Students
Today to
Talks to
All but two of the some 20 students who quit their jobs
at the Hetzel Union Building's Lion's Den and cafeteria Wed
nesday night are expected to return to their jobs today.
Ronald Henderson, junior in agricultural education from
St. Clairsville, said last night that a few of the students re
turned to jobs yes.terday and the remainder will return today.
Meanwhile, student workers met 'with food service offi
cials last night in an attempt
House Votes
33 Billion
For Defe se
WASHINGTON, May 10 (iP)—
The House today vote 377-0 to
appropriate $33,635,066, 00 in new
money for the Defens Depart
ment for the fiscal ye starting
July 1.
It passed and sent t the Sen
ate a bill providing that amount
after refusing to add an extra
billion dollars fbr the Air Force.
In closing debate, Chairman
Clarence Cannon (D-Mo.) of the
Appropriations Committee, told
the House "We are slowly but
surely losing our battle with
communism."
Below Ike's Request
The amount approved was the
exact amount recommended by
Cannon's committee last week and
is $512,784,000 less than President
Eisenhower requested. Much of
the cut, however, was of a book
keeping nature and did not in
volve so-called "hardware" anci
procurement programs.
The total is $1,741,832,374 more
than the department was given
this year.
The attempt to add the billion
dollars to the Air Force, for pro
curement of long -r an g e 852
bombers, was led by Rep. Daniel
J. Flood (D-Pa.), a committee
member.
Flood said this is no time to
"sacrifice" air supremacy for a
balanced budget. and warned of
Russia's growing air power.
Amendment Defeated
His amendment was defeated
by a one-sided voice vote after
other committee members said
the Air Force already has as much
money as it can use and is work
ing on a bomber superior to the
1352.
The money voted for plane pro
curement was the exact amount
requested by the President.
The new money, plus carryover
funds, would give the Defense De
partment $46,233,000,000 during
the new fiscal year and contem
plates military strength of 2,865,-
200 _on June 30, 1957, compared
with 2,810,100 on June 30 of this
year.
34 Students Gain
Higher Ad Boards
Of Daily Collegian
The Daily Collegian advertis
ing staff has promoted 34 students
to the higher board:
Promoted to intermediate
board are: Eleanor Daniels, To
Ann Vetrosky, Alan Grossman,
Art Cooper, Riva Heller, George
Shambaugh, Marlene Gold, Rob
ert Piccone, Jack Dundore, and
Thomas Buckey.
Promoted to the sophomore
board were Patricia Grossman,
Jackie Shenberg, Don Schieber,
Doreen Hayward, Vera W all,
Marilyn Elias, Nancy Seaman,
Stephen -Higgens.
Nan Zimmerman, Sally Rosen
feld, Barbara Pressman, Joan
Wallace,-M arg i e Sponsler, and
Thomas Meers.
Those promoted to the junior
board were Anita Lynch, Benja
min Petersohn, Ralph Thomas,
Barbara Kimble, Donna Springer,
Ester Donovan, Rose Ann Gon
zales, Margaret Laidacker, Alber
ta Hoffman, and Sally Rosser.
Trustees to Meet
The University's Board of Trus
tees will meet at 7:30 tonight )n
the board room of Old Main. No
agenda has been released.
to Return
HUB Jobs;
Continue
to iron out their differences.
No agreement was reached, but
further talks will be held, Hen
derson said.
He said he hopes to meet with
Mildred A. Baker, director of food
service, early next week. A perm
anent committee was elected for
the talk with Miss Baker and fu
ture talks.
Although the students quit their
jobs originally in an attempt to
secure the $1 minimum wage paid
in cash, most of the students,
Henderson said, realize they went
about it in the wrong way.
He said they are no longer
fighting for the minimum wage,
but that they feel they have
"some improvements" coming. He
could not say on what he meant
by "some improvements."
At present the students receive
85 cents an hour, which is paid
in meal tickets. The meal tickets
are redeemable only at the HUB
cafeteria.
In a statement last night, Hen
derson said:
"We realize that the action tak
en by us wasn't the best, but we
don't feel all has been in vain as
we expect better communications
with the administration in the
future."
.Last night's meeting was the
second meeting the students held
with University officials. At the
other, the students were ruled as
employes of a state .agency by
University counsul. Roy Wilkin
son Jr. By being classified as em
ployes of a state agency, they
would not be allowed to go on
strike.
Representing the food service
at last night's meeting were Jean
McFadden, manager of HUB food
service, and Robert C. Proffitt.
manager of food stores and food
buyer.
Almost all of the students, ex
cept those serving a banquet, were
present at the meeting.
Landscape Exhibition
TO Be Held in HUB
A collection of designs and
sketches from the office of land
scape architect John 0. Simonds
of Simonds and Simonds, Pitts
burgh, will be exhibited beginning
today in the main lounge of the
Hetzel Union Building.
Included in the exhibition will
be well known developments such
as the Mellon Square Park and
the Aviary Conservatory, both in
Pittsburgh. Additional drawings
show schools, private homes, and
housing developments.
IE Society President
Dr. Clifton A. Anderson, pro
fessor of industrial engineering,
has been elected national presi
dent of Alpha Pi Mu, industrial
engineering honorary society.
Review
'lnspector Caiis'—No One Horne
By TED SERBILL
Last night Players ended its
1955-56 theatrical season on a
discordant note.
Its production of J. B. Priest
ley's "An Inspector Calls" can
not be redeemed. If it could,
the only factors that could pos
sibly help in producing a favor
able impression are the acting of
Dominic Landro and - Bruce Tay
lor, an unusual setting„ good tech
nical work, and a trick ending.
Looking at all the other aspects
of the play, we can only say the
show was pitiful.
One Distracting Factor
The greatest contributing factor
to this was the poor acting of
Grace Bonnert, Valentina Kopach,
and William R. Warthling. The
three certainly did not play the
characters the play attempted to
point up. Perhaps .they. played
Titt Elaitg
VOL. 56. No. 139 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1956 FIVE CENTS
Six
To
Revisions
Elections
A revamped Elections Code, containing six major and numerous minor changes, was
approved unanimously by All-University Cabinet last night.
The revised code contains three of seven proposed changes by Roger Beidler, Elections
Committee chairman, and two of three changes proposed by Robert Spadaro, Lion party
clique chairman. Discussion on the code lasted over four hours.
Hoping to cut off any future hassles about party campaign platforms, Cabinet ap-
Fund Bill
By House
House Speaker Hiram G. Andrews has kept the Univer
ity's $26,194,000 appropriation bill on his desk instead of
sending it to the governor.
The bill, which gained final legislature approval by the
House Wednesday night, will be held up until other appro
priation bills for universities and colleges are sent to Gov.
George M. Leader, Andrews said.
The Associated Press said yes
terday that Andrews is holding
more than 50 bills calling for sev
eral million dollars until the pre
sent fiscal situation is cleared up.
To Give Leader More Time
The delay, through a mutual
agreement of Andrews and Lead
er, is designed to give the Gov
ernor - additional . time. before he
is forcid - to sign the bills, the
AP said. In, general, he has ten
days to sign or veto a bill after
it reaches him.
The appropriation, which is $1
million more than Leader re
quested in his April. 1955 budget,
is to cover the state's aid to the
University for the 1955-57 fiscal
period. It is about $6 million more
than the 1953.55 appropriation.
Most for General Uses
Of the total $26,194,000, $25,-
783,000 would be earmarked for
general maintenance, research,
salaries, materials. and other gen
eral expenses. The remainder
would go toward special research
projects, some partially paid for
by industrial interests.
The final house vote came near
to the end of a six-hour session
with less than 50 members still
remaining in their seats. There
was no debate and the vote was
recorded as 191-0.
The House had previously ap
proved a bill calling for a $25,-
194,444 appropriation. A Senate
committee later tacked on the ad
ditional $1 million, necessitating
the House to act upon the measure
again.
Last week J. Dean Polen, chair
man of the House appropriations
committee, cautioned that the fis
cal condition of the state would
determine finally whether Leader
would approve the additional $4
million.
themselves; perhaps they didn't
play.
The other contributing factor
was one that has been touted as
introducing an utterly new con
cept in staging .to Penn State
audiences, one that has been ex
tolled as striking, unusual, and
modern.
`Sad' Time on Stage
It was the open or floating stage
on which the players had them
selves such a sad time.
And here we are confronted
with the only paradox of the
play. The new stage, which has
been built over the first four
or five rows of seats in Schwab
Auditorium, is striking, unusual,
and modern. The idea itself is
utterly different—and good.
Perhaps the concept may have
worked if used with a different
play and experienced, good actors.
But last night it didn't work.' The
fine idea.and the bad acting did
.not mix.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
By LARRY JACOBSON
Delayed
Speaker
LaVie Distribution
To Begin Tuesday
In HUB Cardroom
Distribution of the 1956 LaVie,
senior class yearbook, w ill begin
Tuesday and continue for three
days at the Hetzel Union Build
ing.
Books may be obtained in the
cardroom of the HUB between 8
a.m. and 11:45 a.m. and 1 p.m. and
4:45 p.m. on each of the three
days.
George L. Donovan, director of
Associated Student Activities, out
lined the following schedule for
seniors to pick up their books:
Tuesday, May 15— seniors in
liberal arts, business administra
tion, and engineering and archi
tecture.
Wednesday, May 16—seniors in
agriculture, home economics, and
mineral industries.
Thursday, May 17—seniors in
education, chemistry and physics,
and physical education and ath
letics.
Foreign Service Exam
Applications Due Today
Today is the last day to file
applications to take the Foreign
Service Officer examinations.
Applications may be secured at
the department of political sci
ence office in 119 Sparks, and at
the University placement office
in 112 Old Main.
The examination will be given
June 25. The list of cities where
the examination will be given in
cludes Philadelphia, Pittsburgh.
Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.
This play would have fared
better if it had been played on a
regular stage with a confined
backdrop and a ceiling over the
actors' heads.
Landro, as Arthur Birling, the
head of the British household of
Birlings, and Taylor, as Inspec
tor Goole, the mysterious man
who in one night disrupts the'
lives of five persons, did their'
best with their parts, imparting
some life to the play.
The play is difficult to do well
since it is only a fair show. It
moves slowly; it is wordy; the
action builds up with a perky
slowness to a silly but effective
end, and the plot is nothing to
carry home and think about.
Theme Might be Symbolic
It has a theme and might even
be called symbolic. As the pro
gram says, it doesn't merely de
pict some small events in an Eng
lish town of 1912; the personali
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Toltrgiatt
Made
Code
proved a proposed amendment by
Spadaro limiting Elections Com
mittee's right to censor party
planks.
Sterns From BX Fund Plank
During spring elections, Lion
party and the committee battled
over the committee's right to void
a proposed plank to investigate
the Book Exchange funds.
Spadaro's amendment, approv
ed by a majority vote. gives Elec
tions Committee the right to act
upon all planks "outside the scope
of political parties" if it deems
these planks "undesirable" by a
two-thirds vote of the committee
and a majority of Cabinet.
Previously the committee had
assumed the right to act upon all
planks without Cabinet approval,
until a decision by the Supreme
'Court this semester ruling that
assumption void. •
Overrides Be::::ler Proposal
In approving the amendment,
Cabinet overrode a proposal by
Beidler giving the_committee full
power to approve and penalize
parties for faulty planks.
The amendment also includes
a clause stating "no platforms
may be used by a political party
until given final approval . . ."
Dealing with another controver
sial issue during spring elections,
Cabinet passed an amendment
by Beidler which makes an en
tire political party responsible
for the proper conduct of the
clique and its candidates both in
ternally and in campaigns. Beid
ler told Cabinet the ruling should
be interpreted to mean an entire
slate is responsible for a single
candidate's actions. At the same
time, a motion by Spadaro to lim
it the number of votes a candi
date may be penalized to 100 was
defeated.
Could Dock 200 Votes
Under present interpretation,
Beidler said, it is possible for a_
candidate to be penalized 200
votes for one violation if the com
mittee penalizes the candidate and
the entre party 100 votes each.
Spadaro said his amendment
would eliminate the possibility of
"d oub l e jeopardy." Speaking
.against the motion, Lash Howes,
Association of Independent Men
president, said he doesn't believe
in vote docking, "but,if we're go
ing to give the committee power
I to dock votes, we should give it a
big enough stick."
Decentralized Voting Out
Another major code change ap
.proved by Cabinet left the way
open in future years for decen
tralized voting. Until the change
'was approved, the code limited
voting to the Hetzel Union Build
ing.
Speaking for the motion. which
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LA Scholarship Forms
Aifailable in Sparks
Applications for the Liberal
Arts Student Council Scholarship
are now available in 132 Sparks.
Applications will be accepted un
til noon tomorrow.
The $lOO scholarship being of
fered by the council is open to
students in the college. Students
who have already applied to the
University for scholarship aid wilt
also be considered for the award.
Play Tickets on Sale
Tickets are available at the Het
zel Union desk for the Players'
production, "An Inspector Calls,'
and for the Center Stage presen
tation, "The Lady's Not for Burn
ing."
Both plays will begin at 8 to
night and tomorrow night. Price
is $L