Today's Fori Continue Fair and C< VOL. 57. No. 136 IFCPA to Present Plans, Recommendations to IFC The Interfraternity Council Purchasing Association Exec utive night decided to .hold an additional meeting tomorrow night to draw up organizational plans and recommendations in time to present them at the Inter fraternity Council meeting Monday. Soph Board To Help In Traffic Count Members of the Sophomore Class Advisory Board will assist in the traffic counts on Monday and Friday of next week as part of the University’s traffic and parking survey. John Sopko, sophomore class president, volunteered the serv ices of the board after a meeting Friday with Calvin G. Reen, pro fessor of divil engineering and head of the committee. The members of the board signed up for hours at last night’s meeting. They will be paid $1.50 an hour for their services. Will Meet Tomorrow A meeting for those who signed up will be held at 7:30 ,p.m. to morrow in 1 Main Engineering. ■ The vehicular studies will be made Monday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. continuously at five stations manned by students and members of the .Department of Physical Plant and at 14 stations where automatic' counters will be in stalled with the cooperation of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 34' Other Stations Counts will be made at 34 addi tional stations at' the peak morn ing, noon and evening hours. The automatic counters will remain on campus during the week. , A pedestrian count will be made on the next Friday. Counts will be made at 25 stations during five periods of approximately 45 min utes each and at six additional stations all day. The survey will be made to record the direction as well'as volume of pedestrian traffic. Phi Beta Kappa To Initiate 17 On May 15 , Seventeen students have been elected .to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honor society. They will be initiated on May 15. They are: Sidney Brindley, senior in arts and letters from State College; Joseph Eberly,- senior in- physics from State College; Darlene Rum baugh, senior in medical tech nology from State College; John Moran, graduate guide from Scan ton. - Students Honored Sheldon Amsel, senior in. pre medicine from Simpson; Lawrence Berkoben, ninth semester student in arts and letters from Altoona; Marjorie Blank, senior in medical technology from Greensburg. r Robert Detisch, ‘ senior in arts and letters from Erie; Thomas Dye, senior in arts and letters from Pittsburgh; Jane French, ninth semester student in psychol ogy from Landsdowiie. ' Other Students Named • Linda Gerber, senior in arts and letters from York; James Ifft, sen ior in chemistry from Strouds burg; William Imler, senior in labor-management relations from Ganister. ; John Kenemuth, senior in phys ics from Van; Muriel Moldawer, senior in pre-medicine from Elk ins Park; Elizabeth Morrill, senior in labor - management' relations from. West Orange, N.J.; and Ruth Stafford, senior in psychology from Waynesburg. ®hr Satltj® (Ml The committee members ex pressed a desire to have definite plans to present at an IFCPA Board of Directors meeting Sun day night and the IFC meeting Monday to have the plans taken back to individual fraternities and give them a chance to act on the program before the se mester ends. Service Charge Included Features of the plan to be pre sented 'at the board of directors meeting Sunday include a service charge to be levied on fraternities in return for the sendee IFCPA could give them. This sendee charge would include original outlay, deposit and total expen ses. The committee also plans to present a method of hiring a staff —particularly a method of hiring a paid, permanent manager who might possibly be a graduate as sistant and reecive a salary equiv alent to that of most graduate as sistants. David Tressler, chairman of the committee in charge of frat ernity promotion, will present a method of presenting IFCPA's setup to individual houses at the meeting. The committee will also present types of contracts that would exist between fraternities and IFCPA, and between IFCPA and vendors. 5 Per Cent Discount Vendors, who have been con tacted by members of the execu tive committee, have indicated that they will be willing to give members of IFCPA discounts up to five per cent. Committee mem bers who had approached them said the vendors indicated that a discount exceeding five per cent would be too large and would cause a raising of prices or a loss of quality or both. These committee members also said that the vendors expressed a desire that orders be received at least a day in advance. Lesile Phillabaum, IFCPA pres ident, will present the findings and recommendations of the ex ecutive committee at the IFC meeting Monday. Ogontz to Expand Nurses' Training Facilities of the University’s Ogontz Center will be expanded this summer to permit training of nearly 200 more student nurses in the Philadelphia area. A new microbiology laboratory will be installed which will en able five additional hospitals to cooperate in the program. The training, program has been given for student nurses at Chest nut Hill Hospital for several years. The new hospitals to be included are. Hahnemann, Episco pal, Frankfort, and Northeastern in Philadelphia and Abington. Bill OK'd Sans Anti-segregation Clause WASHINGTON, May 6<7P)— The House Education Commit tee today turned down a move to put an anti-segregation amendment in to the big fed eral school construction bill. Rep. James Roosevelt (D-Calif.) reported the closed-session vote was 16-10 against the amendment. It was" offered by Rep. Stuyvesant Wainwright (R.-,N.Y.) with back ing from Roosevelt and Rep. Roy W. Wier (D.-Minn.). The amendment, simlar to one proposed by Rep. Adam C. Pow ell (D.-N.Y.). would have barred federal funds under the bill from going to school districts FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 7, 1957 Sophomore Killed In Auto Accident James Robinson, 24, ninth se mester student in arts and letters from Pittsburgh and a passenger in the car, is in the hospital with —Diily Collegian Photo by George H.rriaon ° f .. the behead and DEATH CAR—James R. Moore, driver of this automobile, died "P 3 - Hls condition was listed last at 3 a.m. yesterday in Centre County Hospital after an accident mg as , Sa 'f ac^ )ry ' Sunday night near Milesburg. James Robinson, a passenger, was Moore anTlobinTon‘were re reported satisfactory yesterday. turning from a picnic at Syca more Camp, near Wingate. State police said the students were traveling toward Milesburg at about 10:20 p.m. when their car went out of control on the curve past the crossing and crashed in to a Pennsylvania Railroad relay box. The vehicle overturned and Icame to rest on its top, partly on the railroad tracks. Police said the students had to he removed through the trunk as the car was demolished. They were taken to the hospital' in a Loean community ambulance. The accident was a recall of a fatality which occurred last year on Spring Weekend. Anne Elder, a junior from Cumberland, Md., was killed in an accident while returning from a fraternity picnic near Pleasant Gap. Member of Track Team Moore was a member of the University track team and com peted in three meets this season as a sprinter and broad jumper. In State College, he lived at 127 S. Barnard St. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Moore, 1224 Fourth Ave., New Kensington. He was grad uated from New Kensington High (Continued on page eight) Starer to End 3-Month Stay Ira Starer, graduate student in chemistry from Brooklyn, N.Y., who has been in the University Hospital since he was injured in a laboratory explosion on Feb. 13, will be discharged at the end of the week to finish his convales cence at home. Mrs. Carol H. Burt, superinten dent of the hospital, described! Starer as “getting along well!” j Starer was taken to the Kospi-j tal nearly three months ago when art experiment on which he was! working exploded, showering him with flaming liquids. ! Robert Etter, graduate student! in chemistry from Chambersburg, who was the only other person! in the laboratory, extinguished the flames on Starer’s body and clothing and those on the table and floor of the lab. Jersey Shore Boy Wins Science Fair Award Roger Feil, 18-year-old senior from Jersey Shore Area Joint School, won the grand champion ship and a $lOOO scholarship in the fourth annual Central Penn sylvania Science Fair held on campus Saturday, The Jersey Shore school andj the College Area Joint School took most of the prizes in the] fair. not obeying the Supreme Court mandate against public school segregation of Negro pupils. Antisegregationists now plan to offer the amendment again when the bill comes to the House floor. A similar move by Powell suc ceeded on the floor last year, and the measure went down to defeat. Powell said in a statement is sued by his office that he was de liberately.staying away from the committee sessions until the anti segregation amendment was dis posed of. The New York Negro congress man said he was absenting him self because he. did not want to support “.the Powell amendment” before the bill got to the House 'floor. Adoption of -the rider in cgiatt LA Coed's Seat To Be Filled The coed who resigned last week from the Liberal Arts Stu dent Council will be replaced by an alternate at a joint Council meeting of old and‘new-members at 7:30 tonight in 214-215 Hetzel Union. The coed resigned to “preserve the council’s dignity” after she was accused of influencing voters at a polling place during student council elections. She denied the ! charges. | The alternate coed received the next highest number of votes in the elections. j The 1957 Orientation Program j for incoming liberal arts fresh imen, including the possibility of holding several mixers, will be discussed. The Open House Program to be held May 18 will also be dis cussed. The program is held for high school students who are in terested in the liberal arts. The students will visit the University that weekend under the auspices! of the Khvanis Clubs. Ag Council Postponed The Agriculture Student Coun cil meeting, which was originally scheduled for tonight, has been postponed until 7 p.m. tomorrow in 212-213 Hetzel Union. committee, he said, could cause the bill to be killed in that com mittee or by the Rules Committee, and “I want federal aid to school! construction.” ! The house group has already > given tentative approval to ! main provisions of the measure to set up a two-billion-dollar, five-year federal aid program to help build classrooms. As it now stands the legislation is a compromise between versions pushed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and by Democrats. It would distribute 400 million dol lars a year for public school build ing. half according to need and half according to the number of school age children .in a state. looking Back At Spring Week See Page 4 Passengers Condition Is Satisfactory The gaiety of Spring Week end was sobered abruptly Sunday night when one stu dent was killed and another was injured in an automobile accident as they were return ing from a picnic. James R. Moore, 21, sopho more in the division of inter mediate registration from New Kensington, died at 3 a.m. yesterday in Centre County Hos pital from head injuries received when his car failed to negotiate a curve at Weaver’s railroad ciossing on Route 220, west of Milesburg. Uon Predicts Fair Weather Seen going through strange contortions this morning, the Ni 11 an y Lion explained that while peering into his mirror yes terday, he discovered that his [chest had dropped down a few inches toward his beltline, efusing to be non plussed, he a a proceeded to Rec - Hall, where he spent an hour observing the the weightlifters going through their “dynamic tension” rou tines. Deciding that this was all he needed, he set up his outside mirror in preparation for today’s workout. Since he plans to receive the trophy for the “World’s Most Per fectly Developed Lion,” he was delighted to hear that today’s pre diction calls for good exercising weather, continued fair and cool* and with a high of 65 to 70 de grees. FIVE CENTS
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