-Hour. Dial Phones Planned VOL. 59. No. 111 STATE COLLEGE; PA.. THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25, 1958 FIVE CENTS ary Must Expand Join State System Lib To • By JANET DURSTINE . ttee Library may have to double its number of volumes if it joins a proposed ibrary system, according to University librarian Ralph W. McComb. The • state-wide State funds may be allocated for the increased expansion, McComb said. The num mes would have to be increased from the present. 500,000 to arout!d 1 million. ate library plan was proposed after a -survey by the Pennsylvania State Li iation. The association hopes to have the plan brought up by the state legisla- ber of! vol The s brary Asso The Univ sity library would serve as one of four regional re search librar" •s in the state under the plan. Ot er regional libraries would be t e Free Library in Philadelphia,i the Penn sylvania State Libraryin , Harrisburg and the Carnegie Library in Pitts- burgh. The University library would also have to increase its exten sion staff, McComb said. Twenty-seven libraries would serve as district libraries, one level above local libraries. The University library would be the district library for Centre, Mifflin and Juniata Counties and part of Clearfield County. Lending services would be ex tended to lion-members of the student body and 'faculty. The proposal also recommehds that subject specialists be added to the Pattee Library staff. The library has no official lending service for the non-Uni versity community. However, persons who are not connected with the University may use the library's research facilities and may borrow books not in demand by students or faculty. The system would have no central control. No local li braries would be absorbed. The survey was financed by federal goveknment funds for the development ,of rural libraries and by funds fr6m the Pennsyl vania State Library Association. Dr. Lowell Martin, director of the Library School at Rutgers Uni versity, headed the research team. .... GOP Candidate To Visit County Arthur T. McGonigle, Republi can gubernatorial candidate, will address a county-wide GOP din ner at 6:30 p.m. today in the new YMCA building in Belle fonte. local Re üblican candidates ; including Co gressman James E. Van Zandt; . Howard Stewart, candidate for State Senate and *Eugene M. Fulmer, candidate for General Assembly, will appear with McGonigle. Executive: Committee members of the. Coin y. Republican Party have report • d that tickets for the dinner, are still available. Those wishin: to attend have been requested to ake reservation's by noon today. Freshmen May Apply For Positi 1=1711711 blanks for self as Women's Recrea= Lion representatives able to freshman co- - Applicatio nominations tion Assoti are now avail eds. • I The applia til .0ct..7, c dean of wo 'Union desk !ations, available un n be secured at the en's office, Hake' nd White . Hall. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE n —Collegian Photo by Bob Thompston SUB-TREE-ANEAN WORK is obviously what is -meant by the sign. Passersby were puzzled to see this manhole—out of which a man is emerging—being guarded by this sign. Actually, the work on the trees is progressing a few yards away on the Mall. Pig Rally Will End By LIANNE CORDERO A pep rally and a "Greased Pig Scramble" will bring the end of Customs to thousands of cheering freshmen tonight. , The pig scramble is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. It will be held at the tennis courts at the corner of Pollock Road and Route• 322. Hatmen and hatwomen have' been requested by the Freshman Customs Board to be at the tennis courts by 6:15 p.m. Twelve freshman men- 7 11 from the animal husbandry 1 course and one Customs violator—have been selected to participate in the contest They are David Moyer, James Batz, Edward Mimnaugh, David Seamans,. Geoffrey Turner; Mar tin Shilcock, Gilbert Stout, Jos eph Shapiro, John' Skinner, Ed ward Sanders, James Mansmann and James Myers. The freshmen will_be diirided into six teams of' two each. Each. team will be giten three minutes to catch: the' greased pig. The team that catches the pig will officially ,end Cus toms. Only the participants will be allowed within the fenced-in ten nis courts. All freshmen must wear' their dress Customs to the contest. The 150-pound male pig has been selected by Dr. James L. Gobble, assistant professor in ani (Continued ow page two). and Penn Pep Rally Freshman Customs —Drawing by Nancy _Wigfield New System to End Room Telephones You'll be able to call in or out of all residence halls at any hour of the day or night by next fall. However, the coming switch-over of all campus phones to an automatic dial system will mark an end to private phones in individual residence hall rooms. The elimination of private residence hall phones in favor of hall phones will be necessary because of the tremendous cost involved, W. F. Diehl, manager of telephones in the Department of Physical Plant, said. Diehl said the dial system— 'which will include University of fice phones—will mean "much better service." Here's how it will• work: Every residence hall room will be assigned a phone number con taining the exchange "UNiver sity," followed by five digits, as UN-4-3256. The assigned number can be dialed from anywhere in town or by any out-of•town operator. A tall corning to, say, Room 111 McElwain, will ring a bell in the , coed's room which she will an swer on the hall phone. -The hall phbnes will be placed; at strategic locations and come out to about one phone for every three-and-a-half rooms: Wiring for the hall phones .in most residence halls was begun laSt June and the tearing out of room phones will be started after Commencement next June. The new Telephone Building will house the mechanism for the dial system. Part of the building will be completed by the end of January, Diehl said, so that 'Western Electric Corp. can start moving in its dialing equipment on Feb. 15, as sched uled.' The system was in the planning stage for two-and-a-half years before it was approved by the Board of Trustees, Diehl said. NYU Prof Will Ghie Lecture on Cosmology Dr. Milton K. Munitz, profass'or of philosophy at New York Uni versity, will present the first talk of the Distinguished Lecture,Ser ies in Philosophy at 8 tonight in 10 Sparks. The lecture, entitled "Historic Trends and Outcomes in Cos mology," will be open to the public, The Air Force ROTC Band will lead the "Greased Pig Scramble" spectators to the Penn game pep rally to be held on the lawn in front of Old Main at 7. Speakers for the rally will be backfield coach Joe Paterno and All-University Pr esident Jay Feldstein. Senior class President Charles Welsh will be the master of ceremonies. Head cheerleader JObn Lange said 13 cheerleaders, the Nittany Lion and Frothy will be on hand to help lead the cheerng. Lange said he would like to see a little better turnout than the number of students that turned up last week for the Ne braska rally. By DAVE FINEMAN Collegian City Editor Government Troops Halt Beirut Riots BEIRUT, Lebanon (A—Leban on's new President Gen. Fund Chehab stopped a deadly out burst of civil warfare here yes terday with heavy tanks and troops. Last night he named a former rebel leader as his pre mier. Nineteen were killed in the day's communal fighting between Christians and Moslems. The new premier who will head the government under the, iron fisted chief of state is 37-year-old Rashid Karami. Karami immediately announced a seven-man cabinet would run the government. It includes three former opppsition leaders and four so-called neutrals. The first job will be to try for peace between the two big reli gious communities. Scores were reported injured in wild flurries of shooting, bombing and car burning. • Lebanese forces had orders to shoot to kill in decisive show of armed strength on Chehab's first full day in office. U.S. troops were rolled out be tween clashing Christian and Moslem factions in the hopeful role of peacemakers and to pro tect American residents. The rebellion-torn nation is about half Christian, half Mos lem. Chehab is officially Christian but there is also some Moslem background in his family. He took office Tuesday as the newly (Continued on-page three) Black Ma Opens Improved Runway The newly revamped and lengthened north-south runway at Black Moshannon Airport was opened to air traffic this week for the first time. Operations to lengthen the run way by 24,000 feet to provide a mile of paved surface were be gun early in the summer. The first flight from the ex tended runway left at 7 p.m. Mon day. Since then regularly sched uled flights and transient air visitors have used the new run way exclusively. APhiO to Hold Meeting Alpha Phi Omega service fra ternity will hold a meeting for pledges and prospective members at 8 p.m. Monday in 214 Hetzel Union. , First semester freshmen are permitted to rush and pledge the service fraternity. ,Mild, Cloudy Skies Predicted Today The weather man has prom ised mild weath ,er but today's (skies will remain (cloudy. The tern ! iperatures will range from 75 to 1 1 80 degrees, he predicted.
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