PAQE TWO Faculty to Complete Farm Show Duties Faculty members and agriculture specialists of the University will ' complete their, busy schedule today as the 1954 Pennsylvania Farm Show at Harrisburg comes to a close. ' The faculty members served as judges of the hundreds of ex hibits and sat in as advisers and delivered talks before farm groups. The University’s exhibit, man aged by Herbert F. McFeeley, ag riculture extension economist, fea tured three fields—soil conditions, woodlot practices, and fabrics. Specialists in'staffing the booth were available to discuss or an swer any questions relating to these subjects or any other agri culture or home economics sub jects. Winter Concert Will Feature Brahms f Bach Johannes Brahms’ “Symphony No. 2 in D” will open the annual winter concert of the University Symphony Orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium. iThis work of Brahms has been described as genial, warm, and Suffused with sunshine, accord ing to Theodore Narhan, asso ciate professor of music educa tion. He will conduct the orches tra as it plays “Allegro non trop po, Allegretto grazioso, and Alle gro con spirito,” the three move ments which make up the piece. “Concerto No. 2 for Two Pi anos” written by J. S. Bach, will be played by Edwin Gamble, music instructor, and his wife, Lois Gamble. The. orchestra will play .two of ■the five movements of “Portrait of a Frontier Town” composed by Don Gillis, present producer on the NBC Symphony program. The two movements selected are “Where the West Begins” and “Chamber of Commerce.” The closing number of the pro gram will be Michael Ippolitow- Ivanow’s “Caucasian Sketches,” which include “In the Mountain Pass,” “In the Village,” and “Pro cession of the Sardar.” Sixty-one music students will play in the concert, which is open to the public. Prenfis to. Talk At Grady ation Henning W. Prentis Jr., former trustee of the University and head of the board of Armstrong Cork Co., Lancaster, will discuss “The ‘R’s’ of Higher Education” at the fall semester graduation exercises at 2 p.m. Jan. 27 in Recreation Hall Approximately 500 students will receive degrees at the commence ment program. Graduating Air Force ROTC students will re ceive commissions at this time. No tickets will be required for admittance to the graduation ex ercises. Specific instructions concerning the order of the program were sent to seniors yesterday from the office of D. H. McKinley, Uni versity marshal. Dorm Thief Takes Wallets A thief entered a Hamilton Hall room and stole $26 yesterday morning while the residents were asleep. An estimated $2O was stolen from Douglas Johnson, first se mester general agriculture major, and $6 was taken from Samuel Ebersole, his roommate. Emptied wallets belonging to the two were found outside of the dormitory yesterday morning. Johnson went to bed about 1:30 a.m. yesterday. When 'the room mates got up at 6 a.m. they found their wallets had been taken. No other possessions were missing. Campus Patrol Captain Philip A. Mark said last night the Pa trol is investigating the theft. Mark advised dormitory resi dents to sleep with their doors locked as a safeguard against thefts. 'Little Burnt Face 1 To Continue Tonight Muriel Stein, graduate assistant in dramatics, will present the sec ond performance of her thesis show, “Little Burnt Face/’ at 7:30 tonight in the Little Theater, base ment of Old Main. Free tickets for the perform ances tonight and 10:30 a.rn. to mori'C'.v are available in the Dra inages office, second floor Schwab. Washing and ironing demonstra tions, a miniature wood preser vation demonstration, and a sam ple soil mailing kit were among the display for farm show audi ences. In yesterday’s judging, Centre County 4-H competitors took three of the six breed championships in the lamb judging contest. The group walked off with 14 ribbons in the judging. A capacity crowd was on hand for the beef judging event. Other activities at the fourth day of the show were the farmer’s horseshoe pitching contest, the log sawing contest, and the sheep shearing contest. Nearly every breed of steer in Pennsylvania was repre sented in competition. The grand champion of the beef contest re ceived nearly $lOOO for his steer and the reserve champion brought almost that amount. Eugene Wettstone, associate pro fessor of physical education and gymnastic coach, won five prizes in honey judging. Prize winning entries in the 4-H contests go on the auction block tomorrow. Weather Bureau Predicts Sleet, Mercury Rise Sleet or freezing rain and a slight rise in temperatures are predicted for State College today, a University Weather Station spokesman said late' yesterday af ternoon. Yesterday’s snowfall, which to taled about three inches at 5 p.m., was expected to reach about six inches before it stopped early this morning. The weather will turn colder sometime tomorrow when, a new cold front hits the area. Fraternity Thefts Remain Unsolved Police reported Wednesday no new progress in the investigation of two ' fraternity thefts over Christmas vacation. Persons who attended a party at Kappa Sigma are being ques tioned to see if there is any con nection between the party and the theft of $650 in clothes and jewelry at the fraternity. Police are also attempting to locate" the stolen goods. No new developments were reported in the theft of $22 from. Theta Chi over the holiday. The USED BOOK AGENCY * Will Open February 2 to Take Books for Sale Remember These Important Facts About the ÜBA © You Get MORE money For Your Used Books ® You Set Your Own Price ® 3,000 Sq. Ft. Selling Space 181 IN THE TUB THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Button Collection '••nWV » - Omsk. 4* E. Wilson Stewart, assistant registrar, examines an antique chain siring and a few of the 5000 buttons in his collection. The chain* string is one of those strung by young women in the old days. The belief was that when the girl had collected 1000 buttons on her chainstring she would get married. The man she married was to put the last button on the string. Judging from the strings Stewart has collected, most girls got their men before they got the 1000 buttons. Collector of Buttons Befriends. Pledges Notice to all harassed pledges with pledge week scavenger lists: For the three-hole button, contact A. Wilson Stewart, assistant registrar, in the basement of Wil Stewart, who is observing hi today,-has such an oddity in his e( he did lend it once to a fraternity pledge who was desperate after searching stores and shirts in vain. Most people, he explained, don’t realize until they try to find one, that a three-hole button is so rare. In his collection he has two, four, and six-hole buttons but only one with the three holes. The collection was begun seven years ago when Stewart, unable to work because of illness, wanted something to keep his hands busy. He worked for a year collecting buttons and sewing , them with linen thread to 15 by 30 inch strips of heavy cloth. Many collectors put their but tons on heavy cards or mount them in glass cases, but Stewart put his collection on cloth strips so it could be rolled up and car ried more easily. When he went back to work he didn’t have the time to sew on the buttons but went on collecting them so that now half his collection is in boxes. Some of the coat buttons are as large as three inches and some, especially the very bid ones, are smaller than one-fourth i inch. Stewart has modern buttons and others that were probably used over a hundred years ago. A pearl, three-hole button which was on a relative’s baby dress is, for in stance, over 80 years old. The majority of older buttons, he said, are made of metal—steel, (Continued on page eight ) By PADDY BEAHAM iard Hall. ds 25th year with the University :ollection of over 5000 buttons. And Hoofs Offers FMA Discount On Furniture - Considerable discounts from the list price of furniture have been offered to the 26 members of the Fraternity Marketing As sociation. O. W. Houts and Son, Inc., made the offer, Robert K. Murray, pres ident of FMA, told the group Wed nesday night. Murray explained the discount is applicable to fur niture or items such as drapes and carpets regardless of the price of the article. Although the association has accepted Houts’ offer, it doesn’t compel FMA members to buy their furniture from Houts if a better offer for discount savings can be obtained, Murray said. Fraternities desiring to buy furniture from Houts under the discount offer may order the items from Houts but must send a check immediately to FMA for the pur chases. c "WAR ARROW" Burl Lancaster as HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE Humphrey Bogart June Allyson "HAITI! CIRCUS" c *-»-• & *■ Jeff Chandler Maureen O'Hara FRIDAY. JANUARY 15. 1954 Daily Collegian Business Staff Promotes 42 Forty-two candidates have been promoted to intermediate board on the Daily Collegian business staff, Vincent Drayne, business manager, Collegian, has an nounced. They are Joseph Hayes, Bernard Shapiro, and Helen Spagnolo, Ed ward Adams, Janice Anderson, William Devers, Elizabeth Kra abel, Shirley Anne Martens; Mona Signorino, and Diane Hallock. Barbara Edgington, Sara Hig gon, Joyce Skolnek, Joan Clark, Ronald Grapsy, Dorothea Koldys, Eileen Marcolina, Grace McClos key, Joanne McGrath,. Samuel Powell, Sally Rhodes, Betty Sha pinas, Joan Smith, Joyce Stark, June Strauss, Yvonne Vandeuren. Henrietta Balling, Janet Heess, Barbara Jones, Virginia Latshaw, Janet Latta, Milton Linial, Marion Moller, Lou Moore, Mary Pera, Edith Pippenger, Lois Piemme, Shelia \Preven, Elizabeth Rodgers, Carol Snively, Roger Vogelsinger, and Cecilia Yamal. Donovan Asks Grads For Address Changes Seniors graduating in January whose home addresses will be Dther than those now listed in the student directory should reg ister change of addresses at the Student- Union desk in Old Main, George L. Donovan, director of associated student activities said yesterday. This information is needed so LaVies, which will probably be mailed in May, will reach Janu ary graduates. Collegian Promotions John Reid has been promoted to the senior board, and Joseph Beau Seigneur, Roger Beidler, and Nancy Fortna have been pro moted to the junior board of the Daily Collegian, David Jones, itor, announced yesterday. 105 W. Beaver Ave.
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