Elect ion Motion Declared Illegal A rescinding motion to the Town Council constitution making petitions unnecessary for recent council elections was blasted yes terday by Byron Fielding, chairman of the Association of Indepen dent Men Board of Governor’s elections committee. The four Town Council officers passed this motion early last month. This motion overruled, until after the elections, a provi sion of the constitution stating petitions with 20 signatures were necessary for nominations in council elections. Claims Illegality Fielding said the officers had no power to do this and added that the election was illegal be cause it violated the constitution, which was adopted last spring. Fielding added he would pre sent within two days a new plan designed to clear up the “whole mess.” He. said additional elec tions would probably be run off again under the new plan. Chester Cherwinski, council president, commented, “All I wanted to do was to get the coun cil set up and organized. Under Voting Ends Tomorrow For Queen Voting for Junior Prom Queen will continue until 5 p.m. tomor row at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Fifth and sixth se mester students must present matriculation cards to vote. Finalists for the title are Faith Gallagher, Katherine Reynolds, Gail 'Smith, Suzanne Strom and Nancy Van Ikies. They were se lected by a board of 15 outstand ing juniors from a field of 50 en trants on the basis of personality, poise and beauty. Finalists will be introduced at the Junior Week talent review at 8 tonight and the pep rally at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. Joseph Bar nett, junior class president, will crown the queen at 10:15 p.m. Friday in Recreation Hall at the Junior Prom. Ralph Flanagan will play for the semi-formal dance. Upperclass women will get two o’clock permissions Friday night and one o’clocks Saturday night. Freshmen will receive oiie' o’clocks Friday and 12 o’clocks Saturday, according to Nancy White, president of the Women’s Student Government Association. Campus Chest Ruling Passed Pollock Council last night pass ed a recommendation for the Campus Community Chest com mittee that further program. soli citation in Pollock b e handled through the Association of Inde pendent Men and the area coun cil. This recommendation is an at tempt to improve the method in which this year’s Chest program was. carried out, president Joseph Ferko said. Charles Lattanzio, third semes ter business major, was appointed fire-marshal by the Council. Ferko also announced that a representative of the food serv ice department will meet with council members to discuss the possibility of speeding up service in the dining halls. Ferko urged council members to work with their men to elim inate delays in the noon lunch hour. Hat Council to Meet Hat Society Council will com plete recommendations to Fresh man Joint Customs Board and study revision of hat societies’ constitutions at 7 tonight in 204 Old Main. No A-Bomb Stockpile for Spain WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (JP) — Two cabinet officers declared today the United States has 'no plans for stockpiling atomic bombs at American air bases in Spain. This followed press reports from Madrid yesterday which quoted -Harold E. Talbott, sec retary of the Air Force, as say ing the Air Force eventually will have supplies of A-bombs TODAY’S WEATHER CLOUDY. WINDY -AND COOL By BILL SNYDER Joseph Barnett, Junior Class president, announced that stu dents .may split tickets for the Junior Prom .Friday evening. Tickets, which 'will 'go on sale Friday morning at the Student Union desk in Old Main, cost $4 per couple. the petition plan, it would have been difficult or impossible. I passed the plan we used through several sources, and they all agreed that it was the only thing to do.” . To Meet with Dean Cherwinski said he plans to meet with Assistant Dean of Men Harold K. Perkins, and assistant to the dean of men, James W. Dean, along with council •• treas urer Robert Schoner tomorrow concerning the problem. After wards he will release a statement, if any, he said. Schoner, in explaining the res cinding motion, said he and other officers had decided that .if.. the. council was to be organized at all, they would have to eliminate the petitions provision of the new constitution because the lack of interest expressed in the town council by independent men in the past was made such a plan unfeasable. “As soon as we got the council set up, organized and function ing properly,” Schoner said, “we planned to bring the constitution up for amendment with the idea of changing election procedure.” The town constitution concern ing election proceedings provides that: “Nominations for represen tatives shall be by petition which must be signed by twenty or more independent men.” The old constitution, as ex plained by • James McDowell, council secretary, provides that ward men turning out at the polls in election could meet among themselves and nominate some one of their own choice to repre sent them on the council. No peti tions were necessary, he said. The recent elections, '-which were declared illegal Monday by the AIM elections committee, were run off according £o the old con stitution, which was replaced last spring. In all, 80 men out of an eligible 2300 came to vote. at the newly acquired Spanish bases. Talbott today denied • these reports. They are' “not true,” he said upon his arrival in Athens, Greece, today. “I never made such a statement, nor will I ever make statements about atomic weapons.” He said that was “a matter to be taken up and discussed between the respective gov ernments.” , Talbott Quotes At least three news organi zations—The Associated Press, United Press and New York Times—carried dispatches from Madrid yesterday quoting Talbott as saying U.S. air units in Spain would be supplied with atomic weapons. The Madrid dispatches quickly created a stir, on Capi tol Hill and in several other Need Petition laxly VOL. 54, No. 35 STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 4, 1953 FIVE CENTS Campaign to Parties Set Both Platforms Get Approval Of Committee . Platforms submitted by : the Lion and State parties were re viewed and approved last night by the All-College elections com mittee. The party platforms are pledges of the candidates who will run for freshman and soph omore class officers in the Nov. 12 elections. The Lion Party platform is: Recognizing that it is easier to criticize than to construct, the Lion Party has limited its plat form to programs that the Fresh man and Sophomore class officers will actually be able to work for. We ask that these platform pledges be considered on the basis of feasibility as well as. desir ability. 1. The Lion Party will actively work for improvement and ex pansion of decentralized regis tration. 2. The Lion Party recommends the conversion of one of the Nit tany-Pollock dorms for use as a recreational building to supple ment the existing facilities. 3. The Lion Party supports the plan to utilize the Nittany dining hall as an evening study hall for men in the Nittany-Pollock area. 4. The Lion Party endorses a shorter more effective customs program, including joint enforce ment and the elimination of the dating and speaking restrictions. The State Party presented the following platform: We, of the State Party, promise to work diligently for the fulfill ment of the following planks in order that we may make Penn State an even better Penn State. 1. To encourage and increase the number of co-educational ac tivities throughout the school year; this will be done by streng thening the relationship between dormitory women and men, and town men, in order to provide more informal mixed recreational activities. 2. To revise the customs pro gram" by working for: a. A stated length of time of customs.' b. Joint enforcement. c. Elimination of the “no dating” rule. d. Establishment of wearing blue dinks with class nu merals. 3. To provide for a more work able and efficient resident coun seling system. 4. To encourage scholarship through an orientation program (Continued on page eight) branches of the government. Dulles and Wilson had an early morning session with President Eisenhower at the White House but they declined to say what was discussed. Later at his news conference Dulles was asked about the Spanish situation. He author ized this direct quotation: Dulles Comment “I assume your question is prompted by some press stor ies from Madrid.- I don’t know precisely what was said, by Secretary -Talbott or Gen. Twi ning (Gen. Nathan Twining, Air Force. Chief of Staff, who is traveling with Talbott), but I can say this: “We have no plans for stor ing . atomic weapons in Spain. If and when we have plans for storing atomic weapons, we shall not announce them pub licly to the world and to our potential enemy.” FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Faculty Gives $25 To Campus Chest Contributions totaling $2 5 were received yesterday in the opening day of Campus Chest faculty . solicitation drive. The drive ends tomorrow. Student council members are soliciting faculty members in their schools. Members of the Penn State Christian Associa tion are contacting the admin istration. One hundred per cent participation is the goal of the drive. Donations from the faculty may be designated to the Penn State Christian Association, the World University Service, the Penn State Student Scholar ship fund, and the State Col lege Welfare fund. Myron Enelow, solicitations chairman, said thirty-three sol icitors for the student drive have not yet returned their money. Money may be returned from 2 to 5 p.m. today through Fri day in 204 Old Main and from 7 to 10 tonight at the Student Union desk in Old Main and tomorrow in 204 Old Main. Approx’mately $5300 was contributed by 50 per cent of the students in last week's drive. Nitfdny Council Hears Disfavor Of Dress Rule Nittany Council was told Mon day night that part of the new men’s dress rule for meals has met with disfavor. Many dorm presidents in the area said their men disliked the clause in the rule recently passed by All-College Cabinet which states that collared shirts and slacks shall be the standard ap parel for weekday evening meals. The men protested cabinet’s passing the rule, instead of al lowing students the say in mak ing the change. It was felt that such a rule should be passed from the “ground up” instead of from a higher level such as cabinet. President Dick Steindell ad vised council members to pass tally sheets in each of the dorms to get a definite response from the students on the problem. He said he would carry the problem to Joe Somers, president of the Association of Independent Men and a member of All-College Cab inet. ' Steindell appointed Will iam Johnson and Tom Claypool rep resentatives-at-large to AIM from the Nittany area. Others appointed to head coun cil committees are Richard Sea man, public welfare; Lambert Saylor, scholarship; James Lloyd, dining hall; Chet Staney, public ity; and Edward O’Brien, recep tion. Tony Fida was named parlia mentarian, and George Flickinger was appointed fire marshal. Brode to Discuss Dyes, Bureau of Standards Dr. Wallace Brode, associate di rector of the National Bureau of Standards, will discuss “Photo tropic and Steric Effect of Dyes” at 3:10 p.m. today in'll2 Osmond. He will lecture again at 8 tonight in 119 Osmond on “Chemical Re search and Facilities at the Na tional Bureau of Standards.” I Cnlkgtan Begin; Aims Lion, State Nominees Start Race Tomorrow Campaigning for sophomore and freshman class officers will begin at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow, the of ficial start of the fall election campaign. ' Lion Party freshman candidates will visit the Nittany-Pollock din ing hall at noon tomorrow and Mac Allister dining hall in the eve ning. Sophomore candidates will visit Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Alpha Phi Delta, Alpha Zeta, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, and Phi Gamma Delta at noon tomor row. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Tri angle, Phi Kappa Sigma and Bea ver House will be visited tomor row evening. State Party has not released a campaign schedule. Freshman men candidates will tour the Nittany-Pollock dormi tory arecF tomorrow night,. Edward Goldston, Lion Party campaign manager, has - announced. Soph Candidates Hugh Cline is the State Party candidate for sophomore class president, while Robert McMillan will seek the . position on. the Lion Party slate. Other State Party sophomore candidates are Richard Allison, vice president, and Barbara Stock, secretary-treasurer. Lion Party candidates ' are Robert Harding, vice president, and Shirley Mix, secretary-treasurer. Lion Party freshman class can didates are James Musser, presi dent; Robert Bennett, vice pres ident; and Virginia Hance, secre tary-treasurer. Jordan Seeks Presidency Steven Jordan is seeking the freshman class presidency on the State Party ticket. Joseph Ferko, vice president; and Marilyn Selt zer, secretary-treasurer, are his running mates. Candidates will campaign until 8:30 a.m. Nov. 12. Election will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. that day in the lobby of Schwab Audi torium. First, second, third and fourth semester students are eli gible to vote. Matriculation cards must be presented in order to vote. A maximum of one dozen, two feet square posters may be placed on stakes throughout the campus by the parties. No posters may be placed between the S. Allen street Mall and the Pugh street Mall,i and between Pollock road and College avenue, or in the vicinity of the President’s mansion, ac cording to the All-College elec tions code. Use of trees and build ings other than those listed in the code will be considered violation. No campaigning may be con ducted in classroom buildings. One poster, three by four feet, must be submitted to the elections (Continued on page eight ) Jost Will Enroll Radio Script Writers Students interested in writing news scripts for WDFM, campus radio station, who are not mem bers of the Daily Collegian edi torial staff or enrolled in the journalism 92 class, may contact William Jost, wire and radio edi tor of the Daily Collegian, next week between 5 and 5:30 p.m. in the Collegian office in Carnegie Hall. Directories on Sale Today in Willard The Student Directory will remain on sale for 50 cents to day in the Recorder's office, 4 Willard. The supply was sol<i out yesterday, but additipnal copies have been received.
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