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Going Once, Going Twice...
—Photo by Schroeder
SELLING ANYTHING from a grape hoe to a potato peeler, auc
tioneer Harold Leightley made a highly successful bid to get high
- bids at an auction sale of used College equipment Saturday. The
sale lasted all day—so did Leighlley's voice.
Active Auctioneer
Empties Warehouses
By MIKE FEINSILBER
If you were in market for 2000 little wooden boxes Saturday,
you’ve lost your opportunity.
You could have had them for a steal at the auction sale of used
College equipment at the College Warehouses.
When the. auctioneer and the
festive crowd came upon the col
lection of boxes —once vital to the
process of education, now useless
—no one was quite sure what they
could be used for, but everyone
was reluctant to let a bargain
like this pass. Auctioneer and
'audience pondered. Auctioneer
called for bids for the lot. No bids.
Still More Troubles
Finally, the crafty auctioneer
hit upon a solution. He suggested:
“kindling wood!” He offered them
for 25 cents a dozen. Five hun
dred of them were sold imme
diately. Somebody offered $5 for
the remaining 1500. “Sold!” cried
the auctioneer, obviously relieved.
These weren’t the* end of the
auctioneer’s troubles. Later he ran
into some well-used dormitory
furniture which nobody wanted
for apparent reasons. After sev
eral futile attempts to drum up a
bid, the auctioneer gave up. “Any
body who steals that stuff,” de
clared the vendor, moving on to
the next item, “won’t be prose
cuted.”
The broker got his, revenge on
the occasionally apathetic crowd
when he came to a metal sink no
body wanted. Fishing for an offer,
he cried, “Who’ll give $5 for it,
where’s my five dollar man . . .
who’ll give two-fifty for the metal
in it. Use it as junk. Nobody?
All right, we’ll come back to it.”
He did, and the sink sold for $5.
More Scrap Meial, Kindling
If the auctioneer had troubles,
the customers had a great time.
They wandered around the ware
houses, giving imprompto con
certs on the six upright pianos,
tapping on the typewriters, pic
nicing on hot dogs, hamburgers,
coffee, pie, milk, and soda pop
sold—at old fashioned prices—by
members of the College’s Block
and Bridle Club.
Used plumbing, electrical sup
plies, and lumber will be up for
s J ale at the next auction to be held
in a few months. Or, to put in the
auctioneer’s language, scrap metal
and kindling will be going.
Arts Committee
- The committee on combined arts
festivities, will meet at 7 tonight
in 107 Main Engineering.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN", STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Book Collection
Is on Display
Books by the late Rufus
W. Jones, professor of phil
osophy at Haverford College, are
being displayed at the Pattee Li
brary. This exhibit has been ar
ranged in connection with a lec
ture on the work of Rufus Jones
which will be presented by Dr.
Cornelius Kruse, Wesleyan Uni
versity, 8 p.m. Sunday at the Hil
lel Foundation Auditorium.
The collection includes books
representing Jones’ activities as
a scholar, thinker and humani
tarian, and other books and pic
tures of his life. Several of the
volumes, pictures, and a manu
script were contributed to the
display by Haverford College.
Faculty to Address
Ceramics Association
Three members of the' faculty
will address the annual joint
meeting of the Pennsylvania Cer
amics Association and the Phila
delphia section of the American
Ceramic Society in Philadelphia
today.
The men are Dr.. Edward C.
Henry, professor and chief of the
division of ceramics; Norman R.
Thielke, research associate in cer
amics; and Dr. Wilhelm R. Bues
sem, research professor of mineral
technology.
TAKE A
BREAKS
Yes, take a break and hop over to Vic's for a snack
With Spring weather corning on. studying becomes
harder and harder to‘concentrate on. So, when you
feel the urge to take your nightly stroll, walk down
it's conveniently located to campus and
to Vic's
Yes, Vic hafc just the right food to satisfy your
desires
Vic's
Shamrocks and Greets Honor
Irelands Pet Snake Charmer
By HELEN LUYBEN
Sure and ’tis March 17th a great
day for the Irish. ’Tis the day the
Donegal, Hollihan, Murphy, and
O’Shanesy clans get put the sham
rocks and wear the green to hon
or Ireland’s patron saint, Patrick.
Now Patrick was quite the boy.
Not only did he ponvert the
heathen of all Ireland to Christ
ianity back in the fifth century,
but he expelled the snakes from
the country in the bargain. What’s
more, the methods used by the
venerable saint were ingenious
and nothing short of sheer magic.
St. Patrick, who died March 17,
493 A.D., lived to the ripe—or
perhaps sere—old age of 121, an
almost miraculous accomplish
ment in itself. The son of a Ro
man gentleman, Caliphurnius, St.
Patrick was sold into slavery at
the age of 16, and after six years
of servitude in Ireland, escaped
to Britain. There he spent 18 years
in a Christian monastery, return
ing to Ireland later to convert the
Druids to Christianity.
Ireland, is splattered with towns,
churches, rocks and' streams
founded by or named for her pa
tron saint. This origin of the name
of the town of Struill is supposed
to be authentic:
It seems St. Patrick, in bap
tizing a newly converted Irish
chieftain, leaned heavily upon his
crosier during the ceremony, nev
er once noticing the spike of the
staff was accidentally leaning on
the chief’s toe.
Riding Team
Wins Reserve
Championship
The College riding team won
the reserve championship at Cor
nell University’s invitational rid
ing meet Saturday at Ithaca, N.Y.
New York Military Academy
took the championship with 46
points. Penn State was second
with 40. Others in the meet were
Cornell, 35; the Junior Essex
Troop of Cavalry) 11; St. Lawr
ence University, 8; end Lakemont
Academy, 3.
Penn State's Edna Grabiak, on
her open jumper Mi-Surprise,
won reserve champion individual
high scorer honors and also re
serve champion in horsemanship.
First place rosettes were award
ed to Nancy Wild on Queen B in
Ladies Pleasure Hack; Gail Smith
and Miss Wild on White Star and
Queen B in Pairs of Hunters Tan
dem; and Miss .Grabiak on Mi-
Surprise in Open Jumping and
Horsemanship over jumps.
William Brodnax reached the
finals in horsemanship. H
Cornell won ' the modified
Olympic team event, with the
Lions finishing second. On this
team were Gail Smith, on White
Star, Miss Wild on Queen B, and
Patricia Gilbert on Brown Beau.
Also. on the team, coached by
Capt. Gregory Gagarin, was Ed
ward Campbell.
145 S. ALLEN ST.
Believing it to be a part of the
ceremony, the chieftian bore the
pain in silence while the blood
flowed freely from his toe. Struill,
the. scene of the baptismal, liter
ally means “stream of blood.”
St. Patrick used the shamrock
to illustrate to the Irish the trin
ity of God. The three leaves -of
the trefoil represent, he said, the
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The
stem represents the Godhead, or
unity of the three in one. The
Irish had already come to believe
that the shaiprock had the mys
tical power to ward off snakes,
and the pagans were ready to ac
cept the idea of a god that could
expell snakes from their land.
St. Patrick was earnest in his
efforts to drive the snakes from
Ireland. By beating on a drum, he
lured> all of the snakes but one to
the sea, where they were promptly
drowned. It • is said St. Patrick
beat upon his drum so vehement
ly that he knocked a hole in it
and an angel of the Lord had to
come down from heaven to mend
it.
One snake, in spite of all of St.
Patrick’s drumbeating, still re-
'5 O'clock' Group
To Give I Mamie
Five O’clock Theater will pre
sent “Mamie,” a one-act play by
Hugh Brennan, eighth semester
journalism major, at 5 p.m. today
in the Little Theater, basement of
Old Main.
Actors Jack Kutz, John. Krug,
Tom Beilin, and Sylvia Brown
will perform script-in-hand.
Yvonne Voigt has directed the
character study. Jolly Oswalt will
serve as technician. Setting is.by
Miss Voigt.
“Mamie” is. the story of an old
woman in a mining town who re
fuses to believe the reputation of
her wayward daughter.
Clover Club to Meet .
Dr. Howard W. Higbee, associate
professor of soil technology, will
speak on the soils of Pennsyl
vania at the meeting of the Clover
Club at 7:30 tonight in 111 Plant
Industries.
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mained in Ireland. Then old Pat
tried another method of bewitch
ment. He approached the snake
carrying a fine big box he’d just
constructed and tried to line the
shake info it. The snake, a clever
reptile, was convinced he’d never
have enough room in St. Patrick’s
box, but the saint was determined.
“Try it and see if it isn’t large
enough,” said Patrick, whereupon
the snake slithered into the box,
Patrick shut the lid, snapped the
lock and threw the whole she
bang into the sea.
So goes one version. Still an
other has St. Patrick approach the
reluctant reptile saying, “Conie,
snake. I promise I won’t hurt you.
I’ll just chain you to this nice
green tree ’till Monday and then
you will be free, to slither whither
you wish.” Whereupon the trust
ing snake was chained to the tree
and forgotten by the saint. It is
said the snake can still be heard
to wail early each Monday morn
ing, “It’s a long Monday, Patrick.”
For many years following his
death, the Irish worshipped the
saint’s jawbone as both a test, of
guilt in legal disputes and as. a
good luck charm to be used when
a child was to be bom in a home.
Persons accused of committing
crimes were compelled to swear
their innocence by the- jawbone
which was held within a silver
vase. The defendant was subject
to some supernatural punishment
from the jawbone if he should lie.
As a good luck omen the, jawbone
gave blessing and protection to
the woman during childbirth.
Sinclair Gets
Post on ICG
Benjamin Sinclair, fourth se
mester arts and letters major, was
elected regional director, of the
Intercollegiate Con fere n c e on
Government, at the central re
gional ICG convention Saturday
at Dickinson College, Carlisle. .
The convention, conducted like
a model state legislature, served
as dress rehearsal for the state
ICG convention to be held April
30 in Harrisburg. Sinclair was
also named to head the civil rights
committee at the state conven
tion.
Nineteen members of the local
ICG chapter attended the conven
tion. .
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