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STUDENTS AND TOWNSPEOPLE standing on the floor of Rec
reation Hall Saturday night. crane their necks to see the wrestling
match and basketball game. According to the Athletic office, 5500
persons packed Rec Hall, where seating capacity, is 5122. Towns
people, faculty members, and alumni bought 213 tickets, the
office said.
Rec Hail Seat Plan
Termed 'Successful'
/The Recreation Hall seating plan successfully passed its first
real test during Saturday night's doubleheader, Edward M. Czekaj,
assistant business manager of athletics, said yesterday.
"Everything was almost perfect," Czekaj, said, I couldn't have
asked for anything much better." Student cooperation, with few
exceptions, was termed satisfac
tory by Czekaj.
Approximately 5505 packed
Recreation Hall beyond its 5122
seating capacity and some per
sons had to stand. However, no
one • was denied admittance Cze
kaj said.
Almost 6000 tickets were is
sued to students. A total of 5122
students attended Saturday's
double event program.. About 800
exchange tickets were issued just
before game time at the ticket
booth in Recreation Hall. The per
centage of students who obtained
tickets and went to the double
header was greater than at Wed
nesday night's basketball game
with Syracuse.
Only about 65 per cent of the
students who obtained tickets for
Wednesday night's program at
tended the game. The percentage
on Saturday was close to 85.
The number of townspeople, al
umni, and faculty members who
purchased tickets on Saturday
was abo u t three and-one-half
times as great as for Wednesday's
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Police Arrest 3
For Gambling
Three students were arrested
and fined for gambling in a raid
on a borough poolroom at 1 a.m.
Saturday.
The students, each fined $3 and
$5 cost, were among eight men
picked up by State Police from
the Rockview barracks.
They pleaded guilty to a charge
of violating the state gambling
law in a hearing before Belle
fonte Justice of the Peace Thom
as Mosier.
Police said the men were play
ing cards at the E. Beaver avenue
billiard hall when the hall was
raided Saturday. The men had an
immediate hearing before Mosier.
James Kuhn of State College
,was charged with setting up and
operating a gambling house. He
waived a hearing and posted bail.
Ike Asks Senate
To OK Korean Pact
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (JP)—President Dwight D. Eisenhower
proposed today to build a new farm program on flexible price sup
ports, aiming at a goal of agricultural equality with the rest of the
economy and a minimum of controls.
In a lengthy special message to Congress outlining plans for
future government aid to farmers,
the , chief executive said present
programs—by creating surpluses
and pricing crops out of markets
—are "hurtful" to those whom
they are intended to help.
Year's Study
The Eisenhower program is the
result of nearly a year's study by
farm organizations, agricultural
educators, and farm officials. It
offered little that was new and it
proposed to keep much that al
ready is in operation.
In Congress it got a somewhat
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mixed reception. Sen. Aiken (R-
Vt), chairman of the Senate agri
culture committee, said it "forms
an excellent basis to work out the
soundest farm program we ever
had."
But there is bound to be a fight
over the program in the House,
and Rep. Hope (R-Kan), chairman
of the House agricultural com
mittee, was noncominital for the
time being.
The major change proposed by
Eisenhower relates to government
price guarantees for farm prod
ucts. Where now they are set at a
fixed high level by Congress, the
President would give the secre
tary of agriculture discretionary
authority to raise and lower them.
As a cushion against an abrupt
decline in prices, the President
would set aside up to $2.5 billion
worth of surplus agricultural
products now held by the govern
ment. They would be barred from
regular commercial channels and
reserved for special uses such as
disaster relief.
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VOL. 54; No. 69 STATE COLLEGE; PA., TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1954 FIVE CENTS
Penn State
'54 NCAA
By ROY WILLIAMS
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has awarded the site of the 1954 National
Collegiate. Boxing Tourney to Penn State, according to the Associated Press. The annual
classic has been carded for April 1-3.
Penn State was named by the NCAA officials Saturday in Cincinnatti at the organ
ization's annual meeting.
AIM Board
Upholds
Blood Fine
The Association of Independent
Men's Judicial Board of Review
last night clarified but upheld its
decision that members of Nittany
dormitory 43 donate blood in the
next University blood drive as its
penalty for holding a beer party
in the dormitory Dec. 'l2.
John Ball, chairman of th e
board, said he will confer today
with John Huber, faculty blood
drive adviser, and Marie Wagner,
student blood drive chairman, to
explain the board's reasoning for
the penalty.
In clarifying their previous de
cision, the board said that in the
case of those dormitory members
who are unable to give blood the
alternative would be their assis
tance in the blood drive program.
The blood drive •committee, the
board said, would specify what the
assistance would be. In their first
recommendation, which the dean
of men returned to the board for
review, the alternative to blood
donations was not specified.
Unanimously Adopted
L as t night's recommendation,
unanimously adopted by the
board, states: "We recommend
that no punishment should be giv
en, if the students donate a pint
of blood in the next blood drive."
Those who cannot donate due to
underage, physical condition, or
lack of parent's consent will do
other work for the blood drive,
the recommendation stated. Sev
eral members of the dormitory are
under 18, the age when the Red
Cross will accept donors with par
ents' consent, F. Franklin Clayton,
actin.; dormitory president, told
the board last night.
Ball Defends Proposal
Ball defended the board's orig
inal recommendation agai n s t
charges that compulsory giving is
unacceptable. "Any motivation,"
he said, to secure blood donations
is "better than no motivation." He
stressed that the result of last
night's meeting was only a clari
fication of the original recommen
dation and not a new proposal.
In a closed session of last night's
meeting, Ball discussed Dean of
Men Frank J. Simes' objections to
the recommendation. He said he
hoped his conference with Miss
Wagner and Huber would over
come such objections.
Lounge to Open
In Old Main
The second floor Old Main
lounge and new conference room
will be opened tomorrow, accord
ing to men working on the alter
ation.
The conference room was made
by partitioning the back portion
of the old lounge. The new room,
to be used as a meeting- place for
s'.udent and administration groups,
is painted green and will be car
peted.
The lounge will continue to be
used as a resting, or studying area
for students and visitors.
The conference room will re
place 201 Old Main, formerly used
as a meeting room and now being
converted into an entrance room
to the President's' office.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
The 1954 tourney at Penn State
will mark the fourth time that the
Nationals have been held in Rec
Hall. Leo Houck, The Old Maes
tro, who die:. Jan. 21, 1950, in
Lancaster, was the host coach for
the first tournament in 1932, and
filled this role with distinction
again in 1941.
Sulkowski Named Coach
At the Nittany helm for just
two weeks, the newly-appointed
coach, Eddie Sulkowski, was
named host coach for 1950 tour
ney. This year's tourney arrange
ments will again be added to his
coaching chores for the team's
scheduled seven dual meets. Sul
kowski,- now piloting the Nittany
mittmen for his fifth season, said
that he was rather surprised but
pleased that Penn State was
named by the NCAA.
Penn State owns several dis
tinctions in National Collegiate
boxing competition. The first
tournament, in 1932, brought en
tries from 31 colleges and univer
sities—a figure which has yet to
be matched—while 66 individual
entries of the 1941 tourney also
stands as the largest field of the
series. Wisconsin attracted 65 en
tries in 1939, and held the record
until the 1941 high.
Held in Far West
For the first time since 1939,
the National Collegiate Boxing
Tournament was held in :the far
west, as Idaho State College of
Pocatello, Ida., hosted the 16th
annual tourney before a crowd of
approximately 18,000 spectators in
four sessions.
Idaho State won the John J.
Walsh trophy symbolic of the team
championship last year, after
three Idaho State boxers scored a
total of 25 points. The score was
the most accumulated by any
team other than the University
of Wisconsin in the National
Championships.
Penn State entered two Eastern
champions last year, when Sam
Marino and Adam Kois, and run
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'hest-Dressed' Prexy
Surprised by Award
Milton S. Eisenhower, president of the University, received a
new and totally different distinction yesterday when he was named
one of the ten best-dressed men in the nation—the best-dressed
figure in the field of education.
For the first time in the history of the selections of the "Ten
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Well-dressed
Tottriiiatt
to Host
Boxing
Fraternities
To Discuss
Meat Sales
Fraternity Marketing Associte
tion will meet at 7:30 tonight at
Sigma Pi to discuss the possibility
of adding meats to items avail
able through FMA facilities.
Before meats can be handled, a
spokesman for the FMA Board of
Trustees said, it is necessary to
have member fraternities express
their wishes in this regard. They
also are expected to consider a
change in the corporate charter
of the organization which would
allow members tc pay bills twice
a month instead of once.
Bids have been received during
the past month from area meat
jobbers as to the discount to be
rendered to FMA members, the
spokesman said. At a previous
meeting it was suggested that
$12,500 worth of meat purchased
monthly by the 25 members be
obtained from the three lowest
bidders that could meet quality
standards.
If meat is included by FMA,
plans call for new bids at least
twice a semester so those who
lost out the first time would have
more chances to obtain the busi
ness. Of three meat jobbers given
FMA contracts, member frater
nities would be able to purchase
from any they chose or all three.
The need for the half-month
payment periods was to enable
FMA to meet obligations without
difficulty, an official explained.
He pointed out most meat job.
bers expect payment at lea s t
every two weeks because of the
large volume sold and because of
rapid turnover.
By TAMMIE BLOOM
Best - Dressed Men in America"
made annually by the Custom
Tailors Guild of America, two
brothers were chosen. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower was named
the best-dressed man ,in public
life.
Dr. Eisenhower was as much
surprised as anyone when he
heard of his new title, according
to Josephine Groesbeck, secretary
to Dr. Eisenhower.
"He just howled with laughter
when he heard about it," Miss
Groesback said. "He didn't know
anything about it, but of course
he was quite pleased," she said.
The news first reached Dr. Eis
enhower's office yesterday morn
ing when a secretary from Public
Information called Miss Groes
beck. "As soon as Dr. Eisenhower
was free," the president's secre
tary said, "I put him on the line
and let him hear the story. I guess
his first reaction could be de
scribed as a guffaw."
Dr. Eisenhower had no comment
on the selections. He said he him. ,
self had not seen the story.