Stu...'.:*:: . 'ent Killed in Auto Crash Dies ly Senior Instan In Ac ident len, 26-year iness admin- Philadelphia, :ntly at 2:30 en his car Thomas J. Fu old senior in b u. l ; istration from was killed inst, a.m. Sunday w swerved off the tree. The accident occu' red on Branch Road near the en ranee to Cen tre Hills Country lub. According to R Ickview State Police, Fullen die. of a fracture of the neck and • severe lacer ation of the forel ead. He was alone,_ traveling t ward Lemont, • - when the car we t off the left ' side of the road into the tree.! - ' Fullen received th• injuries as he struck the steeri" g wheel and: windshield. State Police re p ort that Ful len probably did not fall asleep at the wheel since skid marTcs 0 11 were noticed at the scene. The car was a total wreck. Fullen was living in a Belle fonte apartment with three other students while studying at the University. He was living with Paur Stavrou, senior in arts and '1 letters; Gary Miller, senior in ' business administration; and Phil-': 4 6 lip Rosenberg, senior in business - - administration. Stavrou said Fullen was un- , married and had intended to take a job with the United States Government Accounting Office in Washington, D.C. im- • ' mediately after graduation in June. He is survivol by both his par ents and two brothers Fullen's body was first taken to the Koch Funeral Home in State College. Solemn requiem mass will be given for Fullen at 10 'a:m. Thursday at the Church of the Holy Child at Broad and Duncannon Streets in Philadel phia. Viewing will be held direct ly across the street from the church at 5138 N. Broad St. to morrow evening. His death marked the sixth motor fatality in Centre County this year. - In other accidents over the weekend, a State College woman was injured when she was struck by a boat being carried on a truck in Pleasant Gap Saturday after noon. Three men were also in jured when their car hit a tree at 3:20 a.m. Sunday on- East Mc- Cormick Avenue. Applications Available For Elections Committee Applications for interviews for Elections Committee are avail- able at the Hetzel Union desk. The deadline is_ Thursday for returning the applications to the HUB desk. Intervie ✓s will begin Monday. Lion Sp By JOHN B Assistant Spo There was a rea in Beaver areni afternoon. They fl tans to the Lions il i One by one the ichigan State trackmen raced int the stadium only to be overtake by a sharp spiked inhabitant o the Nittany lair. The final .. census revealed —Lions 101%, Spartans 39%. The visiting Spartans became the third dual-meet victims of the title-hungry Lions who are stalking their way week by week to what may well be the greatest season in ,Penn State track history. Outstanding perfor turned in . by almosi on the Blue and Will the Lions won ever the high hurdles and to run up their high tal of the year. Three school rec, VOL. 59. No. 140 Junior Shot road into a —Collegian Photo by Bob Thompson WRECKED CAR in which Thomas Fullen, senior in business administration from Philadelphia, was killed instantly early Sun day morning was a total loss. The car hit a tree almost head-on on the Branch Road near Lemont, Compromise Marks Start of Big-4 Talks GENEVA (/P)—The Soviet Union and the Big Three West ern foreign ministers plunged into cold war negotiations last night after colliding head on over German participa tion. The West beat back a belated Soviet attempt to seat Communist East Germany as a full negotiator. The U.S., Soviet, British and French ministers sat down at 5:55 p.m. in the ornate Council Room of the Palace of Nations for the first big-power parley since 1955. This was about 2% hours after the scheduled opening of their momentous negotiations on Ber lin, the future of Germany, and European security. The formal meeting lasted an hour. The next session was set for 3:50 p.m. today. In a chaotic prelude, -Soviet kers Trounce Michigan State Chick King, Dick Engelbrink lnd members of the mile relay team wrote their names into the Penn State record books, and Ed Moran ran what is, as accurately as can be ascertained, the fastest mile ever run in a collegiate dual meet. s Editor ly big show Saturday d the Spar- A testimonial to the strength of the current Werner-coached aggregation is the fact that Michigan State, despite what the .. scoreboard shows, furn ished the best calibre of oppo sition that the Lions have faced in a dual meet-this year. Some of the Spartan thinclads ran the best races of their Queers but still could not breach the advantages rolled up by the superior Nittany forces. "We had some excellent per formances. We can't complain," said Spartan mentor Francis Dittrich. ' - ances were every man ite squad as IY event but broad jump hest point to- In contrast, Lion coach Chick. Werner qualified for the under statement of the year when he said with a wry smile, think rds fell as 4. . • c,tirttrgtzttt FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 12. 1959 Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko and the Big Three min isters wrangled over the elev enth-hour Soviet attempt 'to bring East Germany to the conference table. Gromyko was making an obvi ous move to build up prestige for the East German Communist regime. Considering the East German regime a mere Soviet satellite, (Continued on page eight) we have a good team here." Moran, king of the beasts, gave an ominous portent of his ability to break the 4-minute mile when he ran 4:02.1. Michigan State's Big 10 in door champion miler, Bob Lake, put forth a brilliant effort to clip more than five seconds off his previous best for the dis tance and push Moran all the way. He cr .- insect the line in 4:04.9, probably the fastest second place mile finish ever run in a dual meet. King, senior distance runner, set a new Penn State record in the half-mile—with a sterling 1:49.8 performance. King led the pack from the start and breezed across just 2.3 seconds off the world's record of 1:47.5 held by Lon Spurrier as he erased Mo. ran's entry of last year. .. Bill - Schwab was just a half second short of the old mark a: he took second in 1:50.7. Georg Jones' third place time of 1:53.1 (Continued on page seven) in Spree Freshman Arrested On Assault Charges A shooting spree in a borough backyard early Sunday morning led to the arrest of James R. Byers, 20, freshman in division of counseling from State College, on charges of assault when he fired a .22 caliber bullet into the thigh of another student. James S. Graham, junior in di vision of counseling from Pitts burgh, is reported in satisfactory condition at Centre County Hos pital after being shot in the left thigh. He was taken to the hos pital in the Alpha Fire Co. am bulance. The scene occurred following Byers' being verbally ejected from a party of University stu dents in the backyard of the S. N. Roseberry home on E. Irving Ave. He and four other students had tried to crash the party earlier about 11:30 p.m. Byers apparently went home, picked up a .22 caliber target pistol and re turned to the party alone about 12:45 a.m., poli6e said. He then shot into the group without warning and hit Graham. He fired eight more times before those attending the party could take the pistol from him. Prior to the shooting, police had received a call complaining of the noise tt the Roseberry home. Shortly after his apprehen sion, police arrived and took him into custody. Byers was booked on an as sault and shooting charge and released on $5OO bail by Justice of the Peace Guy G. Mills. Fcr mal charges will be made at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Mills said the charges are quite serious and could carry as much as a 3•year jail sentence. The shooting woke up neighbors around the Roseberry home and caused passers-by from bl )cks around to gather at the scene Byers is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Byers of Puddintown, State College RD 1. Byers is assis tant to the head of div;sion of utilities in physical plant and Mrs. Byers is a bookkeeper in the Pat tee Library. Contemporary Books Leads in Gift Vote With votes in from one-fourth of the class, the choice of contemporary American books has taken a commanding lead in the Senior Gift ballotting. The contemporary books choice has received a majority of the 450 votes cast, Chairman John Bott told more than- si; class agents meeting last night to kick off Senior Week. The class agents receiyed in structions for soliciting seniors for the week's double objectives Alumni Association membership and Senior Gift funds. A total of 52 Alumni Associa tion memberships and 51 class gift contributions were received before the official opening of, the drive last night, according to a report to the class agents. The 51 class gift contributions totalled $69. President Eric A. Walker has agreed to appropriate $3 from his personal fund for every dollar contributed by sen iors. Besides the collection of books contemporary American au hors, other class gift choices list ad on the post card ballot are a collection of religious books and By JIM STROTHMAN Campus Heads To Discuss New System President Eric A. Walker will meet with the heads of the Sys tem of Commonwealth Campuses' advisory boards this afternoon to discuss problems of implementing the new state-wide system. The advisory boards are corn pobed of laymen, professional [ men and industrial leaders in the campuses' area. According to Kenneth L. Hol derman, coordinator of the new system, the administrative heads ,of the 14 campuses also will be present. He said that since some boards will send two or three members, there will be a total of 35 to 40 at the meeting. Today's meeting is the second of weekly meetings of the campus heads. The first was last Tuesday when they met with James Coog an, director of public information, and C. S. Wyand, vice president for development. According to Holderman the group discussed procedure and coordination concerning various phases of development. lie said the men will continue to meet to iron out all adminis trative details of the system. Hol derman added that many new pro cedures would be necessary, but changes must be made smoothly in order not to disrupt the work of the institutions. a collection of reference books for residence halls. Bolt said more than 30 write in votes were received in spaces provided on the post cards. Leading the write-ins with nine votes is funds for a campus AM radio station, the 1958 class gift selection. Bolt labelled the AM station ballots as protests agkinst the action of the Board of Trustees in altering the - 1958 selection. Other write-in suggestions were funds for the Stone Valley rec reation project and for miscel laneous collectiors for the library. Bott urged that ballots be re turned by seniors who have not voted yet. Class agents will begin solici tations today. They will ask sen (Continued on page two) FIVE CENTS
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