Weather— Cloudy and Warmer 'VOL. - 54, No. 128 Miss America . 0. ViOt. , Campus CobinetOkis New Seating Plan„ Accepts La Vie Office Proposal By PEGGY McCLAIN All-University Cabinet last night approved a new Recreation Hall seating plan which will dis continue the 'present ticket-exchange system and invest power to determine the number of tickets to be sold to non-students in the Athletic Associ- ation president and the dean of the Physical Education and Ath letics College. The report was made by David Jones, chairman of the Board of Publications. Under the recommendation, a base figure of 300 tickets would be used as a control to determine the number of tickets to be sold to non-students for Rec Hall ath letic events. Using the base figure as a con trol, AA president Ronald Weld enhammer and Dean Ernest B. McCoy. will ' haie the -power to set before the event, the actual number of non-student tickets to be sold. The number will..be de termined from past attendance at events. . .Insurance Idea Okayed In. further action, cabinet ac cepted recommendation that an official cabinet committee be ap pointed to explore the possibili ties of an accident and health insurance policy to be made avail able to students. The report was submitted by former All-University , president Richard Lemeyre. Named by All- University president Jesse Arnelle to serve on the committee were Lemeyre, Robert Homan, All- Univer sit y secretary-treasurer; and Arnelle. Not Mandatory The policies would not be man datory and would cost men stu dents $lB per year • and women $l5 per year. Coverage would be non-restrictive and would pay for any accident at any time , and place. It would cover any and . all medical, hospital and surgical ex pense, up. to $5OO, in or out of a hospital and would pay $5OOO for loss of limbs or sight, with 'amount being doubled if accident occurred on a common carrier. - Specified Indemnifies - It would pay specified indemni ties to $l5O for sprains, fraCtures, and dislocations. The policy would include 12 months,. 24 hour coverage. In the case' of a student policy holder graduating in June • the policy would be valid until the Septem ber after graduation. `Questioned as to what insurance companies . are being considered by,lhe committee, Lemeyre said, "I would rather not say." He said he had investigated several com panies, but was holding back on decision for several more days in case of further applications from companies. 1, Schanz Will Speak ®in` Atomic Energy - John' •J. Schanz,- instructor in mineral economics, will speak to the Mineral Economics Seminar at 4:10 p.m: today in 121 Mineral Industries. Subject of the lecture will be "The Economics of Atomic Energy." This will be the last_ in a series of ten on atomic energy. The lec ture • will conclude the seminar's meetings for this semester. Mad Hatter Entries. The deadline for handing in .entries for the. Mad Hatter's Day - parade May 11 has been extended. until 5 p.m. Monday at the 'Student-Union desk in Main,_ according to -.Rich ard Crafton,- parade co-chair . - 1 r ••1 at 'l\t-- - -:-:,'‘,...:::"...:„. - .4::„; ott . -...,,Le5er.5...--' Phi B Kappa Honor Society Elects 23 Twenty-three seniors and re cent graduates of the University have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, national schol astic honor society. They are Robert Buchanan, ba i any; Kenneth Cook, psychology; Donald Diehm, psychology; Alice Doles, arts and letters; Robin Eiche; arts and letters; Robert Euwema, physics; Leonard Good man, arts and letters; Albert Kal son, arts and letters; Jane Over meyer, bacteriology. Kae Parks, education; Virginia Reese,. eductaion; Charles Rock man, physics; Charles Rohrbeck, pre-medical; Winfield Scott, psy chology; Beverly Seltzer, arts and letters; Daniel Shirey, psycholo gy; Melvin Shi r a, psychology; Richard Sloan, physics. • Douglas Speichler, arts and let ters; Theodore Struk, arts and let ters; Phyllis Sukenik, arts and letters; Edard Thieme, psycholo gy; and Eugene Whitehouse, arts and letters The initiation ceremony an d banquet for the pledges will be held at 5:30 p.m. May 12 at the Nittany Lion Inn. Initiation will preced the banquet. John Sauer, professor of physics, will speak on (Continued on. page eight) Applications Due For WDFM Posts Today- is the last day students may apply for positions as de partment heads of Station WDFM, Doris Berkowitz, station manager, has announced. Applications may be made in 306 Sparks. Departments of the campus radio station are traffic, produc tion,, continuity, announcing, en gineering, sports, music, and spe cial events. Students interested in working on these staffs may apply until the end of the semester, Miss Berkowitz said, but applications for new members will be given preference if received bef or e May 7. Ike Seeks Settlement in Indochina WASHINGTON, April 29 (W)— President Dwight D. Eisenhower said today a practical settlement of the Indochinese War may be possible even though a completely trustworthy peace with the Com munists appears to be something over the horizon. The President told his news conference the most the United States can hope for is to work out a practical way of getting. along with the Communists. That is what we have been doing in Europe, he said. But Eisenhower declared em phatically ,it would be unaccept able to permit the whole anti- Communist defense of Southeast Asia to crumble and disappear. The President thus laid new stress on his statement earlier this week that Indochina is `!the cork in the bottle" whose loss to the Communists would affect the fate of hundreds, of millions in Asia. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 36, 1954 By ROY WILLIAMS All-University Cabinet last night accepted a recommendation by David Jones, chairman of the Board of Publications, that LaVie be permitted to retain its present office in Old Main; and that if this is impossible LaVie be granted an office near the present public information of fice similar in size to its present quarters. Jones' proposal was made be cause of recent speculation that the University planned to remove all. student offices .from the top floors of Old Main. The present LaVie room, Jones explained, is highly desirable be cause it is near the public infor mation office in Old Main. Since repeated trips to that office for advice are necessary every day, LaVie does not want to be moved from its room, Jones said. "A room in the Student Union Build ing would be entirely unsatis factory," Jones stressed. Publication Recommendations Cabinet also accepted a report by Jones on nine recommenda tions made by the publications workshop from the 1953 student encampment, and action taken on therri by the Board of Publications: Jones explained action had been carried out on the entire nine point program. A Student Encampment report on Student Recreation was given by Gerald Maurey, former Ath letic Association president. Field House - Studied Maurey said the Outing Club had been established to make use of nearby camping sites, the ice skating would be open by Novem ber 1, and a committee' had been appointed to investigate the con struction of a field house. , John Speer, All-University vice president, and Robert Homan, A 11-University secretary-treas urer, were installed at the start of the meeting by Jesse Arnelle, All-University president, chairing cabinet for the first time. Donald Balthaser, senior class president, and John Thalimer, junior class president, were also installed by Arnelle. Coed Swimming Coed swimming will be held from 7 to 9 tonight in the Glennland Pool. Students should bring ma triculation cards and • swim suits. The first 50 couples will be admitted. The coed swim program is sponsored by the Athletic Association and the College of Physical Education and Athletics. Touching on a wide .range of topics, Eisenhower made these points at his news conference: 1. A congressional proposal de signed to, bar the dispatch of troops to Indochina or anywhere else in the *orld without the ad vance approval of Congress would damage the President's flexibility to cope with emergencies. 2. The United States will not get, into a war except thrOugh the constitutional process, involving a declaration of war by Congress. 3. No British advice or counsel has influenced U.S. decisions iii conversations between Washing ton and London on the question of aid to Indochina. This was his reply to a question whether the French had asked the United States for air intervention and the request was refused cm. British urging. 4. On a question of lagging legis lation, Eisenhower:.said congres- rgiatt Evelyn Ay to Assist Star In Miss 'State' Crowning Evelyn Ay, "Miss America of 1953" and former "Miss Pennsylvania," will assist Mary Pickford, screen and stage star, in the crowning of Miss Penn State, at the coronatiop. ceremonies to be held at 8:30 Avery and Marshall Donley, Talent Show To Kick Off 'Frosh Week' Freshman Week activities will get under way tonight as eight finalists compete in the annual freshman talent show. The show will begin at 8 p.m. in the Tern porary Union Building. The freshman class dance will be held from 9 p.m. to midnight tomorrow evening in Recreation Hall. Freshmen' may pick up free dance tickets until noon, tomor row at the Student Union desk in Old Main. The finalists in the talent show are Jesse Brewster, Susan Cos kery, Carolyn Kirchner, Edmond Kramer, and Frances Spatafore, , vocalists; Dean Preshall, Keith Williams, piano; Virginia and Judy Hance, softshoe accordionist; and Keith Williams, pianist. Samuel Wolcott, second semes ter arts and letters major, will be the master of ceremonies. Judges will be Richard Bower, assistant professor of-Hotel administration, William Rosenthal, 4th semester student, and Moylan Mills, grad uate assistant in English. compo sition. The winner of the show will receive a prize of $2O. A second prize of $lO and a third prize of $5 will also be awarded. The three winners will enter tain at the intermission of the freshman class dance. The informal dance will feature the music of the Melody Men and a theme of "Rhapsody in Blue." 'Farmer' Available For Ag Students Agriculture students may pick up copies of the April issue of the Penn. State Farmer, Forester and Scientist today at the Agri culture Building an d various points on Ag Hill, according to A. H. Imhof, assistant professor of agricultural journalism. Articles on agronomy are em phasized in this issue. Features include "Organic Farming" by Bill Brubaker, "Watershed Con serVation" by Frank Martz and "A New Cover for Highway Slopes," by Edward Bachtle. sional leaders have assured him they will enact his program, but he wishes they would get in on the books—and soon. 5. He believes the big issue in th e forthcoming congressional elections in November is whether the administration has made a record of accomplishment or—as he put it—has dilly-dallied by the way. 6. The whole business of the Mc- Carthy-Army row on Capitol Hill is a subject he doesn't think is something to t alk about very much. He just hopes it is all con cluded very quickly. 7. •As to whether the adminis tration is considering military aid to Israel, now that it has decided to grant such aid . to Iraq, the Pres ident said we are not giving aid to anyone to start a war or in dulge in conflict. The sole pur pose of such aid, he said, is to oppose. communism. Fined Exams Scheduling See Page 4 p.m. May 10, according to Carole coronation co-chairmen. Nineteen-year-old Miss Ay, who recently graduated from Ephrata High School in Ephrata, Pa., is ._$ present traveling through Texas on a tour arranged by the Miss America Pageant Corporation. She will be one of several judges to select the queen from the five finalists, following a banquet for them preceeding the ceremonies, Donley stated. To Select Five. Finalists The five finalists will be se lected from the 36 Miss Penn State entries in the preliminary judg ing from 7:40 to 9:15 p.m. Monday night, according to the coronation co-chairmen. Each contestant ' wili have a short informal interview with the 15 judges, who will select 'five finalists on a point basis, Miss Avery said. A maximum of ten points will be awarded each con testant, she'explained. Townspeople to Judge The fifteen townspeople parti cipating in the preliminary judg ing are Jack Harper, Harper's Haberdashery; Robert G. Neilson, local theater manager; Charles Petnick, Charles Shop; Eugene M. Fulmer, head of Chamber of Com merce; Wayland F. Dunaway 111, local' lawyer. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Imbt; Mrs. F. L. Bentley and Charles W: Stoddart, Red. Cross Agency; IL Paul Griggs, Griggs Pharmacy; M. Martin McFeatters, dentist; Margaret Buyers; Mr. and Mrs. Kay Vincent, Kay's Korner; and Maebelle Taylor, Music Room; Nine coeds were entered in the contest during the extended dead line in addition to the original 27 sponsored by various groups par ticipating in Spring Week activi ties. The nine new entrants and their sponsors include Barbara Bransdorf, Leonides and - Penn Haven Club; Gayle Deßonis, Phi Kappa; Joanne Leet, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Pegge Reilly, Delta Zeta and Acacia; Edith Spalding, Alpha Chi Omega and Lambda Chi Alpha; Kathleen Stroup, Phi Kappa Psi; Nancy Van Tries, Alpha Sigma Phi and Delta Tau Delta. Schedule for Interviews Times at which the judges will hold interviews with indiivdual contestants Monday evening are 7:40, Patricia Balok, Patricia Bau er; 7:45, Marilyn Black, Sandra Booth; 7:50, Barbara Bransdorf, Kaye Buterbaugh; 7:55, Gayle De- Bonis, Mary Lou Dubson; 8:00, Phoebe Erickson, Faith Gallagher. At 8:05, Ruth Grigoletti, Nancy Hagy; 8:10, Judith Hance, Myrtle Harris; 8:15, Joanne Leet; 8:20, Joanne Low, Geraldine McKenna; 8:25, Bernice Maier, Del Rene Mill ner; 8:30, Polly Moore, Phoebe Powell; 8:35, Pegge Reilly, Mar garet Ross. At 8:40, Marilyn Scollon, Mar garet Selig; 8:45, Winnie Mae Shelley, Edith Spalding; 8:50, Mit zi Stern, Maud Strawn; 8:55, Kath leen Stroup, Belva Syryca; 9:00, Nancy Van Tries, Anna Mae Webb; 9:05, Jane Yahres, Joan Ziegler. The five finalists selected by the townspeople will receive 100 points for their sponsors towards the Spring Week trophy, and Miss Penn State will receive 150 points. No points will be given to en trants in the contest, stated George Richards, Spring Week chairman. Spring Week Heads Chairmen of groups partici pating in Spring Week activi ties will meet at 7 p.m. Sun day in 110 Electrical Engineer ing. FIVE CENTS
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