f nT ®lt£ HatUj (EtfUtfgt&tt TOR A BETTER PENN STATE" J VOLUME 49—NUMBER 69 PNPA to Honor State Newsmen At Conference Publishers To Hear Group Discussions The Pennsylvania Newspaper Publisher’s Association will honor more than 50 Pennsylvania newsmen for outstanding writ ing when the association meets here tomorrow and Saturday. Editorial excellence in news and editorial columns will win of ficial recognition. _ Certificates will be awarded to first and second place winners in each of nine classifications at the informal dinner scheduled for the Nittany Lion Inn tomor row night. Gus Steinmetz, for mer editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph and committee chair man, will make the awards. The contest is an official part of the editorial conference held annually by the PNPA in co operation with the College journalism department. This year, entries numbered more than 1,000 of which approximately 50 will be singled out for general excellence. Serving on the judging com mittee with Steinmetz are Arthur G. Burgoyne, veteran newspaper man of Philadelphia and Pitts burgh, and Walter D. Ross, for many years a Capitol Hill cor respondent at Harrisburg. Like awards will be made to news papers with circulations above 15,000 and for newspapers with circulations under 15,000. Because of the high quality of the articles, the judges already have decided to list eight honor able mentions under each of the nine classifications. The classifi cations, which are the same in both divisions, are editorial, local column, municipal or county government, court coverage, hu man interest, news story in the field of women’s activities, sports event news story, spot news story, and public service cam paign or cursade series. Labor news, editorial page pro blems and policies, and the news paper’s responsibilities to local government will be discussed during the conference sessions. Prominent Pennsylvania news papermen will be the speakers. At the Friday night dinner P. D. Fahnestock, of the Economic Cooperation Administration, will speak on the “Marshall plan in Action.” A business session will be held Saturday to consider or ganization of a Pennsylvania So ciety of Newspaper Editors. Poland Asks Eisler Case Query by UN LiM AP News Courtesy WMAJ LAKE SUCCESS—Poland’s UN delegate has demanded the case of Gerhart Eisler be brought be fore the world group before it Industrial Parley Holds Last Session The final meeting of the 25th annual Industrial Conference, un der the sponsorship of the-School of Engineering of the College, will be held in the Parrot room of the Nittany Lion Inn at 9:30 a. m. today. C. E. Bullinger will preside over the session which will have as its topic “Post-College De velopment of the Young Engin eer," with A. C. Monteith of the Westinghouse Electric Corpora tion discussing the subject from the viewpoint of industry, and H. P. Hammond, dean of the School of Engineering approach ing it from the viewpoint of the MINfM* STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1949 Interplayers Open In New Theatre This year, college and univer sity students will have an oppor tunity to see the Interplayers, ex perimental theatre group, in their own new, air conditioned theatre in famed Carnegie Hall, New York. The Interplayers’ productions are said to be of special interest to students since the group con centrates on piays which do not run on Broadway or in the “run of-the-mill little theatre houses.’’ “Within the Gates,” “The Infern al Machine,” and “The Dog Be neath the Skin” are among last season’s productions. One of the group chief aims now is to reduce the price of ad mission even lower than thus far possible "in order to put their plays within the reach of all stu dents. 4300 Summer Students Enroll Enrollment for the summer ses sions has reached over 4300 reg istrants, Dr. Palmer C. Weaver, assistant director of summer ses sions, announced yesterday. Dr. Weaver pointed out that this number included students who are registered for more than one session and who, thus, are counted sis two or three regis trants. Last year, a total of 9,220 reg istrants was recorded for the three sessions. Though the fig ures for this year will not be complete until after final phase registrations, Dr. Weaver ex plained, it is expected that the enrollment will fall below that of last year. This is the 40th year in which summer sessions have been held at the College, the first having been held in 1910. Inter-session will run from June 7 to June 24, Main Session from June 27 to Aug. 6, and Post session from Aug. 8 to Sept. 17. Courses are listed in the summer sessions time table, copies of which are available at the sched uling office. Students may register for any session, all sessions, or any com bination of sessions. No general limitations will be placed on summer sessions enrollments, but registrations will be restricted to previously determined maxi mums in most sections of particu lar courses. Registration day for the Inter session is June 7, 8 a.m. to 12 (Continued on page eight) enters its summer recess. It is charged Eisler’s arrest aboard the Polish liner Batory is a viola tion of human rights and the right of exile. Eisler jumped bail in the United States when he stowed away on the liner bound for Eng land. He was picked up by British officials. FDR Jr. Greeted WASHINGTON Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. has been welcom ed to the nation’s capital, after his win in the election to fill the late Sol Bloom’s House of Rep resentatives seat, as one more vote to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. This greeting was advanced by CIO official Jack Kroll. Democratic officials, too, join ed in congratulating the son of the late president when they ap parently forgave the young win ner for opposing the Tammany- Democratic candidate in New York’s 20th district. Summer Includes State College Air Stop OK If Field Good Robert M. Love, president of All American Airways, an nounced today from Washington, D. C., that State College will have- its airline stop next month if the necessary improvements to the field are completed. This announcement, following one last week to the same ef fect by Halsey R. Bazley, vice president of All American, as sures a stop at the State College Air Depot on the airline’s Pitts burgh-New York route. However, improvements to the field, including lengthening of the runway and burial of high tension wires to meet CAA re quirements, must be completed by June 9 or 13. Work on extend ing the runway was started on Monday and all improvements are expected to be completed within three weeks. The airport situation became sornewhat cloudy on Monday when a representative of the Black Moshannon Airport ap peared before State College coun cil and asserted flatly that the Air Depot would not be used. It became even blacker when a Philipsburg representative stated on higher authority that the Al bert Airport in Clearfield County had been selected. However Love’s announcement cleared this up when he stated that the Albert site was only temporary in case the State Col lege Air Depot was not complet ed. Dean George L. Haller, head of the school of Chemistry and Phy sics, is chairman of the council’s airport committee. Blanks Mailed For Grid Tickets Application blanks for the 1949 season football tickets were placed in the mail early this week for faculty and employees of the College. The tickets, priced at $9.60 each, including federal tax, en title the owner to reserved seats for four home games. They are Villanova, Boston College, Oct. 8; Nebraska, Oct. 15; and Syra cuse, Oct. 23. Tickets will be allocated from the goal line to the 35-yard line in the west stands, H. R. Gil bert, graduate manager of athle ics at the College, announced. Gilbert also pointed out that applicants will have a chance to state a preference as to the ap proximate row desired. The number of tickets will be limited to two, but persons de siring to sit together may file their application blanks attached. Additional tickets for individual games will not be alloted ad jacent to season tickets. Tickets are. not returnable and no refund will be made, Gilbert explained. The sale will be conducted by mail, thus eliminating lines at the ticket office. Tickets will be mail ed about September 1. News and Features All College Constitution printed Page 3 State Tops Bucknell Diamond Crew Page 4 Co-eds Indicate Not Desir- ing Little Sisters... Page 7 Windcrest Battles Speed ing Page 8 Delta Upsilon Wins IM Track Page 4 Artists Series Six Programs Jean Murai's Appearance In June Will Open Events In Schwab Six programs, four in the main session and one each in the inter- and post-sessions, are included in the 1949 Summer Artists Series to be presented in Schwab Auditorium during the summer sessions. Jean Murai’s appearance June 15, during the inter-session, wifi open the series. Miss Murai will present a program entitled “Folk Brenner Wins Speech Award Marlin Brenner, a sophomore in Commerce and Finance, re ceived the first prize award of $5O plus a certificate of merit for his speech, “An Accident of Birth,” in the John Henry Friz zell Extempore Speaking Con test held in 10 Sparks at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday. Second award honors of $25 and a certificate of merit went to Christine Altenburger, junior in Arts and Letters, for an address entitled “There Are Five Letters in Life,” The judges of the contest were Prof. Joseph F. O’Brien, head of the speech department and chair man of the contest, and other members of the faculty of the department. Brenner’s prize-winning speech discussed the racial question and proposed several answers to racial prejudice. He won the Pennsylvania State College Prize and the John Henry Frizzell Award of Merit in Extempore Speaking. Christine Altenburger’s five letters in life spelled FAITH, and the individual letters stood for friends, affection, interest, the ology, and happiness. The second prize award was the Forensic Council Prize and the John Henry Frizzell Award of Merit in Extempore Speaking. The contest, which is over 50 years old, was formerly known as the Junior Oratorical Contest, the Sophomore Extemporaneous Speaking Contest, and the All- College Extemporaneous Speak ing Contest, Now an annual af fair, it is held in honor of Dr. Frizzell, first head of the speech department, who retired in 1946 after more than 45 years of teaching. Other contestants were Francis Fatsie, John Meszaros, Marion Morelli, and James O’Malley. IFC To Sponsor DP Student; Trustees To Waive Tuition The Interfraternity Council last night voted to set aside a hmd of $BOO to support a foreign student at the College for the 1949-’5O school year. The original motion to support the scholar for two years was defeated. Under the new plan, IFC will fully sponsor the stu dent, a displaced person, although several organizations are active in the program, including National Student Association. The proposal was tabled at the last meeting of IFC, so that repre sentatives could consult their re spective houses. At last night’s meeting, Ernest Ott and Joel Bachman, campus NSA commit teemen, clarified several points of the original motion. The most important of these was the an nouncement that the executive committee of the Board of Trus tees has agreed to waive all tui tion and fees. The DP student will, in addi tion, receive resources for books, room and board, and spending money. “These students,’’ said Bach man, “need only a lew months PRICE FIVE CENTS Songs Around the World.” The program, planned on an audi ence-participation basis, will in clude Mexican, South American, French, Palestinian. Yiddish, Russian, English, and American songs. Appearing July 6 as the first main session artist is Evelyn Mac- Gregor, featured soloist on three prominent radio network pro grams. For several years Miss MacGregor was soloist with An dre Kostelanetz. Her program will include concert music, at least one operatic aria, and a number of ballads. A program of both vocal and instrumental music ranging from popular to operatic selections will be presented by the Ambassador Quartet and Swiss Bell Ringers July 12. Among the popular numbers played by this group on the Swiss bells are “Sunday Morning in London” and “Bells of St. Mary.” LaMeri and her ensemble will appear July 20. LaMeri’s chore ography of ‘EI Amor Brujo” has won praise from Spanish author ities who declare it to be the fin est seen in this country. Stow kowski, Fritz Kreisler, and others have praised her original inter pretation of Bach’s music m “Bach-Bharata Suite.” The Ebonaires, featuring a program of songs ranging from spirituals and folk songs to Gershwin, appear in, Schwab, July 28. They have starred in Broadway productions of “Porgy and Bess’’ and “Swing Mikado.” During the post-session, Aug. 16, Guthrie Frye and Sarah Re velle, who have sung in such operas as “Tosca," “Rusticama,” and “Aida.” at Peabody Conser vatory, will present a program of classical, concert, operatic, and modern music. Application blanks for the four main session programs of the Art ist Series can be obtained in the summer sessions office, 102 Bur rowes Building. Tickets for these four are $2.40. to get on their feet. Since they will become citizens, they are allowed to seek employment.” The scholar can obtain work through the Student Work Agency and will join the school health service plan, Bachman said. The DP will be screened by joint committees of World Stu dent Relief, International Refu gee Organization, and three re settlement groups. He will be chosen in Europe for scholastic standing and character. The money for this move will come from profits realized teem the IFC BaC
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