Howe Weather: Lecture r aitg Cloudy and Tonight Colder ; TOR A BETTER PENN STATE' VOLUME 48-NUMBER 70 President Asks Change In Executive Branch WASHINGTON—President Truman has asked Congress for the power to revamp the government's executive branch. He wants the authority to be permanent, with no exceptions. Earlier laws had exempted certain agencies from interference. The President's plea met a mixed reaction. In the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn said that he expects the proposed legislation to be adopted without trouble. Senator Robert Taft said, ho .vever, that caution should be used in grant ing such wide powers to the President The House• has voted to in crease Mr. Truman's pay from $75,000 to $lOO,OOO a year, with a boost in his tax-free expense al lowance from $40,000 to $90,000. Action on the measure was com pleted on a voice vote. Palestine Negotiations PALESTINE—IsraeI and Egypt are said to be close to the sign ing of an armistice for Palestine. According to a United Nations spokesman, negotiators on the island of Rhodes have reached agreement on the most important issues. Cwens Initiate 27 at Banquet C wens, sophomore women's service honorary, formally init iated twenty-seven girls and in stalled new officers at its annual initiation banquet in the State College Hotel at 6:30 p.m. Sun day. • Gay Brunner was installed as president; Suzanne Scurfield, vice president; Betty Dick Swift, sec retary; Ruth Johnson, treasurer; and Jessica Lightner, ritual chairman. Girls initiated were Patricia Bender, Gay Brunner, Jacqueline Bush, Mary J. Conrath, Bernice Curson, Janet Evans, Lois Jane Evans, Majorie Evans, Anne For rest, Shirley Giles, Dolores Horne, Ruth Johnson, Evelyn Lanning, Jessica Lightner. Dorothy Luft, Martha McMil lan, Nancy Mendenhall, Helen Pond, Eloise Powers, Suzanne Scurfield, Ella Mae Seitz, Jean Smucker, Jane Sutherland, Betty Dick Swift, Marjorie Wieder, El la Louise Williams and Regina Williams. Miss Ella Mae Jackson, advisor to the College chapter, received the Cwen pin. Harfough Addresses American (hem Society Howard D. Hartough, research chemist for the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., will address the 157th meeting of the American Chemi cal Society in 119 Osmond Lab at 7:30 tonight. Mr. Hartough will speak on "Recent Advances in Thiophene Chemistry". In recent years a new process for the cheap production of thio phene from butane and sulfur has resulted in greatly intensi fied research on its chemistry. Mr. Hartough is a native of Ill inois and received a B.S. degree from Hope College in 1936 and a M.S. degree from George Wash ington University in 1938. He entered the laboratories of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. after leaving college, and he has ad vanced to group leader in the Petrochemical division. Mr. Hartough has publications and patents in the fields of syn thetic lubricants, chemicals from petroleum, and oil additives. He is now writing a book on the chemistry of thiophene. Who's Who Soon Who's Who In the News is ex pected from the printers shortly, said Arnold Gerton, editor. Plans are being made to have these books distributed before gradua tion. Biographees will be asked to pick up their copies as soon as %Waco at =odious are made. Late AP News, Courtesy WMAJ Class to Vote On Senior Gift Selection of the 1949 senior class gift will be made by a ref erendum tentatively set for no later than May 15. Possible gifts to be lists-d on the ballot will be named by a special committee to be appoint ed by Terry Ruhlman, president of the class, later this week. . This plan was adopted in a Sunday night class meeting at tended by fewer than 50 seniors about 2% of the class. Satur day's senior mixer drew an even smaller number, causing cancel lation of the planned awarding of prizes for the best-decorated Lion coats. The proposed gift ballot will reach seniors graduating this semester and those who gradu ated during 1948 summer sessions, as well as class members on cam pus this spring. Post card bal lots will be used by seniors grad uating in January, and those away practice-teaching, while those at the College will vote at a central polling place. Suggestions for Gift After the committee makes known its list of poisible gifts to the class, additional sugges tions may be added to the ballot by a majority class vote. The voting plan was introduced by Malcolm White, news editor of the Daily Collegian. Several seniors suggested pos sible gifts Sunday night, includ ing a loan fund for needy stu dents, financial aid to the Co-op. student press and a campus bar ber shop. White said he believed th e "biggest part" of th e fund should go into a single gift so that it would be known as the gift of the class of '49. Trustees to Consider Faculty Board Members Faculty representation on the College Board of Trustee s was recommended today by the cam pus chapter of the American As sociation of University Professors. The proposal, approved by the chapter, requested that a faculty member from each of the eight schools of the College be elected to meet regularly with the board. The trustees will consider the plan at their semi-annual meet ing in Harrisburg Saturday. Similar plans are in operation in many of the country's leading luniversities, but, under the pres ent system, the College provides no such arrangement for discus sion and consultation between the faculty and the trustees. The committee, headed by Dr. Wallace Brewster of the political science department stated that the growth of the College in re cent years has tended to vest control in the hands of those not in immediate contact with aca demic problems. Hillel Coffee tiour Rev. Robert H. Earls of the University Baptist Church, will be guest speaker at the last in the series of Round Tabl e Coffee Hours being held at the Hillel Foundation at 4:10 p.m. tomor row. Rev. Eads will lead the group in a discussion of the top ic, "Should Religion Be Taught in the Public Schools?" Refreshments will be served by, the Avodah Women's Society of State College and Bellefonte. The public is :wiled. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1949 Pennsylvania is the "beer drinking-est" state in the nation according to a report recently published by Dr. M. Nelson Mc- Geary, professor of political sci ence at the College. The report, a study of Penn sylvania and its liquor business, shows that each man, woman, and child in Pennsylvania con sumes 32.6 gallons of beer an nually while in other states the pr capit consumption is 18.9 gal lons. Dr. McGary failed to men tion, however, hot' the State College consumptioi affects the percent of state figures. Lest the "WCTU-ists" get alarmed, though, it might be well to mention that Pennsylvanians, while highest in the quantity of beer consumed, drink less of the hard stuff than other states. Per capita for the nation in 1946 was 1.83 gallons of liquor; per capita for Pennsylvania, 1.31 gallons. In 1947 the figure dropped even lower, and 1.01 gallons per per son was the amount drunk by Keystoners that year. Thespians Pick Prize Scripts Preliminary judging of the Thespian scenario-writing con test has been completed and the three winners have been noti fied, Norman Sidis, Thespian president, said yesterday. The winners have had their scripts returned and are com pleting them now. The com pleted scripts will be resubmitted to a hoard of five judges' who will select the first, second, and third prize-winning entries. Judges for the contest are Ridge Riley, executive secretary treasurer of the Alumni Associa tion; Prof. Frank Neusbaum of the drama department; Ray For tunate, supervisor of the em ployment division of personnel relations; Prof. Kenneth Holder man, assistant director of the engineering extension; and Prof. Lynn Christy, assistant profes sor of English composition. The script which is judged best in the competition will be used as the book for Thespian's spring musical production. Directors Elected At a recent formal meeting, the club elected department heads for the spring show. James Lotz and Henry Glass, co-directors; David Doan, music and voice director; Fred Swingle, band director; Harry Woolever, dance director; Frank Sipe, de signer. L illi an Skraban, costumes; Fanna Brown, make-up; Herbert Seaton, technical director; John Thompson, construction; Arthur Bandorick, lights; Herbert Graves, stage director; Kay Bit ner, paint. Wilma Brehm, props; Omar Lerman, business manager; Lar ry Pinno, publicity manager; Harry McMahon, house manager; Ned Armsby, programs; Joseph Jackson, personnel director; and Brooks Semple, photographer. NSA Concert Features Dixieland andVazz NSA will present the first jazz concert of the year in Schwab Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. tomor row. Since a well-rounded cul tural program is one of the ob jectives of NSA, the campus com mittee is planning to begin its projects with a concert—not long hair but solid jazz. Featuring th e Tro-Blu Sextet, of Paradise Cafe fame, the pro gram is one that will attract any Dixieland fan. The combo, long popular with all solid joes on campus, is composed of "Wild Dave" Briner, "Stash" Collins, "G -String" Henry, "Shoeless Lou" Levi, the Old Processor, and "Doc" Savige. Tickets, priced at 42 cents plus tax, ar e available a Student Pa. Beer Drinkers Tops in Nation, Says McGeary Hostetter Dashes Meal Ticket Hopes Hopes of the patrons of Nittany dining commons for a meal ticket plan were dashed last night, when Samuel K. Hostetter, as sistant to the president in charge of business and finance, explained that the present system was fixed by the Board of Trustees and must be adhered to. Hostetter, addressing a meeting of All-College Cabinet's food committee, Nittany dorms food committee, and several members of the administration, said the proposed meal ticket plan would increase the cost per meal. Reviewing the College's his tory of expansion since the war, Hostetter said that only "direct" costs of the food service are charged to its account, These costa include those for raw food, labor, power, and a proportionate share of the pro perty's value in insurance against fire. Quincy Howe News Analyst Speaks Tonight Single admission tickets for the Quincy Howe forum lecture to night are available at Student Union desk and will be on sale until 8 p.m. The tickets are priced at .$l. Mr. Quincy Howe, CBS news analyst and interpreter of world affairs, will speak on "The Soviet- American Future." He will be introduced by Jo Hays, super vising principal of State College schools, who will be chairman. Following the l e c t u r e in Schwab Auditorium, a coffee hour will be held in the banquet room of the State College Hotel. Hugh G. Pyle, chairman of the Com munity Forum board, said that all who attend the lecture are in vited to the informal coffee hour at which questions may be ad dressed to Mr. Howe. A limited amount of time will also be de voted to questions following the address in Schwab Auditorium. News Briefs Druids Elections Elections will be held at the Druids meeting in 410 Old Main at 7:30 p.m. today. The meeting will be for regular members and tapees. Eng Council Engineering Student Council will meet in 106 Old Main at 6:45 p.m. today. Among the topics to be discussed at the meeting will be a report from the engineering open house committee, the coun cil budget for the coming year, the course rating survey, the appoint ment of a general election chair man and the revision of the con stitution. Newman Club The Newman Club bowling league wil meet at Dux's Alleys at 7 p.m. today. The club's discussion group will meet in the church rectory at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Prof. AncS.w Case will be the moderator. Psi CM Meeting Initiation of new members and a discussion on "High Frequency Sound Waves and Their Effect" by Dr. Harold K. Schilling will take place at the meeting of Psi Chi in Burrows _ PRICE FIVE CENTS No Maintenance Maintenance of roads, walks, and buildings, and replacements of physical facilities are not paid for out of income from the din ing halls, the official said. College policy was closely in quired into by Mildred A. Baker, supervisor of dining halls and foods buyer, before she 'agreed to accept the position last year, she said. She asked (1) if board charged was high enough to insure that food would be adequate "nutri tionally," and (2) if College pol icy is to profit from dining op erations. She was assured that answers to both questions were negative, she said. Specific Problems Specific problem s of her own discussed by Miss Baker last night, cover the problems of find ing adequate personnel, purchas ing under the handicap of great distance from markets, and meet ing the unprecedented demand for food service. "I realize Nittany physical fa cilities are far from ideal," the supervisor said. She added that if a solution cannot be reached through meetings such as last night's she would suggest an in vestigation of food service by an outside source. Miss Baker showed a compari son of weekly food requirements of moderately active adults, as prepared by the Department of Agriculture, and nutrition re ceived by Nittany diners during a recent week. In milk, potatoes, citrus fruits, vegetables, eggs, meat, and fats, Nittany figures exceeded USDA requirements. Dean of Men Arthur R. Warn ock, Daniel A. DeMarino, his as sistant, and Hazel Fall, supervis or of men's dining halls, attend ed the meeting. Dean Warnock admonished Pollock and Nittany dorm lead ers to "exercise more control" over behavior of a "minority making trouble"• in the area. He promised that steps would be taken soon to improve recrea tional facilities for Pollock and Nittany dorm residents. College Holds Service For Graduating Seniors The . January graduating class of the College will be honored at a mid-year Baccalaureate Service to be held by the College Chapel in Schwab Auditorium at 11 a.m. Sunday. No academic dress is re quired on the part of the seniors for this occasion. Dr. Paul L. Thompson, presi dent of Kalamazoo College, will be guest speaker. Special music will be presented by the Chapel Choir under the direction of Willa Taylor, with George Ceiga, or ganist. Dr. Thompson is one of the leading educational and religious leaders of the Baptist Church, and along with being a lecturer, he writes for many religious magazines. A native of Indiana, Dr. Thompson received graduate training at the University of Colorado, University of Nebraska and the Colgate-Rochester Di vinity SchooL Re received his Doctor of Letters degree teasa
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