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OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Weather
VOL. 39—No. 36
Future Penn Staters?
. —Pictured above is one of Uncle Sam's
WRA Will Present
airmen.climbing aboard his plane before taking off on a patrol flight.
These forces will be bolstered when Penn State's enlistmnts in the . •
Army Air Corps graduate or are called to service. Yesterday after- First Co-Rec Night
noon 35 students were sworn in the Army Air Force Enlisted Reserve
at ceremonies in front of Old Main:
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Air Force Total
Rwiws 106
Thirty-five students from , the
College and one county youth
were formally sworn into the
Army Air Force Enlisted Resefve
in a special ceremony in- front of
Old Main at 5 o'clock last night.
The - cfrfficiil 'oaths - were admin
istired‘ by Lieut. H. S. .Engart; re
cruiting officer in charge of the
Harrisburg Aviation Cadet Exam
ining Board, which wound up its
'fifth visit to Penn State yesterday.
A total of 106 Penn State stu
dents. have now been officially
accepted into the Air Force Re
serve under the new War Depart
ment regulation which permits
them to continue their education
until • graduation ..before being
called for training.
Those sworn in last night in-.•
elude ,Edwin L. Anderson '46,
Thomas' R. Ankrim '45, Benjamin .
M. Bailey '44, Paul R. Baird '46,
John H. Baynes. _'46, Harold H.
Benjamin. '45, William Calvert - '44,
John R. Charles '45, Fred E. Clev
„•'44, David Dubin '46, Charles
E. Fairchild '44, Anthony J. De-
Cliffs '44, Robert L. Galley '44,
John W. Galt '46, Ray W. Howard
'46, Moylan C. Hull 44.
John R. Jacquish '43, Richard
D. Johnson '45, Charles B. Jones
'43, William C. Larson 45, John
S. McCue '43, Reid I. McCloskey
1'45, Wallace G. Murfit '44, Rich
ard Nailor 45, George L. Petti
gout '46, William C. proctor '46,
Walter D. Reese '44, Walter R.
Schwab '44, Myron Seeder, gradU
ate student, Charles. B. Scarbor
ough 44, John H. Walton '45,
Claude -J. Watson '46, Fred C.
•WVer '45, Jack N. Williams '45,
and Henry L. Yeagley !44. M. K.
lEckley, Bellefonte, received the
oath with the student group.
According to Lieutenant Erigart,
the examining board will return
to Penn State during the first
week in August, at which time
further mental and preliminary
examinations will be given to
prospective candidates for -enliSt
merit in the Air Force.
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One• Act Plays
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Four one-act plays will be pre
sented by the department of dra
matics in conjunction with var
ious dramatics •classes in the Lit
tle Theatre at 7:30 o'clock tonight
and tomorrow night. Admission
is open to the public, but because
of the anticipated large attend
ance, tickets must be secured at
the Dramatics Office, Schwab
,Auditorium, any time today.
Campus Owls To Play WSGA S enate Withdraws Support
For First .Summer
Harvest Ball Jul); 25 From Co-Edition; WRA May Follow
Harvest Ball, traditional Au-
tumn dance of the Ag School, will Sint Al Board Tonight
have its first Summer showing in .
Rec Hall Saturday, July 25. . _ Meeting Paper May Publish
George Washko's Campus Owls
will beat out the music for the in-
One More Edition
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formal hop, according to Harold ' -
V. Walton '43, dance chairman.
Although details are not yet By HELEN R. KEEFAUVER
definite, according to Walton, set- With ..; With a vote of Bto 2, WSGA
ting' for the Saturday night dance , ' Senate withdrew its support of
will be a typical farm in Summer. Co-Edition, women's weekly pa
" The usual harvest setting has per, at a meeting last night. The
been - sabotaged by the stepped-up
ik, Senate subsidy amounts to $l5O
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calendar," the dance chairman ~ i ' . per semester.
added. . "We feel that the expense and
time required for this publication
• are not justified in the present
emergency," said 'Margaret K.
Sherman '43, WSGA president.
Ann Drivas '43, WRA president,
said that WRA will probably co
operate with WSGA and take ac
tion at Board meeting tonight.
WRA has contributed $5O per se
mester.
activity
another co-recreation mester.
activity to the Summer program, "In view of WSGA's action, Co-
Ham ton Quartet To WRA will sponsor a Co-Rec Night Edition will discontinue publica
around White Hall starting at 6:30.
tion with either this week's or
• p. m. tomorrow. Adele J. Levin HERO HERE -• Leon Rabinowitz next week's issue, stated Marjorie
Present Free Concert- '44, chairman, has announced the '43, general chairman of Victory R. Chambers '43, co-editor with
Penn State students, both regu- program and 'committee members.
Weekend, executive 'committee Helen Chiappy Schatz '43.
Before dark, games scheduled on
lar and. Summer Session, will hear Holmes Field andn front of White announced last night that the' Co-Edition was established in
an admission-free concert by the Hall include six badminton courts,Army Public Relations Office had September 1937 with. an all-coed
asked the War Department to -de- staff to cover women's news only.
Hampton Institute vocal quartet two volley ball games, one game
of fist ball, two softball, four ar- tail one of America's war heroes Twenty-seven issues were publish
in Schwab auditorium at 8:30 p.m. to 'be present during Penn State's ed each year with a circulation of
chery, one croquet, six ping pong,
today. The program- is sponsored biggest holiday. 950. - - The paper has been deliv
and table games. 'Square dancing "4. 4 * . ered to every coed enrolled at the
by Summer Sessions. • will be
,offered on the parking. lot •,• ' .. . ,
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- ;;Scheduled for Saturday-night .iii oppoSite,...White- Hall. .'.- - • -. ~.., ..... ____., :. : ,_-, .. _ ..
Rec Hall -is another Fun Night At 8:30 p. m. a - bonfire will be v_w
eeken .may .•-... . . Miss. Sherman read a letter to
Senate members from Robert Y.
lighted on Jordan Fertility Plots, .
program which will offer a .wide Sigworth, supervisor of utilities,
and Harold W. Freeman '43 will
variety of - both table and active lead group singing. A sound -asking coed cooperation with dor
games. . ' truck will provide recorded music Have War Hero mitory telephone regulations. Mr.
Sigworth reminded Atherton Hall
- Leon Rabinowitz '43, asks any. for more square dancing and. so- - residents that there is no room
session students. interested in per- cial dancing after the sing. -Hot National recognition of Victory
Weekend seems assured today
forming on ' a., Talent Night pro- dogs, -cokes, and ice cream
sold. will be to-room service between 6:20 and
'7:30 p. m., peak hours at the
gram August 4 to contact him. following, an executive committee
announcement , that one of Ameri-
"All calls must be limited to five
Square dance callersincludeswitchboard.
Tryouts. will be held in White Hall
ca 's war heroes, detailed by the
• • Chauncey P. Lang; associate pro-
at 7;30 p. m. July 28. War Department, may represent
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Frank Hench, graduate ' student; Army minutes," stressed Mr. Sigworth.
lessor of agricultural extension; •
'Weekday telephone service in
Emergency Relief during dormitories
and - Max H. Chenoweth '43. the all-out celebration. women's i extends to
10 p. m. while calls on Friday and
Fun Night hostesses will be Present plans call for the "out- Saturday are placed until mid-
Seniors. Martha G. •Duffman, Mig- standing" soldier to appear public- night. .
nonette E. Frederick, Marion E.
.ly during the Saturday afternoon
Hora; Kathryn 11. Thomas; Jun- field day to accept- the holiday's
Actual practice in scouting and fors Dora 'E. Colver, Miss Levin, proceeds in the name of the
patrolling under night conditions -Helen D. McKee, Winifred E. Army's Relief Fund. Army Enlisted Reserve .
-Army Enlisted Reserve details
was simulated by members of the Spahr, 'Phyllis R. Watkins; Soph- • 'Executive committee members have not yet been clarified and
sophomore engineers' :ROTC unit omores Lois C. Lohrke, Elizabeth .decided yesterday to donate all re- will not be until 'the return to the
last night when a drill was staged J. McKinley,- Vivian I. Martin; ceipts from Penn State's biggest campus of President Ralph D. Het
on the outskirts of State College. - Freshmen - Janet Pickson and social weekend to the Army Ern- zel and Mr. Adrian 0. Morse, as-
Their problem was to illustrate the Margaret Stahlnecker. ergency Relief, rather than split sistant to the president. ..Hetzel
use of the compass at night. Committees announced by Miss
. proceeds between 'the Navy and and Morse are out of town this
Led by senior ROTC students,• Levin include: equipment—Wil- Army Relief . Funds. Decision on week conferring upon the War De
three groups met at the east end Liam Hardy, graduate student, and the change came after an exchange partment's new plan, according
of Hamilton avenue at 9, 9:25, and 'William C. Mazzocco '43, co- of letters between both Army and a statement made lastnight by
to
9:50 p. m. with a senior cadet for chairmen, and graduate students Navy officials. Col. Edward D. Ardery.
each group.. Another similar Frank Hench and Beatrice Wood- Navy officials, while expressing
practice will be staged tonight on ward; Seniors Pauline Crossman, appreciation of Penn State's of- Lat e News
the same location.' . ' - (Continued on Page. Four) (Continued on Page Two)
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Sophomore Engineers
Learn Patrol Duty
Who Is This Guy A B. Jones?
Respected as John Bull by an
Englishman, feared like Davy
Jones by a sailor, and as real as
Santa Claus to ,a six-year -old, is
Mr: A. B. Jones, wonderman of
Penn State's electrical • engineer
ing departthent.
Familiar to E. E.'s for over 20
years, Mr. Jones is boogie-man to
students as he serves in the ca
pacity of everything from general
manager •of numerous electrical
companies to editor of "Modern
Engineer," fictitious technical pub
lication.
According to Prof. Harold I.
Tarpley, of the department, when
electrical engineering reports
were first begun, an imaginary
character to whom these reports
should be written, was necessary.
Thus came the birth of A. 8., who
today is still the supposed recipi-
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 16, STATE COLLEGE, PA
ent of the various data written
by the students.
"And he's a tough man to deal
with," stated Professor Tarpley.
"If he, doesn't like the style of a
report or doubts the information
enclosed, he always tells the stu
dent's-instructor about it, who in
turn 'deducts for the writer's
grade," he continued.
Students have become so at
tached to this legendary, terror
that a picture , of him has been
hung in the office of Prof. Earl
B. 'Stavely, 103 E. E. Building.
This picture was presented in
1939 by Eta Kappa Nu, electrical
engineering fi'aternity, and shows
an artists conception of A. B. He
is pictured as a meek looking
character parked behind a desk
stacked high with students' late
reports. In the background is a
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photograph of F. D: R. Jones, ru
mored to be his only child.
An amusing story told concern
ing Mr. Jones tells of how last
semester a student in one of the
mechanical engineering classes
mischieviously signed Jones, A.
8., to a roll sheet, during the se
mester's first class.' At the next
session Jones answered present to
the roll call but fbr five periods
after that he was absent.
Concerned over Jones' classroom
delinquency, the professor report
ed the case to Dean Harry P.
Hammond, only to find that he
had been fooled by the imaginary
.character.
Sentiment around the E. E.
Building runs along the line that
versatile technical men may come
and go but there will never be an
other to compare to A. B. Jones,
superman of the electrical world.
PRICE THREE CENTS
CAlRO—British forces in Africa
have stemmed the German ad
vance at various points in the des
ert. German panzer divisions and
Italian infantry units have met
with unexpected reinforced Eng
lish colonial troops. Reliable
sources state that the impending
conflict shows all the evidences of
being one of the most spectacular
conflicts of the war.
WASHINGTON The Stand
ard Oil Company, in coordination
with defense authorities, stated
that they could produce enough
synthetic rubber by 1943 to.satis
fy all military and civilian needs.
AFGHANISTAN Turkish
border scouts reported the appar
ent mobilization of German troops
along the coast and the Aegean
Isles. It has not been ascertained
conclusively whether it will lead
to the invasion of Turkey or the
forced occupation of the island of
Cypress.