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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 •