor
Glenn Yarbrough had been called to the phone after the interview was nearly concluded.
Since Yarbrough was on the kitchen phone, his overzealous press agent tried to cut the talk short.
“You have enough there for a good-sized story, don't you?” he asked.
“Well. I do have one more question. I'd like to ask him about the upcoming election.”
“Oli. no,” I was told. “That's a bad press and we usually try to avoid questions of that nature.”
Yarbrough finished with his phone call, and fell down on the couch, propping his feet up on the nautical coffee table.
“How do you feel about the candidates this year?” I asked after explaining that I already knew his press agent didn’t approve of the subject.
“I'm strictly a McCarthy man,” he said quickly.
Not too many agents have been shot down so quickly and so effectively in one quick sentence.
The attitude typifies Yarbrough, an easy-going, honest man who is in the entertainment business because he is good, not because he’s looking for an easy buck or an easy career.
Yarbrough, who will be in Bovard tomorrow night at 8, originally intended to pursue a teaching career, until he was discovered by a Chicago night club owner at a party.
He had planned to continue his education as well as accept the job. However, the money and offers never ceased.
“From day to day—every year I tihink this is the last. But' each year it seems to get better,” Yarbrough said.
“Entertainment is something you do until you grow up. It's had a strange effect on me. It hardly seems fair to earn so much for singing a few songs. So when I’m performing I actually feel as though I'm loafing.
“Once the performance is over you have nothing to show for it. I feel hard work should produce something a little more tangible than financial gain,” he said.
Lounging in his modest Hollywood Hills home, Yarbrough was speaking of his profession almost as if he isn't part of it.
“I guess it is a necessary profession, but it should be done by someone with ambition,’’ he said.
“The entertainment business is so phony. People tend to believe their publicity releases. It's a make-believe business.”
Yarbrough seems dissatisfied to some extent in his make-believe business. He doesn't like it on the road, and he is looking forward to the first long vacation of his career this summer.
Although he has been in the business for 10 years, he says that only in the last three or four years has he been doing things that are interesting.
An orphanage offering a new aspect towards liberal education is obviously foremost in the singer's future.
‘‘I believe everything that is now taught in high school can be taught in the first eight years, and the last four years can be devoted to seminar education,” he said.
He plans to establish his school this September or June, featuring a Great Books-based education similar to St. Johns University.
With the orphanage school, Yarbrough will be able to at least vicariously pursue his teaching career.
Tickets for the Yarbrough concert are now on sale in front of Tommy Trojan and on the walkway north of Von Kleinsmid Center. They are priced at S3, $2 and $1.50.
University of Southern California
TROJAN
DAILY
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1968
NO. 47
Separated twins
one improving
survive; one critical
By DIANE LUCK Ass’t editorial director
One week after surgery, Siamese twins Charron and Chandra lie separated ir. body and in health at the County-USC Medical Center.
Charron, who has never regained consciousness since surgery, is in critical condition while her twin sister is making excellent progress.
Drs. Darleen Powars, Frederick Leix and Richard Koons, all faculty members in the School of Medicine, held a press conference reporting on the condition of the 65-day old twin girls at the hospital yesterday morning.
The surgery, which was performed by a team of eight surgeons and anesthetists, involved separating the livers and tubular area of skin where the infants were joined. Each of them has a complete circulatory system and liver which made the surgery possible.
Because there is a great deal of blood supplied to the liver, the incision created extensive blood loss especially to Charron who went into shock. Her heart was stopped for 12 minutes.
At that time her heart was massaged to start it beating again and she was put on an artificial respirator which breathes for her.
The livers of both babies are functioning normally and are expected to be fully regenerated within two or three weeks. Unlike her sister, Chandra is awake and taking milk since she has almost recovered all functions. Charron must be fed intravenously.
Before surgery the twins weighed 18 lbs. 2 ozs. together. Chandra now weighs nearly 8 lbs. 8 oz. and Charron is still too ill to weigh.
Even though Charron's condition is extremely critical, Dr. Powars, who coordinates the infants’ care, and is assistant professor of pediatrics, said, “I have seen infants more critically ill than Charron survive. Because they are so young and grow so fast, infants have a lot going for them.”
With the passing of each day, the girls’ chances of surviving will continue to improve. The doctors do not expect that either child will have any physical defects as she grows older. Nor will they be handicapped psychologically as a result of the surgery, whereas if they had not been separated their handicaps would have been severe.
The twins were born on Feb. 18 at the John Wesley Hospital in Los An-geies and were delivered by Caesarian section to a 16-year-old unmarried girl.
They weighed just 12 lbs 2 ozs. together and were taken to the Medical Center where extensive tests were run previous to surgery.
It was originally thought that the operation would not take place for several more months but because the twins had reached an anabolic state and were readily gaining weight, the team of physicians advanced the date of surgery.
This was only the third time that conjoinecf twins have ever been separated at this hospital. The first at-
tempt was a success but the second resulted in the death of both children.
Since the birtn and separation of Chandra and Charron, there have been several questions to which many people have been curious to learn the answers.
One of these is how and who is paying for the extensive care for the twins. During the first days after surgery, there were tw'o physicians and two nurses with them 24 hours a day, with additional surgeons and residents on call.
All of these physicians have donated their time and the other costs are being paid for through the Coun-
ty and State Crippled Children's programs.
Another point of concern is what will become of the twins since they were born out of wedlock. At first it was thought that they were going to be put up for adoption, but it was learned yesterday through one of the doctors at the Medical Center that the mother is going to marry the father of the twins so that they, as natural parents, will be able to provide a home for Chandra and Charron.
“The family must remain unidentified," Dr. Powars said. “These are wonderful people of great courage and dignity.”
Credibility gap slowly is narrowing—Morgan
THREE ORANGES' REVIEWED
Opera shown in all of its fantasy
By PIXIE HACK
Why doesn't Walter Ducloux. director of the USC Opera Theater, just stick to the old time-honored opera favorites? ... It sure would make things a hell of a lot easier on his department.
Maybe he drifts away from the conventional because he directs one of the most capable and vocally well-equipped student opera theaters on the West Coast. And mayoe because his department can take a piece as fanciful as Prokofiev’s “The Love For Three Oranges” and produce it in all of its fantasy.
“The Love For Three Oranges” had its Los Angeles premier Sunday night in Bovard Auditorium. And it is one of the most successful operas ever given at USC.
Sure, the story-line is good—a fairy-tale complete with a sorceress casting evil curses and a beautiful princess, etc. But it is successful because the production is excellently Cast and, for the first time in a long while, the voices could be heard above the orchestra. And this opera has some heavy brass parts.
A possible reason for this is that the orchestra is placed so it can see the stage action— finally the members know what they’re playing lor.
The opera is a ribald comedy. There is enough plot intrigue to keep the audience in either constant suspense or hysterics. The prince, played by Timothy Allspach, is first seen clutching his giant, toy rabbit while lying in bed. He hasn’t laughed in years and has every ailment in the book.
As he lies lamenting his sore liver, the tousle-headed jester somersaults in to clear up the depression. Gary Fisher does a fantastic job as the
impish jester tearing around the stage in his pixie shoes. He is extremely flexible in this part by displaying good stage presence as well as voice power.
But evil forces are about. When the sorceress slips on an orange-peel, the prince begins to chuckle and finally lets loose in a laughing fit that catches up the entire audience.
The King of Clubs
Angered over this indignity, the old hag makes the prince fall in love with three oranges. Rose Taylor, who recently won second place in the Western Division Metropolitan Opera Auditions, perfectly portrays the sinister, cackling witch.
The prince and the jester set out in pursuit of the oranges and encounter the giant cook— a huge monolithic “lady” played by David Humphrey, a bass. The pair successfully sneak off with the three oranges after distracting the cook and wind up in the desert where the fruit has grown to huge proportions.
The story must have a princess, and she emerges from one of the oranges as Ninetta, played by Polly Jo Baker. Miss Baker has a well controlled voice although the part didn’t give her much leeway.
The princess almost dies of thirst and is heroically saved by the stage audience. She is changed into a rat in an attempt to marry the prince to a gypsy (aptiy played by Roxann Parker). Magic powers collide and explode. The court-magician, Roger Winell, rips himself right out of his clothes. But it all ends happily ever after. And so does the USC production.
There were the usual opening night bloopers. At one point Miss Taylor got her sorceress hat entangled in the lacy stage curtain and had to wrestle her way out. At various places the stage and orchestral ensembles didn’t stay together. But both the cast and orchestra gave an excellent, professional performance.
The opera will also be given in Bovard on Friday and Sunday. Tickets are $3.50. $2.50, and $1.50 and may be purchased at the University ticket office, 209 Student Union, or at the door.
President Johnson threw a bridge over the credibility gap when he decided not to run. Edward P. Morgan said in a speech here Friday.
Morgan, a noted correspondent and commentator, spoke at the Great Issues Forum on “The Credibility Gap: What Can We Believe?”
Although he said the gap had been bridged. Morgan doubted the solidity of the new span. “It is debatable if it is complete,” he said.
“On the day after Johnson's announcement two questions arose." he continued. “The first was where exactly did the bombing ploy stop. Then there was the statement made by Johnson and his advisors that they would go any place on earth to meet with Hanoi.”
He said that before the President’s announcement, “We got to the point almost literally of not believing anything he said.”
Morgan then went on to say, “Tt is a cliche, but it's true, that we were, and are, in one of the most agonizing situations in our society. But our complicated system is working. We’ve had Fulbright. McCarthy. Kennedy, and King’s assassination. Somehow, society got the message, the government got the message. LBJ got the message, and the credibility gap was narrowing.”
He feels the press deserves a certain amount of credit for this awareness, as well as the dissident elements presented by men such as. Sen. Eugene McCarthy.
In numerous examples, Morgan presented both the good and bad elements of the press in relation to the problem of credibility.
“Like the Grand Canyon, the credibility gap is weaving, but its width and depth depends on who the White House occupant is," he said. He went on to say that regarding the management of news, administrations do their best to censor the news.
“It is trup that Johnson believes you can decipher the news by artificial dissemination,” he said.
He said that the press helps expand the gap by going overboard in its attempt to get to the news. He said there is a “built-in incompatabili-ty of news and government, and I think it should be there.”
A second problem the press faces, after incompatibility, is the problem of speed.
Citing the riot that occurred in Washington. D.C. following Martin Luther King's assassination, Morgan said, “We get superficial idens across to neonle and they stay in their minds. It took us a week to get a perspective on the situation."
Fairfax seminar will exobre drug controversy tomorrow
Fairfax High School, situated in the heart of Los Angeles hippiedom, will be the scene of a seminar on drug abuse tomorrow.
Presenting the sociological, medical and legal approaches to drug use, the seminar, moderated by USC professors and students, was initiated in response to a questionnaire put out by Fairfax student leaders. The questionnaire determined in which areas of controversy the students were most interested.
The student leaders then contacted instructors at USC who would be interested in moderating a school-wide conference at the high school.
Coordinating the program is Dr. Fred Weissman. instructor in the School of Pharmacy, who said the conference will be a pilot program which, if judged successful, may be
repeated in high schools throughout the area.
Panel discussions will feature Burt Baldwin and Malcolm Klein from the sociology department, and Brian Ellinoy. Ralph Bennett and Dr. Weissman from the School of Pharmacy. Neil McCarroIl and Randall Shelley from the Law Center will present the legal aspects of drug abuse.
Following the presentation of the panels, the 2JS00 member student body will be broken down into 80 discussion groups headed by USC students in sociology, pharmacy and law.
“We hope to conduct the confer* ence as informally as possible,” Dr. Weissman said. “Therefore, there will be no high school teachers present in the small groups.
“It’ll be a dialogue between the high school students and the college student who will moderate,” he said.