Cagers Wale
Matmen Open
Face Tigers
In Regional
Playoffs
By DICK McDOWELL
Elated over an opening
round victory against Toledo
Tuesday, but wary of the road
that lies ahead, the Penn State
basketball t e am moves into
the NCAA Eastern Regional
eliminations tonight at lowa
City, lowa. Game time is
8 p.m EST;
The Lions face top-notch Louis
iana State in the first game of a
double header at the lowa State
University fieldhouse. The na
tion's second and sixth ranked
teams, Indiana and Notre Dame,
tangle in the second contest. The
two winners and the two losers
will meet in the final round to
morrow night.
Although unbeaten Kentucky
withdrew from tournament com
petition after whipping the Tigers
Tuesday night, it didn't make
things much easier for the Libns.
They still have to contend with
some of the nation's best college
talent.
Radio station WMAJ will
broadcast a re-creation of the
game beginning at 8 p.m.
And of course, foremost is 6-9
Bob P.ettit, the Bengals scoring
ace who has scored 32 points a
game this season. Along with his
phenomenal scoring, the All-
American center has collected 320
rebounds.
Besides Pettit, Coach Harry Ra
benhorst will send two big for
wards against the Nittanies. Ned
Clark, 6-4, and Don Belcher, 6-2,
provide, expert scoring punch from
inside. His guards, Ben McArdle
and Norm Magee, are little men,
5-10, but both are excellent floor
men who can run, pass, and still
do their share 'of the scoring.
These five men spearheaded the
Bayou Bengals to a 20-3 season
with losses coming only from
Kentucky, Holy Cross and Wis
consin.
Gross will once again be relying
on his seasoned tournament vet
erans to carry the brunt of the
Nittany attack. Captain Jack
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Union Seeks
Dining Hall
Labor Talks
By NANCY WARD
A threatened walk-out of sev
eral food service employes in Nit
tany Dining Hall was averted
Wednesday, but union officials
have requested a meeting with
University spokesmen to discuss
what they term prolonged trou
bles in the dining halls.
The union involved is the Penn
sylvania State University Employ
es Local No. 67 of the American
Federation of State, County, and
Municipal Employes (AFL). It
represents a large number of cam
pus service and maintenance em
ployes.
University co-ordinator of labor
relations Ray T. Fortunato said
the trouble arose over a misunder
standing among employes.
Kenneth Dixon, union president,
said the incident is the result of
both old and new employe griev
ances. He said he would not ex
plain what he meant by new trou
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VOL. 54, No. 98 STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1954 FIVE CENTS
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Fraternity presidents have asked Thomas Schott, Interfraternity Council president, to represent
them at a meeting with President Milton S. Eisenhower to discuss the new drinking and dating policy.
The action came at a meeting held from 11 p.m. to 2:15 a.m. yesterday at Delta Tau Delta fra
ternity. Each fraternity was represented by its president and other interested members and one
house, Phi Kappa Sigma, reportedly attended enmass.
Schott termed the meeting a success, even though no concrete approval or disapproval of the
code had been reached. He said
he felt the men thoroughly under
stood the regulations and they
also now knew opinions of other
fraternity men.
' Feeling at the meeting was that
the new code was not something
that could be accepted or cast
out completely. It was agreed the
rules were very flexible and their
acceptance must be governed by
the interpretation of therri by en
forcing officials.
ersoncility Conflict
MORTON SLAKOFF, AS WILLIE LOMAN, argues with one of
his sons, Gordon Greer in Players' production of Arthur Miller's
"Death of a Salesman" which opened last night in Schwab Audi
torium. Also present are Elizabeth Ives and Gerald Denisof.
Players' 'Salesman'
Misses Author's Aim
When Players presented their rendition of Arthur Miller's
"Death of a Salesman" last night in Schwab Auditorium, the cur
tain opened on a great play but closed on a regrettably mediocre
production.
In attempting this play, Players went over its head into deep
water and when the time came to
return, found it impossible to
make the least headway against
the waves of powerful feeling that
emerged from this great emotion
al tragedy. The force of these
huge waves was too much for the
actors, and they were only able
to resist being pushed back and
swamped.
_ Although everyone connected
with the show seemed to make a
noble effort to present it in a fit
ting manner, it was difficult to es
cape from the feeling that on the
stage were a group of college stu
dents attempting something of
which they weren't
.capable.
At certain points in the produc
tion the actors rose to almost un
surpassable heights but unfortu
nately these moments of greatness
continued for only a short while
and were few and far between.
The play gets off to a slow
start with Willie Loman, the sales
man, giving to the audience an
idea of the type of person about
which Miller wrote the pla y.
Here through commenting on his
troubles with his wife, his two
sons, society in general, and of
most importance, his job, Willie
shows himself as an idealistic
dreamer who finds it impossible
to face reality.
Morton Slakoff, as the sales
man, does an admirable piece of
acting, but he fails to communi-
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
By EDMUND REISS
Mark Issues Warning
Of Theft Possibility
Capt. Philip A. Mark, head of
the, Campus Patrol, warned stu
dents yesterday not to leave over,
coats and other possessions out
side classrooms because of the pos
sibility of thefts.
f urrow Linked to "'ed 'School'
WASHINGTON, March •11 (1-1 3 )—Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) took after another of his critics tonight,
seeking to link television Commentator Edward R. Murrow with "a Communist propaganda school"
in the 19305.
Murrow had devoted his CBS television show to McCarthy last Tuesday night. He charged the
Wisconsin senator repeatedly has stepped over the line between investigation and persecution in the
course of his Red-hunting ac-
tivities
McCarthy fired back on the
Fulton Lewis' Jr. radio program,
classing Murrow with the "ex
treme left wing bleeding heart
elements of television and radio"
and at the same time accusing
Adl a i Stevenson of "untrue"
statements about Communists in
government.
In a question-and-answer ex
change with Lewis, McCarthy
said he was holding in his hand
a Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph for
Feb. 18,- 1935, with a headline,
"American Advisers to Commu
nist. Propaganda School."
LSU Tonight;
EIWA Defense
Code Talk
With Prexy
Tidirgian
Part of Code
Many presidents expressed their
approved willingness to accept
part of the code which would re
vise rules W-4 and W-5 of the
Senate Regulations for Under
graduates. The old rules prohibit
ing serving of alcoholic beverages
at a social function involving stu
dents is to be dropped and groups
are responsible for their own
conduct and observance of the
law.
They said this approach was a
mature way of looking at the
situation and was one which
would not penalize law-abiding
fraternities. Under the new rule,
alcoholic beverages are prohibited
on University property but, off
campus, students and organiza
tions are expected to obey the
laws of the borough, common
wealth, and nation.
Hours Unsatisfactory
Major objections were against
sections of the code requiring ex
tensive use of chaperones and
severe limitations on the time
when women are permitted in the
houses. The group said the Uni
versity is not recognizing the ma
turity of the people affected and
was merely forcing social activi
ties out of fraternities where
some control does exist.
The presidents agreed that em
ployment of full-time 'h ous e
mothers was a financial impos
sibility because all but a few
houses would have to build quar
ters to house them. Estimates as
to costs ran about $lO,OOO for
quarters and a yearly cost of
$4500 to keep a housemother of
the calibre desired.
Although part-time
,hous e
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"You'll see," McCarthy went
on, "there's reproduced the front
of a booklet entitled 'Moscow
University Summer Session' and
on the national advisory council,
Edward R. Murrow, assistant di
rector, Institute of International
Education."
McCarthy quoted the new s
paper as saying the Moscow Uni
versity taught "the violent over
throw of the entire traditional
social order."
"This may explain," the senator
said, "why Edward R. Murrow,
week after week, feels that he
must smear McCarthy . . . Maybe
Mr. Murrow is worried about the
Lions Seek
4th Straight
EIWA Title
By SAM PROCOPTO
ITHACA, N.Y.—Penn State's
defending Eastern and Na
tional championship wrestling
team seeks its fourth consecu
tive EIWA title today here at
Barton Hall on the Cornell
campus where the Lions will
f ace what is probably the
keenest competition in the
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling
Association's history.
The preliminary matches will
becin at 1 p.m. The opening round
will mark the 50th renewal of
the EIWA tournament.
The first round eliminations,
pitting members of the 16 EIWA
teams, is the first of four sessions
to determine individual and team,
chamnions. The quarter finals are
Penn State's starting lineup.
according to Coach Charlie Spei
del, that will go into the first
round of the EIWA tournament
this afternoon (with season rec
ords in parentheses) is as fol-
lows:
123—80 b Homan (5-1-0)
130—Dick Lemyre (4-0-0)
137—Jerry Maurey (4-1-1)
147—Doug Frey (4-2-0)
157—8i1l Shawley (1-2-0)
167—Joe Humphreys (1-2-0)
177—Joe Krufka (4-1-0)
Hwf.—Bill Oberly (6-1-1)
set for 8 tonight and the semi
finals and finals for 2 p.m. and
8 p.m. tomorrow.
In seeking their fourth title in
a row, Coach Charlie Speidel's
matmen will endeavor to dupli
cate the achievements of post-
World War I Lion teams.
Penn State, which was first ad
mitted to the EIWA league in
1909, won four straight team titles
from 1918 to 1921 to join Cornell,
Yale, Lehigh, and Navy as multi
ple winners.
The Nittany Lions will face
strong competition from Navy,
Pittsburgh, and Lehigh. The Mid
shipmen and Panthers have de
feated Penn State in dual meets.
Wrestling headquarters here at
Cornell have rated Pitt, a newly
admitted league member, a slight
edge to dethrone Penn State.
The golden jubilee tournament
of the country's oldest collegiate
wrestling association is expected
to draw 12C wrestlers from 16
member colleges.
A team, failing to represent a
matman in any weight division,
forfeits five points from its final
total for each wrestler who does
not wrestle in the preliminaries.
Each team will get a point
toward its total whenever a man
scores a fall. Other team points
are scored only when a man ad
vances to the semi-finals. Each
team is awarded six points for an
individual champion; four points
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exposure of some of his friends.
I don't know."
Murrow went on the air with
his regular newscast over CBS
radio half an hour after McCarthy
spoke. He reported the McCarthy
speech briefly, and added • for
himself:
"My personal reaction and per
haps some corrections will have
to wait for some other time."
Later Murrow issued this state
ment:
"When I have read the text of
what Sen. McCarthy had to say
about me, I shall attempt to deal
adequately with his most recent
half-truth."