Wrestlers to Defend Tit Elaitg VOL. 54, No. 109 STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 26, 1954 FIVE CENTS Finalists to Be Picked Tonight For Interfraternity-Panhel Sing Four fraternities and four sororities - will be chosen tonight to compete in the Inter fraternity-Panhellenic Council sing Sunday after final tryouts are completed tonight in 110 Electrical Engineering. Eight fraternities and 12 sororities will sing tonight. Tryouts will be held from 7 to 8:40 p.m. Sunday's firials will begin at 7 p.m. in the State College High School auditorium. List of Imports For IFC Ball Is Due Today Names of imports to be housed in approved fraternities over In terfraternity Council-Panhellenic Ball Weekend, April 2 and 3, must be submitted to the Dean of Women's office by today, accord ing to O. Edward Pollock: assis tant to the dean of men in charge of fraternity affairs. Lists must include the fu 1 I name, home address, and name of the escort of each import. A let ter of acceptance by chaperons must be included. At the same time the import list is presented to the Dean of Women's office, notice of a social event must be filed at both the Dean of Men and Dean of Womi en's offices. Lists approved by the Dean of Women's office are automatical ly approved by the'Dean of Men's office under. a policy begun last semester. Speakman to Lecture Edwin •A. ' Speakman, general manager of the Fairchild guided missiles division, will speak at the Engineering 3 lecture at 4 p.m. Monday in 110 Electrical Engi neering. 2 WD Separation Proposals Submitted Two proposals for West Dormitory separation are under • con sideration by the President's Office, Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director Of student affairs, said yesterday. Kenworthy said the proposals were submitted through the Dean of Men's office. One proposal, submitted by the West Dorm Council, calls for Cressman Gets Business Post Frank Cressman, sixth semester mechanical engineering major, has been named. business mana ger of the Daily Collegian. Cressman and the other - -newly appointed senior board members will assume their duties April 25. Benjamin Lowenstein is the new assistant business manager; San dra Duckman, local advertising manager; William Devers, na tional advertising manager; Rich ard Gordon and Gail Fromer, cir culation managers; Evelyn Rie gel, promotion manager; Carol Schw in g, personnel manager; Peggy Troxell, o ff i c e manager; Dorothea Ebert, classified adver tising manager; Gertrude Mal pezi, secretary; Virginia Coskery, research and records manager. TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Groups should form outside the room 15 minutes before they are scheduled to sing, Alexander Zer ban, sing co-chairman, has an nounced. Any chorus that is not ready to sing at the assigned time will automatically be eliminated. A rotating trophy will be award ed the winning fraternity and sor ority. Permanent 7 3 / 4 by 9 inch plaques will be awarded first and second place winners in both divi sions. Tau Kappa Epsilon frater nity and Alpha Xi Delta sorority won the sing last year. EaCh fraternity will sing two songs. One must be the Penn State Glee Club's arrangement of Blue and White and the other a frat ernity song. Sororities must sing two sorority songs. Both groups must sing o • n e song unaccom panied. Fraternities with more than 25 members must have at least 16 members and .a director in their choruses while those with less than 25 active members need only have nine chorus members and a director. Eugene Fulmer, executive secre tary, of the State College Cham ber of Commerce; G. William Henninger, professor of music; and Joan O'Hara, of the State College High School faculty, are tryout judges-. Fulmer, Miss O'- Hara, Frances Andrew, associate professor of music education; Frank Gullo, director of the men's glee club; and Raymond H. Brown, director of the women's chorus, • (Continued on page eight) upperclassmen to be housed . in McKee Hall. If this plan is ap proved, it would be a matter for the Board of Trustees ; because separating freshmen from upper classmen in the area is a policy decision. Otto E. Mueller, director of housing, pointed out that the present quota for upperclassmen in the West Dorms is 240 stu dents. McKee can accommodate 275 men. If McKee were chosen as the upperclass dorm, the quota would have to be raised or fresh men would have - to be allowed in the dorm to fill the rooms, he said. The second proposal, submitted by the Dean of Men's office in cooperation with the Department of Housing, calls for dividing Hamilton Hall into small units. The proposal is only a plan for physical separation and has noth ing to do with separation of upperclassmen from freshmen, Tames W. Dean, assistant to the dean of men in charge of inde pendent affairs, said yesterday. Mueller said under this plan, Hamilton Hall would be separated into seven units with 70 to 100 men in each unit. Firewalls would be built to separate the floors into these smaller units. Simes will meet with dorm council presidents, head counse lors from the East and West Dorm areas and others concerned at 4 p.m. today in 109 Old Main' to discuss the. proposals. Cr,ottrgian lion Debaters Will Oppose Vermont Team Four members of the men's de bate squad will meet teams from the University of Vermont in two debates Tuesday. The debates will be held at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in 316 Sparks. The subject will be the national debate topic, "Resolved: That the United States Should Adopt a Pol icy of Free Trade." Edward Klevans, second semes ter electrical engineering major, and Jonathan Plaut, second se mester industrial engineering ma jor, will meet the Vermont men's team in the afternoon. Sidney Goldblatt and David Meckler, sixth semester pre-med ical majors, will debate against the_ women's team of Vermont home economics students. Chairmen of the debates will be Edward R. Gilkey, instructor in speech, for the afternoon event and Harold J. O'Brien, assistant professor of speech, for the even ing meeting. Both debates will be open to the public. Prexy to Attend SDX Banquet President Milton 'S. Eisenhower will' attend the 21st annual Sigma Delta Chi Gridiron Banquet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Nittany Lion Inn. The ticket deadline has been ex tended until 5 p.m. today. Tickets are on sale for $3 at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Admis sion is by invitation only. "Joe McCarthy Comes to Penn State" will be the theme for the banquet. Sigma Delta Chi mem bers will present skits and songs parodying campus and town per sonalities. The program regularly lampoons student leaders and well-known faculty and adminis tration members. Adrian 0. Morse, University provost, will defend the Univer sity in a rebuttal speech follow ing the skits. Senate Passes Excise Tax Measure WASHINGTON, March 25 (IP) such as admission tickets, furs, —The Senate tonight passed a bill jewelry, cosmetics, sporting goods cutting a broad range of excise and telephone bills. The Senate shouted approval taxes by $6034 billion after beat- of an amendment by Byrd to ing clown efforts both to extend knock out the House-approved cut the cuts and also to wipe out most on the cabaret tax applying in of them. night clubs, restaurants with The vote was 76 to 8. dancing, and the like. The chamber refused, 54 to 34, The House cut this levy from to knock most tax cuts out of the 20 to 10 per cent. Byrd's amend bill despite veiled warnings by ment restored the 20 per cent Sen. Harry F.. Byrd (D-Va) and rate. others that the hydrog_en bomb era may impose big new defense burdens on the American people. As approved by the Senate, the measure provides for the first gen eral cut in the excise levies in al most 30 years. It would slice the tax on re frigerators and other household appliances from 10 to five per cent and would almost trim federal sales taxes an dozerd of items Oklahoma A&M Selected To Dethrone Penn State Oklahoma A&M, which has won 16 of the 23 *NCAA wrestling titles, has been selected as the top choice for de throning the defending champions, Penn State, in the 24th annual mat tournament at Norman, Oklahoma, today and tomorrow. The preliminary bouts will get underway at 1 p.m. t o day, and quarter-finals at 7:30 tonight. The semi-finals and finals will be held tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m. Kept out of the throne since 1949, the Aggies will pin their hopes on 177-pound Ned Blass - and heavyweight Gene Nicks, both NCAA. champs. Nicks, who re signed as titleholder in 1952, dropped a referee's decision to Dan McNair of Auburn in last year's finals held at Rec Hall. Coach Art Griffith's Oklahoma Aggies are the only school to en ter a full team of ten men. Pitts burgh's Eastern champs, coached by Rex Peery, have entered eight, and Oklahoma, coached by Port Robertson, has entered nine men. Besides the two aforementioned individual champs, the Aggies will possess three unbeaten grapp lers in Myron Roderick at 137, Bill Smoot at 157, and Fred Davis at 167. Penn State, which was the first Eastern team. to win a National crown, will defend its title with five matmen. They are Dick Lemyre and Jerry Maurey, both EIWA champions; Doug Frey, Joe Krufka, and Bill Oberly. Penn State's wrestling lineup and records, including EIWA tournament competition: 130—Dick Lemyre (8-0-0) 137—Jerry Maurey (8-1-1) 147—Doug Frey (7-3-0) 177—Joe Krufke (7-2-0) 191—Bill Oberly (9-1-1) Lemyre, who will be among the more highly-regarded matmen, has been beaten twice in his col legiate career. Other standouts in clude Tommy Evans, 'Oklahoma 130-pounder, who has been de feated once in 40 matches; Hugh Peery of Pittsburgh, two-time NCAA. 115-pound champ who has won 44 straight bouts; Pete Blair, 191-pounder of Navy, who is un beaten in 12 matches this season and has pinned ten of his oppo nents; and Ed Rooney, Syracuse 157-pound ace with a 16-0 record. Billy Hix, Middle. Tennessee State's 275-pound football tackle, has pinned 11 opponents this sea son. His average time is 3:26. He has a 13-2 won and lost record, having lost two decisions to Abe Cohn of Chattanooga, 5-4 and 9-5. ' (Continued on page six) Talent Show Deadline The entry deadline for th e Freshman Talent Show is April 17 and not April 3 as reported yesterday in the Daily Collegian. Senior Class Seeks Gift Suggestions Suggestions for th e senior class gift will be received at the Student Union desk in Old Main until April 2. Suggestions for the $9OOO gift may be made by any student. Adoption of the proposal, had ,the effect of restoring $23 million 'in revenue to the measure. The measure now goes to con ference with the House, which voted $912 million in cuts. The .conference is expected to be held next Monday or Tuesday so that the bill can be rushed to President Eisenhower by Wed nesday. The cuts are scheduled to take effect next Thursday. By SAM, PROCOPIO Action on Parking Postponed Any action on recommendations that on-the-street parking.be pro hibited on some streets within the borough will not come until suni mer, Calvin G. Reen, chairman of the State College traffic commis sion, has revealed. He said if findings disclose this will eliminate the bottlenecks now prevalent, borough council will probably act on the issue. Before anything is done, he said, further studies will be made. The commission this week sent letters to fraternities saying on the-street parking may be stopped in some areas and two-hour park ing zones may be established in others by Sept. 1. The commis sion also made specific recom mendations to each fraternity on how to expand parking facilities on its own promptly and get its cars off the streets. Reen said his commission had been asked to conduct. an inves tigation into the possibility of the new plan and these investigations are far from complete although preliminary recommendations had been made. He said it is planned to employ several civil engineer ing traffic study classes to com plete the survey. If the recommendations should be accepted by the borough coun cil at some future date, Reen said, his commission would work with fraternities in providing 'parking fa.cil Hies off the street. He said houses with no room on their own ground would be helped to find suitable private property nearby. The reasons pointed out for the move are the elimination of the dangers of streets so narrow vehi cles can hardly move on them safetly and the provision of addi tional parking space necessary at various times .next year because of the centennial celebration. Siivimming Practice Hours Announced Women students competing in the intramural swim meets April 22 and 29 and May 6, must have at least two hours practice before the meets, Sandra Dahlinger, vice president of the Swim Club, an nounced yesterday. Practices may be held during plunge hours froni 7:30 to 9 p.m. Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays in White Hall, Miss Dahlinger said. Students practicing at these times are required to register with the life guard at the pool. Students now enrolled in a swimming class and active mem bers of the Swirri Club will not be required to attend the prac tices, Miss Dahlinger said. The administration has taken a general position against excise cuts, because they will add about a billion dollars to the $2.9 billion deficit already forecast for the new financial year. But Senate Republican leaders expressed confidence President Eisenhower will sign the measure. The bill will save the Treasury $1077 billion in added revenue for the next year by extending, to April 1, 1955, a series of boosts in major excises voted in 1951. This revenue was counted on by the President when he drew up his budget for the next year. He did not make allowance for any excise cuts. Many of the rates being reduced were put on or pushed to high levels in World War 11. Congress has been besieged since then for relief from them.
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