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XLVI
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., THURSDAY, DEC. 16, 1954
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Pressed Up-Driving Home From Date-Radioon Full Blast-Full of Liquor-Yes, He Was Dead
by David C. Henley
“Is he dead?”
It was 3:40 a.m. I was standing in the middle of the intersection at Melrose and La Cienega. Jeside me was Traffic Sergeant Ikill Cjers of the Los Angeles Police Department. We were watching the ambulance attendants pull Ihe body of an 18-year-old boy from behind the wheel of his wrecked car. He was dressed in blue serge suit with a red ear-Ition pinned to his coat lapel. \e left side of his face was [neared away by the jagged edges his car’s windshield, leaving le contents ol his head exposed full view. Yes, he was dead. |Ojers turned toward me and jhed. “It happens all the time, jung kid speeding home from a Ite—full of liquor and feeling ke a million dollars. Probably Id the radio on full blast—jazz lusic.”
Serond Ambulance
| A second ambulance pulled up. enforcements had arrived. The rst van, which held the remains the boy, didn’t have room for three victims. Two of them ?re lying in the street, having ^cn thrown from their car which kd been struck by the boy’s. The
third was still in the front seat, the steering wheel crushed tightly against his chest.
The two lying on the road were scooped up by the ambulancemen and carried to their wagon. The man in the front seat screamed, “My God, My God, help me, help me.”
He, too, was disengaged from the wreckage and soon with his wife and his mother, the other two victims, was being rushed to the hospital. They were fortunate —they were not dead.
Dozen Pictures Bill Ojers went back to the police car and took a camera and flash bulbs from the trunk. He shot at least a dozen pictures— photographing each car’s blood-splattered interior and then walking back to the corner and picturing them together in the big smash-up, the big “finale.”
We stayed around until the wreckers arrived and towed the two crumpled cars away. Two traffic officers had already arrived upon the scene and were busy taking the reports of witnesses and computing the skid marks of the cars with tape measures.
“I'm not needed here any more.
Let’s go,” Bill said. We climbed back into Car 2-T-L-20 and left. We were heading for Wilshire Station, where the Sergeant nad to make his report and telephone the boy’s parents and notify them of their son’s death.
For a long while we were silent. ~I knew Bill was thinking of his own son who was the same age .as the boy we had seen killed, ft I broke the silence and said, gBill. what do you plan to do with «11 those pictures you took of the crash?”
In A Display
He said he was going to use them in a display for accident prevention which is to be presented next week in the tower of City Hall.
“Do you think this display of yours will do any good in alerting people to the dangers of drinking while driving?” I asked.
“I don’t think so.” he replied.
TRUCK VICTIM - The scene: First and Macy Streets, Downtown Los Angeles. This Mexican worker was crushed to death by an 18-wheel truck trailer when it roared over his stomach.
Notice
Students holding rooters tickets for the Rose Bowl game will enter gates C and D. The gates open at 11:30 a.m., and the game starts at 2 p.m.
it-Run Victim s Arm liced in Gory Crash
by Irv Cherno lit was an unfortunate oxperi-Ice, but I had to watch a grue-|me, although not fata!, acciden’ pile returning to campus after st year's Christmas vacation.
|At exactly 2:15 on a Sunda\ jrning, the car in front of mine side-swiped by a truck. Tho :tim’s car pulled over to the ie of the road, but the truck rove on—fast.
I stopped behind the partly hashed car and for the next lev. nnutes l saw and heard things pat turned my stomach inside lit.
‘•Oh, Lord!"
IA heavy-set woman cried out. )h, Lord! Oh, Lord!" at the top her lungs.
I Then her husband slid out of |e seat and stumbled to the |ar of the car. “It hurts.'’ he janed. “It hurts a lot." He fell i the ground and I saw the blood his shirt—all over his shirt.
Severed Arm started to ask him where it rt when he looked down. I folded his stare. His left arm was ig on the road.
wheeled around as I saw the flights of an approaching car. driver slowed up to see what happening. He didn’t wait enough to find out. He ran the arm as he sped away.
|ie woman was on her knees ling prayers skyward.
‘ Quick, lift him into my pickup,” a voice said.
Pick Up Arm It was a rancher, a tall, burly man in his early forties.
We picked up the injured man and set him down in the back of the pickup. I ran to my car. grabbed spme paper, and slowly walked over to where the squashed a:m lay in .	•	road.
My stomach played all kinds of tricks on me as I wrapped the 'arm in the paper and ran back to the pickup.
The woman, still praying, was sitting in the back of the truck with her husband. I sat next to the rancher in the front seat.
County Hospital “County Hospital s only a couple ol miles from hert\” he said.
When we reached the hospital the woman was given a sedative and her husband was carried away. The rancher and I waited. A doctor told us that the man would be okay and thanked us for bringing him in.
“You go to SC, don’t you?” the doctor asked.
“Yes, sir," I replied. "How did you know?”
“That fellow’s arm was wrapped up in a copy of the Daily Trojan. I noticed that i- said something about traffic afety. Think the campaign’ll do any good?”
SC Accident Total Less Than in 1953
If a comparison with similar j figures last year means anything, the S-D Day campaign yesterday helped decrease traffic accidents both locally and nationally.
In Los Angeles city there i were 50 accidents—20 of which resulted in injuries—by 8 p.m. yesterday. There were 32 total injuries.
By that hour a year ago, there had been 71 accidents of which 30 resulted in 48 injuries.
No fatalities were reported in either Les Angeles City or the unincorporated portion of Los Angeles County. Accidents wrere running about the same as a comparable period a year ago in the County area.
No traffic deaths had been reported in California by early evening yesterday. Nationally the death toll was at 25. Auto accidents killed 60 persons on the comparative day last year.
The Safe-Driying Day was sponsored by President Eisenhower's Action Committee for Traffic Safety. The pupose wras to demonstrate that traffic accidents can be reduced materially when each motorist and pedestrian accepts full personal responsibility for voluntary compliance with all traffic regulations.
Chi O s, Phi Psi s Win Yule Contest
Chi Omega and Phi Kappa Psi won the Alpha Tau Omega Christmas Decorations contest and were presented with gold trophies last night in Bovard Auditorium. Dr. Frank Baxter made the awards at his Christmas Readings program.	,	"
Phi Delta Theta, Alpha Chi aj- ftarirllinCk Omega, and Gamma Phi Beta re-1 lJ I Ls6Q.G.LLiL6
ceived honorable mention from ;
A„ . ,	Photographs	for	the	Jan.
the ATO judges.	*
A special award went to the I * i^ue of the DT must be Newman Club for their colored j turned in to the photo edi-window7 decorations.	tor today.
The Chi Omegas won their trophy for the stained glass windows in their house. Phi Kappa Psi received the trophy for the Santa Clauses on their front lawn.
Honorable mention winners Phi Delta -Theta displayed a winter Christmas scene. Alpha Chi Omega was recognized for their Christmas tree and pres- j ents and Gamma Phi Beta received honorable mention for their house which was decorated j like a Christmas package, j The trophies awarded to the j i winners are perpetual and will be given again next year, accord-ing to Jerry Blarikmshi^
Persons who want news stories in the first edition printed after Christmas vacation should contact the city room either today or tomorrow afternoon.
ie Wrecked Lives
America's passing scene of highway history is not a pleasant one. It is littered with the accumulated wreckage of fifty years of accidents. It is strewn with the bodies of more than a million killed. Among its population, it numbers 40 to 45 million persons who have been injured.
And, unfortunately, around the bend of the future, this scene is even more ghastly to contemplate. At the rate we are going, it should take only 25 more years to accomplish this same rate of violence, destruction, and slaughter.
Each year, we stand at a milestone. We have seen dirt roads become roaring freeways. We have seen automobiles grow from toys to giants of more than 200 horsepower. We have seen the safety crusade grow from a few slogans of admonition to a mighty outpouring of warning facts and figures, pictures and articles, slogans and speeches.
But each year, we have witnessed the careless and heedless rush to destruction; the family outing turn into a mass murder; the speeding tourist taking a trip t-o the morgue; the party-goer dashing home to a life of pain. Out of the cold record of statistics we have tried each year to recreate the human beings whose last look at the passing scene was one of ultimate terror. The head-on collision, the curve missed, the blinding glare of undimmed headlights, the scream of brakes at an intersection, the helpless skid on the wet pavement.
If the passing scene is to grow more peaceful and less deadly, the great change will have to come from the drivers and pedestrians who are now causing fatal accidents at the rate of more than 90 per day.
Today, lie auto is a mixed blessing. Only by a personal commitment to care, caution, and control can we restore it to the role of useful servant and end the reign of terror whitfi we ourselves have started.—D.C.II.
Official
All regular deferred tuition accounts have a payment due on Jan. 5, 1955.
P.L. 550 deferred tuition accounts have a payment due on Dec. 22, 1954. Payment may be mailed, addressed to Deferred Tuition, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 7, Calif.
Students who do not make their payments on or before the scheduled date of payment, or who fail to make satisfactory arrangements with the director of deferred tuition for an extension, will be charged a $5 late payment fee.
Capt. B. K. Culver U.S. Navy, Retired Director, Deferred Tuition
Petitions Now Available for School Posts
The position of ASSC secretary, Student Handbook editor, and five executive positions in the Intereultural Club are open to students.
ASSC secretary applicants must have completed 90 to 112 units by the end of the fall semester of 1954. Applications for the position are available in the ASSC office, 215 SU until Jan. 5.
A background of English or journalism experience is necessary for the Student Handbook editorship. Students applying cannot be seniors. These petitions are also available in the ASSC office until Jan. 5.
The five positions open in the Intereultural Club are, president, vice president, recording secretary, corresponding secretary, and treasurer.
Any student holding an Inter-cultural Club membership card for the fall semester is eligible to petition. Petitions for the positions must be turned in to Mrs. Dorothy Zech’s office, 332 SU, by noon Jan. 4.
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Independent Ideas In Foreign Work Destroyed in Fear
By Norene Charnofsky
The fear of being called a Communist has destroyed independent thought and action in the personnel of America’s foreign s ervice department, Hans J. Morgenthau, director of the Center for the Study of Amer ican Foreign Policy at the University of Chicago, charged yesterday.
Speaking before 270 students and fac ulty members at the Student Forum lecture
Small Crowd Views Football Assembly
Before a small crowd of loyal rooters, top Trojan athletes were honored at a noon rally yesterday for their outstanding contributions during the recent football season.
Recognition for outstanding play during the past season was given the varsity monogram winners by Coach Jess Hill. Freshman numeral win-
ners were introduced by Coach Jess Mortensen.
Seven athletes were awarded life passes to future SC athletic events by End Coach Bill Fisk. They were Frank Clayton, Lindon Crow, Aramis Dandoy, Mario Da Re, Ed Fouch, Frank Pavich, and Sam Tsagalakis.
Spartan Award .The Sam Berry Memorial Spartan Award was presented to Dennis Wilkerson by Backfield Coach Nick Pappas and the John Dye Memorial Award was presented to Ed Fouch by Line Coach Mel Hein.
Marvin Goux was awarded the Davis-Teschke Award and Orlando Ferrante received the SC-UCLA game trophy from Line Coach Don Clark.
A dinner honoring these men was held last Friday in the Bil^-more Bowl and wras attended by the Trojan coaching staff and athletic directors.
Speaks to Rooters Coach Hill, after introducing the award winners, spoke to the rooters saying that the student body will be proud of their team come New Year’s Day and urged spirited yells at the game.
Don Ward and the yell kings led several Trojan cheers. The rally was under the direction of Rally Chairman Leroy Barker.
series, the well-known foreign policy analyst claimed that fear of political reprisal has chased all talent in the foreign service “into the wilderness.”
“Not only is the state department not a suitable instrument to conduct the policies on a democratic government, but police methods and thought control in our foreign service have made our state department an unsuitable instrument for any government whatsoever,” Morgenthau said.
Until Doomsday
“We can talk until doomsday of the errors and blunders of our foreign policy, but we are talking to an establishment which does not have the human moral facilities to execute any novel type of foreign policy,” he stated.
The revolutionary movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America require new modes of thought and diplomacy, Morgenthau said. In the battle for the minds of men, America cannot rely on military measures.
“What confronts us in these places are genuine revolutionary movements which have taken hold of the minds of hundreds of millions of people. Communism has not created these movements, but has exploited them, using them for Russian imperialism,” Morgenthau said
Uprisings in East
He explained that uprisings in I the East are rooted in two causes. “The ideas of social justice and
Plans Started To Get Tools For Help Week
Plans for rounding up paint brushes, brooms, mops and buckets in anticipation of “Help Week” Jan. 4, 5, and 6, will be made at the IFC meeting for fraternity pledgemasters at 4 p.m. today in the Delta Chi house, committee chairman Al Crawford said yesterday.
“We hope that pledges from every fraternity will cooperate in the project. It needs 100% participation to be worthwhile,” j he said.
Hathaway Home
The Hathaway Home for Children will be the scene of wall washing, furniture repairing, gar- j dening, and painting during this semester’s “Help Week.” which is designed to replace fraternity “Hell weeks” by supplying the pledges with constructive work.
“We feel that this can be the most beautiful project ever undertaken in ‘Help Week,’ ” Crawford said. “In its six years of operation the home has never been completely repained or painted. It receives only 50% of its operating funds from the Community Chest.”
More than 40 Children between the ages of 7-14 live at the home he said. They are all children wljo have been placed in foster homes and haven’t been able to “stick.”
“Help Week” has been sponsored by the AMS for the past two years. Other projects have included working at rhe City of Hope, and around the University.
Wampus To Reveal SCandals
Bad Bird on Wing As Secret of Row Rushing Disclosed
Willie the Wampusbird escaped from his cage this morning cackling with glee at the wicked thought of dropping 3000 copies of the 1955 Wampus in front of the Student Union.
Promising to be more revealing than the notorious “Scan- j national self-determination which dais” of Rocki Rhodes, the Warn- ! East has inherited from the pus will go on sale at noon
in
front of tbe Student Union
Building for 25 cents.
According to co-Editors Tom
Pflimlin and Ken Niles, the 1955
Rose Bowl edition will contain
32 pages on such everyday ne-	.
I ica	must	prove	by deeds	that	the
cessities as jokes, uproarious car-	hope	for	national	seif-determina-
West constitute one cause. The second root of the trouble is the breakdown of colonial rule and the concomitant desire among the colored peoples of the world for national self-determination,” he said.
Morgenthau warned that Amer-
toons, witty stories, and scandalous exposes.
"Willie the Wampusbird has overworked himself guarding the proofs on communism, fraternity rushing, the “Death of a Salesman,’ a mixed-up football weekend, advice to young alumni, and the deterioration of typical male and female college students, Pflimlin said. “It's good that he escaped; he needs the rest.”
As Willie flew out of sight his parting words were:
“Heh, heh, be sure and buy one or you’ll be sorry. They make excellent Christmas gifts for anyone who is slightly maladjusted.”
Walls of Troy Collection Hit $8000 Mark
More than $8000 has been collected to date on the project to build Walls of Troy, Fred Fagg III reported today.
“Response has been very good and we just hope it continues this way,” Fagg said.
Fraternities that have donated include Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi. Theta Xi. Acacia, Sigma Chi, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Theta Chi, and Zeta Beta Tau.
Sororities are Delta Gamma. Alpha Gamma Delta. Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Kappa Delta, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, and Alpha Omicron Pi.
Other organizations contributing include Chimes, Troeds, ASSC Senate, Freshman Council, Spurs. Medical Students. Shell c: ' O^r. and the Greater University Committee.
tion does not lie with Communism but with democracy.
Since World War II
Outlining the relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy, he said that since the end of World War II, foreign policy has been fashioned according to the preferences of an “alleged public opinion.”
Government’s Job
He advised that it is government’s job to decide on a rational and beneficial policy, and then to martial support for it.
“Saying that the people of this country will not follow the government’s policy is tantamount to saying that the people are not intelligent and courageous enough to follow the policy,” he said.
New Mexico Game Tickets on Sale
Rooter’s tickets for the Saturday night basketball game with the University of New Mexico may be picked up until Friday between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. in the SU Ticket Office. The Drice is 50 cents.
Tickets may also be purchased at the door if the activity book is presented.
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 (Dee. 23-26) and from Thursday noon through Sunday (Dec. 30-Jan. 2).
A. S. Raubenheimer J. E. Fields R. D. Fisher