Today's F recast: Rai Clearing b Noon VOL. 58, No. 12 Rates o Up, Down Mete May Limit State College Borough Council has I pproved a new parking met r plan which calls for mete s to be in oper ation from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. dai]y except Sunday and would fix the rate for downtown park ing at five cent's a half-hour. Although ap 'roved by council, the plan await official passage of an ordinanc , expected at the next meeting. However, council indicated that t e plan will prob ably not beco e effective until mid-June; an ffective date will probably be set in the ordinance. The downtown meter limit will be cut bak from two-hour to one-hour limits but would leave the perimeter parking limit at two hours and the pre sent cost of five cents an hour. Borough Manhger Robert Y. Ed wards said the regulations are designed to bring regular curb parking into agreement with pro posed off-street parking lots, and at the same time provide some relief for the parking situation. Edwards said the lots, which the State College Parking Author ity plans to construct, will oper ate from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Accord ingly, he said, the regular curb meters must conform to this, or be in competition with those in the lots. Then, too, he said, the one hour limit and higher cost of parking may move traffic bet ter, providing more spaces for shoppers in the central part of town. At present the borough has 302 meters; 195 of them will be ad justed for the new regulations, with the other 107, in the "per imeter business district," remain ing on the present setup. The pro posed parking lots, when con structed, will provide an addition al 211 meters. Clearing Skies Seen for Today The Nittany Lion planned to stay in his den this morning to wait for drier weather expected by this afternoon. The Lion went into his brief se clusion yesterday afternoon after he had to call off common hour for Wings One and Two of the So ciety for th e P r e servation of Rainy Thursdays. Rumor has it that he broke up a SPRT rain dance on the Mall yesterday morning. The Lion said that after the rain stops today he expects some warmer weather with the high est temperature reading in the 40s. 21 Students Fined By Traffic Court Twenty-one students have been fined a total of $93 by the traffic court for illegal parking, not dis playing registration stickers .and failing to report to the Campus Patrol office within 24 hours after receiving tickets. Four students were fined auto matically for fgilure to appear be fore the court before the spring recess. The court handled 27 cases and dismissed six. A total of $lB of the $93 in fines was held in suspension by the court. Correction on Averages The All-University aver a g e dropped .13 last semester, not 1.3 as reported in yesterday's paper. tx sr 0 sa 5 —Daily Collegian Photo by Bob Lloyd OUTGOING ALL-UNIVERSITY President Robert Steele con gratulates his successor, Jay Feldstein, left, at last night's swearing in ceremony for new Cabinet members, Seated center is John Gingrich, incoming All-University Secretary-Treasurer. Spring Week Events Will Be Televised Two television stations will broadcast parts of Spring Week this year. James Jimirro, Spring Week chairman, reported to All- University Cabinet last night that WGAL-TV of Lancaster will televise the Carnival, and WFBG-TV of Altoona, the Float Parade. Also at last night's meeting, the) new Cabinet members were sworn in and took office. Jay Feldstein took his seat as the new All- University president, along with Stephen Garban, All-University vice president, and John Gingrich, All-University secretary-treasurer. College council presidents, In- I terfraternity Council president and the junior 'a n d senior class presidents also were sworn in. Since the Float Parade will I be televised, Jimirro said, it will have to start earlier this year —at 5:15 p.m.—to accommodate WFBG'a broadcast schedule. The parade will begin at Pol lock and Shortlidge and by broad cast time, 6 p.m., it will pass the TV cameras stationed at Boucke Building. Lancaster's WGAL-TV will place its cameras on Beaver Field to catch the highlights of the Car nival. Judges for the Float Parade, Jimirro said, will be representa tives of the Mummers Parade, one of the largest parade groups in the country. The judges stand will Sing Preliminaries to Open Nine-Day Greek Celebration Preliminary competition in Wednesday night. Special din- i the area playgrounds and parks. the IFC-Panhel Sing MondaY flora will be held in the houses ' The IFC-Panhel Sing finals and residence halls. I will take place Saturday night' night will start the annual The - Outstanding Pledge Ban- , in Schwab Auditorium. Greek Week celebration to be quet will be held Thursday night Greek Sunday will be marked! i n the Hetzel Union Building., by special services in Schwab l marked b y banquets, ex- Pledge trophies will be presented.' Auditorium where Rev. Luther change dinners and commun- Ossian R. MacKenzie, dean of the!Harshbarger, University chaplain, College of Business Administra- ! will be the speaker. ity. work projects. tion and vice preident for busi-J The festivities will 'draw to a . ness administration, will be the' close next Tuesday, April 22, "Greeks Together" is the theme guest speaker. ' with the final banquet in the of the nine-day celebration. The IFC-Panhel Bridge Tour-,' Nittany Lion Inn to be attended 1 Sorority Sing preliminaries will nament also will be held in the' by the IFC and Panhel councils begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday with Hetzel Union Building Thursday' and administration offiicals. three groups to be chosen from night. i Guest speaker for the final ban -14 sororities to compete in the Greeks will participate in : quet will be Michael Baker Jr., j finals. • community work projects on a University alumnus and presi , Twenty-one fraternities wi 11 Saturday. Working in connec- I dent of Michael Baker Jr., Inc., compete for a place in the finals lion with John D. Dittmar, State IConsulting Engineers, Rochester, on Tuesday night. College recreation director, 22 i Pa. Baker is a recipient of the Fraternities and sororities will projects will be undertaken in- IHoratio Alger Award for his take part in exchange dinners chiding cleaning up many of i world-wide engineering firm. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 1958 be at the Main Gate on College Avenue. One of the floats in the par• ade will be reserved for the Miss Penn State finalists and another for the He Men. Floats must be 8 feet long and may range in width from a mini mum of 10 to a maximum of 24 feet. Maximum height is 20 feet. Animals may ne used to draw floats; but if at any time a dis turbance is caused by an animal, the float in question will be dis qualified. Students may not draw floats. The theme for the parade is "TV Jubilee," and is divided in to three appropriate categories: westerns, panel and quiz shows and police and detective pro grams. The categories in the parade will be separated by the ROTC bands: one leading off, one after the first category and one after the second. Robert Neff, float parade chair man, said arrangements may also be made to provide the Johns town television audience with a ' glimpse of Spring Week. rgiatt Cuban Rebels Fail To Spark Revolt HAVANA (IP)—Cuban rebels tried and failed in a blaze of gunfire and bomb blasts again Thursday to stir a full-scale revolution against President Fulgencio -Batista. This time the setting was Santiago, capital of Oriente Province Government firepower w as it had done Wednesday in Ha vana where 45 rebels and two' `policemen died. Before dawn, youthful gunmen poured onto the streets of Santi ago, a focal point of Fidel Cas tro's 16-month-old guerrilla move ment, with hopes of setting the spark for a general strike and open civil war. They fired pistols and machine guns, hurled grenades and gaso line bombs in the main streets. As in Havana, they hit first at public utility systems, cutting electrical power and other es sential services . . . but they appeared doomed before they started. For months, Santiago has been occupied by Cuban troops and national police. Police machine-gunners, firing from rooftops of strategically lo cated buildings, scattered the reb els like leaves in the wind. There was no way to determine immediately how many rebels fell, or the casualties among gov ernment forces. The uprising died almost as quickly as it started. Like the Havana incident, it seemed to lack timing and co ordination. Outside the main streets, the rebels did nothing. Spotty strikes mushroomed here and there in Oriente Province— about 500 miles east of Havana. But there was nothing that ap proached the general strike Cas tro considers an essential step to' topple what he calls the tyranny of Batista. That was true, too, in, other Cuban provinces. Undismayed, the bearded lead er's guerrillas continued skirm ishing with government troops over a wide section of Oriente. Elsewhere in Cuba roving rebel bands pursued a campaign of sab otage and isolated killings. With his plans repeatedly mis firing, Castro appeared to have little chance of unseating Batista unless one of two things happens: •That Cubans everywhere rise in arms and cripple the nation, with a general strike. •That the armed forces, 38,000' strong, turn against the onetime army sergeant who has dominated Cuban history for a quarter-cen `tury. Neither appeared likely in the foreseeable future. An Obligation See Page 4 thered the new upising just New Dining Haßunning Satisfactorily The newly-opened dining room of Redder Hall is running "as well as could be expected," ac cording to Robert C. Proffitt, act ing director of food service. The new dining room serves co eds in Hoyt and Cooper Residence Halls. The total capacity of the two dorms is 265. The dining room is the first of four dining rooms in the hall to be opened. Proffitt said there have been some difficulties with the new fa cilities but said it was "nothing that isn't normal." The first op erations the new hail have gone "as well as we had expected, al 'though not as well as we'd honed," he said. The portion of the new dining hall was opened at breakfast on Wednesday. The other three din ing rooms in the building, Prof fitt said, will not be opened until Sentember. Proffitt said the meals have been served at a rate of about four oer minute so far, which he called "terribly slow." The rate should increase within the next few days to eight to ten meals per minute, he said, which is nor mal in the halls now operating. There have been some minor difficulties with the new apuara tus in the hall. He said food ser- Ivice had anticipated "a few diffi culties," and had asked students to be "a little tolerant" Proffitt said the other three dining rooms in the building were not yet completed, and that there are still workmen in the building. Construction had to be pushed, he said, to ready the one room for operation during the spring semester Profs Named To Chem Posts Dr. A. Witt Hutchison and Dr. Thomas S. Oakwood have been promoted to associate head and assistant head of the Department of Chemistry respectively. The promotions are part of what has been described as "a realistic realignment of duties and responsibilities" brought about by the new emphasis on science in schools and colleges.— Dr. W. Conard Fernelius will continue as head of the depart ment. Dr. Ferdinand G. Brickwedde, dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics, said the new align ment would free Dr. Fernelius to chart, develop and speed achieve ment of the department's long range objectives while still per mitting him to continue his ex tensive work in inorganic re search. Dean's Office issues Counselor Applications Applications for the position of resident hall counselors are avail able in the dean of men's office. All applicants must have at least two years of college, be single and preferably over 21 years of age. For further informa tion interested persons may con tact the dean of men's office,. FIVE CENTS
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