Lio n Matmen Lead Pitt 1846 .0 11 " st4 ' 3 4. i 1 ‘::* 4 g ",- 18 6f_ j, STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 16. 1957 FIVE CENTS VOL. 57. No. 10 Erff As h R. Erfft has resigned as University Comp . a position as -comptroller and treasurer at rsity. not been set for his departure. Dr. Kenn: troller to tak: Rutgers Univ: A date ha Dr. Erfft' appointment was announced Thursday by Lewis Webster Jones, president of Rutgers University. Dr. Erfft will replace Albert S. Johnson who died Feb. 21, four months before 'his scheduled retirement date. Came Here in 1954 Dr. Erfft has been Comptroller at the University since February 1954, when he came here from Furman University, Greeneville, S.C., where he was business man ager. He is a graduate of Northern Michigan College at Marquette and received his master's degree from the University of Richmond. He did graduate work at North western University and completed the War College course in eco ,noraic mobilization in 1951. Administrator Since 1935 Dr. Erfft began his experience in school administration in 1935 when he transferred from a teach ing position at -Ironwood (Mich.) High School and Junior College to the business manager's post of the ( public school system at Peters- 1 burg, Va. He served- there until 1942, when he entered the Navy. There Dr. Erfft helped design the serv ice's demobilization program. He left the Navy in 1946 with the rank of Commander in the Naval Reserve. Ag S: May For C niors PPIY , I ntest Seniors in the College of Agri culture may su omit applications for the Mr. Ay. iculture Contest from today unti noon March 30. The contest is rheld to honor the most outstanding senior man or woman in the college. The appli cants will be judged on the basis of scholarship and activities. Application forms may be ob tained.in 211 Armsby and should be returned there as soon as pos sible. Cup to Be Given An engraved cup will be pre sented to the winner at the agri culture faculty meeting at 4:10 p.m., April 26, in 109 Armsby. Kathryn Simmons, contest chairman, said that a rating sys tem will be used to score both scholarship and activities. Activi ties are rated on a scale from one to ten—Offices are considered in assigning the rating of each ac tivity. Averages Rated All-University averages are rated as follows: 4.0, 40 points; 3.0, 30 points; 2.0, 20 points and 1.0, 10 points. The contest is sponsored by the Coaly Society, agriculture honOr ary and activities society. The judges are Dr. H. Bruce Bylund, assistant professor in rural sociol ogy, Dr. David R. McClay, assis tant dean of the College of Agri culture, Miss Simmons and David Allison, senior in forestry from York. Lion Ambitious Despite Cold The Nittany Lion's political am bitions continued at a high pitch this morning, despite the new cold wave forecast to hit the area. • The Lion, for of those who don't follow cam pus politics, is running for AU- University presi dent. the information 'The woodland politicians have run into one s n a g, however. The - Lion's pub c it y directors have lodged _ a Complaint about the name of the newly-formed' party, the Peapicking Party, say, mg that it uses alliteration to the point of and "will tend to render the Lion a comic figural during the,_campaign." . _ Today's forecast calls for partly , cloudy skies for the weekend, with a "high between 30 and. 35 degrees this . afternoon. • Producer Will Lecture On Theatre Management -Omar Lerman, co-producer of the Corning Summer Theater and assistant to the company manager of the Phoenix Theatre in New York City, will speak informally on summer and winter stock. and theatre management at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Little Theatre in Old Main. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Quits Post Resigns Post omptroller During 1951-52, he was recalled by the Navy to act as officer-in charge of Naval officer procure ment for the seven southeastern states. • While with the University, Dr. ,Erfft has been responsible for fi nancial operations and allied and auxiliary services under the direc tion of the president and the Board of Trustees. Dr. Erfft is married and lives at 346 Ridge Ave. Prof to Address Hillel on Freedom Dr.. Leon Gorlow, associate pro fessor of psychology, will speak on "Freedom and Personality Ma turity" at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Hillel auditorium. He will be the sixth lecturer in the Hillel- sponsored series, The Structure of Freedom." He will base his talk on Freud's "New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis." Cabinet Will Consider Budget Totaling $11,660 for 1957-58 All-Univerity Cabinet will consider an $11,660 budget for next . year at its - meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 203 Hetzel Union. . The proposed 1957-58 budget,' which will be presented by,Leon ard Richards, All-University. sec retary-treasurer, -is $3BO higher than this year's budget. However, it is $1387.01 under this year's $13,027.01 current ex penses to date. Cabinet will also hear reports on the book exchange and down ' town bookstores and on a pro posed group insurance plan. It is recommended in the book exchange report that the book store hire a full-time manager, to be chosen by a committee com posed:of the store's senior board and:two members of next year's Cabinet,. • Tatirgiatt Recalled by Navy Dr. Kenneth R. Erfft Going to Rutgers Council to Hear IFC Candidates Speak Monday Candidates for offices in the Interfraternity Council will pre sent nomination speeches to the council at 7:30 p.m. Monday in 219 Electrical Engineering. Council elections will be held March 25. The officers to be elect ed are president, vice president and secretary-treasurer. Self-Nominations Open Self-nominations for the offices can be made by letter until mid night tomorrow. Letters should be returned to the fraternity affairs office in the Hetzel Union Build ing, according to Daniel Land. EEC president. The council will vote on an amendment to the constitution providing that the $37.50 per se mester stipend allotted to the secretary-treasurer be given to the council's executive secretary instead. Presented by Eberly The motion was presented at last week's meeting by Joseph Eberly, IFC parliamentarian. If approved at Monday night's meeting, the amendment will go into effect with the election of the new IFC officers. An advanced ticket sale for the IFC-Pantiel Ball to be held April 5 at Recreation Hall will also be conducted at the meeting. It is also recommended that the Used Book Agency adopt a ceiling price for used books of 75 per cent of the new-book price. The report, which will be pre sented by Susan Hill and John, Valentine, recommends that the Council of Administration's 60- day book list ruling "be enforced in a manner the Council - of Aca demic. Deans deems desirable to meet the needs of students, book stores and professors." Under the ruling, the official book lists are supposed to be sub mitted 60 days prior to the be ginning of the semester. Profs Change Books The report said a concern of both the downtown bookstores and the Used Book Agency is the changing of required books by professors after the list has been distributed to the stores for order ing. Edmond Kramer, president of Lehigh Third With 15; Brown, Middies Follow Surprising performances by Earl Poust and Les Walters, plus the true-to-form showings of the four Lion lower-weight aces, gave Penn State the lead at the end of the halfway mark in the EIWA tournament last night at Recreation Hall. Coach Charley Speidel's team leads the 18 team field with 18 points and sends six of its original eight entries into the semi-finals this afternoon. Semi-final action starts at 2 p.m today. The final round of the two-day event begins at 8 tonight with ; the consolation matches first on the agenda. Defending champion Pitts burgh, the pre-tourney favorite, trails the Lions with 16 points, followed by Lehigh, 15, Navy, 11, Brown, 12, Cornell. 10. Pitt has five men going info the semi-final bill and Lehigh four. Navy, Cornell and Fran's lin & Marshall have three men apiece. Brown. Syracuse and Colgate have two each. Army and Rutgers have one apiece. Several key upsets marked the first day of the tournament, but it was the unexpected efforts of ,Poust and Walters that had -the Penn State fans talking. Poust and Walters won only two matches apiece ' during the regular season, but they looked like world beaters on the mats last night. Poust moved into the 157-pound se i-final round by beating Syra cuse's Gordon Carberry, 5-4, and Walters broke into the 177-pound semi-final bracket by topping Harvard's Bob Gilmor, 7-4. Sid Nodland, Johnny John ston, John Pepe and Dave Ad ams, who have carried the load for the Lions this year, lived up to their reputations in last night's quarter-finals. Nodland, seeded number two, moved into the semi-final round at 123 when he pinned Spring 'field's E 1 Amerantes at 6:37. It was Amerantes' first loss of the year. Johnston, seeded number one at 130, kept his hopes of a second straight title alive when he pinned Cornell's George Willis with a half nelson and a crotch at 3:46. Pepe moved another notch closer to the elusive (to him) 137- pound crown when he decisioned F & M's Gordon Muse, 5-0. Pepe is seeded second behind Lehigh's Joe Gratto. Adams furthered his chances at 147 with a 3-2 win over his old rival from Pittsburgh, Bob Bubb. Adams, despite his runner-up finish in last year's tournament. is ranked second behind Le high's Dick Santoro. Bubb, who has never beaten Adams in his high school or college career, almost pulled an upset with a last-minute rally to almost win. Bruce Gilmore, who advanced into the 167-pound quarterfinals I via an afternoon win over Ray Norton of Temple, ran into de fending champion Dave Johnson I in the evening session and lost, 5-1. Johnson, who had beaten Gil (Continued on page six) the Business Administration Council, will present a progress report on his investigation of a group insurance program for Uni versity students. Kramer has been studying an all-year coverage plan offered by the Mutual Insurance Company of Omaha. Would Cost $9.90 Students could subscribe to the plan on a voluntary basis for $9.90 per year and could receive up to $lOOO life and $5OO illness benefits. Cabinet will take a second vote on a constitutional amendment which would raise the minimum All-University average needed for Cabinet membership to 2.4. The amendment was introduced by Lash Howes and approved March 7. Howes said its purpose was to "create a higher academic atmosphere." The amend ment would go into effect next spring. By LOU PRATO U.S., Israel To Talk on Gaza Feud TEL AVIV, Israel, March 15 OP) —Mrs. Golda Meir, Israeli foreign minister, is flying to the United States tonight for talks on Egypt's reassumption of authority in the disputed Gaza Strip. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Mrs. Meir, in talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, would make a last-ditch diplomatic effort to solve a serious situation "before the government considers other means." As she boarded the plane, Mrs. Meir told reporters: Disturbing Situation "What is happening in the Gaza Strip is extremely disturbing to our government and it was de cided that before the government takes any decision it would be preferable that we do everything we can diplomatically in order to find a positive solution. "My main purpose is to contact the American government. "What is happening in Gaza is exactly the opposite of what was supposed to happen," she added. Maj. Gen. Hassan Abdel Latif of Egypt, at the head of a mission of 5'2 officials--including 50 mili tary police and 10 officers—as sumed administrative authority ,over the area yesterday. Appointments Made Egyptian press reports said he was issuing orders to Gaza police and had appointed local gover nors for the three chief districts of the area. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said this was the first step in Egyptian President Nas ser's plan "to transform the Gaza area once again into a base for fedayeen warfare against Israel." Israeli Premier David Ben-Gu rion warned m a speech to the Knesset this week that Israel re served "Preedom of action" if the Egyptians returned to Gaza. New Buildings 'Filled' for Fall Admission quotas for the fall semester include the 1000-coed capacity of the yet-to-be com pleted residence halls, according to Dr. C. 0. Williams, dean of admissions and registrar. The four residence halls, how ever, are not scheduled for com pletion by then. Tentatively, it is expected by the Department of Housing that only two of the new halls will be ready for the fall semester. When asked whether the admis sion quota, which was drawn up in February, may have to be modified in accordance with the lack of availability of all the new halls, Dr. Williams said he did not know. Sophs Will Hear Parking Report The Sophomore Advisory Board will hear a parking survey report at 2 p.m. tomorrow in 213 Hetzel , Union. The survey was taken by a board committee last Tuesday and Friday to determine the amount of space available in cam pus parking lots. The board plans to make a fur ther study of the details of th• parking problem. It also plans to submit a recommendation after it has looked into every phase of the problem. Part of the report will be pre sented to All-University Cabinet Thursday.
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