• , _ . .. • . .- .' • . , TODAY'S' WEATHER: 41. FOR A BETTER • 4 1 : - 'Pei 0 SHOWERS PENN STATE 2.. ' AND COOLER .—..- . ..... "r. FIVE CENTS VOL. 51— No. 41 AIM Governors Dispute Charges Of Inefficiency The four officers of the board of governors of the Association of.„ Independent Men, in a carefully worded statement, disputed charges of inefficiency and lack of organization which Francis Turk, former president of the Nittany dorm council, made before the West dorm and Nittany dorm councils Monday night. The statement said that "Mr. Turk is neither interested in the betterment of AIM here on cam pus nor the successful operation of the board of governors but that his remarks are calculated only for his personal aggrandizement." The statement was signed by Richard Bard, chairman; William Zakor, vice-chairman; Richard Mills, secretary; and Howard Fit ting, treasurer. Replying to Turk's charges that no services have been offered by AIM even though AIM is receiv ing 25 cents dues from each in dependent man per semester, the board listed the activities spon sored so far this semester by the group. The statement says that "Mr. Turk's biased and limited memory has completely forgot ten" the all-College dance spon sored by AIM during the first week of school. AIM Activities The statement mentions the part AIM played in President Eis enhower's Inaugural ball where AIM and Leonides presented the President with an inscribed silver bowl; the "very successful" West dorms open house to which all campus women were invited to see the new men's dorms; and the hou.separty which AIM will sponsor at the University club Saturday night. The statement reminds Turk that the 25 cent fees have not yet been transferred to the AIM ac count and therefore are not avail able for :use. The expenses in curred so far this semester have been partially deferred by the balance in last year's treasury. Turk Charges Turk charges that the Town council would not be organized for another month, therefore the board would be without the offi cers of the council. AlM's state ment replied that if "Mr. Turk had been zealous for the 'efficient' functioning of AIM as he inti mates, he would have volunteered his help to the present board in organizing the council." The statement continwzd that "Turk" has continually harassed and badgered the present officers by means of 'representatives speaking for him'." explaining why the Town council was not yet organized, the statement said the elections committee of AIM had waded through 7,000 schedule cards filed in the office of the Dean M Men to get the names of the 2,000 men living in town. 'These cards were not available until three weeks after' the term had begun, the statement said. Also, 'there were few volunteers for the work of sorting the cards and Turk was not one pf them, according to the statement. Blue Key Considers Constitution, Change Changes in the constitution of Blue Key, junior men's hat so ciety, to provide a more - diverse membership for, the organization were considered at a meeting Monday night, David Mutchler, president, announced. Other business at the meeting included the pledging of full sup port of Blue Key behind the flashcard system and election of Jerry Gibson as new secretary. Perrine To Speak Dr. J. 0. Perrine, assistant, vice president of the American Tele phone and Telegraph company, will give a demonstration-lecture on telephone and radio transmis sion in Schwab auditorium to night at 8 o'clock. The lecture is sponsored by Sig ma Pi Sigma, national physics honorary society, and is open to the public. STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 9, 1950 GSA Finances Work • On ME South Wing ConstructiOn work on the south wing of the Mechanical Engineering bUil din g—first project under a $9,000,000 building program sponsored by the General State authority— began this week. The parking lot west of En gineering F has been closed to College employees to provide space for construction traffic and for workmen, according to George W. Ebert, director of the physical plant. Engle To Speak Al Rally Tonight A program of speeches, cheers, and comedy acts will highlight the West Virginia game pep ral ly tonight at 7:30 on, the steps of Old Main. The rally will be preceded by a parade forming at the Nittany Lion shrine at 7 p. m. The parade will move along Curtin road , to . Shortlidge road, and down Short lidge to Pollock road. It will turn aunuuuuuuuuunuunununununi Rudy Valentino, head cheer leader, needs members of the student body to help arrange flashcards for the West Vir ginia football game. Those who wish to help should repast to Rec hall after the pep rally. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 left on Polock road and move across campus, ending at Old Main. Speeches at the rally will be presented by football Coach Charles A. "Rip" Engle, and foot ball players Vince O'Bara, Earl Mundell, and Owen Dougherty. Additional features of the rally, emceed by Robert - Davis, All- College president, will be the presentation of a skit by Sam Vaughan, the "foolish gentleman" and a visit by the Nittany Lion.. The Blue band and the cheer leaders will be on hand for the rally, which was planned by Parmi Nous and Cwens in con nection with the cheerleaders. GOP Sweeps Important County, State Elections Republicans swept the most' important posts in county and state elections held Tuesday. James H. Duff defeated Francis J. Myers by 125,000 votes in the race for U. S. Senator, and John S. Fine scored an 83,000-vote plurality, over Richardson Dilworth in a bitterly-contested guberna torial battle. Incumbent Rep. James E. Van Zandt defeated Arthur H. Reede professor of economics at the Col lege, in the fight for the 22nd Congressional district seat in the House of Representatives. Van Zandt had an unofficial majority of 14,194 votes over his opponent. Democrats did, however, man age to make firm inroads in the State Senate. They captured five more seats, reducing the Repub lican majority from 35-15 to 30-20. The Republicans now have less than the . 34 votes needed to con firm appointments by the gover nor, Only 26 votes are necessary to pass legislation, however, so they should have little difficulty in the passage of bills. A record 74 per cent of Centre County's registered voters came Campus Politicos Open. Campaigns Representation Is Key Stale Plank In Ne'w. Platform By ROSEMARY DELAHANTY Key issues which State party candidates will push in the race for sophomore and freshman class posts center around a proposal for sophomore representation on Tri bunal and Judicial and a plan to improve transportation to an d from State College. Six planks constitute the State platform, which was released by the elections committee last night. Campaigning Begins Today Clique chairman Harry Cover said he believes the platform to be in line with major student inter ests which State party candidates will act upon if elected. Councils The party intends to cooperate with Nittany and Pollock councils in their efforts to obtain laundry service in that area, and hopes, by working in conjunction with the West Dorm council, to improve parcel post, facilities in the new dorms. Another plank proposes to in vestigate the possibility of instal ling more telephones in the lob bies of the women's living units. • State party candidates have al so pledged their support to All- College - cabinet in itspreservation program for Hort woods. Speech-Making Candidates will begin campaign ing today with speech-making in fraternity houses and dormitor ies. Glenn Wiggins is the State par ty candidate for sophomore class president; Joseph Simone for vice president; and Nancy Showers for secretary-treasurer. Freshman class candidates are, for president, Gerald Maurey• for vice-president, Bernard Kelley; and for secretary-treasurer, Neida Fralich. Union Speech Tonight Arthur A. Elder, director of the Training institute of the Interna tional Ladies Garment union; will speak before the Industrial Re lations Research association at an open meeting in 110 Electrical Engineering at 7:30 tonight. its topic will be- "Unions and The College Man.' to the polls. At the last general elections the presidential race at tracted only 69 per cent of the voters. A total of 3,422 votes were cast in State College. Elsewhere around the country, Republicans captured four more U. S. Senate seats, boosting, the senatorial lineup to 47 Republi cans and 49 Democrats. Twenty five contests are yet .to be de cided. Student interest .in the elec tions seemed to be slight. Few students applied for excuses from class for voting, and PSCA-spon sored rides home for student vo ters attracted only four persons. Axford Asks 'Pledges Herbert Axford, campus chest chairtnan, yesterday ask ed all students not yet con tacted by solicitors, to sign a pledge card in the PSCA of fice, 304 Old Main. Members of Alpha Phi Ome ga. national service honorary, canvassed town twice but were unable to contact everyone. Students who do not have a pledge card, but want to do nate, should 'sign their names and matriculation numbers on paper and present them at the PSCA office before .Friday. Students are- warned not to give a donation unless they are given a receipt. The drive ends Friday, and $B,OOO has been given. The goal of the drive is $14,000. torch Is Denied CCNY Position Dr. Lee Lorch, former mem ber of the Penn State faculty, has been denied reinstatement to the staff of the City College of New York by the state's Board of Higher Education. The announcement that Dr. Lorch's appeal for reinstatement had been denied was made by Dr. Lewis A. Wilson, New York State Commissioner. of Educa tion. Dr. Lorch left Penn State at the close of the 1949-1950 schobl year when the College refused to renew his one-year contract. Dr. Lorch claimed that he was -dis missed because of his activity as .co-chairman of a committee to eliminate discrimination against Negroes in Stuyvesant Town, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. housing development in New York City. The College , said Dr. Lorch was dismissed\ because he lacked the "personal qualifica tions" it sought in faculty mem bers. Dr. Lorch is now a member of the mathematics faculty at Fisk university, Tenn. Sophs To Petition Cabinet For Aid All-College secretary-treasurer Emerson Jones will put before Cabinet tonight the request of the sophomore class for mqney to finance their annual dance. John Baron, sophomore secre tary-treasurer last year, made the initial reqwest last night at a meeting of the inter-class fi nance committee, of which Jones is chairman. Cabinet will also be asked to name a date for the dance. Baron is the official representa tive of the sophomore class in financial matters until new of ficers are elected Nov. 16. Cabinet will also take action on elections committee chair man Edwin Barnitz's request that the offering of dance tickets and ether prizes as voting induce- Ments be banned. Jones' amendment to the all- College constitution concerning payment of Cabinet bills and the specifying of June 30 as the end of the fiscal year will be voted upon. PSCA Radio Panel The PSCA radio committee will present "Breaking a Barrier" to night at 8 o'clock over WMAJ. The program will •be a panel dis cussion of the social barriers be tween sororities and fraternities and independent men and women. PRICE F. Lion Party Bases Fall Platform On 'Student Welfare' By 808 SCHOOLEY All-College elections committee chairman Edwin Barnitz released copies of the Lion and State par ty platforms at a meeting of the. , elections committee last nitit. Election campaigning begins to-- day. In releasing the platforms, Bar nitz said the platforms "seem to be good" and termed them "well thought out." The platforms per tain to the freshman and sopho more class officer elections to be held next Thursday. Interests And Welfare The Libn party platform is bas. ed upon the principles which, ac cording to the platform, will "pro vide for the interests and welfare of the students at Penn State." - Some of the main points of the Lion platform are: to provide bet ter recreational facilities for the Nittany-Pollock residents; to pro mote action toward the opening of the PUB as a lounge where women may be entertained on weekends; to help expand the services of the Student Dry Cleaning agency; to work with the All-College cabinet commit tee to help preserve Hort woods as a college landmark; to advo cate that DIR students be allow ed to vote in student council elec tions; and to support present plans to 'start a service for mail ing packages at the West dorm post office. The Lion party also has drawn into its platform plans to sup port ways to have a better repre sentation at class meetings, better spirit at athletic events, and more social functions for the freshman and sophomOre classes. [ . Lion Candidates The Lion 'candidates for fresh man class officers are Augustine Ormrod, president; John White. vice-president; and Guyla Wood ward, secretary-treasurer. Sopho more class candidates are William. Bair, president; Arthur Rosfeld. vice-president; and Josephine Waterhouse, secretary-treasurer. These candidates were elected last Sunday night by the party. The Daily Collegian will pub lish complete platforms of both the State and the Lion parties in a future edition. ROTC To Stage Armistice Program Naval, Air and Army ROTC units at the College will partici pate in a flag ceremony Satur day morning at 10:50 to corn fnemorate Armistice Day. Members of the Army and Air Force band along with a Navy contingent and the Pershing Rifle honorary society will march to the flag pole in front of Old. Main. The honorary group and Navy men will escort the colors to that point. While the band plays the Na tional Anthem, three ROTC stu dents, one each from the sepa rate services, will lower the flag to half mast. Taps will be sounded with the flag in that position. Following the sounding of Taps, the flag will be raised to the top of the mast. After the ceremony the ROTC units will " march from the field Lo the• Armory.
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