Taylor Announces Six Week Schiule For Chapel choir The itinerary and program for the Chapel Choir's six week tour of Europe has been announced by Willa C. Taylor, direc tor of the Chapel Choir. The group will leave by plane from Idlewild, N.Y., on June 20. The remainder of June will be spent in London and the United Kingdom. After a four-day stay in Bonn, Germany, the group will go on Saas-fee, Switzerland, for a three-day visit. The group will ' tour Florence and Rome for seven days before attending the music festival con certs at Atx-en-Provence in South ern France for two days. A five-day visit to Paris will precede the final stop of the tour in Amsterdam, Holland. The group will leave Amsterdam, after a two-day stay, for Idlewild on July 29. The choir's singing engage ments are being arranged by in vitation, Mrs. Taylor said. The program for their various con certs is divided into four parts. Great Composers Debaters Cop Trophy At Tourney The University, represented by members of the men's debating team, placed first with a score of 60 points in the Eastern Forensic Association tournament last week end and was the recipient of the Association's Sweepstakes Trophy. The University of Pittsburgh re ceived a total of 58 1 / 2 points to take second place. The tournament consisted of three separate contests—debate, extempore speaking, and persua sive speaking. In the debating event the Uni versity was represented by Sid ney Goldblatt, eighth semester pre-medical major, and Benjamin Sinclair, eighth semester arts and letters major on the affirmative, and David Meckler, eighth semes ter pre-medical major, and Jona than Plaut, fourth semester in dustrial engineering major, on the negative. The affirmative defeated Ford ham College of Education and Princeton University, and lost to St. Peter's College; University of Maine, and Barnard College. The negative side defeated George Washington University, University of Vermont, Hamilton College, William and Mary Col lege, Fordham Arts College, and St. John's University. The tournament marked the 23rd straight win for the nega tive. Due to the changing world situation, however, the affirma tive case has become weaker. The affirmatives had to change their case twice before the tournament Meckler tied for second and Sinclair for fourth place in. the extempore speaking contest, and Goldblatt tied for fourth place in the persuasive speaking event. In debate , Bates College won with a 10-2 record, and St. Peter's College, Pitt, and the University , tied for second place with 9-3 records. Cloudy Weather Predicted Today Today's weather forecast is for clear skies in the morning with increasing cloudiness occurring during the afternoon. The early morning low will be 49 degrees with warming to 75 degrees in the afternoon. The low temperature recorded yesterday was 46 degrees, and the recorded high was 78 degrees. This forecast was gompiled by Jack Buckingham, United States Air Force Meteorology student. 10th Hat Group Delphi, new sophomore men's hat society, was established Sun day night as the 10th hat society on campus. Second and third semester men may submit letters of application at the Hetzel Union desk by noon Friday. Letters should include the name, All-University average (1.0 is re quired), semester, and student ac tivities. TODAY'S WEATHER: CLOUDY AND WARM The first section, containing six number of the great composers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, includes "0 Magnum Mysterium" (da Vittoria), "Christ, to Thee be Glory" (Schuetz), "Who With Grieving Soweth" (Schein), "Dear God, 0 Bless Us" (Le Jeune), "I Will Not Leave You Comfortless" (Byrd), and "Exsultate Deo" (Scarlatti). The second section, entitled early American, will be five compositions by William Billings, including "The Bird" "A Virgin Unspotted," "When Jesus Wept," "Crucifixion," and "Resurrection." Contemporary Part . The contemporary American part includes "Truly, My Soul" and "Eternity" (Beattie), three compositions from "Five Hymns" (Bacon), and "The Last Words of David" and "Alleluia" (Thomp son). The fourth section will be "Te Deum in C Major" (Britten). Luthgr H. Harshbarger, Univer sity chaplain, and his family will join the choir on !their trans- Atlantic flight and remain with them during their stay in the United Kingdom. Mrs. Taylor and Georgia K. Selsam, assistant in music, will accompany the group for the entire tour. Seventy-one representatives of the University Chapel Choir will make the trip this summer. Banquet Ticket Sale Extended The deadline for purchasing tickets for the Gridiron Ban quet has been extended until noon today. Richard McDowell. president of Sigma Delta' Chi, men's national journalism hon orary fraternity, said yesterday. The banquet will be held by Sigma Delta CM at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Nittany Lion Inn. The theme will be "Cen tennial." and James W. Dean. assistant to the dean of men in charge of Independent affairs. will be the rebuttal speaker. • McDowell said approximately 50 tickets have been sold so far. Tickets are $3 per person. Robert Segal, fourth semester business administration maj o r, was elected president at the first meeting Sunday night. Steven Jor dan, fourth semester industrial engineering major, was chosen vice president, and William John son: fourth semester pre-medical major, secretary-treasurer. Charter members include last year's 10 outstanding freshmen: Robert Bennett, Forrest Crawford, Frank Ely, Robert Gellman, John son, Jordan, Samuel Kahn, James MUSSET, David Scott, Segal, and Samuel Wolcott. Point System New members will be chosen by a point system after application and interviewing by a screening board. All fields of activities will be represented in the society, in cluding a maximum of 15 mem bers. The constitution, which is simi br 'to that at Androcles, junior Tllr 'Bugg VOL. 55. No. 130 STATE COLLEGE. PA,, TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 3. 1955 5 'Miss State' Finalists Chosen by 15 Townspeople By NANCY SHOWALTER Faith Gallagher, Joan Hunter, Louise Justin, Barbara Patton, and Gail Smith were chosen as finalists from 29 entrants in the "Miss Penn State" queen contest by 15 town*. people last night. The judges held short informal interviews with each contestant and selected the ftnallsta from those totaling the most points in the final tally. The points were awarded on the basis of carriage, poise, grooming, speech, and attractiveness, said Carole Avery, coronation chairman. From the finalists one will be chosen Miss Penn State at the coronation ceremonies at 8 p.m. Monday in Recreation Hall. A celebrity will crown the queen; however, the coronation committee has not disclosed who the celebrity will be. Miss Gallagher was sponsored by Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Gamma. She is an eighth semester arts and letters major and a native of Athens. Betas Sponsor Hunter Miss Hunter was sponsored by Beta. Theta Pi and is an eighth semester education major. She is a native of Hollidaysburg. An eighth semester pre-medical major from Mt. Carmel, Miss Jus tin was sponsored by Phi Delta Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma. A native of Wynnewood, Miss Patton was sponsored by Pi Kap pa Phi and Atherton Hall. She is an eighth semester education ma jor. Voting for Senior Gift To Be Held Preliminary voting for the sen ior class gift suggestions will probably be held through Pan hellenic Council, Interfraternity Council. Association of Indepen den Men, and Leonides, Faith Gal lagher, chairman of the gift com mittee, announced Sunday. - Seniors were supposed to vote at a class mixer held Sunday af ternoon; however. Miss Gallagher said that only 25 seniors attended the mixer and she could not count their votes as being representative of the class. Donald Balthaser, senior class president, said he thought the students' other activities and their desire to enjoy the weather in fluenced the attendance. Miss Gallagher said that the gift committee was holding the preliminary voting so that they could have a representative idea of • what most of the senior class wanted. She said she hopes to have the five final , suggestions decided on by the end of the week. Accord ing to present plans final voting will take place when seniors ob tain their copies of LaVie. How ever, no date has been set for LaVie to be distributed, and there is doubt as to when they will be ready. Included in the gift suggestions are contributions for , the Helen Eaken Eisenhower Chapel, a still life painting by Franklin Watkins, contributions for a new auditor of the Pennsylvania Art Academy, ium, a Centennial memoral, and several others. Student's Condition Reported Satisfactory The condition of John W. Miller was reported satisfactory by Cen tre County Hospital authorities yesterday. Miller is now out of his coma and walking around, authorities said. sixth semester pre -med ical major, was injured in an au tomobile accident at the corner of Fairmount avenue and Locust lane, April, 24. Formed men's hat society, was drawn up by a committee representative of present hat societies. It was rati fied by Delphi Sunday night. tomznittee Members Members of the original corn mittee included Barbara Bendel, chairman; Scott, John Kersh, Jack Dimler, Marjorie Blank, Margaret Boyd, an d Wolcott, ex-officio member. The constitution will now go to the Senate Committee on Stu dent Affairs, subcommittee on organization control. No tappiag plans will be announced until the Senate committee takes action. No Definite Plans No definite plans halm been made as to how the new group will affect Druids, present sopho more men's hat society. At the meeting Segal made three committee appointments: ritual, Crawford, Musser; society history, Johnson, Wolcott; and de sign for the hat and key, Jordan. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Miss Smith is an eighth semes ter journalism major from Pitts burgh. She was sponsored by Chi Omega and Delta Upsilon. Chosen by Townspeople The. 15 townspeople who se lected the finalists included Mr. Eugene M. Fulmer, Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Leßoy Evey, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Fred L. Metzger, Metzger's Store; Mr. Robert C. Liggitt, manager of Sears Roe buck and Co.; Mrs. Kaye Vinson, Margaret Shop; Mr. and Mrs. Saul Averback, Smart Shop. Mrs. Richard V. Barrickman; Mr. John C. O'Connor. owner of the Tavern; Mr. Orland W. Houts, 0. W. Houts and Sons Inc.; Mrs. Thelma Whisler, manager of Clearfield's Store; Mrs. R. Russell Blair, Blair Shop; Mr. Milton Bergstein, manager of radio sta tion WMAJ; Mr. Wayland Duna way, local attorney; and Mrs. B. A. Whisler. The winner will receive num erous gifts from town merchants and a trophy. She will also re ceive 110 points for her sponsor toward the Spring Week trophy. The finalists will receive 60 points and the entrants reecived 10 points. U.S.-Backed Diem Defies Dai Revolt SAIGON, South Viet Nam, May 2 (iP)—Premier Ngo Dinh Mew —backed by army leaders and reassured of U.S. support—tonight defied ex-Emperor Bao Dai's power to change governments. While guns boomed in a fresh drive against rebels who chat• lenged Diem's authority last week, a message sent by Diem and three army generals to Bao Dai's villa on the French Riviera, advised him that any new government he might name would not be rec ognized. A "states general," an assembly of Vietnamese provincial dele gates, has been called for Wed nesday by the National Revolu tionary Committee with the de clared purpose of approving the committee's action Saturday de claring Bao Dai deposed. Diem learned directly from Gen. J. Lawton Collins, special envoy of President Dwight D. Eis enhower, that the United States still backs his conduct of the em battled South Vietnamese govern ment in the face of local rebel lion, French animosity and Bao Dai's disapproval. In Paris French officials, who had been blaming Diem for plunging his country into civil law and dinging to a Tottrgiatt 'Ugly Men' Will Parade Tonight Thirty-five of the ugliest mgt on campus will be on hand at 6:1111 tonight for the annual Ugly Mao Parade. The time of the parade was es , roneously reported as last nigh' in Saturday's Daily Collegian. The parade will form at 6 p.m. on Locust lane, from Foster ave. nue south. It will move from Lro• oust lane to Beaver avenue, down Allen street to College avenue, up Burrowes road to Pollock road, and will disband in front of Sim.. mons Hall. John Brunner, contest chair+ man, has announced that each contestant may have a minimum of four cars representing him in the parade. Brunner said frater nities would be in the line d march by alphabetical order. The Ugly Man contest, sponsor. ed by Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, will be held to morrow through Friday. Balloting, by a penny-a-vote system, will be gin at 8 a.m. tomorrow at a voting booth at the corner of the Mall and Pollock road. The Spring Week Committee will award 20 points for each en. trant, 25 for each of the seven flip nalists, and 100 for the winner. Four judges will select the win» ner from a list of the seven con• testants who have collected the most pennies. All proceeds from the contest will go to the campus chest. The four judges are :emus Lindeman, assistant to the dean of women; Loretta Saxion, recep tionist for the dean of men's of. fice; Lynn Christy, associate pros fessor of English compostiion; and Ross B. Lehman, assistant execs+ (Continued on page eight) they thought did not represent the people, joined the United States today in supporting the hard• fighting little Premier. Authoritative French govern» ment sources said France and the United States were now prepared to "sacrifice" Bao Dai as chief of state if his removal would pro. duce stability. This was in sharp contrast to French Premier Ed gar Faure's summary statement last week that Diem was unequal to his task. Whatever new turn official opinion in Paris may have taken, it apparently had not trickled down to French representatives in Saigon. Gen. Paul Ely, French high commissioner and comman der in Diem for nearly two weeks. Nor was Ely at the airpott, to.nonit •• • • on h 4 natins. FIVE CENTS
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