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LOS ANGELES, CALIF., FRIDAY, DEC. 17, 1954
No. 64
Unbeaten Bucks,
Troy Tiff Jan. 1
by Murray Brown Daily Trojan Sports Editor
The Trojans, who have done better than any other team in the Rose Bowl and have never lost to the Big Ten under Coach Jess Hill, cross paths with undefeated Ohio State on New Year’s Day at Pasadena.
Some 100,000 fans will gather into the huge Bowl to see
Hill’s gridders can overturn
SLOW DOWN OR
YOU’tl. MISS the turn
—DT Cartoon by Sang Woo Tak
TRIP TO MORGUE?
Speeders Run Risk Of Fatal Accident
By BARBARA COVVGILL
The real danger of speed is the risk of having a fatal ccident, according to Officer Donald Wheatley of the Uni-rsity Police Traffic Division.
“A speeder only proves one thing—that he can get to le morgue faster than anyone else.”
The higher the speed, the great
the impact, Wheatley said. A r traveling 40 miles per hour s four times the chance of ath in an accident as a car veling 20 miles an hour.
Heavy Traffic ‘Drivers who most of the time 30 miles an hour in heavy ifflc and then once in a while id themselves on the freeway ing 60 are a real problem,” Watley said.
They think they can stop in the me distance at 60 miles an hour they could when they were ing 30.
An average stopping distance a car doing 30 miles per hour 75 feet on a good, dry pave-_nt. but for 60 miles the aver-e stopping distance is 237 feet.
Accident Causers Other accident causers are ivers who can’t stay behind yone and constantly change es at high speeds.
‘Changing lanes and passing er cars doesn’t get the ‘itchy’ ver very far in heavy traffic,” leatley said.
‘The car that travels with traf-has the advantage often trav--g continuously, that is. hit-ig every green light.” Wheatley ed.
Vhen asked about SC drivers, heatlev said that the present campus drivers arc very good. Tf you figure it out statistic-
ally, as the insurance companies have, young drivers do have most accidents, but they drive more,” Wheatley said. “They drive to school everyday, go out for pleasure drives and dates on weekends, and drive home for holidays.”
Blames Shouoffs
Wheatley believes that a few “showoffs” give the whole young age group a bad reputation.
‘‘The school will be very quiet during the Christmas holidays,” he said, “and I’m going to miss the students. I hope each one returns to campus safely in January.”
Of course, he added, everyone is in a hurry to get home for the holidays.	*
“But not too big a hurry,” Wheatley hopes.
He said to remember that eight hours with rest breaks is about the maximum time anyone can drive safely, and that varies with individuals.
Farm Loses Lead; FBI Makes Arrest
SAN JOSE, CALIF. —(UP)— Walter E. Thomas, 45, a Los Altos junk dealer, was freed on $5,-000 bail yesterday after being charged with the theft of a large quantity of lead ingots from the Stanford University radiation laboratory.
Thomas was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation yesterday after agents found four 100-pound blocks of the missing lead burled in his junkyard.
He was held on a technical complaint charging him with theft of “more than $100 worth” of the metal, pending further investigation and Federal Grand Jury action.
Chief Assistant U_ S. Attorney Lynn Gillard said the thefts from the laboratory totaled 200,000 pounds of bulk lead valued at $30,000.
BEAT THE RUSH!
Registration For Students Opens Jan. 4
Preregistration for the spring semester will be held Jan. 4 to 8 for all present SC students.
Class schedules will be at the Information Office by Jan. 3. Students can secure advisers cards j now in Owens Annex, Door B and j confer with advisers before the Christmas recess regarding the list of courses to be taken. Time schedules can be completed later.
Students with last names beginning with S or V preregister Tuesday, Jan. 4, 9 a.m.; M to Z, 10:30; and A to B, 1 p.m. ' Names From C to G
On Wednesday, students with names beginning with C to G will preregister at 9 a.m.; H to 10:30; and L to M, 1 p.m.
Thursday, students whose names begin with letters N to R should report at 9 a.m. Anyone who hasn’t preregistered at their assigned time can do so from Thursday until noon, Saturday, Jan. S.
Permits and materials for registration may be obtained Jan. 3 to 8 in Owens Annex, Door B.
Health Office approval at the Infirmary on Jan. 3, and at the Student Lounge, Jan. 4 to 8.
Section Cards
Section cards, verification, and fee bills are also obtainable in the Student Lounge, Jan. 4 to 8.
Veterans accounts and credit office, Jan. 4 to 8, 3454 University Avenue.
Payment of fees are to be made in the Bursar’s Office, Jan. 4 to 8.
it The Safe Way
The freeways in and around Los Angeles are getting longer and longer, and so is the arm of the law.
With every new link of super-^iigihway that is added comes a new safety measure or device designed to curtail as many accidents as possible, and what is more important, to protect YOU.
A countless number of SC students drive on the freeways to and from school, usually in the rush hours of the day. Such trips during the morning and evening hours are always aggravating, with hundreds of cars, bumper to bumper, crawling along at a snail’s pace.
No solution has been offered for this situation, and it is quite unlikely that one will ever be found.
But w<hat of the in-between hours, the middle of the day, when students are in classes and workers are at their jobs?
What is the freeway problem during the late night hours?
“What kind of a problem can there be,” you ask, ‘ if there are only a handful of cars on the road?”
The answer is speed. And speeding on a freeway doesn’t mean going 45 mph. Speeding on the freeway means 65 or 70, 75 or 80. And up.
Speeding on the freeway can mean*trouble. Trouble can lead to an accident, an accident to death.
Christmas vacation is almost here. Out-of-town students will leave for home, many of them by car. Students living in Los Angeles w> do the same. Most of them will drive cars. A car can be dangerous.
Last year, three out of eyery 10 traffic fatalities were blamed on speeders. This year the toll is expected to be considerably less, thanks to thej “Magic Eye”—radar.
With the.ihelp of the new device, the law enforcers can spot a fast car by merely gfrincing at a little black box.
This plan can’t be called sneaky. The “Magic Eye” does not work against drivers. It works for them and, indirectly, for their families forcing them to drive safely.
The new highways are bringing SC closer to almost every spot in Southern California. They can be an asset when used correctly and wisely by good, competent drivers.
They can also be a liability and a detriment, as some SC. students have learned the hard way.
Get home for the holidays and get there in one piece—“Drive the Freeway—the Safe Way.”—I.C.
Forgery
Suspect
Surrenders
Trojan Impersonator Passes 3 Checks .In Campus Area
A 22-year-old forgery suspect, who had been posing as an SC student, surrendered to two local1 store managers yesterday after a chase across the SC campus.
Irvin L. Gneier, who lives in Claremont, surrendered to Wes Young, manager of Silverwoods, and Meyer Fisher, manager of the College Bookstore, in the P.E. Building about 11 a.m. yesterday.
Trojan Jacket
Gneier, wearing a Trojan jacket, had given a $104.73 check to Silverwoods, a $15 check to the College Bookstore, and a check of undetermined amount to the University Bookstore. After learning from the bank that Gneier had insufficient funds. Young started searching the SC campus for him.
First Suspicious
Young first became suspicious when Gneier failed to produce an ID card. Fisher said Gneier had walked down a counter picking out books indiscriminately. He even bought some texts which aren’t used at SC.
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SC Closes Down Until Jan. 3 55
The campus will rapidly empty itself of students and faculty today and tomorrow as everyone prepares to journey homeward for the Christmas holidays.
he Bards' Yule ops Weekend TV
Shakespeare’s Christmas and children’s dentistry are bjects which will be discussed by SC faculty members on shows this weekend.
Dr. Frank C. Baxter’s Sunday program will be about hristmas in Shakespeare’s Day.’’ His weekly show is at
fficial
Notice
The LAS Advisement Office 1 bs open during Christmas lidays from Monday, Dec. 20 Wednesday, Dec. 22. The rs will be from 9-12 and m 1:15-4. On Thursday, Dec. it will be open from 9 to 12. Dec. 27 to Dec. 29, the office 11 be open from 9-12 and 1:15-n Dec. 80 from 9-12.
noon on KNXT Channel 2. He is also scheduled to give Christmas readings on KNXT at 11:30 p.m. Christmas Eve.
After the first of the year. Dr. Baxter’s “Now and Then” program will be seen locally at 10 p.m. on Wednesdays, starting Jan. 5.
‘Dentistry for Children” will be discussed by Dr. Francis W. Summers, School of Dentistry, on SC’s weekly program. “Halls of Science." Dr. Summers, head of the department of pedodontics, will speak at 4 p.m. tomorrow on KRCA, Channel 4.
Halls of Science will not be seen on Christmas or New Year's Day.
The biggest show of card stunts in SC’s history will be put on at the Rose Bowl New Year’s Day with a Troyscope extravaganza made up of 20 stunts, many of them being used for the first time in the wide section.
Knights will work under the direction of president Don
— ---------------------------------1 Daves and stunt designer Jack
Kyser for the first week of Christmas vacation. They ' will perfect and practice the designs. During the week after Christmas the Amazons will check the stunts to see that the cards are in order.
19,440 Cards
The 19,440 cards employed in the Troyscope stunts will be hauled in trucks to the Rose Bowl on the day before the game, where a crew of Knights and Squires will work all day lining up the seats.
The ere will be in Pasadena again at 8 in the morning on New Year’s day settig up the cards. Gates of the Rose Bowl will open at 11:30 a.m. Students planning to sit ih the rooters sec-tio must present both a ticket and an ID card at the gate. A ticket alone will not be enough to get into the section.
Special ’Seats Amazons, Chimes, and Spurs will be sitting in special reserved seats beginning at the 45-yard-line outside of the rooters section, so that they can fill up the tunnels during the card stunts at half time.
Despite protests by Daily Bruin staff members and other UCLANS, an administration directive has curtailed student control of the paper, it was learned yesterday.
Daily Bruin Editor Marty Mc-Reynolds, who led the fight against the administration with several scathing editorials, said the main change would be in the appointment of an editor for next year’s paper.
Under the new directive, the Daily Bruin editor will be chosen, after a careful screening by administration and student body leaders, by a general university election.
real egg yesterday when the celebrated humor magazine, Wampus, failed to make its scheduled appearance.
Co-Editors Tom Pflimlin and Ken Niles promised, however, that the 1955 Wampus will be on sale at 9 a.m. today in front of the Student Union Building for 25 cents. The long-awaited Rose Bowl edition will be a collection of cartoons, jokes, witty stories, and satire.
Students will find many invaluable gems of advice and comment on such all important subjects as fraternity rushing and the deterioration of typical male and female college students.
“Willie did a wonderful job for us this year,” Pflimlin said, “and I think we should all show our thanks by not throwing rocks at him as he flies over campus.”
what football experts have ranked the No. 1 team in the country.
Troy will be seeking victory No. 10 in the Bowl, having lost only twice. They will also be after their sixth straight win against the Big Ten.
Kickoff time is 2 p.m., and the Buckeyes will trot onto the field two touchdown favorites.
It is not unusual that Coach Woody Hayes’ squad has been given such a big edge over a Trojan team that was barely outdone by mighty Notre Dame 17-14 in its ’last game. Although Troy has triumphed eight times this year, and might have upset unbeaten UCLA except for an unfortunate third-quarter interception. it cannot be ranked with Ohio State.
Indomitable
The Buckeyes have been indomitable all season, playing against clubs that possessed strength enough to vanquish any foe. Such squads as California, Iowa, Wisconsin, Purdue, and Michigan have fallen to the Big-Ten’s b^t representative.
The mobility of their attack is personified in an All-American back named Hopalong Cassady, who seems to run faster than horses on the football field.
There is within Hill’s gridders, however, the fight, the guts, and the spirit that may help them stave off a horrific grid force that is Ohio State. In practice sessions during the week, the players have been crashing into dummies and running through plays as hard as they were able.
Couple these untouchable qualities, which make great football teams out of mediocre ones, with the Trojans’ game ability and it becomes believable that “they have a pretty good chance to win.”
One Desire
The Trojans have one desire in their hearts, one thought in their minds that overshadows everything else and that is to prove no mistake was made in sending them to represent the Coast conference in the Bowl game.
Weeks before they were beaten 34-0 by UCLA, a game in which the score falsified the actuaJ play of the Trojans, they, were hearing, reading, seeing “the second best team is going to the Rose Bowl.”
After the defeat, SC’s outspoken critics and catcallers really tore into Troy. Headlines read “stinkers in Bowl games,” referring to Troy and Nebraska. Stories shouted in print that Troy’s selection was “unjustified, unheard of, a violation of American principles.” Frank Leahy was. quoted as saying he didn't think it worth the time and effort to show up for the Bowl game Jan.
1. He would have wanted more than anything to be present if UCLA and Ohio State were playing, he said.
But the Trojans are going, and there is this last chance for them to silence the mouths of their critics, for them to covert their oppressors and make them admit (Continued on Page 4)
FANTASY TIME - Jim Hong and Bob Parker pantomine an imitation of Imogene Coca and Sid Ceasar for the Santa Fantasy Ball tomorrow night at the West Side Tennis Club.
Santa Fantasy Dance To Star Joan Leslie
Joan Leslie and the comedy team of Jim Hong and Bob Parker will be featured at the Santa Fantasy Ball tomorrow night.
Miss Leslie, well known on stage and in the movies, will appear for the St. Francis Cabrinni Society along with the Hong and Parker act that was seen at SC’s Homecoming Jubilee T r o vets show.
Hong and Parker imitate all types of entertainment stars from
Groucho Marx to Sid Ceasar and Imogene Cocoa. They will perform some of their oriental and pantomime acts for the Newman Club-sponsored charity affair. Jacques Robinson’s band will play at the semi-formal ball.
It will be held at the West Side Tennis Club, between Pico and Venice on Motor Ave., from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The event is open to everyone at $3:50 a couple.
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Official
Notice
The Christmas recess for all university students will be from Dec. 20-Jan. 1, inclusive.
All university offices will be closed from Thursday noon through Sunday (Dec. 23-26) and from Thursday noon through Sunday (Dec. 30-Jan. 2).
A. S. Raubenheimer J. E. Fields R. D. Fisher
Persons who want news stories in the first edition of the DT prinntnd after Christmas vacation should contact the city editor before 4 p.m. this afernoon.
Season's Greetings from DT Staff-Drive Safely