Bluebooks, Troubles Forgotten at Carnival Playground
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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.
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