Today's Weather: Cloudy Wpth Snow , VOL. 56. No. 98 Ugly Man Contest Plans Announced Alpha Phi Omega, national service honorary, has set the schedule of events and regulations for the Ugly Man contest to be held April 17 to 19, two weeks before Spring Week. Plans for the contest were approved yesterday by a com mittee headed by Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student Sales Tax Charged By Five Stores Editorial on page four Although the sales tax went into effect at midnight yesterday, a spot check of State College bush ness places showed that only five of 15 business places checked were charging the tax yesterday. Merchants interviewed who have not been charging the 3 per cent tax said, for'the most part, that they were waiting for offi cial word. Yesterday the only word they had that it was in effect was from newspapers and other news Diners Charge Tax The two West College avenue diners were among the few res taurants charging the tax yester day. The Terrace Room and the Lion's Den in the Hetzel Union ,Building did not collect the tax yesterday. A Terrace Room official said yesterday that she is awaiting word from Mildred A. Baker, di rector of ' food service, before starting to collect the tax. Miss Baker has said that she is waiting for Samuel K. Hostet ter, University comptroller, and his office to clear the legal de tails of the tax before collecting it. Big Question Hostetter has said that every thing is still up in the air as far as his office is concerned. The big • question with -Univer sity officials seems to be how the tax will apply to the University since it is a land-grant institu tion, thereby being state-sup ported. Under the 1 per cent sales tax Gov. George M. Leader allowed to expire last Aug. 31, the Uni versity was exempt from paying the tax, an official said. 'Alchemist' Ticket Sales Tickets for "The Alchemist" are available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow at the Hetzel Union desk. This is the third week the show has been given at Cen ter Stage. . Eisenhower Hints on Campaign Plans Inifites Nixon to Make His Own Running Decision WASHINGTON, Marchl (A)—President Dwight D. Eisenhower vigorously dashed cold water to day on "dump Nixon" talk. But he refused for a second time to say whether he wants the Vice .President as his 1956 running mate, and he said he has invited Nixon to chart his own political future. Political tensions crackled through most of a news conference in which Eisenhower also voio3d belief the world "has wakened to the fact that global war is getting well nigh unthinkable." and said there are no immediate plans for inviting Soviet premier Nikolei Bulganin to this country— although "we shall be alert to follow up any opening" that might ease East-Weit discord. The President bridled when asked about reports some advisers were urging him to "dump" Nixon from this year's ticket—and that Eisenhower him self had suggested Nixon stand aside and - maybe take a Cabinet post. "If anyone." said Eisenhower, with considerable force, "ever has the effrontery to come in and urge me to dump somebody that I respect as I do Vice President Nixon. there will be more com motion around my office than you have noticed yet. To ic ittg , 4 „..-: 1,. : it,:ei..47,:;,,t ,:.*(nilitirr Ba 1/40,, By BARB BUDNICK affairs The contest will begin with the Ugly Man parade on campus Tuesday, April 17 at 6:30 p.m. The parade will move from the ice-skating rink parking lot along Pollock road, up Burrower road to the parking lot behind the Pat tee library. Floats must be in po sition by 5:45 p.m. and must be removed from campus by 10 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, voting will be held from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with individual cam paigns from 12 to 12:30 p.m. and 5 to 5:30 p.m. Voting Thursday will be from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with noon campaigns at the same time as Wednesday. Final Judging at HUB Final judging will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Hetzel Union ballroom. Finalists will present skits and the judges will select the 'winner. Individual campaigns will be confined to the Mall from College avenue to Pollock road during the time specified: Use of auto mobiles or floats is forbidden dur ing campaigns and sound equip ment may not be used. Participants must remove all articles or equipment from cam pus as soon as they are finished with them. No signs may be posted on trees around campus. 7' Finalists - JO 13e - dh6sen Seven finalists will be selected from the highest number of votes of one-cent donations. Added to the total number of votes will be bonuses awarded for the three outstanding floats. Five hundred points will be given to each. Fin alists will be selected on indi vidual campaigns, skits, and orig inality. Each sponsoring organization should register their candidate at the Hetzel Union desk from March 19 to 22. The registration fee is $l, and only graduating seniors are eligible. Pictures of the applicants will be taken at 1 p.m. April 7. Formerly in Spring Week The Ugly Man contest was formerly part of Spring Week, but was voted out by Cabinet last semester along with the float par ade in order to cut down on the number of events. Alpha Phi Omega, whose na tional project is the Ugly Man contest, then tried to include the contest in with the Pitt football weekend last fall, but this was not carried out due to complica tions with the University of !Pittsburgh. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH S. 1956 Campus Platform Passed, Lion Plank Questioned All-University Elections Committee last night passed two of the three planks included in the Lion party platform for the March 21 and 22 All-University elections and approved the Campus party platform. The second of three planks presented by Lion party clique chairman, Robert Spadaro, concerned a proposal to institute a non-profit student run book store which would handle new books. The proposal for the book store, which would operate in conjunction with the present used book agency, and book exchange, was stricken from the platform until an official representative of the present Book Exchange, located in the Hetzel Union Building, can be Campus Party Wants Student Service Group Campus party's platform was released last night in the form of an open letter, as follows: "Now in our second spring elec tion, Campus party is once again faced with the perplexing prob lem of how to make student gov ernment more effective. As a group of students, Campus party realizes that we cannot solve all of these problems affecting us, but we also fully realize that stu dent government has the poten tial of solving many of these problems. "Last year you gave us your full support toward this goal. Although we did not completely solve the problems of student government. definite steps were taken in this direction. Under the past administration, All-University and class office hours were set up so that we might meet and discuss problems with our leaders. Class advisory boards were also set up. National Student Association was estab lished for the second time at Penn State. Along with the above, many other steps were taken to bridge the gap between us and our gov ernment. "With the aid of your student government we will be able to continue this effort. On the re cent poll conducted by Campus party we tried to determine what the major problems were affecting the student body. It was shown in the poll that defi nite attention should be given to the present hea,lth service on campus. Also that additional at tention was needed concerning the food service in the dormi tories. To overcome these and other similar problems we advocate the establishment of a Student Serv ice Commission. It would maxi mize the value of these services, and present grievances and sug gestions obtained from the student (Continued on page two) Says He Will Quit Job If Physically Incapable WASHINGTON, March 7 (EP)—President Dwight D. Eisenhower, replying to Democratic charges of "part-time president," indicated today he'll quit the job if he ever feels physically unequal to it. In response to news conference questions about the Democratic contentions, Eisenhower said: "Now, I will certainly be less of a host in the coming years should I be re-elected, but there is going to be no neglect of the duties of the presi dency of the United States: and when I feel I zan't carry them on, I won't be there." He rephrased this later to say in response to q,uestioning that "unless I felt absolutely up to the performance of the duties of the president, the second that I didn't, I would , no longer be there in the job or I wouldn't be available for the job." Pressed as to whether a health setback in com ing months meant he would withdraw his candi dacy for the Republican nomination, the President said with a grin that he didn't want reporters to "hold me.down, if I get a week's case of the flu or something else." "But I am talking about my general . .. organic fitness for the 'job, as I see it, and that means carrying the burden of hard work right on through the year and through the months," he said. tgiatt conferred with After lengthy discussion, Gor don Pogal, Elections Committee member, called for a vote to strike the plank from the plat form until further information can be obtained. The motion was passed on a 7-1 vote. Before the vote was taken Pogal moved that the plank be stricken "because it was shrouded in mystery." Knaff Contacted Following the meeting Roger Beid 1 e r, Elections Committee chairman, contacted John Knaff, business manager of the Book Exchange, and made arrange- 1 ments to confer with him this morning concerning the issue. Beidler said a final decision as to whether the plank will remain stricken or will be approved will be reached tonight. After the Elections Committee ruling, Spadaro said, "If the Book Exchange officials can not offer [ a suitable reply, the Lion party, !regardless of the consequences of elections code violations, will definitely run this plank and let the students make their choice." Campus Platform Open Letter William Snyder, Campus party clique chairman, presented his !party's platform in the form of ian open letter to all students. The platform pointed out accomplish- Intents which have taken place since Campus party swept all nine positions in last spring's elections. The Elections Committee voted unanimously to strike from the iplatform a clause which per tained to the arrival of Sunday ernment. Quite a number of the cards fell into the latter category. Seely said he had no idea who solicited the opinions. The cards Seely received had been attached to printed post cards, dated Feb. 20, which read: "We are attempting to evaluate student government here at Penn State. Your name was one of 100 Picked at random from the stu dent directory. Please write any suggestions, ideas, or opinions you may have on student govern ment on the attached card. If you have no opinions or ideas, just (Continued on page two) Seely From All-University President Earl Seely received about 60 post cards the past two weeks from students who were asked by a non-existent student government committee to tell Seely their opinions of student government. The comments ranged from very favorable expressions to statements of ignorance about the operations of student gov- movies in State College theaters last November. The Committee ruled that the Sunday movie is sue was discussed at Encamp ment lasi. fall and would have been brought up before All-Uni versity Cabinet, regardless of what officers or party was in Power, and thus were not a di rect action of the plhtform pre sented by Campus party last spring. The first plank presented by Spadaro was the parking report presented before Cabinet last Thursday by Thomas Dye, former Lion-party clique chairman. Spa daro said that Lion"party did not Lion Advocates Parking Plan, Voting Change The platform of the Lion Party for the Spring Elections, as pre sented to the All-University Elec tions Committee last night, reads as follows: As its first plank - the party sup ports a proposal made by Thomas Dye, former Lion Party Clique Chairman, to All-University Cabi net last week. The proposal states that Cabinet: 1. Recommend to the Council of Administration that they con sider a long-range program for increasing parking facilities. • 2. Recommend to the Council that it closely evaluate its freshmen car ban, considering scholastic ef f act s, increased costs to the students, added in conveniences, and overwhelm ing student opinion, before it entertains action banning fur ther student cars. 3. Recommend to the University .that as a stop-gap measure it make available for student park ing in those areas marked for building but on which construc tion will not begin for some time, Viand point out that any parking spaces they would make available !need not be graded, paved, or even cindered, but would be I nonetheless appreciated by the 'student body: And that All-Uni i versity Cabinet finance insurance ! and protection for such areas as the University sees necessary. The second plank of the par ty; dealing with a book ex change. was tabled for further consideration by the committee. In its third plank the party advocates a system of decentra lised voting which would place voting machines in the West Halls Area and in the Nittany- Pollock Areas. It recommended further that Ilists could be provided as well as the punching of dining hall (Continued on page two) Gets Cards 60 Students claim to have originated the re port, but wished to sponsor it as part of its platform. The third Lion party plank delt with decentralized voting. Spa daro said he was prepared to go before Cabinet, should Lion party win the coming elections, with suffiicent material to prove that voting machines placed in the West Dorms and Nittany-Pollock 'area would increase the turnout at the polls in future University elections. Both the parking and decentralized voting planks were unanimously approved by the Committee. Flag-Waving And Fear See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers