Today's Forecast: Rain this Afternoon VOL. 58. No. 141 Red Carpet Will Be Unrolled For Mother's Day Visitors Hundreds of parents, relatives and friends of students tomorrow to celebrate Mothers' Day Weekend and th red carpet. Perhaps ti crowning, of t because of glooy weather pre dictions, will t e place in ci Rec reation Hall th s year. Another big annual event is . the open houses held in both the residence halls and fraternities. The fraternities have slicked up the, houses for otherly approval and are prepari g special enter tainments for vi itors. The moth ers will receive flowers. All women's halls will be open from 1 t..,• 3' p.T. and many are holding teas in the lounges. This will be the fir t open house for the new South Halls. Because the local restaurants will be crowded, parents may wish to eat in the campus dining halls—a meal ticket may be obtained at any campus post office' window for $1.50. e biggest event e May Queen. Most religiou's organizations are planning - special Mother's Day, breakfasts or teas and church services are expected to be over flowing as on previous Mother's Days. Guides will be available in th e Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel for tours. For the art-minded parents, the annual spring student art exhi bition begins Sunday at the Het zel Union Gallery, and two art lectures will be given this week end. More formal• entertainment includes the Orchesis dance con cert in White Hall and the Players' productions. "Tonight at 8:30" and "The Merchant of Venice." both at 8 tonight:- Beaver Field will be the scene of mass precision on Sunday as the Navy, Pershing Rifles, and Air Force drill teams compete. Especially for Dad—who, after all, pays the bills—the Penn State track team will face the Univer sity of Michigan this afternoon on Beaver Field. The double-flowered cherry trees and other campus flowers are in full blossom; most of the trees have dense green foliage, and the entire campus is perhaps in its most beautiful dress. Phi Kappa Sigs Plan Memorial For Palmiero A trophy in memory of Carmen Palmiero, s o p h omore basketball star here who was killed in an auto accident two years ago, will be awarded each year by the members of his fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma, to the outstanding senior varsity athlete in the chap ter. Palmiero was killed in an auto mobile accident two years ago on his way home for Christmas vaca tion. His roommate, who was driv ing, ran into the, back of a tractor trailor on the turnpike: A fraternity spokesman said a similar, trophy will .be given to the outstanding pledge in honor of Palmiero's roommate , 9 Stanley Goldstein, who was killed in the same accident. , . The plan will be announced to morrow at a brief ceremony in the chapter house. Palmiero's 'mother, Mrs. Thomas VanEck, of Brook lawn and Mrs. Charles Goldstein will attend. • Palmiero was considered a top prospect in Penn State's basket ball future when the accident oc curred. He was, well liked by his fraternity brothers and by his teamniates,the spokesman said. His borne town of Gloucester, N.J., , now has a community has ketball league named in his honor. v....., o 1 ro 4a t ~, -, - : '•:,i.-c..i...,.;z71;,- . 1.,':, rII r STATE COLLEGE, PA.. SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 10. 1958 By JUDI WHARTON More Details on Page 4 of the weekend is the annual May Day celebration with the his is usually held on the lawn in front of Old Main, but PASS IN REVIEW is the order as these Air Force cadets practice for next week's Arined,Forces Day Parade. The not so militaristic tennis p,layers observe the sight on their way to more enjoyable endeavors. ' May Day Festivities To Be Held inside The 36th annual May Day ceremonies will take place at 3:30 p.m. today in Recreation Building due to unfavorable weather pre dictions. A cold front moving in with rain today or tomorrow was pre dicted by Charles L. Hosier, associate professor of meteorology. The purpose of the annual event is to provide a recognition day for those girls whose scholastic achievements and distinctive ac tivities have earned them a place of honor. The highest honor, Queen of May, will be given this year to Karen Bixler, senior in home economics from Basking Ridge, N.J. This year is not the first lime that the location of the cere monies has not been on the lawn in front of Old Main. The first May Day was held on May 23, 1914, on the lawn south of Women's Building. At that time only 100 w - omen - - were enrolled at the University. The event was begun as a charity affair with prciceeds going to a hospital fund. Admission was twenty-five cents for reserved (Continued on' page four) Drive to Hit Seniors from All Sides If any graduating senior wants to leave Penn State lae hind for good come June 7, "he may have to leave town next week." This, according to Thomas Hol lander, president of the Class of '5B, is about the only way grad uating seniors can avoid being asked to join the Alumni Associ ation and to • contribute to the Alumni Fund after graduation. Seniors will be hit from all sides by . a student-led, Pledge Week drive. They will receive a letter Monday or Tuesday asking them to' join the , Alumni Association and offering them • special mem bership rates. They will also be FOR A BETTER PENN STATE will visit the e University By Cathy Fleck Karen Bixler ... 1958 May Queen hit at sorority meeting and at fraternity evening meals. - All of this will be followed up by personal contacts by class agents at the , end of the week. The class agents will not sell Alumni Association member .ships. Hollander said, but get the seniors to sign pledge minds. One card Will pledge them to join the association before grad uation and the other will pledge them to contribute to the Alumni Fund beginning in 1959. If graduating seniors join the Alumni Association before June 7,1 they will receive special rates of $2 for one year and $7O for a life membership. The life membership can be purchased on an install ment plan with $lO down and• $l5 a year for the next four years. Membership may be pur campus today and is rolling out the Moratorium Asked On Wages, Prices HOT SPRINGS, Va. 011—A proposal that President Ei senhower call for a one-year moratorium on wage and price increases was laid yesterday before the Commerce Depart ment's Business Advisory Council. The council, an advisory group of indUstrialists, is holding spring meeting with Secretary of Commerce Weeks, Secretary of Defense McElroy and other government officials. The wage - price moratorium proposal was submitted by a special committee formed at Weeks' request and headed by T. V. Houser chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Ca Committee members urged that all emergency measures be considered in the light of in flationary risks. They were unanimous in holding that in flation is the No. 1 long-term problem of the economy. As a means of preventing a fur ther decline in public purchasing power and possibly to encourage price reduction, the committee said President Eisenhower should issue a call for a moratorium on further wage rate increases by labor and on corresponding price [ increases by business. It said the business com munity slibuld do its part by pushing strong selling cam paigns, improving products and cutting costs and, where pos sible, continuing plant expan sion and modernization pro grams at reasonably stable lev els throughout this year and next. The committee recommended against any general tax reduc tion at this time, but said should the government be faced with the alternative of tax reduction or equivalent spending on projects' not otherwise contemplated, the committee unanimously favors tax reduction. Should tax reduction become necessary, the committee said it should be achieved by an across the-board cut in personal income tax rates. House said committee members were divided on whether corporation taxes also should be reduced and on wheth er excise taxes should be lowered or eliminated. Blue Key Hat Society Taps 18 Sophomore Men Blue Key, junior men's ,hat so ciety, has tapped 18 men. They are: William Corbin, Wal ter Cottom, Loeklann Day, Stan ley Foster, Ronald Glou, Carl Hoffman, Norman Lutkefedder, Galen Myers, John Nagy, Steven Ott, Richard Paxton, Robert Sha piro, Murray Simon, Emanuel Tress, David F. Williams and Kent Yarnall. Coeds to Hold Open House Open houses in all women's residence halls will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, accord ing to the dean of women's office. chased at a desk to be set up Monday on the Helsel Union first floor and at the Alumni Association office,_lo4 Old Main. Hollander said the Pledge Week, drive will attempt "to educate the i Seniors on their responsibilities as alumni" and to explain the , workings of the Alumni Associa tion and the Alumni-Fund. It will also attempt to get them to join one of the 70 District Alumni Clubs after graduation, Hollander said. Sorority past president, who will speak to their groups Mon day night, and a group of student leaders, who will be visiting fra ternities during the drive, will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Parents and Penn State See Page 3 24 Miners Saved From Flooded Pit SHARPLES, W.Va. (Al Twenty-four coal miners, their grime-smeared faces split with wide grins, emerged in single file early yesterday from the flooded wreckage of a 30-year-old mine. They had escaped with their lives from one of the oddest acci dents in West Virginia's long— and some tim ., s tragic—coal min ing history. The tunneled-out earth of the Boone County Coal Corp. No. 2-A mine collapsed under the weight of a two-acr pond atop the slope mine about half a mile from the entrance Tons of waste water gushed harmlessly out of the mine en trance, but other tons backed up into low-lying areas, blocking off the tunnel. Twenty-two of the 2 0 miners at wok at the time were digging coal more than a mile from the entrance. Two others were on a mine motorcar. They saw the water coming, retreated and joined their colleagues. The time was 1 p.m. Thursday. They were mostly hardened old timers, and ea:h felt in his heart it would be a long wait. There was zo food and very little water. It wasn't difficult for them to understand what happened. The pond had become burdened with heavy surface rains. Where he men waited, talked and prayed, the elevation was 74 feet above the entrance and 51 feet higher than the point where the water had caved i• the roof of their mine. Speech Contest Will Be Held The elimination meeting and semi-finals of the annual John Henry Frizzell Extempore Speak ing Contest will be held Monday. Eliminations will take place at 7 p.m. --in rooms previously as [signed to the contestants. Semi finals will follow immediately in 316 Sparks. The participants can speak ei ther on a topic of their choosing or take a topic from a given list. Each entrant will speak in the eliminations without notes for five minutes on their chosen topic. The contestants will be grouped 'in sections. One person will be chosen from each group to speak in the semi finals. Six contestants will be chosen from the semi-final round for the finals, which will be held at 7 p.m. May 10 in 10 Sparks. Application FoOms Due For Elections Committee The deadline for applications for the All-University Elections Committee 11Pg been extended un til noon Monday. Applicants must have a mini mum 2.0 All-University average and will be notified of interview appointments by the Cabinet Per sonnel Interviewing Committee. FIVE CENTS
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