The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, February 15, 1946, Image 5

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    (FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUAR'
CLASSIFIEDS
HAVE YOU' FOUND English
• term paper. Entitled! “My Cross
Country Trip To California.” Des
perate. Reward. Elaine 4425.
ATTENTION'! Erie students!
Save time and money iby taking
a chartered bus between semes
ters. Round! trip. Call Connie, 317
Ath for details.
DOST—(Pearl stud pin at Winter
Fantasy Dance. Call 4970.
DOST—One black and red leather
wallet on Friday, Feb. 8 on Col
lege avenue. Call 3446, please I
want the pictures very much.
DOST—Deather key case. Call
404 Atherton. Ask for Bunny.
DOST—ADP pin DCVEA engrav
ed! on back. Call “Weazie” 168
Ath.
NOTICE—WiII the individual who
found a blue and gold Parker'
“ST” pencil three weeks ago kind
ly return to Student Union or call
3130.
DOST —Green wallet on College
avenue jast weekend. Return) to
Dois McClelland, 231 Ath.
DOST—A brown and white cry
stal necklace; Return- to : Betty
(Mae Parkhurst, Docust' Dane lodge.
FOR SiAiUE Tuxedo, in good!
■ condition. Size 36. Call 4933.
DOST —(Black wallet containing
credentials. On Pugh street be
tween Foster and College avenues.
Finder please call Ginny 4405.
DOST—MAROON, gold topped
. Eversharp pen in Bursar’s of
fice, Tuesday. Finder please re
turn to Student Union.
NOTICE—Two young men desire
work in private home in ex
change for two meals daily. (Vi
cinity West. 2607.
•NOTICE—No beer will be served
to tables consisting of minors at
The Crossroads Restaurant, Boals
burg. .
DOST—Man’s Gruen watoh, with
gold expansible band. Between
White Hall and Corner Room.
Sentimental value. Call Mary,
3372.
[LOST —One gold cigarette case
and black Evans lighter at game
Sat. Call Priscilla Griest 207 Jor
dan.
■FOR SALE—® flat clarinet, good
condition, s4's. Phone 4454, Ask
for Bob.
NOTICE Would person who
found a long black glove at SPiE
"please call Yonnie 4645. .
•FOR SALE—Two blue ' Bates
spreads 'for single beds, in good
condition. Call Grange 4th- floor
and ask for Phyllis.
FOR I SALE—Two new loafer jack
ets, sports jacket. 328 E. Foster
Ave. Room 5. Will be in Sunday
after 7 pun.
LOST—’Onejbrown ■ mocassin-in
’Skellar recently—Finder please
return to Collegian Office.
LOST —Picked! up by mistake at
Cathaum Theatre Monday night
pigskin glove for. left hand. Call
2389.
15, 1946
'State College Prettiest Spot
I've Seen,' Says British Bride
“I really think this is the pret
tiest place I’ve ever seen, and'
I’ve seen Devonshire and Corn
wall, two of the most beautiful
sections of England,” declared Mrs.
Edna Myers, British wife of Ro
bert Myers of State College, who
arrived in this country on the
Queen Mary Sunday.
“Your houses are all so beauti
ful and each one different,” she
.•dded. “In England, all the houses
ire built alike, something like,
four factory homes. And oh, your
wonderful kitchens! We had no
refrigerators or ice boxes, no
washing machines of any kind', and
lur stoves would seem old fash
ioned to you!”
Mrs. Myers comes from Nor
wich, a town on the eastern- coast
of England, in the country where
Dicken’s “David Copperfield” took
place.' She said the countryside
there is much like ours with the
fields separated by fences. She
expected to find fields of grain
and com like, in the prairie land
of the west, she added.
Norwich was bombed 1 terribly,
as was all of England, and Mrs.
Myers has many pictures to show
the devastation. She was a tele
phone operator in the City Hall,
and then served in the WAAFs for
three years.
“The food situation in England
is very bad—worse now than dur
ing the war. You have to stand
in a queue ■ for everything for
hours at a time. When you do get
to the counter, they hand you a
frozen rabbit, without a head, tail
or feet, so you just take a chance
that it isn’t a cat.
“The people even stand in
queues for horse meat. Horse meat,
has yellow fat and other meat
has white fat, and so all the fat
is removed to disguise it. Of
course, you know what it is, since
it i 9 very stringy and tough.
“We only had meat on Sunday,
and then very little. We got a
small joint, and then the leftov
ers and the bone were used the
rest of the week. We only had one
hot meal - a- day. In the evening
we would have a snack, such as
crackers and cheese, or bread and
jam with tea. Of course we have
our ‘Fish and Chips” shops, like
your french fries and hot dog
stands. We could get a meal there
once in awhile.” She didn’t have
any ice cream in six years.
Mrs. Myers thought the Statue
of Liberty was breath-taking. As
she walked 1 down the streets of
New York, she exclaimed, “Oh,
you really have bobby-soxers!
Look, there’s Eddie Bracken!”
She thought bobby-soxers were
only in the movies, as no one
wears soxs in England.
Clothing is so expensive and
requires so many points that most
girls don’t have any stockings, and
those that do, have cotton ones.
Mrs. Myers says the 'English
people really appreciate the many
kind -things the American people
SALLY'S
at KEELER’S
THE CODLEGIAN
did for them during the war.
When some English children say
The Dord’s Prayer, they say, “Our
Father, who art in America,” she
reported.
Robert Myers met his wife in
NeW York on Sunday andl they
arrived in State College Tuesday
night. They were married in Eng
land two years ago. Since that
time Mrs. Myers has been/ trying
to come to America. They will
make their home with Mr. Myers’
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Myers at
229 W; Beaver avenue.
College Student Breaks
Ankle While Wrestling
James D. Ball, 24, a student at
the College, was treated at the
dispensary of the Centre County
Hospital yesterday .for a fracture
of his left ankle received while
wrestling. A cast was applied and
he was discharged. Ball lives at
the Sigma Chi fraternity.
Anthony Rackoski, 58, Thomas
street, Bellefonte, received a frac
ture to his jaw when he was
struck by a bar while working
for the National Gypsum Com
pany. He was admitted to the
Centre County Hospital at noon
yesterday.
Housing Expert
To Speak at College
Dr. John P. Dean, regional ec
onomist of the Federal Public
Housing Authority, will speak to
the combined home management
and housing classes of the College
in Room 110, Home Economics
building, at 4:20 p. in. tomorrow.
Dr. De.an ig one of the authors
of the book, 'Book of Houses,”
which gives ideas and plans for
houses ranging in price from $5,-
000 to $lO,OOO. The public is in
vited to be present.
Test Diggings
.... are being made by the
department of grounds and build
ings in the Jordan Fertility Plot
near Grange Dormitory. Accord
ing to George W. Ebert, super
visor, these tests will determine
the type of foundation which will
be needed under the dormitory to
be built there at some future date;
A survey by the Institute of
Local Government disclosed that
125 of 169 Pennsylvania munici
palities rendering fire protection
beyond their corporate limits
make no charge for this service.
The radius of operation is limited,
however, 'by iltl-2 of the 125
municipalities.
Get them now '
while they're still
in Stock ...
If You Waif,
they may be
gone...
Taxi-Driving Mother
Enters Home Ec Dept.;
Wants To Be Dietician
Driving taxi is just a means to
an end for Mrs. Pansy Parker,
32-year-old mother now enrolled
as a freshman at the College.
(For long years, Mrs. Parker
nursed an ambition to be a dieti
cian but an early marriage, and
then motherhood, eliminated high
school and college.
But she persisted and early in
1941, encouraged by her minister
and the school principal, she en
tered high school as a second
year student. Meanwhile she was
working as cook in a campus
fraternity.
(Last June she was graduated
from high school, and once again
she thought in terms of) a college
degree. In the meantime she had
changed jobs, and now she is
driving taxi—and finding most
people “kind and helpful.”
“It’s fumi to be a cabbie,” she in
sists. “I meet all kinds of people,
and they talk about all kinds of
things. Some are selfish, of course,
but most of them are kind, and
helpful.”
Mrs. Parker now fits college
into her job, attending classes in
English composition) and nutrition
when she’s not doing her taxi
stint.
Then, at night, 'when she re
joins her children—Richard, 12,
and Alan, • 9—the whole family
observes • a strict study hour.
Talking is forbidden and Mrs.
Parker’s sister, Mary Ann Spran
kle, 16, and a high school student,
is there to give advice and en
couragement.
“Yes, I’ve been discouraged,”
she says, “but I soon get over
that, and concentrate on the work
at hand. I think I can get an edu
cation, and I’m old enough to
know I can’t do it without putting
forth every effort.”
lota Sigma Pi To Hear
Oakwood On Petroleum
“The Origins of Petroleum”
will be the topic of a lecture by
Dr. Thomas S. Oakwood, assis
tant professor of organic chemis
try, at the meeting of lota S'igma
Pi, women’s chemistry honorary,
in 119 New Physics at 8 p. m.
Monday:
'Dr. Oakwood will illustrate his
lecture' with slides. This is the
only opportunity for students to
hear this particular lecture by
Dr. Oakwood as he is leaving at
the beginning of March to give
this same lecture throughout
southwestern United States.
This will be an open meeting
and everyone interested is invited
to attend.
-JUST IN
1. Colten Tail
Snap Your Fingeres
Bobby Sherwood
2. The Gee Chi Love Song
A Kiss Goodnight
Freddie Slack
3. On the Sunny Side of the
Street
A Friend of Yours
Jo Stafford
4. Money Is the . Root of All
Evil
Johnny Tidna
Andrews Sisters
S. I Dream of You
Opus Number I
Tommy Dorsey
6. I'm Just A Lucky So-and-So
The Wonder of You
Duke Ellington
7. The Bells of St. Mary's
You Can Cry On Somebody
Rise's Shoulder
Charlie Spivak
HURRY TO
The Music Room
203 E. Beaver Ave.
PAGE FIVE
Canterbury Club Slates
Student Minstrel Show
The Canterbury Club, student,
group of St. Andrew’s Episcopal
Church, will present a minstrel
show in the parish house at 8 p.
m. tonight. Admission is 50 cents
with all proceeds slated for the
church Reconstruction and Ad
vance Fund.
•As guest soloist, Virgil Neilly
will sing a special blues number.
Another attraction will be “Swing
ing on a Star” featuring Rev. John
N. Peabody, show interlocutor. Ed
ward West and Robert Jones as
sume the roles of end men, Ras
tus and Bones.
Refreshments will be sold at
intermission and dancing will fol
low the final curtain.
Mall Swamps Registrar;
Biggest Flood On Record
All records were broken as
9435 pieces of mail flooded the
Registrar’s office during the
month of January. The highest,
previous number ever received
during the month of January wan
1827 in 1945.
The busy mailman delivered an
average of 326 pieces of mail a
day during the 29 working days
of January. His heavy-pack var
ied, from-240 pieces on the 19th
to a staggering total of 553 piece::
on January 7.
Key Clique ’
. . '. will nominate candidates
for class, officers for the Spring
semester at a meeting in 121
Sparks, 7 p.m. Sunday. All candi
dates must be named at this time
as nominations will be closed at
the meeting. Everyone is invited
to attend.
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