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CHEERLEADERS STIR up freshmen a± last night's basketball
game. Andrew Wilson and Howard Wight lead. Over a hundred
freshmen were in the end stands.
Opinions on Airport
Asked of Countians
Centre Countians are now being asked to give their opinion on
the recent proposal for an all-weather county airport.
The Centre Daily Times launched a countywide poll on the
question yesterday. In addition to the ballot appearing in The Times,
several hundred telephone calls will be made to all sections of the
county to seek answers to the following questions:
“Do you think Centre County
should have an airport offering
year-round air mail, freight and
passenger service?”
Ballots to be Returned
“Do you object to having tax
money spent for the airport?” An
nually. State College’s share
would be approximately $4500,
Bellefonte’s $2OOO, and Centre
County Commissioner’s $3500.
Readers have been asked to
return the ballots to the State
College office of the Times imme
diately.
Physical Plant
Plans Projects
The department of physical
plant is undertaking two main
tenance projects on campus, Wal
ter W. Trainer, supervisor of
maintenance, said yesterday.
The area in front of the main
gate is being resurfaced with a
rectangular, close-fitting flag
stone as a temporary move to
keep the region free from mud,
Trainer said.
The space was formerly cover
ed with irregular paving that al
lowed mud to seep between the
stone. The new stone now being
placed there was removed from
the tri-dorm area last year, Train
er said.
Several trees along Shortlidge
road in front of the women’s dor
mitories are being moved into an
open area for freer development,
he said. Trainer said a heating
tunnel which runs beneath the
sidewalk next to the trees has
been hampering their growth.
Moving the trees back will allow
better development and will also
provide more parking space along
the road, he said. Future plans
may call for a curb along the
road, Trainer indicated.
Student Group
To Broadcast at 8
A radio roundtable discussion
by four members of the men’s
debate team will be broadcast at
8 tonight over WMAJ.
The topic for the half-hour pro
gram will be this year’s national
intercollegiate debate topic, “Re
solved: That the federal govern
ment should adopt a permanent
program of wage and price con
trol.”
Robert Amole, John Baron, Jay
Headly, and David Swanson will
informally discuss the question.
Prof. Joseph F. O’Brien, coach of
the men’s debate team, will be
moderator.
Ag Ec Club to Hear
Shaw Speak on China
Mark Shaw, past member of
the Friends Relief Service Or
ganization in China, will be the
guest speaker at Monday night’s
meeting of the Agriculture Econ
omics Club. The meeting will be
held at 7:30 p.m. at Alpha Gamma
Rho.
Shaw will speak on the current
economic problems facing China.
Slides paralleling his topic will
be shown.
THE DAILY COLLECT ATT. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
One of the main purposes of
the poll is to learn how the coun
tians feel in general about having
an airport since, outside of a few
verbal requests for air service and
heavy use of the All-American
Airways service when it was
available at the State College air
depot, the Airport Authority,
County Commissioners, and the
borough councils of State College
and Bellefonte have had little
opportunity to learn this.
No Decision Reached
Options on the air depot and
30 surrounding farmland acres
have been secured by the au
thority. Federal and state funds
have already been alloted for a
county airport project if it is 'de
cided to go ahead with construc
tion. Allotments amount to about
75 per cent of the costs, roughly
figured to be $388,000. Of this
total, the county’s share has been
estimated at $140,750, financed by
f»oating bonds.
Both the State College and
Bellefonte borough councils have
been unable to reach decisions on
the airport for the past ten
months. The most recent action
was again tabled. Another effort
will be made to take action when
the local council meets with three
members of the authority Mon
day night to go over complete
financial details. Both councils
have been presented detailed re
ports by the county airport au
thority on the proposed depot.
Kimmel Named Editor
Of Ag Hill Breeze
Theodore Kimmel was ap
pointed new editor of the Ag Hill
Breeze yesterday.
Other new staff officers are
James Hall, managing e.d it o r ;
Robert Dahle, club editor; Rich
ard Allewelt, circulation mana
ger, and Duane Smith, produc
tion manager. Advisor for the
group is Dr. Roy Buck, assistant
professor of rural sociology.
All candidates for positions on
the staff are invited to attend a
meeting at 7 p.m. Monday in 10
Agriculture building.
3 Committee
Heads Set
By Laubach
Three members of the Associa
tion of Independent Men were
appointed last night by John
Laubach,- president, to head com
mittees.
Joseph Haines will be in charge
of a committee to plan distri
bution of keys; Paul Zanoni will
head a committee on the national
convention which will be held
April 10 to 12 at Oklahoma Uni
versity, and Ralph Griffith will
head a committee to consider a
joint project with Interfraternity
Council to sponsor a displaced
person.
Proposed Weekend .
The Foster Parents Associa
tion, New, York City, sent AIM
a letter requesting sponsorship of
a DP, and Griffith will investigate
the possibilities of having a joint
sponsorship project.
William Cole, social chairman
for AIM, is meeting with Leo
nides to discuss the proposed In
dependent weekend, but no defi
nite action has been taken yet.
Laubach asked floor leaders in
the West Dorms to contact men
interested in religion to get to
gether and determine some pos
sible topics for discussion during
RILW, Feb. 16 to 24. He, also said
that each floor would have a
speaker in an informal' after
dinner meeting during the week.
Elections Planned
Pollock Council will meet next
week to elect new dormitory of
ficers who will take their place
on the AIM group at its next
meeting, Feb. 20. Nittany and
West Dorms will elect officers
also to replace those who have
been graduated or have left the
dormitories.
Laubach also announced that
the nominations committee should
have at least two nominations for
the four AIM offices for next
fall* by April 2. The tentative
date for elections is May 14.
Concert Tickets
Now on Sale
Tickets for the State College
Choral Society’s presentation of
the Budapest string quartette and
the Philadelphia woodwind quin
tette are now on sale at the Stu
dent Union desk in Old Main.
Priced at $3, the tickets are
for the series of two concerts. No
single admissions will be sold.
The Budapest quartette concert
will begin at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in
the State College High School
auditorium. Selections by Haydn,
Mozart, and Beethoven will be
played.
William Kincaid, first flutist
with the Philadelphia Orchestra,
will appear with the woodwind
quintette March 31 in the high
school auditorium. They will play
compositions from the works of
Haydn, Hindemith, deWailly,
Beethoven and Milhaud.
Foreign Relations
Series to Start
The first of a series of interna
tional relations meetings will be
held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in 100
Horticulture. The Future Farmers
of America club is initiating the
program, proposed by the Agri
cultural Student Council because
of the large number of foreign
students on campus.
Pedro von Achenbach, Uraguay,
a graduate student in poultry hus
bandry, and Alvaro Chaparra of
Colombia, South America, a
graduate student in agricultural
economics, will b e the guest
speakers. An informal discussion
of living conditions and farming
methods of the Latin American
countries and a film on the coun
tries below the equator will also
he included in the initial meeting.
All agriculture students are in
vited to attend the meeting.
Spanish Club to Meet
El Circulo Espanol, Spanish
club on campus, will meet at 7
tonight in the home economics
living center.
Norman Duffy, vice president,
will preside while President Kay
Liner is student teaching. Plans
for a spring play will be discussed
and committees will be selected.
Drug Is Proved
Growth Stimulant
In Tests Here
Aureomycin, one of the anti
biotic drugs which is to be highly
effective as a growth stimulant in
pigs and poultry, was found to
bring about increased growth re
sponses up to 72 percent for the
first four weeks in dairy' bull
calves in tests made by Dr. C. B.
Knodt at the College.
Calves receiving aureomycin
gained an average of one pound
per day for the first four weeks
and 1.57 pounds per day for the
next eight weeks, according to
the published results.
However, calves receiving the
same diet without aureomycin
average only .58 pounds per day
for four weeks and 1.30 pounds
per day for 12 weeks.
Dr. Knodt, professor of dairy
husbandry, estimated that the
use of milk replacement can save
at least $lO to $l5 per calf and
recommends the use of an aureo
mycin supplement in the
formula.
Dr. Knodt has also tested peni
cillin in calf feeds with somewhat
unfavorable results.
Chem Society
To Hear Talk
By Dr. Willard
Dr. Mary L. Willard, professor
of chemistry at the College, will
be the principal speaker at the
181st meeting of the American
Chemical Society at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, 119 Osmond.
The annual awards of the cen
tral Pennsylvania section to out
standing chemistry students of
Bucknell, Juniata, and Penn State
will also be presented at this
meeting.
Dr. Willard’s topic will be crim
inalistics. She will lecture on the
new and improved methods of
forensic science. Dr. Willard has
developed many of these meth
ods. Not only the use of several
of these methods as successfully
applied to several individual in
vestigations but also modern re
search will be discussed.
The lecture is open to all mem
bers of the section and their
friends.
Mixer Planned
By Ed Council
The Education Student Council
Tuesday night voted in favor of
a mixer to be held at some time
during the current semester. The
council voted 9-1 in favor of the
mixer over a handbook for next
year.
A committee of five was ap
pointed to plan the mixer, the date
of which was not set. The com
mittee is composed of Edward
Crossley, Joyce Beiber, Charles
Brill, Joan Yerger, and Georgene
Huber.
Jane Steiber and Ruth Diehl
were voted in to fill the vacancies
in the council left by Jack Beiter
and Joseph Gronick, who grad
uated last semester.
Marian Whitely, who is acting as
president of the council while
Ralph Egolf is student teaching,
said students may submit sugges
tions to the council in the sugges
tion box on the first floor. in
Burrows.
Students Warned
Of Coat Thieves
Coats are being stolen from
coat racks outside classrooms,
Philip A. Mark, captain of the
campus patrol, warned students
yesterday.
Mark said two coats were
stolen yesterday afternoon from
a third floor rack in Willard Hall
and at least one coat has been
stolen each week during the'
winter.
Anyone may return a coat by
hanging it on the rack from
which it was taken or giving it
to a janitor who will ask no
questions, Mark said.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1552
PRR Signal
Difficulty
Testified
NORRISTOWN, Pa., Feb. 6
(JP) —A Pennsylvania Railroad
supervisor of telegraphs and sig
nals testified today that another
engineer had reported difficulty
with train signals on the day the
Red Arrow express ploughed into
the rear of the Philadelphia night
express.
. Charles B. Darrah gave that
testimony at the trial of Francis
B. Yentzer, 62-year-old engineer
of the Red Arrow express who is
charged with involuntary man
slaughter and negligence in the
wreck which killed nine persons
and injured 123 at Bryn Mdwr
last May 18.
Darrah and Assistant Super
visor Benjamin R. Eberle, how
ever. both stated that signal tests
after the- wreck indicated that
nothing was wrong with the sys
tem.
Darrah’s statement concerning
another engineer’s report was
made under cross-examination
shortly before the state wound
up its testimony.
Burt R. Carson, superintendent
of engines for the railroad, ac
knowledged under cross-examina
tion he often found conflicting
signals in the area where, the
wreck occurred.
Under direct examination, Car
son testified he made a test rim
between Paoli and Bryn Mawr
the day after the. wreck arid found
all signals operating perfectly.
2 New Centers
Open to Sophs
Two Penn State Centers,
Ogontz and Behrend, will offer
sophomore training beginning
with the fall semester.
The two additions bring the
College’s two-year programs to
a total of six—Altoona, Dußois,
Hazleton, and Pottsville already
being in operation.
President Milton S. Eisenhower
explained that the action is a
result of repeated requests from
parents of students enrolled at
the centers. Ogontz is. near Phil
adelphia, Behrend near Erie.
President Eisenhower a l's 6
made it clear that students would
not be under obligation to spend
both years at these centers. He
said that they would be per
mitted to transfer to the main
campus here or to another school
at the end of any semester.
Both centers were opened
since the end of World War 11.
Enrollment at Ogontz is ' 250,
Behrend, 64.
Ex-College Athlete
Receives New Post
John M. Stocker, graduate of
the College in the class of 1935
and captain of the basketball
team of that year, has been ap
pointed license contracts manager
in the Commercial Development
Division of Merck & Co., Inc.,
manufacturing chemists, of .Rah
way, N.J.
Stocker received his bachelor
of science degree in physical ed
ucation from the College,and his
law degree from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1941. While at
the College he played varsity
baseball and basketball. He also
served as president of the Ath
letic Association, the junior class,
and his fraternity, Sigma Phi Ep
silon.
Advertising Majors
To Exhibit Work
Advertising majors in the De
partment of Journalism will pre
sent an exhibit of layout and
campaign work at the convention
of the Pennsylvania Newspaper
Publishers Association.
The convention, will be held' in
Harrisburg this weekend accord
ing to. Donald W. Davis, profes
sor of journalism, in charge of
the department’s advertising se
quence.
Attending the convention. be
sides Davis will be Richard Byers
and Ronald Hicks, instructors of
journalism.