COMETS ATTEND 'CONFERENCE SeePage3
E[gSCOpE VOL XV, NO.6
San Marcos, California
COMETS LOSE FIRST IN FIVE SeePage4
Monday, October 22, 1962
INSTRUCTOR FILES SUIT AGAINST PUBLISHER Homecoming $180,000 Princesses Asked By Announced Six attractive co-eds share their first day of "royalty" today as newly elected Homecoming princesses. ASB President Don Agatep announced the winning candidates for the Royal Court at the after-game dance Saturday night.
Johnson English instructor Richard S. Johnson has filed a $180,000 libel suit against the local newspaper publisher who attacked the Palomar College magazine "Focus" this summer. The complaint was filed against William K. Shearer, publisher of the San Marcos News-Advertiser and several other weekly newspapers, last Monday in the Superior Court in San Diego. Johnson, who was the faculty advisor for "Focus" last year, indicated to the Telescope earlier this semester that he considered himself libeled in "the attacks made upon the magazine and upon the College." In articles this summer Shearer referred to the student magazine as being "a combination of pornography, left-wing political theories, bad taste, senselessness, and distorted history."
Candidate Elected
Reigning over activities this week are Judy Downing, who was sponsored by the Secretarial and Business clubs; Sharon and Karen Griffith, Circle K; Nancy Hanks, Sigma Omicron; Linda Opie, Tau Episolon and the Lettermen's club; Perla Ravaioli, International club. Victory button and ribbon sales, pep railies, a "Sweat Shirt Day," and a bon fire are activities scheduled for Homecoming week. Sweat Shirt Day
Friday has been named "Sweat Shirt Day." Everyone is expected to dress accordingly, says Danielle Lara, co-chairman of the Homecoming Committee. Bonnie Kelly is the associate chairman. The bon fire is set for Friday night from 7 to 10 p .m. The Circle K club is sponsoring the event which will feature a skit by the cheerleaders. The theme of this 1962 Homecoming is "Comets Soar To Victory."
Statements Fales
Game and Dance
The week's activities will come to a close with the Saturday night Palomar-Antelope Valley game and the dance after the game. The Homecoming Queen will be announced during half-time activities. She will be crowned by the ..:aptain of the football team.
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THEY TOLD US TO WEAR SWEATSHIRTS! But officer Graydon Kaeding told them that
sweatshirt day wasn't until Friday, and besides ... The two freshmen, Patti Nystrom (L) and Sherry Watson, will be wearing their Palomar sweatshirts come Friday, you can bet. Don't forget yours.
Kfngsmen Play
The Kingsmen of Santiago will play at the dance. "Students should wear dressy clothes, but not formal," said Miss Lara. ¡ Members of the Homecoming Committee are co-chairmen Miss Lara and Miss Kelly, and non-officers Nicky Finlay, Robin Jackson, Jeanie Johnston, John Penrod and Shelby Wyant.
Palomar College President Backs Proposition 1-A John W. Dunn, president of Palomar College, said recently that Proposition 1-A on the November 6 ballot is of vital importance all junior colleges ofthe state. "For the first time," he declared, "California recognizes that the population explosion in the college-age group must be met by enrolling more and more of the lower division students in junior colleges." Proposition 1-A is a $270 million bond issue. Twenty million is alloca.te.d for construction at junior colleges. $200 million of the amount has been earmarked for construction at campuses of the U niveristy of California and the State Colleges. An additional $47 million would go to specific building projects for the Departments of Correction, Mental Hygiene and Conservation.
Top Junior Colleges
Debators Win Honors at SD State "Palomar took top honors among Junior Colleges in debate." Thus spoke Mr. Victor Heyden, director of forensics, after the speech tournament at San Diego State College this week end. A total of27 colleges were represented on the novice, lower and upper division levels. This tournament, the first of the year, was a practice tournament to give the new members of the Forensics Team experience in the various events, and to aid the returning members in gaining further experience. The events held at the tournament were debate, impromptu speaking and extemporaneous speaking. The debate teams representing Palomar were Dirk Marris and Ken Fielder, Bonnie Stratton, and Becky Baker, Dick Tarquinio and Pat Ford, Evan Blythin and Randy Young, J. C. Wesley and .Nick Kremer, and Henry Snyder and Clayton Sketoe. Representing Palomar in the individual events were Larry Clarke, and Mary Waller. In the novice division of extemporaneous speaking, there were 42 people entered. Palomar speakers, Randy Young and Larry Clarke received excellent awards. In the lower division, with 46 entrants, Henry Snyder received an excellent award and Clayton Sketoe received a superior award. In impromptu speaking, the novice division had 63 entrants. (Continued on Page 2)
Johnsons suit contends that this statement and others in two articles published by Shearer are false and ..that they are libelous to Johnson, who was responsibl~ for approving the material that went into the magazine. The suit maintains that Johnson was exposed to "hatred, contempt, ridicule and obloquy," and that he was "injured in his occupation" because readers of the San Marcos News - Advertiser (and of Shearer's Oceanside - Carlsbad Journal, which reprinted material from the Advertiser) were led to believe that he had "approved or condoned" the publication of a pornographic magazine. The articles on which Johnson bases his suit were in the June 21 and July 12 NewsAdvertiser, and in the July 4 issue of the Oceanside-Carlsbad Journal. Correction Demanded
According to his suit, Johnson served Shearer with a written demand that he publish a correction of the alegedly (Continued on rage 2)
AN ENTHUSIASTIC and decidedly male audience turned out to watch the candidates
for Homecoming Queen get their pictures taken for the Telescope recently. An admiring group of amateur photographic "directors" surrounds twin candidates Sharon and Karen Griffith.