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VOL. 60. No. 59
U.S. Shows Peacetime Might
As Ike Opens Agriculture Fair
NEW DELHI, India ( JP ) President Eisenhower turns today to a demonstration of
American peacetime might, opening an exhibition of agricultural developments of the type
that can help India feed its hungry people.
He will cut the ribbon at
includes a dramatic showing
Varsity "S'
To Show
Lion Films
Students will have a chance
to see four outstanding foot
ball movies next week.
The Varsity “S” club is spon
soring the showing of two of
this year’s Nittany Lion games,
the 1948 Cotton Bowl game movie
and this season’s Alabama-Van
derbilt game.
The films will be shown from
7 to 9 p.m. on Sunday and Tues
day in 119 Osmond.
The films are part of the pre-
Liberty Bowl game events.
On Sunday night the Penn
State-Illinois and the Penn State-
Army games will be shown. The
Nittany Lions won both contests,
defeating the Fighting Illini 20-9
and the Cadets, 17-11.
The ’4B Cotton Bowl game and
the Alabama-Vanderbilt game
will be shown on Tuesday night.
Penn State played Southern Meth
odist University .in the Cotton
Bowl on New Year’s Day in Dal
las, Texas and battled to a 13-13
tie.
This year’s Alabama-Vander
bilt game was another tie, 7-7.
•The send-off pep rally for the
Nittany Lions will be at 3 p.m. on
Thursday ifl Recreation Hall. The
team will leave by buses for
Philadelphia following the rally.
Chess Team to Meet
Georgetown Tomorrow
The Varsity Chess Team will
meet Georgetown University to
morrow night.
Members of the University chess
team making the trip to George
town are William Bickham, An
thony Cantone, Eugene Grumer,
Harry Mathews and Richard
Somerville.
Collegian photo by Charlea Jacquefi
LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE are two students, Dennis Foianini
(left) and Patricia Hagan (right) who talked with Dr. Grrin Frink
and Henry G. Barone, of the Department of Mathematics, about
careers in mathematics at one of the LA Council Career Day
workshops yesterday.
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
the U.S. exhibit of the World Agricultural Fair. The exhibit
of modern farm machinery and methods.
Expeting a vast turnout, Indian
authorities marshaled thousands ■ _ _ .
of extra police to keep crowds in £ Q f\y MOmiHg
Last night the President as
sured India that U.S. military PmmMAe
power is ready to help defend its ■ *■ v? iVUvUUCd
friends. In a major speech he
warned Indian legislators—jittery jLJ—
over Red Chinese border threats 8 fOT *> flOlfiC
—that military weakness invites
aggression
He coupled this warning with
assurances of American friend
ship and a plea for universal
controlled disarmament so that
progress can be made in richer
harvests and better living.
The American' chief execu
tive got a deafening ovation
when he appeared before 600
members of the Indian Parlia
ment at a joint session.
But the members were silent
when the President spoke of the
dangers of military weakness, a
point that has been sinking in here
since August when Red China
made the first of her incursions
across the Himalayan line India
has long considered her border.
The President coupled his warn
ing with an eloquent plea that
universal controlled disarmament
is imperative and for a "5-year
or 50-year plan” to rid the world
of fear-begetting tensions, fixa
tions and propaganda pressures.
The half-hour speech was per
haps ihe most important the
American chief executive will
deliver in his 11-nation, 22,000-
mile tour.
He got his biggest applause
when he declared the United
States is committed to a cease
less search for ways to end the
“vicious circle” of the arms race
—that "controlled universal disar
mament is the imperative of our
time.”
"The demand for it by the hun
dreds of millions whose chief con
cern is the long future of them
selves and their children will, I
hope, become so universal and in
sistent that no man, no govern
ment can withstand it,” he as
serted.
But, he said, "weakness in arms
often invites aggression or subver
sion or externally manipulated
revolution.” He did not mention
Red China or communism by
name, but his meaning was plain.
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BULLETIN
Fire gulled Ihe home of Roy
P. Matelski, professor of soil
technology, at one o’clock this
morning.
Alpha firemen were called to
the Matelski home at 350 Brad
ley Si. after his wife smelled
smoke coming from an attic
portion above the garage. Fire
men with four trucks responded
to the alarm and used a tem
porary supply of water to quell
ihe blaze.
They were hampered by lack
of water and the blaze continued
to burn throughout ihe house.
Firemen later began to cut
holes in the roof of the house in
an attempt to stop the fire from
spreading further. However,
flames spread throughout the
entire roof of the modern ranch
type home. The early morning
fire attracted a large crowd and
neighbors and students carried
furniture and other articles
from the house as the fire be
gan to spread.
The Maielski’s car, a 1958
model Chevrolet parked in the
garage, was destroyed by
fiames. There was no immediate
estimate of total damage to the
home.
Warmer Weather,
Rain Predicted
Mostly cloudy skies and a few
periods of light ram are expect
ed today, tonight and tomorrow.
A broad flow -of warm moist
air will dominate our weather for
the next few days, causing above
normal temperatures and occa
sional showers.
There is a slight chance that
if it begins early enough, the pre
cipitation may be mixed with a
few snow flurries this morning.
Temperatures will rise to 48
degrees today and then fall to 40
degrees tonight. A little warmer
weather is expected tomorrow.
The high should be about 53 de
grees.
Satary Adjustments
Walker Rejects Retroactive Pay Hike
Salary adjustments for fac
ulty and staff members will
not be retroactive to July 1
but will become effective fol
lowing the approval of a re
vised University budget, prob
ably on Feb. 1, President Eric A.
Walker said yesterday.
This will enable faculty and
staff members to benefit more
from the limited funds available,
although the adjustments will be
far short of University needs,
Walker explained.
In a letter to all members of
the faculty and staff,.Walker said
that salary increases for-faculty
and staff members will be made
on the basis of individual merit
and performance and not on an
'across-the-board’ percentage ba
Nittany Gets
SGA Study
Sets Up Committee to Check
Reports of Living Conditions
SGA Assembly last night set up a committee to immedi
ately look into the living conditions in the Nittany area after
hearing unfavorable and shocking reports on the situation.
Barry Hein, president of the Nittany Council, reported
that there have been numerous i
complaints about the Nittany area.!
Among these are: lack of spacej
in the rooms, no insulation on the
heating pipes, no soundproofing
to allow for privacy when speak
ing on the telephone, a shortage
of telephones and puddles of mud
surrounding the buildings.
Rein also reported that there
are mice in the Nittany residence
halls, and that a student had dis
covered his overcoat chewed by
the mice.
Freshman members of the
Assembly who also live in the
Nittany area backed up Rein's
statements. They said that they
desired to have a committee
set up to look into the living
conditions so they could have
substantial tacts to present to
the administration. Howard By
ers (U.-Sr.) had previously
recommended taking immediate
action on the situation without
stalling it in a committee/
It was pointed out by Rem that
there are 1028 men in Nittany
residence halls and that there are
24 telephones for all of them.
John Brandt (Alt.-Sr.) said that
the reduced fees for living in the
Nittany area as opposed to living
in the new men’s halls or in West
Halls are not proportionate to the
reduced standard in living con
ditions.
Robert Carson, freshman
class president, who lives in Nit
lany, said that the area would,
not be a "bad place" to live in
if action was taken to improve
the conditions.
In other action Walter Darran
(C-Jr.) urged all SGA members
to talk personally to administra
tive personnel, supporting pro
posals passed by SGA Assembly.
Darren, referring specifically to
the traffic code passed recently
and generally to all proposals
passed by SGA Assembly, said
that the proposals are carried to
the administration by SGA presi
dent Len Julius but action ends
there and little is done about
them.
14,000 Tickets Left
For Liberty Bowl
Eight thousand tickets have
been sold at the University for
the Liberty Bowl on Dec. 19 in
Municipal Stadium, Richard Mc-
Dowell, assistant business man
ager of athletics, said yesterday,
There are sitll 14,000 tickets
remaining which can be pur
chased in the Athletic Office in
Recreation Hail,
At present, 30,000 tickets have
been sold for the game.
sis.
Even though salary adjust
ments have been retroactive to
the beginning of the biennium in
previous "extended" legislative
years. Walker said he is in
structing administrative officers
submitting salary adjustments
not to make them retroactive to
July 1.
By allocating funds for salary
adjustments over a shorter time
period—Feb. 1, 1960 to June 30,
1961—the pay rate for individuals
receiving -adjustments will in
crease, he said.
The University-wide level of
salaries by June 30, 1961 will be
“appreciably” above what it would
have been had the adjustments
been retroactive, Walker said.
Explaining, he continued: "The
decision to raise salaries in
greater degree, rather .than to
have lower raises with some
By SUSIE LINKROUM
SGA OK's
New Student
Lobby Plan
By CAROL BLAKESLEE
Despite a long debate cen
tered on the meaning of the
words “lobby” and “student
opinion,” the SGA Assembly
gave its approval last night to
the Student Lobby Associa
tion.
The association will attempt to
teach students to take action on
state, national and international
issues, Jacob Dentil, senior in elec
trical engineering from .Ghana,
told the Assembly.
It will try to help students
gather information for themselves
on specific issues to “make the
United States effective on the
world scene,” he said.
The present campus gener
ation has been branded as "apa
thetic and uninformed." on im
portant issues, Dentu said.
Many members of this genera
tion will be voting on these
same issues. Not to be informed
on these issues is "doing a dis
service" to your country, he
added.
Assembly members questioned
the wording of the group’s pur
pose as “a useful and construc
tive _ means of voicing student
opinion at the University.”
Walt Darran (C.-Jr.) warned
that the group might put the Uni
versity “in jeopardy” by taking
action said based on “student
opinion".
Earl Gershenow (C-Soph.)
said it would not be "advisable
to be represented" by such a
group. Its action might be "det
rimental" and "gel us wrapped
up in red tape."
The word “lobby” is what wor
ries us, Jay Hawley (C.-Sr.) said,
since it implies influence.
However, Howard Byers (U.-
Sr.)' asked Assembly if there
wasn’t some good in the group.
“Haven’t we pointed out the evil
of some remote situation?” he
asked.
David Nilson, member of the
lobby association, pointed out
that its “action” would be con
fined mostly to letter writing.
These letters would be signed by
the individuals who wanted to,
he said, not as the student body
of the University.
retroactive pay, should not be
interpreted to mean that funds
appropriated for salary adjust
ments will be used tor other
purposes. In fact, the exact op
posite is true."
The money not used for retro
active salary increases will go to
ward making adjustments more
substantial than they could havo
been on a retroactive basis, he
said.
“Administrative officers are
being instructed to effect every
economy possible within the
bounds of a sound educational
and research program to provide
salary adjustments,’’ Walker said.
University officials began this
week a series of budget confer
ences with deans and other ad
ministrative officers who will
submit modified budget recom
mendations for the current fiscal
year.