Today's Forecast: Fair and Warmer VOL. 57. No. 138 Increas SeenVH HARRISBURC publican floor lead increased state aid posing new taxes. “This is going AIM Vjates To Change Indie Week The Association of Independent Men Board of Governors last night unanimously voted to move Indie Week from the fall to the spring semester, beginning next year. The board set next year’s Indie Week for the week of October 27 to November 2, subject to the approval of the University Sen- repon ly Lawrence Kowal ski, chairman of the committee investigating the change, gave three principle reasons for switch ing Indie Week. _ Reasons for Change The report said that Indie Week held in the spring ran “a poor third” to Greek Week and Spring Week, that holding the week in the fall would highlight inde pendent activities for incoming freshmen and that Indie Week in the fall would better balance the University social calendar. The board accepted the com mittee recommendation for the week of October 27 rather than Homecoming .Week, because it was thought the homecoming fes tivities would detract from the! activities of the independents. Conflict with Junior Prom The Junior Prom, as next se mester’s social calendar now stands, is scheduled for the week end of November 1. However, the board will attempt to have the Senate change the date of the prom. In other business, the board ap proved the appointment of Sam uel Alfonsi, junior in arts and letters from Philadelphia, as chairman of the Judicial Board of Review. Carnival Fund Gets $l3O Gift A group of businessmen, meet ing last Tuesday at the Nittany Lion Inn, donated $l3O to the Penn State Student Scholarship Fund because they were not able to attend the Spring Week Carn ival, The Daily Collegian learned yesterday. President Eric A. Walker in formed the conference of the •American Society for Sales Exec utives of the carnival which was being held that night for the scholarship fund. The men planned to go .to the carnival after the meeting ad journed. Later, when they real ized time would not permit their attendance, they "passed the hat" and collected Sl3O. James W. Jordan, vice presi dent of the marketing division of Shell Oil Co., New York, present ed the money to Dr. Walker for the fund. May Day Practice To Be Held Today A rehearsal will be held at 2 p.m. today in front of Old Main for all participants' in the May Day ceremonies. Students will be ex:used from classes for the rehearsal. Those who need pre-excuses bay obtain them in the dean of women’s of fice. Members of the Hen and Honor Arch will served seat tickets at ©lf? ©nil *d School Funds ithout New Taxes fompiled from AP Reports J, May 8 Rep. Albert W. Johnson, Re ier, said today a plan to pay $30,300,000 in for schools can be financed without im- to keep within the $1.5 billion budget for which we already have raised enough by retaining existing taxes,” Johnson said. “No new taxes'of any kind are planned.” j The school aid plan—sharply revising the formula for making the payments—was carried to the House Republican caucus today but no action is expected until Monday. . The GOP leader also disclosed that the huge general appropria tion bill—usually a harbinger of early adjournment—was being drafted for possible presentation next week. Only subsidies—such as those to state-aided colleges, hospitals and homes—will be kept out of the general appropriation bill, he said. If that plan is followed, the measure would probably appro priate the largest single sum in the history of the commonwealth —possibly as much as a billion dollars. Other legislative developments: LOCAL GOVERNMENT A Senate Local Government Com mittee acted today to carry out a 1922 directive of the voters to give Third Class cities a broader choice of their own form of gov ernment. The committee sent to the floor a modified home rule bill that would permit the 47 Third Class cities to adopt the mayor-council or council-manager plan of gov ernment. ANTI-POLIO VACCINE —The House received legislation to set up a $1.5 million fund in the state Health Department to make avail able free anti-polio vaccine to ail Pennsylvanians up to 40. Physicians v;ould be permitted to charge for services in admin- 1 istering the vaccine but the vac cine in itself would be free. WIRETAPPING Two hours! pf debate in the House wound up with refusal of a plan that would have in effect outlawed wire tapping in Pennsylvania. The vote was 61-128 on the pro posed change to a measure which now goes to a vote tomorrow orj next week. ; As it now stands, the bill would i allow wiretapping only upon a' court order issued at the request 1 of the attorney general, chief of! police or district attorney. It could not however be used as court evidence. Three Elected by ICCG For Interim Committee The Intercollegiate Conference on Government has elected three students to an interim committee to serve as a plural executive for the organization until new offi cers are elected in the fall. The students elected are Den nis Castelli, junior in arts and letters from Hershey; Ralph Volpe, sophomore in arts and let ters from Lansdale; and Frederick Blair, junior in physics from Camp Hill. House Committee Slashes School Bill WASHINGTON, May 8 (£>)— The House Education Commit tee voted overwhelmingly to day to whack half a billion dol lars from the school construc tion bill, in hopes of getting the program through an economy minded Congress. The committee voted 23-3 to au thorize federal outlays of $l% bil lion during the next five years, instead of the two billion origi nally called for by the Demo cratic-sponsored measure. A final committee vote on the entire bill was scheduled for to morrow. ~ lock Chain receive re that time. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 9. 1957 AM Station Fund To Be Proposed Editorial on Page Four All-University Cabinet tonight will hear a possible plan for obtaining the $28,000 in the student press fund to establish an AM student radio station fund. s Cabinet will meet at 7 p.m. in 203 Hetzel Union. Judith Harkison, managing editor of The Daily Collegian, will present a report asking the appointment of a student committee to seek the fund reallocation. I Teahouse Nanny —Dally Collegian photo by Harry Formlnarer "NANNY," Ihe goat from "The Teahouse of the August Moon/* is the object of much attention from Stevie Odland, 8, and Barry Geller, S. Stevie and "Nanny" are featured actors in the Players production. [Teahouse 1 Tonight in With a swish of'green silk curtain and the sound of; oriental music, “The Teahouse of the August Moon” will open its three-day run at 8 tonight in Schwab Auditorium. i “Teahouse” is a three-act comedy about the American military occupation of Okinawa following World War 11. Army brass, in the person of] ;Capt. Fisby, attempts to “Ameri-I canize” the sleepy village of To-] biki by teaching democracy to the natives. What actually happens is that Capt. Fisby, after exasperating! attempts to bring industry and a democratic social order to the villagers, goes “native” himself. Adaptation of Book The play is an adaption of a book of the same name by Vern Sneider. John Patrick’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy opened on Broadway in October, 1953. In 1956, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer add ed to its popularity by filming jthe story. ‘ Only recently the play has been Rep. Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R--Pa.) asked the committee to whittle down the cost of the aid package, saying it would help the measure’s chances of passage. The action also was a bid to win complete support for the measure from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had original ly called for $1,300,000,000 in con struction aid. Rep. Lee Metcalf (D.-Mont.) called it “an attempt to get a bipartisan bill that would com pletely meet with the President’s approval, and we expect the President’s support because of that.” Eisenhower has made it clear te wants Congress to give him a egian The suggested student commit tee would include the four class presidents and representatives from station WDFM. Its function would be to con sult the presidents and secretaries of the classes of 1948, ’49 r ’so and '52 for their opinions on polling their classes about changing the class gift designation to the radio fund. The gift of each of the classes, totaling $28,000, was used to es tablish a student press fund. If the approval of the class officers were obtained, the committee : would work out a plan with them [for the proposed polling. | Approval Needed | The press fund may be' real located with the approval of the classes and the Board of Trus tees. Each member of the four classes must be contacted and an | affirmative answer received from |3 majority of those responding. | If the reallocation is approved ■by the class members, the class presidents and secretaries would then petition the board for final apDroval. The report will give the fol lowing reasons for the recom mendation to transfer the money in the press fund to a radio sta tion fund: • Collegian and LaVie, the most expensive publications to print, probably could not be printed on such a press, which would be pri marily for small as Lantern, and the Biz Ad Bulletin. ! •There is no available space to house the proposed press. : •Employe problems could be caused by the summer vacation. ; In other business,, the Cabinet released for general production.:executive committee will recom- Possibly the biggest problem j mend that Cabinet members take that director Robert D. Reif-ito their respective organizations sneider, associate professor of; the question of whether Cabinet theatre arts, faced was authen-|should endorse statehood for tically reproducing the many, Alaska. Japanese customs. j Paul Tsompanas, editor of the Japanese Student Helps j Student Handbook, will present Aid. came *rom Yoshiro Sogo.ia progress report. Next year's graduate student in chemistry! (Continued on page two) from Osaka, Japan, who is acting | as technical adviser. to Open Schwab Sogo taught actors how to pro-i nounce the Luchuan dialect, howj to bow and sit down and how to' start a Japanese wrestling match. | Music for the play was obtained l , from a tape recording of the score! (Continued on page eight) school aid Kill this year, but he might have balked at a two-bil lion-dollar price tag—which was still less than some democrats had! demanded. ! In its present form, the measure would authorize the federal gov ernment to give the states $3OO million in aid in each of the next five years. Rep. Augustine B. Kelley (D.- Pa.), whose name is on the bill, had wanted annual federal aid of $4OO million but he said he ac-, cep ted the cut “in the interest of: unanimity.” j *. _ . athlii P*- Eisenhower recommended a the weather station in revenge [four-year program of $325 million for today’s predicted 76-82 degree annually. temperatures. Financing An AM Station See Page 4 The University has found that an unused AM frequency is avail able for the State College area, and must decide whether to apply to the Federal Communications Commission for a license. I About $30,000 would be needed ■to set up the proposed non-com [mercial station. The proposed stu dent press would cost between 5100,000 $150,000, the report says To Include Presidents Warm Weather Will Continue After reading today’s predic tion for continued warm weather, I the Nittany Lion threatened to jtake over the Meteorology De j partment, from which he will make all future {weather predic tions. The weather la en, however, ; were not nearly so shaken by the Lion’s threat as . he thought they would be, and ; did not reverse their decision for today’s weather. Instead, it was suggested that _ jt beat the prevailing weather, he might as well join it, so the Lion began preparations for another excursion to Whipples Dam. But, he said, he still plans to take over FIVE CENTS
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