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.
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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
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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.