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Pasadena Chronicle, May 20, 1938
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JUNIOR HIGH STUDENTS WROTE AND EDITED THIS CHRONICLE
Off The
Ribbon
by Jeanne Thomas
PASADENA CHRONICLE
Vol. XXIX
Pasadena Junior College, May 20, 1938
No. 31
Now that 'tis spring, the strains
of —
“Take me out to the ball park — ”
echo through the air sung by the
spirited millions of baseball fans.
Familiar cries of “slide, Kelly,
slide,” "feed him the ole dew
drop,” “the pitcher’s got a glass
arm,” "take a walk, son,” “it’s a
homer,” waft in on the gentle
breezes. And it isn’t just baseball
that's got the sport world all agog;
what with the new Inglewood race
track opening on or about June 6,
and the heavyweight championship
fight between Schmeling and Louis
on June 22, date books are filled
to the high water level.
Many people think that the
heavyweight championship will
stay in the United States when
the “Brown Bomber” meets the
man from Nazi land but remem¬
ber folks, Louis is a sucker for
a right cross and Schmeling has
done it once already!
With the Inglewood track open¬
ing in June, the fifth major track
in California, three of which are
in Southern California, will forge
on its way. The others are: Santa
Anita, Del Mar, Tanforan and
Bay Meadows. Old-timers predict
a gradual death for horse racing
in this state. “Too much compe¬
tition,” they claim. Mor’an likely
they’re right too! All year racing
will not attract the more favorable
horses from the east and conse¬
quently you’ll be able to tell the
children when “big races used to
be held at Santa Anita.” Yet!
Quien Sabe? as the Spaniard
would say, who knows?
★ ★ ★
Vacation is near and the re¬
sorts are all sprucing up, ready
to receive the annual influx of
“good-timers.” Places to go are
always hard to decide on when
dad wants to go north for trout,
mom insists on the beach, sis
wants Panama (so much color
yuh know) bud says the moun¬
tains are swell for huntin’, etc.
Oh heck! What to do? — Gather
in these names, my frens, and put
’em up to the family tonight.
What about Coronado — plenty
of fishin’, huntin’, swimmin’, local
color, good food, clean hospitable
rooms and hotels, not to men¬
tion — or should I, the nominal
fees for such a swell vacation.
Then the national parks are al¬
ways a good standby — Yosemite,
Grant, Sequoia, Yellowstone, and
the like.
But then, when arriving at the
point where you know you’re go¬
ing, be sure to pack up a couple
of good books — not big, dry in¬
tellectual volumes, but good clean
fun such as — “Beams Ends” by
Errol Flynn, a tang of sea and ad¬
venture written in a breezy, pleas¬
ing style; "Assigned to Adven¬
ture,” by Irene Kuhn, a newspa¬
perwoman’s biography that moves
along at a fast pace; “Raiders of
Spanish Peaks” by Zane Grey, his
newest and most thrilling for west¬
ern fans; “Action at Aquila,” by
Hervey Allen, is a yarn of Civil
War days by the author of “An¬
thony Adverse.”
Be sure and plank down on
a comfortable bed when you
arrive. Have you ever rolled up
in a sleeping bag on the beach,
dug a hole for your right hip
and then upon turning over, find
that the sand is very uncompro¬
mising by refusing to yield into
a more restful position? Conse¬
quently you fret and fight the
blankets all night and kiss the
sandman goodbye.
Or have you ever spent the
week-end at an overcrowded
house party and drawn the ancient
army cot? Needless to say, the
novice neglects to pad the bottom
with newspaper or the throw rug
off the floor and thusly spends the
night over a draft resembling a
gigantic wind-tunnel. Last time I
made the exodus to relatives in
Santa Barbara, I drew the cousin’s
crib and spent the night biting my
knees.
Speaking of Santa Barbara,
the yacht harbor is being
dredged to a depth of 25 feet,
and scores of visiting boats are
lying at anchor. They're build¬
ing a new community pool at
West Beach that promises to be
a knock-out.
Well, all this talk gets us neither
here nor there, so —
Adios, amigos.
Dance, Assembly Help Popularize Election
CHRONICLE SPONSORS FIRST
CONVENTION,- JUNIOR HIGH
STUDENTS EDIT PAPER
The Chronicle sponsored for the first time a newspaper
convention for Pasadena junior high schools this week, an
event which it is hoped will develop into an annual tradition.
Chief of the activities of the convention was the editing
and writing of the Chronicle by students from the junior high
schools. In addition, there will be a banquet tonight in the
social hall, featuring prominent speakers in journalism fields.
Members from the five junior highs who took over the
duties of the regular staff are as follows : executive editor,
Jeanne Thomas, Eliot : managing editor, Herbertaruth Gard-
Introduce
Candidates
At Dance
Election Assembly
Not Compulsory
Th is Semester
Election dance, held yesterday
afternoon in the women’s gym,
was added to the many publicity
schemes now used to popularize
PJC elections.
The freshman class sponsored the
dance which began at 3:15 to the
music of Laveme Boyer’s orchestra.
Candidates in today’s primary elec¬
tions were introduced at the dance.
Shorty Grannis, frosh president,
had charge of all arrangements.
Candidates will again be intro¬
duced at today’s election assembly.
The presentation will be followed
with short speeches by the Outgo¬
ing president, Bob Coates, and the
chief justice, Peter Prouse. Com¬
menting on the election, Justice
Prouse stated, “We would like to
set an 80 per cent goal for the vote
this year. However the assembly is
not compulsory. We wish to appeal
to the students’ interest rather
than force them into attendance.”
After a short skit taken from
the forthcoming “Death Takes a
Holiday,” to be given by the PJC
Players’ Guild, Charles Braden,
president of OMD, will present
awards to the winners in the car¬
nival booth contest.
EVERYBODY VOTE
STUDENT BODY
PRESIDENT
“ 1
Coates, Bob
McDonald, Herb
ONLY MEN VOTE
AMS OFFICERS
PRESIDENT _
Child, Bob F.
Shannon, Dick
1st VICE-PRESIDENT
Lough, Byron
2nd VICE-PRESIDENT
Bulldog Band in
Homecoming
Concert
The Bulldog Band, also official
Tournament of Roses Band, is giv¬
ing their 9th homecoming concert
on Thursday and Friday evenings
of this week in the John A. Sexson
auditorium. After this last per¬
formance in Pasadena, they are to
leave on a special train tour through
Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Oregon.
Then they are planning to tour Cal¬
ifornia before returning to Pasa¬
dena for their part in the June
graduation in the Rose Bowl June
17th.
On Thursday evening, the boys
started off with “Overture of 1812”
Continued on Page Three
EVERYBODY VOTE
CHIEF JUSTICE
Braden, Bob
Hamilton, Mason
Moshisky, Betty
ONLY WOMEN VOTE
AWS OFFICERS
PRESIDENT
Eastman, Jeanette
Ford, Jean
1st VICE-PRESIDENT
Bradford, Evelyn
ner, McKinley; city editor, Shirley
Shapiro, Wilson; news editor, Lor¬
raine Schultz, from Washington;
makeup editor, Jean Rowley, Wash¬
ington; feature editor, Seibert
Weissman, McKinley; sports editor,
Manfred Geisler, McKinley. The
feature desk is Betty Russ, Esther
Lucoff, Mary Milbank and Dodie
C'rile. The reporting staff is Harry
Crawford, Janet Jones, Ruth Pat¬
terson and Kenneth Brown. On the
sports desk are Alice Hendrix and
Elizabeth Nettleton. Copy readers
are John Rempel and Fred Owen.
Awards for the best news, fea¬
ture, editorial and sports stories
will be given at the banquet to¬
night. The people invited to the
banquet are junior high editors and
advisers, the Chronicle staff, Vo-
Mag editors, Campus editors, rep¬
resentatives of the Board of Edu¬
cation and PJC administrators.
Guest speakers include Lee Mer-
riman, city editor of the Pasadena
Post, Fred Crick Shoop, city edi¬
tor of the Pasadena Star-News, W.
L. Blair, managing editor of the
Post, Bill Henry, sports editor of
the Los Angeles Times, and Ed
Ainsworth, Times feature writer.
“The primary purpose of this
convention is to acquaint the junior
high students with the Chronicle
and Pasadena Junior College, so
that they will be able to take over
work on the Chronicle when they
graduate to JC,” Adviser Wayne L.
Hodges said.
“We have been very happy to
have the junior high schools with
us this week. They have certainly
done a creditable job in putting out
the Chronicle,” Merilyn Nutt, edi¬
tor, said.
TAG CAMPAIGN
RAISES $100
FOR FUND
Over a hundred dollars clear
profit was realized by the tag day
campaign recently held to finance
the Northern California tour of
PJC tennis and baseball teams.
Student Body President Bob
Coates has announced however,
that since the money will not be
needed for this purpose, it will be
donated to the fund for the new
social lounge in the contemplated
student union building.
Over one thousand tags were sold
by the various student organiza¬
tions and by the PJC girls who
patrolled the downtown streets in
an, effort to take the team’s tour
out of the red.
Justice
PETER PROUSE
Second Plane Built
At PJC Tested
In Alhambra
Under a lowering sky early last
Monday morning a silver-winged
monoplane taxied to the end of the
long runway at the Alhambra air¬
port, turned slowly — and for the
second time in the current school
year a plane designed and built by
Pasadena Junior College students
soared away on its initial flight.
The new ship, which is a develop¬
ment of a previous model built in
the PJC aeronautics shops, was
handled on its first test hop by Jack
Kelley, famous test pilot. In the
last issue of the campus vocational
publication, “Vo-Mag,” Mr. Kelly
wrote of his experiences in testing
the forerunner of the present ship.
From all reports, the new plane
performs even better than the pre¬
vious model.
Over 60 members of the aero¬
nautics department turned out in
■the cold, gray morning to witness
the flight, among them the engineer
in charge of the design, Max Har¬
low; Clinton Hoffman, instructor in
the Aero Tech shops; and many of
the students who helped build the
ship.
After a successful 15-minute test
hop, during which Pilot Kelly
showed his confidence in the ship
by retracting the landing gear less
than a minute after the takeoff, the
predictions of the Aero Tech de¬
partment were justified in, full. The
ship more than fulfilled the expec¬
tations of her designers and build¬
ers, both as to stability and per¬
formance.
In the afternoon speed tests were
conducted, during which the ship
maintained a top speed of 170 miles
per hour with full load, and a
cruising speed of 150 miles per
hour. Gas consumption has been
calculated at nearly 19 miles per
gallon, better than many modern
automobiles.
In addition to high speed, made
possible by retractable landing
Continued on Page Three
SAMPLE BALLOT1
MALE . DIRECTIONS: Indicate below sex and SENIOR.
FEMALE . class, then vote.
И
female, vote for stu- JUNIOR.
dent body president, chief justice, your SOPH .
class president (except freshman, which FROSH...
will be held at beginning of next semes¬
ter) and AWS officers. If male, do the
same, substituting AMS officers. Failure
to follow directions will disqualify ballot.
Braley, Ronald
SECRETARY
Garren, Rodman
TREASURER
Mardian, Sam
2nd VICE-PRESIDENT
Oglesby, Roberta
SECRETARY
McCastline, Louise
TREASURER
Gray, Beverly Jane
Ingham, Peggy
SENIORS ONLY JUNIORS ONLY SOPHS ONLY
SENIOR PRES. JUNIOR PRES. SOPH PRES.
Beardsley, Lloyd
Allan, Bob
Grannis, “Shorty”
Harvey, Bill
Gunderson, Nadine
Hueblein, Bob
Kellogg, Joan
Henry, Bob
Robinson, Ray
Map ‘Showing Election Polls . . . .
Marr, Jack
V-ose, Howard
Merrill, Dayton
Williams, Rachel
1 This ballot is incomplete at time
of Chronicle deadline.
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GYMNASIUM
Primary
Elections
Are Today
Justice Peter Prouse
Expects Record Vote
As New Publicity Used
PJC students will vote today in
the primary elections for major
student body officers next semes¬
ter.
Nine polls, indicated on the map
at the bottom of the page, will be
maintained by members of the elec¬
tion board, selected on the basis
of past service, scholarship and
willingness to serve.
Voters will select candidates for
the offices of student body presi¬
dent, AMS and AWS presidents
and minor officers, ichief justice and
class presidents. The candidates
are listed on the sample ballot also
found at the bottom of this page.
“With the several new features
used this semester to put elections
over, we expect to get a record
vote,” Chief Justice Peter Prouse,
in charge of the elections, said re¬
cently.
Members of the election board
are as follows: Men, Charles Pack¬
ard, Charles Summers, Murray
Huss, Harold Shafer, Bill Morgan,
Blakemore Thomas, Karl Dietzel,
Alan Robb, John Kirkpatrick, Mil-
ton Wopschall, Bill Beedle, Jim
Benjamin, Forrest McDonald, Ray¬
mond Richter» Women: Joan Bath-
rick, Louise Lobdell, Muriel Rash,
Miriam Purdon, Josephine Merrill,
Barbara Fitch, Betty Jo Wilhelm,
Jane Russel, Rachel Reid, Phyllis
Wilson, Mary Gartz, Phyllis Rich¬
mond, Barbara Blackwood, Virginia
Phillips.
Scholarship Fund
Helps Students
Pasadena Junior College has a
scholarship fund loaned to the four¬
teenth year students going on in
search of higher education. The
amount loaned is based on the need
and the previous scholarship rec¬
ord.
Students may borrow up to four
hundred dollars, payable a year
after graduation from college, and
on which no interest is charged un¬
til one year after graduation. The
loan may be distributed over the
years in college.
This year very few loans have
been asked for, states Martin L.
Pearson. Applications for these
loans should be filed before June
1, with Mr. Pearson, at 230C be¬
tween 11 and 12 o’clock.
GRADUATION
PLANS MADE
At commencement, June 17, in
the Rose Bowl, about 2700 gradu¬
ates from the five junior high
schools, John Muir Technical High
School and Pasadena Junior Col¬
lege, including the nurses at the
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Training School, will receive di¬
plomas from the Board of Educar
tion.
“With a Song in My Heart” has
been chosen the theme of the com¬
mencement, at which spectacular
lighting effects and music will play
a bigger part than ever before. As
m recent years, the concert by the
Bulldog band will begin at 6:45 land
the graduates will enter at 7:15.
The junior high school girls will
wear white dresses, the twelfth
year girls, pastels, and the four¬
teenth year graduates in dark blue
caps and gowns with red satin
stoles. The nurses will wear their
white uniforms.
Geologists To Visit
Park, Mountains
The geology fi.eld trip to the
Santa Monica mountains will be
held tomorrow. It is to be an all¬
day trip, fossils and rocks are to
be collected, land the structural ge-
ology of the mountains will be
studied. Generally, the geology
groups cover the mountains as far
west as Topanga canyon.
Between 75 and 100 students will
go in private cars. Edwin Van Am-
ringe is in charge of the caravan.
First stop will be .the Griffith Park
planetarium, where exhibits will be
viewed, and a lecture will be heard.