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"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,