vm Stye Hatttj @ (EoUegtatt TOR A BETTER PENN STATE*’ VOL. 50 NO. 120 Miss Penn State To Reign Over Spring Week College Vot Committee Requests Booth Forms Crowning of a coed from the College as Miss Pehs State of 1950 will provide the Grand Opening of Spring Week, set to begin Wednesday, May 17, it was an nounced by Jack Senior, head of the Spring Week committee. The winner will reign over the Spring Week festivities, includ ing the Spring Carnival and Sen ior Ball. The final judging to de termine Miss Penn State will take place Wednesday night, May 17. The Carnival starts the next after noon. Photos of candidates for Miss Penn State, who will be selected on the basis of beauty and photo genic qualities, may be submitted now by any organization or indi vidual to Student Union desk in Old Main. To Pick 3 Finalists The photos must be at least 5 by 7 in size and must be turned in no later than 12 noon, April 29. Last year’s Miss Penn State was Lois Kenyon, junior in psychol ogy. Three finalists will be deter mined by preliminary judging of the photographs. The three coeds chosen will be judged in person, formally attired, by a board of judges yet to be named by the Spring Week committee. A site for the. final judging has not yet been picked. The cere mony will serve as the formal opening to the Spring Week events, which will continue through Sunday, May 21. Booths Duplicated The Spring Week committee also urged all organizations plan ning to enter a booth in the Carni val to turn in their application as soon as possible. Many applica tions have already been turned in, Senior added, and there have been several duplications. The first booth ideas received are being accepted, and organiza tions with duplications must alter their plans. Booth blanks should be submitted soon enough to give the. sponsoring group plenty of time to alter its booth, if neces sary, before Carnival day, May 18. The deadline for turning in booth blanks is 12 noon, April 29, (Continued on page three) Chapel Choir To Sing 'Elijah' Mendelssohn’s oratorio, “Eli jah," will be presented by the Chapel Choir in Schwab Auditor ium Thursday, April 27, according to Mrs, Willa Taylor, director. The oratorio will begin at 7 p.m. Professional guest artists who will be heard m solo parts are Chester Watson bass-baritone; Barbara Troxell, soprano; Mar garet T jbias, contralto; and Ar thur Bailey, tenor.. The 117-voice choir will include several former members who will participate with the regular group on this occasion. This year will mark the second performance of the oratorio in State College. The first was pre sented by the choir in the Spring of 1948. At that time, Watson and Miss Troxell appeared as soloists. Tickets will not be issued, but a small section of the auditorium will be reserved lor the families of choir members, Mrs. Taylor said. No admission charge. will be made. An offering will be taken, however,.to help defray expenses. AII-CII —Photo byLion Studio ROBERT OAVIS (L) All-Collef" 'sident Debate Team Meets Bucknell An open debate with Bucknell will, be. staged tonight in 121 Sparks at 7:30 o’clock by the Col lege’s men debaters. An affirmative:'.'team of Clair George and Marlin Brenner will defend the College in a debate on the topic of nationalizing non agricultural industries. This will b one of the final debates this year. judges for the contest will be Prof. Lee E. Corter of the politi cal science department, Rev. Ed werth E. Korte of the Lutheran church and Glenn Shaffer, coach of the State College high school debate team. Another debate will be held to-, night at Bucknell. Peter Giesey and Richard Schweiker also of STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1950 the men's debate squad, will make up that team. In regional debate eliminations last weekend at Temple, the men debaters placed fifth in a tourna ment of 22 schools. The first four schools will take part in a final tournament at West Point. The College’s team will compete only if one of the other schools is un able to attend. Famous Grid Quotes "The only thing to fear is the fear of not having a topnoich coach." —F. Roosevelt ng Starts Today —Photo by BHlman BLAIR GREEN (S) All-Colle ideni —Photo by Billman Balloting To Determine College, Class Officers By JACK BODDINGTON The outcome of several weeks’ active political campaign ing is being decided today and tomorrow in the lounge d Old Main where students are casting ballots for all-Collegq senior and junior class, and Athletic Association officers. Biggest question mark is the struggle for the post of all-College president, sought by Blair Green of the Stat« Politicos Call For Big Vote At Final Rally Urge Large Turnout As Campaign Closes Campus politicians running for All-College and class offices in the elections which open today stress ed the importance of getting out the student vote at their final pre election appearance last night. Several hundred students jammed into the Temporary Un ion building as candidates from both the State and Lion parties made their final pleas at a rally sponsored before every election, by The Daily Collegian. Henry “Hank” Glass served as master of ceremonies for the ral ly, which was the last chance the parties had to campaign. How ever, there was little partisanship shown with leading lights of both cliques concentrating on an ap peal to enlarge the percentage of student voters. Students will go to the polls to day and tomorrow to elect officers for All-College Cabinet and the senior and junior classes. Green Blair Green, State candidate for All-College president termed the campaign conducted by both parties a “good, clean campaign,” and said that, if they wanted to get things accomplished, students should turn out and vote. He said that no matter who wins nothing can be accomplished unless the student government has a major ity of the students behind it. Robert Davis, Lion candidate for the same post, stressed the importance of strong student government, adding that Milton S. Eisenhower, president-elect of the College, was a strong believer in student government. Pointing to the 34 per cent turnout at the polls last spring, he termed ‘‘traitors” those students who did not vote. The rally, which began with a dance session, was interrupted before the speeches by a parade of howling members of the Penn State Club, who were being in itiated last night. Seniors May Use $B5OO For Gift Approximately $B5OO will be available for use as a senior class gift, James Balog, class president, announced yesterday. The exact amount will depend on financing for the Senior Ball next month, Balog said. Deadline for selection of a gift is the third week in May. A meet ing of the class is scheduled for next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in 121 Sparks when gift suggestions will be selected for inclusion on a ballot. Six-hundred and seventy Feb ruary graduates have boftn con tacted by rfrnil for suggestions. ; Final decision on the gift will be 1 determined by vote. Today's Weather : Rain and cooler PRICE FIVE CENTS party and Robert Davis of thi Lion clique. A three-way raa for AA president lists Homei Barr, Louis Lamie, and Ri» dolph Valentino as contenders The candidates for All-Collegl and class offices are: ALL-COLLEGE President Robert Davis (Lion) Blair Green (State) Vice-President Harry Kondourajian (Lion) Pelton Wheeler (Slate) Secretary-Treasurer Emerson Jones (Lion) Robert Fast (State) SENIOR CALSS President John Erickson (Lion) Olio Grupp (Slate) Vice-President Wallace Miller (Lion) William Raymond (Stale) Secretary-Treasurer Lois Kenyon (Lion) Jane Ashenfelter (Stale) JUNIOR CLASS President David Mulchler (Lion) Robert Sopper (Stale) Vice-President Donald Carlson (Lion) Edward Clery (State) Secretary-Treasurer Ann Porter (Lion) Eleanor Chanko (Slate) Appeals have been issued throughout the campaign for a bigger student turnout at the polls than ever before, with the two parties asserting that a more ef fective student government can be maintained with evidence of increased, support. The elections committee, too, under chairman. William Shade, has urged that more students exercise their bal loting rights. Party Statements In a statement yesterday, Hugh Stevens, Lion party clique chair (Continued on page eight) Today .. • FOR his proteges, the young wildcats who during the last month have clawed savagely at each other with posters, radio ads, window campaigns, and other weapons of the political jungle. Loving nothing more than a good light, the old growl er settles back with an im patient rumble to watch aB. hie best men win.
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