Bluebooks, Troubles Forgotten at Carnival Playground Today's Weather: Cloudy and Mild VOL. 56. No. 132 Elections Committee Weighs Code Ruling All-University Elections Committee yesterday, discussed three major changes in the Elections Code which it will pre sent to All-University Cabinet next Thursday. EleCtions Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday in 9 Carnegie to vote on the proposed changes. Members of the committee felt that the code should con- Nittany Fire Extinguished A small fire burned for about four-and-a-half hours early Sun day morning in a Nittany dormi tory before being discovered and extinguished. William Trinkle, freshman in hotel administration from Allen town, awoke about 9 a.m. to find smoke pouring out the wide-open window of his room, Nittany 26-17, from the bed above hig: Trinkle said he believed the fire was started by the bulb of the goose-necked lamp which he put on the top bunk to read by, until he turned it off about 4:30 p.m. Damage was confined to the top bunk, - except for a slightly smoked wall. Trinkle's roommate, Donald Hackney, freshman in hotel administration from Clarks ville, was home for the weekend. Marine .He WASHINGTON, - May 1 (P) The Marine Corps accused S. Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon of manslaughter today, charging that—under the influence of vodka—he led six recruits to death by drowning with the threat that.every man in the pla toon would drown or be eaten by sharks. • At the same lime the- Marine commandant, Gen; Randolph M. -Pate, acknowledged the corps has ;been lax in supervising_ drill in structors. Pate ordered a drastic shakeup of the supervisory sys tem including transfer to another post of Maj. Gen. Joseph C. Bur ger, commander of the Parris Is= land,S.C., depot where .the drowiiings- occurred. Bailg STATE COLLEGE. PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 2. 1956 tain some restriction for students wishing to change political par ties. At the beginning of the semes ter the committee presented a similar suggestion to Cabinet. Cabinet voted against inserting it into the . Elections Code because it did not provide for students who might want to form . a new party. Statement Proposed The' statement proposed yester day to be added to the Elections Code is: "A person who has held an elected office in a political party shall not run for an elected office in any other political party until one full year has elapsed since departure from the first of fice. This shall not apply in the formation of a new party." • During the past election the right of the Elections Committee to give final approval on party platforms and hold its decision binding on' the cliques, was con tested to Cabinet and the Supreme (Continued on page eight) Id for Pate disclosed the actions to the House Armed Services Commit tee which then decided informal ly to hold off any investigation of its own until the general reports back, before this session of Con gress ends, on progress made to ward ending "mistreatment" of Leatherneck recruits. Vinson Lauds Pate Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) advised this course, praising Pate for meeting a bad situation in a "forthright and courageous" man ner. Besides manslaughter, the charges against McKeon are pos session of alcoholic beverages and drinking in the presence of a - re cruit; and "oppression of recruits" by leading them without author ization-on a night march through treacherous Ribbon Creek as pun ishmet for alleged breaches of dis- Spring Week gives the golf course a new look. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE '56 Spring Carnival Attracts Thousands A milling crowd of approximately 10,000 students and townspeople swarmed through out the southeast corner of the golf course last night to witness the 1956 Spring Week Carni val. An estimated number of 40,000 tickets were sold as of 10 p.m., according to Richard Seng, Spring Week chairman. This would amount to $4OOO in proceeds to be donated to Campus Chest. Last year's ticket sales amounted to 51,000 tickets for two nights of carnival. Wettstont Receives Olympic Donations Olympic fund donations total ing $135 were presented to Coach Eugene Wettstone at the gymnas tic finals Saturday night. - Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, and the Varsity S Club sold lolli-pops from Monday to Fri day of last week, to raise th e money. • Wettstone said it would cost $l4OO to send one athlete to the Olympics, at Melbourne. Tw o competitors and Wettstone plan to go from the University. Manslaughter cipline. during a smoking break. 'Nonswimmers to Drown Before ordering the 74 recruits into the tidal stream, the inquiry report continued, McKeon asked if there were any nonswimmers in the outfit—and, when told there were, he "remarked that all recruits who could not swim would drown and those that could swim would •be eaten by the sharks." Pate told the House group he felt the Marine Corps, as well as McKeon and their sergeants, was on trial. And he said that, while he thoroughly endorses the Ma rines' basic training method, he has learned that since World War U "some practices have crept into the handling of recruits which are not only unnecessary but do not comport with the dignity of the individual or his self-respect." Totirgiatt By BARB BUDNICK Carnival Sidelights on Page Five Four of the 39 show booths were given first warnings by the Spring Week Committee and All- University cabinet checkers for not being in good taste with the standards set up by the commit tee. However, when the checkers went around a second time to check the fourth booths in ques tion, all the shows but one had been revised, said Seng. Shows Warned As of 9:30 p.m. the three shows which were warned were "Black board Jungle," sponsored by Del ta Theta Sigma, "Man With the Golden Arm," sponsored by Phi Kappa Tau and Atherton Hall, and "Damn Yankees," sponsored by Alpha Gamma Rho and Phi Mu. The fourth booth warned was undisclosed. Checkers and judges had spe cial tickets which admitted them to each booth. The name of the carnival winner will be an nounced tomorrow night at the Donkey Basketball Game. 3 Categories Used Booths were divided into three categories—true presentation, par ody, and original, with 12 or 13 booths in each category. Flashing spotlights, dancing girls, barkers and singers were outside booths to lure students in side to see the shows which in cluded everything from infectious amoebas to black-faced minstrels. Blaring loudspeakers and jazz bands added to the general con fusion. Pollee Regulate Six campus patrolmen, one bor ough policeman and one state po liceman were on hand to regulate traffic and watch over the carni val scene. A patrolman was sta tioned on each side of Route 322 to guide carnival goers across the busy throughfare. A blinker light was located on the safety island (Continued an page eight) —Dave Bavar photo Cooperative Education See Page 4 Arbitrations Conducted on Patrol Guns A University representative met with members of the Local 417, AFL-CIO, yesterday as the union continued its fight for return of Campus Patrol's pistols. Kenneth H. Dixon, president of the local union, said that no agreement was reached at the meeting. Under arbitration rules estab lished and agreed upon by the union and the University, the University has two working days to present an answer to the griev ances filed on heti - Alf of the night crew of the Patrol. Arbitrations May Continue If the University's proposal is not satisfactory to the union, oth er meetings will be held. The grievance grew out of an assault by two student burglars on Patrolman Frederick N. Hite, who attempted to arrest them April 5 while stealing fly-tying articles from a room under the stands at Beaver Field. Union Seeks Pay Boost The union has also been seeking a pay boost for the patrolmen and it claims the University disarmed the patrolmen to lower the im portance of their jobs. Attending the meeting yester day, according to Dixon, were Charles E. Lamm of the Physical Plant, which supervises the oper ation of the Patrol; William M. Benson, chief steward of the union; and David Peters, night Patrol steward. FIVE CENTS
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