PACHE TWO Former Coed Found Strangled June Christoff, 21-year-old former student, was found dead Tuesday night in a bedroom of her home near Frugality in Cambria County. An autopsy performed Wednesday in Johnstown indicated the death to strangulation. A cloth belt from one of her dresses was knotted tightly around her neck when she was found by her father. The girl’s brother, 24-year-old Jean Christoff, is being sought for questioning by state and Cambria County police. County detectives said yesterday he is believed to be roaming the woods near the area, armed with a rifle. He has "been missing since his sister’s death. No charges have been filed. - A coroner’s report said no .marks of violence were found on the body. The body was clothed in dungarees and P o lice sweater. .theorized that strangulation could have been "self - inflicted. -However, co m plete results of the autopsy will .not be known until the comple- tion of laboratory ..Miss Christoff left school last semester with deferred grades. Seventh semester education ma jor, she was asigned to "teach in Holidaysburg but did not report at the start of the semester. It was reported she left school be cause of illness resulting from a nervous breakdown. Brother's Car Found The father told police the son was not at home when he ar rived and found the body. He said he believed that Jean, an ardent woodsman, took a rifle with him when he left for the woods. The home has been under close sur veillance by police since early Wednesday morning in the hope that he would return. The son, former student at Car negie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh for three years, is be lieved to have spent all day Tues day with his sister. His automo bile was found in front of the home. 'Miss Christoff is reported as having been a fairly outstanding Music Faculty Will Present Fourth Recital The fourth recital by faculty members of the Department of Music will be presented at 4 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium. The musical program is open to the public. Offering a program of three se lections for piano and violin will be Theodore K. Karhan, violinist, associate professo.r of music, and Lloyd Mitchell, pianist. Mitchell, head of the Music department at West Chester State Teachers’ Col lege, has appeared as soloist with the National and Baltimore Sym phany Orchestras and is now working for his doctorate at the College. The program will include the largo and allegro movements of the Sonata No. 2 in G (Veracini), the allegro and tempo di menuetto movements of the Sonata No. 4 in E minor (Mozart), and from the Sonata in A (Franck) allegretto ben moderata, allegro, recitativo fantasia, and allegretto poco rrios so. Possibility of being struck by a falling meteorite is so slight that, in a state the size of Kansas, an average of one person would be struck in 14,000 years. student in education; Before she dropped out, it was indicated she was dissatisfied with teaching. However, the School of Education had made her a job offer in the department if she planned not to teach. In records of an interview in the Dean of Women’s office, she was reported as “happily ad justed to College life.” She spent two years at the Al toona Center and three semesters at the College. While at the cen ter, she was a member of the Dramatics Club, Women’s Club, and the Psychology i Club. At the Miss Christoff was a member of Philotes, women’s so cial organization, and a staff mem ber of Edits, School of Education newsletter. FFA to Give 45 Gold Keys Gold keys and collegiate chap ter degrees will be awarded to 45 students at the Future Farmers of America silver anniversary banquet at 6:30 tonight in the Nittany Lion Inn. These FFA collegiate chapter members will leave soon for eight .weeks of student teaching in ag riculture.' They will work under the supervision of 28 teachers whom they will meet at the ban quet. Leslie N. Applegate of Free hold, N.Y., apple grower and first national president of FFA,' will speak tonight on the progress of the organization since its estab lishment. Banquet guests include La ■ Verne Applegate, the speaker’s daughter, and Carolyn Tenney, daughter of A. W. Tenney,. FFA national executive secretary. Both women are students at the Col lege. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA New Degrees In Eng Asked The establishment of two new degrees in the Engineer ing school will be backed by the engineering faculty at the next meeting of the College Senate. The decision was made at a meeting of the engineer ing faculty. Tuesday. A Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree would thus differentiate, between the five year architecture students and the four year engineering stu dents who obtain a Bachelor of Science degree, Eric A- Walker, dean of the School of Engineer ing, explained. Scholarships and the need for additional library space were also discussed. Carter to Discuss Race Problem “A Southerner Looks at the Race Problem” will be discussed by Hodding Carter, crusading Southern editor, at 8 p-.m. Mon day in Schwab Auditorium at the fourth program of the Com munity Forum series. Single reserved seat tickets will be on sale for $1.20 until lecture time Monday at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main. A native of Hammond, Carter was graduated from Bowdoin College and the Columbia Uni versity School of Journalism. After a year of teaching at Tu lane University in New Orleans, he worked as a reporter for the New Orleans Item, the United Press, and the Associated Press. Many Awards As editor of the Louisiana Hammond Courier, Carter launched a campaign to end the rule of the late Huey Long in Louisiana. As the result of an edict issued by Long, Carter was forced to sell his paper. He moved to Mississippi and start ed the Delta Star. With the fi nancial aid of local citizens Car ter started the amalgamated Mississippi Delta Democrat- Times. His editorials on racial tolerance earned him a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in Murray Chosen Head Of FMA Trustee Board Dr. Robert K- Murray, assistant professor of history, was elected president of the Fraternity Marketing Association board of trustees Tuesday night. Other officers named were R: AKA Sorority Is Recognized The Senate committee on stu dent affairs formally recog nized the formation of the Al pha Kappa Alpha sorority yes terday afternoon. Alpha Kappa Alpha, admit ted to the national sorority at a convention held last Decem ber, has served its probation period as a social group called the lonians. The group pre sently has ten sisters, some of whom previously joined the organization in Philadelphia. "It will be hard to organize the sorority, but I'm sure we will succeed," said Ethyl Brown, president of the AKA's. She also stated there would be no chance for a suite' until ground is brolcen for new dorm itories. ÜBA Returns $lO,OOO For Used Textbooks The Used Book Agency at the TUB yesterday'' returned more than $lOOO to students. Over $lO,- 000 has been remitted since Mon day. ... Today is the last' day students may pick up their money or un sold books'. After today, unsold books will become the property of the agency, Howard Giles, chairman, reported. In order to receive their money, students must bring their book with them. Hodding Carter Forum speaker 1946. Since then he has become .a member of the Pulitzer Advis ory Board and has acquired two other southern newspapers. Other honors won by Carter are a Neiman Fellowship at Har- .ichard Benefield, manager of the Allencrest Tea Room, vice-presi dent; and Stanley H. Campbell, Central Extension, secretary treasurer. Julius Shapiro, Beta Sigma Rho, and William Hafley, Phi Kappa Sigma, were elected to the executive committee. Murray said that the trustees had completed a transfer of funds from- the old fraternity buying program that preceded the FMA. He also announced that there are now‘23 members participating in the marketing plaii. The trustees are now. working on new contracts to obtain lower prices for the members and are striving for greater variety in their stock. A control program to insure a constant grade is also being established. The FMA is a large-scale buy ing plan for fraternities which of fers members savings .on food 1 udgets by purchasing food whole sale and in quantity. Murray is a charter' member of the organiza tion and served as secretary of the FMA board of incorporation which evolved an informal joint buying agreement into.the present corporation. Checker Tournament The’ finals in the Penn State- Centre County checker tourna ment will be held 8 p.m. tonight at the Temporary Union Building. The tournament, sponsored by the Penn State Checker Club, is open to the public. FRIDAY, &>, vard '-for. Newspapermen; the Southern' Literary Award in 1945 and a, Guggenheim Fellow ship for creative writing., He-vserved almost five years in the* Army and emerged as a major aftdr campaigns in North -Africa and the Near East. He established and edited-the Mid dle East editions of Yank and Stars and Stripes, camp publi cations. For his work with Army. Intelligence in Washington he was awarded a War Department citation. Tighting Editor'. Four novels by Carter, “The Winds of Fear,”, “Flood Crest,” “Southern Legacy” and “Gulf Coast Country” reflect his cam paigns against dishonesty,, prej udice, and demagoguery in the South. He is currently at work on an historical novel. Branded by the Saturday Eve ning Post as the “South's fight ing editor,” Carter has also con tributed articles to Reader’s Di gest, American Magazine; Amer ican Mercury, Esquire, New York Times, and This Week. In his own words, Carter runs his newspapers and his life “to show non-Southerners what is good about the South and South erners what is wrong with it?* Three Projects In Meteorology: Now Underway Three research projects are in progress in the division of meteor ology, according to Dr. Haris Neu berger, chief of the division. The projects will be directed by Albert Miller, instructor an meteorology; Dr. Hays A. Panofsky, associate professor of meteorology; and Dr. Charles L.' Hosier, assistant pro fessor of meteorology. Miller directs a study to deter mine whether there are relation ships between atmospheric prop erties at 18,000 feet and at the ground. If a relationship is found,, it is thought that surface-weather forecasts can be improved. Panofsky heads a study to de termine 1 the importance of differ ent sizes of eddies, air currents running contrary, to the main cur rent, in dispersing air pollutants. Hosier is directing a study' of the fundamental processes in volved in the conversion of water clouds into ice clouds and thfe re lease of precipitation from such clouds. Dr. Neuberger, under a grant of $24,500 from the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, directs a project to investigate the effect of reduced weather, information, on the- ac curacy of weather forecasts. 'Who's in the News' Fraternity and sorority presi dents and students listed in “Who’s in the News at. Penn State” may still pick up copies of the publication at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Four men lost on a hunting trip in North Queensland, Australia, lived for four days on raw crows, pheasants and pigeons which they shot.
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