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University Employees
Defer Vote to Strike
Members of Local 67, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Em
ployees, deferred a vote to strike against the University at a meeting Friday night.
The dissatisfaction within the union stems from the classification plan offered to
the union by the University. The plan was set up to establish uniform pay systems and pay
grading.
Kenneth Dixon, union p:
tion of union officers, who asked
more time to negotiate the new
classification plan.
“We feel we should try once
more to discuss the classification
plan with Dr. Eisenhower so that
we might avoid any trouble on
the campus,” Dixon said.
■ George W. Smith, union secre
tary, said yesterday a letter was
being sent to President Eisen
hower on the subject. He declined
to give any further information,
saying the union had decided to
wait until President Eisenhower
had received the letter. President
Eisenhower was in Washington,
D.C. yesterday.
300 Attend Meeting
More than 300 members who
attended Friday’s meeting voted
unanimously to reject the new
classification plan. The union de
clared the new plan ignored sen
iority and fair salary increases.
As an example, they cited a
number of veteran employees
whom they said are getting less
money than some workers em
ployed for a shorter time.
According to Dixon, the union
said the classification plan was “a
punch below the belt inasmuch
as it was forced on campus em
ployees without their consent and
came during a period when a
grienvance panel is holding hear
ings to determine a fair classi
fication plan for personnel pro
cedures.
Panel Mai in Boston
The pane! to which Dixon re
jsncd was the three-man griev
ance panel which met in Boston
Wednesday to discuss procedure
for arbitrating disputes between
the University and the union.
Tlie wage classification plan
was one of 22 grievances submit
ted to the panel for consideration,
Dixon said/
Dixon said the union has sched
uled a meeting with Ray V. For
tunate, coordinator of labor rela
tions, for 3:30 p.m. today to pre
sent an alternate plan to the Uni
versity. He said the union’s plan
would attempt to establish a more
uniform wage scale.
Dixon added that he hoped to
meet with President Eisenhower
in the future to discuss the issue.
The union includes all service
employees at the University, such
as dining hall workers, physical
plant employees, maids, and jani
tors.
Oil Conference
To Be Held Here
Methods used to locate oil de
posits as well as methods for re
covery of the deposits will be
discussed at the 18th annual Tech
nical Conference on Petroleum
Production at the University to
morrow through Friday.
More than 150 research men
from all sections of the country
will attend the conference, which
is considered the second most im
portant technical conference in its
field and is the only one to be
sponsored by a University.
Tomorrow afternoon geologists,
mineralogists- and geophysicists
will report on progress in research
pointed toward the location of pe
troleum deposits. The Thursday
and Friday morning sessions will
be conferned with recovery of
deposits.
U.S. Grants Available
For Graduate Study
Students may apply for United
States government exchange
grants for graduate study abroad
until Nov. 10.
Eligibility requirements for
foreign study fellowships are:
United States citizenship, a col
lege degree, knowledge of the lan
guage of the country, and good
health.
Scholarship application blanks
are available in 110 Old Main.
The awards cover transporta
tion. tuition, books, and main-
•esident, said a strike vote was deferred on the recommenda-
Fungus Hits Cami
Five Trees
With Elm
Five, campus elm trees have been affected, or are suspected of
being affected by Dutch elm disease, according to Walter W. Trainer,
supervisor of lands construction and maintenance.
The disease is a fungus spread chiefly by the elm bark beetle
which borrows under the tree bark, causing the leaves to die and
ÜBA Will Refund
Unclaimed Money
Unsold books and unclaimed
money will be returned by the
Used Book Agency of the Penn
State Book Exchange today
through Friday in the Tempor
ary Union Building.
Books and money may. be
claimed 8 a.m. to fj p.m. on the
TUB stage. Students must pre
sent yellow receipts to collect
books or money.
Forum Season
Ticket Drive
Is Underway
Approximately 5000 leaflets de
scribing the 1954-55 Community
Forum season ticket drive were
distributed to dormitories and
fraternity houses over the week
end. The drive, which opened
yesterday, will continue through
Saturday.
Season tickets, priced at $4.40,
will be sold at the Student Union
desk in Old Main and Griggs
Pharmacy on E. College avenue,
Janet Dickson, publicity chair
man, has announced.
Four speakers are listed on this
season’s program with a bonus
speaker to be announced as soon
as final arrangements have been
made.
The speakers will be headed by
Clifton Fadiman who comes to
the University Nov., 9. Agnes
Moorehead will present her one
woman dramatic show Dec. 6.
Carlos Romulo, on Jan. 13, and
James Hepbron, criminologist, oh
Feb. 15.
Assisting Miss Dickson with
distribution of leaflets and post
ers are Ruth Eshelman, sixth se
mester home economics major,
and John Garber, fifth semester
chemical engineering major, both
members of the forum executive
committee and Kent Forster, for
um president.
The sale of individual tickets
for each performance will be de
pendent on the number of season
tickets sold, Miss Dickson said.
1904 Graduate Dies
Walter Randall Musser, Cali
fornia, Pa., who was -graduated
from the University in 1904, died
in Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh
early in September. He was 75.
Musser was employed by Jones
and Laughlin Steel Corporation as
a civil engineer and mine super
intendent until his retirement two
years ago.
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drop off sooner than normal.
Two trees known definitely to
be affected by the disease have
been removed and burned, Train
er said.
One was the 26-inch elm which
stood off the west corner of Old
Main. The other was a six-inch
elm in the Windcrest area.
Two -years ago a tree affected
with the same disease was re
moved from a University farm
near Puddintown.
Three Others Show Symptoms
Three other trees the large
elm on the terrace in front of Old
Main, one on the McAllister Mall
near the Textile Chemistry Build
ing, and one near the entrance
of the McAllister Mall —sh 6 w
symptoms of the disease. Trainer
said cultures of the bark were be
ing taken to determine whether
the disease is actually, present.
If the disease is found steps will
be taken to stop the disease. The
disease can be pruned out in the
early stages, but in the later
stages there is no cure, except to
remove and burn the tree. .
. Main Mall Unaffected
Trainer said there is no evi
dence of the disease in the trees
along the Main Mall. He said “it
is reasonably certain” that the
beetles were exterminated when
the tree on the Old Main. lawn
was burned.
He said, however, that the trees
will be sprayed with a mixture of
DDT and. oil to prevent further
spread of the insects.
Several trees on the University
farms are also under surveillance.
LaVie Staff, Candidates
Will Meet Tonight'
LaVie art staff members and
candidates will meet at 7 tonight
in'los Temporary.
To be eligible for the art staff
candidates must be either sopho
mores or juniors.
A second meeting for LaVie ed
itorial staff candidates will be
held at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 418
Old Main.
Candidates who attended the
first meeting Sunday do not have
to attend this meeting,' according
to Gail Smith- managing editor.
20th Century Witches??
Players'
presents
“Beil, Book, ami Candle”
Center Stage
in TUB
Opens ,
FrkSay, Oct, 15
Affected
Disease
LVANTA
ilrifon Divided
Town O,
Will State College
Become Mt. Nittany?
State College is a town of divided opinions. One group
favors the name change to Mt. Nittany, another opposes any
name change and a third favors a change but is against the
proposal which will be voted on Nov. 2.
The proposed change, which grew out of the University’s
advancement, would continue a precedent established earlier
when the University changed its
name from. ■ the Farmer’s High
School to Agricultural College
and still later to Pennsylvania,
State College. The town each time
altered its name to correspond to
that of the University.
In a story which appeared in
Sunday’s edition of the Pittsburgh
Press Family Magazine, each side
of the controversy was presented.
It stated that nobody wanted to
change the town’s name to State
University, not even those who
felt that State College would no
longer do.
' Mt. Nittany Suggested
Mt. Nittany- seemed to be the
name that had a chance for suc
cess, the Press article said. A com
mittee of fifty, backing the name
change, enlisted the support of
John Henry Frizzell,- chaplain
emeritus of the University, and
came out in favor of Mt. Nittany,
the story stated.
Frizzell, in favoring the change,
listed five reasons for the name
change and yesterday, listed in
the Centre Daily Tirries his own
reasons for changing the name to
Mt. Nittany. His first reason was
that since the University’s name
change, the change of a name for
the Borough has been much in
the public mind.
In his second reason, Frizzell
stated that the Area Chamber of
Commerce has seen fit to put the
issue before the voters and the
Borough Council has approved the
movement. Frizzell went on to
state, that the precedent has been
to change the name of the town
when the school’s name was
changed. He also felt that al
though it was natural for the town
to take its, name from the Uni
versity, the Borough has now
reached a place where it can stand
on its own.
Centennial Publicity
Frizzell’s last reason mentioned
that now is the time far a namC
change before the University’s
centennial which will bring na
tional and international publicity
to the new name. He further stat
ed that he believed Mt. Nittany
was appropriate because it con
forms to criteria which were be
lieved important: It is descrip
tive of the area. It respects senti
ment and long attachment. It is
rich in the sense of history and
folklore. It is a name that will
wear well and will not need fur
ther change.
Most of the opposition, the
Press story said, is from business
men, many of whom todk a sharp
SEASON TICKETS
Now Available for State College
COMHUNBTY FORUM SERIES
Nov. 9 Clifton Fadiman, literary, radio and
TV personality .
Dec. 6 Agnes Moorehead and Robert Gist,
directed by Charles Laughton
Jan. 13 Carlos Romulo, chairman, Philippine
delegation to UN
Feb. 15 James Hepbron, criminalogist and
consultant to Senate Crime Investi
‘ gation Committee
March To be announced
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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 5. T 954
Bus Ad Dean
Will Address
ROTC Tonight
- Ossian R. MacKenzie, dean of
the College of Business Adminis
tration and a major in the Marine
Corps, will address the guests at
the Reserve Officers Training
Corps dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday at the State College
Hotel. '■
Col. George K. Schubert of
Philadelphia, a member of the
ROTC committee - of' the State
Headquarters • of the Reserve Of
ficers Association, will speak also.
Colonel Schubert is a 1942 grad
uate of the University.
Guests at the dinner will in
clude Col. Lucien E. Bolduc, Capt.
Rowland H. Groff, and Col. Daniel
F. Riva, the heads of the Army,
Navy, and Air ROTC programs.
Students who hold reserve com
missions and desire to attend the
meeting may make reservations
with Maj. James F. Keim, of State
College.
PS Club Will Meet
Penn .State Club will meet at
7 tonight in 411 Old Main. Inde
pendent men interested in join
ing the club may attend.
loss when the school’s name was
changed without warning. A
change in the borough’harne, they
argued, would do the same thing
to them again, with stocks of sou
venirs, high school clothing, and
other things.
More than a score of firms with
the. town’s name as part of their
own would be put to trouble and
expense of changing their incorp
oration.
Perhaps the s most, determined
opponent of the name change, ac
cording to the Press article, is
George Graham, 82, founder of
“Graham’s.” He, stated that “There
was no need to change the name
of the school and we - certainly
don’t want to change the name: of
the town.”
The third group which doesn’t
oppose a name change has sug
gested several alternate names.
Such titles as Centre Hills, Key
stone and Univer City have been
brought up. .