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VOL. 45—No. 46
Ostar, Ellis '
New Heads
Of Collegian
Allan Ostar has been named
editor-in-chief and Donald Ellis
business manager of the 1947-46
Daily Collegian.
Lawrence Foster was elected
managing editor; Joan Peters,
news editor: Richard Sarge and
Ted Ruibin, co-sports editors;
David Adelman, feature - photo
editor; Ben I. French, assistant
feature-photo editor; Kay Badol
let, women’s editor; Marjorie
Mousley. assistant women’s edi
tor; and Roberta Hutchison, wire
editor.
Senior Editorial Board
Jean Alderfer. Eleanor Fehnel.
Helen Lewis, Arthur Stober. and
Howard Back have been named to
the senior editorial board.
Micxveups to junior editorial
board are Janet ■ Adler, Arnold
Gertoq, William Gessner, Frances
■Keeney, William Keller, James
Neimian, Gloria Parks, Mary Ann
Pletcher, Helen Reed, Elliot Sha
piro. Lewis Stone, Peter Warker,
and Selma Zasofsky..
Sophomore editorial board in
cludes Lois Bloomquist, Terry
Hague, John Hall, Richard Hoe
nig, Adele ■ Holz, Joanne Hobbs,
Joan Fox, Ann Kovalenko, Claire
Lee, David Malickson, Elaine Nel
son. Loretta Neville. Leonard
Phillips. Jan o Pool, Beverly Rus
sell, Ralph Temples, Malcolm
White.
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Late AP News
Courtesy Radio Station WtAAJ
WASHINGTON Government
conciliators remain cheerful on
the prospects for a quick settle
ment of the nation-wide telephone
strike. They hope new wage . of
fers from two key companies of
the Bell System may end the
walk-out.
Employes of the New York
Telephone Company crossed picket
lines to go . back to work yester
day. The four New York unions
settled on tHe basis of a four
dollar-a-week pay boost.
LAKE SUCCESS—The United
Nations Special Assembly on Pal
estine has concluded four days of
wrangling by denying the floor to
the Jewish- Agency for Palestine-
But the UN directed its powerful
political committee to hear the
Jewish Agency. Committee Chair
man. Lester Pearson of Canada
has called the political group to
meet at Lake Success tomorrow at
11 a.m. It will start establishing
a Palestine inquiry committee.
• LONDON— Th P British House
of Commons has adopted a bill to
bring all forms of transportation
under government ownership. The
measure has been Sent to the
•House of Lords,' where the gov
ernment' plans to push it for final
approval by mid-summer.
SU Directory Seeks
New Officers' Names
Student Union requests that
the names of new officers of the
following organizations be hand
ed in at Student Union desk be
fore May 10. Unless this is com
plied with the organization will
not be listed in the Student Un
ion Directory.
• All fraternities and sororities,
Alpha Epsison Delta, Alpha Rho
Omega, Alpha Phi Omega, AAUW,
Ag. Ec. Club, American Ceramic
Sqciety, AIEE, ASCE, ASAE,
ASME, ASM, AAUP, A VC,
Bib 1 e Fellowship, Block and
Bridle Club, Blue Band, Camera
Club, Christian Science and
Clover Club,
The Cornell Club, Center Club,
00-ed Coordinating Committee,
Cheerleaders, Cwens, Dairy
Sclenc e Club, Deutscher Verein,
Delta Sigma Pi. Druids, Ellen H.
Richards Club, F. F, of A, For
estry Society, Fraternity Coun
selors, Graduate Club, Grange
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Sty? iattg ffi (Mlrgtan c *=■;
) a/ Cancer Drive
Players Release
Technical Crews
Technical crews for “I Remem
ber Mama,” the Penn State
Players production to be given
this -weekend, were announced
by Robert D. Reifsneider, direc
tor.
Advertising: Joan Harrington,
Inanager; Phyllis Reigle, assistant;
Katherine Courtney, Betty Lou
Horn, Barbara Keefer, ■ Patricia
Kinkead, Terry Klostenman, La-
Rue Lenker, Jean Nichols, Jean
Posey, June Snyder, Margaret
Stridinger and Eva Mae White.
Properties: Doris Liljenstein,
manager; Gerald Eberly, assist
. ant;' Frances Berkey, Irma Fox,
Phyllis Harkin, Estelle Siekiecka,
Gladys Smith, Lillian . Weingart
en and Jacquelyn Wengert.
Make-up: Lois Hartswick, man
ager; Carol Dieckmann, and Doris
S'hapiro. Construction: Robert
Wickus, manager; Velma Creitz,
(Continuea on page two)
Shibley Names
Council Nominees
, Twenty-one Chemistry-Physics
Student / Council members for
next year will be elected in the
lobby of New' Physics from 9 a.m.
to 5 pm. tomorrow, under the
supervision of All-College Elec
tions Committee accordng to
Raymond Shibley president of
the Council.
Senior chemistry, chemical en
gineer and commercial chemistry
candidates are John Davis, Ed
ward Holler, John Keller, . Wil
liam McTunk, Paul Schaefer, Rob
ert Schock, Gartin Seavy, Gladys
Stryker, Richard Tarbox and Jay
Tenzer.
Contesting juniors in the same
curricula are Douglas Brace,
Samuel Firestone, Martha Fred
erickson, Malcolm Johnston, Mar
guerite Naumanri, Jeanne Nye
and Robert Stokes.
Science curriculum nominees
are Annette Lanning, senior,
Martha Kramers, junior. Physics
majors are David Barron, William
Hosier and Paul Wilkins, seniors;
and James Deets, Ethel Senkovits
and Russell Waddell, juniors.
Howard Fugate, William Jaf
furs, Jean McKinley and Joseph
OTousa are the senior pre
medcal candidates. Junior nomi
nees are Abram Bosler, Patrick
Galla, Michael Kutsenkow and
Ray Plymyer.
Haller Wins Kaiser
In AVC Prize
Raffle
George Haller, assistant dean of
the School of Chemistry and
Physics, "won ■ a 1947 Kaiser auto
mobile Saturday at 9:40 p.m. in
the local AVC chapter car raffle
at Co-Op Comer. Earl Kemmler,
AVC chairman, said today.
Dean Haller won the car on the
first of two tickets purchased Sat
urday morning.
The ticket was drawn by Jean
Kemmerer of State College from
a large squirrel cage containing an
unknown number of tickets for
the prize valued at $2105.92.
After the drawing, Hugh Ridall
and his Tru-Blu Quartette played
jazz at tho Comer for one and a
half hours. Kemmler said the raf
fle was conducted as a fund rais
ing measure and had resulted in
an increase in AVC membership.
Coeds Select Fall Rooms
A.ll fifth semester women will
choose their fall rooms in the
Dean of Women's office between
6:30 and 7 o'clock tonight.
Fourth semester women living
in town will also choose rooms
tonight; numbers 251-350. 7 to
7:30; 351-430, 7:30 to 8; 431-490.
8 16 8:30.
The schedule tor fourth se
mester women on campus will
appear in tomorrow's Daily Col
legian. .
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1947—STATE COLLEGE, PENNA.
Seniors Choose
Honor Women
Ballots to elect six senior honor
women must be turned in to the
Student Union desk or the Dean
of Women’s Office by tomorrow,
said Jean Nelson, WSGA presi
dent, today.
Lists of graduating senior
women may be found at Student
Union, the Dean of Women’s of
fice as well as on bulletin boards
in women’s dormitories, she said.
Ballots have 'been sent out to
everyone who is eligible to vote.
The six traditional titlfes will be
awarded at Class Day when the
men’s awards are made. Suitable
keys are given to those elected
Bow Girl, Slipper Girl, Fan Girl,
Mirror Girl, Class Poet and Class
Donor.
“It is traditional for the gradu
ating senior women to recognize
the six classmates most outstand
ing for service to the College, per
sonal honor, integrity, sincerity
arid versatility of activities,” said
Miss Nelson.
Design Contest
Offers $125,000
Edward D. Leriker and Burton
G. Tysinger, students at the Col
lege, and Joseph M. Spagnuolo,
associate professor of architec
tural engineering, have entered a
$125,000 architecture design com
petition, according to the Jeffer
son Expansion Memorial Asso
ciation.
The contest is being held to se
cure a design for a $30,000,000
memorial to Thomas Jefferson
and the pioneers of the West.
Architects, construction engi
neers, and students in these fields
are eligible. Landscape architects,
sculptors, and laymen may take
part by associating "themselves
with an architect.
Applications are being received
by George Howe, Old Courthouse,
415 Market' street, St. Louis, 2.
Five finalists will be - named in
September and the winner among
these will receve $40,000 and hav e
his design submitted to the De
partment of Interior.
Cabinet Adds Ten Cents
To Forensic Allotment
All-College Cabinet, at a meet
ing Wednesday night, accepted
Fred Keeker’s recommendation for
a ten-cent-per-semester increase
in student feep allotted to forensic
activities. The recommendation
will be passed on to the trustees'
via President Hetzel.
Russell Smiley repot, that the
outdoo r bulletin board has been
constructed in parts, and wil. be
assembled in the near future. A
report from the Grounds and
| Buildings office said that depart
: m'ent would fellow Cabinet's rec
ommendation in seouring more
j adequate outside lighting at the
| lower entrance to Rec HalL '
Jean Nelson
Engineers
Experiment
The engineering experiment
station and the department of en
gineering mechanics at the Col
lege are jointly conducting four
research projects to determine the
behavior of metals subjected to
stresses in more than one direc
tion.
Dr. Joseph Marin, professor of
engineering mechanics, who is in
charge of the projects, hopes to
obtain results which will be prac
tical in the design of machine and
structural members. Special test
ing machines have been designed
to test static and dynamic com
bined stresses.
The projects are being spon
sored by the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, the
Welding Research- Council and
the U. S. Army Air Forces, Wright
Field, Dayton, Ohio.
Assisting Dr. Marin are Joseph
H. Faupel, Vernon L. Dutton and
William Shelson. research assis
tants, and, S. S. Eckley. James M.
Aikey and Horner L. Johnson, me
chanics.
ASME Members
To Elect Officers
Officers for the student chapter
of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers will be elected
at a meeting in 100 EE at 7 o’clock
tomorrow. Nominations may be
made by contacting branch chair
man Walter Dutton, Joseph Eisen
hutih, or John Householder, said
Patrick Donoughe, president.
Present nominees are Ray Bland,
George Bierman, and Irvine Ma
bry, president; Donald Parsel s and
Ernest Riatz, vice-president.
Harold Fay, Mary Ilgin, and
William Young, treasurer; and
Ray jCook and Albert Baker, sec
retary,
These officers will be installed
at the annual ASME banquet to be
held at the Nittany Lion Inn, 6:30
p.m. May 15.
Tickets for this banquet at $1.75
a piece may be obtained irom
William Fry, Moris D’Amico, John
Householder, Walter Dutton, Jo
seph Eisenhuth, Henry Brenner,
Earnest Beachley, Janet Koehler,
William Sunday or Leon Lock.
Vets Sign Forms
For Interruption
Veterans not planning to at
tend summer session, or planning
to attend only the post-session,
are required, to report to the
Armory sometime M o n d.a y or
Tuesday. May I'2 and 13. not yes
terday and today as incorrectly
stated in Friday’s Collegian, in
order to sign interruption forms.
Veterans who plan to .attend
inter-session or main summer ses
sion classes are to re
port to the Veterans Administra
tion office on the above dates in
order to sign a request that sub
sistence may not be discontinued
at the end of the semester.
Veterans attending the inain
summer session will be kept in
continuous training status unless
the veteran, specifically requests
that he be interrupted in order to
save time under the G.I. Bill of
Rights.
If any veteran changes his
plans concerning summer session
after May 13, he should report
Ihis change immediately to both
the Veterans Administration of
fice and the Veterans Affairs office
of the College, first floor Old Main.
Eng Student Council
George Krotchitu, ... -or m civil
engineering, was lecently elected
president of the Engineering Stu
dent Council. Other officers are
George Bearer, junior in indus
<..ial engineering, vice president;
and Don Perry, senior in indus
trial engineering, secretary-trea-
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Sorensen Makes
Tentative Olympic
Gymnastic Squad
Ray Sorensen’s fifth place in
the all-around event at the
NAAU’s held in Dallas, Tex., over
the weekend insured the Lion
captain a spot or the tentative
Oympic squad which includes the
first eight men to place in the all
around competition.
Penn State finished third iti
team standings behind the Swiss
Gymnastic Society of New Jersey
and a Chicago squad.
Sorensen also took the only in
dividual title for the Lions when
he won the free calisthenics event.
Steve Greene was second on
the side horse, third on the fly
ing rings and tied with Joe Rossi
for sixth place in the rope climb.
California’s Smith set a world’s
rope climbing record with his 3.4
second hoist chopping six-tenths
of a second from the mark set by
Greene last year.
Boose of Mexico finished sec
ond with Rubiera of Cuba coming
in third.
This marks the first time since
1940 that Penn State has relin
quished the rope title and the first
meet in five years in which the
Lions did not finish as the win
ning team or in the runner-up
spot.
Sorensen’s title gives Penn
State 13 individual championships
since Gene. Wettstone took over
the coaching duties for the Blue
and White.
This was the first season in
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News Briefs
Sigma Xi
Dr. Raymond M. Fuoss, Ster
ling professor of chemistry at Yale
University, will speak on “The
Physical Chemistry otf Polymers”
at a public meeting'of Sigma Xi,
national science honor society, in
119 New Physics at 7:30 tonight,
according to Dr. L. S. Rhodes,
local secretary.
Scarab
Scarab, architectural honorary,
recently tapped Stanley Cohen,
John Diehl, Arthur Lillien, and
Eugene Schmeider.
Skull and Bones
All members of ■ Skull and
Bones hat society are invited to
attend a luncheon at., the Nittany
Lion Inn, 12:15 today, to discuss
tapping.
X-Gf Club Meeting
All members of the X-GI dub
are urged to attend a meeting in
121 Sparks 8 o’clock tonight to
discuss future plans for t'he club,
according to Gene Fulmer, pres
ident. The spring, outing and a
possible summer softball league
will also be considered, he added.
Mofhers r Guests To Tour
Campus Landmarks
Campus tours for visiting moth
ers and other guests of the Col
lege have .been arranged for Sat
urday and Sunday, the President’s
office .announced today.
Especially trained student
guides will be provided without
charge. Tours will start at Old
Main and will cover the central
campus in a “walkaround” that
lakes less than an hour. If visitors
prefer to use their cars they may
ride over the route.
Tours will run continuously be
ginning Saturday morning at 10:30
and Sunday afternoon at 1:30.
Guides will be supplied a« long
as there is a demand.
More than 50 points of interest
will be' visited or pointed out.
From the Land-Grant fresco in
Old Main, visitors will be escort
ed to Schwab Auditorium and
President Atherton’s grave, then
west on Pollock Road, up past the
tri-dorms to the Lion Shrine, east
beyond the Buckhout laboratories,
south to Pollock Road, and west to
Old Main.