Battg VOL. 55, No. 146 STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1955 FIVE CENTS Awards to Be Given National Champions The University will give awards to Easternand national champions and letter-winners on championship teams, Ernest B. McCoy, director of 'athletics, announced yesterday, Awards will go to members of championship teams of tha 1954-55 and all succeeding teams, McCoy said. Distribution Date Is Set For LaVie Distribution of LaVie will be gin around June 1, George L. Donovan, director' of associated student activitips, said yesterday. The Centennial issue theme is "Penn State through 100 Years," and will have an additional 40 pages, according to David Carvey, editor of -LaVie. Garvey said that each of the sections will feature the past and present at the University. Pic tures will be used to portray the theme. This year's LaVie will have a special feature—a short history of the University, according to Car vey. He explained it would be mainly a student's history with pictures of events, student activi ties, and faculty activities. The year-book will be .distri buted to all seniors in the card room of the Hetzel Union Build in Seniors should watch for signs on campus concerning the distri bution, Donovan said. Grace Is Elected President-of.-AFC Robert J. Grace, assistant pro fessor of fuel technology, has been elected president of the Associa tion of Fraternity Counselors. Other officers are William L. Kjelgaard, instructor in agricul ture enginering, vice president; Charles L. Fergus, associate pro fessor of botany, secretary-treas urer; and Pennoyer F. English, profes.sor of wildlife management. member-at-large to`the executive committee. The counselors heard the views of four housemothers at the meet ing Thursday, Grace said. Grace added that the house mothers were definitely in favor of the system and he felt the program future looked bright. • Dean, Mayberry to Head Secretarial Committee Harold Dean, junior in edtica tion from Uniontown, and Julie Mayberry, sophomore in business administration from Bradford, have been tentatively appointed co-chairmen of the Cabingt Sec retarial Committee. The appoint *lents will be subject to final ap proval of All-University Cabinet. -Other members of the commit tee which were appointed at the last Cabinet meeting are Nanpy Scholl, Marjorie Blank, Ronald Mountan, and Patricia Mostrog. Joint Frosh Customs Board The Joint Freshman Customs Board will meet at 6:45 tonight in 203 Hetzel Union, according to Margaret Boyd, co-chairman. TODAY'S WEATHER: CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Nittany Lion statuettes mount ed on a wooden base with an in scription will be presented to na tional individual champions and letter-winners on championship squads and managers, McCoy said. On this basis, letter winners and the manager of this _year's undefeated soccer team will be presented with the statuettes. Three Penn State individual national champions will also be honored. They are Karl Schwensfeier, Eastern all-round gymnastic • champion, • national collegiate all round gymnastic champion, who tied for the Na tional Amateur Athletic Union all-round gymnastic champion ship title: Bill Oberly, national wrestling heavyweight cham pion; and Larry Fornicola, na tional wrestling champion in the 137 pound class. The awards will be , prepared over the summer and mailed to the winners. 'ln the future, Mc- Coy said, the awards will be pre. sdrited to winners at a campus event. A 6-by-7-inch plaque with a flve-inch medallion portraying the burning lamp,- the symbol of the Olympic competion, will be awarded to future Eastern cham pions and letter-winners on cham pionship teams. Basketball and baseball teams will be considered Eastern cham pions if they are invited to the National Collegiate Athletic As sociation playoffs. If the gym nastic squad is named Eastern champions, members will receive plaques. - Football teams will be con sidered Eastern champions if / they are declared Eastern cham pions under the Lambert rating system or if they are unde feated. FOotball squads which are de clared national champions by polls conducted by any of the three major wire services the Associated Press, the United Press or the International News Service—and football squads which are invited to and win one of the major bowl' games will be considered national champions by the University and presented the Nittany Lion statuette. The University has not pre viously given awards to its championship teams or individ ual champions. The new policy was adopted by the Athletic Advisery Board, composed _of representatives of the administration, alumni and students, at its last meeting. Earlier this semester. All-Uni versity Cabinet deferred action on a request that the soccer team be given an award by Cabinet in honor of its winning the national championship title. Vaccine WASHINGTbN, May 24 (. I P) Surgeon General Leonard Scheele announced tonight that the gov ernment has confirmed the safety of all Salk polio vaccine produced by drug companies except possibly two lots made by Cutter Labora tories, Berkeley, Calif. There was no immediate indica tion, however, of when the stalled immunization program would be resumed. There were signs mean while of strained relations be tween Dr. Scheele and some other anti-polio leaders on the one hand and Dr. Jonas Salk and Basil O'Connor on the other. O'Conner, president of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis, had been pressing for more public in formation on the polio campaign, including a report on the Cutter vaccine. Scheele, in• a statement at the close of a meeting, of government Cwens Find Unrecorded $3OO Account An early spring "houseclean ing" for Cwens, sophomore wo men's hat society, suddenly found the organization to be $3OO weal thier: When the treasurer sorted the files and accounting books, in or der to move to the Hetzel Union Building, the report of an unre corded savings account was found. Eight years ago the Hat So ciety Council formulated plans to build a house containing meeting rooms for all the societies. Cwens was the only group who earned money for the project, raising $3OO in one year. The treasurer at that time apparently never re corded the account. This spring, Cwens decided to invest the money in some badly needed ritual equipment, and•two $5O scholarships for sophomore women. The $3OO also helped finance the trip to St. Lawrence Univer sity, Canton, N.Y., when, the Cwens initiated the 15th national chapter of the society. The remainder of the amount will be passed on to the ne members of Cwens. Elm Tree Difease Believed Checked; 2nd Spray Coming The Dutch Elm disease which hit the campus trees last fall is under c on t r 01, Walter Trainer, supervisor of landscape construc tion and maintenance, said yes terday. However, a second spray will be applied to the trees the week after commencement to insure that the disease does not become active again, he said. The first spray was applied in March. Trainer said there have been no new symtoms of the disease. The disease, which is carried by the elm bark beetle, causes elm leaves to grow smaller than nor mal and then wilt suddenly and drop prematurely. Three trees owned by the Uni versity had to be destroyed, Train er. said. The largest was a 26- inch diameter American elm near the west corner of Old Main, an= other was on farm 5, and the third a small elm near Windcrest cot tage. Engineer on Sale The May issue of the Penn State Engineer will be on sale at the Hetzel Union desk today through Friday. Featured article in the May is sue is "Prospecting from the Sky," by James Stratton, freshman in geophysics and geochemistry from Philadelohia. Declared and other polio experts today said that there is "strong presumptive evidence that there was a cause and effect relationship" between certain cases of paralytic polio "and the use of two lots of Cut ter vaccine out of nine released." He did not say, however, that such a relationship has been prov en to exist. The Cotter vaccine was with drawn from use April 27. The U.S. Directory Names Due Names of newly elected officers of fraternities, sororities, honor societies, clubs, and other organ izations should be turned in at', the Hetzel Union desk by Friday :f they are to be included in the Student Union Directory, accord ing to George L. Donovan, direc tor of associated student activi ties. Campus Chest Drive Set for Mid-October; To Use Preference Plan The 1955-56 Campus Chest solicitations drive will take place dct. 18, 19, and 20 with the designation card system, Johnßiggs, organization chairman, announced yesterday. The ,annual drive will be held almost two months earn& than last year. For each contribution, the student will sign his name and designate to which group or groups he wishes to give the money. The total receipts of Campus Chest last year were $4160.60, less than half of the sum of the previous year, $10,394.52. Solicitations, which netted the bulk of the proceeds, amounted to $4059.59. A trophy will be presented to the fraternity and sorority with the highest amount of contribu tions next fall. In the past, these groups have proved to be the weakest source of contributions. The committee will begin pub licizing Campus Chest at the be ginning of the semester. Infor mation will be distributed during registration so ,that freshmen, as well as upperclassmen, may be come familiar with the program. The three campus religious or ganizations, Hillel Foundation, University Christian Association, and Newman Club. may be ex cluded from the list of charities receiving a share of the proceeds, Riggs said. Last year, many stu dents objected to giving toward a religious group other than their own; however, the use of the des ignation system would eliminate this Riggs also said that the Amer ican Red Cross may be omitted because most of its allotment is used for highly paid person nel and expenses instead of ac tual charity. More special events will be sponsored by Campus Chest to raise money. The first project will be the "Kickoff Rally Dance" in the fall. An orchestra is scheduled to play free of charge and the hat societies will sponsor various booths. The dance last year collected $561.03. The Max Kaminsky jazz concert brought $695, and the Ugly Man Contest, sponsored as a Spring Week event by Alpha Phi Omega, national service frater nity, netted $920. Lawrence McCabe has been appointed advertising 'chairman in charge of cutting down the cost .of expenses, although pub licity will be handled by the Central Promotion Agency. Last year expenses amounted to $1310.02, approxiinately one fifth of the total proceeds. Riggs has named the following committee chairmen: Robert Gell man, solicitations; Frederick Ro mig, tabulations; Ruth Grigoletti and Edward Long, special events; David Richards men's dormitor ies; Kathleen Sttoup, women's dormitories; Donald Reidenbaugh. fraternities; Martha Fleming and Susan' Hill, sororities; Carolyn Miller, town women; and Alpna Phi Omega, town men. Campus Chest proceeds next year will be divided among World University Service, Penn State Student Scholarship Fund. National ,Student Service Fund for Negro Students, Cerebral Pal sy Fund, Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, American , Heart Society American Cancer Society, Salva tion Army, Centre County Heat Association, Women's Student Government Association, an d State College Welfare Fund. 'Safe' Public Health Service, in its lat est report, said 60 persons who received the Cutter vaccine had subsequently developed polio About six million school chil dren have received shots so far in the program. Scheelb said that discussions at today's conference with regard to safety of the vaccine and other matters "was preliminary. to con sideration of definitive action soon to be taken by the Public Health Service." In a television interview shortly after th e meeting broke up Scheele was asked, "When will you have information on the re lease of more vaccine?" He replied, "I can't answer that question now. We have some ad ditional discussion and decision making but I hope we can have an additional statement before the week is over." . Blue Band To Perform On Sunday James W. Dunlop, associate pro fessor of music education, will di rect the Concert Blue Band in itS annual spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday on the steps of the Pattee Library. Four senior music education majors, Barbara Murdough from Robesonia, Nancy Schminky from Cairnbrook, Robert Jones from State College, and Alexander Zerban from State College will each conduct the concert band in a march. The program will also include "Bugler's Holiday" (Anderson) featuring the entire cornet and trumpet section. In case of rain, the concert, annually held the last Sunday in May, will be in Schwab Audi torium. Roger Staub, junior in chemi cal engineering from State Col lege, has been elected , president of the band. Other officers are Thomas Wil liams, junior in hotel administra tion from Centre Hall, manager; David Andre, sophomore in dairy science from Montrose, assistant manager; Charles Springman, jun jor in music education from Spring d a 1 e, secretary-treasurer; Stanley Michalski, junior in music education from Nanticoke; librar ian; and Alan Wyand, junior in music education from State Col. lege, assistant librarian. 'NextlooYears' Is Fall Theme All-University Centennial Com mittee voted last night to follow the theme "Penn State . Through the Next 100 Years" for 'the fall. This semester the theme has beon "Penn State Through the Last 1.00 Years." The committee also voted to recommend the distribution of 30,000 centennial match books starting in August and continuing throughout the fall. The committee recommended that name cards for the Dink De but next fall be in the shape of an hour glass symbolizing time. The group also suggested a theme such as "Greeks in the Next 100 Years" for the lawn displays for Homecoming Weekend. Robert Heck, chairman of the committee, said that the Centen nial theme will be carried out in all the fall activities. He also an nounced that the next meeting would be held in the fall. Bell Arrival Unknown The date of delivery for the 1200-pound. bronz..! bell from the battleship, U.S.S. Pennsylvan a, given to the University by the Navy Department, is still un known. The bell, which was to be for mally presented this spring, will be placed in the courtyard of the Hetzel Union Building. It is now at the Naval Gun Factory in Washington, D.C. Collegian Promotes 12 Twelve students on the editor ial staff of The Daily Collegian have been promoted to Sophomore Board, Donald Shoemaker, city editor, announced. They are Vince Carocci, Audrey Sassano, Lenore Hamilton, Patri cia Hunter, Roger Alexander, Pa tricia Herbster, Rosemary Bass, Ann Beckley, Richard Hufrragel, Pauline Metza, Gene Reeder, anti Patricia Tomlinson.
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