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Vol. XLVI
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., TUESDAY, NOV. 30, 1954
NO. 51
GU Sets $15,000
Goal for 50-Section tart on Troy Walls
By Carl Strobel
Fifty sections of the Walls of Troy will be constructed ig Exposition Boulevard under the Greater University imittee’s $15,000 goal set yesterday by Fred Fagg III, Imittee head.
Fraternities, sororities, and campus organizations will
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BEVERLY GOULD
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Junior Bowl Queen on Air In Catalina
Beverly Gould, recently named Queen of the annual Junior Rose Bowl Game, was the featured guest on the Catalina Bandstand radio program with disc jockey Larry Berrill, over KBIG at 3:50 p.m. yesterday.
Miss Gould, 21-year-old SC student, said during the interview that she was chosen in the same manner as the Rose Bowl Queen. She w^l be at the nation’s championship game between El Camino Junior College and Mississippi Junior College, the top east and wrest teams chosen to play in Pasadena, Saturday, Dec. 11, at 1:30 p.m.
Great Experience “This is a wonderful and exciting experience because it is for charity and it gives me an opportunity to meat a lot of sports ^personalities and interesting peo-fple," Miss Gould said.
Miss Gould, a member of Gamma Phi Beta and active in Greater “U,” will participate in many pre-game activities. She will be in the parade on Saturday, hostess to the Eastern team when it arrives a week from tomorrow, and participate in a press party at the Huntington Hotel.
Attends Rally Yesterday Miss Gould attended | a rally at El Camino College. She was also hostess at a spcrts night held recently at the Beverly Hills Hotel by the Beverly Hills Men's Club in conjunction with the Helms Athletic award.
Proceeds of the game will go to the Cerebral Palsy benefit. Tickets are obtainable from the Junior Chamber of Commerce, and all Harris and Frank Department Stores.	,
be contacted during a week-and-a-half fund raising drive that will begin Monday and run until Wednesday, Dec. 18. Each section of the Wall will cost exactly $300 and will bear the donor’s name.
Student Effort
“The Walls will be entirely a student effort,” Fagg declared. He said groups can donate the money either by check or by pledges payable writhin two months.
Each section of. the Wall, consisting of a pillar and length of fence, will be about 16 feet long. The crest of the donating group will be engraved in granite and sunk into the pillar. The fence will be made of a gold-colored aluminum alloy in the form of spears.
Preparing Design
University Architect Raimond C. Johnson is expected to have the final design ready by the beginning of the drive. Julian vochelli won a student contest for the Walls of Troy design and some of the features from his design will probably be used in the final drawing.
"The whole idea is to enclose our campus and generate more spirit among the students by separating us from the neighboring community,” Bill Ruch, Walls of Troy Committee chairman, announced.
Start on Exposition
The Walls will originally be built along Exposition, but will eventually enclose the whole campus. The Greater U Committee estimated between 100 and 150 sections will be required along Exposition alone.
The Los Angeles Times and the Examiner have promised publicity for the project.
. Fagg said individual contribu-tions would not be accepted un-less made in the name of a cam pus organization.
—Courtesy L. A. crimes.
GOING AMERICAN—SC student Medhat of Cairo, Egypt, gets his first baseball lesson from children at Roy Wilson home, Santa Paula during student tour.
Santa Paula Fetes Foreign Students
By Irv Cherno
Twenty-eight foreign students, from SC, Pepperdine, and El Camino Junior College, spent the Thanksgiving holi day as the guests of the city of Santa Paula, a neighborly gesture now in its third year.
The students, .representing 20 different countries and
six religions, were welcomed by
eather or Not
Southern California — Partly :loudy in mountains and interior Regions and coastal areas south ind east of Orange Countv.
Los Angeles and vicinity — !!lear or scattered cloudiness to-iay. Windy this afternoon. Cooler fonight with low near 45 degrees, ligh today near 65.
Baxter to Take Faculty Club On TV Safari
Dr. Frank C. Baxter, SC’s renowned professor of English, will take his colleagues on “A Schoolman’s Safari 5nto Darkest Television” when he addresses them at tomorrow’s Faculty Club Luncheon.
Dr. Baxter is in San Francisco today to speak to the San Francisco Town Hall at 10:30 a.m. in the Curran Theater on “A Morning With Shakespeare.” He flew to San Francisco last night anti will return by plane late today.
The announcement of Ur. Baxter’s scheduled aopearance before the Faculty Club came from Pr. John \\. Reith, associate professor of geography and president of the club.
The luncheon will be held in the main dining room of the Commons at noon tomorrow.
More than 400,000 televiewers enjoyed Dr. Baxter’s “Shakes-pear on TV" sessions last year over KNXT, CBS Television. The show brought him 11 national awards and a new program, “Now and Then,” which is also on KXXT, Sundays at 2 p.m.
KUSC Plans FourPrograms For Tomorrow
Janet Berry, violinist: Celvin Koch, cellist, and Peggy Bledson, pianist, will be the featured performers on “Music in the Afternoon” on KUSC-TV tomorrow at 3:45.
The group will present Brahm’s Trio in C Major, Opus 87, and Brahm’s Finale, Elligro Giocoso.
“Actions Speak Louder” will feature a game of charades with students from the telecommunications acting class participating.
“Drama From the Printed Page” will present an anthology by Tamari Toney and Marlene Becker of the speech department.
“DT on TV” will feature campus news told by members of the student newspaper staff.
Today’s Program.
3:15—“Actions Speak Louder”
3:30—“Drama From the Printed Page”
3:45—“Music in the Afternoon”
4:00—"DT on TV”
Smog Head Seen
by United Press Capt. Louis Fuller of the Los Angeles Police Traffic Division, last night w’as hinted as a candidate for the job of air pollution control enforcement officer.
Supervisor Roger W. Jessup said he would recommend Fuller for the job which is being filled temporarily by Bernard Caldwell, California Highway Patrol Commissioner, who was loaned to the county by Gov. Goodwin J. Knight.
tudent Sales Brisk as Tickets
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SC students rushed to pick up atball tickets for New Year’s t>ay, as more than 100 Rose Bowl eats were sold within an hour fter sales began yesterday mom-ig. Ticket Manager John Mor-by announced.
“The initial response has been ery active,” Morley said. “Sev-il hundred tickets have already feen distributed, which is a great icrease over previous sales.” Sales End Friday
Only activity book holders can liy the tickets which sell at S2.75 kch. Sales end Friday at 8 p.m. j Trojans who do not have acuity books b^t who carry eight
or more units may pick up applications for tickets Dec. 6 as long as they last, Morley said.
Tickets will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis as only 2500 are available. They will sell for S5.50 each.
Activity book holders will not be able to apply for these tickets, he said.
Applications wall be available at the Service Building ticket office from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and at the Student Union ticket office from 6 to 8 p.m.
Season 'ticket holders, Trojan Club members, paid alumni, and
Trojans who hold life passes will receive their applications by mail.
Faculty applications for tickets will be available in the Student Union ticket office all week for faculty members with season tickets on roll call.
99,000 Seats Th:ve are only 99.875 seats in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena. Morley said, and of these a strict amount is given to the two schools in the contest and a small percentage is given to other conference membei=.
Tne remainder will be sold at no more than two per customer at the Rose Bowl ticket office at a later date.
city officials and ushered into the homes of several Santa Paulans, where they stayed during the four-day vacation.
Turkey Dinner
The traditional turkey dinner was only part of the “typical American vacation,” according to Jim McAree, foreign students adviser at SC.
Some of the students visited the missions,at Ventura, Santa Ynez, and Santa Barbara. Others traveled to Ojai, w’here they were the guests of the Rotary Club.
One group toured the gigantic Santa Felicia Dam on Piru Creek and another drove td Solvang, a “bit of Denmark transplanted in California.”
Feel Relaxed
“Most of the students are shy,” he said. "Meeting small-town folk makes them feel comfortable. They can think and talk easier when in the company of relaxed, easy-going people.
“We feel that the students can learn more about Americans and American traditions this way than in classrooms or in books,” McAree commented.
“The students aren’t the only ones that learn, however. In return for their hospitality, citizens of Santa Paula are informed of foreign customs and traditions.
Always Hospitable
“We have received many phone calls and letters thanking us for sending the students to their homes,” McAree added.
“There is no need for any for-cSgn student to go without hospitality during any of our holidays or at any time. We regularly get invitations for the students to ‘come on over’ from hundreds of Southern Californians.”
Medhat Mandour, an SC freshman from Cafrd, Egypt, w^a's thrilled with the beautiful scenery in the Santa> Paula region. He described his trip as one of the most interesting he has ever been on.
Student Impressed
Iqbal Ali of India, in his third year as a cinema major here, was equally excited. When asked of his reactions, he stated, “I was overwhelmed with the warmheartedness of my hosts—people I had never met before. They treated me like an old friend of the family.”
The annual trek to Santa Paula began in 1952 w’hen Chukuemeka Okeke, a Nigerian graduate student at SC, went there to find our how7 a democratic city government works.
The citizens all turned out to welcome him and he returned to spread the good news. After speaking at a Rotarian meeting, the club adopted Okeke's idea of making it a yearly activity.
Debate Squad Aims For National Tourney
Hancock Open House to Show Research Labs
Research activities of the Allan Hancock Foundation will be among features of an open house for faculty, students, and general public, to be held Thursday from 2 to 5 p.m.
To be shown in the three-story Foundation building are research laboratories and rare specimens of marine biology and zoology, the library, herbarium, special exhibits of insects and butterflies, and the Memorial rooms. The event is a part of the SC program to celebrate its 75th Diamond Jubilee Anniversary year.
Faculty of the Hancock Foundation Will be on hand to explain rare marine inverterbrates and other specimens collected over the past twenty years on expeditions directed by Captain Allan Hancock.
Visitors will be shown the Hancock Library of Biology and Oceanography, with its outstanding scientific collection, which includes volumes dating back to 1831. Historical accounts of voyages of the Pacific and single sets of Audibon’s Birds of America are included in the collection, which was acquired from the Boston Society of Natural History.
The Hancock Foundation’s herbarium, containing specimens from distant corners of the globe, and a special collection of insects, butterflies, and moths from South America, Africa and other distant lands will also be on exhibit.
Among publications of the Foundation staff and those of visiting scientists to be shown is the seven-year project of Dr. Raymond C. Osborn. His research on bryozoa won the Daniel Giraud Elliot medal of the National Academy of Science.
Memorial rooms of the former Hancock family home, a landmark at the corner of Vermont Street and Wilshire Boulevard for many years, will be open to the public in a section of the Foundation building. The four rooms were patterned after the Villa Medici in Italy and contain objects of art rfom abroad.
The Hancock Foundation was established in 1940 at SC by Captain Hancock and is still being supported and maintained by him. Linked with the Foundation is the SC floating laboratory, the Velero IV, which has made over 50 cruises during the past two years.
Western Victory in Tucson Spurs Hopes for Invitation to East
BOB WALLACH
. . . several wins
Yule Party For Foreign Students Set
All foreign students in Southern California will be honored at a Christmas party at the County Museum in Exposition Park Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m.
The party, an annual affair, is sponsored by the Museum Association of the Los Angeles County Museum, a group interested in fostering artistic and scientific projects in the c nunity.
The 3000-membcr association is inviting more than 2000 students from the international groups of the colleges and universities in Southern California.
The party will include a big turkey dinner. An orchestra will play in one of the galleries for dancing. Movies will be shown and tours to various parts of the museum will be offered.
Students from forei^i countries who are attending SC may obtain their invitations from the Foreign Students’ Office, 322 SU.
SEYOM BROWN
. Impromptu first
To Direct Play
Mrs. Madeline Blackmore, lecturer in general studies, has just signed a contract with Huntington Hartford, owner of the Huntington Hartford Theater in Hollywood, to direct the first performance of her “Dear Virtue.”
WORLD NEWS
No War Against Red China: Dulles
CHICAGO—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flatly rejected a naval or air blockade of Red China in retaliation for the imprisonment of 13 Americans and said the nation will rely instead on “peaceful means.”
He said the “aggressive” action of the Chinese Reds actually, may be a new device for an attempt to split free nations,
Dulles promised the Nation that the Government “will react and react vigorously” to the imprisonment of the Americans as spies but will not re£brt to “war action” such as naval or air blockade.
TULSA—A fat, glum widow, who has confessed to poisoning four of iher husbands and is suspected of murdering a total of 11 persons, was formally charged today with the murder of husband No. 5.
The widow, Mrs. Nannie Doss, 49, giggled when she confessed poisoning four husbands—two of whom she got through lonely heart clubs—but was plunged into melancholy by the news that she also is suspected of poisoning her parents, two sisters, two daughters and a step-grandson.
She was led, head down and depressed-looking, through a crowd on the street to the Court of Common Pleas Judge Lloyd McGuire, where she was arraigned on a charge of murdering Sam Doss, 58, of Tulsa, her fifth husband, with two doses of rat poison.
McGuire gave her 24 hours to plead and did not rule immediately on her court appointed attorney’s request to send her to a lunatic asylum for 90 days to determine whether she is crazy. She confessed to murdering four husbands with rat poison, but was charged only with the Doss murder because that was the only one in Oklahoma.	*	*
Members of the SC debate squad were looking hopefully ahead today to a possible invitation to the National Debate Tournament, following an impressive team victory in a western tournament in Tucson over the week end.
The Trojan talkers, by piling up an impressive victory
in the Western Speech Association Student Forensic Tournament, almost clinched a bid to the national tournament in April. Only one more major tournament is left.
Eleven States
More than 30 schools, representing the 11 western states, entered the Tucson tourney. SC sent 10 top speakers, six of which took at least two places each. Troy took both the Junior and Senior Sw’eepstakes in the men’s division. The Trojans captured more individual and first places than any other school.
In debating, Seyom Brown and Bob Wallach won in the Senior division. Bob Croutch and Frank Besag tied for third in the Junior division.
Two Women
In extemporaneous speaking, !
Maxine Karpman won second place in the Junior women's sec- | tion and Marguerite Cooper took fourth in the Senior women’s division. Wallach placed fourth in the upper division for men.
In the oratory events, Wallach won second place in the upper division; Besag took second in the lower section; and Miss Cooper placed fourth in the upper division for women.
First in Impromptu
In impromptu, Brown took another first place in the upper division class; Miss Karpman and Croutch placed third and fourth, respectively, in the iower division.	»
Brown picked up his thiid first place by winning top honors in the discussion.
The next big tournament will be the Cal Tech event, to bo held this year on the Pepperdine campus. It is officially a regional tourney for schools in Southern California, but other entries are accepted.
Last Talkfest
The last talkfest of the semes-1 ter will be held at Occidental, j A less important tournament .it is primarily for those who could-1 n’t attend the one at Tucson.
. The nationals have been held at West Point in the past, but there is a possibility of a change in plans this year. The topic of debate has been “Should the U.S. Recognize Red China?” and high sources don’t feel that the Army academy is the proper place to attempt to settle such a question.
Chairman Tells {Students Blood Still Needed
Chameleon Tie Gains Notoriety For L A. Smog
The SC student’s tie that changed color in the smog has gained international recognition.
A newspaper in Blackpool, England, carried the story of the bright coral tie, owned by engineering student Jim Sharp-less. The tie turned lavender in an encounter with Los Angeles smog.
Dr. Joseph Smatko, head of the chemical engineering department, felt the dye used in the tie would make a good smog indicator. He has located the manufacturers of the two dyes used in the tie and is waiting for samples to test smog for sensitivity.
Dr. Smatko said the dye should change color in proportion to rthe amount of smog in the air, giving scientists a simple method of determining smog concentration.
The composition of smog may also be discovered by finding out what mixlii ^ j of possible smog constituents make the dye change color.
“Remember Pearl Harbor.”
This is* the theme of this year’s twro-day blood drive, beginning Dec. 7.
“We hope that our slogan will remind students that blood is needed all the time*. Interest in donating blood always goes down when the United States is not actively at war,” said drive co-chairman Chickie Mueller.
“People should realize that blood is always needed, for accidents, hospitals, and In case of another surprise attack, said Miss Mueller. Pearl Harbor caught America unprepared, and so many lives were lost that could have been saved. If it happens again, we must be ready, not only with arms, but with medical supplies. Blood is the greatest medicine of them all.”
Blood Needed
Blood is also needed during the Christmas holidays, when donations are low and the need is greater than during any other peacetime period. Whole blood is good for from 21 to 30 days after it is taken, so that blood given at SC on Dec. 7 or 8 will be useful during the holidays.
Provision will be made for students who cannot be accopimodat-ed on campus to give blood at the regional blood center before Jan. 6. Final results from the drive will not be in until this date, when the three traditional trophies will be awarded.
Slow Start A total of 77 students signed up for donations as the drive got under way yesterday, 45 men and 32 women. So far, no one group is in the lead.
“It’s not too good,” said co-chairman Jerry McMahon, “but the sign-ups usually start out even lower than that. We hope that by tomorrow we’ll have a better turnout.”
Students between 18 and 21 must have release slips signed by a parent either at the time they sign-up or when they make the donation. A card showing previous donations will not be sufficient.
Attorney Files Release Writ
By United Press
A writ of habeas corpus was filed today for the release of Wesley Robert Wells, San Quentin convict whose death sentence for assaulting a prison guard recently was commuted to life imprisonment by Gov. Goodwin J. Knight.
The writ was filed by Attorney Leo Branton Jr. with Superior Judge Harold W. Schweitzer.