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VOL. 60. No. 95
SGA Will Petition
State House on Bill
To Lift Book Tax
By AROL BLAKESLEE
The Student Gov rnment Association will circulate a
petition asking the st to legislature to take action on a bill
that would exempt stu ents from paying sales tax on college
text books.
SGA received a letter from Albright College, Reading,
asking the support of University students in a move to get
the bill out of committee and before the legislature.
The bill was introduced to the
State House of Representatives
on Oct. 15 by representatives from
the Reading area, but was re
ferred to the Rules Committee on
the same day and has remained
there since.
Support was urged by both
the SGA Cabinet and Assembly ,
and a committee was set up
yesterday with James Kridel
(C.-Soph.) as chairman.
The letter said that 98 per cent
of the students at Albright had,
signed a petition which will be
sent to Stephen McCann, major
ity leader of the House.
McCann has the power to bring
a bill out of the Rules Committee
to be acted on by the legislature.
Albright's student council pres
ident said in the letter that the
legislature was being "inconsist
ent with the Commonwealth's
purpose of helping student educa
tion" by not acting on the bill.
Kridel said last night that
he and his committee of about
20 hope to get about 50 per
cent of the University's student
body to sign the petition next
week since Albright's letter
asked that signatures be sent
to them by March 11 to concen
trate the effort.
Starting Monday, the commit
tee plans to visit fraternities,
residence halls and college coun
cils to solicit support for the pe
tition, Kridel said.
Petitions will be placed in the
Hetzel Union Building, Redifer,
Warnock and Nittany dining halls
and possibly in main classroom
buildings.
JayCees Beauty Contest
Scheduled for May 13
Bellefonte Area JayCees, spon
sors of the fifth annual Centre
County Pageant have announced
that a representative for the Miss
Pennsylvania Contest will be
chosen 8 p.m. May 13 at the Belle
fonte Junior High School audi
torium.
Entry forms and a list of quali
fications will soon be available,
John Auman, entries chairman,
said.
Review
Landrow, Wilder Spark Fine Drama
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How does a man compro- aanpdrptomP
mise with his values?
This is the question that
keeps Vince Landrow as
Detective McLeod occupied
for a two and one-half hour
depressing, grueling but al
ways gripping look At life in
the 21st precinct of a major
city.
"Detective Story," although
dragging in spots, comes across
as a wilip lash, no-punches
pulled picture of the seamy
side of city life and the effect
it has on the main character.
The audience cringes and
squirms in its seats as it
watches a man, obsessed with
the memory of an overbear
ing father and a weak mother,
destroy himself and the people
around him while trying to live
up to his ideals.
The play opened last night
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AChio Penalized
For Rush Infraction
Alpha Chi Omega sorority will not be allowed to par
ticipate in Greek Week activities due to an infraction of the
rushing code, the Panhellenic Council Judicial Board has
ruled.
The penalty was assessed Tuesday night but the decision
BULLETIN
State College and campus
police were reportedly, search
ing for a coed missing from
Cooper Residence Hall at 2
a.m.
Annette Cohen, a sophomore
in elementary education from
Philadelphia, failed to return to
her residence hall at 11 last
night. She was last reported
seen in the Redifer parking lot
in the company of Bruce Wein
traub, senior in business ad-
ministration, from Buffalo, N.Y.
The couple was reported seen
about 10:30 p.m.
• Patrol units of both borough
and campus police were co
operating in the search,
TIM to Sponsor
Movies in HUB
Thirty-minute films from the
television show "Twentieth Cen
tury Movies" will be shown ev
ery other Wednesday in the Hetz
el Union assembly room beginning
March 16.
These free movies will be spon
sored by the Town Independent
Men, the council decided Wednes
day night.
..
Features such as "Hiroshirha"
and "Normandy Invasion" will
be shown.
and will continue to - run in
Schwab Auditorium tonight
and tomorrow. Curtain time is
8 p.m.
In his first major role with
the Penn State Players, Lan
drow draws much sympathy
for a character who is hateful,
rotten and inhumanly demand
ing. Landrow doesn't play Mc-
Leod; he is McLeod. He guides
his audience through a night
in the city, as seen through the
eyes of its police force, and in
troduces them to a cross section
of the people, good and bad,
who give a city life.
Barry Wilder, a veteran ac
tor on the Players' stage, comes
across with a performance that
keeps Landrow hopping to stay
in the spotlight. As Joe Fein
son, the police reporter who
still has faith in humanity,
Wilder creates a character sec
ond only to his role as Shylock
in the Merchant of Venice.
His mannerisms, faint Judeo-
American accent and soft
spoken delivery help him cre-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 4. 1960--
Big Snow Storm
Paralyzes State
By JOEL MYERS
The aging winter dealt its severest blow yesterday and last night by burying most of
Pennsylvania under 8 to 15 inches of snow.
Nearly 12 inches of new snow is expected on campus by the time the snow tapers off to
flurries early today.
Very cold temperatures and blustery winds will cause today's weather to be neatly as
bad as yesterday's. Blowing snow, flurries, squalls and heavy drifting is likely. A high of
only 23 degrees is predicted.
The Borough police said t
was not announced until late last
night because "the sorority would
be unduly penalized during rush
ing," according to Dorothy J.
Lipp, dean of women. Rushing
ended last night with coffee hours
held in the sorority suites.
Since the beginning of the
rushing period, the rushee in
volved in the incident has visited
a member of AChiO twice in her
room.
The sorority member also
visited the rushee in her room
last Saturday night. She - had
taken an overnight in th e
rushee's residence hall but did
not stay in the rushee's room.
Phone ' calls were also made
between the rushee and the soror-1
ity member.
Since the incidents occurred
during a semi-strict silence period,
they constituted a violation of
the rushing code.
The violation was reported to
Mrs. Norma Mountan, assistant to
the dean of women and sorority
advisor, within 24 hours after the
last infraction.
The sorority will not be al
lowed to participate in any
Greek Week events, including
the Outstanding Pledge and
IFC-P anhel banquets. Mrs.
Mountan explained that the
Board based their decision on
the grounds that the violation
was unfair to all other Greek
women, and the sorority should
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ate a breathing, sympathetic
human being out of what could
easily have become a carica
ture of a hardbitten newspaper
man.
A fine supporting cast, al
most technically perfect in its
imitation of New York man
nerisms, helps tie together the
drama. The acting all around is
so deceptively realistic that
the audience at times feels as if
it is intruding on something
not meant for its eyes.
Jack Weiner, Garry Abrams,
Arthur Schubert and Joseph
Nedimyer as precinct detec
tives; and Joel Daniels as a
cockey burglar turn in laudable
performances. The only quarrel
we have with the casting is
June Miller whose interpreta
tion of Mary McLeod strikes
us as too sugary sweet.
A well-designed background,
simple but functional, keeps
the audience from the bore
dom that sometimes accom
panies a one-set show.
rgian
fiat all roads in State College
"very bad shape" yesterday i
eve
ning, but street crews were ex
pected to work through the night.
in an attempt to clear as much
snow as they could by morning.
Increasing winds and cold tem
peratures made their task diffi-;
cult.
Centre County's roads were
slippery and snow covered last
night, but all main roads were
open according to the State
police. Many side roads were
completely blocked by the snow.
All campus parking lots should
be open this morning, although
only to a fraction of their ca
pacity.
The storm was the most wide
spread of the winter—causing
considerable ac
cumulat ions in
nearly half of
the nation. Six
to twenty Inches
of snow fell from
Virginia north
ward to Ne w
England stalling
automobiles,
grounding air
liners, slowing rail travel and
even hobling congressional ac
tivity.
Pennsylvania was one of the
hardest hit states with four
deaths attritbuted to the storm.
Thousands of schools, stores
and factories were closed.
Traffic on the giant Pennsyl
vania Turnpike was slowed to al
snail's pace with speeds reduced
to 35 miles an hour. Cars without
chains were urged to stay off the
superhighway in the interest of
safety.
There's little doubt that the
last three weeks have been the
worst of the winter. Nearly 35
inches of snow has fallen in this
area as compared to only five
inches in the three preceding
months. Temperatures have been
well below normal.
No warmer weather is in
sight and strangely enough this
is welcomed news to many peo
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TV to Give Parade
Partial Coverage
Portions of the Spring Week Float Parade on April 29
will be filmed by television stations in Altoona and Lancaster
and shown on programs over that weekend, Float Parade
Chairman Sharon Hoffman said yesterday.
WFBG in Altoona is unabi
because of previous commit
ments, Miss Hoffman explained.
The portions that are filmed will
be shown on newscasts.
Lancaster station WGAL will
show its films on news programs
and will film a five minute por
tion to be shown on a Studio 8
Presentation Monday, May 2.
They hope to send someone here
with the cameramen to do com
mentary for the film.
The Johnstown TV station
was also invited to cover the
parade, but they have not re
plied, Miss Hoffman said.
Since neither of the coverages
will be telecast live, timing will
not be so important, Miss Hoff
man explained, therefore, the par
ade route will be optional. Had
plans called for the programs to
Assembly
Should Act
See Page 4
were snow covered and in
Ribboning
Scheduled
For Tonight
I Ribboning for new sorority
I members will take place at 7
!tonight in the sorority suites
as formal Panhellenic spring
rushing draws to a close.
Rushees filled out preferential
cards last night after attending
coffee hours.
The coffee hours, which were
originally to be held at the homes
of alumnae in town, had to be
moved into the sorority suites
because of transportation hazards
due to the icy roads
Ruqhees will receive their bids
late this afternoon. Sororities may
pick up the lists of their new
members at 3 pm. today in 105
Old Main.
A strict silence period will be
observed today until the time of
ribboning. Rushees and sorority
women may say no more than
hello to one another during this
period.
School clothes will be worn to
the ribboning ceremonies.
Fernelius Gets Grant
To University of Cairo
Dr. W. Conrad Fernehus, pro
fessor of chemistry is spending
the Spring Semester in Cairo,
United Arab Republic, serving as
visiting professor of chemistry at
the University of Cairo.
He has been awarded a United
States Educational Exchange
Grant under the provisions of the
Smith-Mundt Act.
e to telecast the entire parade
be telecast that night, it would
have been necessary to adjust the
route to meet the program and
timing requirements of the sta
tions.
A stand will probably have to
be set up somewhere along the
route for the cameras, she added.
Tentative plans call for the
parade to begin at either Rec
reation Hall or near the Nittany
area and then procede along
Pollock Rd. and College Ave.
The plan to have the Mummers
'judge the parade has been con
firmed orally by Magistrate Elias
Myers, who is in charge of the
Philadelphia group which pus on
the Mummers Parade on New
Year's Day, Written confirmation
'has not yet been received.
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