'Hop' • Weather: With Snow Flurries, Henderson B a tt y rgtatt Colder "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" VOLUME 48-NUMBER 66 CORE Reaffirms Pledge To Support Barber Shop Renewing its pledge to seek the establishment of a non-dis criminatory barber shop, the Council on Racial Equality decided Monday night to keep in touch with a State College business group which has promised support, said Dr. Harold F. Graves, faculty co *chairman of CORE. If current negotiations between the town barbers and a student faculty-town committee should fail, CORE will proceed with its plan to set up a non-discriminatory shop, Dr. Graves said. A negotiating committee spokesman said yesterday that the group is standing by pending the result of a meeting of the State College Junior Chamber of Commerce tonight. Richard Mc- Cord, a town businessman, is the chamber's president. Negotiating Committee Members of the negotiating committee, selected last week, are Dr. Ernest H. Freund, assist ant professor of philosophy; Wil liam Lawless, All-College presi dent; and the Rev. Robert H. Eads, pastor of the University Baptist Church CORE also has decided to sup port the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple in its action to petition the Pennsylvania state legislature to have barber shops included in a 1949 statute which prohibits dis crimination in public accommo dations. Investigation A committee was appointed to investigate possible discrimination in certain honorary societies on campus. The organizations will receive questionnaires ask in g what membership restrictions are contained in their constitutions. The Council voted to charge semester dues of 50 cents per per son and $1 per organization. Ceiga, Campbell Recital Soloists The third in the series of re citals being presented by the Col lege music department will be held in Schwab Auditorium be ginning at 4 p.m. Sunday. Soloists for the program will be Prof. George E. Ceiga, chapel or ganist, and Frank Campbell, bar itone. Mr. Campbell is a gradu ate assistant in music education and part-time instructor in the borough public schools. He will be accompanied by Gay Brim net at the piano. Organ Recital Professor Ceiga will open the recital with "Ricercare," by Pal estrina, followed by "Prelude," by Purcell. Next the organist will play "Fugue ala Gigue," by Bach. Mr. Campbell will sing "Maed ehen mit den Roten Muendchen," "Marie," and "Irn Herbst," all by Franz. Professor Ceiga will continue the program by performing Chor ale, Prelude and Fugue ("0 Trauigkeit, 0 Herzleid") by Brahms, and "Spring Song," from Bonnet Historical Recitals, by Shelley. Britten•: Works Two of Britten's works, "The Bonny Earl" and "The Sally Gardens," will next be performed by Mr. Campbell. His own com position, "Where's My Lord's Robe?" will follow. Professor Ceiga will conclude the recital with the Toccata from Widor's Fifth Symphony. Israel Asks UN To Investigate Jewish-Arab Situation Lase AP News. Courtesy WMAJ ISRAELI—IsraeI has accused Britain of displaying a menacing attitude toward the State of Israel, and the Jewish govern ment has asked the United Na tions to investigate the situation. The Israeli representative, Aubey Eban, said that British troops have arrived at Aqaba. He declared that the action will be inteePtetect as a threat agaipst STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1949 Walks, Shrubs To Save Grass Additional walks and shrub bery will be placed along three campus grass areas which now bear a heavy load of foot traffic, when recommendations of All- College Cabinet's Keep Off the Grass Committee are carried out. The improvements, announced by George Bearer, committee chairman, include the laying of a walk parallel to the north side of Main Engineering building as soon as ground conditions permit. New Walk This walk would give persons coming west from the mall a dir ect path to engineering units lo cated west of Main Engineering. Walter Trainer, supervisor of landscape construction and main tenance, said it has been impos sible to have grass grow in this area for years, because of its con stant use by pedestrians. A walk or shrubbery will be placed between Central Library and Burrowes building, and an other will extend along the north end of Holmes field, across Pol lock road from Osmond Labora tory. In the latter case, the Cabinet committee urges pedestrians to use the walk already provided, crossing the field from south of McAllister Hall. Solution of this problem may require construc tion of a walk from the northwest corner of Holmes field to con nect with present walks near Temporary building. Committee Opposed Mr. Trainer reported the Bear er committee opposed to this step on the grounds that baseball playing on the field in spring and summer would constitute a haz ard. Chains and posts like those in front of schwab Auditorium will be placed along the mall in front of Carnegie Hall, the committee announced• Commerce Group Elects Officers Delta Sigma Pi, international commerce fraternity, recently el elected three officers to replace the graduating seniors who held of fice in the organization. Newly elected senior warden is Robert Goodman while the junior warden elect is Donald Vanneman. George Vadasz was elected historian• Last night Delta Sigma Pi brothers attended a meeting in the Home Economics Building to hear reports on the National Economic Meeting. The invita tion to attend this meeting was extended to Delta Sigma Pi by the Economics Club of the Col lege. Truman's Pay Upped WASHINGTON —T h e Senate Civil Service Committee has ap proved a bill to increase the President's salary $lOO,OOO an nually. The committee chairman, Sen ator Olin Johnston, told news men that he does not see any reason why the Senate should not • the WU on Thursday. No Letter Shortage In Old Main Basement A new mail-handling record was recently set by a little-known group of workers in the base ment of Old Main. A total of 101,587 separate piec es of mail were addressed, sort ed, and mailed by the staff of the Alurn n i Association Mailing Room durng the month of Nov ember- Included were five issues of the Football Letter, an issue of the Penn Stater, monthly bills, news for District Clubs, and receipts for alumni dues. The Penn State Christian As sociation, department of public information, Pennsylvania School Press Exchange, American Asso ciation of University Professors, textile chemistry and Lion's Paw sent out releases, during that month, while issues of the Fac ulty Bulletin, The College, and Summer Sessions were made available to their readers via the campus postoffice. Other jobs included addressing and mailing Penn State Engage ment Calendars and the mailing of 119 copies of the History of Penn State by the staff, which is headed by Mrs. Bertha Lucas. Mrs. Lucas is the only full time employee of the Alumni Mailing Room, but Mrs. Mary McClintock and Mrs• Helen Henninger work on a half-time basis. Men Debaters Meet Temple Four members of the Penn State men's debate team will par ticipate in four intercollegiate debates in the New York and Philadelphia areas this week. Harold Brown and Melvin Kat inskv will take part in a radio debate at Temple University to day defending the negative side of the question, "Should A Fed erated World Government be es tablished?" Brown and Katinsky will de bate St. Joseph's College on Thursday and Brooklyn Poly technic Institute on Friday In both debates the Penn Staters will take the affirmative on fed eral aid to education. Thursday evening John Kelly and Peter Giesey will travel to Bryn Mawr to debate the inter collegiate question of federal aid to education. They will defend the affirmative. All contests will be decision debates. Debaters Meet Juniata Tonight The third home debate for the women's debate team will be held in 312 Sparks at 7:30 p.m. today. Jane Fouracre and Barbara Schiffman will meet the negative team from Juniata College. Miss Fouracre will be constructive speaker and Miss Schiffman cross examiner. Dean Pearl 0. Weston will preside as chairman. Subject for the debate will be "Resolved: that the federal gov ernment should adopt a policy of equalizing educational opportun ity in tax-supported schools by means of annual grants." The de bate will be cross-examination style. Intercollegiate Debate Four members of the squad took part in . 10 intercollegiate de bates in the Philadelphia area over the week-end. Christine Altenberger, Florence Feinberg, Jane Fouracre, and Jan Kurtz composed the teams which debat ed at La Salle, the University of Pennsylvania, St. Joseph's, Swarthmore, and Temple. Topic for all contests was the 1949 in tercollegiate debate question. Pi Gamma Alpha "The Problems of Representa tion in Art" will be the discussion topic at the meeting of Pi Gamma Alpha, art honorary, in Simmons Lounge at 7 p.m. today. Soph Hop Features `Hell And Henderson' "Hell and Henderson" await the dancing public at the Sopho. more Hop in Recreation Hall, February 18. Playing in an atmosphere of fire and brimstone, smacking of the devilish and supernatural, "Skitch" Henderson, his piano and his orchestra will provide music for dancing from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. at the annual soph-sponsored affair. In announcing the engagement of the Henderson orchestra, Hop committee co-chairmen, Roger Rowland and Jack Boddington, explained that early planning had been hampered by a mix-up with a dissolving orchestra book ing agency and that Charlie Spi vak could not appear as pre viously announced. Ticket Price Speech Students Give Readings Two one-half hour readings will be given by the advanced oral interpretation class in the Home Ec Living Center at 7 p.m. tonight. Joseph Kelly will read Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster", and June Wil liams will give "A Doll's House" by Henrich Ibsen. These readings are part of a monthly series which began with the presentation of Maxwell An derson's play "Joan of Lorraine" in November by Mrs. James Smith. Kelly, who is from Lewistown, represented the College in the Intercollegiate Poetry Reading Festival last April. Miss Williams is a senior in education from Philadelphia. 'Soccer Squad Elects Captain Ralph Hosterman was elected soccer captain for the 1950 cam paign at the annual Lion soccer banquet at the State College Ho tel last night. Hosterman, selected to an All- America center halfback position this week, succeeds this year's high scoring captain Dean Wit mer. Sparkplug of this season's boot ing aggregation whirh turned in an impressive rerord of 7 wins, 1 loss and 1 tie, Hosterman was praised for his fine field general ship by his mentor, Bill Jeffrey. Fifteen soccermen were award ed their varsity sweaters and let ters while eight recived their gold soccer awards. 1949 lettermen include Spencer Boyer, Clarence Buss, Harold Hackman, Richard Hannah, Ralph Hosterman, James Kline, William Kraybill, Harry Lawroski, Theodore Lieb, Harry Little, Charles Margoif, George Phillips, Frank Taucher, Edward Taggert, Dean Witmer and man ager Joseph Sumner. Graduating seniors who were awarded gold medals were Day id Binns, James Etters, James Kline, Charles Margoif, Edward Taggert, Frank Taucher, Dean Witmer and manager Joe Sum ner• Chem Eng Society K. W. Given of General Elec tric Co. will .be guest speaker at the meeting of Chemical Engineer ing Society in 105 White Hall at 7:30 p.m. today. Engineering Societies PS Flying Club Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau will hold a joint meeting tonight at Beta Sigma Rho fraternity at 7:30 p.m. today. Dr. Paul Beall will speak on "Industrial Relations for the Engineer." PRICE FIVE CENTS Tickets will be priced at $4 per couple. Refreshments will be served at the dance. The Henderson orchestra, fea turing singers Nancy Reed and Andy Roberts, was born shortly after the war and boasts an ex clusive Capitol recording con tract, together with a record of personal and radio appearances. Those witnessing the recent Jimmy Stewart picture "Magic Town" may have recognized the Henderson technique in the score. Began as Soloist "Skitch" himself began his mu sical career as a piano soloist, in spired by the savage harmonies of the Duke Ellington band. His keyboard stylings crept into the arrangements of such top-rank ing orchestras as Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, and Glen Gray. The outbreak of the war found him dividing his time between guest appearances and his duties as house conductor and pianist for NBC in Hollywood. War performances The air corps monopolized his talents for a time during the war and he returned to continue his career, working with Frank Sina tra and others. Now, with an or chestra to back his flying fingers, he will journey to State College for his first appearance in Rec Hall. Working with Rowland and Boddington in the laying of final plans for the Hop are Donald At wood, Isobel Greig, John Kirch and Robert Longenecker. Blue Key Completes Dinner Dance Plans Blue Key, junior men's activi ties honorary, recently complet ed plans for their annual formal dinner dance. Louis Epstein was naced dance chairman by Wil liam Shade, Blue Key president. Dance committee members are Craig Elliott and Richard Yeag ley, band committee; Fred Sil verman and David Karp, invita tions committee; John Lacken meyer and Carl Swaize, hotel ar rangements committee; Elliott Krane and George Vadasz, pub licity committees. News Briefs Pi Gamma Nu Meeting Pi Gamma Nu, social science honorary, will hold the first meet ing of a series of programs in north east lounge, Atherton, at 8 p.m. today. Topic for the meeting will be "What Is Sociology Doing, Its Methods and Research." Dr. Jessie Bernard will be in charge. The meeting, open to the public, will be followed by a coffee hour. Stenson aircraft performance data will be presented in the first of a series of reports by 0. IL Schwanger at Penn State Flying Club's meeting in 415 Old Main - 7 p.m. today,
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