WOrkn100: -- cjear..'Site ,Fo . e.:..:.Testatiiins • - ' All-Faith Chapel For Physical . plant_ workmen are . clearing the site of the pro posed . All-Faith chapel in - preparation for test borings which are expected to begin soon. The test borings must be taken to determine the forma, tion of the rock strata under the foundation. Candidates Sakight-for Holler Post A committee is being appointed to recommend qualified candi dates for the post formerly held by Dr. George L. Haller, President Milton S. Eisenhower has an nounced. Haller left his position as dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics at the. University to man age the laboratories department o: General Electric Company's Electronics Division. The laboratories department is comprised of, rez .arch and devel oprhent groups from Syracuse, Cornell, Wand Stanford Universi ties. Haller has served for two years as a consultant' to this de partment. Th e Electronics Laboratory's prime function is advanced devel opment in civilian and military electronics. Its projects cover such fielos as transistors, radar, color television, video tape recording and automatic assembly machines. Haller was born in Pittsburgh and graduated from Mercersburg Academy. He received degrees of bachelor of science, electrical engi neer, master of science and doctor of philosophy at the University. Haller was an engineer for Westinghouse Electric in Pitts burgh before returning to the University as a graduate assistant. He was a radio engineer for the War. Department at Wright Field ant.. during World War 2, he' served in the Air Corps, complet ing his active service with the rank of coloneL Named assistant dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics at the Universityjn 1946, he was named acting , dean a year later. Applications Available For PSC Talent Shovir Students interested in entering the Penn State Club Talent Show may obtain • applications at the Student Union desk. in Old Main; and may sign ut for trybUts to be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The annual shbw on Feb. 25 in Schwab Auditorium The. winner will receive a prize of $25. Second and third prizes of $l5 and $lO will also be awarded. Chi Theta Petitions Chi Theta, women's profession al business honorary society, has petitioned Phi Chi Theta, the na tional honorary society, to be ad mitted as a member. ' - The - campus group held a fac ulty reception Tuesday honoring members of the College of Busi ness Administration an d their wives and ,e...iabling them to' meet Chi Theta pledges. 'Medea Tryouts Set for Tonight • Tryouts will be held for parts in Players production of "Medea'? at ,7 tonight in the Little Theater in 'the basement of Old Main. Extra scripts of the play are available in. the Green Room, second floor of Schwab Auditorium. There are parts for five men and, five women, as well as extras, in the Greek tragedy play. TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY MILD Bids for the drilling are ex pected •to go out soon, according to Walter H. Wiegand, director of the physidal plant. " Bids After Drillings Alter the drillings have been completed, bids Can be released for the actual construction. University officials are hoping to break ground for the chapel on Feb. 22, the date of the Cen tennial birthday party. The chapel is to be built in Hort Woods on the north side of Curtin Road. Originally the chapel was to be built: on the library side of Cur tin Road, but the University Board of Trustees changed the location at a meeting last June.. University architects are now working on final plans for the chapel. Preliminary plans were approved at last spring's meeting of the trustees. Plans for the chapel have been under consideration for more than a year. Several styles of architer ture including modern were crp sidered before a Georgian stylr was finally approved. Three Units The chapel will be built in three units: a small meditation chapel the main chapel, and a connectirr: , unit between the two chapels. Th , - units will be arranged in a U shape around a large reflectine pool. The first unit to be constructed is the meditation chapel which will provide seats for 120 people. It will have facilities for private devotion. ;weddings. and other small religious services. The main chapel will provide facilities for approximately 2000 people, with a choir loft which will accommodate 100 ?People. The meditation chapel will also have a smaller choir loft. The connecting unit will be a two-story structure.. The ground floor will house the chaplain's office, space for clerical help, and a. social room. The second floor will contain smaller rooms for re ligious counseling. The original plans for the chapel called for a baSement, but oecause of the change in location, the basement had to be discarded. Tw✓o Profs Added To Faculty St.,ff Dr. Andrew A. Benson and Dr. Manney F. Mallette assumed their duties as associate professors of agricultural and biological chem istry Saturday. Dr. Benson was assistant direc tor of the bio-organic group of the radiation laboratory at the Uni versity of California for the past eight . years. Dr. Mallette conducted exten sive research at Johns Hopkins University in the biophysical chemistry field. will . be held lemon's Assassination Leads To State of Si?cle Pana I PANAMA, Jan. 3 (W)—The Na tional Assembly today declared a state of siege, temporarily sup pressing constitutional guaran tees, to help 'secret police hunt ing the machinegun assassins of President Jose Antonio Remon. With ex-President Arnulfo Ar ias and two women among more than a score of persons already rounded up for questioning about the plot, the state of siege—a mod ified form of martial law—was decreed to run 10 days. Remon, 46-year-old strongman regarded as the outstanding presi dent in the republic's history, was shot . down from the darkness last night as he stood with friends in a brilliantly lighted pavilion at the fashionable Juan Franco Race Track four miles northeast of this city. Two other men were killed and - three were wounded in the (111 g Bally VOL. 55, No. 64 STATE COLLEGE,. PA., TUESDAY MORNING,. JANUARY 4. ,1955 FIVE .CENTS ..• I . „ • Ali , emb • •. cUFy rs To .• • t • . e d r Centennial Cancellation EME:fM -,.,-.....-..,-„, ..... 7 , A . . ..,.--r; „...-,, ~.,.... i , ~,-,,,,, 4'' ' , • • • -o'. .-• - 4 „ ' 6 ' ,IN''',o,l '. ' c-----.." I - - .. ... . ; THIS STAMP CANCELLATION design honoring the University's 100th birthday is now being used to cancel all outgoing mail from the State College postoffice. The centennial postmark. was first used Saturday morning to start off the new year. More than 250 letters from out-of-town 'persons and over 200 - from State College residents were sent to the post office requesting that they be post marked New Year's day with the new cancellation. The use of the cancellation was almost delayed but the roller for the cancellation machine arrived late Friday in time for use Jan. 1. The postmark was designed by Milton S. Osborne, professor of architecture, and was approved by Assistant Postmaster General Norman R.' Abrams. Previously, the opening date for the use of the cancellation was set for Dec. 15 but the design was not approved in time. 1 Killed, 8 In Holiday One student was killed and at least eight others were in volved in Christmas vacation highway accidents, according to reports which reached the Daily Collegian office yester day. Richard Dose, first semester mechanical engineering ma ed instantly when the car he jor, of Merrick, I\T.Y., was kil was driving collided with a bus in Merrick. The accident occurred at 2 a.m. Dec. 24. Another . New York resi dent, who was seated next to Dose, waslatally injured in the accident. Two other passengers in the car were seriously injured and are now in a hospital. Dose, who was 18, was a candi date for the freshman wrestling squad. Four in Collision While returning to campus, four students were involved in an au tomobile collision Sunday night. Two of them were admitted to a Berwick hospital for treatment of shock and bruises. The two, Ida Wylie, seventh semester education major, of sum mit Hill, and Sally Lewis, third semester education major, of Pal merton, are reported improved. (Continued on page eight) exchange of, gunfire between the assassins and th e presidential bodyguard. Cof. Saturnino Flores, deputy commander of the National Guard, Panama's .main military force, said the authorities have no def inite clues to identify or motive of the assassins. But Flores indi cated strongly the weight of sus picion fell on supporters of Arias, ousted from the' presidency in the bloody 1951 coup by the National Guard which Remon headed. Flores said that if the object of the assassination was to gain con trol of the government, the plot failed because the National Guard had firm control of the situation. He recalled recent threats of ma jor developments by Arias' fol lowers. • In New York, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said ap parently no Communist issue was FOR A BETTER PENN STATE . • . " . - . • -.13A"5 Ter': crvirr..„ l 4:, - . 4 .44.: 'kit* .0 , 71:tt it A Lc . r. '44IX Wit: ^ 4910 .". * • . .„ _ Involved Accidents Former Student Dies of Cancer A two year. fight against can cer .finally came to. an end New Year's Day for Gerald H. Cohen, 20, former student at the Univer sity. Mr. Cohen had been given only a few months to live after he, was stricken while a fresh man in 1952. Mr. Cohen came to , the Uni versity after graduating fro in Chester High School in the spring of 1952. He was a member of the student council and the band at the high school. At the bedside of Mr. Cohen New Year's day was his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cohen, and his sister. Funeral services were held on Sunday. involved in the assassination. The' National Assembly,. which earlier today swore in the first vice president and foreign minis ter, Jose Ramon Guizado, as the new president; first considered declaring a 30-day state of siege. This was amended unanimously to the 10-day period. Panama appeared to have clamped a tight watch on its bor ders and ports to prevent the as sassins' escape.' A dispatch from San Jose, - in neighboring Costa Rica, indicated the international border was sealed to travelers as scheduled plans arrived without passengers. Remon was rushed to Santa Tomas Hospital suffering from wounds caused by one bullet which entered his right side. He was given.five transfusions in an effort to save his life, but he suc cumbed. . 21 Tattejtart Agriculture Post Given To Henning By MIKE MILLER Six members of the Univer sity faculty will assist the ad ministration of Governorelect George M. Leader—one as sec retary of agriculture and the others as members of an ad visory committee which will as sist in transferring the state gov ernment to the incoming Demo cratic administration. Dr. William L. Henning, head of the, department of animal hus bandry, was named. secretary of agriculture by Leader on. Dec. 16. President Milt S. Eisenhower h; granted Henniy anindefini leave of absen so that he . rn; accept the po: tion. He will a sume his .: dutit Jan. 18 lienhing w a awarded the. cal inet poSt on ti basis of mo: than 30 - years of actual and tech -D r. William. Henning nical experience in , agriculture. After making the appointment Leader described Henning as "one of, the nation's foremost -authori ties on animal husbandry: and other phases, of farm and agri - - cultural life." In accepting the post, Henning said the appointznept is a "great challenge. He emphasized the importance of agriculture -to the state's econ omy and said that Pennsylvanians had a "wonderful opportunity" to profit from its farm and allied products because of its location. The post of agriculture secretary was one of the most sought after in the Leader cabinet. Nearly a dozen candidates were seeking , the post. _ Henning has not• been active in politics although he - is a registered Democrat. He indicated that he looked upon his appointment as a professional rather than - a politi cal assignment. "I've been in educational work all of my life and my whole back ground, experience, and training have been in the agricultural field," he said. Another faculty member, , Dr. Pennoyer F. English, professor of wildlife management, was men tioned last month - for the secretary of forests and waters post in Lead er's cabinet. He was recommended for the (Continued on page eight) 10 Groups Given Offices in HUB Ten offices in the Hetzel Union Building have been des ignated for student organiza tions. They are: All-University Cabinet, Inter fraternity Council - Panhellenic Council, Association of Inde pendent IVen - Leonides - otes, Campus Chest - Spring Week, Women's. Student Gov ernment Azisocia:Zion, Tribunal- Traffic Court, Hat Societies, Alpha Phi' Omega, Graduate Student Council, and all class officers. In addition to the ten avail able student offices located on the second floor, a room has been ' provided for committee workers.
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