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VbL. 54. No. 147
AIM
New
The Board of Governors of the Asspciation of Independent Men
last night approved eight members for the AIM Judicial Board
of Review..
New-members of the board are Thomas Binford, Pollock area;
James Dix, town area; Reed Dunn, Nittany; Lloyd Matter, town;
Robert Matz, West Dorms; John
McCabe, .West Dorms; Robert
Centennial
Art Exhibit
Is Planned
An exhibition of paintings done
by Pennsylvania artists from ear
liest times to-the present will be
shown at the University late next
year in conjunction with the Uni
versity’s Centennial celebration,
Harold E. Dickson, professor of
fine arts, said yesterday.
The paintings will be borrowed
from museums and private col
lections. Dickson was recently
granted a leave of absence for the
fall semester to select the paint
ings to be shown.
Dickson said the exhibition will
be limited to about 50 paintings,
selected as the most representa
tive of Pennsylvania art.''
Dickson pointed out this will
be the first time such an exhibi
tion of Pennsylvania art has been
displayed. He said, however, the
exhibit will be similar to one
shown at the, University in 1942
of paintings done by Centre Coun
tians.
Detailed plans for the exhibit
are incomplete, but Dickson said
it is hoped that an illustrated cat
alogue . can be published on the
exhibit, which will be a history
of paintings done by Pennsyl
vanians.
Dickson said a colloqium on the
arts of Pennsylvania may also be
held.
Two Speeders
Caught in Trap
Two persons were caught in a
speed trap, by State College police
yesterday.
The trap was set up on S. Ath
erton street, in a three-block sec
tion south, of W. Beaver avenue,
between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Police clocked 67 cars passing
through the trap, but found only
two exceeding the 25-mile-ah
hour borough speed limit. One car
was traveling 30 miles per hour,
and the other 43 miles an hour.
Other traps were also set up in
the area. In one trap, as many as
300 motorists were arrested.
Burgess David R. Mackey said
results of the tests were “most
heartening. We certainly hope
this is a sign that motorists are
really slowing down,” he said.
Aircraft Carrier Explodes; 89 Dead
QUONSET POINT, RJ., May
26 (/P) —The aircraft carrier Ben
nington was rocked by violent
explosion and fire about 75 miles
at sea early today bringing death
and injury to scores among the
2800 aboard.
Some 12 hours after the blast,
the Navy announced a toll of 89
known dead aind 201 injured. The
announcement said the death to
tal “may rise.”
It was one of the worst peace
time disasters in U.S. Naval-his
tory, being exceeded only by the
collision of the destroyer-mine
sweeper Hobson, and the carrier
Wasp in 1952 in mid-Atlantic. The
toll then was 178 missing or dead.
The 32,000-ton Bennington was
northbound' in calm seas when
the big ship wa? shaken by a loud
explosion.
“We had just' completed our
first successful launching -of the.
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Governors OK's
Judicial Board
Sturdevant, town; and David Sul
livan, town.
In other actions last night, the
Board of Governors decided to
send Robert Dennis, AIM presi
dent, as delegate to the Nation
Student Association convention
this summer, approved six ap
pointments, and approved a $3500
budget.
The Board of Governors decided
to hire a stenographer to take
notes during sessions of the judi
cial board. The purpose of this
action is to keep records of de
cisions made by the judicial board
for future reference. This will en
able the group to know what prec
edents have been set. It will also
make it possible for a code of
penalties for violations.
The new system used to get
members of the board—asking for
and interviewing applicants—was
praised by the judicial board com
mittee in its report.
Students without previous stu
dent government positions will
serve on the new board. The com
mittee felt this was a method of
eliminating apathy about student
government.
In other actions, the Board of
Governors voted to send $5O to
Cal Sifferd, National Independent
Student Association sponsor,
whose home was destroyed by
fire.
The Board of Governors also
approved the formation of a bud
get committee to be headed by
AIM treasurer Bruce Lieske, and
to be composed of' the four area
council treasurers.
_ Committeemen approved last
night are Leonard Richards, elec
tions; Stanley Juras, orientation
week; James McDowell, standing
social; Anthony Whalen, projects;
William Johnson, NISA; and
Bruce Lieske, budgets.
Farmers to Honor
Prexy With Degree
The degree of Keystone Farmer
will be conferred on President
Milton S. Eisenhower during the
annual Activities Week of the Fu
ture Farmers of America June 8
to 10. President Eisenhower* will
also address the group on June 8.
This is the first time such an
award, has been given during the
summer meeting. Keystone Farm
er degrees are usually conferred
during the meetings of the Farm
Show in January.
Approximately 1600 members
are expected to attend the two
day conclave.
first of our. air groups,” said the
Bennington’s new skipper, Capt.
W. F. Raborn Jr. of Oklahoma
City, “when suddenly an explo
sion shook. the forward part of
the ship down on the second or
third deck.
“Realizing a catastrophe had oc
curred we launched the rest of
the air group to free the decks for
casualty control.”
Secretary of the Navy Charles
Thomas ordered an investigation
of the tragedy.
He expressed sympathy for the
men of the Bennington and their
families, as. did President. Eisen
hower in a White House an
nouncement. ' •
Adm. John .Hoskins directed
the helicopter rescue operations.
He said many lives were saved by
prompt evacuation by air.
He said the exact location of
the explosion was hot known but
ihat-it probably was.in the gen
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 27. 1954
'Clean-up Politics'
Meeting Defended
In reply to yesterday’s charges by John Lyon that Lion’s Paw sought “in every con
ceivable manner” to beat the winning candidate in this spring’s All-University elections,
Charles Gibbs has released a statement “to clear up any misunderstanding created by Ly
on’s misrepresentation of facts, half truths, and suggestions of false conclusions.”
Gibbs was referred to by Lyon as one of the “stooges” helping to organize a “clean-up
campus politics” meeting. The reference was made in a letter to the Daily Collegian.
IFG Passes
Wage Scale
Maximums
The Interfraternity Council last
night voted unanimously to set
maximums on the wages paid to
housemothers next fall with the
top wage being $125 a month.
' Acting on recommendation from
President John Carpenter, the
group agreed to pay $lOO a month
to full-time housemothers who act
just as chaperons and up to $125
to women who serve in other ca
pacities stich as caterer. "Part-time
housemothers are to get up to
$62.50 or half as much as the top
wage for a full-time housemother.
Carpenter said the move was
made to. avoid “cut-throat” com
petition among fraternities in ob
taining housemothers.
Robert Kitchel, IFC vice presi
dent, reported the borough will
not press the issue of on-the-street
parking in the fraternity sections
a c long as. the houses seem to be
taking positive steps to improve
the situation. Earlier, borough of
ficials had announced plans to
eliminate all on-the-street park
ing by next fall.
The positive steps the borough
wants, Kitchel said, are evidences
that fraternities are trying to cor
rect the congestion on the streets.
He recommended that several
houses go together, find a vacant
lot, and make a parking area.
'. Safety chairman Walter Low
man elaborated on plans to safe
guard fraternities against thefts
this summer. He said houses that
will be closed have been asked to
lock their houses securely and
leave a key with their adviser’s
name with the police who will
check the area nightly.
The police will take anyone to
jail they find in the house, Low
man said, so men visiting the
house during the summer should
report their presence to the police.
Fraternities are not compelled to
participate, he said.
Appointments made were:
Board of Control, Charles Brader,
Theta Delta Chi, and Carl Nurick,
Beta Sigma Rho; IFC Workshop
chairman, Alexander Zerban, Tau
Kappa Epsilon; and public rela
tions chairman, Carl Saperstein,
Sigma Alpha Mu.
eral vicinity of the ward room
(the officers’ room). If this proved
true casualties among the officers
might be high.
Hoskins said the tragedy was
one of the worst in peacetime he
could recall. He added that he
didn’t believe there was any pos
sibility of sabotage but that such
an angle will be investigated
along with every others.
Secretary Thomas said a naval
Board of Inquiry will meet tomor
row. He said search for bodies in
the Bennington was continuing.
- He said he believed all the
bodies had been removed; that
the fire was relatively minor, and
that the damage was caused by
the explosions.
Some survivors said they heard
at least three explosions. ,
• The skipper of the Bennington
said the explosion was near living
quarters and that is why so many
lives were lost.
fgiatt
In yesterday’s letter, Lyon
charged' that after Lion’s Paw’s
“groomed” candidate, Robert
Smoot, sixth semester chemical
engineering major, and member
of Lion’s Paw, did not get the
Lion Party nomination, Gibbs,
James Dunlap, eighth semester
arts and letters major, and Donald
Herbein, eighth semester arts and
letters major, arranged the ‘clean
up’ meeting, “to nominate a
groomed candidate (Smoot) and
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, direc
tor of student affairs, said yes
terday that Lion's Paw has "no
working arrangement with the
administration." He added the
organization has no more com
mitments to the administration
than does any other student
group.
smear the Lion Party’s choice
(Jesse Arnelle, All-University
President) while he and others
were out of town.”
Gibbs Defends Meeting
In a statement to the Collegian
yesterday, Gibbs presented Iris
side of the “clean-up” meeting
and sought to clear up some of
the misunderstandings students
had about Lion’s Paw.
“It seems unfortunate to me,”
he said, “that so many students,
especially campus leaders, have
come to dislike Lion’s Paw. They
don’t dislike the members because
many of them have been elected
president of various organizations.
Revealing Names Hit
“Making the names of members
known to the students leaves the
members of Lion’s Paw only more
subject to pressure from various
student cliques,” he stated.
“The ones who have tried to
smear Lion’s Paw are those who
in the past three years have tried
the hardest to push themselves
to the top of student govern
ment,” he said. “Now they will
be seniors and have not yet
reached the top, so they say, ‘lf
I can’t make it, then I will make
those selected for Lion’s Paw un
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Dunlap Supports
Campus Patrol
Editorial on page four
James Dunlap, former Traffic Court chairman, yesterday came
to the support of the Campus Patrol, the subject of a critical letter
to the editor published in Wednesday’s Daily Collegian.
' The letter, written by Stuart Horn,' fourth semester chemical en
gineering major, accused the patrol of “gross incompetence and ac
tual ignorance.” Horn asserted
that the patrol “caused more
traffic jams than they helped al
leviate.”
“Anyone who has attended a
big dance at Rec Hall will re
member with a shudder the hand
Campus Patrolmen yesterday
summoned Stuart Horn to the
Dean of Men's office for a con
ference. Horn attacked the pa
trol in a letter published in
Wednesday's Daily Collegian.
No disciplinary action will be
taken against Horn. Dean of
Men Frank J. Simes reported.
ling of traffic before and after
the dance,” Horn said in the let
ter.
In defending the patrol, Dun
lap replied that in, his capacity
as Traffic Court chairman he
could not help but notice that the
patrol is doing “an excellent job
Examinations
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No Saturday
Class Rise
Anticipated
No noticeable increase in Sat
urday classes for the fall semes
ter is anticipated, Ray V. Watkins,
University scheduling officer, said
yesterday.
Watkins said the number of
Saturday classes may vary one or
two per cent either way, but there
has been no policy of scheduling
more Saturday classes.
Schedules for classes are made
out by the Scheduling office, but
the departments were able, to re
quest hours for classes with the
stipulation that one-third of the
sequences should include Saturr
day classes. ' ■
Having Saturday classes is ne
cessary, Watkins explained, with
the sequences of classes now in
effect. There are 12 sequences:
eight on Monday, Wednesday,, and
Friday, and four on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday morn
ings. Tuesday and Thursday af
ternoons are arranged to take care
of two-credit courses.
Watkins also said because Re
serve Officers Training Corps
units have their common hours at
4p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday,-.and
Friday, courses which could nor
mally be scheduled for this time
must be arranged* so they do not
conflict. Intramural sports which
begin at 4 p.m. are also consid
ered.
Collegian Promotions
Recently promoted to the junior
board of the Daily Collegian busi
ness staff were Joan Clark. Eileen
Marcolina, Grace McCloskey, Jo
anne McGrath, Dorothea Koldys,
Sally Rhodes, Betty Shapinas,
Joan Smith, June Strauss, arid
Yvonne Vandeuren.
with what is at best a difficult
situation.”
“There . are 3900 automobiles
now being parked on campus,
which is 36 per cent over capa
city,” Dunlap said in his state
ment.
Dunlap added that bottlenecks
and confusion are a “normal sit
uation for today’s over-stuffed
highways and streets.”
Horn, in his letter on the patrol,
remarked that the patrol is paid
by student funds and that the
students are “getting a very poor
return for their money.”
Dunlap, however, said the pa
trol is paid largely by state funds
and “doing its best.”
Dunlap said “If each student
and faculty member conformed
with University rules and regula
tions the patrol would be un
necessary; however, they don’t.
Therefore, we have to have the
patrol to do the dirty work.”
Final
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