The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, March 17, 1951, Image 1
- , - TODAY'S WEATHER: Cg , - 4 l 4l ''.4 • 11 " ( f r i, t 4i, • FOR A BETTER CLOUDY AND P irt 4 1 stts l .-, I. „ ~ 0 Vl v i l !,M ; ti k l*- 4 , K - ' “, ..g, • -, i,..; fit rgtatt WARMER , PENN STATE . , , - VOL. 51 No. 104 Hershey Cites Plan To. Defer Students WASHINGTON, March 'l6—VP)—Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey disclosed today he has proposed a plan for qualifi cation tests to give draft deferment to high-ranking high school and college students. In correspondence with the House Armed Services committee, Hershey said he had submitted the proposal to Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson as a recom mendation. Whether it will be put into effect \ is up to Wilson and Dr. Arthyr Fleming, man power director under Wilson Officials said the number of educational deferments may in crease, if the new plan is put into effect. Binding or Permissive? Still to be decided is whether the proposed policies would be binding on draft boards or :merely permissive. Her,sheys outline in dicated he wants them binding. Hershey's plan calls for nation wide tests of high school and college students as a guide to de termining whether they should continue schooling or be drafted. High school graduates of draft age passing the test with a mark of 70 or more would be deferred to enter college. Another Year First, second and third year men passing the tests with the 70 mark or better also would be deferred to go ahead with an other year of college. In addition, all college freshmen in the upper half of their class would be deferred. All second year college students in the upper two-thirds of their class could take a third year course. All third :mar college men in the upper three-fourths of their class could go ahead with a fourth year. Also graduate students and pro fessional students of, medir"ne, dentistry, veterinary medicine. osteopathy and optometry would be deferred without taking any tests, provided their schools cer tified they are meeting scholastic requirements leading to degree. Sebastian Winner Of PSCA Prize Evelyn Sebastian is the whiner of the $5O prize for the student having the largest total sales in the selling sponsored last week by the Penn State Christian asso ciation at the College Sportswear shop, Marjorie Allen, associate secretary of the PSCA, said yes terday. Robb Keener was runner-up, and Roy Kaneda, personnel chair man for the event, came in third, Miss Allen said. John Baldwin, owner of the store, donated the $5O prize of merchandise or bands. PSCA Got Ten Per Cent The PSCA received te n per cent of the gross receipts for the week's sale. The money will be used to partially overcome the PSCA's budget deficit, Miss Al len said. The amount netted from the sale has not been released, but Miss Allen termed the venture "successful." Nearly 100 - students volun teered their services as clerks during the six-day sale. They were divided into four teams, and the team which ran up the high est sales will be entertained by the losing teams, Miss Allen said. Members of the winning team are William Hirsch. Marion Wiser. Ruth King, Robert James, John McCool, Jane Maurer, Roy Kan eda. Joanna Bucknell, Louise Woods, Matthew Halchin, Shirley Pritchard, Joseph Geiger, Eliza beth Funk, Scott Von Wolffradt, Lois Keener, Patricia Jones, Wil liam. Rice, and Warren Rlink. STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1951 Eight Debaters Are ntered. In Nationals Four men and four women from the College zdebate teams will leave Tuesday to take part in the grand national debate tour nament to be held at Mary Wash ington college, Fredericksburg, Va. Harry Kondourajian and David Lewis will debate the affirmative for the men, and Lois Pulver and Greta Weaver for the women. Marlin Brenner and Clair George will form the negative side for the men, Shirley Gallagher and Marian Ungar for the women. Women Won Title Last year, the College women's team was grand national women's champions, and the men's team tied with Vermont and Carnegie Tech for the grand national men's championship. Brenner, .Miss Gal lagher, George, and Kandourajian were members of those teams. This year's tournament, the biggest debate gathering of the year, will last five days, Tuesday to Saturday. Brenner, men's de bate manager, said over 40 col leges are expected to take part in the tournament. Topic for debates, at the tour nament will be the national inter collegiate debate question, "Re solved: That the non-Communist nations should form a new inter national organization." Besides debates, the tournament will feature contests in various categories. Brenner will compete in informative speaking, George and Miss Pulver in after-dinner speaking, Lewis and Miss Galla gher in declamation, Kondoura jian and Miss Weaver in extem poraneous speaking. Other Entries Lewis and Miss Ungar will be in oratory, Miss Pulver in poetry, Miss Weaver in dramatic, and Miss Gallagher in address. Last year Lewis won the grand national championship in decla mation, George in after-dinner, and Brenner placed second in ex temporaneous. Miss Gallagher won the championship address. Choir To Present Easter Program The Chapel choir, directed by Mrs. Willa Taylor, will present the annual Easter concert tomor row morning and afternoon, fea turing section II of Handel's "Messiah." The concert, replacing the usual Chapel program, will be given in Schwab auditorium at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. The doors to the auditorium will be open one half hour before the start of the two programs. Ceiga To Play The worship service wil be con ducted by James T. Smith, chap lain at the College. The Prelude. Offertory, and the Postlude will be played by George Ceiga, chap el organist. Ceiga will play Han del's "Aria from Concerto in D No. 10," and "Hallelujah Chorus." from Handel's "Messiah." Soloists for the program will be Suzanne Scurfield, contralto. and Maynard Hill, tenor. Both are Penn State students. The program for the concert will begin with "Behold the Lamb of God," chorus; "He was Despised," air for • contralto: Anti-Red =: ili Is Presented To Debaters By MOYLAN MILLS A majority bill to set up an international defense organization to combat communism was pre sented last night . at an assembly gathering of the,2l college groups participating in the 16th annual Penn State debaters convention. Earlier in the evening, Gail Harvey, Seton Hall, was named convention "Gavel Girl" at an overflow banquet in • the State College hotel. Miss Harvey was awarded a silver gavel fOr being the girl at the convention with the best combination of charm, intelli gence, and oratorical ability. She was chosen over two other candidates by a vote taken at the banquet. Patricia Kerr, Slip pery Rock state teachers, Patri cia O'Connell, Allegheny and Miss Harvey were selected by the convention committees to be, can didates. The new international organ ization- of non-communist nations should be a military, economic, and propaganda group, according to the majority report of com mittee one on non-communist organization. The set up would be similar to that of the North Atlantic Treaty organization, ac cording to the report. • A minority group, led by Penn State and St. Vincent's, present ed a report defending the status quo. The majority of this com mittee and of committee two on non-c ommu n i s t organization, which reported last night favor ed retaining the United Nations along with the new organization. The majority of committee two also favored setting up an in ternational organization of non communist nations. A committee minority opposed this. • The welfare committee will present its report at an assembly of all delegates at 9 o'clock this morning in 10 Sparks. A welfare state bill will be presented by the majority. However, the min ority, led by Penn State and Pittsburgh, have already walked out of the committee meeting and will present their own bill to the delegation. (continued on page eight) Last Collegian Issue This is the last issue of the Daily Collegian until after the spring recess. Puhdication will be resumed Thursday, March 29. The spring recess will begin 5 p.m., Tuesday. Classes will begin 8 a.m., Wednesday, March 28. "Surely He Hath Borne tux Griefs," chorus; "And With His' Stripes We are Healed,' chorus: and "All We Like Sheep," chorus. Also to be heard are "All They That See Him, Laugh Him to Scorn," recitative for tenor; and "He Trusted in Go d That He Would Deliver Him," chorus. The program will then conclude Campus Political Parties To Name All-College, Senior, Junior Candidates The preliminaries out of the way, both the Lion and State parties will get down to business tomorrow night with the final nomination and election of All-College, junior, and senior class candidates. The State party will meet at 7 o'clock tomorrow night in 10 Sparks and the Lions one hour/later in 121 Sparks. Preliminaries Last Week Preliminary nominations were held last week. At that time State party leaders nominated a full nine-man slate for the April 18-19 election. Somewhat more cautious, th e Lions nominated but three candidates. Only one nomination was entered in oppo sition to the State party steering committee recommendations. James Worth got the State steering committee's nod for the All - College presidency, while Donald Carlson was nominated for the same position on the Lion party ticket. Under State party proceedure, th e steering committee recom mendeds a full slate of officers. In addition, nominations may be made from the floor. Although the steering committee of the Lion party similarly backs a full slate, no steering committee ticket is announced as such. All nomi nations are made from the floor. Nominees Prevail Old Main Lawn To Be Scene Of Palm Service A Palm Sunday suirise seryi.ce will be held tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock on the lawn in front of Old Main. The service is being sponsored by the Inter-church fellowship council. In the event of bad weather the services will be held in the Little Theater in the basement of Old Main. The daily Lenten services spon sored by the council will con tinue Monday an d Tuesday at 12:40 p.m. in the Little Theater. Local student Christian founda tions will observe Palm Sunday in their weekly meetings tomor row. Holy Communion will be given Lutheran students in Grace Luth eran church tomorrow morning at 7:45. Doughnuts and coffee will be served after communion in the student house, next to the church. Choir To Perform The newly organized ISA choir, under the direction of John Shaf fer, will make its debut during the evening meeting, which starts 6:45 p.m. The Rev. John Lend hardt, chaplain of the Western Penitentiary at Rockview, will speak. Wesley foundation of the Meth odist church will have an Easter dedication candlelight service at 6:30 p.m. following its fellowship supper at 5:30. This service will be both a climax to Lent and a prelude to Easter. The program will be student written, and will be handled by Patricia Uplinger, Ross -Line baugh; and Kenetta Peters. Westminster Service Westminster foundation (Pres byterian) will have a Palm Sun day service at the foundation at 6:30 p.m.,led by Nola Lloyd, Martha illiams and David Rob ertson. United Student fellowship (Re (continued on page eight) . Maynard Hill with "Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart," recitative for tenor; "Behold and See, If here Be Any Sorrow," air for tenor: "He was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living," recitative for tenor: "But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell," air for tenor: and "Lift Up Your Heads, 0 Ye Gates," chorus. PRICE FIVE CENTS In the case of both parties, however, the candidates selected by the steering committees usu ally prevail in the final voting. It's just a matter of proceedural differences. The only nominations entered in addition to Carlson were for Joseph Haines as senior class president, and Jack Beiter ae senior class vice-president. On the State - All-College tick et with Worth were Harry Cover, vice-president: and Thomas Jur chak, secretary-treasurer. Senior class State nominees were David Olmstead, president: Robert Amole, vice-president: and Sally Shoemaker, secretary treasurer. Junior class nominees were Michael Hanchek, president: Samuel Marino, vice-president: and Lee Coy, secretary-treasurer: Kathryn Scheetz, the only per son nominated from th e floor, was named as a candidate for senior class secretary-treasurer. WRA Releases Final Returns Final tabulations for the WRA election have been released by Betty Lott Jones, election chair man. Marilyn Williams received 733 votes for the presidency while Nancy Worthington polled 455 votes. The new vice-president, Mere. dith Williamson, received the votes of 601 coeds. Terese Moslak. her opponent, received 589. Barbara Wallace received the highest vote, 744, for secretary treasurer. Olive Cochran, her op ponent, received 339. Thirteen votes separated Viable Marple and Ann Broomall in the contest fo,r the intramural chair manship. Miss Marple received ;76 votes „while he:- opponent polled 563. Nancy Lusk won the position of assistant intramural chairman with 586 against Nancy Malloy's total of 532. Russian Film Will Be Shown Tomorrow The film "Battle of Russia" will be shown at 6:30 p.m. to morrow in 121 Sparks. It is a doc umentary account of Russia's role in World War 11. The movie is being persented through cooperation of the Of fice of War Information. It is being shown as part of the rec reational program for the resi dents of the West, Nittany, and Pollock dormitory areas.