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STATE COLLEGE, PA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7. 1958 FIVE CENTS
VOL. 58. No. 71
Political Party
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By DAVE FINEMAN
there were two, Sunday three and now there are four—political parties on
Saturday
campus, that i
A fourth •olitical party—the Blue and White party—came on the scene yesterday
when if submitted its application to the Senate Committee on Student Affairs through the
dean of men's office.
If its application and the
proved on Thursday, there will be
four parties running candidates
in the spring elections this year.
Blue and White party chairman
Vernon Bounds said his party
will create something which is ab
sent in politics—student interest.
It will do this,, he predicted.
through "more people working"
for the party. "Every dormitory
and fraternity house," he said,
will have a Blue and White party
representative.
Besides this, heusaid, the °new
ness" of the party will 'create a
"lot of student interest."
This "newness," he said, also
would be an "attracitve incen
tive" to offer good student lead
ers to get them to run on the
Blue and White' ticket. -
: Bounds said he favors a three
or four-party system. However.
he- said he didn't expect. there
Would be more than three parties
after a while, since, he said, the
Lion party probably would soon
disappear. The Lion
. party, he
said, "seems to have lost a lot of
face." •
William O'Neill, clique chair
man of Lion party, called Bounds
accusations "in poor taste," which,
he said,. is "exceeded only by his
abysmal ignorance of the political
situation."
. In view of Bounds' "inexper
ience—he's only a freshman, '* 0-
Neill -"his remarks should
not be taken too seriously."
John D'Angelo, chairman of
The University party, also said
he thought Lion "party was on
its way out.
To such statements, O'Neill an
swered: "A' lot of it's up to me,
and as long as I'm Lion party
clique ehairman;it's here to stay."
• O'Neill called D'Angelo "noth
ing but a malcontent ' who left
the Lion party. ,
Here's how the chairmen of the
two new parties stack up on two
issues of the day:
eßgiation: - - • .
D'Angelo—Would not comment,
but 'admitted • that' it didn't go
along with his . wishes of better
reiiresezitatiori of 'the students.
• Bounds—Definitely against it.
••Electioni coMmittee control
of-platform:
• D'Arigelo;--Would not commit
himself, but did:say he imagined
political paities would be against
t.
Bounds--Definitely against it.
eniors May Get
invitations _at HUB.
January gel:l44les - *rho have
ordered invitations- or- announce
ments may pick! them up this
week- at the Hetzel Union desk.
• • They will be distributed from
Warn. to 5 pan: - through - Friday
and front 9 a.m:_to,,Acion on Sat
urday. • Receipts are -required to
obtain orders..
kon'Aeminar. to Hear
Anthropology.Prot Today
- .•Louii Duprec t associate proles
* of anthropology; will speak
to an economics seminar on -"Ego
mimic - Functions of the Rite .of
Passage" at noon ;today_ in. dining
room A of the Hetiel Union Build
-114/- • . . r _ •
Datill
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
one of the University party, to be submitted today, are ap-
—Daily Collegian photo by George Harrison
CHIPS FLY as another University relic is removed from campus.
The tree, a Norway maple, is believed to be 70 to 80 years old. Tree
surgeon Donald Coble (left) of Houserville said the tree had been
filled with concrete sometime in the 1920's when it first started to
rot. However, the tree continued to rot and was also crowding
other smaller trees in front of Old Main. Helping saw the maple
is Walter Bean of Philipsburg.
University Among 135 Aided
By DuPont Education Plan
The University is among 135 universities and colleges
benefitting from the annual program of - aid to education
sponsored by the Du Pont Company.
The University was named yes
terday as one of 39 institutions
receiving a grant for a postgrad
uate assistantship in chemistry.
The recipient is given $2400 with
an additional allowance of $6OO
if he has children.
The University also has been
awarded a $l5OO summer research
grant to provide a younger staff
The Nittany Lion has decided
,to be thankful for the returning
Ichilly temperatures on campus
.
• • ' •' • • • , He reminded students th a I
Soviet Russia Will Withdraw today.
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'from today and .4 t
?advised them to
58,000 in H ungo ry, E. German rm a ny:; , ,,ir iie t,e's th i e g e .
t , i, a e , r d s..
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,m o m eter goes
yond our facilities" to answer, the day before Christmas, when'down to the pre-
Itheir questions as to whether the:Nikita Khrushchev, the Comrnu- dieted 10 degrees
cuts would bring soviet armed:nist party chief, said in a speech,tonight.
forces to below three million men.: in the Ukraine that the Kremlin, Southerly winds
.As in the past when the Sovietlwas considering a reduction in the:brought a brief
Union has announced a reductioniarmed forces and defense expen-i warm spell with
in its defensive manpower, Kuz-I ditures. f temperatures of 35 to 40 degrees
netsov challenged. the North At-i This was the third such cut an-;last night. Today the winds will
Mantic Treaty poviers to follow the;nounced here hi less than three reach gusts of 35 to 40 miles an
Russian example. years 640,000 men in mid-1955 1 h0ur from the cold northwest,
He also to ld reporters The s o . :and 1,200,000 in May 1956. !continuing the conditions present
vie. Union_ w considering 1 Western military sources have, in Centre County for the past five
"positively - The idea advanced ;said they never had an actual 1 clays
by British Pri m e Minister ;evidence—beyond the Kremlin's,
Harold B. Macmillan Saturday ;words—that the cup were car
for a - nonaggression pact be- ried out.
tween East and West. Russia has consistently turned
"We Would hope it is a serious down Western proposals in dis
-lixoposal."-he said. • . armament negotiations for a
A formal announcement of thel check on announced cuts in
troop cut had be e n. expected since l armed manpower.
MOSCOW, Jan. 6 (VP) So
viet Russia announced Monday
it is withdrawing and disband
ing 58,000 troops in Hungary
and East Germany as part of a
slash of 300,000 - men in the
Soviet armed forees.
More than 41;000 will be pulled
out of East — Germany, the an
nouncement said,-and 17,000 from
Hungary, *here they have been
on guard since the revolt of 14
months ago.
Depot); Foteign Minister V. V.
Kusnetsor told a specially sum
moned news conference the cuts
would start immediately and be
completed this year.
He told newsmen it was "be-
ti ;Sources Say Red Shot
Cr,ourgtattiB6 Miles Into ionosphere
I Before Parachuting Back
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member in either chemistry or
chemical engineering with sup
port for summer research.
Another DuPont Grant is given
the University is a postgraduate
fellowship in mechanical engi
neering. Each fellowship provides
$lBOO for the student plus. an al
lowance if he has children.
Carries Man
MOSCOW, Jan. 6 (T)—Soviet Russia has shot a man-
carrying rocket 186 miles into the air and the man parachuted
back to earth, reliable sources said tonight.
If true, it may be an even more dramatic scientific achieve
ment than the launchings of Sputnik I and the dog carrying
Sputnik II last fall.
But there was no official an
nouncement whatever conceraing
this venture. It was reported to
have taken place a day or two
after New Year's.
The official silence —in view
of the rumors sweeping Moscow
—lead to some speculation that
all did not go as it should, that
the manned rocket experiment
may not have been a total suc
cess.
Difficulties, including a b r u p t;
temperature changes, are many
But the informants' story was
that the Russians fired the man-I
ned rocket up 300 kilometers--;
186,41 miles--from wintry Soviet;
soil through the 70-below-zero ,
cold of the stratosphere and well
into the blistering heat of the ion
osphere, a vast ocean of electri-,
city whose reflecting layers I
bounce radio waves back to earth.
They did not specify whether
the parachutist went all the way
up and it was not made clear
how he succeeded in getting
down.
Months ago, however. Russian
scientists sent up dogs to a lesser
height. The dogs were released
'and parachuted to safety, appar-
ently unharmed. It was a dog
from this experimental kennel,
female named Laika, that was
sent to her ultimate death in
Sputnik 11.
Observers speculated that the
;rocket man was released from the
!rocket in a pressurized container
'equipped so he could survive at
( great altitudes and break free ut
to jump with his 'chute at tha
right stage.
If he went all the way up. he
soared nearly eight times high
er than any one else had ever
gone. The American and world
altitude record is 126.000 feet.
nearly 24 railer.. It was set in
September, 1956. by U.S. Air
' Force Maj. Ivan Kincheloe in
the X 2 experimental plane.
successor to that plane, the
Xl5. has bee n described by
Secretary of the Air Force
Douglas as a "step toward a
manned satellite."
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Rumors about a rocket experi
ment with a human being began j
circulating here about a week
ago. Russian scientists have said!
for months they hoped to launch
a manned satellite some time in j
the future to start human explo
ration of space. But they said
they would not risk a human life;
until preliminary experiments'
were out of the way.
The manned rocket venture, if :
true, presumably was one of those;
,experiments. This rocket was not'
in the satellite class. It never
came close to the height necessary;
to start circling the earth.
Hospital Has
Abundance
Of Vaccines
An unlimited supply of polio
and flu shot.* are available to stu
dents. according to Dr. Herbert
R. Glenn, director of the Health
Service.
Glenn said if students get their
first polio shot now, they can
get their last shot in August or
September, the .period in which
polio cases are most prevalent in
many localities.
There is a four- to six-week
interval between the first and
second polio shots and a seven
month interval between the sec
ond and third shots.
Students also have be en
urged to get flu shots now. Pub
lic health officials have predict
ed that Asiatic flu will hit this
area the hardest from January
through March.
Glenn said there are some stu
dents in the infirmary now with
respiratory illnesses, but he sees
nothing unusual at the moment.
The Asiatic flu vaccine was at a
premium last fall when a state
wide epidemic was indicated.
Hundreds of students waited in
line at the health service for shots.
Glenn has said most students
will have no reaction from the
shots except for a slight redness
and soreness at the site of the in
jection. But some others, he said,
may have a "grippe-like response"
with some fever, headache and
general malaise lasting 24 to 48
hours.
Students who have had one
flu shot are urged to have an
other in anticipation of the pre
dicted flue cases.
Except for the vaccine, which
is 70 per cent effective, there is
no other effective treatment or
cure for the Asiatic fna. Anti
biotics are of no help and once
contracted, rest and nursing care
are needed to fight the virus.
Symptoms are a sore throat,
marked perspiration, fever, body
aches and extreme prostration
which last four or five days, fol
lowed by four or five days of con
valescence.
40-M ile Winds,
Cold Predicted
Minister to Discuss Sex
The Rev. James L Spangenberg,
associate campus pastor of the
University Baptist Church, will
talk on sex to members of the
Hamilton Christian Association at
7 tonight in the Hamilton Hall
lounge.