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VOL. 39—No. 62
Warneke To Finish
Lion Shrine For
Firs! Home Game
Begins Fine Work Of
Polishing Next Week
"The Lion Shrine will definite
ly be finished before the first
home football game with Buck
nell on October 3," Heinz War
neke stated yesterday. He said
he was ready - now to begin the
final touching up to bring out the
features which• the lion will por- :
tray.
With the completion of his work
on the lion, Joseph Garatti will
leave today, and Mr. Warneke
will complete the fine work of
adapting the curvatures of the
surface to highlight them . proper
ly with every kind of lighting ef
fect.
He pointed out the importance
of care in this last part of the
carving by saying that the slight
est mistake would make necessary
cutting down a whole side or
even the whole body. This is
necessary because all the lines of
the body are so long. With a
smaller figure any errors could
be taken care of easily, but with
the lion they would necessitate
complete remodelling, Warneke
explained.
He stated that the physical
form of the animal must be car
ried out to the Nth degree. Mak
ing bones just the proper length
and .shoWing the emergence of
tendoni at just the proper place
are 'necessary to correct display
of the features of the animal.
Students Plan 'pest' Hikes
To PRA Mountain Lodge
"Rest-Cure" retreat will be
made today and tomorrow to the
Ralph Watts Lodge- in Shingle
town Gap for •students seeking
respite from recent bluebooks and
those scheduled next week.
Students interested in joining
the pilgrimage.- are requested by
Ruth Williams to sign up in the
PSCA office, Old Main, before
noon today. A 50 cent charge is
made for meals. Overnight camp
ers are also asked to' bring along
a blanket.
Funnies' Evolved From Slapstick
To Flash - Gordon And Dogwood
"They're gaining on us, and comics, which formerly were
we're cut off," the Queen tells used as a medium for slap-stick
Flash. Flash wheels his mount— comedy, are changing to serial
a claw-footed gryph—toward a
giant tree, saying: "Hang on ideas and social reforms.
everybody—we're going up-
Such comics as Happy Hooligan
stairs!"
-have been supplanted by Terry
a
Of course you've recognized the and the Pirates, Dick Tracy and
above conversation. It's from Smilin' Jack, it was shown.
C
Flash Gordon—the comic strip so Curiously enough, Little Orphan
avidly followed by people in Annie still leads as one of the
every walk of life, and Penn most consistent comics—although
State students are no exception. she is followed more by the older
The currently popular "fun-
folks who remember her found
nies" are headlined by just such ing.
daredevil heroes as Flash, Sup- The most popular strip and the
erman, The Phantom, The Spirit best known North American
and Mandrake the Magician. It family is the story of Blondie and
was the • introduction of Buck Dagwood. Students may remem-
Rogers, the Space traveller, that ber when Dagwood was , a happy
laid the foundation for these bat- go-lucky youth of college boy age
tiers of evil. courting Blondie. Their trials
The evolution of these funnies and tribulations are read in 500
is apparent in the exhibit of newspapers, 30 nations, and 17
comic strips that recently closed languages.
at the Library. Loaned by the Incidentally, Flash got out of
American Institute of Graphic the predicament he was in at the
Arts, the display revealed that beginning of this story.
Tail Gunner Of B-26 Bomber In Night Practice Flight
Job of a tail gunner of a B-26 bomber is a
very dangerous one ha.conibat This wide-eyed
gunner is alert for practice aerial targets as he
scans the skys for practice targets during a night
Kunz, Editor, To Speak
At Chapel Services
"Religion, Science, and the
Coming Worla 'Unity," will be the
subject of tomorrow morning's
chapel service by. Dr. Fritz Kunz,
editor of "Main Currents in Mod
ern Thought," a monthly maga
zine published in Port Chester,
N. Y.
The choir will sing "0 Lord
Most Holy" by Franck, during the
service. •
An outstanding American au
thority on India and the South
western Pacific, Dr. Kunz has
lived among the Indian people for
many years and has been closely
associated with the Nationalist
leaders who are now at the helm
of that country's affairs.
Dr. Kunz first visited India in
1905 at the age of 16. After
graduation from the University of
Wisconsin in 1913, he returned
to. the Orient to become principal
of Ananda College.
3ATUF;DAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, STATE COLLEGE; PA.
Time Tables Delayed;
Send Frosh Literature
Time tables• for the forthcom
ing Fall semester' have not been
delivered yet, according to Regis
trar William S. Hoffman, who
suggested that an early delivery
is probable.
Hoffman pointed out that
freshman week ,schedules have
already been sent to the incom
ing class, as well as Dean War
nock's "History of Penn State."
Applicants For Work
In Book Exchange Asked
To Sign Up At SU
Bernard A. Plesser '43 yester
day' again urged students who
are interested in working in the
book exchange when it opens
Wednesday to sign up at Student
Union before Tuesday.
The students who are chosen
by the committee from amotig
applicants will be paid $.35 an
hour during the time they are
working. *Regular schedules will
be arranged. Choice will be
made on the bases of need and
previous experience.
Plesser said plans for the ex
change had . been - completed and
if would be ready to open for its
scheduled business hours Wed
nesday at 1:10 p. m. It will run
through the last three days of
this semester and until Sept. 29
in the Fall semester.
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of meets entering U. S.
training flight. Notice wrappings on guns so
that the mechanisms can be protected from wea
ther However, the
. protective coverings come
off when the bomber is engaged in actual com
bat. —NEA Telephoto.
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Paralysis Fears
Lack foundation
Any possible fears that the
opening of College might be again
postponed, as it was last Fall, by
an epidemic of infantile paralysis,
were eased yesterday by an an
nouncement from the Pennsyl
vania Department of Health de
claring, "We are going to have a
lean year so far as polio is con
cerned." •
The eleven county epidemic
that ran over the state last Sep
tember forced a one-week post
ponement of the opening of Col
lege. Freshman Week activities
were also . set back when the epi
demic compelled the College to
notify the class of 1945 that the
opening week of classes and fresh
man orientation would be post
poned seven days.
Recalling last August's out
break.
that took 57 lives in Penn
sylvania, Dr. J. Moore Campbell,
director of the bureau of health
conservation, commented on the
recent closing of an Easton YMCA
camp after a 12-year-old boy was
stricken. "The situation to date
is excellent so far as this disease
is concerned," he said. "It's
getting late for an epidemic. Nor
mally, we wouldn't have anything
this time of year but infantile
paralysis and typhoid fever."
Marshal Announces Final
Graduation Details
Final plans for next Thursday
evening's graduation program for
the Summer semester graduates
on the Mall in front of the Li
brary have been announced by
Prof. C. E. Bullinger, College
Marshal.
The exercises, which will fea
ture a talk by President Ralph D.
Hetzel, are scheduled to start at
6:45 p. m. with the procession of
graduates set for 6:40 P. m.
Faculty members for the pro
cession will meet in 109 Burrowes
And the candidates for advanced
degrees will assemble in Sparks.
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Coleman Named
Prom Chairman
By McWilliams
Zimmerman Successor
To Leave For Army
Harry C. Coleman '44 will be
the chairman of the Junior Class
Prom December 11 according to
an announcement last night by
George C. McWilliams, junior
class president who will be in
ducted into the Army September
1.
"Due to. the fact that I am leav
ing I want to perform a last ser
vice for the class by making cer
tain the prom is a success," Mc-
Williams stated in releasing the
names of the Prom committee.
McWilliams' vacating of the of
fice leaves the Class of '44 with
out a president, and no constitu
tional means of selecting one, al
though Harold L. Zimmerman '44,
originally elected to head the
class, will return to , College in
the Fall.
When Zimmerman failed to re
turn for the Summer semester,
All-College Cabinet decided that
McWilliams,' elebted vice-presi
dent at the same election, would
succeed the gym champion as
president of the class. McWil
liams has no power to appoint' a
student to a compensated admin
istrative position, and the All-
College Constitution provides that
no officer lower than vice-presi
dent can take the top post.
This means that either another
be held to choose another '44
head, or All-College cabinet re
instate Zimmerman to the office
he won in the Spring elections.
McWilliams pointed out last
night that another election would
be too expensive, especially in
war times, and that he would ap
pear at the Tuesday meeting of
cabinet to ask that group to re
store Zimmerman to his original
position.
Other juniors named to the
Prom committee are Fred E.
Clever, Cadmus G. Coss, James
R. Ziegler, Joseph R. Piontek,
Elaine J. Cox, Thomas E. Wilcox
and Zimmerman.
Late News
MOSCOW Tank-lead Soviet
troops are holding back the Ger
man advance 40 miles from Sta
lingrad. The German infantry is
cut off from their tank division,
and the Russians are preparing to
wipe out the desperate Nazis.
WASHINGTON Draft ad
ministrator, Lewis B. Hershey
stated that married men, men
with minor physical defects, and
some of those who are supposed
ly in defense industries, will find
themselves in the army by Christ
mas.
LISBON—A fierce naval and
air battle is taking place between
the Allied and Axis forces out
side of the southern coast of Por
tugal. Both forces have failed to
make any comment on the battle.
LONDON Twelve Atherican
flying fortresses were engaged in
an air battle over the North Sea
with 25 German planes. Six of
the Nazi aircraft went dol.vn..be
fore the accurate fire of the Am
ericans, while one fortress suffer
ed the loss of two motors, as well
as the death of the co-pilot.