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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. ~ ,
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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