PAGE TWO The Wheels G EDITORIAL LEADERS Andrew McNeillie (left) and David Pellnitz (right) get together to formulate Collegian policy with Franklin Kelly, and Phyllis Kalson of the business staff. The new editorial staff took over with yesterday's Collegian and the new business staff will take over tomorrow. 12 Colleges Will Attend Reading Festival Here • Students from 12 colleges will attend the fourth Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Reading Festival tomorrow and Friday at the College. Colleges participating in the festival are the Altoona and Ogontz undergraduate centers, Beaver College, Bucknell University, Du quesne University, Indiana State Teachers College, Juniata College, Saint Francis College, Seton Hill College, Slipper y Rock State Teachers College, University of Pittsburgh, and Westminster Col lege. Representatives from the Col lege include Myron Cole and Con stance Melvin, poetry; Betty Lou Morgan, drama; and Joada Os walt, prose. Patricia Hathaway will be mis tress of ceremonies for the read ing events in 304 Old Main. William W. Hamilton, assistant, professor of speech, will be chair- 1 man for the short poetry readings at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Julia Arnold will preside at a miscellaneous program at & p.m. Thomas Rice will preside at the long poetry readings at 9:30 a.m. Friday and Madeleine Sharp will be at the short story readings at 10:30 a.m. Margaret Troutman will be chairman of the drama readings at 1:30 p.m. Dr. Robert T. Oliver, professoP of speech, will speak at a ban quet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at the State College Hotel. Mrs. Harriet D. Nesbitt, assis tant professor of public speaking, is in charge of the festival. Mrs. Edgar Lee Masters, wife of the poet, will be the faculty representative from Ogontz Cen ter. Hort Woods Parking Project To Be Delayed Walter W. Trainer, supervisor of lan d scape construction, an nounced yesterday that work on the proposed Hort Woods park ing lot will not get underway until the end of the semester. Construction is not probable until the end of the semester be cause closing- the present Hort Woods parking lot would create a "bigger problem," Trainer said. The new lot would consume one sixth of the woods. Trainer said that the parking lot will be completed when stu dents return for the fall semester. The parking lot plan was first introduced at th e Agriculture Student Council meeting in Janu ary, where it was given approval. The Board of Trustees approved the proposal in April. Plans call for construction of a 181-car lot along the fringe of the woods by Beaver Field, be tween Park avenue and Curtin road. Two Accidents Involve Five Two automobile accidents in volving students occurred Satur day. One injury was reported involv ing David Goldberg, a first semes ter student, and John Risser, sev enth semester student. Five-year old Glen Dry, riding with Risser, received abrasions and bruises above both eyes and was treated by a physician. The accident oc curred at Heister street and Cald er alley. Cars operated by Virginia Ham ilton, fifth semester student, and Richard Henry, 17, of Pine Grove Mills, collided at McAllister street and Calder alley causing damage estimated at $4OO to Miss Hamil ton's car and $25 to the other vehicle. Dorm Applicatimis Due Sophomore applications fo r room assignments in Nittany and Pollock dormitories will be pro zessed today. Freshmen applica tions are due tomorrow. All reser vations will be accepted at 108 Dld Main between 7 and 9 p.m. 'Round Poets whose works will be read include Gerald Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Karl Shapiro, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Stephen Benet, and T. S. Eliot. Watson Heads Eng Council Robert Watson, sixth semester mechanical engineering student, was elected last night president of the Engineering Student Coun cil. The election of other officers was postponed because of a con stitutional ruling that the vice ,president, secretary and treasurer cannot be elected until two meet ings after the election of new gen eral student representatives. An exception was made for Watson so he may take his seat on the new All-College Cabinet tomor row night. Charles Falzone repoited that 31.8 per cent of the students in the School of Engineering had voted in the student council elec tions, which closed yesterday. A 58.2 per cent vote for senior class representative, and a 53 per cent vote for junior class representa tive was recorded, but a sopho more vote of only 10.28 per cent lowered the average. F . MWT=r74WM7.MNIM7rVZ:7W7M Lion Coat Sale Below Expectations The first day sale of Lion coats did not go as well as anticipated, CharleS Coff m a n, committee member, reported at 5 p.m. yes terday. The coats will go on sale again from 8:30 a.m. to noon today and every Wednesday until Spring Week, Robert Koons, committee chairman, said yesterday. Other hours for the coat sales are from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays until Spring Week. The coats will be sold at the Student Union desk in Old Main for $1.90 each to seniors only, Koons said. Coffman said that, although first-day sales were slight, many students had been looking over the coats and had• promised that they would return. Committee members epect a rush of sales as soon as students start wearing their coats. Some students have started decorating the coats already. The coats are made of a sturdy, white muslin-like material, and have three pockets. They are available in both women's and men's sizes. Koons said that a new idea, that of decorating the coats with lipstick impressions and match ing autographs, has sprung up. The sales are scheduled to end at the beginning of Spring Week, but the committee may set up a booth to sell coats on Carnival Day, Koons said. Bask AROTC Will, Not March Basic Air ROTC students will not march in the Armed Forces Day parade to be held May 17, the Department of Air Science and Tactics has announced. Officials of the Air Science de partment said the decision was made because basic students have uniforms that do not correspond with the regulation blue of the Air Force uniform. Only advanced students and the AROTC band will march, officials said. All advanced students and band members, the officials said, would receive one merit for marching in the annual parade. Basic students who are members of the band are not excused, they added. McKinley Will Play For Senior B. II Ray McKinley and his orchestra will play for the Senior Ball on May '6, Richard Mills and William Raymond, co-chairmen, have an nounced. Look •and Down- Beat magazines have called the orchestra, led by drummer McKinley, the bes Th e band's most popular re cordings include "All the Way to San Jose," "Arizay," "Civiliza tion," Red Silk Stockings," and "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis," In the last two years, the orch estra has played at more than 100 colleges as well as at hotels and theaters. McKinley was born in Fort Worth, Tex. His father was secre tary of the Texas League baseball team on which Rogers Hornsby started. At the age of 12, after taking drumming lessons a •n d playing t orn-t o m s, McKinley led "kid bands" in Forth Worth. He was on the same bill as the dance con test in which Ginger Rogers won a Hollywood screen test. Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, and Ben Pollack helped McKinley get a job drumming for a band in Chicago in 1926. McKinley played drums for Pollack, Beasley Smith-, the Detroiters, Smith Bal lew, Jack Petis, and Red Nichols. In 1934. McKinley played with t h e Dorsey Brothers Orchestra and then with Jimmy Dorsey on the Music Hall radio show which co-starred Bing Crosby. McKinley then_ formed a band with Will Bradley which played "boogie wodgie" and "eight-to the-bar." Their numbers included VANTA Pony to Take Up Residence on Mall , Many strange sights have been seen on, the Mall, but possibly the most surprising is the pony that will take up residence in front of Schwab Auditorium today and tomorrow. The pony is visiting campus for an unusual weight-guessing contest. The students who most accurately guess the weight of the pony will receive free tickets to the Penn State Riding Club's third annual horse show, to be held at the stables Saturday and Sunday. Classes of the show will begin performances at 9 a.m. Saturday and at 1 p.m. Sunday. They are divided into the general classifi cations of horsemanship, chil dren's gaited, modified Olympic, Western, Morgan, Arabian, jump ers, hunters, and miscellaneous. The modified Olympic event is open to teams of four horses and riders from any college, school, or camp. This year's team consists of William Brodnax, Marian Whit more, Nancy Wild, and Patricia Gilbert, who will compete against Penn Hall Junior College. Edna Grabiak is reserve rider for the event. The College won this com petition last year. One of the feature attractions of the show will be the appearance at 3 p.m. Saturday of the Penn sylvania Mounted Police from the Wyoming barracks. They also ap peared in last year's show. Final plans 'for the show will be completed by the club at its meeting at 7 tonight in 217 Wil lard Foggy Nights? He Likes 'Em Charles R. Marsh, a: ietant pro fessor of electrical engineering, feels there are few things that are more pleasing than a good foggy night. Marsh has been conducting re search on automobile lights and a good foggy night is necessary to get the photographs he needs in his research. • • Marsh's photographs reveal the lateral and longitudinal shape of the light beam and how various fog densities affect it. He also stu dies what . parts of the spectrum, the blue, yellow, or red rays, get through the fog. "Fog isn't just fog," Marsh says, agreeing with meteorologists. "Reflectance of fog :s affected by the size of fog particles, which in turn are affected by such factors as temperature, altitude, and V e nature of the fog particle nu cleus," he says. all-round dance band in America "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar," "Boogie Woogie Washer woman," and "Celery Stalks at Midnight." After failing to enter the band en masse in the Marine Corps, McKinley entered the Army Air Force. He joined the Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra and helped Miller assemble the "I Sustain the Wings" radio orchestra. The unit received the Bronze Star in 1944. McKinley led the unit for a corn mend performance in Washington for President Harry S. Truman and the Press Club. McKinley formed another band in 1945 with Eddie Sauter. They developed themes with a jazz feeling. Ceramics Group Attends Conclave Several staff members an d graduate students of the Cer amics department an d earth sciences division of the Mineral Industries School attended the 54th annual convention of the Americ'an Ceramic S'ociety last week in Pittsburgh. Richard Patterson, senior in ceramics, spoke on "Differential Thermal Analysis" in competition with 14 other speakers. WEDNESDAY, APAIL, 1:9,52 ME Award Banquet Set For Tonight The annual Mining Engine6ring Society Watch Award Banquet wili be held at 6:30 tonight at the State College Hotel. The Did Timers Club gold watch will be presented to the senior mining engineering student who has been selected by the faculty and his fellow students as the most likely to succeed. The banquet is sponsored by the local chapter of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. M. D. Cooper, director of min eral engineering education, Na tional Coal Association, will pre sent this year's award to the winner, to be announced a 4 the banquet. The principal address of the evening will be delivered by Charles W. Connor, administra tor of the Defense Solid Fuels Ad ministration. Arnold Asman, head of the .division of mining engin eers, will preside at the affair, and Edward Steidle, dean of the School of Mineral Industries, will give the opening remarks. The inscribed gold watch is an annual, presentation of the Old Timers Club. IM Discussion Finals Tonight Eight women students will com pete in the women's intramural discussion finals at 8:30 tonight in 2 Sparks by virtue of winning in the preliminary rounds last night. Judith Callet, Eugenie Deger, Jane Evans, Nancy Graham, Theresa Horrigan, Dorothy Oster hout, Eleanor Rakosi, and Donna Symmonds are the finalists who discussed "Do Colleges R e all y Educate?" along with 22 other contestants. The contest is . sponsored each year by the women's debate squad and Delta Alpha Delta, lo cal women's speech honorary. The winner of the contest will receive a trophy for one year. To night's finals will determine this year's winner. Each contestant is permitted to speak for - a total of seven min utes. No speech can be .longer than three minutes and a total of four times is allotted to speak. Last year's winner was Fran ces Smarr, sponsored by Leon ides. The contest is open to all women students on campus ex cept those who have actively par ticipated in women':. debate. 3 Senior Committees Named by Olmsted David Olmsted, senior class president, named thr e e senior committees last week. Robert Koons was named chair man of the Lion coat committee, with Robert Klingensmith an d ' Charles Coffman as assistants. ' The class night committee in cludes Kendall Tomlinson, chair man; Robert Fraser, program di rector; and James Dunmire, and JOhn_. Harris, publicity directors. Bryson Craine was named chairman of the class gift com mittee. Orientation Counselor. Applications Available Applications for students wish ing to be Orientation Week coun selors are,still available in the Dean of en's office, 109 Old Main. Completed applications from 110 students had been received by 5 p.m. yesterday. No deadline has been set for the return of these applications, Daniel A. DeMarino, assistant dean of men, announced.
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