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28 Killed in Western Plane Crash
As Day's Air Deaths Total 73
LOS ANGELES A second air tragedy yesterday took the
lives of at least 28 persons when a cut-rate transcontinental plane
crashed in the mountains 25 miles west of Los Angeles. Twenty
other passengers were injured.
The plane was operated by the Trans-National Airlines, whose
Los Angeles representative is the Standard Airlines Company of
Long Beach, California. The
Standard Company had been
ordered to end its business be
lore July 21 because of violations
of Federal regulations.
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UN Reporters Killed
LAKE SUCCESS The Acting
Secretary-General of the United
Nations, Byron Pike, issued a
statement expressing the deep
sense of shock and grief ? t UN
headquarters over the Bombay
air disaster yesterday.
Price declared that among the
dead were newsmen who were
esteemed as friends and valued
for their work in covering the
United Nations.
Thirteen American news cor
respondents perished in the plane
crash which killed a total of 45
persons. The American newsmen
were on their way home from
a six-week tour of Ondonesia
when their big Dutch Airlines
plane crashed while trying to
land at a Santa Cruz airfield in
India.
President's Aid Refused
WASHINGTON—Big steel has
rejected President Truman's pro
posal for a fact-finding board to
help avert a nation-wide steel
strike set for this weekend. The
United States Steel Corporation
said the proposals failed to meet
the requirements of the Taft-
Hartley law.
World's Largest Water Tunnel
above, after workmen had finished the tack capacity of the funnel is about 100,000 gallons.
welding on it and before construction of the It stands nearly 100 feet in length. about 32
brick building which will house the gigantic feet high. The tunnel is located on Route 322
tunnel was started. When the building is corn- near the golf course and new Foods buildings.
Force to Speak
On Teacher, Family
The possibilities of teaching
family living through regular
school subjects will be the sub
ject of a talk at the College by
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Force, of the
department of family relation
ships, Toms River (N.' J.) High
School, in Room 3, Carnegie
Hall, at 11 o'clock this morning.
Mrs. Force's lecture, entitled
"The Teacher and the Family,"
is the ninth in the annual series
sponsored by the College's Penn
sylvania Workshop. It will be
open to the public.
A native of New Jersey, Mrs.
Force was graduated from the
Montclair, N. J., Normal School
in 1924, and received the degrees
of bachelor of science and mas
ter of arts in 1939 and 1947 from
New York University. She also
studied under scholarships at
Mills College, Oakland, Cal.
Dodds, Padgett
Talk on Nutrition
Dr. Mary L. Dodds and Ina
Padgett, professors of foods and
nutrition at the College, will
speak in 14 Home Economics at
4:30 this afternoon, on "Recent
Developments in Nutrition."
The lecture, one of the series
of the Home Economics Forum
at the College, will be open to
the public.
Amy L. Gardner, professor of
home art, originally scheduled to
present the lecture tomorrow, will
speak on August 3 on the sub
ject, "Using What You Have."
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Discussion Pane
The darkly painted picture of
job opportunities and placement
today isn't as desperate as re
ports might lead one to believe,
a five-man discussion panel told
the Pennsylvania Workshop group
at the College yesterday.
Led by Dr. Leonard Miller,
Pugh Memorial
Closes Friday
The Evan Pugh Memorial Ex
hibit, which has been on display
ilt the foyer of the Central Li
brary at the College since May 25,
will close Friday, according to
Mrs. Abie H. Cromer, curator of
the Penn State Room and arrang
er of the exhibit.
Tracing the influence of Pugh,
the College's first president, on
the development and expansion
of the institution, the display
commemorates the 90th anniver
sary of the arrival of the first
students at the College in Feb
ruary, 1859. Pointing out that in
addition to being one of the out
standing educators of his day
Pugh was also a leading scientist,
the display includes sections con
taining scientific instruments
used in research, and experimen
tation charts presented in Europe.
A farm diary in another case
includes a record of the first
student arrivals, the laying of the
first stones for the original Old
Main, and student labor details.
Architectural drawings for the
first administration building are
also included, along with Pugh's
suggested changes, and one case
portrays early student life and
customs.
Numerous letters are also dis
played, among which is one from
Pugh to Hugh N. McAllister, one
of the founders of the College, in
which the first president refuses
a high governmental position,
vowing to remain with the Col
lege.
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Reports
chairman of the United States
Office of Education, the panel
concluded that the "job for every
graduate" era has definitely pass
ed, that employers are becoming
increasingly discriminating i n
their choice of workers, and that
getting a job is depending more
and more on proper application
procedure.
With 3,800,000 Americans now
unemployed, according to panel
member James Hite, labor market
analyist in this district, and with
5,000,000 as the established dan
ger point, the number of un
skilled workers being hired to
day is decreasing. And with war
time expansion no longer a factor
in employment, job possibilities
must now rely on normal labor
turnover.
Fewer Grads Sought
According to George N. P.
Leetch, director of the College
placement service, 25 to 30 per
cent fewer college graduates, on
an average, were sought this year
by employers. Early self-analysis,
said Leetch, is a must today if
the labor neophyte is to find pro
per employment. Leetch also em
phasized the increasing demand
for people with graduate degrees
to fill the ever-broadening fields
of research.
Dr. Urwin Rowntree, professor
of industrial education, said that
manufacturing and utilities are
demanding an increasing number
of workers, with a correspond
ing decrease in the field of agri
culture. The farm today accounts
for only 18 percent of the labor
market, compared with 54 per
cent in 1870. And, if predictions
are correct, the percentage of
agricultural workers will have
dropped to 13 in a few years,
with that small group entirely
capable of sustaining the rest of
the nation.
Teacher Placement
From the educational point of
view, said Walter Kearney, direc
tor of the College teacher place
ment service, the elementary
teacher's possibilities of finding
a job far outshine those of the
secondary teacher. In quoting
figures for the College's teacher
placement following graduation
this year, Kearney stated that
out of 41 elementary graduates,
22 have been placed to date. How
ever, of 165 graduates in the
secondary curriculum, only 16
have found employment.
In summing up the employ
ment situation, Dr. Miller at
tributed the lack of jobs to two
reasons: the increase in the labor
force without expansion in in
dustry, and the fact that the
number of part-time workers who
wish fulltime employment has
risen by 1,000,000 in recent
months.
Vocational education today,
added Dr. Miller, is a vital factor
to be considered by the individual