Today's Forecast:
Mild Temperatures;
Possible Showers
VOL. 58, No. 66
NATO Tentatively Okays i G ra d ua t es m ay G e t
Direct Talks With USSR ,toa .
PARIS, Dec. 17 (?P)—The NATO summit conference to-i n...c am p us R ooms
day approved a guarded Western examination of the pitfallsi
and Possibilities of direct talks with the Kremlin to reduce r The Graduate School and the Department of Housing have been conducting a
East-West tension. !study to determine the possibilities of an on-campus, community living quarters for grad
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Sentiment among some members for fresh negotiations;uate students.
Carol Sing
To Be Held
Tomo row
The annual
sing, sponsored
ment of Music a
Christian Assoc'
at 8 p.m. tomo
of Old Main.
all-campus carol
by the Depart
d the University
: tion will be held
ow on the steps
The women's chorus will tour
the campus at tonight caroling
at certain place on campus, such
as West Halls area, in front of
Old Main and in the new women's
halls area.
. ,
Dr. Hummell Fishburn, profes
sor of music and music education,
will direct the singing for the
all-campus sing. The Chapel Choir
will lead the caroling.
Wells Hunt, chairman of the
education committee of the UCA,
will serve as master of cere
monies.
Coeds have been granted spe
cial 11 o'clock permissions for to
morrow so that they can take
part in the Christmas activities
on campus. They are not required
to sign out for the permissions.
After the all-campus sing, a
party will be held at 8:45 p.m.
in the lounge of the Helen Eakin
Eisenhower Chapel.
Hot chocolate and cookies will
be served. Games and group sing
ing are • planned for entertain
ment.
The party is open to the pub
lic. There will be no admission
charge.
WH Yule Decorations
Will Be Judged Today
The West Halls Christmas decor
ations, will be judged at noon to
day and after dinner tonight.
The judging will be done at
both times so neither the decor
ations that show up best in the
daytime nor the lighted decora
tions will have an advantage, ac
cording to Carl Smith, West Halls
Council president.
Shifting ROTC to LA
Backed by Maloney
Associate Dean Richard C. Maloney of the College. of
Liberal Arts last night said that he didn't know for sure
whether ROTC would benefit the LA College if it was in
cluded but it would probably benefit the University.
Maloney addressed his remarks to the members of the
Liberal Arts Student Council.
He said he does not see how
inclusion of the ROTC .programs
in .the college could possibly hurt
it. He said when the Senate com
mittee report in- a tentative form
was distributed to the heads of
the departments of the college
there was a general "flare-up" and
all the heads were ready to vote
I
immediately ag a g ainst it.
However, acc rding to Maloney.
after Dean H old K. Schilling
of the Gradua e School, head of
the Senate s b-committee that
wrote the repo , spoke to the de
partment heads, many of them
changed their opinions. Maloney
attributed this to Schilling's per
suasiveness and said that some of
his argnments 'should have been
added to the report to make it
more valid.
He stated that since the LA
College should be the core of
the UniTer ' ~. it would be logi
f f T o tt rgiatt
A New Way—
rNegotiation
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STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 18. 1957
with the Soviet Utiion was aj The study will read to a report to be presented
factor. To date, it has not been the policy of the Univer
The move apparently was nart
forgraduate students
of a compromise solution that
would allow military men to con-I
tinue plans to beef up West Eu-1
rope's strength with ballistic mis
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siles.
Britain, France, West Ger
many and Norway were among
the advocates of serious consid
eration of the latest flurry of
proposals from Soviet Premier
Bulganin to all members of the
United Nations.
President Eisenhower and the
leaders of 14 other members of
the North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization agreed to proceed with a
study along these lines, outside
the U.N., but only so long as such
talks should show some prospect
of success.
Western action, as discussed in
today's session of th'e NATO chiefs
of government, would take two
forms:
One would be establishment
of a four nation NATO foreign
ministers' committee -made up
of Britain, France, Canada and
the United States to try to re
start stalled disarmament dis
cussions with the Russians. The
group would represent only
NATO, although made up of
the same Western members as
the U.N. Disarmament subcom
mittee which Russia recently
quit.
The second move was to ask
the NATO permanent council, at
its weekly sessions in Paris, to
examine the letters from Bulganin
and see whether their content
made a new general topics con
ference desirable. If held, diplo
matic informants said, the parley
would be on the foreign ministers'
level and not that of chiefs of
government. •
Eisenhower' came to the after
noon session 42 minutes late to
give his approval to a proposal
on East-West contact raised by
French Foreign Minister Christian
Pineau. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles had said earlier the
President would not attend the
meeting unless there were "sub-
Istantive decisions" to be made.
cal to include ROTC in if. "The
nomenclature, of courses is un
fortunate," he said, "and there
should be no boundary to cour
ses in the college."
'-Also he added that the Middle
States Association recommended
that we make every effort to
make the LA College the domi
nant college.
In regard to his earlier com
ments on the first LA resolution,
Maloney reiterated that he W3S
disturbed at the_ form of the re
port, not the position it took.
He felt it "reeked of midnight
oil" and was extravagent in
statements and thoughts. He
was especially disturbed be
' cause he felt "the basic aim of
the LA College is to teach
thinking critically based on
evidence, not whim."
(Continued on page eight)
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
--Daily Collegian photo by Joe Patton
'GOING MY WAY?': Richard Neely, freshman in mechanical
engineering from New Cumberland, and Richard Race, freshman in
mechanical engineering from Noxen, were two of hundreds of
students to check the ride lists in the Hetzel Union Building yester
day as Penn Staters prepared to leave University Park for the
Christmas recess.
Lion Predicts
Possible Rain
It isn't the forecasted rain that's
keeping the Lion in his cave to
day.
Rain or no rain, the Lion would
have liked to
have romped
about campus to
day in- his Alli
g at o r raincoat,
since the mer
cury is expected
to hit in the mid
50's,
But he decided
it wasn't safe,
and decided to
stay in and read
Circa, the cam
pus literary magazine, and the
Engineer, along, of course, with
The Daily Collegian.
You see, the Lion just couldn't
see having to dodge Froth ped
dlers all day.
BA Club to Hold Party
The College of Business Admin
istration Graduate Club will hold
a Christmas party at 8 tonight at
Beta Theta Pi fraternity. The fac
ulty, graduate students and their
wives have been invited.
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TIM Will Discuss
ments for married students. It re
insurance Proposal ported that the required number
of family housing units for grad-
Louis Wonderly will present a uate students - in the Stu ff College
proposed student insurance pro- community is neither sufficient at
gram at a meeting of the Town
Independent Men Council at 7 to- °resent nor promising in the fu
ture.
night in 203 Hetzel Union.
Wonderly is chairman of a sub-
committee of the All-University Ma Ball Queen Pictures
Cabinet Welfare Committee, and Mil Ball Queen contest pictirkes
Lion's Paw, senior men's society, and frames may be. picked up be
both of which have been studying ginninl. at noon today at the Het
the plan. 'zel Union desk.
Air Force Launches
Hundred-Ton ICBM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Dec. 17 (..P)—The U.S. Air Force
successfully fired today the Atlas intercontinental ballistic
missile, mightiest weapon in the American arsenal.
The 100 ton monster blasted off into a dark thundercloud
at 12:38 p.m. Minutes later the Air Force announced the test
had succeeded,
The third time was a charm for, has been dark uneasiness since
the great silver colored missile. Russia fired its two Sputniks into
o
Twice before, the Atlas has roared orbit. The historic feat gave real
authority to the claim of the Reds
skyward from this top secret base,: that they already possess art
wobbled in . flight and was blasted ICBM. a weapon capable of deliv
apart. ering H-bombs to targets
where in the world.
any
" This was a limited range test •
of several hundred miles." said The beautiful shoot did much
the Defense Department in an ' to dispel the gloom which has
official announcement. "The hung over this bustling defense
missile flew its prescribed center since the Navy's Vanguard
course and landed in the pre- moon rocket. chosen for the
selected impact area first attempt to hurl an Ameris
Basically, the Atlas is designed can say...llite into the heavens
to carry a hydrogen warhead 5,-' with the red Sputniks. blew up
000 miles or more at an average'• on its laur.ching prd Dec. 6. -
speed of IG,OOO miles an hour. While the moon launching ef-
Limited or not, the test gave:fort was ;ar,gely for prestige pur-
President Eisenhower wonderful poses, the Atlas firing was con
news for the representatives of sidered much more important be-
Allied nations with him at the!cause of fhe threat the weapon
North Atlantic Treaty Organize- can hold over the head of any na
tion:
meetings in Paris. ,tion that might be thinking of
,Throughout the flee world, thereitriggering anotfier war.
to the Administration.
situ to provide housing
"It :5-, hopeful that this study
win lead to provide on-vmpus
hou- - ,in, for graduate students."
Otto E Muefler. director of hous
ye:tterday.
"S me students are unable to
enroll tn the Graduate School be
cati-“., of the difficulty in finding
livin:z quarters in State College
and surrounding areas." Mueller
,71,d.
The study pointed out that a
residence hail such as Women's
Budding could be favorably con
-siderPcl oos•zible living quarters.
The building could accommo
date 34 women and 45 men
graduate students.
The east wing of the 3-story
building could house the wo
men and the west wing could
provide quarters for the men.
Each wing provides a lounge
fo- 'he occupants and a central
lounge could be shared by both.
AccordinE; to the study, the in
cntion chosen will he available
for , :inEtle graduate students only.
Residents of the building could
eat in a residence dining hall as a
The study revealed that of
the 1651 araduates enrolled at
present, 50 per cent are single.
Of this number, nearly 60 n.r
cent are reported interested in
housing facilities similar to
those provided for undergrad
uates.
The . 4o per cent not interested
in group housing are mainly wo
men, veterans and those already
living in apartments or with oth-
en,. where meals are available.
The study also indicated the
,need for more permanent apart-
FIVE CENTS
facilities