POLYT¢¢HHI€ First name Attend the Collegians’ VOL. 7, NO. 6 1' Capacity Crowd Attends Student Body AsSembly ' An estimated crowd of 1200 stu- dents and faculty members wit- nessed the presentation of the :Santa Fe educational awards to two outstanding members of the Future Farmers of America at the Poly assembly October 11. The two members of this roganization who were presented with the awards are: Willoughby Houk and Bob Showland. The Santa Fe award is presented to Future Farmers with the most outstanding records of achievement. A representative of the San Luis Obispo Community Chest spoke to the assembled faculty students, urging them to do their part in the Chest’s drive for funds. According to the representative, Cal Poly is the largest industry in San Luis Obispo, and students should help to make the drive a success. A new school song, to be whis- tled after our team’s touchdowns, was introduced by “Davey” David- son. Gil Brown and Jack Spaulding, Poly yell leaders, led the assembly in a few yells and songs, and the meeting closed with the singing of the Alma Mater. The assembly was marred by the M discourteous remarks of a few stu- dents in the group, revealing their ignorance of the conduct of gentle- men. Dataor Club Dances Assigned 1 Dick Lavery, student body vice president, announCed that the fol-' lowing dance dates had been as- signed after a meeting Thursday night with‘officers from most of the clubs on the campus. Los Le- cheros, the Young Farmers and the Architectural Drafting club ‘were not represented and, as yet .do not have dance dates. Oct. Ill—Boots and Spurs. Nov. 15—?on Phase. Nov. 29 -—Aero Club. Dec. 14—Air Conditioning club (Clu-ishnas Formal). Jam 10, Poultry club. Jan 24-— Ag. Engineering club. Feb 7—Boots and Spurs (Barn Dance). Feb. 14-—Crops club (Valentine’s Damoe).. March 21—Air Conditioning ._.club. March 28—Horticulture club (Easter Dance). April 25—Mech. Engineering club.. May 3—Poly Royal Coronation Ball. May 10—Poly Phase. I * June 4—Fresman Class (Com- mencement Dance). 'Los Bcheros Elect Officers The installation of new officers was the first order of business facing Los Lecheros at their recent meeting. John Shea, the newly elected president, was given the chairman’s gavel. Bill Armstrong, “vice president, Jim Lawson, sec- retary-treasurer, ~Al Quist and Hans Hansen, S.A.C. representa- tives, and Harry Mellon, reporter, complete the roster of officers. 'George Drumm and Don Osborne are the faculty advisers. 4 Additional business included the discussion of a new club consti- tution, and preparation for intra- mural sports. SLIDE RULE COURSE A course in the use of the slide rule will be given in the winter quarter. In spite of the great de- mand, this course cannot be of- fered during the fall quarter be- cause of the lack of instructors in the mathematics department. It is Frosh to Hold Meeting Tonight The Freshman class will hold its next meeting at 7 p.m. tonight at Poly Field. The inauguration of the newly elected officers will be the first order of business. John Wright, Frosh prexy, will preside at the. meeting. Ray Hard— ing, vice-president, Robert Far- .rel, secretary - treasurer, and “Lefty” Downing, yell leader, will officially start their terms of of- fice with the meeting 'tonight. These officers have already met in an executive session and are laying plans for future class activities. One of the highlights ofthis evening’s meeting will be the plan- ning of the Homecoming Game hon-fire and rally which will be held on October 25, prior to the game with Whittier. Speakers at tonight’s session will be Dr. Carl Voltmer, who will tell the class about the activities that will be carried 'on in connec- tion with the intramural sports program, and Bill Hill, who will discuss some of the problems fac— ing veterans. President John Wright is plan- nington bi-monthly meetings with programs to be provided by groups from the various majors. The best program given by a club will re- ceive a'prize. The Freshman of- ficers are doing this inpan attempt to make class meetings interesting enough tO’draw complete audiences from the class of over 1000 stu- dents. . Frosh council meetings will be held every Monday at 3 p.m. Aero Club Elects l946-47 Ottic‘ers Meeting for the first time this year, the Aero club elected Bob Roney for president; Jim W. Green, vice president; Fred Cald- well, secretary; and Blick Wells as its representative to the SAC. This first meeting was spent in discussing various means of fa- miliarizing the freshmen in. this department with the Aero club, and the advantages of belonging to it. Meetings will be held every Thursday afternoon at 4, subject to the call of the president. Advisors for this club are: M. C. Martinson, Roy Metz and Al- den Turner. By JOHN PATTERSON SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. .Boots’I Spurs Sponsor First ' Collegian/Hop Opening with the smooth play- ing of Sophisticated Swing, the Collegians will start their Fall series of dances next Saturday night in Crandall Gym. The Foot- ball Dance will start after the Mustangs and the Gators finish their argument on Poly Field. This student body dance is to be spon- sored by Boots and Spurs, and San Francisco State rooters will be guests. According to Don Seaton, man- ager of the Collegians, the band will feature several old favorites, some new numbers, and enough real jump tunes to keep jitterbugs and hepcats reasonably satisfied. The Four Colonels will make their first appearance of the year during the intermissions. This sharp outfit has Bob Handsfield playing the clarinet, Charlie Knockey on the trumpet, Don Seaton slapping the bass, and Joe Parker picking’his guitar. Listen for a small item the boys call a “Sax Chaser” just prior to the intermission. Senior Ag S’Jd—ents Needed for Cadets Senior students in the agricul- tural division of the college who have the required undergraduate pattern of courses and who are interested in a position as a voca- tional agricultural teacher may make themselves eligible for ap— pointment to such position im- mediately upon graduation by the addition of required' courses in teacher training, it was announced today by Byron J. McMahon, chief of the bureau of agricultural edu— cation. Anyone interested is advised to contact C. Paul Winner, critic teacher and recorder, who will help plan a suitable program. Students with junior standing in the agricultural division are also advised to contact Winner if they are interested in agricultural teaching. as a profession.i RALLY COMMITTEE TO MEET Gil Brown, Poly yell leader, an- nounced a meeting of the rally committee this afternoon at 4 p.m. in classroom 2. All members of this group are urged to attend the meeting; Big Air Raid; No Damage Stars fell on (or near) Poly last week. One of the greatest displays of natural fireworks in modern history occurred last Wednesday evening when the gravitational pull of the earth attracted millions of particles from the tail of a pass- ing comet. The meteor shower had the whole western hemisphere as a spectator. As the metorites ap- In 1933, the earth passed the orbit of Comet Giacobini-Zinner at a distance of 500,000 miles' 80 days after the comet had passed that point in its orbit. Even so, the most intense me- teor shower of the century ap- peared. In 1946, at 02.30 GCT on October 10th (6:30 p.m. PST, . October 9th), according to cal- culations by Dr. L. E. Cunning- ham, at the University of Cali- fornia, the earth passed the com- et’s orbit at 131,000 miles, only eight days after the comet had passedby. proached the resulting friction caused a spectacular pyrotechnic display that caused scientists and laymen alike to look to the heav- ens. v' Amateur astronomer, Dave Cook, Poly math instructor, stated that the most brilliant fragments he saw left a lasting glow from lu- minous gases. Mest of the rest in the shower were “quickies” that burned out in a very few seconds. WHAT’S DOIN’ Thurs—Students Wives club meeting, Recreation hall, 8 a.m. (Mrs. Banning. Air Conditioning club meeting, p.m. (Sharpe). Fri—Alumni Association com- mittee meeting, Reception room, Adm. Bldg. 7:30 p.m. (McGrath). Mon—COO Officials Association meeting, room 213, Adm. Bldg, 7:30 p.m. (Meacham). Tues—SAC meeting, room 102, Ag. Ed. building, 7 p.m. El Mustang Statt Needs a Chaplain Quick fact, there was no dance. ’ . mately $6,600. Auditorium, 6 :30 «expected to bea 1 unit course. The editorial staff of El Mustang will take this opportunity to raise its head up out of the mud, dodge a few tardy brickbats, and take on the task of explaining and correcting a few of the errors that jumped into last week’s sheet while ‘we weren’t looking. In the first place, the last two questions on the story about medical expenses were answered in- completely. The expense to a student of a major operation would include the anesthesiast’s fee and the use of the operating room at the local hospital, but the expense would not include the surgeon’s fee if the surgeon is one of the school doctors. Expense at the infirmary would include a daily charge of fifty cents. Some sports fans claimed that Poly beat Occi- dental in 1942. Sorry fellows, our records show Poly 6, Oxy 20, after the final gun. Again in the sporting section, as of last week the Sports Editor for E1 Mustang is Ted Laine. Ted didn’t have a chance to fill up his page for reasons which we will relate in a minute. John Wright won the position of Frosh prexy entirely on his own. El Mustang didn’t even men- tion his name as a candidate for two weeks. Prob- ably that is why he won the election. Poly didn’t honor Oxy at a football dance. The Rally Committee didn’t sponsor the dance. In Then we left out several stories. Our Linotype operator was unable to work last week and so ‘at the last minute we had to take our stuff down town to have it set. The commercial printers were so busy they had no time to set all of our ma- terial. Our sporting page was filled with a story that had already been used in the local daily. On the rest of our issue we-suffered from a deficiency of content. ' Last week, E1 Mustang, didn’t appear until ’ Thursday. This was due, in part, to the aforemen- tioned printing set up and, in part, to a physics test. - - The typographical errors, all twelve of them, are also the result of that shift in getting the paper set. Poor proof reading played its part. We plead: guilty. ‘ We would like to say that we don’t feet that, . . uninformed band . . .” is as bad as an item which appeared in the Olando, Ala., STAR where- in: “A precious little bungle of 10ve arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Peter . . .”- Remember, we said in an earlier issue that the staff would make mistakes; we are, after all, “learning by doing.” We still welcome criticism, but please bring your own horsewhip. Ours is a pre-war model and is nearly worn out. u OCTOBER 16, 1946 $I5.ooo's+uden+ Body Budget Approved by S.A.C. Student Affairs Council members last week approved budget appropriations to various student body funds on the basis of a percentage breakdown of an estimated $15,000 income from student body fees for the year 1946-47. The athletic fund received 44 per cent of the total, or approxi- These funds are used to buy uniforms, equipment used for competitive athletics, and all expenses incidental to the com- petitive athletic program. Addi- tional revenue from gate receipts augments this appropriation. The general fund received 16 per centJ or about $2400, to be used to finance. all student dance expenses, assembly entertainment, entertainment for other schools, 5 t a t e compensation insurance, awards and keys, student mane ager’s salary. Publications received 15 per cent or a sum of $2,250. This appropria— tion covers partial cost of pub- lishing the yearbook and school paper. Each student body member: yearbook and a weekly copy of the paper without additional charge. Estimated cost of the 1947 yearbook is $3,500 and the cost of producing El Mustang for a school year is about $1,500. Revenue from advertising goes to make up the balance. The annual Poly Royal show, “only country fair on a college campus,” received a 7 per cent ap— pronriation, or about.$1,050 with which to stage next Springis annual show which attracts viSI- tors from all parts of the state. The music department received an 8 per cent allotment, or $1,200, from which the department buys uniforms, and pays all expenses incidental to the appearance of the various musical organizations be- fore the student body and other groups. The S.A.C. reserve. fund and the student manager fund were given equal allotments of 5 per cent, or $750 each. The reserve fund is to cover unforseen expenses (that might occur in an emergency. This fund has not been touched for three years, according to the stu- dent manager. The manager’s fund is used to pay the small monthly salary of the student manager whose duties are to handle all business transactions of the stu- dent body. At the same meeting the S.A.C. approved the borrowing of $9,000 to cover student body expenses un- til payment of G. I. sponsored stu- dent body memberships is forth- coming. President Leon Garoian appoint- ed a committee composed of Leo Rogers, Blick W'ells, M. Bell and WilliamrTroutner to revise the student body constitution. A motion was paSsed that no re- funds be made on student body cards later than two weeks after the student first enrolled, except in the case of students transfe'ring to the Voorhis unit. In the latter case, a refund will be made on the student body card on the basis of quarters not used. Refunds on student cards made during the ?rst two weeks will be charged a $2.00 service fee. S.A.C. approved the following appointments: John Patterson, El Mustang editor; John Shea, E1 Rodeo editor; Harvey Kramer, Mustang Roundup; Cy Hovig, pub- lications business manager; Glenn Arthur, publications representa- tive to S.A.C. Leon McAdams, and Paul Bowman, were appointed as industrial and agricultural repre~ sentatives to the publications board. will receive one copy of the 1947“