The daily collegian., March 18, 1960, Image 1

Weather Forecastt
Partly Cloudy,
Rather Cold
VOL. 60. No. 105
—Collegian Photo by Marty Schtrr
WARM-UP SESSION—EarIy arrivals for the NCAA gymnastics competition work out in Rec Hall.
About 138 gymnasts will vie in preliminaries this afternoon and tonight for berths in the finals
tomorrow night.
Bus Service to Begin April 1;
Line to Make 17 Trips Daily
By NICKI WOLFORD
The opening of the Suburban Express bus line which will service State College and
the campus has been set for April 1.
service will begin on April Fool’s Day but that's no joke,” Lee Roy Toney,
the Toney Taxi Service, said yesterday. Toney said he received unofficial word
owner of
Partly Cloudy Skies to Persist;
Few Snow Flurries Due Today
Partly-cloudy and rather chilly
weather is expected to persist for
the next few days, but no very
cold temperatures are due.
There is seme threat of more
snow by late tomorrow night or
Sunday, but predicted amounts
are uncertain.
The snow that fell Wednesday
night and yesterday morning was
officially measured at 2.8 inches,
bringing the March snowfall total
Housing May Permit
Indies to Rent Suites
Groups of independent women may be able to rent un
used sorority suites from the Department of Housing in the
future.
Two groups of women have already applied for rooms
in suite areas in Simmons and McElwain Halls with the re-
quest that they be allowed to
rent the unused suite.
Twelve sororities will be mov
ing from Simmons and McElwain
Halls to the new Pollock Halls
in the fall.
Olio E. Mueller, director of
housing, said that no final de
cision has been made on the
request. Any group of inde
pendent women may request to
live together and this request
will probably be granted, he
said.
The department is considering
the proposal for renting unused
suites to independent women and
will announce the decision short
ly, Mueller said.
It was originally planned to
house four women in each of the
suites, he said. This plan will be
earned out if there are not enough
rooms for women in the fall.
As rooms become available,
the women would be moved
latl«®olaU
to an unusually high 17 inches,
Today should be partly cloudy
and cold with a few snow flurries
and a high temperature of 36 de
grees.
Clear and cold weather is fore
cast for tonight with a Tow of 24
degrees.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy
and rather cold with a chance of
snow at night. A high of 37 de
grees is expected.
By ELAINE MIELE
from the suites, Mueller said.
The suites would then be used
for study lounges for any wom
en on the floor, he said.
Dean of Women Dorothy J.
Lipp said yesterday she is in fa
vor of allowing independent wom
en to rent the suites.
"Two groups have already asked
and there is no reason why others
cannot,” she said.
They would pay the same
rent as the sororiiies do ndw
she said, and a minimum of 25
girls would be allowed to ap
ply.
The girls must present their
rooming requests to housing in
a block if they wish to live to
gether, she said.
Sororities in Simmons and Mc-
Elwain now pay $B5O rent a year.
The deadline for entering room
applications for upperclasswomen
■is Monday.
FOR A SETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 18, 1960
that his franchise for the busline
was granted Monday in Harris
burg.
The two buses will make 17
trips a day beginning at 7 23 a.m.
and ending at 9:20 pm
On the inbound trips buses are
scheduled to leave Woodycrest
Rd. and move to the corner of
Burrowes and Pollock. They will
move from Pollock down Bur
rowes making a stop at Burrowes
and College Ave. and then on to
Beaver.
From Beaver fhe buses will
run to S. Allen Street and make
a stop at the police stop on
College Ave. to avoid conges
tion at the intersection of,Col
lege Ave. and S. Allen St.
On the outbound trip, the buses
will move from College Ave. to
Shortlidge Rd. making stops at
Pollock, -Curtin and Park Ave.
and completing the circuit at
Park Forest Village.
The two buses will make two
express runs during the morning.
One bus will go through Park
Forest Village and then directly
to the campus and College Ave.
The other bus will stop only at
the main gate of Park Forest Vil
lage and then move throueh Col
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63 Killed as Plane Explodes in Flight
TELL CITY, Ind. (JP) A
Northwest Airlines turboprop
exploded in the air yesterday,
hurling wreckage and 63
bodies into southern Indiana’s
rugged Ohio River hills.
All aboard died.
So much wreckage rained over
a wide area that it was first be
lieved two planes had collided.
However, the Federal Avia
tion Agency and the Indiana
state police said all the pieces
they could find were from one
plane—Northwest's Flight No.
710 from Minneapolis to Miami,
Fla. "
A wing and two engines were
found about five miles from the
Women Elect
New Leaders
4 Fill Top Positions on WRA
WSGA, Panhel and Leonides
Three presidents and one v:
night to head women’s organiz
Margaret McPherson, juni
Park, ran unopposed for tin
Sr. Board
To Consider
Class Gift
Twenty-one suggestions
have been made for the senior
class gift.
The Senior Class Advisory
Board will consider the sugges
tions and present some of them to
the Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees for approval.
Seniors may vote on the final
suggestions during Senior Week.
The gifts suggested are: a color
television set for the HUB, stu
dent AM station, memorial foun
tain for the lawn of Old Main,
tape recorders and dictaphones for
speech analysis, improvement of
junior year-abroad plan, a book
let of information on recreational
activities at Penn State, records
and phonographs for the HUB
and purchase of movies for the
HUB.
Flag for Old Main, construction
of an outside study area, improve
ment of Artists’ Senes and Lec
ture Series, library books, a Uni
versity Book store, conversion of
the Armory into a Penn State
Museum and new lighting for the
library reference room.
Sign and monument for Beaver
Stadium, revolving art exhibit,
improvement of Schwab or con
struction of new auditorium, re
tirement fund for professors and
funds for a hockey rink.
Tri-Delt First in Bridge
Delta Delta Delta sorority cap
tured first place in the 4-week
intramural bridge tournament
sponsored by the Women’s Rec
reation Association. Alpha Gam
ma Delta placed second and Kap
pa Kappa Gamma took third
place.
Last Day to File Conflicts
Today is the last day that stu
dents may file conflicts for final
examinations. The scheduling of
fice, basement Willard will be
open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
main wreckage. i
The body of the plane rammed
a huge hole into the earth.
A State Police spokesman said:
“Shredded clothes were found all
over the area. Our men have been
unable to find any complete
bodies.”
Twenty state troopers searched
the densely wooded hills along
the Ohio River on foot. They
tried using jeeps but made little
progress. There ere few roads
in the area.
“Those hills are almost straight
up and down, almost mountains,”
a trooper said. The scene was
midway between Louisville, Ky.,
and Evansville, Ind., on the Ken
tucky-lndiana border.
Ed Laparle of Minneapolis was
captain of the plane—the ninth to
Stone Valley
Project
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’ice president were elected last
jations for the next year,
ior in liberal arts from New
ie office of president of the
Women's Student Government
Association.
Roberta Hill, sophomore in ele
mentary education fiom New
Castle, defeated Ann Farley with
a vote of 149 to 115 for the posi
tion as president of Leonides,
Janice Wanner, sophomore in
home economics fiom Shoemak
ersville, was elected first vice
president of Panhellenic Council
and Cynthia Xanthopoulos, sopho
more in secondary education from
Pottstovvn. is the new second vice
president. Both are members of
Alpha Omicron Pi. They defeated
Elizabeth Weihe for the offices.
Elizabeth Ingley, junior in aits
and letters from Port Washington,
N.Y., defeated Puscilla Wilko in
the election for the president of
the Women's Recreation Associa
tion with a vote of 642 to 313.
WSGA
Gage Peck, sophomore in arts
and letters hom Chevy Chase,
Md., defeated Patricia Gardner,
556 and 431 for fust vice presi
dent of WSGA.
Catherine Hersey, freshman in
home economics from Easton, was
elected second vice president of
WSGA. She defeated Mama Mi
ehalski by a vote of 543 to 450.
The new WSGA secretary is
Susan First, junior in physical
education from State College.
She won by a vote of 595 to 397
over Susan Sherman.
Barbara Reese, sophomore in
elementary education from Phila
delphia, defeated Patricia Dyer
for WSGA trea.suier bv a vote of
521 to 480.
New senior senalots are Kath
arine Hughes, junior m arts and
letters from Kingston (155), and
Sheila Gallagher, junior in home
economics from Washington, DC.
(150). They defeated Jean De
meyer (136) and Sandia Fossel
man (106).
Elected junior senators were
Linda Huston, sophomore in
elementary education from
Harrisburg (185) and Marjorie
Ganler, sophomore in arts and
letters from Bethel Park (160).
They were opposed by Rebecca
Gifford (110) and Judith Han-
I nigan (108).
Susan Henderson, freshman in
home economics from Springfield,
Va. (245), and Elizabeth Skade,
freshman in elementary educa
tion from Maplewood, N.J , (172)
are the new sophomore senators.
They defeated Lillian Leis (156)
and Bnrbaia Twin (127)
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go down in major air disasters
throughout the world this year.
Officials said the widely scat
tered wreckage showed that the
plane had exploded in flight.
Albert Harpe, a farmei saw the
crash.
"I heard a plane going over
in an easterly direction, and all
at once I heard popping sounds,”
he said. "It sounded like shot
gun shells or a little louder.”
"I looked, and two parts were
coming down. One was not over
three-fourths of a mile from
home.
State Police continued search
ing the woods as darkness fell.
“Our big problem is lights,” an
officer said. “You can’t describe
how tough that country is in the
dark.”
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