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VOL. 5:6, No. 128 • STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1956 FIVE CENTS
Blood Drive Exceeds
541 Pints Collected
• A grand total of 541 pints of blood were collected in the two-day Red Cross blood drive. This
breaks - last spring's donation total of 449 pints and exceeds by 41 the goal for this drive.
Two-hundred and seventy-five pints were collected Tuesday and 2G6 more pints were added
yesterday.
The name of the fraternity donating the most bloOd, thereby w
Delta Theta, was not" released
last night.
The campus drive was con
sidered an "outstanding success"
by Red Cross workers. The blood
mobile that came up from Johns
town was kept so busy during the
day with an unprecedented am
ount of walk-in donators that near
closing time*.at 4 p.m. all bottles
for the collection were exhausted.
IA few - students were reported un
able to donate.
155 Walk-in Yesterday
Police Fingerprint
-Members-i:)f SAE
During Inquiry
State College police were sched
uled to fingerprint members of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
last night in an attempt to solve
the • $l2OO burglary of the house
sometime Monday morning.
Police said yesterday they did
not expect a member of the house
. to be guilty of the burglary but
• are attempting to :eliminate the
' prints of members :from those
taken_ after the burglary.
Meanwhile, police have been
checking for stolen articles which
may turn up. SeVeral articles
have alrdeay. been recovered, but
: police refused to comment fur
ther.
About $l2OO in cash and per
sonal items Were stolen from the
second-floOr rooms of the frater
nity sometime Sunday morning
while most members were sleep
ing on the third floor.
• Police believe entry was gained
through a first-floor dining room
window: • '
State Primaries
pHILADELPHIA,. April 25
(/1 1 )—Both major parties de
tected encouragement in Tues
day's Pennsylvania presiden
tial preference voting in which
Preiident Eisenhower ran up
an edge close to 300,000 over Ad
lai Stevenson.
Even - Sen. Estes Kefaiiver of
Tennessee, who received 37,357
TODAY'S
WEATHER
CLOUDY
AND
COOLER
Charlotte Fink
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
One-hundred an d - fifty-five
walk-ins, mostly students, offered
their blood yesterday.
Altogether 293 students, faculty
and townspeople appeared to give
blood, - this included 138 who
pledged to donate before hand.
In the two-day drive, 585 peo
ple offered to donate blood. - Of
these 44 were. rejected after an
examination by nurses and doc
tors from the University "Hospital
and Johnstown center. -
Loren Tukey, assistant profes
sor of pomology at the University
and chairman of the blood com
mittee of the State College Red
Cross, expressed his gratitude• to
the students and faculty who
"made the drive an outstanding
success."
• Blood Sent to Johnstown
The blood donated was shipped
yesterday to the Johnstown Red
Cross center r where it will be
• (Continued on page eight)
Democratic write-in votes with
out campaigning, expressed plea
sure over the support given him.
Sen. William F. Knowland of
California, whose name appeared
on the GOP ballot against his
wishes, received 43,080 votes.
Sixty Pennsylvania aspirants
for the U.S. House of Represen
tatives were nominated in Tues
day's primary election to battle
it out for the state's 30 seats in
November. ..
Those who will try to succeed
Rep. Karl C. King in next fall's
balloting are John P. Fullam,
Democrat, and Willard S. Curtin,
Republican. Both are Bucks
County attorneys.
One former congressman, S.
Walter Stauffer, York Republican,
won out in a 4-way contest.
Rep. James M. Quigley, Camp
Hill Democrat, will face Stauf
fer in November. Quigley, an at
torney, was nominated without
opposition.
One::contestyjrrvol,vlharrjn - =
cwill)elkt -that-attracted- attention
Ruth Kronenwetier
ToUrgiatt
Goal;
in 2 Days
inning a trophy awarded by Phi
Delaware Students
Reported Painters
Of Nittany Lion
'Four pledges of Phi Sigma Ep
silon fraternity at the University
of Delaware were reported yes
terday by Dean of Men Frank J.
Simes to have been the painters
of the Nittany Lion on April 8.
The University of Delaware
has sent a check for $47.25 to
cover the cleansing of the Lion,
which was completely covered
with multi-colored paint.
The fraternity was placed on
social probation for the remainder
of the semester and disciplinary
probation until Feb. 1, 1957. It
was also fined $5O in costs for the
removal of the paint. No action
was taken against the students,
since they were acting under in
structions issued by the fraternity.
Simes said the students had
shown a list of the pledge duties
to be accomplished at the Univer
sity to a townsman while they
were up here. They also had men
tioned they were from Delaware.
Through the townsman's infor
mation. the dean of men's office
decided to contact the University
of Delaware.
was in the 24th Crawford-Erie-
Mercer district. Rep. Carroll D.
Kearns, Farrell, defeated Wilmer
W. Waterhouse, a Corry state as
semblyman, for the GOP nomi
nation. Kearns will be opposed
by William D. Thomas, Sharon
Democrat, next fall. Thomas won
in a 4-way contest.
One of the last U.S. House con
tests. to be reported was in the
25th Beaver- BUtler-Lawrence
District. With complete unofficial
returns from the district's 305
precincts, Sidney L. Lockley had
18,165 and Raymond Chapman
17,836. The Democratic incum
bent, Frank M. Clark of Besse
mer, was nominated without op
position.
In a race involving the upper
house in Washington, U.S. Sen.
James H. Duff of Carnegie won
the Republican senatorial nomi
nation in a walk. •
Op:losing Duff in the November
election will be Joseph S. Clarino,
who - won the Deinsicratic nomina l
tion -without opposition.
Split
Jean McMahon
Residents Hold
Interviews for 33
- Anne Cain, Charlotte Fink, Ruth Kronenwetter, Jean McMahon,
and Joan Ziegler were selected as finalists from 33 entrants in the
Miss Penn State queen contest by 15 townspeople last night.
The judges held short informal interviews with each of the 33
entrants. They selected the finalists according to a point system with
the five finalists having the highest scores. The points were awarded
on the basis of carriage, poise,
grooming, speech, and attractive
ness, according to Elizabeth Ro
gers, coronation chairman.
Winner to Be Chosen
Miss Penn State will be selected
from among the five finalists at
the coronation at 7 p.m. Monday
at Recreation Hall.
A celebrity will crown the
queen: however, the coronation
committee has not disclosed who
the celebrity will be.
Miss Cain is sponsored by Kap
pa Alpha Theta and Chi Phi. She
is a junior in applied arts from
Unionville.
Miss Fink, sponsored by Delta
Gamma and Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon, is a senior in secondary edu
cation from Philadelphia.
Delta Chi Is Sponsor
Sponsored by Delta Chi, Miss
Kronenwetter is a senior in phy
sical education from Emporium.
Miss McMahon is sponsored by
'Kappa Kappa Gamma and Alpha
Sigma Phi. She is a junior in
physical education from
Wil
liamsport.
Alpha Rho Chi sponsored Miss
Ziegler, who is a senior in ele
m6ntary education from Pitts
burgh.
IS Townspeople Judge
The 15 townspeople who acted
as judges for the preliminaries
are Mrs. Robert Breon, Jr., and
Robert Breon, Jr., owner of the
Penn State Photo Shop; Jack
Harper, owner of Jack Harner's
(Continued on page eight)
Plea Made to Senate
On Fraternity. Probation
Robert Bullock, retiring president of the Interfraternity
Council, and Daniel Land ; president elect, appeared before
the Senate Committee on Student Affairs yesterday in a plea
for leniency on behalf of the three fraternities the committee
placed on social probation.
The fraternities, Delta Tau Delta, Pi Kappa Phi, and
Pi Lambda Phi, were' placed on
social probation for the remainder
of the semester two weeks ago af
ter falling below the 2.00 average
required by the University fol.
graduation.
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director
of student affairs, said no further
action on the case was taken at
yesterday's meeting. -
Acting' as spokesman for the
'three. fraternities, Bullock asked
the committee to modify the strict
social probation as the fraterni
ties involved had, on their own
accord,' taken measures to better
the scholarship in the house be
fore they were placed on proba
tion.
The fraternities had depledged
members with unsatisfactory av
erages, curtailed weekend parties,
rigidly enforced quiet hours, and
raised the average required for
pledging. Bullock said.
The committee . said .the- sAn.."'n
Finalists
Anne Cain
Cabinet to Hear
Town Affairs
Report Tonight
A report from the Joint Com
mittee on Town Affairs will be
included in the reports to be
heard tonight by All-University
Cabinet.
The report, which will be giv
en by All-University President
Robert Bahrenburg, former chair
man of this committee, will in
clude a recommendation to have
a stoplight put in at the corner
of Locust lane and College ave
nue.
Bahrenburg said that he is try
ing to get permission to go before
the Borough Council to inquire
about the possibilities of a stop
light or of having a policeman
stationed at that ocrner during
the rush hours.
The report will also cover the
movies and the recent cheek - - of
State College• houses by local fire
men.
Another-prospective act by the
committee will be getting permis
sion from -Ralph Nielsen, man
ager of the Cathaum theatre, to
write to Warner Brothers and in
quire about a plan to install air
conditioning in the movie houses.
(Continued on page eight)
probation was placed on the frat
ernities as a constructive measure
so the planned activities of the
fraternity would not interfere
with the time of the individual
members of the fraternity.
During his appearance before
the committee, Bullock asked that
the three fraternities be allowed
to participate in intramural ath
letics, hold Spring Weekend house
activities, have Mother's Day cel
ebi'ations in the hOuse, and take
part in rushing,
The committee clarified the last
two points of Bullock's proposal,
pointing out that in the original
notification of social probation
i from the dean - of men's office,
the fraternities were informed
,they could have parents and
guests in the house for Mother's
IDay. The fraternities are also al
lowed to take part in rushing ac
tivities, as it is not considered .a
:social function.