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. 56. No. 59
Delta Sigma Phi Fire Damage
Relieved *25 000* House Gutted
ov. Leader 'Uncertain'
fn School Bill Deadlock
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BrHOpFLfcnt
George M. Leader said'ln .an exclusive interview
doesn’t know “where we go from here” in solving
' problems of the state’s public schools,
full blame for the deadlock of the school appro
all on-'the Republican-controlled Senate, where
been stalled since last October,
administration,” he said,, ‘has .done its job. Now it
' Senate to thouldef the burden”
(poke at-the •
Tax Plan
Support
AG. Dec. T UU» A
shift Got. George If:
lufacturer'* excise tax
rholeeale or retail lewd
tentative Support to
' Republican Senate
...'land: B, Mahany. GOP
a leader, said stick a proposal
•»t provide "a suitable oompro
se solution” of the year-long tax
padlock in the general assembly-.
The-idea, of .cotaverting the Vh
per cent manufacturers tax-into an
nteise tax on sales through chang
ing the level of collecting it was
considered by legislators over the
weekend as the. governor's much
amended tax bill headed into
another week of debate teethe
Senate.
Elections Committoo to Moot ,
All-University Elections Commit
tee will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow
in #■ Carnegie.
TOMORROW'S fljESft
WEATHER jiHR
cold f
ingserviee of the Salem Luth
eran church at Aaronsburg, about
25 miles northeast of the. Univer
sity, on the occasion of-the pub
lication of a book about Aaron
Lew, founder'of the little town.
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After the service, Leader held
an interview with a Collegian re
porter.
} Several days ago a school board
president in in open letter to
Leader said he would ask the
Bedford County board* of educa
tion to doee ap the counts
schools unless .the state soon ap
propriates funds to meet expenses.
Asked what can be done for
the' schools that are in difficult
financial' straits, Leader said, “I
don't know where we go from
here. We owe money to every
school district in the state.”
Leader said'they have already
borrowed money now on which
three quarter at a million dol
lars intereef must be paid.
. not opposed to borrow
ing if it is- the only means of ob
taining fimds, the governor said.
In holding up the bill, the Sen
ate has refused to think realistic
ally, be charged. Formerly, he
said, they opposed the bill on the
ground .that there wasn’t any need
for it. Now, he went on, they rea
lize' the need but can’t ag?ee on
the method of getting the money. 1
He compared the situation
with a wuh going shopping. <
Everyone cornu for an appro- •
(CentuMMd on pave .
to* a warn ram state
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SUNDAY NIGHT. DECEMBER 1?. 1955
Some Dekc rS/g's
la Bed, at Chapel
When Fire Starts
Some members of Delta Sigma
Phi £3nt:toisw about the fire in
their fraternity house this-morn
ing - until they returned from
drana and .Chape! servicer.
Others were stm in bed when
the _blaze broke out.
Since the fire war mostly con
fined to the first floor and the
basement of the fraternity house,
members had tipieto remove their
personal possessions and some of
the furniture.
Couches and chairs.were piled
outside ofthebouseandbundles
of clothing were strewn on . the
ground:''
Word oftbe fire- swiftly passed
throughoutthe area and towns
people and. members of many
other fraternities soon, gathered
to watch the Alpha Fire Company
fight the blaze.
Ae fire fighting efforts con
tinued. police detoured traffic
from Locust Lane and Fairmount
Avenue .
, Hundreds of spectators gath
ered, many of them with offers
(Continued on gage four).
Reds Stir Kashmir Issue
NSW DELHI; India, Dee. 11 i&l
—Russia:*- traveling salesmen flew
back- to India’r capital todqr from
a two-day visit- in. the north dur
ing which they vigorously stirred
up the deeping Kashmir contro
versy.
Again it. war blunt, forceful
Communist party boss Nikita
Krushchev who aired the views
or his country on the vexing
Kashmir problem in a manner
likely to create new white-hot
tension between India and Pakis
tan,
Welcome as: were his words to
the general mass of Indian peo
pict It appears they fell on most
unhappy ears at the government
leveL
India’s strategy ,on winning
Kad>mir fro been to avoid open
conflict, with Pakistan while at
the same- time- consolidating its
own political and economic con
trol ever the disputed northern
province.
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Firemen Say Wiring
Is Probable Cause
I I By ED DUBBS
Fire partially gutted Delta Sigma Phi fraternity late
this morning, causing an estimated $25,000 td $30,000 damage.
Several members suffered slight cuts and burns, but
none was keriously injured.
The hpuse, commonly called the Pink Elephant, was in
sured at $132,000, approximately 80 per cent of the face value.
Damage was high throughout most of the house, accord
ing to Fire Chief Thomas E. Sauers. Some furniture was re
moved before damaged, he said.
Considerable damage was done
by smoke and water. Water from
the upstairs floors was running
through the ceiling onto the first
floor at a steady flow after the
fire was brought under control
at about 1 p.m.
Faulty Wiring Blamed
Sauers said the fire war prob
ably caused by faulty- wiring in
a compressor motor of a refriger
ation system in the basement.
The Alpha Fire Company of
State College and the Undine
Company of Be lief onte answered
the alarm, which-was sounded at
11:15 am. Although the fire was
under control by 1 pun-, the last
flame* were not extinguished un
til 4:45 pin.
- Smoke was first noticed at 11
aJßL'by the fraternity cook, Mrs.
Etta*. Boone, who war- preparing
dinner. Most members of the
house were attending church at
the time the fire started.
Jump from-Windows
Several weekend male guests
jumped from the second floor to
escape injury. A kogse member
said the reason they were forced
know their wajr around the house
Members- of'the house will stay
in otherfratemities, which have
offered assistance* until they can
live as a grow again.
O. Edward: Pollock, assistant to
the dean- of. men' in charge of
fraternity affairs, said he is try-'
| ing to secure Pollock dorms for
;the group.. He hoiws they will be
able'to move intnthe dorms as a
group before the Christinas holi
'days. They also, hope to find a
social headquarters; they reported.
I House officials estimated next
March 1 as the earliest possible
date of returning to the house.
Tmapanwy Hindquarters
|‘ The fratemity officers today set
im temporary headquarters at Phi
Sigma Delta- fraternity. Members
met there for lunch and a meet
ing this afternoon.
Members • will,, move into
sighed, fraternities beginning to
(Continued-on page two)
Kashmir's population is- pre
dominant! yMoslem but the state’s
Hindu maharaja acceded to India
in 1947. Since ISM the state has
been split.by a UNcease-fire line.
Now Khrushchev, by declaring
Kashmir belongs to India and
Pakistan should in effect shut up
about the whole thing* seems like
ly to hatve provoked a new period
of bitterness and tense relatione.
Grim-faced Prime Minister Nehru
had no public comment on the de
velopments when he flew- home
from south India to spend the
next 4& hours with his Russian
guests.
Government sources said there
would be ho official reaction to
Khrushchev's speech—at least un
til the Russians are out of* the
country. -
“But if Khrushchev had delib
erately set out to light a fuse to
a fresh discord-betweon India and
Pakistan at a time when our prob
lems seemed to be simmering
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Delta Sigs
Receive Aid
From Many
Offers of help poured in to the
members of Delta Sigma Phi to
day. in the wake of the fire which
gutted their house at Fairmount
avenue and Locust lane about 11
a;m.
Within a short time after the fire
broke out arrangements-had been
made to house the 3S members of
the fraternity ha 19 fraternities in
the immediate area.
Thirty-eight of the forty-four
members of the fraternity lived in
the house*.
Robert Bullock, Interfraternity
Council president said all fraterni
ties had ottered their facilities.
However, he said, it was decided
to house as many members as
possible in the immediate- areg,
so they will be near the Delta Sig
ma. Phi house to- facilitate repair
work.
Mar. Have House, by March
Bullock- said -' fraternities had
offered meals- aud rooms to mem
bers of the fraternity for as long
as necessary. Members of Delta
Sigma Phi said: today the earli
est they could expect to move back
into the house would be March 1.
' Barbara NichoDs. acting presi
dent of PanheUenic Council, said
today that all sororities were stand
ing by (if help in mop-up opera
tions later. At least one sorority.
Gamma Phi Beta, offered money to
the fraternity:
Eugene Fulmer, secretary of the
State College Area Chamber of
Commerce, said offers of help from
downtown merchants would be co
ordinated later, after- members of
the fraternity could determine what
was needed to remodel and re
furnish the house.
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down he could not have done a
better job of it,” said one influ
ential Indian.
This impression appeared gen
eral among leading classes here,
though the rank and file of the
Indian, people are openly, delight
ed that “we have found a strong
friend, on our side.”
Murray Pledges
Montana to Adlai
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 Uh-Sen.
James C. Murray (D-Mont.), pledg
ed his support to Adlai E. Steven
son today in Stevenson’s bid for tho
195 t Democratic presidential nomi
nation.
But there were indications that
despite Murray’s assurance Mon
tana’s Ift convention votes would
go to him, Stevenson was not
making as much progress as some
of his friends had hoped in- an
other South.
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