Legion Showdown'
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The deciqiop of district American Legion officials to submit
its evidence of subversion and' communist - 9.ctivity on the College
campus to a trustee committee is expected to - bring to a head a six
months'-old controversy which began July 22 when the Legion
made its original charges. r•
The move was revealed TlitirsdaY *rirght by Paul W. Beardslee,
commander of the 23d district of
the Department of Pennsylvania
Amreican, Legion and ,confirmed
today by unofficial but reliable
local sources.
The trustee committee, it Was
indicated, will , be appointed 'in
the near future, by James• Mil
holland, president of the Board of
Trustees. Neither the makeup of
the group nor the date on which
it will meet is now known.
Following its original charges,
the Legion distri e t • "reaffirmed"
them on Dec. 2, claiming that
speakers whose un-American ac
tivities have been cited by both
state and national groups con
tinued to appear on the Penn
State campus.
At the time of the original
Legion charges, President Milton
S. Eisenhower said he regretted
"that a branch of the American
Legion should have launched an
attabk* upon the integrity and
loyalty of the Pennsylvania State
College."
At that time the President said
that he had been at Penn State
for more than a year and that
neither he nor any, of his as
sociates had ever been presented
with'. any evidence' to indicate
übversive activities at P enn
State. The President said then
he would make an investigation
if evidence were,presented to him
in good faith.
Referring to the Legion charges,
the President said, "Such an at
tack threatens the basic freedoms
of the American system just as
surely does the subversion of
communism."
A proposal asking Gov. •John
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900 Pints
Collected in
Blood Drive
Nearly 900 pints of blood were
donated -to the Red Crolss for use
in defense during last month's
blood drive and this week's two
day extension, unofficial figures
show.
. During the four-day Red Cross
visit at the TUB last month, 649
pints of blood were. donated.
About 50 pints secured Wednes
day- and Thursday at the Re
formed r!hurch raised the overall
total close to the 900 mark.
Of the 646 pints donated' Left
month, 601 were converted into
plasma for use in Korea and
other places. The remaining 48
pints were shipped to Korea as
whole blood. The destination of
blood secured, this week has not
yet been revealed.
Some students failed to keep
their appointments and others
were rejected for health reasons.
Several `.`walk-in donors" , helped
raise the drive totals. Towns
people and faculty members also
contributed to the drive. •',
The original drive • quota' was
200 pints of blood. The quota'was
raised to 400 and finally to , 800
when pledges began to pour in.
The near-900 total , topped the
final goal by almost 100 pints.
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Oath ill
Debate Ends
in Confusion
HARRISBURG, Dec. 14—(JP)—
House efforts to iron out differ
ences on the controversial loyalty
oath bill ended today in dis
agreement and confusion.
Rep. Edwin Tompkins (R.-Cam
eron), a member a of a biparti
san committee set up to achiete
a compromise, said only one point
of several remained to be solved.
Then he added the bill would be
amended and passed with bi
partisan backing in the lower
chamber.
Rep. Albert S. Readinger (D.-
Berks) another member of the
same coinmittee, promptly denied
the statements and said nothing
had been agreed upon.
The bill basically would rb
quire all public employees, in
cluding school teacher and can
didates for public office, to take
a* oat} stating they are not mem
bers of a subversive organization
nor do' not sub - scribe or teach
subversive policies.
The bill has the backing of the
state's veteran organizations and
has been'opposed by labor unions,
teacher Agr oup s, and religious
groups.
Passed by the Senate, themeas
ure has been re-written by the
House lawmakers at six different
times. It was scheduled to come
to a final vote this week but
that action was delayed because
of printer's errors on amendments
and other difficulties. .
Tompkins said ( the committee
had decided to strike out all
sections of the bill_ which would
discharge a person presently em
ployed in ' a public off ic e on
"grounds of reasonable doubt of
loyalty."
Debate Team
Host to Juniata
' Sixteen members of the wom
en's debate team . will meet a
mixed Juniata College team here
Monday in a series of orthodox
style, non-decision debates.
Juniata will send Seven• men
and one woman. The teams will
debate first ,at 7 p.m. and again
at 8:30 p.m. in 1,2,. and 20
Sparks Building. Each partici
pant will have ten minutes for
constructive argument and a five
minute rebuttal period apiece.
Representing Penn State on
the affirmative at 7 p.m. will be
Peggy Crook s, Lorraine Mon
drick, Harriet , Garfinkel'and Aud
rey Rothschild. Kathleen Peter
son, Mary Yandow„Sally Lowry
and. Emilie Tyler will argue nega
tive.
At' 8:30 p.m. Ethel Brown, Janet
Horger, Harriet Rakov and Guyla
Woodward will argue affirmative.
The negative team will include
Marian Ungar, Greta Weaver,
Ellen Wescott and Susan -Holt
zinger. '
Le Cehcle Francais
Members of Le Cercle Francais
will sing carols at the dormitories.
and at the, hdrne, of faculty mem
bers lombrid* *night.
ember s' participating will
meet in Carnegie Hall lobby. at
6:45. , 50me of the carols that will
The Wesley Foundation will
be'sung are "Noel Pour L'Amour
Le Marie,. Sante Nuit, and Les
Anges Dans. Nos CaFcipagpe.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1951
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Heavy Snow Disproves
Caterpillar Superstition
The Snowman Cometh
DESPITE THE DOUBLE h
the weather, Doris Berkowitz (left), and Deborah Helfand, sales
men for the humor magazine, manage to work up a smile for would
be customers. Students had to battle the season's biggest snow
storm yesterday.
orea aothin Collection
May e r 100:313ag Total
Early results of the Clothing for Korea drive seem to show that
Penn State students will come cloSe to filling the 100 bags distributed
in town and on campus, William Slepin, co-chairman of the drive,
said yesterday.
Members of Alpha Phi Omega,
Junior Men's Hat society, will
collect bags in dormitories and
fraternities Saturday afternoon.
Since some students have not
contributed yet, the ' drive will
continue until Monday, Slepin
said.
The two bags not to be collected
are the ones located in the Penn
State Christian Association of
fice and the one in the College
Sportswear store on the corner
of Beaver avenue and S. Allen
street.
Nancy McClain, co-chairman in
charge of women's solicitations,
announced that the bags of cloth
ing from the women's dormitories
would be taken to Simmons Hall
with the 'exception of the ones
from Thompson Hall which will
be taken to the Test Dorm main
lounge.
"Clothing of any kind IS accept
able in the drive shoes, shirts,
coats, suits, sweaters, and under
clothing—even though they be in
a state of disrepair," Slepin com
mented.
College Employes
Ask Wage Hike
Met)lbers of the College Local
No. 67 of the American Feder
ation for. State, County and Muni
cipal Employees Union have ask
ed for a general wage increase
Of $5O. in a letter to President
Milton S. Eisenhower Thursday.
The letter, a, result of a special
Meeting of the — College union
Wednesday night, was the first
official demand of the union,
which represents the non-teach
ing employees of the College.
The union stated that while the
cost of living has risen 41.9 per
cent since 1947, only a 10 per
cent increase in wages has been
given to College,_. employees.
- Other proposals to the person
nel division of the College will
be submitted by the- union in the
near • future, the letter stated.
Cabinet Decision
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service fraternity, and Blue Key,
Studnt Show
Goes on Radio
ond cty Night
By LIX NEWELL
For the first time, a completely
student sponsored, directed, and
produced program will hit the
air waves of WMAJ at 8 p.m.
Monday.
Plans for the program were
completed in just two weeks.
The play is an original adap
tation by John Price and Richard
Andersen of a short story, "The
Other Wise Man," by Henry Van
Dyke.
When Price and Andersen got
the idea to do the program, they
planned to use a play written
especially for radio. Since their
request for a play wasn't answer.:
ed soon enough, they just adapted
their own.
Other members of the crew
are Mahlon Knott, Diane Deip,
Patricia Hathaway, Joada Oswalt,
Mary Alice Hodgson,, Gordon
Greer, and Peter Farrell. , .
Members ,of the cast include
Robert Reifsneider, William Sul
livan, Ed Girod, Mesrop Kesdek
ian, Lee Stern, Jay Murphy, Ivan
Ladizinsky, Farrell, Greer, Miss
Hodgson, Mary Kozelnicky, Miss
Oswalt, and Nancy LuetzeL
Special Permissions
Freshman women will get
10 o'clocks and upperclass wo
men 11 o'clocks tomorrow night
to go caroling.
Special classes and groups
going caroling may get 10 o'-
clocks for freshman by contact
ing the Dean of Women's of
fice„
PRICE FIVE CENTS
By DAVE JONES
Old Man Winter stepped on
The Wooly Bear Caterpillar yes
terday and crushed his theory
that we are in for a mild winter.
At least, that's what Charles Hos
ler, head of the College weather
bureau, said yesterday afternoon
as he reported almost six inches
of snow and predicted at least a
foot of the stuff would fall by this
morning.
Hosler was referring to the be
lief in some quarters that the
wooly bear caterpillar can predict
the intensity of the winter by the
stripes on his back.
The caterpillar's stripe • was
broad this year, forecasting a
mild winter, Hosler said. He in
dicated the insect was all wet,
saying this was not a mild winter.
Meanwhile, students were re
luctantly recalling last year's
Thanksgi , 7ing vacation and won
dering if they were, to be the
brunt of this year's weather by
being snowed in at school, in
stead of snowed out.
This will be one of the big
storms of the year, Hosler said,
pointing out that it has been
coming this way for a long time.
The storm begani n Texas, he
said, "where most big things be
gin."
Although the snow should end
this morning, Hosler continued, it
will be on the ground at least a
week. It will be very cold tomor
row, he s aid; the temperature
would drop sharply tonight.
The temperature here went
down to a 12 degree low-yester
day. It dropped to zero within 40
miles of State College and Em
porium reported two, degrees be
low zero.
Hosler indicated there would
be no snow for a while after this
storm. He said- the white stuff
was falling about a half-inch an
hour yesterday afternoon.
Jack Lynn, a senior in indus
trial engineering, had his car
damaged early yesterday morn
ing as a result of the weather
when a milk truck, driven by
Paul Wasson of State College
R.D., slid into his parked auto
mobile. Damage was estimated
at $550.
Several traffic tie-ups in the
borough occurred yesterday due
to the snow and many students
found it difficult to drive onto
campus over Shortlidge road be
cause of the slippery conditions.
Train Rates
Meeting Today
All students who recently sign
ed up for special student train
rates are required to meet at 2:30
p.m. today in 204 Old Main if
they expect to receive the 28 per
cent discount, Edward Shanken,
chairman of the student trans
portation committee, announced
yesterday.
Shanken said that students
must make advance payment for•
their special ticket at this meet
ing if they want to obtain the 28
per cent discount offered.
Students • who did not sign up
for the train transportation at
the Student Union desk, and are
now interested, may also attend
this meeting and make advance
payment for tickets, Shanken
said.
Special student t r ain rates
are being - offered to students de
siring train transportation east
of State College in the direction
of Philadelphia, New Jersey, and
New York City, Shanken said.
Students will be required to leave
on a designated train from Lewis
town Wednesday afternoon.
Final Pre-Christmas
'Tartuffe' 6s• Tonight
Penn State Players will give
its last performance of "Tartuffe"
before the Christmas holidays at
8 tonight,in Center Stage.
Tickets for the Moliere comedy
are on sale at the Student Union
desk in Old Main for $1.25.