Weather— Warmer with Showers VOL. 54, No. 125 Council Set for Nominations of members to eight of the nine student councils will open tomorrow. Closing dates for the nominations will vary with the college, but the general elections of the student council members for all the councils, ex- New Phone System Due August Ist State College and six other bor oughs in the Centre County area have begun the first step to the most modern dialing system in the country national customer toll dialing—Kenneth A. Bus h, Bell Telephone business man ager in State -College, said last night. The present change of the num ber identification plates on the telephones at the University and in State College must be done before the change on August 1 to operator toll dialing. The change was begun in Sep tember, 1953 when many of the State College an d University numbers were changed from four to five digits. The new identification card on the telephones for State College will be marked as the "Adams" exchange. The letters "A D" will be dialed after August 1. Boalsburg will have the Home stead exchange; Bellefonte, El gin; Pleasant Gap, Flanders, Mill heim, Centre Hall, and Spring _Mills complete the listing. In this way all the six areas can reach each other by dialing, thus eliminating th e operator. This step will evolve into the na tional -customer toll dialing. Customer toll dialing records the length of call, and computes the charge on long distance calls. All telephones that had th e number 8 prefixed to their num ber will retain that digit. The telephones that were not changed in September will use a 7. The September move was the second in a series of improvements. One of the first real advances was (Continued on page 'eight) Blood Drive To Continue The Armed Forces Blood Drive, initiated by the campus unit of the Red Cross, will continue. un til tomorrow at the Temporary Union Building. The drive began yesterday. The blood bank will be open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. for mem.: bers of the ROTC units. Donation is by appointment. However, the Red Cross urges walk-in contri butions at 11:30 and 11:45 a.m. and from 2 until 3:45 p.m. Wed nesday, Betty Buchanan. chair man of the blood bank said. Those giving blood must be 21 or over. The campaigning an d hostess work is being done by groups of women on campus. Members of Pi Beta Phi will work today, and Delta Delta Delta members to morrow. Thompson Hall coeds worked yesterday. Juniors who will be given shots for summer camp may not • give blood, Miss Buchanan said. 50 Frosh Try Out For Cheerleading More than 50 freshman candi dates appeared in front of Old Main Sunday night in the firs night of a two-week trial period for cheerleaders, Bruce Wagner, head cheerleader, reported yes terday. Wagner said tryouts will con tinue for at least two weeks each evening .froca.6:3o-tugia 7:.45 Nominations Tomorrow cept the College -of Agriculture, will be held May 5 and 6. Nominations fo r Chem-Phys Student Council members are now open. Nominations may be made tomorrow through Saturday. Can didates must have an All-Univer sity average of 1.0 and may nom inate themselves by signing a list posted in Osmond and Pond La boratories. No definite number of members has been named. Dif ferent curriculums will elect their specific number of members in the various classes according to their .needs. Freshmen, sophomores, and jun iors in the College of Liberal Arts may file nominating petitions for student council seats tomorrow through Friday in the Liberal Arts office, 123 Sparks. A 1.5 All- University average aid self nom ination are required. Nominations for • candidates for the Physical Education student council must be submitted by noon Saturday at Moffat Cottage. Any student in the College of Physical Educelion and Athletics may sub mit a nomination in the form. of a petition signed by fifteen per sons. The College of Engineering Student Council will accept nom inations \ tomorrow through Fri day for council seats. Candidates must have a 1.0 All-University average and turn their names in to their departmental offices. Nominations for seats on the education student council will be open at the Student Union desk in Old Main tomorrow through Fri day. Six - students from each class will be chosen. The Business Student Council will accept self-nominations to morrow through Saturday noon; nominations will be accepted at 106 Sparks. Five juniors, eight sophomores and six freshman will be elected. Nominations will be open to morrow through Friday for can didates to the home . economics student council to be turned in at the main office of the Home Eco nomic's building. Mineral Industries student council nominations will be open tomorrow through Saturday. Can didates may nominate themselves by signing lists posted in the Min eral Industry Building and must have a 1.0 All-University aver age. Two juniors, two sophomores, and three freshmen will be elected. Liberal Arts Lantern To Be Distributed The first issue of the Lantern, the Liberal Arts magazine, will be distributed to students in the college this week. Norma Voll mer, editor, announced. The pub lication will be a complimentary issue. The second issue will be available early in May. Big Four Discusses Indochina's Fate GENEVA, Switzerland, April 26 OPs—The 19 nations called to gether by the Big Four to try to guide Asia to peace met today and decided to turn at once to the problem of Korea. But the urgent question of war-torn Indochina's fate overshadowed t h e Korean issue in many minds. French Foreign Minister Geor ges Bidault issued a statement as the conference opened accusing the Vietminh of violating t h e rules of war in Indochina in re- 1 fusing to let the French fly out their "hundreds 'and hundreds" of wounded from Dien Bien Phu. Bidault did not issue - the state ment at the conference, but it ob viously was meant for the ears - of the delegates. He asked for some action to allow the beleaguered garrison a temporary truce to send out its wounded. He added that it was- incon ceivable for a conference taking placela the birthplace of...the_Red FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 27, 1954 Pollock Committee Postpones Merger A special Pollock Council committee last night decided to shelve till next fall a motion to merge with Nittany Council, and to amend the Pollock constitution to set up a special "liason" committee to work on problems common to both areas. The committee will make these recommendations to Pollock Council tonight. Coun- cii is expected to approve the committee recommendations Screening Committee Approves 18 Blanks Eighteen of 45 Spring Carnival applications were fully approved and accepted by a special screening committee Sunday night, accord ing to George Richards, Spring Week chairman. Fourteen of the applications were termed incomplete, and 12 more were accepted with reservation. There was only one full rejec tion, Richards said. The screening committee, com posed of Richard Lemyre, retiring All-University president; Thomas Schott, retiring Interfraternity Council president; Jesse Arnelle, John Speer, and Robert Homan, present , All-University officers; and Louise Moreman and Loa Joan Packard, Panhellenic and Leonides presidents, will hold a third meeting tomorrow night to give final approval on revised forms, which must be handed in by 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main, ac cording to Richard Grossman, carnival co-chairman. The carnival application filed by Alpha Chi Sigma was the only rejection made by the screening committee, due to the planned use of BB guns, Grossman stated. The committee felt that the plans might lead to a hazardous situa tion, he added. Incomplete carnival forms which were sent back to organizations for further detail were filed by Delta Gamma, Sigma Chi; Phi Sigma Delta, Thompson; Phi Kap pa, McAllister; Kappa Sigma, Ze ta Tau Alpha;. Phi Mu, Pi Kappa Phi; Philotes, Beaver House; Sig ma Alpha Mu and Alpha Epsilon Pi. Penn State Club; Chi Phi, Sig ma Sigma Sigma; Phi Epsilon Pi; Alpha Epsilon Phi, Beta Sigma Rho; Kappa Delta Rho, The Wiz ardettes; Phi Sigma Kappa, and independent women. The twelve groups who will be cautioned since their forms were accepted only with reservation are Delta Upsilon, McAllister; Chi Omega, Sigma Nu; Alpha Omi. cron Pi, Phi Kappa Sigma; Alpha Xi Delta, Sigma Pi;Sigma Tau, Zeta Beta Tau; Phi Mu Delta, and Atherton. (Continued on page eight) Cross to refrain from taking some action towards a humanitarian truce. At today's session, the delegates organized their procedure in 31 minutes. But they faced a long, rocky road to the goal set for them. Settling the question of the con ference chairmanship swiftly, the delegates decided to plunge into debate tomorrow on the long smouldering Korean issue. Pyun Yung Tai, foreign minis ter of South Korea, - is expected to deliver a bitter denunciation of Communist aggression in his country, coupled with demands for unification of the nation. A Soviet spokesman said. the North Korean foreign minister will present the North Korean viewpoint. The conference thus would be handed at its second session the problem which has harassed the United Nations for four years. The perilous problems which ont the West-seemed person raglan By BILL SNYDER Leese Elected New President Of LA Council Watson Leese, sixth semester arts and letters major, was elected president of the Liberal Arts Stu dent Council last night, replacing Richard Kirshchner, eighth se mester arts and letters major. Other officers elected are Louis Adler, fourth semester arts and letters major, vice president, and Mary Lee Lauffer, sixth semester journalism major, secretary-treas 7 urer. Benjamin Sinclair, chairman of the faculty evaluations committee, announced at the council meeting that approximately 2000 faculty evaluation sheets will be distrib uted among faculty in the college this week. Norma Vollmer, editor of the Lantern, Liberal Arts magazine, announced that the magazine will be distributed to students in the college this week. This is the first issue of the magazine and will be offered as a complimentary issue, she said. The council voted to give the editor of the Lantern a $2O com pensation fee. The Liberal Arts Open House will be held Saturday in 119 Os mond beginning with registration at 12:30 p.m., Louis Adler, open house committee chairman, an nounced. Letters have been sent to 1800 high schools in the state inviting students to the open house, Adler said. ified in the short, impassive man who sat in front of Soviet For eign Minister V. M. Molotov dur ing today's scision. He was Chou En-lai, Red China's foreign min ister. The Soviet Union is determined to bring Chou and China into the world's councils on an equal foot ing with the Big Four. The Unit ed States is just as firmly opposed to such recognition of a nation whis h fought United Nations troops in Korea and which now aids the Communist forces fight ing' French troops in Indochina. 'Prince Narathip Pongpraphan Wan Waithhayakon of Thailand, who presided at today's session in the council chamber of the old League of Nations building—the Palace of Nations—told delegates the task before them was a noble one "to which we must devote ourselves with all our hearts." Today's meeting was the first high level diplomatic conference in Geneva since those unhappy days of the late 1930'5. Cabiceet O'irwmizarkee See Page 4 The decision to shelve the mer ger with Nittany Council, which has already been approved by Nittany, was made for the follow ing reasons: 1. The committee felt there is too little time left this semester for the present council to make such a "radical" change as a mer ger. 2. It would be better, the com mittee decided, to wait until a new Pollock Council can handle the problem in the fall, when it is anticipated that more of the dorms in the Pollock area will be occupied. (The merger would be subject to final approval of 2/3 of the Pollock dorms). Confusion Exists 3, The committee felt the mer ger proposal, if presented to the dorm for vote now, would not be given full consideration since, it is felt, much confusion concern ing the merger exists in the Pol lock area at present. The committee, headed by Pol lock Council vice president Ho ward Sauder, decided to recom mend that the Pollock Council constitution be- amended to pro vide for a liason committee. Such a committee would have to be approved by Nittany Council. Common Problems The liason • committee would study problems common to both areas. According to Sauder's com mittee it would: 1. Be composed of three mem bers from each of the two coun cils. 2. Have no power of decision, but could only recommend solu tions to the two councils. Sauder's committee decided that such a liason committee would serve as a "proving ground" for the merger. In other words, both council could be able to see how many problems actually do arise that would be better solved by one council. Expect Council's Okay These recommendations —to shelve the merge proposal and set up in the Pollock constitution pro visions for the liason committee-= will be presented to the Pollock Council tonight. Council is expect ed to pass the recommendations. The merger was first proposed and approved at a Nittany Coun cil's meeting. It was presented by Thomas Kidd, a resident member of Pollock area. The proposal pro vided that both areas be served by one council, to be known as an East Dorm Council, with represen tation from each of the dorms in the area. The council would send four officers to the Association of Independent Men's Board of Gov ernors. The unified council would wipe out area distinctions, it was hoped by Kidd and' others. It was as serted by the sponsors that one unified council would provide stronger, more efficient leader ship for the area. The Pollock Council haS been split on the question. Spring Week Contests Registration to Close Tomorrow is the deadline for filing three Spring Week reg istrations, at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Entrants in the Miss Penn State contest must submit Bxll pictures by noon. The deadline for Ma d Hatter registration lists and revised Carnival and Parade forms is 5 p.m. tomor row. FIVE CENTS
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