t Daily 0. 37 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 7, 7956 FIVE CENTS VOL 57. N inet to Decide Tonight Cal On High Court Elimination 'O members of All-University Cabinet change their vote tonight the Supreme be eliminated. if t\ Court will An imendment to the Cabinet constitution abolishing the court has been approved at two consecutive meetings. It was supported by a 13-11 vote Oct. 18 and by Oct. 25. Tonight, the third and final vote, a two-thirds majority is necessary mendment. There are lembers in Cabinet n by Cabinei a 14-9 vote to pass the a 24 . voting i Therefore, i must vote in ment. order' to pass, 16 favor of the amend- Several s and councils net have ta udent organizations represented on Cabi cen a definite stand Ersity Cabinet will :onight in 203 Helzel ikd of 7 p.m. as orig iuled. • All-Univ« meet at 8 t Union insie! - ihally s'ched ■ on the court issue. However, their - representatives on Cabinet are not obligated to vote according to the group’s decision. Substitute Needed If the amendment is defeated, a substitute motion will be in order to either retain the Supreme Court ; as it is or to ’ revise its present . iorm.. ; . The court as it now stands is a judicial body that has constitu tional jurisdiction over Cabinet legislation if it is appealed. The court Js..composed .of. the., senior members of the Women!s Student Government Association Judicial Board "and Tribunal. Talk about Supreme Court abo lition was in the air last year, but the push came in September when a Student Encampment workshop recommended, its elimination and the transfer of its functions to Cabinet. Reports to be Given Cabinet will also hear tonight recommendations from two En campment reports—“ Social, Cul tur a 1 and Recreational” and "Counseling.” . Dr. Albert Christ-Janer, direc tor of the School of the Arts, will present the report on cultural as pects. , Included in it are recommenda tions to improve the acoustics of (Continued on page jive) Scattered Rain Forecast Today .Intermittent showers accom panied by slightly warmer temp eratures have been forecast for today by observ- i iv j ers at the Uni- I. *. «i. '■ versity 'weather Station. Yest er d ay’s shift in wind di rection to the south brought ■warmer, weather and the mercyry is expected to climb today to between 70 and 75 degrees, three to six degrees above normal. Rain is predicted to end some time tonight in advance of a clearing weekend. Tomorrow will be cooler with temperatures ris ing over the weekend. • V/et weather will resume Sun day or Monday when an inch or more of rain is expected . - Ticket Sales Progress For Boston U. Game Tickets for the Boston Univer sity football game, Nov. 10, are f en sale at the ticket window, 238 Recreation Hall. ' Tickets are $3.50 each. 'Five thousand high school band ; members will -be in attendance ' for Band Day. Seats are' available ;in the east section from the 30- yard line to the end zone. - Says U. S. to FOR A BETTER PENN STATE —Daily Collegian Photo by George Harrison STUDENTS WATCH tense, and quiet as President Eisenhower tells the nation in a special radio-TV broadcast last night that there will be no United States "involvement" in the Mideast fighting. The students are viewing the speech at Phi Della Theta fraternity house. Student Involved i ' Mathew Robinson, junior in arts and letters, escaped injury when his car collided head-on into an automobile operated by Mrs. Gor don D. Kissinger of State College, about II p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Pollock and Short lidge Rds. Patrolmen said Robinson was going east on Pollock Rd. ap proaching 1 the intersection when an unidentified auto, .traveling 21 Freshmen Representatives Named to 6 College Councils By MARIAN BEATTY • Twenty-one freshmen rep resentatives were elected yesterday to six college coun cils as voting closed with a slight increase over yester day’s low turnout. Total voting percentages ranged from 10 to 60 per cent, generally lower than the.expected turnout. - The College of Business Ad ministration reported the highest percentage of • voters. About 60 per cent voted, setting a record slightly higher than last year’s. Only 35 freshmen, or 10 per cent of the freshman enrollment, voted in the Liberal Arts Council election. This was the lowest per centage reported. The council had considered extending the voting until 5 p.m. - today, but decided Head-On Collision north on Shortliuge, crossed the intersection in Jront of the Robin son car. Robinson pulled around the back end of the unknown car andj smashed into the front end of Kis singer’s automobile which was: traveling west on Pollock Rd. It had stopped for the stop-sign, pa trolmen said. j Damages were estimated at $6OO, to the Kissinger car and $250 toj Robinson’s automobile. against this yesterday afternoon. I Voting in the College of Home; Economics and th,e College of Education was about 50 per cent. Most of the council presidents expressed disappointment over the low number of voters, but felt that on the whole the elections had been well organized. ‘‘l’m sorry that more freshmen didn’t vote, because these elec tions are very important to them,” Susan Hill, president of the home economics council, said. “But the election was well run, and voting for the home economics council was about the same as it has been other years.” she added. Richard Friedman, election chairman of the- Liberal Arts Council, commented that he felt a different election procedure would not have increased, the number of voters. - The percentage of students vot Steer World Tension LONDON. Thursday. Nor. 1 UP) —British and French jet bombers pounded Egypt in an opening naval-air as sault and a British cruiser has sunk an Egyptian frig ate in the Gulf of Suez. UNITED NATIONS. N.Y.. Oct. 31 (..P) The Security Council overrode British and French objections to night and called the U.N. General Assembly into extraordinary session to halt the fighting in Egypt. The council vote -was 7-2. BUDAPEST. Hungary, Oct. 31 OP)— Most of the Rus sian troops cleared out of Budapest today and exuber ant nationalists concentrated their fire again on Commu nist Premier Imre Nagy's government. WASHINGTON. Oct. 31 UPi —Units of the U.S. 6th Fleet moved to Mediter ranean ports of Egypt and Israel to help in an evacua tion which has already seen more than 1000 Americans leave the Middle East tinder box. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.. Oct. 31 (,P) — Secrelary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold said foday he is transferring all dependents of U.N. and all non-essential persons out side the danger zone. They are being sent to Beirut, Lebanon, and other points. Fine Imposed On Fraternity Delta Theta Sigma fraternity was fined $35 Tuesday night by the Interfraternity Council Board of Control for late registration of pledges. The fine is payable within one week. The fraternity pledged men last semester whom they did not reg ister until this semester, accord ing to Richard Shillinger, board chairman. The offense is a violation of the IFC Rushing Code, which re quires fraternities to register pledges and pay the $2 pledge registration fee within two weeks after pledging a man. Shillinger has advised that oth er fraternities be careful not to violate this provision of the code. 'Egypt and Israel' Film To Be Shown Nov. 11 [ “Egypt and Israel,” a film made available by the Instructional Committee on International Un derstanding, will be shown at 7:45 p.m. Nov. 11 in the Mineral Science auditorium. The showing is open to studenfs and faculty members. ing for representatives to the Physical Education and Athletics Council and Mineral Industries Council was almost 100 per cent. This is due to the fact that elec tions are held during classes re quired for freshmen. Only the few freshmen who were unable to schedule these classes or were absent did not vote. The College of. Business Ad ministration elected five repre sentatives. They are Richard Co hen. Alan Fair, David Felman, Michael Roeberg, and Tillman Segal. Education Council representa tives are Ruth Braund and Ellen Butterworth. Representatives to the Home Economics Council are Judith Heckert, Suzanne Keener, • Helen Skade, and Anna Louise White. Six representatives were elected (Continued on page jive) Clear Will Attempt To Localize, End Strife WASHINGTON, Oct. SI </P) —President Dwight D. Eisen hower said tonight the United States will steer clear of “in volvement” in the Middle East fighting, will strive to localize it and end “this torment ing problem.” ; In a television-radio address to the nation, the President said it ; was an “error” for Britain, France ; anctTsrael to launch their attacks : on Egypt, though he asserted they I had “grave and repeated provoca tions.” To Go to General Assembly He announced that the United States, having been vetoed by the British and French in the United Nations Security Council, would now turn to the UN General As sembly, “where the opinion of the world can be brought to bear” m an effort to stop the hostilities. Even as the President spoke, the Security Council voted to call the General Assembly into ses sion within hours. The vote was 7-2, with Britain and France dis senting but unable under the par liamentary circumstances to wield a veto again. Stevenson Telegram Shortly before the President broadcast bis pledge of no Ameri can “involvement” in the hostili ties, Adlai E. Stevenson, Demo cratic presidential nominee, an nounced he had telegraphed Eis enhower expressing the hope “that you will- not commit us to any precipitate mili’.ary action.” White House press secretary James C. Hagerty told newsmen the President’s “no involvement’* remarks were not dictated in any way by Stevenson’s wire because the President “nevef_heard” of the telegram before beginning his speech at 7 p.m., EST. No Congressional Session Eisenhower ruled out any spe cial session of Congress to deal with the Middle East emergency but promised to keep in close con tact with congressional leaders on the swift developments. The President, seemingly grave and tense, laid down this govern ment's policy in a 15-minute ad dress from his office which was beamed simultaneously around the world by the Voice of Amer ica. Reported Angry, Shocked The President had been report ed angry and shocked at the Brit ish-French decision to attack Egypt, but his speech tonight avoided any harsh denunciation of them or Israel. He did make clear he opposes this resort to force. “We believe these actions to have been taken in error,” he said, “for we do not accept the use of force as a wise or proper instrument for the settlement of international disputes.” Straw Ballot Will Be Held Although most University students are too young to vote, they will be given an oppor tunity to express their choice in the presidential race in a Daily Collegian poll. A "ballot" is printed on page five of today's paper. Students may cast their "bal lot" in a box provided in the Collegian office, basement of Carnegie Hall. The deadline for "voting" is noon Monday. The results of the "vote" are to be printed in Tuesday's Col legian. the same day the nation goes to the polls. The Daily Collegian is now planning to keep page one of Wednesday's paper open as late as possible in an attempt to give complete coverage the morning after election day.
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