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.