Today's Weather— Colder with Snow VOL. 55, No. 73 Gymnasts to Perform Tonight Svenska Tra.,*,,::-..,:en.,...:Penn Minst 6000 Kammer Till Rec. Hall kvall klockan 7 vantas over GOOO personer vara fOrsamlade i Recreation Hall. Liksom i fjol har de svenska ymnasterna dragit fullt hus i Penn State. Rec Hall's ,portar oppnas kl. 17.30 och musik kommer att ut fOras av George E. Ceiga, univer sitetets organist, och av Penn State Blue •Band. Musiken borjar 18,30. Kvallen kommer att utgora en milstolpe i Penn State-gymnaster nas,historia. Dignitarer represen terande serval svenska som ameri kanska regeringarna kommer, att nahvara och de kommer tillsam mans med Penh State-studenter och State College—bor att fa be vittna en. av de mest stralande gYmnastikuppvisningar, som man kan fa se i vaara dagar. De svenska ymnastema har uppnatt en varldsomfatt ande ryktbarhet, • some varat i decen nier. Nationens trupp har skordat lagrar vid. manga olympiska spel och i vara dagar . - ,Tymnastiserar over en kvarts miljon svenskar. Penn State-gymnasternas tran are, Gene_ Wettstone, beromde den svenska ,gymnastiken i en artikel angaende• svenskarnas fjol a r- sturne, som omfattade 30 orter i U.S.A. Wettstone skr e v: "Kraftfull .grace och enkelhet karakteriserar derma svenska trupp och en brick pa'- skickligheten och precisionen i deras graup Jrorelser an nog att overtyga vem som heist, att detta err ..gYmnastiskt enastaende." Svenskarna anlande till State College i gar kvall efter att ha haft en uppvisning vid University of 'West Virginia i torsdags kvall. Det var deras sjatte uppvisning U.S.A. fore ankomsten till State College. Wettstone asag dera fors t a amerikanska upptradande L_Pat arson, N.J., i fredags och han sade: "Uppvisningen var mycket battre an Morns. Aret." Kvallens tvAtimmarsuppvisning kommer att omfatta tio olik a punkter, - fOregangna av en intags marseh, under vilken den svenska nationalsangen (Du gamla, du (Continued on page six) Russians to Share Atom ic Ex" erience MOSCOW, Jari. 14 0 3 )—Russia said today it is ready to share with the world the scientific and technical experience it claims to have "piled up" in the operation since last summer of an atom driven industrial power plant. . The press chief of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Leonid Ilyichev, told, a news conference Russia is ready to hand over this experi ence at a World Atomic Energy Congress scheduled for later this year under the auspices of the UN General Assembly. ,He said his government is send ing Soviet Academician Dmitiri V. Skobeltsyn to the UN in New York to submit the proposal for inclUsion on :the Congress agenda. It will be the first time the Soviet Union has been represented by a scientist rather than a political figure at such talks. There was no indication in Ilyichey's statement that the So viet Union is planning to let for eign scientists study ,firsthand the atomic power station claimed in an . announcement last July-1 to ~~\ ~eaffi 'i JAN CRONSTEDT, former Penn State gym- —Photo by Walker nastic star and holder of four National Col- National teams. Staffan Carlsson (extreme left), legiate titles captured last year, is greeted by member of the visiting men's team, and several Karl Schwenzfeier, captain of this year's Nittany of Schwenzfeier's Beta Theta Pi fraternity Lion gym team, upon arrivitig, in State College brothers look on. Cronstedt will perform with yesterday afternoon with the touring Swedish the Swedes at their Rec Hall exhibition tonight. Four Transiate Story into Swedish The story in the left hand col umn of this nage is written in Swedish in order to permit the visiting teams to read of their three-day visit to Penn State. The story, co...c€ ing the gym nastic exhibition the Swedes will perforin at Recreation Hall to night. is almost an exact dupli cate of the story appearing in the right hand c. lumn. Mr. and Mrs. Arne Hansson of Uppsala, Sweden, and Mr. Henri Diamant of Copenhagen, Den mark are responsible for translat ing the story into Swedish. They spent three hours Friday night translating the story. Mr. and Mrs. Hansson arrived at the University Nov. 1, and will remain until next November. Both are employed by the University of Uppsala as research chemists. Research work in crystal struc (Continued on page eight) have been put into operation in this country. ' That announcement over the Moscow radio said a small atomic engined plant with a capacity of 5000 kilowatts had been put into operation and Soviet authorities and engineers planned construc tion of other plants with capacities of from 50,000 to 100,000 kilowatts. "The Soviet government, recog nizing the great importance of the peaceful utilization of atomic en ergy and striving to contribute to the development of international cooperation in this field, is ready to hand over scientific and tech nical experience piled up in the Soviet Union," Ilyichev's • an nouncement said. (Continued on page eight) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1955 Three campus musical groups will participate in the annual Winter Jazz Concert at 3 p.m. to morrow in Schwab Auditorium. The concert will be presented by Phi Mu Alpha, national honor ary and professional fraternity. Danny Grove and his "Sadistic Six Minus One," will play dixie land, and the Chuck Torrence Quartet will play progressive music. The Jazz Club, the University's newest music organization, will make its first appearance as a body when its 200 members at tend , the annual concert en masse. The Phi Mu Alpha dance band, under the direction of Chuck Springman, will play special ar rangements of popular and jazz classics. Members of the dance band are Francis Taylor, Jere Friday, Ken neth Lesight, John Ankins, Harry Blansett, Archie Sirianni, Buane Beals, Warren Daugherty, Charles Torrence, Donald Fought, Robert Dombeck, Lyle Barnard, George Black, , Gerald Miller, Peter Kie fer, and Austin Nester. , Alexander Zerban, president of Phi Mu Alpha, will emcee the program. Weather Station Expects Snowfall A low pressure area moving on the campus early tdmorrow morn ing will cause. about an inch or two of snow to fall, the University weather station has reported. Today will 1 - ...ve only a few snow flurries and a high of 38 to 40. The mercu j will dip to 25 to night, nearly the same as last night, the weather station said. Thursday morning's snowfall of one inch was the most snow to fall since Dec. 18, the first day of Christmas vacation, according to the weather station. Jazz Concert To Be Held Tomorrow rgiatt : ..,:..,,; . .,.',•::: , : - ..4' . : , :)...,:?,::.., , , .. .§ r.:i,',: • ..&:.::••:"..?.'•;;;',:";,.. . ...... 'Life is Freedoim' Is Chapel Topic The Rev. Luther H. Harshbar ger, University, chaplain, will speak on the subject "Life Is Free dom" at Chapel services at 10:55 a.m. tomorrow in Schwab Audi torium. The Chapel Choir will sing as anthem "0 Thou, the Central Orb of Righteous Love (Gibbons). The prelude, "Canzon" (Hasler), nad the postlude, Fugue in C Mi nor (Bach), will be played by George E. Ceiga, chapel. organist. Home Economics Tea The Home Economics Student Council will hold a tea from 3 to 5 p.m. tomorrow in Simmons lounge. The purpose of the tea is to b e t t e r acquaint freshmen with the faculty in, the College of Home Economics. Anna Saylor and Joan ll'retz are co-chairmen of the tea: g Journ inciu ed The University's budget submitted to the General Assembly for approval includes a provision for a curriculum of agricultural journ alism in the College of Agriculture. This was revealed by Dr. Russell B. Dickerson, associate dean and director of resident instruction, yesterday. Dr. Dickerson said the provision includes an appropriation for the curriculum and for personnel. The head of the cur riculum will probably act as ad visor for the Ag Hill Breeze and the Penn State Farmer. The agricultural administration is definitely in favor of the new curriculum, George Williams, president of the Agriculture Stu dent Council, told the council Wednesday night. He also said that if the plan goes through it will go into effect starting the fall semester of. 1955. This is the first indication of definite action on the proposed curriculum. Council voted unani mously on Feb. 23, 1954, to send a letter to Lyman E. Jackson, dean of the College of Agriculture, urg ing the establishment of an agri-1 State Over 6000 Expected. At Rec Hall By RON GATEHOUSE When an expected capacity crowd of over 6000 packs Recrea tion Hall at 7 tonight, it will mark the second time in two consecu tive years the world-renowned Swedish gymnasts have drawn a sell-out crowd at Penn State. Rec Hall: doors will oven at 5:30 n.m. arid music, provided by George E. Ceiga. University or cranist, and the Penn State Blue Band, will commence at 6:30 p.m. An additional 500 tickets will go on sale at the P - ac Hall ticket of fice at 6 n.m. These tickets will be for the track encircling the blonoher seats only. ~':. `~ The meet will mark another milestone in the history of Penn State athletics. Di'nitaries representing both the Swedish and United States governments will be present, and they, along with University stu 7 dents and State College residents, will witness one of the most dazz ling exhibitions of gymnastics available today. Swedish gymnasts have enjoyed a world-wide reputation for many years. The nation's teams have won Olympic honors several times and today over a quarter-million men and women in the country participate in the sport. Penn State gymnastics coach, Gene Wettstone, praised the Swed ish style of gymnastics in an ar ticle concerning their 30-stop tour of the United States a year ago. Wettstone wrote, "Effortless grace and simplicity of style char acterize this Swedish team, and one sight of the skill and precision of their calisthenic routine will be enough to convince anybody it is gymnastically outstanding." The Swedes arrived by Grey hound Bus Line's Scenic Cruiser in State College yesterday after noon, following a Thursday night show at the University of West Virginia. It was their sixth East ern exhibition before coming to Penn State. Wettstone viewed their first American performance Friday at Patterson, N.J., and was quoted as (Continued on page six) Program i c :;: itdget cultural journalism curriculum. Council felt that the creation of the journalism curriculum would' help alleviate problems concern ing agricultural publications. This can be illustrated by the recent problem concerning the competi tion for editor of the Ag Hill Breeze. With Harrington Case, present editor, graduating this se mester, there is no member of the staff qualified to take the posi tion. If the curricuum should be es tablished it would relieve council of the responsibility of the $3OO annual appropriation for publica tions. 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