VOL. 58. No. 84 STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13. '1958 FIVE CENTS University Party Voting Voided; Code is Revised The All-University. _Elections Committee last night voted unanimously to void Sun day night's elections of thenewly-formed 'University Party, . As a result of questions brought up by the meeting, the committee .also completely revised Article 4 of the All-University ElectiOns Code, dealirfig with party organization. • At the.party meeting, John D'Angelo, one of the partiris organizers, defeated Arthur Pfautz, for party chairman- by an 83-69 vote. Pfauti, a junior in' business administration from Lan caster, was the 1955-56 freshman class vice president, Pfautes grounds for the ap-. peal to Elections Committee ln eluded charges that Commit tee Chairman • Peter Fishburn during the party rn ieting changed his decision on the identification required of stu dents in order that they, could vote for . party officers: •Pfantz 'contended that a _num ber of his supporters who had not brought• their matriculation cards to the meeting 'left the meeting before Fishburn broadened-i the identification rerquirements. These students 'undoubtedly had other acceptable • identfication with them, Pfautz said. He said - that if they had remained and- voted,' he would have won' the election. After the committee voted on the elections appeal, Fishburn said the Elections Code should be made more specific "to main= *Win - stability in campus pplitics." The article was changed to read: ."At thesemester's tint official regis tration meeting of a party so declared by word of the recognized head of that party (either chairman or acting , chair man). registration will be conducted by the Elections Committee. - - "Persons who register at _this or any ether registration meeting irifl , receive their permanent party card - when they register-- This card will. be - the official voting card for any meeting of t p party at' which any election by the party - is held, either for internal party officers-or for eandidates to be placed on the ballot in class or All -University elections. "A party must hold official registration at any meeting •where the party Plano, to hold any election (by the whole party) incept for election' of candidates for class' ' or All-University . officers. Registration must also be held the date of preliminary nominations for class or All.. University officers. "As stated, there will be no registra tion at the final nominations meeting. and at this meeting the party card will be the official Toting permit. That la. in order to enter and vote at the final nominations meeting, a student mast have attended at least one official regis tration meeting prior to this. "There shall be at least two official registration Meetings prior to the final nominations meeting. "Lists of all official registrants• will be kept by the Elections Committee and will be the formal authority of party member ship. These lists will be made in dupli cate. and the duplicate copy will be given to"the- - party chairman. - "Any person not having a party card spay attend- a party meeting, but will be seated -in a special non-voting section and - will not have the privilege of voting. A student does not have Yo be a mem ber of a party In order to be nominated as a candidate for a class or All-University (Continued on page five) Lion Welcomes Break in Cold • The Nittany Lion looked a little more cheerful than _ usual this morning—and he had reason to lbe, for the weather man was call ing .for genemlly warming. con ditions. The Lion, still shivering in the depths of his after the recent coldspell, -r did sneak out , 9 ,-111,- t his morning • 1 "; ..., to find -the . s kit' streets and walks clear of some of the ice. N He is suggesting that the Univer- • sity sidewalks .. yit and streets be pre-heated and kept at a temperature of . 50 de - greei - or .higher. - A high of 25 to 30 degrees is forecast 'today, although the pos t sibility of snow flurries lingers in the air. • WDFM - Staff to Meet - WDFIS2 will hold a general staff meeting at 8 tonight in 316 Sparks. * Candidates may also 'attend. ElaitH FOR A BETTER PENN STATE • , _ _ , --Daily . ' • . Collegian photo b y Marty Scharr WHAT HAPPENED to- the ..arotvds? The usually crowded West Walk snack bar seems. to have lost .some of its punch since the fairer Sex movedout.l'iwai taken about 8:30 p.m. last night. Pro*' W.641d Offer Alternatie . to Draft PreAdent Eric A. Walker has suggested that graduate engineers and - sCientists be siven . a Choice 'of entering industry at "GI pay", instead of military , service. Walker made , this proposal yesterday at the 19th annual Citizen's ConferpnCe on Education in Lansing, Mich. He suggested , this choice -be offered in recorn mending im provement in the,Selective Serv ice System to tetfer utilize talents of young men. If they entered in dustry,:they would be -paid at'the same rate as .seiticemen for the time they' would have been in the service. . •, In a 9-point progiam to meet the challenge thrust before .the - U.S. by Russia's advancement; in technological and' many profes sional 'fields. he also suggested that federal scholarship: grants be made available with the Pro vision that they be repaid by an Stone Valley Leads as Senior Gift Of the approximately half of_the January graduates who Checked their preferences for senior class gift of about $9OOO, 105 voted in the Stone Valley Recreation area, putting it in first place 'in the poll. -Other suggestions and the votes they received 'were books and .photostat machinei, for ,Pat tee Library, 67 votes; AM facili-: ties - for WDFM and -benches for , the campus walks, 23 each; and drapes and "curtains for Schwab' auditorium, 14 votes. The top two or three sugges tions grill be placed on' a final ballot' this spring and the-others may or may not go on the ballot depending on student response. Elizabeth Marvin, chairman ToUrgian By PAT EVANS ex:ea - income fax charge begin ning five years after graduation. He said: "We must make it financially possible for every gifted boy and girl to attend college. I don't sug gest this aid be provided in the form of federal grants that do not have to be paid back. "Brainpower has become our most precious resource and we cannot: afford to handicap our selves by failing to develop our supply of it to its full potential." Walker also said the U.S. (Continued on page five) of the senior class gift commit tee, said that the committee is still open to student sugges tions. s Miss. Mervin expressed di sap . pointmenf 'in the low senior vote at a meeting of the senior class -.advisory board commit- It must have been indiffer ence," she said. Every graduating senior received a ballot when picking up caps and gowns but many just didn't bother to vote. Some recent suggestions the committee is investigating are an archway on the east end of campus similar to the one on the Mall: local recreation facili ' ties such as a swimming pool on campus, tubas for the Blue ' - -Band and funds to - be used for obtaining art exhibits. The purpose of the committee is to find out if the suggestions New May In an effort to alleviate "dating night" traffic congestion around Simmons Hall, the new dormitories and Granger parking lot, the University has decided to put a modified version of a Student Encampment committee recommenda• tion into effect as soon as weather permits construction changes. Outstanding feature of the new plan will be the construe- tion of an outlet from the Grange parking lot to Pollock Road. This outlet will be made one-way leading to Pollock Road, and en tering the street on the east side of the Hetzel Union Building. At lb* same lime, the exist ing entrance to the lot will be widened and be made one-way going into the lot from Short lidge Road. As soon as construction work is finished, the University will pro hibit parking and stopping on Shortlidge Road to College Ave nue. The new ban will be in ef fect at all times. Other changes which will go into operation upon completion of the new entrance construction on th. Grange lot are: . - •The entrance below Simmons Hall to the new dormitories' parking lot will be made one-way leading into the lot. *The entrance at the east end of the new lot will be made one way leading in from Eastview Terrace. This will allow cars to enter the new dormitory parking 11 by going east on College Ave nue, then coming in from East view Terrace on the east side of the new dormitories. The 2-way entrance in the rear of Simmons parking lot will be left as is. r:~.~,..,..a Director of Physical Plant Walter H. Weigand. who an• nounced the changes yesterday. said Shortlidge Road will re main a 2-way street at all times. Traffic congestion on dating nights in the Simmons and McEl wain dormitory area has been a campus problem for a long time, but was heightened with the opening of the new dormitories, The Sophomore Class Advisory Board recommended changes last year, many of which are included in the new plans. The board's rec ommendation to make Shortlidge 1-way during Friday and Satur day nights, was not included in the Student Encampment rec ommendation. HEc Cafeteria Begins Service Lunch was served from 11:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Home Economics -Building as the start of a daily food service by students in hotel and institutional administration. The meats are open to the pub lic. Mrs. G: Alma McDougall, as sistant professor of hotel and institutional administration, said cafeteria lunch will be served daily, Tuesday through Friday. Dinner will also be served on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thurs days from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Maple Room of the building. Roast turkey, baked ham and roast beef are on the menu. are feasible in terms of need, permanency and practicality. Suggestions found unfeasible include an elaborate 'stage light ing system for Schwab, a Univer sity book store, a student loan fund, additional furnishings for the Chapel and student parking facilities. To stimulate student interest the committee plans to send letters to the presidents of all sororities and fraternities, and to publicize information about the projects. Miss Marvin asked that students i with suggestions send letters to ithe Collegian editor, call her at lAD 8-5051 ext, 684, write to box 1684 Simmons Hall, or contact an ',other member of the gift com mittee. Other members are Jack Hal pern, Bernard Applebaum, Isabel Barnes and Richard Zeller. Traffic Plan Ease Snarl Ike Says Employment Will Rise WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 R)— President Eisenhower, in an opti mistic statement on the economic situation, said today that March should mark the beginning of the end of the downturn. From other quarters, however. came predictions that the situ ation will get worse before it gets better. Some economists ex pressed doubts that the upturn will come as quickly as the ad ministration believes. Eisenhower expressed concern over joblessness, which rose to 4 1 4 million in January, and over the shorter work week in effect in some industries. H. said he believed "We have had most of our bad news on the unemployment front." "I am convinced that we are not facing a prolonged down swing in activity," he added. "Every indication is that March will see the start of a pickup in job opportunities." The President issued what he called a fact paper showing what the government is doing to foster economic recovery. He listed pub lic works projects and highways programs, new defense contracts, housing aids and softer credit policies. As one means of improving . the economy. Eisenhower. un veiled Tuesday a two-billion dollar program for modernisa tion of post office buildings and equipment during the next till** to five years. Postmaster General Summer field outlined the plan today to the Senate Post Office Commit tee where some Democrats criti cized it as inadequate to stimulate the economy. Private capital would finance about 75 per cent of the program, under the administration's plan, and the government's proposed contribution of 175 million dol lars a year would be contingent on congressional approval of a five-cent -rate for intercity first class mail. Summerfield told this senators the program was not designed to be a public works program as such. He said it would give the economy a timely lift. Sen. Kerr (D-Okla) disagreed with Eisenhower's prediction of a March upturn and said the postal program was too "iffy" to amount to very much. HighwayGrou" p Formed Locally Centre County organized the first local branch of the Keystone 1 Shortway Association and named Richard C. Fedon, of State Col -1 lege, as its chairman at a meeting at the Penn Belle Hotel in Belle ifonte Tuesday night. The group eras organized on a temporary b&sis preparatory to the forming of a permanent group when the functions of the organization are studied and ! more communities of the county 'are called upon for participation. The immediate objective of the group will be to promote the shortway and the connecting roads to this area. The job for !the future will be to promote the ladvantages of Centre County to industry and to the tourist trade. 2 Departments Get $2OOO The Departments of Ceramic Technology and Fuel Technology are the recipients of a $2OOO do nation from the Continental Can Company. The grant is to be used at the discretion of the departments.
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