Hail VOL. 58. No. 98 STATE COLLEGE, PA.. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1958 FIVE CENTS Behind Closed Doors Open Me As Help It’s not very often that discussii Board of Trustees meetings take’on out in an interview with a mr If one can draw from he? proof that the trustees might Miss Wyland told The Daily Collegian that before she was elected to the board, she “couldn’t see why they did some of the things they did.” Now, her re spect of the members has grow tremendously. “I was amazed to see the amount of time and en ergy those men put into their work on the board,” she said. Miss Wyland termed the mem bers “devoted." Thus, she expressed a thought prevalent among advocates of the open board meeting: it isn't so much the'negative attitude that there is something dirty or "tainted" that goes on behind the closed doors, but rather the people as a whole tend to fear and have suspicion of something about which they have little knowledge. And the chances are that the board might gain much respect from the layman if the meetings were opened up. However, Miss Wyland also ex pressed the oft-heard opinion that it wouldn’t make much difference if the meetings were opened up because most of the work is done in committee. “The Public In formation depart ment at the Uni- Collegian Public Affairs Analysis versity does a good job of releasing the hap penings at the Board," she said. “Sometimes, I read about things that I didn’t even know were going on,” she quipped. Then too, she said, there is ihe problem of things that come up'which cannot be pub lished at the exact moment they happen. These things might be hampered by advance publicity, she explained. Although Miss Wyland said she didnt feel qualified at the present time to give an opinion ,on whe ther or not the press should y be present on the grounds of prin ciple (right to know), she did give tne critics of a closed meeting fuel for their cause. - ?' 1 l, ese men are big enough, ana have enough knowledge of how to handle people, so that ;i’ ey . do something under laWe—]f they wanted to,” she fj“ d - 1 guess you could call them S o h operators’,” she; laughed, * Hunk they’re fine enough men never to try to put anything over on the public." Contrasting Mi s j Wyland's P r . e ‘ e "‘ opinion of the board with her hesitant wariness prior » being elected to thal body i * e ® ms B * though opening the h«v d 1 "f. 6,1n 9s might be the nest public relations move the hoard could make. Von Missing Rain Today % Tl the N iXr! i ° n “ StiU ignOT ' diSld^c 1 ! y ? Ve ? tod^’ S Pre - forec a s t •. i wiling or occa sional show ers. LV? C V contin u- Mg to live it up 1?. t ha t remote fountain hide aw ay ’ he Pr°b »Vy will not S the 45 to 50-degree high day dUl ° d * or to ' the B n ' vood ' an d - sources Report vent" *L t,nn B °f his ga'/ad- PUS in C jht d ma y return to cam ‘,u« in the near future. Olnllfgtatt FOB A BETTER PENN STATE jitings Seen to Trustees jr LARRY JACOBSON I Third of a Series ' \ns on the pros and cons of opening up the University psychological .twist, but that viewpoint was brought —Dally Collegian- Photo by Bob Lloyd OFF ON A FLIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE are 3600 books for the library of St. Francis College, Loretto. Wesley Bergey (left), chairman of the drive to collect the books, and John Felus, senior in business administration from Gallitzin, help load a truck for the 55-mile trip, paid for by the Insurance Club. Brill, '2l, Former Instructor, Named as 'Woman of the Year Julia Gregg Brill, retired 1921 graduate, has been named the Penn State Woman of the Year for 1958. The award was established by the Board of Trustees last year for presentation “to a woman whose personal life, pro fessional achievements and com munity .service exemplify the ob jectives of her Alma Mater.” She will receive the medal that ac companies the award June 13-14 during the Alumni Institute pro gram. i Miss Brill, who lives in Stale College, received her bachelor of arts degree in arts and letters -in 1921, master of arts in 1927. Before becoming a faculty mem ber here in 1924, she taught in the public - schools of Luzerne County, at Town Hill and Hunt ington Mills. She taught history Mack Resign? FCC Position; Insists He's 'Done No Wrong' WASHINGTON,iMarch 3(/P) —Richard A. Mack resigned his $20,000-a-year post on the Federal Communications Com mission tinder strong pressure tonight, but still insisted he had “done no wrong.” President Eisenhower accepted the Mack’s . resigna tion immediately, voicing agree ment vith Mack, that his useful ness to FGC has been seriously impaired by a. House investiga tion of his conduct. Thai resignation came a few hours after, pounding congres sional pressure on Mack to quit reached a climax with - the threat, of impeachment proceed and latin at Bloomsburg High School and European history in Allentown High School. Miss Brill was named to the first executive board of the re organized Alumni Association in 1930. During her 20 years on the board she was vice presi dent of the association for sev eral terms. She has been presi dent of the Alumnae Club of Centre County; She retired in 1954 as professor emerita of English composition, She was vocational counselor of women in the College of the Lib- (Continued on page eight) ings against him. Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark.), chairman of the special House subcommittee which has been in vestigating .the' FCC said Mack’s resignation Was tlje only thing the commissioner could do “in the light of all the circumstances.” Harris, who voiced the im peachment threat, said as the sit uation now stands, Mack is still scheduled to testify before the subcommittee on Wednesday, and the FCC! inquiry will continue. Earlier, President G. T. Baker of National Air Lines, pictured Mack as being crucified—as the f a 11 guy • for a conspiracy to which Baker linked several sen ators. The senators will have a chance to testify later in their own defense if they wish. Mack’s . ouster was demanded by most members of the House Cabinet Endorses Steele's Judgment In N.Y. Expenses By DAVE FINEMAN and DICK DRAYNE Editorial on Page 4 The “actions-and judgments” of All-University President Robert Steele’s' questioned expenditures in New York City were endorsed by All-University Cabinet last night, with three members abstaining. Steele admitted to a “mistake in judgment”, that of spending an extra night in the city, but he said it was “not a malicious wrongdoing.” The prepared motion, presented by Lorraine Jablonski, president of Leonides, said: “All-University Cabinet en dorses the actions and judgments of Our All-University President.” The three Cabinet members who abstained from the vote were Robert Nurock, president of the Liberal Arts Student Council, George Thompson, president, ofi the freshman class, and Edward! Dubbs, editor of the Daily Col-j legian. ! Steele explained he was “over-| come by a rather normal and; natural inclination to stay over: one night.” In this, he said, "I'm afraid j; I failed to live up to my re- , sponsibiliiies." "In my position," he said, "this is not allowed." • As to the other accusations, < Steele said, “In my heart I feel 1 I have done absolutely nothing , wrong.” Explaining the fact that the $2500 check was taken personally : to Larry Sharp’s family, Steele i said: “We are not an insurance ■ company paying a claim nor was ! this a check from a charity,” He said he “wanted to show Sharp and his parents what the students 1 were doing.” , "As far as I'm concerned," Steele said further, "taking along Robert Yeager was "justi fiable." He said he wanted someone to help him through the “highly emotionally charged” experience of meeting the “boy on his back who may never walk again” and the parents and sister. • The choice .of Yeager, Steele : said, was based on two things. ; “There was no one else here to go,” it being right before the, Christmas holiday—Yeager lives near-by in Bellefonte—and he is “entirely qualified as a student leader, or simply, just as a stu dent. He was a perfectly able choice.” Steel explained his expenses: Meals, $21.00—“I do not think the meals were extravagant. I am used to eating well, and not used to eating in a hamburger stand.” He said George L. Donovan, co ordinator of student activities, had told him that when a person is ‘‘representing the University, he will travel in a decent, respec table and first class manner.” Hofei, s2o.36—The sum of $9.50 a night “is not extravagant in New York.” . Taxis and lips, sl7.oo—“When you travel in places like Philadel (Continued on page eight) subcommittee on legislative over sight after he acknowledged ac cepting loans and other financial favors from a Miami lawyer who once pushed the successful appli cation of a National Air Lines subsidiary for a Miami TV li cense. Then today the committee's chairman,, Harris, announced he would introduce a resolution calling for Mack's impeach ment. “Perhaps,” Mack wrote the President, “I should have been more careful in the handling of my personal affairs, but I have not violated my oath of office in this instance or in any other dur ing my career in public life, nor will the facts show such a viola tion. I feel in my heart , that I have done no wrong and my con science is clear.” .. Benner Pike Named For Widening The widening of Benner Pike to a 4-lane highway is included :n a $3,103,600 state highway pro gram for 1958, it was announced yesterday. The Benner Pike stretch is from State College to Dale’s Summit, a distance of 4.16 miles, will cost about $1,500,000 and is part of $2,040,000 in contract construction. Other major contract - projects announced by J. J. Kelmar, dis trict engineer at Clearfield, are construction from. Pine Grove Mills to Boalsburg, 5,86 miles, $335,000; Millheim' bridge, .5 mile over Elk Creek in Millheim Bor ough, $150,000; and the Coleville Bridge, .28 miles, $55,000. • These contract jobs begun last year will be continued: Zion to Hublersburg, 7.79 miles at a total cost of $675,407.51 and Hublers burg east to the county line, 3.98 miles'at a cost of $500,000. Work to be done by the Depart ment of Highways crews consists of the building of three bridges, one near Oak Hall, • one near Romula and another in Curtin Township. A total of 8.71 miles of 14-foot roads will be widened to 18 feet at a cost of $207,100. Highways Department forces jcompleted a $743,500 program in 1 1957, Kelmar noted. Skating Party Brings $556.26 To Sharp Fund A total of $556.26 was collected from the skating party for Larry Sharp sponsored by Sigma Nu and Kappa Kappa Gamma. John Donahue, Sigma Nu chair man of the skating party, said a check for this amount will be sent to Sharp’s parents.' In ad dition, he said, $25 was received for. Sharp from the Sigma Nu chapter in Texas which will be added to the skating party funds to be sent to the Sharps. Several coeds in Simmons sent a $5 check to Sigma Nu also to be added to the skating party money. An estimated crowd of 400 at tended the skating party Friday, helping the Sigma Nus and Kap pa Kappa Gammas to go over their $5OO goal for the party. Student Injured In Car Accident Donald Hastings, special stu dent from Milesburg, was treated at the health center for multiple bruises of the chest, hand, right knee and leg as a result of an accident Thursday morning. ■ Hastings was struck by a car operated by Paul Barton, Belle fonte RD 1. Police said he ran in to the path of the Barton car while crossing the at the intersection of College 'Avenue and Pugh Street. Leadership Course Shingles Shingles for persons who com pleted the Leadership Training course are available at the Het z'el Union desk. ;;.....
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