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VOL. 60. No. 34 STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1959 FIVE CENTS
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THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS TRY THEIR LUCK at the sorority and independent booths during
the Mardi Gras last night. The king and the winning booths will be introduced at the Mardi
Brawl Jam session today. An estimated crowd of 8000 to 10,000 attended the annual event spon
sored by Scrolls, senior women's hat society.
Beatniks, Beanbags, Balls, Bunnies
Attract Thousands to Mardi Gras
Beatniks, beanbags, balls, and bunnies helped to attract thousands of students to Mardi
Gras last night in Recreation Hall. Other booths featured hampster races and hammering
nails in a piece of wood.
Balls were used to play miniature golf, and drown a girl in flour. They were thrown
through the features of 3-foot high masks and rolled through holes in a cardboard display
of the world to win miniature globes. •
Rings were tossed at clown noses, garter and rings at shapely legs and frisbees thrown
through a swinging record.
One booth offered a chance to
shoot at black girl bunnies and a
white girl bunny presided over
a beanbag toss booth. Beanbags
were thrown at the girls and
through wheels.
Closed booths included a beat
nick expresso coffee house com
plete with music and poetry
readings, awarding of dinners and
movie tickets to the one who
could save Cinderella, a can-can
line to induce students into a
gambling hall, fortune telling, and
a shoWboat.
The five finalists for Mardi
Gras king are Anthony Morti
mer, Chi Omega; Stephen Oft.
Alpha Epsilon Phi; Larry By
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Shapley to Discuss
'Earth as Planet'
Dr. Harlow Shapley, noted as
tronomer, will describe the "Ori
gin and Development of the Earth
as a Habitable Planet" at 8 p.m.
tomorrow in Recreation Hall.
Shapley will use illustrations
and slides with his lecture -and
will discuss the evolution of stars
and galaxies, the various theories
of the origin of planets and the
natural molecular growth on a
planet's surface.
Students will be admitted upon
presentation of their matricula
tion cards.
7-Story
Pollock
A construction worker on, the Pollock Circle P„esidence
Hall project was killed yesterday morning when he fell seven
stories from the top of a building. ,
The victim, William Baughman, 22, of nearby Fleming,
fell when a wooden frame, on which he was working, collapsed
atop Buildin Four of the Pollock
project. He was working 'on the
frame, hoisting molten pitch from
the ground. The frame collapsed,
sending Baughman to his death,
at 8:15 a.m: ' •
The Alpha Fire Co. ambulance
responded to the emergency
call. Baughman's body was
taken to the Centre County
Hospital ' morgue, after he was
pronounced dead at the scene
by a physician.
Baughman was employed by
the Standard Roofing Co., •of Bir
mingham, Ala., which is a sub
contractor on the residence halls
Wider the Virginia Engineering
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
By AMY ROSENTHAL
Fall Kills
Hall Worker
Co., Inc., holder of the general
contract.
Baughman was born in Belle
fonte, April 25, 1937, the son of
Wilbur and Elizabeth Emel
Baughman. In 1958 he married
Clara Peters, who survives with
a son, William Allen. Funeral an
nouncements have not yet been
made.
The fall was the most tragic of,
several recent construction acci
dents. A worker was uninjured
this summer after he was blown 15
feet into the air by a dynamite
blast. A worker on the Hammond
Engineering project was slightly
injured last month when he was
[ knocked off, a part of the build
ing, causing him to fall 25 feet.
Ball to Climax
Indie Activities
The Indie Week activities will
climax with the Autumn Ball and
the crowning of the Indie Queen
tonight in the Hetzel Union ball
room.
Music for the dance, which will
be held from 9 to 12 p.m., will be
provided by the newly reorgan
ized AIM band which is spon
sored by the Association of In
dependent Men.
The five finalists in the Queen
contest are Judith Frederic, Lynn
Marvel, Jacqueline Trone, Ethel
Bodine and Mary Dugan.
The queen was picked by non
student, townmen, but her iden
ty will be kept a secret until the
crowning.
Court Dashes Hopes for Strike's End
WASHINGTON (./P) The
Supreme Court dashed gov
ernment liopes yesterday for
an early end to the 108-day-old
steel strike by agreeing to re
view a lower court's 'order that
'would send 500,000 steelwork
ers back to the mills for 80
i r days.
The action was a victory for thel
Steelworkers Union which chal
lenged the back-to-work order on
constitutional and other grounds.'
It was a defeat for the Justice
Department which had pressed
the court to uphold the injunction
issued by a Pittsburgh district
judge on Oct. 21 under national
emergency machinery of the Taft-
Hartley law. The injunction was
upheld last Tuesday by an ap-
Nittanies Rated 2-Touchdown
Favorites Over Mountaineers
MORGANTOWN. W. Va., Oct. 31—Penn State's unbeaten
and seventh ranked Nittany Lions will be out to gain more
ground here today when they play West Virginia at 1:30 p.m.
The Lions are a 14-pOint favorite but Pappy Lewis and
his Mountaineers aren't listening because they're out to knock
Off Penn State and win "Old Iron
sides "
"Old Ironsides" is a trophy
which goes to the winner of the
round-robin between Pitt, Penn
State and West Virginia.
The Mounties (3-3) have beaten
Pitt, 23-15, so a win today would
give them the coveted trophy.
The Mounties alio have beat
en Richmond and George Wash
ington and have lost to Syra
cuse, 44.0, Boston U. and Mary
land.
Penn State holds wins over
Missouri, V.M.1., Colgate, Ar
my, Boston U. and Illinois.
Observers here look for a
game between two of the bet
ter winged-t quarterbacks in the
Overcast skies and occasional
rain is expected for this after
noon's football game in Mor
gantown/ The rainfall is ex
pected to be light and shouldn't
hamper play.
Temperatures will be on the
cool side with readings between
52 and 55 degrees.
East when - Penn State's Richie
Lucas and West Virginia's Danny
Williams bang heads.
Lucas, third in the nation in
total offense, and picked as the
New York Times' midseason All-
American quarterback, is one of
the nation's best backs.
This fall he's picked up 866
yards in 136 plays-604 through
the air and 262 on the ground.
And his talent doesn't stop
there. He's a strong defensive
player and is considered a pro
prbspect on these merits alone.
Williams is the key to West
Virginia's offensive attack. His
record this fall isn't as impressive
as Lucas' but he's a real threat
as a passer and runner.
Like Lucas, he loves to roll
out and uses the option play
quite a bit.
Injuries have forced Penn State
coach Rip Engle to make a few
changes in his lineup for today's
game.
Bill Popp moves into the first
unit right guard spot in place of
Frank Korbini who's on the side
lines with a badl., , twisted knee.
The rest of the first unit stays
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Weekend Promises
Cloudy Skies, Rain
Cloudy skies will continue
through the weekend with periods
of light rain possible at almost
any time.
Today will be cloudy with occa
sional rain. The expected high is
52 degrees. The occasional rain
will continue tonight, with a ten
dency for steadier rain tomorrow.
The low temperature tonight
will be 43 degrees. A little warm
er weather is anticipated tomor
row with a high of 57 degrees ex
pected.
peals court in Philadelphia, and merit" and that "there is no
the union carried its fight to the, need for further review by this
Supreme Court.
Acting in a brief order, the
high court called for oral argu
ments next Tuesday. It kept in
suspension the back-to-work
order until it finally disposes
of the case. It directed further
that all legal briefs be filed by
noon Monday.
The upshot of the high court's
ruling is that the steel strike-1
which has idled more than 800,0001
workers will keep going into!
next week, at least until the Su-j
preme Court renders its decision.[
I In its appeal papers, the union
l
[ fired a broadside at the legal un
derpinning of the Taft •Hartley
law's strike-ending machinery, in
use for the past 12 years.
Blasting back, the Justice
Department said the union's Sr.l
gument's are "clearly without
By SANDY PADWE
Collegian Sports Editor
Frost Will
Read Works
At Schwab
Robert Frost, one of Ameri
ca's most distinguished poets,
will read selections from his
works at 8:30 tonight in Sch
wab Auditorium.
Students who are unable to see
the performance may hear it over
radio stations WDFM and WMAJ
in a direct broadcast from Schwab.
The speech will also be piped
through the speaker system in
the main lounge of the Hetzel
Union Building.
Frost has been called the poet
laureate of America,
The heartbeat of America arid
its way of life is said to be ex
pressed in his poetry.
A great deal of Frost's writ
ings center around New Eng
land where he spent most of
his life. He knows the area and
its people intimately and he
describes them . vividly in his
poems. He often writes using
the speech habits of the rural
New Englander.
Frost himself says of poetry:
"A poem begins in delight and
ends in wisdom . . . It assumes
direction with the first line laid
down; it runs a course of lucky
events, and ends in a clarification
of life . . ."
Frost presently resides in Ver
mont and Massachusetts. At the
age of 85, he continues to lecture
and presents readings to students
all over the country. After his
performance at the University he
will travel to Michigan Univer
sity to speak to students there.
court."
In a 28-page petition, union
counsel Arthur J. Goldberg said
the case raises "questions of the
utmost gravity" concerning "the
scope of the district court's pow
ers and discretion under the act,
the nature of the proof required
to support the findings as to peril
to the national health and safety
which the district court is required
to make, the kinds of disputes
!which the act may properly be
Isaid to cover, and the constitution
al validity of the entire scheme"
As for the 80-day "cooling off'
;period that would be enforced un
lder, the injunction, the union said
Ithis would avail nothing. This was
lan apparent reference to the lack
of any further government weap
ons to prevent resumption of the
strike if it is not settled during
the enforced truce.
Robert Frost