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VOL. 55. No. 24
West Virginia Pops
Lion Bubble, If-14
A team of fired-up Mountaineer sharpshooters came out of the
West Virginia Hills Saturday, took careful aim, and scored a direct
hit on that big Penn State football bubble that had been expanding
rapidly for three weeks.
A record 32,221 homecoming
University
Enrollment
Hits 14,271
A total of 14,271 students have
been enrolled on the main cam
pus and at University centers for
the fall semester, C. O. Williams,
dean of admissions and registrar,
announced yesterday.
The enrollment, which includes
12,003 students on the main cam
pus, established a new record for
campus enrollment while the total
of 14,271 also is a new record, ex
cept for the years of 1948 and
1949.
In 1949 the total enrollment was
14,732, but this figure included
1269 freshmen ' enrolled at off
campus points besides centers. In
1949 University freshmen were
< nrolled at state teachers colleges
and other Pennsylvania colleges.
In addition to the main campus
enrollment, 2268 students are at
tending classes at off-campus
centers and at the Mont Alto
branch of the Pennsylvania State
Forest School where 92 freshmen
forestry students, are.registered. •=■
The campus total exceeds last
year’s figure of 11,529 by nearly
500 and exceeds the previous rec
ord for campus enrollment which
was 11,553 in 1951.
Included in the campus total
are 8946 men and 3057 women stu
dents. Another breakdown of
campus population is 10,877 full
time students and 1126 part-time
students.-There are also 1334 grad
ulate students and 247 special stu
dents.
Tlw off-campus total of 2268
students includes 1939 men and
329 women students.
10,000 Attend Horf Show
The 41st annual Hort Show,
held Saturday and Sunday in the
Stock Judging Pavilion, had more
than expected attendance in spite
of Hurricane Hazel. Attendance
surpassed the previous record of
10,000 visitors.
Athletics to Stay
In Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 (JP) —-The Philadelphia Athletics, start
ing a- new era under syndicate control after 54 years of rule by. the
Connie Mack family, played a waiting game tonight, with little to do
but accept congratulations.
The old owners asked the American League for approval of the
new owners and until the league acts, there’s nothing for both sides
to do but sit back—and iron out
a thousand and one details.
Among the felicitations were
telephone calls from Arnold
Johnson, the Chicago business
man, who' sought to buy the fran
tchise and transfer it to Kansas
City.
“I’ve talked with Roy and Earle
Mack and extended my best wish
es,” Johnson said. “But,” he con
tinued, ‘Tm still puzzled about
the whole thing.”
His state of mind was under
standable. Until late yesterday,
the 47-year-old Chicagoan ap
peared a shoo-in to be the next
owner of the club. He had of
fered close to $3,375,000 to take
over the franchise, its debt's and
assets and to move it to Kansas
City. He had received American
jLeague approval last Tuesday to
buy the club.
Wien, in fcusc doys a syndicate
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By dick McDowell
fans saw the Mountaineers come
from behind with two fourth
quarter touchdowns to stun the
Lions, 19-14, snapping a six-game
winning streak that began last
season after the same West Vir
ginia team beat them, 20-19.
Basically, the Nittanies were
beaten by the same weapons they
had used so effectively against
Illinois, Syracuse, and Virginia—
a big, strong line and the split-T
optional series.
Seven Play 60 Minutes
Six of Coach Art Lewis' start
ing linemen and his quarterback,
Freddie Wyant, played the entire
60 minutes Saturday and it was
these seven who meant the dif
ference.
Wyant, operating the West Vir
ginia offense for the third year,
scored twice, and initiated the
third touchdown oh the option
play.
And he had lots of working
room behind a protective 210-
pound line that opened holes of
fensively and rushed Lion Quar
terback Don Bailey everytime he
attempted to pass.
The Mountaineers, with two
previous wins on their 1954 rec
ord, had command of the game
in every phase but the second
quarter when the Lions ex
ploded for two touchdowns after,
falling" behind)' 6-0 in the first
frame.
By dividing the game into
halves, however, you get a much
clearer picture. The Mountain
eers completely dominated play
in the second half. They were an
inspired team, coming from be
hind* in a burst of power that
bettered coach Rip Engle’s Lions
both" on the ground and in the
air..
The Lions were able to move
the ball past the 50-yard line
only once during the second half
of the contest. That was on. a pass
play late in the fourth quarter
that fizzled on a fumble—one
of four that hurt the Nittanies
in crucial moments throughout
the entire game.
In fact, only five plays were
run from scrimmage in West Vir
ginia. territory during the third
and fourth periods.
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was formed and it accomplished
something that had not been done
in four months. It bought 91-year
old Connie Mack’s 302 shares for
$604,000, Earle Mack, retiring
general manager and executive
vice president, was paid $450,000
for his 163 shares. Roy Mack was
paid $200,000 and reinvested
$250,000 in the new organization.
He also received a one-year con
tract as an executive with the
club at $25,000 a year.
Roy said today he had sent a
telegram to American League
president Will Harridge, asking
for league approval of the new
owners.
In Chicago, Will Harridge, pres
ident of the American League,
said: “The American League will
have no statement until 1 final
papers have been drawn for the
purchase of the Philadelphia Ath
letics’ stock.”
STATE COLLEGE. PA., TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19. 1954
Had Won Two
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Committee
Elections
The elections for class clique officers in the State and Lion parties Sunday night were
declared 'illegal by the elections committee in conjunction with the party clique chairmen.
The elections were._protested by Richard Favro, president of the Business Student
Council.
Favro said he disputed the election because he saw ballots being reproduced in the
Lion Party meeting and extra ballots being made.
State Party elections were also declared illegal after votes were turned in written on
the back of examinations.
Gordon Pogal, Lion Party clique chairman, said he thought the stuffing of the ballot
boxes was “rotten to the core.”
. The ballots distributed by the
cliques were not uniform in size
and the rooms in which the elec
tions were held were overflowing.
Approximately 450 students at
tended the State Party meeting
and about 550 were at the Lion
Party meeting.
The lack of uniformity in the
size of the ballots and the crowded
conditions made it very easy to
duplicate the ballot.
Donald Switzer, a member of
elections committee, concurred
with Favro in stating there were
discrepancies in the balloting. He
said he saw students duplicating
ballots at the State Party meet
ing.
Lion Party
Nominates
8 Candidates
Five men were nominated for
sophomore class president and
three for freshman class president
at the Lion Party meeting Sun
day.
The nominations were made af
ter the discrepancies in the voting
for clique officers was discovered.
Attendance at that time had dwin
dled from about 500 to approxi
mately 75.
The nominees for sophomore
class president are Robert Gell
man, John Kirsh, Augustus Mer
curio, Adolph Seidensticker, and
Samuel Wolcott.
The freshman nominees for
president John Robb, Robert
Shannon, and George Wills. Mar
tha Fleming and Anna Hoffman
were nominated for sophomore
class secretary-treasurer.
These nominations are not final.
The final nominations and elec
tion of freshman and sophomore
candidates will be made Sunday.
There were no nominations for
freshman class.vice-president and
secretary-treasurer and sopho
more class vice-president.
Eight of Sunday’s elections for
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Auto Accident
Injures Four
Pour- University students were
injured in an accident near Pine
Grove Mills Sunday afternoon.
The car, driven by Charles F. Di-
Roeco, third semester student in
the Division of Intermediate Reg
istration, failed to make a curve
and hit a bridge. Damage to the
car was $l5OO.
Dißocco, James B. Dino, first
semester business administration
major, and Raymond Hamaker,
fifth semester electrical engineer
ing major, were admitted to Cen
tre County Hospital at Bellefonte.
The fourth student, Norman R.
Kinsman, a petroleum engineer
ing freshman, - was treated for
bruises of the left leg at Pollpck
Dorm Pour where the four men
live.
Dißocco was hospitalized by a
dislocated 'left hip, a possible
fracture of the skull . and jaw,
multiple lacerations of the head
and shock.
Fractures of the left leg, and
right knee, and cuts of the face
were incurred by. Dino, while Ma
maker received a fracture of the
left leg-and multiple cuts.
The hospital reported the con
ditions of the three as satisfactory.
West Virginia Movies
To Be Shown Tonight
Movies of Saturday’s Penn
State-West Virginia football
game will be shown at 7:30 to
night in Schwab Auditorium.
Assistant Coach Sever Torelti
will narrate the film, which
will be sponsored by the Col
lege of Physical Education and
Athletics and by Androcles Hat
Society.
?gtatt
The elections committee met
last night and decided that next
week’s ballots- will be printed on
a uniform ball and numbered.
Students will be admitted to
the meeting Sunday only if they
bring ’ their matriculation cards
and have already signed the clique
membership lists.
Ballots will be distributed at
the entrance. The ballots for the
class clique officers will be printed
and the.names of the candidates
will appear on it. Nominations
have been closed for these posi
tions.
The ballots for. the freshman
and sophomore class candidates
will be numbered and blank be
cause nominations are still open.
In the voting for the class can
didates a plurality vote for the
first round will be used. The two
candidates receiving the most
amount of votes will then be voted
on again and the candidate re
ceiving the majority on the sec
ond ballot will receive the nomi
nation.
Pogal and Rae DelleDonne,
State Party clique chairman, also
agreed last night that the candi
dates for sophomore class vice
chairman must be an independent.
This has been-customary in the
past but is not stipulated in the
elections code.
IFC Workshops
To Meet Tonight
Interfraternity Council workshops will begin at 5:45 tonight with
exchange dinners in fraternity houses followed by workshop meet
ings, John McMeekin, workshop publicity chairman, has announced.
The workshops will be held at the fraternity houses of group
discussion leaders, McMeekin said. House officers should attend
the meeting which corresponds to their office, he stated.
Wednesday evening has been
left open for further discussion if
so desired by the groups, Mc-
Meekin said.
The workshop banquet will be
held at 5:45 p.m. Thursday in the
Nittany Lion. Inn, Robert McMil
lan, banquet chairman, said.
Speaker at the banquet will be
Dr. Fred Turner, dean of students
at the University of Illinois. Brief
reports will be given by discus
sion leaders. Two representatives
from each fraternity house are
to attend.
Fraternities are asked to pay
the cost of the banquet, $5 for each
house, to Allan Sehneirov, IFC
treasurer, McMillan said.
The workshop meetings, leaders
and location are: president’s
group, Earl Seely, chairman, at
Tau Kappa Epsilon; rushing
Vernon Sones, chair
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Rejects
Cliques
State Party
NomsnateslT
For Offices
Seventeen candidates for fresh
man and sophomore class officers
were nominated by State Party at
it - meeting Sunday night.
The nominations were made
with only a fraction of the orig
inal crowd still present.
When the meeting was called to
order, over 400 students were
jammed into 10 Sparks. However,
by the time nominations for the
class offices were made, no more
than 100 remained.
Sophomore class nominees in
cluded president: Joseph Enyedy
and Thomas Law; vice president:
John Heinze; and secretary-treas
urer: Suzanne-Scholl, Jane Wick
izer, Kaye Buterbaugh and Jo
Anne Fulton.
There was some question over
the legality of Heinze’s nomina
tion. however, no decision was
reached. Rae DelleDonne, State
Party clique chairman, questioned
whether he was independent or
fraternity. When it was deter
mined he was a fraternity man,
Miss DelleDonne called the nom
ination out of order.
She said that by past precedent,
it had been established that the
president of the sophomore class
should be a fraternity man and
the vice president independent.,
The person who nominated
Heinze appealed the decision to
Ernest Famous, chairman of the
elections committee, on grounds
that the elections code contained
no specific provision. While Fa
mous was being summoned, Rich
ard Favro, business council pres
ident, interrupted the meeting to
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man, at Acacia; social chairmen,
Joseph Barnet, chairman, at Phi
Delta Theta.
Scholastic chairmen, Robert
Cubinson, chairman, at Sigma Pi;
public relations chairmen, Carl
Sapterstein, chairman, at Sigma
Alpha Mu; treasurers, William
Reed, chairman,-at Theta Chi.
Alumni relations chairmen,
Thomas Brasher, chairman, at Phi
Kappa Sigma; pledge masters,
Alec Beliasov, chairman, at Phi
Kappa Psi; and house managers,
Jack Beiler, chairman, at Alpha
Tau Omega.
A workshop booklet, contain
ing the reports and recommenda
tions of each group, will be com
piled when the discussions are
completed. The booklets will be
distributed to each fraternity
house.
Football
Holiday
FIVE CENTS