PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion New Year's Resolution Students will never forget much of the knowledge they gam at the University, nor the work that goes into earning a diploma. But long after they have forgotten grades, class schedules and study hours, many students will recall people, places and events which vitally affected them during the year 1958. Certainly-1958’s pleasant memories will include those dates and friends . . . the first touches of spring on the campus, fall’s long Indian Summer, a cold snap or two ... the fun of big weekends . . . the excitement of the stun ning football victory over an outclassed Pittsburgh . , . And a good many of the students’ 1958 memories will involve travel, both local and long distance. Perhaps students will remember blazing Autumn colois as seen from Skytop or from Route 220 east of Lock Haven . . . laurel in the Seven Mountains or the quiet beauty of the Spruce Creek valley ... the smell of honey suckle, the color of azaleas on a spring weekend home ... Perhaps they will remember a semester’s break trip to New York City or Washington, D.C. ... a New Year’s party ... driving home for spring vacation beside a turbu lent Juniata or a broad Susquehanna . . . travelling a long, white expanse of turnpike or topping Cresson Moun tain . . . Perhaps students will remember summer 1958 as Ocean City beaches and nights at Somers Point... a view from Wyalusing Rocks on Route 6 ... a Lake Erie vaca tion ... or a mountain camping trip ... But travel has brought other memories to students during 1958—unhappy memories of friends and classmates killed or injured on the highways. And undoubtedly stu dents will have some equally unhappy memories of high way tragedies during 1959. The fact is that there are no “safe" roads. A fatal accident can easily occur on busy highways such as Route 322, the Lincoln Highway, Route 220, the Pennsylvania Turnpike. But traffic tragedy is no stranger to Route 6 across northern Pennsylvania, to New Jersey Route 52 out of Ocean City, to the Benner Pike or to the road to Whipple’s. Perhaps students can keep their new, 1959 highway record free from fatalities if they resolve to remember that it takes time to build happy memories—but almost no time at all to wreck happiness on the highways. Need a Study Break? Looking for something diverting to take your mind off those all-too-close finals? Take a glance at the extra curricular lineup for the week: Wednesday night —Eleanor Roosevelt will inaugurate the Lecture Series with a talk in Schwab Auditorium. Thursday night —West Virginia’s top-rated basket ball team, paced by All-American Jerry West, will meet the Nittany Lions in Recreation Building. Friday night —The gymnastics team will hold an ex hibition meet with the touring Finnish gym team in Recreation Building. The meet will also include an exhibi tion by the Finnish women’s gym team. Saturday afternoon —The Nittany Lion gymnasts will again take the Recreation Building floor in a meet with the Temple University squad. Saturday night —Lehigh University's perennially-tops wrestling team will meet the Lion wrestlers in Recrea tion Building. Better study tonight. Fifty-four Years of Student Editorial Freedom Satly dlnlbgian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tueidiy through Saturday morning during the University year. The Dally CnllecUn fg * student-operated newspaper. Entered aa second-clast matter July 3. I*3B at the State College, Pa. Poi* Office under the act of March 8, 1879, Mail Subscription Price: 83.00 per aemeater 83.00 per year. ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor City Editor. David Firttman; Managing Editor, Richard Drayne; Sports Editor, Lou Prato; Associate Sports Editor, Matt Mathews; Personnel and Public Relatione Director. Patricia Evans; Copy Editor, Lynn Ward; Assistant Copy Editor, Dick Fisher; Photography Editor, Robert Thompson, Credit Mgr., Janlee Smith; Local Ad Mgr.. Tom Buckey: Asst. Local Ad Mgr., George Me lurk: National Ad Mgr., Betsy Brnckbill; Promotion Mgr.. Kitty Bur* gert: Personnel Mgr.. Mickey Nash; Classified Ad Mgr., Rae Waters; Co- Circulation Mgr*., Mary Anne First and Murray Simon; Research and Records Mgr., Mary Ilorbein; Office Secretary, Myla Johfiion. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Fditor. Bill Jaffe: Copy Editor. Jeanette Saxe; Wire Editor, Cathy Fleck: Assistants. Tom Eggler. Judy Rosenblum. Betsy An* v derson. Jim Sernll, Su Pohl&nd, Karen Swift. Sue Hill, Barbara Yunk, Stevie Eatrlecher, Janet Bcahan, Bill Mausteller, Ksryl du Ch&cek, Judy Grundy, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA ROBERT PICCONE Business Manager Letters Reader Blasts 'Safety' Issue TO THE EDITOR: I have just seen the Dec. 19 issue of The Daily Collegian, which you erron eously called your “Safety Issue." I think your first line in the paper ‘’These are not meant to disgust you but to frighten you" in referring to the pictures of wrecked automobiles spread across the front page is back wards. The pictures are disgust-, ing and I am surprised to see a paper which should have high standards and is read by an intel ligent public of University stu dents and faculty would have to stoop to such cheap sensational ism to put across a point as im portant as highway safety. How much better your issue would be if you took a positive approach toward highway safety and printed constructive articles to increase a driver's confidence and ability to drive safely. Pic tures of wrecks, death and injury, which are not retained by the viewer for more than a few min utes, I would expect to see in some backwoods rag or fourth rate big city sheet but not in a paper which should pattern itself after the finest papers printed.' J. Philip Rea, '6O Gazette TODAY Camera Club, 7*30 pm, 212 HUB Collegian Promotion Staff, 8:45 p.m„ 218 Willard Delta Sigma Pi, 7:30 p.m.. Lambda Chi Alpha Education Student Council, 6-30 p.m., 109 Boueke Freshman Council, 6.30 pm., 217 HUB Horae Economic* Club, 7 pm. Living Center Judicial Board, 7 p.m., 214 HUB Council, 7*30 pm.. Panheilenic Alpha Epnilon Phi auito Kappa Phi Kappa, 5:15 p.m., 212 HUB Mineral Industries Student Council, 7 pm, 218 HUB Neu Bayrlseher Schuhplattler, 7 p.m., 2 White Panheilenic Council, 6*30 p.m., 203 HUB Spring Week Award Night Committee, 8 pm.. 217 HUB Statistical Computation Workshop, 4:15 p.m., 105 Forestry Town Independent Men, 7 p m., 203 HUB University Christian Association Social Commission, 6:45 p.m, Chapel Library Wesley Foundation Choir, 6:45 p.m., Wes- ley Foundation Wesley Foundarion Communion, 5:15 p.m.. Wesley Foundation Women’s Choir, 6 p.m., HUB assembly hall WS(»A Senate, 6:30 p.m. 217 HUB WSGA Judicial, 5 p.m., 217 HUB UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Barbara Hirleman, Natalie Holland, Ar thur Holme*, Sheila Ibsen, John Johnson, Linda Mannen, Gwendolyn McAllister, Loifls Metevsa, William Sawczyn, Thatcher Schwarts, Uuby Seaman, Erland Stevens. Frederic Tletz, Richard Weeden, Edward Wigger, Marilyn Wiley, Samuel Woolsey, Carol Skarada, Clare Rose. Killing of Trout Prompts Study By University The State Fish Commission, the State Department of Health and the University will unite to de termine the cause of the recurrent killing of young trout at the Ben ner Spring project near State Col lege. William Voigt Jr., executive di rector of the Fish Commission, and Walter A. Lyon, chief of the Division of Sanitary Engineering, will meet with President Eric A. Walker on Thursday to determine policy and procedure for the study. According to Walker and Voigt, the study will "encompass all the possible or potential sources of pollution in the Spring Creek drainage—human, industrial and agricultural.” Commissioner Voigt reassured sportsmen that despite the losses, the Fish Commission does not an ticipate any difficulty in deliver ing the full complement of 2.5 million fish it has earmarked for state streams. Walker offered the University’s research facilities to the state af ter it was reported that 50,000 young trout had been removed from the raceway at the Benner Spring project when fish were found dying from an undeter mined cause. • Getting into New England by automobile will be easier than ever this year. Both Connecticut and Massachusetts have new turn pikes, and Maine and New Hamp shire have their own fast toll roads. Little Man on Campps by Dick Ply ou guys better run along now, Worthal has to stuc pretty rugged 'Figure Drawing' lest tomorrow." from here to infinity Collegian Clan Wild Over Scan Collegian has done it again . . . This time, your newspaper has installed a Fairchild Scan-a-Graver to make engravings for pictures used in the paper. To some people, the process of making photo-engrav irigs is very complicated. To others, it is quite simple. To us, it will be easy as a breeze after all the trouble we had getting the machine in stalled in its place in the edi torial office late last night. “Bartlett,” as one of the staff members affectionately named the machine, arrived in the office in five pieces. One of the parts was enclosed in a crate the size of a cof fin, causing all sorts of rumors to spread before the truth was actually known One report er supposedly even pored through the Thompson student directory trying to find a student named Bartlett who was supposed to be entombed in the box. Once the men from the scan a-graver company arrived, the task of putting together the contraption began. Firsi, there was a table needed to rest Bartlett tor the next decade or so. This prob lem was solved in a hurry, with an old filing cabinet. The only drawback to using the cabinet was that it took five men 20 minutes to maneuver the thing into the office. Three other men were need- THERES JUST NOTHING SACRED TO SONGWRITERS "—(ANY MORE! , ' TUESDAY. JANUARY 6. 195» by bob thompson ed to lift our friend onto tha 3-foot high cabinet. It was then we noticed that we were miss ing another rather minor part of the machine—something to hold the electronic amplifying elements. - A small table seemed to ba the ideal thing, but it was a little too big. As a mattter of fact, we had to cut the legs and trim the sides. We pushed—or rather rock ed—the table under the cab inet with a little bit of diffi culty, until we found why it wouldn't fit. We had wedged, our advisor under the table in the rush. Reporters took the guise of mountain climbers as they en tered the editor’s office. They had to climb over the dis arranged desks and the cartons of parts scattered in the room. They say two cub reporters entered the office shortly be fore dinner last night, and they haven't been heard from since. Finally, after seemingly years of exhaustive work, tha technicians closed their tool kits, and the onlookers left. Now, we thought, we could begin to make some engrav ings. There's only one draw back. Because of a necessary train ing period, we can't use the thing until next semester, Yo, Rinny! LISTEN TO THAT, JUILLYOU? j
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