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VOL. 60. No. 35
Van Doren Admits Fix;
Resigns From Columbia
WASHINGTON (?P) Fallen TV idol Charles Van Doren
confessed in shame and anguish yesterday that he was deeply
involved in rigging the defunct, scandal-tinged "Twenty-One"
quiz show.
In a matter of hours, Columbia University accepted Van
Doren's resignation as an assistant
professor of English, effective im
mediately.
Van Doren also faces possible
perjury charges in court, for ad- 1
' milted misstatements to a New
York grand jury investigating the
rigging of TV shows, and perhaps
an end to his $50,000-a-year tele-
I vision career.
But the tall, wavy-haired, 33-
year-old English professor had
come at last to a tortured, soul
searing conclusion that the truth
is the only thing "with which a
man can live."
Garbage
Collection
Plan Tabled
By NICKI WpLFORD
A plan to put in a mandatory
system of -garbage collection
in State College was tabled by
the Borough Council last night.
The plan would have provided
a borough supervised system of
collection which would be paid
for through fees collected from
residents.
A sanitation committee report,
read by Mrs. Gladys G. Tanner,
said it saw no other feasible plan
and refused to accept a compro
mise plan, calling it a "disservice
to _the community."
Mrs. Tanner then moved to
table the plan until it could get
public support or the present
voluntary system should be
come a health menace.
In other business, the council
referred a chamber of commerce
plan to sell tokens to town mer
chants for distribution to cus
tomers for parking meters to corn
mitte. The committee will work
out an agreement between the
borough . and the chamber and
draw up an ordinance.
Burgess Roy D. Anthony said,
in discusing the borough's traffic
problems, that University students
"understand their responsibility"
and that this was "the finest year
in our relations with the campus."
President Eric A. Walker
thanked Anthony saying those
were nice words and he hoped we
wouldn't "have to eat them" after
Saturday.
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—Collegian Photo by Marty St!mu
BOEING 707 TAKES ,OFF—Speedy Penn State halfback Roger Kochman turns right end en-route
to 52-yard touchdown sprint in first period of Saturday's game in Morgantown, W.Va. Kochman
gained 111 yards in eight carries as Lions won over Mounties, 28-10.
No Excuse! Beat Syracuse!
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1959
Foi three years Van Doren
had concealed, in fear and folly,
he said, that the $129,000 he
-won on "Twenty-One" were dis
honest dollars.
The man who coached him, he
told a House subcommittee on
Legislative Oversight, was Albert
Freedman, the producer of the
show. Freedman already is under
indictment on charges of lying
when he denied to a grand jury
that the program was fixed.
In New York, the National
Broadcasting Co. said it was with
holding comment on Van Doren's
testimony for the present.
Freedman tannic' 'not be lo
cated for his reaction.
At one time, - Van Doren testi
fied under questioning, Freedman
told him: "Charlie, I think I ought
to have $5OOO of that money."
Von Doren said he was sorry he
ever mentioned that—not that he's
trying still to hide something, but
"I don't think Mr. Freedman
meant that the way it sounds."
The matter never was brought
up again, he said, and no ar
rangement was ever made be
tween him and Freedman.
Van Doren's 90-minute session
on the witness stand was every
bit as tense and dramatic as any
of his 14 appearances in the NBC
isolation booth back in late 1956
and early 1957.
Instead of television viewers—
the House allows no televising of
hearings—perhaps 500 spectators
packed elbow to elbow into the
House caucus room,
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Cabinet Swings Ax
At Parking Rules
By JIM MORAN
The Student Government Association Cabinet last night sent two pieces of impressive
legislation rolling toward the SGA Assembly.
One asked for the elimination of Sunday campus parking regulations, and the other
urged a $6OOO grant from the Board of Trustees for the Lecture Series.
David Epstein, Inter-College Council Board president and sponsor of the move to
1 abolish Sunday parking regula
'ltions, attacked the University
parking regulations in general,
.A calling Sunday rules "ludicrous.'
Epstein urged immediate ac
tion, saying that SGA has been
• lax in acting on the parking prob
lem. He specifically hit at the
i Sunday' parking restrictions, citing
how the regulations have kept
sightseers and others away from
the campus on Sunday.
"The campus used to be mobbed
with sightseers enjoying campus
scenes in their autumn color,"
lEpstein said, "but the regulations
'have driven them away."
, He moved on to the Sunday
' parking problem's effects on
chapel services, saying they
have hindered student attend
ance at chapel.
"There is no doubt about it,"
Epstein said, "the students have
been fooled." He urged Cabinet's
immediate action, "so the students
can be heard."
The recommendation to be pre
sented at Assembly urges removal
Guest Astronomer of all campus parking regulations
from 6 a m. to midnight Sunday.
To Speak Tonight Cabinet's action came after a re
port was made by Walter Durran,
chairman of the Traffic Code In
vestigation Committee.
sor and director of the observa-' In his report, Darren told
tory at the University of Minne-! Cabinet 'hat his committee had
sota, will speak on "Stellar Popu-I conferred with several adminis
lations, Dying Stars and Stellar tration and enforcing officers
fora possible solution to the
Evolution" at 8 tonight in the parking problems on campus.
IVlineral Sciences *auditorium. He 'promised a final report of
Luyten, who was born in the , the committee's probing with-
Netherlands East Indies, has, in three weeks, to be followed
served as a research fellow at' by definite action by the UM-
Lick Observatory, University Of : varsity next semester.
California, and as astonomer at: The second item that will be
Harvard College Observatory. heard at the Assembly meeting
He has been director of the'coneerns the $6OOO request for
observatory at the University of Lecture Series programs SGA
Minnesota since 1931. (Contimied on rage three)
Guard the Lion
The Nittany Lion may be wearing a different color
coat unless precautions are taken to prevent Syracuse
invaders from defaming him.
The old tradition of painting the symbol of the
. opposing team may be renewed especially since the out
, come of Saturday's game will determine the Eastern
championship
In conjunction with Spirit Week, a phrase coined
by The Daily Collegian to bring student spirit to a peak,
the men living in West Halls should take it upon them
selves to guard the shrine, as has been done every year
in the past.
Penn State has the spirit , to help the team on to their
eighth victory. The one remaining task of the student
body is to keep those Orangemen away from our symbol.
This is one way to show them that not only do we have
a great team, but that they can't even beat our team of
students.
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1 10 Profs Seek
Local Offic4s
The names of ten members
or former members of the
lUniversity faculty will appear
on the ballot today for bor
ough and county offices.
The polls will open at 7 a.m.
and close at 8 p.m.
Four professors are running for
the State College Borough Coun
cil.
This office requires the voters
to elect four members for a 4-i
year term, with no salary. The
candidates are Arnold Addison
(R), personnel director and asso
ciate professor of engineering in
the Ordinance Research Labora
tory; Harold P. Zelko (D), profes
sor of speech; Lyne S. S. Hoffman
(Continued on page eight)
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Lions Win Seventh,
Down WVU, 28-10
By Sandy Padwe
Collegian Sports. Editor
, On a rainy, bleak Saturday in a distant West Virginia
hideaway, an 18-year-old Penn State halfback raised Lion
spirits for the Syracuse battle this weekend.
Roger Kochman, a relatively obscure sophomore sped
through, around and over a tough West Virginia line and led
Penn State to a 28-10 win before;
15,000 water-logged fans in Mor
-1 the right time to use him."
gantown. 1 "He really played a good ball
Kochman, who got his chance game. I think he could become
,
to see action when Dick Pae was; one of the best backs to play
injured in the Illinois game, pick-; here in a long time," Engle said.
ed up 111 yards rushing in eight' Kochman (pronounced Koff
carries, an average of 13.8 y a rds, man) and his second unit cohorts
per carry. i did most of the playing Saturday
Fifty-two of those yards came ias Engle rested some of his bat
on a touchdown sprint in the I tered first stringers for Syracuse.
first period. I Lion captain Pat Botula, suf-
Kochman, who takes off like 1 tering from a bruised shoulder,
a Boeing 707, took a pitchout Ididn't play at all. (He won the toss
from quarterback Galen Hall,lthough.) The Lion braintrust de
turned right end and wound up ccided against playing the hard
in the end zone before you could;chaging fullback just before game
blink your eyes. He outsped five: time.
would-be Mountaineer tacklers; First unit guard Frank Kor
en route. — ; bini didn't make -
- the trip be-
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"We always knew Roger had! cause of a twisted knee and Pee
the potential." said Rip Engle,l wasn't in uniform either.
the coach of Penn State's unbeat-I Richie Lucas, the New York
en and seventh ranked- Lions. , Times' mid-season All-American
"But we were just waiting for! (Continued on page nine)
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