Elaitg VOL. 57. No. :62STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 12. 1956 FIVE CENTS FMID► Board to Cease Op rations By JIM KOPP The oard of trustees of the Fraternity Marketing Association Monday night unani mously vot d to suspend operations by the end of the semester. The oard took the action after hearing that the Interfraternity Council had voted nendment which would have required all fraternities to participate in FMA. .esolution calling for the suspension. of operations also provided that the FMA ?pt by the president of trustees and not ny other person or down an a The Charter be k of the board be used by organization. This will fraternity over FMA, _to do. It pas day night e dent to in IFC. The board said it felt it could not - continue operating because of the low membership of frater • nities. Thirty-one or the Univer sity's 54 fraternities belong to the Association. Books to Be Closed The book.si of the Association will be closed and rebates given, fraternities still having funds in the treasury at or near the end of the semester. All- the fraternities will have the opportunity to continue buy-,' ing through the association until the end of the semester if they wish, the board said, but those whose funds run out before then will - be dropped unless they con tinue payments to FMA. Referring to the drive to get . 100 per cent membership of fra ternities in FMA, Theodore D. Richards, associate professor of agriculture extension, said: "An or nothing was a_ fine ideal, and it failed. But as long as we are of service to at least half the fraternities, we shouldn't disband." prevent the Inter ,ouncil from taking thich it had intended !ed a resolution Mon t powering its pr esi iirporate FMAinto Against Disbandment Assistant Dean of Men Harold W. Perkins, president of the board of trustees, said -he did not want to disband the association im mediately after its .suspending activities. After one of the trustees said the suspension might shock the fraternities into giving full sup port to FMA, Dean Perkins said: "I can't conceive how this icing of the organization can be effec tive beyond March." He proposed that a second ulti matum calling for 100 per cent membership be put to the frater nities and that unless more in terest is shown by them in FMA, he would favor dissolution of the organization after March: The association has done a busi nesi of $55,108.93 up to NOV. 30 this' year. Last year for the same period it was $45,358.66, or about 22 per cent less. Building Plans Approved By Trustee Committee An executive 'committee of the Board of Trustees has ap proy.ed preliminary plans for six new buildings to be con structed under the General State Authority. • . The plans also include additions on the north and south ends of Main Erigineering. A new engineering building to be constructed south of engineering "A -E" parallel to W. College [ avenue will be connected to the [new south wing of Main Engi neering. The petroleum refining labora tory situated south of Main Engi neering will be torn down to make room for the new engineering building. A new petroleum labor atory will be constructed south of the Forestry Building. Prelimin'ary plins were also ap proved for a turkey brooder, a turkey breeding house, a meat pnicessing laboratory and a swine research building. The four build ings will be constructed on the University farms. Architects for the projecti will proceed with final plans which will be submitted for approval, by the' University • and - the General (Continued on page eight) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Rebellious Poles Attack Consulate WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 11 (;P)—Rioting Poles marched on the Soviet consulate in the Baltic city of Stettin in a wild burst of anti-Russian feeling last night and smashed win dows and tried to storm its doors. The Polish press today reported the attack as an outburst of "drunken hooligans." But reliable sources in Stettin said it Timetables, Directories Continue to Be Sold Timetables for the spring se mester- are still on sale at the counter in 4 Willard. Faculty directories also are on sale there. Student directories are being sold both at the counter and at the Book Exchange in the Hetzel Union. Totirgiatt January started as a demonstration by stu dents and young factory workers in sympathy with Hungary. The press said the rioters were finally scattered by troops and strong-arm "workers militiamen" who were called in by the local Communist party. Several police men were reported beaten up and a numberof the demonstrators -ar rested_ 13:=51223 Stettin, a city of 223,000 on the Oder River estuary which sepa rates Poland and East Germany, was the major port of German Pomerania until Nazi Germany was defeated in World War 11. Confirmed reports said Polish troops fired on a Soviet regiment attempting to move on Warsaw from East Germany during Po land's "October Revolution." In last October's political revolt, Wla dyslaw Gomulka, who had been imprisoned in the Stalin era, was restored as first secretary of the Polish Communist party in a reorganization that ran counter to Moscow's wishes. Government on Edge Gomulka won a large measure lof independence in shaping Po land's independent Communist policies. But the new government has been kept on edge by open sympathy, shown in occasional demonstrations, by Poland's work ers for the Hungarian rebels. Fearing a popular explosion would invite Soviet intervention like that in Hungary and the de struction of its own revolution, the Warsaw government has re peatedly warned the people to keep calm. $25 Voted for Lantern The Phys Ed Counci voted to give $25 to the Lantern to aid in the development and expansion of the• literary magazine. The Lantern will be printed as the University's culture magazine. University Accepts Guilt for Fish Kill The University yesterday accepted full responsibility for the killing of 175,000 trout, valued at $lOO,OOO, in the State fish hatchery and Spring Creek in Centre County a week ago last Saturday. State officials said this w stream pollution in the histor The State Fish Commission had determined that the contamina tion came from the State College area, but had been unable to pin point its source. Walker Starts Probe A self-investigation initiated at the direction of President Eric A. Walker uncovered the discharge into the University's sewage treat ment works and thence into the stream of a lethal dose of sodium cyanide solution early on the af ternoon of Friday, Nov. 30. "Our studies," a University ,spokesman said, "indicate rather clearly that the discharge into the stream of a large quantity of elec troplating material with a high concentration of sodium cyanide [ produced the poison that killed [ the fish." State Studies Agree Authorities in Harrisburg ad vised the University yesterday that its studies also pointed to the cyanide solution as the death dealing pollutant. The electroplating material had been used for the last ten years to plate metals in the Navy Ord nance Research Laboratory on the campus, and on the afternoon of Nov. 30 was ordered dumped to make way for a new solution. Laboratory technicians said the solution was diluted by large amounts of water and discharged through •the drainage system lead ing into the• University's sanitary sewer. Sewage Checked Thinking that the ammonia might have come from the Uni versity, investigators checked samples last week from the cam pus sewage system, and also test ed some of the dead trout with geiger counters to determine whe ther the University's nuclear reactor caused the poisoning. The results of the geiger counter tests were negative. Plans were announced last Wednesday to have the United States Fish and Wildlife Research at Leetown, W. Va., examine sam ples of tiv , dead trout. Yesterday Fish Commission officials said that the West Virginia laboratory was not equipped to handle such tests, but that specimens of the slain fish were taken elsewhere for examination. 'Who Will Pay' Asked Inquiries as.to the next step in possible recovery of the value of the fish life destroyed brought cautious comment from agericies of the state government concerned with the problem. The University partly is fi-, (Continued on page five) Engineer Will Explain Parking Survey Results A State Highways Department engineer will explain and , answer questions concerning the department's 1954 campus parking survey at an open meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the ,Board Room of Old Main. About 15 copies of an 11-page reptirt of the survey, which was conducted two years ago by the department in co operation with the Federal Bur eau of Public Roads, were dis tributed to the University approx imately two weeks ago, The survey will be discussed by George Britton, of the depart ment's highway planning and traf fic division, who explained a simi lar survey of the borough to a group of townspeople and stu dents Oct.. 23. Distribution Blamed At that time, Britton said the campus parking situation, as shown by the report, was a prob lem of distribution, rather than a lack of spaces. The survey reveals a deficiency of spaces near the center of the campus and an over supply around the edges, he said. General discussion on the re port, which is accompanied by 19 illustrations and tables, will fol loW Britton's explanation of the as the worst loss of fish by of Pennsylvania. Council OK's Probe of Class Drops The Engineering and Architec ture Student Council last night approved of a two-man committee to speak with the dean of the col lege about the alleged failure to schedule courses in the spring semester required for June grad uates in mechanical engineering. The apparent reason for the col lege's declining to schedule the courses is the shortage of avail able professors to teach them, a member said. Approximately 35 ,students, he said, will be affected l by this action. Semester Delay Possible Concern was expressed by an other member of the council over the possibility that these courses might not even be scheduled dur ing the summer sessions, thereby forcing the students to be grad uated January 1958. The council also established a committee - of - nine, representing all the schools in the college, to set up a Career Day program sim ilar to the one used in the College of Busniess Administration. $lOO Donated to Lantern Under such a program, a half day in the spring would be used by the students in engineering and architecture to hear talks by representatives from industry. These men would discuss the career opportunities in their own fields. In the evening a speech would be heard by a reknowned figure in the engineering field. The Council also voted to do. nate ;100 to Lantern, campus lit erary magazine. Chiappetta to Address Future Teachers Club Dr. Michael Chiappetta, associ ate professor of education, will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Future Teachers of Ameri ca at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Simmons study lounge. Dr. Chiappetta will discuss "Professional Associations in the Teaching Field." Refreshments will be served survey. Walter H. Wiegand, di rector of the physical plant, said interested persons would be wel come at the meeting. Represen tatives of some campus organiza tions have been invited to attend. Adjustment Necessary In explaining the borough sur vey, which was also made in 1954, Britton indicated that some ad justment in the figures presented by the report was necessary be cause of the length of time since the survey's completion. He said a 10 per cent increase in traffic at a checkpoint on Route 322 to the west since the time of the survey may indicate an in crease in the borough's parking problem. The borough survey indicated a "critical area" of downtown park (Continued on page five)
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