Weather Fore Mostly Cleo • Sprinkles Lik VOL. 60. No. 139 Khru Defe MOSCOW (/P) U. S. Secretary of State Chistian A. Herter's defense of the spy plane incident "is the kind of statement that could only be made by a country in a state of war." Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev declares. "If the United States is going to unleash war and if they have never experienced an atom bomb on their territory, they certainly will in the first minutes of a war," he added. These blunt statements were released from censorship yesterday 20 hours after Khrush chev talked at a pews conference of Soviet and foreign correspondents. Cuban S Idiers Shoot Do n American Pilot HAVANA VP) —Cuban soldiers and sailors ambushed, shot down and killed • an American pilot yesterday on a highway outside Havana. They said he was on a secret flight to smuggle out fugi tives. This latest U.S.-based plane flight is certain to add fuel to the anti-American campaign already being conducted here by the press, radio and organizations backing Prime Minister Fidel Castro. They claim the United States is getting ready to attack Cuba. The dead pilot was identified as Matthews Edward Duke, 45, an adventure-loving airman whose last known address was in Palm Beach, Fla. Florida has been the takeoff point for a number of il legal flights to Cuba, and Duke was one of 29 fliers already on the U.S. border patrol's blacklist. Airport operators had been warned by U.S. authorities not to rent a plane to Duke under any circumstances. The Federal Avia tion Agency said he managed to rent one recently at Baton Rouge, La., by saying he was flying to Texas for a cargo of spare air plane parts. The Cuban - version of the inci dent, as reported in an official announcement, said Duke flew to Cuba in a twin-engine plane 'on Sunday and took three Cuban men out of the country. The rendez vous point was within sight of the naval academy at Mairiel, about 15 miles north of Havana. Police and naval parties said they let Duke's plane get away so they could lay a trap on his next trip. FINALLY THE RAIN GOD HAS SMILED ON PENN STATE. The various ROTC detachments were forced to hold their common hours inside yesterday, because of the inclement weather. How ever, the prayer will change to one of fair weather now that Senior Ball is approaching. -0.141 v • 4 at hchev se for Khrushchev castigated Francis G. Powers, pilot of the U 2 jet reconnassiance plane downed May Day deep inside the Soviet Union for making "a gangster and ban dit raid." "We shall try him—try him se ' verely as a spy," he said. The penalty for spying is from 10 years in prison to death before a firing squad. But Khrushchev saved his sharpest remarks for Herter as he talked to correspondents at an exhibit of espionage articles the Soviets say Powers carried aboard his plane. Herter had defended the right of a nation to make reconnais sance flights over the_ territory of a possible enemy and declared such flights would continue. This, said Khrushchev is "a threat to peace. If there are any further such aggressions we will strike out at the aggressors." Shaking his fist and looking very angry, the Premier declared: "These are audacious and brazen statements. This is the kind of statement that could only be made by a country in a state of war with another country, and we are not at war with the United States. Very excited, Khrushchev continued: "Herter says the So viet Union is to blame because it does not give the United States access to its secrets and the United States needs to have that access. "So the President gave instruc tions to find out the Soviet Un ion's secrets. That is certainly a bandit-like statement. We are not living under 'United States law. We have laws of our own and •we will make those on our territory obey them. "WhEit else shall I say? I be lieve if the public correctly eval uates these acts and draws the necessary conclusions and con demns this incident it will have a positive and sound influence on 'the atmosphere." FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 13. 1960 Knocks Spy Plane Few Coed Posts Left for Encampment Less than 10 appointive positions remain for women at the 1960-61 student encampment, Robert Umstead, encamp ment chairman, reported at the SGA Assembly meeting last night. This number is.necessarily small because of the limited housing facilities for women at Mount Alto, where encampment) will be held. , tlmstead said that the site is equipped to house 40 women and 30 positions are al-, ready filled by virtue of the num ber of women occupying auto-, matic places. The remaining 10 seats will be filled by faculty members and qualified students, Umstead said. Opportunities for men are a lit tle greater with 38 automatic po sition and 12 appointive, he said. The Assembly approved the following worshop chairman ships: Jack Crosby, Academic Affairs: Edgar Grubb, Univer sity Expansion and Welfare; Walter Darren and Janet Cal laway, Present Problems in Stu dent Government: Jan Biedler, Rules and Regulations; John Black, Communications: and I Philip Haines, Community Liv ing. Automatic appointments to the, encampment are given to given to persons because of their posi-1 tions on campus. These positions are SGA presi dent, vice president and secre-1 tary-treasurer, all SGA Assem blymen, the presidents of WSGA, AIM, IFC, Panhel, Leonides and the college councils. The business manager and the city editor of the Daily Collegian, the chairmen of the Organization lal Board of Control,-the Traffic I Committee, On-Campus Tribunal, Off-Campus Tribunal and the IFC Board of Control. Art Ed Conference Approximately 150 teachers from all parts of Pennsylvania will attend the Pennsylvania Art Education Association's annual conference to be held in the Hetz el Union building and Temporary building today and tomorrow. ROTC Controvers Spring Drills Renew Yearly vehate By KAREN HYNECKEAL [ being made to cancel approxi- Second of a Series Imately 20 per cent of the present Like frisbees an d camp- I program or to transfer it into !departments where the courses counselor interviews, the de - iwould not be compulsory. bate on compulsory ROTC is most prevelant in the spring when cadets move outside for two-hour drills. And like fris bees and camp -counselor in- terviews, the debate is not ,limited to Penn State. On April 22, for example, the Michigan State News reported their University Board of Trus tees had voted 4-2 in favor of continuing compulsory ROTC. The article also stated that the program would still be under careful study and that plans were Walker to Get Library Report A report of the shortcomings of the Pattee Library will be presented to President Eric A. Walker by the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts. The 28-page report was brought before the Liberal Arts faculty meeting by Dr. Harold E. Dickson, chairman of the By JERRIE MARKOS Campus Party Votes Down Platform Plank By KAY MILLS The anti- discrimination plank of the Campus Party platform for the spring elec tions was eliminated at the party caucus last night. The plank had been included despite opposition by some of the candidates, Judy High (C.-Sr.), said. Assemblymen present at the caucus favored the spirit of the , plank, but generally felt the mat-1 ter to be personal, rather than one on which SGA could express the opinion of the entire student ] body. No one favored retaining] the plank. While generally stating that dis crimination against minorities was "a denial of human rights and democratic principles," the platform offered three definite proposals: oExpression of sympathy with Southern students struggling for their rights as full citizens. OA study of discrimination in community housing and other visible means of discrimination, OAction deemed appropriate by the student body in fighting local and national discrimination. A bill opposing racial discrimin ation was to be presented to the SGA Assembly by Jacob Dentu, graduate student. The bill was removed from the agenda, how ever, because Dentu could not be present at the meeting. But the initial decision stood and the next day students held an orderly demonstration in front of the State Capitol in East Lansing. They protested the board's action calling it a direct opposition to student and faculty wishes. Elsewhere, • too, ROTC was the main spring topic. On April 26, the Associated Press report- ed that the ROTC program at Rutgers University will be vol. untary next fall. The article stated that Dr. Ma-1 son Gross, president, said that the decision by the Rutgers Board of Governors followed the Defense Department's official vie* that rgiatt By BEV CADES It Ought To Be More See Page 4 committee that compiled the re port. It discloses the fact that the library's total number of books places it last in a comparison of 15 other universities. The library's holding of books puts the University in the league with the University of Mississippi, not with Missouri, Washington and lowa, the reports state. The report also points out that Pattee has twice been re fused admission to the Asso ciation of Research Libraries. The libraries of such univer sities as Ilorida, Rutgers, and Michigan have been admitted during the past four years. The report also points out that graduate students and new fac ulty members find the facilities of the library so inadequate that they leave to find universities that have libraries capable of sus taining their research projects. The lack of specific texts, incomplete standard editions and worn out reference works seriously hamper and waste the time of both students and fac ulty, according to the report. - A major function of a library . , continues the report, is to add prestige to the institution through the wealth of its holdings. The Pattee library falls short of this aim, it says. The report states that several volumes of the "Dictionary of American Biography" are in very poor condition and need replace ment and that two volumes of "The Cambridge History of Amer ican Literature" have been "miss ing" for some time. The report also presents the shortcoming of some of the library services. Suggestions are made for longer hours, a more efficient cataloguing sys tem, better method of distri buting periodicals, a less re strictive circulation policy, bet ter physical facilities and a means of coping with the in creasing problem of missing and stolen books. Recommendations concerning the findings of the Liberal; Arts committee are summarized at the end of the report. The most vital of these recommendations is that very large amounts of money must be allocated to the library. Graduation Announcements Graduation announcements and invitations ordered by seniors will be available, upon presenta tion of order receipt, starting at 1:15 p.m Monday at the Hetzel Union desk. the national interest no longer re quires a compulsory basic ROTC program. In the April 13 issue of the Ohio State Lantern headlined "Voluntary ROTC Advocated." The story announced that the Faculty Council (similar to our University Senate) had received a proposal from the Council on Instruction that would abolish ' compulsory ROTC at Ohio State University beginning next fall. Action was tabled until the Faculty Council's next meeting but the Lantern's editorial seemed optimistic as to the final decision. Less optimistic for the abolish ment of compulsory ROTC at In diana' University was a lengthy five-article series featured last month in the Indiana Daily News, (which will be discussed in detail in the next article in this series. FIVE CENTS
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