Weather— Windy and Cooler VOL. 54, No. 134 French Fortress Falls Before Reds PARIS, May 7(A')—Hordes. of Vietminh troops toppled the barbed wire fortress of Dien Bien Phu today in their biggest victory of the 7-year-war for Indochina. Under constant•fire for 57 days, the• fortress fell under the fifth 16 'He-Men' To Compete In Finals Sixteen finalists were selected from. 40 entrants in the prelimi naries of the He-Man contest last night to compete in the finals scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Beaver Field, according to Bar bara Wallace and Gerald Ma.urey, contest co-chairmen. The finalists were chosen com peting in a 100-yard dash, a soccer kick, and a series of push ups. The finals will include another 100- yard dast on an obstacle course, a shotput throw, and a considera tion of theme and general abili ties, Miss Wallace stated. Judges for the finals will be Ross B. Lehman, assistant execu tive secretary of the Alumni Asso ciation, George L. Donovan, -di rector of student activities, and James H. Coogan, assistant di rector of Public Information. Competing for the title of He- Man, who will be awarded 150 , points and a trophy are StamaH tios • Flamporis, - Nittany-Pollock; Winston Mergott, Alpha Tau Omega; Louis D'Angeli, Kappa Sigma and Zeta Tau Alpha; La mont Smith, • Theta Chi; Thomas Mclntyre,- Acacia; David Barney, Sigma Nu and Chi _Omega; Herb ert Hollowell, Delta Tau Delta and Alpha Sigma Phi; Robert Allen, Chi Phi and Sigma Sigma Sigma. James Fulton, Sigma Phi Epsi lon; EdWard Pasko, Pi Kappa Phi; Jon _Friedman, Phi Epsilon Pi; Daniel Van Duyne, Alpha Gamma Rho and Delta Delta Delta; Herb ert Ferguson, Sigma Pi and Alpha Xi' Delta; Robert Springer, Phi Kappa Sigma And Alpha Omicron Phi; Frank Breider, Delta Upsilon; and Hugh Cline, Phi Gamma Delta and Pi Beta Phi. Applications Ready For Scholarships Scholarship applications for the three $75 scholarships to be awarded for the fall semester by Panhellenic Council are available at the , Dear . i of Women's office, 105 Old Main. Applications must be returned to the Dean of Women's office by May 17. The scholarships are available to independent and sorority..wom en. Recipients will be selected on the basis .of financial need. No specified average is •necessary. Cloudy, Rainy Weather Expected Ah, yes; another beautiful week end on the, lovely campus 4:t the Pennsylvania State University. Today will be cloudy with scat tered showers and little change in temperature, the 'meteorology de partment reported: Tomorrow will be clearer. • Parents get a chance to see the monsoon season first, hand, it seems. Selective. Service Test ' Monday is the last day stu dents may apply for the Selec tive 'Service test. Application blanks may •be obtained from the Dean of Men's office. Students who at tain a high class standing, or make a score of 70 or , better may be deferred from military service for the next academic year, at the discretion of their local draft board. •. , massive attack launched by a force which outnumbered the de fenders 6-1. Conditions Critical . The final days were harrowing to the. defenders. Hundreds of wounded piled- up• in the under ground shelters while the French appealed vainly for - a truce to permit their evacuation. Late yesterday_ and on into the dusk, the defenders saw the Viet minh moving into position for the attack. They piled into trenches they had dug right up to the edge of • barbed •wire barricades on which-the French had depended for safety. Attack by Moonlight Battalions of a thousand poured over the French strongpoint com panies of 200 and by 2 a.m. under thin moonlight, four of the strong points were taken. The Vietminh lodged them selves solidly in the southwest corner of the main defense point, and neither side nor counterattack could drive them out. Whey broke through = also into the southeast and eastern sec tions. Later in the hot sun, Brig. Gen. Christian De Casteries launched a furious counterattack against these. But the attack was too strong. Mortar and artillery fire had weakened the barbed wire and evidently plowed up many of the mine fields strewn by the French. Bell Named Head Of Student Council Donald Bell, sixth semester physical education major, -w a s elected president of the Physical Education Student Council yes terday. Other officers elected were Patricia Farrell, fourth se mester recreation major, vice president; Mary Hu d c-o v is h, fourth semester physical educa tion major, secretary; and Karl Schwenzfeier. fifth semester physical education major, treas urer. Students who won seats on the council are Margaret Porterfield, Lamont Smith. Ruth. Kronewet ter, Dean Mullen, Ann Farrell, and Glenn Moyer. Sixty-seven per cent of the col lege voted in the elections. Festive Week Miss State Coronation, Parade To Open Spring Week Monday The Spring Week parade and the' coronation ceremonies of the Miss Penn State contest Monday evening will mark the beginning of the sixth annual Spring Week at the University. Forty groups have entered the parade, which • will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, according to Wil liam Brill, parade director. The parade _will form on Nittany and Fairmount avenues and disband near Recreation Hall. Groups will compete for top place in each of the three categories—the artiste, collegiate, , and comic. Winners will receive trophies and points toward the Spring Week trophy. Five finalists chosen form 36 entrants in the queen contest will compete for the title of Miss Penn State at the coronation ceremon ies scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Mon day in Recreation Hall. The final ists Phoebe Erickson, Ruth Grigoletti, Nancy Hagy, Nancy Van Tries, and. Jane Yahres—will be judged by M a r y - Pickford, .stage- . and grreen_star; Evelyn Ay FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 8, 1954 Beaver Memorial Nears Completion The foundation for the monu ment to honor General James A. Beaver at Beaver Field has been poured and the monument will be set up next week, according •to Paul W. Pierson, assistant sup ervisor of lands, building, and maintenance. General Beaver, former presi dent of the University Board of Trustees and former governor of Pennsylvania, • is 'being honored for his contributions to the Uni versity and the state by the alum ni committee of the class of 1909, whom he helped to organize. The bronze plaque, to be placed on the monument, has been order ed but has not yet arrived, Pier son said. It will be mounted on the sandstone base. New Addition To Inn Opens This Weekend The new addition to the Nit tany Lion. Inn, under construc tion for some time, is being occu pied for the first time with the ar rival of hundreds of parents for the Mother's Day-May Day week end. • John H. Lee, manager of the inn, said yesterday that work men have been engaged in mov ing furniture- into the 75 new rooms the addition will provide. With a heavy demand for rooms for the weekend, reservations for the new rooms had been accept ed some time ago. The final inspection of the new wing - was held earlier this week and except for the correction of minor things, the addition is con sidered • completed. The contract for the construc tion of the addition was award ed nearly two and one half years ago to Irwin and Leighton, of Philadelphia. In addition. to doubling the number of. rooms at the inn, the program included redecorating of the lobby and lounge on the main floor; redecorating of the lobby and lounge on the main floor; re decorating Peacock Alley, adjoin ing the main dining room; the ad dition of an elevator; and the ad dition of a coffee shop in the lower lobby. Coronation Rehearsal Entrants in the Miss Penn State contest wi 11 .rehearse coronation ceremonies at 12:30 p.m. Monday in Recreation Hall, according to Carole Avery, coronation co-chairman. "Miss America of 1954," and Mr. and Mrs. B. Carl Wharton. Miss Pickford, who will crown t h e queen, will arrive early Monday afternoon at the University. Approximately 2500 students have entered the Mad Hatter's Spring Week trophies are on display in the window of the Athletic Store on the corner of College avenue and South Al len street. A display of the pic tures of the five finalists in the Miss Penn State contest and the gifts they will receive from bor ough merchants is in the win dow of the Chamber of Com merce on College avenue. The robe and crown that the queen will wear are being shown in the window of the Charles Shop on South Allen street. Day parade, which, will be held at noon Monday and Tuesday on the campus. Contestants,. w h o have entered one of three cate gories—originality, artistic, and comic—mader..the theme of molt- ggiatt Parents 'lnvade' For Weekend Of Festivities Mothers, fathers and families, too, will invade the campus-this weekend to take part in traditional Mother's Day-May Day weekend activities. Cloudy skies—and maybe some of Penn State's traditiona4 rain—is predicted to greet the visitors. May Day festivities, the agriculture college, a dairy show, four sports events, and special open houses in the women's dormitor ies, West Dorms, and fraternities will be open to students and par ents. It was a year ago this weekend that a famous couple visited a well-known campus personality. President and Mrs. - Dwight D. Eisenhower dropped in for a visit with his brother, President Milton S. Eisenhower, and caused more than a minimum of excitement. May Day Ceremonies The highlight of this weekend's activities will be the May Day Ceremonies beginning at 3 p.m. today on the lawn of Old Main. Jane Montgomery, eighth semester journalism major, will be crown ed Queen of May. In case of rain the ceremonies will be held in Recreation Hall. Before the cere monies, open house and teas from 2 to 3 p.m. will be held in the women's dormitories. Cloudy weather with scattered showers is predicted for today, but the weatherman says tomor row's skies will be clear. The Interfraternity-Panhellenic Spring Concert will be held after the May Day ceremonies in Old Main. Dairy Exposition Opens • The 29th annual Dairy Expo sition will be held from 12:30 to 5 p.m. today in the Livestock Judging Pavilion. Judith Smith, second semester elementary edu cation major, will be crowned Dairy Queen at 1 p.m. The College of Agriculture will hold an open house starting at 9 a.m. Freshmen women will be seen out of their dorms on both Friday and Saturday nights until 1 a.m. for the first time this weekend. Freshmen move-up day was yes terday. Few of the fathers will be bored this afternoon because there will be four sports events. A double header baseball game with Syra cuse and a - track meet with Pitts burgh will both be held at 1 'p.m. Penn State will meet Bucknell in a tennis match at 2 p.m., and the (Continued on page eight) ie titles, will assemble in front of Main Engineering and parade up to and past the judges station ed on the steps of Old Main. Fifteen finalists of the 40 en trants in the preliminaries will compete in the He Man finals to be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Beaver Field. /The finalists will race the 100-yard dash, throw a shotput, and be judged on the theme of their costume, abilities, physique, and mainliness. I Forty-five groups will begin I setting up their booths at noon Tuesday for the Carnival which will be ,held from 6 to 11 p.m. Wednesday and. Thursday. The Carnival site is the Windcrest ex living units on the corner of i Shortlidge and College avenues. The organizations will present varied shows in an attempt to total the greatest numb e r of points for the Spring Week tro phy. Spring Week will end with the annual Senior Ball at 9 p.m. Fri day and houseparties Saturday evening. By NANCY SHOWALTER Mother's Day Concert Set By Glee Club The Glee Club, under the dire tion of Frank Gullo, associate pu fessor of music, will give its 26.. nual Mother's Day Concert at p.m. tomorrow in Schwab Audi. torium. The group will open with "Hall to Pennsylvania State." Other numbers will include the "Drink ing Song" from Student Prince and "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers." Two Fred Waring arrangements will be used. They are "No Man an Island" and "I Believe?' Sev eral religious numbers, including "Laudamus Te" and "I Walk To day Where Jesus Walked" will be sung. John Moran, fourth semester arts and letters major, will be tenor soloist. He will sing "Kash miri Song" and "Lullaby" from "Jocelyn." • A piano solo, "Hungarian Rhap sody Number 6. in D •Flat" by Franz Liszt, will be played by Eudell Korman, fourth semester arts and letters major. The Varsity Quartette w sing "Heart of My Heart," "Dear Old Girl," and several novelty numbers. The Hi-los, a group of sixteen men from the club, will sing, sev eral selections, among them "Massachusetts" an d "Johnny Shmoker." Nan Gullo, the director's daugh ter, will accompany the Glee Club on the harp for part of the pro gram. Alumni to Get Five Awards Five alumni yesterday we r e named to receive the University's 1954 Distinguished Alu m n Awards. The awards will be con ferred at special ceremonies dur ing class reunion week, June 12. The award winners are Robert W. Ostermayer, class of 1917; Ar thur Scott Shoffstall, 1900; Wil lia-m B. Wallis, 1911; Jesse B. Warriner, 1905; and Paul Weir, 1919. These awards, established in 1950, are presented annually to those alumni "w hose personal life, professional achievements, and community service" bc:st ex emplify the objectives of the Uni versity. The selections were announced by President Milton S. Eisenhow er, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, 2d LA Lantern To Go on Sale The second edition of the LA Lantern, published by the Liberal Arts Student Council, will go on sale today. Included in this issue will be stories on the history of May .Day and this year's program, Spring Week, and the Daily Collegian. The 14.-page issue will be sold for 10 cents at the Corner Room, Carnegie Bulletin Board, in front of Old Main, and in front of Grange Dornntonr., 'Growing Pains' WDFM See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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