Today's Weather— Cloudy and Cooler VOL. 55, No. 42 Lion Party Dominat Aws Elections RAE DELLEDONNE, State party clique chairman, and Gordon Pogal, Lion party clique chairman, shake hands after polls close in yesterday's freshman and sophomore class elections. The Lion party won four of the six offices, but Arthur Schravesande, State party candidate, took the freshman class presidency by eight votes. Lions weep oph Slate; State Gets 2 Frosh Posts The Lion Party yesterday won four out of six offices in the freshman and sophomore class elections. Lion Party swept the sophomore elections, and won the secretary-treas urer post in the freshman class. State Party won the presidency and vice presidency of the freshman class. In freshman elections, approximately 42 per cent turned out to vote. Only 24 per cent of the sophomores went to the polls. Soph Class By ANN LEH With less than one-quarter • of the sophomore class turning out to vote, the Lion Party swept its three sophomore, candidates into office yesterday. Samuel Wolcott tallied the high est margin in the c 1 a s s, defeating State Party can- didate Clinton Law for the class presidency 447 votes to 251. Wol cott received 64.1 per cent of the presidential vote compared to Law's 35.9 per cent. The closest sophomore race was that for vice president in which Lion candidate Theodore Simon won out over George Haines by 96 votes. Simon received 396 votes or 56.9 per cent while Haines tal lied 300 votes or 43.1 per cent. Martha Fleming won the race for sophomore secretary-treasurer over. State candidate Kaye Buter baugh, 422 votes to 273. Miss Flem ing received 60.7 per cent of the ballots compared to 39.3 per cent for Miss Buterbaugh. There were 698 votes cast for the presidency, or a total of 24.8 of the 2818 sophomores eligible to vote. Six hundred and ninety six voted in the vice presidential contest and 695 cast ballots for secretary-treasurer. For the third consecutive year the percentage of sophomores voting dropped. In the fall of 1952, (Continued on page eight) . . . ~.....- . ...4.. . 10, i ..r.i at iii...„.,- 1 .•-.., ;: ::),.1 of ti .1855# State Party broke Lion Party's three year dominance of freshman class elections yesterday when Ar thur Schravesande won the presi dency by eight votes and John :°;-:..._, Spangler took the vice presidency. • Barbara Kin nier of the Lion . 4. • . • ' • Party was elect-; _s• secretary-trea- surer. • Of the 29521 ••••• freshmen eligible • to vote, 41.9 per • cent cast their' ' ballots. This was a 6.9 per cent in- • crease over last Arthur Schravesande year's freshrrian voting. Samuel Wolcott Schravesande received 623 votes defeating Lion candidate Richard Moon who received 615 votes. The winner received 50.3 per cent of the 1238 total votes cast for the presidency to Moon's 49.7 per cent. State candidate Spangler re ceived 55.3 per cent of the 1232 votes cast for the vice presidency or a total of 681 votes to defeat George Wills. Wills received 551 votes or 44.7 per cent. In the secretary-treasurer race, Miss Kinnier _ won easily over Gail Smith, receiving 737 votes or 59.6 per cent of the 1235 total ballots cast. Miss Smith received 498 votes or 40.4 per cent of the total cast for the position. Last year, the parties' positions were reversed with Lion Party winning the top two freshman po-1 sitions and State Party taking the (Continued o4r;a page. eight) STATE COLLEGE. PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1954 —Photo by Gill Frosh Results By PHYLLIS PROPERT FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Sinclair, Arnelle Argue Constitutional Committee; Cabinet Tempers Flare Tempers flared last night on the floor of All-University Cabinet, as Jesse Arnelle, All-University president, appointed a committee to revise the All-University constitution. The conflict came near the close of the meeting when Benjamin Sinclair, president of the Board of Dramatics and Forensics, rose to question the appointments made by Arnelle. Appointed to the committee were John Speer, All-UniverSity vice president; George Kulynych, president of the Engineering and Architecture Student Council; Pa tricia Ellis, president of the Wo men's Student Government Asso ciation; Dean of Men Frank J. Simes; Robert Denni, president Independent Men; the Association of Men; and Thomas Kidd, Cabinet parlimentarian. Personal Privilege After the appointments were announced, Sinclair rose to a point of personal privilege. "You thought I was going . to blast Lion's Paw tonight, but I'll be nice and I won't. We'll just wait and see how this committee works out, but I have a feeling Lion's Paw will dominate the committee," he said. He accused Arnelle of "not hav ing the guts" to put him on the committee. 'Attack Unjustified' Arnelle then burst out at Sin clair: "I feel your attack is un justified, since I have the sole power to make committee appoint ments." The controversy arose over six amendments which Sinclair pre sented to Cabinet earlier in the evening. Sinclair added them to the agenda after the start of the meet ing. When he brought them up, Speer, who was in the chair for most of the meeting, asked him if since the Constitutional Revi sions Committee was to be ap pointed would he not accept a seat on that committee and bring up his amendments in that com mittee. Sinclair Disagreed Sinclair said he would not, be cause he felt the amendments should be presented to cabinet in order that Cabinet know what needed- to be amended. The chair yielded and Sinclair presented his amendments. It was then moved and passed that they be referred to the Constitutional Revisions Committee. Sinclair said later he felt Lion's Paw could very easily railroad changes it favored into the con stitution. Three of the five mem bers appointed Dennis, Speer, and Kidd—are Lion's Paw mem bers. Changes Are Needed Sinclair said the reason he in sisted on presenting his amend ments to Cabinet last night was SD Cabinet as a whole could see where changes were needed. "It's easy for a committee to railroad changes through anyway they see fit," Sinclair said. In all, Sinclair presented seven amendments to the constitution. Of these, only two involved actual (Continued on page eight) Pep Rally Tonight To Honor Seniors A pre-game pep rally honoring seniors of the football team will start at 8 tonight in front of Rec reation Hall. Some senior football players and one or two coaches are expected to speak. Michael Rosenfeld, fifth semes ter arts and letters major, will emcee. A motorcade will start at 7:30 tonight in front of Hee Hall. The rally is sponsored by Scrolls, senior women's hat society, and Skull - and Bones, senior men's hat society. By DON SHOEMAKER Pogal Drops Charge Against State Party ' By DOTTIE STONE Gordon Pogal, Lion Party clique chairman, last night withdrew his complaint before the All-Univer sity Elections Committee that State Party had violated the All- University Elections Code by "mud-slinging" in its platform supplement. Neither Lion nor State parties were fined votes in yesterday's elections. Pogal withdrew his charges about the supplement and State Party officials did not pre sent any charges against the Lion Party. The supplement explained the State Party planks and had a sam ple ballot with the names "State" and "Lyin' " written on it. "The word `Lyin' on the hand bill was direct slander to my par ty," Pogal said. "I consider this pure 'mud-slinging' and a dis credit to the intelligence of the voters." Pogal told the elections com mittee he did not want any votes taken from State Party candi dates, but. that he wanted some tangible solution on the matter of publicity. Pogal withdrew his complaint when several elebtions committee members agreed to discuss the matter at the next committee meeting. He asked that both party clique chairmen be allowed to at tend the meeting. Atom Pact Sil,,nect;' Sent to Con!,ress WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (IP)—The 500 million dollar Dixon- Yates power contract, center of a boiling political row, was signed today with a last minute change to hold down profits. But the bitter controversy over the deal continued: It still is uncertain when the contract actually will go into effect and when construction can start on a big new private power plant across the Mississippi River from Mem phis, Tenn. Many Democrats in Congress still hope to torpedo the whole idea. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D -NM) declared: "The fat is now in the fire." • The contract is between the Atomic Energy Commission and the Mississippi Valley Generating Co., which is sponsored by E. H. Dixon's Middle South Utilities, Inc., and E. A. Yates' Southern Co. It calls for building a 107 mil lion dollar power generating plant -at West Memphis, Ark., to supply power for the Tennessee Valley Authority in replacement of en ergy TVA now provides for atomic plants. Backers say the contract, which President Eisenhower directed the AEC to negotiate, is an efficient, economical way of assuring that TVA's future needs for power for its customers will be met. Its ene r•giatt Food Service See Page 4 Parties Divide Cabinet Seats; Voting Is Light By MIKE MILLER Lion Party swept the sopho more class offices but lost two out of three freshman offices to State Party to give each party one seat on All-Univer sity Cabinet in yesterday's elections for freshman and soph omore class officers. For the second straight year more freshmen voted than did sophomores. The voting was light, however. Of the 2952 eligible freshmen, 1238 cast their ballots, a percen tage of 41.9. This represented an increase of 6.9 per cent over last year. Only 698 sophomores of 2818 eligible voted, • a percentage of 24.7 per cent. The class vote dropped 8 per cent off last year's totals. Five of the six visitors were elected by sizable margins. In Election Summary SOPHOMO3E CLASS President Votes Mar. Pct. Samuel Wolcott (L) 447 196. 64 Clinton Law (5) 251 ___ 36 Vice President Theodore Simon (L) 396 96 56.9 George Haines (S) 300 ___ 43.1 Secretary-Treasurer . Martha Fleming (L) 422 149 60.9 Kaye puterbaugh (S) 273 ___ :39.1 FRESHMAN CLASS President Arthur Schravesande (S) 623 8 50.3 Richard Moon (L) 615 -__ 49.7 Vice PreSident John Spangler (S) 681 130 55.3 George Wills (L) 551 ___ 44.7 Secretary-Treasurer Barbira Kinnier (L) 737 239 59.6 Gail Smith (S) 498 ___ 40.4 the day's closest race, Arthur Schravesande, State, won the freshman class presidency over Richard Moon, Lion, by eight votes, 623 to 615. The vote was recounted twice by the All-University Elections Committee at the request of Gor don Pogal, Lion Party clique chairman. Ballots were overlooked on the first recount thus necessitating the second. (Continued on page eight) mies contend the contract is a first step toward destroying TVA by means of a private utility com pany they say will take no finan cial risks under the contract. • Both the government and Dixon- Yates agreed on an eleventh-hour change in the contract that will put a $600,000 a year ceiling on Dixon-Yates earnings. AEC said Dixon-Yates said in a joint statement • that they offered to build the plant on suggestion of the President that a private utility take over part of TVA power com mitments to AEC, that they didn't take the initiative, and that "the possible earnings are too small to make it attractive as a usual business venture." The commission said in a state ment of its own that the profits ceiling was - one of several modifi cations benefitting the govern ment. The signing of the contract opened the way for the Senate- House Atomic Energy Committee to vote on a speed-up proposal. FIVE CENTS
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