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GTON, Nov. 7 (!P)—President Dwight D. Eisen
-1,1 smashing national victory today by a bigger
In in 1952 over Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.
conceded the' election about 1:15 a.m. (EST)
ago.
WASHI
hover won
plurality th
Stevens•
today at Ch.
Democratic control of the U.S. Congress
Howeve
Clark
No D
Sees
vision
Dawn
Until
IPHIA (AP) Demo-
I. Clark said today
PHILADE
crat Joseph
no decision until
ight to unseat U.S.
he expected
dawn in his
Sen. James
The former Philadelphia mayor
was alternately elated and con
cerned as he watched his lead
over Duff drop, then climb, then
drop again.
With 7,531 of Pennsylvania's
8,808 precincts reported, Clark
led Duff by some 41,000 votes
-1,884,373 to 1,843,980. •
Declines on Opinions
He declined to say what factors
he believed led to his surprising
showing as President Dwight D.
Eisenhower swept the state and
wide areas of the nation in de
feating Adlai Stevenson.
"I'm si'k at heart," about the
presidential outcome, Clark said.
However, he told newsmen:
" "This is no time for partisan
ship. The country should unite be
hind Mr. Eisenhower and hope he
can pull us through this grave
crisis." He said he thought Eisen
hower's personal popularity was
greater than that of -the Republi
can party.
'Really Cutting' Lead
the
asked immediately for
the latest state count and then
commented either:
"Gee, he (Duff) is really cutting
into my lead" or "I'm doing bet
ter than expected in several Re
publican areas. Hope it keeps
At one point, a newsman told
him that Univac, one of the elec
tronic machines used as an aid in
inter preting trends, predicted
that he would win by 76,235.
Clark smiled and said:
"I'll take it."
15 Seniors Win
AROTC Badge
Fifteen senior Army Reserve
Officers Training Corps cadets
will be honored in ceremonies
during the Army common hour
tomorrow afternoon.
The cadets .are to receive the
badge, of Distinguished Military
Student, the highest award of the
Army ROTC program.
To merit this award cadets must
maintain high academic and mili
tary grades through four years of
college, must be outstanding in
their leadership courses, and ex
hibit the most desirable and high
est type officer qualities.
Cadets receiving the DMS badge
are Eugene Banker, William Bark
ley, Robert Bishop, John Boya
nowski, Robert Grove, Carl Heis
ter, George Kupsky, Albert Mann
ing, Albert Messel, James Musier,
Frederick Stiff, Robert Terry,
Frank Ulrich' John Voelker, Jack
Yaag.
s Meeting
Leonid
To Ind
de Films
An open
council will
in the Het
hall.
ieeting of Leonides
.e held at 7 tonight
-1 Union assembly
1
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Bounty" an•
toon "The
be showlir:fo
Rosetta-rIC
Leonides, sa
meeting wil,
to get the ,
underway.._b'
Hs, "Mutiny on the
a Walt Disney car
: ture of Things" will
lowing, the.. meeting.
- - • eyi - president .of
d that the business
Fie - short in order
owing of the 'films
~.7.;15 p.m. .
seemed probable early today, but
later returns could change the
picture.
At 12:20 a.m., Eisenhower' was
leading Stevenson in the popular
vote as follows:
President: Popular vote: Ei
senhower 12.908.061: Stevenson.
10.130.694 in 50.746 of 154.787
precincts.
Eisenhower led in 41 states
with 466 electoral votes: Steven
son in 7 with 65. Needed . to win
266.
Senate: 35 races Republicans
elected 6. Holdovers 30, total 36.
Democrats elected 9. Holdovers
31, total 40. Needed to control 49.1
House: 435 races including
Maine; Republicans • elected 43;
Democrats elected 126. Needed to
control 218. Republican gains 2
Democratic gains 2.
Governors: 30 races including
Maine; Republicans elected 2 in
Indiana, Vermont.
Democrats elected 5 in Ark.,
,Fla., Maine, - N.C., Tex.
President Eisenhower. along
with Mrs. Eisenhower, Vice Presi
dent and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon
and the President's brother, Dr.,
Milton S. Eisenhower, president
of Johns Hopkins University, went
to the- Washington Republican
National Committee headquarters
early today.
There, President • Eisenhower
pledged he "will work for peace
for the 168,000,000 Americans."
Declaring this to be a "solemn
moment," the President said it
was a "very heartwarming thing"
to know that his Administration
and the Republican party was ap
proved by the American voters.
He offered his "most grateful
thanks."
"I think," he said, "that modern
Republicansim has proved itself
and that America has approved
modern Republicanism."
Stevenson, in his statement,
wished the President and his Re
publican Administration well in
the next four years.
He said today "we are not!
Democrats and Republicans, but
Americans."
11 Students Fined
By Traffic Court
Eleven students appeared be
fore Traffic Court Monday night
and were fined a total of $32.
Traffic and parking violations.
totaling $l7, led the amount of
fines assessed by the court.
One student was fined $5 for
failing to "register his car. •
Automatic " fines totaling $lO
were levied upon four students
who failed to appear before the
court.
Two students received suspend
ed fines, and two cases were dis
missed.
Ike's State Vote Larger Than 1952
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6 011—
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
tonight carried Pennsylvania with
its important 32
_electoral votes,
apparently by an ,even larger
margin than four years ago.
With three quarters of the state
vote counted and the remainder
mainly from normally Republican
quarters, the President rolled up
a lead of better than 292,000 over
his Democratic opponent, Adlai
Stevenson In 1952, Eisenhower
wo n Pennsylvania by _ 260,000
votes.-
The count in 6361 of the state's
8808 precincts was:
Eisenhower 1.780.205
Stevenson 1.457.575
Two_ of the state's biggest news:
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VOL. 57. No. Al STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 7. 1956 FIVE CENTS
APhiO Will Sponsor
'Mall of Dimes' Today'
Dimes will be collected on the Mall today when contributions for the Campus
Chest drive begin with a "Mall of Dimes," sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, national
service fraternity. A strip of paper will line the Mall from the bulletin board to the Main
Gate on College Ave. For each dime• that is contributed, members of Alpha Phi Omega
will mark off a foot of paper along the strip.
Contributions will be placed in a pirate-type treasure chest„ Three representatives
—Daily Collegian Photo by Chuek Zeallt
FOUR STUDENTS associated with The Daily Collegian watch the
election returns come over Collegian's Associated Press teletype
machine. They are, left to right. Edward Springman. Eleanor
Strauss, Lilian Junes. and Donna Springer.
Cloudy Skies
Threaten . Lion
The Nittany Lion will be stroll- State football game, Nov. 17, wall
ing around campus in his shirt go on sale at 8 a.m. today at the
sleeves today, but he may be lHall. ticket window, 238 Recreation
carrying his Al_ Approximatelyl2oo tickets are
ligator raincoat
still available for the Boston Uni
over his arm.
versity game Saturday.
More warm
Tickets cost $3.50 each.
weather with
Special tickets at 50 cents each,
cloudy skies is
predicted for to-
may be purchased for children,'
day by the Uni- but the holders may sit only in
versity Weather the temporary bleachers at the
station. south end the field.
A high of 68 is
forecast, with a
low tonight in
the upper 20's.
While no rain is preal,...— .o
day, showers are expected tomor
row.
Yesterday's temperature high
was 68, with a low of 28.
vapers—the Pittsburgh Post-Ga- the state's congressional bloc to
zette and the Philadelphia In-116-14 and in 1954, Pennsylvania
,quirer—claimed victory for Eis-,elected its first Democratic goy
lenhower. Both supported the'ernor in 20 years, chicken farmer
President. George .M. Leader, who carried
Stevenson carried • Philadel; the state by 279,196.
phia as expected but the margin Since the founding of the
there•appeared below the Dens- Republican party in 1856. Penn
°crate prediction of 160-000 or sylvanies electoral votes have
more. been captured only five timits
Eisenhower won Pennsylvania's
32 electoral votes four years ago
by a plurality of 269,520-120,000
more than the edge registered by
Thomas E. Dewey over Harry
•
Truman in 1948.•
The Eisenhower sweep carried
into office GOP-U.S. Sen. Edward
Martin and 19 of the state's 30
U.S. congressmen.
A shift in the political winds
since then cut the GOP margin in
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
N.C. State Tickets
I Go on Sale Today
Tickets for the North Carolina
'My 3 Angels' Tickets
Tickets for the Players' produc
tion of "My 3 Angels" are avail
able at the Hetzel Union desk.
The price is $l.
It wilt be presented at 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday at Center
Stage.
by the Democrats—in less.
1872. 1936. 1940 and 1944, the
last three times by Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
The GOP counts heavily on the
vote from the rural areas of the
state, the middle heartland, with
the ...Democrats normally running
up .big vote margins in the cities
of Pittsburgh on the western bor
der and Philadelphia in the ex
treme...southeasterncorner.
from Alpha Phi Omega ‘v ill be on
duty each hour of the day from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Solicitors Will Meet
A solicitors meeting will be held
at 3 tonight in Schwab Auditorium
in preparation for the Campus
Chest solicitations drive that will
begin Monday and end Nov. 16.
Robert Gellman, chairman, and
Lawrence McCabe, solicitations
chairman, will speak tor the group.
' OtherO speakers include represen
tatives from the American Heart
' Association, World University
Service, and American Cancer
Society, three of the five organ
' izations that will receive funds
from this year's drive.
Gellman asked solicitors to
' bring pencils and paper to to
night's meeting.
Solicitors to be Grouped
Solicitors will be grouped
tac
cording to divisions in the follow
ling categories: men's dormitories,
iwomen's dormitories, fraternities,
!sororities, Alpha Phi Omea, who
will have charge of collections
from town men, and Gamma Sig
ma, national service sorority who
will have charge of collections
from town women.
Each group's seating will be
marked off with political conven
tion-type floor signs.
Follow-up Drive Mated
A follow-up drive will be held
sometime after the regular solici
tations campaign to reach town
men who were not available when
members of Alpha Phi Omega
contacted them.
G_ellman said that student teach
ers who will be going out teach
ing for the next eight weeks will
be contacted *for their contribu
tions Friday.
Returning student teachers will
be asked for contributions before
the regular drive gets underway
on Monday.
Individual committee chairmen
will meet with approximately 460
solicitors Thursday night to dis
tribute campaign cards and other
material.
This year, as last, students will
be able to designate on the IBM
cards to which of the five acencies
(Continued on page eight)
WSGA to Screen
Women Tonight
The Women's Student Govern
ment Association will screen up
perclasswomen for committees to
night in the WSGA office in the
Hetzel Union Building.
Only those women who signed
for a screening appointment sev
eral weeks ago, but were unable
to keep their appointment, will
be screened.
Appointment times will be post
ed on the main bulletin hoards of
each dormitory or on the bulletin
boards by the post office—boxes,
Dr. Eisenhower Visits
State College to Vote
Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower. for
mer University president and
president of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, returned to State College
yesterday to vote in the national
election.
Dr. Eisenhower, who is said to
have convinced his brother; Pres
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower..lo
seek a second term, is maintain
ing his official residence in State
College._ _ _