pme two
Union Members
Vote for Split
Two unions may represent service employees at the University
in tbe near future.
'the split came over the weekend, as some members of Local 67
State, County, arid Municipal Employees union voted to sever rela
tions with the present national and affiliate with another organization.
The present local is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
Kenneth Dixon, former presi
dent of the established union and
head of the grout which broke
away, said last night the split
came because of dissatisfaction
with the service provided by the
national.
Dixon said the national had not
given the local support in demands
it presented to the University. He
added that the national some time
ago had raised dues 25 cents c a
month to provide for a district
representative in this area, but
that no one had been obtained.
Meanwhile, he said, union mem
bers are still paying the increase
in dues.
Plans Studied
For Program
With Greece
Plans for a joint program in the
field of public administration be
tween the University and one of
die Greek institutions of higher
learning are being studied.
* Harold F. Alderfer, professor
of political science and executive
director of the Institute of Local
Government, visited Greek col
leges and universities this sum
mer to study the possibilities of
a “sister institution” relationship.
Alderfer in 1950 was given a
two-year assignment as local civil
government specialist with the
job of reorganizing the local tax
striicture and'government of the
country. Recently he was informed
by the American Mission in
Greece that the Parliament of the
country had passed the municipal
code on which he worked during
this time.
This action replaces the Euro
pean-type centralized government
with an American type of local
government, and makes possible
increased self-government, home
rule, and independence for local
officers.
Earlier, a new revenue law on
which Alderfer worked was es
tablished.
Ml Colloquium
Hears Osborn
Elbert F. Osborn, dean of the
Mineral Industries College, was
guest speaker at the first Min
eral Industries Colloquium Fri
day.
The College-wide Colloquim,
which has just been organized,
-will meet at 4:30 p.m. every other
Friday in the MI Auditorium. The
meeting will be preceded by a
tea at 4:10 p.m. in the lobby ad
jacent to the auditorium.
Speakers will be drawn from
within the MI College, from other
colleges of the University, and
from off campus.
The purpose of the Colloquim
will be to develop interest in
branches of science and technol
ogy related to the activities of the
MI College, to bring together dif
ferent departments of the Col
lege to discuss work of common
interest, to provide a platform for
distinguished outside speakers,
and to provide a means by which
members of the College get to
know about the developments
and problems in other sections of
the College.
January Graduates
May Order Gowns
Seniors graduating in January
who will be student teaching the
second eight weeks of this se
mester may order caps and gowns
today through Saturday at the
Athletic Store.
Deposit for the caps and gowns
is $5. Announcements and invita
tions may be ordered at ten cents
each through Saturday at the Stu
dent Union Desk in Old Main.
HOME DELIVERY
PIZZA
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Meeting Votes Split . ■
“We had a meeting attended by
about 300 members last week and
only three persons at that meet
ing dissented when we voted on
the motion to disaffiliate,” Dixon
said. *
Apparently, however, the split
was not uanimous. Dixon indi
cated last night that some union
members preferred to remain
with the established union. No
figures were available on the
exact break.
Applied for Charier
Dixon said- the members who
broke - away have applied for a
charter to Building Service Em
ployees International of the AFL.
“All we are waiting for is a char
ter,” he said.
The new union will hold a
charter meeting Friday in 121
Sparks.
Dixon said the group will con
tinue work to come to an agree
(Continued on page eight)
Congressional
For Democrat
Ruth C. Silva, assistant profes
sor of political science, used her
“coattail-roll-call” formula to pre
dict a Democratic Congressional
victory this November.
In Sunday’s New York Times
Magazine, Miss Silva applies this
formula to show that the Demo
crats will win at least 218 seats
(a majority in the House of Rep
resentatives) and may capture as
many as 251 on Nov. 2.”
Miss Silva uses marginal dis
tricts as the basis for her calcu
lations. A marginal district is one
in. which, during the previous
election, the winning candidate
captured less than 55.1 per cent
of the total votes.
The application of the formula
takes into consideration four fac
tors: the popular vote in 1952,
voting habits of the district, the
“coattail” factor and the congress
man’s party regularity on roll call
votes.
In elaborating on the first fac
tor, Miss Silva explained that a
congressman who, in 1952, won
60 per cent of the votes has rea
son. to feel secure.
“An analysis of the seats lost
in the last seven elections indi
cates that the chances are less
than two in 100 that he will lose
his seat on Nov. 2,” she wrote.
However, she continued, a con
gressman who won by polling less
than 55. F cent of the vote has
only one chance in three of being
reelected. Those who won from
55.1 to 59.9 per cent of the votes,
have a chance of about 13 out of
100 of being defeated, she said.
fHE DAILY' COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
'Feel Secure'
35 Display
Riding Skill
In Ist Show
Approximately thirty-five mem
bers of the Penn State Riding
Club took part in the first of a
series of “little” horse shows
Sunday afternoon at the Univer
sity riding stables.
Henry Woolman, seventh se
mester agriculture major, was
show manager. Dr. Charles G.
Stewart of State College served
as show judge for the advanced
horsemanship, advanced horse
manship over jumps, and open
jumping classes. Advanced riders
judged the novice and interme
diate horsemanship classes.
Results of the first “little” horse
show were:
Novice horsemanship: Harriet
Doolittle, first; Polly Fowler, sec
ond; Katherine Kellogg, third;
Thomas Mallog, fourth.
Novice horsemanship over
jumps:- Jane Bernreuter, first;
Anne Bramble, second; William
Mcßride, third.
Intermediate horse manship:
Miss Bramble, first; Miss Bern
reuter, second; William Genetti,
third; Mcßride, fourth.
Advanced horsemanship: Jo
anhe Bedenk, first; Patricia Gil
bert, second; Bernard Gerber,
third; Henry Woolman, fourth.
Open jumping, Miss Gilbert,
first; Miss Bedenk, second; Ger
ber. third; Woolman, fourth.
Advanced horsemanship over
jumps: Miss Bedenk, first; Ger
aldine Aquist, second; Miss Gil
bert, third; Gerber, fourth.
Photographers to Meet
The Daily Collegian photogra
phy staff will meet at 7:30 tonight
in the darkroom in the basement
of Carnegie Hall. 1
Victory Predicted
Party by Silva
In discussing the importance of
a district’s voting . habits, Miss
Silva said, “Rarely does a seat
shift from one party to another
after being held by the same
party in five consecutive congres
sional elections.”
[ 60 Seats
She elaborated by saying that
from 60 to 100 seats are not even
contested at the general elections.
A really unsure seat she said, is
one which has been won by one
party twice and by the other
party three times in the past ten
years.
The coattail factor pertains to
those congressmen whose total
vote in 1952 was less than 5 per
cent more'than that of his presi
dential running mate.
“The reason that the party-in
power usually loses seats at mid
term is that a certain number of
congressmen who slid into office
on the victorious President’s coat
tails are defeated when there are
no Presidential coattails,” she ex
plained.
She added that if the Republi
can candidate in 1952 had been
less popular, although victorious,
he probably would have been sad-
"NAKED ALIBI"
Sterling Hayden
Gloria Grahame
"7 DEADLY SINS"
in French and Italian
English Subtitles
WD Council io Hold
Elections Tomorrow
Elections for three key posts
conducted at 7 p.rn. tomorrow in
members are eligible for the thr«
and secretary.
Nominees for two of the offi
meeting Monday night.
Two council members nomi
nated for vice president were Ed
ward Ericksoli, first semester in
dustrial engineering major, and
Richard Moon, first semester lib
eral arts major. James Anderson,
seventh semester meteorology ma
jor, was nominated for treasurer.
Although the council was un-.
successful' in nominating candi
dates for the secretariat Monday
night, the council will ,act-and
elect a secretary at tomorrow’s
meeting. Nomination for the
treasury post also remains open.
Application forms will be avail
able Monday in 127 Waring Hall
for West Dorm residents to apply
for representative-at-large posts
on the Association of Independent
Meh’s Board of Governors.'' Each
applicant must secure 50 names
for his name to appear on the
election ballot on Nov. 9. Dead
line for handing in applications
is Nov. 1.
Two residents will be elected
to represent the West Dorms at
the AIM meetings.
Council president Stanley Juras,
in reply to a question, said that
nb stand had been taken as yet
to- make the day of the Penn
State-Pennsylvania game a half
holiday.
Juras stressed to the council
that any person responsible for
damage done in the dormitories
would pay fully. If the individual
fails to report the damage resi
dents on the floor would be as
sessed.
Committee appointments in
cluded: Erickson, constitution; An
derson, radio and TV; Frederick
Keck, keys.
died with .a Democratic Congress.
While Miss Silva feels her for
mula is accurate for this election,
she. points out that' it cannot be
safely applied in times of political
crisis, such as in the 1934 election.
In that election, she said, Demo
cratic coattailers of 1932 easily
kept their'seats.
“However,” she said, “1954 is
not likely to be another 1934.”
Miss Silva’s forecast of Demo
cratic prospects for NoV. 2:
Democratic seats in present
Congress: marginal, 46; non-mar
ginal, 167; total, 213.
1954 Prediction (first figure is
the maximum number, the sec
ond is the minimum) sure seats,
167, 167; marginal seats to be
held, 46, 36; marginal seats to be
won, 38, 15; total, 251, 218.
“The voters may still like Ike,”
Miss Silva said, “but they will riot
see his name, at the head of the
Republican column on the ballot
this year.
THE FULL VIEW
nqiary leitzinger
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1954
in thie West Dorm Council will be
McKee Hall' lounge. Only council
;e posts: vice president, treasurer,
ices were named at the council’s
Hunter Names
Five Autumn
Bail Groups
Committee chairmen for the
Autumn Ball were announced
yesterday by Loretta Hunter,
dance co-chairman.
Committee chairmen are Bar
bara Woodward and JoAnn Hof
fer, invitations; /George Maker,
publicity; Curtin Schafer and Carl
Riss, refreshments;, james Ander
son, entertainment; Robert Stur
devant and Marion Mesloh, dec
orations.
Other members of the decora
tions committee are Dorthea Cas
sel, Joan Breskin, Anett'e Holtz,
Constance Bryan, Frances Het
tinger, and Joan S.chingeck.
The dance will be held from
8:30 p.m. to midnight Saturday in
Recreation Hall. The affair will be
semi-formal.
Decorations will include a rep
lica of a Penn State football play
er, larger-than-life size cheer
leaders covering the walls, and a
false ceiling of crepe paper mark
ing the yard lines of a football
field. 1
Tickets, priced at $2 are being
sold at the Student Union desk in
Old Main and will be sold at the
entrance to Rec Hall.
Invitations have been sent
through the West Virginia news
paper to West Virginia students
who will attend the game. Alum
ni are invited also.
Smyfhe Discusses
ROTC With Prexy
Maj. Gen. George W. Smythe,
deputy army commander of the
Second Army, conferred with
President Milton S. Eisenhower
yesterday on matters concerning
the Reserve Officers Training
Corps program.
Smythe arrived at the Univer
sity at 10:30 a.m. and left at 1:30
p.m. Col. Lucien E. Bolduc, pro
fessor of military science and
tactics, also attended the confer
ence. '
ACEB fo Sponsor
'Little Red Shoes'
The Children’s World Theatre
will present "Little Red Shoes,”
based on Hans Christian Ander
son’s famous fairy tale, at 9:30
a.m. and 1:30 p.m. today.
Including a professional chil
dren’s cast, the presentation will
be staged at the State College
High School Auditorium. It will
be sponsored by the Association
of Childhood Education Interna
tional.
136 College Ave,
of a glamorous
skirt fashioned
with yards and
yards of the
softest felt