Today's Weather: Sunny and Warmer VOL. 56. No. 145 BXComm ittee Report Accepted by Cabinet A report recommending that the Book Exchange refrain from selling new books was accepted by All-University Cabi net Thursday night. • The report did contained only one Reds Say U.S. Should Cut Arms Related story on page three MOSCOW, May 18 (!P)— Pravda called on the United States today to follow the So viet Union's example and cut back its armed forces. The Communist p art y news paper ridiculed a statement at tributed to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that the Soviet government is reducing its armed forces "only to increase its mili tary might." . "If a reduction of armed forces means increasing military might, then why do not the American government and its Allies want to increase their might by using the same method?" Pravda asked. Stock Exchange Panic The newspaper said. the Russian announcement that the armed forces are being • trimmed by 1,200,000 men caused a• panic on the New York Stock Exchange. "Leading spokesmen of the U.S. government," Pravda said, "hast ened to dispel apprehensions of the owners of the war industry and their brokers." It asserted that Defense Secre tary Charles E. Wilson and Adm. Arthur W. Radford, cbairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured industrialists and bankers that the United States does not intend to reduce its armed forces but ac tually plans to increase military expenditures. Article Echoes Khrushchev Pravda's article echoed Com munist party leader Nikita Khrushchev's reported outburst against Dulles during negotiations with French leaders in the Krem lin yesterday. Khrushchev took particular exception to a state ment attributed to Dulles that the Soviet military reductions were forced by popular pressure. The Russian accused Dulles of inter fering in Soviet internal affairs. Senior Ist Civilian To Take' Advanced AFROTC Course Allen Starkey, senior in science from Philadelphia, has become the first "civilian" to take an ad vanced military course. Starkey, who will be graduated from the College of Chemistry and Physics in June, is taking the advanced Air Force course in principles of leadership and man agement. Starkey said that, since he ex pects to work in the field of chem ical sales with Rohm and Hass Company upon graduation, he felt a need for such a course. He enrolled in the three-credit Air Force course after he could find no similar offering in the Univer sity program and after he checked Air Force regulations. Unlike his classmates, Starkey wears civilian clothes to the class. AAUW to Hear Dennis Lawrence E. Dennis, UniVersity provost, will deliver one of the two major addresses at the 1956 conference of The Pennsylvania division of the American Associa tion of University Women, next Friday and Saturday at the Nit tany Lion Inn. He will speak on •'The Citizens Stake in Higher Education" _ E._,...,.;,,,‘ i at i g !tx ~.„,.„.,,.(_.:_, ~ ,„ •„..f,• not require a vote of Cabinet because it recommendation urging students to sup port the BX, Robert Bahrenburg, All-University president said. The purpose of the report, com piled by a representative from each college, was to clarify sev-1 eral questions brought to light when the All-University Elec tions Committee during the spring elections forbid the Lion party to use a plank advocating that the BX sell ,new books. Says Store Too Small The committee recommended against the sale -of new books, claiming that the present location of the BX is not large enough and that the BX does not have enough money to handle the new books. In addition, the report says, correspondence with other schools has advised against the sale of new books by a student-operated organization. At present, the Used Look Agency sells used books at the beginning of each semester. As an alternative to selling new books in the BX, the report also discourages the establishment of a co-op book store. Downtown Store Not Possible ' The -- repoit. said - that students would not patronize it unless it was in the main shopping area and it would be almost impossible to obtain and operate another book store in State College due to zoning laws. The books would also have to be sold at list price requiring a refund program, thus requiring the salaries of additional help. The building rent and wages, the report said, would not allow books to be sold cheaply. Profit From General Items The greatest profit of the BX is made in miscellaneous supplies, the' report continued. A sentence stating that "items such as engineering equipment will be carried in the near fu ture" was deleted from the report by unanimous approval of Cabi net. Bahrenburg said that there is only'a slim possibility concerning this proposal and to his knowl edge there has not been enough research done. Rising Temperatures, Blue Skies Expected Mostly warmer and sunny weather is predicted for t his morning, with possible showers toward evening. The high today is expected to be 65 and the low 50. Yesterday's high was 54. Senate WASHINGTON, May 18 (PP) —The Senate passed a new farm bill tonight to replace the one President Eisenhower vetoed April 16. It is stripped of many features objection able to the administration and gives the President the billion dollar soil bank program he re quested. Passage was on a voice vote. The bill now goes to the House for consideration of numerous changes written in by the Senate during a session lasting more than nine hours. The House ver sion was passed May 3. Sens. George D. Aiken (R.-Vt.) and Clinton P. Anderson (D.-Nal.) expressed hope that the House would accept the changes and rush the legislation to the White FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 18. 1956 Educators Explore Use Of Televised Classes The University was host yesterday to five educators from India. Formosa and Amer ican colleges who are exploring the use of television in education. Shan-Hui Yao, director of the engineering department of the Broadcasting Corpora tion of China and president of the directors of the Board of Broadcasting, is studying the pos sibilities of the use of television in mass education in Formosa. Yao said that in Formosa there are not enough schools TRUMPETER Jimmy McPartland and saxophonist Bud Freeman team up on a Dixieland rune Chicago in the 20's Relived in Concert Dixieland jazz enthusiasts lived it up last night in Schwab Auditorium as Jimmy McPartland and his All-Stars played the type of music that made Chicago famous in the Roaring Twenties. The small but appreciative audience heard "At the Jazz Band Ball" open the program followed by "Tin Roof Blues" with Vic Dickenson playing the trombone solo, Before moving. on with "Love is Just Aroupd the Corner," Mc- Partland said that although his combo plays some Dixieland they consider it more Chicago style. Freeman's Sax a Hit The number with Bud Freeman playing' the saxaphone s 0 10 brought considerable applause from the audience. Memories of Bix Beiderbecke were brought back to jazz lovers when McPartland dedicated "Dav enport Blues" to him, which was the only instrumental ever writ ten by Beiderbecke. McPartland is known to use Beiderbecke's style and to play many of his arrangements. Ac cording to giectators, McPartland, OK's Farm Bill House for Eisenhower's signature. Aiken, senior GOP member of the Senate Agriculture Commit tee, has been serving as the ad ministration's spokesman on farm policy in the Senate. Anderson is a former Democratic secretary of agriculture. Quick Action Urged Members of both parties have said they want to get some relief legislation on the books as quick ly as possible. If the House refused to accept the changes, another Senate- House Conference Committee will have to be appointed to iron out the differences. But Senate lead ers exhibited confidence th e House would go along with them. Provides for Soil Bank The• Senate bill, like the House measure, provides for a soil bank plan under 'which farmers could receive up to $1.2 billion a year in Gar4ittn By JUDY HARKISON By GINNY PHILIPS with his trumpet, played the "Dav enport Blues" exactly the way Beiderbecke always did. Audience Goes 'Wild' Dickenson provided another highlight of the evening when he played the solo in "Basin Street Blues." The audience went "wild" and demanded an encore. When the audience calmed down the All-Stars played a Jelly Role Martin tune, a traditional Chi cago jazz number. Buele Neidlin ger on the bass and Red Richards on the piano brought the house down when they got together for the solo part. Karl Rifle with the drums teamed up with Dickenson to pro vide an unusual rendition of "RoyL al Garden .Blues." After repeated (Continued on page two) government benefits for with drawing. land from the production of crops already in surplus. But neither branch of Congress voted to give Eisenhower the au thority he requested to make up to 500 million dollars in advance payments on the soil bank this year. Without thii authority, he contended, farmers would not- re ceive any substantial soil bank benefits until 1957, since this year's growing season is so far advanced. Termed 'Political Lollipop' Chairman Allen Ellender (D.- La.) of the Senate Agriculture Committee called the President's prepayment proposal "a political lollipop" and led efforts to defeat it. The bill does not contain the high, rigid price supports for figuring price supports and other features objectionable to the ad ministration also — have been dropped. - The Hears On See Page 4 to accommodate the number of students. Radio is now being used, he said, for teacher training and education in the homes, but tele vision has not been introduced. Invited by Ed Fund Humayun Kabir, a member of the Parliament of India, Secre tary of the Ministry of Education, and chairman of the University Grants Commission, was invited to the United States by the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Ad vancement of Education as a con sultant. He was accompanied by Philip H. Coombs, secretary and director of research of the Fund. Kabir said the University's pro ject is "a very interesting devel opment" and, in addition to the instruction of a larger class, "makes teaching much more vivid and concrete." Understudy in India "Televised classes is under con templation in India, but education must first be inserted into the traditional pattern of TV," he ex plained. Mr. Coombs said that "the Uni versity has the potentialities of helping introduce in ?.ducation new and improved methods which will help solve the central prob lem of education today:' That problem, he said, is to pro vide better quality education to an increased enrollment. He is delighted, he continued, with the boldness and imagination demonstrated in the University's experiment. TV System said Test' Dr. John T. Graves, director of closed-circuit television at the New York City Community Col lege, also came to the University to observe the TV operation. He said that he had heard "it was the best in the country" and wanted to discuss the problem with professors and -study the equipment and manner of pre-' sentation. Dr. John Folger, a representa tive of the Southern Regional Ed ucation Board which coordinates and plays work with colleges and universities in 16 states, also studied the University's TV setup. Educational Network At present Folger is considering a live television classroom net work that could -be extended to some 20 colleges. This network, he said, has great potential for pre senting outstanding programs and saving instructor time. The problems arising, he ex plained, are the amount of inde pendence an instructor should maintain and the interest shown by the teachers. The visitors examined the Sparks closed circuit system, at tended televised classes, and dis cussed the project with engineers ana staff members. They were the guests of Dr. Clarence R. Carpen ter and Leslie P. Greenhill, direc tor and associate director of the project. NSA Units to Discuss Program for Next Year Members of the National Stu dent Association committees will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 218 IHetzel Union to discuss the en tire program and policies for next !year. James Musser. coordinator, said that he will explain the Universi it ty organization of NSA as well as defining its purposes and goals. Particular projects will be re l'erred to committees, in which 'changes and improvements will be considered. Center Stage Finale The final Center Stage presen tation of "The Lady's Not for Burning" will be presented at S tonight FIVE CENTS
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