To day's fcjrecasf: Partly Cloudy, Snow Flurries VOL 58. No. 104 Unemployment Stirs New Action to Halt Business Recession WASHINGTON (/P) —A report showing 5,173,000 unem ployed set off new arguments Tuesday on whether to cut taxes, and spurred other moves, to combat the recession. Proposals for job-creating public works vied with tax cutting as a favorite weapon. Eisenhower was reported, af ter a White House conference with GOP congressional lead ers. to have decided to delay any administration tax cut pro posal for at least a month. However, ..e set up a meeting Wednesday with his economic ad visers which the White House (said would deal with tax sug jgestions as well as other means ! for overcoming the slump. ' Eisenhower also arranged a dis cussion of the whole tax picture next Tuesday with Cabinet mem bers sitting in with the party lead ers in Congress. 1.- Two Democratic leaders in the House. Reps. McCormack of Massachusetts and Mills of Arkansas, introduced legislation to liberalize unemployment compensation benefits. Their bill would have the fed eral government finance pay ments for 16 weeks after regular (jobless benefits are exhausted. [ Generally speaking, these bene fits under the federal-state sys tems last no longer than 26 weeks. The 16-week extension previously had been reported under study by the Republicans but McCormack and Mills got in ahead. 2. The Senate P u b 1 ic Works, Committee approved a resolution! by Democratic Leader Johnson of! Texas urging a speedup in civil ( public works already appropriat ed for. A similar resolution cov ering military works is pending. 3. Sen. Chavez (D.-N.M.I in troduced legislation authorizing a five-year public works pro gram lo cost 514.219.000.000. It would emphasize dams for flood coniroL irrigation and power. ; _ The vote on Johnson's resolu tion was 9-1, alter it had been [amended by Sen. Francis Case jiR.-S.D.) to include the following sentence: “The Congress commends the President and the executive agen cies for such action as they have taken to. accelerate the pro grams.” Saltzer Wins Presidency Of Leonides Rita Saltzer, sophomore in edu cation from Valley View, was elected president of Leonides yesterday. Miss Saltzer, who served as Leonides chairman for Spring Week and Mardi Gras last year, defeated Elizabeth McKenzie, jun ior in education from Montrose, by a considerable margin. Voting figures 'were not re leased. Linda Segar, junior in educa tion from Sayre, won over Bar bara Bamiker for the vice presi dency. The office of recording secre tary will be held by Daunna Doebler, sophomore in education from Jersey Shore, who. defeated Adele Reytar, junior in medical technology from Freeland. Barbara Marcus, junior in edu cation from Bethlehem, was elect ed corresponding secretary. She defeated Susan Borchers, sopho more in journalism from Scran ton. The new officers of the coun cil were elected yesterday by in dependent voting in the lobbies of Atherton, McAllister, Simmons and McElwain. Halls. New officers will be shown in at a meeting of Leonides Council at 6:30 p.m. Monday. Lion Predicts Snow Flurries “Measles, dad-rat it! Measles!” the Nittany Lion snarled to him self as he paced the floor of his mountain hideaway. He had planned to return to campus today to resume his job as an on-the-spot « ■weather forecast- er. But when' he heard that eight students •were measles pa tients at the Uni versity health center last week, he decided to re main. in seclus ion— he’s never had the measles. Here’s the T ion’s »v?f.iho-cnAt 'Ct £«- 'dsyrpartly elotuTysSles and'scat-’ tered snow flurries, with a high temperature of 35 to 40 degrees. Finch Will Address Engineering Society Dr. Henry Finch, professor of philosophy, will speak to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at .? tonight in 105 Me chanical Engineering. He-will discuss “The Spiritual Worth of Mechanical Things.” The organization also will nomi nate officers. Tickets Are Available For Savlnier Speech Tickets for the Business Ad ministration Career Day speech of Dr. Raymond Ji_Saulnier, economic adviser to President Dwight 13. Eisenhower, are available at the Hetsel • Union desk and in 211 Boueke. • Saulnier will speak at 8 pun tomorrow in Schwab Auditor ium. Tho tickets ,uh irze. (ttoll STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 12. 1958 Applications Due ' For Angel Flight Today is the last day for fresh man, sophomore and junior wo men with All-University averages of 2.3 or better to register for An gel Flight at the iietzel Ur.icn 7 r "Spring rushing will begin at 7 i tomorrow with a tea in McElwain ,‘lounge, and will end March 22 with notification of final.selec tion. Coed First to Collect on Insurance A coed has collected $214.65 j —the first claim-paid in the student accident and insurance plan—to cover costs of an operation performed as the re sult of an illness. . Only $6 of the coed’s expenses were not paid. The maximum allotted for hospital room and board by the insurance policy is $l5 a day, and the hospital where the coed was a patient charged $l7. Claim forms may be obtained and turned in ‘at the Doty and Kench Insurance Agency, in the State College Hotel building. The FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Lion Owes $300; Nominee Resigns 2 Left Debt For Printing University Post Filled William Lathan, junior in pre-medicine from Philadel phia, last night became Uni versity party’s candidate for senior class vice president. He replaces Philip Gottlieb, junior in zoology and entomology from Philadelphia, who withdrew from the race yesterday. Gottlieb gave this reason for his with drawal: "I sun working on a research project concerning the stress ef fects of high intensity noise on animals ... After the meeting (Sunday night, when he was put on the parly ticket) I was informed by my adviser that the project he wants me to work on this semester will con sume too much time for me to engage in any extra-curricular activities before September." A special meeting of University party was held at 7 last night in 203 Willard to select a candidate to replace Gottlieb. About 25 per sons attended. Lathan was unopposed for the candidacy. He was nominated by The All-University Elections Committee will meet at 7 to night in 213 Hetzel Union to review the platforms submitted by Campus and University par ties tor approval for use in the spring campaign. - Charles Welsh, junior in labor management relations from Pitts burgh, and the party’s candidate for senior class president. Lathan will oppose Campus party candidate, Patricia Len haxdl, junior in history from Key West. Fla..- in the elections March 25, 28. and 27. University party was given “emergency” permission to use the classroom in Willard for last night’s meeting, since the Senate Committee on Student Affairs will not discuss alleged abuse of rooms until tomorrow, according to Edwin P. Nye, chairman of the committee. Both parties will have to an swer to the Senate committee on their alleged abuse of Schwab Auditorium and Sparks Building. ‘ Hay V. Watkins, University scheduling officer, said the damage done in 121 Sparks, where the University party met Sunday night, was "not as bad" as that done by ■ Nye’s committee will meet to morrow. Nye said the party chair men have not been summoned, to the meeting, but that they could come if they wished. . . , .Science Group Renews agency a the local representa (coverage. The fact that they “i live of Continental. Casualty Co.,!not yet received the actual policy! _T r s , ” 1 eor s-onTracr iwhich sponsors the voluntary stu-!makes no difference, he said. ■ T “ e National Science Founda dent program. I About 2SOO students are | tlon ha ? renewed its $24,500 con- Stu denis who applied for j covered by the insurance pro- (tract with Dr. Rustum Roy. pro : coverage in the program have j gram, which was begun this lessor of geochemistry, for a 3- : not vet been seri their policies, j semester. The feasibility of sat- j vcar period. : according to Louis Wenderly, j ting up such a program had : The earlier study, “The Phase chairman of the student com- j been studied for years by Dion's 'Rule and Polymorphism.” in mitiee which worked to set up j Paw, senior men's society. jvolved research on the fundamen to* Plan-. ! An All-University Cabinet com- f tal chemistry of changes in crys- The policies cannot be mailed; mittee of Wonderly-and Edwin'talline phases. until filing is complete at the in- Henrie worked last semester on surance commissioners' office in getting an actual plan into oper- Critic *r% 1 T.—VU ! Harrisburg. Wonderly said this ation. MniC to Lecture Tonight probably will take another week The students who have en- Alfred B. Girardy, visiting crit or so. roiled in the program are coverechic in the Department of Architec- He emphasized that students until'Sept. 10. Coverage extendsjtur?, will present a second open are covered from the time they! over vacation periods as well asilecture at 7:30 tonight in 112 mail in their application tor! the school term. 'Buckherut. egtatt —Photo* by Florence and Krimnui 'BERMUDA BOUND' are All- University President Robert Steele and AH-University Sec retary-Treasurer Joseph Boeh ret at last night’s Leonides fash ion show. <n nouseroraeer ■ The Women's Student Govern ment Association House of Rep resentatives will meet today at j12:20 p.m. in 107 Boucke to dis cuss May Day. Off on the Wrong Foot See Page 4 Editorial oh Page Four Ttvo former Lion party clique chairmen owe debts totaling $312.53 to the Nittany Printing and Publishing Com pany for purchases of cam paign materials, it was dis closed yesterday. The former party officials, both graduated, are John Godayte and Gordon Pogal. Godayte was last year’s clique chairman and Pogal was clique chairman in 1955. The deb; includes both a bill incurred in 1957 and a bill car ried over from 1955. an official of the printing company said yesterday. David West, former Lion party clique chairman, said yesterday the purchases were not authorized by the party and the bills were sent to individuals and not to the party. West said that since the party did not authorize the bills, it has “no legal obligation to pay the money.” There is, however, a “moral obligation" on the part of the party, he said.- All student activity purchases are supposed to be made by requisition through fhe Asso ciated Student Activities office, according to Director George L. Donovan. Donovan said the Lion party members who incurred the debt did not follow tbi* pro cedure. Because the men who made the purchases have graduated. West said, the only pressure which can be exerted on them bv the Uni versity to pay 'the bills is by writing letters. If this doesn’t [work, he said, then legal action will be taken. West said when he took over as | treasurer of the party, he "tried jto make good” the debt. He said ;he did not feel he should have to ioay the debt before the campaign, howevei, since the party itself did not incur it West said he is willing fo us* the money remaining in the party treasurey to erase part of fhe debt. There is now approxi mately S2B in fhe treasury. West added Donovan said that when his office heard of the debt, a confer ence was held with West, Willian O'Neill, clique chairman before West, and Chester Zimolzak. party treasurer last year. IJT- --s7/» sr*r -* s • (Jean of men. said his staff is "con cerned about the deficit” ar.d is trying to gather some facts. He said the matter “will have to be resolved,” and also that the claim of the printing company “wiil have to be validated.” Perkins said he has not yet “proceeded to any crystallized point” on the issue. FIVE CENTS
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