Prof's Son Takes Own Life With Shotgun William B. Shepperd Jr., 15, son of Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering William B. Shepperd, was killed last night at 6:25 by a self-inflicted shotgun wound in the head. Charles Scheckler, Centre County Coroner, stated that tjz I Sattg 0 Mraiatt I •=£=■ "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" • VOLUME 48—NUMBER 54 College Plans Raising Beaver Field Capacity New Beaver Field seating capacity will be more than doubled by new construction which is expected to be completed before the start of the 1949 season, James Milholland, acting president, an nounced yesterday. Work on the project will begin in early spring. By closing in the north end of the stadium, horseshoe style, and adding a 72-foot section to the south.end of both the East and West stands, the permanent seating capacity will be boosted from 14,778 to 28,000. Temporary stands at the south end of the field will add another 2,000 seats to the total. Dressing Rooms Construction of permanent dressing quarters under the West stands and the new additions to the East and' West stands had previously been authorized but the contractor, the Pittsburgh- Des Moines Steel Company, of Pittsburgh, had been unable to obtain the steel with which to start the work, he new contract calls for completion by Septem ber 1. Also authorized by the eecu tive committee of the Board of Trustees was a new, double-deck ed, all-steel press bo in which will be included all the newest fea tures for newspaper, radio and photographic coverage of home football games. The new box will be built outside the stands, to the rear of the present box, and will be accessible only from the rear. This arrangement will free 250 top row seats in mid-field. Locker Rooms The new dressing quarters, which will be built under the West stands, will accommodate both the home team and the visit ing team, plus rooms for equip ment, officials, trainers. There will be two sizeable locker rooms, with showers and toilet facilities, and fittings will be modem in every detail. By closing in the north end of the stadium, horseshoe style, 9400 seats will be added to the total. The two new sections on the south end will provide another 3500 seats. The latter sections will be 40 rows high, or the same as the present stands. The new sec tions in the north end will be only 30 rows high, and exits running to the rear will be routed to ease the post-game traffic load. Late AP News, Courtesy WMAJ Truman Decries Hearings WASHINGTON—P'r esid e n t Truman told his news confer ence today he still regards the spy hearing as a red herring. Mr. Truman took the stand that the Committee on Un-American Ac tivities is interested chiefly in making the headlines. Republi can members of the committee were quick to deny the Presi dent’s statement. Other committee members were busy in the hearing room of the House where the newest figure to appear, Henry Wad- Icigh, was being questioned about the truth of accusations that he slipped government secrets to former Communist Whittaker Chambers. Prince to be Christened LONDON—Buckingham Palace “"jounced that Princess Eliza beth s son will be christened next W ednesday. Madame Chians WASHINGTON-Madame Kai-Shek will arrive at I**® White House this afternoon to discuss aid to China Shepperd, a junior at State Col lege High School, was sitting in the living room of the Shepperd home at 522 Linden Road with his father and stepmother. Mr. Shepperd told his son to go into his room and straighten it up. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1948 Thespians Set New Deadline Closing date of the Thespian Club's scenario-writing contest has been set forward from De cember 14 to January 5, W.‘ Nor man Sims, president, stated yes terday. Contest entries will be accept ed at Student Union on or. before that date. All other rules remain the same with the exception of the date for final judging of the submitted material, which has been set forward to February 10. Complete sets of rules for en tering the contest are still avail able at Student Union. Prizes for the "winning entries are $lOO for first, $5O for second place winner, and $25 for the scenario rated third best. Alert Coeds Squelch Blaze in Simmons Hall After Alarm Fails Fire broke out about 11:30 yes terday morning in a third floor cleaning closet of Simmons Hall. The fire started in the janitor’s trash oan which was inside the closet. Alertness on the part of sev eral coeds who discovered and extinguished the fire prevented any srious damage. Barbara Meadows and another unidenti fied coed saw the smoke in the hall and upon investigation found the fire in the closet. Immediate ly Miss Meadows attempted to set off the fire alarm. When three of the alarm boxes failed to work, she ran to the main lobby where Ruth Neff, on duty at the desk, succeeded in setting off the alarm, ten minutes after the blaze was discovered. Miss Neff called the Campus. Patrol and they notified the-Alpha Fire Co. Maxine Dickey and Esther Schrecengost, whose room is across from the closet meanwhile had extinguished the blaze. With (continued on page eight) Gridmen Select All-Opponents; Spartans Capture Three Posts By Elliot Krane Close balloting marked the 1948 Penn State all-opponent football selections as Michigan State captured high honors by placing three men oh the first team and four on the second. Hotly contested spots were the end posts in this poll of the Nit tany Lion grid team. Bill Mc- Peak, four-letter man from Pitts burgh, easily took one terminal spot, but' Warren Huey of Mich igan State just squeezed out Pitt’s other end, Leo Skladany. Michigan State’s George Guerre easily won the outstanding play er title by securing a vote from Young Shepperd went into his room, picked up his own 12- gauge, double-barreled shotgun, and shot himself. The parents immediately called the Campus Patrol and night patrolman W. E. Leonard, after arriving at the New Group Set To Investigate Food Problems A new attempt to solve the food problem in Nittany dining com mons was launched by All-Col lege Cabinet last night, when Wil liam Lawless, All-College Presi dent, appointed a special com mittee to investigate the entire subject. This action came after Paul Kritsky, representing the Nit tany dorm residents .presented petitions signed by 1364 men call ing for further action to “remedy the situation.” Nearly half of the 155-minute session was spent discussing var ious aspects of the food situation in Nittany commons. Lawless and Edmund Walacavage, All-Col lege secretary-treasurer, will be co-chairmen of the committee. • Cabinet also heard the “ice skating” committee report that the College administration has approved a plan to use the foot ball practice field for ice skating. The project, at no cost to the stu dents, is expected to be ready for use January 3. Other Cabinet action included acceptance of the campus chest committee recommendations that drives for funds by various group be run according to a schedule. Allocation of $3O was voted to aid in financing a booklet for dis tribution to visiting teams, as sug gested by Blue Key, junior men’s hat society. Phi Sigma Delta Wins Award As Outstanding Fraternity Phi Sigma Delta won the outstanding fraternity award for the fall of 1947 and spring of 1948 and was given a token presentation by George Chapman, Interfratemity Council president, at the annual IFC-Association of Fraternity Counselors banquet held Wednesday night at the Nittany Lion Inn, The actual cup which IFC plans to give to the winning fra temity is the $250 Sigma Chi Foundation Cup. If this award cannot be secured, IFC will pre sent one of its own awards to the Phi Sigma Delta fraternity. lIIHIIIIHimiIIIIIUHIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII In celebration of winning the cup, the Phi Sigma Deltas are holding a stag jam-sessions to morrow night, and will have an open house for men, women and faculty at 1:30 p.m. Sun day. MMiiiiffliHimiiimiiiiimiiiiNiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiniiimiiiiii Based on scholarship, intra mural athletics and house activi ties, this contest is judged on a every Penn State player polled. Bernie Custis, the Syracuse pass ing ace, filled in the second spot in the all-opponent baekfield, while Armand “Frenchie” Al laire of Colgate and Pitt’s speedy running back, Jimmy Joe Robin son, filled out the all-star aggre gation. By cutting down Nittany run ners and generally playing an outstanding defensive game, Col gate’s Warren Davis gained the center spot over Penn’s Chuck Bednarik. Since the Penn State gridders based their selections only on the games they saw, the work a £ Davit at Colgate wa& scene, called the county coroner. “Shepperd was in apparent good health,” stated Coroner Scheckler. “His mother died when he was six, but he expressed no dissatisfaction with his foster mother.” NAACP To Boycott Local Barbershops William Meek, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called for an “all out” boycott of State College barber shops by students and townspeople to begin this morning. At an NAACP meeting last ni inatory policies by State College 1 Rec Hall Hosts Formal Mil Ball Military ball, the only strictly formal dance on campus, will be held in Recreation Hall from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. today. The smooth rhythms of Blue Barron’s orchestra will provide the music. Blue and gold flags are the col ors of the dance. Flags of the United States, hanging promin ently in the center of the hall, and of the South American nations, hanging on the walls, provide the decorations. Nine hundred and thirty invi tations have been allotted to the cadets of the Army, Navy, and Air Reserve Officers Training Corps of campus units. Members have distributed them to their friends. Attire is the official uniform for the Army, Air, and Navy cadets. Tuxedo is the dress for those at tending in other than uniform. point system. Nine other frater nities were given honorable men tion in the first annual compe tition for the trophy. The other fraternities are Alpha Zeta, Beta Sigma Rho, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Delta Rho, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Pi, Sigma Phi Alpha and Triangle. The largest attendance of any IFC-AFC banquet in the history of the two organizations was re corded at Wednesday’s affair. Speakers after the dinner were Wallace White, president of IFC, Arthur R. Warnock, dean of men, and Daniel DeMarino, assistant dean of men. considered superior to Bednarik’s the following week at Penn. The only Quaker gridder to make the all - opponent team, Dolph Tokarczyk, led all the oth er guards by a wide margin. On ly Jim Fiacco, Syracuse lineman, was able to poll more than the average number of votes to gain the other guard position. Right on Fiacco’s heels were Ed Bagdon and Don Mason, both of Michigan State. Washington State’s outstand ing lineman, Laurie Niemi, took top honors in the tackle depart ment with Pete Fusi of Michigan (Contimted on page sixj Shepperd transferred to the State College High School in September, 1947, from Stillwater, Okla. A better than average stu dent, he gave no trouble to high school authorities, according to T. R. Kemmerer, principal. PRICE FIVE CENTS ight, it was disclosed that discrim- Darbers in refusing to cut the hair of Negro students prompted the call for “wholehearted boycotting and picketing” of the barber shops. > In the past, reported NAACP members, the barbers refused to cut the hair of Negroes The situation came to a climax yesterday when an NAACP com mittee, including five Negro stu dents, tested four of the six State College barber shops to deter mine the true attitudes of bar bers toward cutting Negroes’ hair. In all four barber shops, Smith, Hartman, Martin and Kreamer, and Cassidy, said Meek, , the NAACP testers received a polite, but determined, refusal to cut the hair of the Negro members of the committee. In each incident, stated Meek, the refusals were witnessed by both committeemen and towns people, and in no case did any white patron leave the shop on account of the Negro students. Attempts by the NAACP to hold a conference with the bar bers involved in yesterday’s epi sode, reported Meek, failed on grounds that the barbers were “too busy’ to confer with the or ganization. The NAACP plans to contact the remaining two barber shops to firmly establish their attitude toward Negroes on campus. Discriminatory barber shops will be picketed until action is taken to eliminate this situation, commented NAACP members. We hope that the student body will cooperate with the NAACP by making an effort to have their hair cut at home and not in State College, commented Meek. “Our fight is not primarily against the barbers,” he added. “It is, however, against the racial discrimination, which in the case of State College, is preva lent in the barber shops.” News Briefs Hillel Services Dr. Robert E. Dengler, head of the department of classical lang uages will be guest speaker at the Sabbath Eve services at Hillel Foundation, 135 Beaver avenue at 8 p.m. today. He will speak on “Who Is the Religious Man?” ASM Meeting J. P. Gill, chief metallurgist at Vanadium-Alloys Steel Company, Latrobe, Pa., will speak on “Tool Steels” at the meeting of the Penn State Chapter of American So ciety for Metals in the Mineral Industries building art gallery at 8 pan. Sunday. Final Exam List Final examination schedules vill be published in tomor row's Daily Collegian, said Lew Slone, editor. Final ex aminations begin January 22. Conflicts must be filed at the Scheduling Office before 5 p.m. December 18.
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