Today's Forecast : Cold, Cloudy and Windy VOL. 58. No. 89 DTS Fire Loss Set Contest For Cover Girl Now Open The annual Pittsburgh Press search for the University’s “Cam pus Cover Girl” is on. . Entries are open-for the Cam pus Cover Girl contest, sponsored by the Roto Magazine section of the Pittsburgh newspaper. The contest is open to contes tants from colleges in the tri state area of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Deadline for entries is 4 p.m. Monday. Coeds who wish to enter must submit a photograph of any size at the Hetzel Union desk. The contest will not be based on “cheesecake” and pictures sub mitted should be an accurate like ness of the entrant. Contestants may enter as indi viduals or may be sponsored by a group. The University Cover Girl will be selected by a group of student leaders • and faculty members. Each other school in the district will select its queen and the pic tures will be submitted to the Pittsburgh Press. Pictures of the individual cam pus winners will be published in the March 16 issue of the Sunday Roto and the judges will select their five top candidates. The winner of the tri-state con T test will have a color'photo of herself published-'on the cover of the Roto Magazine. A biographi cal sketch of the queen will ac company the photograph. . Lois Shaffer, sophomore in ele mentary education'- from Allen town, was lasi -year’s University Cover Girl. . No Tickets Remain For Artists' Concert All student tickets have been taken for the Festival Quartet concert scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium. The last student tickets were picked up at the Hetzel Union desk by 4 p.m. yesterday. Some non-student tickets still remain. They may be purchased at the HUB desk for $1.25. . .The concert is the 11th in the present Artists’. Series. Coed Commuters to Nome Queen Court Nominees All commuting women except .freshmen, will meet at' 12:30 pjn. today, in Women’s building. The purpose of the meeting is to select nominees for .May Que€n Court •• • 2lip ffloll —Daily Collerfan photos by Bob Thompson DELTA THETA SIGMA fraternity members hastily salvaged what personal and house belongings they could when they discovered yesterday’s $30,000 fire which burned out the inside of the building. One student tosses a trophy to another fraternity member (off picture), while students carry their belongings down a fire escape. Rotation System to Face Ouster Recommendation The controversial fraternity independent rotation system may face its final test tonight when the Elections Commit tee’s recommendation to throw out the system is presented to All-University Cabinet. Elections Committee Chairman Peter Fishbum will present the recommendation to delete from the Elections Code the rotation provision at the Cabinet meeting at 7 tonight in 203 Hetzel Union. Also on the Cabinet agenda is a report on re-evaluation of sealing of Cabinet members. . The report ’ recommends that representatives of the Board of Dramatics and Forensics be' dropped from cabinet, and that representatives of the Panhel lenic Council, Leonides. Wom en's Recreation Association, the FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 20. 1958 Athletic Association, and the | The present rotation system is Daily Collegian be made non- ! pro vided for in Article 3 of the T, Ihese Is grciups S "are now voting" Ele ? ions Code - which “ states: members of Cabinet- All other! An independent man shall council seats would remain un-i never oppose a fraternity man . changed. j in any election. The offices of ! The recommendation to take All-University president and! away voting privileges from the . ... -, .. ~ . i five groups says that they repre-j 8611101 «das» president shall be ! sent “important interest groups'- rotated between fraternity and j of students,” but allow for over-j independent students each 1 representation of some students.! Yep. and in no year shall the ; If Cabinet approves the Elec- ! All-Umversdy president and the : Rons Committee's report the j of 1)19 spring elections will be held | afWiallon - . ! without restrictions placed on I **Xhe All-University president any candidate's affiliations. land the All-University secretary- The Elections Committee unan-!treasurer shall be of the same imously approved the reeommen-! affiliation each yep. The All-; dation at a meeting two weeks ‘University vice president will be ago. The committee report hadi°f the opposite affiliation as the been compiled after extensive Te-| All-University president.” search on the issue, both its ef- The code also provides for feet in past University elections the rotation of the affiliation and from election systems at oth-, of the senior, junior, and topho er schools. more class officer*. pgiatt at $30,000 2-Alarm Fire Originated In Basement, Partitions The fire which gutted Delta Theta Sigma fraternity early yesterday morning caused damages in the excess of $30,000 to the house alone and countless dollars in personal property loss. The building, owned by the Delta Theta Sigma Alumni Association, was covered by in surance. The precise amount of coverage will not be known for several days. Arthur W. Nesbitt, a past president of the associa tion. said last night. The fraternity, at 126 E. Fair mount Ave.. was extensively damaged on the inside and the entire house received smoke and water damage. The fire alarm was sounded at 7:10 a.m. and a second alarm followed at 7:35 a.m. Alpha Fire Chief Thomas E. Sauers Jr. said the fire appar ently started from hot ashes com ing in contact with a wooden par tition in the basement. The ashes were removed from the furnace by Donald Deckman, sophomore in agricultural education from Came Hill, at 5 a.m. when he checked the fire in the furnace. The fire was discovered around 7 a.m. by Donald Alcorn, a junior in agricultural education from Kiltaning, when he noticed smoke in the stairway leading from the cellar and in the first floor hall way. He aroused his 29 sleeping fraternity brothers and by the time they were awakened, the house was rilled with smoke. House, president James Comp ton, senior in dairy science from Saltsburg, sounded the alarm from the first floor telephone af-j ter he found the second floor tele phone dead. The students grabbed a few of their personal belong ings and quickly made their way to the street without panic, Comnton said. Most of the brothers were clad only in pajamas, trousers and topcoats when they were forced into the 10 degree wea ther. The Alpha Fire Company sent: more than 40 men to fight the: blaze, which lasted over four! hours. Six trucks, and seven 2*r»-; inch lines were used to carry j water to the scene from nearby fireplugs. j The fire quickly spread from: the basement through the rest of! the house by the way of wall! partitions. There were no fire! walls in the building, built in 1910. Most of the fire damage was centered in the middle of the building and two rooms on the (Continued on page two) See Page 4 By BILL JAFFE Housing, Aid Given Men After Biaze Delta Theta Sigma’s 30 mem bers, who were forced out of their house yesterday by a fire, are being temporarily housed in unit three of the Pollock Circle dormitories. The offer to house the students was made by 0. Edward Pollock, assistant dean of men in charge of fraternity affairs, and by the Housing Department. The stu dents will probably remain in the units the rest of the semester. The value of the personal prop erty lost by the members will not be known for several days, as all items must be checked and values assessed. Fire Chief Thomas E. Sauers Jr. said. Five students, Kermit Yearick, [Donald Tuttle, Donald Deckman, : Thomas Smouse and Richard Fre con, lost nearly all of their per jsonal belongings when the flames broke out in their two rooms. I The first floor and entrance to i the house was remodeled irt the [spring of 1955 and some $13,000 j was spent m construction and furnishings. The exterior did not [suffer much damage, but the rugs and interior -furnishings were water soaked and smoked. Presi dent James Compton said. The house, built in 1910, was the Alpha Gamma Phi fraternity residence until 1923 when the group became a national chap ter of Delta Theta Sigma. Chi Phi fraternity occupied the house in 1913. The members of the house were served yesterdays breakfast in neighboring ■ fraternities and pri vate homes. They ate lunch at Theta Chi, and supper at Alpha Zeta. A meeting was held last night by the members and active alumni in the area to reorganize and make arrangements for dining facilities. A board of directors meeting of the Alumni Associ ation is planned for Friday night Several State College restau rants offered meals for the mem bers during the day. Balfurd Cleaners offered to clean th» smoke-filled clothes and Penn State Laundry offered to wash the student’s clothing. Residents in the area made coffee for the firemen and house members during the blaze and numerous other offers of aid have been received by Pollock. Faculty to Give View on China A faculty panel will discuss “Red China—Peace or Menace 1 ' at 7:30 tonight in the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel Lounge. Members of the panel and their [subjects are: I Dr. Vernon V. Aspaturian, as sistant professor of political sci ence. “A Russian View 1 '; Dr. Rob ert T. Oliver, professor of speech, |“A Korean View.” Dr. Harry Harootunian, assis tant professor of history, “A Jap anese View"; Dr. Rustum Roy, as sociate professor of geochemistry, i “An Indian View,” Dr. Luke T. Lee, associate pro fessor of political science, will bo the panel moderator. One Step Further? FIVE CENTS
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