•Pechan'Hysteria ' Begins Snowballing= See Page 4 -VOL. 52, . No. 107 CO : c1 Hurt I,h 'Crash PefinitOly Improved' (Special,to •the, Daily Collegian) The condition of Rhea _White, 20, Penn State coed seriously in jured., ,in an automobile accident Thursday afternoon, was given as fair' and "definitely improving" by Crouse Irving .Hospital, the Associated' Press reported last night. Miss White suffered a shoulder fracture, cerebral concussion, a possible fracture of the skull, the AP said. The - accident, in which Syracuse University junior Stuart Ste vens, also 20, was killed, occured when Miss White's car, 'driven by Stevens, crashed into a tractor trailer truck loaded with 14 tons of coal. '• Pledge DanCe Scheduled According to New Y9rk State Trooper Richard Haley, the car skidded and went - into a spin during a snowstorm. The truck, coming in the opposite direction, tried to stop and also went into a skid, pushing the car into a tree: Miss White, a member of Phi Mu sorority, had driven to Syra cuse to pick up Stevens and bring him to State-College for the Phi Mu formal pledge dance. She had recently been pledged by the sor ority. - According to Joan Deeg, Phi Mu president, the dance will be held tonight as scheduled. Golf Champion Welsh Poet To Include Own Works Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet, will present a ,program of readings of British 'poetry, including some of his own works,' at 8 p.m. Monday in 121 Sparks. The program is sponsored joint ly-by the Simmons series and lie Liberal Arts lecture series. Born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914, Thomas has lived there most of his life. His early works, pub lished before he was 20, establish ed him as a significant poet of his generation. Among Thom a s' published works are 18 poems and-volumes entitled "The Map of Love," "Deaths and Entrances," "T h e World I Breathe," and "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog." In recent years - Thomas has re sided in the ancient fishing vil- . lage of Laugharne, Wales. - On his frequent trips to London - he has been active in making documen tary , motion pictures; in acting and lecturing for the ..B ritish Broadcasting Corp. and in jour nalism. This will be the second trip to the United States for Thomas. On his first'visit two years ago he also lectured, at a• number of American colleges and universi ties. • Thomas' work ha s appeared frequently in publication in this country and his "Poem on His Birthday" appears in the current issue of• Atlantic. Recordings of - Thomas' readings of his works are L." . o known in the United States. FoundFy Ed Scholarships Available Applications for Foundry' Edu cation Foundation scholarships are -now available, David C. Ekey, instructor, in, charge of advanced foundry courses, announced yes terday. To qualify for a scholarship, the student must be in either mechan ical or industrial engineering and have completed industrial en gineering 124 and metallurgy 59. 'The foundation offers 12 under graduate scholarships for $3OO. Undergraduates may apply for scholarship blanks at the foundry office - in the Foundry building. They , must . fill out duplicate forms of .the application and• ap ply for 'an .interview, Ekey said. The' college receives $5OOO an nually • from the foundation. • The foundation offers similar scholar 'ships , in' 14 other universities. TWo graduate scholarships, for $6OO . each, - have been awarded to Gecoge Davis and Jerry Goldress, :TODAY'S • WEATHER CLOUDY AND . COLD I C 4 , ~ .I‘' . • '.> •-: r ...tA . i ,_., „,:,..„...,:„, t ,_.. , „..... -..v., -. ~,, . .. ,STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 15,1952 Miss Deeg said that the Phi Mu chapter, at Syracuse University has volunteered to make a daily report by telephone on Miss White's condition. She added that flowers have been sent by the local chapter to both the hospital and the funeral home to which Stevens! bcidy . was taken. Miss White, a former Utica, N.Y. women's city golf champion, is a fifth semester student in 4rts and Letters. No-charges were placed against the driver of the truck, Leo Clark. 29, Tunkhannock, Pa. Summer Plciyg;vund Blanks Now Available Students interested in summer playground employment in the borough may secure - application blanks at the Commerce Club recreation office on W. Collegd avenue. - The playgrounds will open on June 16 for a nine-week period. Applications for playground-lead ers, an arts and crafts leader, and a tennis coach will be accepted. Debaters 'Adopt' Controls Report In Hot Mock Congress Session By BETTIE LOUX A report advocating establish ment of a permanent program of wage .and price_ controls to be applied and modified when the cost, of living moves. toward anrin flationary or deflationary. level was adopted last night by state debate convention delegates ~ as the basis for a mock bill. After two hours of heated de bate two other. reports, ; both fa voring controls,. were tabled. Al though tWo committees were originally scheduled to meet r com mittee I split 'into two factions and a minority 'report was' sub mitted. Controls mentioned in commit 'tee ll's report -would . provide for ' an "appropriate' rate of taxation" to 'be Maintained in order• to drain surplus purchaSing power. It also said that Congress should instruct the . Treasury and the Federal Reserve that the primary power to regulate the supply, availability and• - cost of credit belongs to the Federal • Reserve , System.. Indirect Control • It ?asked that a commission be established which would have authority to" .set up' direct and indirect. controls. ' The majority report of com mittee I, based' on a bill by. Penn Stele's:John Baron, - - provided for indirect . controls' such as. incen tive -taxation -and credit restric tions until inflationary pressures . (Continued .on,page eight). FOR A BETTER PENN STATE 6: ~ of 8 '.Wirgstleits . Make ' Semi-Finals Lions' Draw Kentucky In NCAA's Coach Elmer Gross' Lion bas ketball team will face possibly the toughest _assignment. in the school's court history when it op-. Poses mighty Kentucky in the opening round of the NCAA play offs in Raleigh/N.C. Friday night. Kentucky, ranked the number one quintet in the nation by the Associated Press, was named yes terday as the Lions' NCAA in augural foe. North Carolina State, Southern Conference champions, will meet another "at-large" tea m, St. John's at Raleigh. The two win ners will battle for the regional championship and the right to participate in the national finals at the University of Washington, Seattle, March 25-26. The - two other Eastern "at large" representatives, Dayton and Duquesne, will play in re gional playoffs at Chicago against Princeton and Illinois. Duquesne, knocked from the NIT tourney, meets Princeton. The victor of the Chicago finals will join the win ners of the Raleigh, Kansas City, and Corvallis, Ore. eliminations in the Seattle finals. Coach Gross . . and his ten man traveling squad will leave State College sometime Thursday morn ing,- it was announced yesterday. Coach Adolph Rupp's Wildcats are defending NCAA champions. They also copped the coveted na tional title in 1949 and '4B. The Grassland .dribblers have been voted the country's top team for three of the last four seasons. Last year in regional compe tition, the Wildcats romped over Louisville, 79-68, St. John's 59- 43, then edged Illinois, 76-74, for the Eastern crown. In the national finals Rupp's courtmen outplayed Kansas State for a 68-58 victory. (Continued on page six) Passing the Peace Pipe PROF. ROBERT OLIVER, left, head of the Speech depart ment and recently returned from Korea,. accepts a hand-painted Fai-Eastern type pipe from Prof. Joseph F. O'Brien, men's debate coach. The Ceremony, preceded - the - banqUer held' last 'night forl",the .171h:annual Pennsylvania State Debaters'-Convention. , rgiatt (Special to the Daily Collegian) BETHLEHEM. Pa., March 14--Coach Charlie Speidel's Penn State Wrestlers :advanced six of eight men into the semi-finals to make a strong bid in defense of their Eastern intercollegiate championship tonight in Lehigh's Grace Hall. With six men in tomorrow af ternoon's semi-finals and. five pin victories, Speidel's men are as sured of at least 12 points. One point is awarded for fourth place and a single point is given for each pin. 3 Others in Contention Hud Samson Wagner to Give 'Peg' as Thesis Carl Wagner, a graduate stu dent in arts and letters, will pre sent his thesis production, "Peg o' My Heart" Monday and Tues day in the. Little Theater, base, ment of Old Main. The production of J. Hartley Manners' play is Wagner's pro ject toward getting a master's de gree. A limited number of free tick ets are available to the public. They may be picked up- from Jean Martin, secretary in-the dra matics office, Schwab Auditorium. The cast includes Ruth Devlin, Mrs. Chichester; Dennis Sherk, Jarvis; Prim Diefenderfer, Ethel; Charles Schulte, Alaric; Kaye Vinson, Brent; Lois Savitch, Peg; Connie Melvin, Bennett; Gordon Greer, Hawkes, and. Sidney Ai•ch er, Jerry. NIT Rejection Now Justified— See Page 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS The 128 .man field was cut to 64 in this afternoon's preliminar ies and will be reduced to 32 after tonight's quarterfinals are completed. These 32 matmen tangle tomorrow afternoon start ing at 2 p.m. The finals will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Syracuse, Columbia, and Rut gers looked like the Lions' tough est opposition in State's attempt to continue its Eastern mastery. Last year the Blue and White won the Easterns in Rec Hall with a total of 27 team points. Lehigh, runnerup in the '5l race, advanced two men into the semi -fina is and has four pin points for a team total of six tallies. Syracuse and Columbia also have six points with three men each still in contention and three pinnings. Rutgers has three entrants in the semi's. Seek 'Hat Trick' (The point score of. Lehigh, Syracuse, and Columbia were to talled prior to• the 177-pound and heavyweight matches. Penn State's 12 points include the points gained by Hud Samson's pin victory in the 177-pound divi sion.) Lehigh's George Feuerbach and Rutgers' Emil Perona who are at tempting the en - viable "hat trick" of three successive individual ti tles are still in the running. Feu erbach, 1950, '5l 130-pound win ner, scored a pin over Carl Lor enz, Temple, in 7:55 in the 137 pound class. The Scarlet's 157-pounder Per {Continued on page six) Chapel Speaker To Discuss Church Power "The Authority of the Church" will be the topic of the Rev. Rob ert S. Bilheimer, program secre tary for the World Council of Churches, New York City, at the chapel services at 11 a.m. to morrow in Schwab Auditorium. Mr. Bilheimer was the admin istrative secretary of the World Council of Churches in Amster. dam in 1949, and has been ap pointed executive secretary of the second assembly of the World Council to be held in Illinois in 1954. He is also secretary of the section on race relations. He was a representative at the World Christian Youth Conference in Oslo, and at the meetings of the central committee of the World Council of Churches in England, Canada,. and Switzerland. Mr. Bilheimer is a graduate of Phillips-Exeter Academy and Yale University, and received his B.D. from the Yale University Divinity School. He is pastor of the Westminister Prdsbyterian Church in 'Jamaica, N.Y. Flowers will be provided by Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity and the Nittany Co-op. Members of the Nittany Co-op will attend the services in a body in honor of Co-op on Campus Week, which will begin tomorrow. Members of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority will attend in -a body in honor of their new in itiates. IFC Newsletter The IFC-Pan Hel Newsletter will be distributed to all fraterni ties and sororities on Tuesday. The issue will feature' a complete description of Greek-Week actiqp ities. -
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