Fund Bill Hiked $1.4 Million Compitmise Measure Awaits Senate Action The University may receive a boost of $1,406,000 under a compromise appropriation bill now ready for Senate action. The Senate yesterday took no action on the bill, according to the associated Press Harrisburg bureau. Action is expected soon since the State Legislature is shooting for a May 12 adjournment for it's longest session in history. The Senate appropriations committee recommended Tuesday night that about $600,000 be cut from its earlier proposal to increase the appropriation by ,$2 million. Hammarskiold Finds Trouble Now in Water JERUSALEM, May 2 (W) UN Secretary General Dag Hammar skjold, nearing the end of his ,Palestine peace mission, made a quick round trip to Damascas to day trying to untangle an Arab- Israeli jam over water rights. He would not .say whether he suc .ceeded. Syria, with Jordan and Leban on following suit, had declined to sign a cease-fire on its armistice demarcation lire with Israel un less Israel promised not to resume an interrupted 1953 project to take Jordan River water 'for power and irrigation. • Hammarskjold would not tell reporters whether he got Israel to make such a promise or got Sy ria, to drop its demand. He re marked in French "I am the silent boy.". . _ . Official Questioned • ,The. United Nations' top official was' westioned before he left Da:- mascus to fly .back to Jerusalem. He spent almost 2. 1 / 2 hours in an afternoon conference with Syrian Premier-Foreign Minister , Said Ghazzi and Defense Minister Ras : had Barmada. • He had a. Morning conference here - with Israeli Premier • David Ben-Giirion and Foreign Minister Moshe " Sharett.- Canadian Maj. .Gen. - E. Burns; - chief of staff of the ;UN truce supervision -or ganiiatign, was with him on both occasions.• Points Cleared An Israeli Spokesman said that at - the morning - meeting, various points were cleared up in regard to carrying out the 1949 armistice agreements between-Israel and its Arab neighbors. He gave no de tails. - - • • Hammarskjold wants cease-fire Jordan, "Lebanon and Syria to 'agreements bet Ween Israel and match that put into effect April 18 between Egypt and Israel. The latter has been hailed as the ma jor accomplishment of his , peace mission for the Security Council, on which he left New York April Student - Gets Probation For *Throwing . Water' A Pollock dormitory 11 student was - . placed on office probation for the remainder of the semester for throwing . water- following a hearing at a meeting of the As sociation of Independent Men Ju dicial Board of Review Tuesday night. David • CUmmings, dormitory counselor who reported the stu dent, said he threw water across the hall from one room to another. He said no damage resulted. Senior Ball Ticket s Tickets for the Senior Ball will be on sale from 9 a.m. to noon and from . 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at the ',Hazel UniOn desk, and at . 9 p.m. to. morrow in Recreation Hall, ac cording to George L. Donovan. director of associated student activities. • The committee in late March tacked the $2 million increase on the House-approved bill which would have given the University $25 million, the sum asked by President Milton S. Eisenhower in the fall of 1954 and included in Gov. George M. Leader's bud get of April 19, 1955. After the $2 million was tacked onto the bill, it was sent to the A Senate-approved bill which would mean about $12.5 million in construction grants for the University reached the House yesterday. The bill authorizes the in crease of the debt ceiling of the General State Authority, bor row-and-build branch of the state government. Proposed buildings for the University include a new engi neering building and a military science building. Senate floor. The Senate then sent it back to the committee for further study. The bill now pending is the compromise bill worked out by the committee, which gives for the reason for the increase of $1,406,000 "added expenses at the ' school." University Senate Agrees Committee chairman Leroy E. Chapman (R-Warren) said Uni versity official "agreed with the committee that the $1,406,000 in crease would be sufficient to han dle most_ of its needs." If the Senate approves the bill, it will have to return to the House for final approval before being sent to Gov. Leader. If the bill becomes law as it will be the largest appropria tion ever given the University for a biennium. •It is over $6 million more than the 1953-55 appropria tion. Breakdown Shown A breakdown of the original bill, without the sum the corn mittee has tacked on, shows: Maintenance . and ' instruction, $24,783,000; petroleum research and experiments, $66,000; agricul tural experiment station, $15,000; coal research, $70,000 (to be matched by industrial grants); nonmetal mineral industry re search, $35,000; long-range min eral industry research, $32,500: matching funds for mineral in dustry research, $57,500. All-University Cabinet There 'will be no meeting of All-University Cabinet tonight. Cabinet will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Student Govern ment Room of the Hetzel Union Building. Sea Motif. Seen in 'Hatters' Parade Picture on page two Whales, volcanoes and weird deep sea charaCters formed the motif for most of the creations which marched through 'Schwab Auditorium's aisles last night in the Mad Hatters Parade. Forty-one hats in all marched in the parade in spite of -the rainy weather which forced them 1. ilnto Schwab from Beaver Field where the parade was originally !scheduled. Three winners for th e three diffenant categories .were an nounced .by judges following the parade. The theme for the parade was. book titles. Winner in the artistic category Vlr Eittitg VOL. 56. No. 133 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 3. 1956 FIVE CENTS rnival C C a h arged Speaker, Plans Set For Commencement John Jay Hopkins, chairman of the board and president of the General Dynamics Corp., will deliver the address at the June Com mencement exercises. President Milton S. Eisenhower will confer degrees on. approx imately 2200 students in the exercises planned for 10:30 a.m. June 9 in Beaver Field, weather permitting. In case of inclement weather,, the ceremonies will be divided into two sections, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and will be held in Recreation Hall. Deans May Give Diplomas Arrangements are being made for presentation of diplomas in dividually to each student by the dean of the student's college, ac cording to' Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs. The graduating students, Ken worthy said, will be allowed an unlimited number of guests, and no tickets will be necessary, if the ceremonies are held in Beaver Field,- but that -a limit of three tickets to each student will have to be made because of limited seating capacity if the ceremonies are forced indoors. Decision to Be, Broadcast Kenworthy said students would be informed on whether the exer cises will be held indoors or out doors by radio at 8 a.m. Com mencement Day. If indoor exercises are neces sary, students in the Colleges of Agriculture, Chemistry and Phys ics, Engineering and Architecture, and Mineral Industries will have their ceremonies at 10:30 a.m. Students in the Colleges of Liberal Arts, Business Adminis tration, Education, Home Eco nomics, and Physical Education and Athletic= would receive their diplomas at a 2 p.m. ceremony. Advance Degree Presentations Students receiving advanced degrees will graduate with the college in which they completed their work, Kenworthy said. Each student will receive three tickets when he obtains his cap nad gown,• except students grad uating in uniforms,, who will re ceive tickets through their Re serve Officers' Training Corps unit. Admission to Rec Hall will be by ticket and only until 10 min utes before the time of the cere mony, when the doors will be (Continued on page eight) • was Phi Kappa Psi, whose hat, representing "The Sea Around Us," was modernistically por trayed with abstract figures of fish, shells and sea horses made out of copper wire against a blue three-dimensional background. First Place Winner - First place. winner in the com ic category was Triangle with its hat entitled "The Power of Posi tive Thinking." It showed a twist ed mass of distilling equipment with a hose placed in the neck of a beer bottle. ' Triangle again won first place in the original category with a hat labeled "Circus,". portraying a carousel with moving animals twirling around. Each of the first place winners received a trophy and 25 Spring Week points. Second place winners in each FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Dri by Trainer Reports 'Grass' Campaign 99% Successful The "Keep Off the Grass" cam paign was termed 99 per cent successful yesterday by Walter W. Trainer, head of the division of landscape construction and maintenance. Trainer said the great majority of students are heeding the warn ing signs around campus and keeping off the grass. The signs were made by pledges of All - lha Phi Omega, national service fraternity. Trainer also said there has been no sign of the -Dutch Elm disease which plagued campus Elms a year ago. However, he said, it's still too early to tell if the spray used this year will be effective. He said the disease usually doesn't become apparent .. until August, but ground maintenance men are keeping constant watch on the Elms. The first sign of the disease is dead limbs on the Elm trees; he said. AIM Judicial Board Applications Due Today Applications for membership on the Association of Independent Men Judicial Board of Review will be taken today at the Hetz,24 Union desk. A 2.0 All-University average is required. Screening of applicants will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 13, in 203 HUB. Any undergraduate man is eli gible. Lantern Circulation Staff The Lantern circulation staff will meet at 6:30 p.m. today in 103 Willard. The Lantern will be out Mon day instead of Wednesday as originally planned. of the categories will receive 20 points toward Spring Week. They are artistic—Beta Theta Pi's "Tea house of the August Moon," comic —Delta Delta Delta's "Inquisitive Physician," and original—Delta Sigma Phi's "Horses Mouth." Spring Week Points Fifteen Spring Week points will be awarded to the third place winners who are Alpha Gamma Rho whose hat was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Sigma Alpha Epsilon, "Cheaper by the Dozen," and Kappa Kappa Gam ma, "The Octopus." Fourth place was won by Theta Xi, Delta _Gamma and Phi Mu Delta_ Kappa Delta, Theta Chi, and Alpha Gamma Delta wo n fifth place awards. Fourth place winners will receive ten Spring Week points and fifth place win ners, five.. • - Totirgiatt nking Seng Moorhead Lists Ticket Totals; 42,554 Sold Picture on page five Two groups entered in Tues day night's annual Spring Week Carnival, Phi Kappa and Theta Phi Alpha, and Phi Kappa Sigma and Pi Beta Phi, have been accused of drinking on the carnival grounds by Richard Seng, . Spring Week chairman. Seng said that the groups waived all points for the carnival by their action, but that they can still participate in Spring The carnival winner will be announced tonight following the Donkey Basketball Game to be held in Recreation Hall, begin ning at 6:45. Moorhead Announces Sales Douglas Moorhead, Spring Week business manager, reported last night that 42,554 tickets were sold during the Carnival. Gross receipts totaled approximately $4900. Seng said he saw members of Phi Kappa Sigma with a large trash can half full of beer bottles, cans and quart bottles and that some of the bottles still co :twined beer. He also stated that there were bottle caps lying on the ground. One of the members of the group told Seng that they had used the bottles in the show. Case Appealed The two groups appealed the case to the Spring Week commit tee at 11 last night. The Daily Collegian was unable to get the results. Seng said the action of the groups violated the rules and reg ulations set up by the Spring Week committee which were ap proved by All-University Cabinet and published by the Daily Col legian. Four of the 39 show booths par ticipating in the carnival were given first warnings by the Spring Week Committee and All-Univer sity- Cabinet checkers Tuesday night for not being in• good taste with the standards set up by the committee. However, when checkers went around a second time to check the four booths in question, all the shows but one had been re vised, Seng said. Booths were divided into three ' categories—true presentation, par ody _and original, with 12 or 13 booths in each category. 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. Captain Phillip A. Mark, chief of the campus patrol. reported that there were no mis haps on Route 322 while the Carn ival was in progress. A patrolman was stationed on each side of the highway to guide carnival-goers acro. A blinker light was also located on the safe ty island in the middle of the highway to warn automobiles of crossing pedestrians. Cloudy, Dry Weather Predicted for Today As a relief from yesterday's rains which brought .53 inches of moisture, partly cloudy but dry weather is expected for today, ac cording to students in the depart ment of meteorology. -
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