Tartjy'i W**th*n ClovdyWM i Showr* V0L. 56. No. 53 Excise Tax Blocks University Budget The University’s budget request of $25,194,000 must wait until action is taken on the proposed manufacturers’ excise tax before the State Senate acts upon it, Jo Hays, Democratic senator from Centre and Clearfield Counties, said yesterday. Hays said the Senate will vote within a week or two on the excise tax question. (Yesterday, Sen. Edward J. Kessler (R-Lan — canter) said Republican policy makers may decide the question by tomorrow night). Hays also commented on a package of eight bipartisan bills asking social security benefits for University faculty and adminis tration members. He said he be lieves Senate members will agree on the proposals. The State must be assured of receiving added monetary income before.its legislature can further consider the numerous budget ap propriations now awaiting action, Hays stated. - Tax on Manufactured Articles The excise tax now on the Sen ate floor would exact a 3% per cent impost on state manufactur ers’ articles and, if approved, would allot the State $4OO million a year. Error Cited In Report On Honesty The report of last spring by the Senate subcommittee on aca- ■ demic honesty was not submitted to the University Senate by the Committee on Student Affairs, as was reported yesterday in The Daily Collegian. The purpose of the recommen datidh proposed by the faculty of the College of Chemistry and Phystefe Thursday was to protest this “by-passing” of the Senate by tiw committee. Also, it was not one of the objectives of the rec ommendation to. eliminate the need of a faculty member to re port dishonesty to the dean of his college. . .. Wilmer & Kenworthy, director of student affairs and socsetary of the Senate Committee pnSttt dent Affairs, said yesterday the committee sept the acadenuC honesty proposal of Jest May di rectly to the Council- of Adminir trstion in we belief that it did not call for legislative action in carrying out existing Senate reg ulations. He pointed out that one of the duties of the Committee on Stu dent Affairs is r.. to advise the Senate on needed legislation. In discharging its duties, the Com mittee shall have the authority to advise the appropriate officers of the administration on the execu tion of policies Coming within its jurisdiction.” Since the report did not require any change in the rules of the Senate, he said, the committee de cided no new legislation was nec essary, and it carried out its other duty—that of advising the appro priate officers of administration on the execution of policies com ing within its jurisdiction. Student Uninjured In Auto Collision Carl Campbell, graduate stu dent in agronomy from McKees port, was uninjured in a minor automobile collision at the inter section of Pugh street and Foster avenue at 7:20 p.m., Thursday. Borough police reported that Alexander W. Zerban, State Col lege, failed to yield the right-of way as he entered Pugh street and collided with Campbell. Campbell estimated his damage at $l5O. Police Hunt for Car Stolen From Hornstein State College police remained on alert last night for a car re ported stolen Thursday night. Captain David Hornstein, at tached to Army ROTC at the Uni versity, reported that his green and cream colored Plymouth was stolen some tinie.hetwen 7:30 and 9 p.m. from its parking place in Calder alley near Pugh street. The license number is 6K147. Cloudy With Showers Today will be cloudy with oc casional showers, and tomorrow will be slightly warmer but turn ing colder in the evening accord ing to the forecast made by stu dents in the department of me teorology. The high temperature today will be 37 degrees, with a low of 32. The high yesterday was 34 and the low 30. lath}® €oU STATE COLLEGE, The University has requested the $25,194,000 sunt for the com ing two-year fiscal < period. The budget, which President Milton S- XisenhoWer requested four months ago, is at present- stalled in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Bipartisan Bills Introduced The eight'bipartisan biH» intro duced Wednesday night offer benefits of the federal social se curity program to all state and. local employees . if, by majority vote of each class, the workers wish such a program. The . measure also includes pos sible participation in federal old age benefits by University em ployees and teachers and employ ees of. state teachers colleges. Hays, when questioned on when the proposals will probably be acted upon, said, “It is safe to say they will clear this session as they are not based on the tax program.” No Action will be undertaken for at least two weeks, he said, since they must go through com mittee procedure. Regular Employees Included Regular full-time salaried em ployees of the University would be included under the plan, if passed. These employees are now registered -under the State Em ployees Retirement System. University employees are not technically state workers, but special legislation has allowed them to receive the benefits of the state plan. The bills were proposed by State Senators William J. Lane (D-Washington), Joseph M. Barr (DfAllegheny),-George B. Steven son (R-Clinton), and William Z. Scott (R-Carbon). Review Players Present 'Picnic By DOTTIE STONE Taking a group of common place people in a small Kansas town on a hot day just before school opens, Players makes a rich and moving play out of them. Everything moves along drow sily in the first act of William Inge’s “Picnic.” But it is tre mendously moving in the last act. It may have humorous moments, but it is deadly serious. In the sun-baked back yard Mrs. Owens and her two daugh ters, one as beautiful as could be desired, battle life out along with the neighbors. It is quite a gather ing of motley women who are swirled about by a cheap young braggart who comes in as fast as he goes out. Hal Carter, this loud-mouthed football hero with an unsavory FOR A BETTBt KNM STATE PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 3, 1955 First Sunday Movies Start Tomorrow Sunday movies will be shown in the borough’s three theaters for the first time tomorrow. All theaters will open at 2 p.m. and run five showings. “We do expect a rush at the first opening,” said Mrs. Lora Ain ger, manager of the State theater, "but it probably will taper off.” The Cathaum seats 1064 per sons and the Nittany somewhat over 400, Robert G. Neilson, man ager of the theaters, said. The townspeople voted in the affirmative for Sunday movies in the Nov. 8 general elections. The vote was 2006 for, and 1784 against the proposal. In 1947 and 1951 State College residents defeated the proposal for Sunday movies. Burgess David R. Mackey noti fied the three local theaters earl ier this week that they could open tomorrow to the public.- He re vealed at the time that it would take about four weeks before of ficial approval was sanctioned for the movies. Mahany Hits Plan of Leader HARRISBURG, Dec. 2 Sehf Row4ahd.lL Mahany, Repub lican floor leaderi contended, to days state professional licensing wbuld be subject to “political in terference” under Gov. George M, Leader’s proposed government re organization plan. “I wouldn’t be in favor of the plan to transfer professional ex amining boards from the Public Instruction Department of the State Department,” Mahany de clared, adding: “It might well result in politi cal interference in the operation of those boards.” Mahany made, his statement fol lowing a hearing of the Senate Rules Committee, of which he is chairman, on four proposals sub mitted to both houses of the Legislature Nov. 14 transferring various agencies to other depart ments. Sefing to Lecture At AFS Meeting Fred G. Sefing of the Inter national Nickel Co. will speak at a meeting of the American Foun drymen’s Society at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15 in 209 Engineering C. Sefing has done development work in the field of ductile cast irons and will speak on “The Prospect for Ductile Cast Irons.” A film and slides will be used to supplement the talk. The meeting is open to the public. past, is played by Karl Held who does his part from the inside out. He easily takes the beautiful Madge Owens right from under the wing of her ambitious mother and astonished neighbors. With equal ease he flips off his boasting lines and expresses his real char acter of dispair. Marjorie Schnelle plays well the part of this beautiful maiden whose mind is unclear but whose instincts are sound and coura gious. The plot may be considerably thickened by the presence of the tom-boy little sister with brains and artistic ability, excellently played by Nancy Marshall, but it is also considerably brightened. She, as much as Held, rings a cord of truth in her acting. The anxious mother who wants ftjfeut Television Experiment Called Partial Solution To Education Problem Picture on Page Five Dr. Alvin E. Eurich, vice president of the Fund for the Ad vancement of Education, said last night the University’s experiment in closed-circuit television may be a partial solution to the growing pains of the American educational system. Dr. Eurich spoke in the Nittany Lion Inn at the 11th annual Faculty-Trustee Dinner, which was sponsored by the Penn State chapter of the American Associa- ' tion of University Professors. He emphasized that the number of college students is continually j increasing but the number and quality of the faculty is steadily diminishing. In 15 years, he said, college en rollment is likely to have doubled, , but only 20 instead of the present 40 per cent of the faculty mem bers will have PhD’s. TV Partial Solution The introduction of television to replace the instructor in the classroom may be a partial solu tion, he said. The main objection to tele vision, he said, is that it can never have the personal qualities of a human, which is a factor in main taining student interest and creat ing spontaneous response. . Printing, however, met with the Same opposition many years ago and its success cannot be ques tioned; Dr.. Eurich. said. Textbooks are as impersonal as a television set, but their use has been an aid rather than a .hindrance in in struction. 2t Percent Increase Expected Today about 32 percent of per sons of college age are students, he said,, but added that in 1970 more than 60 per cent are expect ed. to be in college. The demand for faculty mem bers created by this increased enrollment will outstrip the sup ply, he said. In 15 years, more than three faculty members will have to he recruited for every two of today. This shortage of professors is being aggrevated by poor educa tion in the high schools and the low wages allotted for the college he said. In the high schools of today, about 40 per cent do not teach a foreign language, approximately 23 per cent do not require physics, and about 24 per cent do not have courses in geometry. Illustrates Wage Scale He showed by illustrated slides that the average professor’s wages are not as high as a railroad switchman’s. And the average high school teacher in a small town does not earn as much as telephone operators. The answer seems to lie, he said, in increasing the produc tivity of the professor—to extend his services to more people. Along with a higher productivity would probably come an increase in wages, he said. One method of doing this (Continued on page eight) her daughters to avoid the suf ferings she endured from love, is played by Virginia Witte. She tries hard to play her role sin cerely, but it just isn’t there. Mother would have Alan, the wealthy college boy, for her beau ty. But Alan, too, is caught in the flow of tide that comes with Hal Carter. Played by Corliss Phil labaum, Alan gets across the part and his lines, but lacks real depth. Elizabeth Ives, as the old-maid school teacher with a knack for living her life and getting it, does an excellent job of acting. She has proven before, in last year’s “The Corn is Green” that she can do such a role, but her make-up and costuming make it hard to look at her and see a desperate (Continued on page eight) By RON LEIK Monday Is Deadline For Yule Contest Monday is the deadline for en tries in the Christmas greeting display contest. Pi Gamma Alpha, local fine arts honorary fraternity, is spon soring the contest, in conjunction with All-University Cabinet. All students are eligible to en ter the contest. Entries should be turned in to - Arthur Anderson, senior in architecture from State College, at the fourth floor draft ing room of Main Engineering by 4 p.m. Monday. The winner of .die contest wilt receive $25. The . entry may be presented as a sketch or simple model outlining, the. construction and lighting of the design. The winning design will be erected by Pi Gamma Alpha on College avenue as the display for the University. Entries will be judged by mem bers of the architectural design staff on the clearness of represen tation of the Christmas theme and the feasibility and cost involved in erecting the display. The fraternity made the follow ing suggestions to help students who are planning to enter the contest: 1. Construction and erection should consume a minimum of time. 2. Construction materials are to be purchased on a limited budget. 3. The display will be viewed only from College avenue. 4. The theme may be carried out in either two or three dimen sions. 5. The design should be made to attract attention during the day, and it will be spotlighted to the designer’s specifications for evening effectiveness. 'Prospector' Out Monday The December issue of the Prospector, publication of t h’e College of Mineral Industries, will be distributed beginning Monday, according to James Stratton, ed itor. Students may pick up copies free of charge, at several points in Mineral Industries. 36 Students Withdraw Thirty-six students have with drawn from the campus and cen ters since Oct. 4. The following reasons were given for withdrawing: personal 12, scholastic 3, transfering 2, ill ness 7, military service 1, financial 7, employment 1, and other 3. Final Exam Conflicts Must Be Filed Today Students must file final ex amination conflict cards by noon today in 2 Willard. Those who fail to file their conflicts by noon today will be held responsible for arranging to take the examinations. In structors are not required to accommodate students in such TIM Sets The Poce See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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