City Offers Free Polio Shots
PCC CoufrieSv
Vaccination to Begin
Soon for Residents
VOL. 5, NO. 5
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 10, 1956
HILL STREET AT 7:30 AM . . . Space for everyone? The officer is doing the best he can to
speed up the cars waiting to get into the parking lot during the morning rush and to keep the
street clear for non-student drivers. Stickers to permit those who live outside the two mile radius
to park first were issued because of the limited number of spaces available in the parking lots.
Parking Control Measures Useless
Without Complete Student Cooperation
Student cooperation is the key to a major problem facing Pasadena City College again
this year. Enrollment in both the college and high school far exceeds the number of parking
spaces on the campus lots. In order to enable students who live at a distance to find park¬
ing spaces, permits were issued beginning last year. To obtain a permit a student must
Forum Favorite to
Speak at Assembly
The second college assembly in
Sexson Auditorium tomorrow will
present Dr. Douglas M. Kelley,
outstanding professor of crimin¬
ology at the University of Califor¬
nia. He will speak on “Fear, Its
Facts and Fictions.” This is an
assembly at which attendance is
required for all Basic Communica¬
tions class members.
Dr. Kelley received his doc¬
torate in medical science at Co¬
lumbia University in 1941. He
was chief counseling psycholo¬
gist and psychiatrist of the
European Theater during his
three and a half years overseas.
He served as chief psychiatrist
also at the famous Nuremberg
trials after World War II.
Dr. Kelley has been at the Uni¬
versity of California since 1949,
and in that time has spoken at the
Tuesday Evening Forum several
times.
A member of the American
Psychiatric Association and of
the American Psychological As¬
sociation, he is also a recent
president of the Rorschach In¬
stitute and co-author of a book
entitled “The Rorschach Tech¬
nique.”
Dr. Kelley’s speech tomorrow
will deal with the causes and ef¬
fects of fear and with the prob¬
lem, “fear of fear.”
live beyond a two mile radius of
PCC.
Relief in the form of 75 addi¬
tional parking spaces will become
available when the buildings now
under construction are completed,
60 more when the workmen leave,
and approximately 400 when the
new high school is completed.
All these measures, parking
spaces, etc., provided by the
administration, will not be enough
unless the student body helps.
This can be done in a number of
ways. Car pools are one way.
The Campus “Y,” located in the
V Building next to the Women’s
Gym, is handling the establish¬
ment of car pools. On file in the
“Y” office is a record of the num¬
ber of students who wish to form
pools with other drivers from the
same areas and those who wish
to ride and would be willing to
help with gas money.
Another way of aiding the sit¬
uation is for students to walk if
they live within walking distance
and use public conveyances if
possible even though it may take
a little longer to get to and from
school.
These three means by which to
lessen the problem were urged
last year by the Pasadena Police
Department traffic analyst, the
superintendent of the Pasadena
City School System, and promi¬
nent PCC administrators as the
best ways in which the students
could cooperate.
But the fact remains that the
parking problem is still with us
and we must cooperate until re¬
lief comes.
Asia Traveler Presents
Problems of Indo-China
Recently returned from five years in Southeast Asia,
Marion Dix will present a talk entitled “Operation Viet Nam”
next Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium. Miss Dix’s
program will include colored motion pictures. She will tell
a dramatic story of the struggle '
to stabilize the government and
to enhance progress within Indo-
China.
She was sent to Asia by the
United Nations to organize an in- -
formation center to cover India, *
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Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, and , fa*' -
Malaya and to produce three ed¬
ucational films for training vil-
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lage welfare workers. ^ i
A University of Washington
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graduate, Miss Dix began her
career in Hollywood, writing
scenarios for feature films. *
A world traveler for 20 years, *
she lived for four years in France ” , ,
where she was a foreign corres¬
pondent, and during the first year
of World War II she broadcast
her own commentary over short¬
wave radio from Paris to Ameri-
ca.
She then wrote radio pro¬
grams for U.S. networks under
the auspices of the U.S. Govern¬
ment Office of Facts and Fig¬
ures. She also wrote radio
broadcasts for shortwave trans¬
mission from New York to
Europe for the U.S. Office of
War Information, and wrote
and directed psychological war¬
fare films in the United States
The City of Pasadena has j ust announced that inoculations
of the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine are now available to the
residents free of charge from the ages of six . months to 19
years inclusive. This 1956 federal vaccination program com¬
plies with an accepted procedure
approved by the California State
Health Department. It consists of
two inoculations of the vaccine.
The new Salk vaccine, pre¬
pared according to the latest
licensing standards is now con¬
sidered safe, and has been re¬
ported to protect against paraly¬
sis in a significant manner.
The largest decline in number
of cases of polio came in the eight
states which had given 75 per
cent of the second shots reported
in the country. They were Flori¬
da, Louisiana, Mississippi, Geor¬
gia, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
West Virginia, and California.
Reported data on 7 million vac¬
cinated children showed cases
of the disease running from 25
to 50 per cent less than the rate
among non-vaccinated children.
Improvements in the production
and testing have been made
that have overcome the 1955
problems.
The Pasadena program of in¬
oculation will be held at the Fan¬
nie Morrison Horticulture Center,
Brookside Park. Two clinic
groups, the first to be held on
October 27 and November 17 will
be organized according to the
hour and the first initial of the
last name. The second group, on
November 3 and December 1, will
be handled the same way.
A parental request must be
filled out before any children
may receive the vaccine. Cards
are available in the nurse’s of¬
fice and at the Health Depart¬
ment, 100 N. Garfield, Pasadena.
Half of the card must be signed
and mailed to the Health De¬
partment. The other half must
also be signed and be presented
by the parent at the time of vac¬
cination.
This program will offer the
booster dose (or third inocula¬
tion) to those children immunized
in the spring clinic during last
January and February.
It must be emphasized that this
plan is for residents of Pasadena
only. County residents may be
served through their own health
centers. A list of the addresses
and phone numbers of Los An¬
geles Health Department centers
in this area is posted in the
nurse’s office.
First Tryouts «for
Rose Tournament
Begin Next Week
The first tryouts for the queen
and princesses of the 1957 Tour¬
nament of Roses will be held on
Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 15 and
16, in the Women’s Gymnasium.
These tryouts will continue
through all the physical educa¬
tion classes, enabling every eli¬
gible girl to compete for this
honor.
In order to be eligible candi¬
dates must have a C average and
no grades of E or F and not more
than one grade of D during the
periods of tryouts. They must be
carrying 11 units of work and
have satisfactory attendance rec¬
ords. Post graduates and mar¬
ried students are nof eligible.
The second tryout will be held
on Thursday, Oct. 18. At this
time the number of contestants
will be cut from 350 to 150.
During the third tryouts in the
Rose Bowl on Thursday, Oct. 24,
the number of girls will be re¬
duced to 75.
Before the final selection each
candidate’s scholastic record will
be thoroughly checked.
A list of the code numbers of
all the girls selected from the
physical education classes will be
posted in Dr. Catherine Robbins’
office. Each girl will be responsi¬
ble for either checking yes or no
by her number signifying as to
whether or not she will continue
as a candidate.
This year marks the twenty-
fifth year in which this manner of
selecting the queen and her prin¬
cesses has been used by the
Tournament of Roses Committee
and PCC.
The main objective of the
judges will be to choose a girl
who exemplifies the typical Amer¬
ican college girl.
Marion Dix
and England.
At the end of the war she was
put in charge of film and photo
coverage for the United Nations
Preparatory Commission in Lon¬
don.
She later became chief of the
Film and Television Section of the
United Nations Headquarters De¬
partment of Public Information
in New York.
PCC's Own Prints
Displayed in Show
A display of Pasadena City Col¬
lege’s own extensive collection of
reproductions of paintings will
comprise the second Art Council
sponsored exhibit which will open
in Room 301C next Tuesday at
4 p.m. The featured speaker will
be Lennox Tierney, art instructor
at PCC, who will speak in Room
200C on “European Galleries” at
3 p.m.
Tierney, recently returned
from two years’ leave which
he spent as supervisor of art
for the U.S. Army in Europe,
will illustrate his talk with col¬
ored slides which he took dur¬
ing his stay.
He will emphasize particularly
six famous European museums
and will show slides of the build¬
ings themselves, their surround¬
ings and layout of the display
rooms.
Plastic treated so that they
will not fade, PCC’s collection
of reproductions represents
contemporary as well as his¬
torical art. It is a cross section
of most of the masterpieces of
art, gathered for the use of the
art history classes.
Admission to the talk in 200C
is free, but by ticket only. Tickets
may be obtained in the Art Of¬
fice, Room 209C.
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