Kill nce ed Fish Evict Clai nitary Water yesterday it evidence" that .e University's -re chiefly re illing several Spring Creek The State S Board reporte• has "conclusive wastes from t sewage plant wl sponsible for thoUsand trout i last November.' Dr. C. L. Wilba secretary and b 1 made public a let dent Eric A. "immediate corre' cording to the A But James H. of public infor night he was aut the statement P Walker made las • Jr., state health lard chairman, er sent to Presi alker ordering tive action," ac •sociated Press. oogan, director ation said last orized to repeat esident Eric A. week—that the University had nothing to do with the fish killings. Coogan said he couldn't elabor- 1 ate on the statement. Wilbar said the evidence on the killings was compiled in an investigation started aster sev eral thousand trout were killed at the Benner Spring Hatchery on Nov. 19. The state fish com mission uses the hatchery for research and production. "As a result of these investiga tions," Wilbar's letter said, "the board has on hand what it con siders conclusive evidence to show the effect from the University's sewage plant was the most im portant factor in the killing." The board "considers this an emergency situation," Wilbar said. "and asked Walker to in form him by March 11 "what emergen'cy action has been or is being taken." Walker -said in a statement on Monday that there does not exist any substantial evidence which would indicate that the 'Univer sity's operation of the plant was a contributory factor in the death of the fish, killed both at Benner Springs and the Pleasant Gap hatchery. "Moreover, the University is not aware of anything which it could have done or could do even now whkh would ma , terially affect the welfare of fish in the Spring Creek water shed," Walker said.. Winds and Cold Forecast Today A storm system passing north of Pennsylvania will cause a con tinuation of the partly cloudy, windy; and cold weather today. Snow flurries, strong winds, and partly cloudy skies will ac company the colder weather to day. Diminishing winds and clear skies will set the stage for colder weather tonight. Today's high be 36 degrees s about 24 degre skies and milder due tomorrow eniperature will i nd tonight's low ts. Partly cloudy 1 temperatures are Rei The Ptre Omnibus is 'Pleasant' POLLACK By JEFF , Theatre OM 'thus, the Play er's production which opened last night, provided a pleasant evening of entertainment but fell short of its full potential. In attempting to present the various moods of the theatre the production undertook too much and fell short. The informal for mat was at times'obtrusive, serv ing only to distract the audience from the good eatre being pre sented. The Arts CI graduate stud ; some of the material and However. Wa head of the Theatre Arts, narrator, tr I • evening too wound up de lompany—four , hie—drew upoh J.eatre's finest . andled it well. ter H. Walters. Departinent of who served as • d to make the leducational and cling from the leas...- VOL. 59. No. 100 Trio Cancels. Concert • —Collegian Photo by • Bites Johnson 'HIGHER PRICE, MORE CUSTOMERS' was the report from down town restaurants yesterday, when students paid 15 cents for a cup of coffee for Larry Sharp Week. Customers include, from left, Ellen Weber, freshman in Home Economics from Erie; Glen Jones, junior in the division of counseling from West Pittston and Gale Klingensmith, sophomore in secondary education from Laßelle. Record Show Brings Sharp Fund to $1765 With the addition of approximately $956 pledged in Thursday night's Off the Record- for Larry on WMAJ, con tributions to the Larry Sharp Fund now total about $1765. Carmella LaSpada, general chairman of the drive, said that normally only 70 per cent of the pledges are actually turned in, but she said she thought more than that would be turned in since fraternities and sororities accounted for the majority of the pledges. . Sharp himself was expected to arrive on campus late this after noon, but his trip was called off after the Sharp family learned late last night that the Kingston Trio has canceled its appearance scheduled for Sunday afternoon. Illness of one of the Trio's mem bers forced cancellation of the concert. Sharp had planned to attend both the concert and the Sopho more Swing, from 9 to 12 to night in the Heizel Union Ball room. The sophomore dance, however, will go on as sched uled. performances of the cast. The review- like production leads with a scene from Tennes see Williams "A Streetcar Named Desire." A simple set helps out the performances by Don Peter sen as Mitch and Patricia Thomp son as Blanche. Miss Thompson manages to bold ' her southern , accent but appears tft much the actress she is. Because she seems to be forcing herself into the role she doesn't quite succeed. - A scene from the Howard, Lindsay and Russel' Crouse corn edy Life With 'Father—done in reading style from stools was highlighted by the fine perform ance of Gardner Tillson as the father desperately trying to un derstand and control his, family. It was at this point in the per formance that the greatest ques tion arises. A Kabuki dance by Hisako Matsubara, a graduate student from Kyoto, Japan, was FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 7. 1959 Tickets are situ on sale at 50 cents each at the HUB desk for the dance tonight. Campus queens will be at the dance and men will be able to dance with them for 10 cents a dance. In addition, a sophomore queen will be selected from five finalists. The finalists are Joni Kar low, education major from At las: Judy Norton, education ma jor from Merlon Station; Susan Sherman, education major from Syracuse, N.Y.; Betty Kohudic, psychology major from French vile, and Marilyn Seifert, arts and letters major from Allison Park. Yesterday many downtown res taurants donated their profits from coffee sales to the fund. exciting to wat c h. Her move ments were lovely, her timing perfect, As an art form the dance was entertaining. Yet. this simple appreciation of the beauty of the dance may not have been enough. If left too many questions as to the meaning of some of the gestures and movements. Even with the explanation of the" stool-seated narrator it was not clear. "Three by Three," an original parody of three of the theatre's great writers by Russell G. Wha ley, an assistant professor of thea tre arts, had all the touches of fine comedy. "Samovar," a satire on the work of Chekov: "Private Wives," a parody on Coward: and "Back of .the Horizon," which took a dig at O'Neill, were delightful, even withN:t . a knowledge of the originals. Mary Minkiewich, as the Rus - (Continued on page four) Illness Axes Benefit; April Date Is Sought Illness of one of the members of the Kingston Trio has forced the group to cancel its concert, orginally scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. But an effort is being made to schedule the trio for the second week in April. Members of the Larry Sharp Week committee were on the telephone for hours late last night, at first trying to contact one of the members of the trio or their - manager and then their booking agency. W. A. "Spike" Kelley, special assistant to the President arid faculty adviser to the Sharp drive, called the Sharps last night and told them to cancel plans for Larry's trip here today. Sharp was supposed to come up for the Sophomore Swing for Larry tonight and the con cert tomorrow. His father had not gone to work last night in order that he could get up early to drive Larry and his male nurse here. The nurse could not be con tacted in New York and will probably spend the weekend with the Sharps at their Swarthmore home. Members of the committee will, call the trio's hooking agency sometime today in an attempt to ,get a date and arrange a con tract. The comnittee wants Wed ,nesday, April 13, but the agency could not guarantee this date Isince the trio had broken a num ber of other engagements. The agency said the group was free between April 12 and 16. Larry Sennett, manager of the group, first called Carmella LaSpada, general chairman of Sharp Week, to tell her that I they would not be coming due to the illness of Dave Guard who is considered the leader of the group. It was later learned that Guard lhad an infected throat and ear l and had lost his sense of balance. Miss LaSpada called a meeting of several key members of her committee along with Jay Feld stein, All-University President, Kelly, William Fuller, manager ,of Associated Student Activities land Donald Saubel, ASA treas urer. Their first concern was what to do about Sunday. It was de cided that students wanted to see the Kingston Trio so much (Continued on page four) Vega Shines Dulaney Ist PITTSBURGH—Captain Armando Vega didn't just have a good day here in the Eastern Championship preliminaries— he had a great day. The fabulous Lion Olympian couldn't be beaten last night. He lead the all-around with a five-event score of 1381.5 and needs only a meager 182.5 in free calisthenics tomorrow to break his own All-Around record. The free "X" is the opening event in tomorrow evening's finals and the concluding event in the all-around. Vega should have .no trouble breaking his record—pos sibly by 100 points—as he Is the decisive favorite to win the free The 'finals start at 8 tonight in the Pitt Field House. To rack up his lopsided lead over teammates Jay Werner and Lee Cunningham, Vega qualified first on the high bar and parallel-bar and won the long horse vault and still rings. He qualified fifth on the side horse. To say he had the 1500 rgiati By NEAL FRIEDMAN Parties Set Registration Meetings Registration for Campus and University parties will be held tomorrow night and March 15. Campus party will meet at 7 p.m. in 110 Electrical Engineer ing and University party will be meeting at the same hour in 121 sparks. Students registering must pre sent their . matriculation cards to Ere c tions Committee officials. They will rev:lye their party cards on March 22. University party will also be electing a new cliaue chairman to replace Howard Byers, who re signed this week because of "per sonal reasons." Byers appointed Frank Pierson as temporary vice clique chairman to replace him. At the Campus party meeting, Daniel Thalimer. chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Student Reorganization, will speak on the impact of student government re organization on campus political parties. The parties will nominate their slate of officers for the spring elections at the meeting on March 22. The elections themselves will take place on April 15 and 16. They are being held later this year because it was impossible for them to be scheduled any time before Easter vacation. The elec tions are being held concurrently with Career Day. It 'is Possible that there may be some change in the pattern of spring elections if the proposed student government reorganiza tion is adopted. in Easterns; in Tumbling By MATT MATHEWS fans sitting on edge watching his amazing exhibition is an under statement. In fact, Beano Cook, Pitt's sports publicity director, said he's as good as Don Hermon, Pitt's all- American basketball player. There is no doubt that Vega pleased everyone here, even coach Gene Wettstone. But Wett stone was just as high on his sec ond' high all-around man—Wer ner. Werner. who won the all around last year in Vega's ab sence, had a rather weak rou tine on the, side bass, the open ing 'event, and started out in fourth..place. But he pulled a (Continued on page six) FIVE CENTS
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