THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, OCtt illt 20,1954 THE MICHIGAN flAILY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1954 -Daily-Dick Gaskill CITY CLERK FRED LOOKER SIGNS ONE OF THE NUMEROUS DOCUMENTS PASSING THROUGH HIS OFFICE. Looker Keeps City Records; Directs Election Procedures r:\ r By JOEL BERGER Keeper of the city records and clerk to the city council. These are just part of the duties of Fred J. Looker, Ann Arbor city clerk. He also is responsible for getting election machinery roll- ing for the Nov. 2 election and keeping records of various city groups. To Looker, a native of Ann Ar- bor, this adds up to a job he loves. He has worked as part of the city administration since 1929, when he was appointed assistant to the treasurer. Government Service Reviewing his life yesterday, he said that he is a product of the local school system, being a grad- uate of Ann Arbor high school, al- though he did not attend the Uni- versity. He saw service as an Army 'Caine Mutiny' Play Coming This Week-end Hill Auditorium's stage will be converted into a courtroom when the 18-member cast of "The Caine - Mutiny Court-Martial" steps in front of the audience at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Starring Paul Douglas as Capt. Queeg, Wendell Corey as attorney for the defense, Lt. Barney Green- wald, and Steve Brodie as Lt. Steve Maryk, the mutineer on trial, the production has been directed by Charles Laughton and produced by Paul Gregory. The full-length play is based on the court scene from Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize novel. Tickets for the production may be bought from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow, and 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Hill Auditorium box office. Second balcony seats are priced at $1. Other tickets are $2.50 and $1.75. Spanish Club Sociedad Hispanica is sponsoring a "reunion" from 8 to 10 p.m. to- night in the Michigan Room of the League. The program will feature an ex- cerpt from a movie, a talk by Prof. Anderson Imbert of the Spanish department, songs, and dances. The movie excerpt is from "Cap-1 tain from Castile," and deals with I Cortez' advance on Mexico City. private during World War I, tak- ing part in several battles and see- ing much of Italy, France and Bel- gium during his two and a half year hitch in the armed forces. In 1929, Looker first entered city government when he became asistant to the treasurer. Since 1949, however, his title has been City Clerk. In his busy office, bustling with'the activity of sev- en full-time employes, city records are filed, checks are made out and the million and one odd jobs of his position are performed. Registration Work Although much of his work is assigned to deputies, Looker at- tends the monthly city council meetings in person, recording the minutes of the session. At pres- ent, his office is being kept busy filing voters' registration cards. Voting machines must be set up by his staff, he said, while all the voting paraphernalia must be brought together. Being respon- sible for mailing absentee ballots to Ann Arbor residents who will be out t town during the coming election, Looker's staff has sent 353 of them through the mails so far. "Elections are the most inter- esting part of my work," he con-. tinued. "We have our highest amount of contact with the gen- eral public during this period. Election Merry-Go-Round "Elections brjng us a lot of work," Looker said. "Each Decem- ber we pull out the cards of local residents who haven't voted dur- ing the past two years. Two months later the February election is upon us. After that election we have to do the same work with non-voters which we did in De- cember, and so it goes." Switching to his off-duty hours, he commented that he has en- gaged in sports very little during the past three or four years. "I used to do some target shooting, but not lately," he said. "And occasionally I used to 'play at' golf," he added, but re- fused to comment on his scores in that sport. As to the University's relations with the city, Looker said that the two groups have "no troubles with each other. We get along fine," he added. When asked for his opinion on Ann Arbor's outstanding improvi- sation, the genial city clerk said that he thought it was the park- ing system which pays for itself through revenue bonds. "Ann Ar- bor pioneered in this field," he pointed out.- New Works Now Shown At Clements' By HARRY STRAUSS Two historical works based on mnaterials from Clements Library's vast collection of rare books and manuscripts are now on view at the library as well as some of their original sources. Both works were done by mem- bers of the history department. Prof. Verner W. Crane's work is titled "Benjamin Franklin and a Rising People." The title of Prof. William B. Willcox's book is "The American Revolution" which was Sir Henry Clinton's account of that war, and is being published today. Clinton was the only commander- in-chief on either side of the Revo- lution to write a history of the war. It has remained unpublished until now. Taken From Manuscript The narrative, covering Clinton's campaigns from 1775-1782, was tak- en from the Clinton manuscript and papers belonging to the Clem- ents Library. Other articles on view include one of Clinton's memorandum, with maps of a plan to stop Washing- ton by giving battle at Mt. Holly, New Jersey in 1778. There is also the notebook of intelligence reports kept by Major Andre for Clinton. After the British defeat at York- town in 1781, a great public com- plaint revealed a controversy be- tween Clinton and Cornwallis and the exhibit includes three books on the subject: a correspondence be- tween the two, and a narrative by Clinton and a reply by Cornwallis. Stedman History A history of the war by C. Sted- man so provoked Clinton that he filled the two-volume work with critical marginal notes and later gathered these criticisms and is- sued them as a pamphlet called "Observations" on the Stedman history. A copy of each may be seen in the showcases. In reviewing Prof. Crane's short, critical biography, in the Saturday Review, J. H. Powell calls him "our leading Franklin authority." Among Franklin's letters in the show are some on parliamentary legislation affecting the colonies, a collection on American politics, 1769-1774, copied into a notebook for presentation to George III. Given to Lord Germain, it came to the Library with the Germain papers. Franklin's Letters Shown Letters on peaceful negotiations between Britain and the colonies, and two letters to the press, writ- ten anonymously but identified as Franklin's by Prof. Crane, are on exhibit. A copy of "The Cato Major," 1754, often consideredathe finest example of Franklin's printing, as well as a 1744 print made by Franklin of Indian treaties may be seen. An inte'resting feature is the passport Franklin printed for Col. Josiah Harmar who brought the ratified copy of the peace treaty to the United States in 1784. While. the American Minister to France, Franklin had set up a printing press at Pussy. The Clements Library is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to, 5 p.m. 'U' Receives Fund For Cancer Study A memorial fund of $1517 hon-, oring the late Dr. Helen F. Price is to be turned over to University officials for use in cancer re- search. Dr. Price, a former Health Serv- ice doctor, made the request that1 the money be used for cancer re-1 search several days before her death on July 9. Buckets bearing this motto will be seen around the University campus from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to- day and tomorrow signaling the opening of the World University Service Bucket Campaign. WUS, an international volun- tary service organization, operates a program of material assistance and world-wide education to aid needy students and professors. Students and faculty contribu- tions will support improvements in student lodging and living, health programs, refugee services, pro- grams for increasing international understanding and provision of educational equipment. At the University, WUS receives the support of 40 organizations, including housing units, sororities, fraternities, religious groups and the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. Conducting fund raising drives in more than 700 American cam- puses, WUS in the United States is sponsored by B'nai B'rith Hil- lel Foundations, the Newman Club Federation, National Stu- dent Foundation, United Student Christian Council and the stu- dent divisions of the Protestant Churches. Volunteers Doris Harpole, staff advisor and program assistant for Lane Hall through which the annual drive is directed, commented, "We have received wonderful cooperation and support from campus organi- zations in recruiting volunteers for the bucket drive." Michigan's WUS committee headed by Edna Carlson, '56, in- cludes Joanne Clark, '56, Harriet Lehman, '57N, Ulrich Curtius, Doris Harpole, DeWitt C. Baldwin and Marilyn Francis, '57. Four projects have been adopted by the local central committee. Contributions collected will be di- vided among them. The first pro- ject is sending a $3,500 prefabri- cated student center to Haifa, Israel. Accomplishments $1,750 is needed to provide a TB clinic, x-ray examinations and health education at a WUS-sup- ported health center at Aligarth, India. Text books and lab equip- ment totaling $2,500 will be sent to Korea and $5,000 will aid a study-travel program in Africa. Last year WUS sent a prefabri- cated housing unit to Cairo to be used for a new student center and sent $15,000 to Korea for the pur- chase and renovation of a build- ing to be used as a student hostel accommodating 100, with the aid Union Resells 5'70 Tickets Approximately 570 tickets for the first two home football games were resold through the Michigan Union ticket resale service, ac- cording to Mark Gallon, '56, stu- dent services committee chairman. "We found buyers for all tickets turned in for resale through this Union service project," Gallon said. Tickets for this week's game may be turned in at the Union stu- dent offices any day from 3 to 5 p.m., for resale in the Union lobby from 9:45 a.m. to noon on Satur- day. Reservations for tickets cannot be taken, Gallon said, and student tickets cannot be resold. Tickets for other home games may also be turned in at any time, according to Gallon, for resale the day of the game. Regular prices are charged for all tickets. AIDS STUDENTS, FACULTY: THIS CHEERFULLY GIVEN CONTRIBUTION WILL HELP NEEDY STUDENTS IN MANY LANDS. INDIA'S STUDENT HEALTR CENTER p ThBcetCampaignOpeTns "H elp T hem to H l T hem - :;:;:'j -.:;%s :r.: ::};; '::":;.:;n" I i 1; !: STUDENT VOLUNTEER PREPARES BUCKETS FOR TODAT S DRIVE j of the United States Air Force and UNKRA. Other WUS achievements in- clude sending new shipments of drugs and medical supplies to Burma and Korea, as well as com- pleting construction of the first student sanatorium for tubercular students in Japan. WUS succeeds two related or- ganizations, the International Stu- dent Service and World Student Relief which were terminated in 1950. ISS was founded after World War I to aid students and professors at war-devastated uni- versities in Europe. In the United States WUS suc- ceeds World Student Service Fund which was created in 1937 to meet student needs resulting from the Japanese-Chinese war. 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