PAGE -EIGHT ice-Breaking . . •;• . • • APPROXIMATELY 400 students donned ice skates to enjoy the University's newest recreational facility—the ice skating rink which opened during vacation. The rink is located east of Nittany dormitories. Plans for its construction were first announced last spring. It was completed last month after several delays, lialiddy. Crow *.' .I:7lnk Students got their first chance to try out those new Christmas skates on the skating rink last night. Work on the rink was completed during vacation and the rink was opened for the first time on New Year's Day. A crowd of 780 people were on hand for opening day. The rink was also open Sunday, but mechanical difficulties held Leader - (Continued from page one) position by Rep. Harris G Breth (D-Clearfield) who had formerly been thought a candidate for the _ . job. In announcing the formation of the advisory committee to assist in the transfer of government to the new administration, Leader said the committee will assist in the "orderly and constructive changeover of governmental func tions-on Jan. 18," the day he takes office. Committee members from the University are: - Dr:•"Harold F. Alderfer, head of the department of political science. Dr. John H. Ferguson, professor of "political science. Dr. R. Wallace Brewster, profes sOr of political science. - Dr. M. Nelson McGeary, pro fessor of political science. ..,Dr. Charles F. Lee Decker, in structor in political science. . Ferguson will make a study of the department of agriculture, Brewster of labor and industry, MCGeory of liquor control and Lee Decker of public utilities and state authorities. _ The _committee is headed by Dr. Stephen B. Sweeney, professor of gbvernmental administration at the University of Pennsylvania. He will be assisted by Alderfer. Leader said the committee will have the "complete cooperation" of Goy. John S. Fine and his de partment heads. Grad Student ,Council Plans Informal Dances Plans to sponsor two informal dances to be held Feb. 5 and May 21 have been discussed by the Graduate Student Council. •Norman Becker, graduate me chanical engineering stud en t, has filled the council seat for the College of Engineering and Archi tecture. He replaces Donald Dahl berg, graduate mechanical engi neering student, who resigned. AFC , . to Show Movie A movie, "Man with a Thousand I- c 1 ,,." will be shown at the Society of Civil Engi nQ :fleeting at 7 tonight in 26 NI __al Sciences. The movie shows the construc tion history of a dam, power plant, industrial buildings, and ten com plete neighborhoods that were carved out of the British Colombia wilderness in Canada. the number of skaters to approx imately 170, some of them stu dents who returned early from Christmas vacation. • University officials hope the rink can be open from Nov. 15 to March 15 each year. The ice will be in skating con dition when the temperature is 45 'degrees or under. The freezing unit keeps the temperature of the ice at th e freezing point, cooling a blanket of air directly above the ice. This blanket of air will maintain the skating surface of the ice. More than 12 miles of pipe car ry the fluid which freezes the ice. The rink is one of the largest artificially frozen rinks in the country. It measures approximate -1- 100 by 200 feet and will ac commodate 600 to 800 skaters at one time. 1 On the western edge of the rink, near Nittany. dorm 44, a lounge has been constructed. The building is built of brown sand stone and redwood and has large glass windows which look out on the ice. Skaters enter the rink through this building. The skating rink will be open daily from 1 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. Beginning this week the rink will be open Saturday morn ings for grade school children. Admission prices are 25 cents for undergraduate students and 50 cents for all others. Skate rent- als are 5Q cents. A formal dedication ceremony for the rink will be held on Jan. 16. Plans for the ceremony are not known as yet. Mysterious Midnight Singers Revealed as The Cavaliers' By JO WOHLEBER Many a frosty evening this fall when coeds have been hard at work on their studies, a quintet of masculine voices has set win dow shades to flying up and cur lered heads to popping out of win dows. The mysterious fivesome seren ades the girls just long enough to have them shouting for encores. then silently steals away. The Truth For over a year now. coeds have been asking, "Who are they?" At last the truth has come out. About two years ago four stu dents decided they had something other than football in common— namely, music. So Eari Mundell. Penn State halfback in '5l, '52, TRE' DAILY COLLEGIAN ' STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA With the coming of the spring like weather .that has invaded the campus, the physical plant has started on its annual "Keep . off the GraSs" campaign. Workmen have erected -. wi r e fences across several campus shortcuts in an. effort to keep students from' tramping on the campus lawn. Waiter W. Trainer, supervisor of landscape construction and maintenance, said the fences havel a twofold. purpose: to keep stud dents off the grass and to keep, them from .tracking ..mud. into, campus buildings. • One fence has been placed ini front of Old Main along College' avenue, a second along the• mall near the Armory; and a third in front of Atherton Hall. Trainer said the fences are only temporary and Will be removed when the grass begins to -grow in the spring. 1 Killed (Continued from page onej The driver, William Tismer. seventh semester forestry major, of Palmerton, and Thomas Lewis, seventh semester mechanical engi neering major, also of Palmerton, are expected to return to campus later this week, following recovery from injuries received in the acci dent. Further details of the collision were not available. Three students were injured in a car crash while going home for the holidays at 12:25 p.m., Dec. 18. Ernest Anglemyer, fourth se mester student, of Stroudsburg, driver of the car, received lacera tions of the forehead and a severe laceration of his left ear in the accident. A passenger in Anglemyer's car. Karole Dietterick, fifth semester home economics major, of Ber wick, recived a fractured pelvis. Another passenger, John Den nis, fifth. semester chemical _.nngi neering major, of Stroudsburg, re ceived a laceration behind his left ear. • Wayne Wise, second semester industrial arts najor, of Saylors burg, was also a passenger in lin glemyer's automobile. They were treated at Centre County Hospital in Bellefonte. The car was traveling ea.t on the Earlystown Road, east of Boalsburg, when it left the right of the road, struck a guard rail and went over an eight-foot en bankment. The Daily Collegian was un able to obtain any other reports of accidents involving students over the vacation. Throughout the past year, 17 persons lost their Ayes in high way accidents in Centre County. But there hasn't been a fatal automobile accident in State Col lege since 1948. John R. Juba, chief of nonce.. said yesterday. During the vacation period, which included two long holiday weekends, 43 persons lost their lives in Pennsylvania, the Asso ciated Press reported. Thirty-one persons died of vio lent causes over the 54-hour Christmas weekend and 12 died over the New Year's weekend. '53; Roosevelt Grier, football tac kle; Sam Green, guard '52, '53; and Seth Brown took to singing in between football practice and classes, and the "Penn State Cava liers" were born. Some of the original members have graduated and been replaced. This year the Penn State (.."ay.tliers are: Roosevelt Grier, lead tenor; James Chester, baritone: Seth Brown, bass; Carl ,Henson. tenor; and Harry Mitchell. susiness man ager and publicity agent. It wasn't until last year that the troubadors came to serenade the dorms. Now their appearance on a wintry night is eagerly anti cipated. In time they may come to - be another of the University lar.zirriarks that make life here mostly enjoyable. Physical Plant Urges 'Keep Off Grass' Original Members University:': Receives Scholarb:lo::.-.:F0..i!;td:5...i.- A total of . $2500 recently, has-been piesented - to" . the -Uni versity for, scholarships. • . • The Garden Federation of Pennsylvania: has established . a $lOO scholarship to be effective•during the current academic, year. The award is available to any undergraduate majoring in landscape or ornamental horticulture. . Recommendations for the schol arship will be made by the dean of the College of Agriculture and the head of the •department of horticulture. To stimulate interest in trans- I Tportation and traffic management, Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc., of iWinston-Salem, N.C., has estab lished a $5OO scholarship. The award will be presented during the spring semester to a junior who will be selected by a faculty committee of the College of Business Administration. • Metallurgy A $4OO scholarship for a student in metallurgy has been continued for the third year at the Univer sity. The award is part of a pro gram 9 stablished by the American Society for Metals Foundation for Education and Research to stimu late interest in metallurgy. A $5OO scholarship available to juniors and seniors in the School of Forestry has been established by the Homelite Corporation of Port Chester. N.Y. Selection of the student to re ceive this award will be made by I the scholarship committee of the School of Forestry. Lane-Wells Co. Undergraduates in the curricu lum of petroleum and natural gas engineering are eligible for a $5OO scholarship offered by the Lane- Wells Company, Los Angeles, Calif. McCarthy Encis Chairmanship WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (iP) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) rang down the curtain on his in vestigating committee chairman ship today with surprise testimony from a brunette witness who said she was under a Communist death sentence for Federal Bureau of Investigation undercover work., The witness identified herself as Miss Mary Stella Beynon, 31, who told reporters later her, own mother has never known she joined the Communist party in February, 1946, for the purpose, as she put it, of reporting its ac tivities to the FBI. Miss Beynon, chic and comely, named four Westinghouse Co. em ployes in the Pittsburgh area as Communists during her five months as a party member. One of them, Theodore Wright, employed in the Westinghouse air brake plant at Wilmerding, Pa., took the stand and denied he is now a member of the Com munist party. Wright refused to say on the ground of self-incrimi nation whether he ever had been a Communist.. , Among their favorite songs are: "Down by _the River Side," "My Bob-ba-lee," "Gee," "Dry Bones," and "Darling Dear." So far the troubadors have made few scheduled appearances, :heir tendency being toward impromptu midnight wanderings. Bob Priilce Bob Prince, sports announcer, has become interested in the group and has promised to get them on television if they go to Pittsburgh. They hope to put on a show in Schwab next semester. At • present, they get together three to six times a week during lunch hour or in the evenings in 182• Hamilton, where Lenny Moore, chief critic, is allowed to listen, but not sing. Maybe we'll be seeing more of these. boys • around -campus. TUESDAY: .leiNtiAir-'4,:iv651 Site. Aiteie,d 'Foe_HortiolEC Living Units The location of the three pro posed home economics manage ment.. houses has been changed, Walter H. Wiegand; head of the physical plant, announced yester day. The• units were to have been built on the site of the old Wind crest trailers,, but the location was changed by the University Board of Trustees. The new site for the houses will be on Eastview Terrace, near the reactor building. Three houses are to be built, with one house containing two living units. Each unit will house eight girls, a di rectress, and a baby. No date has been set for 'letting of the bids for the houses. Physical plant workers are re moving the stumps of 20 trees in various locations around- campus. The trees were cut .down• after they were damaged by Hurricane Hazel last fall. Wiegand also said' he hoped the reactor building will be completed soon; He said there is' still some painting to be done and some de tails to be finished. before the.. building will be ready for occu pancy. A target date had original ly been set as Dec. 31. Workmen are also finishing' the test borings on the site of . the proposed classroom building to be built next to Osmond Labora tory. University architects are still working on final plans for the building. Students Report Theft To Borough Police Melvin Mason, seventh semes ter physical education major, and William Fingrutd, ninth semester metallurgy major,, reported to borough police Sunday that their apartment at 140 E. College ave. was robbed. Reported missing was a radio clock, electric clock and a valu able ring. - Borough police are in vestigating. PRINTING" Letterpress - Offset Commercial 352 E. College Ave. CLASSIFIEDS FOR SALE 1940 PLYMOUTH COUPE.' heater, good tires. Call Thum AD 7-2159. '55. LOST ARMY ROTC TOPCOAT, wallet in pocket. Switched during common hour; Dec. 17. I have yours. Call Faller AD 7-4232. A GIRL'S GOLD. BULOVA Wrist Watch. Contact Bob Thomas at Kappa Delta Rho if found. WATCH LADIES' Bulova. Embraceable, white gold, vicinity of Bee Hall and Nittany Lion Inn, Saturday, Dec. 11. Re ward; call Ernie, AD 8-5051 Ext. 790. K&E SLIDE .RULE-Eng.. Bldg., Wed. afternoon. Contact Raymond Carlin, Sig ma Pi. AD 7-4928. Reward. FOR RENT SINGLE OR DOUBLE room in Boalsburg. • Quiet, fine lodation., Tele. HO 6-6935. DESIRABLE CORNER' Room with run- ning water, central location, oil - heat. Room for one man. Call AD 7-4850 or AD 7-7792. Ask' for C.R. • CENTRALLY-LOCATED ROOMS (east:of Atherton, south of Fairmount) to accom modate 10 speech and hearing clinic boys for the Spring semester, full semester:, Room rent guaranteed at $6. per week— double. Call AD 8-6772 during office hours. .WANTED , USED HOUSE TRAILER •in good con. • dition. Call George Grauer •AD 7-2147. • MISCELLANEOUS IS YOUR typewriter giving you • trouble? If so, just dial AD 7-2492 or bring ma. chine to 633 W.' College Ave., State College. FOR BEST RESULTS USE COLLEtIAN CLASSIFIEDS
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