e CaliforniaTechVolume LVII Pasadena, California, Thursday, October 20, 1955 Number 4

(attech campus emerges from under wateras frosh initiation brought to damp ending

Informative talks, tour of

The Regional Vice-Presidentof the United States NationalStudent Association will beguest at a· Beaver meeting todayto discuss the USNSA. Student­body leaders have been consid­ering membership in USNSAfor Caltech. It is felt that mem­bership will "provide contactsfor exchanges of ideas and opin­ions with other student bodies."

The USNSA, in which Cal­tech's membership dues wouldbe $25 per year, is a confedera­tion of college student bodiesrepresented through their stu­dent governments. When firstconsidering the possibility ofCaltech becoming a member,John Young, Howard Berg, andLeon Keel' four weeks ago at-­tended a meeting of local USNSArepresentatives. There they be-·came acquainted with the na­ture. of the local USNSA pro­gram. The StUdent DiscountService, a plan to secure dis­counts in the local stores forstUdents, and a unified highschool counseling program wereamong the topics discussed.

The ASCIT Board of Directorswill decide whether or not Cal­tech is to become a member ofthe Association.

Furumoto becomesFIeming president

'Varren Furumoto has takenover the office of president ofFleming House to fill the vacan.cy created by the departure ofRiley Jaschke, who has taken ayear's leave of absence from theInstitute for personal reasons.

Elections to replace Furumotoas vice president of the housewill be held in the near future.

Membership inUSNSA willbe considered

more powerful personalities (apO\verful personality is a guywho can throw another in theshower without getting wet him­self) gain valuable leadershipexperience.

The teamwork is magnificent:six men chosen arbitrarily learnhow to drag, lift or heave a

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Parents Day, 1955, will be held on Saturday, October 22. An­nually, during the first term, it has been Caltech's policy to setaside a day "to enable the parents to see for themselves theatmosphere and conditions under which their sons will be livingand working for the next few years; to enable the Institutestaff to beocme acquainted as early as possible with the par­ents and students; and to give the Institute an opportunity to

introduce Caltech Service Leagueto the new parents."

A full schedule has beenplanned to give parents the bestpossible chance to observe cam­pus life and to meet and talkwith various Institute personnel.The starting point will be Dab­ney Lounge, where visitors willregister at 7:30 a.m.

The morning program is tobegin at 10:00 in 201 Bridge,where a series of talks will hegiven, designed to describe theprocedures, methods, and cus­toms of the academic and stu­dent programs. The followingare to speak: Paul Eaton, Deanof Students; L. \V. .Jones, Deanof Admissions; :B~oster Strong,Dean of Freshmen; Dr. GeorgeMayhew, l\Taster of StudentHouses; Dr. John R. \Veir, Di-

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October 24 will mark the be­ginning of the second week ofactivity for the Y lunch clubs.The Frosh Club will meetto hear Dr. Linus Pauling dis­cuss "The Nature of ScientificResearch." The program for theother group of frosh, meeting onOctober 27, is' yet to be an­nounced. On Tuesday, Dr. FloydRoss, Professor of World Reli­gions at the University of South­ern California, will speak to theUndergrad Lunch Club aboutBuddhism, the second topic inhis series of talks on religion.

The Grad-Faculty Club willconvene on Wednesday, October26 to hear Louis Fleming givea "Report on Washin~ton." Mr.Fleming, a reporter for the Pas­adena Star-News, has been inWashington on a Congressionalinternship. The internship pro­gram provides funds for a fewselect men to go to the capitaland see, first-hand, the workingsof the United States govern­ment.

Pauling, Rossand Flemingtalk to Yclubs

A scene during a Blacker-Ricketts waterfight, typical of initia­tion week action in the student houses.

tory." Other frosh with lessmundane interests lapsed intoseizures of manic - depressionwhen their copy of MRW be·came warped after a water fight.

Actually, initiation as tradi­tionally. practiced performs auseful function in breaking thefro s h class into competingcliques in which a few of the

Two of the conferences thatHershey considered very inter­esting and significant were the

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A major difference that Her­shey observed between Ameri­can and European universitieswas in their attitudes towardthe students in matters such aseconomic aid, extracurricular ac­tivities, housing, and medicalprograms. "European universi­ties have very little concern forthe welfare of the students," hecommented. European studentsin general have to provide theirhenefits on their own initiative.

Hershey also found that amuch wider gulf existed be­tween students and faculty inEuropean universities. "Peoplewere amazed," he said, "when Itold of the Student-Faculty Re­lations Committee and the closecooperation between studentsand faculty that we have at Cal­tech."

campus await new parentsDuBridgetalk,Service League teahighlights of day's program

WI'S Hershey

by Tom DodgeThe flood has subsided and

eager students have returned tounthumbed books. School hasat last started at Caltech. Forthree weeks our institution hasbeen going through the impor­tant and difficult task of assimi­lating new additions to the stu­dent body. What effect have thepast three weeks had on an av­erage "Joe Tech"?

There are among us severalperennial freshmen who thinkthe neatest thing on campus is athree inch firehose. I know ofat least one gentleman whowould attribute the whole char­acter of initiation to a urinarycomplex among the troops, butwe prefer to think of the wholedeluge as a natural consequenceof returning from a boring andunrewarding summer vacation.

Reaction amongst the froshwas split. One freshman gur­gled sarcastically, "I thoughtthis was a place for higher edu­cation," as he grabbed frantical­ly for his chemistry book on theway to the showers. Joe Klutz,model boy freshman, said, "Ilike initiation because myoIdman holds stock in a balloon fac-

at the Training Table ~ni~g

may contact the following chair­men: freshmen-Jim Weaver orJohn Stedman; upperclassmen­Kim Malville; grad-faculty-MattMesselson.

Hershey tells of attendingEuropean students' meeting

by Stu RichertA total of seven student conferences throughout Europe

were attended this year by Wes Hershey, head of the CaltechYMCA. Hershey returned in August from his seven months

which took him to most of the countries of western Europe."The purpose of this trip," ex­

plained Hershey, "was to learnabout the extracurricular activi­ties of foreign students, with aprimary focus on the field ofin terna tional understanding."While in Europe, Hershey hadopportunities to talk with manystudent leaders and observe theoperation of foreign universitiesand student organizations.

Lunch clubs, sponsored by the campus Y, are now meetingweekly. The clubs serve as a place where Caltech students canmeet and hear talks by prominent persons.

Each club will meet weeklyroom in the basement of Black­er; a service charge of 10 centswill be asked, above and beyondregUlar board ocsts. Non-board­ing students may either pur­chase lunches for 85 cents orcome at 12:30 after the mealends.

Two of the clubs are specifi­cally for freshmen; one is forupperclassmen, although froshmay attend; and one is for grad­uate students and faculty.

The frosh clubs started meet­ing on Monday, October 17 andThursday, October 20, and willoperate independently of eachother, though they have parallelprograms. Talks will be givenat 12:30 following lunch. Speak­ers will include Drs. Feynman,Beadle, and Pauling and thespeeches are designed to bethought-stimulating rather thantediously informative.

The upperclass club beganTuesday, October 18, with a talkby-Floyd Ross, SC professor, onthe 1955 program topic: "WorldReligions."

The grad-faculty club, meetingweekly from Wednesday, Octo­ber 12, will hear such speakersas Paul Hoffman, president ofStudebaker Corp., and W es Her­shey, Caltech Y executive secre­tary, on their 1955 topic, "Inter­national Understanding." Under­graduates may attend.

The clubs will each accommo­date 35 to 40 persons. No dues,roll call, or membership cards;just come. Regular attendanceis preferred.

Those interested in attendingor desiring further information

Lunch programs announcedithree clubs to meet weekly

Y presents outstanding films'Gentlemen's Agreement' first

The Cal tech YMCA Film Series will show Gentleman'sAgreement and Seal Island this Sunday at 7 :30 in Culbertson.Admission will be the usual 35 cents at the door.

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 Hollywood movie dealingwith anti-Semitism. Winner of academy awards for best pro­duction, best director and bestsupporting actress, the picturestars Gregory Peck, Dorothy Mc­Guire and John Garfield. SealIsland is a Walt Disney colorshort, one of the first Disney na­ture films.

Other features on this term'sprogram are Mr. Smith Goes toWashington and The BrowningVersion. Mr. Smith, scheduledfor November 13, stars JimmyStewart and Jean Arthur in astory of a young Senator in thecapitol for the first time and hisfight against graft.

Shorts on the same programare Easy Street, a classic Char­lie Chaplin comedy, and threeabstract musical films by Nor­man McLaren.

The Browning Version, to beshown on December 4, is a 1951British film about an unpopularteacher on his way out of anEnglish school. Critics rate itas one of the best postwar f.or­eign films, and Time raved aboutMichael Redgrave's performanceas the teacher. Shorts on thisprogram are Pig-s Is Pigs, a Dis­ney cartoon about the reproduc­tion habits of guinea pigs, and

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Bed/( /leetledAs any fool can plainly see,

there is no "Campus Brewins"column this week. The reason.for this is simple: there is noBrewins editor this week. Theprevious Beak has felt the pres­sure of other obligations andhas resigned.

Therefore, any student inter­ested in taking over this posi­tion should get in touch withthe editors. The only require­ments are interest and energy.

Secrefdry's/(epfJrf

This tE;lrm's ASCIT assemblyprogram will feature ShelleyManne and His Men on Thurs­day, November 10. Manne agreedto come at a considerably reducedfee to meet available ASCITfunds. For several years Mannehas been rated the country's topdrummer by Metronome maga­zine.

The television program Octo­ber 30 on which Caltech was toappear has been postponed. Ac­cording to reports from NBC,the other schools scheduled toappear on the review had diffi­culty filling their time.

WUS men neededAlthough Caltech leads South­

ern California schools in percapita donations to the WorldUniversity Service, it still needsmore delegates to the regionalcollegiate W U S conferences.Howard Berg, in charge of WUSaffairs on campus, has appealedto underclassmen, especially, toattend the Area Advisory Coun­il meetings, where the WUS in­ternational aid program is dis­ussed. The next such confer­ence is to be October 29.

WUS supplies funds and text­books to many foreign studentsand universities. For some,such as the Philippines Univer­sity, it is the primary source offunds.

A special enticement to dele­gates is the international WUSconference in Indonesia nextsummer. Since Caltech is rais­ing money to send a delegate, aqualified, interested Tech manmay be chosen to attend. There­fore, men interested in interna­tional affairs and in foreign stu­dent problems are encouraged totake part in WUS ocnferences.Also, of course, this is an oppor­tunity to represent 'fech and tomeet students fro mot herschools. Those interested shouldsee Howard Berg.

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stock in 1888 near Chicago, Illinois. In 1909, after one year at theUniversity of Chicago, he quit school for financial reasons andbecame a salesman for Halladay cars, known then and now pri­marily for their advertising slogan, "Every day a Halladay forme." Like other young salesmen, he spent his free time racingthe "hot rods" of his day.

Hoffman's selling abilities were most obvious when he wentinto a new area. In a new town, he first went to meet the. bankerand take him for a ride. Instead of giving him a sales pitch, hewould chat about the community and about the banker's well­heeled friends. Thus from the most logical source he learned thelikely sales prospects. Despite an impressive record of sales, com­missions amounted to only 1%, and at 21, he left for Los Angelesto work in a Studebaker agency.

Studebaker executiveAfter four years he had worked up to sales manager, then two

years later he was general manager. Upon returning from WorldWar I he became owner of the Los Angeles branch.

In the twenties he recognized that the biggest obstacles forthe West Coast auto business were inadequate, unsafe highways.To meet the need, he beome a leader in civic projects for betterroads, thus helping to start Los Angeles on its way to becoming anautomotive capital.

Studebaker Corporation then recognized his abilities, and in1925, made him vice-president in charge of sales. Before reachingthe age of 40, his sparkling salesmanship had made him a millionaire.When the depression struck, Studebaker was as hard hit as any­one. As debts piled higher, the company president committedsuicide, and many people expected Studebaker to go into receiver­ship. James Vance and Hoffman, as the new president, took thereigns, and succeeded in hammering a wreck into smooth runningcondition again.

The Company took most of Hoffman's time in the followingyears, although he took time to be a director of the AutomobileManufacturers' Association from 1933 to 1948. He assisted theNew Deal program for business as a member of the Industry Ad­visory Committee.

It was not until 1943 that he stepped into government andpublic life in earnest. As head of the Committee for EconomicDevelopment, and later as ECA head, Hoffman has been of greatservice to the American public.

This public service, in postwar reconversion, in European aid,with the Ford Foundation, and as a voice of the times, is the sub­ject of next week's article.

Editors- in-Chief-Dick Hundley and Marty Tangora

News Editor - Dick Kirk

Assistant News Editor - AI FarleyNews Staff ... , Barry Bass, Jim Cae, Bill Hecht,

John Lango, Ed Park, Mike Peters, John Price, Mike Talcott. Jim Wilkinson

Feature Editor - Frank KofskyFeature Staff..._. , .. .. .. . Tom Dodge, Craig Elliott,

Karl Klutz, Stu Richert. Audience: John LansinghPhoto Staff .. .. _.. Stu Bowen, Don Nierlich, Dennis Paull, Dave Groce

Sports Editor - Bill Davis

Sports Staff., . _, __ __ .. __ " __ .__ _ Brent Banta,Don Lewis, Dick Van Kirk

Business Manager-John Bailey

Circulation Manager-Ed Park

Entered as second-class matter November 22, 1947, at the Post Office in Pasadena,California, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

by Tom Bergeman

PAUL G. HOFFMAN will be a guest of Caltech students No­vember 7 to 10, as the first of three distinguished men in a "Leadersof America" series sponsored by the YMCA. By way of introduc­tion, the California Tech is printing a two-part biographical sketchthis week and next. (Photo by Fabian Bachrach)

The SalesmanLike the adept manager of a defeated champion prize-fighter,

Paul Hoffman has directed the biggest comeback in history. Thefighter, a better part of the European continent, was reeling fromtwo near-fatal knockout blows.

As head of ECA-The Marshall Plan-Paul Hoffman contrib­uted the inspired coaching, while Uncle Sam gave, the dollars thatput Europe on its feet. The story of this project ~md the story ofPaul Hoffman's career-in the auto business, with ECA, and ashead of the Ford Foundation-are sagas of American success.

Paul Hoffman of today, still showing those personable qualitieshe developed as a salesman, has been described as "affable," and"energetic." His expression is said to be one of "contained amuse­ment," as if anticipating the humor of life. He speaks frankly andsincerely, and listens and learns just as intently. All his life hehas been selling-cars, good roads, European aid programs, FordFoundation goals. "Selling," he has said, "is the process of trans­ferring conviction from the mind of the seller into that of thebuyer."

ECA AdministratorThus after a distinguished business career that brought a for­

tune for himself and profits for Studebaker, Hoffman shifted gearsand gave money away, proffering some $5 billion of ECA fundsthe first year. The project was no simple giveaway, for the worldneeded miraculous results from a European aid program.

In 1948, when Marshall Plan aid started, the communist menacewas threatening a continent with a crippling "dollar shortage," aEurope in debt, on relief, flooded with displaced persons and besetwith unemployment. To make matters worse, Europe was fightingitself, with 20 different nationalisms building barriers for tradeand communication.

Hoffman set up a 3,000-man staff and organized these divided'countries into a cooperative union to receive ECAid. He sent overtrained iqdustrial managers and received Europeans for trainingin America's new production techniques. He gave away Americangoods, making Europeans send payments to their own nationaltreasures to bring their governments out of debt, thus multiplyingthe benefits. Everywhere he was a salesman for economic recoverybased on the ECA doctrine: 1) lower intra-European trade barriers;2) more flexible exchange mechanisms; 3) integrated national fiscal

policies.In general the customer was cold, but a measure of success was

achieved when Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg combinedto form Benelux. In the words of Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain'sChancellor of the Exchequer, the first year of ECA "did more forEuropean unity than was accomplished in the preceding 500 years."

Hoffman called his efforts a "Battle for Peace:' and thus canbe credited with a spectacularly successful strategy. Steel outputhad gone up 30% the first year, and production in general wasabove pre-war levels. In two and one-half years European indus­trial and agricultural output rose 25%, while electrical power out­put was up 80%. This was truly the biggest comeback in history.

Paul Hoffman had stepped into the ECA headquarters with along, successful experience in administration, accumulated frommany years in American business. He was born of New England

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Thursday, October 20, 1955 CALIFORNIA TECH PCIIge Three

Houses plan full

weekend of eventsSocial events for the coming

weekend are manifold. Fridayevening, October 21, will seefour exchanges, in Fleming,Ricketts, Blacker and Throop.Dabney members will watch theplay, The Desperate Hours, theirfirst Theater Party of the year.

Saturday night, October 22,after the football game, Blacker,RiCketts, and Throop will holda Barn Dance at Sunland Park,Sunland. The major attractionwill be a three team crew race.Fleming will have an off·cam­pus party at the Beverly Hillshome of Mike Eng1eberg.

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The duties of the IHC presi­dent consist mainly of presidingover meetings of the committee.The IHC, which is composed ofthe presidents and vice presi­dents of a1 five houses, meetsweekly at training table onWednesday noon to discussproblems affecting all the hous­es. Marty Tangora continues assecretary of the committee.

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Louis Fletcher, Dabney Housepresident, has been elected In­terhouse Committee chairman.The IHC was left without achairman when Ted Johnson,former Darb president, leftschool because of illness.

Music seriesstarts tonight

Professor Daryl Dayton of Po­mona College will begin his sec­ond series of music lectures atCaltech tonight at 7:30 p.rn. inDabney Hall lounge. The series,originally scheduled to beginlast Thursday, was postponedfor one week because of conflictwith house initiations.

This terms' lectures will dealwith the life and music of Mo­zart, and will be illustrated withpiano and phonograph" records.

The first College QualificationTest of the Selective ServiceSystem this year \vill be givenin 119 Kerckhoff on November17. Candidates should report by8:30 a.m. as the examination be­gins promptly at 9:00 a.m. andno one will be admitted after ithas started.

Answers are graded by the Se­lective Service System, and thescore is used in determiningdraft deferment for students inthe lower half of the class.

Selective Serviceexams next month

Young engineerpioneers in designand sales of newtiny transistors

The gennanium transistor-some smallerthan the eraser end of a pencil and able tooperate .on a few thousandths 'of a watt-is probably one of the most promisingdevelopments in the electronics field today.It opens the way to new midget radios, TVsets flat enough to hang on a wall and manyother exciting possibilities.

One of the men who helped design andperfect these tiny transistors-and the manwho is now head of sales for all General

. Electric gennanium products-is James H.Sweeney, Manager - Marketing, Semicon­ductor Products Department.

Sweeney's Work Interesting, Vital

Its early as 1948, Sweeney was head of agroup that studied the design and possibleuses of germanium products. He gainednational recognition for his work in devel­oping and introducing these products toother industries, and when a new Semi.conductor Products Department was formedin 1953, Sweeney was a natural choice forthe job of marketing these products.

25,000 Coll1l8 Gra~uates at General Electric

When Sweeney came to General Electric in1941, he worked in many different depart­ments until he finally found the work hewanted to do. Like Sweeney, each of the25,000 college-graduate employees is giventhe chance to grow, to find the work he doesbest, and to realize his full potential. ForGeneral Electric has long believed this:When fresh young minds are given the free­dom to make progress, everybody benefits-the individual, the company, the country.

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Internation Student's Conven­tion at Birmingham, England,and the World University Serv­ice Convention at Helsinki, Fin­land. Both of these conferenceshad as major concerns the prob­lem of what to do with commu­nists. Prior to 1950 the commu­nist countries had members inboth of these organizations, butin that year they all withdrew.This year, however, they wereaplying for re-admission. Con­siderable debate was held on thesubject, with delegates from theUnited States, England, and theScandinavian countries opposingreadmission, and mainly reli­gious organizations favoring it.The request for readmission wasturned down for the time being.Hershey felt there was "a realdesire on the part of the mem­bers to find ways and means ofworking together with the com­munists, but a basic distrust oftheir motives." His opinion wasthat, "If the new Russian for­eign policy continues, the com­munist students will probablybe readmitted to the internation­al student organizations."

PARENTS' DAY(Continued from page 1)

rector of Student Counseling;and Philip Conley, ASCrT Presi­dent. The Resident Associatesof the student houses and someof the undergraduate instructiondepartment heads will also bepresent and, after the more for­mal talks are over, they will beavailable for informal discussionand question-answering.

After a 12:00 lunch in theAthenaeum, President DuBridgewill address the group. Then at2:15, the guided tour will startwith a demonstration in thehigh-voltage laboratory. Follow­ing this, the initial group ofabout 200 will split up intosmaller sections and be shownaround to all the campus pointsof interest.

The Caltech Service Leaguewill hold a tea in the Athenaemfrom 4:00-5:00. The new parentswill thus be able to get acquaint­ed with the purposes, program,and organization of the League.

by Karl KlutzWefre sure it comes as no surprise to the majority of Tech­

men when we say that there is a most winsome young lass whoworks in the Cartech bookstore. Being rather slowf howeverfit took us a month to discover that her name is Mal (Madeline)Kolianf that she came to California in 1947 from Erie, Penn­sylvania, and, if we might insert an opinion, Pennsylvaniafsloss was our gain.

We spirited her away from the bookstore to take her pic­ture, and as the camera was being adjusted, we requested thatMal describe herself, and she responded:

------------"Well, I'm about five feet,"twoinches tall, I weigh one hundredand two and I have brown eyesand dark brown hair.' In allfairness we should add that allof the above have been arrangedin a very attractive fashion, asfar as we're concerned, at least.

Did she go to school out here?"Yes, I did. I went to Glen­

dale Junior College for a year,and then I transferred to PCC.My majors were art and busi­ness administration, and I be­longed to the Seidal's sorority atGlendale."

In her spare time, Mal, a twen­ty-one year old Miss, likes toread ("My favorite author is Ir­win Shaw"), dance, or watchfootball, basketball and soccergames. Mal's mad passion in Mal Kollanlife seems to be sports cars, andher eyes positively lit up whenwe mentioned the word "MG."

In response to our query, Maltold us she had been workinghere three months, and that shethought all Techmen were "realsharp." Figuring we should quitwhile we were well ahead, wewaved a hasty farewell and de-parted.

Sec's at Tech

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Caltech campus(Continued from page 1)

classmate usually lighter thanany of the six) into the show­ers. This activity sets the toneof house behavior for the com­ing term. Another neat argu-

ment for this type of initiationis, that it relieves tension inthose initiated and helps rele­gate classes to their proper placein overall student life.

It would be nice to devote asmall portion of the energies dis­played above to some concrete

manifestation of our ingenuity.I've yet to see a frosh brigadeassembled to clean up after anencounter; this would help thoseB&G men who play wet-nurseto the courtyard litterers andalso establish precedent for thecoming terms.

'Ve all realize the importantfunctions of initiation, however,it is considered opinion of many,that its purposes could betterbe fulfilled if we geared a great­er proportion of the proceduresomewhere above the level ofhigh school freshmen.

Y presentsAncient Cities of SouthernFrance, a color documentaryabout sex.

All showings are on Sundayevenings at 7:30 in Culbertson.Admission is 35 cents per per­son.

DRY ICE ON THE WAY TO THE CUTTING MACHINE.

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heating value of our gas as it came from thefield.

"We had a choice. We could enrich our prod­uct by adding other gases to it. Or we couldaccomplish the same thing by removing theCO2 , or carbon dioxide, from it. It was purelya matter of economics.

"We experimented removing the carbondioxide with a process that had, till then, beenused for quite a different purpose. It provedso effective it paid us to take out the carbondioxide, even if we were to throw it away afterwe got it out of the gas.

"But that's the point. Instead of throwingthe CO2 away, we surveyed the dry ice in­dustry, built an $800,000 plant at Santa Maria,

Do you throw it away

or make it pay?

"VJ.OU'VE heard it said that necessity is the

mother of invention?

"Seems to me plain everyday American ini­tiative is pretty inventive, too. Take the wayUnion Oil got into the dry ice business.

"Union, you know, supplies much of thenatural gas used in Southern California. Well,some years back, we needed to increase the

CLARE GARD, PROCESS ENGINEER-THIRTY·FIVE YEARS WITH THE UNION on. COllIPANY.

Part of the initiative and inventiveness wasGard's, certainly. He was Process Engineeron the Santa Maria project.

and converted our waste carbon dioxide intodry ice.

"That was 1948. Since then we've producedand sold overl102,000 tons of dry ice. And theplant's about paid for. See what I mean byAmerican initiative?"

A subsidiary company of ours has sincebuilt an ammonia plant which also makes dryice. Union Oil is now the largest producer ofthis product west of the Mississippi.

So long as you and Gard and all of us con­tinue to enjoy the encouragement and rewardsof America's free competitive economy, thiskind of inventive initiative will thrive.

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and the Rowdies triumphed, 5·4with a late scoring splurge.

Fleming's lone victory duringthe past week came over a weakThroop team by a score of 17-3.Vic Johnson hit two home runsand Jim Welsh struck out eightfor the victors.

In the first Int.erhouse CrossCountry race of a mile and ahalf Blacker emerged on top fol­lowed by Dabney with Flemingand Ricketts tied for third. Theindividual winner of the firstrace was Danny Wulff of Rick­etts by a close margin over run·nerup Dave Yount of Fleming.

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Ex-football player Ted Lang'sfireballing led Blacker Houseinto the runnerup spot as heblew down Fleming 8-2 andThroop 10·2. Against Ricketts,however, his wildness cost him

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Last week the water polo teamcame through with a double vic·tory including one over a confer­ence foe. Friday afternoon LAState went under by a 20-4 scorein the first league match of theyear. The first string playedonly half the game and scoredseventeen points to the opposi­tions' none. The reserves playedthe rest of the game and' wereoutscored 4-3.

Jim Ball scored five goals inthe Beaver socring spree. VinceTaylor also sunk two. Scoringonce each were Chuck Rees,Keith Martin, Ross Brown, andJohn Thomas. Bill Davis alsosunk nine goals. Fine defensivework by guard Ed Park was oneof the reasons for the low scor­ing by the opponents.

Wednesday night saw theTech waterboys walk over theAlumni in the first Alumnigame. The better condition ofthe team proved to be the dif­ference. Jim Ball scored three,Taylor and Rees two each, DickJohnson one and Bill Davis fourto complete the Tech scoring.

Yesterday the team met LACCand tomorrow they travel to Po­mona for the second leaguegame.

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A vastly improved Varsity soc­cer team shellacked Pomona inwhat figures as one of the mostsurprising upsets of the season.Led by the aggressive play ofthe front line, the defense heldthe opponents scoreless untillate in the last quarter. Scoresby Norton and Serdenegcti inthe first period got Tech off toa fine start, another by Boert­cher finishing off the half. Then,in the third quarter, Serdenegc­ti scored again, with a final goalby Larry Tenn in the fourth, fin·ishing things.

Stfansson, Weiner, Howell,and Barry rounded out the de·fensive scene, all giving a greathand in breaking up the scoringplays before they could reachArney Kalm in the goal. Astrong Cal Poly team is the tar­get for next week.

The J.V.'s played up to theirbest, but still lost to a very ex­perienced team from Midland,4·1. Phil Thatcher making anoutstanding showing at half­back, led the spirited first halfwhere Tech dominated the play.

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In Old DormWhere Eyeryone Is Welcome

Paul A. Harmon

Coach Bert LaBrucherie takeshis Caltech football suad to LongBeach Saturday to meet a toughLong Beach State team which issporting a 2-1 record in theirfirst year of organized football.

The Beavers will take a onewin-two loss record into thefray, with a win over Cal Polyand losses to Redlands and Po­mona-Claremont, while the 4gersboast wins over La Verne andCal Baptist, with a 21-6 loss toan experienced Occidental team.

Caltech's varsity footballers reverted to their old ways in drop­ping a 34-0 decision to the Pomona·Claremont Sagehens Saturday onthe victors' field. A combination of loose pass defense, untimelyfumbles, and general lethargy enabled Pomona-Claremont to sewup the game early in the first half and let their reserves gain ex­perience while the Beavers tried vainly to get into the scoringcolumn.

Tech's highly touted rushing offense got nowhere against thetough Sagehen line, and quarterback Phil Conley was unable to hithis pass receivers with consistency due to the efficient covering ofthe P-C secondary.

The Beavers took the opening kickoff back to their own fifteenonly to lose the ball two playslater on a fumble on the seven­teen. Pomona-Claremont drovequickly for the score and theBeavers were out of the game.Late in the quarter the Sagehensgrabbed another Caltech fumbleon the Beavers' 33 and scoredagain to completely demoralizethe Techmen. One touchdowneach in the remaining three pe­riods completed the Sa~ehen

scoring.Tech's big moments in the

game came in the second half,when the Beavers started theironly serious drive, powering tothe P-C 31 before they lost theball on a fumble; and on twospectaCUlar interceptions, oneeach by Don Stocking and DickVan Kirk, both of which snuffedout threatening drives by poCo

Conley and Stocking were justabout the entire Tech defense,making one-third of all the Cal­tech tackles between them. Char­ley Malone was Tech's main of­fensive cog, rushing for 45 yardsin seven carries for a 6.4 aver­age.

Statistics:Pomona-Claremont Tech

First downs 14 8Net yds. rushing 198 76Net yds. passing 160 73Passes att. .._ 24 23Passes camp. ._._._...... 8 9Pas5es into by_........... 1 2Fumbles __._................ 0 4Opp. fumbles rec._._. 3 0Punting ave. . __ .. _. 29.8 32.4Yds. penalized ... 72 18

After suffering a slight caseof nerves during the first half,the frosh football team cameback to play a great second pe­dod in losing to Pomona 24-6.caltech kicked off, and held thePomona men on downs, forcingthem to punt on the fourth.

During that sequence, Bob In­gram, quarterback, was shakenUP pretty badly, and deep in ourown territory, a wide pitch-outto the halfu'ick was fumbled. Inthe scramble, the loose ball wasrecovered by Pomona for anearly touchdown. This consti­tuted a real setback to theteam's spirit for the rest of thebaIf, the tackling and blockingboth being too high.

Another break canie Pomona'sway late in the first half whena poor center on our own one­yard line was recovered foranother Pomona score.

The second half, though, wasa far different story. On theopening kickoff, Fred Newmantook the ball on his own 20, andproceeded to tear through theentire Pomona team for aneighty yard touchdown run. Thiswas easily the outstanding playof the game.

During the whole second pe­riod, Techmen dominated the de­fense, with Pitzer and Conoverplaying particularly well. Hue­batter and Pitzer both playedthe entire contest, helping tospark the fine spirit which pre·vailed over the team during thelast half. Newman also turnedin an outstanding performancewith his fine punting, and withhis alert play at defensive end.

Coach Preisler feels that themen are playing up to expecta­tions, and from the second halfof play he feels that the teamwill give an experienced OxygrOUP a real fight.

Beavers travelto Long Beachfor 4ger fray

Sagechicks topIrosh eleven ~

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TheatreTHE DESPERATE HOURS.Suspense thriller starring Will­iam Gargan, Nancy Coleman &Richard Jaeckel, with the origi­nal NY production. Closes Oct22. Carthay Circle Theater, 6316San Vicente, LA. Eves 8:15, mati­nees Wed and Sat 2:15. EvesMon thru Thurs $1.65-$3.00. Fri,Sat & Sun eves $1.65-$3.85. Mats$1.10-$2.75.MR. PICKLES IN LAS VEGAScloses Oct 30 at the Civic Play-

ance" by the SF Opera Co. ThursOct 27 8:00. "La Boheme" Act I"La Traviata" Act II, "Rigo:letto" Act III. $2.50-$6.50. Matti­wilda Dobbs gives a recital TuesNov 8 8:15. $1.25-$3.50.PHILHARMONIC AUDITORI­UM also presents MattiwildaDobbs Mon Nov 7 8:15. Otherconcerts are Erna Sack WedNov 9, Santa Celilia Choir FriNov 11, and Don Cossack Cho­rus Sat Oct 29. All perf at 8:15.$1.10-$3.30 for Don Cossack, $1.25­$3.50 for others.SADLER'S WELLS BALLETwill be in LA Nov 18 thru 27.This is another internationallyfamous group that shouldn't bemissed.

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being an American city withoutits own opera company, but itis perhaps the most fortunate oftowns in that category in thatit is close enough to San Fran­cisco to permit that civilizedcommunity to share its entireopera season with us." -LATimes

With all the rivalry there isbetween SF and LA, you can bevery sure that the San FranciscoOpera Co. must be tops in orderto see things like the aboveprinted in LA. And so it is; theSF Opera ranks with the NYCOpera and the Met as being thethree top companies in the US.Since almost all of the starschange affiliation from time totime, I would not venture aguess at which is the best ofthe three, but the point is thatno one even comes close west ofBuffalo.

The list of internationally re­nowned stars goes on and on, buthere are some of the most well­known: Leonard Warren, Doro­thy Kirsten, Robert Weede, IngeBorkh, Jan Peerce, Licia Alba­nese, Dorothy Warenskjold, NellRankin, and Clarence Turner.Renata Tebaldi may not be aswell known as some of theabove, because she has onlybeen singing in this country fora couple of years, but alreadyshe is one of the most popularsingers in the Italian category.Mattiwilda Dobbs, the youngAmerican Negro soprano andElisabeth Schwartzkopf are new­comers but with top billing. Ad­vance word. on them is nothingless than fabulous. The pressnotices on Miss Schwartzkopfread like Mickey Mantle's.

For the newly-interested Tech­man audience recommends "Ai­da," "Faust," "I Pagliacci," "Car­men," and "Madame Butterfly."In the Shrine Auditorium allthe seats are good, so it pays toget the cheap ones. But hurrybefore they all run out.

Here is the complete list ofthe operas being performed bySF Opera and the latest word onthe price ranges of the seatsthat are left.Fri Oct 21 8:00 "Andrea Chenier"

by Giordano. $1.50-$10.00Sat Oct 22 8:00 "Tosca" by Puc­

cini. $2.50-$6.50SuSn Oct 23 3:00 "Lohengrin"

by Wagner. $2.50-$6.50Tues Oct 25 8:00 "Louise" by

Charpentier. $1.50-$6.50Wed Oct 26 8:00 "Aida" by Verdi.

$4.00-$6.50Fri Oct 28 8:00 "Der Rosenkaval­

ier" by R. Strauss. $4.00-$6.50Sat Oct 29 8:00 "Faust" by Gou­

nod. $4.00-$6.50Sun Oct 30 3:00 "I.e Coq D'Or" by

Rimsky-Korsakoff and "I Pag­liacci" by Leoncavallo. $2.50­$6.50

Tues Nov 1 8:00 "Bacbeth" byVerdi. $1.50-$6.50

Wed Nov 2 8:00 "Carmen" byBizet. $2.50-$6.50

Fri Nov 4 8:00 "Troilus and Cres­sida" by Walton. $1.50-$6.50

Sat Nov' 5 8:00 "Don Giovanni"by Mozart. $4.00-$6.50

Sun Nov 6 8:00 "Madame Butter­fly" by Puccini. $4.00-$6.50

PASADENA CIVIC AUDITO­RIUM presents a "Gala Perform-