To day's Westthers Showers mtd Cooler VOL. 55. No. 132 Change in Library Hours For Finals Is Improbable Ralph W. McComb, University librarian, stated yesterday that in all probability the library will not remain open until 11 p.m. during finals week. The request originated in the lib eral arts student council and was made during an All-Uni versity Cabinet meeting by Watson Leese, council president. Cabinet requested that the library extend its hours during final examinations. ' McComb, however, termed the problem “primarily a study, not a library, problem.” He went, on to say that the majority of stu dents who come to the library during finals do not need to use reference material, but want a quiet place to study. Library of ficials do not object to this, but since the library can accommo date only 200 students, extended hours would not benefit the ma jority of the University enroll ment. McComb further suggested that since the problem appears to be one of finding adequate study space, not library facilities, it might better be tackled from this angle. McComb also stated financial disadvantages to keeping the li brary open an extra hour. The staff librarians would have to be kept overtime, and the mainten ance staff would be forced to re schedule its work. The matter has not been closed, but will be discussed with the. administration and library, staff as well as Walter Wiegand, di rector of the physical plant. Other possible solutions, are being con sidered, although no definite de cision has yet been made. The library will remain open during its regular hours on May 30, Memorial Day. HEc Council Backs Cabinet Ring Proposal The Home Economics Student Council last night voted to sup port the Cabinet proposal to have a universal class ring for Penn sylvania State University grad uates, whether they have grad uated from the University campus or from an extension center. The council also voted to allot an amount of money to the Home Economics newspaper News and Views to , help cover expenses. They decided to compute council costs for the past year and then allot the rest of the council money to the newspaper, pro vided the amount does not ex ceed $240. Council also discussed two Cabi net proposals, but no vote was taken. The two proposals con cerned the leadership program set up by Cabinet and the Com munity Forum. A report on the Home Eco nomics council elections was giv en by Susan Hill. Susan Aiken gave a report on the Home Eco nomics College Spring Week. Miss Hill, Susan Fleming and Claire Gamm, council members, were appointed to meet with a committee set up by the Mineral Industries Student Council to dis cuss plans for a combined mixer between the two schools next September. Dating Code Changes Called 'Small Details' Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, said yesterday that the changes in the Inter fraternity Council dating code were only a “matter of small de tails.” ' The Senate subcommittee on student affairs heard the proposed changes yesterday from John Car penter, former IFC president, f Kenworthy declined to corn mention the nature of the re (Sfp iatly @ Coll Above It A 11... As Ugly Man Contest Begins Voting began yesterday to se lect seven finalists in the Ugly Man Contest. Balloting, by penny a-vote system, will continue! to day and tomorrow at the corner of the Mall and Pollock road. , After the first day, William Banfield, Sigma Pi, is leading with 1209 pennies. George Ebbert, PM Kappa, is second with 866, while Allan Schneirov, Phi Epsi lon Pi, is third with 847. Other ufflies in the contest are Allan Cetron, Sigma Alpha Hu, with 644; Frits Rice, Lambda Chi Alpha, with 688; Thayer Potter, Phi Delta Theta, with 561; and Frederick and Lawrence Cohen, Alpha Ep silon Pi, with 621. Richard Gordon, Phi Sigma Delta, with 407; Ronald Weidenhammer, Alpha Chi Rho, with 357 j Lamont Smith, Theta Chi, with 354; Randall Washburn, Phi Gamma Delta, with 310; Jerry Donovan, Kappa Sigma, with 291; and Alec Beliosov, Phi Kappa Psi, with 288. Howard Guenther, Sigma Chi, with 272; John Griener, Delta Sigma Phi, with 211 ; David Leathern, Alpha Gamma Rho, with 198; Karl Schwensfeier, Beta Theta Pi, with 184; Angelo Collura. Theta Xi, with 183; Robert Kltchell, -JM Kappa Phi, with (Continued on page eight) Ike Proposes Polio Vaccine Purchase WASHINGTON, May 4 President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed today, if necessary, to buy all commercial output of the Salk polio vaccine. He told his news conference: “There will never be a child in the United States denied this emergency protection for want of ability to pay. Of that we are ab solutely certain . . . “It is going to be distributed equitably to every state in the union.” Pledges in Person Eisenhower made those two flat pledges in person. A little later at the White House, Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty issued a statement saying: “The President believes the vol untary system for distribution is the best and quickest way of pro viding a fair and equitable allo cation of the vaccine to the states. “The President, however, be lieves that no child in this coun- FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 5. 1955 Cabinet to On Forum A report recognizing the unfeasibility of continuing the Community Forum program and recommending the establishing of an entirely new cultural and musical series will be read before All-University Cabinet tonight. A basic recommendation of the report will call for the support of the variety pro gram, to be called the Penn State Series, to be financed by an additional student fee of 50 cents a semester. Cabinet will also hear a report on the financing of the Sophomore Class Dance, and a request to send several students to the National Student Association regional conven tion. It may discuss a request by Dean of Men Frank J. Simes to force students to attend Milk 'Battle 1 To Highlight Dairy Show “The battle of the squirts” will be one of the featured events in the dairy exposition, to be held Saturday afternoon in the Ag Hill pavillion. The battle will be a milking contest for ex perienced and non-experienced coed milkers. Attending the contest and ex position will be Dr. William L. Henning, State secretary of agri culture and former head, of the Animal Husbandry department, and his deputy, Leland H. Bull, plus various fieldmen and officers of several of the statewide dairy breed organizations. The. exposition will begin at 12:30 pjn. and will continue throughout the afternoon. A ban quet will be held at 7:30 to cli max the day and present awards. The banquet will be sponsored by the Dairy Science Club and be presided over by Sally Jo Wal ter, dairy queen for the day. The coed milking contest is open to students from all colleges. The coeds will milk for a fixed rate of time and the winner will be chosen according to the amount of milk in the pail. There will be prizes for both the experienced and non-experienced divisions. Coeds may register for the con test, this week in 105 Dairy or by calling David Morrow, special events chairman, at Alpha Zeta. Last minute entrants will be tak en at the contest time of 1:55. The judges for the show are Cuthbert Nairn of Douglassville, and Donald Seipt of Easton. There will be competition in fit ting and showing of five types of cows: Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Holsteins, Jerseys and Guernseys. The champion fitters and show men in each division will then compete for the grand champion fitter and the grand champion showman. Officers' Names Due Names of newly elected offi cers of fraternities, sororities, honor societies, clubs, and other organizations may be turned in to the Hetzel Union desk by May •15 for the Hetzel Union Directory. try, because of inability to pay for inoculations or because of mal distribution of the supply avail able, should be deprived of the vaccine. Inability to Pay “If a situation ever develops in this country where children are deprived of the vaccine because of inability to pay or maldistri bution of the supply available, the President would immediately ask the Congress of the United States for authority to permit the secretary of health, education and welfare to buy the entire output of the vaccine, other than that already allocated to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. “The department in turn would be in a position to distribute free of cost to the states their allotted share of the vaccine over an emergency period.” The foundation is now provid ing free vaccine for the mass in oculations in the schools, begin- wjiatt Hear Plan Tonight Replacement Series Traffic Court hearings. The Penn State Series report will be submitted by Kirk Garber, chairman of a newly-formed com mittee to investigate chances of reviving the Community Forum, which has suspended operations as of next semester. This action was taken because the Forum had continually lost money in presenting five lecturers from varied walks of life on cam pus during the school year. The committee will report that although it found continued oper ation of the Community Forum financially impossible, it is con-, vinced University students should have access to a varied cultural program of speakers, musicians, and. other entertainers. 'Plan. Should Be Discussed* » Garber declined to release the ideas the committee has concern ing the set-up of the series be cause he said he feels the basic plan of starting a new program Should first be discussed by the various student groups and coun cils who are represented by Cabi net members. Cabinet will hear and possibly discuss the report at tonight’s meeting. Action may be taken in approving it at Cabinet’s meeting on April 12. Samuel Wolcott, president of the sophomore class, will present a short report on the financing of the Sophomore Class Dance, held April 23. ' Request by Beard Phillip Beard, AU-University secretary treasurer, will request Cabinet to send three or four stu dents, probably Cabinet members, to the NSA regional convention at Mt. Mercy College, Pittsburgh, this weekend. Cabinet voted several weeks ago to withdraw the University from yembership in the associa tion because it was felt the full potentials of NSA were not being utilized. Conference Attendance Beard said he feels the confer ence should be attended by Uni versity students so they can see “what NSA is doing. ,r By this observation it may be found ben eficial to reinstate University membership in the association, he said. Cabinet will discuss a request from Dean of Men Frank J. Simes to make about 100 student appear before Traffic Court. The student traffic violators have, ignored all (Continued on page eight) ning with first and second graders. Other youngsters are getting shots as the supply permits. No Child Denied Hagerty said the White House expanded on the President’s re marks, to include the pledge that no child shall be denied the pro tection because of faulty distribu tion. He emphasized to reporters that the suggestion of the govern ment taking over all output not allocated to the foundation was based on the possibility of an emergency he said has not yet de veloped. Eisenhower repeated his prefer ence for voluntary control meas ures in the face of a growing demand in Congress for some fed eral policing controls. He said he believed a system worked out by the Health, Education and Welfare Department will provide vaccine by Aug. 1 for all children aged 5-#. Sorority Ufe See Page 4 Clinic Will Be Prerequisite For 5 Offices AU-University Cabinet tonight will change its elections code to make the completion of the lead ership training clinic a prere quisite for election to the top five cabinet offices after January 1, 1958. The leadership clinic, which will begin next fall, was approved by Cabinet last week. A section of the bill provided that the elec tions code be appropriately amended at tonight’s meeting. The clinic will be an eight week course in student adminis trative leadership and open to all students. It will include instruc tion in student government struc ture, characteristics of a leader, and the functions of an officer. Going into operation the sec ond Wednesday of classes, classes will be held once a week. A stu dent must attend all classes in order tp receive a certificate of completion. In three years, completion of the clinic will be a qualification for election to All-University pres ident. vice president, and secre tary-treasurer, and senior and junior class presidents. Cabinet also recommended that freshman and sophomore class presidents taking office after September 1, 1957, enroll in the program. It advised the compo nent groups of Cabinet to alter their constitutions to make com pletion of the program a prere quisite for their presidents. Elm Disease May Threaten Campus Trees The Dutch Elm disease which hit the campus trees last fall is “hoped to be under control,” Wal ter Trainer, supervisor of land scape construction and mainten ance, said yesterday. However, it is still with us, he said, and the campus elm trees will be sprayed for the second time about the middle of June. They were first sprayed in March, he said. According to Trainer, the dis ease, which is carried by the elm bark beetle causes the leaves to be smaller than normal, then they wilt and drop prematurely. Three trees owned by the Uni versity had to be destroyed, Trainer sdid: a 26-inch diameter American elm near the west cor ner of Old Main, another on farm 5 and a small elm near Windcrest cottage. Trainer pointed out that spring is a particularly dangerous time because the beetles which carry the disease are coming out of the bark and may affect other trees. Brewster to Speak Dr. R. Wallace Brewster, pro fessor of political science, will speak on “Control of the Bureauc racy” at 6:45 tonight in the Wal nut Lounge in McElwain Hall. The meeting, sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science honor spciety, is open to everyone. FIVE CENTS
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