go . ugh
ihe Terrace Room of lhe HUB at noon yesterday as a pilot group
to test the service and food at the new cafeteria.
475 Lunch in HUB
Starting 5-Day Test
Nearly 475 people ate lunch in the Hetzel Union Building yes
terday, beginning a five-day experiment to test the food service in
the cafeteria unit.
Tickets, authorizing 300 students and 300 employees to have
lunch for 25 cents were issued last week. It is expected that each
of the 600 ticket holders will eat lunch there at least four times
during the week.
Thursday and Friday afternoon
the Lion’s Den snack bar will be
open to an invited group of 300
additional students. They will be
served at half the regular price.
Both experiments are' to pro
vide employes with experience
before all of the services go into
full operation next Tuesday.
Lines are banished as people
enter the food area. Known as the
hollow-square arrangement, the
cafeteria can turn out as many as
22 customers per minute. Custom
ers pick up trays, silverware, and
napkins from a station in the cen
ter of the unit. Then, instead of
following a line, they move to any
of four sides of the square.
One side offers the main course,
one salads, juices, and bread, an
other desserts and hot breads, and
the other beverages.
All meals are a-la-carte except
the “student special,” which
costs 80 cents for lunch and $1
for dinner. Yesterday the “stu
dent special” consisted of mac
caroni and cheese, buttered peas,
choice of salad,-bread and butter,
dessert, and a beverage.
About 30 different foods were
available yesterday, including
four main course dishes of pork
chops, pot roast of beef, chicken
a-la-king, and ■ macaroni and
cheese. There were choices of
eight different vegetables, five
salads, three breads, and 10 des
serts.
Tables in the room are light
maple with chairs upholstered in
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HUB to Hold
Open House
On Sunday
Open house will be held in the
Hetzel Union Building from 1:30
to 5 p.m. Sunday for students,
faculty, and town residents. The
HUB will go into full scale opera
tion next Tuesday.
Guided tours will not be pro
vided, but guests may walk
through the corridors and look
into all sections of the building,
which has been under construc
tion for over two years.
Hat society members may be
stationed in various rooms to ex
plain the functions of the rooms.
Although facilities will not be
open Sunday, students may in
spect the entire building, except
the food service equipment, which
will be roped off.
On the ground floor is the Book
Exchange store, the dining room
and Lion’s Den snack bar, and
the game area. The Terrace Room,
the cafeteria area, will be open
daily from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
and from 5 to 6:45 p.m. starting
next Tuesday. Adjoining the Ter
race Room aTe three dining rooms
which can be reserved for group
luncheons and dinner meetings.
The Lion’s Dein, 'which will
serve breakfasts, will feature soft
ice cream, doughnuts, sandwiches,
coffee and soft drinks.
The card room, TV room, and
photography dark rooms have
not been completed.
Spring Week Chairmen
Groups entering Spring Week
should elect chairmen and
names should be turned in at
the Student Union desk in Old
Main by 5 pjn. today, Joseph
Barnett, general chairman of
Spring Week, has announced.
TODAY'S
WEATHER:
CONTINUED
COLD AND
WINDY
Biggest Blast Set Off
LAS VEGAS, Ne., March 7 (JP)
—The biggest blast of the new
atomic test series flashed forks
of light visible in a dozen states
today, caused bn earth rumble
360 miles away, and sent scientists
and soldiers scurrying for safety
from the Nevada test site.
The shock caused a minor earth
quake scare in Salt Lake City.
One man in Murray, a Salt Lake
City suburb, reported the con
crete on his front porch cracked.
Windows and plates rattled sharp
ly in the Utah city a half hour
after the explosion, which came at
5:30 a.m., 20 minutes before dawn.
But the only radiation threat
from the big shot—which had
been nicknamed operation jinx—
came to the testers themselves.
A sudden wind shift forced
more than 100 Atomic Energy
Commission scientists and 575 Ar
latly
VOL. 55. No. 96 STATE COLLEGE, PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 8. 1955 FIVE CENTS
Spring Election
Slates Nominated
Campus Party
Names Seely
To Head Slate
Earl Seely, junior class presi
dent, received the nomination for
All-University president on the
Campus party slate Sunday night.
Robert Sturdevant, chairman of
the All-University Cabinet Foods
Committee, is the candidate for
All-University vice president; and
Philip Beard, Thespian, for All-
University secretary-treasurer.
Nominees for senior class of
ficers are Robert McMillan, presi
dent; William Rohm, vice presi
dent; and Ann Lederman, secre
tary-treasurer.
Junior class candidates are Rob
ert Bahranburg, president; Daniel
Land, vice president; and Suzanne
Loux, secretary-treasurer.
All-University Elections Com
mittee decided to make senior
class presidency and vice presi
dency fraternity posts, and the
junior class presidency, an inde
pendent position. The post was
previously a fraternity one. This
opened the junior class vice presi
dency to a fraternity man.
Land, who had previously been
nominated for junior class presi
dent, dropped down to run for
vice president because of the
changed regulation. Bahrenburg
moved up from the junior class
vice presidency to presidency.
Senior class vice president was
the only post with more than one
preliminary nomination. Nominees
were James Culbertson, Philip
Wein, and Rohm.
John McMeekin, clique chair
man, told the clique of one pos
sible plank for the party’s plat
form. He suggested that Cabinet
set up a Student Welfare Com
mittee which would investigate
all complaints made by students.
The committee would then make
suggestions to Cabinet. McMeekin
said such a committee exists at
the University of California.
A suggestion of a tax on ad
mission to athletic events to be
used foi raising funds to send a
candidate to the Olympic Games
in 1956, was a suggestion from the
floor.
Coed, Walking Alone
Attacked, Unharmed
A University coed was grab
'ed by a man while she was
talking on campus about 9 last
night, according to the Campus
Patrol. She was unharmed.
Her assailant escaped before
a description of him could be se
cured. the Patrol reported.
The coed was walking alone
on campus when the incident
occurred, according to the Pa
trol report,
No further details were avail
able last night.
my and Marine personnel to evac
uate Yucca Flat 10 minutes after
the detonation. It was predicted
there might be a dangerous radio
active fallout from the lower part,
or stem, of the atomic cloud near
the control point.
This, however, failed to happen
immediately. Six hours after the
blast there was no report of se
riously high radiation anywhere,
on site or off.
Military maneuvers for the sol
diers and Marines were canceled.
They had taken the impact of the
blast well-protected in six-foot
trenches 5500 yards away from
ground zero—the 500-foot tower
from which the device was ex
ploded. No casualties were re
ported.
It was the highest tower shot
ever held here; 300 feet was the
previous high. That and the clear
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Lutter to Run
For Presidency
On Lion Ticket
Rudolph Lutter, All-University
Cabinet Committee jf One who
proposed j new grading plan, was
nominated as Lion party’s candi
date for All-Univ«rsit> president
for the spring elections in the last
official clique meeting Sunday
night.
Over 250 students attended the
tneeting.
Terry Hunter was elected as
candidate for senior class presi
dent and Leonard Richards was
the choice for junior class presi
dent
In the other All-University
offices, Stuart Horn received the
nomination for vice president and
Richard Seng was named the
candidate for secretary-treasurer.
Both were unopposed in the nom
ination.
John Riggs was unopposed in
the' nomination for senior class
vice president anc Renna Cram
er was elected candidate for sen
ior class secretary-treasurer.
In the junior class, William
Snyder will run for the vice pres
ident and Dorothy Glading will
be the candidate for secretary
treasurer.
Lutter was opposed in the nom
ination bj James Ginsberg Hunt
er, in gaining the senior class
presidency nomination, was op
posed by John Albrecrt and Wil
liam Oberly. Miss Cra ner was op
posed by Lillian Melko.
In the junior class, Richards
was opposed by Edward Fegert
for the presidential nomination
and Thomas Dye ran against Sny
der as candidate for vice presi
dent. Miss Glading was opposed
by Nancy Marshall as candidate
for secretary-treasurer.
Low Temperatures
To Continue Today
The cold weather which ar
rived on campus over the week
end is expected to continue to
day, according to the University
weather station.
Winds are forecast to continue,
but the station reports little
chance for snow.
Yesterday’s temperatures rang
ed between 20 and 24 degrees.
Today’s high is forecast for 28,
while this morning’s low is ex
pected to be a cold 15 degrees.
Five O'clock Theater
Five O’Clock Theater will pre
sent “A Lamp for a Living Room,”
an original play by Edward Leas,
at 5 p.m. today in th_ Little Thea
ter, basement of Old Main. The
script-in-nand play is being di
rected by James Carroll.
in Mevada
weather accounted for the
amazing distances the flash was
seen.
Speculation on the device itself
centered on the possibility it was
a new atomic trigger for the hy
drogen bomb. The AEC would say
only it was a major effort for the
Livermore, Calif., laboratory, with
an assist from Los Alamos, N.M.
Livermore in the past has special
ized on H-bomb developments,
but no H-bombs have been tested
here.
The mushroom of the nuclear
cloud rose to 40,000 feet, highest
of the series, and was being
blown eastward across southern
Utah, southern Colorado, a cor
ner of Kansas and the Oklahoma
Panhandle. It was expected to
reach North Carolina on a front
of perhaps 200 miles within 72
hours, the AEC indicated.
(Eollrgiait
Leasure, Lyon,
Howes to Head
State Party
John Leasure, sixth semester
forestry major, was elected to run
to run for All-University presi
dent on the State party ticket last
night.
Dean Belt, sixth semester ani
mal husbandry major, was
elected to run for All-Univi.-ity
vice president, and Peter Bond,
sixth semester dairy science ma
jor, wao named to run as All-
University secretary-treasurer.
The State party senior class
slate includes John Lyon, sixth
semester geophysics and geoch r.m
istry major, president; Roger Vo
gelsinger, seventy semester busi
ness administration major, vice
president; and Martha P. Mac-
Donald, sixth semester home eco
nomics major, secretary-treasurer.
Those elected to run for the
junior class offices on the State
party ticket are Elisha Howes,
fourth semester arts and letters
major, president; Roy Walker,
fourth semester psychology ma
jor, vice president; and Jo Ful
ton, fourth semester education
major, secretary-treasurer:
All-University elections will be
Tuesday and Wednesday, March
30 and 31 in the Hetzel Union
Building. There will be no decen
tralized voting for these elections.
The All-University candidates,
the senior class president, junior
class president and junior class
secretary-treasurei were unop
posed in the elections.
The senior class clique secre
tary, Marilyn Quigley, sixth se
mester home economics major,-
and senior class clique secretariat,
Virginia Kobylinski, were elected
at the meeting last night.
The State party had meetings
last night and Sunday night to
make final nominations for candi
dates.
At Sunday night’s meeting stu
dents were elected to represent
six colleges on the State party.
They were chemistry and phys' es,
James Clokey; mineral industries,
Donald Lowry; education, Jc’in
Starkey; physical education, Jay
Livziex; business administral on,
James Forsythe; and home eco
nomics, Ann Forster.
Four clique officers were also
elected at that meeting. They are
Robert Baker, senior class vice
clique chairman; Geri Naugle, All-
University clique secretariat; Vin
cent Carlone, sophomore class
clique chairman; Margaret Leas,
sophomore class clique secretary;
and Katharyn Swanson, sopho
more class clique secretariat..
Student Driver Involved
In Slight Accident
Paul Post, seventh semester for
estry major, was involved in a
slight accident last night at the
intersection of College avenue and
Burrowes street.
Borough police reported dam
age to Post's car was about $25
and a sma- 1 child in the other car,
driven by - a Bellefonte woman,
wis shaken up but released by a
doctor. Df.mage to the Bellefonte
car was about $lOO.
Seniors May Present
Class Gift Suggestions
Boxes for senior class gift
suggestions have been placed
in the lounges of McElwain,
Simmons. Atherton, Women's
Building. Grange, and in War
ing Hall, the Student Union
Desk in Old Main, and in the
Temporary Union Building.
Students of all classes may
submit ideas.