PAGE EIGHT Semester Review Town Council Acts On Traffic Problems State College Borough Council voted last semester to change S. Garner St. from a one-way to a two-way street and to install traffic lights at S. Garner St., E. College Ave. and Shortlidg . e Rd. to improve the flow of traffic. In another effort to solve traffic problems, Council asked Five Trustee Officers Are Re-Elected The Umve-sity's Board of Trus tees will ' i mam practically un changed for the next year after its annual meeting held in Har risburg Saturday. James Long of Blue Bell was re-elected president and Roger Rowland of New Castle was re elected vice president of the bo,i rd. Returned as secretary and trea stner v•ere President Eric A. Walker and McKay Donkin, vice piks-ident for finance C. S. Wy lind, vice pi esident for develoo - w'•ili continue as assistant sect et a t In 'copping with the amencimmt to the (loiter which now permits the hoard to name from 7 to 11 members to it , . executive com mittee, committee membership WaS boosted from 9 to 11 with al umnus fhlph Hetzel of New York City and aiumnuc 11. Thomas 'Hallowell Jr. of Jenkintown as newcomer S State Senator Albert E. Madi gan of Towanda and J. Lewis William', of Uniontown were named to succeed Kenzie S. Sag show, deceased, of Hollidaysburg and Georee W. Slocum of Milton, Returned to the executive com mittee were Mayor Richardson Dilworth of Philadelphia and al umni Roger W. Rowland; Milton Fritsehe, Philadelphia: William D. Harkins, Philadelphia; J. L. Matillw, Youngstown, Ohio; Wal ter W. Patehell, Philadelphia; and Flank W. Ruth Jr., Lvkens. Long and Walker are ex-officio mem bers ROTC May Offer leadership Courses A voluntary leadership course will be given to sophomore Army ROTC cadets during the latter part of the spring semester if a desire is expiessed by 100 or more student , , fot this type of program. according to the Cadet Times, Army ROTC publication Class lesgonQ would present a "do it your , ,ell" course in giving commands at the squad level and In instructing. Squad competition would be included at the end of the course. Attendance would be voluntary. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA the planning commission to study the possibility of installing a traf fic light at Westerly Parkway and S. Atherton St. Three members of the Univer sity faculty assumed new posi tions on the council at the first meeting this year. Lawrence J. Perez, assistant dean of engineer ing and architecture, moved up to the position of president of the council. Arnold Addison, person nel director and associate profes sor of engineering in the Ordi nance Research Laboratory, and Lyne S. Hoffamn, assoc i a t e professor of English composition, were elected as new councilmen. President Eric A. Walker was one of the three council mem bers who did not seek re-elec tion when their terms expired. Early in the year, Council mem bers voted to table a plan to be gin a mandatory system of gar bage collection. The plan would have provided a borough super vised system of collection, paid for by iesident fees. Council did not act on the re quest of the Town Independent Men to lift the street parking ban from 2 to 6 a in. Saturdays and Sundays The one per cent wage tax was renewed on all profits, wages and commissions earned in the borough of State College. In the most recent action, Coun cil set Feb. I for a public hearing on the proposed changes in the commercial district set-back laws. The proposal to change the re quirement on the south side of E. Beaver Ave. from S. Pugh St. to Locust from a 3-foot to a 7-foot set-back would cut the building area of four fraternities—Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Kappa Sigma, Triangle and Phi Kappa Sigma. Summer Jobs OfferedA broad About 3000 summer jobs in Europe will be available to Amer ican university students in 1960. According to information re leased by the American Student Information Service, the jobs will pay the standard wage of the countries in which they are lo cated Jobs are available in Germany, France, England, Belgium. ;Flat land, Luxumbourg, Scandanavia, Austria and Spain. Most of the jobs are in unskilled or semi-skilled fields and include work in farms, factories, hospitals, offices, resorts and construction work. For more information, write to: American Student Information Service, e. v., Jahnstrasse 56a, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Science Panel To Be Telecast "The Soviet Challenge," a half-hour program dealing with America's bid for supremacy in scientific and military areas, will be telecast from the University campus at 5 p.m. Sunday. The program, second in a series of eight to be televised over WFBG. Altoona, will feature a panel made up of Dr. Vernon V. Aspaturian, professor of political science; Dr. Kent Forster, profes sor of European history; and Sid- Iney A Bowhill, associate profes sor, of electrical engineering. The 'moderator will be Gilbert S. lAberg, director of radio and tele vision in the Department of Pub !lie Information. The program will be presented as part of a weekly public service series—" Eye of Channel 10 " For CLASSIFIEDS Call UN 5-2531 A General Motors representative will be on campus February 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 Contact your college placement office to arrange an interview. shaping the course of power ...in hydraulics General Motors engineers measure the torque and efficiency characteristics of torque converter blade designs with high velocity fluid flow, using electronic measurement devices to solve for un knowns in highly complex mathematic design problems. What's your specialty, your first love in science and engineering? Astronautics? Auto mobiles? Electronics? Jet Power? Refrigera tion? Basic Research? You'll find opportunities in all of these fields and many more at General GM positions now available In these fields for men holding Bachelor's, Master's and Doctor's degrees: Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Metallurgical, Chemical, Aeronautical and Ceramic Engineering • Mathematics s Industrial Design t Physics I Chemistry t En - ulnae/ring Mechanic I Business Administration and Reittted Engineers Save State Money A team of University engineers composing the Institutional En-' ginering Service has saved the Commonweal'h more than $3,- 901,005 in the last 11 years. Established at the request of the Commonwealth in 1947, the iservice provides engineering guid ance and a continuing appraisal of the operation and maintenance of boiler plants and utility systems l of 68 Commonwealth institutions. The engineers visit institutions such as hospitals, state teachers' colleges, prisons twice a year and make special trips to advise on immediate problems arising in re lation to utility systems. Their objective is to see that coal and electrical facilities at state institutions are operated ef ficiently. . The team includes William L. Muschlitz, engineer in charge, Frederick R. Axelson, fuel engin eer, and Fred Nicholas and George Whitmore, field engineers. JOB OPPORTUNITIES! E*: • , / 4 4 4 ~'` ~ ~ w GENERAL MOTORS ~ • ''''s, '''''''''''4'.4- Motors. Because GM is a company where you and your talent can really go places. There's no dead•ending here. You can go forward by work ing on a variety of challenging projects, moving up through your division, and there's also a possibility of moving across to other divisions.. Interested in postgraduate studies? GM pro vides financial aid. There's also a summer program for undergraduates. You gain work experience while vacationing from school. Get the story on a rewarding GM career from your Placement Officer or write to General Motors, Personnel Staff, Detroit 2, Michigan. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1960 Walker Asks Alumni Support The 1960 Alumni Fund cam paign got a boost from the ad ministration last week as Presi dent Eric A. Walker appealed for more funds in a letter mailed to 60,000 graduates. - Noting that an increase in tuition was recently instituted to impliment the University's bud get, Walker stated that this com prises only $4 million of the $lO million needed to maintain exist ing academic and financial pro grams. He also cited the need for . fac ulty salary adjustments, funds for the library and general ex pansion. Walker said the University, now the third highest among 68 land grant colleges and universi ties of the nation, is coming "close to compromising its man date to provide higher education at a cost that can be afforded by every Pennsylvania youth.
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