Today's Fo ecast: Partly CI Much Wa OL. 59, No. 131 Conta Lenstath May lied tudents have :ainst the use cleaner which contaminated . 11y dangerous m of bacteria. Drug Adminis ted the warning, ner could cause University been warned a of a contact len is said to be with a potent and blinding fo The Food and tration, which iss said that the cle. [to the eye if ny kind of in- serious d a ma g there is already fection The agency ide tified the clean er as 'Barnes-Hi d Wetting Solu tion," produced ly Barnes-Hind Opthalmic Prpdu As, Inc., Sunny vale, Cal. The pa i }cage carries the code number 010 59. Dr. Ben j a i n Alexander. State College o dometrist, said that about 10 bottles of the sol ution had been sold to students by himself and another opto metrist, Dr. Gerald Stein. Alex ander said neither he nor Stein could reach the students to warn them because they were not their patients and there was no record of their names. Alexander said the cleaner would cause no harm to a healthy eye and that persons using it should merely discontinue use. He said that if there was any infec tion in the eye, the cleaner would make the eye become inflamed. An Associated Press story in yesterday's New York Times quoted the agency as saying that scientists had isolated bacteria in one lot which could cause blindness. The article said that efforts are being made by the government and the manufacturer to recall all stocks of the cleaner. Alexander said the cleaner was "the best" and everyone had it. lie said it was recommended by a leading manufacturer of plastic contact lenses. The lenses are cleaned with the solution before being placed against the eyeball. Dean Weston Receives Award From Sorority Pearl 0. Weston, retiring dean of women, received the Alpha Xi Delta award last week at the sorority's Founder's Day Banquet. The award was given to the Woman of the Year by the social sorority. Virginia Sankey, vice president of the chapter, present ed the award to Miss Weston for outstanding service to college women and the sorority system. Collegian Staff to Meet A compulsory meeting of all members of the news staff of The Daily Collegian will be held at 5:15 tomorrow in the city room in Carnegie. 'SU to Be Crowned Tonight Miss MIELE of Miss Fe.nni awarding of rophies will wards Night 7 tonight in By ELAIN The coronatio State and the Spring Week highlight the ceremonies at Recreation Hall Mrs. Eric A. W; lker will crown the queen. The program^ill also include entertainment bi jazz singer Chris Conner an. the Kai Wind ing Septet. Past All-University President Jay Frldstein will be master of ceremo ies. The five fin - 41i Penn Slate tile sore are: Sucan Is for the Miss :nd their spoo 1, onoghue, jun- STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 29. 1959 —Collegian Photo by Frank Siftar OUT GOING ALL•UNIVERSITY President Jay Feldstein and new SGA President Leonard Julius go over records in the office of new assembly. Assembly Refers Budget to Committee The Assembly in its .first meeting last night decided to refer the proposed 1959-60 Student Government Association budget to a legislative committee for further study. This action was taken after John Gingrich, former All- University Secretary-treasurer, presented a budget calling for reduction in compensations by $335 accompanied by alternate budget only eliminating compen sations for Tribunal chairman and members. Gi n g r i c h recommended that the Assembly set up a committee to investigate more thoroughly whether compensations should be eliminated and then report back to the legislative body the most suitable budget for the SGA. Gingrich's original budget presented last week to All-Uni versity Cabinet called for a to tal of $152.0 to be awarded as compensations for chairing • or participating in certain student government activities. The bud get proposed last night reduced compensation all o t menfs to $llB5 while the alternate bud get brings the total amount up to $1420. Assembly members felt they did not know enough about the budget to vote and decided to wait until it had been studied thoroughly by a committee. After the legislative committee presents it to the Assembly the budget will then go to an execu tive committee which has charge Continued on page five for in education from Yorikers, N.Y., Delta Gamma and Sigma Nu; Dorothy Eddy, junior in education from Peekskill, N.Y., McKee Hall; Marjorie Miller, junior in education from Bryn Mawr, Alpha Sigma Phi : :.‘d Kappa Kappa Gamma; Gaol Schultz, junior in home ecu nomics from Bradford. Sigma Chi: and Barbara Whitman, junior in education from Garden City, N.Y., Bela Sigma Rho and Delta Tau Delta. Virginia Ottinger, senior in arts and letters from Norwood, is cur rently reigning as Miss Penn State. The program will last about three hours, Jun Nuler, Spring Week chairman, said, The enter tainment is intended to provide relaxatilm for the students after FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By CATHY FLECK Drier Weather Begins Today Sunny and warmer weather will return to Pennsylvania fol lowing the rather violent showers and thunderstorms of yesterday. As predicted in yesterday's is suel of, The Daily Collegian severe! t hunderstorms developed an di spread across the state yesterday! afternoon. Some of these thunder! storms had wind gusts to 60 miles! per hour, hail and heavy rains. i One such storm hit the State' College area about 5:15 p.m. and caused hail up to one eighth of an inch in diameter. It was also !accompanied by heavy rain, light ! mng and thunder. Skies will clear slowly today as drier and more pleasant air spreads across the state. The high temperature will be 72 degrees. Tonight will be fair and rather mild with a low of 49 degrees. Sunny and even warmer weath er will continue tomorrow as the :afternoon temperatures approach the 80 degree mark. working on Spring Week pro jects, he said. The awards will be presented by the Spring Week chairmen. Niiler will award the first place trophy to the group which has totaled the most points- during Spring Week. Other awards will be presented I by: Dave Epstein, Carnival; Bob 'Johnson, Float Parade; Steve Garban and Diane Moss, Spring Week Olympics. The five beauty queen final ists will have dinner with the judges before the ceremonies. They w ill be interviewed on stage before the 1959 Miss Penn State is selected. Tickets for the event are on sale at the Hetzel Union desk, Athletic Store, Harmony Shop, Music Room and at the door. The tickets cost $l. rgiatt Walker to Resume Fight for Funds President Eric A. Walker will resume testifying as to the University's need for more money—this time at a House Appropriations Committee meeting tomorrow in Harrisburg. ified before the Senate Budget in the University's appropria- Two weeks ago Walker tes committee and asked for a rais tion request of $34.2 million. The University requested $43.9 mil lion in its budget request to Gov. David L. Lawrence. The 1959-61 biennium request was made to allow the University to continue with expansion, ad mit 5000 new students and in crease faculty and staff wages and salaries. The $34.2 million appropriaiton will only allow for increased operating costs and some wage raises. Walker is expected to present the same case as he did before the Senate budget group. Other state aided universities and medical schools will testify tomorrow while the state's 14 teachers' colleges will testify to day. The Department of Public Instruction was on the stand yes terday and Monday. Chairman J. Dean Polen Washington) said the committee hearings should be completed in May. We have already done a lot of preliminary work, Polen told Rep. Albert W. Johnson, House ,GOP leader, in a discussion on 'the House floor Monday night. Walker attended a meeting last week in Harrisburg called by Lawrence to help push his tax program through the legis lature. At that time Walker agreed that Lawrence needed all the assistance he can muster to get the remainder of the program passed. "I agree wholeheartedly with the governor that he can't spend what he hasn't got," Walker said after attending the meeting of 70 leaders of organizations affiliated with state appropriations and who receive the bulk of State aid. In his Senate hearings Walker told the committee members that the present appropriation will al low for "little expansion" and on ly slight raises in faculty and staff pay In 1957 the University request ed $34 million from Gov. George M. Leader. Leader cut the budget request to $27.2 million but the legislature a ppr o - priated $29 7 million. Herter, Allies Agree In Pre-Geneva Talks PARIS (I-P)—Christian A. Herter flew into Paris yester day to help tie up a Western package plan for solving the Berlin crisis and the problem of German reunification. The new U.S. secretary of state and the foreign ministers of Britain, France and West Germany, opening consultations here today, are pretty much agreed on what to offer the So viet Union at the conference table in Geneva next month. But deep differences remain about how to respond to Soviet proposals in that East-West for eign ministers meeting, which starts May 11. Britain's Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd is the champion of a flexible approach. He arrived without comment for waiting re porters. A British aide explained: "There is nothing he can acid to what he has said already." "The West German motto is still no concessions without con cessions." Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano is armed with a new warning from Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer to the Western powers to stand firm What's the Matter With Penn State? See Page 4 730 Tickets Available For Lecture A total of 730 tickets remain to be distributed for Senator Styles Bridges' lecture tomorrow night. Two hundred and seventy stu dent tickets were distributed and 11 non-student tickets were sold yesterday. One hundred and thirty nine non-student tickets remain to he sold at $1.25 each. Bridges will talk on "A Con servative Speaks Out" at 8 p m. in Schwab Auditorium. His lec ture is the third in the Univer sity Lecture Series, Senator Bridges, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee of the Senate, will fly to the cam pus tomorrow afternoon, where ihe will be met by members of the Lecture Series Committee A press conference with Sena tor Bridges has been scheduled for 5 p.m. at the Nittany Lion Inn. Senator Bridges will be intro duced by Jay Feldstein, retiring All-University President. Bridges was elected governor of New Hamprnire in 1934. He was the youngest governor in the country at the time. Two years later, he was elected to the U.S. Senate and he has been elected to the Senate ever since. Senate Social Committee 'To Approve Calendar The Senate Subcommittee on Social Affairs will approve the social calendar of University ac tivities May 15. Any organization holding All- University social functions which has not received a petition fotrn may secure one at 102 Waring. The petitions must he returned to 102 Waring by May 14. and be very cautious in dealing at Geneva. French Foreign Minister Mau rice Couve de Ailurville insisted before his National Assembly that the West should firmly maintain its present positions in tense cen tral Europe and work for a way to live peacefully with the Soviet Union. Herter, somewhere in the middle, called on President Charles de Gaulle at Elysee Pal» ace for a chat on international affairs. De Gaulle received him in his private office. An inter preter was on hand, though Her ter speaks French. The Western package plan con tains a step-by-step program aimed at eventual reunification of Germany. If the Soviets refuse even to talk about the question, the West will have to rercylr-hal its forces in another dire,ticn. FIVE CENTS
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