Stu...'.:*:: . 'ent Killed in Auto Crash
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Senior
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In Ac
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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
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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
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FIVE CENTS