Lawsuit Threatened
By Vending Concern
Against AIM Group
Robert Dennis, president of the Association of Independent Men,
yesterday 'received a letter threatening a lawsuit for $1132.17 against
AIM for damages allegedly done to vending machines while the
machines were in Nittany dormitories in 1950.
The threatened suit actually involves Nittany Council, a part
of the AIM organization, and concerns an alleged agreement which
permitted the machines to be
placed in the dormitories.
No Suit Filed
Dennis said no formal law suit
has been filed against AIM. He,
said University officials are now'
in the process of investigating the
matter.
The threatened lawsuit is from
a borough resident who acted as
an independent operator in deal
ing with Nittany Council and
placing the machines in the Nit
tany dormitories. .
$llOO Damages
5504Alurnni
Contribute
To 2d Fund
Pledges totaling - $93,814 have
been collected from 5504 contrib
utors to the second Alumni Fund,
Bernard P. Taylor, executive di
rector of the fund, said yesterday.
The goal of: the 1954 fund is
to increase the number of con=
tributors over those in last year's
drive. The fund is already 900
contributors ahead of its total this
time last year. Taylor said.
Last year $187,000 was collected
from nearly 8000 contributors.
The money was apportioned by
the Board of Trustees mainly
among the Student Union BUild
ing, the All-Faith Chapel fund,
scholarships, and the Penn State
Christian Association. The same
projects will benefit from this
year's fund.
More than $54,000 was pro
vided by the 1953 fund for furn
ishings and equipment in the new
Student Union Building. The All-
Faith Chapel received almost
$35,000 and $36,000 went toward
scholarships.
The 1954 fund began in March
and will continue actively until
June 30. Solicitations are con
ducted through 3000 class agents
who in personal notes. contact
members of their classes in their
schools. Contributions may be re
stricted by the donor to a particu
lar project
A preliminary honor roll of con
tributors, to be announced Mon
day, will be published May 24.
A complete list of contributors
will be announced at the end of
the, year, Taylor said.
Ray S. Tannehill, vice president
of the Bell Telephone Co. of Penn
sylvania and a 1923 graduate, is
general chairman of the fund.
Gianturco Concert
Set for Tonight
Elio Gianturco, associate pro
fessor of romance languages, will
present a piano concert of com
posers of the Baroque period at
8 tonight at Hillel Foundation.
Tonight's concert will include
works by 17th century composers
Frescobaldi, Rossi, and Pasquini.
Last week Gianturco played the
pieces of the major organists and
lutenists of the 16th century Hen
aiSsance. ••
Tickets for the concert, which
are $2, may be purchased at the
door.
All-UniVersity Cabinet .
All-University Cabinet will
not meet tonight.
Viet Nam Will Fight Partition Truce
• GENEVA, May 12 (!P)—The state of Viet Nam, torn by war for nearly eight years, demanded
peace today—but without a Korea-like partition of the country.
The Vietnamese proposals had the sympathy, if not the 100 per cent approval, of,the non-Commu
nist states represented at the nine-nation Indonesian conference. But they appeared to fall on deaf
ears in the Communist bloc
Red China's Foreign Minister
Chou En-lai. principal speaker to
day for the East, devoted most
of his talk to an attack' on the
United States. He ignored any
armistice proposals except those
advanced by the Communist Viet
minh delegation. They are un
acceptable to 'the West.
Nguyen Quoc Dinh, Vietnamese
foreign minister, in presenting his
plan for. a military settlement,
said Viet Nam was willing to
examine any proposals designed
toachieve an armistice. But, he
added, as one of the Vietnamese
terms -"they must- not - lead to -a
In the letter to Dennis it was
claimed that damages amounting
to $1132.17 were done to the ma
chines while they were in -the
dorms.
However, members of Nittany
Cota.cil have maintained that the
agreement with the man wh o
placed the vending machines in
the dorms was terminated short-
I , - after it was begun because the
machines were poorly serviced by
the operator. The contract has not
been produced.
The Daily Collegian learned
that the issue has been building
up ever since 1950, with a lawsuit
threatened, an d the - damages
asked increasing each year. •
Insufficient Evidence
Dennis said the matter had been
dismissed every time it came up
in the past because of insufficient
evidence to , support the charges.
Edward L. Willard, a member
of the State College law firm. of
Willard and Dunoway, who sent
the letter to Dennis, said yester
day he had "no comment at this
time."
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director
of student affairs, said yesterday
he had no comment on the mat
ter because_ "I do not know
enough about the facts" in the
case to discuss it.
Dennis withheld further com
ment on the case ,until all the
facts' could be gathered.
Barron Wins
Reliability Run
Blaine Barron, second semester
agricultural education major, won
the reliability run sponsored by
Delta *Nu Alpha, transportation
honorary, and Penn State. Pacers
last Saturday. Winners of the
next four places were Kenneth
Lawrence, John Berry, Joseph Es
tabrook, and Donald Phillips.
Contestants in the run were to
drive a 40 mile route from State
College to Bellefonte to Center
Hall to Linden Hall and back to
State College. Checkers were sit
uated along the route to determine
the winner on the basis of per
formance in driving ability and
obeyance of all traffic regulations.
Prizes, including $2O for first,
will be awarded to the winners at
7 tonight in 10 Plant Industries.
Final results for all participants
are posted on the bulletin board
outside 106 Sparks.
direct or indirect, definite or pro
visional partition of the national
territory de factor or de jure."
In addition to ruling out parti
tion as a part of any settlement,
the Viet Nam proposals insisted
on the recognition of the govern
ment of chief of state Bao Dai as
the only legal one. The Vietna
mese demanded free elections un
der United Nations supervision
and international guarantees of
the state, both opposed by the
Communists.
An official British spokesman
said tonight the Vietnamese pro
posal "seems to be a reasonable
contribution," but he declined to
commit his country's delegation
Of Elatig
VOL. 54, No. 137 STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1954 FIVE CENTS
PSCA to
Unitarians
Ham Opposes
Planned Group
The name of the proposed new Protestant
association, the University Christian Asso
ciation, is "a completely misleading title,"
Oscar A. Haac, advisor of the Emerson So
ciety, student group of the Unitarian faith,
said last night.
According to Haac, the creedal
basis set down in- the working
papers will exclude Unitarians,
Christian Scientists, Friends, and
other "fringe" groups which con
sider themselves Protestant, from
the new organization.
He said that while these groups
are not excluded in theory, they
are "excluded by implication."
Disagreement on Conditions
Haac said basis for much of the
disagrement lies with the condi
tions for membership set down in
the associations working papers.
These conditions state: "Any de
nomination or student Christian
organization considered Protes-
The Emerson Society will hold
a meeting to protest the reor
ganization of the PSCA and de
cide upon a course of action at
6:30 p.m. Sunday in 304 Old
Main. The meeting is open to
the -public.
tant as that term is defined by
the National Council of Churches
of Christ in America, is eligible
for membership ..."
Haac said that when he pro
tested this stipulation because the
Unitarians would be excluded, he
was told that this was not so.
Haac said the University chaplain
informed him that "these groups
(stipulated in the Council's defi
nition) would be included" but
that the membership provision
"does not say that those not in
cluded are excluded."
Organization 'Not Inclusive'
He stated that the organization
was being set up with an empha
sis on dogma and was not "as in
clusive as it ought to be."
Haac explained that the new
organization was being set up be
cause the "PSCA is• not getting
the cooperation of Catholic and
Jewish groups." He said that set
ting up of three basic religious
groups on campus was "the only
realistic means" by which to
work.
He pointed' out that the archi
tect's plans for the new chapel
call for three offices to be set
aside, one for the chaplain repre
senting each of the three major
faiths. However, he said, there is
no office set 'aside for the fourth
(Continued on page eight)
in detail. Britain has been re
ported favoring a partition in In
dochina as a means of ending
the long jungle war.
U.S. Undersecretary of State
Walter Bedell Smith, in a brief
address, said he had listened "with
interest to the impressive obser
vations" of Dinh. He said the U.S.
views would be stated in a future
session.
Chou said it was the view of
the Chinese people that "since the
Korean War has terminated, the
Indochinese War now should like
wise be stopped."
Such a termination, however,
he declared, was "threatened" by
the U.S. government.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
New Association
To Begin July 1
A new organization, the University Chri&-•
tian Association, to be recognized by the Uni
versity as the official Protestant organization
on campus, will begin. operation July 1, the
Rev. Luther Harshbarger, University chap
lain, said yesterday.
La Vie Delivery
From Printer
Expected Soon
The 1954 LaVie will be deliv
ered by the printers early next
week, • Herman Golomb, editor,
announced. As soon as the books
arrive on campus, a schedule for
distribution to seniors will be an
nounced, he said.
With the Class of 1954, the first
class to receive degrees from the
Pennsylvania S tat e University,
the staff dedicated the 1954 La-
Vie "to our great university—The
Pennsylvania State University."
LaVies will be distributed from
the Student Union office accord
ing to the various colleges.
Bound in a fabricord cover of
brick red, which uses a brick with
cornerstone design, the 1954 La-
Vie reflects the past four years as
an era of building on the campus.
The end sheets of the book also
employ a brick pattern, while the
sub-dividers use photographs of
building entrances, combined
with a photograph of the Nittany
Lion statue, printed in color.
For the first time, the LaVie
employs three separate secondary
colors, .in addition to black. The
opening section of the book is
printed in blue-green, followed by
yellow for the senior class sec
(Continued on page two) •
Shows Warned
Carnival Opens
10
As
Picture on page two
Approximately ten of the 45 booths which opened the first night
of the sixth annual Spring Week Carnival to a crowd which was
believed to exceed last year's estimate of 5000 were warned by
Spring Week committee checkers, according to George Richards,
Spring Week chairman.
The. groups were warned by nearly 30 checkers to change their
shows after being deemed in
appropriate by the standards of
the Spring Week committee, Rich
ards stated. A second warning
will result in the closing of the
booth, he added.
Continues Tonight
The Carnival, which will con
tinue' from 6 to 11 p.m. tonight,
comprised three long midways
which are crowded with various
shows, chance games, concessions,
and rides. Outside shows to at
tract spectators into the booths in
cluded dancing girls, neon signs,
moving silhouettes, and singers
aplenty.
Students advertising various
shows wandered over the Carni
val grounds, situated at the Wind
crest area at the corner of Short
lidge road and College avenue,
dressed in Arabian and Indian
outfits, cave-girl and mermaid
outfits, and even the long white
underwear that used to be ex
clusively Grandfather's.
Spectators Watch Games
Spectators watched chance
games which included golf put
ting to win a hat, throwing darts
Tottrgiatt
Change;
Hit Plan
The PSCA board will meet at
5:30 p.m. today at the Allencrest
Tea Room to formulate definite
plans for the new reorganization.
The working papers of the new
group, prepared by PSCA, invite
various Protestant denominations
to unite with it to establish the
new association.
Whereas the PSCA represents
only two groups, the Young Men's
and Young Women's Christian
Associations, Harshbarger said,
the new body would represent 12
different groups.
The preliminary statements say
that the new association will "pro
vide. an effective instrument for
Protestantism" by "proclaiming
the Gospel on the campus with a
united voice . . . encouraging the
development of an intellectually
responsible Christian faith, fur
thering' an increasingly integrated
pastoral ministry to the campus ...
providing for a critical evaluation
of prevailing campus value sys
tems . . . (and) alerting students
to their involvement in and re
sponsibility for the social issues
of the larger community."
Other stated purposes of the or
ganization will be to "provide a
forum for free and honorable ex
pression and study of doubts, crit
icisms, and disbeliefs concerning
Christian faith and practice, with
out fear" and to "provide a Prot
estant channel for inter-religious
conversation and programming,
and for consistent cooperation
with other faiths.
The organization will be fi
nanced through four media the
(Continued on page eight)
By BEV DICKINSON
to receive a candy apple, and
walking a rope to reach a coed.
Grounds were noisy with the
sound of drums, pianos, bands,
and record music.
Rides were dispersed evenly
over the Carnival grounds, at
tracting numerous spectators who
watched or took advantage of the
comet, ferris wheel, barrel of love,
and merry-go-round.
Carnival-goers purchased tick
ets to enter booths for ten cents
each at ticket stations on the car
nival grounds. Crowds lined in
(Continued on .age two)