Today's F recast: Ma! and W j VOL. 58. No. 14 PiLa 'Confiscation' by Gentzel Lan entzel, owner of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house, last night labeled the !in proceedings against the site by the State College Parking Authority as Ithan a surreptitious property confiscation which I mean to resist to the end :ourts." Perry H. eminent dom "nothing mor through the lid that he would not stop at the Centre County Court. , ity has been tryir g for several months to obtain his property for an off-street Gentzel s .1 The auth . f parking lot btu' posed them at Gentze as op every step. Last a bill of equity T County Court ent the condem roperty. week he filed with the Cent seeking to pre nation of his A hearing tomorrow but as scheduled for If was announced 1 the hearing of be held for at due to the death of the board of aw the property probably will least a month of a member view which lasi Friday. Gentzel exp •ssed doubts as to whether off-s treet parking lots are the answe, to the borough's parking problr. He said that in Philadelphia. city councilman urged the city to sell all its park ing garages.- Gentzel G said the borough should check on what the income will be from parking lots in com parison to what the parking meters are paying now. He said that many, of the meters on College Avenue and Beaver Avenue are not in use during business hours. "Why put in more meters," said Gentzel, "when those you have now are not in use? The rise in price from five cents to ten cents an hour will make it even worse." Gentzel said he was sorry Phil lip Johnston, who was a Belle fonte attorney and member of the board of view, died Saturday. "He had an idea of what I- had done with that property," said Gentzel, "and told me 'it is in conceivable that the borough could take away your property after the improvements' you have made'." "This is not my fight," he said. "I am backed by a lot of public spirited citizens." Gentzel de clined to name any of the persons behind him and merely said that they were "ministers and proper ty holders." He added that "the authority will be surprised when we take this to the courts." Meeting Will Be Held For Women Commuters A meeting for all commuting women will be held at 12:30 p.m. today in Grangq playroom. Prospects :or a new commut ers' lounge will be discussed and decided upon. Senate Plans to Vote On Calendar Preferences , The University Senate will vote May 29 on which calendar system it thinks is best for the University—a quarter system, a trimester system or the present two-semester system with summer sessions. During its 'May 1 meeting, the Senate refused to accept the quarter or trimester systems 1.1 and ordered a further committee study of the lans. Lawrence E. Dennis, vice presi dent for aca emit affairs, has stressed the i portance of having the semester lan problem .work ed out before 'the University sub mits its next biennium - budget in October. ' He said tho_ absence 'of a worked-out plan would weak-' en the case of the new budget request before the legislature. The Senate is scheduled to vote on two ballots: first, on which system is "preferred; and second, which summer session would be best under these systems. , According to a report by Chair man - Fred M. Coombs, senators will be asked to indicate their 011- 11[ r 4r Condemnation Labeled —Collegian Photo by Marty Scherr YOU'RE ON Engineer Mike Levine, sitting in control room, signals to announcers Steve Boyd (left), Mary Lou Rowe (center), and Roy Shells. WDFM open house was held yesterday and tours were conducted through their studios by staff members. Seniors to Select 11 Honor Students Graduating seniors will elect their honor men and women —Spoon Man, Cane Man, Barrel Man, Pipe Man, Fan Girl, Bow Girl, Slipper Girl, Class Poet, Mirror Girl, and a man and woman Class Donor—when they pick up their La Vies and vote for the senior class gift Fellowship Elects Head Earl Harbaugh, freshman in agricultural education from Rouz erville, has been elected president of the United Student Fellowship of the United Church of Christ. first and second•choice of semes ter systems. The summer sessions ballot will be in two .parts. one for the quarter and semester plans and the other for the trinies .ter plan. • The present summer sessions plan of 3 weeks- 6' weeks-3 weeks will be included on the ballot to gether with other suggested pro grams. In other business, the Sen ate is expected to act on a .16- page recommendation of changes of Individual courses in each of the colleges. The Senate also is expected to act .on a- change of , its calendar committee to include class sched ule policies. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1958 oday, tomorrow, and Monday. The slate of 23 senior men and 20 senior women was - drawn up by the senior night committee— and other senior leaders. The 20 women to be voted on are: Suzanne Aiken, Grace An tes, Marian Beatty, Karen Bix ler, Mary Conrad, Janet David son, Barbara Drum, Marilyn Elias, Lynn Glassburn and Ju dith Harkison. Mazy Harrison, Carolyn John son, Barbara Kinnier, Molly Lockwood,. Ginny Minch, Pa tricia Moran, Anne Nitrauer, Myrna Painter, Nancy Sifter and Susanne Smith. The 23 men are: Stephen Bai dy, Russell Beatty, Joseph Boeh ret, Vincent Carocci, Edward Dubbs, Peter Fishburn, Jere Fridy, Stephen Higgins, Thomas _Hollander, James Jimirro. Richard Martin, John Morgan, Bob Nurock, Leslie. Phillabaum, Ronald Rainey, John Rhodes, Robert Stroup, David Tressler, Lester Walter, Louis Wanderly, George Wills. The five men and six women receiving the highest number of votes will be the senior class honor men and women. The orig inal selection committee w ill designate specific honors in ac cordance with the students' achievements. The chosen II will be pre sented with their awards at the Senior Class Night program, 7:30 p.m. - June 6, in Schwab Auditorium. The male class donor will be selected -on the basis of leader ship and accomplishments. He Will present - awards to. the other (Continued on page five) rgiatt Foreign Aid Plan Tentatively OK'd WASHINGTON (IP)—The Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee tentatively approved yesterday the full amount Presi dent Eisenhower is asking for military Assistance and defense support in his new foreign aid program. It runs to $2,635,000,000. The committee also wrote into the big mutual security bill a declaration of policy sup porting continued aid to India to help that neutral nation com plete its economic development plan. Sen. William F. Knowland of California, a committee mem ber and the Senate's Republi can leader, told reporters after the closed-door session that the actions were tentative and still subject to reconsideration. Eisenhower is seeking to con tinue the foreign aid program through the fiscal year starting July 1. The House has author ized only $2,603,000,000. On voice votes the Senate com mittee approved: •Military assistance of $1,800,- 000,000 to Allied nations, includ ing planes, tanks, ammunition and other military hardware. The House held the figure to $1,640,- 000,000. • The full 835 million the Pres ident asked for defense support economic aid to countries with which the United States has de fense pacts, to enable them to support stronger defense forces that their own economies will al low The House had voted 775 million. *A provision requested by Sens. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and John Sherman Cooper (ft- Ky.) committing Congress to sup port, along with other nations, as sistance of "the type, magnitude, and duration, adequate to assist India to complete successfully its current program for economic de velopment." Serota Selected Tribunal Chairman Roger Serota, senior in pre . - medicine from Philadelphia, has been elected chairman of student Tribunal for the coming year. Richard Wilson, junior in in dustrial engineering from Mead ville, has been elected secretary. Thomas Barnes, William Jaffe, Robert Harrison, Kenneth Gregg and Lochlann Dey, -alternate, have been named to fill junior positions on Tribunal next year. Burns Found Innocent; Must Pay Court Costs James Burns, former senior in hotel administration from Altoona, was acquitted yesterday in Centre County Court on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, but, will have to pay the cost of his prosecution. The charge resulted from an accident which occurred January 10 when Burns was; driver of the car in which hisifendant in a misdemeanor. fraternity brother, Jack Welsh; Sharp said it is "not usual" for at that time a junior in forestry this to happen, but it is not rare, from New Castle, was killedleither. Edward' L. Willard, former when Burns' car went off the district attorney, said that plac road and into a ditch. , ling the-cost of the trial on the Richard Sharp, district attor- defendant when he is not guilty ney, said 'ast night he did not! is a peculiarity of Pennsylvania know exactly how much the costs !law and a practical interpreta would run but estimated them at ition of this would be "you're not about $125. This would include iguilty, but don't do it again." He witness fees, justice of the peace added that this does not lessen costs and costs for the judge and 'to any degree Burns' guilt. jury. The Commonwealth based 4its The jury, which deliberated case on the fact that Burns had for two hours, decided Burn sibeen drinking and his mother would have to pay the costs.lhad paid a fine imposed by the Sharp said it is the jury's pre- jus.e of the peace. rogative to place the cost on the The defense stated Burns was county, the prosecution, except not intoxicated, but made no at for a public officer, or the de-I (Continued on page five) Office Pro Given Sophs For Fight Three sophomores were placed on office probation yesterday by the Subcommittee on Discipline of the Senate Committee on Stu dent Affairs for fighting in pub lic. The three men were involved in a fight in front of the Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity house May 3 with two alumni of the frat ernity. Harold L. Perkins, associate dean of men, said that facts sur rounding the case were some what obscure and that the sub committee based its decision on the fact that the trio was fighting in public. As far as can be ascertained, one of the three made derogatory remarks to one of the alumni who was walking with his date and the date of the other man. The other two then came to his aid, but said they had no idea at the time how the fight had started. They testified to Student Tribun al, which heard the case last week but did not return a deci sion, they saw their companion involved in the fight with the two alumni and went into "even :up the sides." All three of the men were mem bers of the varsity football team and one was dropped from the squad. One of the men had been on probation before, but this had been removed; a .3econd was ctir rently on probation and the third. Ihad never been on probation at all. By NEAL FRIEDMAN Marked Improvement See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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