■S* I iatlu ® (EfllbntcUt I’“^^ TOR A BETTER PENN STATE” VOL. 50 NO. 128 Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ House Group Approves Cuts In Excise Tax Senators Recommend Legalizing Hiring Halls - WASHINGTON The H ou s e Ways and Means committee today voted new excise tax cuts, raising the total reductions to 967-million .dollars so far approved. Night club, taxes were reduced from 20 to 10 per cent, phone taxes; from 15 to 10 on local and 25 to 20 per cent on long distance. Travel tic ket tax was cut from 15 to 10 per cent and ’ domestic telegrams taxes from.2s to 10 per cent. ; All these -cuts face White House veto unless other tax reve nues are found by Congress. Maritime Hiring Halls WASHINGTONr-A study com mittee of the United States Sen ate recommended changing the Taft-Hartley Law to legalize hir ing halls in the maritime industry. Under a supreme court ruling, this is now illegal' under violations of the closed-shop provision of \ the labor act. The proposal now goes to the Senate Labor Committee. Anti-Gambling Law WASHINGTON The Senate committee considering a' nation wide anti-gambling information law heard from an expert today, New York Bpokie Frank Erick son. The latter said he didn’t think a ban on transmitting; gambling information, will do much good. Erickson was reluctant to incrimi nate himself .but , admitted his in come was a net hundred-thousand a year—and that he violates 'the law getting it. The Attorney General of New Jersey was giving the Western Union a chance to stop, making money order bets. Attorney Gen eral Theodore Parsons'said that the telegraph company can either stop . accepting the. gambling orders or face a state investigation of. all its offices. The proposal fol lowed a raid two days ago-and the seizure of more than 200 race bet orders.. , . . Profs To Speak On Europe Tour A.', tea .for those interested; in the College’s European summer seminar will be held in Simmons Hall Lpurige from 3:30 to 5 o’clock this afternoon* ' Professors John H. Ferguson and .R. Wallace Brewster of the political science department and Professor Kent Forster of. the his tory-department will recount some .of .. their experiences in a similar European study group con ducted ; last. year by the New School for Soqial Research, New York.- Acting'as hosts will be mem bers of.the faculty and adminis tration who have organized the seminar and the professors who will be conducting the program in London, Exeter, Montrouge and Paris in July and August. Persons who have already made arrangements to study in Europe this summer, as well as others interested in the seminar, are in vited to attend. EE Senior Wins Prize for Paper . William E, Shaw, a senior in electrical, engineering at the Col lege, has -been named winner of the Student Branch, American Institute of Electrical Engineers prize paper competition. Shaw, whose home is in Con neautvilie, will receive a certifi cate award and $lO at Lafayette College, Easton, where he will again present his paper ' on “Transitors” in the District No. 2, AIEE prize -paper competition •n April and .28. x ■ STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRip 29, 1950 College May Be Site of $ll Million Ordnance Lab Between Scenes . . . . yso». (1) -ieggi . . scenes of "Yes, My Darling Daughter," current Players' production at Center Stage. The play is being presented every Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m. 'until May ,13. Tickets are still available at Student Union. The price is 90c oh'Fridays and $1.25 (including refreshments) on Saturdays. ' Lion Coats For Seniors To Go On So le Tuesday ’• Lion coats, traditional jackets worn by graduating seniors will be on sale 'at Student Union be ginning Tuesday and continuing until May 18, according to Paul Sabol, chairman of the Lion coat committee.-Price of the coat is $1.95. The Lion coat is a plain white jacket suitable for pencil, pen, or painted decorations. At a class gathering next month the senior wearing the coat with the most outstanding decoration will be awarded a prize of $lO. The sec ond prize will be $5. and the third prize will be $2.50. ' Coat Tradition It was back in 1926 - that the Lion coat tradition began when the-, senior class of that year met and discussed'the wearing- of Lion suits as the most significant evi dence of' the moving-up of the High School Press Convention Opens Today; 400 To Attend Journ Honoraries Sponsor program 1 Approximately 400 high school' students andvteachers are expect ed to attend the annual State High School Press Convention here today. The conference, which is spon sored by Alpha Delta Sigma, pro fessional advertising, and Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, professional journalistic societies, will open with registration at 9:30 in the business office of the Daily Collegian. Speakers .at the convocation scheduled for 10:30 in 121 Sparks will be Dr. H. K. Wilson, dean of men at the College, and Luther Huston, chief of the New York Times Washington Bureau. Dr. Wilson will discuss “The Value of a College Education,” and Mr. Huston will speak on “Washing ton Personalities.” / The afternoon program in Sch wab Auditorium will include the presentation-- of certificates to high school papers for excellence in news .and advertising, musical seniors. The outfit was similar to the “beer suits”, long establish ed as a tradition at Princeton, Cornell, and .other large institu tions. The suits were not to' he worn until the day the seniors were officially moved-up. In 1927 the custom took hold among the coeds who adapted the outfit to their own use by chang ing the suits to a coat. Shortly after this the coat idea was adopt ed for the entire class. Senior Reminder Seniors in the past have worn the Lion coat as a reminder to the professor that the student was a graduating senior and would appreciate a helpful push by the prof in that, direction. “It is the - hope of the commit tee that each member of the class of ’5O will get his coat on Tuesday and help get this old Penn State tradition rolling,” Sabol said. entertainment, and announce ment of two winners of freshman scholarships in journalism. A talk, “Safari into South African Jungles,” -by Franklin C. Banner, professor and head of the depart ment of journalism, will also be given. Tours of the campus will be conducted for the students by members of the journalism honor aries at 3 p.m.. Arts Festival Enters 3rd Day The Combined Arts Festival to day enters its third day with Players scheduled to present the comedy, “Yes, My Darling Daugh ter” at Center Stage at 8 p.m. 'The Festival highlights music, dance, fine arts, art education, home art, dramatics, architecture, motion picture, landscape horti culture, and oral interpretation of literature. The Combined Arts Group is composed of 40 to 45 faculty members who teach one (Coaimmti ok page twoj Perm State # A Front Runnel For Project, Van Zandt Says ■\ The College is “a front runner” as a site for the $ll mil lion Army Quartermaster Corps Research Laboratory, ac cording to Rep. James Van Zandt (R-Pa.). Van Zandt represents the 22nd Congressional District, in which State College is located. The location of the Col International 7 Livestock Show Begins Today The thirty-third “Little Inter national” Livestock Exposition begins this morning at 8 o’clock with judging of six classes of swine. A full day of showing with individual breed classes in the morning and championship and specialty numbers this afternoon will take place in the Livestock pavilion. Over 90 contestants will show College animals which were se lected by the Animal Husbandry Department and distributed to the students through the drawing of lots. Show Swine After the judging of the Berk shire, Duroc Jersey, and Hamp shire swine, 6 classes-of sheep will be shown. These include Dr. Lyman E. Jackson elude Cheviot, Dorset, Hampshire, Shropshire, and Southdown ewes. Ten classes of beef cattle will be judged in the late morning and early afternoon. Two classes of Percheron horses and one class of Belgian mares comprise the horse division. Following the announcement of the championship fitter and show man of swine, will be the pig derby. The meat' auction, the greased pig chase, and the grand champion showman events will follow. Block and Bridle At.a joint banquet of the Block and Bridle Club and the Penn sylvania Horse and Mule Breeders Association Dean Lyman E. Jack f Continued on page two) Daylight Saving, Students Raving Hundreds of Penn Staters will wake up Sunday morning an hour late for breakfast. The rea son: they forgot to get up at 2 a.m. Sunday morning and turn the clock forward an hour to conform with Daylight Saying Time, which takes effect at that time. . Just for once, let’s get the thing straight. If you don’t want to get up at 2 a.m. in the mornipg, turn the clock forward before you go to bed. As for that lost hour of sleep, don’t worry. You can make it up in the Fall when the clocks are turned back. PRICE FIVE CENTS lege in the mountainous area 'of Pennsylvania gives the College an excellent chance to become the site of the lab oratory, the congressman told reporters. Since the Russians have the atomic bomb, it is important to place research laboratories away from large centers of pop ulation and from such possible A-bomb targets as Philadelphia and Boston, he said. Both cities have been wrangling over the ordnance laboratory for years. Hammond In Washington Harry P. Hammond, dean of the School of Engineering, con ferred with Van Zandt’, who is in Washington, by telephone Thursday. The new laboratory is needed for research and development work in the fields of chejnical and plastics; environmental pro tection of man; physics, biology, and chemistry; textiles, clothjng and footwear; and mechanical products. About 700 people would be employed in the plant, it was learned. The $ll million cost of the es tablishment would be three times as much as the cost of the recent ly-constructed Garfield Thomas Memorial Water Tunnel and pre sent ordnance facilities. Dean Hammond said. . Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson named a six-man com mittee Thursday to select a site for the establishment of th.e lab oratory. Members of the commit tee are: A Committee Members Chester M. Alter .dean of the Graduate School, Boston Uni versity; H. S. Coleman, assistant director of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pitts burgh; Donald H. Loughridge. assistant secretary of the Army; Gilbert Scribner, Winston and Co., Chicago; John ■ J T.raynor. assistant vice-president. Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N.Y.; and Blake R. Van Leer, president of the Georgia Institute of Tech nology, Atlanta. (Continued on page two) News Briefs All-College The AIM All-College hike will be held tomorrow at 1:30. The hike will be to Nittany mountain and will start behind Old Main. WRA Golf Club The WRA Golf Club meets from 10 to 12 this morning at the Caddy House. Instruction by Coach Rutherford. Those attend ing should bring their own clubs and balls. ASME Elects At the ASME Student Branch meeting held Thursday, B. H. Garcia, Jr., of the Mechanical Engineering Department was elected Honorary Chairman of the Student Chapter. He suc ceeds M. S. Gjesdahl who acted in that capacity for the past three years. Penn State Club The Penn State Club will spon sor a hike today to the PSCA cabin area. The hike is for mem bers only, but all women on cam pus are invited. The hike \will start at 1:30 in back of Old Main.
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