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.
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Button Collection
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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"
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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.
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