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