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Mackey Blames Borough Officials
For Inadequate Parking Facilities
Burgess David R. Mackey has put most of the blame for inadequate parking facilities
in State College on borough officials.
Mackey said, however, that "there are indications we might get something in the
downtown area" to relieve the situation. lie did not elaborate.
tic• said the proper borough officials have just failed to take the initiative in pro
viding inunit:ipal off-street parking either downtown or in the surrounding heavily popu
lated areas.
"11 the proper officials,"
IFC Will Hear
Report Monday
On Hell Week
The lnterfraternity Council
will hear a progress report Mon
day on the activities of its newly
appointed committee on pre
initiation practices,
The eight-man committee was
formed this week to prepare a
Hell-Week code for passible adop
tion by the council.
It held its first meeting Wednes
day and will meet again tomor
row afternoon, according to Dan
iel Land, committee chairman.
Other committee members are
Frederick Troutt, Alpha Zeta;
Scott °lmes, Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon; Karl Kirk, Theta Xi; Ray
mond Schultz, Delta Sigma Lamb
da; Blaine Byron, Kappa Delta
Rho; John Akus, Alpha Gamma
Rho; and Thomas Davis, Delta
Upsilon.
The council will also hear a re
port by Robert Simmons. chair
man of the board of control; a
report on the IFC-Panhel Ball,
by John Russell; one on a sum
mer housing code, ty Andrew
Nester; and one on Greek Week,
by Edward Kramer.
IFC is planning to invest $3OOO
In bonds in the Nittany Valley
Savings and Loan Association. A
fins/ agreement has_ not yet been
made.
NSA Committee
To Plan Seminar
The National Student Associa- 1
Lion Committe wilt meet Monday ,
to plan the NSA Regional Semi
nar to be held at the University
April 27, 28, and 28.
The committee wilt meet at
8 p.m. in the Hetzel Union All-
University Cabinet room.
James Pomrox, regional -direc
tor. will visit the University to
morrow night after attending the
Regional NSA International Stu
dent Relations Seminar. Pomroy
will help the committee make
preparations for the convention.
Mary Matzko, junior in arts and
letters from Brvrick, and Law
retice McCabe, junior in arts and
letters from Uniontown, will rep
resent the University at the semi
nar, which will be held at Lycom
ing College in Williamsport.
Univzysity Cow Gains Fame
Because of Stomach Window
By ROG ALEXANDER
In this modern age bf atoms,
robots, and automatic dish
washers, very few people think
anymore about that common
milk provider, the cow.
However, there was a time
when a certain cow on the Uni
versity farms was an interna
tional celebrity. People flocked to
the University from all over the
world just to glance at Penstate
For Jessie was the first cow
in the world to have a custom
built window attached to her sto
mach. This opening permitted ob
servations of the functions the
largest of Jessie's four stomaches,
Samuel I. Bechdel, head of the
animal husbandry department,
proposed the operation in 1925 to
prove the animal's ability to arti
ficially produce vitamin It com
plex.
The operation was performed
by John F. Shigley, University
veterinarian, in 116. A hole, ap
proximately five inches in dia
meter. was cut ia. Jessie's side,
he said, "would take the initi
parking) could be done in six
months."
Mackey feels the borough
should not be expected to carry
the entire financial burden.
In explaining the borough's
policy on traffic tickets, he said
the "number of dismissed tickets
is just nil."
Ile pointed out that he just
paid a parking fine several
months ago.
Just this week a married student
living downtown came into Mack
ey's office in the Municipal
Building to try to get two traffic
tickets "fixed."
Mackey explained to him that
all persons are treated equally
and that tickets will be torn up
only if they are caused by emer
gencies.
"An automobile is just like a
wife—you've got to take care of
it," he told the students whose
two tickets, which totaled $l4,
were gotten on the same day.
Mackey did, however, give the
student alt the time he could un
der the law to pay the fines.
Explaining how students fit in
to borough laws, Mackey said he
considers everyon e—including
students—who live in State Col
lege a citizen of the borough.
Responsibilities as well as
rights and privileges go along
with this citizenship, Mackey said.
State College, which hasn't had
a traffic fatality since 1948, "must
have a good angel somewhere"
who is keeping watch over it,
he said,
He said that strict enforcement
of traffic violations is one of the
reasons for this record.
The most prevalent traffic of
fenses, according to Mackey, are
driving too fast for conditions,
reckless driving, parking too close
to intersections, stop signs, and
fire plugs.
W3YA to Sponsor
First Code Class
The first code class, sponsored
by the staff of W3YA; campus
amateur radio station, will be
held at 7 p.m. Monday in 219
Electrical Engineering.
The purpose of the classes,
which will be held on Monday
and Wednesday evenings, is to
teach the International Morse
Code to' those interested in be
coming "ham" operators.
• Twenty-eight signed up for the
course at the organizational meet
ing last week. Those interested
may still enroll at the first dais
meeting.
and after the wall of the stomach
and outside skin had grown to
gether,. a rubber tube was in
serted. It was fitted with a stop
per to permit scientists to observe
what was going on inside the
cow's stomach and to remove
samples for analysis.
Ear from resenting this intru
sion on her gastric privacy, Jessie
was proud of the window and the
attention it brought her. Indi
rectly it brought about her death,
for she died of a broken heart
after she had incorrectly inter
preted her removal to a remote
stall in the dairy barns as evi
dence of her waning popularity
In the tests which won Jessie
lasting fame, she had proven that
all cows synthetically manufac
ture vitamin B complex, even
when that valuable substance is
withheld from their dinner pail.
Jessie was a true scientist. Not
even her picture in Ripley's "Be
lieve it or Not" column turned
her away horn the experimental
program.. Her patience - was in
exhaustable,' her courage never
daunted.
Day after day for almost five
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
ative, it (municipal off-street
TIM to Back
UCA Committee
Housing Probe
Town Independent Men pledged
active support to aid a University
Christian Association Housing
Committee to investigate th e
problem of segregation in down
town rooming houses.
Speaking at a meeting of TIM
last week, Miss Gertrude Winzen
burger, graduate student in Ger
man from Rochester, N.Y. out
lined the problem faced by for
eign and Negro students seeking
rooming houses.
No Segregation Laws
Although rooming house forms
in the Dean of Men's office list
no written stipulation against ac
cepting Negro or foreign student
as roomers, unwritten discrimi
nation exists, she said.
Many such students applying
for rooms, she said are told when
owners don't want foreign or Ne
gro students.
The whole situation is very
embarrassing and discouraging to
students who experience this, Miss
Winzenburger said.
House Inspection
As a remedy, she suggested a
house to house inspection of bor
ough rooming houses to determine
which owners would admit for
eign and Negro students.
Miss Winzenburger said she is
seeking the aid of student organ
izations to help the committee
conduct the investigations.
Robert Cole, TIM president,
said that TIM would delegate ,
members to work with Miss Win
zenburger to check the rooming'
houses.
The problems will be brought
before the Council of Churches
within a week or two.
Two Women to Attend
Syracuse Conference
- Two representatives from We
marrs Student Government Asso
ciation are attending a two-day
conference on women's student
government at Syracuse Univer
sity today and tomorrow.
Carolyn Cunningham, WSGA
president. and Ann Nitrauer,
sophomore senator; left for the
conference at noon yesterday ac,
companied by Helen Sittig, -- . as
sistant to the dean of women and
WSGA adviser,
years she occupied the first rank
stall in the main dairy barn. non
chalantly.eating strange mixtures
just to see—or so others could see
=what happened to them. Jessie
always used the trial and error
method in her experiments.
Jessie didn't suffer in the least
from the operation, nor did her
appetite. She even ate a whole
sheaf of records that an attendant
left near her one day. But no
attempt was made to recover
them through the window.
Jessie's demise spoiled a bit of
research which was destined to
revolutionize existing theories on
the subject of cellulose fermenta
tion. During the cellulose tests in
1931. it was decided to move her
to a quiet stall, away from the
hubbub of the main barns. Jessie
had never before been temper
mental, but losing her plate of
honor was more than she could
bear. Her big brown eyes became
tearful, her appetite waned, and
she died.
Many people felt that the soli
tude had been too much fee Jes
sie. There just wasn't anyone sbe
could tell about her operation.
AFROTC May
Coed Training
University, women may soon have the opportunity to wear
Air Force blue. So says a report in the Air Force Times.
The Women's Air Force is short on junior officers. Only
e WAF which is 68 per cent
177 regular officers are in tl
below the 554) authorized by 1.
Pending legislation to open the
advanced AFROTC program to
college women awaits only one
or two signatures for official Air
Force sanction.
Women taking the advance
course would be known as "ca
dettes." "Cadettes" will receive
official military status.
Such a status would include
subsistence allowances, uniforms,
and summer camp. As in the reg
ular Air Force, women officers
would be subject to salute by
both basic and advanced male
ROTC members of all branches.
Summer camps would be be
tween the junior and senior years.
A three year tour of active duty
is planned upon graduation for
"cadettes" completing the four
year course.
New York University has en
rolled its first female student in
the Air Force ROTC basic pro
gram. Miss Wanda Bartos, junior
in pre-law at Washington Square
College, or NYU, plans to be an
aviation lawyer.
Women are also enrolled at sev
eral colleges and universities.
Under the present law, women
may take the Air Force basic and
advanced program but do not re
ceive credit toward an officer's
commission.
The WAFROTC plan is part of
the Air Force drive to increase
WAF officers. Other methods
planned are direct appointment
and officer candidate school. Only
four women were chosen in the
latest officers candidate school
selections.
Women graduates in the AF
ROTC program would be junior
officers with the rank of lieuten
ant. At present the' WAF lacks
junior officers. Total officer
strength, regular and junior, is
below the required 1023.
'Sixidaro Denied
(Continued from page one)
particular concerning the modifi
cations of the present Book Sar
change and the Used Book Agen
cy,- is an attempt to force student
government once more to :deal
with issues—issues which pertain
to alt, Spadaro said. "instead of
ambiguous planks that - have in
the past amounted to nothing:
Unfortunately. issues are not the
desired thing for they ,would
become• the voice of the Students.
"The Lion party advisory board
shall meet 'before Sunday to de
cide on the validity of -the Book
Exchange plank which - stresses
top officers' ..salaries to be - set at
designated sums, a periodical
auditing by the Associated Stu
dent Activities office. and an es
tablished procedure - by which the
excess . profits could be turned
back into student funds," Spada-,
ro continued. "We shall rewrite
the plank, avoiding all possible
objections and implications, and
submit it once more to Election's
Cominittee, previous to the cam
paign and judge future action on
its decision."
Beidler's • decision followed.
Should Spadaro go ahead. as he
indicated he might do in his state
ment Thursday night, a violation
of the All-University Elections
Code would take place, and the
Lion party would be subject to
penalties provided for in the code.
Senior Student Teachers
May Order Caps, Gowns
Seniors' who win s be practice
teaching during the last eight
weeks of the semester, may order
caps and gowns from Monday to
Friday at the Athletic Store.
A $5 deposit must be made, and
seniors must give their hat size
when ordering. Invitations and
announcements at 1l cents each
may be ordered on the same days
at the Hetzel Union desk.
Addition to Deon's List
. Frank A. Wagner, a senior in
architectural engineering is now
on the fall semester dean's list.
= A corrected grade has given
him a 3i54 average: •
SATURDAY. MARCH 10. 1956
By TERRY LEACH
Probation
Upheld for
Sophomore
The subcommittee on discipline
of the Senate Committee on Stu
dent Affairs yesterday upheld a
Tribunal recommendation of dis
ciplinary probation for William
Texter, sophomore in applied arts
from Reinholds.
The Tribunal recommendation
had been referred to the sub
committee by the dean of men's
office.
Texter told Tribunal Tuesday
night he had allowed another per
son under the influence of alco
hol to drive his car. He also ad
mitted he let another person drive
with his license.
Had Several Been
The student said he had had a
few beers with Edward Myers, a
parolee, at a downtown bar the
night of Feb. 20. He said he left
the bar with Myers and a woman
after Myers had asked Tester to
drive him to Bellefonte.
Texter let Myers dri v e not
knowing that Myers did not have
a license., Myers was caught by
borough police for speeding. He
gave police Texter's license.
Texter was charged with allow
ing a person under the influence
of alcohol to drive and allowing
another person to drive with his
license.
Found Guilty
Justice of the Peace Guy G.
Mills found Texter guilty of the
second charge and fined him ;50 -
plus $5 costs. Mills bound Texter
over to Centre County Court on
the first charge.
He was found guilty of the first
charge by Judge Ivan B. Walker
and fined $lOO plus costs and ten
days in jail.
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