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