Today's Woathon '• Cloudy, Coolor. Light Rain VOL 55. No. 138 University Appropriation Goes Before State House A $25,194,000 appropriation bill for the University during the next two years was introduced in the State House of Rep resentatives yesterday, according to the Associated Press. The bill, submitted by Reps. J. Dean Polen (D-Wash.) and Norman Wood (R-Lanc.) was for the exact amount Gov. George M. Leader requested in his budget message to the legislature last month. Specifically, the bill provides: 1. For maintenance and instruc tion—s24,7B3,ooo. 2. For agriculture experiments at the agricultural experiment sta tion—slso,ooo. 3. For petroleum research and experiments—s66,ooo. 4. For coal research $70,000 with that sum to be matched by the anthracite and bituminous in dustries. 5. For non-metal mineral indus tries—s3s,ooo. 6. For long range mineral in dustries—s32,soo. 7. For matching funds for min eral industries research—ss7*soo. No Comment Given Fraternity Passes 'Dry 1 Resolution Alpha Chi Sigma voted at a house meeting over the weekend to' “go dry” for the remainder of the semester, William Childs, house president said Wednesday. The fraternity took the action after a freshman reportedly be came drunk at the house on Sat urday night, May 1, Childs said. However, two brothers who saw the student leave, Childs said, stated that the student was not intoxicated. Childs said he left the house early in the evening. Alpha Chi Rho, on the same evening, was robbed by the same student who had become drunk earlier in the evening at Alpha Chi Sigma, Ronald Griffes, presi dent of Alpha Chi Rho said yes terday. Griffes said that the' student was apprehended at about 1:20 a.m. Sunday with a class ring, cigarette lighter, pens and pencils, a 25 calibre automatic pistol, and $l4 in cash in his possession. Ellsworth Smith, chairman of the Interfraternity Council Board of Control, said that the Board will meet at an early date next week. Smith said the Board would hear the case involving the rob bery at Alpha Chi Rho but he re fused to state whether the case in volved the same student who had become intoxicated at Alpha Chi Sigma earlier in the evening.. Smith said that the Board will also determine whether Alpha Chi Rho was responsible for servihg alcoholic beverages to a minor. Smith said that the newly ap pointed Board of Control will sit in on the hearing. Cloudy Skies and Rain Forecast lor Today Today’s weather forecast calls for cloudy skies with intermit tent rain and cooler temperatures. The high this afternoon will be near 60, and the low will be be tween 50 and 55. . Yesterday’s high was 76 and the low was 46. Today’s weather data was compiled by George Main, senior in meterology. 28 000 Tickets Sold Twenty-eight thousand tickets were sold during the first night of Spring Week Carnival—less than on the first night of last year but equal to the number sold both nights in 1953—according to Rich ard Favro, Spring Week commit tee business manager. A total of $2BOO, which will go to the All-University Scholarship Fund, was collected through tick ets sold at ticket booths dispersed over the grounds, Favro said. Tickets taken in at individual shows have not been tabulated, he said 9000 Students Attend An estimated 9000 students at tended the carnival, but the pro portion of students who went into the shows was smaller than in past years, Favro said. < This drop in the proportion that attended snows is due to the fact that the sponsors did not push their shows as much as in past years because there was little em phasis on the number of tickets sold this year, Favro explained. The number of points that can (Ml University officials had no com ment yesterday oh the introduc tion of the bill. The budget request represents an increase of $4,694,000, or 22 per cent over the appropriation for the last biennium, the budget under which the University is now operating. Under the current budget, the university was grant ed $2O/089,000 for general main tenance and instruction. The budget for the next bien nium asks $24,783,000, an increase of $4,594,000. No information was available on what this increase was to be used for, or how much of ian increase was asked in each of the six other categories listed above. Included in Request The request for the appropria tion was included in Leader’s re quest for $620,067,000 to run the Commonwealth for the next two ye n rs. The request must be approved by ooth nouses of the General As sembly before it becomes official. If the past is any indication, it may be some time before the bud get bill is finally approved. In 1951, for example, Gov. John S. Fine submitted a request for the University for $l6 million in March. The House increased-this by $1.5 million, then the Senate killed the increase. The bill finally passed the leg islature 10 months later with the increase included. 'Flight' Applications University women interested in Angel Flight may oblaifi ap plications at the Hetsel Union desk, Ann Lederman, flight commander, has announced. be obtained through ticket sales is only 225 out of 1000, he said. Three hundred and twenty-five points will be given for gqod taste, 225 for originality, and 225 for adherence to theme plus the 225 for ticket sales. Carnival Judges Judges for the carnival re mained anonymous and visited the shows throughout the two ev enings. The fact that there were eight less booths this year than last year also accounts for the smaller number that went in to see the shows, Favro added. The 37 booths situated at the Windcrest area on the corner of Shortlidge road and College av enue were reviewed by All-Uni versity cabinet and the Spring Week committee during the two nights of the carnival. None of the booths were closed down, although four were warned. After the four were warned they improved to meet the standard set up by the Spring Week com mittee, Joseph Barnett, general FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 13. 1955 Eisenhower to Get Honorary Degree President Dwight D. Eisenhower will receive ah honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University when he addresses the 1955 graduating class June 11. President Eisenhower will thus become the first non-alumnus to receive an honorary doctor’s degree from the University, and one of the few ever' to be chosen as a recipient of an honorary degree by the University. Following his morning Commencement address, the President will join his brother, Construction Begins On Animal Lab Construction has begun on a new and larger animal disease laboratory to be located near the present laboratory, according to Dr. Alfred L. Bortree, head of the department of veterinary science. The new unit, which will be L-shaped, will consist of a main building 37 feet wide and 148 feet long, with an adjoining wing 39 feet wide and 113 feet long, Dr. Bprtree said. It will be located about 150 feet from the present laboratory, he said. Excavation for the foundation, which was started about five weeks ago soon after the contract was let, has already been com pleted, he said. One wing has offices, seven lab oratories including a large cen tral laboratory, and locker rooms specially designed to facilitate the changing from contaminated to clean clothes, he said. A clinical section, isolated but adjoining the main unit, will in clude a pharmacy and an ex amining room to be used for vet erinary services for University livestock, Dr. Bortree said. Eventually all work on animal diseases will be moved to this building, leaving the present building available for work with poultry diseases, he said. J. C. Orr, general contractor from Philadelphia, received the contract for $241,000, Bortree said. Dr. Howdrd W. Dunne, head of the animal disease research pro gram, said both laboratories will introduce the disease to be stud ied into healthy animals. This will make it possible to study the dis eases under carefully controlled conditions, he said. Encampment Applications Due Students who are interested in attending the 1955 Student En campment should Report between 6:15 and 7:15 p.m. Wednesday or Thursday to 218 Hetzel Union. chairman, said. Booths were in exceptionally good taste this year and the com mittee and checkers had no trou ble controlling shows, he said. Rides and concessions selling candy floss, popcorn, soft drinks, and pizza were scattered through out the grounds. Three prizes will be awarded in each of the four carnival cate gories. Delta Sigma Phi and Delta Del ta Delta led Wednesday night in the number of Spring Week points excluding carnival. Sigma Pi and Gamma Phi Beta are in second place, and Sigma Chi and Zeta Tau Alpha in third place. Carnival ticket sales of indi vidual booths will be tabulated so that the winner of the Spring Week trophy will be announced at the Senior Ball intermission tonight, Favro said. He explained that there will be three winners in each category, making twelve in aIL Second and Third ttjratt Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, and, lay the cornerstone for the Helen Ea ken Eisenhower Chapel at 12:30 p.m. in Hort Woods near Pattee Library. Research by librarians in the Penn State Room has established that honorary degrees have sel dom been conferred in the past. Since it Was first announced that President Eisenhower would be the Centennial Commencement speaker there was speculation that an honoraiy degree would be conferred on him. No Degree Awarded The statement was made then, and carried by The Daily \Colle gian, that the University had never awarded an honorary de gree. Investigation revealed, however, that although it has apparently been a long-standing policy of the University Board of Trustees not to grant honorary degrees, several such degrees were awarded in the past, including two doctorates. Both doctorates were conferred on faculty members before 1909. In addition, the Board of Trustees in 1911 approved the granting of honorary masters degrees to those members of the first graduating class who would be present for their 50th reunion. Eight Masters Degrees Consequently, masters degrees were conferred on eight graduates and honorary certificates were given to 11 other members of the first class who had not been grad uated but had returned for the reunion. Also at the 1911 commencement three other honorary masters de grees were conferred. One to a faculty member and the other two to non-alumni. From 1911 to 1922 the practice of conferring honorary masters degrees and certificates was con tinued for graduates who returned for their 50th class reunion. The June Commencement will be held at Beaver Field unless it rains and a shift to Recreation Hall is necessary. University offi cials expect one of the largest Commencement audiences in the University’s history on hand for the ceremonies. The event will also receive extensive radio and press coverage. Big On Four Agrees Austrian Treaty VIENNA, Austria, May 12 (/P) —The Big Four agreed today on final terms for an Austrian treaty of independence. This country’s foreign minister, mindful of an impending top level East-West meeting, called it “a turning point in world history." U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Sec retary Harold Macmillan, French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay and Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov will sign the treaty here Sunday which makes Austria a neutral in the cold war. Ratification will mean indepen dence for. the first time in 17 years for this nation of seven mil lion with an area roughly equiva lent to Maine or South Carolina. Ninety days after ratification, 70,000 occupation troops of the four powers who have been in Austria for a decade will be with drawn. Ratification is expected to *><» comnleted by Dec. 31. For a while today it looked as though a deadlock over a clause dealing with economic conces sions of Russia to Austria might block or delay the treaty signing. But' a communique from the Big Four ambassadors after a meeting of 100 minutes declared Atadmmh Honesty S — Pogm 4 Orchestra, Choir Plan Bth Concert The Chapel Choir and the Sym phony Orchestra will present its eighth annual Spring Concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Schwab Auditorium. The concert, entitled “Contem porary Music of Three Faiths,” includes settings of texts from Protestant, Catholic, and Hebrew liturgies. The opening number of the pro gram, “Antiphon for Festival and the Magnificat,” was written by George E. Ceiga, Chapel organ ist, at the request of the choir. In recognition of the Tercentenary celebration of the establishment of the American Jewish, commun ity, the Choir, accompanied by members of the Symphony Or chestra, will conclude the program by singing “Sacred Service” in its original Hebrew. Raymond H. Brown, assistant professor of music, will sing the baritone role of Cantor in the con chiding number. Student soloists for the concert are Pearl McGee and Barbara Parros, sopranos; and Francis Reynolds, tenor. The Choir will be assisted in the con cert by Ruth Bowman and Juanita Sherk, sopranos, and by the fol lowing alumni members of the group: Suzanne Hess, Nancy Wi ant, and Ruth Van Akin, altos; John Nesbitt, tenor; and John Jenkins, baritone. Willa C. Taylor is director of the Choir, and Theodore K. Kar han, associate professor of music and music education, directs the Orchestra. The newly elected of ficers and the current officers of the Choir are handling the pro duction details of the concert. No seats are reserved for the concert. The doors will open at 7:30 p.m. “full unanimity has been reached on all articles of the draft treaty.” It added that by the end of this week the Big Four Foreign min isters will meet here with repre sentatives of Austria “for the ex amination and signature of the Austrian state treaty.” The ambassadors of the Western Powers bumped into the deadlock three days ago when the Russians balked against revising Article 35 of the treaty to include recent concessions to the Austrians made in talks in Moscow last month. These involved return of the great Zisterdorf oil fields and the Danube Shipping Co. to Austria. _ The ambassadors finally de cided to make the concessions an annex to the treaty, climaxing with success nine days of talks. FIVE CENTS
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