CORE TicketsWEATHER Still on gilt Batty 'Tottrgiatt Fair and Sate 'o;rne l ; Cool VOL. 47—No. 53 Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ House Passes Oleo Bill By Decisive Majority WASHINGTON—The House has passed the bill to repeal all federal taxes on oleomargarine, 280 to 107. Proposals that oleo be Put up in oddly shaped packages, to distinguish it from butter, met defeat. The bill must now pass the Senate. Railroad Strike Set WASHINGTON—A nationwide railroad strike, set for May has been announced for the unions of firemen and switchmen. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers has not yet decided if it will strike. The national railway me diction board has intervened in a final effort to prevent the walk out. Doctrine Recommended WASHINGTON—A modernized Monroe Doctrine against Commu nism has been recommended by Representative Karl Mundt. of South Dakota. Mundt believes that the United States should issue a pronouncement similar to the one made by President Monroe 125 years ago. and thinks it should state that this country will resist aggressive Communism anywhere. Holy City Spared LAKE SUCCESS Jewish and Arab representatives at the United Nations have agreed that the holy city of Jerusalem should be spared from the fighting in Pales tine. Leaders of both sides have recommended to their people that a truce shall prevail in the city. Coeds Play Host To Faculty Women Junior and Senior women will be hostesses to women faculty members at the Junior, Senior- Faculty Reception in the second floor lounge Old Main from 8 to 10 o'clock tonight. This annual, formal affair Is sponsored jointly by the Dean of Women's office and women's cam pus organizations. Its purpose is to better acquaint the students with faculty members, said Dean Pearl 0. Weston. It is hoped that both students and faculty will take advantage of this opportu nity. Decorations are in charge of WFtA and Mrs. Cordelia Hibbs, assistant to the Dean of Women. Invitations, which were sent to all faculty members, were under supervision of Pan-Hellenic Coun cil and PSCA. Mortar Board and IWA mem bers will take charge of meeting the guests, Cwens will act as floaters during the reception, ♦nd Chimes members will be hostess heads. The Phi Mu Alpha quartet, composed of Fred Swingle, violin; Margaret Jones, violin; Robert Frederickson, viola; and Earnest Rotili, cello, will provide the mu sic. Virginia McClusky, head of the Coed Coordinating Commit tee, is general chairman for the affair. Studeni Council Plans Faculty-Student Mixer In order to create a better re lationship between faculty and students. Liberal Arts Student Council is planning a student fac ulty mixer in the north-west lounge of Atherton Hall at 7 p.m. on May 12. announced Selma Zasofsky. LA student council chairman. All members of the Liberal Arts School and students of the LA School are invited to attend this affair. Special entertainment has keen planned. Chairman of the mixer is Nancy Hoffman; John Stephenson, en tertainment: Elliot Krane. pub licity; Bunny Rosenthal, refresh ments; and Jean Moore. invita tions. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1948-STATE COLLEGE, PENNA Food Poisoning Sfrikes Coeds; Cause Unknown Food poisoning is suspected of having caused the illness of sixty coeds living in the Tri-Dorms, according to Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, director of the College Health Service. The illness was characterized by Dr. Glenn as a "gastro-intes tinal disturbance. seemingly of food origin." An inspection of the Sandwich Shop where coeds living in the tridorms eat showed that it was "extremely clean." Food inspected in the shop also seemed edible. the College's chief physician stated. "In addition, there was nothing on the menu that was notorious as a carrier of food poisoning," he continued. "We inspected the help again this morning. No one has anything that I can put my finger on to explain it," he added. Not everyone who ate at the Sandwich Shop is ill, added Dr. Glenn. While sixty students are ill, over 500 meals were served there. In addition no one on the serving force, who ate the same meals, has become in. The Health Service has been called on before to treat similar symptoms, said the doctor, but they have not been caused by food poisoning. In this instance however, there is food poisoning, he stated. Investigations by the Health Service are continuing. Experience in the Armed Forces during the war showed that in mass feeding over a period of time something like this is bound to occur. Dr. Glenn said. All the inspections and care failed to pre vent it. Mrs. Edith M. Johnson, super visor of the Old Main dining commons, has been serving food for twenty years, continued Dr. Glenn. "And that is enough recommendation for me." Winter Returns For Short Visit Snow flurries and near-freezing temperatures heralded an out-of season return by Old Man Winter to the College and sent students shivering into classrooms yester day. The mercury tumbled to a low of 37 degrees at 8 o'clock yester day morning, and dipped down near the freezing mark again last night. Snow which turned into rain in the early afternoon helped main tain the illusion of December weather. The forecast for today is fair with slightly rising temperatures. High this afternoon is exipected to be aibout 45 degrees. Harvest Time in Pennsylvania One of the paintings on exhibition in the Mineral Industries Art Gallery al part of the Gimbel Pennsylvania Art Collection. The painting shows the agricultural side of the Commonwealth. The farm shown Una between, Philadelphi a and Harrisburg. Community Forum Norman Cousins, Saturday Re view of Literature editor and consultant on world affairs for the American Broadcasting Com pany, will appear in the final Community Forum lecture of the season in Schwab Auditorium at 8 o'clock tonight. Mr. Cousins will speak on "Don't Resign From the Human Race" and will be introduced by Dr. Brice Harris of the English literature department. CORE Requests 15 Volunteers At least 75 volunteer canvassers are needed to insure the success of CORE Days. next week's three day climactic effort to Obtain enough patronage and funds to guarantee non-disc riminatory haircutting in State College, ac cording to a program outlined by a subcommittee of the Council on Racial Equality. Organizations comprising CORE have been notified that a meeting to instruct and brief solicitors will be held in 304 Old Main at 8 p.m. Sunday. Town and campus areas will be assigned at that time. The drive is not a campaign for donations. Prof. Arthur H. Reede, chairman, emphasized. The $1 tickets are investments in democ racy and four future haircuts in a non-discriminatory barbershop. If the $2600 goal is realized, each local barber will •be offered the amount specified for him, if he agrees to operate on a non-dis (Continued on page four) Lannen Receives Architect Award Thomas T. Lannen, All-College president, will be awarded the medal of the Pennsylvania So ciety of Architects at the so ciety's annual dinner to be held in the Roosevelt Hotel in Pitts burgh Saturday. The medal is an annual award given to the outstanding archi tectural student in each of the three architectural schools of the state, the Pennsylvania State College, the University of Penn sylvania and Carnegie Institute of Technology. Lannen, an eighth semester student in archi tectural engineering, earned the award on the basis of scholar ship, leadership, and promise of professional ability and person ality. Several other students from the College will take part in an exhibition of architectural de sign and construction, as another feature of the society's meeting. Pennsylvania and Carnegie Insti tute of Technology will also be represented in the exhibition. Professor Milton S. Osborne, head of the architectural depart ment, will present a paper on architectural design, construc tion, and mechanical equipment. Indiana STC Names Dr. Pratt New Head Players' Tickets On Sale Monday Ticket sale for the coming 'Players production. "Years Ago," i.egins 1:30 p.m. Monday at Stu dent Union. Admission prices are 60 cents for Thursday, May 6, and $1 for May 7 and 8. "Years Ago," a whimsical com edy directed by Robert D. Reif sneider, assistant professor of dramatics, tells the story bf Ruth Gordon, a stage struck high school. girl, and her entanglements on this score with Father, A retired star who hates cats and loves the sea. The lead character, Ruth, is portrayed by Ruthye Cohen, who was the Cockney maid in "Angel Street," Ann Balmer is her sym pathetic Mother, and Winfield Clearwater, her temperamental Father, Fred Leuschner plays Fred, Ruth's boyfriend from Yale, while Mary Alice Hodgson and Jean Bickerton portray Ruth's girl -1 friends, Anna and Katherine. re spectively. Joy Polikoff and Jo seph Bird are the physical culture teachers, Miss Glavin and Mr. Bagley, whose profession Rath is urged to enter by her father. Thomas Monaghan completes the cast as Mr. Sparrow. All characters are based on real people who figured in author Ruth Gordon's early struggle to break away from her family ties and crash the drama world. The production of "Years Ago" is part of the Combined Arts Festival, May 2 through Ed School Adds Courses To Summer Curriculum Two new courses have been added to the summer sessions curriculum in industrial educa tion. They zre Ind. Ed. 460, which deals with r roblems in vocational tehabilitat:ou of the handicapped cncl And. Eu. 510-V, a cours ,. . in vocaticnal education for adminis trators. In Ind. I'd. 460. specific prob :ems and procedures vital to the professional understanding of vo cational rehabilitation counselors will 1 e studied. Ind. Ed. 510-V is designed for school administrators and super visors who desire an understand ing of the basic distinct ion be tween pra 7+, cal arts education anti vocational education. Final Sale for Olympics A final block of 1500 unreserved tickets for the Final Olympic Trvoilts and National Amateu. Athletic Union Gymnastics Chain- Monslhos in Recreation Hall Sat urday is noy. on sale at the AA windows in Old Main. priced at $1.20. f Dehn PRICE FIVE CENTS Dr. Willis E. Pratt, professor and head of the department ad education, has been named presi dent of Indiana State Teachers College, succeeding Dr. Joseph Uhler. He expects to assume du ties on July 1. When asked whether he would refer Indiana to State College. Dr. Pratt said. "It wild be some thine entirely different." After completing 28 months at service with the Allied Military Government in Italy, Dr. Pratt joined the faculty in October 1945. From 1941 to 1943 he served as president of Mansfield Staet Teachers' College and assistant and later superintendent of schools in Erie County. He has GIs() taught and served as assist ant principal in the high school at Albion. Pa. A native of Pittsburgh. Dr. Pratt received his bachelor of arts degree from Allegheny Under graduate College at Meadville and his master of arts and Ph.D. de grees from the University of Pittsburgh. Integrated School Art Festival Aim The Combined Arts Festival, as intensified period of fine arts ac tivities and displays, begins Sun day and continues through May 15. Th e festival theme is the reali zation of a fine arts school at the College, which would integrate all the separate and distinct arts now scattered through •vrariot curricula. Relationship of the time, space, and humanity arts will be emphasized throughout the period. A model of a proposed fine arts building to be located in Hort Woods and the plans leading to its evolution will be shown in White Hall. The building, func tional in design, is the combined work of architectural students. Those connected with the project feel that the development of such a fine arts school would increase Pen n State's prestige as an edu cational center. The Gimbel Pennsylvania AA Collection exhibit in the Mineral Industries Gallery and the display of 50 drawings of George Biddle, Philadelphia-born artist, in the first floor Library are spotlighted on opening day and will be shown through May 8. The Gimbel Col lection, a gift to the people a Pennsylvania, may be viewed 13y the public from 9 am. to 10 pam daily. The Biddle group will be show n from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. There is no admission charge. Running th e entire period vat be the display of scenes freak Players productions and render ings of designs for their slaw sets. Ad Contest In just three days the - mine of the prizes in the Collegian's "It's in the Ads" contest has iurdped to $7O. Today's awards for the solu tion of the identity of the "thing" in the contest is $lO in credit from Michell's Dress Shop and a Richard Hudnut Du Barry Make-up kit P.olm. MeLanalm's Drug •Store. The other prizes are: 1. Old Town Trampees—Glick Men's Store. 2. Blouse—Smart Shop. 3. Reword Album—B uo k and Record Shop. 4. S wea ter— Young Men's Shop. 5. 5-pound Box of Candy— Candy Cane.
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