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VOL. 55, No. 54
Trustees to Ask for Sub-Station
Early Figuig es
Chest Drive -- Short
Approximately $3OOO was collected during the three-day Campus
Chest campaign, John Brunner, tabulations chairnian, said last
night. Although this marks- the official -close of the drive, Brunner
said, money will be received at the Student Union desk in Old
Main from 8 to 12 a.m. today and from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Monday:
The' goal set for this year was
$7250.' At the close of the three
day drive last year the total am
ount collected was $2OOO.
Lenker Wins
Design Prize
In Yule Contest
First prize for the Pi Gamma
Alpha "Yule design contest was
awarded to Donald Lenker, ninth
semester architecture major.
The winning design is a large
billboard decorated with poinset
tias and bearing th e message
"Season's Greetings." Members
of Pi Gamma Alpha will begin
construction of the Christmas dis
pia: in front of Old Main today.
Two awards for a 'second place
tie were given to George Davis,
ninth semester architecture ma
jor, and Arthur Anderson, seventh
semester ;architecture major. Oth
er entrants in the contest were
Martha Darlington, ninth semes
ter architecture major; William
Pete, seventh semester journal
ism major; and Warren Gran, sev
enth semester architecture major.
Judges were Charles Schlow,
owner of Schlow'S Quality Shop;
William Keeler, of Keeler's Book
Store; Mrs. Cuthbert Salmon, as
sociate professor of housing and
home art; Cuthbert Salmon, asso
ciate professor of architecture;
and Walter Hill, instructor of
architecture.
Pi Gamma Alpha has initiated
13 members. •
New members include• Janet
Anderson, Rosemarie • DiMinno,
Anne Hosfeld, Christine Kauff
man, Marion Mesloh, Pa t Mc-
Lauchlin, Nancy Shafer, NanCy
Shiffler, Elizabeth Tipton,' James
Ellis, George Saire, Neal Spatz,
and Mark Wallace.
AA. Books Necessary
Students must present athletic
books to be admitted into to-.
night's Penn State-Dickinson
basketball game in Recreation
Hall. Townspeople may purchase
tickets at game time.
Pope's Health improves;
Night Bulletin .Cainieleid...
VATICAN CITY, Dec.. 3 (W)—Pope Pius XII rallied slightly to
day, comforted by word that millions around the world were praying
for his recovery. Anxiety for , his life was underlined by the scope
of his ailments, and the pontiff remained in grave danger.
Plans for a formal night time medical bulletin from the Vatican
were canceled, and a Vatican
spokesman said that could be
"interpreted as a
good sign"
It was the s 4
and night,. 5i7
the 78 - year
pontiff's i 11 ni
took a turn
the worse._
aggravated sto,
ach condition h.;
pr e vented hi
from taking ai
food by mout
since Sunday,
and his frail body
has been wracked Pope Pi■s xn
by sporadic attacks of hiecnping
and nausea.
The stricken pontiff summoned
to the his rriahokatiSr . hed
iu the---Vatioaia .I:32llace-the _men
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By JACKIE HUDGINS
Persons posing as chest solici
tors were reported last night
to have collected money from
students living in town, Smith
said. He cautioned students not
to give chest money to anyone
unless the solicitor presented
an individual IBM card.
The Association of Independ
ent Men is leading the group
contributors with $1172. Leonides,
association of independent wom
en, is second with $524. Panhel
lenic Council follows with $439,
while Interfraternity Council,
with only 12 groups reporting, is
last with $350.
KAT Leads Sororities
Kappa Alpha Theta is still lead
ing in sorority contributions with
100 per cent and $7O, and Kappa
Delta Rho is leading fraternity
contributions with 100 per cent
and $73.
At the end of the official three
day drive last year the Panhel
lenic Council was awarded the
participation trophy.' The council
had 58.6 per cent participation
with $595.69. IFC was second with ,
52 per cent and $1003.39. Leonides
was third with 48 per cent. and
$1158.26 and AIM was last with
28.7 per cent and $2009.54.
Kappa Alpha Theta was the
leading sorority with 100 per cent
participation and $B7. •
Phi Delt Led Last Year '
Phi Delta Theta was' the lead
ing fraternity with 100 per cent
of its members contributing $55.
Only 36 of the 52 fraternities
contributed to the drive and 19
of the 22 sororities participated
last year.
Early tabulations on the first
day of campaigning showed a
$270 collection, but the final total
for the day was about. $4OO. At
the end of the second day
,almost
$lOOO had been collected.
John Robinson, solicitations
chairman, said town solicitors
would be granted an official ex-
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who have been closest to him in
administering the affairs of the
world's 425 million Roman Cath
olics for whom he is the spiritual
leader. • .
Throughout Rome-z-the Pope is
its bishop—Roman - Cathalics. re
cited the prayer for the sick in
place of the usual prayer - "pro
Papa"—for the Pope--in the Mass.-
and other services. Clemente
Cardinal Micara, • vicar general of
Rome, announced there was
"grave reason" for the faithful to
do this.
'Embassies and legations ac
credited to the Vatican from more
than 40 nations were' in -~constant
touch. The personnel . of all- em
bassies and legations to the Vati
can - will observe a speCial Mass
in Rome's Basilica of 'St. Mary
Maier:. Sunda*. '
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1954
A Schoolteacher Struggles
FEATURED. IN "The Corn is Green" are,
Carrol, Betsy. Jones, Betty Rice, Belsylv•
By EDMUND REISS
Warmth and humor combined last night to give powerful drama
as Players presented its production of Emlyn Williams' "The Corn
Is Green" at Center Stage in the TUB.
A play which has all the rqual.
Is Green" received such a fine hai
ties were brought out to the full
est degree possible.
It is a rare occurrence to find
a shOw which would appeal to
almost any type of person, but
this play, a view of life in a Welsh
mining town, with its generally
superb cast, has something to of
fer far beyond the usual run of
plays either comical or tragical.
It uses neither sparkling wit nor
deep sentimentality to keep the
story alive; rather the plot is so
amazingly simple that one cannot
help wondering how his interest
could have been kept so intently
for almost three hours.
It is possible to feel that too
much coincidence was present, as
the events in the story did
seem to follow in an almost too
patterned manner, - but the deep
pathos of a village schoolteach
er's struggle to raise a boy from
the mines to Oxford was so pow
erful as.to make the objection in
significant.
It -is practically impossible to
describe Elizabeth Ives' perform
ance as the schoolteacher or Ed
win Grove's as boy. Each can
be called superb, magnificent, ex
cellent, but none of these criarac
teristics are enough to fully pic
ture the fine jobs done by these
two leading characters.
Still, it cannot be said that these
two carried. the whole show (al
though they probably would have
if need had been) for their sup
port froth the other members of
the cast could not - have been bet
ter, and it is indeed rare that
such all-star cast could appear in
one show.
Betsy Jones could not have been
better as the budding tramp who
almost blocked -the :way of the
boy's rise • from poverty and ig
norance. She :strutted around the
stage like a playful imp, but when
seriousness was required, she
derrionstrated" that she could do
that with equal facility.
Jim Carroll, playing the school
teacher's helper, a man who had
nothing to feel proud about ex
cept.. that he., was saved, looked
and acted as if he had been
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Review
Players Present
'Corn Is Green'
4tut,
from left to right, Jim
, es, and Jean Risler.
ties of human feeling, "The Corn
cluing by Players that these quail-
Dog's . Life .'Ruff'
Stray Hound Says
The Daily. Collegian staff led
a dog's life for a few minutes
last night, when James Clokey,
first semester physics major.
came into the office leading a
beagle puppy.
He repor*ed that someone
had left the dog wandering in
McKee Hall. The dog's license
number, is 339, Cranbury, N.J.
" The owner may • claim the
dog by calling Clokey, at exten
sion 963.
The dog refused to comment,
except to, say, "It's ruff."
e gin :Survey
itf Cdin.,,t_us. Tothoii.froW
Two national * officers of the National Student Association. will
visit campus tomorrow and Monday to speak to students and to
survey the campus with an eke to holding the national NSA con
gress here next summer.
K. Wallace Longstreet, national vice president, and • Janice
Cooper, national executive secre
tary,
will speak to All-University -
Cabinet at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at
the Phi Gamma Delta House,
West campus. Other interested
students may attend, according to
Helen Sidman, . acting NSA co
ordinator.
The •invitation to Longstreet
was• originally .extended because
it was felt a national officer might
be able to give •campus leaders
a better understanding and ap
preciation of the functions of
NSA.
In a letter which confirmed
his, coming this weekend, Long
street told Miss Sidman that he
and Miss Cooper would remain
here until Monday. They want to
look over, available campus con
vention facilities to determine
how feasible a-site this is for-the
-1955 NSA Congress, he said.
Robert - Denn.is,.president of the
New Advisory
Committee
See Page 4
Committee
To Select
Name Later
The Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees voted last
night to make formal application
to the Post Office Department for
the establishment of a post office
sub-station on campus.
The trustees have received a
letter from the Post Office De
partment stating that it would. be
possible to establish a sub-station
on campus if it were deemed de
sirable, but - formal application
must be made.
The committee will select the
name for the sub-station at its
next meeting to be held in Har
risburg Jan. 21.
Naming Postponed
After studying the results of
recent polls of townspeople, staff,
faculty, students - and alumni, the
trustees decided to postpone the
selection of a name in order to
allow people in the community to
give the matter further study.
The name will not be selected
until officials have consulted with
leaders of various community or
ganizations.
Results of the balloting on sug
gestions, for the post office name
were made public for the first
time at tonight's meeting.
Vote Resillts
Of the seven names suggested
on the ballots, voting was.as fol
lows:
Atherton, 167; Centre.Hills; 165;
Keystone, 109; Mt. Nittany, 319;
University _Centre, 271; Univresity
Heights, 221; and University-Park,
279.
Of the write-in suggestions, sev
en names received a total of 10
votes or. more. They were:
Penn State, 51; University Sta
tion, 20; Nittany, rll; State 'Cen
ter, 10; State University, 10; Uni
versity, 10;and State College,.lo.
Other •Ballot's
In addition to' the names sug
gested in these two. groups, there
was a total of 127 ballots which
included nan-es mentioned fewer
than 10 times.
In all, 1649 suggestions forins
were received. •
The question •of a substation
was raised when the State " Col
lege voters turned down a pro
posal to change the.town's name
to Mt. Nittany at • the November
election. ' •
University offiCials claimed the
U.ni zrsity's change of status from
a college is not being widely ac
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Association of Independent Men,
is chairman of a committee which
is investigating the possibilities
of holding the congress at the
University. He wrote to the na
tional office in Philadelphia ask
ing what was required of a con
vention site. Dennis was one of
five University students who at
tended last year's congress at lowa
State College.
In to Meet Monday
Interfraternity Council will
meet at 7. p.m. Monday in 219
Electrical Engineering.
IFC representatives should
bring the collected receipts from
the sale of the University Chris
tian Association Centennial en
gagernent calendars, according to
Peter BeiNip econunitiee chatcabga,
FIVE CENTS