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VOL. 59. No. 78
Feldstei
Report
Fees, H
All-University Cabinei
reports on the imposs
getting a breakdown c
fees and the reaction of
of Trustees to the Het
expansion program.
All-University president Jay
Feldstein will present 'these re
ports at 7 tonight in 203 Hetzel
Union.
Feldsiein and Agriculture Stu
dent Council president Robert
Laßar, after confering with
Dean of Admissions Robert G.
Bernreuter about student fees,
found that the fees are not
broken down and distributed.
They discovered that student
fees as well .as other income
allocated to the University are
compiled into one large sum
which is then distributed for
various operating expenditures.
This investigation was request
ed by Laßar at the last Cabinet
meeting of the fall semester. La-
Bar wished to find out just how
the student fees were spent and
how the centers and campuses fit
into these expenditures.
The total amount of all sources
of income, including fees, is out
lined in President Eric A. Walk
er’s “Report to the People of the
Commonwealth” which contains
all pertinent information concern
ing the University.
Carmella LaSpada will pre
sent the final plans for Larry
Sharp Week for the approval of
Cabinet. Cabinet will also hear
a report by Ellen Donovan on
the extension of library hours
during the final examination
period.
Frank Pearson, chairman of the
town affairs committee, will re
port on the impossibility of in
stalling traffic lights at College
Ave. and Pugh St. and College
Ave, and Garner St. Pearson said
that because of the plans for the
cloverleaf intersection, installa
tion of new traffic lights will
have to be postponed for at least
one year.
County March of Dimes
To Sponsor 'Fly-Away'
The Centre County March of
Dimes organization will sponsor a
special “Fly-Away” promotion at
the University Park Airport from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday.
Tickets for flights in Cessna and
Piper airplanes, flown by Civil
Aeronautics Administration certi
fied commercial pilots, will be
sold at $2 for single-engined
planes and $5 for twin-engined
rides.
In case weather postpones
Saturday’s rides the entire promo
tion will be held on Sunday.
8 Survive
65 Killed in Jet Crash
NEW YORK ( '/P) —Sixty-five
persons were presumed dead
yesterday in the cfash of a
spanking new turbo-jet Amer
ican airliner into the East
River near LaGuardia Field.
There were only eight known
survivors.
Radio ground equipment that
might have averted t ie disaster
was not available to the ultra
modern airliner, although La-
Guardia is one of the lusiest air
ports in the world.
Twenty-two bodies had been
recovered from the icy tidal wa
ters of the river after the shat
tering Tuesday midnig it crash in
rain and fog.
The plane was loaded to ca-
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; :el Union
—Collegian Photo by Marty Schorr
"DOWN A LITTLE/' directs Ralph Hosterman, supervisor in
charge of bakery production, to Samuel Sprout, stock selector.
The lift is used in moving and storing stock in the new foods
service building addition.
(Story on Page 2)
Open Lecture Topics
May Be Published
A weekly list of professors who could open their classes
to any student and their lecture topics for that week may be
posted in the Hetzel Union Building by March if the idea gets
enough support from faculty members and college deans.
This plan was proposed by All-University President Jay
Feldstein and the Inter-College
Council Board following the re
cent University Senate announce
ment that students may sit in on
any lecture with the lecturer’s
permission.
Ai Tuesday night's meeting
of the ICCB, Feldsiein asked '
each member to present the
suggestion for publishing a lec
ture topic list to the faculty
meeting of his college or to the
dean of his college, who would
then present it at the faculty
meeting.
Each council member would
then report to Feldstem at the
next ICCB meeting what percen
tage of the faculty is in favor of
having the list and any sugges
tions for carrying out the plan
or possible substitutes for it that
might be suggested.
If the idea is received favor
ably enough, Feldsiein plans to
send a letter to each faculty
member asking if he would be
willing to participate in the
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parity with 68 passengers and a
crew of five. Among those be
lieved killed in the crash was
Beulah Zachary, producer of
the Kukla, Fran and Ollie tele
vision show.
Survivors included an 8-year
old Long Island schoolboy, whose
family—parents and two sisters—
were wiped out In the crash.
Three crew members were saved.
Many of the missing were be
lieved strapped to their seats, en
tombed in the tangled wreckage
at the bottom of the river. Other
bodies were swept into Long Is
land Sound by the relentless river
current.
A floating derrick was sent
to the scene to raise the wreck
age.
The four-engine Lockheed Elec-;
tra—in service on American Air-!
lines only 12 days—smashed into
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 5. 1959
By CAROL BLAKESLEE
Missing Bust
Wasn't Really
Gone at All
Campus patrolmen conducted a
frantic search of Sparks Building
yesterday morning for the little
man who was there all the time.
Dean Ben Euwema of the Col
lege of the Liberal Arts sum
moned the Campus Patrol about
9:05 a.m. yesterday after he
walked into the lobby of Sparks
Building and noticed the bust of
Dr. Edwin Earle Sparks, a former
president of the University, was
missing from its pedestal.
The Campus Patrol conducted a
complete investigation in true
FBI style including taking finger
prints from the pedestal.
• Dr. Frederick R. Matson, the
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the river at 135 m.p.h. about half
a mile from the end of the run
way.
Said one survivor: “Just as we
were about to land there was a
sudden jolt and then an awful lot
of noise and we were in -the
water.”
The pilot had given no hint of
trouble. Pending a fuller investi
gation, it appeared that he simply
came in too low in the mist that
enveloped the area.
Tha airliner was on course
toward LaGuardia's runway No.
22,. ..coming down from the
northeast. At that end of the
runway there was radio beam
. equipment to tell the pilot whe
ther he was on course.
But there was no accompanying
; radio beam to tell him whether
!he was coming in too high or too
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PhysEd Exemption
For Vets Refused
Requests for veterans exemptions from physical educa
tion have been turned down again.
The Senate Committee on Educational Policy gave a ilat
“no” to All-University Cabinet on its recommendations made
in November.
According to a report prepared for today’s Senate
meeting, the policy committee de-i
cided that military service is ir
relevant to meeting the general
education objective pertaining to
physical education. 1
[ The report states that, aftei
careful study and discussion, the
committee voted that ‘'existing
Senate policies and regulations
concerning physical education ap
ply to all students ”
All-Universily President Jay :
Feldstein gave Cabinet's argu
ment tor veterans' exemptions
at the November meeting and
the senators sent the issue to
the policy committee. It had
been turned down on several :
previous requests. 1
As regulations now stand, vet
erans are required to take four
semesters of physical education,
the same as other men students.
In addition to stating that mil- i
ilary service is irrelevant to the !
physical education objectives, j
the report continued that the
existing regulations and policies
adequately cover individual in
stances of greater age, physical
disability and demon strated i
competence. |
In other business, the Senate
will hear a report on general ed-j
ucation. The general courses were]
adopted two years ago on a trialf
basis. The Senate committee on|
courses of study will begin a re
view of these courses this semes-'
ter and make recommendations 1
at a meeting later in the year.
J-Ctuh to Hold Mixer
For Journalism Majors
A mixer for all journalism stu- ,
dents will be held at 7 tonight in\
McElwain lounge. j
The mixer is sponsored by the!
J-Club, newly-organized jour-|
nalism student association Two
films, one concerning the Univer-|
sity campus and one showing how,
a national magazine shoots a pic-!
ture story, are scheduled to be
shown. !
A short business meeting and
refreshments will follow the films. 1
Reds Free Convoy
After Sharp Protest
HELMSTEDT, Germany (/P) —Under sharp attack by the
United States, Soviet authorities yesterday turned loose a
U.S. Army truck convoy they had held in East Germany for
53 hours.
The four-truck convoy and its five grim soldiers rolled
into West Germany, past the
checkpoint on the border between
East and West Germany, at 8:12
p.m.
That was after the U.S. State |
Department, backed by President;
Eisenhower, had delivered a stiff
protest to Moscow against any
interference with the Western Al
lies’ access to Berlin.
The convoy, en route from Ber
lin to West Germany, was de
tained Monday afternoon with
in sight of tho East-West bor
der.
The Soviet army demanded an,
inspection of the cargoes. But,
Findley Burns Jr., polnical ad-’
viser to the U.S., Army mission ini
East Berlin who came here fori
the final negotiations said the So
viets were not allowed to inspect
the inside of the trucks.
The United States thus won a
point in US'efforts to prevent the
To ward
Liberal Minds
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Cold Spell,
Light Snow
Predicted
A diop in temperature is pie
dicted for today, as the storm
system responsible for the clouds
and ram during the past two days
moves off the Atlantic coast.
The weather will be fair, though
a mass of Arctic air following
the storm system will keep temp
eratures below freezing into Sun
day.
i Light snow this morning will
I change to occasional snow flurries
later in the day, with a possible
iaccumulation of one to two in
ches. This afternoon will be partly
cloudy, windy and colder. Tonight
and tomorrow will be fair and
much colder.
The temperature will remain
near 30 degrees this afternoon,
dropping to 12 late tonight. To
morrow’s high will be 21 degrees.
—Joel Myers
; Collegian Forecaster
Activity Cards Available
Activity cards for freshmen,
sophomore and junior women are
now available in the dean of wom
en's office The cards will be used
by hat societies in selecting mem
bers.
Soviets from gradually clamping
a stranglehold on the highway
supply line to Berlin, isolated 110
miles behind the Iron Curtain.
Following three U.S. Army
protests Tuesday in Berlin and
Frankfurt, President Eisenhow
er announced to his news con
ference yesterday that a vigor
ous demand was being made by
the State Department for release
of the convoy. He said the Unit
ed States never had allowed the
USSR inspection privileges.
The State Department note re
leased later said refusal to let
the tracks through without in
spection was a “clear violation”
of American rights, under four
power agreements since 1945, to
free access to Berlin.
Burns declined to give any de
tails of his 2% hours of negotia
tions here for release of the
American convoy.
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