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VOL 54. No. 79
HOSC Offers
Eiifbdiina
Military Aid
SEOUL, Saturday, Feb. 13 ( JP )—
South Korea said yesterday it had
responded to “urgent appeals”
from Red-invaded Laos and of
fered to send a full division (about
14,000 men) to fight in Indochina
against the Communists.
French and Laotian officials in
Paris denied the Laos government
had made any such request of
South Korea. In Washington, a
French Embassy spokesman said
the offer definitely would be re
jected.
A .government statement urged
that Gen. James A. Van Fleet, for
mer Bth Army commander in Ko
rea, be sent back to “help us or
ganize our own forces and at the
same time train and organize the
armies of Indochina.”
It was considered likely France
would reject the offer of a divi
sion although it is hard pressed in
Indochina.
Wants to Fight
“If we are not allowed to finish
our own war,” the statement said,
“or to assist another free, country
in distress, what hope is there for
saving any of the free nations, in
cluding the United States, from
the Communists ... ,
“Our token army to help those
in distress will encourage all the
anti-Communist peoples -of South
east Asia and should persuade
many of them to join with those
of us who are now fighting the
enemy."
Reds Menace Capital
Communist forces now are men
acing Luang Prabang, the capital
of Laos, one of the three Asso
ciated States of Indochiim.
France, which controls Indochi
na, was reported opposed to any
use of South Korean lest
their appearance draw Red China
in full force into the fighting.
South Korea’s foreign minister,
Pyun Yung Tai, in confirming re
ports of the offer, conceded that
Red China might be expected to
retaliate.
In Paris, a source in the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs said
it had no information on the offer.
Reports Leaked Out
Reports of the offer leaked out
earlier this week in Washington.
Pyun said that bailore Gen. John
E. Hull, supreme commander of
U.N. forces in the Far East, went
to Washington for conferences
President Syngman Rhee wrote
him about the offer.
The Korean statement quoted
Hull as saying he saw “certain ad
vantage” in sending South Korean
forces to Inlochina.
Peace Chances
To Be Topic
Of Forum Talk
“Our Chances for Peace” will be
the topic of Erwin D. Canham’s
address to the State College Com
munity Forum at 8 p.m. Thurs
lay in Schwab Auditorium.
Canham, editor of the Christian
Science Monitor and former dele
gate to the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly, will be introduced
by president Milton S. Eisenhow
er. A public coffee hour will be
held after the speech.
Canham,' whose newspaper ca
reer began on the Monitor in 1925,
covered the annual - sessions of the
League of Nations Assembly in
1926 and 1928. He was made edi
tor in 1945 after serving as gen
eral news editor and managing
editor.
A Rhodes scholar at Oxford
University, England, Canham re
ceived his A.B. at Bates College.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kap
pa and the Gridiron Club.
Sigma Delta Chi, men’s nation
al professional journalistic frater
nity, will hold a dinner in honor
of the forum speaker Thursday in
tne Corner Room.
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STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 13, 1954
Mat men Meet Syracuse
Today, Seek 34th Vim
Penn State to Enter
Queen Competition
Penn State will be one of about 30 colleges and universities in
this area which will enter a queen in the Pittsburgh Press Campus
Queen Contest, sponsored by the Press. The local contest, to select
Penn State’s entry, begins Monday.
Any campus organization may submit entries to the contest, with
no limit on the number of coeds each group may enter. All entries
must be undergraduate coeds- at the University
Photographs, 5 by 7 inches or larger, with the candidate’s name
and address and sponsoring organization’s name attached, may he
submitted at the Student Union desk in. Old Main anytime before
5 p.m. Feb. 22. '
Six finalists will be chosen Feb. 22 by a panel of six judges,
which will be announced later.
Penn v State’s final entry in the contest will be selected by student
vote from the six finalists selected by the judges. Students will vote
for the Penn State queen from Feb. 25 to March 2.
Special photographs of the winning candidate will be made by
the department of public information and forwarded to contest
headquarters in Pittsburgh.
The pictures of winning candidates from each competing school
will be published in the ROTO section of the Pittsburgh Press
April 11. The winning coed will be selected, by readers through
ballots which will be printed in The Press.
A full color picture of the winner of the contest will appear on
the front page of the ROTO section in May.
All entries in the local contest will be judged on the basis of the
photograph. Pictures of the six finalists will be published in the
Daily Collegian and students' will vote for a queen from these
pictures. The final intercollegiate queen will be chosen on the same
basis.
This is the first intercollegiate queen contest to be held by a
newspaper in recent years. Queens from four eastern states are ex
pected to be entered.
Nuclear Reactor Receives tie-Ahead
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Construction -of the nuclear re
search reactor at the University
received a go-ahead from the
Atomic Energy Commission in
January, with the announcement
that the University will be al
located the necessary enriched
uranium to fuel it.
The University Board of Trus
tees approved the' site of the re
actor in December. The reactor
will be constructed east of the
Nittany Dorm area, near Entrance
road.
Bids for the reactor were let
and received Dec. 29. However,
because more space was required,
it was necessary to move the site
of the Building about 200 feet
south-east of the original loca
tion. This change necessitated sev
eral minor revisions in the plans,
according to Walter H. Wiegand,
director of the physical plant. As
soon as the plans have been
changed, bids will be relet, Wie
gand said.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
When bids are received, Wie
gand added, construction can be
gin as soon as the Board of Trus
tees approves the letting of the
contract.
The basic plan for the building
calls for an L-shaped building
with a 62 by 34 foot main room
and an adjoining wing 26 by 41
feet. The main room, of steel
frame construction, will house a
pool of water 24 feet. deep. The
reactor will be suspended from a
moveable bridge into the pool.
The pool will serve to cool the
reactor and also to provide an
adequate shield from radiation.
The reactor must be kept under
water at all times as it will pro
duce gamma rays even when shut
down.
The unit adjoining the main
room will be a'two story brick
building which will house office
and shop facilities.
The reactor itself, with the ex
ception of the-electronic control
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Orange Team
To Overthrow
When Coach Charlie Speidel’s National and Eastern cham
pions take to the mat at 2 p.m. this afternoon in Rec Hall
against Syracuse, the battle will be more than that of seeking
the Lions’ 34th conseuctive win. It will be one of revenge.
It was this some University which on Feb. 11, 1950, de
feated Penn State, 18-B—-the last time that Speidel’s matmen
have tasted defeat. Penn State, responsible for halting' one
of the longest winning streaks in wrestling the same year
when it stopped Navy’s' 52-win skein, was unbeaten before
the Syracuse dual meet. Had the
Lions won, Penn State would be
in search of its 41st instead of 34th
victory in a row. ■ ,
This afternoon Speidel will
probably send one of the most
colorful teams ever assembled in
Rec Hall against the' Syracuse
PROBABLE LINEUP:
Penn State
Homan 123 Rose
Fornicola 130 t Weisz
Lemyie 137 King
Maurey 147 Harrison
Frey 157 Rooney
Krebs or 167 Gobetz
Humphreys
Krufka 177 Winer
Oberly Hwt. Finck
grapplers. Penn State fans will
not only observe one possibly
two, if Joe Humphreys’ wrestles
—promising grappler in Joe Kruf
ka, a 1952 Olympic alternate, but
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equipment, will be manufactured
at the University.
In announcing the allocation of
the uranium for use in the re
actor, Kenneth D. Nichols, gen
eral manager of the AEC, ex
plained that its use is subject to
the agreement that the University
will observe the safety and se
curity measures required by the
commission.
It is expected that the reactor
will be operated on an unclassified
basis.
Four general types of research
and work in reactor engineering
will be made-possible at the Uni
versity with the installation of
the reactor. It will provide facili
ties for investigation of neutron
distribution, reactor kenetics and
other related characteristics of the
atom.
The only reactor now function
ing on a college campus is the
ten .kilowatt- “water boiler” at
North Carolina State College.
By SAM PROCOPIO
Columbia U.
Prof to Give
Chapel Talk
Syracuse
Edward A. Dowey Jr., assistant
professor of religion at Columbia
University, will speak at Chapel
services at 10:55 p.m. tomorrow
in Schwab, Auditorium. His topic
will be “The Triple Mission of the
Christian Church.”
Dowey received his A.B. from
Lafayette College, his B.D. from
Princeton Theological Seminary,
and was the recipient of the New
berry Fellowship at that time. He
received his M.A. in philosophy of
religion from Columbia Univer
sity and Union Theological Sem
inary and his Th.D. from the Uni
versity of Zurich, Switzerland,
where he lived for two years.
Dowey- served as Chaplain in
the U.S. Navy Reserve and spent
two years with the Marine Corps
in the Pacific and one year with
the Bethesda Naval Hospital. He
was a leader of Work Camps dur
ing the summers of 1950-51 for
the World Council of Churches in
Germany and was instructor in
the Department of Religion at
Lafayette College. He also served
as counselor to Protestant students
at Columbia University before
taking his present position.
He is author of “The Know
ledge of God in Calvin’s The
ology.”
The Chapel Choir will sing for
introit “Deck Thyself, My Soul,
With Gladness” (Bach) and for
anthem “Prayer for Peace” (Leon
ard).
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George E. Ceiga, Chapel or
ganist, will play “Offertoire”
.(Karg-Elert) as the prelude, “Com
munion” (Guilmant) as offertory,
and “Fugue in A minor” (Bach)
as postlude.
Joint Recifo!
Set Tomorrow
The first presentation in this
country of “Sonata in C” by the
young Englishman Leighton, will
be presented in a joint recital by
Theodore _K. Karhan, associate
professor of music, and Edwin W.
Gamble, instructor in music, at 4
p.m. tomorrow in Schwab Audi
torium.
Karhan is a violinist and Gam
ble a pianist. The program is open
to the public.
The recital will include compo
sitions from the Baroque, Classic,
and Romantic schools in addition
to the Modern school composition
by Leighton. Opening the prgram
will be Corelli’s “Sonata No. 1 in
D,” followed by “Sonata No. 5 in
E flat” (Mozart), and Schumann’s
“Sonata No. 1 in A minor.” The
closing piece will be Leighton’s
“Sonata,” which follows the tra
ditional form, but includes mod
ern harmonies and cross-rhythms,
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