=£=| glhr latlg fH (Eollggtan | -=■ VOL. 51 No. 120 Wengert Named IFC President Stanley Wengert, Alpha Tau Omega, was elected president of Interfraternity council for next year by a close vote over Jerome Gibson, Alpha Sigma Phi. The vote was 25 to 22. . Other officers, elected at last night’s meeting of IFC were James Wharton, Sigma Nu, vice-president, and John Allison, Phi Kappa Cabinet To Get Early Report On Final Vote Final election returns will be announced at'the. All-College cab inet meeting tonight at 8 o’clock in 201 Old Main. All-College President Robert Davis will announce the name, of his successor immediately after the votes have been tabulated. Reports from three committees are on the agenda for the meet ing. A final report from Owen Lan don, chairman of the Student Handbook committee will be heard. David Mutchler and Mary Ellen Grube will report on the progress of the Awards committee which is working on the selection of a faculty or administration mem ber to receive an achievement award. A report for the Ice-Skating committee will be made by Jay McMahan. The second vote oh an appro priation for awards to be made to the College soccer, wrestling, and cross-country teams will be among the other items on the agenda. - ' Kimbrough's Life Full Of Adventure, Mishaps Emily Kimbrough, authoress and lecturer who will be the fourth Community forum speaker of the year tonight at 8 o’clock in Schwab auditorium, has led as fascinating life of adventure and mishap. Single tickets, priced at $l, are on sale for the lecture at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main. Seasoh tickets will be honored at the door. Miss Kimbrough, who has been an editor and screen writer as well as author and lecturer, got her first job by mistake. She walked into the advertising de partment of the Marshall Field store in Chicago wearing a pic ture hat and carrying a poodle. She Got The Job She never expected to get the position because she was dressed to go to a party instead of to work, but she got the job and a short time later became editor of Field’s “Fashions of the Hour.” Following her job with the Field store, Miss Kimbrough be came fashion editor of Ladies’ Home Journal and eventually managing editor of the Journal. It was during her stay with that magazine that she scandalized the dignified office staff by looking at fashion sketches while flat on her stomach on the floor. Unusual Position Every once in awhile, Miss Kimbrough would roll over oh her back and peruse the sketches at arms’ length. Memo after me mo poured into her office citing the dignity of the company and its responsibilities to its readers, but there is no record that the memos produced the desired ef fect. t Miss Kimbrough’s lecture style is bright and biographical. She . often repeats some of her' favo rite adventures or tells of the un usual' persons she has met. Two of her lecture subjects an By MOYLAH MILLS Wharton Boats Koons Wharton won over Robert Koons, Sigma. Pi, 36 to 11. Alli son captured 25 votes against Earl Baker, Chi Phi, with 13 votes and Richard Hartle, Sigma Nu, with seven votes. Wengert is .a junior in the De partment of Economics and Com merce. He is from'Sheffield, Pa., and is currently president of Al pha 1 Tau Omega. Wharton hails from Johnston and is junior in the arts and letters curriculum. He is currently vice : president of Sigma Nu. Allison is also a junior in the arts and letters curricu lum. His home town is Oil City and he is now president Of Phi Kappa Psi. Annual Banquet ' The new officers will be in stalled at the annual IFC ban quet to be held at the Nittany Lion' Inn April 30 at 6:45p.m. Julian Cook, banquet chairman, announced that A. R. Warnock, dean of men emeritus, will be guest speaker. • Harold; Leinbach, current IFC president, reported he had dis cussed the discontinuance of the football spring training table with Robert Higgins, professor of phy sical education. Leinbach last week announced; that some houses were having trouble meeting their budgets be cause the College has canceled the training table for football players on athletic scholarships. Houses with budget trouble will meet with Leinbach and a re port will be given at the next IFC meeting. Emily Kimbrough her twin daughters whom she calls A and B. In private life, Miss Kimbrough is Mrs. Wrench. One of the mishaps for which Miss Kimbrough is famous oc curred in Hollywood when she and Cornelia Otis Skinner were acting as technical advisors for the film version of their best seller, “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay." The producer of the picture in vited them for lunch at the Para nount studio commissary. He (■continued ou page, eight) STATE - COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY. MORNING, APRIL 19, 1951 Emily And C. B. More Than 2000 Vote On Ist Day f hey Voted - Did You ? EDWIN BARNITZ, elections committee chairman, looks on as five students cast ballots in the opening day of voting for all- College, senior, junior and Athletic association offices. Students are William Phillips, Education; William Phillips, Liberal Arts;; Charles Mathues. Liberal Arts; Kenneth Shearer, Agriculture and Kasty Sauciunas, Engineering. . Forty-Five Tapped For Phi Eta Sigma Nineteen sophmores and 26 freshmen have- been tapped for Phi Eta Sigma, national freshman honorary fraternity, president David Mutchler announced yesterday. Only first and second semester freshman are eligible for the honorary under ordinary conditions, but with Penn State’s farming system, third semester sophomores are also eligible. Sophomores are given one semester on campus to prove themselves. The only qualification for the honorary is a 2.5 average for one of the first two semesters or the third semester if the candidate was at a center, Mutchler said. There will be a formal initia tion for new candidates and a banquet Wednesday, May 9. The 19 sophomores are:’George Alleman, Robert Bealer, Paul Bourdeau, Leon.Davidheiser, Wil lard Dye Jr., John Goettel, Earl Grissinger, Richard Hallgren, John P. Kline, Robert Leightner. Joseph Leitinger Jr., Thaddeus Matylewich, William Mikesell Jr., Lowell Minor, John Oyler, Ren azo Rodriguez Jr., William Slepin, Richard Wright, and Williarr* Young. The 25 freshmen are Ned Clark, William Collins, Robert Coniff, Wilson Cramer, William Craven, Richard Dennis, David Fishburn, Sidney Gass, Lawrence Gregor, Harry Hazlehurst, 111, Robert E. Hess, Arthur Hussey, Walter Jaworek. William H. Johnson, Albert Kalson, Jackson Keim, William Kilmer, Charles Mathias, Richard Oswald, Wayne Otto, Donald Plasterer, Robert S. Rapp, Charles Rockman, Charles Rohrbeck, Philip . Sheridan,- and Thomas Younluns. • p JIL Eta Sigma was founded in 1929 and now has 79 chapters all over the country. Vandenberg Dies Afr 67 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Apirl 18 (JP) —Senator Arthur H. Van denberg died tonight. Death came quietly to Michi gan’s Republican senior senator after a long illness, 27 days fol lowing his 67th birthday. Senator Vandenburg had been fighting tenaciously to regain his health since surgery Oct. 3, 1949, for removal of the upper lobe of his left lung. The operation was performed at University of Michi gan hospital, Ann Arbor. He recovered and returned briefly to his Senate duties. In April of 1950 he underwent a sec ond major operation at Washing ton’s Georgetown hospital for re moval of a tumor from his spine. Election Story Feature Of New 'lndependent' The Independent’s fourth issue of the semester, featuring an arti cle on the reaction of independent students to the current All-Col lege elections, will be distributed today. The issue also contains a fea ture on Doris Sher, new Leonides president, and complete details of the unusual decorative effects to be presented at the “Dimensions in Music” dance which is being sponsored by Leonides and the Barons this week-end. Moylan Mills, editor, said Wil liam Phillips has been added to the circulation staff. DSPE To Show Movies Movies of the Penn State-Ne braska football game ' will be shown tonight at 8 o’clock at a meeting of Delta Sigma Pi, econ omics and commerce honorary, to be held at Beta Theta Pi. Sever Toretti, assistant foot t>all coach, will be the narrator'.- PRICE FIVE CENTS Record Vote Of 1950 May Be Surpassed Last year’s all-time record high vote seemed doomed to be erased as better than 2000 cast ballots for All-College, senior class, jun ior class, and Athletic association officers yesterday. The ballot boxes will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today. Less than 1700 votes must be cast today to break the 1950 rec ord high of 3671 ballots.' Today’s count was 23 per cent of the total eligible voters and represented a new first-day rec ord vote. A total of 8738 are eligi ble to vote. The ballot boxes opened at 8:30 yesterday morning and remained open until 5:30 in the afternoon. Counting of the ballots will not begin until the closing of the polls this afternoon, elections commit tee chairman Edwin Barnitz, said yesterday. Final results are ex pected by 8 o’clock. Barnitz, “very pleased” with today’s turnout, expressed hope for a “bigger turnout” today. He said more than 2300 would have to vote today in order to bring the total vote to 50 per cent 'of the student body. A little more than 42 per cv,.t voted last spring. The positions at stake and the candidates are: James Worth, State, and Clair George, Lion, All- College president; Harry Cover, State, and Ray Evert, Lion, All- College vice-president; Thomas Jurchak, State, and William Kli- (continued on page eight) Dectn Wilson OK's Pollock Bus Proposal The Pollock council’s proposal to request hourly bus service be tween State College and Belle fonte was approved by H. 151. Wil son, dean of men, yesterday. “It is all right with me if the students want it,” the dean told Nittany-Pollock council members Robert Faust and Henry Pitt. But he added that he felt there wasn’t any demand for transportation to Bellefonte. The proposal was brought up at the Pollock council meeting Tuesday night. At that time Pitt told the committee he had draft ed a letter to the Greyhound com pany and the Edwards Lakes-to the-Sea firm. Pitt stated in the letter that there is a definite need for a bus franchise in State College. “The recreation facilities in State Col lege,” he said ni the letter, “are inadequate.” Robert Stottlemyer, Pollock council member, reported ' Tues day to the council that airforce personnel are moving into the area “sometime next week.” He urged that the dorm presidents do all in their power to better relations with the new residents. Washing machines for the Nit tany-Pollock area will arrive next week, John Smerke of the public welfare committee reported. Leonard Tomazin, council pres ident, announced that extra sub scriptions to popular magazines had been obtained for the TUB. He also urged the members to ask the residents in their dorms to back the current blood drive. The quota for the Nittany-Pol lock area is thirty volunteers, b* said.
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