• Two Lions Enter Sem i -f inal Six Aggies 4. Eye NCAA It' at y Tatirgiatt Mat C &56 By SAM PROCOPIO Penn State's chances to walk off with its second con secutive NCAA wrestling ti tle came to an abrupt halt last night at Norman, Okla., as the Oklahoma Aggies, :winner of 16 titles, waltzed in with six semi-finalists. The Nittany Lions entered only two, Jerry Maurey and Joe Krufka. The semi-finals will be held at 2 this afternoon and the finals P:t 8 tonight. The Oklahoma Aggies, favored to win their 17th title, dimmed the lights on any possible chance for any team. Every team which is in the running for the title has only two men in the semi-finals. Teams which have two are Pitt, Lehigh, Navy, Illinois, Oklahoma Univer sity, Penn State, and Michigan. Quarter-finals results: /30-pound—Hockley (Wyoming) decisioned Lemyre (PS), 2-1 137-pound Maurey (PS)- de cisioned Ruzic (lowa State), 9-3 147-pound - Evans (Oklahoma U.) decisioned Frey (PS), 9-3 1 77-pound—Krufka (PS) won by default over White (Okla homa U.) 191-pound—Blair (Navy) pin ned Oberly (PS) in 3:38 One of the biggest surprises in the quarter-finals came when second-seeded Dick Lemyre, Penn • State's only triple EIWA winner, dropped a 2-1 decision to Wyo ming's Hockley. Maurey decisioned Ruzic of lowa State, 6-2, and Krufka won by default over White of Okla homa University to enter the semi-finals. - - - - Pete Blair of Navy, 191-pounder, who pinned ten of his foes during the regular season and who pin ned State's Bill Oberly at An , napolis, had Oberly's shoulder blades flush with the mat again. This time in 3:38. Doug Frey, State 147-pound hopeful, was eliminated by 1952 NCAA champ, Tommy Evans of Oklahoma Uni versity. Evans defeated Frey, 9-3. Although three of the Nittany Lion wrestlers dropped to the wayside last night, there is a. pos sibility that they may be able to win a third or fourth place posi tion in the tourney. If a wrestler loses to a finalist, he is qualified to enter the consolqion matches to be held this afternoon (Continued on page six) Phi. Mu Alpha Will Present Jazz Concert A jazz concert will be presented at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab Auditorium by Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music fraternity. Station 'W-DFM will broadcast the program. The concert is open to the pub lic. No admission will be charged. Four groups will participate in the concert, Richard Brady, con cert chairman, has announced. They are the Phi Mu Alpha dance band, a progressive jazz combo, a Dixieland aggregation, and a "George Shearing-type" combo. The 16-piece . Phi Mu Alpha band will open and close the pro gram with original arrangements by Elmer C. Warsham Jr., in structor in music; Edward A. Rid er, 1953 graduate of the Univer sity; and Stan Kenton, nationally known bandleader. The progressive jazz combo will present three selections. Two of the numbers were arranged by Brady. rown VOL. 54. No. 110 • arties Begin Campaigns Lion Candidates Ten Day Schedule FRED WARING, noted • choral director, smiles during an inter misison at the Interfraternity-Panhellenic . Council preliminary sing tryouts last night in 110 Electrical Engineering. Waring is on campus to attend a Board of Trustees meeting. Eight Groups To IFC Sing Five groups which competed in the Interfraternity-Panhellenic Council Sing finals last year were named for this year's• finals after preliminary tryouts were completed last night. Phi Kappa Psi and Tau Kappa Epsilon were the fraternity re peaters named. Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Xi Delta, and Kappa Alpha Theta sororities repeated. TKE and Alpha Xi Delta were the winners last year. Three new groups were award ed positions in the finals. Beta Theta Pi and Delta Chi fraterni ties were picked -along with Kap pa Delta sorority. Last year's finalists who did not repeat are Acacia, Phi Delta The ta, and Delta Gamma) , Finals Tomorrow The finals will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the S tat e College High School auditorium, Tau Kappa Epsilon, directed by John Jenkins, seventh semester music education major, will be competing for the fifth straight year. They won the sing in 1951, 52, and 53. Alpha Xi Delta, directed by An na Mae Webb, , eighth semester (Continued on page eight) West German Lea:• ~ er =ccuses Russians of Deludini Promises BERLIN, March 26 (W)—West German Chancellor Konrad Ad enauer accused the Russians to• night of trying to delude 18 mil• lion East Germans - with a mean ingless grant of sovereignty. In Berlin, the U.S. High Corn .. m •__ • fission issued a report pictur g the ruling Communist party in East Germany as still torn apart by rank . i nd file opposition to its leaders as a result of last June's rebellion. These developments came on the heels of last night's announce ment by the Russians: that they had boosted East Germany to the status of a fully sovereign state. The Soviets said .they would assume_ the same relations with East ,Germany as "with other sov emign. states" but . would kee • STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1954 Named Finals Admiral to Visit University, Prexy Rear Admiral Ernest H. Von Heimburg, commandant of the Fourth Naval District and com mander of the U.S. Naval Base.in Philadelphia, will visit the Uni versity this week, according to Capt. Rowland H. Groff, professor of naval science. Rear Admiral Von Heimburg will visit the Ordnance Research Laboratory and the Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel. He will also take time out to call on the Prexy. He will be accompanied by Capt. E. Von Kleeck, director of training of the Naval Reserve of the Fourth District, and Com mander W. B. Jackson, public in formation director for the district. _ their occupation troops in the East zone. Western diplomats and t h-e State Department in Washington labelled the proclamation a, fraud which in no way relaxes Russia's grip on her Rhineland satellite. Adenauer—speaking to report ers at Rome's Ciampino Airport en route home from a swing through Greece a n d Turkey : — called the Russia proclamation an old trick "of the sly Soviet poli ticians to bring more delusion to the East Germans." Soviet Statement He declared the Russians had tried the same strategy several times before, adding "everybody knows what 'sovereignty' means in a satellite country." In its report OIL the East Ger FOR A BETTER PENN STATE State, Begin With nominations and elections committee approval of platforms behind them, State and Lion Party candidates go to the voters during a ten-day campaign starting at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Both parties will campaign for three All-University offices, and and three each in the senior and junior classes, Spring elections will be held April 7 and 8 with polls located at four places on campus—the second floor Old Main lounge, the West Dorm lounge, the Tempo rary Union Building, and Nittany Dorm 20. All students may vote in the election. Tomorrow night Lion Party men candidates will start cam paigning. They'll travel to the Nittany dormitory area to speak with voters. To Visit Fraternities Lion candidates will visit in fraternities at noon and supper Monday and will return to Nit tany Monday night. State Party candidates will be gin visits with voters on Monday. Nominees will visit fraternities at noon. - Between 5:15 and 6:30 p.m. All-University and junior class candidates will visit fra ternities. In the eVening,' State Party's male All-University candidates will visit in the borough and Nit tany dormitories. At the same time, male junior class nominees will visit in Pollock Circle and senior class male candidates will meet with voters in the West Dorms. ' Arnelle Opposes Wade • Jesse Arnelle, Lion Party; will oppose Lewis Wade, State Party, for the All-University pr es i dential post. - The Lion Party will be first on the ballot. This was determined by a coin, toss at an elections com mittee meeting. Wade's. running mates on the State ticket are William Rother, candidate for All-University vice president, and Robert Homan, for All-University secretary-tr e a s urer. Lion Party Candidates Lion Party candidates for senior class offices are Kaye Vinson, president; Sidney Goldblatt, vice president; and Marilyn Schadt, secretary-treasurer. On the State Party ticket 'for senior class offices are Donald Balthaser, president; Richard Hurlbring, vice president; and Faith Gallagher, secretary-treas urer. State Party's junior class can didates are Stanley Juras, presi dent; Thomas McGrath, vice pres (Continued on page eight) man Communists, the High Com mission said the party's strength has been sapped badly by internal dissension on the eve of the fourth party congress opening in East Berlin Tuesday. Party Membership The report said the Communists' boss, Walter Ulbricht, claimed 1% million members in: his Socialist Unity party. But, it added, Ul bricht could only rely on a "faith ful core" of 150,000 to 200,000. It said the party has ousted 100,000 members since the June uprising. A top American official here viewed the Russian proclamation on sovereignty as "part of a con tinuing effort to bolster the East German regime in the minds of the population." Frizzell To Address Pledges - John Henry Frizzell, professor emeritus of speech and chaplain emeritus, will speak at the annual Interfratemity-Panhellenic Coun cil outstanding pledge banquet at 7 p.m. Monday in the Allencrest Tea Room. Frizzell said he will give a gen eral talk on "an old fellow looks at the fraternity situation."• This is not a set topic, he said. The outstanding pledge banquet is held each year during Greek ' Week to give fraternity and sor ority pledges a broader under standing of the meanings and pur poses of pledgeship. The . out standing pledge from each fra ternity and sorority will attend the banquet. Officers of IFC and Panhellenic Council will attend the banquet. 0. Edward Pollock, assistant to the dean of men in charge of fra ternity affairs, and Mary E. Brew er, assistant to the dean of wom en, will also attend. Frizzell is a national officer of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He has been a fraternity man for 56 years. He was instrumental in the forma tion of the IFC at the University. .Alec Beliasov, sixth semester agricultural economics maj o r, and Jane Bishop, eighth semester home economics major, are ban quet co-chairmen. Greek Week begins today and will continue until next Saturday. Dean to Speak At Conference Ossian R. MacKenzie, dean of the College of Business, will speak at 10 a.m. today at a one-day con feernce sponsored by the Mar keting Clubs of Bucknell Univer sity and the University. A movie, "Selling As a Career," in 10 Sparks will open the con ference. B. H. Heim, district sales manager of Olin Industries, will talk on "What Industry Wants in Salesmen." MacKenzie will discuss "What Pennsylvania Industry Expects from College Graduates" at the conference luncheon at 12:15 p.m. at the Autoport. The afternoon session at 1:30 p.m. in the Home Economics liv ing center will include talks by W. W. Morris, district manager of G. C. Murphy Co., on "Oppor tunities in Retailing" and S. M. Lewis, sales manager of the Bay ler-Gillam Co., on "Opportunities in Wholesaling." Bell to Speak Monday Louis H. Bell, director of Public Information, will ad dress the Faculty Luncheon Club at noon Monday in the Hotel State College. His sub ject will be "Penn State's Cen tennial Plans." FIVE CENTS
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