Polls Open Until 9 Tonight VOTE I VOL. 57, No. 109 Voting Enters Final Day Afte Mittingl2-YearLow ng elections entered their third and final day after recording a 12-year low of 1891 ballots irst two days of voting. will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today. To vote, st bring their current matricultion cards with • The spr this mornin during the The poll students xn y May Need irport Sury Prov For The Airp. Authorities of State Collegz and Dußois will jointly conduit a survey "to prove to the state I at the area would best be sery • d by two airports —one in the state College-Belle fonte area an. one in the Dußois area—rather han by an airport in Philipsburi." The state decided in 1956 to erect an airport at Philipsburg— as an enlargement of Black Mos hannon Airport—with or without federal aid. Mostly Area Passengers Dr. M. K. Gingrich, vice chair man -of the, State College Au thority, said that few passengers at the present Black Moshannon Airport come from Philipsburg. Most of them are from the State College and Clearfield area. He also said • that the Dußois Authority feels that its own air port, which it will start building in July, would lose many passen gers to Black Moshannon Airport. Federal Aid Sought The Statc College Authority is seeking federal aid in addition to state aid under the National Air port-Plan. Representatives from the fed eral Civil Aeronautics Commis sion are presently making a sur vey of possible sites in central Pennsylvania. The offering of aid will depend on the outcome of their survey. Lion Foresees Fair Weather The Nittany Lion had little time to celebrate the beginning of spring this morning, because of political commitments. The Lion is still standing vigil at the polls, scrutinizing the crowds c 1 a mor ,,ing to get to the 4 41 'Voting machines. ` 4.. Reports from behind closed doors indicate that the Lion is attempting, by any means at his disposal, 'to pass a rule through Cabinet whereby all abstentions would be count ed as votes for his party. If his .plan goes through, the Lion feels sure his slate will be swept into 'office by the greatest margin ever 'recorded in 'campus politics. Today's forecast calls for partly .cloudy skies and mild tempera tures. High should be between 45 and 50. I Greek Posipr Contest Entry Date Extended The deadline{ for entries in the Greek Week poster contest has been extended , until 5 p.m. Fri day. The L_.cries may be submitted at the Hetzel Union desk. Greek Week , Chairman Robert Nurock yesterday said 39 entries have been submitted. Hat Society Applications until has request i•homore and jun Hat Society CI ,ed freshman, s. for men to file cards for hat so! ,zel Union desk.' out application ieties at the Het- vLsr. a. Thr u tt tig,:::*-4: - ?, (foil STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 21. 1957 them to the polls. A thick layer of gloom settled over the polls yesterday as a trickle of 945 students—compared to 970 on Tuesday —made their way to the four election machines set up in the cardroom of the Het zel Union Building. 15.8 Per Cent Vote The 2-day percentage of eligi ble voters came to what may be an all-time low of 15.8. Last year 2738 or 26.6 per cent of the voters cast their ballots during the first two days of the spring elections. Not since 1945, when 1502 stu dents voted in the "All-College" elections on Nov. 13 and 14, has a 2-day total been so low. But the 11502 figure represents almost 50 per cent of the students who were then enrolled and eligible to vote. In all elections before last year, the 2-day total represented the complete election returns. But William Johnson, chairman of the All-University Elections Commit tee, said last night he, sees no prospects for brightening the pic ture today. Cites 'Student Apathy' , Johnson said he could ascribe, the low voting total to no other cause than student apathy. He said he did not expect a last-min ute flurry of votes today. The machines will be opened and the votes counted tonight fol lowing an Elections Committee meeting where representatives of both political parties will have a chance to file complaints. Members of the committee will open the machines in the presence of representatives from both par ties and a reporter from The Daily Collegian. 500 Vote in Afternoon The voting yesterday followed Tu es day's afternoon-dominated balloting. About 500 students cast ballots yesterday afternoon. Ap proximately 300. voted before noon and about 150 after 6p.m. The lead in voting by . class switched yesterday from the freshmen, who recorded 283 tal lies, to the sophomores, with 287. But the frosh still held a 2-day lead of 625 over the sophomore's 591. Juniors cast 238 ballots yester day to bring their 2-day total to 459. Seniors were last with 113 for a 2-day total of 216. Tri-Service Concert The Tri-Service Concert Band and the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps Glee Club will give a combined concert at 3:15 p.m. today in Schwab Auditorium. The condert.is open to the pub lic and admission is free. Cabinet to Consider $11,660 Budget All=University Cabinet will consider a propdsed $11,660 budget - for next year at its meeting at 7 tonight in 203 Hetzel Union. The budget, which is $3BO high er than the scheduled allotments for the current year, is orle of the items of business held over from Sunday's meeting, which was can celled when only 14 of the 24 Cabinet. members appeared. The only 'item of business scheduled for tonight's meeting, which was not on the agenda for Sunday, is a report of the Sophomore Advisory Board on its survey of campus parking conditions. The report, which will be pre sented by Sophomore Class Presi dent John Sopko, indicated that 11 areas are not used beyond an average of 78.2 per cent of their capacity. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Walker In Lack PHILADELPHIA, March 20—President Eric A. Walker said last night that sharp increases in enrollment and much smaller increases in appropriations are matters of deep concern to the University. Dr. Walker, speaking at a meeting of class agents for the 1957 Alumni Fund, said he had chosen to discuss this crisis in higher education in Pennsylvania because it is a • Dog May Negotiate For Nonbelligerence CAIRO, March 20 VP)---Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the UN, due in Cairo tomorrow on a new peace mission, probably will try to persuade both Egypt and Israel to proclaim nonbelligerency. Proclamations of nonbell war sustained since the Arab- Israeli Palestine warfare of 1948 and vastly simplify dickering in the months to come over Suez. Israel probably would agree , readily. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion has repeatedly pro claimed his readiness to talk peace with all his Arab foes, though warning that Israel would not stand for renewed Egyptian assaults. Egypt's President Gamel 17:Ls ser will not agree—at least not without a long-drawn argument. The state of war is the basis for the 'Arab 'boycott of Israel and any Egyptian bar to Israeli ship ping through the Suez Canal and Aqaba Gulf. Fresh developments bearing on the crisis included: 1. The British Foreign Office termed Egypt's six-point memo randum on ground rules for the reopened Suez Canal disquieting in that it made no reference to six principles adopted by the UN last October as the basis for ne gotiations on the canal opera tions. 2. The United States re served judgment, but said it expects "a saEsfactory interim arrangement will be arrived at" during Hammarskjold's talks with top Egyptians. 3. Eight major oil companies, concerned over the crisis created by the canal's closing, set up corn mittees in London to study routes, financing and equipment for new pipelines to link the Middle East's oilfields and tanker ports. 4. UN Emergency Force troops dismantled some encampments within the Gaza Strip and moved out• to reinforce further the UNEF lines guarding the Gaza-Igraeli frontier against infiltration from either side. It said at least 374 parking spaces of a total 1715 were available at all times during the two days the parking areas were checked. The report did not make any overall parking recommendations, but suggested three immediate changes. They are: •That the lots next to the Jor dan Fertility Plots (Area 50) and the skating rink (part of Area 43) be hard-surfaced; •That Shortlidge Rd. be open to one-way traffic only from midnight to 1 a.m. Saturday and Sunday mornings: •That an entrance to the lot be hind Grange Dormitory (Area 23) be constructed from Pollock Rd. through an existing driveway next to the Hetzel Union Building. Cabinet will also hear a report on the book exchange and down town bookstores, which recom mends that the book store hire a rgiatt Cites Crisis of Funds gerency could end a state of Fraternity Men May Register For Ugly Man Fraternities may register their candidates for the annual Ugly Man contest today and tomorrow at the Hetzel Union Desk. The contest is sponsored by Al pha Phi Omega, national men's service fraternity. Only one candidate may enter from each fraternity, but he may be supported in a skit including fraternity brothers and pledges. The candidate must register in person and -will' be required to pay a $2 fee. The contest will begin with a parade April 9, and will continue with penny voting April 9, 10 and 11. The voting location has been moved from the bulletin board on the Mall to the sidewalk in front of the Armory. The four finalists will be an nounced at 5 p.m. April 11, and their skits will end the contest on April 12. .The contest has been extended one day longer than last year's, giving the finalists more time to prepare their skits. The chairman of the contest committee is David Allison, soph omore in hotel administration from Pittsburgh. Two Movies on Bombs To Be Shown in Schwab Two movies will be shown at 1 p.m. today in Schwab Auditor ium. "The Atom Strikes" describes the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. "Operation Ivy" tells the story of the first hydrogen bomb test lon Eniwetok Atoll. full-time manager and that the Used Book Agency adopt a ceiling price of 75 per cent of new-book Edmond Kramer. president of h e Business Administration Student Council, will report on his progress in studying a group insurance program for Univers ity students. Kramer has said one plan he is studying, offered by the Mutual Insurance Co. of Omaha, would offer students all-year around coverage at a cost of $9.90 per' annum. It would provide $lOOO life and $5OO illness coverage. Cabinet will vote for the second time on a constitutional amend ment which would raise the mini mum All-University average needed for membership to 2.4. The amendment, which was intro duced by Lash l'owes, president to the Association of Indepen dent Men, was approved March 7. Guest Editorial See Page 4 matter "of the gravest concern, not only to alumni, but to all Pennsylvanians." He said that if we are to pro vide an education for the same percentage of Pennsylvania youth in the future as we do now, we shall almost have to double our facilities for higher education by 1970. - If the same percentage of Penn sylvanians enroll in colleges in 1965 as are enrolled today, there will be 75,000 more students en rolling in 1965 than today, Dr. Walker said, and explained there is every indication that the state supported colleges and universi ties will have to absorb the great share of these students. Submitted Budget "As the first step in preventing the disenfranchisement of a large segment of Pennsylvania youth in the years to come, the Univers ity presented to the Governor, at his request, a performance budget for the 1957-59 biennium in which we spelled out the services we in tended to perform and put a price tag on them." Dr. Walker said. "This budget was about 23 per cent higher than the total operat ing budget for the 1955-57 bien nium. About 45 per cent of the Commonwealth's share of this in crease was for salary adjustments, another 11 per cent was budgeted to take care of the increased cost of operating present programs, al most 34 per cent was to provide the faculty and staff for the ad ditional students we felt we should accept in the next two years, and 10 per cent was ear marked for new projects to serve various elements of the Common wealth's economy and culture." Appropriation Cut "Governor George M. Leader, operating under tremendous pres sures to balance the Common wealth's budget without irnposing new taxes, found it impossible to implement this performance bud get." Dr. Walker continued. "Rather, he recommended a flat 10 per cent increase over the 1955- 57 University appropriation, an in crease of $2.5 million." "We consider this to be a dis aster budget," Dr. Walker added, explaining "it would barely per mit us to maintain our present programs, to make almost no sal ary adjustments, and to accept none• of the additional students necessary to maintain the current ratio of college-going in Pennsyl vania in the next two years." Explaining that Governor Lead er is sensitive to Pennsylvania's needs for higher education and is well aware of the responsibilities of the Commonwealth for the education of its youth, Dr. Walker said he felt that the University had his tacit approval to go direct ly to the Legislature and this has ,been done. "In so doing, we have reduced our request for funds for new students by three-fourths. We have made this reduction quite simply because the admission of (Continued on page five) Student Uninjured In 2-Car Crash Joseph M. Prospero, graduate student in chemistry from Potts town, escaped injury when his car collided with another at 11 p.m. Tue"day at Rt. 322 and Branch Rd. The driver of the other car, Mrs. Forest Evey of Lemont, was also uninjured. Damage amounted to about $5OO on each -car. Mrs. Evey was turning onto Branch Rd. and Prospero was going ,straight on Rt. 322 when the collision occurred, police said. FIVE CENTS
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