Students
Of National Group,
Recent! Poll Shows
Students at the
Student Association
survey taken this wi
Out of 107 stud.*
as Rational Student
felt qualified to give
should rejoin NSA.'
Of the 11 stud*
Sewerage
Plant to Be
Constructed
State College Borough Council
last night passed a proposal tor
the construction of a sewerage
treatment plant that would im
prove both the facilities of the
Borough and the University.
Borough Council pushed
through the program, which had
been aired and debated for the
last few months, in less than a
half hour.
The University, under the
agreement, will construct and op
erate the sewerage treatment
plant and the Borough will con
tribute toward the financial cost.
The new plant will replace the
two plans now under the Univer
sity and the Borough.
The plant will serve 36,000 peo
ple. Under this setup will be con
structed new sewerage lines, force
mains,, pumping stations, and
trunk sewers.
Council, in other business,
swore in four Councilmen to serve
for the coming four years. Eric
Walker, Dean of the College of
Engineering ' arid’ ‘ Architecture,
was one of the hew incumbents.
- Burgess David Mackey address
ed the reorganized Council and
emphasized the importance of a
Parking Authority, to alleviate
the congestion in the downtown
area and the heavier populated
districts.
Today Is Deadline
For Suggestions
On Class Gift
Today will be the last day that
graduating seniors will be able
to make their suggestion for the
senior class gift. The suggestion
boxes will be collected between
5 p.m. and 7 p.m. today by mem
bers of the Senior Class Advisory
Committee.
The boxes are located at the
Hetzel Union desk, West Dorms,
Simmons, McElwain and Grange
Dormitories and will still be op
en today to those who have not
yet made their selections.
This is the first time that Jan
uary graduates are given the op
portunity to take part in the se
lection of the ■ gift and they are
encouraged to make their sugges
tions.
Seniors graduating this month
may vote on their selections when
they pick up their caps and gowns
at the Athletic Store on Jan. 26,
- 27, 28 and 30. The top two or three
suggestions will be added on to
the ballot in the spring on which
June graduates will vote.
'A sum of $9500 has been set
aside for the senior class gift.
Cabinet Committee to
The All-University
Committee on Sunday
reation will meet' at
morrow in 212 Hetzel
f 1 1
TODAY'S
Weather
SLEET
AND
RAIN
Not Aware
By SUE CONKLIN
University are not aware of National
according to a representative sample
:ek.
lents called, 64 could not identify NSA
Association. Of the remaining 43 only 11
' an opinion as to whether the University
gave opinions seven were in
favor of the University rejoining
and four were against.
Although NSA has been given
publicity in several different
types of stories in The Daily Col
legian and has been discussed at
length by Cabinet, most of the
students called were not aware
of its existence.
Each student was first asked
what NSA stood for, and if he
could answer that he was asked
whether he felt qualified to give
an opinion. When a student gave
an opinion he was asked why he
felt that way. Students were
called at the West Dorms, Nittany,
Pollock, and women’s dormitories,
fraternities, sororities, and town
independents.
Students in the Nittany area
had the lowest percentage of stu
dents who could identify NSA.
Out of 25 students contacted only
two students could identify NSA
and only one student gave an
opinion.
;nts that
One student said he didn’t
know what NSA is, but that he
thought it had something to do
with the honesty code dealt with
on a national basis.
Other students suggested that
NSA stands for National Service
Association, National Safety- As
sociation, and one student with ~a
3.7 All-University average said
that jt was National Scholastic As
sociation.
Barbara Nichols, vice president
of Panhellenic Council, said she
was in favor of the University re
joining NSA because we should
get together with schools of the
same size. She added that if the
University did not take an active
part she did not think it worth
while.
Margaret Boyd said she did not
think the University should go
back in NSA because the “total
student body is not represented
by those people who are on NSA."
She went on to say,t “I don’t think
that the students benefit propor
tionally to the amount of money
they put into NSA. To me it
sounds like'a group of idealistic
thinkers and so far words have
spoken louder than actions and it
should be vice-versa,” she said.
Charles Springman said he is
in favor of NSA because "not all
the good ideas are here at Penn
State and we should get some
others too.”
Andrew Schoerke said he hasn’t
seen any results from NSA.
Nancy Seiler said she thought
it would help our national stand
ing to belong to NSA and. that it
would do a lot for our relations in
our own area and nationally.
Jerome P. Epstein said he thinks
that NSA doesn’t accomplish any
thing and that it is a • waste of
money.
Christine Forte said she is in
favor of NSA because she be
(Continued on page eight)
Eisenhower Proposes Soil Bank Plan
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (fP)
—President Dwight D. Eisen
hower proposed today a bil
lion-dollar soil bank plan to
reduce crop land about 12 per
cent until surpluses are ab
sorbed and farm prices rise again.
He blamed the' surpluses for
shrinking farm income.
As had been anticipated, this
soil bank proposal was No. 1 in a
nine-point program the President
laid before Congress to strength
en the administration’s contro
versial flexible price support sys
tem.
Cabinei
Night Rec
-7 i>.m. to-
Union.
Democrats contend that the ad
ministration’s program is inade-
(Hljr Satltj
VOL. 56. No. 69 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 10. 1956 FIVE CENTS
Delta Sig Begins
Repairs on House
Workmen have started to repair Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house, in an attempt to
have it ready for occupancy by April 1. The house was gutted by fire last Dec. 11.
A contract of approximately $55,000 has been let to Vernon J. Dietz, State College
general contractor.
A house officer said yesterday that the insurance adju
structure was insured for $132,000, approximately 80 per
Weekday Services
Planned at Chapel
Daily religious services are being planned for the Helen
Eakin Eisenhower Meditation Chapel, which is to be com
pleted late this summer.
The need for music at the new religious center will make
it necessary to expand the program of church music on
campus. Expansion plans include
the formation of an auxiliary
choir to supplement the work of
the Chapel choir.
The Rev. Dr. Luther Harsh
barger,. University chaplain, said
yesterday the daily services may
include the Mass, morning prayer,
and a vesper hour, each to be
conducted by the various chap
lains to the University.
Detailed plans will be announ
ced- at a later date, Rev. Harsh
barger said.
The musical opportunities af
forded by the planned expansion,
of the program were' diseutesed by
Dr. Hummel Fishburn, head of
the department of music.
“Up to the present time,” he
said, “limitations of space and
staff have prevented the develop
ment of an extensive program of
either vocal or instrumental
church music,
“I can foresee,” he continued,
“even as early as next fall, the
beginning of a multiple choir pro
gram. small vocal en
sembles, some under supervised
student leadership, will be needed
for the daily services in the Medi
tation Chapel.”
He said the auxiliary choir is
planned for next semester. If the
one-credit course is approved by
the Senate Committee on Courses
of Study, the choir will meet from
7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday.
“We also have a large number
of students studying organ who
now have little opportunity to
gain practical experience in play
ing for services of worship,” Dr.
Fishburn said.
“We feel,” he went on, “that
there is a high degree of interest
in church music on our campus
and that many more students are
eager to participate than can be
accommodated at the present
time.”
Membership in the auxiliary
choir will be determined by try
outs and personal interviews to
be held during spring registra
tion and the first week of classes.
Interested students may sign up
for interviews starting today.
quate to protect agriculture and
they hope to make farm troubles
a major issue in this year’s elec
tions; They have already made
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
a particular target.
In a special message to Con
gress on agriculture,- Eisenhower
declared that there is need for
“maximum speed" to alter an eco
nomic situation in which farmers
“find their prices and income de
pressed amid the nation’s greatest
prosperity.”
He said that unless this situa
tion is corrected, the well being of
all Americans will be threatened.
Taken as a whole, the Presi
dent’s program offered little pros
pect of bringing about a big boost
in farm returns ahead of this
year’s elections a thing that
FOR A BETTER PENN STATS
Chapel Service
Will Revive
Old Tradition
Daily religious services in the
meditation chapel of the 'Helen
Eakin Eisenhower chapel will
continue a 68 year old custom of
the" University tharended in 1927.
Arising before daylight, stu
dents almost a century ago
crowded into the chapel in the
main building at 5:45 a.m. for
scripture reading and prayer be
fore beginning of their day’s ac
tivities.
Though the school was entirely
nonsectarian, religious training
was from the first recognized as
an essential to living and compul
sory chapel was instituted.
Compulsory chapel continued
for almost three-quarters of the
University’s first century. Attend
ance at weekday chapel was re
quired until 1927 and at Sunday
chapel until 1930.
Rigid rules to require attend
ance at religious services were
enforced by being a requisite for
graduation.
Ufttil 1896 the University relied
on faculty members for the week
day chapel exercises and on vis
iting ministers for the Sunday ex
ercises. That year President
George W. Atherton announced
the appointment of the first
“preacher to the University,” the
Rev. Lawrence M. Colfelt.
Since then, with the exception
of a period from 1915-1923, the
University has had a chaplain
who usually served as a faculty
member or as secretary of the
Penn State Christian Association.
many farm-area congressmen had
hoped for. The new proposals ap
peared unlikely to bring notice
able increases in prices and farm
income before 1957.
. Eisenhower said he expected at
least 40 million acres of the na
tion’s 350 million acres of crop
land would be taken out of pro
duction under the soil bank plan.
The result, he said, would be few
er crops, a halt in the accumula
tion of price-depressing surpluses
and an improvement in prices.
Farmers would be encouraged to
reduce acreages through the offer
of government payments in the
form of cash and surplus crops.
These payments would be de
signed to help compensate farm
ers for revenue they would lose
on land idled under the program.
(Eolbniatt
itment was about $46,000. The
cent of the face value.
Dietz said yesterday that re
pairs, which were begun Friday,
would include repainting and re
wiring the entire house and re
placing burned and weakened
parts of the structure.
The contract also calls for in
stallation of a sprinkler system,
he said.
Occupancy Date Is Postponed
Although the occupancy date
has been set as April 1, Dietz said
the repair work will not be fin
ished by that time. However, most
of the fraternity’s activities can
be carried on, he said. House offi
cials had previously estimated
March 1 as the earliest possibl*
occupancy date.
Dietz said the house, located at
Locust Lane and Fairmount av
enue, will be “almost a new struc
ture” and will be “safer and bet
ter” after completion of repair
work.
Members Stay in Cottage
At present, about half of the
members are living in Spruce Cot
tage, behind the University Hos
pital, while others are scattered
among different fraternities.
The fraternity is eating meals
at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church,
so they can keep their cook, Mrs.
Edna Boone.
Boone Notices Fire
Mrs. Boone first noticed the fire
while she was preparing Sunday
noon dinner, about 11 a.m. Al
though the fire was under control
by 1 p.m., fireman remained on
the scene until about 5 p.m.,
checking for further outbreaks of
flames and beginning preliminary
cleanup.
Considerable damage was done
to the house by fire and smoke,
but most of the furniture was re
moved before being damaged.
The fire was caused by a faulty
motor of the refrigeration system
in the house basement.
Sleet to Change
To Rain Today
Today’s weather forecast calls
for sleet this morning changing to
rain by afternoon, when the temp
eratures will rise.
Tonight will be partly clear and
slightly colder with a few snow
flurries, according to students in
the department of meteorology.
The weather tomorow is ex
pected to be partly cloudy and
moderately cold.
The high temperature today
will reach approximately 35 de
grees with a low of approximately
13. Yesterday’s high was 23 with
a low of 13. The total sleet and
snowfall yesterday was .7 inches.
Student's Vehicle
Barred on Campus
Traffic court last night suspend
ed one student’s driving privi
leges for 60 days as a result of
four traffic violations charged
against him.
Eight students were fined $34
for parking violations, and three
were fined $6 for failure to report
to campus patrol. Charges against
three other students were sus
pended and the students will not
be required to pay the fines as
long as they are not involved in
3 second offense.
- Three cases were dismissed
while five students who failed to
report to Gene Wethers, Traffic
Court chairman, were automat
ically given fines.