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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
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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
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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
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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-#.
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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.
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