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LOS ANGELES, CALIF., THURSDAY, DEC. B, 1955
NO. 56
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Institute Schedules (our Day Condate
H Mission Inn in Riverside will take on an lnterna-^fcpect this Sunday, as the Institute of World Affairs R thirty-second meeting there at 8 p.m.
■ f.,nclave will deal with the problems con-America as a world leader. Dr. Rufus B. von
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Meet to Cover World Events
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land SC. "Ill open the which is expected to 100 representatives of I government, and west-sities.
Plan* Told
I morninc speaker* will leach (lav. to be followed ound table discussions.
I deal with such subjects iviet reaction to Amer-Jership, arms and the hblems of Europe, Asia, far East, tariffs, and the |bor and Its responsibili-
dinner sessions will be by major speeches by rt persons. Opening will be J. Francis McIntyre, Archbishop of ties, and Dr. John T. president of the Univer-xkansas They will prechurchman's and Iay-■ of America's heritage. |M<ire to Speak Lncis Deak, of the U. S. fin Rome, will tell Mon-: listeners about "The States Foreign Service: te for World Leadpr-> will be followed by I Dr. Edgar E. Robinson ipscribe ' Leadership and y in the American Tra-
lesday evening session an international flavor, ^^(luintanilla. Mexican Am-(n the Pan-American itlines "The International of Latin America.” Dr. president of the Uni-rftyof Utah, will tell how “In-Friendshlps are Made |the G: = R “ ts Level.” Mem-:he local consular corps er guests.
y’s final session will Claude A. Buss of [University, and John R. Jr . Rear Admiral, USN, le Bureau of Aeronautics’ Representative in the District. They wil! dis-American Spirit and dership." and "Naval and World Leader-jtpectively.
| ■nmethini; Special ^^Ki session will feature Fred C. Schwartz, an Aus-l®rgeon. who will warn his jof "Americas Responsi-■ the War Apalnst Com-Int”
Q Christol of SC will Gen. Henry S. Aurand, [). for another special ses-•istol will speak on i Leadership in Military 'nt." Aurand. former general of US Army Normandie Base in Jl tell why “National Not Enough.”
• Watkins, IV. of 's the director of this ►’i fc- ■ while SC's Paul ' is the executive secre-
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Songfest Plans in Making
Bob Jani Names Chairmen; Slates Dinner for Tonight
Ground Broken Yesterday For New Research Center
Docs the world situation baffle you? Do you feel at a loss when neoplc discuss such lofty Ideas as international politics, European unity, and atomic implications The 32nd annual meeting of the Institute of World Affairs in Riverside on Dec. 11, 12, 13, and 14 will give students an up-to d">fe and comprehensive coverage of such international problems, said Paul E. Hadlev, executive secretary of the Institute.
Provides Opportunity "The Institute of World Affairs conference is the most outstanding and unique meeting of its kind in the United States," explained Hadley. "And it provides students and scholars an opportunity to study first-hand the opinions and ideas of more than 100 leaders in education, industry ,and government."
Tills year the Institute has set up a special discussion panel for students to participate in. It will be held Dec. 14 and will be devoted to the conference theme, "America Learns to Lead.”
Begin Car-Pool Marguerite Cooper, president of the International Relations School, said that a carpool will be organized to take students to and from the conference. Students can sign up for such transportation in the International relations office, 420 FH.
Individual student membership for the entire conference costs $5, or $1 per day.
All sessions will be held at the Mission Inn where accommodations will be provided at special rates. Accommodations for students will cost $2.50 per day, European plan.
Phrateres Sell Candy Canes For Christmas
Christmas Isn’t Christmas without caml.v canes, say members of Phrateres, so the servlet* club Will be selling bright red and white striped canes next week.
According to Salty Christensen, chairman of the sale, candy canes will be held at the booth In front of the Student Union on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of next week.
The candy canes will sell for tO cents apiece.
"Groups on campus are urged to begin thinking of their plans for Songfest, so that we can insure its growing quality,” Song-frst Chairman Boh Jani said yesterday as he announced tonight's third annual Songfest Kickoff Dinner.
Plans for the 1956 Songfest will get nnder way with this first meeting of this year's committee. The group was named last Thursday by Jani and Rhoda Russel], Songfest co-chairman, with the approval o{ Harry poison, Student Activities Advisor.
Start Early "We are starting early in order to encourage better singing in this year's Songfest,” Jani said. We want to make this the outstanding student event of the year.”
Preliminary plans for the event will be discussed tonight, as wpII as a summary of last year’s Songfest. The date for the annual program has been set at May 11. in the Greek Theater The Troian Symphonic Band will again appear, along with a number of prominent persons from the music world who will act ns judges.
Folders containing information abojt pach position and reports from past chairmen will be distributed to the new committee.
State Achievements Some of the outstanding achievements of last year were the acquiring of the Songfest Tommy” as the official award, and the massed chorus number. This consisted of over 1000 voices prenrmpnied b” th" Trnjan Band and directed by Walter Schumann.
Guests at tonight's dinner, which will be held in the Faculty Commons Dining Room at 5:30 pm., include William Schaefer, director of bands; Mrs. William Schaefer, counselor of women: Robert Gordon, counselqr of men: Harry Nelson, student activities adviser: Mrs. Vera Weislev. Panhellenic adviser: Jerry Wulk', IFC coordinator; Jerry McMahon, ASSC-president: and Rctty Metzger, ASSC vice president. Robbie Carroll, co-chairman of the past two Songfpsts, will also be present.
Name Executives
Members of this year's Executive Committee include chairman Jani: co-chairman Rhoda Russell; secretary Barbara Page; treasurer Joan Sparling: music coordinator, Gordon Jenkins; physical facilities. Pierre Domercq: and participant organization, Roger Sherman and Boh Griffin.
The Audience Committee will be headed by Barbee Steeves, along with programs. Joan Mus-grave; tickets, Dick Schoonover; official guests, Rita Dotson; and ushers, Jim Maddux.
Proposed Senior Fee Bill Plan May Have Hit Snag
The proposed compulsory senior fee bill plan may "go down the drain” because of the new mail registration program for the spring semester, Senior Class President Steve Robertson said yesterday.
Tlv? newest road-block in the controversial plan will be decided this afternoon when the Registrar’s Office tells whether it can enter the $3 fee On most seniors’ fo* bills.
The proposed plan, which got ASSC Senate approval on Nov. 17, would require all senior day students carrying more than eight units, except those in professional schools, to purchase the $3 senior fei? card at the time of registration.
The plan called for the fees being collected during the spring when registration was done on campus. The plan hit a snag Monday, when the Administration announced that pre-registration by mail would b» offered this Spring as it has been done in the fall semesters.
Still Chance
If the fee hill system can be inserted into the mail registration
, . ,	.	... i procedures, it would require the
with Interest n a particular polit-	(o sorf	sp.
ical science field to get his ideas down on paper and receive money for them too," said Carney.
Last year's prize winning topic was "Loyalty and Security."
Additional information may he obtained from Dr. J Eugene Harley, political science department, in 420 FH Dr. Harley was recently elPCted national president of Phi Sigma Alpha at the annual convention in Chicagn.
Honor Croup Backs Annual Writing Test
One hundred dollars will be awarded to the W'riter of the best
essay in the third annual political science contest sponsored by Phi Sigma Alpha, national political science honor society.
The essay contest Is to get under way immediately, according to Jack Carney, fraternity president.
Essays must be on a political science subject and be written by an undergraduate student. Three typewritten copies, from 3000 to 6000 words, must be submitted to the faculty advisor of the fraternity.
The advisor, In consultation W'ith other political science teachers, shall choose the two best essays and enter it In the national contest. All essays become the property of the honor society.
"Here is a chance for anyone
babbit Study Throws Light High Blood Pressure
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• the disease Colons of New JVa-’ II has produced i pressure in the sev-181'on in successive llt-
inherits’d high blood p* maintained during sue-generations, researcher* •br* causes of heart •ill be able to study high >ssurp as background,” Prurv.
Aid Research cher. who ts working rant-in-aid from the 'fv'la,ion and Life In-llnd has discos'ered that iS,ics of high blood pres-’tlP rabbits resemble h‘' human disease v" 'tors ai-lml* are In-’Vo 8 s’-ni-* tifc. span, “"lv controlled.
“i Pressure of each ani-It 4 6. 8. and 10 V both a stethoscope
and a cuff reading, like that used 1 on children.
Detailed records of the rabbit colony are kept as data for the study of inheritance and environmental factors. The environmental factors under study are exercise and temperature.
Constant tests are made be-■ tween the normal and abnormal ! litters after changing either environment or inheritance.
Drugs Used Drugs are being used to reduce the rabbits’ blood pressure The purpose here is to find out whether rabbits born with the tendency I to high blood pressure are better 1 off by maintaining that high pres-| sure or by reducing it. Surgical I methods of reducing high blood pressure are also used
The reason for using the . ew .Zealand rabbit is that its blood pressure i* significantly higher than ordinary rabbits and thus easier to study, according to Dr.
Drury.	.
The studies showed that mair rabbits definitelv hasp a higher blood pressure *hsn females at all age groups and all rabbits, after changing exercise or temperature showed marked change* in pressure.
Dr. Drury discos'ered that the aserage pressure of rabbits born with high blood pivssure wasn't extremely high; much higher pressures resulted when normal animals were gisen the disease artificially.
May Be Hereditary
"Many of the estimated 5 million persons with high blood pressure in this country has’e some hereditary background for the disease, i beliesv that -our rabbit colony in which the animals are bred for natural or spontaneous tendency to have the disease will be of valuable assistance in helping such people,” he said.
Dr. Drury pointed out that five years ago, an a ithority on high blood pressure wiote that animals "almost neve* develop the disease spontaneously."
He began his study four years «go with 553 rabbits and has heen using Kerckhoff laboratories for study, particularly of the animal’* diet*.
This ts-pe of work has heen attempted vith little sucres* on the heritage of humans toward the disease Other research worker* are now working on dogs, rats and chickens in the production of spontaneous high blood pressure.
Travel Study Tours Vary
Like to study? Do you want to travel? Would you like to study abroad or in Latin America? Perhaps you would like to take a seven week tour of Europe?
Miss, Dorothy McMahon, associate professor of Spanish and departmental head of student tours, announces that the department has many varied tour catalogues describing tours and foreign summer sessions designed to fit almost any budget.
Miss McMahon, as director of the student tours, receives hundreds of pieces of literature from universities and travel agents from all over the world.
Tours Conducted
Most of the tours are conducted in the spring and summer. However George Pepperdine College is conducting a tour to Mexico this month. The 16-day tour will run from December 17 to January 1 and will include Mexico City, University City, Acapulco, Guadalape Shrine, Acolman Monastery, the pyramids, Fortin, San Jose Purua, Taxco, and many more interesting sites.
The co*t of the tour is as low as $242. Students may receive college credits (two semester units for sociology and three for Spanish language and cuiture) by attending pre-trip sessions and pursuing additional studies in connection with the tour.
nior students’ registration material and add an additional $3 charge on their tuition bill.
Dr. Howard W. Patmore, registrar, said yesterday his staff would meet this afternoon to decide whether they could perform this added operation. If the registrar’s office votes against the proposed idea of the Senior Council, the plan will not esen reach thp Student Activities Oommit-t.-e, which in the end must OK a!' student activities.
Thp plan calls for a reduction In the fee from $3 50 as last year to $3. The fee includes admission to the prom, the senior ditch, senior breakfast, alumni mpmher-ship, th- spnior gift to thp university and baccalaureate reception.
New Innovation
“Since mail registration ln the spring has never lieen practiced at SC before, the senior plan was not designed to copp with that problem,” Robertson said yesterday.
Robertson expressed grave disappointment that the senior fee committee of the Senior Council was not informed of the impending mail registration plan during the committee's long investigation
“The insestigation resulting in the present senior plan topk around two months to conclude,” Doreen Glotfelty, senior fee chairman said.
"My committee would not have time to insestigate the possibility
Chemistry's Study at SC Told in East
The compiled work of the department of chemistry on thyroid hormone and sulfur compounds svas presented to Eastern lecture audipneps by Dr. Norman Kha-rasch in a recpnt tour.
"Studips of Thyroid Hormonp" was thp suhjpct of his talk to the Pittsburgh Section of thp American Chemical Society. This work ccntprs on the search for compounds of value In thyroid therapy. The correlation of biological actls-ity and chpmlcal stmcturps of the thyroxlne-llkp compounds are also Invols'Pd.
I.ab Work*
Spvpral new thyroxine analogues have heen synthesized In the SC labs, and are being screened in many laboratories, including thp County Hospital.
Thp research group at Duque*ne University hpard Dr. Kharasch speak on "Fundamental Studies of Sulfur Compounds.” The syn-otbesis of novel types of organic sulfur compounds, their structure* and chemical behaviors were discussed. Several compounds and methods developpd by the SC research team were explored.
Speak* tn More One of the most Intprestlng of thp.sp compounds, the so-called "SC Reagent”, Is being used to detect minute amounts of hydrocarbons in thp air. It Is pxpected to be of value in studio* of air pollution.
IFC to Hear Plans on New Rowite Control
Continuous supervision of fraternities will lie discussed informally by Dean Bernard L. Hyink and Dr. Robert G. Gordon, counselor of mpn, whpn the Inter-fraternlty Council meets at the Tau Kappa Fpsilon House at 4 this afternoon.
Members of the IFC will be present to ask questions and present thetr Idea* on the *ubject.
"The group will attempt to discover way* to integrate more efficiently the life and program of fraetmities with the university," Dean Hyink said.
Resident Plan A possible house resident plan may lie formulated during thp afternoon, depending on what agreement may be reached, IFC Adviser Jerry Wulk said.
Subjects covered at the IFC Convention In St. Louis last weekend also will be discussed, and perhaps some of their point* may be integrated into any house resident plan proposed, said Wulk.
SI. I/Otils Discusses The St. Louis convention talked about character and scholarship; manners and morals and their relationship to public relation*; deferred rushing, pledging, and rpsidpnee in chapter houses; and growth and management.
The three-day convention, held at Jefferson Hills, St. Louil, was atended by 258 deans and fraternity representatives and 431 undergraduate fraternity member*. Hicse men came from 148 colleges and universities over the country.
Also on the St. Loui* agenda were discussions of a special undergraduate program, pledge training, and IFC alumni relations.
Engineer Building To Begin
WORLD NEWS
Attlee Resigns; Becomes Earl
H.v United Press
LONDON — Clement R. Attlee resigned his 20-year leadership of the British Labor Party yesterday and left his cherished seat in the House of Commons to sit ifi j the House of Ixirds as an Earl.
Characteristically, there was no fuss or fanfare to the resignation of the 72-year-old party leader whose step-down touched off a three-way party fight for the post he vacated. He quietly in-of devising a revised plan to cope I formed his party of his decision, svith the new mail registration and a few hours later Prime Min-
scheme "
Although the Council* effort to provide this plan for this year's clas* may be thwarted, Robertson said a new plan will be presented early next semester to take into account the new spring registration system.
Rob>-rtson said the Council will meet tonight at 4:30 p.m. at the Delta Gamma house to discuss the outcome of the registrar’s deliberations.
ister Sir Anthony Eden, leader of the Conservative Party Attlee opposed for so long, announced that the Queen had elevated him to the peerage.
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SANTA ROSA—Approximately 104 federal employees reported to the Civil Defense ( un I rul (enter liere yesterday to work on hypothetical problems growing out of "Operation Curie” Is whirli (Seattle and
l.os Angeles were target* of a
mock II-bomb attack the day before.
"Operation Uncle” I* designed to bring resource* of the Federal Government Into civil defense planning In caae of ail emergency.
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UNITED NATIONS—The United Nations Special Political Committee yesterday approved a resolution urging the Security Council to recommend membership for I five communist and 13 western-backed countries The vote was 52-2, with 5 abstentions.
Nationalist China and Cuba voted against the recommenda-1 tion for the package deal for ad-! mission.
The United States, France, Bel-i guim, Greece and Israel abstained.
Ground was broken at 10 a.m. yestprday for the future Chpmlcal and Petroleum Engineering Research Building on West 37th Street, betwpcn McClintock Avenue and Hoover Strept, directly in back of thp main Engineering Building.
Part of thp propospd Engineering School Century Plan, which 1* construction of thrpp scientific research units, the Chemical and Petroleum Building will cost about $250,000 and will contain about 20,000 square feet of laboratory and classroom floor space.
Yesterday's groundbr eakin* marked the second in a series of events that are taking place this week, SCs' Century Plan Week, as a climax to the Diamond Ju-bilpp cplpbration. Monday saw the rpnaming of West 35th Place between University Avenue and Hoover Boulevard. The name of the walkway was changed to Heilman Way, in memory of Isaias Heilman, one r.f SC's three original land donors.
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Robert F. Viv.an.i Fnginepring School Dean: Franklin S. Wade, Engineering School graduate, trustpp, and chairman of the hoard of the Southern California Gas Company; and Charlotte Kp-hart, 18-year-old civil engineering freshman from Honolulu, together wielded the pneumatic drill that broke through the asphalt 'on the site of the new engineering building.
This building will be the first part of the proposed three-unit Southern California Industrial Research Center. Plans for the other units, still on the drawing boards, call for an electronic and electrical engineering building to be uspd particularly for teaching and research tn aviation, and a general laboratory library, and research building which will' be addpd to the present engineering building.
Various Facilities
The chemical and petroleum research building will have its basement and first floor devoted to chemical engineering while the petroleum engineering facilities will be located on the second floor. The second floor also will house seminar and class rooms, general laboratories, and offices.
Additional seminar and class rooms will be located on the first floor, in addition to graduate laboratories, a metallurgy lab, and X-ray room.	•
Costs of the new building will be met by the funds received from the Engineering School'* $2ty million Century Fund campaign. Dean Vivian hopes $1 million of this amount will be donated this year. Among companies and corporations already donating to the Engineering Century Fund are Union Oil of California, Hoffman Radio Corporation, Fluor Corpor-poration Limited, C. F. Braun and Company, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, North, American Aviation Incorporated, and Bechtel Corporation.
Other donating companies Include Hycon Manufacturing Company, Robertshaw - Fulton Controls Company, Standard Oil of California, United States Steel Corporation, and Southern California and Southern Counties Gas Company. Engineering School alumni are conducting their own fund-raising campaign and are nearing thp $200,000 mark.
Women Wanted By El Rod for 'Annual' Work
El Rodeo needs people.
An appeal to all women inter-nated In earning sorority activity point* or Just plain working on the annual waa Issued today. Anyone who ran type, draw dummies, and eventually pasta pictures will he welcomed with loud cheers at the Kl Rod office In Sl» til'.
There will be a paper on the door fur slgu-upa.
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