The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, January 11, 1955, Image 1

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Nseer .-Formos.
TAIPEI - I, Formosa, Jan. 10
_M—At least 100 Chinese Red
planes todaY pounded the Tachen Islands from dawn until
la.te afternoon in the greatest air- raid of the civil war, the
Defene Ministry announced.
Nationalist defenders on the vital outpost islands 200 miles
north of Formosa threw up fierce anti-aircraft fire. They
— 7 claimed two attackers were - de
stroyed and two damaged. There
was no indication whether Na-'
tionalist planes were engaged.
It was too early to say whether
the air blows presaged an invasion
which the Nationalists believe is
bound to come.
Russian • Make Planes
State, Lion
Parties OK
Revisions
Clique- chairmen of both Lion
and State parties have - said that
revisions in the clique constitu
tions were approved at meetings
of
.the parties' respective execu
tive bodies Sunday afternoon.
In a statement yesterday, Gor
don Pogal, Lion party clique
chairman said:
"The constitution has been re
vised and accepted by the steer
ing committee. It is ready to be
presented. to the Senate. subcom
mittee oh organization control
Thursday. We have incorporated
all the recommendations asked by
the subcommittee and I am confi
dent the constitution will be ac
cented."
Rae DelleDonne, State party
clique chairman, said the student
representative council unanimous
ly accepted• the revisions in the
State party constitution.
She said all the revisions asked
by the gubcommittee are included
in the new constitution. •
The clique chairmen will appear
before the subcommittee at 4 p.m.
Thursday in the board room; rear
of the Old Main lounge, to present
the -revised constitutions.
If the constitutions are found
acceptable at that time, the sub
committee will report to the Sen
ate Committee on Student Affairs
which must charter the parties.
The move to have the parties
chartered.. by Senate came last
month after All-University Cabi
net decided it did not have 'the
power to do so.
The_ chartering of political par. ;
ties was asked' in the permanent
elections code, adopted by Cabinet
early this fall.
'Engineer'. Sales .
To Begin Today
At Corner Room
The ‘ Penn will
State Engineer
go on sale today.
.eii•ticles included in this montii's
issue are:
"Why_ Aluminum" by John Ker
nachan, graduate student in in.-
dustrial engineering; "High ' Fi
delity" by Chang Bin Oh, seventh
semester: chemical engineering
major; "TurborProps" by William
Noyes, eighth semester industrial
engineering major; "The Leaning
Tower of Pisa—ls It Safe?" by
Jdyce Cox, third semester archi
tecture major; arid a story on e as
sistant dean of the College of En
gineering and Architecture, Earl
B. Stavely, by Niels Nielson,
fourth semester industrial engi
neering major.
The "Girl of the Month" is Car
ole Fitzsimons, first"semester edu
cation major..
Students may obtain the "Engi
neer" at.•: the Corner Room the
first part of the week, and at the
Student Union desk in Old Main
for a week after publication.
TODAY'S
WEATHER:
RAIN
TURNING TO
SNOW
Red .'Pkiries
The Communists threw into the
attack propeller - driven light
b omber s and' fighter bombers,
which were escorted by at least
28 swift MIG jet fighters, a com
munique said. All three types are
made by Russia.
The Ministry reported more
than 300 bombs were dropped but
asserted most of them splashed in
to the sea. It conceded, however,
that there were "considerable"
civilian casualties and said more
than 10 houses were destroyed.
Emergency relief measures were
ordered.
The Ministry said only that mil
itary losses were being investi
gated. The estimated 20,000 de
fenders of the Tachens, northern
anchor of Nationalist offshore is
lands, are well dug in.
The raiders in seven waves came
from the big network of Red base,
in the Shankhai-Hangchow-lcing
po triangle from 100 to 200 miles
north of the Tachens.
The Tachen attack is bound to
be a subject of close consultation
between the United States and
Nationalist China. It was possible
the Nationalists might think the
situation called for their air force
to raid the Red air bases on the
mainland.
Unofficial quarters w ere con
vinced the Red attacks were in
tended as a pointed challenge to
the United States, whose 7th fleet
guards Formosa and the nearby
Pescadores from Red invasion.
The United States naturally has a
distinct interest in what happens
to the offshore islands.
Open °House Chairmen
To Meet with ICCB
Chairmen of college open house
committees will meet with the
Inter College Council Board at
7 p.m. tomorrow in the student
government room, 204 Old Main,
to plan for the combined open
house program proposed for April.
The Cabinet PersOnnel Inter
viewing Committee will interview
applicants for the Junior Class
Executive Committee of which.
John Thalimer will be chairman
at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Direction Signs Painted
Physical plant employes have
given a new coat of paint to the
direction signs posted at all. cam
pus entrances. The signs are in
white lettering on a blue back
ground.
The work was completed over
Christmas vacation.
P rex y to
President Milton S. Eisenhower
will accent the dedication of the
Pennsylvania Farm Show to the
University tonight in Harrisburg.
Willard S. Hagar, secretary of ag
riculture, will make the presen
tation.
The official dedication of the
Farm Show to the University, for
its: 100 years of service to agri
culture and the Comonwealth, was
made last night by Governor John
S. Fine. More than 130,000 visitors
attended the opening of the show
yesterday.
"Song of a Century," the tenth
annual talent pageant-festival,
will be held tonight in the 10,000
seat arena located in the 13-acre
Farm Show building. Written by
William R. Gordon, professor of
rural sociology extension, the fes
tival will include students and
faculty ,members ,and a cast of
more than 800 people.
Well Dug In
Might Mean Retaliation
Oltro Bang
VOL. 55, No. 69 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1955 FIVE CENTS
.Pignitaries't* View
Swedish. .ExhiAtion
The Swedish Minister to the United States, Count Carl Douglas, will head a host
of dignitaries on hand for. Saturday night's colorful Recreation Hall gymnastic exhibition
by Sweden's touring men and women national teams, and Penn State's two-year NCAA col
legiate titlists.
Also attending will be James E. Van Zandt, U.S. Congressional representative froM
the 20th District, and Henry Allard, member of the Swedish parliament. Allard is also di
rector of the Swedish men's team,
a position he held when the
Swedes made their American tour
a year ago.
Others attending will be Alan
Kastrup, director of the Ameri
can-Swedish News Exchange la.
cated in Rockefeller Center, Nev
York; Gerry T. Rooth, publishes
of the Swedish North Star, lead
ing U.S.-Sweden exchange paper;
State Senator Joseph Hays; form
er Senator A. H. Letzler; and Rep
resentative Harry W. Price. Letz
ler is a native of Sweden.
Also accepting invitations are
three members of the University
Board of Trustees including Mrs.
Carvel Sparks, Mr. and Mrs. Ro
ger Rowland, and Mr. and Mrs.
B. C. Jones.
IFC to Levy $25 Fine
On Houses
Pledges on
Fraternities will .henceforth be required to place pledges on
"door duty" during social functions or be subject to a $25 fine,
Interfraternity Council Board of Control Chairman Ellsworth Smith,
announced last night.
Smith said the ruling will apply only to "wet" houses and is
designed to protect fraternities
from having outsiders leave their
houses when intoxicated.
He said it was necessary to levy
the line because fraternities have
not cooperated voluntarily with
the "door duty" plan and some
freshmen have come back to
dormitories in an intoxicated
state.
Concert Group
Will Present
Carol Smith
Carol Smith, contralto, will pre
sent the second program of the
Community Concert series at 8:30
t .orrow in Schwab Auditorium.
Miss Smith, in her late twen
ties, stepped into the national
spotlight with her New York de
but recital in Town Hall in 1951.
Her current season opened with
a solo performance with the
Cleveland Summer Orchestra and
orchestras of Minneapolis an d
Cincinnati.• She appeared 'again in,
Town Hall in New York Sunday.
She was presented in Chicago
with the New York City Opera
Company as Amneris in "Aida",
followed by appearances with the
Racine -a n d Indianapolis Sym
phonies. She was featured in a
concert performance of "Tristan"
with the Rochester Philharmonic
under Eric Leinsdorf.
During the first five months of
1951 Miss Smith won six major
awards. The ...irst two were the
Boguslawski Memorial Award and
the Morgan Park Gleeman Award.
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Rider to Direct Scene
In Little , Theater Today
Jeannie Risler, graduate stu
dent in dramatics, will direct a
scene from "The Affairs of Ana
tol," by Arthur. Schneitzler, at 5
p.r... today in the Little Theater,
basement of Old Main.
The scene is part of the "Scenes
from Great Plays" series which
is being presented every Tuesday.
Accept
"Mr. Rowe State" and his Penn
sylvania !F arm family, are the
main /characters in the festival.
They tell the story of the school
that was first known as the
Farmers \ High School and which
later became The Pennsylvania
State College and finally the
Pennsylvania State University..
The story begins with Great
Grandfather Jason State describ
ing the settling of Pennsylvania.
Some of the scenes that will be
dramatized are:
The action of the State Assem-•
bly establishing the Farmer's High
School; a torchlight candidates
parade; the building of Old Main;
Lincoln signing the Lard Grant
College Act for "A more perfect
Union"; a group of agriculture
men discussing a new plan for the
Pennsylvania State. College; the
achievements made by the Uni-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Not Placing
'Door Duty'
By MIKE MILLER
'Door Duty' Hours
Smith advised the representa
tives to place a' pledge at their
door from the time a party starts
until at least 1:30 a.m.
Smith said houses found in vio
lation of the rule will-automatical
ly be fined $25 and no appeal will
be heard. Fraternities will be
checked each weekend at random
by Board of Control members, he
said,
IFC's Authority Questioned
Following Smith's announce
ment one of the IFC representa
tives questioned the authority of
rIFC in this matter and requested
a copy of the IFC constitution so
that he might study the legality
of the ruling.
The IFC also unanimously ad
mitted Beaver House to member
ship, thus recognizing it as a so
cial fraternity.
In presenting Beaver House's
petition for membership to IFC,
the :fraternity president, Curtis
Hare, explained that the group
has operated along fraternity
lines for 20 years.
Answering a question as to why
Beaver House had not asked for
membership in IFC before, Hare
said that the group was formed
after a split with its mother fra
ternity and thus an anti-fraternal
spirit prevailed at first.
He said, however, ,that over the
years there had always been a
faction in the house which de
sired affiliation with IFC. Alumni
sentiment for this move has been
particularly strong, he said.
Dedication
versity and its graduates; and fin
ally the marriage of "Pen" State
to "Joe U."
During an interlude the Per
shing Rifles drill team will exe
cute a 12 minute routine. The
most - difficult , movement per
formed by the group will be the
Queen Anne's salute.
In this routine, the rifle is
thrown forward and up off the
right shoulder and allowed to spin
in space momentarily. As the spin
Continues, it is regrasped with the
right hand' and a kneeling salute
follows. A minor error in this rou
tine could result in serious injury.
Foreign students majoring in
home economics and agriculture
have been invited by the Master
Farmers Association to attend the
Farm Show today. They will be
-the guests of the Association at its
luncheon
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Deans to Attend
Deans of the colleges of the
University will round out the list
of notables, all of whom will be
received along with the Swedish
teams following the exhibition at
White Hall.
The reception is under the sup
ervision of Marie Haidt, director
of the women's physical education
program.
A dance, to be attended by in
vitation only, will follow the re
ception.
The Swedes will make five stops
in the East before arriving . on
campuS Friday afternoon. During
their two days at Penn State they
will stay at the Nittany Lion Inn,
before departing for Pittsburgh
Sunday evening.
Entertainment Provided
Beta Theta Pi and Phi Gamma
Delta will entertain the male visi
tors Friday and Saturday and two
sororities will hold teas for the
visiting women.
The 21 gymnasts will be given
a guided tour of the campus Sat
urday afternoon.
President Milton S. Eisenhower
will hold a dinner for the group
Sunday afternoon at the Nittany
Lion Inn.
The two-hour exhibition will
get underway at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Music, provided by George E. Ce
iga, University organist, and the
Penn State Blue Band, will begin
at 6:30 p.m.
The Swedes presented their
first American performance of the
current tour Friday in the Patter
son, N.J., Armory.
Saturday they appeared in New
York's Madison Square Garden
and Sunday at the United States
Military Academy, West Point.
Thus far their exhibitions have
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P. O. Opening
Date Proposed
The new University post
office will be opened in May if
the proposed location in the
basement of the Hetzel Union
Building is approved by offi
cials from the postmaster gen
eral's office in Washington,
D.C., Louis H. Bell, director of
public information, said yester
day.
Official approval from Wash
ington will probably take a
month after officials inspect
the HUB location Jan.' 28, Bell
said.' He said installation of
equipment would take tw o
months before the post office
is ready for use.
The name for the campus
post office will be decided by
the Trustees at their meeting
Jan. 21 in Harrisburg.