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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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