Today's Foreca Continued Cold VOL. 59. No. 83 Wage, Salary Increases Head Budget Request More than one-half of the $l6 million increase in the 1959-61 budget which the University has requested of the state jwill be spent on wage and salary adjustments. President Eric A. Walker in his “State of the University” address cited wages and salaries as the most important single item in the budget. State Budget Talk Is Set For Mar. 2 By 808 FRANKLIN Collegian Editor Gov. David L. Lawrence has set March 2 as the tentative date for announcing his budget lequest tor the University. The governor has made that i day the target date for presen tation of the Commonwealth’s 1959-61 budget to the legislature, accoiding to the Associated Press. President Eric A. Walker has asked Lawrence to seek a $43.9 million biennial appropriation for the University. That would be a $l6 million increase over the cur rent appropriation. Lawrence has said repeatedly that the amount the University receives will depend primarily on the state's program of in creased lax revenues. He has declined to say what specific taxes he will recommend to the legislature to fill a budgetary gap which The Associated Press said is expected to run about $4OO million. However, State Rep. Stephen McCann (D.-Greene), majority leader of the House, where all financial bills must originate, has placed the figure at closer to $2OO million. Concerning the University's request, McCann last week told student members of Sigma Del ta Chi, men's professional jour nalistic fraternity, "A portion of Penn State's money will cer tainly be met in this session." But he echoed Lawrence's senti ments concerning the appropria tions dependence on tax reve nue. Education now accounts for 52 cents of every tax dollar in the current $l% billion budget, Mc- Cann said, representing “t h e greatest costs of state govern ment.” He predicted that within 10 years the state will spend $1 bil lion on education alone. Continued Cold, Rain Tomorrow The forecast for today is for fair skies but with a continuation of yesterday’s cold weather. The morning low of 10 degrees will rise to an afternoon high of 20 d' nd ■warmer with a low of 19 degrees. Cloudy and warmer weather js predicted for tomorrow. There will be rain, beginning in the afternoon and continuing through the night, as a result of a storm system now developing in the western Great Plains. —Joel Myers Collegian Forecaster Utljp iattg|o (Ml By CATHY FLECK Third of a Series: "State of the University" Walker said that the University cannot hope to maintain its posi tion as an outstanding state uni versity unless the salary scale is raised significantly in relation to those in effect at competing insti tutions. ' A survey made last fall found that the University has'the low est average salary for profes sors, associate professors and as sistant professors out of nine c o m p a r able midwesiern and eastern universities. Universities included in the sur vey were Cornell, Ohio State, Purdue and the Universities of Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota and Wisconsin. - During the 1957-59 academic years, the average faculty salary increased approximately 11 per cent. However, these increases were made strictly on a merit basis by which most of the best professors were able to be re tained. Walker said although the fac ulty and staff have cooperated in the pioneering experiments that the University has under taken to raise its effectiveness, the University can expand no further until the present pro grams are adequately financed. Walker also said that the’fac ulty and staff have for years kept the University growing on com promise salaries, professional ded ication and make-shift arrange ments. He stressed that dedication alone cannot build a great uni versity and until the present pro grams are soundly based finan cially, the University can admit no additional students, accept no new research or instructional pro jects or undertake no new public services. Angel Flight Applications Available at HUB Desk Applications for Angel Flight are now available at the Hetzel Union desk until Feb. 24 for sec ond, third, fourth, fifth and sixth semester women. To b'e eligible for membership, at least a 2.3 All-University aver age is required. What's That, Dad?' 'Cricket, Old Chap By JOHN BLACK .Tension fills the air, it is the last half of the third inning, there are nine men out, the |Score is .382-381, the silly mid ioff is poised, the square leg is (ready, and the batsman steps to the popping crease. The bowler delivers, the bats man misses his shot, the wicket keeper grabs the ball, knocks off the bails, the batsman is stumped, the game is over, and the crowd finishes its tea. If these terms are unfamiliar to you it is because you are not acquainted with the sport of cricket, national game of near ly every nation of the British Commonwealth and gaining popularity on the eastern. coast of the United States. The situation described above is analogous to the two-out, last half of the ninth inning situation in baseball, which is an offspring of cricket. Dr. Robert D. McCammon, visit ing research associate in physics from Ireland, is currently organ izing a Penn State Cricket Club to play against other collegiate and organized teams this spring. (Continued on page fivef FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1959 Open Class Idea Hit By Council The Education Student Council disapproved of the University Senate’s plan for open lecture sections at its meeting Tuesday | night. According to Dorothy Newman, president, the council felt the Senate plan would cause too many unnecessary disturbances for the professors conducting these lec ture sections. It was generally felt by the council members that the material for these classes could not be ef fectively given with free stu dents drifting into them when ever they pleased. The problem of taking attend ance was another reason for coun cil disapproval. The members felt this process would cause delay where regular attendance is tak en. Such delays would probably shorten the lecture time for stu dents taking the course for credit, and perhaps increase the load of outside assignments, according to Miss Newman. An alternate motion of opening lectures in one college in the Uni versity per week was favored by the council. The members said such action would cause less work and disturbance to professors since they would only be subject ed to “mass invasion” every few weeks instead of several times during one week. Miss Newman said the council felt its alternate suggestion might help to increase student interest in this hew program because they would have less trouble deciding which lecture to attend. ANYONE FOR CRICKET? Wicketkeeper Atam Arya, graduate student in physics from. India, bats man lain Strong, graduate student in physics from Scotland, and silly mid on Robert D. McCam jnon rush the season and get in a little cricket practice. pgtan Big-4 May Germans WASHINGTON (JP) —A new Western formula for a Big ence about Germany provides ntatives as advisers. Four foreign ministers confer for including German represe This opens the way for p Soviet Union on German parti In suggesting participation by German representatives, the West ern powers would be thinking pri marily of West Germans. They would be fully aware, however, ithat to the Russians the reference would mean Comirkinist East Ger man officials. Both State Department and White House informants say Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles will provide the guidelines for U.S. policy except for a few days around the time of his impending operation .for hernia. The opera tion may be delayed until next week. The White House yesterday denied emphatically speculation that President Eisenhower has discussed with associates the the possible retirement of Dulles. The denial covered pub lished reports that the Presi dent had discussed with Repub lican leaders a number of po tial successors. The White House press secre tary, James C. Hagerty, recalled that he had termed such specula tion “completely cockeyed." The new Western note specifies that the prospective foreign min isters conference should deal with all aspects of the German prob lem. Thus the Soviets could bring up their proposed plan for confed eration and a neutralized Ger many, and the West could press for reunification under a modified free elections formula. The nole will reject the Jan. 10 proposal by the Soviet Union for a 38-nation conference lo creale a neutralized Germany or for confederation of West and East Germany. While the note to Moscow will not be made public until after its delivery, it was described as leav ing open the question of time and place for a foreign ministers meet ing. But Western diplomats are being instructed that the United States, Britain and France are not prepared to meet behind the Iron Curtain in Warsaw or Prague. Closing Factory Doors See Page 4 Include in Talks losssible compromise with the Icipation, Boy's Body Still Missing In Drowning The rushing waters which swept a Bellefonte youth down a storm sewer to his death on Tuesday have failed to yield his body to the hundreds of grim searchers as of last night. Terry Boal, 5, was about to step into a car Tuesday when rushing water bore him into a storm sewer at Ridge and Bishop Streets in Bellefonte. He was on his way home from kindergarten when the tragedy occurred. Searchers y e s t e r day concen trated their efforts in combing Spring Creek and adjacent waters in efforts to find the body since it was fairly well established that it could not be in the four-block section of sewer leading to Spring Creek from the site of the boy’s disappearance. Part of Bishop Street near the catch basin of the sewer was ex cavated yesterday morning in a vain attempt to locate the body. Hopes soared briefly when a workman at' the sewage treat ment plant found a shirt he thought might have belonged-to the boy, but it was not his, ac cording to Mr. Boal. Police, firemen, Boy Scouts, town officials and employees and many others united in the search for the child. Communities below Milesburg -were told to keep a lookout for the body which may be washed down the stream. Terry was clad in a three-quar ter length gray coat with hood, long-sleeved red shirt, blue trou sers, brown shoes and brown boots iwhen he vanished at 12:50 p.m. Tuesday. He was about to cross Bishop (Continued on page five) FiVE CENTS 1 ilSSwmB iran i S3a «HHumi s* smtm
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