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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1955, LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
NO. 93
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new concept of philosophy ed on genetics was the main text of Dr. Hugh Miller’s ech in yesterday’s Philosophy rum.
r. Miller, UCLA philosophy fessor, gave the third in the rent lectures on trends and ues. His address was entitled ihilosophy and the Evolution of fe.”
According to Dr. Miller, genes, hi determining factors in here-ity, are being studied in relation to man’s evolution and adapt-bility.
Habitat Stressed
‘Geneticists are now studying pecie characteristics of a living roup in their natural habitat in-tead of in a laboratory,” Miller aid.
"Man’s ability to render himself daptable to environmental conditions should be conceded to the omogenity of the group,” Dr. ‘iller explained, “Each species eceives through gene flow, adapt-bility, and consequently the rate f this gene flow is determined by volume and speed.”
Group existence is dependent on e individual members of the roup, and their adaptability to onditions as well as the exertion f pressure by fellow members, ccording to Dr. Miller.
Dynamic Concept Along the same line, inbreeding nd interbreeding result in a dy-amic concept of the species, Dr. filler said. He differentiated between the two by defining in-reeding as a centrifugal force nd intrabreeding as a centripical orce.
“In helping to distinguish the wo, inbreeding occurs within a ■pulation ad intrabreeding mong populations,” he said. This reeding pattern is a mode of ‘production.
Real Distinction “Man’s real distinction lies in is domesticity,” he stated, “This enders him immune to biotic ressures.”
Dr. Miller’s conception of phil-ophy relates his new synthesis science in relation to religion. Next week’s lecture will be on he Semantics of Paradox," and ill be delivered by Prof. Philip heelwright, from the University California at Riverside.
TO BE OR NOT . . .
omen Invite oreign Trojans o Row Meals
International students interest-d in dining at sororities on the ~w should sign up starting Mon-ay from 2:00 to 3:00 in the For-ign Student Adviser’s Office, ac-rding to Panhellenic President dith Anderson.
The imitation, made through a etter to Intereultural Club Presi-ent Jagat Bhatia, is a response o recent Senate-IFC resolutions
0	invite foreign students to the ~w.
Starting next week, get-ac-uainted dinners will be held by
1	sororities on Tuesday, Wed-esdav, and Thursday nights, ae-‘rding to Miss Anderson. They ill continue indefinitely hroughout the semester, depend-ng on response. Each meal will
st $1.25, which should be paid n signing up.
In addition to 2:00 Monday, anhellenic representatives will in the Foreign Students’ Of-ice on Tuesday and Thursday at oon. Transportation can be ar-nged through the panhellenic ipresentative.
Sororities participating are Al-ha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, lpha Gamma Delta. Alpha Chi mesa. Alpha Omega Pi. Chi mega. Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa lpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa appa Gamma, and Zeta Tau pha.
"We certainly hope that inter-tional students will accept our vitation,” said Miss Anderson. ~re are looking forward to meet-g them and having them visit e sororities."
IC president Jagat Bhatia said was pleased that sororities ere responding to the recent nate-IFC measures. "The In-rcultural Club will do every-ing in its power to see that in-rnational students respond to invitation,” he said. “It is a snderful opportunity, both for udents from other lands and e sororities themselves.”
TROJAN OIL BOOMERS-SC Alumnus Jack B. Crawford (left), his brother Don (center) and his petroleum engineer, R. A. Brooks, look over the first producing well in the Hunting-
RIG RAMPAGE
—DT photo by Hal Barnett.
Ton Beach oil boom. Don is a sophomore at SC and Brooks is a 1951 graduate of the School of Engineering. This well was the first to flow from the 3900 foot sand layer.
Geology Graduate Triggers Oil Boom
By Charlie Barnett Daily Trojan Editor
Huntington Beach, the little coastal town made famous by fabulous oil booms in the 1920’s, is booming again.
Veteran oil men have traveled and lived over the present boom field for 30 years, but no one ever tried drilling there until a 23-year-old trumpet player fresh out of the SC geology department decided that Huntington Beach residential district was the place
Play, Women Highlight TV Show at Noon
Today’s schedule for KUSC-TV. SC's closed circuit television station highlights the Panhellenic Council and the drama department.
At 12:15 p.m. officers of the Panhellenic Oouncil will be introduced by President Edith Anderson. Council members will present entertainment.
The drama department will present a one-act play for the television viewers at 12:30 p.m. The play, "Mooncalf Mugford.” was written by Brainerd Duffield. and Nolan and Helen Leary, and will be directed by Elroy D. Naczek.
Cast members are: Etta Mugford, Gay Gadbois; Tabby Pipp, Kathleen Coombs: Mrs. Lowell, Lynne Morgan; John “Mooncalf” Mugford, Lee Whiting, and Caleb Orne, Don Summers.
Naczek, Summers, and Miss Gadbois are members of the National Collegiate Players.
This play was one of the three one-act plays presented by Dr. James H. Butler’s production class last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the Stop Gap Theater.
The programs can be watched in the special viewing room located in 231 Hancock Hall. *
Delta Sigs Elect Lawrence Prexy
Jack Lawrence was recently elected president of the Delta Sigma Phi, social fraternity, pledge class.
Also taking over new posts are Tom Elwell, treasurer; Ken Kam-pen. social chairman: and Tom Shollin, assistant social chairman.
to strike it rich.
He did. And today Huntington Beach is still in an up roar. Oil is flowing from a zone of sand about 3900 feet under the residential and business section and everybody is out to get his share—and more if possible.
For ten weeks houses have been toppling to make way for derricks throughout the residential district—and still the boom continues. Initial flow of three of the newest wells is reported to be 1000 barrels each a day. At last count the City Council had issued permits for 217 wells to be drilled at an expenditure of about $12 million.
The whole town is covered with dust and dirt. Some streets have been dug up for pipelines while others are blocked by housemovers and heavy trucks bringing in drilling equipment. Wells are going in close together—in some places two on a 25-foot lot.
Sightseers drive slowly through the town gawking at the activity and the oil wells in front yards and driveways.
Some Elated—Some Dejected
Everybody’s talking about oil. Some are elated because they have it, others dejected because they don’t. Some are rejoicing over the newfound revenue. Others are deploring the destruction brought on the town by the mad rush to drill on every available lot.
But behind the story of rush, roar, riches, and rubble which is Huntington Beach* today is the story of Jack B. Crawford who just couldn’t wait to be a big oil producer.
Jack Crawford grew up in the oil business. His father, a Long Beach drilling contractor, has been in the oil game for 25 years.
While other kids wanted to grow up to be firemen, or cowboys, or President of the United States, Jack wanted to be an oil producer.
After high school, with his goal still set in mind, he enrolled at SC as a geology major.
“I’ve always intended to try to be a producer,” he says, “I took geology as a means to that end—as a fundamental background to producing.”
. At SC, Jack was an activity boy and a musician it seems, even more than a geology student. He was president of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and president of the YMCA. He was solo trumpet in the Concert Band and he organized and conducted the Air Force ROTC Band. He organized his own dance band which played at fraternity and sorority functions. For a while he played with Freddy Martin.
Just An Average Student
According to his professors, Jack was just an average student—not because he wasn’t bright enough to excel in geology, but because he spent too much time on outside activities.
“He was by no means the best student we ever had,” says Dr. Thomas Clements, head of the geology department. “He was very busy with everything but geology, most of the time.
“No one on the staff ever liad the feeling he couldn’t
Student Conservative Party Fate Senate Topic Tonight
Panhell Grant Offers Europe Study to Coeds
Applications for the annual Panhellenic scholarship, which entitles an SC woman to study in Europe, may be secured in the counselor of women’s office and should be returned on or before Mar. 31.
The scholarship is offered on an exchange basis. The country with which SC will exchange has not been announced, but Norway and Spain are being considered as possibilities.
The scholarship is open to all sophomore and junior sorority women who have a “B” average
and are in good standing within their houses.
Anyone wishing more information may contact Mrs. Edwarda White in the counselor of women’s office.
Another Prof Enters TV As Panel Authority
Another SC professor has joined the ranks of television performers. Prof. Clayton M. Baldwin of the School of Architecture is one of the regular panelists on the TV show, “A Home To Live In.”
The show, which is aired over KTTV, Channel 11, Sunday at 1:30 p.m., is a panel discussion about homes, home products, and' home planning.
Experts from the building fields are interviewed. The program is called a “knot hole” for viewers interested in having a home built for them.
The show recently featured the “Research House of 1955,” which was designed by one of Baldwin’s former students, Edward H. Flickett.
The show is sponsored by the Better Building Institute Incorporated as a public service.
By Jim Karayn
The fate of the controversial Student Conservative Party as a student organization will be decided tonight when the ASSC Senate‘votes on the party’s recognition.
The party submitted its petition before the Student Activities Committee for approval a few weeks prior to the
Christmas holidays.
The TRG party submitted their petition at the same time, but it has been able to receive Senate recognition. The Student Activities Committee has been deferring action on the SC petition until the Senate could schedule the presentation of the petition.
The Committee, which acts as a reviewing and veto power on all student activities, customarily waits for Senate approval on those petitions which need the Senate’s OK before reviewing any matters.
Combined Drives Appointment of a chairman for the combined Troy Camp and Trojan Chest drives will be announced by ASSC president Bill Van Alstyne.
The selection will be made from Jack Casey, present chairman of Troy Camp and Jerry Naoe, present chairman of Trojan Chest.
The two projects formerly had separate fund-raising drives, but with crowded activities schedules, it was decided by the Student Activities Committee, to postpone the Troy Camp drive and combine it with the Trojan Chest Charities campaign.
The combined campaign will be the only major fund-raising drive this semester. The drive will be conducted sometime in April. Masuda to Review
Don Masuda, foreign students* representative, will review opinions expressed by the IFC with regard to his proposal that foreign students live in fraternities as “paying guests” at tonight’s meeting.
Issues dealing with the spring elections will also be on the agenda for tonight’s confab, said Van Alstyne.
Cerrell Denies TNE Labeling By TRG Party
Joe Cerrell kept political controversies hot with his rebuttal to SC Party comments yesterday.
“It is ridiculous to say that TRG labels all their opposition as TNE,” according to Joe Cerrell, chairman of the TRG party, in answering the SC party accusation.
“We have had many independent opponents and have not labeled them as TNE,” Cerrell said. “We only give the label of TNE to known Tong members.”
As far as the question proposed by Jack Purcell, chairman of the SC Party, yesterday, “Is it wrong to oppose?” Cerrell said that honest opposition is good.
himself in his
RICHES AND RUBBLE—This section of the rtsi-dential district of Huntington Beac^i shows how the city has been ripped apart in a gigantic grasp for black gold. The town is covered with dust and machinery roars all
do better, but he never really extended studies.” •
“Several members of the staff,” Professor Clements says, had serious doubts whether he would ever get through college in t£e first place or amount to anything as a geologist if he did.”
Unable to take his summer geologic field work at SC because of a conflicting Air Force ROTC camp, Crawford took the field work class at Texas A&M, making an A.
After graduation in June 1953, Jack began studying subsurface petroleum geology data of some of the Southern California beach areas. When fall came, he went back to college to learn more about the practical end of the oil business. But while taking a course in practical oil technology at the business and technology division of Long Beach City College, he continued to study electric log charts, core records, and histories of old wells in the Huntington Beach region to determine fault blocks.
By the time the semester had ended, he also had arrived at some results from his subsurface geology study. In the southwest area of Huntington Beach, the subsurface data indicated a fault block which Crawford thought should contain an accumulation of oil.
“For 30 years oil men had driven over this area and
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—DT photo by Hal Barnett.
night. Houses are moved out and wells go in, in some places two on one 25-foot lot. SC Alumnus Jack B. Crawford started a new boom by discovering oil in the residential section.
Dean to Talk About British Welfare State
The British Welfare State will be discussed by Dr. Arlien Johnson. dean of the School of Social Work, today at the Faculty Club luncheon.
In 1954, Dr. Johnson spent five months in Great Britain as chairman of a Fulbright Commission team to study social welfare services in Great Britain.
This luncheon will be for members of the Men’s Faculty Club and the Faculty Wives’ Club, who are combining their activities for the first time this semester.
Dr. Johnson has been the dean of the SC School since she came here in 1939. She had previously held the same position at the University of Washington.
Spanish Club Plans Talks on Mexican Life
Highlighting tomorrow afternoon’s meeting of Club Tertulia Panamericana. SC’s Spanish Club, is a talk by William M. Whitby, who is an instructor in the Spanish department.
The club will meet at 2 p.m. in the International Student Lounge on the third floor of the Student Union Building.
Whitby plans to tell members some of his experiences as a student in Mexico. Irene Duarte will present several Spanish Flamenco dances.
This semester’s officers elected at the last meeting are: Edward Tevlin, president; Paul Streeker, vice president: Chris Kaibney, secretary. Sponsors of the club are Mr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Sulli-
m.
Streeker stated that the purpose of the club is to stimulate an attitude of understanding and friendship with Latin American students.
All faculty and students are invited to attend the Thursday programs and meetings. "It is not necessary to speak Spanish,” Tevlin said. “The only requirement is an interest in Spanish-speaking peoples and their culture.”
Sager, Trimble Win Posts in CAPHERVote
SC dethroned UCLA Saturday as leader of the student section of the California Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.
Since CAHPER was organized, UCLA has controlled the presidency and other offices, but at Saturday’s annual meeting SC’s Rhea Sager was elected president and Dennies Trimble was appointed secretary. Lenore Smith, director of the women's division of the Physical Education Department, made the announcement.