Today's We Cloudy With Showers VOL. 56. No. 96 Campus, Lion Parties Open Nominations For Spring Elections The two campus political parties opened preliminary nominations at Sunday night clique meetings for the nine positions to be voted on March 21 and 22. Final nominations will take place next Sunday night. Each party must enter a full slate of nine nominees in order to enter the election. Campus party nominated eight students and Lion party nominated six. Three positions were left open by each party. Sunday night was the final registration date for party Ike - Prexy Possibility Advanced The Centre Daily Times said editorially yesterday that it is "wondering" if Dr. Milton Eisen hower, president of the Univer sity, will be advanced as a pos sible running -mate of his brother, President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The wondering is "strictly from a Centre County standpoint," the newspaper made clear. Did Not Support The Times did not come out in support of Dr.-Eisenhower, but said: "And should it come about, we'd be able to put to good use our 'Me for Milt' campaign but tons." The Times continued that an Eisenhower-Eisenhower ticket "wouldn't be at all surprising to us." Recurrent talk in Republican party ranks has indicated that some elements do not want Vice President Richard M. Nixon on the ticket, the newspaper said. Press Conference Action It said this theory was boosted by President Eisenhower at last Wednesday's press conference when he refused to say . whether Nixon would be his running mate. He did, however, praise Nixon.: "An Eisenhower-Eisen how e r Ticket might be most appealing to the voters," the Times said. Truck Fire Draws Crowd in Nittany Area A truck that caught fire around 10:30 last night brought from 200 to 300 residents of Nittany and Pollock dorms out to watch the excitement. It was reported that wires crossed in the truck, starting an electrical fire. Alpha firemen from State College sent f our trucks to the scene near Nittany Dorm 39. Damage estimates were no t available last night. Segregation Ruling, WASHINGTON, March 5 (/P) The Supreme Court today extended to tax-supported col leges and universities its, ban on racial segregation in public schools. It did so without a spoken word and in'a manner usually reserved for routine cases. The court's brief order said, in effect, the historic doctrine of !'separate but equal" also is dead in the field of higher, education Supported by ta.xpayers_ In List- of Orders-- - It was included in a three-page list of orders, mostly, in rather ordinary cases, which was made public by the court's clerk. As in its May 17, 1954, decision striking, dawn segregation of Ne-. gro pupils in public schools, the ,5tM „.. ...„:-....„ . a 1t4 B - / Gam' ' ir Ns I .`' 8 As* .. ' members. Campus party regis tered a total of 503 students; Lion party registered 343. All-University Elections Com mittee will meet at 8 p.m. tomor row in 9 Carnegie to review party platforms. Robert Bahrenburg, junior class president, was nominated for All- University president and Samuel Walcott and Curtis Clark were nominated for All-University vice president on the Campus party slate. Hartnett Nominated Joseph Hartnett was nominated for .senior class president and Jean McMahon was nominated for senior class secretary-treas urer. Harry Martini was nominated for junior class president and Marie Thierwichter and Sandra Peters were nominated for junior class secretary-treasurer. The possibility of - establishing a student service commission which would further student which would further student-fac ulty-administration relationships was discussed at the Campus party clique meeting Sunday afternoon. Campus Party has puts sugges tion box in the Hetzel Union Building into which students may place suggestions for possible planks in the party platform. Appointments Made After outlining the coming cam paign, Bill Snyder, clique chair man, made the following appoint ments: Allen Davies, David Eber, John Abele,b and Curtin Schafer, ad visors; Truman Burch and Daniel Harting, platform ca-chairman; Marc Spector, distribution co chairman; Ronald Lenthall, cam pus ward chairman; Lianne Cor dero, Mary Ward, Barbara Cobb, Diedres Bray, Synthia Ball, Bon (Continued on page, eight) Cloudy, Showers Forecast For Today's Weather Mostly cloudy with scattered showers is the forecast for today according to the students in the department of meteorology. The weather is predicted to change to snow flurries early to morrow morning. The high-today should be in the upper 40's while the low will be in the lower .30's. Yesterday's maximum was 62, low was 28. . court's action today was unani mous. Other unanimous decisions have outlawed segregation in public pa r k s s, playgrounds , and golf courses. Affirmed in - 13 words was a de cision by a special three-judge federal court in Greensboro, N.C., which ordered three Negroes ad mitted to the University of North Carolina. The lower court rejected as "without merit" the contention of university officials that the 1954 decision did not apply in colleges Land universities. • Backs - 1954_ Ruling Thi three-judgecourt said the was Court's 1954 decision was limited to the' facts before it, "but the 'reasoning on which the decision was based is as appli cable to schools of higher educa tion as to. schools on the 'lower level." FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 6. 1956 Compensation Case Accepted by Court Entries are now open for the third annual Campus Cover Girl Contest, sponsored by the Roto Magazine section of the Pittsburgh Press. Contestants from colleges in the tri-state area, of Penn sylvania, West Virginia and Ohio may enter. University coeds wishing graph of any size to the Hetzel Union desk by 5 p.m. Monday. Contestants must write their name and address on the back of the picture. A contestant need not be sponsored by an organiza tion. Any female undergraduate student is eligible to enter. Local Winner lo Be Named A panel of three judges, to be announced later this week, will select a local winner. A picture of the local winner will then be sent to the Pittsburgh Press, where another panel of three judges will select a winner from the tri-state area. The winner from the tri-state area will have her picture pub lished in color on the cover of the April 1 Roto magazine, along with a biographical sketch. Tri-State Judges Judges who will select the win ner from the tri-state area are Lenore Brundige, Pittsburgh Press fashion editor; Fredrick Burleigh, director of the Pitts burgh Playhouse: Harold Corsini, photographer; and Edgar A. Roth, art director of U.S. Steel Corpor ation. Judging in both the local con test and the tri-state contest will be on the basis of the photograph alone. In previous years, the win ner in the tri-state area was chos en by a vote of the readers in the Press' circulation area. Last year's contest, held as part of the centennial celebration, was sponsored by the University Stu dent Centennial Committee. Land Named Head Of IFC Committee Daniel Land, junior in indus trial engineering from Ardmore, has' been appointed chairman of the Interfraternity Council's com mittee on pre-initiation practices. The eight-man committee will make a preliminary re.zort at the IFC meeting Monday night. It will prepare the report at meet ings tomorrow night and Sunday. The committee was appointed this week to draw up a code to govern pre-initiation practices at the University. Ex:tended University officials, in appeal ing from the ruling, .asked, the Supreme Court to reverse itself and wipe out its original segrega tion ruling "because it, is not within the power and authority of this court to amend the Con stitution; that , power is given on ly to the'peotile and their elected repregentatives." Counsel for the three Negroes involved in the litigation asked the high court in a brief to affirm the decision of the' special court at once without the_ customary hearing of arguments. This the court did, saying: "The motion to affirm Is granted and the judg ment is affirmed." - The university admitted the three Negroes while carrying on its appeal. They are Leroy B. Frasier Jr., Ralph K. Frasier, bro thers; and John L. Brandon, all of Durham, N.C. Roto Magazine Contest Opens Cowl Grants lo Afifrin rgiatt o enter may submit a photo- Power Plant To Up Output Of Steam Heat The University will make ad ditions to the Power Plant in or der to get more steam for heating purposes. Work is expected to begin later this year at the Power Plant on the installation of an induced draft fan, an economizer, and a new deserating feedwater header. This equipment • will increase steam generating capacity 25 per cent and will substantially bene fit plant efficiency, according to Thomas B. Kneen, head of the division of utilities of Physical Plant. Other minor improvements are also planned, as well as raising primary distribution voltage from 2400 volts to 4160 volts, thereby increasing steam capacity mater ially. Another part of the project, the removal of bottlenecks in the steam distribution lines, is now in progress on the west side of the Mall between Pollock and Pattee Library. Workmen have been working off-and-on on the project for about a week. It is expected to be completed by the fall semester. About 650 feet of piping is be ing replaced. Technical corrections will also be made for the water system on campus. UCA Committee Member Cites Town Segregation As far as town housing goes, a few University students are still living under the stigma of segregation, according to Gertrude Winzenburger, graduate student in German from Rochester, N.Y. and a member of the housing committee of the University Christian Associ ation Sunday night. Suspicion Filters Over Miss Winzenburger said the sus picion many owners of downtown rooming houses have always had towards the Negro has filtered over to the dark-skinned Asian or African student at the University. At present, she said, a foreign student also finds himself in the position of being refused a room in a boarding house having rooms available to students—white stu dents. To Inaugural. Plan The UCA housing committee, Miss Winzenburger said, is at tempting to inaugurate a clearing plan for town homes so that dark skinned students would know which ,homes would allow them to t opm and Which _would not. • The problem iS 'being taken be fore the Couricßi of Churches in about two weeks.' Miss Winzen burger urged all campus. religious organizations to select two or Tribunal Members Refuse Pay By MIKE MOYLE Supreme Court last night decided to accept Rudolph Lutter's case for the unconsti tutionality of compensations for student government lead ers. The case will be heard at 8 p.m. Sunday night in the Board Room in Old Main. Last night the court heard pre liminary statements from Lutter and All-University President Earl Seely, who spoke in defense or Cabin=lt's action in approving compensations. The members of the Supreme Court who were in line for com pensations under the recent Cab inet action have decided not to accept these compensations since they will be hearing the ease. Lynn Meyers, chairman of 'Tri bunal, said that the senior mem bers of Tribunal, who are the only compensated members of the court, decided that they should- not accept their compen sations since they were judging the case. The Supreme Court is made up of the senior members of _Tri bunal and Women's Judicial and will be chaired by Patricia Dout hett, chairman of Judicial for this case. Both Seely and Lutter will be present Sunday night to de bate the issue and to answer any questions posed by the court. At the preliminary meeting last night Lutter said that he will not attempt to debate whether or not compensations are constitutional. He added that his main objection to compensations was that this year's Cabinet voted in compen sation for themselves. Seely said he failed to see any point of constitutional that was being violated by Cabinet's action but that he thought the (Continued on page two) By TED SERRILL three members for membership on the committee in hopes of bringing out new ideas. Officials Have Co-operated She said the dean of men's of fice and Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, have cooperated with the committee in attempting to work out a plan. The dean of men's office at pres ent has a system of approval of acceptable town housing units. However, the master forms re ceived by the office from home owners have no blanks for the marking of whether Negro and foreign students are acceptable for rooming, she claimed. A Lutheran Student Associa tion member pointed out that secondary forms available to stu dents looking for rooms ask this question. These are on •file in the dean of men's office. During the course of the discus sion, it was also alleged that the (Continued on page eight) An Invitation To Snoopers See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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