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VOL. 57. No. 39 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 10. 1957
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CHARLES DIROCCO, a former student in journalism irom Phila
delphia. surveys the fire and water damage in the apartment
gutted by fire last night at the Traveler's Lodge Motel. He was
living there while seeking readmiliance to the University.
Borough Apartment
Destroyed by Fire
Three students and a former student sustained extensive
loss of personal property when their basement apartment on
N. Atherton St. was gutted by fire early yesterday evening.
A spark-shooting, blue-flamed electric fire broke out in
their Traveler’s Lodge Motel apartment about 6 p.m.
The four men are Howard
Kreps, sophomore in business ad
ministration. from Pittsburgh;
Larry • McAfee, sophomore in the
division of intermediate registra
tion from Port Allegany; Anthony
Tirdel, and Charles Dißocco, for
mer student in journalism.
Working Out Back
Two of the occupants, Dißocco
and Kreps, were in the rear of
the motel working on Kreps’ car
when they noticed sparks shoot
ing 10 to 20 feet-away from the
building.
They ran inside to an upstairs
phone but, when they found it
was not working, ran across the
highway to the Victory Diner and
reported the fire from there.
■ Bruce .Homan, fire marshall,
and Thomas Sauers, fire chief, of
the Alpha Fire Company believe
the fire may have been csfused by
an electric stove burner which
was left on “high” directly under
neath a set of'fuse boxes in the
apartment.
Burner Turned on 'High'
These fuse boxes supplied the
entire building and the one elec
tric burner was still turned on
"high”, when the basement apart
ment was inspected.
All-the firemen were forced to
use respirators to combat the
dense smoke resulting from the
blaze.
•One Alpha fireman, James
Neight, was overcome ,by smoke
and had..to be given, respiration.
When he recovered - sufficiently,
he -was carried, to. the Alpha
Emergency Truck.
A charred window-box, located
directly above a.window to-the
basement apartment, -testifies to
the flames and smoke that poured
from the window in the earlier
stages of the fire.
Smoke-Ejector Used
Alpha firemen used a smoke
ejector, a red, circular fan that
works in reverse, to extract the
dense smoke from the basement'
apartment.
At approximately 6:35 pm., the
firemen roped off a large area
su-rounding the motel to hold
back the large crowd of college
. (Continued on page jive)
Kiwanis Clubs
Sponsor Visits
The campus has been so crowd
ed with outdoor activities recent
ly cheerleader practice, drill
teams, green grass grinders and
just strollers—that it would seem
it just couldn’t hold any more.
But on May 18 more than 800
students from 10 central Pennsyl
vania high schools will “invade”
the University on a tour being
sponsored by the Kiwanis Clubs
of the area.
The students will tour the cam
pus, visiting areas of their par
ticular vocational interest. They
will also’ see sports attractions
and other events.
Dr. George R. Hudson, assistant
professor-of education, will deliv
er a guidance . talk during the
morning at Schwab Auditorium.
—■— Review —— :
Teahouse Is 'Delightful' Show
By DAVE FINEMAN
With excellent timing and
just the right amount of thea
trical magic, “The Teahouse
of the August Moon” moved j
quickly through two- and-a
half hours of delightful enter
tainment last night' in Schwab
Auditorium.
The..Players’, hit production is
the story of an errant Army cap
tain who is assigned to the task
of democratizing and American
izing an' obscure Okinawan vil
lage, but his Washington cook
book methods fail because they
overlook the cultural habits of
the fairy-tale village.
Whal was supposed to be—
according io ihe Army's "Plan
B"—a pentagon-shaped school
house becomes a lovely "cha
ya," or teahouse. What was
supposed-1? be the "Ladies'
CabinetOK’sGroup
To Seek AM Fund
All-University Cabinet after lengthy debate last night approved the appointment of
a student committee to seek reallocation of the $28,000 student press fund for an AM stu
dent radio station.
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President Eric A. Walker is expected to brief the Univ
meeting tonight and tomorrow on action taken to date on
House OK's
$1.5 Billion
School Bill
WASHINGTON, May 9 (/P)
The House Education Committee
voted 20-9 today for a bill to pro
vide $1.5 billion in federal aid for
public school construction.
The bill, although trimmed aj
half billion dollars in committee
yesterday, still faced rough going
because of the economy drive in
Congress.
Rep. Cleveland M. Bailey (D.-
WVA.), a leading supported of the
legislation, said he was sure that
the reducetion helped its changes
and he was "inclined to think" it
would pass the House.
Bill Called 'Bipartisan'
On the other hand, Rep. Wil
liam H. Ayres (R-Ohio) said that
“barring an unforeseen outcry
from the public, there isn't a
deader pigeon on the ‘awaiting
action’ roose on Capitol Hill” than
the school bill.
Bailey called the bill approved
by the committee today a “really
bipartisan" compromise. Here is
a comparison:
Committee bill 300 million
dollars a year for five years in
grants to the states, with distri
bution to be based half on basis
of school age population and half
on the basis of need.
Administration bill —325 mil
lion dollars a year for four years,
a total of $1,300,000,000, with dis
tribution to be based on need.
Democrats Offer Bill
Democrats’ bill offered by Rep.
Augustine B. Kelley (D. Pa.)
600 million dollars a year for six
years, a total of $3,600,000,000,
distribution to be based on school
age population.
Other obstacles to the school
bill’s passage include the pros
pect that the House might attach
an amendment forbidding the use
of any money in school districts
which practice racial segregation.
The House voted such an amend
ment last year, and school aid
legislation was thereupon killed.
League for Democratic Action" j
becomes a bewitching group of
newly-trained “geisha girls.” 1
And what is supposed to ma
terialize into a thriving industrial
community becomes the “brandyi
center” of Okinawa. !
. These developments, of course,’
bring much trouble-from the Ar
jmy, but things eventually turn
out for everyone.
Top, but by no means the
only, honors go to Harry Jones
for his portrayal of Sakini. the
narrator and impertuzabla phil
osopher. His delivery was
smooth and special mention
must be made of his Orienfal
manner and speech which was
pleasingly consistent through
out the evening.
Gilbert Aberg turned in a com
mendable performance as the
stuffed-shirted, incredulous Col-j
onel Wainwright Purdy HI.
Through Aberg, the colonel be
came as pompous and as provin-,
pgiatt
By PAT EVANS
[approval of the board is neces
sary before any station could be
, established.
Edward Dubbs, editor of The
Daily Collegian, told Cabinet that
the trustees probably would not
approve the proposed station un
less there were funds available
for its establishment. He said it is
unlikely that the trustees would
permit use of student fees or state
appropriations for the station.
The point of “either putting up
the money or shutting up” has
been reached, according to All-
University President Robert
Steele.
Harkison Requests Committee
Establishing the committee to
work for the fund reallocation
was recommended in a report
given by Judith Harkison, Col
legian managing editor.
She said the University has
found that an unused AM fre
quency is available for the State
College area, and must decide
whether to apply to the Federal
Communications for a license.
Between $20,000 and $30,000
would be needed to set up the
non-commercial station. The cost
of the station’s yearly operation
would probably be no more than
that of WDFM, which comes out
of student fees, Miss Harkison
said.
The proposed student press
would cost between $lOO,OOO and
$150,000, according to the report.
5 Students Appointed
Steele appointed the following
students to the fund reallocation
committee: Dubbs; George Smith,
freshman class president; John
Sopko, sophomore class president;
George Sellers, junior class pres
ident; and Thomas Hollander,
senior class president.
The committee will consult the
presidents and secretaries of the
classes of 1948, ’49, ’5O, and '52
and urge them to consider a re
designation of the class gifts. The
gifts, a total of $28,000, were
used to set up the student press
fund.
The committee will ask the of
ficers to agree on a poll of mem
bers of each class on changing the
gift allotment. The Alumni As
sociation could do the actual poll
ing.
Classes Must Approve
The press fund may be reallo
cated with the approval of the
classes and the Board of Trustees.
Each member of the four classes
must be contacted and an affirm
ative answer received from a ma
jority of those responding.
(Continued on page jive)
[rial as his name would indicate.
[His boisterous veneration for the
[name “Washington" serves to car
,ry a humorous satire through the
,play. .
j Captain Fisby, the martial law
of Tobiki, was played admirably
,by George Vlachos. Fisby is a
[likeable chap who gradually em
braces the primitive, yet enchant
ing, way of life of the little vil
lage.
Some difficull scenes are done
by Vlachos with a noteworthy
naturalness, especially the riot
ous scene where Lotus Blossom,
his geisha _ girl, disrobes him
while he tries, in vain, to con
vince the colonel over the tele
phone that he is doing his job
in Tobiki.
As his new-found personality
[develops, Fisby agrees with the
villagers’ “majority decision’’ that
[a teahouse is more important
[than the pentagon-shaped school
-1 (Continued on page jive)
Arthur Miller
Case
See Page 4
ersity Board of Trustees at its
the proposed AM station. Ths
NSA Dealt
Blow In
Cabinet Vote
All-University Cabinet last
night rejected plans to send dele
gates from the University to th®
National Student Association na
tional congress in Ann Arbor,
Mich., this summer.
Observers considered the vote
a blow to any possible come-back
by NSA next fall.
Former All-University president
Robert Bahrenburg vetoed Uni
versity membership in NSA this
semester. However, dues are paid
up until October.
Edwin Henrie, new NSA co
ordinator, submitted an outline
report on the cost of sending two
delegates to the congress. He esti
mated the total cost would be
$222.
Robert Stroup, president of En
gineering Council, moved that
Cabinet send two delegates to the
Congress.
Then Joseph Boehret, All-Uni
versity secretary-treasurer, moved
to send only one delegate to the
congress by bus instead of two by
University station wagon as asked
for by Henrie. Boehret estimated
this cost to be $105.20.
Henrie told Cabinet that the
delegates would have the oppor
tunity at the congress to com
municate and exchange ideas with
students, from' other universities.
He said that discussions would
include the part of student gov
eroments in the college expan
sion programs.
Both the amendment and the
original motion were voted down.
lion Swelters ;
Showers Seen
Yesterday, despite the sun, the
Nittany Lion was an attentive
spectator to the ceremonies which
the ROTC units are currently go
ing through in preparation for
Armed Forces Day next Thurs
day.
i By chance, the Lion was stand
ing in the spot
being used-as a
reviewing stand;
and he was in
turn inadvertan
tly honored by
the Navy, the
(the Army, and
the Air Force.
Deciding that
they must have
been hinting that
they need him
as supreme com
mander, the Lion spent all morn
ing making, plans to use them in
a grand march against the Uni
versity Weather Station. Any
qualms he might have had,, con
cerning such a move, were re
moved by the station's report for
today: temperatures ranging be
tween 76-82 with scattered thun
[dershowers'.
Cabinet Keys Available
All-University Cabinet mem
bers of 1955-56 who ordered keys
may obtain them in the Associated
Student Activities office, 201 Het
'zel Union.
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