Today's iorecasts Hot, H' High VOL. 59, No. 1 ry to Extend Week Hours Libr Exa loor reading rooms of the Pattee Library will ntil 11 p.m. next Monday through Thursday to ts to study for final examinations. cCornb, University librarian, said it is possible .ion of hours on June 1 might be reconsidered. The first remain open enable stude Ralph W. that an exten lb sal Dismi Of Charges Protested A group of Campus Patrolmen appeared at Traffic Court to pro test the dismissal of reckless driv ing charges against Robert Vierck, freshman in electrical engineer ing from State College. Vierck's car struck campus pa trolman Thomas Kirschner, junior in the Division of Counseling from Yukon, April 19 on Shortlidge Road. He said he had been par tially blinded by lights and did not see Kirschner. The patrolmen said Monday! night that all the evidence help ful to Kirschner's case had not been presented at the hearing and that the reports and other evi dence had been insufficient and incomplete. Chairman of the Court, Malcolm Stauffer, said he "felt inclined to agree with the patrolmen." He said the case might not have been dismissed if sufficient evi dence had been presented. He . said more evidence was available, which was not brought to the trial' by the patrol office. No retrial will be scheduled The case of Gerald Willis, sopho more in the Division of Counsel ing from Elwyn, was referred to Dean Frank J. Simes. He was fined $5 for not having a sticker on his car, his fifth violation. Cases dealing with illegal park ing, speeding and failure to' re port charges were also heard. Elections Results - Primary election results were received too late to be included in The Daily Collegian today. However, a complete story on the primaries will be run in to morrow's issue. Perkins Sa 5: Little Done on Town Housing Policy By JIM STROTHMAN Little has been done to liim plement a poll y adopted by the Board of T ustees in 1957 requiring all en students living off cam us to live in places which hav been inspected and approved by the University, according to com ents made by Assistant Dean of Men, Harold W. Perkins. Housing was o be inspected for conditions o health, sanita tion, fire safety, Minimum hous ing requirements and terms and conditions of occupancy. - Prior to the passing of the pol icy, the dean of men's office, which presently is responsible for town housing, had a type of in spection called the Voluntary Ap proved Housing Program which was carried out annually. Landlords were to return a O F 1 r 4 a t ( ..i_.....ii.":.,..,,l- ilt _,......_....... STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1959 However, he said, the library was "not sure it would be necessary." Booms 103, 104, 105 and 107 will be open for studying. Services in the reference, per iodical and circulation depart ments will not be available during the extension of hours. Library closing hours were first extended during final exams on an experimental basis last se mester. McComb said he has prepared a report on the situation at that time. He said the report definitely showed enough usage of the li brary after 10 a.m. to justify an extension this semester. The library will close at its regular time, 10 p.m., on Friday, May 29, McComb said, since the next day is Memorial Day. It will be open on Memorial Day during regular Saturday hours until 5 p.m. and on Sun day, May 31, until 10 p.m. "The question is whether there will be a need for extending the hours later on in the final exam period," McComb said. The li brary, he said, would "respond to a real need if it exists." If there seem to be enough students using the library after 10 p.m., he said, hours might be extended on June 1. The number of students in the library is larger on some nights than on others, he said, so the library is just "feeling its way." Professionally trained librar ians will not be on duty after 10 p.m. There was no real demand for special library services last semester during the extra hour, McComb said, so students will again make up the staff. "Most of the students used the extra hour for studying purposes only," he said. Ceremony to Mark Dorm Construction A delegation of officials from the Housing and Home Finance Agency and the Community Fa cilities Administration will par ticipate in a brief ceremony this afternoon marking the construc tion of the Pollock Dormitories. The Horne Finance Agency with a $lO million loan is assisting in financing the structures which will provide living accommoda tions for 2016 students beginning in the Fall of 1960. standards check list previously sent to them by the dean's office if they wanted their residence in spected and approved by the Uni versity. If the standards were met, that residence was listed in an "ap proved housing index" for the students to refer to. Nothing was done about those residences that did not meet the required stand ards. When the policy was adopted in 1957, the dean of men's of. flee stopped the inspections. Perkins said be thought the en tire matter would be taken out of their hands as the implement ing of the policy would be too large and too complicated a job for the dean of men's office to properly handle. The only guide to which stu dents now seeking good housing conditions can refer is a stack of post cards in the dean's office tell mg where vacancies are located FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Western Four Call Soviet Treaty Harsh GENEVA (P)--The West accused the Soviet Union yesterday of trying to impose on Germany a peace treaty on the harsh lines of the World War I settlement at Versailles. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said it would "drive the German people to despair." Murville delivered a 30-minute condemnation of the Soviet plan it hard-hitting French. "Such a treaty would do noth ing to solve the problem facing us," he said. "It would do one thing only: Set the four powers' seal on the division of Gei many." Gromyko retorted coldly that the Western peace plan for a phased reunification of Germany would permit unlimited German rearmament. He said: "Its slogan is Germans go ahead and arm. This is not 1945 but 1959." This was a session of words. Neither East nor Nest budged during fhe 3-hour. 22-minute session oil the pivotal problems before the conference—the fu• lure of Germany and Berlin. American informants disclosed that the United States has warned the Soviet Union that President Eisenhower will refuse to attend a summit conference if Moscow sets some new deadline for the West to get out of West Berlin. There were these other develop ments: •Top Western diplomats ac cused Gromyko of what amount ed to a diplomatic double cross on U.S. Secretary of State Chris tian A. Herter. As chairman, they 'said, Cromyko called on Foreign 'Minister Lothar Bolz of Commu nist East Germany to speak first, when Herter was supposed to take the floor first. •Western officials said Gro myko has suggested to Lloyd that the East-West clash over West Berlin might be settled with an agreement to send neutral troops there. That's an idea once ad - vanced by Premier Nikita Khru tshchey for replacement of the Allied garrisons now stationed there. —Collegian Photo by John neaUire METAL FRAMEWORK has been completed on the new Petroleu)n Laboratory being constructed behind Boucke Building. Workmen have started on the brick portion of the structure. Mercury to Hit 90 Degree High Today should be one of the hottest days ever observed in this area during the month of May as temperatures are expected to reach 90 degrees. • The tropical air mass respon sible for the heat wave originated over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. It will cause uncomfortable weather both today and tomor row as high temperatures and ex- Icessive humidity continue to pre vail. A few showers may bring mo mentary relief from the heat late this afternoon or this evening, but no prolonged relief is ex pected before Friday. and a little about the residence in addition to the approved index covering up to 1956, Unless the student knows of these suggest ion sources, they are of little value to him, and they are not well pub licized. According to Perkins, the most frequent unsatisfactory conditions that occur includes the lack of third floor exits in case of fire and inadequate bath facilities. Other poor conditions that often occur include lack of enough room for living and storage, poor furnishings, no regular linen changes, poor heating, inadequate lighting and a general poor ap pearance, he said. The University does not have the authority to close places of residence in State College, but it can forbid the student to live in unapproved places. According to Perkins. the largest single reason for pet (Continued on page four) rgiatt Hazelton Alumni To Sponsor Banquet The recently organized Penn State Hazleton Campus Alumni Association will hold its first hig social affair on Memorial Day. The reunion includes a catered banquet at the new Student Un ion Building at Highacres. Merle E. Campbell, dean of Commonwealth Campuses Stu dent Affairs, will be the guest speaker. Pollock May Become East-West Mall Pollock Road will be transformed into a tree-shaded walk giving the campus an East-West Mall, if proposed plans for closing the road are aproved by the Board of Trustees. The plans along with budget estimates for the project may be submitted to the June meeting of the Board of Trustees for approval. If approved the project could be started within a year. As the top policy making body, the Board decides on all major changes affecting the University. The University has had un der consideration for sometime the closing of Pollock from Buz rowes Road to Shortlidge Road to eliminate points of pedes trian-vehicular traffic. Present plans call for a resur facing of the road to make it a long smooth walk with a row of trees down each side. Vehicles will be permitted on the walk only in case of emer gencies. , Detailed drawings and speci- I fications of the work involved in closing the road have been drawn up during the past months at the Select Chairmen Fairly See Page 4 West Germany's Wilhelm Grewe delivered his first speech of the conference yesterday, a sweeping indictment of the So viet proposal for a treaty with the rival German states. Grewe, heading the West Ger man delegation in the ministerial sessions, declared: "Only a peace treaty freely negotiated by a gov ernment authorized by the entire German people will have the mor ally binding power to create sta ble conditions for a long time to come." request of the Trustees. The Department of Physical Plant and Planning, under the direction of Walter W. Wie gand, has been studying the possibility of developing access roads into existing parking and service areas in the event Pol lock is closed. One place of congestion might occur on the proposed new Mall. Vehicles will .have to cross over ' it to get into the parking lot be ,hind Old Main. A road is being planned to extend from Curtin tßoad into the parking lot behind Graduate Hall and over into the Old Main lot. Another phase in the closing of Pollock Road would be extension of Curtin Road to meet Atherton Street providing a main outlet for traffic from the campus. FIVE CENTS
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