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Bell to Give
Rebuttal
At Banquet
Louis H. Bell, director of public
information, will be rebuttal
speaker at the annual Gridiron
Banquet to be held at the Nittany
Lion Inn March 26.
Bell will make the rebuttal for
the College administration after
students, faculty, administration,
Louis H. Bell
and town personalities have been
"roasted" on the gridiron.
The personalities will be "toast
ed" in a series of satirical sketches
written and presented by mem
bers of Sigma Delta Chi, national
professional journalistic frater
nity, which sponsors the affair.
President Milton S. Eisenhower
will be guest of honor, along with
Bell, at the banquet. The theme
of this year's affair - is "The South
Shall Rise Again."
Moylan Mills, president, said
that invitations to approximately
300 student, faculty, administra
tion, and town figures would be
sent out at the end of this week.
Five to Read
In Festivals
Five students were chosen Mon
day at the Speech department's
monthly reading hour to represent
the College at two separate read
ing festivals.
Paul McWilliams will partici
pate in the Eastern Intercollegiate
Poetry Reading Festival to. be
held at Long Island University
April 5.
The four others will attend the
Pennsylvania Intercollegiate
Reading Festival to be held at the
College May 1 and 2. They are
Myron Cole, who will read short
poems; Mary Melvin, a long poem;
Elizabeth Morgan, a dramatic se
lection; and Joatla Oswalt, a short
story.
• The Pennsylvania festival was
originated by the • College four
years ago. Approximately 80 col
leges have been invited to partici
pate this year.
Dramatics 61 Movie
Dramatics 61 students will. see
the -Charlie Chaplin movie "A
Burlesque on Carmen" at 7 to
night in 119 Osmond.
Produced in 1915, the film was
intended as a burlesque on Cecil
DeMille's production of the opera
Carmen. The musical score sis also
composed by Chaplin.
TODAY'S
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STATE COLLEGE; PA., , WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1952
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10
Journalists
To Attend
Conference
Nearly 50 Pennsylvania • news
papermen and women will meet
at the Nittany Lion Inn March 28
and 29 under the sponsorship of
the Pennsylvania Society of NeWs
paper Editors to hear nine author
ities discuss various problems in
the field of government.
Some of the problems for dis
cussion are those of increased tax
ation and more equitable assess
ments.
Speakers from three major
Pennsylvania universities, Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, and the Col
lege, have been obtained. Dr. M.
Nelson McGeary, professor of pol
itical science, will be chairman.
Charles F. LeeDecker' Jr., act
ing executive, secretary of the In
stitute of Local Government, will
be one of the discussion leaders.
Registration for the seminar is
limited to the first 50 applicants.
Arrangements are being made by
Hugh G. Pyle, supervisor of in
formal instruction, General Ex
tension Services, and by Theodore
A. Serrill, general manager of the
Pennsylvania Newspaper Publish
ers' Association.
Hugh Wagnon, president of the
society and executive editor of
the Easton Express, will preside
at the Friday _night dinner.
Glenn Reports
Infection Over
*- There has been a marked re
duction in the number of students
affected by the upper respiratory
infection, Dr. Herbert R. Glenn,
director of College Health Ser
vice, said yesterday.
The infection is for all prac
tical purposes o v er, Glenn re
ported.
Charles' Crofford, sixth semester
journalism student who suffered
a fractured Akull in a fall from a
truck last •week, was reported to
be in very good condition. Glenn
said that after he goes home for
a few more day's rest, he will be
all right again.
Glenn also said that all the
cases of measles have been dis
missed from the infirmary.
'Ugly Man.' Contest
Gets 19 New Entries
Nineteen more candidates for
the 1952 Ugly. Man contest were
named yesterday by William Slep
in, 'contest chairman. The contest
will be held March 26 to 28. Pro
ceeds will go to the Campus Chest.
The nineteen new candidates
and their sponsoring organizations
are Lawrence Cooney, Pi Kappd
Alpha; Bryson Craine, Pi Kappa
Phi; Andrew Daneff, Alpha Omi
cron Pi; Myron Demcio, first floor
Hamilton Hall; William Ghost,
Chi Phi; George Glazer, Alpha
Epsilon Pi; Lynn Illingworth, Del
ta Upsilon; Burton Johns, Penn
State Club; Thomas Judge, Delta
Tau Delta; Robert Leyburn, Sig
ma Nu; Stanley Lindner, Omega
Psi Phi; Charles Luitz, Pi Lamb
da Phi; Gecirge Rippel, Acacia;
Robert Schultz, Association of In-1
dependent Men; John Schwering,
Phi Kappa Psi; Edward Shanken,
Liberal• Arts Student Council;
Peter Whelan, 'Phi Kappa Sigiria;
Hardy Williams, Alpha Kappa •Al
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Council Will Propose
Cent Raise in Fees
Blue Band
Concert Tour
Opens Today
The Penn State Blue Band will
present concerts today and to
morrow in f our Pennsylvania
towns.
The ninety members of the
band, accompanied by James
Dunlop, professor of music educa
tion, and Theodore Karhan, assis
tant professor of music education,
and Theodore Karhan, assistant
professor of music and music edu
cation, left this morning by bus
for the two-day tour.
Today the Blue Band will per
form at the high school auditor
iums in Brookville and Sharon.
Tomorrow they will travel to Slip
pery Rock State Teachers College
and to the high school in Brock
way.
David Fishburn, trombonist,
will be featured soloist ' for the
concerts. A French horn trio con
sisting of Robert Manning, grayce
Jeffries, and Neil Andre, and a
clarinet duet of Thomas Hahn and
Richard Crosby will also play
special numbers.
The program for the concert•
tour be presented locally on
March 30 in Schwab Auditorium.
20 to Discuss
Possible Use
Of Offering
A committee of approximately
20 persons, headed by Wilmer .E.
Kenworthy, director of student
affairs, will meet at 2 p.m. Thurs
day. in 201 Old Main• to discuss
plans for use of the Chapel offer
ing after June 30.
The money has for the past
forty years been turned over to
the Penn State-in-China commit
tee: At first it was contributed to
work at Lingnan University, Can
ton, China, but since the Commun
ists took over China, the funds
were sent to support the work of
G. Weidman ("Daddy") Groff and
Richard Pride • at their research
station on Oriental plants in Flor
ida.
It was hoped that these men
would soon be able to return to
their work at Lingnan, but since
this now seems improbable, the
committee will consider other
possibilities for use of the funds
and make recommendations.
pha;, and Paul Zanoni, Town
Council.
Yesterday's entrants bring to 28
the total contestants in this year's
competition. Applications for the
contest may be submitted at the
Student Union desk at Old Main
until noon tomorrow, Slepin said.
'Applicants must be eighth se
mester students sponsored by a
College organization. Slepin asked
that well-known campus person
alities be entered in the contest.
Pictures of the contestants will
be taken from 6:30 to 9 p.m. to
morrow night in 411 Old Main.
•Voting will take place on the
Mall at Pollock • road. Students
will be able to vote for their
favorite contestant • by ' placing
money in a designated container.
The contestant with the most
money votes will be crowned
Ugly Man of 1952 at the• IFC-
Panhel, Ball on April 4.
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Money Needed to Offset
Judging Teariiis' Expenses
The School of Agriculture Student Council last night
instructed its president, David Stabler, to carry to All-Col-
The action followed a report by James P. Gallagher,
lege Cabinet a proposal to raise all student fees ten cents a
semester to help offset the expenses of the agricultural judg
ing teams of the college.
o Present Plan
David Stabler
Rail Strikers
To Return
To Work
CLEVELAND, March 11 VP)—
Three railrdad brotherhoods bow
ed to a federal court order today
by instructing 6000 striking en
gineers, firemen ,and conductors
to get back on their jobs immed
iately.
Telegrams and telephone calls
began flowing from here at 4 p.m.
(EST) to brotherhood officers di
recting the walkout. It was called
Sunday morning against -the New
York Central West of Buffalo and
the St. Louis Terminal Line.
The New York Central said the
first crews reporting, probably on
the 11 p.m. shift, would begin
moving perishable cargoes now
on sidings.
No passenger service is expect
ed; anywhere in the struck por
tion of the system before tomor
row, the rail road said, and it will
be Thursday before operations
can be restored to normal.
The three brotherhood heads I
had no immediate comment on
the strike-ending injunction 'or on
how fast or complete a response
they expected to their instruc
tions. Their word to subordinates
was:
"Because the federal court to
day restrained the strike, th e
strike is immediately terminated,
and you are instructed immedi
ately to take all steps to get our
members back on the job."
2 Korean Vets
Named to Staff
Maj. Herbert A. Johnson Jr. and
M/Sgt. Henry A. Aten, both vet
erans of the Korean War, have
been assigned to the Department
of Military Science and Tactics.
Major Johnson, of Putn a in,
Conn., entered the. Army in 1940
as a second lieutenant and served
in the European ' theater during
World War 11. In July, 1950, he
was assigned to the Second In
fantry Division in Korea.
Sergeant Aten of Lancaster en
tered • the Army in 1941, and
served with -the-First Cavalry Di
vision-in-Japan and Korea.
By JIM GROMILLER
c hair man of a committee ap
pointed to investigate the fee raise.
The nine teams have in the
past been partially financed by
a 75 cent a semester fee paid by
students in the School of Agri
culture; the remaining costs, av
eraging $44.80 per member, ac
cording to the committee's report,
must be paid by the individual
team members.
The report was accepted and
recommended to cabinet by a 36
to one vote with one abstention.
Stabler will bring the proposal
to cabinet's attention at its next
meeting, March 20. Cabinet has
no final say in the levying of
student fees. If acceptable to cab
inet, the fee proposal would be
presented to the College Board
of Trustees, which is scheduled
to meet the last week in March,
for final action.
$2603.21 Contributed
The committee report, in re
porting favorably on the fee pro
posal, pointed out that the Col
lege's judging teams compete with
42 schools from 40 states and Can
ada. Every year the nine teams
travel an average of 22,968 miles
to ten major exhibitions and
shows attracting exhibitors from
throughout the country and visi
tors from all over the world.
Last year students in agricul
ture contributed $2603.21 to defer
the costs of lodging and trans
portation for the teams.
According to the present setup,
team members must pay their
own expenses for food and insur
ance while traveling during com
petition and all expenses on prac
tice judging trips.
Ag Teams Willing
The cost to team members for
intercollegiate meets alone, the
committee pointed out, comes to
$1692.80. On some teams the per
sonal costs are $87.20, the report
stated.
"Although some members are
not students in the School of Ag
riculture, it is admitted that most
of them will come from that
school," the report said. "There
fore, students in agriculture are
willing to contribute a larger part
of the money to support these
teams."
If the plan is approved students
in agriculture would pay 68 per
cent of the costs, about $2942 a
year, or 85 cents per semester for
each student.
Non-agricultural students would
pay 32 per cent of the total, about
$1533, or ten cents a student for
each semester.
No college credits are earned
by team members except those
on the livestock and meats teams
who earn two and one credits,
respectively.
The nine teams are dairy cat
tle, dairy products, livestock,
meats, wool, 'fruit, crops, poultry,
and flowers.
EIWA Championship
Tickets on Sale
Tickets for the Eastern In
tercollegiate Wrestling Associa
tion championships at Lehigh
University this weekend will
be on sale today and tomorrow
at the Athletic office in Old
Main.
Tickets for the quarter finals
Friday afternoon and evening
are $1.25. Tickets for the semi
final matches Saturday after
noon are $2 and for the finals
Saturday night, $2.50.
Chapel Goal
Would Increase
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PRICE FIVE CENTS