Alab Stiff i VOL. 60, No. 52 STATE COLL! Plane Hit Mountain; 25 Killed MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. (/P) —Allegheny Airlines in creased the death toll to 25 in the crash of its twin-engine airliner on a 1400-foot moun tain in a snowstorm yesterday. Donald W. Tygert, 26, copilot of Webster, N.Y., boarded the plane in Philadelphia but was not on its manifest, David Miller, vice pres ident of the airlines, said in near by Williamsport. Louis Matarazzo of Springfield, Pa., a passenger, was the lone survivor on the Allegheny Air lines flight. Two others were found alive but unconscious. They died dur ing the 1%-hour descent. Maiarazzo, badly burned, was reported in serious condition at a hospital. The plane, a Martin executive type carrying 22 passengers and a crew of three, was en route to Cleveland from Philadelphia. It was cleared for a landing at the Williamsport-Montoursville air port at 9:41 a.m. A few minutes later it came down through swirl ing snow and mist. Tom Schadt, a salesman at a plant nearby, said the plane cir cled away as if planning another approach and then headed direct ly toward the mountains. The plane hit the mountain about midway from the top. The local control lower said the pilot had been in contact with it and "this definitely was an instrument landing," but did not elaborate. An airlines spokesman in Washington said the pilot apparently wanted to make a new and better ap proach after breaking through the overcast above' the airport. Snow swept into this central Pennsylvania area during the night and there was about an inch on the ground at the time of the crash. The plane cut a wide swath through the trees. The wreckage was found on a precipitous 45- degree slope. The front half looked as if blows from a giant sledge-hammer had pushed it in. Senate to Consider Bowl Half-Holiday A half-holiday for tl granted if the University S mendation from the Studi SGA President Leona had talked with Presideni noon. Walker thought the 1 holiday would be feasible if Saturday morning classes mi Dec. 19 would be made up on free day, Jan. 20, allowed at end of the semester to study final examinations. This is the form of Ihe r ommendalion that Julius 1 asked the Senate Subcomil on Calendar and Class Revisit to consider at its meeting morrow afternoon. Julius si Dr. Benjamin A. Whisler, chs man of the committee, told h yesterday it would be brout up at that time. This committe will then bi its recommendations before University Senate at 4:15 p.m. morrow. Julius said, however, ama Accepts Bowl Bid Uy^OlnUfgian FOR A BETTER PENN STATE EGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 2, 1959 FIVE CENTS FIRST SNOWFALL—University maintenance crew members woxked across campus with shovels and sawdust and soon had walking conditions back to normal. The crews will be a familiar sight in weeks to come. Increase in Phones Called Unnecessary Bowl Tickets Sale To Start Thursday Tickets for the Liberty Bowl game will go on sale at 8 a.m. Thursday at the ticket office in Recreation Hall. The price will be $5.65 per ticket. There will be no limit on the number of tickets a student may buy, and purchases of blocks of tickets will be permitted. The tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. k Liberty Bowl game may be enate approves Thursday a recom mit Government Association. :d Julius said last night that he Eric A. Walker yesterday after alf- the ssed the the for the Senate would have to approve the issue as an addition to its agenda. He explained that topics to be discussed at a Senate meeting must be announced one month before the meeting. Julius said he thought the half-holiday definitely would be considered. The request for a half-holiday for the Liberty Bowl game came as a result of recommendation from the SGA Assembly at its last meeting. The Assembly had asked that the half-holiday be granted and Julius was asked to see the prop er University officials who could take action on the matter. 'mg the to hat By ELAINE MIELE There will be no immediate; increase in the number of telephones or other telephone equipment, Wilbur F. Diehl, supervisor of telephones, said yesterday. A recent survey taken on resi dence hall phones indicates that the present equipment is ade quate. he said. I The survey was taken in Sim mons, Atherton and McElwain Halls after complaints had been! received from students on the new telephone system. The peak time for telephone usage Is from about 10 to 11 p.m., Diehl said. The survey was taken from 10 to 11:30 p.m. According to the survey, out of 219 telephones observed, there were 73 being used. There was only one telephones- at which a student was waiting. Out of 26 pay stations, 10 were being used at the time they were checked. Two students were wait-1 (Continued on page eight) NDEA Loans Require Loyalty Oaths By NICKI WOLFORD Students may now file appli cations for the National De fense Student Loans but will have to sign two loyalty oaths, one required by the University and another required by the Government. University officials announced yesterday that students could file applications for the loans in the dean of men’s and dean of wom en’s office. • Wilmer E. Wise, assistant to the dean of men, explained that stu dents would first have to sign a loyalty oath on the University’s standard loan application and then file an affidavit required under the National Defense Education Act. Ha said the oath on the Uni Crimson Tide Has 7-1-2 Slate, Ranks 11th in Nation By SANDY PAD WE Sports Editor It'll be Penn State vs. Alabama in the Bud Dudley-George Kerrigan production, "Liberty Bowl," which opens in Phila delphia (Municipal) Stadium Dec. 19 for a one-day stand. The co-promoters announced yesterday that Alabama’s players had voted unanimous Aid Requested For Iranian An appeal for financial aid for Davoud Eshaghoff, junior in gen eral agriculture from Tehran, Iran, who was critically injured in an auto crash, has been made by a friend of his, Susan Rosch walb, sophomore in arts and let ters from State College. Eshaghoff was injured in an auto accident last Tuesday when his car overturned on the'Lehigh Valley Thruway. He has not re gained eonciousness since the ac cident and is presently in Easton Hospital. According to Miss Roschwalb, the Iranian student had no insur ance and has only one relative in this country, a 16-year-old brother who speaks very little English. "I know Davoud has many friends on campus who would like to help him at this time. Per haps if he had at least a little money, he would receive even better care,” she said. Eshaghoff is studying under a scholarship and works as a wait er. ‘‘He simply has no rvay at all of meeting the hospital expenses and has no one to help him,” she said. Anyone who wishes to donate money should contact Miss Rosch walb at 219 W. Foster Ave. Light Precipitation May Fall Today Mostly cloudy skies and possi bly so/ne occasional light snow or rain is expected today as a very weak storm system passes across Pennsylvania. The month of --- December got off on a snowy foot lyesterday as the f/ ? [first measurable snowfall of the I }b, 'season blanketed V<''srJ . the area. Three- V .vijjY • ( quarters of an f ",j inch of snow was L i measured. 91H fL ’ Today is ex- L-T-Tr*alffe>J pected to be mostly cloudy and cold with some occasional light snow or rain showers. The high will be 42 degrees. Partly cloudy skies and slight ly colder weather is forecast for tonight. A low of 28 degrees is an ticipated. Tomorrow should be partly i cloudy and continued cold. versiiy's application was not formal, and was more or less to let the students know they would have to sign a formal statement later. Meanwhile, a number of uni-: versifies acros the nation, pro testing the loyalty oath clause in the National Defense Education! Act, announced that they would not arrange for further loans un der the act. The American Council on Edu cation anounced last week its op position to the loyalty oath which requires students who receive fel lowships to file an affidavit dis claiming membership in, or sup port of any organization seeking to overthrow the United States Government by illegal means. On the University's loan ap plication one statement reads: I do not believe in, and am not a member of and do not sup port any organization that be ly to meet Penn State in the infant bc-wl game. Alabama, under the guidance of Paul "Bear" Bryant, wound up the 1959 campaign with a 7-1-2 record and an 11th place finish in the national rankings. I Penn State finished 14th with and 8-2 mark. ‘‘We think we have the best of all the bowl games,” said Castle man Chesley, a spokesman for the Libei tv Eowl Association. “The feeling here in Philadel phia is that we have come up with a top-notch attiaction and already we have had a flood of request- for tickets,” he said. | Dudley said he was extreme ly happy that Alabama has-ac cepted. "I don't feel that we are getting a leftover,'' he said. "In fact, if you compare the records of our two teams you will find they are better than most of the teams playing in the other bowls." “Alabama will be a tremendous challenge to us,” said Penn State coach Rip Engle after hearing the news. ‘ They are one of the strongest teams in any bowl game and really have a very good de fensive squad. “Right now we don’t know too much about them, but we will exchange films with them and we’ll be able to work from there.” The Dec. 19 engagement will be State's third bowl appear ance. The 1922 team lost to Southern California, 14-3 in the Rose Bowl and the 1947 team played a 13-13 tie with Southern Methodist in the Cotton Bowl, Alabama is no stranger to post season bowls either. This will be the 13th for the Crimson Tide They have a 7-4-1 record, in cluding a 61-6 win over Syracuse in the 1953 Orange Bowl. Ala bama is 0-2 in the Sugar Bowl, 1-1 in the Cotton Bowl, and 2-0 in the Orange Bowl. They ap peared in the Rose Bowl six limes, winning four, losing one, and tying the other. C hem-Phys to Discss Unlimited Cuts Tonight A proposed plan for unlimited cuts for all students with a 3.5 All-University average or better will be discussed tonight at the bi-monthly meeting of the Chem istry-Physics Student Council. Irving Klein, council president, said that questionnaires will be distributed to the professors in the College of Chemistry and Physics in order to determine their feelings on the matlerr He also said that the council was planning to contact other Uni versities regarding their success with such a plan. After more information is gath -ered, the University administra tion will be presented with the lidea. lieves in or leaches the over throw of the United Stales Gov ernment ... by any illegal ox unconstitutional means." Under this statement is a line :for the applicant’s signature. A University spokesman said yesterday that the University had (never made a statement concern ing the loyalty oath and would probably not do so. Elsewhere. Dr. A. Whitney Griswold, president of Yale Uni versity, attacked the loyalty oath and said Yale would make no further commitments fox Joans as long as "the negative "affidavit was compulsory." “Loyalty cannot be .coerced or compelled. It has to be won,” Griswold said in a letter to Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. William S. president of the Pennsylvania Division of the (Continued on page eight)
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