Today's Forei
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VOL. 59. No. 69
Philips
2 Hur
One student l
Christmas vacate
James Murray
when his sports c
the Kylertown J
State police al
Ex-Stu
ent
Arrest©
For Th
by don ca
A former Penn
two Temple Unive
and a 19-year-old
girl were charged
with staging $22,00(
beries in Miami, FI
Miami police i
suspects as: Steph
from Philadelphia,
kowitz, 20, Ventnor.
Friedman, 25, who
a student at the I
Jacqueline Courtm
lantic City, N.J.
State student,
:rsity students
Atlantic City
last Tuesday
C in jewel rob
li.
lentified the
en Rade, 21,
Henry Hers-
N.J., Bernard
claims to be
niversity, and
tn, 19, of At-
Rade was a slue ent here last
year until he was dismissed for
cashing forged checks and pos
sessing an unregls: ered pistol, a
violation of the firearms act.
Friedman claims to be a stu
dent al the University, but his
name could not be found in the
main campus directory.
The 30 jewel rol (beries all oc
curred in swank lotels on the
Miami beachfront.
All the jewelry 1
police sqid, when
cepted a suitcase tl
dressed to a box i
main post office ai
■ vas recovered,
officers inter
-1 e girl had ad
i lumber in the
. Philadelphia,
•aid the four
■ooms of guests
;t to check out,
it had the bell
luggage. Once
t ut, one of the
! i for the room,
the bell hop
The authorities
some entered the r
who were just abou
but who had not yi
hop pick up their
the guests checks <
foursome would sig
entering it before
arrived.
Herskowitz and
arrested Dec. 28, i
cana Hotel by I
John Delaney, oi
Bay Harbour po
said that he found
session three room
worth of travelers
from the Sherry I
tel in Miami Beat
Friedman was
bail and his allege
in $l5OO bail on
ceiving stolen go<
conduct and vagra
tional charge of
' (Continued on
Rade were
n the Ameri
elective Sgl.
the nearby
ice, Delaney
in their pos
keys and $l5O
checks stolen
rontenac Ho
h.
held on $250
id companions
:harges of re
ds, disorderly
ncy. An addi
grand larceny
page eight)
Re c Building
Roosevelt Talk
Seen 'Sell-Out'
No student or non-student tickets remain for the appear
ance of Eleanor Roosevelt scheduled for 8 p.m. tomorrow in
Schwab Auditorium.
Over 1100 tickets were di
constant stream of people who
Hetzel Union desk well in ad
vance of 9 a.m., the time set for
distribution to begiri. Tickets were
gone before noon. ’
Jay Feldstein, All-University
president, said although the seat
ing capacity of Schwab Auditor
ium is not sufficient to satisfy all
the people who wanted to hear
Mrs. Roosevelt's speech, the Lec
ture Series committee which ar
ranged for her appearance, found
it impossible to schedule Recrea
tion Btulding.
“Recreation Hall is not given
atyr Satly |S| Qloll
burg Sophomore Killed,
; in Vacation Accidents
as killed and two others injured in two separate accidents during the
•, sophomore in mechanical engineering from Philipsburg, was killed
ir spun out of control and overturned early Sunday morning, Dec. 28 on
highway near Philipsburg.
Philipsburg said Murray died of a probable fractured skull and broken
neck. A passenger in the Murray
car, Patricia Danko of Clarence,
was in good condition at Philips
burg State Hospital, having suf
fered lacerations and abrasions of
the face.
Slate police said Murray was
driving toward Kylertown when
he lost control of the car on a
curve. The car swerved off the
road on the right side, came
back onto the highway and
went off the left side where it
upset on its roof, pinning the
victim between the seat and the
ground.
Murray, who was graduated
from Philipsburg High School in
1954, attended the Stevens Trade
School in Lancaster, where he
was graduated in 1957 as valedic
torian of his class.
fts
ICIATO
He is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Omer Murray; a
brother, Omer Murray Jr. and .a
grandmother, Mrs. Lucinda Mur
ray.
Two students were injured at
2:30 p.m. Sunday when a car trav
eling south on Route 220 was in
a collision with another about
miles north of Tyrone.
The car. driven by Bachan
Singh, graduate student in phy
sics from India, was traveling
south toward Altoona when it
skidded on a patch of ice and
collided with another car, driv
en by Alan Norman, senior in
electrical engineering from
Pittsburgh, according to state
police at Hollidaysburg. Police
said the Singh car was traveling
at a high rate of speed when the
mishap occurred.
Taken to Tyrone Hospital were
;Mary Rowe, junior in journalism
from Monessert, and Samuel Gith
jens, senior in electrical engineer
ing from Belle Vernon, both pas
sengers in the Norman vehicle.
Githens, who suffered cuts of the
face, hands and knee, was dis
charged from the hospital yester
day and Miss Rowe, who suffered
a fractured left arm and contu
sions of the chest, is listed in good
condition at the hospital.
Also riding in the Norman car
was Rowland Wilkinson, senior
in petroleum and natural gas en
gineering from Munhall, who was
uninjured. Passengers in the Singh
car were Atam Arya and Madan
Kaushish, graduate students in
physics from India, and Carl
Ventrice, graduate in physics
from York. They were taken to
Tyrone Hospital where they were
treated and discharged.
istributed without charge to a
i began lining up in front of the
out for this sort of thing during
the week," Feldstein said. "Ev«
en the Artist Series cannot
schedule Rec Hall except on
Sunday evenings." Feldstein
said if Recreation Hali was
given out during the week it
would mean rescheduling an
entire day's physical education
classes and intramurals.
Feldstein said since the com
mittee had to schedule Schwab
for Mrs. Roosevelt’s speech, it had
(Continued on page, eight), ;
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 6. 1959
Swarthmore
Fraternity
Disaffiliates
In protesting against discrimi
natory membership restrictions,
one of the five social fraternities
at Swarthmore College has left
its national organization and es
tablished a local fraternity.
The action by the Pennsylvania
Kappa chapter of Phi Delta Theta
fraternity was approved by 190
Swarthmore alumni and under
graduates who own the fraternity
house on the campus.
As a result of their protest and
subsequent action, the new frat
ernity, Tau Alpha Omicron, was
established and will use the Phi
Delta Theta house.
For 10 years, the Swarthmore
chapter of Phi Delta Theta sought
to remove the national organiza
tion’s member ship restrictions
against Negroes, Orientals, Jews
and other non-Christians. At each
biennial national convention of
the fraternity since 1948, the
Swarthmore unit has fought to
end these restrictions, but each
time it was turned down.
Last April, the Swarthmore
chapter announced its intention
to withdraw from the national
fraternity if relief were not
granted. Later in the month, the
chapter’s charter was suspended.
In September, it was revoked.
Proxy Receives Honor
For Agricultural Work
President Eric A. Walker was
one of 256 persons to have a tree
dedicated in his honor recently at
the -Thor Research Center for
Better Living at Marengo, 111.
The trees were dedicated to
leading figures who have made
outstanding contributions to
American a g r i cultural progress,
according to founder of the cen
ter, Neil C. Hurley, Jr.
A tree was also dedicated to
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
•—Collegian Photo by Bob Thompaom
WAR STORIES ... Trading experiences about their recent trip to civil-war-tom Cuba over lunch
at the HUB, Larry Matthews, Charles Barter, Karl Francis and Jack Stellmack examine a machete
they brought back.
entail
Rocket Voice Lost
At37o,oooMiles
MOSCOW (/P) —The Soviet cosmic rocket Mechta drean
lost its voice yesterday on its plunge toward an orbit around
the sun.
Radio signals of the lVa-ton projectile faded out as it
passed the 370,960-mile mark and its 62nd hour aloft, in a
headlong dash from the earth into
man’s greatest conquest of space.
Soviet scientists lost track of
their brainchild.
But mute or not, they expected
It to streak into a solar orbit to
morrow or Thursday on a pear
shaped course that possibly—
—barely possibly—might one day
swing it back to earth.
It is due to enter an elliptical
course between the earth and
Mars, they said, taking 15
months to complete the swing
around the sun that the earth
completes in twelve.
The Soviets originally an
nounced the rocket would take
447 days to circle the sun. Last
night they said there had been a
minor miscalculation, that one
revolution would take 450 days.
Tass announced depletion of
power killed the radio signals.
“The program of observations
and scientific investigations of the
rocket has been completed,” the
Soviet news agency said.
It reported the 62 hours of
radio communications enabled
a check on the work of scien
tific instruments aboard and
observations of the rocket's
movements. It was promised
that the scientific results will
be published as the observa
tions are gradually processed.
The Soviets calculate the orbit
of Mechta will have a maximum
diameter of 214% million miles.
By their reckoning, the rocket
will cruise no nearer the sun than
91% million miles. The earth,
with a tighter orbit, ranges from
91% to 94% million miles from
the sun.
“It is not impossible the new
planet will again meet its mother
—the earth—because their paths
will eventually cross near the
place where our small planet first
flew into interplanetary space,”
Prof. Boris Kukarkin, deputy
chairman of the Soviet Astronom
■ ical Council, said in a broadcast.
(Story on page tioo.)
New Year's
Resolution
See Page 4
Temperature
To Remain
Low Today
The freezing weather which at
tacked Pennsylvania on Sunday
bringing high' winds, snow flur
ries and low temepratures will
continue today and tonight.
The severe cold front built up
in northern Canada as a result of
the arctic cold,caused by the deep
snow and temperatures which
ranged as low as 30 to 40 below
zero. These low temperatures to
gether with lack of heat from the
sun caused a low presrure area
to form.
Strong winds gathered behind
this low pressure area and moved
it downward to the northwestern
United States. They then drove
it eastward across the country,
burying the mid-western states in
snow drifts. These storms were
followed by strong winds and
very low temperatures.
As a result of this cold front,
the temperature yesterday reach
ed only 9 after an early morning
low of 4 above zero.
Today will be sunny, but the
chilling cold will persist with the
temperature rising very slowly
from a low of 6 below zero to an
I afternoon high of 14 above. The
cold wave will continue through
tonight with the temperature
dropping to 2 below zero.
Some moderation is in sight for
!tomorrow. The weather will be
! partly cloudy, but not quite so
'cold with a predicted high of 23.
400 Tickets Remain
For Finnish Gym Meet
A total of 400 seats at $2 still
remain for the Finnish gymnas
tics scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday
in Recreation Building.
FIVE CENTS