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VOL. 54, No. 34
Fielding Declares
Town Election Void
Town Council elections of Oct. 21-23 were declared illegal by the
Association of Independent' Men Board of Governors elections
committee yesterday in a decision handed down by Byron Fielding,
committee chairman.
Stemming from an editorial
LA Council
To Hold Ist
Coffee Hour
The first Liberal "Arts coffee
hour will be held from 4 to 5:15
p.m. Monday, it was decided last
night at a meeting of the LA Stu
dent Council.
Watson Leese and Mary Lee
Lauffer, co-chairmen of the cof
fee hour committee, reported that
35 freshmen and 35 sophomores
will receive invitations this week
to attend the. gathering Monday
in Grange playroom. Paul R.
Daugherty, professor of romance
language,. will address the first
group. Five other faculty mem
bers will attend, the coffee hour.
The student assessment of 25
cents per person which is given to
the council by the 1800 LA stu
dents is being used in part to fi
nance the coffee hours. The gath
erings are to aid students and fac
ulty of the LA school become ac
quainted, according to the pur
pose stated on the invitations.
Jane Reber and Norma- Voll
mer, representatives on Council,
were elected co-editors of the pro
posed magazine to be published
by the LA school. The magazine
will be a 12 to 16 page issue. Calls
will be made later for LA students
who are interested in forming the
staff of the magazine. A letter is
being prepared to send to the sen
ate committee on student affairs
in which the policy of- the maga
zine will be stated.
The magazine will also be fi
nanced mainly through the as
sessment which is placed on the
LA students: Nine hundred dol
lars a year will be made available
to Council through the 25-cent as
sessment which the student paid
in his fees. J
Council members, were given
folders at the meeting which con
tained the names of faculty mem
bers to be solicited for the Cam
pus Chest.
A new constitution for the LA
Student Council was presented to
the members for approval by Ben
Sinclair, chairman of the consti
tution committee. The Council
amended and approved it. Fifty
copies of the new constitution are
being prepared. '
Judging Team
Wins 6fh*Place
Penn State’s dairy products
judging team recently placed
sixth in the ice cream division of
the Collegiate Students’ Interna
tional Contest in Judging Dairy
Products at Boston.
John Mountain was the tenth
place winner in the ice' cream
contest. Other team members are
John Sarikianos, Ronald Sick and
Wilson Gramer, alternate. Team
coaches are Francis J. Doan, pro
fessor of dairy manufacturing, and
Dr. George H. Watrous Jr., assis
tant professor of dairy husbandry.
Twenty-two land grant colleges
and one Canadian provincial agri
cultural college participated in
the contest, sponsored jointly by
the American Dairy Science As
sociation and Daily Industries
Supply 'Association. Ohio State
placed first. -i
Student Directories
Go on Sole Today
The Student Directory will
go on sale for SO cents, at 1 p.xn.
today at the Recorder's office,
4 Willard.
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that appeared in the Daily Col
legian Friday, .the action was
taken following the election of 19
representatives and 16 alternates
to the council by approximately
80 of the 3000 town independent
men.
Nomination by Petition
The decision was based, hovr
ever, on a violation of the consti
tution of the council which states
that “nominations for represen
tatives shall be by petition which
must be-signed by 20 or more
district electors.” Petitions then
must be submitted to and ap
proved by the AIM Board of Gov
ernors elections committee.
The nature of the violation will
be presented at the AIM Board of
Governors meeting, Fielding said.
Suggestions for the handling of
the 'election will' also be given, he
said. The AIM meeting is sched
uled for. 7:30 .p.m. tomorrow in
102 Willard. >
Twenty-three hundred postal
cards were sent to town inde
pendents, with the exception of
eighth semester seniors.
Some Wards Voteless
Nevertheless, in some .wards
only one or two men appeared to
vote on election nights. In- two
wards, no one voted. The highest
turnout for any one ward was ten
men, although 100 to 200 men live
in each ward.
No definite plans have been
set for.a hew election. According
to Fielding, . independent . town
men interested in serving on
Town Council should secure 20
signatures of men living in their
wards. /
A list of the names of students
living in the various wards may
be secured from James McDowell,
Town Council secretary, Fielding
said. This procedure must be fol
lowed by those who were, elected
during the Oct. 21-23 elections,
he said.
4300 to Play
At Band Day
More than 4300 high school
bandsmen will participate Satur
day in the fourth annual Band
Day oh Beaver Field..
The Penn State Marching Blue
Band will join the high school
groups for- a mass demonstration
during half-time of the Penn
State-Fordham football game.
Sixty one bands have accepted
invitations to participate. Twenty
three visiting bands are directed
by Penn State graduates. Twenty
other, directors took advanced
work at the College.
' Eighteen bands will participate
in the program for the first time.
Last year only 3000 bandsmen
performed.
Dr. Hummel- Fishburn, professor
of music and music education,
originated Band Day in 1950.
Fear Keeps 19 from
PANMUNJOM, Tuesday, Nov. 3
(d 3 ) —The neutral camp where. 22
U.S. prisoners of war wait rest
lessly was (pictured today as a
valley of fear. And only fear
keeps possibly ,19 of them from
asking to go home.
The picture - was drawn by a
highly Reliable source who cannot
be identified, but who is in a pos
tion to know what he is talking
about. The .Communists list- the
22 as refusing ’to return to the
United States.
Murder Feared
On the one hand, the source,
said, is the fear of the 19 that
they will be killed by hard-core
Communists among them if they
try to flee and ask repatriation.
On the-, other is the constant
dinning in their ears by the Com
munists that should they ever del
cide to go back to ; their home-
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1953
FOR A BETTER P!
Lion, State Parties
Name Candidates
Faculty Drive Begins
PRESIDENT MILTON S. EISENHOWER -ftlls-oui his -pledge card
for ihe Campus Chest faculty solicitation drive which beg:ns today.
Seated with the President is. Dr. Russell B. Dickerson, faculty
chairman. Standing are Richard Gibbs, student chairman, and
Kirk Garber, president of the Penn State Ghrisiian Association,
which will solicit the administration.
Faculty Chest Drive
Will Begin Today
Student council members will begin soliciting the faculty in
their schools for the Campus Chest drive today.
Penn State Christian Association members will solicit members
of the administration. One hundred per cent participation is the goal
of the drive which will continue until Thursday.
Faculty contributors may des
ignate their donations to the Penn
State Christian Association, the
World University Service, the
Penn State Student Scholarship
fund, or the State College, Wel
fare fund.
The faculty will not be asked
to contribute to organizations
which conduct campaigns in town.
The drive is an effort to com
bine all fund raising campaigns
into one drive and to eliminate
duplicated efforts.
Organizations not included in
the drive may not conduct their
own campaigns on campus.
An estimated $4OO was col
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land they would be executed for
treason.
• The informant said that letters
from home, from friends as well
as relatives, would do as much
as anything to erase the fear from
the minds of the 19. The others;
he added, are past redemption.
The camp, watched over by In
dian guards, was described as
bleak with most of the 22 home
sick, bewildered and in, fear of
the Communist Americans among
them.
Sanitation Is Poor
Sanitation is inadequate and the
only drinking water comes from
a v well in a rice paddy. Two of the
prisoners are ill.
Seven of the Americans, select
ed by the Communists, battle for
leadership in the camp but only
three have shown signs of being
genuine Communists.
The hard core leaders are under
Athlete's Condition
Reported Improved
A soccer player who was
kicked in the abdomen, at a prac
tice session last week was re
ported “much improved” yester
day by doctors at Centre County
Hospital in Bellefonte.
William Shaw, third semester
DIR' student, was taken to the
hospital early Wednesday morn
ing, suffering from internal bleed
ing.
He will not be released from
the hospital for several days, doc
tors reported.
Returning
the control of a Col. Chong,' a Chi
nese former professor. He has
amassed “confession story” mate
rial he threatens to broadcast to
the world if 'any ..of the 22 men
go home.
Wives, Jobs Promised
The Americans have been prom
ised good jobs, wives, freedom of
travel, and a return to the Unit
ed States within five years where
“when the revolution comes they
are to be generals, or at least
leaders.”
The informant said most of the
men were fearful because of pro-
Communist articles they have
signed, written or broadcast while
in captivity.
So far the .United''States has
made no attempt to interview any
of the 22. Instead, explanation of
ficers have waited for letters,
homesickness and indifferent food
to do their work.
Frosh, Soph
Elections Set
For Nov. 12
Lion and State Parties chose
candidates Sunday night to
run in the freshman and soph
omore class elections Nov. 12.
Edwin Kohn, chairman of
the All-College elections com
mittee, said 237 students attended
the State Party meeting, and 239
attended the Lion meeting. A to
tal of 1310 students registered
with the elections committee last
week to be eligible to attend the
meetings.
Hugh Cline, third-semester arts
and letters major, was the State
Party choice for sophomore class
president, and Robert McMillan,
third semester pre-medical ma
jor, was named to oppose Cline
by the Lion Party.
Presidential Candidates
James Musser, first semester
mechanical engineering major,
was the Lion nominee, and Ste
ven Jordan, first semester indus
trial engineering major, was
chosen by the State Party to head
the fre.shman class slate.
_ Robert ..Harding, third'semester
chemical engineering major, was
named the vice presidential can
didate; and Shirley Mix, third
semester physical education ma
jor, the secretary-treasurer nom
inee for the sophomore class by
the Lion Party.
Other sophomore nominees of
the State Party are Richard Alli
son, third semester woods utiliza
tion major, vice president, and
Barbara Stock, third semester
home economics major, secretary
treasurer.
Other Nominees
Other State Party nominees in
the freshman class are Joseph
Perko, first semester industrial
engineering major, vice president,
and Marilyn Seltzer, first semes
ter home economics major, secre
tary-treasurer.
In the Lion Party, Robert Ben
nett, first semester dairy husban
dry major, is the freshman vice
president nominee, and Virginia
Hance, first semester education
major, the choice for secretary
treasurer.
Russel Martz, third semester
agronomy major, was elected by
the Lion Party as sophomore
clique chairman. Martz replaced
Sanford Lichtenstein who re
signed last week.
Court McMahan, seventh semes
ter advertising major, was elected
by the Lion Party as senior class
vice clique chairman for men;
Jane Overmeyer, seventh semes
ter bacteriology major; vice clique
chairman for women; Eleanor Ni
castro, seventh semester educa
tion . major, secretary; and Nor
bert Solden, seventh semester
arts and letters major, treasurer.
Deoo fo Attend
Civic Assembly
Ossian R. MacKenzie, dean of
the School of Business, will be one
of 65 men and women in atten
dance at the American Assembly
Nov. 5 to 8 at Arden House, Har
riman, N.Y.
The American Assembly, found
ed at Columbia by Dwight D.
Eisenhower when he was presi
dent of the university, is a non
partisan citizens’ roundtable
where public questions are dis
cussed.
Representatives from business,
labor and farm groups, as well as
housewives, religious leaders,
governmental officials and pro
fessional men will make up the
discussion group.
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