Today's - F recast: Pass; Rai VOL. 57. No. 1 Alph 1-4 s Kept Busy • —Daily Collegian Photo by Dave Bavar FIREMEN fight the Sunday morning blaze that forced eight students to find other living quarters. $BOOO Fire Leaves 8 Students Homeless Eight students were temporarily made homeless by an $BOOO fire that struck their rooming house at 9 a.m. Sunday. Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity gave the students emer gency housing Sunday afternoon and night. Seven of them will move into -residence halls this week, according to the dean of men's office, and the eighth has found a room down town 'The students who were sudden ly. displaced are: Merle Cooper, 10th semester arts and letters major from Wilmer ding;.David Dutot, junior in horti culture from Gouldsboro; Edward Edinger, junior in industrial en gineering from Mercer; Richard Grubel; Donald Haller, sophomore in pre-veterinary from Erie; Tel ford Hill Jr., sophomore in agri cultural education from Ebens burg; and Theodore Ifft, junior in agricultural economics from Mer cer. • The blaze, which took fire men almost two hours to bring under control, started around the furnace in the cellar. The furnace had been fixed at about 8 a.m. by John B. Frank enberger, manager of the rooming house, and at 9 a.m. he and his wife went to investigate what ap peared to be_the smell of smoke coming from the cellar. h e a Mrs. Frankenberger opened the cellar door, flames leaped.out. Frankenberger said the - fire was probably fed by a partly dry wash hanging in the cellar. The blaze spread ,quickly through the walls and floors, and by the time fire equipment ar rived, flames were licking at the underside of the roof of the three story:building. Extensive damage, estimated at $BOOO, was done to the house and personal belongings by the flames, The smoke and The gal lons of water poured on by fire • fighters. Mr. and Mrs. Frankenberger, who were also made homeless by the. fire, are living with friends. The house lis owned by Mrs Ethel Ewing. I No one as injured in the fire. Two o the students, who live on the third floor, which was the sce .e of the most ex tensive dam.ge, were away for the: weaken Much of and' other • damaged by damaged do , free - of char ing - establis a e students' clothing -rsonal effects was the blaze. The un - gis being cleaned e by 'a local Clean ,. ent, - • r,..4-4, . o . r. B ai t g . - 4.t.-z7,- . , 1 Toll ~ STATE COLLEGE. PA., TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 26. 1957 AN ALPHA FIREMAN losses a trunk to one _.of the students burned out of his living quar ters Sunday morning. SDT, Alpha Zeta Earn Top Averages Sigma Delta Tau sorority and Alpha Zeta fraternity re ceived the highest averages among fraternity, sorority and independent groups for the fall semester, according to sta tistics released yesterday by the dean of men's office. Sigma Delta Tau's average of 3.16 was the highest average for any University group and Alpha Zeta placed first among fraterni-, ties with a 2.93 average and eighth among all groups. Sigma Delta Tau moved from 21st place for the spring semester of 1956 with a. 2.79 average into first place. for -the fall semester. Alpha Zeta's average of 2.78 for the spring semester of 1956 placed it 22nd in University groups for that semester. Kappa Alpha Theta was in sec FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Hart to Head *IC; Wins on Ist Ballot James Hart, Acacia, last night won the .Interfraternity Council presidency on the first ballot, defeating Ronald Ross, Omega Psi Phi, and Richard Moon, Beta Theta Pi. Hart, who succeeds Daniel Land, Sigma Nu, won 31 of the council's 55 votes to 16 for Ross and eight for Moon. Thomas Schneider, Phi Kappa Sigma, was elected vice president on the second bal lot. It took four ballots for the council to elect Stephen Higgins, Sigma Chi, secretary-treas urer. Schneider received 30 votes on the second ballot to 13 for John. Spangler, Delta Chi, and 12 for Leonard Sichel, Theta.XL He suc ceeds Howard F. Thompson, Phi Kappa Tau. Schneider received 30 votes on the second ballot to 13 for John Spangler, Delta Chi, and 12 for Leonard Sichel, Theta Xi. He suc ceeds Howard F. Thompson, Phi Kappa Tau. Higgins, who will take dyer as secretary-treasurer from John Valentine, Pi Kappa Alpha, de feated Patrick Rielly, Kappa Del ta Rho, 34 to 20, on the fourth ballot. Legislature Passes Tax Amendments HARRISBURG, March 25 (fP) The Republican-controlled Legis lature tonight approved finally a series of controversial sales tax amendments giving new exemp tions . to manufacturers, public utilities and shipyards. Gov. Leader immediately broke with precedent and asked the law makers to hear him tomorrow. He was expected to ask that the amendments be reconsidered. _ Leader to Attack Ordinarily, a governor either] signs a tax bill into law or vetoes it. Leader was reported ready to attack the amendments on the basis of what other Democrats have described as "a Republican giveaway." The. House, beating down Dem ocratic opposition, voted 124-77 to approve the Senate. amendments dealing with, the broadened ex emptions for industrial interests. A half hour later, newsmen re ceived word that the governor had asked the GOP legislative leadership for permission to ad dress a joint session tomorrow. Courtesy Granted Such permission -is- usually granted as a courtesy, Rep. Johnson, House Republi can floor leader, said he doubted if the Legislature would change its mind on the sales levy. The House spent most of its session debating the controversial amendments dealing with indus try. Not in dispute was the plan to keep the 3 per cent sales levy from dropping to 2 per cent June 1 and to eliminate the stamp plan for collecting the tax. Dennis Will Address Plant Science Group Lawrence E. Dennis, vice presi-1 dent for academic affairs, will ad dress the Plant Science Club at 7:30 tonight in 111 Tyson. The topic of his speech will be "The Changing Nature of the Uni versity." He will discuss the prob lems that institutions of higher learning must face when meeting the new challenges of modern times. and place with a 3.12 average. Runner-up for- fraternity honors was Triangle with a 2.68, which placed it 22nd among all groups. Both the sorority women's and All-University women's averages —2.85 and 2.64—were higher than the independent women's average, of 2.55. The fraternity men's average of 2.33 ranked higher than the inde pendent men's average of 2.31, While the over-all fraternity-soror ity average of 2.49 topped the non. fraternity non-sorority average of 236. . The All-University average of 2.39 was five places higher than the independent average of 2.36, and 16 places higher than the All- University men and independen men's averages which were both 221. The All-University average of 2.39 is lower than that for the rgiatt James Hart New IFC President bth Greek Sing Preliminaries Begin Tonight The sixth annual Greek Week at the University will begin at 6:30 tonight when 19 fraternities compete in the preliminary round of the Interfraternity-Panhellenic Councils Sing in Schwab Audi torium. Sixteen sororities will compete' in the preliminary rounds starting at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. The required song for fra ternities is the "Whiffenpoof Song," and for sororities. "Mo ments to Remember." Both groups will sing another song i of their own choosing which may be presented with or with piano accompaniment. This year, permanent trophies will be given to first-place win ners in both divisions, and second place winners will receive bronze plaques. In previous years. rotating trophies and permanent plaques were given to the first-place winners. In order to retire a trophy, the sorority or fra ternity had to win the sing for three consecutive times. Winning choruses in both to right's and tomorrow night's per ormances will compete in the final round at 7 p.m. Friday. spring semester of 1956 when the All-University average was 2.45. Beta Sigma Omicron, who placed first among all groups for the 1956 spring semester with a 3.13, was tied for third place among all groups for the fall semester with Delta Gamma. The average was 3.05. Theta Delta Chi, with a 2.62. average, moved into third place among fraternities and 26th place among all groups. During the spring semester of 1956, the fra lernity was ranked 79th among all groups. The complete averages are as follows: Sigma Delta Tan, 3.16; Kappa Alpha Theta. 3.12; Beta Sigma Omicron. 3.05; Delta Gamma, 3.05; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 2.99; Gamma Phi Beta. 2.-54: Phi Sigma Sigma. 2.94: Alpha Zeta. 2.93 ; Alpha Kappa Alpha, 2.91; Alpha Chi Omega. 2.88; Alpha Xi Delta. 2.87: Alpha Epsilon Phi. 2.86. Sorority women. 2.83; Pi Bets Phi, 2.83; Delta Zeta, 2.82: Kappa Delta, 2.92: Delta (Continued on page five) Shortlldge Problem See Page 4 Wins Two Victories The IFC presidency was the first of two victories Hart won last night. During the time IFC was meeting, shortly after the presidential ballot, Hart gained a first-round victory in the Intra mural Wrestling matches at Rec reation Hall. Hart. last year's 128-pound champion, won a 7-1 decision in the 135-pound class over Leonard Shirk. Alpha Zeta. In the IFC vice presidential voting, Schneider polled 26 tallies on the first ballot to 12 for Sichel, 10 for Spangler and 7 for Peter Dangerfield, Phi Delta Theta. Majority Vole Needed - In IFC elections, the nominee who wins the fewest number of votes is dropped from the ballot. The voting continues until one nominee receives a majority. Higgins and Rielly both re ceived 15 votes on the first ballot in the election for secretary-treas urer. James Shok, Theta Kappa Phi, polled 12, Jack Halpern, Phi Sigma Delta, 9. and Pat Kinney, Pi Kappa Phi, 4. Higgins led Rielly during the rest of the voting, 18-14 on the second ballot, 24-16 on the third and 34-20 on the fourth. Halpern, Skok Dropped Halpern was eliminated on the second ballot when he failed to increase his vote and Skok dropped out after the third round, on which he won 14 votes. In other business, Joseph Eber ly, IFC parliamentarian, intro duced eight constitutional amend ments dealing with the organiza tion of the council. Under one of Eberly's amend ments, which will be acted upon at the council's next meeting, the appointed executive secretary would become an- elected execu tive vice president. Another amendment tightens attendance and substitutes rules at council meetings. Lion Predicts Possible Rain The light snow that fell on the Centre County area yesterday did not deter the Nittany Lion in his effort to gain pov er on campus. The Lion caller an emergent; meeting of hi cheering sectio] yesterday to prc claim his cand, dacy for presi dent of IFC. But his follow ers finally di: suaded him fror running, and the election went of last night wit no sign of the Today's forecast calls for in creasing cloudiness with possible showers. High should be between 45 and 50 degrees. FIVE CENTS
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