Weather Forecasts Partly Cloudy, VOL. 60. No. 86 Spring Rush Begins With Open House Sorority open houses, to be held from 1:30 to 5 p.m. to day and tomorrow, will mark the beginning of formal spring rushing. All rushees must attend a com pulsory meeting at 12:30 p.m. to day in 121 Sparks in order to be placed in groups and to be as signed guides. Mrs. Norma Moun tan, assistant to the dean of wom en, has requested that the rushees sit in correct alphabetized sec tions which will be marked off in 121 Sparks to facilitate the grouping. The rushees will attend all the sorority open houses and will re main at each one for 10 minutes. A guide will accompany each group. Any woman who intends to go Through formal rushing must have registered for rushing and must have paid the one dollar registration fee and is required to attend all open houses, ac cording to Mrs. Mountan. Chatter dates will be held from 1:30 to 5 p.m. and from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Rushees will attend Bermuda Junction parties from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Feb. 29 and March 1. Coffee hours will be held from 6:30 to 10 p m. March 3. Preferential bids will be singned and given to hostesses immediately following the cof fee hours. Rushees will be ribboned in their respective sorority suites at 7 p.m. March 4. Any woman who has registered for rush and does not join a sor ority during formal rushing is eligible for an open bid. Bids may be given one week after ribboning until the end of the semester. Penn State Engineer The Penn State Engineer will be on sale Monday and Tuesday. Castro Gets Apology From United States WASHINGTON (VP) The United States' State Depart ment, with a red face, admitted yesterday that a small private plane had raided Cuba from a U.S. airfield. It apologized to Prime Minister Fidel Castro, bitter critic of America. The State Department ordered , the top U.S. diplomat remaining in Havana, Daniel Braddock, to "express to the Cu ban government this government's sincere regrets that the plane managed to escape the vigilance of our intensified airfield patrols in Florida." Washington acted quickly after its own check had confirmed a new Castro allegation about U.S. based planes fire-bombing Cuban sugar fields. Castro told a Cuban television audience the little craft had crashed Thursday *hile attack ing a Cuban sugar mill. He said the occupants, both killed, were Americans, Cubans named them as Robert Ellis Frost of Portland, Ore., and Robert Kelly of the U.S. Civil Air Patrol, not further identified. Castro called for an end to this kind of action by raiders, who, he said, had destroyed 225,000 tons of sugar cane in 30 attacks this year. State Department authorities had no further immediate indenti fication of the two fliers. It said their inquiries disclosed that the ...' I I - r , e 4. \, .. .. \ •,.. o . 7 AS 1 r 4 tit g ; -,!,,,, , ,A, 7 ti \. STATE COLLEGE, PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 20, 1960 Heavy Snow Damages Electric Lines, Trees i 7, 4, -3 ' 'r —Collegian Photo by John Beauge WHO SAID WINTER WAS ALMOST OVER! The second big snow storm of the season brought fun for some, work for others and ended the life of one of the oldest trees on cam . us. Mummers to Spring Float Men from the group which puts on the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia on New Year's Day will * judge the Spring Week float parade on April 29. Chairman Walter Caplan said that Magistrate Elias Myers, who is in charge of the Philadelphia group, has plane had taken off from Tami ami Aifield near Miami. It be lieved the plane had loaded up with bombing material at another unidentified airfield south of Mi ami before making its run on the Cuban sugar mill. Washington and Havana have been at odds over Castro's an ti-American statements and seiz r ure of U.S. properties in Cuba. The United States has recalled its ambassador to Havana, Phil ip W. Bonsai. Yesterday's development came as a double humiliation to the State Department because it had scoffed at previous Castro charges of U.S. based incendiary raiders and announced supposedly tight checks against any illegal flights from Florida. Fraternity Rule Correction Fraternity men will be allowed in men's residence halls at all times of the day and not only, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. as was er roneously reported in Wednes day's Collegian. FOR A BETTER PENN STA suiga promised that three men will judge the floats. The Queen of Hearts and He- Man preliminaries will open the Spring Week activities on April 28. Preliminaries for the Queen of Hearts will include skills in bowling, swimming and either basketball, volleyball or both. The Carnival will be held May I and Awards Night is on May 3. It will not be necessary to re ceive, University Senate approval for the proposal to make a 3-cent refund on each 10-cent ticket col lected, Caplan said. The only ap proval which is necessary is that of Associated Student Affairs (Continued on page four) Review 'Hat' Provides 4 Laughts a Minute By ZANDY SLOSSON "Please, all I want is the hat." With this as a theme song, Joe Servello and a 28- member supporting cast yell ed, sang and shook their way through a farcical merry-go round chase at Center Stage last night. "Italian Straw Hat" was writ ten by two Frenchmen, Eugene Labiche and Marc-Michel, with a laugh every 15 seconds. Under the direction of Frank Neusbaum, professor of theatre arts, the Players' cast not only put the di ficult shthv across but even made More Snow Due Tomorrow i f A '#'l : No Warmer Weather In Sight By JOEL MYERS A: severe winter snow storm tapered off to flurries yes terday morning after downing power and telephone lines, blocking roads and causing structural damage to trees and buildings in the area. The total fall was 10 inches. The wet, clinging snow, which began Thuisday evening, accum inulated on the trees and wires to an unusual depth, Many of the wires and some trees couldn't withstand the weight of the snow and broke under the strain. Campus Patrol reported that campus parking lots were snow covered and only one quarter open as of last evening, but plows should have the lots completely cleared of snow by this morning. Electric service in State College is in relatively good shape, ac cording to the West Penn Power Company, but Centre ,Hall and Millheim were virtually without any power as of last night. All roads in State College are in "bad shape" according to the A 3 4 10 Borough police, but the roads near the center of town were V I `.• "travelable" at sunset yesterday. !X" v iitAt 4011 State Police reported that the roads in Centre County were "in 'very bad shape" and many are only supporting one-way traffic. While all the main roads are open, they are all snow • s ° lvered and hazardous. Many side roads are completely ,osed because of drifted snow. The snow forced officials to close the Pennsyl mia Turnpike yesterday morning when thousands motorists were trapped on the pike. Borough employes, who were clearing the snow . the fraternity section of town, were bombarded by iowballs Thursday night. The windshield of a ._:wly-acquired jeep was shattered. In addition, students dragged , fallen limbs and rolled huge snowballs in attempts to barricade streets and block the plows. The storm, which was the second to dump heavy snow on this area in less than a week, moved out to sea yesterday after leaving between 6 and 20 inches of snow in Central and Western Pennsyl vania. ~~, .... ~ ~ Judge Parade rgiatt A new storm with all the earmarks of another heavy snow pro ducer, is moving towards Pennsylvania from the Southwestern .The forecast is for diminishing clouds and winds today, but continued very cold. The high temperature will be 28 degrees. Snow should begin again tomorrow morning and may become heavy by afternoon. Winds will begin to increase tomorrow after noon and they should reach gale force tomorrow night. Between two and five inches of new snow may fall by Monday morning. Schrift Receives Award Coed G iven ' Scholarship From Alpha Tau Alpha By Chimes Hat Society Darryl Schrift, sophomore in, Barbara Yunk, sophomore in agricultural education from Wil- journalism from Pittsburgh, has more, has received the Alpha Tau' been awarded the Chimes, junior Alpha award for outstanding, scholarship in his freshman year women's hat society. scholarship The award was presented at theiof $75 for the spring semester. annual ATA banquet. ! Chimes scholarships are award- Alpha Tau Alpha, national pro-' Ted to sophomore girls on the basis fessional and honorary fraternity,' also presented Dr. Paul M. Alt- ;of need, activities and scholar house, assistant director of resi—ship. An All-University average dent instruction in agriculture, of at least 2.50 is required. Reeipi with an honorary degree for out-vents of the awards are chosen by standing work in education. 'a University Senate committee. the scene changes enjoyable. Servello, who is a familiar face - to Players' audiences, played the role of a frustrated bridegroom whose wedding plans are interrupted by a lady -demanding that her hat be re turned. With his commendable acting, he almost hides his lack of sing ing talent. A pot of myrtle clutched in his hands, Ellis Grove, the bride's father, follows Servello around threatening to call the wedding off and successfully adding to the confusion. Trailing behind the frantic bridegroom and the pot of myrtle is the bride, played by Susan Brown; her cousin, played by J. Rodney Busch; and members of Serious Considerations See Page 4 the wedding party. Miss Brown's facial expres sions make up for her lack of dialogue as she is tossed be tween her talkative father and her husband. Busch tags along to throw in his contribution to the merry-go round. The combined acting talents of the entire cast were needed to make this play a farce in the tra ditional French style. With the supporting acting of Sandra Hart. Donna Adams, Marc Katz and Bill Bonham, they suc ceeded. The simple scenery and five girls in full costume who changed it kept the show in simple, but good, taste. FIVE CENTS
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