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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 . . . .
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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.