S&tUj Caltpgimt “FOB A BETTER PENN STATE" -* VOLUME 49—NUMBER 66 BX Closes at Noon; Refunds Due Patrons The Student Book Exchange, located in the TUB, will close for the semester at noon today. Refunds amounting to twenty per cent of the original purchase price will be refunded to students upon presenting their receipts at the exchange next week, from 2-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. • Lee Burns, chairman of the board of control for the exchange, said yesterday that according to present plans the book exchange will not be open during the sum mer sessions. Operation will re sume early in the fall semester. “The exchange has made an ex cellent beginning, but there are many goals still to be attained,” said Burns. “It has more than justified its creation because of the cooperation of the student body, members of the board of control and the Book Exchange Committee.” Books and supplies have been sold during the semester at pre vailing prices. Students benefit through the refunding process beginning next week and also because of the campus location of the exchange. “Only if students take advan tage of the rebates will the book exchange realize its value as a service to them,” said Burns. The exchange, which has now been in operation nearly a sem ester, was started through capital "obtained from All-College Cab inet. A financial report will be made public as soon at it is com pleted next week. Joanne Hobbs, chairman of the Book Exchange Committee and secretary of the board of control, has been active in making a suc cess of the exchange. Other members of the committee are Nancy Cray, Dorothy Coon, Rich ard Evans, Virginia Francis, John Hunter and Albert Sheinfeld. Edmund Walacavage has served as treasurer of the board, and other members include Ted Allen, George Bearer and William Ren shaw. Shaheen Gives Chapel Sermon The Rev. Raymond Shaheen, pastor of Messiah’s Evangelical and Lutheran Church of South Williamsport, will be the guest speaker at the 11 a. m. Chapel service in Schwab Auditorium tomorrow. He will deliver a ser mon based on the Latin expres sion “ Ecce Homo,” (Behold the Man). The Chapel Choir, under the direction of Mrs. Willa Taylor and accompanied by George Ceiga at the organ, will present the athem, “Hear My Supplica tion” by Arkhangelsky. Gala Spirit Invades Campus For Windcrest Carnival Today “Carnival spirit” will be in the air again when the Windcrest Carnival gets under way at 2:30 this afternoon. Site of the festival is the parking lot behind McElwain Hall, and the merrymaking will last until midnight. Sponsored by Windcrest Council and “Windcrest Wives,” the carnival is an effort to raise money for the Centre County Cancer Fund. Entertainment for the affair in cludes a merry-go-round and fer ris wheel for the children, a tar get game using ping-pong balls fired from a gun, a “goofy golf” game, a fish pond, penny pitch, and horse racing. There will also be bingo. Game winners will have prizes to choose from; and pop, hot dogs, ice cream, and candy will be sold to the “hungry ones.” Chances on a food mixer and a baby stroller are now being sold. The drawing is scheduled for 11:30 p.m., and the winner does not have to be present. Chairman of the event is Mrs. Henry Fiehler. Her assistants are Ann Bernacky, Helen Cruney, Letty Heckman, Lotty Klemie, Clara Meek, and Natalie Wind bourne. The necessary mgtertato for STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1949 Ticket Blanks For Army Tilt Ready at SU Deadline for Mailing Blanks Set for Aug. 15 Special student application blanks for tickets to the Army- Penn State football game at West Point, October 1, 1949, will be available beginning Jlonday morning at the Athletic Associa tion ticket office and Student Union in Old Main. Students at the College may pick up the blanks anytime until the end of the semester, Harold R. Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics, stated yesterday. Gilbert also explained: “Orders will be filled numerically in the order received. Students wishing to sit together should send in ap plication blanks pinned together.” Deadline for mailing student application blanks will be August 15. Price per ticket will be $4.00, and each student may apply for one or two tickets A handling charge of 25 cents will be added to each order to cover cost of printing and prepa ration of application blanks, post age, special delivery, and other items. Student tickets for the Army game will be mailed by special delivery September 19 to the proper address indicated by each student on the application blank. Traffic Police To Attend School The Ninth Annual Traffic Offi cers Training School will open at the College campus on Monday and will last for two weeks, until May 27. Th e program is designed to acquaint municipal traffic pol icemen better with their jobs and with problems connected with it. Representatives of the Penn sylvania State Police and the Northwestern University Traffic Institute will present lectures and practical demonstrations. the carnival are being provided by the town merchants. Alpha Fire Co. is lending the stands and bingo equipment. Coed Chosen Rifle Queen Phi Kappa Psi fraternity has elected Jacob Thomas president for the fall semester. Other Phi Psi officers will be Clarence Whit low, vice-president; Curtis Wess ner, corresponding secretary; Richard Ford, recording secre tary; Harold Ludwig, historian; Walter Vilsmeier, messenger; Thomas Kelley, chaplain; Thomas Robinson, sergeant-at-arms; and Harold Ludwig, house manager* He Forgot Prof Loans Car, Reports It Stolen Police in all parts of the state, New England and several states south of Pennsylvania were alert ed. A member of the College fac ulty was missing his car and had reported it as stolen Thursday afternoon. State police at the Pleasant Gap sub-station and Rockview Bar racks went to work on the case. Descriptive information and the license number of the car were flashed from Rockview over a teletype network covering nine states. Then another call was received from the professor and the gener al alarm was cancelled. Another absent-minded professor story was in the making as the faculty member sheepishly admitted that he had just remembered having loaned the car to someone. It wasn’t reported whether the professor remembered who had borrowed the car. LA Council Collects Data On Lake Plan §ee Editorial on page 2 Facts are being collected on St proposed artificial lake which would be located two miles northeast of State College, ac cording to Richard Shultz, chair man of the recreational lake pro ject committee of the Liberal Arts Student Council. “Aerial photographs have been taken, average rainfall is being determined and geological tests taken of the area considered for the lake,” Shultz said. Site of the proposed lake, which would provide recreational facilities for students and towns people, is at the junction of Cedar Run and Slab Cabin Creek, almost at the edge of the Col lege hog farm, in the direction of Bellefonte. About two-thirds of a square mile would be in undated, according to Shultz. Part of the land in question is owned by the College and part b y individuals, Shultz said. “Photographs are being taken to determine how much land would have to be purchased for the lake, a geological survey has shown that the area will hold water, and steps are being taken to draw up a cost estimate of building a dam,” he said. Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ House Group Okays Pay Bill WASHINGTON—The House Armed Services Committee has approved a military pay bill that would end bonuses for service at sea and in foreign countries, dis continue family allowances for military men, and replace the present practice of boosting pay by five per cent for each three years of service. Instead there would be automatic pay increases at each level with a definite maximum for each grade. The bill also would provide pay raises, skipping only the lowest enlisted grade. Men at the second lowest level would gain two dollars a month and the boosts would increase up the scale with generals and admirals getting about a fifty per cent itals. Beaver House Maid Killed on Highway Mrs. Edna Mattern, maid at the Beaver House, was struck by a car and killed near Skytop on Route 322 about 3:30 p. m. yesterday. Mrs. Mattern lived in Port Matilda R. D. State police are investigating the accident Bedenkmen Garner 9th, Blank Panthers, 5-0 Although out-hit by a game Pittsburgh nine, Penn State's baseball team, behind the shutout hurling of A 1 Tkac, garnered its seventh straight success and ninth win in ten starts yesterday after noon on New Beaver Field. The score of the contest was 5-0. Today at 2:30 p.m., the Lions go after win number ten when they tangle with the Skyscraper U. .crew again. Cy Miller, holder Tosses Sfwtout A 1 Tkac Neff, Schlegel To Give Recital Janet Neff, soprano, and Floyd Schlegel, organist, will give a re cital in Schwab Auditorium at 4 p. m. tomorrow afternoon. Both soloists are students in the de partment of music. Mr. Schlegel will open the pro gram with Bach’s “Prelude and Fugue in G Major,” after which Miss Neff accompanied by Doro thy Cornell will present three numbers. She will sing “An Die Music”, “Der Shmetterling”, and “Rastlose Liebe, all by Schu bert. Mr. Schlegel will play two other compositions: “Vater Un ser”, Mendelssohn’s sixth sonata, and “Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart”, by Sowerby. Miss Neff’s concluding songs will be in a lighter vein. They are “St. Agnes Morning” by Co well, “Milkmaids” by Edmunds, and “Deborah” by Bone and Fenton. Student recitals are given Sun day afternoons in an effort to acquaint the student body with some of the talent in the music department. Miss Neff is a junior, and Mr. Schlegel is a senior in the department. NSA Chapter Plans to Send Delegates to National Congress National Student Association will hold its second National Stu dent Congress at the University of Illinois from August 24 to Sep tember 3. At the last meeting of the cai chairman, presented the names of be approved by All-College Cabin A major feature of the Congress wil be a national laboratory for the development of student gov ernment leaders. In the Student Government Personnel Training program the problems of student apathy, running an effective pro gram, getting committees to pro duce, and student government finances will be tackled. In informal round tables, com mittees and plenary sessions dele gates will develop policies and programs on major student prob lems for the coming year. Mat ters to be considered include a number of important issues: The Student Bill of Rights, Commun ism and Education, Federal Aid to Education, International Stu PRICE FIVE CENTS of a 4-and-l record, will pitch for the Bedenkmen. Except for the frequent wild ness of Pitt twirler Rudy Hudec, yesterday’s game displayed signs of being a pitchers’ battle. The Nittanies could muster only five hits off the slow curve slants of the Panther righthander, but the eight walks, a balk and a wild pitch that he gave up aided the Blue and White in chalking up five runs. Two Runs Owen Dougherty and Bill On dick scored runs for the State men in the second inning on one hit, Hen Albright’s ringing single over short. When Lewis bobbled the ball momentarily in left field, Ondick followed Dougherty across home plate. Dick Wertz tallied for the win ners in the third frame without a hit. He walked, went around to third on Dougherty’s roller to short, and scored when Petrosky threw wild past third. In the seventh inning, Joe Tocci singled, stole second, went to third on a fielder’s choice and scored when Ford threw into the dirt on an attempted double play on Dougherty. Dougherty got to Continued on page three Ticket Sale Continues Tickets are still available at Student Union for the “Goethe in Song” program being present ed in Schwab Auditorium at 8 p. m. Monday. Sponsors of the event are the departments of music and German and the Chapel Choir. The price is 55 cents for stud ents and 85 cents for others. Doors will open at 7:30 p. m. Miss Barbara Troxell, soprano, and Paul King, baritone, will present musical compositions bas ed on the poems of Johann Wolf gang von Goethe. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth, and the pro gram has been designed to dem onstrate the effect his philosophy and works have had in the de velopment of music. Miss Troxell and King will ap pear as guest soloists with the Chapel Choir Wednesday night in its presentation of Brahms’ Requiem. There is no admission charge for this concert, but those wishing to attend must obtain tickets at Student Union. mpus chapter of NSA, Ernest Oit, : five possible delegates who must L et before a final list is released. dent Relations, Discrimination in Education, Student Welfare, the Role of the Student in Education and in Public Affairs. Delegates will choose one of the following commissions in which to serve for the duration of the Congress: Student Life and Student Government. Education al Problems, International Af fairs, Administration, Finance and Public Relations. The partial list of those NSA members who will attend the Regional Convention in Philadel phia on June lti, 17 and 18 in cludes Joel Bachman, Isobel Ore'" Virginia Hartman and Ern est Ott
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