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VOLUME 49-NUMBER 32
Allen, Gabriel Nominated
For All-College Prexy
Lions Shelve
Policy Decision
A packed throng in 10 Sparks
heard the name of Theodore Allen
introduced as the Lion party's sole
nominee for All-College presi
dent in preliminary nominations
Sunday night.
Other candidates put up for
nominations are Harry McMahon
and Frank Lucia, All- College
vice-president; James MacCallom,
All-College secretary - treasurer.
James Balog and Bernard Car
beau, senior class president; Jos
eph Reinheimer, senior class vice
president; Loraine Stotler, sen
ior class secretary-treasurer.
Charles Petrie, James Kerkes,
and Harry Kondourajan, junior
class president; Walter Miller and
John Erickson, junior class vice
president; and Janet Moorhead
and Rudolph Valentino, junior
class secretary-treasurer.
All nominations were made
from the floor, the steering com
mittee submitting no recommen
dations of its own.
Pressed for time, acceptance
speeches by the nominees were
delayed until Sunday when final
nominations and elections of Lion
party candidates for the April
elections will be made.
Submission of the party's plat
form for the forthcoming elec
tions was also held over until
Sunday because George Bearer,
head of the policy committee, was
forced to leave State College for
the weekend.
Book Receipts
Available Now
Veterans . who submitted re
ceipts for the first book refund
accounting and who have initials
M-Z may pick up their checks at
the Bursar's Office today. The
first half of the alphabet is
scheduled for tomorrow.
Richard Baker, Coordinator of
Veterans Affairs, has announced
that all receipts for the second ac
counting must be turned in by
noon, March 26. These receipts
will be processed and returns
made in the latter part of next
month.
No refunds will be made at
this time to any whose receipts
are not in acceptable order, and
who will be notified concerning
the details. Veterans whose period
of eligibility expires this semester
before the halfway point will
have their fees and book expen
ditures prorated. The Veterans
Administration will pay the pro
portion of these expenses repre
sented by the amount of eligible
time left relative to the whole
semester.
9 Days to Carnival ,
There may still be nine days
left until the gigantic Spring
Week Carnival, but there is only
one more day left for organiza
tions to enter their booths. After
tomorrow it will be too late and
the unfortunates who did not en
ter will have to stand by and
watch other groups have the fun
and win the prizes.
,Entries must
be in Student Uniort by 5 p.m.
tomorrow.
More entries have been pour
ing in. Chi Omega and Phi Kap
pa Tau will have a side show con
sisting of three to six acts. They
will have a small band and bark
ers to announce to Carnival pa
trons the "oddities which can be
seen inside."
..ICappa Alpha Theta and Phi
Gamma Delta will search deep
into the hidden talents of their
numb= and maw up with a
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1949
State Considers
NSA Resolution
Robert Gabriel, a junior in psy
chology, headed the preliminary
slate of All-College and class of
ficer nominees placed before the
State party at a meeting in 405
Old Main Sunday night.
Gabriel is the clique steering
committee's choice for All-Col
lege president in the elections slat
ed for Apr. 6 and 7. Other steering
committee recommendaitons are
Joel Bachman, All-College vice
president; James Barry, senior
class president; Joel Fleming, se
nior class vice-president; Frances
Eshleman, senior class secretary
treasurer.
David Owen, junior class presi
dent; and Virginia Lee Diver, ju
nior class secretary -t re asur e r ,
John Kraft, Charles Morrison, and
John Meszaros were submitted to
the floor as preliminary nominees
for junior class vice-president
without steering committee re
commendation.
Nominations from the floor add_
ed the names of Shirley Johns to
the junior class secretary-treasur
er post and Sarah Pate and Mar
garet Howe to the list of nomi
nees for senior class secretary
treasurer.
Nominations for all offices are
still open, and final nominations
and elections of candidates will
not be conducted until Sunday
Following the submission of
nominees, Bachman proposed a
resolution • that the "State party
support NSA in its efforts to estab
lish a Campus Chest on the Penn
sylvania State College campus."
There is a strong possibility
that the resolution will be includ
ed
in the clique's platform which
will be introduced on the floor at
the Sundays meeting.
Froth Features
40th Year Issue
Froth's biggest issue of the
year, to be featured in promo
tion as the "Big 40th" Anniver
sary issue, will go on sale next
Tuesday as a feature of the Col
lege's Spring Week festivities.
Included between the covers
will be a complete schedule of
Spring Week activities, a picture
of the Spring Queen, who will be
given the title of Miss Penn State
and entered in the national Miss
American Coed contest, and a
feature story by Tames Dugan,
former Froth editor.
Dugan, who is currently doing
free-lance writing for national
magazines, has been editor of
Yank, the Army weekly, and
Salute magazines.
display of songsters and com
edians.
"Win yourself a pack of cigar
ettes" will be the cry of the Sig
ma Pi's at their cigarette shooting
gallery. Each customer of the
booth will try to knock down a
pack of cigarettes shooting a
popgun loaded with corks.
One shop window will have ex
tra window trimming the day of
the Carnival when Delta Zeta
and Phi Sigma Sigma put on
their "Calendar Comes to Life"
show. Each section of the win
dow will display a girl dressed to
represent a month of the year.
Alpha Zeta will try another
angle of the shooting gallery,
with their "Douse the Dopes"
booth. Three Alpha Zetas will
stand at the rear of the booth
while customers try to hit their
bobbing heads with pistols load
ed with colored water. Prizes
win be awarded for direct hits.
Logan To Speak
On Race Factor
In World Polity
Dr. Rayford W. Logan, head of
the department of History at
Howard University, will speak on
"Race as an International Polit
ical Factor," in Schwab Auditor
ium, 7:30 p. m. Friday.
Dr. Logan is an internationally
known speaker on Negro-white
relationships. He is special con
sultant on colonial problems to
the United States delegation to the
United Nations. In his lecture
here, he will tie in the interna
tional aspects of the race ques
tion with the local situation.
Author of "The DiOlomatic Re_
lations of the United States with
Haiti," "The Negro and the Post
War World," and "The African
Mandates in respect to Politics,"
Dr. Logan also edits the publi
cation, "What the Negro Wants."
The lecture is open to all stu
dents, faculty and town residents.
Tickets are on sale at Student
Union at $.50, for the lecture
which is sponsored by the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
'Exchange Dinner Week' Begins
With IFC Sponsoring New Plan
Interfraternity Council this week is sponsoring "Exchange Din
ner Week" in which men from various fraternities will be dinner
guests at other houses.
The week will serve as a trial for future exchange dinner
;o effect under a scheduled system.
Twenty-seven fraternities will
participate in the trial. They have
been divided into nine sections
of three groups each. The three
houses in each group will spon
sor exchange dinners during the
week.
plans which soon are to be put in
Moon Determines
Easter Sunday
Celebration
One hundred Chirty one years
ago today Christians throughout
the land were celebrating Easter.
Due to the dependency of the date
of this holiday on the behavior Of
the moon, March 22 is the earliest
possible date on which it can
occur.
April 25 is the latest possible
date on which the festival can fall
This happened for the first and
only time in the twentieth cen
tury in 1943.
Easter is the Sunday following
the Pascal full mc.on on or after
March 21. Thomas Jefferson's
birthday, Wednesday April 13, is
the date astronomers have agree(j
on for the full moon governing
the holiday this year.
Five O'Clock Theatre
"West End Express" by Tim
othy Hayes, will be presented
by the Five O'Clock Theatre
in the Little Theatre, Old
Main. this afternoon.
The cast includes Charles
Bartsch, Shirley Betts, Olivia
Crider, Francis Fatale, and
Thomas Lyon.
Seniors Approve Three
Class Gift Suggestions
Gould Directs
Band Festival
Morton Gould, eminent Amer
ican composer and conductor, will
direct the second Intercollegiate
State Band Festival scheduled for
March 24, 25, 26 at the State
Teachers College, Indiana, Pa.
Gould will be assisted in his
conducting of the 135 piece Inter_
collegiate Band representing
twenty-two Pennsylvania Col
leges by C. David McNaughton,
band director at Indiana State
Teachers College, W. Valgene
Routch of the Lock Haven State
Teachers College music faculty,
and R. Leslie Sauders of Lebanon,
president of the Pennsylvania
Music Educators Association.
Radio Concerts
Two concerts performed by the
Intercollegiate Band will be
broadcast over Radio Station
WDAD at Indiana Friday, March
25, 3 to 3:45 p. m. and Saturday,
March 26, from 8:30 to 9:30 p. m.
Both concerts will originate in the
Indiana State Teachers College
Auditorium. The Saturday even
ing concert will be a feature on
the College Life Series.
Eleven men from the College,
all members of the Blue band, are
participating in the festival.
James Dunlop, orchestra and
band director, will accompany
them and remain at the festival
for the entire time.
PSC Musicians
Franklin Cree, is playing second
flute and piccolo; Eugene Fred
Golla, second cornet; George A.
Kandra, first claarinet; Donald E.
Mattern, second clarinet; Paul
Nippgs, alto clarinet; Robert
Manning, first French horn; Sam
uel C. Rice, third clarinet; Wayne
S. Rockwell, E-flat bass tuba;
Frank M. Rupp, tenor saxophone;
Grant Thompson, alto clarinet;
and John Y. Wills, 111, second alto
saxophone.
See editorial. page 2.
Minimum of Five
Each fraternity in a section will
exchange a minimum of five men
or a maximum of eight men with
each of the other two fraternities.
The actual number of men ex
changed will be decided by each
section.
In addition to the dinner, each
house will be responsible for an
after dinner speaker, or if one is
not available, some other type of
entertainment, such as football
movies.
To help social chairmen obtain
good speakers and worthwhile
subjects, an IFC and AFC (Asso
ciation of Fraternity Counsellors)
have set. up a carefully planned
and selected list of speakers
which includes campus profes
sors and coaches.
These speakers have been con
tacted personally and have agreed
to co-operate with the program.
To prevent speakers from being
inconvenienced by too many
phone calls, Jack Ernst, Kappa
Sigma, will act temporarily as a
centralized speaker's bureau.
Exchange Dinners
The following fraternities will
'xchange dinners this week. Sec
tion 1, Sigma Phi Sigma. Delta
Theta Sigma, Phi Sigma Kappa;
Continued (ni page eight
Selected List
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Seniors approved three gilt
suggestions and rejected three
others at a meeting in Schwab
auditorium Sunday night. Only
62 of the approximately 2,000 stu
dents eligible to attend were
present.
Recommendations that, th*
fund be used for a student press,
as capital for the student co-op,
or to erect a memorial gate at the
corner of Pollock road and Ath
erton street were approved by
seniors in the auditorium and will
be voted for April 4,5, and 6 at
Student Union.
$2,000 Ceiling
A ceiling of $2,000 was placed
on the student co-op proposal,
making it necessary that any sen
ior voting for that suggestion also
vote for one of the other two to
absorb the remainder of the ap
proximately $B,OOO.
For the second straight year the
suggestion that the fun be set
aside for a stu-
dent press wa s
accepted. If
;, ap
proved, the fund
0 , will be merged
with last year's
00 gift fund to
vide $14,000 of
„ the more than
4; V $25,000 neces.
sary to establish
' --== the press.
t o trg2. The suggestion
that the senior
Terry R u hi man class gift fund
be used to estab
lish a memorial gate was a last
(Continued on wage eight)
College Heads
To Lay Sites
Cornerstone ceremonies at the
Plant Industries building, Willard
Hall, and the Mineral Sciences
building will be held Friday,
March 25. Ceremonies will begin
at 4:10 p.m. at the Plant In
dustries building, located across
from the dairy barns on Ag hill.
James Milholland, acting Presi
dent of the College, will preside,
with Dean Lyman Jackson of the
School of Agriculture and Mr. K.
S. Bagshaw of the Board of Trus
tees also taking part.
The official party will move to
Willard Hall, on Pollock road,
where President Milholland will
introduce Admiral Behrend of the
Department of Property and Sup
plies of Pennsylvania. Mrs. J. M.
Willard, widow of Professor Wil
lard, for whom the building is
named, will take part in the cere
mony.
The concluding ceremony will
be held at the Mineral Science::
building. Dean Edward of the
School of Minreal Industries will
present J. B. Morrow, Vice-presi.
dent of the Pittsburgh Consolidat
ed Coal Co., and President of the
Bituminous Research Institute.
At 6 p.m. Frida the annual
student-faculty di' .er of the
School will be held i the Nittany
Lion Inn as part of the construc
tion ceremonies.
Glenn Miller Dance
Moonlight serenaders, nostalgic
for their bobby socks days, will
have a chance to recapture a bit
of the past at the Cwens Glenn
Miller record dance in the TUB
from 9 to 12 p.m. Friday.
To make the flashback to days
of noon dances in the high school
gym convincing, the appropriate
costum efor the evning will be
sweaters and skirts and, of
course—bobby socks. A photo
grapher will be on hand to take
pictures of the Miller fans. '
Proceeds from the dance win
go to WSSF. Tickets at $1 a
couple are now on sale at Student
Union.
8-X Special
Legal size. extra long clip
boards selling for 25 cents are
the special at the B-X this
week. Store hours remain 9
to 5 including the lunch hour.