(Eh VOL. 58. No 106 STATE COLIEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH U. 1958 FIVE CENTS Prexy OK's All By LA to Hike Faculty members of the College of the Liberal Arts were told yesterday they would have the support of President Eric A. Walker in any effort to raise the stature of the college.] Walker pledged his whole-hearted support during an address outlining the possible! future responsibilities of the college. ! “Of course," he said,-“you will probably want to raise the standards of your college You also might want to raise ... ."j the admission requirements . . . so that they are the most rigorous and demanding of any liberal arts college. I will give you my full support,” _ Walker also said he would back all attempts to raise the standing of the faculty: “I’ll support dis tinction ... to my limit.” Promo tions will be given on merit, not seniority, he added, so that fac ulty will have more stimulation to do their best While on the subject of motiva tion, Walker declared, “I’m going to do everything I can to raise salaries.”' Walker also promised to give Liberal -Arts faculty members more time for research, which, he said, at the present time isn’t considered too important in the college. He said he was going to ask the state legislature to' allot funds for liberal arts re search, although he said the state probably wouldn’t allocate more than a token sum to begin with. ’ The .College -of The Liberal Ar is Student Council came in for special praise from President Eric A. Walker during his ad dress yesterday. Walker * said the council had done more than "any • other student council" toward the raising of college academic standings. ' Walker.then turned to the grad uate program, pledging coopera tion-on any attempt to raise and develop the program. The .discussion of possible fu ture Liberal Arts College actions was prefaced by an outline of the role of a liberal arts educa tion. Faculty members were told - that the role of the liberal arts college is becoming increasingly Important in today's trends. De scribing the paradox of change. Walker said that the advances In professionalism increase the needs for specialisation, while the same complex situation also . ups the need for a liberal edu cation. We need both, and. there isn’t time to give a complete education in both fields,” he said. - . . Thus, college must give the stu dent “the tools to continue his liberal education after college, and also must give him the-in spiration - to’ continue this educa tion.” he said. ..As a partial solution to this problem. Walker suggested the expansion of interdisciplinary courses, service courses and historical courses. Tod many history courses don't touch on (Continued on page twelve) Driver Skids into 3 Signs A University student - “felt a slight bump” early ’ yesterday morning while driving east of Fairmount Avenue and when the bump was investigated by. police, it was discovered the driver had skidded into three signs. -Peter Magaro, sophomore in psychology from Hazleton, tcld pplice he was talking to a pas senger when he felt the bump at 12:15 a.m. yesterday. State College police said the car skidded about 20 feet, hitting a ■top sign, street sign, and finally a parking sign before coming to rest against, a-tree at the inter section of, Fairmount Avenue and Gamer Street, i Damages were estimated at $350 to. the car and about $5O to the signs. The driver was not in jured. . (EoUegiatt FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By LARRY JACOBSON 'Mild Toxic Reaction Hits Simmons Diners A number of coeds were suffering yesterday from what Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, director of Health Service, terms “a mild toxic reaction” possibly caused by turkey served in the Simmons dining hall Wednesday night. “We can’t prove anything,” Glenn said, “but we do Ohioyo Doks Site Students Spelin Laks To menny Ohio State TJnavur sitie studants kant spel for nuthin, the Associated Press reports. The hilarious—but . somewhat dismaying—spelling foibles of to day’s college students have come to light in the latest issue of the Ohio- State University Monthly. Sadly . enuf . (pardon, enough), spelling purists' should know that many of the odd-ball spellings in the first paragraph were lifted from documents that the students themselves filled out. The report on atrocious spell ing was made by Dr. William T. Palchanis and Dr. William C. Stahl of the university medical staff. They went to the trouble of putting quotation marks around the mispelled words, but here are some excerpts from their report, minus the identifying marks just for fun: “Students have reported on their medical histories such child hood illnesses as meesels, bronicle nomonia, hooping cough, rumatic feavor and diptherie. During their adolescence may are afflicted with asma, accute apendisidus (usually followed by an appendictmy), heart mummers due to rhuematic fever, stummach truble and toncilitas.” Election Results: Page 2 The results of the .Women’s Student Government Associa tion, Panhellenic Council, May Day and Women's Recreation Association' elections yesterday .appear on page 2 of today's edition of The Daily Collegian. Ike Afte WASHINGTON ((F) President Eisenhower talk ed over the economic situa tion with his advisers again Thursday, after new pres sure developed for tax cuts, and heavier spending. This pressure was brought by AFL-CIO leaders who re ported they' told Eisenhower the recession is growing worse, and. to wait for improvement is not the cure. The unionists said their White House visit was friend ly, but there was no word of any new actions in the making. In a major antirecession an nouncement, the Defense De partment promised to raise to 10 . billion dollars the amount et job-providing contracts it suspect the turkey mix. We will never know for sure.” | Glenn said that by noon yester-j day about 20 or 25 coeds had beenj to the dispensary and only one| had been admitted to the infirm-! ary. | However, yesterday morning j housemothers in Hibbs and Ste vens Halls said 50 to 75 per cent! of the coeds were ill. Several! hostesses were also said to be suffering from the alleged poison ing. Glenn said there is "nothing to get alarmed about. These things will occur even with the precautions' on this campus which are . super." But Robert C. Proffitt, manager! of the food service, said the tur-j key was fresh and was bought! from “the usual, reliable sources.” None of the turkey remained on 1 which to conduct a test, Proffitt! said. Proffitt said every step in the processing of the Wednesday night meal had been gone over, from beginning to end, and noth ing could be found that was dif ferent from every other night, although it was impossible to be certain. j Cases of illness were also reporied among coeds who bad j not eaten the turkey. j When questioned on several re ported cases of fainting Glenn! said he believed there "probably has been some fainting. It isj caused by diarrhea.” Proffitt contended that it was; not food poisoning because all the! food service employes in the din ing unit ate the same food as the! students and none of them hadj reported being sick by 5 p.m. I yesterday. Conti n r Labo Efforts Stature ues Economic Talks r Exerts Pressure will place during the first six months of the year. This is four billions more than were placed in the last six months of 1957. An encouraging note was pro vided by the Federal Reserve Board in a report saying de- BULLETIN WASHINGTON UP) —The Senate last night rejected a proposal to cut personal in come and federal excise taxes by about $5,200,000,000. partment store sales across the country last week were seven per cent higher than during the similar week of 1957. Of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts only one—Kansas City—showed a decline and the drop there was only one per cent. Still another bright note Saulnier Estimates Severity of Slump In 'Lesser Family' Raymond J. Saulnier, chairman of the economic advisers to the President, last night placed the present recession “in the family of lesser severity,” but supported “loose money” as a present corrective measure. Saulnier based his opinions on his belief that it is pos sible to predict end severity of a business cycle—such as the present • one by the seventh month of its downswing. If “loose money" doesn’t work, he said, the next step is taking federal works plans out of moth balls, being mindful, he added, of the danger of transfering to a "Public Works Administration kind of approach." If that the second line of] defense fails, Saulnier said, a choice is faced which offers either tax reduction or spending. i | But spending, he said, pro* ] duces things actually unneed* ; ed. and what's more, he said ] "it just won't work." j Worse yet, he added, would bej ,a tax reduction simultaneous with] j federal spending. Saulnier called spending a delayed action meas ure; that is, after tax reduction started the economy on the up swing, the results of spending i would give the sudden push to ' ward .a “raging inflation.” "This is not a forecast." he said, but added slowly, "it could be.” | Saulnier, in a question-and-an iswer period, denounced the sug gestion for a “tax holiday” made jby Walter Reuther, president of I the United Auto Workers. He I said he “would not like to be ! around when it ended,” for then,] he said, we “might have a very! serious economic problem,” ] Saulnier emphatically made the point 'that increased defense! [spending in the Sputnik wake has j “nothing to do with the economic I recession.” - I This spending, he said, is deter ! mined by scientific and military [minds, not by economists. It is not, he said, “a military W.P.A.” Saulnier attributed the lack of harmony on economic opin ion in Washington to four fac tors "imperfect communica tion of ideas." "a tendency to ward hypochondria," "anxiety" and "impatience" There is a danger, Saulnier said, 'in tax reduction once the upswing gets in. This is so, he said, be cause the advisers deciding whe ther or not to cut taxes will not iknow the nature of the upswing [ — whether it will be vigorous or] :slow. | -If it is a vigorous one, he said,! :it will be because of an ascend-' lancy of inventory over sales. A 1 ‘tax reduction then, he said, would] .j be needless. But a tax reduction would be j “useful,” he said, in a slow up swing, in order tb “give it im ipetus.” came from the federal housing administration. If said application* for gov ernment-insured loans on new houses poured in last month at a rale 70 per cent higher than in February 1957. The ap plications reflected a willing nest to spend and foreshadowed an increase in residential con struction. Eisenhower’s meeting with his economists, second in two days, lasted an hour and a quarter. Little was divulged of what went on, but it was sep arately disclosed that Eisen hower plans a public discussion of the situation next Tuesday. His immediate audience that day will be 1600 women here for a national Republican con- - ference. Eisenhower also has scheduled a 100 k-at-the-full picture tax discussion Tuesday with GOP leaders. Fraternities May Face Higher Tax Fraternities face possible high er taxes in 1960 as a result of a [county-wide property reassess ment now underway. The state requires the re-evalu jation in a 1951 reassessment law. | Edward R. Miller, county chief [assessor, said the reassessment [does not necessarily mean a tax hike. However, he said, practically all the fraternities as many other properties in the county are as sessed far below their present value. Miller said the reason for the re-evaluation was that the pres ent system is unfair with some properties assessed higher than others in relation to the true value. The i'irst phase of the reassess ment is a complete re-mapping of the county. The firm of Harris, Henry and Porter Engineers, of Dovlestown. has set up offices at jKreider’3 Exchange to sort prop erty deeds which have been microfilmed. Miller said that when wanner weather arrives the entire county will be aerial photographed and then re-mapped. Tire project is expected to take about 18 months. In about six .months. Miller said, an assessing firm of Cole, Layer and Trumball, of Dayton, Ohio, will begin appraising each building in the county. When the appraisals are com pleted, it will be up to the Tax Equalization Board, composed of the county commissioners, to set the tax rate. Miller said. The new property values will not be on the tax records until at least 1960, Miller said. Since the present commissioners’ terms expire next year, it is possible I that the entire board will have I different personnel when the as sessment is finished. Lion Predicts More Snow The Nittany Lion telephoned The Daily Collegian this morn ing and announced that it may be some time before he returns to campus. In making the announcement, the Lion said, "My case of measles is n<• improving anc don’t think t] yesterday’s sni will help it aloi Besides that, may be anot' victim of f< poisoning.” The Lion, in a long-range I forecast, called ;for some additional snow with [high temperatures today of 35 to [4O degrees. Officer to Discuss iNav/s Program Lt. R. A. Latlca of the Office of Naval Officer Procurement, Pitts burgh, will visit the campus Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday to talk with seniors about the Navy’s officer candidate program. - The program is open to quali fied male college graduates and leads to a commission in the Na val Reserve. Latka will be in the game room at the Hetzel Union Building from 10:20 a_m. to 3:30 p.m. each day.
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