'Miss State' Contest
Attracts 33 Entrants
In Preliminaries
. Thirty-three women will compete in preliminary inter
views for the title of Miss Penn State tomorrow night at the
Presbyterian Church on West Beaver avenue.
Five finalists will be chosen from the preliminaries. They
will be judged at the Coronation at 7 p.m. Monday at Rec
reation Hall.
The winner of the Miss Penn State Contest will receive
MilhoHand
To Receive
Alum Award
The late James Milholland, for
mer president of the Board of
Trustees, will be honored post
humously with a DiStinguished
Alumnus Award at graduation
exercises June 16.
This is the first time since the
awards were instituted in 1951
that an award will be conferred
posthumously. Milholland's son,
James Jr., also an alumnus, will
accept the award.
Chosen Last February
A member of the board for 25
years, the Pittsburgh judge was
chosen for the honor shortly be
fore his death last February.
He was one of five alumni sin
gled out by the trustees because
their "personal life, professional
achievements, an d community
service best exemplify the ob
jectives of the University."
The other four are:
Edward G. Fox, Pottsville, pres
ident of the Reading Anthracite
Co., formerly the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Cu.
Haven Picked
William A. Haven, native of
Swissvale, now of Cleveland,
who was an officer and director
of Arthur G. McKee and Co.,
consulting engineering firm, un
til his retirement in 1953.
James G. Marshall, native of
Centre County, who was asso
ciated with the Union Carbide
Co. and the Electro Metallurgical
Co., Niagara Falls, N.Y., for 60
years, the last 18 as an engineer
ing consultant.
Ray S. Tannehill, native of
Braddock and since 1942 vice
president in charge of revenue
and finance for the Bell Tele
phone Co. of Pennsylvania.
Civil Air Patrol
Calls off Search
In Erie Vicinity
A search by the Civil Air Pa
trol for a single-engine plane be
lieved downed in the Lake Erie
vicinity April 15, participated in
by 15 students, was called off
Sunday.
Elmer Wareham, Penn State
squadron commander, said his
group searched the area northeast
of Philipsburg Saturday and Sun
day without success.
Wareham said. his squadron re
ceived orders to discontinue the
search Sunday from CAP head
quarters. State CAP squadrons
began searching on the 15th but
University and State College
squadrons were not called upon
until Wednesday.
In the plane were Gordon Pol
lock, Broadway producer, and his
pregnant wife. The plane, a Cess
na, was reported missing at
9:20 a.m.
Assisting the CAP were two
secretaries in the College of Home
Economics.
TODAY'S
WEATHER
CLOUDY
WITH
SHOWERS
15 points for her sponsoring group.
Each of the finalists will receive
eight points for their sponsoring
group. Miss Penn State will re
ceive
a trophy, and each of the
finalists will receive a smaller
trophy.
Judges for the preliminaries
will be Mrs. Robert Breon, Jr.,
and Robert Breon, Jr., owner of
the Penn State Photo Shop; Jack
Harper, owner of Jack Harper's
Men's Store; Gene Fulmer, sec
retary of the State College Area
Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. Mel
vin Smith, manager of the Katz
I Store; Mrs. Ruth Meyers, man
ager of Simon's Shoe Store; Fred
I Metzger, owner of Metzger's.
William Kalin, owner of Ka
lin's Men's Store; James Ken
ney, manager of Vogue Beauty
Salon: Joseph Porter. owner of
Porter Brothers paint s t o r e;
Mrs. Richard Fedon. and Rich
ard Fedon, president of the
State College Area Chamber of
Commerce; Robert McLanahan,
owner of McLanahan's Drug
Store; and Murray Gritzman,
owner of Murray Jewelry Co.
Informal three to four minute
interviews will be held with each
of the contestants. Women should
wear informal dress such as they
would wear to classes according to
Elizabeth Roger s, coronation
chairman. She also requested that
all entrants be prompt for their
interviews.
Entrants for the Miss Penn State
contest and their appointments
for interviews are Ellen Vander-
Voort, Beta Sigma Omicron and
Phi Mu Delta, 6:45; Joyce Koch,
Sigma Nu and Phi Delta Theta,
6:50; Nancy Showalter, Alpha
Zeta, 6:45; Charlotte Fink, Delta
Gamma and Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon, 7; Vera May Springer, Phi
Mu and Alpha Gamma Rho, 7:05;
Ruth Kronenwetter, Delta Chi,
7:10; Shirley Mix, Zeta Tau Al
pha and Delta Upsilon, 7:15; Joan
Baclay, Delta- Zeta and Kappa
Sigma, 7:20.
Rebecca Bowers, Phi Gamma
Della. 7:25; Anne Cain, Kappa
Alpha Theta and Chi Phi, 7:30:
Patricia Du Val. Atherton and
Triangle, 7:35: Nita Messinger,
Alpha Xi Delta and Sigma Chi,
7:40; Sally Laughlin, Pi Beta
Phi and Phi Kappa Sigma, 7:45;
Joan Ziegler, Alpha Rho Chi.
(Continued on page eight)
Clear, Broken Skies
Forecast for Tomorrow
Clear to broken skies are pre
-1 dieted for this morning by the
I students in the department of
meteorology. In the late morning
and afternoon overcast skies with
possible scattered
.showers or
snow flurries are expected.
The forecast high for today is
in the middle 40's while the low
is in the middle 30's. Yesterday's
high was 43. The low was 34 and
,there was .04 inches of precipi
tation.
Supreme Court Extends Integration
WASHINGTON, April 23
(?P)—The Supreme Court to
day extended its ban on racial
segregation to public transpor
tation within the borders of a
state.
It did so by dismissing as friv
olous an appeal from a U.S. Court
of Appeals decision in Richmond,
Va., that segregation on inter
state buses violates the federal
constitution.
The ' court's action means that
segregation in any form in public
transportation, whether entirely
within a state or between states,
is now unlawful.
The decision for the order was
arrived at unanimously.
Only 10 words were used in the
court's order, including citation
Tlit &tall
VOL. 56. No. 126 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 24, 1956 FIVE CENTS
Thi
In
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—Dave Bavar photo
HE-MAN candidates compete for title.
Twelve to Compete
In He-Man Finals
Twelve men have been announced to compete in the finals
for the He-Man Contest. The finalists competed with 16 other
men in three events in the preliminary tryouts Sunday.
Finalists are Bruce Austin, Acacia; Richard Wolford, Al
pha Sigma Phi; John Wright, Alpha Zeta; Joseph Duraney,
Delta Chi; John Tullar, Delta Sigma Phi; Howard Felt, Phi
Epsilon Pi; Robert Metzger, Phi
Kappa Psi; Elmer Strauss, Phi Week points. The group
Kappa Sigma; John Yaag, Phi tga ° n ris l l on g te th st e nm..i•lililer re o e f e t i h v e e H 15 .-
Kappa Tau; Wilson Reitz, SigrnalSpring Week points.
Chi; Dion Weissend, Sigma Nu; The 12 finalists will be judged
and Francis Palone, Theta Chi. on five counts. Three athletic
Tullar placed first -in the soft events will be included in the
ball throw as did Austin in the total judging. They will be the
100-yard dash and Jerome Lyman, bench press, the 220-yard dash,
Association of Independent Men, and the running broad jump. En
in the bench press. Lyman, how- trants will also compete in a
ever, did not make the finals. physique contest and an original
The men were chosen by the name and costume parade which
members of the He-Man commit- will precede the finals. Members
tee by a point margin. The win- of the groups sponsoring the final
ner in each of the thre categories ists may work with the contes
received a number of points equal tants in the parade.
to the number of competitors. Finals for the He-Man Contest
Each of the other entrants in the will be held at 5:30 p.m. May 2,
race received points graduated at Beaver Field. in case of rain
down. Bonus points were given to the finals will be held in Schwab
the top three in each event. Auditorium. Judges outside the
Each group sponsoring one of He-Man committee will be se
the 12 finalists will receive eight lected to judge the finalists.
of a case decided in 1929
A search of the court's records The Court of Appeals ruling
!
showed that the cited case in
last July 14 said the Supreme
iCourrs 1896 decision laying down
volved dismissal of an appeal as
filed "without any authority o f !the historic "separate but equal"'
law," and which "needlessly con-doctrine "can no longer be re
sumed our time." I garded as a correct statement of
law."
The ban on interstate segrega- The 1896 decision, in varying ,
tion came 10 years after the courtidegrees, remained the law of the
struck down-compulsory
i nland se p ara- until the 1954 Supreme Court
tion of the races by state law decisions striking down segrega-
buses crossing state lines. In the decisions
1946 decision the court said seg- tion in public schools.
The Court of Appeals decision,
regation on buses was an uncon-I
written
stitutional burden on interstate.
;w ;Pa r rker, by Chief Judge John J.
said that the Supreme
commerce. Court's public school decisions
Today's action, coupled withrleave no doubt that the separate
earlier decisions and an Inter- but equal doctrine approved in
state Commerce Commission or- 1896 has been repudiated."
der in November, 1955, directing)
Twelve states, including South
be
that segregation ended on in- Carolina, which was directly in
terstate trains and buses and in•volved today, have laws which
waiting rooms used by interstate Irequire segregation within their
travelers, covers all conceivable borders.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Get $l2OO
Robbery
angles of public transportation
Totirgiatt
30 Lose
Personal
Items, Cash
A burglar or burglars en
tered Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity sometime yesterday
morning and stole personal
articles estimated at $1212.55.
Items ranging from typewriters
to a Naval Reserve Officers'
Training Corp hat were stolen
from second floor rooms while
the house members slept on the
third floor.
Richard James, house treasurer.
said the burglar or burglars ap
parently entered the Beaver ave
nue and Pugh street house by a
dining room window. The dining
room is situated on the east end
of the first floor.
Pledges Notice Theft
James said the burglary was
first noticed at 6 a.m. yesterday
when pledges went downstairs to
their rooms.
Finding personal items thrown
about the room and the dresser
drawers open, they returned up
stairs to awaken the brothers.
A check of rooms showed that
all but four rooms had been en
tered. There are 20 two-man
rooms in the three-story stone
building.
James theorized that the burg
lary occurred sometime after 3:30
a.m. since one of the house mem
bers was in one of the rooms un
til that time...
Personal Items Taken
No furniture or other house be
longings were taken. Only per
sonal articles were missing. James
said.
These, he said, included radios,
rifles, golf clubs, pens and pen
cils, cash, and five or six fra-.
ternity pins. About 30 members
and pledges were robbed.
State Police were called to the
scene soon after the burglary was
discovered. Police, however, yes
terday refused to comment on the
burglary, saying that their in
vestigating officer's report was
not completed. -
Unknown Burglars
Loot Cars at AEPi
State College police said yester
day that cars parked in front of
Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity Sun
day night were looted by un
known burglars who stole anten
nas, floor mats, and tried to dis
connect search lights.
Police said they have no idea
just what was stolen or damaged,
and they do not .know who the
vandals were.
When asked if they thought it
might be the same persons who
robbed Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the
police said they weren't sure, but
hoped further investigation would
clear up the vandalism.
Pollock Council to Elect
Officers Tomorrow
Election ofHock Council of
ficers will be held at 6:30 p.m.
tomorrow in 203 Hetzel Union.
Nominations must be made and
seconded from the floor by coun
cil members. Officers to be elect
sd are president, vice president.
secretary, and treasurer.
John Dennis. president of the
council, said that nominees should
be presented at th e elections
meeting.
Elections Committee to Meet
All-University Elections Com
mittee will meet at 7:30 p.m. to
morrow in 9 Carnegie, according
to Roger Beidler, chairman.