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VOLUME 35-NUMBER 1
Only Skeletons N
5-Million-Dollar Program -
Will _Make College One
Of -reatest In Nation
By EMANUEL-ROTH
' They're nothing but skeletons now, 11 metal skeletons
Nevertheless, this rising steel on the campus is a sym•
bol of the new era upon which Penn State has embarked,
The, $5,000,000 allocated by that
General-State Authority set spark
the greatest building program
,in the College's histm y—a plogiam
:which will add approximately one-
Milein value and capacity to the
`7Present facilities and which will
^ make the College one of the great
, !est in the nation
r 'Returning uppeiclassmen will be
amazed at the changed, quickened
:tempo in town and on the campus
Everything points to a period of
boar The hundreds of workeia
'aio - truly moulding a new Penn
,Siate
WARNER BROTHERS
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CATHAUM AND
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Extend Congratulations and a,
Welcome to the CLASS OF 1942
If you follow , the tatiditions of the thousands of Penn
State students ahead of.,y Mu many of , iour.pleasantest
horn s ° 'and eitoleist memories' will 'be "associated, with'
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nether and everybody meets eNierybody ,
• - Every Outstanding Production from All the ' -
Msjor Producers. ,
• Pennsylvania and World Premieres. ar '
• , - frequent in State College. You see all the,
pictures while they are New!
' • Outstanding Foreign , and Art Films are • ,
part of our Regular Policy.- .
O_ The Finest and Latest in Sound and Pro
jection.
• 1 The theatres are managed by young college -
graduates and all ushers are Penn State
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REMEMBER: The Cathaum and Nittany Theatres-are
a definite part of the Penn State tradition and college ;
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Although the contiact culls rot
completion of the buildings by
June 30, 1939, the construction has
been arranged so that the McClos
key Company can vacate the sites
by the end of the first semester In
all probability, this will be the case
Buildings end the costs of con
struction aro Poultry, 390,000,
Service, $25,000 Liberal Arts,
8460,000, Forestry, 9165000, Edu
cational 9260,000, Library, $450,-
000, Mineral Industries, $120,000,
Agricultural Science, 5575;009,
Electrical Engineering, $465,000,
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1938
ow, But 11 New Buildings Symbolize New Era Here
5 Of The Buildings Which Will Remake Penn State
Pictured above are five of the buildings now under construction in the College's five•mlllian-dollar program They are. (1) Mineral Indus
tries, (2) Biological Science; (3) Chemistry and Physics, (4) Agricultural Engineering; (5) Electrical Engineering.
Chemi,liy and Plivhich, SBOO,OOO
Agricultural Engineeying 590,000
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Descriptions of the buildings fol
low
Cents al Lam al Ai is—Anew ten
tral fireproof building 166 feet by
b 2% feet by 59 1 / 4 feet t will be a
teat wing connecting the two exist
ing buildings and mill consist of
three elm les and a basement
Existing Wings will be remodeled
A steel frame building, the
structure will be built on reinforc
ed cunt) ete and tile floor slabs
Exterior walls mill be of solid
brick withiimehione trim, tile In
terior partitions, and steel sash
..I . ;The building will have a pitch
aiidula:gzoom, steel stairs, wood
11 , 8?drUlti's . .tlitrclass towns' and Cm
tazZO floors 4 `in lobbies and toilets
Walls will be plastered: mfth ac
coustile title' ceilings in tile larger
rooms and , glee' toilet partitions
Standard
_plumbing and electrical
°OE' will be incorporated Heating
will be supplied from the central
College plant '
Remodeling
_of ,existing wings
will consist of new partitions, paint
ing,'conditioning the floors, install
ing new toilet rooms and parching
Remodeling' is estimated to cost
about,s2s,ooo , -
Library_ -; ,
Library—The new College Libr
ary sill be locate' , at thp north
end of a aenosed mall above the
Liberal Arts and Education Build ,
logs, in location' now occupied
by the driveway which runs past
the Liberal- Arte units It will be
a new lirepioof structure of three
stories and basement 170 feet by
50
Footings will be of reinforced
concrete, the frame of steel, and
having concrete and tile floor
slabs Extprior finish will be brick
pith limestone trim, and features
will include Nonce on aluminum
Mildews, exterior donna of 'Abate
pine, and pitch and slag roof
Much or the radiation in the
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STROUSE'S
HARNESS SHOP
Luggage' Repair
All Kinds of Leather Work
Football" Equipment Repaired
Frazier Street
Beneath Lemmon & Granger
'Reversal Of Court '
Ruling Paved Way '
For Building Funds
Legality Of The General State - Authority's
Program Clouded For 2 Years
By Judicial , Decisions
By the magic of a Supreme Court reversal, Penn State College
was able to gain the biggest construction program in its histoiy
With a total of $5,000,000 allocated to the College last August,
the' program here ,also is second only to the %tate goveinment's sev
en-million-dollar Finance Swiftest Harrisburg among the 79 pio-
Jects comprising the General State Authority's $65,000,000 state-wide
building program
But the $5,000,000 came only after the State Authoi ity had inched
its way through a maze of legisla-'
tive and judicial somersaults to
become one of the most important
financial organs in thd state gov
einmental setup
Created in 1935
The Authority was created as a
public corporation and govern
mental instrumentality by the
State Legislature on June 28, 1935,
in order to provide means where
by the Commonwealth could' avail
itself of the Federal Emergency
Administiation' of Public Works
(PWA) funds, despite the consti
tutional interdiction on the state's
borrowing capacity
When the Authority was de
claied unconstitutional by the
State Supreme Court soon aftei
oard, the Legislature voted, to
place a $92,000,000 bond issue on
the ballot in a statewide refereed-,
um to finance the program
WELCOME CLASS OF '42
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Meanwhile, foi mei Attorney-
General Chalks .1 Margiotti was
granted his, petition for a rehear
ing before the mutt
I=l
Doubtful of Court sanction, how_
eves, the Legislature voted the re
ferendum proposal a second time,
as required by the state constitu
tion
Then on February 4 last yew.,
after a review of the act, Justice
Kephart handed down the Croat's
opinion reveising its original
stand and declaring the "General
State Authority Act and the un
dertakings in pursuance of it are
constitutional"
Two months later—on May 18—
the act was amended by the Leg
islature, dal 'tying the purpose of
the Authority
"The Autholity m created for
the puiposo of tonsti tiding, im
proving, maintaining, and oper
ating sewers, sewer systems, and
sewage treatment works for the
state institutions of every kind
and character public build
ings for the use of the Common
wealth, state lusenals, armories,
and military reserves, state air
ports and landing fields, state
institutions of every kind and
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Handful Of Men Tie Up Work;
Committee Studies Wage Issue.
A tompaiative handful of men stopped the five-million-dollar build
piogi am here for too weeks lath month in a dispute over pievail
Wage scales
Appioxlmately a stole of cement plastows of the A F of L
union si,alked out and picketed the piogiam when McClosloy 6.
Company, contiactois, slashed %%ages horn $1 25 to $1 pet hour
The °MA e progam was stale-9-
mated when truckets and other Irate than caned for by the union:
NV olkeis infused to break picket scale
lines
Union Scale In Doubt him decided to cut the . wages when
McCloskey 8. Company claimed it discovered the union scale via;
the men were being paid a highei I (Continued on Page 10)
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