Today's Forecastt Cloudy and Warmer VOL. 57. No. 79 Fraternities to Introduce New Idea in Open House Fraternity rushing will get underway in full swing next week with a new innovation in open houses. The Interfraternity Council will sponsor a third open house in all fraternities, with the open house program being divided into three sections. Section 1 will include fraternities east of Locust Lane, Utah Inmates End Spjree Of Violence UTAH, Feb. 7 ,/P) Defiant convicts, rulers c f Utah State Prison in a 12-hou: spree of vio lence, surrendered their hostages and retreated to their cells today. In return, Gov. Gjeorge D. Clyde promised them an impartial inves tigation of a list of 43 grievances handed to him by a negotiating committee. 27 Hostages Hold The prisoners first insisted that Clyde bargain with them on the grievances as a condition of re leasing their. 27 hostages, who in cluded members of a church bas ketball team and several teachers. Clyde, who has been in office only about a month, refused. He told the convicts he wouldn’t even consider their complaints until all hostages were freed. Surrender Before Dawn The convicts gave up just be fore dawn. About 500 of the pris on’s 618 inmates were involved. A meeting of the Board of Cor rections, governing body of the prison, was called at the 6-year old prison located 20 miles south of Salt Lake City. Dinner Scene of Riot The riot flared up during din ner last night in an argument be tween a convict and Guard Lt. M. L. Coleman. As other convicts joined in, Coleman was knifed in the stom ach but was dragged out of the prisoner area which then was sealed off from', the administra tive section. The convicts, some of them drunk on rubbing alcohol and the power of their revolt, roamed the prison, smashing windows and toilet fixtures and raiding the prison commissary. . US. to Discuss Loan to Poles WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (/P> The United States announced to day it will open negotiations with Communist Poland soon on that country’s proposal to borrow American dollars and buy Ameri can gods. The idea is to shore up Poland’s newly- won indepen dence of Russia. Lincoln White, State Depart ment press officer, said the Po lish government has been invited to : hold the economic talks in Washington and has accepted. The Warsaw government hopes to get trade credits here totaling about 100 million dollars at least. It wants these to finance the pur chase of urgently needly cotton, modern farm machinery, new mining equipment, fats and oils, chemical fertilizer and grains for cattle food. Ike's Civil Rights Plan Denounced by South WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (JP) Southern witnesses denounced President Eisenhower’s civil rights program today as contain ing the seed of a “Soviet type gestapo.” Critics from Georgia and Ala bama opened such a broadside be fore a House Judiciary subcom mittee that Northern members protested against what they called inflammatory” statements. ~ , laiUj|§| (Eflll STATE COLLEGE. PA., FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 8. 1957 Section 2, fraternities west of Lo cust Lane, and Section 3, frater nities on campus. ; Two open houses were spon sored during the fall semester, but the plan for a third open house during the spring semester is an entirely new one, accord ing to Hugh Moore, IFC rushing chairman. Section 2 Fraternities Fraternities in Section 2 will conduct open house from 7 to 8:30p.m.-on Tuesday. These in-' elude Acacia, Alpha Chi .Sigma,! Alpha Phi Delta, Beta Sigma Rho, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Theta Sig ma, Kappa Alpha Psi, Kappa Sig ma, Omega Phi Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Mu Delta, Phi Sigma Delta, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Phi Alpha; Sigma Alpha Epsilon,] Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Phi Ep-i silon, Sigma Tau Gamma, Tau Phi] Delta, Theta Chi, Triangle and Zeta Beta Tau. | . Fraternities in Section 3 willi conduct-open house from 7 to! 8:30 p.m. on Thursday. Fraterni-; ties in this group include Alpha] Zeta, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu. Moore asked all rushing chair men to turn in their pledge regis trations to the Fraternity Affairs office in the Hetzel Union Build ing at the conclusion of rushing. The pledging date has been set for Feb. 23. Purpose! Given Moore said this open house is being sponsored for the benefit of new students, for students who have transferred to the Univer- (Continued'on page four) Early Start Asked For Dining Hall Pollock Council last night ques tioned the possibility of opening the residence dining halls one day prior to the first day of regis-| tration for the spring semester, j A motion to this effect wasj passed and referred to the Foods Committee for study. The council accepted the resig nation of Jerome Lyman as treas urer and elected Kenneth Kuhn as temporary treasurer. John Morgan was elected dele gate-at-large to the Association of Independent Men Board of Gover nors. tees Matriculate New Hun Semester By GINNY PHILIPS The seven Hungarian ref ugee students invited to .the University to complete their education have begun their studies this semester with fi nancial aid from students, townspeople and the University. The students, most of whom are single males studying engi neering or other scientific fields, have been provided with free room and board in the homes of townspeople or in fraternities. Facilities Requested Since the students arrived in the United States penniless and with only the clothes on their backs, a group of interested students will organize a fund-raising cam paign which will be conducted through, organizations on campus to support the students until they FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Festival _ Planned For Spring Week A potentially-dazzling music festival at Beaver Field featuring star stage person alities was proposed at All-University Cabinet last night as part of the -1957 Spring Week, April 27 to May 3. The festival is a new addition to the Spring Week program, and, if approved, will be the first event of its kind to be presented in Central Pennsylvania. An audience of some 15.000 is expected to be . drawn from this entire area. I / i i f I” • To Insure Festival >77 irl&n T LA \/&rTG h I , The outdoor music festival will LL /"1 KCI Lj I £/ C be covered with rain insurance. The premium, Krakoff said, will fN • I / • I • amount to approximately $7OO, By Qulck Thinking Sre'™; The alertness of an unidentified University wTtfwn averted a possible large-scale blaze yesterday morning at State Student Scholarship Fund, the home of State College Patrolman Ralph M. Farmer. [ by The student, passing the 246 S. Pugh St. home on his| s P nn g Week proceeds. way to class at about 7:45 a.m. yesterday noticed sparksjcoSpS ofsmdims'hVt'lprfng [and flames spewing from the Week events are too time consum n chimney of the house. mg. Krakoff said that only two ! He rang the doorbell and fied the roomer who answered will require student preparation, the door. | No Entry Limit Called For Help ! The Mad Hatter’s contest this ■ Mrs. Farmer, who was awakened:£ ear may be entered by any num bv the roomer, looked out the! Ber 0 . individuals from each window, saw the chimney spout-!k rou P instead of only one entry ing fire, and promptly called for ? s was « one last year. Each group, help. however, must enter, in addition i A furnace and chimney expert g J°uP haL !immediately came to ihe scene,!Week ifioVnrKnw prln ® [quickly analyzed and corrected; annr ’ H ’ was (the cause of the fire: a bird’s nest.i??E ip f t ar ) < * '* no ' v a squirrel’s nest and a collection!I u u rnmm ; # ?fl oVa ® ena * B i 0 { soot on Student Af ! On cleaning out the blazing; ' Life Magaine Interested :chimney he found the charred re-! t» „ „„„„„ , . , ! mains of' the two nests which,’ ce ] ebr j.: e _ J* J*F a PI iricluded [along with the soot, were block-[gl, ted into <?nr,w U w H? T-#' ■ in£f the chimney to c&use the *« Spring Week, Life ; fi4 y ; magazine has consented to fea ! " . , , _ , Iture the week in a spring issue The expert informed Patrol-,Robert Krakoff. chairman of the man Farmer that this is a com- committee said imon cause of such fires in the. The Philadelphia Inquirer—in area - stead of the Bulletin as was er roneously reported yesterday in Collegian—has sponsored similar events in Philadelphia. Krakoff said that he has received con siderable information concerning advertising media, stage layout and promotional techniques from the Inquirer. Proceeds from the festival would be donated to student and national charities. Krakoff asked Cabinet for an advance of $2OOO to be used for retainers and [traveling expenses involving the Elections Committee to Meet professional talent for the festi ! The All-University Electionsi (Continued on page eight) Committee will meet at 5 p.m. to— | ‘day in 9 Carnegie. Spring elec-:| • Q f» , 'tions will be discussed. L/O/1 iTGCmICtS Search Ends; Samaritan Is Located The dean of men’s office has ended its search for the student! who played the role of Good Sa maritan to two hungry young sters on a train trip from Newark, N.J., to Johnstown on Jan. 2. Ha is Zachary Holland, fresh man in hotel administration, from East Rockaway, N.Y. "Zach" came into the dean of men's office yesterday morning and identified himself after : seeing the article in Wednes- j day's Daily Collegian. 1 The two youngsters to whom! he was the Good Samaritan werej 14-year-old JoAnn McNaughton and her brother, aged 12, who! left both lunch and purses at their i I grandmother’s home in Caldwell,! [N.J., in the haste of catching a' I train. I “Zach” learned the youngsters Shad little money and no iunch as he was eating his lunch on the same train. He “staked” them out to a full meal, but refused the small amount of money the youngsters offered him. When they failed lo find out his name, their grandmother sent a letter lo the dean of men's office lo see if the stu dent could be located. ~ i Cool Weather • The Nittany Lion awoke sud- Beam denly from a nightmare this _ _ - ' He had read an article the night B I I ' before condemning our digested n a I culture—Reader’s Digest, Classics ■ I vll/ i Comics, etc. — and had dreamed ... • , » j * * , , _, ■ jthat he had been transformed are able to find part-time jobs. A dents in private homes. Three of along with al special loan was granted to the;these turned out to be students most everyone students for the purchase of and they are now arhong the sev-ielse, into a View books. en that will begin their studies : ly-hatched spar this semester. row, and loom , When the Hungarian refugees ing, blank - faced I first arrived at Camp Kilmer, figures were IN.J., the World University Serv-Moving alreadv ice and the National Student As-'djg es t e d “food Isociation organized special serv-f or thought” into ices to determine the number of his upturned refugee students who wanted to beak complete their studies. Looking fran . Special Classification tically for a re ! ngarian wbo studied in the ; t urn to reality, he picked up the United States interviewed fhe ] ates j weather report, refugees to determine their edu-j TT . . . . 4 . cational background and intelli-!,, was heartened by the news gence. Several of the students;Vi at J empera V5 es .'™ uld reach were sent to schools in New degrees this afternoon, and land to learn the English language; ~a . **"e rf 'yas only a slight pos and howto adjust to Americanl sl bihty of light rains, life and college students. j Feeling much better, he put on The seven students are classi-ia pot of coffee and began to skim fied here at the University as'through his latest copy of the special students. Three are en^ digested survey of the world’! (Continued on page four) iperiodical literature. garian Students With Financial A resolution asking that the. University make its educational) facilities available to Hungarian' refugee students was sent to thei Board of Trustees by the recently formed subcommittee on Hun-' garian refugee students, headed by Dr. Amos J. Shaler, professor of metallurgy. The subcommittee was set up by the Senate Commit tee on International Understand ing, also headed by Dr. Shaler. Committee Houses IS The Board of Trustees at their December meeting allotted seven full tuition scholarships for refu gee students. Although they were not designated purposefully for Hungarians, it turned .out that Hungarians received all seven. A committee set up in State College by Dr. Shaler has placed 15 Hungarian refugee non-stu- ematt Was Not Home 1 Farmer was not at home when | the incident occurred, since he I had left for work just 45 minutes ; previously. Before leaving he had! started up the coal furnace to! iwarm the house for the soon-to- 1 'awaken household. J Patrolman Farmer said he is in- 1 'terested in learning the identity! : j of the alert student to express his' 'thanks. What Price PhD? See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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