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LOS ANGELES, CALIF., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1, 1954
NO. 52
HER ASKS:
s Blood Drive at SC A Waste of Time?
By Maggre Christensen
As the second day of this year’s campaign for blood donation pledges closed yes-rday, only 126 students had signed up at the booth in front of the Student Union.
“It seems more or less a waste of time to even have a blood drive the way things e going,” said drive co-chairman Chickie Mueller.
“The Red Cross is going all out to provide us with
rojan Peak lub Plans unday Hike
The Trojan Peak Club is call-g all mountain climbing enthu-iasts to go on a four-peak hike unday under the direction of Ralph Drummond, Chester Ver-steeg, and Prof. Orville H. Miller.
This trip Is designed to help qualify students wishing to join the mountain climbing organization. All four of the peaks to be climbed will contribute toward the ten peaks necessary to join the club.
“It is an easy hike and will include San Gabriel Peak, Mt. Markham, Mt. Lowe, and Disappointment Peak,’’ a representative of the club said. “The round trip distance is lass than njne miles and is mostly on trails. No technical climbing is involved.” Those wishing to go on Sunday’s hike are to meet at 9 a.m. at the red box on Angeles Crest highway at the turnoff to Mt. Wilson, rain or shine. People needing transportation are urged to call Ext. 600.
Necessary equipment is a lunch, canteen, and sturdy hik-ing shoes.
CHICKIE MUELLER
. . is disappointed
Car Pool Will Bring Riders, Rides Together
Anxious to get home but no way to go?
The sixth annual Christmas Car Pool starts today! Sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, the campaign is designed to secure more and cheaper rides for students who otherwise wouldn’t be able to go home for Christmas, Larry Courtney, A Phi O president, said yesterday.
Students needing rides and students who have available space in their cars should sign up in the Alpha Phi Ojncga office, 220 Student Union.
Cards will be filled out stating destination, time leaving, time arriving and other pertinent data. These cards will be processed by a committee and the applicants will be notified by card, phone or direct connection if rides are found for them.
If rides are not secured with SC students, cards will also be pooled with other colleges to find out w’hat rides are available.
Leading Demos Favor Dulles Blockade View
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — ! (UP)—Several leading Democratic senators tonight expressed strong approval of Secretary of , State John Foster Dulles’ rejection of air or naval blockades as means to try to force Red China to release 13 American prisoners.
At least one Republican, Sen. Homer Ferguson (Mich), said he agrees all peaceful means should be tried first but he “wouldn’t at present rule out in the future the question of a blockade.”
Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland, who has proposed a blockade, declined immediate comment on Dulles’ speecn in Chicago.
Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.), who will become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January, said a naval blockade of Communist China would mean a “general war” and the “speedy death” of all Americans held by the Communists.
He said he “thoroughly agreed” with Dulles and declared the nation should “exhaust all means of settling differences with the Reds.”
Sen John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and 1952 Democratic vice-presidential candidate, said he is in “complete agreement” with Dulles.
George, in a television interview prior to Dulles’ speech, said the time is “rapidly approaching” when this country must do more than “write polite notes” to the Reds. But he added that until all steps short of war are exhausted, “bombardment or blockading the ports, which would mean a general war, is most unwise.”
accommodations, so there’s • something wrong if we can’t go all out to make it worth their trouble. There should be a lot more people wililng to contribute than are signing up,” she said.
Emergency Drive The Red Cross is conducting a concentrated emergency drive to collect blood during December for the holiday season which is high on accidents and low on donations.
The Red Cross will also be called on to supply the usual 15,000 pint monthly quota needed by hospitals and research centers.
Dancer Ray Bolger has volunteered to act as general chairman for this emergency campaign. The slogan wil be “Give a Life for Christmas.”
Bolger Makes Plea “I*am asking every American to put the blood donor center on his shopping list. Give a pint of blood, and know that you are giving someone his life for Christmas,” said Bolger.
The Red Cross will accommodate only 600 donors on campus in this year’s drive, but they are asking that students who cannot give on campus go to the blood center at 1130 So. Vermont Avenue.
Donations made at the center between Dec. 8 and Jan. 6 can be credited to campus organizations and living groups and w'ill be counted in the final tally to decide the winners of the three traditional trophies.
Help Alleviate Shortage “If the fraternities and sororities will make, arrangements to take groups of 20 or more to the blood center, it will help to alleviate the shortage of campus accommodations on the Dec. 7 and 8,” said Miss Mueller.
ROTC groups have already pledged their full support. The AFROTC will donate 200 pints on the first day of the campus drive, and 200 NROTC members will be taken to the blood center in Red Cross buses on Jan. 6.
It is not necessary for members of these groups to sign up individually at the booth. All arrangements are being made by ROTC instructors.
Sign-ups will continue through the end of this week at the booth in front of the Student Union. Any student over 18 may donate blood if he meets health qualiif-cations.
Minors Need Permission Students between 18 and 21 must have their parents sign a release slip and must present*it at the time he gives blood.
“We have to turn away many young people who come to the center to donate without knowing about this regulation,” said E. M. Schottland. administrative director of the Los Angeles Regional Blood Center.
Donors must weigh at least 110 pounds. Excessive fatty foods should be avoided shortly before donation, and at least three months must have elapsed since the last donation.
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SC Athletes Will Discuss World Unity
T£ie possibilities of increasing world understanding through athletics will be discussed by SC athletes at a luncheon for international students at the YWCA tomorrow.
A panel made up of Forrest Twogood, head basketball coach; Lindon Crow% co-captain of the varsity football team; and Jim Lea, cross country coach, will speak at 2:30, after the luncheon. All foreign students at SC are invited to sit in on this discussion.
Sixteen foreign students from the SC student body, and 34 foreign students from other Southern California universities and colleges have been invited to a luncheon at 1:30.
The luncheon and panel discussion will be sponsored by the Amazons in conjunction with the Red Cross International Student’s Week, Dec. 1-10. This is the fifth year that the Los Angeles Red Cross has sponsored this week of activities to orient foreign students who have been in the country for less than a year.
Other Red Cross-sponsored activities during the week will be tours to motion picture studios, Kaiser Steel Corporation, Lever Brothers, CBS Television, Knott’s Berry Farm, Padua Hills, the City Hall, UCLA fraternities, and various other industrial and business firms throughout the Southland.
Religion Head To Speak on Bible Apathy'
Dr. Wesley Robb, head of the department of undergraduate religion, will speak to the Westminster Club tomorrow on “Why Bother With the Bible?” according to the Rev. John E. Burkhart, Presbyterian university pastor.
Dr. Robb, who was a Navy group in tne Westminster Student Center, next to Owens Hall at 6 p.m. The speech will follow the club’s weekly dinner meeting at 5 p.m.
“This program is part of our goal of searching honestly and intelligently in the field of religion,” said the Rev. Burkhart.
Dr. Robb( who was a Navy chaplain during World War II and the Korean conflict, was graduated from the SC School of Religion with a masters degree in 1945. He also received his PhD at SC in 1953. He taught for several years at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
The Westminster Club, sponsored by the Presbyterian Church for work with students and faculty, w'as started at SC in the early 40’s. Their program includes discussion groups, speakers, social activities, and various projects in the community.
The group also sponsors the Sunday morning chapel at 11 in the Little Chapel of Silence.
Red China Squabble Agitates Ike and SC Debate Squad
By Joyce Boehm
With SC’s chances for an invitation to the national debate tourney growing brighter, debate squad members yesterday expressed dismay over the current subject squabble which may result in cancellation of the national tournament altogether.
Controversy over this year’s national collegiate debate topic of whether or not the United States should recognize the Communist Government of China has caused the
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Calendars Still Sold by Groups
Mortar Board calendars may still be purchased through the campus service organizations, Jean Stewart, calendar chairman, said yesterday.
“Every year the calendars have been sold out, and we expect another sell-out this year,” Miss Stewart said. “We had 2000 calendars printed.”
Selling for 25 cents each, the calendars have holes in them to fit any size notebook, and are small enough to be handled easily.
“Our calendar sale is our only money making project this year,” Miss Stewart said.
“We urge students and faculty to buy their calendars through members of the service organizations, but they are also available at the YWCA and at Mrs. White’s office,” Miss Stewart concluded.
ORLD NEWS ROUNDUP
, 0 Wilson To Ask Congress for Four
Year Draft Act Extension in January
From United Press
WASHINGTON —r Defense Sectary Charles E. Wilson said yes-rday that Congress will be ask-in January to extend the Draft ct for four years and set up a odified Universal Military Train-program.
The present Draft Act is sched-ed to expire next June 30. Un-r Wilson’s proposal it would be newed until 1959.
Wilson told a news conference e new reserve plan, which goes nd-in-hand with draft renewal. Is for training about 100,000 ung men a year for six month riods and then assigning them organized reserve outfits, ose 100,000 would be in addi-on to the men drafted at a »sent rate of 23.000 a month, r two-year active duty periods. MOSCOW <1— Russia proposed y to build up the mili-
tary forces of a union of the Communist, countries of Europe if West Germany is rearmed within tbe Western Military Alliances.
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WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower agrees with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that Republican Leader William F. Knowiand’s proposal to blockade Red China would amount to “war action,” the White House said yesterday.
Mr. Eisenhower’s stand was disclosed by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty as Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson and other key Senate Democrats backed the administration in opposing a blockade now.
Knowland, who urged the blockade in an effort to force Red China to free American prisoners, stood by his guns. He said the
United Nations charter lists blockade action as a short-of-war step that may be taken in international disputes.
+ * + WASHINGTON —Republican Sen. H. Alexander Smith said last night Sen. William F. Knowland should resign as Senate majority leader if he expresses formal disagreement with the Administration’s Foreign Policy.
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CLEVELAND, O.—A prim and precise laboratory technician testified yesterday that the trousers Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard wore the morning his wife was murdered bore blood stains that contained elements similar to her blood.
In the pockets of the trouser, she said, were found eight strands of hair similar to those taken, from ehe head of the July 4 mur-
der victim, Marilyn Sheppard, 31.
Miss Mary Cowan, 47, slender medical technician from the Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office, testified she found the blood stain on the left leg of the khaki trousers.
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VATICAN CITY—Pope Pius XII, under round-the-clock observation by doctors and' nurses in his latest illness, will preside at a solemn ceremony of Thanksgiving closing the Marian Year Dec. 8, it was announced yesterday.
LONDON — Britain gave Winston Churchill an 80th birthday of roaring acclaim and unprecedented honors yesterday. The doughty old w’arrior told a resplendent crowd in historic Westminster Hall, “There has never been anything like it in British history.”
Widow Still Won t Confess To 7 Murders
TULSA, Okla. — Mrs. Nannie Doss, who has confessed murdering four husbands with rat poison but refused to discuss the possibility that there may be seven other victims, suddenly decided yesterday that she’d like to talk to County Attorney J. Howard Edmondson.
This immediately led to speculation that another urge to unburden herself has come over the giggling widow', w'ho is fat and 49. Her tw'o court-appointed attorneys were reported trying to get a district court order to keep Edmondson away from her.
She has confessed poisoning husbands Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5. Her first husband, in fear of his life, divorced her and is still alive. She is suspected, in addition, of murdering her parents, two sisters, two daughters and a step-grandchild—11 persons in all.
Mrs. Doss w^as arraigned yesterday before Common Pleas Judge Lloyd McGuire on a charge of murdering husband No. 5. She stood mute—that is, refused *to plead either innocent of guilty— and Judge McGuire entered a plea of innocent for her.
He entered the plea over the objections of her court-appointed lawyers Gordon Patton and Quinn Dickason, who protested that she is insane and so far hasn’t given them any help in their efforts to defend her. Patton and Dickason told her not to talk to Edmondson again.
After she announced she’d like to talk to Edmondson, she said it might be better to do as the lawyers told her, but that he and other officers “can come up to the jail anyway and see.”
Ex-Child Actor Arrested Again
By United Press
Actor Scotty Beckett, recently placed on probation on a concealed weapons charge, was arrested yesterday in Hollywood on a complaint from Las Vegas, Nev., authorities charging that he passed a bad. $125 check there in March.
Beckett played the role of young Al Jolson in “The Jolson Story” several years ago.
Tickets Selling Fast as Friday Deadline Nears
As of late yesterday afternoon, 1900 Rose Bowl tickets have been sold at the Service Building ticket office, according to John Morley, ticket manager.
Sales will end on Friday at 8 p.m. The tickets, priced at $2.15, are available only to activity book holders.
Non-activity book holders carrying eight or more units may apply for regular .$5.50 tickets Dec. 6 as long as they last. Only 2500 such tickets are available and w ill be distributed on a first come, first serve basis.
Applications may be picked up Monday at the Service building from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and at the Student Union ticket office from 6 to 8 p.m.
Activity book holders will not be able to apply for these tickets, Morley said.
Season ticket holders, Trojan Club members, paid alumni, and life pass holders will receive their applications by mail.
Faculty members with season tickets on roll call can pick up their applications all week in the Student Union ticket office.
Notice
Students now enrolled in the university who will complete the two-year pre-pharmacy requirements this semester and plan to apply for admission to the School of Pharmacy for the class beginning February 1955 are requested to notify the Office of Admissions by Dec. 17. Applications required of all pharmacy applicants may be obtained at the Office of Admissions.
Dorothy P. Nelson
Assistant Director of
Admissions
withdrawal of West Point, Annapolis, and eighteen other universities from the national tournament.
Because of this President Eisenhower said it was ridiculous to exclude a topic from debate just because it is controversial.
West Point has hosted the tourney for the last eight years and academy officials said although they would not hold it this year unless the topic were changed, it is hoped that the Presidents statement will make them change their minds. If, however, the decision remains, the topic committee will have to reassemble in order to decide if an alternate topic should be discussed. Another proposal is for the debate to be held in another school.
Bob Croutch, a squad member, said, “Something of the importance of the event will be lost if West Point does not hold the tourney.”
“If the government feels That their stand on the issue is sound, they should not worry about stu-dehts- debating the subject,” said Murray Bring, president of the squad.	/
The topic controversy began when a student from a Southern university wrote his Congressman requesting additional information for his debate preparation.
He received instead a letter stating that he should not debate this topic for his own safety since the material would probably be used against him at a later time. The Congressman also requested all copies of speeches to be given in-the affirmative which would be filed with the FBI. This was the action which forced many of the universities out of competition.
SC debators are primarily concerned because they have a good chance to again represent the West at the nationals. With the recent victory of debatees Bob Wallach and Seyom Brown at the Tucson tournament they have only one major obstacle left, the Pepperdine tournament held at the beginning of next semester.
Edward R. Murrow, radio and T.V. news analyst, devoted one of his shows last week to the issue. The president of the forensics squad at Dartmouth, and students from Princeton and Temple universities debate teams were interviewed.
They all seemed to feel that all students should have the right to debate the subject. The man from Dartmouth added, “We would like to debate with the Naval Academy on the subject of whether the cadets and midshipmen have the right to debate the subject.
At the conclusion of the show Murrow made the proposal that he would like to have the winners of the nationals compete against two senators, and he would televise the debate.
The ASSC Senate unanimously passed a resolution introduced by Bring at their last meeting that “controversial issues should be discussed on university campuses” and for that reason they opposed any change in the debate topic.
Delegates Will
Discuss Model UN Conference
Model United Nations Institute delegates will meet tonight at the Ambassador Hotel to discuss th* 1955 Model United Nations meeting in San Francisco.
Dr. Harold Hansen, professor of political science at Pasadena City College, will deliver the first lecture tonight on “How to Organize a Model United Nations Delegation.”
Mario Tartaglia, instructor in the political science department at Los Angeles City College, will speak on “The Model United Nations delegation on the campus and at San Francisco.”
Ted Parker, chairman of the institute, said that it now numbers over two hundred students from some twenty colleges in Southern California and Arizona.
The 1955 Model UN will be hosted by San Francisco State College in March or April and will be attended by approximately twenty five students from the Southland. The seat of the conference will be the War Memorial Opera House where the United Nations was founded ten years ago.
This will be the fifth Model UN on the West Coast. The first four have been held at Stanford, SC, and UCLA.
Cave-ManCharged With Assault
By United Press
Cave-dweller Millan Perovich, 33, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon yesterday on the basis of a report that he fired at a young couple as they walked through Elysian Park in Los Angeles.
John L. Orendorff, 23, and Ruth Burnette, 19, reported to police the Griffith Park hermit fired on them Nov. 14. Perovich later was picked up at his cave.
Lie detector tests, by which police believed they might link Perovich with the apparently motiveless sniper deaths of five persons, proved inconclusive.______
WEATHER
By United Press
Southern California—Increasing cloudiness today with rain spreading over north and west portions. Snow level lowering to near 5000 feet in mountains. Windy in mountains.
Los Angeles and vicinity—Increasing cloudiness today with rain beginning this afternoon or evening. High today 62 and windy at times.
WORKS WITH GUC
LAS Council Kills Plan For Course Evaluations
Official
Notice
Students who expect to complete requirements for the bachelor’s degree in January 1955 should check the list that is posted in the corridor outside the Registrar’s Office in Owens Hall. Those who have not filled out DIPLOMA APPLICATION CARDS should do so at once.
H. W. Patmore Registrar
by Carl Strobel
The Letters, Arts, and Sciences Council yesterday shelved their uncompleted course evaluation questionnaire in favor of a finished plan developed by the Greater ^University Committee.
The two groups, along with a faculty committee, have been working separately on questionnaires that will allow SC students to suggest improvements in their classes. Students will answer questions on the course's value, the instructor’s effectiveness, and the worth of the text and outside assignments.
LAS dropped their questionnaire because Greater U has a finished plan with “the money and influence -to put it across,” Dick Steiner, head of the LAS committee, said.
Steiner also felt further competition between the Greater U
and LAS would be useless. The ASSC Senate had originally told the two groups to work together in developing a questionnaire, he added.
“We wanted to work on a one committee basis but it’s been a two committee affair,” Steiner said. He emphasized that his committee still wished to work with the Greater U in administering the questionnaire and evaluating the results.
The questionnaire will be given to 2000 students in the near future on an experimental basis, according to Steve Mulholland, chairman of the Greater U course evaluation committee.
The questionnair covers five main points: the text, assignments, quizzes, attendance, and the instructor. Questions will be either yes or no type or multiple
choice and will be answered on machine, scored forms, Mulholland said.
The form will also include three short essay questions, asking the student to make constructive criticisms of the course.
“We realize some students will try to be funny in answering the questions,” Mulholland said. “But it is actually to the student's benefit to answer honestly.”
The students will be asked whether the text is too involved in technical details, if assignments are definite and clear, and if an outline or syllabus should be distributed to help the student organize his work.
Questions on the instructor’s effectiveness include: “Does he suggest problems for research and study? Does he stimulate you to work? Does he s£eak too rapidly?”