Today's Forecast:
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VOL. 58. No. 23
sh Breaks Neck
Lion
Host Indians
and Day Tilt;
!off Time 1:30
Kick
By VINCE CAROCCI
Sports Editor
r State football team attempts to rebound to the
again when it takes on the William and Mary
I : l . fte - rnoon at Beaver Field.
:tme is set for 1:30 p.m.
The Pen
winning roa
Indians this
Kickoff
ame is also the annual Band Day attraction at
Today's
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The campus will come alive to
day with gaudy colors and the
sound of martial music when 60
state high schoOl bands participate
in the eighth annual Band Day.
Following custom, the bands
will form a large PSIJ on Beaver
Field' during the football game
half-time, The bands will play
the "Washington Post March, "El
Capitan" and "the "Alma Mater."
A total of 4656 high school band
members will arrive this morning
in 137 buses, 41 cars and six trucks
for the event. Twenty of the band
directors are former Blue Band
members and three were once
presidents of Blue Band.
The bands will form at 11 a.m.
at Recreation Rall to march in a
circular route across campus along
Pollock Road and back along Col
lege Ave.
Eight bands will participate for
the first time this - year. They are
Central Dauphin, East Juniata,
Emmaus, Jersey Shore, Meyers
dale, Southern Lehigh, Tuscarora
Valley and West York.
The Blue Band will act as a
"skeleton!" for the PSU formation
during half-time. Before the game
the Blue Band will appear briefly
on the field to play the "Nittany
Lion" and "Victory."
Band Day started with only
eight bands eight years ago. Since
then as many as 73 bands at one
time have participated in the
event.
Banners Forbidden
For Today's Game
Beaver Field guards' have been
ordered to keep out banners and
other unauthorized displays from
today's football game.
The Athletic Advisory Board—
composed of alumni, faculty mem
bers and students—has had a rul
ing, prohibiting banners and other
unauthorized displays for many
years. But enforcement had been
lenient for the last several years.
Dean Ernest B. McCoy, of the
College of Physical Education and
Athletics, said the rule will be
strictly enforced - beginning with
today's game.
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Three men have been elected to
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represent West ails Council on
the Association of Independent
Men Board of overnors.
• They are Tho
in liberal arts; J
man in chemical
William Whitla
architecture.
4 as Shiels, senior
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engineering; and
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the stadium. Some 60 high school
bands will be in -the stands dur
ing the game and on the field at
halftime performing with the
Penn State Blue Band—the vars
ity music squad, as it is sometimes
referred to.
Lion Coach Rip Engle said
that ,he was making only one
change in his starting
That will find Willard (Bull)
Smith at right guard in place of
the injured Richie
X-rays showed that McMillen
fractured a few ribs against Army
and will be lost to the team for
an indefinite period of time—at
least two or three weeks, and may
be more. Smith, a letterman in
1955, replaced McMillen - against
Army.
The rest of- the starting lineup
Will have: Jack Faris and Les
Walters at end; Bill Wehmer and
Joe Bohart at tackle; Charlie
Ruslavage at center; and Joe Sa
bol• at the guard post.
In the backfield. Engle will
use Al Jacks—the Lions' of
fensive star thus far—at quar
terback. Dave Kasperian and
Andy Moconyi at halfback and
Emil (Babe) Caprara at full
back.
For the second week in a row,,,
Engle has switched players onl:
his second unit. Ron
.Markiweiczi,
has grabbed his old end post back
after losing it against Ar iy to
sophomore Norm Neff,
Frank Urban, a reserve tackle,l
will handle the alternate left!
tackle post. This marks the third!.
consecutive Saturday that Engle'
has used a different left tackle
on the alternate club. He started
with Tom Mulreany against Penni
and used Charlie Janerette against l
Army. Both are sophomores whilei
Urban is a junior.
And it appears that sophomore!
Frank Korbini has taken the lead
in his battle with Ray P.ottios for
Smith's alternate unit guard post.,
Engle said Korbini would be usedi
there tomorrow.
(Continued on page six)
Russians May
Fire 1:1 Moon
WASHINGTON, Oct. .11 (R)—
Sputnik may have company very
soon.
A State Department spokesman I
said today the departnient would
not be surprised if the Russians
launched another earth satellite
at any time.
Press officer Jameson Parker
declined to elaborate on his state
ment elicited at a news confer
ence, other thim to say he was not
tspeaking hypothetically. This sug
gests his statement might be
based on secret intelligence.
There has been speculation that
the Russians would choose Nov. 7,
the 40th anniversary of fhe Bol
shevik revolution, to put a second
satellite in orbit.
Announced for Homecoming Queen
FOR A !SERER PENN STATE
George "Larry" Sharp
Injured on Trampoline
Open Houses
Begin Monday
At Fraternities
Fraternity rushing will pick up,
speed Monday night with the bel
ginning of the Interfraternityi
Council's open house program. '
The fraternities will be divided
into three sections for the open
houses. Houses will be open from
7 to 9 p.m.
Fraternities east of Locust Lane
will hold open houses Monday
night_ Houses west of Locust Lane
will, be open to rushees Tuesday
night.
Campus fraternities will have
open houses on Wednesday night.
The IFC rushing program offi
cially began Tuesday night with
a movie, "A Toast to Our Broth
ers." The movie was followed by
talks by fraternity rushing chair
men in dormitory units on Thurs
day.
'Collegian Increases
;Distribution Points
The Daily Collegian has
1 added a. new distribution
Ipoint for copies of the paper.
Copies are now available
from a box outside the Col
legian offices, basement of
Carnegie Building.
Pyrose Location Changed Other on-campus distribu-
Pyrose sorority is holding rush-I
ing in the third floor study lounge lion points include the rag
a McElwain. Previously the sor-I dance halls and the Hetzel
ority had been rushing in the tel-i Union desk.
evision lounge of McElwain. •
Another feature of the rushing
program is the magazine "Penn
State Fraternities," which was dis
tributed throughout men's dorm
itories.
Fraternity preference cards for
students interested in rushing a
fraternity are available at the
Hetzel Union desk or the dean of
men's office.
World at a Glance
Brucker Says
Taylor Released
Troop Order
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 1/P)-- ,
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor was iden
tified by Secretary of the Army,
Wilbur M. Brucker today as the
man - who sent out the quickly
rescinded order for special train
ing of troops to handle civil dis
turbances of the Little Rock type.
Taylor, Army chief of staff, sent
out the directive Sept. 25.
That was ane day after federal
troops had moved into Little Rock
to enforce a - federal court order
for racial integration in the city's
Central High School.
Brucker said it called for four
divisions of the regular Army to
form special task forces of 1,000 to
1,200 men.
ottrifiatt
Sharp Paralyzed by
During Trampoline
A freshman, paralyzed from the neck down, is in "very
guarded" condition in a Danville hospital after breaking his
neck on a trampoline in a physical education class yesterday.
George "Larry" Sharp, 18, a second semester freshman
in the division of counseling from Drexel Hill. was rushed to
the Geisinger Memorial Hospital -
in the University ambulance. .
Hospital authorities said he has' Resp iratory
a "fracture-dislocation of the sev
enth cervical vertebra in the;
neck." But he was reported con
scious and resting comfortably at , C
midnight. u ses Show
Doctors said Sharp is being . .
treated "conservatively." They !
said x-ray and other tests will No
o Increase
be made to determine whether
an operation is advisable and if I
so when it should be performed. The wave cf respiratory illnesses
which hospitalized approximately
Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the,
;College of Physical Education and 80 students in the University hos-
I Athletics, said Sharp fell during pital apparently has not subsided.
.a somersault into the middle of , However, there has been no
'the trampoline.. The accident oc- sharp increase in the number of
curred about 11:35 a.m. ' ' students hospitalized. Hospital
The ambulance left the Uni- authorities last night said several
arrived
versify about noon and
Istudents have been released,. but
,at the hospital about 3:30. McCoy a number of others have been ad
! and Dr. Alfred H. Griess of the, mitted. The total number of pa
, University Health Service rode in, tients remains at about 80.
,the ambulance over the 90-mile None of the cases has been;
trip. • `, diagnosed as Asiatic flu, Dr. Her-
Sharp's parents, Mr. and Mrs.; bert R. Glenn, director of the
'George H. Sharp, of 3708 State. Health Center, said.
Rd., Drexel Hill, arrived at the,
, The Health Center exhausted
hospital about 4 p.m_ The elder' its supply of Asiatic flu vaccine
Sharp is employed by the Curtis :
Publishing Co., Philadelphia. :at approximately 3:30 p.m. yester-
McCoy said Sharp was taken 1 : 1 &y.
to the Danville hospital because The Associated Press last night
of the seriousness of the injury reported that Arthur G. Baker,
and because the hospital has the ; director of the Allegheny County
special equipment needed to Health Department, said an out
handle the case. break of upper respiratory illness
_ _
"I don't know what we would
have done without the ambu
lance," McCoy said. The vehicle.
gift of the Class of 1955. was put
into use this fall.
IChilly Weather
Order Sought The Nittany Lion awoke early
this morning covered with a thin
layer of frost. -
To Bar Hoffa Our cool cat beg a n looking
!frantically for his old racoon coat.
WASHINGTON, Oct. ii t,4:l—Ai He was at the
,group of New York Teamsters ,
pepi rally last
n ght and saw for do„
members today asked for a fed
;himself that it, ,orm t .
eral court order barring James R..was the style a- N.--
Hoffa from taking over the presi-!gain. He also be
dency of the giant, scandal-rocked •gan p r a c t i ring ....
ft.
labor union. :the C h a r leston. -
Dave Beck, the retiring union; but found he had
.. !
,president, said in New York todaYlforgotten most of 1
he was ready to resign and leayeithe,steps. He de- \ • I •
the president's chair open imme- i cided to let the , •
diately to Hoffa. lbands have the \`"a
(spotlight for for the v , . 4
{day.
Coty Appoints Pinay
PARIS, Oct. 11 !,P))—President) He was seen treking up to Bea
-ICoty tapped rightist former Pre- ver Field about 7 a.m. saying he
.
inner Antoine.Pir.ay tonight as the wanted to get a good warm seat,
third man to try and give France because even with the sun shin
a government after 11 days of po-ring, it was going to be chilly with
Ilitical crisis. la high of 60-64.
in Gym
among school children in the
Pittsburgh district has reached
epidemic proportions.
Baker said that the epidemic is
at its peak and absenteeism in the
schools should begin tapering off
next week. About 47.000 pupils
were absent from A 1 I e heny
County schools Thursday.
Baker said many of those ill
probably are suffering from Asi
atic flu.
. Asked what can be done to pre
vent spread of the ailment. Baker
said:
- We do not believe in the old
fashioned isolation and quaran
tine method. The illness is too
. infectious to ty to wall it off by
:that sort of thing.
"The only thing we could recom
•mend would be use of vaccine but
it is in such limited supply that
•it would be foolish to dwell upon
its use."
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