Students Buy Stamps CENTENNIAL STAMPS and envelopes commemorating the Uni 'verskty's 100th birthday went like wildfire at the Student Union defac' in Old Main yesterday. Michael Yeosock, third semester education major, 'purchases some 'of the 7000 Centennial stamps sold from Ellsworth Smith, clerk at the desk. 872,500 Stam • s Sold 'University Park' Becomes Official The location of the University officially will become "University Park, Pa." today. Although the official opening of the campus postal station in the Hetzel Union Building will not come until next Tues day in order to coincide with the University's birthday, the public information department today will begin using the University Park designation on press releases. Borough Postmaster Robert J. Miller announced yesterday that 872,500 Centennial stamps com memorating the 100th anniversary of the University and Michigan State College had been sold. The largest bloc was sold to the Uni 7 versity. Centennial stamps went on sale for the first time in State College at 8 a.m. yesterday. Workers at the Student Union desk in _Old .Main, where Centen nial stamps and envelopes also were sold, yesterday said they had sold 7000 stamps and 5000 envelopes. The Centennial envelope, bears the University's seal, an imprint of the tower of Old Main and a few lines about the University on its left side. The envelopes and stamps are being sold at 'the Student Union desk as a project of the Student Centennial Committee. Diehl McKalip, committee, chair man, said yesterday that the stamp and envelope sale at the Student Union desk will be con tinued until next Tuesday. (Continued on page eight) Initial 1955 Atomic Tests Begin Today LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb. 14 (4411 Despite lowering • clouds, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense pushed ahead today with preparations for the opening shot of the 1955 atomic series tomorrow. Nearly 1,100 militaiy men were readied for participation in the ;first of three Army maneuvers l under the gaze of high-ranking brass, members of the joint con gressional Atomic Energy Com mittee and AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss. The predawn shot, 32nd at the Nevada testing site, is scheduled at 8:45 a.m., EST, on Yucca Flat. There has been speculation that the device, to be exploded from a 500-foot tower, may be an im proved atomic trigger for the H bomb. It has been classed as "a major effort" for the•AEC's Liver (Continued on page three) Lion Party —Photo by Harrison LION PARTY elected three of its top clique officers Sunday night. The new clique officers are (1. to r.) Robert Spadaro, clique chair man; Barbara Hendel, clique secretary: and David Scott, vice clique chairman. All three were unopposed in the elections. Tilt Elting VOL. 55, No. 81 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15. 1955 FIVE CENTS Campus, Lion Elect Top Party Officers Editorial on page four The first guns of the spring election sounded Sunday night as Campus and Lion parties elected clique officers and approved their new constitutions. State party did not meet. The constituilons of all three parties still are awaiting approval of the Senate Com. mittee on Student Affairs, its Subcommittee on Organization Control, and the University Senate before the parties become officially chartered by the University. Lion Party Robert Spadaro, fourth semes ter arts and letters major, was elected clique chairman of the Lion party at an open clique meeting Sunday night.He was un opposed in the election. Spadaro was elected after Gor don Pogal, former clique chair man, announced his resignation last week. Vice-clique chairman and secretary were also elected at the meeting. Approximately 80 students attended the meeting. "I appreciate the confidence of the Lion party in electing me clique chairman," Spadaro said. "With a new party on campus, it will call for unified action on be half of the entire Lion party to achieve a successful election in the spring." David Scott, fourth semester agriculture economics major, was also unopposed in the election for the vice-clique chairman. Scott replaces Carl Saperstein, former vice-clique chairman, who re signed Friday to join the new Campus party. The election for clique lecre tary also drew only one candidate as Barbara Hendel, fourth semes ter medical technology major, was elected. Miss Hendel replaced Vanessa Johnson who was ap pointed clique secretary by Pogal when the former secretary re signed. Spadaro announced yesterday that he would complete his party appointments today. Pogal read the new constitution to the group and announced that it had been approved by the Sen ate Committee on Student Affairs subcommittee on organization control and needed only he ap proval of the Student Affairs committee. Spadaro also announced that at the next. clique meeting which will be Sunday night, nominations for class• officers for the spring elections will be held. On Feb. 27 the elections of candidates for class officers and nominations for 4 11-University officers will be held. Election of candidates for All-University officers will be on March 6, he said. Collegian Staffs Seek Candidates Candidates for the news staff and the business staff of the Daily Collegian will meet tonight. News staff candidates will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 1 Car negie. Business staff candidates will meet at 7 p.m. in 217 Wil lard. Candidates need not be jour nalism majors or have previous experience in working on newspapers. There is also no restriction in regards to the candidate's se mester standing at the Univer sity. TODAY'S WEATHER: CLOUDY AND COLD FOR A SETTER PENN STATE Old Man Weather Puzzles Students, Temperatures Fall Since last Thursday, the day many students hoped was a sign of an early spring, Old Man Weather has made a complete about face. Thursday ushered in spring -like weather, sending the thermometer to a short-lived 58 degrees. But on Friday snow was falling on the campus and the thermometer dropped to below freezing. The University weather station reports that approximately seven inches of snow has fallen since Friday. The snow which began yester day afternoon was predicted by the station to end early today. On Saturday morning the temp eratUrf dropped to a low of four degrees. Today is forecast to be cloudy and cold with tempOratures ex pected to range between 28 and 35 degrees. Birthday Dinner Waiters Needed Twenty-five more students are needed for waiters and waitresses for the Birthday Party dinner in the Hetzel Union Building Feb. 22, according to Mary Lee James, cat ering and party superviser. Miss James hopes to have at least 60 volunteers serving dinner for the dignitaries attending. Some experience is desirable, but not necessary, Miss James said, and interested students should stop in her office on the ground floor of the HUB. Students should ' enter at the service en trance.' by McAllister Hall. A rehearsal will be held the night before the dinner. Tottegitta Campus Party Approximately 300 students filled 10 Sparks Sunday night to elect five All-University clique members for the Campus Party. John McMeekin, sixth semester business administration major, was elected clique chairman; James Hand, eighth semester civil engineering major, vice-clique chairman; Margaret Fisher, fifth semester education major, record• ing secretary; Nancy Scho 11, fourth semester education major, executive secretary; and Robert Gellman, fourth semester hotel administration major, treasurer. The only office for which more than one candidate was nomi nated was that of executive sec retary. Candidates were Miss Scholl, Judy Smith, and Joan Bal sanki, which is a ficticious name. Ballots were cast for all three names. One of the changes made in the constitution Sunday afternoon, be fore the clique meeting, accord ing to Dick Rigling, an organizer of the party, was the section dealing with qualifications for All-University clique chairmen. The constitution was changed so that only the clique chairman has to have two remaining semesters as an undergraduate. Before, all five top clique officers had to have this qualification. Hand, the only nominee for vice-clique chairman, is an eighth semester undergraduate, who will be graduated this June. The meeting was opened by McMeekin and turned over to an impartial chairman, Robert Con• quest. Conquest read the consti tution, which was ratified by the group. McMeekin announced that the group would make nominations for the 20 class clique officers, at the meeting Sunday night. These names will be voted on at the following meeting. Matrix Cards Available New and duplicate matricula• tion cards are available now at 109 Willard.
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