Tim Batig ..;::'-::;!). Tottrgiatt VOL. 49-NO. 9 Rec Hall To Look 'Like Hell' Tomorrow Recreation Hall "will look like hell" when students arrive for the annual Sophomore Hop tomorrow night, according to descrip tions of the devilish decorations planned for the semi-formal affair. In addition to fire and brimstone, "Skitch" Henderson, his piano, and his orchestra will be lurking in the "inferno," say committee chairmen, "to play like the very devil for the benefit of the dancing public? from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Initial Appearance The Henderson orchestra, fea turing Nancy Reed and Andy Roberts as vocalists, will make its initial appearance in Rec Hall with •a long record of radio, re cording and motion picture per formances behind it. "Skitch" himself was well known before the war as a keyboard stylist, and made his musical contribution to such top-ranking orchestras as those of Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, and Glen Gray. He has also served- as house pianist and conductor for NBC in Hollywood. Tickets On Sale Tickets for the dance go on sale tomorrow morning at Student Union priced at $4 per couple, and will be available at the door. Refreshments, sans the fire which will , pervade the atmos phere, will be served. The committee for the affair is made up of Roger Rowland and Jack Boddington as co-chairmen, and Donald Atwood, Isobel Greig, John Kirch and Robert Longen ecker. 'Engineer' Goes On Sale Today February's issue of the Penn State Engineer will go on sale today at Student Union and the Corner Room, Leon Locke, pub licity director of the publication, announced yesterday. Featured in this month's En gineer are such articles as "Civil Engineer's Summer Camp," a preview of CE 13; "The Oil Busi ness is Far From Old Age," a description of oil extraction pro cesses; "Magnesium," concerning the extration of metal from sea water; the magazine's humor page, "Sly-Drools;" and a photo page. Late AP News, Courtesy WMAJ Vandenberg Drops Demand WASHINGTON— Senator Ar thur Vandenberg dropped his demand for a reduction in Mar shall Plan aid. He made this clear today after Overseas Aid Chief Paul Hoffman argued that no reduction is possible. Bulgarian Trials SOFIA—F if teen Protestant ministers and church officials, charged with treason, espionage and black-market money deal ings, will go on trial Feb. 25. Army Ultimatum BERLIN The United States Army has given a Soviet re patriation mission until March 1 to leave the American zone in Germany. Science Vs. Measles WASHINGTON Medical re searchers think they may have a chemical weapon to use against measles. Aureomycin, the "gold en drug," cuts down fever and speeds up recovery. Blue Key Names Date for Dance Blue Key, junior men's hat so ciety, will hold its annual dinner dance on March 5, according to an announcement made by Bill Shade, society president, at the group's meeting on Tuesday night. The formal affair will be held at the State College Hotel with Pat Patterson's orchestra furnish ing music for dancing. "TOR A BETTER PENN STATE" STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1949 Book Receipts Veterans' book receipts must be turned into the Bursar's office in Old Main before noon Saturday in order to have the money refunded in the first accounting. Richard Bake r, Coordinator of Veterans Af fairs, expects the receipts to be processed and refunds made about March 22. Payments on receipts turned in after Sat urday will be made at a later date. School Offers Foreign Study Qualified students working for credit will have the opportunity of attending three educational centers in Europe this summer for a six week session sponsored by the New School of Social Re search. Students will work in an Eng lish industrial town, Paris and in Annecy, Switzerland under lead ing American scholars. They will be assisted by European profes sors in courses of economics, his tory and political science dealing with the countries visited. Estimated cost of the trip is $5OO. Veterans may use GI Bill payments to cover part of their expenses. Because of the large number of applications, interested persons are requested to write at once to the 1949 Summer Session in Eu rope, New School, 66 West 12th street, New York 11, N. Y. Men Debaters Meet Vermont In Two Verbql Battles Men's Debate Team will engage in two debates with the Uni versity of Vermont at 7:30 p.m. today. Both debates will be on the same topic, "Federal Aid to Education." Robert W. Houseworth and David. Schmuchler will take the affirmative against the Vermont negative in 316 Sparks, while in 304 Sparks Lee Burns and John P. Meszaras will be upholding the negative against the Vermont af firmative. Four Men Men's Debate will send four men to Pittsburgh this weekend to participate in the Mount Mercy Debate Tournament. An affirma tive team composed of John H. Kelley and Peter M. Giesev and a negative team, Richard K. Hill and David M. Barron, will take part in the event, engaging in four debates each. The topic again will be "Federal Aid to Ed ucation." Defeated Navy Last Friday Penn State defeat ed the U. S. Naval Academy in an intercollegiate debate. Penn Staters Richard K. Hill and David M. Barron, who took the affirma tive on "Federal Aid to Educa tion," were victorious over the two midshipmen who last year won the title of "Grand National Debating Champions." Borough Changes . Traffic Rules State College borough officials today announced a change in the new traffic regulations. Because of the confusion re ported at the intersection of Beaver avenue and Frazier street, Beaver will be returned to through street status at this intersection and the stop sign will be moved from Beaver to Frazier. Frazier is one-way with traffic traveling north. Toil-Worn Chimes Refuse To Toll • Class Time It was noon on the campus and everyone was waiting waiting for the familiar toll of the Old Main chimes to signify the pass ing of another morning. But the chimes did not sound, and for the first time in over a decade the clock in the bell tower suffered a major breakdown and the chimes were silent. Diagnoses Trouble Hal Byers, foreman at the pow er plant, diagnosed the trouble as a broken shaft and bearing. "The broken part is less than an inch , in length," said Byers, "but it's essential to the operation of the clock." The four faces of the clock are the original ones installed in 1904, the pendelum works being re placed in 1929. In 1937 the pre sent electrically-operated works were put in. The chimes, installed by Byers and Jerry Grove, electrician for the College, are amplified by a 150-watt system which in turn is connected to _eight loudspeakers Electric Motor All eight hands of the clock are still operated from a pendulum, but the pendulum is "wound up" by a spring which is in turn wound by a small electric motor. The motor operates for only a few seconds at a time when it is running normally, but it is turned on every minute. If the electric current to the motor is interrupted for Any rea son, the spring will continue to operate the pendelum for as long as two hours. The clock mechanism broke down at 2:35 a.m. Tuesday and a replacement was made at the College. The clock returned to service to sound for the students at one o'clock yesterday after noon. Froth A meeting of Froth editorial assistants will be held in the office at 7:30 p.m. today. Local IZFA Host Seminar Penn State Chapter of the In tercollegiate Zionist Fedbration of America will play host to six other participating colleges at the Upper Pennsylvania subregional seminar of the Mid-Atlantic Re gion to be 'geld at Hillel Founda tion February 25, 26, and 27. Main topic for discussion will be "Pre paration of College Students for Immigration to Israel." Other chapters participating are those at Allentown, Blooms burg, Lewisburg, Lycoming, Scranton, and Wilkes-Barre. They will register their delegates at Hillel Foundation from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m., Friday, February 25. Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn will speak at Friday night services, with Bernard Bezar giving the welcomaig address. Following these services, a script entitled "How the Sabbath Was Seven Minutes Late in Tel Aviv" will be presented, after which there will be a period of Palestinian songs and dances. Chairman of the seminar is Shirley Felman. Other comm,t tees include: planning, Shirley Felman, Bernard Bezar, and Ger ard Wiser; housing, Murray Bernstein and Ruth Lopin; social, Norma Hollander and Julian Goldstein; and luncheon, Debby Sterling. Wave of Violence Breaks on Campus Red enamel was smeared on the Nittany Lion shrine, 15 win-. dows were smashed in unfinished McElwain Hall, 'and eight auto• mobiles were tampered with in a wave of violence at the College late Tuesday night. The damage was estimated at several hundred dollars, and investigation was being conducted yesterday. The painting of the Lion shrine was the second this school year. It was damaged last semester the morning after the Temple-Penn State football game. "Red enamel was still dripping on the paw of the Lion when I discovered the vandalism," Joseph Ammerman of the campus patrol pointed out in the report of the damage. "As I returned from my call at the watertower, I found the enamel was still moist." Ammerman discovered a wet enamel can at the base of the Cabinet Hears Group Reports Reports from the Spring Week Committee, Association of Inde pendent Women Committee and Student Tribunal will be featured in tonight's open meeting of All- College Cabinet in 121 Sparks at 8 o'clock. The meeting, the first of its kind this year, was scheduled so that students could see the work ings of their governing body. A report from the National Student Association, Student Agency Committee, the Intercol legiate Music Festival Committee and appointment of a new mem ber to Tribunal and a chairman to N.S.A. completes the proposed agenda for tonight', meeting. DP Director Talks At Hillel His experiences in Europe as director of Displaced Persons will be the crux of a talk by Harold J. Fishbein, guest speaker at the Hillel Foundation Sabbath Eve services, at 8 p.m. Friday. Recently returned from Ger many, Mr. Fishbein was in charge of displaced persons operations in that country from 1945 to 1948, first with UNRRA and then with the International Refugee Organ ization. Responsible for the re placement of many thousands of war refugees, representing some 30 nationalities, he won high praise from military and govern ment officials for his work. General Lucius D. Clay, Ameri can Military Governor of Ger many, wrote Mr. Fishbein: "That you have handled this difficult task for three years with out major incident speaks for itself." During World War II he served two years in the Red Cross field service throughout the South Pa cific battle areas until he joined UNRRA. At present he is com pleting a book on the experiences in Europe which brought him in contact with representati'Tes of all foreign missions as well as thousands of displaced persons. Guest Discovers Home Ec Changed Miss May Hoerner, a guest from Uruguay attending the School of Home Economics pro gram last week, found the new school a great contrast to the home economics course offered in her student days in 1916. At that time home economics was taught in a couple of rooms in Women's Building with a small staff and a limited range of subjects. Miss Hoerner on leave from the Crandon Institute, a private secondary school for girls in Uruguay, was not the only vis itor at the open house from a foreign country. Miss Avice Bow byes of the University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand, was in terested in the school's work in child development and family relationships. She said that these have be e n neglected in her country. WRA Outing Club The regular meeting of the WRA Outing Club will be held in Room 2, White Hall, at 6:45 p.m. today. All prsons interested in joining the club are urged to attend. Can Discovered Lion. The can is being checked for fingerprints. Workmen still must remove enamel from the right side and paw of the Lion. The job will be made easier by a protective coat ing, RIW, which has been placed on the Lion. Transparent Coating After the last disfiguring of the Lion, said George W. Ebert, dir ector of department of physical plant, the Lion was covered by a transparent coating which does not mar its beauty. Members of the campus patrol and State Police are attempting to discover where the enamel was purchased. The enamel comes from the Blue Ribbon Enamel Co., W. Va. Pollock Damage Damage in Pollock Circle in cluded the breaking of eight car aerials, smashing of rear windows and tampering of windshield wipers. Patrolman Ammerman est i - mates that the daubing of the Lion shrine took place about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. Students Attend 3ucknell Confab Ten PSCA members attended the "Marxism" conference con ducted by Alexander Miller at Bucknell last Saturday. Mr. Miller, an Australian so cialist, pointed out sir - ilarities and differences of Christianity and Marxism, stressing the ide ology that both Christianity and communism are intended to help men—to lift them up. He admit ted that the fallacy in commu nism is that God is left out of the picture. The reason there is so muct trouble between Christianity and communism, Miller said, is that Christianity has come to link it self up with capitalism. For in stance, in China, the people think Christianity and capitalism are the same and they hate Christianity because they hate capitalism. Communism of fe r s them something to eat; capital ism offers them nothing. The primary aim of the con ference was to bring to light the distinguishing characteristics and differences of Christianity and Marxism. News Briefs NSA Meeting There will be a meeting of Na tional Studer.t Association in 11 Sparks at 7 p.m. today. A gen eral reorganization of the stu dent government committee and assignments of the international relations and student welfare committees will be discussed. Kappa Phi Kappa Phi, Methodist girls' organization, will hold "open house" in the Methodist church at 7 p.in. today. All girls inter ested in Kappa Phi should come to the meeting. Poetry Reading Any student interested in try ing out for the twentieth annual Intercollegiate Poetry Reading Festival must register in 10 Sparks at 6:45 p.m. today. Per sons not registered will be ineli gible for the tryouts in 121 Sparks at 7 p.m. next Tuesday. Dancing Class The PSCA dancing class will meet at the armory at 6:45 tw• night. Instruction is available for beginners and all members are welcome.
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