Today's Weather— Cold with Snow Flurries VOL. 55, No. 71 Community Forum Tickets Co on Sale Single admission tickets for Gen. Carlos P. Romulo's Com munity Forum lecture will go on sale at 8 a.m. today at the Student Union desk in Old, Main and will remain available until 6 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. Admission is also by season ticket. - General Romulo, co-chairman of the Philippine delegation to the United Nations and former president of the General Assem bly, will speak on "America's Stake in Asia" at 8 tonight in Schwab Auditorium. He will be introduced by Rich ard C. Maloney, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Since the formation of the Uni ted Nations, General Romulo has been active as co-chairman of the Philippine delegation and has par ticipated in many world confer ences connected with the United Nations as well as in every major conference concerning the Far East. After being graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1918 and receiving his master's 34 ROTC Seniors Get Recognition Thirty-four seniors enrolled in the Advanced Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps received distinguished military student awards yesterday. gar'. B. Stave ly, assistant dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture, assisted by Ann Lederman and Carole Ruff, members of the Angel Flight, presented the awards to the students. Col. D. F. Riva, professor of air science, explained that the awards were given to students who were in the upper lk of their ROTC classes as _juniors and who have an overall academic stand ing in the upper third of their other classes. These seniors, he said, also were chosen for high moral character, aptitude for service in the Air Force, and leadership ability in the AFROTC program during summer camp' and in extra-curricular activities. Recipients of the awards were: Jesse Arnelle, James Berish, 'Rob ert BroomAeld, John Bruce, Ber nard Carson, Jack Conner, Thomas Dolan; George Dreibelbies, Gerald Dunn, George Ebbert, Dale Ep pinger, Clark Fiester, Jon Fried man, Herbert Gedmard, David Heistand, Keith Horn, Edward Jacko. William Kupdziel, Watson Leese, Joseph Mellish, Frederick Metzger, James Moyer, Aurellio Nepa, William Orden, Norman Paul, William Pittman, Donald Quinn, Charles Ro t h., Ronald Ruth, Norman Schwalm, James Scott, Ronald Sinclair, Henry Zeybel, and Otto Hetzel. Glee Club Will Sing For 'Potato Growers' the Penn State Men's Glee Club, featuring the Hi-Lo's and the Varsity Quartet, will sing to night at the' annual banquet of the Pennsylvania Potato Grower's Association in the Zembo Mosque. Harrisburg. The program will include a number of college songs, "Oh Vre neli," "The Cr eatio n," "The Drum," "Halls of Ivy," "Climbin' Up the Mountain," "Little David," "Great Day," and "The Jolly Rog er." Coffee Hour Today Dean of Men's coffee hour will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. today in the Dean of Men's office, 105 Old Main. Invitations for the regular weekly socials have been sent to student leaders. Police Seek Check Passer A youth who once attended East Stroudsburg State Teach ers College, arid who planned to enter the University is the 'object of a state-wide police search today. State College police report ed that the youth passed worth less checks amounting to more than $4OO on Saturday and then quickly left town. A, descrip tion of the youth has been sent by teletype to police stations throughout the state. The University refused ad mittance to the man as a stu dent, according to the police report. • 4 / r of ai •la 5! . STATE COLLEGE. PA., Gen. Carlos P. Romulo To Address Forum degree from Columbia University in 1921, General Rornulo has led a varied career, and from his un usual experiences has risen to in ternational prominence. In 1943 after serving as an edi tor and publisher in Manila, he became Secretary of Information and'Public Relations in President Manuel L. Quezon's War Cabinet. During the war General Romulo was made a member of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff and served as his aide-de-camp on Ba taan and Corregidor. He was with President Quezon in Australia during the evacuation and for a time served as liason officer to the Philippine government and the 'war department. In 1944 he returned to General MacArthur's staff and led the for ces in the invasion of Leyte and the later capture of Manila. He was awarded, the Congressional Medal of Honor of the Philippines and has received military decora tions from other governments. In 1947 General Romulo was (Continued on page eight) PI • nes SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jan. 12 VP)—Costa Rica's spreading war fare crackled at half a dozen points over the Country today. Mystery planes attacked four towns, including th e capital where President Jose Figueres de clared: "We don't scare with the spatterings of bullets." Addressing the people in a nationwidet broadcast, Figueres charged General Anastasio So moza, Nicaragua's strongman President, had "decided to un leash the men he had in his estates and is now throwing them into Costa Rica through various points." Later, in a telephone interview with the Bogota Colombia news paper, El Espectador, Figueres de clared the attack was launched by "unhappy mercenaries from Nicaragua, backed by Venezuelan money." He added "We are in FOR A BETTER PENN STATE THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1955 HUB Bell Stand Still Incomplete The stand on which the bell from the battleship USS Penn sylvania *ill be mounted and placed in the courtyard of the Hetzel Union Building has not been completed, Walter H. Wie gand, director of the physical plant, said yesterday. The 1200-pound bronze bell which has been permanently loaned to the University by the Navy Department will be sent from Washington as soon as the mounting is finished, Wiegand said. Reservations End For Inauguration Today is the last day reserva- I tions will be taken for the special buses from State College to the Governor's inauguration, Bruce M. Stover, Centre County Demo cratic chairman, has announced. The round trip fare is $3. As many busses as necessary will be run. As yet no students have signed up for the trip. . Reservations can be made with Stover or with Arthur Lukens Jr., county Democratic secretary. 'Engineer' on Sale A feature story on Earl B. Stave ly, assistant dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture, is included among five stories in the current Penn State Engineer, which, is still on sale. Author of the stor y is Niels Nielson, fourth semester indus trial enginering major. The maga zine is on sale at the. Student Union desk in Old Main. Cabinet Meeting Postponed All-University Cabinet will not meet tonight. The next meeting will be next semester. Senate to Review Party Revisions On Constitutions The Senate Committee on Student Affairs subcommittee on organization control will meet at 4 p.m. today to consid er the revised constitutions of the Lion and State parties. The subcommittee ordered revisions in the constitutions as a prerequisite to the granting of a charter b 7 Senate. The move to have the par ties chartered by Senate -came last month when All-Univer sity Cabinet decided it did not have the power to do so. A formal recognition of pol itical parties is required under the permanent elections _code adopted by Cabinet early this fall. If the constitutions are found acceptable at today's meeting, the subcommittee will report to the student affairs commit tee which must grant the char ters. • • Hit Cost • ica complete control of the situation." The U.S. Embassy announced six engineers from the United Stdtes who have been working on the Inter-American Highway north of Liberia, one of the towns strafed, have been pulled back to safety. Their families were evacu ated with them from the trouble zone. A rebel band was reported au thoritatively to be moving down the Inter-American Highway from La Cruz, only 10 miles from Nicar agua. A lone fighter, described by the Civil Guard as "Venezuelan plane which came from Nicaragua," car ried the fight to the capital city with blasts of .50 caliber machine gun bullets not far from Figueres' residence. Fleeing to the north, the plane was later reported shot down. Observers here said the plane was an old P 47 type of rgiatt AIM Governors Apirove $3600 Budget for Year, Revise Code for Elections The Association of Independent Men last night adopted a revised $3600 budget for the 1954-1955 school year and ap proved a new elections code. The new budget calls for full use of AlMr's estimated in come for the year and provides for additional expenditures not included under the original budget adopted last spring. The major addition to the bud get was the inclusion of $225 for compensations. The compensations included are AIM president, $lOO, vice president, $25, .and secretary and treasurer each $5O. Payments of $25 Bruce Lieske, finance committee chairman who presented the bud get last night, said that Forrest Crawford, present secretary, will receive $25 while his successor, who will serve for the spring se mester, will receive $25. Crawford, who recently pledged Tau: Kappa Epsilon, submitted his resignation to the board last night. The resignation will be d. ccepted when a new secretary is elected Feb. 9. The elections meeting was origi nally announced for next Wed nesday night, but after the meet ing AIM president Robert Dennis announced that the meeting will be postponed until the ninth because of the conflict with final examina tions. Under the AIM constitution of ficers must be elected by a ma jority of the board. Dennis said that he felt more members would be able to attend at the later date, making a majority vote easier to attain. ' Boucher Nominated ' David Boucher, first semester physics major, was the only nomi nee as Crawford's replacement last night. Nominations will be open until the elections meeting. Under the new elections code, any independent man may be nominated for office by a member of the board of governors from the floor. Petitions Needed Any other independent men who are not members of the board may nominate themselves by pre senting a petition signed by 300 independent men to the board. To be eligible for office, a con didate must have at least two un dergraduate semesters remaining at the University and must have an All-University average of 1.0. Any candidate who is nominated the bight of the election must pre sent aas of his official tran script as proof of his average. $325 Increase The new budget calls for a total increase in spending 0f . 5325 over the previous budget of $3,275. Un der the previous budget, income was estimated at $3,500, or $lOO less than under the new budget. Budget increases include Au (Continued on page two) World War II 'vintage. No casual ties were reported here, but there was some damage to buildings. After the attack the President suspended civil rights in order to cope with the emergency. Air lines canceled flights out of San Jose, and planes bound for the capital were diverted elsewhere. A government communique said .planes also raided Liberia, in Northwestern Costa Rica, and Cartago and Turrialba in the cen tral part of the• country south of San Jose. Another communique said the plane which had attacked ; the capital was shot down by anti-aircraft batteries in the Li beria area and plunged into Los Ahogados, The Drowned River. Government forc es reported they attacked rebels who yester day seized Villa Quesada, an im portant highway point about 40 miles northwest of the capital. Haste, Disastrous See Page 4 Ag Council In Favor of lade Plan Related Story on Page Two Agriculture to lent Council last night voted unofficially 25 to 1 in favor of a grade system change. Rudolph Lutter, committee-of one to look into. the grading sit uation, gave the cot. ncil several proposed plans, but stated that he had no detailed plan at present. Lutter said he welcomed any new suggestions by students on his plan so this research will be more co-nplete when he presents his re port to All-University Cabinet. Lutter pointed out that any plan is subject to change or rejection by the. administration. Lutter discussed the hypotheti cal case giving a student a disad vantage in hi s All-University average as compared with the quality of his work. He also point ed out that a student may be forced out of the University un fairly under the pre .nt system. The quality of his work may be higher than his recorded average shows. Lawrence Perez, professor of civil engineering, has been doing work in connection with the elim ination of the -2 grade. Ernest W. Callenbach; professor of poultry husbandry, has been doing re search in three colleges to find out the affects of the present grad ing ,system. -r utter said that his research had shown a definite un fairness in the present system which would be solved by a nu merical system. Lutter also reported that C. 0. Williams, dean of admissions and registrar, was neutral and said that he "doesn't mind putting two digits instead of one." Up to this point, Lutter said, (Continued on page two) Yesterday Coldest Day Reported Since Dec. 23 Yesterday was the coldest day on campus since Dec. 23. The mer cury barely topped 29, the Uni versity weather station reported. Toda:, - will, continue cloudy with snow flurries carried over from last night. High today will be about 33 and the low tonight be tween 22 and 25. BULLETIN Student government at the Universtiy will probably more closely parallel the three de partments of the federal gov ernment with Tribunal having the power to rule on the ac tions of All-University Cabi net under the All-Universtiy Constitution no w being re vised. This statement was made last night by Robert Dennis, presi dent of the Association of In dependent Men and a member of the constitutional revisions committee. Dennis gave no other details as to what can be expected in the new constitution. The re mark was made while he was discussing new provisions to be presented in the proposed new . ATM constitution with the AIM Board of Governors last night. FIVE CENTS
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