lowa Eliminates Lions, 82-53 »±£ 1 (Sljp lath}® (EnlUgian " NCAA Tilt . By DICK McDOWELL A tall, speedy lowa Univer sity basketball team matched a red-hot shotting game with erratic Penn State play last night, and with that combin ation, scored an easy 82-53 victory over the Lions in the nightcap of the National Col legiate AA regional playoff double header at Evanston, 111. Coach John Egli’s Lions, look ing for their second victory in the tournament, passed and shot poorly while the Hawkeyes put on a dead-eyed shooting display before an estimated 9700 fans at Panh Stale will play in iha consolation game of the re gional match tonight against the University of Kentucky. The Wildcats were upset vic tims of Marquette, 79-71, in the first game of last night's twin bill. Game time tonight is 8:30 p.m. McGaw field house on the cam pus of Northwestern University. The lanky lowans, double teaming center Jesse Arnelle throughout the game, held the Lions in check underneath the hoops and moved steadily ahead after breaking into an early lead. Arnelle, who was able to shoot only three times during the first half, had 11 points for the Lions. Guard Bob Hoffman led the Penn State scoring with 14 points on six field goals. lowa started fast after the opening tap-off and scored heav ily while the Lions had trouble finding the shooting range. For ward McKinley Davis opened the lowa scoring with two free throws. Jim Blocker tied the count at 2-2 from the pivot and after that the Hawkeyes moved away from the Lions. Davis and Harry Cain scored on jump shots and Bob Seabhrg added another from the foul line. Weidenhammer hit on a long set shot bringing the count to 6-4, but seven straight lowa points brought the score to 13-4. L The Lions were erratic in their passing for most of the half and ' (Continued on page seven) ODK to Select Members Monday Charter members will be. select ed Monday to Omicron Delta Kap pa, men’s national leadership fra ternity. The organizational committee had planned to announce the names of charter members on Thursday, but due to difficulty arising from qualification require ments, they-were unable to do so. When the. fraternity has a min imum of 12 members it will go before the Senate Committee on Student Affairs subcommittee on organizational control to seek ap proval of its charter. The fraternity will apply for national recognition in May. Pi Lambda Phi May Return Pi Lambda . Phi, national fraternity which was suspend ed from the University in May, 1952, may be re-estab lished within the next year. Nelson Goldberg, president of Pi Lambda, a local fraternity chartered by University Senate in December, has said his group will apply to that national after it has served the year probationary per- TODAY'S WEATHER: WARM VOL. 55. No. 100 HUB Ins VAST SPACIOUSNESS is a visitor's first im- and staff members.are here inspei -ig *ie main fression when he steps into the Hetsel Union lobby. They are part of the test group which ullding, which goes on formal display iomor- has lunched in the for the last five row and opens on Tuesday. Students and faculty days. The information desk is at the right. Jones to Direct Tudor Singers In Concert Dr. Kor Jones, conductor of the Bach Choir Festival at Bethlehem and former director of the new Chamber Orchestra of Philadel phia, will direct the Tudor Sing ers of Bethlehem in a concert at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab Audi torium. The concert is one of the Sim mons Series and is sponsored by the Departments' of German and Music. Tickets are available with out charge at the German depart ment, 229 Sparks Building; the music - department, 217 Carnegie hall; the Student Union desk in Old Main, the Harmony Shop, the Music Room and Keeler’s Book Store. The program will feature ren aissance music representing vari ous nationalities, and will include compositions by Hans Leo Hass ler, Johannes Eccard, Orlando di Palestrina, Luca Marenzio, Ge sualdo do Venosa, Claude Le Jeune, William Costeley, Thomas Weelkers, John Farmer, John Willbye, and Thomas Morley. The Tudor Singers, a trained group of ten men and women, nave presented programs at Muh lenberg and Havorford Colleges and in April will appear at Lafay lette College. iod required of all new fraterni ties by Senate. Under Senate regulations, a lo cal fraternity may not apply to a national group until a year after it has been chartered. The proba tiqhary period for Pi Lambda will expire in December. • When Pi Lambda Phi was sus pended, it was stipulated that within a year, the national office could petition the Senate Com mittee on Student Affairs to lift the suspension. According to Goldberg, this was never done because most of the members of the University chapter were grad uated during that time. Organiser Returned Goldberg was a member of Pi Lambda Phi at the time it was suspended for various infractions of .University rules. He returned to the University last semester after serving in the armed forces. Goldberg said the national has stated it will recognize the group when University requirements FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 12. *955 Pleasant Weekend Is Foreseen A pleasant weekend is forecast by the University weather station. Both today and tomorrow are expected to be fair, with tempera tures hovering around 60 degrees. The thunderstorms early yes terday morning dropped the high tc 62. Yesterday’s low was 40, while today’s low is forecast for 49 degrees. Council Will Read AIM Constitution West Dorm Council will meet al 6:45 p.m. Monday in MCKee Lounge for the final reading of the proposed constitution of the association of Independent Men. The constitution gives liniited veto power to the AlM.president. Stanley Juras, sixth semester engineering science major and former president of the council, will report on the results of a poli he is now conducting to discover whether upperclassmen living in Hamilton Hall would like to live in separate units from freshmen this fall. Nittany Council Nittany Council will meet at 6:45 p.m. Monday in Nittany 20. William Johnson, council presir dent, requests all new officers be present. have been met. The local fraternity is spon sored v,by the Pittsburgh alumni chapter of Pi Lambda Phi. Not in IFC It is not a member of Inter fraternity Council and does not have a house. Goldberg said he hopes to apply for admission to IFC when the fraternity is recog nized by the national office. A Senate regulation prohibits a new fraternity from owning or operating a fraternity house for a year after it has been estab lished. Phi Sigma Delta occupies the house formerly owned by Pi Lambda Phi. Pi Lambda has 15 members and is an interdenominational group. Goldberg said the fraternity is planning several projects to aid needy children of the community. An endowment fund has also been set up to give financial aid to deserving students at the Uni versity. ection Slated 200 Students Get Blood Type Tests Some 200 students had i their blood typed and RH factor de termined Wednesday at the sec ond blood typing service spon sored by the Rod and Coccus Club. The turnout was a 100 per cent increase over last November’s service, according to Christine Donchez, club secretary. The service was conducted by 25 upperclassmen of the bacteri ology department. Dr. Carroll Heist, associate professor of bac teriology, was in charge. Faculty Luncheon Club Mary H. Filer, assistant pro fessor of art education, will ad dress the Faculty Luncheon Club at noon Monday at the Hotel State College. Tornadoes Hit Eastern U.S. The season’s biggest crop of tornedoes and thunderstorms ripped across the eastern third of the nation Friday, killing at least three persons, injuring a score and causing property damage in the mil lions. The twisters highlighted a violent outbreak of March weather over large areas of the country. Thunderstorms doused the sod den Ohio River Valley basin hard on the Heels of the river’s worst flood in seven years. However, the U.S. Weather Bureau at Pitts burgh saw no new flood threat resulting. Winds up to 70 miles an hour sent the winter’s worst dust storms boiling over the southern and central Great Plains. Half of Two Killed in State By The Associated Press A vicious thunderstorm pack ing powerful winds of hurricane force buffeted parts of Penn sylvania with savage fury yes terday. It left two de»d and destroyed more than a million dollars worth of property. Colorado’s three million acres of winter wheat was ripped out. A cool front, expanding east ward into moist and almost sum merlike warmth, triggered the chain of tornadoes and thunder storms. Will Open Officially On Tuesday Students, faculty, and town residents may inspect the fa cilities of the Hetzel Union 3uilding at open house from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. Preliminary to the opening of the HUB on Tuesday, the open house will give visitors a chance to spend as much time as they desire in looking over the new building. Tours of the building have not been George L. Dono van, manager of the Student Un ion explained, but student lead ers will be available to provide information for visitors. Pamphlet Discuses HUB A pamphlet giving the history of the HUB, a short description of each of the rooms, and a floor plan for each floors is availably at the HUB desk on the first floor. After the HUB opens Tuesday, it will be open while classes are in session during the regular aca? demic year. The hours will oe from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays. TUB Closes Today The Temporary Union Building will officially close today. It will be used by Players during the week-ends>and Extension service during the week. Although minor work remains to be done on the $2,900,000 build ing, all areas, except the- card room, television viewing room, and photographic dark rooms, will be open when the building goes into full-scale operation Tuesday morning. The Penn State Book Exchange, (Continued on page eight) By The Associated Press Hardest hit was a 45-mile area extending from Connersville northeastward to Union City in Indiana, Leetonia in Columbia County and Steubenville in Jef ferson County in Ohio and the southwestern Pennsylvania area around Pittsburgh. Winds up to 92 miles an hour buffeted much of the area. The storm struck east central Indiana shortly after 2 a.m., swept on into Ohio and then tore into Pennsylvania. Buffeting winds were felt in New York’s Steuben County. Wind-driven rain pelted parts of western Maryland and West Virginia. A mild squall line passed out to sea from New Jersey late Friday morning. Damage in Pennsylvania was estimated well in excess of a mil lion dollars. Damage also was ex pected to pass the million-dollar mark in Ohio. Indiana counted nearly $750,000 damage in two cities and insurance adjusters say claims from rural areas will hit the highest total in recent years. FIVE CENTS
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