Today's Forecast: Warm, Humid, Thundershowers VOL. 57. N Will Participate Campus Tallies Zqx, Foot Traffic 125 In < Of 125 students, physical plant workers and Civil ig Department staff members will participate in rnd pedestrian traffic counts tentatively scheduled ! and 17 respectively. About Engineerii vehicular for May II Plans (for the traffic counts were revealed yesterday by Calvin G. Keen, professor of civil engineering, who is directing the c-npus parking.and traffic^sur vey being conducted under Uni jversity auspices. He said the dates are subject to weather conditions. | Reen said civil engineering students, most of whom have had isome previous experience with (traffic counts, are being can-! vassed to provide personnel for th>- survey. X-Rays n Free Days 800 Give In 2 i 800 persons have re- X-rays during the ys of operation of the p unit on Shortlidge More tha: ceived free first two d; state mobil The unit will be in operation from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. today .and from 9 a.m. to : 12 noon Saturday Especially For Seniors Although brought to campus mainly for graduating seniors, the are available free of charge to all students, faculty •members and townspeople Kenneth Myers and Herbert Abendschoen, state X-ray tech nicians,. said the response so far has been excellent. They expect to top the 1850 total for last year’s 3-day program. Increased public interest in tuberculosis and the high recovery rate due to early treatment of the disease and the, desire to protect both themselves and their fellow stu dents from infection were given as reasons for the excellent turn out. Results Sent to Student The X-ray unit is one of-sev eral operated by the Pennsyl vania Department of Health. -The X-rays will .be read in Harrisburg. Notifications of nega tive results will be sent directly to the student. Positive results will be sent to either the student’s home doctor or Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, director of the University Health Service. Warm Weather Will Continue The Nittany Lion today issued a forecast for continued high temperatures. - The Lion was in an unusually sour mood as he paced the den this morning. The source of his unpleasantness was the expose of the Lion’s reced ing hairline (rp ceding from ' top of his he on down) prin, ed in a local ] per yesterday, Howeverl t Lion is not wit out hope. W' came from Hill today thai miraculous! hi restorer, invehi ed by a gradut. _jas been working on the project for 49 years iri the sheep bams, will be. made available' to the patchy Lion. I ' Today’s forecast calls for high temperatures and thunderstorms. The high should be between 80 and 85. [ " . Carnival Late Permits May.Be! Filed Today Coeds working in booths at the Spring Week carnival Tuesday night must turn in . their names by noon.today at the Hetzel Union Desk to .receive late per missions. No more than six coeds from ©ne. sorority or group may re quest late permissions,; according to John Valentine, carnival chair man. 31)p Coll To Work in Shifts They will work in shifts from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Plans call for them to be paid $1.50 per hour for both practice and actual counting work and for instruc tional meetings. Reen said 25 physical plant staff members will also participate in the field work, which will be supervised by six members of the civil engineering faculty. For the vehicular count, set for May 13, the campus will be di vided into 15 zones, each includ ing buildings and facilities of a similar nature. 34 Stations Planned The number and directions of vehicles entering and leaving campus and passing between the zones ' will be recorded by ob servers at 34 different stations. . Special’ count forms with dia grams will be used at each lo cation. Traffic at some of the locations will be counted con tinuously through the day and will be tabulated in 15-minute totals. At other points the traf fic will be counted - only at peak hours, Reen said. Similar Pedestrian Tally He said a similar system. has been worked out for the pedes trian count, scheduled for May 17. Reen said the dates,' a Monday and a Friday, were chosen be cause past counts show they were the peak days for traffic. He also said the late spring represents a peak traffic period for the year. He also said he has had many offers of assistance on the counts from students and student groups. He said some of these may -be accepted if there are not enough engineering students available for the counts. I Senate Committee Final Examination The University .Senate subcommittee on the super ior student will meet Mon day morning to discuss the. final examination exemp tion proposal which was presented before Senate April" 4. The subcommitte will meet with Dr. WaUace E. White, professor of wood technology, who proposed the modifica tion of the present Senate rul ing. ■The purpose of the. meeting, Dr. 'White said, is “to plan to make a joint report” and “find out each other’s aims and ob jectives.” - Senate failed to take action on the recommendation April 5 and instead, with the ap proval of Dr. White,* requested that it be considered by the subcommittee. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 26. 1957 U.S. Sends Fleet To Calm Mideast WASHINGTON, April 25 (vP>—'The United States today sent its powerful 6th Fleet steaming toward the troubled Middle East in a show of strength aimed at bringing calm to strife-torn Jordan. This muscle-flexing came as the goveminent blamed “international communism” for the unrest in Jordan and ordered President Eisenhower’s special ambassador, James P. Jordan King Orders Strict Martial Law AMMAN, Jordan, April 25 (/P) —King Hussein, fighting for his throne, imposed military law on imperilled Jordan i today in a series of dramatic moves against his enemies inside ! and outside the country. t The embattled young King named a new government, [clamped a curfew on the nation’s [main cities as a safeguard against rioting, and abolished the coun try’s 10-political parties. The 21-year-old monarch blast ed Egyptian propaganda and in ternational communism alike as the -sources of his nation’s trou bles Was Nasser's Ally Less than two months ago Hus sein participated in an Arab "summit” conference with Egypt’s President Gamel Abdal Nasser, as an ally in the cause of Arab na tionalism. Today he told Egypt to leave this country alone. With swift strokes, Hussein held down the threat of burgeoning chaos. Evidently he felt the time for compromise with his enemies was over. - Jordan’s future was in the bal ance,, and the crisis had ominous meaning for peace in the strate gically important Middle East. Statements of British and Ameri can support in effect were an in vitation to Hussein to call for help to save his crown. But he said Jordan does not want outside help. U.S. 6th Fleet Sent The United States, repeating its support for the independence and integrity of this country of IVi milion people, ordered its 6th Fleet back to eastern Mediterra nean waters, where it patrolled during .the Suez fighting last fall. Britain, supporting the Amcricf n (Continued on -page twelve) Handbook Applications Available Application blanks for the busi ness-staff of the Freshman Hand book will be available through [Monday at the Hetzel Union desk. Ur. Ruth Ayres, professor of clothing and textiles and chairman of the subcommittee, said the exemption issue would be contained in a general re port on the superior student tentatively scheduled. for the June 6 Senate meeting. Rule Would Be Permissive Dr. White’s proposal would allow an instructor to exempt, if he wishes, any student-with a “B” or better average from the final examination. This was the third tinie he present ed the modification and twice it has gone no further than the subcommittee. The present rule, which is mandatory, now reads: “No student shall be exempt from a final examination ex cept by approval of the head of the department and the dean of the college in which the course is offered.” , “We’re not going -to let it (the proposal) die just for lack Calendar Dates May Be Asked By All Groups Petitions from organizations wishing to be included in the master All-University social cal endar for the next academic year are now being received in the dean of men’s office. William B. Crafts, assistant to the dean of men and chairman of the Senate Sub-Committee on Social Affairs, said that the com mittee will begin consideration of the approval of dates at its next meeting. Requests will be received until May 15. Requests for dates will be made by petitions sent out to organizations by the committee. Crafts said that failure to sub mit a request for a date will re quire the committee to set a date at its own discretion. Crafts has requested groups filling out the forms to indicate both first and second choice dates on the petitions. If an event is not scheduled when the committee meets, the organization will have to accept whatever date is available at a later time, according to Crafts. Included in Crafts’ letter to or ganizations are the petition forms, the official University schedule and the schedule of varsity ath letic events. to Discuss Exemptions of doing something,” Dr. White said. “We’re going to work for a favorable decision but it’s up to the Senate for the final word.” Result to Be Studied The main problem in which the subcommittee is interested, Dr. Ayres said, is to help stu dents to grow intellectually and not to contract. The ex emption of final exams, she continued, could have either a positive or negative result. The subcommittee on the superior student is a part of the Senate committee on Edu cational Policy. Its aim is to maximize the opportunity for the superior student, Dr. Ayres said. The June report will be only a preliminary report with starting procedures and will deal primarily with freshmen, she continued. Subsequent re ports will deal with other aca demic levels. Opinions ... The last Time See Page 6 Richards, temporarily out of the area. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles meanwhile, met for 40 minutes with Sens. William F. Knowland <R.-Calif.) and Mike Mansfield (D.-Mont.), represent ing the Senate leadership in both parties. Dulles- and his aides also telephoned other leaders in the House and Senate. All of these moves came as young King Hussein fought at Amman to keep his kingdom from falling apart. The U.S. moves reflected the seriousness with which' the Eisen hower administration is regard ing the struggle. They were re ported backed up by quiet diplo matic efforts to impress on Jor dan’s oft-times trigger -happy neighbors —Egypt, Israel, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia—that ut most restraint should be exer cised on their part. War Could Erupt A New Middle East war could erupt if Hussein were to l«se con trol and Jordan’s neighbors de cided its real estate was up for grabs. Knowland told newsmen the situation, as he sees it, is “very serious.” The Senate Republican leader said the United States contem plates no emergency action at present, and he expressed hope that nobody in the area “rocks the boat.” Orders to the 6th Fleet sent the powerful fighting force sailing from. Cannes, France to the east ern Mediterranean. State Depart ment press officer Lincoln White called thi3 a “normal” voyage. But officials said privately it was associated with the.situation in Jordan. Whits News Conference White left the impression at his news conference that the Eisen hower administration was going perhaps to brink of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Middle East formula. But it was left partly to Hussein to decide whe ther he wants U.S. military help (he Eisenhower plan could pro vide. White disclosed that Richards would go to Bonn, Germany, for consultations with Dulles. The secretary will be there May 2-4 for the Atlantic Treaty meeting. Richards will return afterward. White said, to continue talking to Middle East leaders about Eisenhower’s plan to block com munism in the area. Nominations Due For Ed Awards Today is the deadline for nomi nations for the Education Student Council's Outstanding Seniors award. Applications will be available until 5 p.m. today in 101 Bur rowes and at the Hetzel Union desk. Self-nominations will be accepted. A screening committee will se lect 12 to 15 seniors. The Educa tion Student Council will make the final selection of five to seven seniors to receive the awards which Li based on their contri- the College of Educa tion. This is the first year that more than one student will be chosen. Hat Society Cards Due Tapping cards for Skull and Bones and Parmi Nous, senior men’s hat societies, must be re turned to the Hetzel Union desk by Tuesday. FIVE CENTS
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