Today's Fc
Warm
and Clt
reeasts
VOL. 59. No. 70
High
May
Bring
rozen
To F
;s may have a chance to thaw during a slight
pping cold wave.
■es are expected to rise today to a high of 24
Frozen nosi
relief in the gri
Temperatu:
degrees,
of the present cold air mass is expected to
The center
move off the C,
rolina this
er no permanent
icted because of
air still covering
n of the country,
mperalures yes*
he Western part
a Weather Bur
at the mercury
rees below zero
8 below at
low at Philips
w at Brookvillo
afternoon, howev
■warmup is pred
a blanket of cold
the eastern sectk
The lowest ie
lerday were in 1
of the state. Th
eau reported lli
reached 12 deg:
in Snow Shoe.
Blairsville, 2 hi
burg and 1 beli
and Somerset.
Temperatures reached zero de
grees at Pittsburgh, Butler, Un
ionville and Kane. The University
weather station recorded a high
of 18 degrees yesterday in State
College.
The Associated Press reported
that the season's coldest wea
ther and strong winds spread
across the Appalachians to the
Atlantic coast. Stormy weather
has lessened in the far west
where strdng winds, rain and
snow plagued the Pacific states
Monday.
Even the southern states were
not spared as freezing weather
spread as far south as northern
Florida.
The weather bureau had pre
dicted record-shattering low tem
peratures for Pennsylvania but
warm air moved in from the West
more rapidly than expected and
temperatures are slightly higher
than predicted.
The freezing cold wave that
spread across the eastern two
thirds of the nation resulted in
at least 44 deaths in 14 states.
In Now York Cily yesterday
a floating barge, moved by
gusts of wind up to 75 miles an
hour, struck the ferryboat Tom
kinsville and injured 16 passen
gers.
Elsewhere in the city the. cold
winds interrupted subway ser
vice and traffic and made landing
©f planes difficult.
The weather report for tomor
row indicates an expected low of
}9 degrees in State College. Light
pnow is predicted for Thursday
With a high of 27 degrees expect
ed in the afternoon. Sub-freezing
temperautres will continue Fri
day.
7 AF Students
Die in Flames
At Syracuse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (fP) Seven
Air Force students perished in
their sleep yesterday and 13 oth
ers were injured in a wild scram
ble to flee wind-twhipped flames
that made an inferno of a bar
racks dormitory at Syracuse Uni
versity.
Twenty-five a:
without injuries
mostly by jumpii
dows of the on«
Firemen, battli
weather at 6 a.m.,
from spreading
barracks of a un
development atop
in" the city.
The 45 men, ir
their teens, had ji
to the university i
course in Russia
quarters is Wrigl
Force Base, Dayt
they are attached
tute of Technolog
Fire officials sj
parently started j
steam .boiler in t
22-room building,!
fabricated of me
tion board.
rmen escaped
of consequence,
ig through win
-story. building,
ig in near zero
kept the flames
o the 14 other
iversity housing
a hill overlook-
any of them in
st been assigned
or a nine-month
n. Their head
it-Patterson Air
m, Ohio, where
to the Air Insti-
aid the fire ap
from an oil-fed
; ie center of the
, which was pre
t|al and composi-
(Hljr Satly
24 Degrees
Thaw
Students
PROGRESS WAS FROZEN SOLID by the recent cold wave.
These four hardy excavation crew members have been alone on
the Hammond Engineering construction site. General workmen,
who have an option of working or not, have not been on the job
yet in 1959.
New Facutty Column
To Appear Weekly
A new regular feature, beginning tomorrow, will bring
to The Daily Collegian writings by some of the most literate
and well-informed members of the University faculty.
To be known as “The Lee'
be written each time by a di:
Our guests will not be asked
to write on a specific subject, nor
will they be asked to write about
“tin ir field.”
Tie kind of faculty members
we hope to present in ‘‘The Lec
tern” will have no “field” as such.
They will be men and women
able to write on many things.
University Plans TV 'Bull Session'
“Bull Sessions,” a new bi
weekly television series which
will be sponsored by the Uni
versity’s public information
department, will deal with
integration, labor corruption
and communism.
The first program of the series
will be telecast at 12:30 p.m. Sun
day over WFBG-TV, Channel 10,
Altoona.
Gilbert S. Aberg, who is pro
ducing “Bull Session,” says the
main objective is “to promote and
encourage student participation
in and discussion of some of the
day's more challenging problems.”
Aberg said Dr. William G. Ma
ther, professor and head of the
department of sociology and an
thropology, would “sit in" on the
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 7. 1959
Republicans Eject
Martin for Halleck
WASHINGTON (TP) —House Republicans ejected their veteran leader, Rep. Joseph W.
Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, Tuesday on the eve of a new congressional session.
A rebellion pointed toward giving the party high command a more aggressive, vigorous
look shifted the leadership mantle to Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana.
By DAVE FINEMAN
Collegian City Editor
tern,” the weekly column will
fferent guest faculty member.
Their subjects will be of their
own choosing.
Tomorrow’s guest will -be Dr.
J. Mitchell Morse, assistant pro
fessor of English.
Dr. Morse's column deals, in
part, with inielleciualism ver
(Continued on page five)
opening program. “There’ll be a
different faculty member for each
program,” Aberg explained, “and
his role will be to guide the dis
cussion rather than to lead it.
This is primarily a student pro
gram and that’s the way faculty
members want to keep it.”
Among the subjects to be dis
cussed in the series are the pre
sent-day trend toward conform
ity, the two-party political sys
tem, corruption in labor, the
spread of communism, and the
movement of society away from
rather than toward agriculture
as a way of life.
Faculty members already en
rolled for the series are Dr. Brice
Harris, professor of English liter
ature; Dr. M. Nelson McGeary,
professor and head of the political
science department; Edwin W.
Zoller, professor of art; Dr. Roy
C. Buck, - associate professor of
pgiatt
The changeover provided a
dramatic, spectacular prelude
for a similar showdown with
in Senate Republican ranks
and for the opening of the
heavily Democratic 86th Con
gress at noon Wednesday.
For their part. Democrats were
free of leadership feuds. They
picked another veteran, Sam Ray
burn of Texas, for a ninth term
as speaker of the House. Ray
burn, 77 Tuesday, already has
held the post longer than any
other man.
Senate Democrats will go along
Wednesday by giving the nod to
another Texan, Lyndon B. John
son, to stay on as majority leader.
Democrats were fussing,
though, about the ancient issue
of the filibuster—an issue that
begins coming to a head on the
Senate floor Wednesday. Sen
ate Republicans were in on the
filibuster dispute, too.
Johnson was reported to be
working on a new compromise
proposal in hopes of avoiding a
fight which would shatter Dem
ocratic unity.
A thin, four-vote margin was
the' difference between success
and failure in the revolt against
the House GOP leadership—the
first succesful one in ?8 years.
The outcome may leave dam
aging scars on the depleted ranks
of Republican congressmen.
Halleck said he is “absolutely
certain that the White House did
not intervene” in the leadership
contest.
Marlin pinned part of the re
sponsibility far his defeat on
aides of President Eisenhower
and Vice President Nixon.
Marlin said he thought some
While House aides "though I
was a little more independent
than I should be—of them."
“I don’t think the President did
anything against me,” he told
newsmen. But he said some White
House aides conferred with Hal
leck about a month ago and they
may have had a little bit to do
with his ouster. White House
press secretary James C. Hagerty
said Eisenhower took no part in
the fight.
Asked if Nixon was instrumen
tal in his defeat, Martin replied:
“All I know is that all his people
were against me—actively against
Ime.”
rural sociology; Dr. Lean Gorlow.
associate professor of psychology,
and Dr. Kent Forster, professor
of European history.
Participating in the first pro
gram witlwAc. Mather will he
undergradHHt Charles S. Flet
cher, Jr„ Edwin
A. Ambusltfllra. South Easton,
Mass.; Janet E. Stakel, Batavia,
N.Y.; Suzanne R. Day, West
Chester; and graduate students
Jewell Curd well, Fountain
Spring, Tenn., and Nolverl
Scott, Washington, D.C.
During the summer months the
University’s public information
department sponsored ‘Headline’,
a panel-type program devoted to
current events. Currently the de
partment is sponsoring a 10-min
ute program, “Penn State —lt’s
Men and Ideas,” which is con
cerned with the emerging educa
tional crisis.
State of
the Parties
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Kills Student
On Vacation
Christopher Kopernik, freshman
in chemistry from Hamburg, died
Dec. 28 as the result of an auto
mobile accident near Shickshinny.
State police at the Shickshinny
barracks said that Kopernik was
the only person in his 1958 sports
car, when it ran off the road on
U.S. Route 239, seven miles west
of Shickshinny at Huntington
Mills. Police said the driver ap
parently lost control of the ve
hicle when it ran off the north
side of the highway and climbed
an embankment. It struck a large
rock and plumetted back toward
the road on its left side, throwing
the victim onto the highway,
turned upright and continued 80
feet down the highway where it
was demolished when it struck a
tree, police said.
Kopernik was taken to Nanti
coke State Hospital in the Shick
shinny ambulance where he died
nine hours later of a fractured
skull, according to police.
A friend of Kopernik said that
he was chairman of quiet hours
in his residence hall unit, Hamil
ton 3, and that he had to leave
school shortly before the Christ
mas vacation because of illness.
Kopernik is survived by his par
ents, Dr. and Mrs. Francis Koper
nik, both of whom are staff physi
cians at Charles Minor Hospital,
Hamburg, where they reside.
Sharp Sends
Yule Wishes
To University
A cheery card addressed to
“Students, Faculty and Staff of
the Pennsylvania State Univer
sity” arrived from Drexel Hill,
Pa., the day before Christmas.
Larry Sharp, the freshman who
was almost totally paralyzed
when he fell on his neck while
exercising on a trampoline in Rec
reation Building a year ago last
October, sent the best wishes of
the season to each of us.
Happy to be home with his
family for the holidays and in
good spirits, Larry is doing “very
well.” He spent last Christmas in
the New York University Reha
bilitation Center from which he
was recently discharged. He re
turns to the hospital at intervals
for physical check-ups.
Nearly $3OOO was collected for
Larry at the football game this
fall; this will be added to other
funds collected in his behalf dur
ing recent months and forwarded
to him early this year.
Student leaders are currently
engaged in planning a “Larry
Sharp Week” this spring to al
leviate still further the heavy fi
nancial burden imposed on
Sharp’s family by the accident.
Eleanor Roosevelt will speak
at 8 tonight in Schwab Audi
torium on "Russia —The Coun
try and the People as I Saw
Them-" No tickets remain for
the lecture.
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