Legs Tottrotait Can Be , p Beautiful VOL. 46—No. 30 Opera Opens Artists' Series From a soloist with Xavier Cugat to leading operatic roles. is the story of Jon Crain who will sing the B. F. Pinderton role in the opera "Madame Butterfly" here on Tuesday night. The role on Monday night will be played by Nino Scattolini, 3^oting Italian tenor who came to the United States early this year. The opera is presented by the Charles L. Wagner touring coin °any. Series tickets at $B.lO, tax in cluded, are still available to fac ulty and students, and may be ob tained at the office of the college examiner. 112 Old Main. Extra tickets will be offered to persons frinn nearby communities, said Dr. C. E. Marquardt, chairman of the •cammittee. At 18. Crain won a scholarship for musical studies In New York. His operatic debut took place at the Lake George Summer Opera where he sang the leading role in von Flotow's "Martha." He later appeared in the leading tenor roles of "Faust." "Carmen," "J.a Scheme," A nd "Pagliacci." Last winter he made a trans continental tour under the name or Victor Brenes with Xavier Cueat and his orchestra. Chemical Society Initiates 33 Men Phi Lambda Upsilon, national men's chemical honorary society, concluded its fall informal and formal initiation Tuesday night with the induction of 33 new members. Ceremonies took place in 105 Chemical Engineering Building. Dr. J. H. Simons, director of fluorine laboratories and profes sor of physical chemistry at the College, was guest speaker at the society's initiation banquet at St. Paul's Methodist Church last night. Initiates to Phi Lambda Up silon are . Montgomery Mitchell, Judson Sweet, Donald Menzie, Thompson Reid, Robert Taft, Carl Scheirer, Jr., John Saylor, William Conn, Frank Mitch, Thomas Reissmann. Harry Rose, Henry Tillson, Floyd Eberts, Jr.. Carl Widmer, Jr., William Smiley, Douglas Beals, Guy Erwin, Jr., George Morris, Moflznd-D'm Ahmed, John Chessick, Clarke Coldren, Theodore Williams. George McMurtrie, Roger Knowles, Walter Stauffenberg, Stephen Herbert, Jr., William Sphethoff, Frank Singer, Rich ard Hill, John Haladyna, Paul Muller, Robert Dannerbrink, and Walter Kink. Co-op Store Saves Members Money for Past Ten Years Ten years ago a group at ten families banded together to form a small buying club in order t o cut food costs by wholesale buying. For two years, their headquarters was in one of the member's basements which was open several evening a week. This cooperative venture has grown to be a full-size grocery, the State College Co-on Store, at 1125 W. Beaver avenue. Its mem bership of over 400 families in cludes faculty people. townspeo ple. and farmers. Doing a business volume olt over $3OOO a year in 1946, the cooperative has not only return a' savings to its members but ha:: served the community by helping lower prices through competition. Rochdale principles under which the Co-op Store operates say that membership shall be open to anyone in gympathy with the club's purposes, regardless of race, color, creed, or economic status. Each member has only one vote regardless of the amount of capital he has invested in the en terprise. Absentee 'or proxy voting is THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1t947-STATE COJ T ECM, PENNA. Association Pays Tribute to Hetzel The Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities paid tribute to the late Dr. Ralph Dorn Hetzel at its sixty-first annual meeting in Washington, D. C. this week. Dr. Hetzel who died Octo ber 3, formerly served as associa tion president. "Absent from his high post to day is the devoted and far-vis ioned leader of this great associa tion, our deeply respected and beloved president, Dr. Ralph Dorn Hetzel," the tribute, pre pared by Dr. J. L. Morrill presi dent of the University of Minne sota, read. "President Hetzel's whole pro fessional life was spent in the service of land-grant institutions. He was the graduate of a land grant university, holding the bachelor's degree in both liberal arts and law from the University of Wisconsin. Folk Singers Will Rehearse Folk Singers. formerly the Rus sian Chorus, will meet in 304 Old Main at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night. Alexander Oranovsky. di rector. said today. Women members are Pearl Bil ler. Helen Guanrot, Kay Kuhar sky and Helen Tyrine. Basses include Michael Branzo vich. Michael Fedak. Paul Krit sky. Andrew Petrunick and George Sipider. Baritones are Mi chael Branzovick, Michael Fa tula. George Latzo, and Michael Wooer. • Second tenors, Joseph Buber nak. Theodore Bucha. Andrew Huzinec, and Michael Oleiar. First tenors. Nicholas Holowatch. Theodore Ostrak. Nicholas Skov san. and Michael Samchock. Liberal Arts Faculty To Hold Annual Tea The faculty of the Liberal Arts school will hold a tea for all members of the school and their wives. This tea will be in the northeast lounge of Atherton Hall from 3 to 5 n.m. Sunday. Dr. Stuart A. Mahuran, head of the social committee, is in charge of this annual event. Other mem bers of the committee are John A. Mourant, philosophy depart ment; Miss Margaret Raabe, speech department; Miss Elaine Windrich, political, science de pa,rtment; and Guy R. Woods, mu sic department. forbidden. Interest on capital is limited to not more than the cur rent legal rate. Dividend are re turned to members on the basis of purchases made during the year. Members must buy at least two shares of $5 stock. The Co-op Store was incorporated a year ago, and pays corporation taxes. The savings, however, which are turned back to members, or used to maintain a reserve fund, are not regarded as profits by law and are not taxed. In addition to supplying gro ceries. the State College Co-op Store also gives memfiers price reductions on electric appliances and on books and records bought at one of the local bookstores. Late AP News Courtesy Radio Station WMAJ Railroad Brotherhoods WASHINGTON Top officers of the 19 railroad unions have set up an organization for political activity in the 1948 elections. This is the first such move in recent railroad history. Until this time each of the brotherhoods has de cided on candidates as a separate union and without direct appeal to railroad workers for united action. Morgenthau Denies Claim WASHINGTON Former Sec retary of the Treasury. Henry Morgenthau, .Ir., yesterday de nied the assertion made to Senate Investigators by _ retired Major General Bennet Meyers. Meyers said that he conferred with Mor genthau before embarking on a wartime bond deal, and the Sec retary said he could not go wrong. Harriman On Aid WASHINGTON Averill Har riman, Secretary of CoMmerce, told the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee the nation's economy would not be strained by helping France, Italy and Austria this winter with a sum of $597,000,000. George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, said $300,000,- 000 was the amount proposed for assistance to China. Glenn Announces TB Test Results The tuberculosis skin tests showed that 10.7% of incoming third semester. transfer. and grad uate students had positive results. said Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, direc tor of the College Health Service. For the men, the number was 23.9% positive and for the woman. 15.5%. "However. this means only that at some time during the student's life there was some trace of tu berculosis present and does not mean that there is any active tu berculosis in any individual who shows a positive test." said Dr. Glenn. Dr. Glenn also said that x-rays taken this fall to spot active tu berculosis are now being read by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. An announcement of the results will be made sometime be fore the Christmas holidays. "Students. on the whole. were found to be in excellent physical condition this year." said Dr. Glenn. "and the staff wishes to thank them for their cooperation in promptly keeping their ap pointments." Scabbard, Blade Sends Two Men to Convention Two members of Company "H," Ist Regiment of the National So ciety If Scabbard and Blade, were chosen to represent the College's chapter at a nati )nal convention to be held at the University of C:hcinnati today, tomorrow and Saturday. The representatives of this first convention of the national mili tary honorary since the war are Samuel Neely, commanding offi ces of the College's chapter, and Paul G. Andrews. At this meeting. 86 companies of the national organization will discuss the society's legislation and each company will report on its activities since reactivation. Following this, there wilt be a formal military dance at the uni versity, Neely stated yesterday. Concert Band Women as well as men stu dents are invited to try out for concert band. said Prof. James W. Dunlop, conductor. Arrangements can be made by contacting Professor Dunlop in 109 Carnegie Ha/1 today. Shibli, Rabbi Kahn Discuss Palestine The Palestine situation was the topic of the forum discussion be tween Rabbi Benjamen Kahn. He brew lecturer at the College and director of the Hillel Foundation. and Prof. Jabir Shit)li. associate Professor of mathematics. Tues day night. The foruim was spon sored by the Common Sense Club. Rabbi Kahn. in his talk favor ing a Jewish state in the Holy Land. said that the Jewish peo ple have been in Palestine for 4000 years and that they have been the only people to rule Pal estine as a state. He also pointed out that the Balik•ur Declaration premised that the British Government would help in the rebuilding and recon struction of a Jewish state in Pal estine. He said that the Jewish Agency in Palestine would ac (Continued on page two) AVC Planning To Broadcast Tentative plans for a weekly broadcast by the AVC on local, national, and international af -1 fairs were discussed at their busi ness meeting last night. These plans received the unani mous backing of the club mem bers. Faculty members who were asked th form a steering commit tee pledged their full support. Since AVC must supply it. own technical help, an appeal was is sued for all members who have had any previous experience with radio broadcasting, such as writ ing. announcing. and directing. As a group AVC voted to back the petition for price control cir culated by YPCA and PSCA. The next meeting will be Wednesday. November 14). instead of November 26. tWA to Give Dorm Party For Pollock Circle Men The Independent Women's As. sociation will give a party for the men of Pollock Circle. This mixer will be held in the play room of Grange dormitory, from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Independent women or Pollock Circle men who are interested in coming to the mixer should tele phone 26 Atherton Hall. Sylvia Schenield. publicity chairman. stressed the idea that the Inde pendent Women's Association is anxious to have as many inde pendent women as possible at tend. Naval Reserve Meets The surface division of the Naval Reserve Electronics Com pany will meet in 200 Engineer ing "E" at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Classroom Changed Professor Tanner will meet his classes tomorrow in 109 Ag in stead of the regular meeting room. Parrni Nous Pictures Parmi Nous group pictures for La Vie will be taken at the Penn State Photo Shop at 8 o'clock to night, reminded Robert McGre gor, president. Pre-Mods See Stars Alpha Upsilon Delta, women's pre-medical honorary will meet at the College observatories at 7:30 o'clock tonight, said Jean Moul president. Dr. Henry 1. Yeagley, associate professor of physics will give a short talk on the stars. Liebig Society Meets Members of the Liebig Chemi cal Society will hear a talk by Dr. Cyrus French, professor of ani Post-War Play Of 01's in Italy Opens Tonight Tonight marks the opening of "A Sound of Hunting," Players' presentation of Harry Brown's post-war play. about a group of G. I.'s in the Italian campaign. Tickets at 80 cents, including tax, are still available at Student Union for tonight's performance in Schwab Auditorium at 8 o'- clock. Some reserved seats are also available for Friday and Saturday night at 84 cents, in cluding tax. Tickets will be sold at Student Union desk from 6 to 8 o'clock tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday nights. Because of new regula tions tickets may not be sold in Schwab Auditorium. The action of the show takes place on one setting, the inside of an abandoned farmhouse near Casino. The cast is composed of veterans, four of whom partici pated in the Italian campaign. With the help of Army and Navy ROTC departments, back ground sounds were recorded from the film, "A Story of San Pietro." Mortar and machine gun sounds were devised and record ed by Players. Kelly Yeaton, director of the show, believes that now is the proper time to present "A Sound of Hunting." Lannen Supports Friendship Train The Friendship Train provides the opportunity for students to share in aiding the starving people of Western Europe, Thomas J. Lannen, All-College Cabinet president, said yesterday. Now speeding across the na tion, picking up carloads of food for the relief of these destitute people, the Friendship Train will include a representative car from Centre County. Loaded with flour, the special car to be attached to the Friend ship Train will leave from the Bellefonte station at 7 p.m. to morrow. This car is being sent under the sponsorship of the Bellefonte and State College Commerce Clubs. Residents of Centre County have already shown their will ingness to share in this program. The goal of $2500 was fast being met yesterday when contributions reached $1128.23. No person-to person solicitation has been made, for the free-will of individuals and organized groups is the guid ing factor in this drive. Briefs News mal nutrition, on "The Nutrition Status of the People of Holland" at their meeting tonight. Engineering Lecture Paul H. Robbins, executive director of the National Society of Professional Engineers will speak to Engineering 2 and 3 classes in Schwab Auditorium at 4:10 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. His topic will be "Registration of Professional Engineers." The lecture is open to all students. Football Movies Movies of the Temple game won by Penn State 7-0, will b( shown in 119 New Physics at 7:3( and 8:15 o'clock tonight. Ear. Edwards, end coach, will give 4. running comment on the film. Boxing Movies Movies of Penn State-Wiscon sin boxing matches will be showy in the banquet room of the Stat( College Hotel at 7:30 o'clock to night. Members and prospectiv( members of the boxing team art invited to attend. John Benglian Lion boxer, will show the films WEATHER Cloudy and Continued Cold PRICE FIVE CENTS
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