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VOL. 56. No. 138 STATE COLLEGE, PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 10, 1956 FIVE CENTS
Over 2.0 Students Quit
Jobs as 'Last Resort'
By LARRY JACOBSON
More than 20 student employees in the Hetzel Union Building cafeteria and Lion's
Den quit their jobs last night in what a student spokesman termed a "last resort."
The spokesman, Eric Fleisher, junior in business administration from Philadelphia,
said he expected a good majority of the student employees in the cafeteria and Lion's Den
to quit by this morning.
When contacted last night, a University spokesman sa
Harper Elected
New Chairman
Of UCA Cabinet
James Harper, junior in civil
engineering fro m. Shenandoah
was elected Chairman of the Uni
versity Christian Association
Cabinet for the coming year last
night.
The group also named Isabel
Barnes, sophomore in bacteriol
ogy from State College, secre
tary. Election of a treasurer was
deferred until next week.
Starbuck Gives Aims
Rev. Robert B. Starbuck, of the
Christian Association, presented a
brief outline of the association's
history and its goals."
Rev. Starbuck described• th e
changeover which has taken place
in the last two years from the
Penn State Christian Association
to U.C.A., through. the so-called
"working paper" drawn up by
the committee on reorganization.
'Center for Outreach'
He said U.C.A.'s goals during
the coming years should include
making it a "center for outreach"
of churches to "carry the* Protes
tant ministry." U.C.A. should be a
center for "ecumenical conversa
tion" and "united action," Rev.
Starbuck stated. It should also be
an area for "inter-religious coop
eration" with groups representing
other faiths.
The U.C.A. Cabinet, which has
recently installed an entirely new
membership,- consists of five rep
resentatives elected at large from
the association's membership and
a member sent from each of the
ten town religious foundations.
Cabinet
Election
All-University Elections Committee will present seven
proposed changes in the All-University Elections Code before
All-University Cabinet tonight.
The changes were adopted by the committee Monday
night.
At the same time, Robert Spadaro, Lion party clique
chairman, will present six addi
tional changes, some of which are
CABINET AGENDA
Call to Order
Roll Call
Minutes of the Previouz
Meeting
Reports of Officers
Adoption of Agenda
Reports of Committees
1. Elections Code Revision
Old Business
New Business
Appointments
Announcements
Adjournment
All-University Cabinet will
meet tonight at 7 p.m. in the
Student Government Room 'of
the Helsel Union Building.
The meeting is open to the
public.
in opposition to the committee's
proposed revisions.
The first code change approved
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Lion's Den would continue as us
ual today. The students' jobs
would be taken over by cafeteria
and Lion's Den supervisors, he
added.
Fleisher said the students were
quitting their jobs in accordance
with a petition presented to the
University last Thursday by stu
dent employees in the cafeteria
and Lion's Den. The petition
asked for a 15-cent-an-hour wage
increase and payment in money
instead of meal tickets.
Petition Threatened Strike
If the demands were not met,
the petition continued, the stu:
dents would go on strike today.
Three students met with three]
University officials at a fact-find
ing' meeting Tuesday, during
which the University told stu
dents if they went on strike, the
University would be forced to fire
them. In doing so, the University
said it would be obeying a. state
law which says that no employee
of a state agency can go on strike.
The students were classified as
employees of a state agency by
Roy Wilkinson, Jr., legal counsel
for the University.
Weren't Threatening Students
The University said they were
not threatening the students but
were informing them of what
would happen if they went on
strike. The University said they
did not want the students to make
an unknowing mistake.
After the fact finding hearing,
Dr. Eric A. Walker, dean of the
College of Engineering and Archi
tecture, said he would study the
case and make a recommendation
to the committee as a possible sol
ution.
'Didn't Want to Quit'
"We didn't want to quit, Fleish
er said, but did so for the lack of
any other means of being heard.
We took it for granted that the
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Will
Hear
Revisions
by the committee would eliminate
a specified time for polls to be
open, and would leave the time to
be specified by the committee
each election. Spadaro said he
wanted the specified time to re
main in the code, 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. He added that he also wants
to add a clause which would com
pel the committee chairman to no
tify clique chairmen immediately
following a committee decision to
extend voting hours.
The second change proposed by
the committee would give it the
power to choose the voting site.
The present code specifies the
Hetzel Union Building.
Spadaro's proposed change
reads "with consideration given,
accordingly as to whether central
ized or decentralized voting is to
be used." This would always
leave the way open to decentral
ized voting, discarded this year
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Tottrogiatt
d service in the cafeteria and
TIM Committee
Selects PSU
Typical Mother
Mrs. Margaret Perez has been
chosen as the "Typical Penn State
Mother," it was announced last
night by James Tipton, newly
elected president of the associa
tion of Town Independent Men.
Mrs. Perez was chosen by an ad
ministration committee in con
junction with the TIM Mother's
Day Ball to be held Saturday
night in the HUB ballroom.
The committee, consisting of
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of
student affairs, Frank J. Simes,
dean of men, Pearl 0. Weston,
dean of women, and William C.
Crafts, assistant to the dean of
men made the selection of Mrs.
Perez on a non competitive basis
from a list of State College wom
en who have a son or daughter
enrolled at the University.
Her Oldest Son- - -
Her oldest son, Larry, is a sec
ond semester freshman in the
college of engineering. Mrs. Perez,
herself, is enrolled at the Univer
sity. She is a part time student in
the College of Education and is
now matriculating in her seventh
semester.
Mrs. Perez, who is the wife of
Lawrence Perez, a professor in
civil engineering, will be the
guest of honor at the TIM
Mother's Day Ball_ As an award
for her selection, she will be pre
sented with two dozen red roses
and a 24-carat gold vase.
Officers Elected
At the TIM •meeting last night
officers for the coming school
term were elected. James Tipton,
junior in Pre-Med from Hollidays
burg was elected president. He
defeated Phillip Levine, junior in
education from Bellefonte, by a
14-7 vote.
Other officers include John
Mauk, junior in psychology from
Pittsburgh, vice president; Mi
chael Forosisky, junior in busi
ness education from Johnstown,
secretary; and Frank Wempa,
junior in secondary education
from Alden, treasurer.
Ike Leads Indiana Vote
By the Associated Press
Late returns from the In
diana presidential voting pro
vided no proof Wednesday of
any farm revolt there against
the Eisenhower administra
tion.
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er and Sen. Estes Kefauver of
Tennessee, running in separate I
primaries, got 62 per cent and 361
per cent of the total vote, respec
tively.
Republican and Democratic'
leaders in the normally Republi-1
can state agreed the figures didn't
demonstrate a farm rebellion. But
the Democratic state chairman,
Charles E. Killen, said it was only
because the farmers just stayed
home and worked, to take advan
tage of Tuesday's good weather.
IrPolitical students weighed the
esults of Tuesday primalies• in
Ohio and Florida.
Bill Sent to Governor
After Unanimous Vote
The House last night approved unanimously the Univer
sity's $26,194,000 appropriation bill, sending it to the Gov
ernor.
After more than a year of tossing around the State Legis
lature at the time when the assemblymen were arguing over
whether it should be a sales tax or some form of an income
tax, the bill, after an amendment and a change to that amend
ment, finally was on the way to Gov. George M. Leader as
The Daily Collegian went to press
last night.
Although there were only
about 50 representatives in the
Lower Chamber when the vote
was taken, the vote was record
ed as 191-0. This was done,
according to the Associated
Press Harrisburg Bureau, since
the House felt that most mem
bers were in favor of the bill.
A breakdown of the $26,194,000
shows 525,783,000 for general
maintenance, research, salaries,
materials, and other general ex
penses; $150,000 for the College
of Agriculture's Experiment Sta
tion, $66,000 for research and ex
periment in problems relating to
the petroleum industry, $70,000
for research on by-products of
anthracite and bituminous coal
and development of new uses.
A grant of $57,500 to the Col
lege of Mineral Industries for re
search on long-range problems
affecting mineral industries, $32,-
500 for research on basic problems
of slate and other non-metallic
mineral industries; and $32,500
for research on basic problems af
fecting mineral industries.
The appropriation bill, the
largest ever proposed for the
University. was approved by
The Senate last week.
The bill had previously been
approved by the House but when
the House .placed_ its stamp of
approval on the bill, it called for
a $25,194,000 appropriation.
The Senate appropriations com
mittee tacked a $2 million in
crease on the bill the House had
approved. This increase met with
opposition when it first went to
the Senate floor.
The bill was then sent back
to the committee. which agreed
on the $1 million increase as a
compromise. This sum was ap
proved by the Senate the next
day a n d it represents the
amount approved by the House
last night.
President Milton S. Eisenhowez
had suggested the $25 million
figure in the fall of 1954, and it
was included in the Governor's
budget message of April, 1955.
New Freshmen to Use
Counseling Program
One-third of next fall's fresh
men have elected to participate
in the new student counseling
program.
This program consists of tests
that will be offered in various
Pennsylvania cities and a day of
counseling on the main campus.
The tests are designed to find out
whether the student is in the right
field or needs help in the "3 R's"
before beginning the regular col
lege program.
This was the picture, item by.Nvould have done if they were
item: aroused."
INDlANA—Returns from 4203
of 4386 precincts in the Republi:
ca npresidential preference pri-I
mary and 3875 of 4348 in the Dem-i
ocratic primary showed:
Eisenhower 344,286 or 62 per
cent. Lar Daly 12,944 or 2 per cent.
Kefauver 203,954 or 36 per cent.
Kefauver, campaigning in Cali
fornia, said he had been told by
friends in Indiana that the final
results will see him with a little
better than 40 per cent. •
In 1952, Eisenhower got 59 per,
cent of the total vote in carrying
the state over Democrat Adlai
Stevenson, against whom- Kefau
ver is campaigning this year for
his party's presidential nomina
tion.
Gov. George Craig, a Republi
can, commented:
"The anticipated farm revolt
failed to materialize. The farmers
went about their business and
didn't bother to vote, as they
By ED DUBBS
.4sst. City Editor
Diplomas to
Be Given
Individually
The University has worked out
what it thinks is an effective plan
for distributing diplomas indi
vidually to each student at the
June 9 Commencement exercises.
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director
of student affairs, said yesterday
that it will take the last student
to receive his diploma about 30
minutes to go through the process.
Kenworthy Cites Shortness
He said that although this may
seem a long addition to the cere
mony, it, in reality, will be shorter
than if students had to go to Wil
lard Hall after the ceremony to
pick up their diplomas. This has
been the procedure followed in
former years.
Last January the University
experimented with giving diplo
mas individually to each student,
and the results were encouraging
enough to try it with a larger.
June graduating class, Kenworthy
said. This will mark the first time
in about 25 years that diploma::
will be given out individually at
a June exercise.
To Be Grouped by Colleges
Students will be assigned to
seats in Beaver Field by college
groupings. ,At the closing of the
benediction, the students will file
out one by one, passing a table
where the presentation of the
diploma will be made by the dean
of the student's college. The table
will be situated at the bottom of
the ramp of the section.
As soon as the student receives
his diploma, he may leave the
stadium. He does not have to wait
runtil every presentation is made,
Kenworthy said.
Numbers on Program
Numbers will be printed on the
program after the student's name.
When the student passes the table,
he will give that number, which
identifies his diploma. Kenworthy
said.
In case inclement weather
causes ceremonies to be conduct
ed in Recreation Hall, a similar
plan will be in effect, he said,
'Lady' Tickets on Sale
Tickets for the Center Stage
production "The Lady's Not for
Burning" are available at the
Hetzel Union desk. Price is $l.
The play will be presented at
8 p.m. tomorrow_ and Saturday.
OHIO—The Tuesday primaries
brought about this lineup for the
November elections:
For governor, Democratic Mi
chael V. DiSalle, former Toledo
mayor and one-time federal price
control director, and Republican
C. William O'Neill, the state's at
torney general.
For senator, Gov. Frank J.
Lausche, Democrat, who will be
Ohio's favorite son at the presi
dential nominating convention;
and Republican George H. Ben
der, who now is Ohio's junior sen
ator. •
Lausche and Bender were un
opposed for nomination. DiSalle
and O'Neill ran away with their
I contested races.
FLORIDA—Gov. Leroy Collins,
who has become known nation
wide to readers of his Florida
boosting articles in a number of
periodicals, was an easy winner
for Democratic renomination.