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Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ—
Chinese Red Losses Estimated
Near 6000 In 5-Day Fighting
TOKYO—An Army spokesman
yesterday stated an estimated
total of 6,000 Chinese commu
nists have been killed in the past
5 days in bitter fighting in North
Korea.
The retreat' by United Nations
troops was orderly, the spokes
man said, and the trapped troops
are being supplied by air drops.
Marines in the southern tip of
the Changjin reservoir area have
successfully beaten off a Chinese
Red attack supported by artillery.
The Marines by their holding ac
tion maintained a grip on their
base at Hagaru.
Truman, Attlee To Meet
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Presi
dent Truman and British Prime
Minister Attlee will confer Tues
day on the Korean crisis and the
problems it has created in Eu
rope and Asia.
Spokesmen say Attlee, with, the
support of France, will ask Presi
dent Truman to do everything
in his power to prevent total war
with Communist China. Mean
while, further UN talks about
the Korean situation will await
the results of the Attlee-Truman
conference.
Army Ups Quotas
WASHINGTON, D.C. The
Army yesterday increased its
monthly draft call to 50,000 men
for the month of February. This
is an increase of 10,000 over the
quotas of December and January.
At the same time, Navy and Air
Force standards were lowered
somewhat to increase the number
of accepted volunteers.
Dorms Raise $lBO
For Social Events
West dorm council realized
$lBO in a contest held to raise
money for dorm social activities,
John Clark, chairman of the fi
nance committee, announced
Thursday. .
George Wood, Hamilton hall;
Roger Jacobus, McKee hall; and
Carl Lunde, Thompson hall,
were the prizewinners. First prize
was an invitation to the Military
ball, a corsage, and rental of a
tuxedo or $l5. Wood took the $l5.
Second prize was a 15-pound
turkey with shipment paid to any
place in the state, or $lO. Jacobus
took the $lO. Third prize was $5.
Frosh, Sophs To Elect
Representatives Sunday
Leonides, women’s independent
organization, will hold elections
for Freshman and Sophomore
class meeting representatives and
advisors tomorrow night in 10
Sparks. Freshmen will meet at
6:30 p.m. and the sophomores
will meet at 7:15.
Four members from each class
will be elected. Their duties will
consist of transmitting the opin
ions of students to class officers
Profs
proffer
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Library Requires
Matric Cards
Matriculation cards must be
presented at the library circu
lation desk when books are
borrowed either for home use
or for use in the library.
Since the system was not
started at the library until
last year desk assistants had
been instructed to be lenient
until students became adjusted
to the policy; however Ralph
W. McComb, librarian, stated
that in the future all students
using library books will be
required to present matricu
lation cards.
Glee Club To Go
On Tour In April,
The - College Glee Club will
make its annual spring tour April
9 through April 13, Prof. Frank
Gullo, director, announced.
The tour will be preceded by a
concert on April 1 in Schwab aud
itorium. The full glee club of ap
proximately 146 members will
sing for this first opening con
cert.
The touring club of 50 mem
bers will give concerts in Fotts
ville, Reading, Allentown, Wil
mington, Del., and at the Acad
emy of Music in Philadelphia.
These concerts are sponsored by
Penn State alumni associations in
the various cities.
Following the tour, the concert
touring club will present a pro
gram on April 15 in Schwab audi
torium. This concert will be giv
en for those who are unable to at
tend the earlier concert.
Last year the Glee Club intro
duced the new college song, “Hail,
Oh Hail” at the Schwab concert
which followed the Spring tour.
The. program also included semi
classical, religious, folk, and col
lege songs.
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Plant Journal
Bestows Honor
On Dr. Thomas
Dr. Walter Thomas, professor
of plant nutrition at the College,
is currently being honored on the
occasion of his 70th birthday by
the American Society of Pl»nt
Physiologists in its quarterly pub
lication.
A full -page portrait' of Dr.
Thomas appears at the beginning
of the publication and more than
a page listing his achievements,
are near the back of the technical
journal.
In the felicitations to Dr.
Thomas the journal states, “His
influence in the field of the min
eral nutrition of . plants is world
wide.”
A native of Wales, Dr. Thom
as joined the College experimen
tal station in 1910. He retired last
month.
Author of about 80 research pa
pers, Dr. Thomas won the atten
tion of the scientific world for his
work dealing with leaf analysis,
and foliar diagnosis as a method
for determining the mineral nu
trient requirements of plajits.
Dr. Thomas is a charter mem
ber of the American Society of
Plant Physiologists, a fellow of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and a
member of numerous technical
societies, research and honorary
fraternities.
Fraternity Seeks
Campus Chapter
Persons interested in organiz
ing a Penn State chapter of Kap
pa Sigma Kappa, national social
fraternity with 45 chapters in
the U.S. and four chapters in the
British Empire, may do so by
writing to the National Secretary,
Box 609, Fairmont, W. Va.
Anyone Can Predict
Weather Conditions
A red sky at night being sailor’s delight, and a red sky in the
morning causing sailors to give warning, have been handed down
as sure predictions of the weather for generations, but students at
Penn State have something much more definite to refer to in check
ing if they should take a raincoat along.
Most upperclassmen are familiar with the system of forecast
flags flying over, the Mineral In
dustries building, but to new stu
dents on campus here is the sig
nificance of the flag signals:
Weather Flags
The blue, white, and red ban
ner has no connection whatever
with the French Tricolor, but
merely signifies cloudy skies, while
a white flag is flown for fair
weather. A red flag means warm
er; a blue flag predicts a drop in
temperature. The red and white
checkerboard banner signifies in
creasing wind and the black and
white checkerboard flag predicts
snow or rain.
The day’s weather is posted at
7 a.m. daily atop the M. I. build
ing. At noon the flags are chang
ed to designate the weather for
the following day.
Ag School Had Station
The first weather observation
station at the college was estab
lished in 1887-and was located in
the Agriculture school. The sta
tion was moved to its present lo
cation in the Mineral Industries
building in 1938.
Along with compiling readings
for local forecasting, the station
is a cooperative observer for the
Climatological division of the
U.S. Weather bureau.
A special collecting agency, op
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 195.0
By JIM GROMILLER
Student Poets Win
National Honors
Six students, at the College had
poetry accepted by the National
Poetry association of Los Angeles.
The poems will be published in
the Annual Anthology of College
Poetry. This collection represents
the finest poetry written by col
lege men and women .throughout
the United States.
The students and their con
tributions were Paul Beighley,
“Sonnet Lament’’; Yvonne Car
ter, “Nursery Rhyme”; Norman
Eisenstat, “The Gospel of God”;
Barbara Silberman, “I Pluck the
Notes”; Marilyn Levitt, “Ana
logy”; and Barbara Barab,: “Too
Young to Fly.”
All the entrants are members
of Prof. J. L. Grucci’s . verse-writ
ing class.
erating aside from the station it
self, compiles reports on rainfall,
floods, and river stages by FM
radio-telephone from throughout
the Susquehanna river basin and
relays it to the Department of
Forestry and Waters. .
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