Pasadena Chronicle, February 26, 1943

A feutlttamel Utii weeh * * PAGE 1. Edwinna Dodson referees frosh prexy runoffs be¬ tween Elaine Leech, Allan Clark. Ted Liljenwall squawks (Col. 3). Sam Pritchard and Don Boyer plead Tuck Menning’s case before higher court. (Col. 1). Loren Barre would reorganize election commission. Repre¬ sentatives snub Bob Graff’s Board meeting. (Col. 4). Candidates Clash For Cl ass Off ices In Race Today PAGE 2. Lois McNab edits Chron feature page. Her contract expires in a week. Jacqueline McLeod chews the gossip. Any resemblance to Tabbie is pathetic. PAGE 3. Shirley Hettman asks for blood. (Col. 6) . Tom Sahm appointed Sec. of Finance; Betty Mae Rine¬ hart may be Sec. of Activities. (Cols. 4, 5) Kenny Kellogg serves his first AMS breakfast of the se¬ mester. (Col. 2). PAGE 4. Irv Noren pitches five innings of shutout ball against Poets. (Col. 6). Bob Blacker is again lone letterman . . . this time it’s track. (Cols. 3, 5). Vol. 34 Pasadena Junior College. February 26, 1943 No. 19 Liljenwall petitions for revote By MARY REEVES Over a politician’s backfence this week, Elaine Leech and Allan Clark, frosh presidential candidates spieled vote-getting platforms with veteran strat¬ egy. (See story page 3). Steal¬ ing the fire from other not-so- potent campaigns, Clark and Leech seesawed precariously this week in a typical race for the big-time popularity. Some 20 per cent of the student body, meagre voting proportion in last Friday’s election, watch po- ( Continued on Page 3) EDWINNA DODSON ALAN CLARK She breaks the clinch . . . between these two ELAINE LEECH Student Government "Club" Proposed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Tuck Menning rehash lays verdict in Loren Bar re's lap By KATHRYN HOWETT Tuck Menning’s re-trial, held last Wednesday night, proved to be a farce from beginning to end, reached that proverbial “broken-back-straw” climax, when the jury after a five minute deliveration returned to state they were “stimied.” Result, a “hung” jury. The trial, or better named “haggling session” lasted four and a half hours, could have continued four more, if the building had not been closed by end-of -patience janitors at 11 p.m. Now decision of where-do-we-go-from-here rests in the hands of Judge Loren Barre, who must first appear in Supreme Court to question “constitutionality” of the' re-trial. If a favor¬ able decision is reached, prosecut¬ ing attorneys Bob Miles and Ted McClean will carry through» mo¬ tion for a third Superior Court Menning Trial. First hour and half of session was taken up with a legal free- . for-all between attorneys, defense having questioned the “legality and permission” of re-opening case after last week’s dismissal. Judge Barre, after dubious head- shakings, decided motion for re¬ trial was valid, therefore legal. Twenty-five prospective jurors waited patiently while legal mas¬ ter-minds unraveled high-sound¬ ing technicalities, confused every¬ one concerned. Jurors finally sworn in were Richard Bennett, Sam Harris, Bill McHale, Barbara Hart, Lee Krik- orian, Harold Evans. Alternates: (Continued on Page 3) Spartans to issue tickets Concomitant with a series of recent law-infractions is the an¬ nouncement from big Spartan head, Marie du Shane, of new pow¬ erfully-advised ticket books. The official tool of eveiy Spartan, these books preface the issuance of tickets to law violators, may be ef- fecual in dissuading other potential “criminals” from on-campus smoking, loafing, and general vagrancies. To be issued March 3, the books facilitate a revamped policing program. Law-breakers, so casually sure of safety, may shortly find their names in a Spartan ticket book, and still later face minor and superior court justices in JC’s judicial court system. Issued on the premise that the Spartan’s “big sister” act hasn’t panned out so well, the unofficial policewomen will now be teamed with other law-enforcing groups but may still be called upon for explanations or suggestions. At March 3 Spartan meeting, girls will wrinkle brows over plans for the men. An annual tea, resembling last year’s to which Spartans cordially invited men, is in the offing. Tentative plans will be laid at Wednesday’s meeting. Centralized campus politics considered by ASB Board By BILL ANTHONY At a time when the Elections Commissioner Dodson and her crew are facing a Supreme Court investigation, Loren Barre’s proposal yesterday to a sleepy-eyed, quorum-less ASB Board, smacked of a student government shakeup. Barre, number one student attorney, proposed, but not in so many words, a revival of the dissolved Arx club. Barre’s club would be “similar to Argonauts,” and embrace the election commission and commissioner. Charles Doehrer’s Arx club was chiefly concerned with poll¬ ing student opinion, yet paraded student government theories from the student union to the Board of Education. Called the “Junior Statesmen of America” (make democracy work), the organization is state wide. Barre would have the ASB Board adopt the club on campus, give them sweaters, call their work service. Their creed would be (1) to learn to govern efficiently, (2) to learn to govern in the best interests of the people rather than in the interests of personal gain. PJC has been accused of harboring a very well oiled bureac- racy. According to Barre’s scheme, machine politics would be done away with. Chief weapon would be a voting student body. The election commissioner would be president of the Junior Statesmen (Pasadena chapter), the commission and others who have served in student organizations for at least one semester would be members. Ushering and other projects “to fit the needs of the school,” would be their activity. The ASB Board was powerless to act. Only eight of the 13 mem¬ bers had gotten home from club meeting in time to make the 8 a.m. appointment. President Bob Graff shook his quorum handcuffs at the eight representatives present. Yesterday morning was the first this semester that a quorum failed to appear. Members have been consistently absent or tardy; the scheduled 7:45 meeting seldom gets underway before 8:15. 4 In attenpting to discipline his group, Graff suggests the Chron weekly publish (in a box with bold face type), names of representatives absent. Both to chide the guilty parties, and to inform the student body which politicians were irresponsible. Short classes cut assembly National rationing program, aided by the public school, have cancelled today’s assembly. Teachers are leaving classrooms in order to help register citizens for food, gas, and tire ration- books. Classes have been slashed to a minimum schedule by this program, making it impossible to have a further cutting in order to hold the assembly. Next week, regular schedule will be followed as classes resume their normal status. Men's And Women's Clubs Conclude Pledging Pledges of PJC’s restrictive clubs go through fiinal duck waddling stages of campus initiation. Al¬ though outlawed by the Dean’s office, most clubs hold informal initiations tonight. Women have spent the last two weeks wearing makeup on half their face, carrying members’ books, other slave deeds. Men polish cars, take swat beatings, act as picture dbove. Monday it will all be over, new pins given.