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VOL. 52, Ndi-,73
Fine Signs Appropriation Bill
Most ROTC Grads
To Be Activated
Almost every Army ROTC student commissioned this spring or
summer who is eligible for active military serVice will be issued or
ders to report for active duty at the same time he is commissioned,
the Department of the Army announced in-Washington yesterday.
Col. Lucien E. Bolduc, professor of military science and tactics
at the College, said the order would affect about 110 men scheduled
| to be graduated in. June. He said
! approximately 50 would be com
missioned in the infantry, 35 in
the signal corps, and 25 in the
corps of engineers.
The order said ROTC graduates
would be given an opportunity to
choose ’ the month they want to
report for active duty, provided
at least one-third of the officers
in each branch are on active duty
by July 31, two-thirds by Aug.
31, and the remainder by Sept.
30. .
Fire Fund
Ends Today,
Totals $287
Collection agencies for the
Gentzel fire fund reported yester
day that donations now total
$287.65. The drive ends at 5 p.m.
today.
The $287.65 total includes $21.80
from fraternities which will be
.turned in today to the Student
Union office by the Interfrater
nity Council’s collection group.
Edward Shihadeh, who is. hand
ling the fraternity collection, said
that more donations may come in
today.
The Student Union office re
ported $15.05 turned in there yes
terday. A donation of $9.50 was
made 'by McElwain Hall, unit
four; $3.80 by Simmons Hall, unit
four; and $1.75 by Spruce Cot
'tage.
This brought the total collec
tions at SU to $265.85. Of this
total, only $31.57 has been col
lected since Jan. 4, when the total
was $234.28.
The largest single donation in'
the drive so far is $50.39 given by
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Ag Council OK's
Parking Lot Plan
For Hort Woods
' A plan for a parking lot next
to Hort Woods, designed to hold
181 cars, was submitted by Wal
ter Trainer, supervisor of lands,
construction and maintenance, at
the Agriculture Student Council
meeting last night.
Under Trainer’s plan, construc
tion could begin- within .two
months and could possibly be
ready ,by summer vacation. The
lot would take up one-sixth of
the width of Hort Woods and
would consist temporarily of cin
ders. The plan was approved by
the Ag council and will be pre
sented to President Milton S.
Ekenhower and the Board of
Trustees.
Council President David Stabler
appointed an all-senior . elections
committee with Donald Lechner
as chairman. Others on the com
mittee are Timoleon Rodriquez,
Wally Butz; John Doppel, and
Howard Miller. A committee to
look intp a possible earlier date
for the Ag school open-house is
to be appointed by Stabler at the
next-council meeting. All attend
ing council members were in
favor of the idea of an earlier
date for the open-house and pos
sibly parelleling it with the com
ing Dairy Show.
TODAY'S
WEATHER
FAIR \
AND
WARM
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- FOR A BETTER PENN STATE ..
If quotas for commissioned of
ficers are not filled at service
schools,, they will report there to
begin their tours of duty. If the
quotas are filled, the officers will
be assigned to units in the United
States to await vacancies in the
schools.
. The order will affect ROTC
graduates who have been defer
red by Selective Service, and vet
erans who served less than two
years active duty during the per
iod Dec. 7; 1941 to Sept. 2, 1945.
Veterans who served more than
two years during World War II
will ■ not be called into active
service, but may volunteer.
Students who are commis
sioned after successful comple
tio:\ of the advanced ROTC pro
gram, not have sufficient
credits for a degree, will not be
ordered into, active duty until
they have either completed their
credits or withdrawn from school.
DMT Will Save Money,
Commission Head Stales
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (JP) Universal Military Training
was presented to. Congress today as a money saver.
- —Former;Senator James W. Wadsworth, chairman of the National
Security Training Commission which prepared a UMT plan at the
lawmakers’ direction, made the economy argument in asking the
House Armed .Services Committee to act quickly on the proposal,
He said the commission be
lieves that “by a reduction in the
armed forces and a reduction in
the rate of the draft and by build
ing up of UMT, we would save
billions of dollars.”
The ultimate aim is to replace
the draft, Wadsworth said, and
the program could not run for
more than two ■ or three years
concurrently with Selective Serv
ice calls for men for actual armed
service.
His {joint was that by that time
UMT would have soaked up-the
manpower available for the draft,
STATE COLLEGE, PA.,, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1952
Don’t put those winter coats in
moth balls yet, because today’s
63 degree temperature won’t last,
according to C. L. Hosier, instruc
tor of meteorology.
Hosier said that fair but cooler
weather was due in the next few
days and that temperatures
would probably go below freez
ing by the weekend.
Warm weather in January
isn’t unusual it seems, and old
timers used to look forward to
the “January thaw.” They said
that winter “just lost its grip for
a minute and then came roaring
back.”
High temperature record for
the month of January is 71 de
grees, but students shouldn’t
mock today’s lowly 63, for Jan
uarys have been as low as 20
degrees below zero.
Prof Heads
Festival at
Farm Show
(Special io the Daily Collegian)
HARRISBURG, Jan. 15—(ff)
A cast of nearly 800 people, rep
resenting most of the comities in
Pennsylvania, took part in the
big rural talent festival at the
■ State ■ Farm Show- here tonight.
William R. Gordon, professor of
rural sociology, agricultural ex
tension service, at the Pennsyl
vania State College, wrote and di
rected the whole show, and acted
as his own narrator.
Tomorrow night, a Penn State
coed, Jean Mastin, will model in
a fashion show. She won the title
of Potato Blossom Queen, and
was also named Queen of the
Belle Hop Ball at Penn State.
Gordon’s show was presented
in four parts. “Winter,” “Spring,”
“Summer” and “Autumn.” It sa
luted- the youth of Pennsylvania
and emphasized the unity and
interdependence of all Common
wealth citizens, both rural .and
urban.
From the opening, “Aims of Ag
riculture,” to the grand finale,
varied numbers followed in rapid
succession to the accompaniment
of music and lavish displays of
color.
Gordon was assisted by a large
staff, which included fellow staff
members at Penn State.
This ‘ afternoon a Penn State
extension economist Robert B.
Donaldson predicted a good year
for vegetable growers.
Donaldson told an annual meet
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and armed service needs would
have to be met by calling UMT
trained youths from the reserve
to active duty.
The plan worked out by Wads
worth and his commission calls
for training 18-year-olds for six
months, then shifting them to re
serve status for seven and a half
years. Even in the training period
they would not be actual mem
bers of the armed forces.
Under, the commission plan
about. 800,000 youths would be
taken in for training each year,
soon after their 18th .birthdays.
Winter Will Get
Second Chance'
$l7Vz Million Grant
To Bring Salary Raises
Salary increases for both facul
be outlined within a few days, Pr
yesterday after Gov. John S. Fi
appropriation bill to operate the C<
is Salary Increases
Milton S. Eisenhower
5 Minute Limit
On Phone Use
Is Suggested
R. Y. Sigworth, supervisor of
utilities of the physical plant, told
the Dean of Men’s advisory com
mittee last night that the large
number of phone calls on the
dormitory switchboard between 7
and 10 p.m. every night was
seriously hampering the handling
of long distance calls to and from
students.
Sigworth said it is impossible
to maintain equipment that would
handle a situation where “5000
men are trying to contact 3000
women” plus a large number of
long distance calls. He said if
students would limit their calls
to five minutes, the situation
could- be greatly relieved.
He went on to tell the com
mittee that the Dean- of Men’s
office, the Dean of Women’s of
fice, the administration, and the
Beli Telephone Co. were con
sidering setting a 9 p.m. deadline
for calls to the women’s dorms
to help solve the problem. The
deadline is now 10 p.m.
The administration line—State
College 8441—-handles calls for
over eight hours a day on 43
trunk lines, he continued, but it
is impossible to handle dormitory
calls for three hours in the eve
ning on 65 similar lines. He said
the number of calls at other
times of the day on the dorm
line does not warrant an increase
of trunk lines.
Agency Will Accept
Used Books for Sale
The Used\ Book Agency in
the TUB will be open tomor
row and Friday to accept books
to sell next semester, Frank
Kelly of the BX Board of Con
trol, said yesterday.
The ÜBA will be open from
10 a.m. to noon and from 1:30
to . 4:30 p.m. on both days. A
service charge of 20 cents will
be charged for each book sold.
The ÜBA will also be open
from Jan. 23 to 25 during the
same hours. From Feb. 1 to 8,
the agency will be open from
8:30 a.m. to noon and from 1:30
to 4:45 p.m.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Lty and non-faculty employees will
•esident Milton S. Eisenhower said,
ine signed into law a $17,500,000
allege during the current biennium.
The appropriation, a record high
for the College, represents an an
nual increase of approximately
$3,300,000.
President Eisenhower, who had
earlier described College salaries
as “shamefully low” did not dis
close the extent of the salary in
creases, but said that his program
would be explained at campus
meetings within a few days.
The President, after hearing of
Thanks Governor
the action at Harrisburg, ex
pressed his extreme pleasure and
thanked Governor Fine and the
legislature for their support.
“On behalf of the trustees, fac
ulty, students, and alumni of the
College,” he said, “I wish to thank
the governor and all members of
the state legislature and state ad
ministration for their understand
ing support of the educational ser
vices of the land grant college of
the commonwealth.”
The President said the increase
will be used for three purposes:
to increase salaries, to offset a
serious loss of federal and other
revenue, and to meet higher main
tenance costs.
The College, forced to borrow
on short term loans in recent
months while waiting for the leg
islature to iron out its tax dead
lock, now will be able to begin
planning on a definite basis, the
President said.
$17,105,000 Appropriated
The $17,500,000 appropriation
is $6,614,000 more than the $lO,-
886,000 for the biennium ending
last May 31.
The law appropriated $17,105,000
for general maintenance of in
struction, research, and extension
in the eight undergraduate
schools, the Graduate School, the
Mt. Alto State Forest School, and
the general administration costs.
In addition, the School of Agri
culture will receive $150,000 for
its agriculture experiment station
and a petroleum research project
will receive $50,000.
The bill also appropriated $70,-
000 for research into anthracite
and bituminous coal on a match
ing basis with the coal industry.
Other research projects re
ceived $35,000 for slate and non
metallic industries; $32,500 for
long range basic problems affect
ing mineral industries; and $57,-
500 for the same purpose on a
matching basis with industry.
Officio fs Suspend
Army Rifle Range
Operation of the Army ROTC
rifle range in the basement of
Atherton Hall has been tempor
arily suspended in an attempt to
find a better location, S. K. Hos
tetter, comptroller, said yester
day.
The action followed complaints
by coeds in the dormitory that
the. noise from the firing of the
,rifles interfered with studying.-
Army ROTC officials indicated
earlier that there was apparently
a misunderstanding as to .when
the range would be used. Admin
istration officials said it was to be
used between 5 and 7 p.m., while
an ROTC spokesman said he
understood the range was to be
used until 7 p.m.
PSCA Forum Tonight
The Penn State Christian Asso
ciation round table will be held
at 8; tonight in 304 Old Main. Dr.
Kent Forster, associate professor
of history, will discuss the Time
magazine article entitled “The
Younger-Generation.”