TODAY'S WEATHER: ' /| "'4 3’titY fI ♦ if Ft S 8 Pf FOR A BETTER CLOUDY, NOT SO 2 I fC‘ TjCLPLILI W&SwM * * PENN STATE gold, and possible V RAIN > N^jP/ , L “ ‘ -RIC: ’IVE CENTS VOL. 51 No. 65 Lale AP News Courtesy WMAJ— Chinese JTh reaten X^biiju TOKYO An estimated 200,000 Chinese Red Troops were bearing down yesterday on the South Ko rean city of Wonju, 55 miles east and slightly south of Seoul, which is; now. in Red hands. ?Aii but emergency flights into Wonju have been suspended, an Air Force spokeman said. Late reports indicated that pressure: below Seoul had eased. It was apparent that the Reds had not regrouped after taking Seoul, but were advancing at a slower pace. Associated Press correspon dent Tim Stone, who flew over abandoned Inchon Friday, repor ted that the Reds were 10 miles from that city and not hurry ing..;'.;:;. .The exact position of the re treating Eighth army has not been disclosed for security rea sons, but General MacArthur’s headquarters has emphasized the danger of a flank attack from the Reds pouring down the center of the peninsula. Front line dispat ches say that if Wonju falls, Mac- Arthur will have to pull his troops back to Taegu, more than 10 0 miles south of the present mountain line. U.S. Pressures London LAKE SUCCESS —Diplomatic sources said yesterday that the United States was fighting a be hind-the-scenes battle to convince other nations that if the Chinese Reds took Korea, their time would come soon. The United States action was apparently aimed at London where the British Commonwealth prime ministers are said to be shying away from U.N. condemna tion of Red Chiha as an aggressor for fear it might lead to world war. Taft Criticizes Truman WASHINGTON —Sen. Robert Taft sharply criticized U.S. for eign policy and President Truman yesterday and at the same time called for the building of a vast air and sea force to give the U.S. a power which Russia can not challenge. Elsewhere in hte capital, offi cials were working on a 30 day price freeze until general wage and price controls can be made ready. , Retail food prices were reported just a shade below the all-time high of July, 1948. Fosa Succumbs In Bellefonte Joseph W. Fosa, professor of Romance languages at the Col lege, died at the Centre • County hospital, Bellefonte, on Saturday, Dec. 23. He was 58. Fosa was born in Fpadafora, Italy and came to this country at an early age. He joined the faculty in 1920 as an assistant professor of Romance languages after having taught at Marietta college, the University of Pitts burgh, and the Kingsley Prepara tory school. Fosa studied at Connecticut Wesleyan College and later took advanced work at Columbia uni versity and Yale. Fosa was for four years president of Phi Sigma lota, - Romance language honor ary at the College, and was ac tive in the organiation until his death. Post-Game Hop Tonight An informal dance, open to all, will be held tonight in the recreation. room of Hamilton hall immediately following the basketball game. There is no admission charge. STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1951 Student Union Delayed Penn State’s application for permission to- construct the new Student Union - building still is pending before the Na tional Production authority in Washington. President Eisenhower said yesterday that no ruling on the application—made weeks ago—had been received from the NPA, but that he saw no reason to believe permission woulfl not be granted. Meanwhile, work of College architects in drawing up plans for the building is continuing on schedule, the President s*id. The building originally was scheduled to go into construc tion this winter, but now must receive NPA approval because of the national defense pro gram. NSA Favors Absentee Voting For Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania region of the National Students association went on record in favor of ab sentee voting for civilians and servicemen when it met from Dec. 15 tc 18 at the University of Pennsylvania, David Fitz charles reported at the NSA meet ing Thursday night. A bill on absentee voting and an amendment to the state con stitution were submitted to the convention by Penn State NSA. Fitzcharles, chairman of the ab sentee voting committee, said that these measures would be submitted to the state legislature when it reconvenes. Meanwhile, letters urging cooperation will be sent to state assemblymen. '23 Bill Unconstitutional In 1923 a similar bill was adopt ed in Pennsylvania but the state supreme court declared it uncon stitutional. ’ Fitzcharles reported that the workshop on “Educational Af fairs” favored non-discrimination in college admissions, and abol ishing loyalty oaths for college instructors. William Klisanin, campus’chairman, outlined tenta tive plans for a campus travel bureau. This bureau would pro vide- information .on available summer tours abroad for stu dents. Student Discounts A student discount plan was discussed. Under this system a student would purchase a dis count card and by howing this card at the stores of cooperath-.e merchants he would be entitled to a discount on all goods bought. Klisanin will try to get All-Col lege cabinet to help get the plan initiated. A revised plan for bringing dis placed students to American col leges was explained. Under the new plan, they can come to the U.S. if they are assured of a full time job for one year. At the end of this time they may attend school if they are financially able. Chapel Organist To Give Recital George Ceiga, Chapel organist, will present his third organ re cital at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab auditorium. The program will- begin with “Caprice Heroique” by Bonnet, followed by “To an American Soldier” by Van Denman Thomp son, and “Le Jardin Suspendu” by Alain. “After playing “Requiescat in Pace” by Sowerby, Ceiga will conclude with three compositions by Bach. The selections will be “Aus tiefer Not,” “Sheep May Safely Graze” and “Prelude an<j Fugue in D major.” Mineral Sciences Building Td Be Completed Soon Completion of the Mineral Sci ences building, approved Dec. 5, 1950 by the General State author ity, will be done at an estimated cost of $992,397. The new space will include special facilities for improving the quality of low-grade mineral deposits in Pennsylvania, for de veloping new uses and new prod ucts in the non-metallic mineral field, for calibrating instruments and developing instruments for searching sub-surface structures, and for paleobotanical studies in connection with Pennsylvania coals. Ceramic Arts Facilities In addition to special facilities for studies in high temperature, constant temperature, high pres sure, and heat treating, the plans include laboratories for work in ceramic arts and gemstones. Courses in the latter were very popular with women students be fore World War 11. Other important laboratories will deal with crystal structure, rare elements, geochemistry, and geophysics. Pennsylvania’s first-grade re sources of coking coal and re fractory flint clay, necessary in the iron and steel industries, are nearing exhaustion. The space allotted for improving the qual ity of submarginal mineral raw materials is consequently direct ly connected %vith the economic structure of the state. WSGA Plans Clothing Drive WSGA house of representatives met Thursday night to make plans for its annual clothing drive to be held Jan. 15 to 19. The clothes that are collected will be given to the Friends association, which will send them to ne<*ly children in Europe. Cardboard boxes will be dec orated and placed in the dormi tories. Each unit president will decide on the placement of the boxes. Urges Attendance Jane Mason, WSGA freshman senator, spoke to the girls about the Big-Little Sister tea to be held Jan. 14 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Atherton lounges. She asked the representatives to co operate in getting more of the upperclassmen to attend the tea. Herbert Stein, Collegian rep resentative, explained the pro posed assessment increase. The explanation and voting on the as sessment will take place at house meetings next week. Results of the voting will be turned in at the next meeting of the house. Money allotted to the house of representatives by the Campus chest drive was sent out before the Christmas vacation. Two hun dred forty dollars and seventy cents was sent to the Mifflin County Child Welfare services, and the remaining amount, $Bl.- 41, was sent to the American Medical Women’s association. The group’s annual Christmas drive was included in the Campus chest drive this year. Commencement Midyear commencement exer cises will be held in Recreation hall Jan. 27, Wilmer E. Ken worthy, director of student affairs, announced yesterday; Horace Hildreth, president of Bucknell university, will address about 600 students receiving un dergraduate and graduate de grees. The ceremonies will start at 10:30 a.m. Engineering Dean Harry P. Hammond U N Observer Van Kirk To Give Chapel Address “The Christian Minority,” will be the topic of Dr. Walter Van Kirk, official observer for the Federal council at Lake Success, at the College Chapel services in Schwab auditorium 11 o’clock to morrow morning. For 10 years Dr. Van Kirk con ducted a radio broadcast over the National Broadcasting company entitled “Religion in the News.” He broadcast from Europe many times, and in 1944 was awarded a “distinguished merit” honor by the National conference of Chris tians and Jews for his fair treat ment of the news of all faiths!! Dr. Van Kirk was graduated from Boston university and has honorary’ degrees from Denison university. In 1935 he toured Rus sia and studied religious condi tions, and in 1937 was the Ameri can representative of the Federal council at the world conference on church, community and state in Oxford. At Pan-American Talks In 1938 he attended the Pan- American conference in Lima, Peru, and served as radio com mentator for the National Broad casting company to give the American public a summary of Cordell Hull’s closing speech. In the summer of 1942 he visi ted England in the interest of Protestantism and the war effort. In April, 1945, he served as con sultant for the United States del egation at the first UN conference in San Francisco. In 1945 Dr. Van Kirk toured Japan, and consulted with Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur and members of the Japanese cabinet. He also visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and had a confer ence with Emperor Hirohito. Draftee Exams Given At Altoona Students called for physical ex aminations by their local draft boards may have the examina tion transferred to Altoona, the office of the dean of men has dis closed. The transfers may be obtained by taking the notice to the Belle onte draft board, located in the Temple Court building in Belle fonte. The Bellefonte board will arrange for a new date for the ex amination and • provide transpor tation to Altoona. ACS Elects Officers Newly elected officers of the Central Pennsylvania section of the American Chemical society are: Dr. P. M. Althouse, chair man: Dr. T. S. Polansky, vice chairman; Dr. R. P. Seward, sec retary; and Dr. A. H. Holtzinger, treasurer. Other officers elected for 3- year terms were Dr. A. Rose, councilor, and Dr. L. Kieft of Bucknell, alternate. State Has Chance For Lab The College still has an out side chance to become the site of an $11,000,000 quartermaster lab oratory, Harry P. Hammond, dean of the School of Engineering, said yesterday. Hammond said that the De fense department’s research and development board had narrowed the field down to three tentative sites and that the College is not one of these. College Still A Contender “However,” he said, “they may still find reasons to reject all three of these sites, putting the College back in the running.” The possibility that the Col lege might receive the lab was announced last April 28, when Representative James Van Zandt said that the College was a “front runner” among the sites under consideration. He said that atomic bomb dan gers made it desirable to locate the lab away from large centers of population. Both Philadelphia and Boston have been trying to get the lab for several years. Denies Story Hammond recently denied a re port in the Centre Democrat, a county weekly, that the College had definitely been eliminated as a possible site. The Democrat for the week of Dec. 1 quoted an un named “official of the Defense department’s research and devel opment board” as saying that the College was eliminated because it did not meet housing and wa ter supply requirements. In denying the story at the time, Hammond admitted that the College was not a leading con tenderjbut said that no final de cision had been made. 40 Initiated Into Honorary President Milton S. Eisenhowef spoke informally at the initiation banquet of Phi Kappa Phi, gen eral scholastic honorary, at the Nittany Lion inn last night. Forty seniors and recent graduates of the College were ini tiated at the ceremony. They in cluded Ruth Sonya Aaron, Ho ward Ayers, Jr., Donald Elro Be do, Lois J. Burrell, William Bell Forest, Dean Gladfelter, Earl Jos eph Goldberg, Donald Max Hack enyos, Kermit I. Harner, James A. Haughwout, Russel Harold Herman, Joanne Ashman. Richard F. Higgs, Jeanne T. Holland, Isaac Van Der Hover, Andrew C. Houston, Rose In torre, Margery Johns, Anthony Lawrence Lombardo, Kenneth Edward Marsteller, John Willis McNees, Jack Reen, Robert An thony Reese, Elizabeth Rock, Pat sy Ruth Roseberry, Mary M. Row land, Harriette Bernice Ruben stein, Edwin L. Rumpf. George Schaffer, William Scheinder, Betty Anne Sellers, James Curtis Simes, Andrew Skumanich, Anthony Paul Stem berger, Frank Leon Szymborski, Paul Francis Waitkus, Patricia L. Weaver, Anna Louise Wiggins. Solomon Elmer Yoder, Bernard Stephen Yurick. Cleaning Agency Open The Student D r y Cleaning agency, located in the ID stor age room in Hamilton hall, will begin operations in the West dorm area Monday, Allen Reece, head of student em ployment, announced yester day.
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