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College Hurries Program For New Engineering DeFense Courses-T-'
Student (lasses
Begin January 6
Acting in an atempt to offset an
appalling shortage of graduate en
gineers, the College is making fin
al preparations for intensive
courses in both Diesel and produc
tion engineering as part of the na
tional program for training engin
eers for the Federal government
and defense industries.
According to President Hetzel,
courses are scheduled to begin
January 6 and will continue for
16 weeks. No tuition will be
charged, since the Federal govern
ment bears the entire expense of
the course, including provision of
drawing instruments and other
materials and supplies.
Students will be required, how
ever, to pay for their own subsist
ence and textbooks. While no
academic credit will be awarded
for the courses, a certificate will
be issued to the students who suc
cessfully complete the require
ments.
Instruction Will be offered by
the School of Engineering under
the direction of Dean Harry P.
Hammond. The courses are of
regular college enginering type
but are aimed at specific objec
tives. .
The Diesel engineering course
which will be open to only 30 stu
dents, is offered in response to a
request from the United States
Navy and will train men for serv
ice as engineer officers of Diesel
operated ships and for work as en
gineers in plants that manufacture
Diesel-operated devices.
Three years of engineering col
lege training, including courses in
engineering mechanics, strength
of materials, thermodynamics, ma
chine design, and mechanical en
gineering laboratory, will be re
quired for admission.
The course in production engin
eering which will also have a quo
ta of 30 students is offered to aid
in supplying the acute shortage of
trained engineers in companies
that are speeding up production
or expanding, facilities to meet de
fense contracts.
Students having two years or
more of engineering college train
ing, as well as former students and
graduates of other college courses,
especially those who have major
ed in science and have a working
knowledge of first-year college
courses in mathematics, are elig
ible for admission.
Applicants must be in sound
physical condition, Dean Ham
mond pointed out, since they will
be required to pass the customary
physical examinations that are re
quired for naval service as well
as for employment in most defense
industries.
Jobs in a defense industry or a
government department are not
guaranteed upon completion of the
work, but students will be con
tacted with industries and
branches of Federal service in
which the unfilled demands for
engineers are the most accute.
Professors Will Discuss
Hatch Act At Meeting
A resolution to petition against
the Hatch Political Activities Act
and explanations as to the pro
posed extension of group insur
ance for hospitalization are the
chief points that will highlight
the meeting of the American As
sociation of University Professors
local chapter next Wednesday, at
7:30 p. m. in the Old Main Sand
wich Shop.
Explanations as to the propos
ed extension of the group insur
ance for hospitalization and sur
gical benefits, so that it should
cover the dependents of the mem
bers of the College staff will be
given by Prof. A. E. Wierman of
the insurance. committee.. and
Prof.-E. Butt, .chairman.
heads Defense Program
Dean Harry P. Hammond,
head of the College program for
national defense, announces that
two intensive courses in Diesel
and production engineering will
be offered to qualified students
beginning January 6.
College Barrows
Take Show Prizes
Additional honors came to the
College yesterday at the Interna
tional Live Stock Exposition in
Chicago, when the sweepstakes
prize on a pen of 10 barrows was
awarded the Penn State exhibit
on purebred Berkshires.
This award was won by the
College in 1936 and 1937 and is
one of the most highly prized
awards sought by hog breeders.
Other swine awards given
State's exhibits which were show
ed by Prof. Mark A. McCarty, de
partment of animal husbandry,
are listed below.
Berkshires •barrow, 200-230
pounds, second; pen of three bar
rows, 170-200 pounds, fourth;
pen of three barrows, 200-230
pounds, third and fourth; pen of
three barrows, 230-260 pounds,
sixth; five barrows in get-of-sire
class, third.
Duroc Jerseys—pen of three
barrows, 170-200 pounds, fourth;
pen of three barrows, 230-260
pounds, third; five barrows, get
or-sire class, third.
Chester Whites—barrow, 200-
230 pounds, fourth and fifth; pen
of three barrows, 170-200 pounds,
fourth; pen of three barrows', 200-
230 pounds, second; pen of three
barrows, 230-260 pounds, fifth.
The hog carcass contest, 'which
will be held on Friday, was won
by the College at last year's In
ternational.
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CINEMANIA
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Judy Garland will play her first
solo starring role in her first
"grown-up" love affair, "Little
Nellie Kelly," coming to the Ca
thaum Theatre today and tomor
row. Teamed with George Mur
phy, Charles Winninger, and an
excellent supporting cast, Miss
Garland becomes a grown-up and
adds new glory to her acting and
singing fame.
Miss Garland plays a duel role.
First she plays the part of a young
Irish mother, and later the thor
oughly Americanized daughter.
The story deals with a young
Irish girl who marries against the
wishes of her father, who vows
never to speak to her husband. He
keeps his word, though he and the
other two come .to America to live.
In America the mother dies,
leaving an infant .named Nellie.
As the child grows older she •is
torn between the love of her fath
er and the love-of hengwandfather.
In the end the twO,ineriAre-*an
ciled -throbghr-herieffoiste:.-.-.A-Z,„:••
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
,Extension Service
May Train 10,000
Under authorization of the Unit
ed States Office of Education, the
Extension Services of the College,
in cooperation with the School of
Engineering and Mineral Indus
tries, is rushing final plans to set
up night classes in 41 towns and
cities of -the state for training be
tween 8,000 and 10,000 men under
the new federal engineering de
fense program.
Most of the new trainers will
be men already employed in de
fense industries and will comprise
about one-half of the estimated
total to be trained in Pennsylva
nia.
Any qualified persons, however,
may apply. Applicants must have
a high-school education or its
equivalent and in some cases two
or three years of college training
will be necessary, although exper
ience will count heavily as an
equivalent.
With the exception of a course
in pre-foremanship for production
supervision, all courses will be
given in three-hour classes, three
nights a week for 24 weeks.
Courses to be offered in the in
dividual towns will be determined
according to the needs of the local
industries which have or expect to
have direct or indirect national
defense orders. Students will
register early in January and
classes are expected to begin
around January 15.
In Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
the Penn State extension classes
will be organized only for those
men who cannot - be handled by
local universities of Pennsylvania.
Courses to be offered, depend
ing on specific requirements of lo
cal industries, will include engin
eering, drafting, physical metal
lurgy, physical testing of mater
ials, elementary machine design,
production enginering, pre-fore
manship for production supervi
sion, elementary tool design, phy
sical testing (metallurgcal appli
cations), operation inspection,
time study and rate setting, and
test calculations and instrumenta
tion.
"All these courses are, or have
been, part of our regular extension
program," commented J. 0. Kell
er, assistant to President Hetzel in
,charge of extension. "That, to
gether with the fact that we main
tain lists of qualified part-time in
structors, and have district repre
sentatives to arrange for suitable
local classrooms, makes it possible
for us to start such a vast pro
gram in so short a time."
Mr. Keller also pointed out that
tuition is free, since all expenses
will be met by the $9,000,000 fund
appropriation by Congress for
such defense training throughout
the country.
Public Can Check
T.B. Says Reynolds
`iMedicine itself is inadequate
to irradicate the disease of tuber
culosis. We need the force of pub
lic opinion," stressed Dr. Charles
R. Reynolds, Major-General of the
U. S. Army; Ret. and director of
the Pennsylvania Bureau of Tu
berculosis, in a lecture on "Tuber
culosis—lt's Prevention" in Sch
wab Auditorium last night.
It is important to note that tu
berculosis occurs quite frequently
among athletes, Dr. Reynolds said,
and one must not be misled by a
popular belief that if you have
good - health, you are immune to the
disease.
"Tuberculosis is the commonest
cause of death among the wage
earners," Dr. Reyonlds stated. "It
is a deep-seated social problem,
constantly with us, and there is
no way of stamping out this di
sease until the public uses its in
terest to get_ health legislation,"
he warned. • .
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,Civil Service Announces
New Available Positions
The U. S. Civil Service has
announced several open com
petitive examinations for vari
ous trade positions and other
outstanding jobs.
These positions, which offer
salaries ranging from $1,260 to
$2,500 a year, include trans
portation tariff examiner, hori
zontal sorting machine opera
tor, senior bookkeeping ma
chine operator, multilith cam
eraman and platernaker, mul
tilith press operator, senior and
junior blueprint operator, sen
ior and junior photostat opera
tor, and senior and junior-pho
tographer.
The trade positions of ship
fitter, loftsman, machinist; lens
grinder, and instrument maker
are also open.
-All applications must be in
the Commission's Washington
office by December 31, 1940.
Further information is avail
able at any first or second-class
post office.
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Air Mail Service
Available Here
United States Air Mail Service
has established a station for pick
up, and release of local mail in
State College. The station, located
on the College Farm grounds, be
gan operations Monday and be
sides carrying on its daily duties,
will aid in the nearing Christmas
mailing rush.
Incoming mail is dropped in a
heavy container from the plane
and the outgoing mail is picked up
in a light container at the same
time. The plane makes no stop
as the mail is released and picked
up.
Charges for mail via the air
service are set at six cents per
ounce and fraction of _ ounce of
weight.
This station is one of many in a
vast system of non-stop air mail
stations that are located through
out the country to give quicker,
more satisfactory service in mail
delivery.
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Collegian - Voe. Is 7
Win U.S. Pritei"'-'.
A. William Engel,, Jr.i:40, 1 1 jalt,
year's editor of the Penn State
Collegian, has won first prize : in a
national editorial competition con :
ducted by Pi Delta Epsilon,. it was
announced at Lehigh University
yesterday.
Honorable mention in national:
news story competition has-been ,
accorded three Collegian writers:
Engel, Adam A. Smyser '4l, editor
this year, and Robert H. Lane '4l;
Managing editor this year.. •
An the prizes are on the basis
of work done during the - 1939-40 -
academic year. •
Student Art Exhibit
To Be Held This Weekend
A student art exhibit, sponsored
by the Hillel Foundation, will be
held this weekend, starting' at
8:30 p. m. tomorrow: and. contnu-'
ing through Sunday in the social
roms.of the-Foundation.
All college students who are in-:
terested are invited to submit
their works. Any paintings,.
sketches, arts and crafts, and
sculpture should be left at the
Hillel Foundation or with one of
the members .of the art committee.
The committee members are
Ruth Licht '42, Frances Opendack
'42, Emily , J. Sperber '42, Rosalind
M. Nelson '43, and EVelyn R. 'MT
ner '43.
DID YOU KNOW
that Dick H ar ow,
present football
coach at Harvard
University, is a Penn
State Graduate?
FROMM'S
OPPOSITE OLD MAIN