4 , FORA BETTER 4s . b. I. • t TODAY'S WEATHER: 4 .,, IP .11 PENN STATE RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW SQUALLS: MUCH COLDER VOL. 51 No. 76 Basic Training Plan For 4-F's Gains Ground WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—(4')-- The idea of basic training for many men now classified 4-F, to see if they really are disquali fied for military service, gained ground today in the House Armed Services committee. The talk centered on draft-deferred ath letes but was not limited to them. The proposition came up in testimony by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service direc tor, on the Defense department's bill to draft 18-year-olds, extend service to 27 months and set up a systeth of universal military service and training (UMST). Many lawmakers want all other available sources tapped before the draft takes youths below the present 19-year age limit. The trial-training plan, to which Her shey readily agreed, was one of the suggestions aimed that way. Simultaneously there we r e these other developments bearing on armed manpower: 1. The Air Force started send ing out calls to the first of nearly 80,000 volunteer reservists it plans to bring into active service. 2. The house committee itself showed signs of leaning toward a compromise on 18-year-olds, under which they might be draft ed but would have to get six months training before they could go to a combat zone. 3. The committee also gave thought to a requirement that the armed forces reject no more than 22 per cent of the men selective service sends them, finding some spot for the rest. The "reject" rate has dropped recently to 34 per cent Hershey said, but is still too Zelko Heads Training Program For Agency Harold P. Zelko, associate *pro fessor of public speakin,g at the College, has been named chief of the training branch in the Eco nomic Stabilizing agen c y in Washington and will be in charge of the entire training program of the agency. Zelko in 1944 was named as sistant chief of training in the office of the Chief of Engineers and in that position served as chief author and editor of the engineer supervisory develop ment program. The College has granted Zelko a leave of absence for one year, effective Feb. 1, to enable him to accept the new post. His family will continue to live in State College. Committee Members Selected For Religion -In-Life Pri• gram Ten committees for Religion-in-Life week have been announced by the Penn State Christian association. More student leaders than in previous years have been enlist ed by the PSCA to assist in the program which will begin Sunday, Feb. 18 with a keynote address by Dr. Kenneth Irving Brown at the College Chapel service. st, Members of the general committee are Joanne Ashman, E. H. Baldwin, Jay V. Beck Nancy Bigley, Mary Brewer, Joanne Bucknell, Harold Campbell, Donald W. Carruthers, William Clymer, Carl E. Crone meyer, Robert Eads, Owen Galla gher Richard Goodling, William H. dray, John F. Harkins, Joyce Harkins, Jay Headly, Barbara Jones, Benjamin Kahn, Robb Keener, Deanie Krebs, Joseph Lipsky, Marian McDowell, Patricia Men steller, Janet Margini, Eleanor Miller, Frank Montgomery, An drew E. Newcomer, John Pea body, Ruth Phillips, Hope Pow ell, Seth Russell, Laurence Sch nepp, Frank Simes, William C. Stewart, William E. Tanner, and Richard Walsh. Marlin Brenner is chairman of the publicity committee and he will be assisted by Carroll Chap man, David Colton, Greta Duns more, John Penney, Florenz Fenton, John Glick, Janet Hor ger, Arthur Keen, Carl Liacho- STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1951 Shown here are Charles Williams, (left) President of Players, as "Goff", a small time gangster, and Ruth Johnson. (right) as "Stella." Miss Johnson alternates in this role with Lorraine Spitler. Show: "Tfie Gentle People" directed by Kelly Yeaton starting this Friday at Center Stage. Tickets may be purchased at Student Union. Railroads Still Snarled y Midwest Switch' len The switchmen's crippling "sick call" strike began crumbling in parts of the nation Tuesday, but holdouts in key midwest cities kept the bulk of the cross-country traffic in a snarl. Strikers swarmed back to their jobs in, New York City and much" of the eastern area. Switchmen stayed out in . the key rail hubs of Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul. The walkout still spread on some far western lines. Scattered back-to-work move ments were reported in all sec tions of the • country and some "dead" freight and temporarily cancelled passenger trains began rolling again. ' The railway express agency partially lifted its embargo of last Thursday. The agency said it will again accept shipments, ef- Albert S. Asendorf, witz, Milo Moore, Joan Vaughan, and Samuel Vaughan. William Klisanin was named chairman of the radio committee, and his assistants will be Mimi Blither, Lois Ruth Hayford, Marc Kimelman, Thomas Kline. David Lewis, Theodore Reinhart, Eugene Stohn, and Patricia Uplinger. Pat Poole is chairman of the decorations committee and the other members are Helen Jones, Janet Magrini, William O'Malley, Helen Pond and Raymond Rice. Owen Landon will head the finance committee and Clint Bitt ner, Mary Eshelman, St anl e y Goldman, Dorothy Horgan, Ken neth Kiel, Edna Peterson, and Thomas Smith are other members of the group. Chairman of the firesides group is Rose Eifert, and other students are Charles Brewer, William Cly mer, Robert Davis, Israel Dimer, Nancy , George, Stanley Heller, ' Continued on, page two) Phc>fo by Sam Vaughan fective immediately, between New York City and New Eng land points and between New York City and New Jersey points. The Pennsylvania railroad ord ered its embargo lifted at mid night at New York, Trenton, N.J., Philadelphia and Buffalo. N.Y. But, the Pennsylvania said the embargo would remain at Chi cago, St. Louis, Cincinnaji and Toledo. Railroad officials estimated the strike was clogging the move ment of more than one-third of this country's 2,000,000 freight cars. Some 500,000 empty and 200,000 loaded cars were reported either stranded in terminals or moving into bottlenecks. The day's developments prompted some eastern' industrial (Continued on page eight) Legion Favors 18 Voting Age See Editorial, Page 4 HARRISBURG, Feb. 6—(W)---- The state American Legion today endorsed legislation granting vot ing rights to Pennsylvania's 18- year olds. The bill, introduced by Sen. A. R. Pechan (R-Armstrong) seeks a constitutional amendment to low er the voting age limit. Joseph S. McCracken, state legion commander, said in urging passage of the bill permitting 18- year olds to vote: "If they are old enough to carry guns, then they're old. enough to vote." "Certainly, the boys and girls who are being called on to fight in the Korean war should have the right 'to select office holders who are responsible for the con duct of that war," McCracken added. Eisenhower ould Okay Eastern Athietk League President Milton S. Eisenhower said yesterday that Penn State was interested In formation of an athletic conference, "but not one limited to football." His statement was contained in answers to a series of questions on athletic" policy submitted to him by the Daily Collegian. President Eisenhower did not elaborate on his statement, but Authority Asks For Bids On Rec Hall Wing The General State authority has asked for bids on the con struction of the new wing of Rec reation hall, it was announced re cently. The wing will measure 98 feet by 222 feet and will be built to the south of the present struc ture. It will be connected to Rec hall by corridors. The new building will be two stories high with a partial base ment. The basement will contain bowling alleys, storage and utility rooms. The first floor will be taken up with lockers for physical educa tion students and athletic teams, while seven handball courts, as well as offices, classrooms. a library and a laboratory will oc cupy the second floor. As a means of cutting the cost of the build ing, contractors have been asked to submit bids leaving out one of the handball courts. All bids have been received by the GSA for equipping the Min eral Sciences building, completed some years ago under another appropriation. Bids were due Jan. 23 on completely equipping the building's laboratories, but as yet no contracts for the work have been announced. Plan To Enroll More Students is Successful Th e student enrollment com mittee's emergency plan to cope with the present drop in College enrollment was put into affect during the between - semesters vacation and was termed "very successful" by Edward Shanken, head of the committee's fraternity section. The committee was set up be fore Christmas by All-College cabinet. Edwin Barnitz is chair man of the group which sent ap proximately 120 student volun teers to over 100 high schools throughout the state to interest February graduates in attending Penn State. The committee concentrated on high schools in the large cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Erie. However, Shanken said that many sm.lll communities were in cluded" in the project. Gerald Lut ton reported several interested high school graduates following a talk with a group in Zelienople, a small community in the western part of the state. Shanken said that, considering the project was in its embryo stage, the reception was very en couraging. He added that ap proaching high school graduates on the personal level and thus cutting red-tape might be on e way of increasing faltering Col lege enrollment. The admissions office yesterday reported that this semester's en rollment would probably be 1000 under the enrollment of last spring. Shanken said most of the vol unteers spoke at assembly pro grams. Others talked to gradu ates seeking information about the College in rooms set aside by the high school especially for that purpose. PRICE FIVE CENTS the answer was made in reply to a question concerning overtures for Penn State to join a proposed Eastern Collegiate Foot b a 11 league. Scholarship Aid The President also said that abandonment on the Sanity Code will not have any effect on schol arship aid to athletes at Penn State. "Compliance or non-com pliance with the NCAA Sanity Code is no longer a relevant is sue," the President said. "The is sue now becomes a matter of do ing what we think is right and complying with the regulations of our regional conference." The President pointed out that while Penn State is not a mem ber of a regional conference in football, the College is a member of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic conference, "which has regula tions governing financial aid to athletes." ECAC Regulations "The regulations of the ECAC are broad in definition," Presi dent Eisenhower said, "and al low financial aid to athletes on the basis of need and/or high scholarship, the amount not to exceed the minimum cost of at tending college as stated in the catalogue of the institution: such aid must be approved and award ed by the regular agency estab lished by the College for grant ing aids to eligible students." Amplifying his oft-expressed • belief that the College should fol low a "middle of the road pol icy" in athletic scholarships, the President said he believes that "it is appropriate to offer 'fee' schol arships to a reasonable number of needy athletes, and that some of these should be supplemented by jobs which will pay enough to cover room and board." The Col lege was prepared to vote for such an amendment to the Sanity,., Code at the recent meeting of the NCAA in Dallas, Texas, he said. Penn State has some scholar ships which take care of fees only, the President said. In ad dition, some athletes are provid ed with jobs "which pay just enough to cover room and 'board," he said. Pres. Declines Baseball Job President Eisenhower yester day said he had no interest in becoming baseball commissioner. He had been mentioned in the press during the past few days as one of ten men under consid eration for the job currently held by Albert B. "Happy" Chandler, whose contract expires next year. After incessant queries from newspapers, the President said Monday that he had no comment on the possibility that he might get the job. Yesterday he issued 'the following statement: "Evidently my desire not to comment on the story has led to speculation about my interest in the matter. I regret this. When the committee approached me at Christmas-time, I replied defin itely and finally that I could not consider an offer, if tendered; that I wish only to carry on my work at Penn State." The Sunday edition of the New York Times carried the first star, which associated President Eisen hower's name with the baseball commissionership. He was listed among other possible "candi dates" for the job, including James A. Farley, Sen. Paul Doug las of Illinois, Chief Justice Fred Vinson of the Supreme Court, U.S. Judge Harold Medina, and William Stuart Symington, kw. mer Aic Force see •
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