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VOL. 60. No. 145
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The Spring W
$5OO more than la
were sold at this
of the committee
Thursday night.
Caplan said th
Homemade
Rocket ,Hits
Nittany Area
A four - foot home - made
rocket, buried 14 inches in the
ground, was discovered in the
Nittany area late last night
by a dorm counselor.
The rocket, made of aluminum
conduit with a crimped "nose"
and affixed with three galvanized
steel fins, was found about 10
o'clock by Charles Starbock be
tween Nittany 22 and 23.
The rocket wal evidently
launched by a chemical pro
pellant. The bottom open end
of the tube which was about
1 1 / 2 inches in diameter was
caked with burnt chemicals
which gave off a pungent odor.
Jerry Whalen, Nittany coordin
ator, started an immediate In
vestigation.
"If the rocket had hit a man,
it could have 'killed him," Wha
len said. "In fact with the crimped
nose and apparent force with
which it landed, it would have
had a good-- chance of going
through the roof if it had landed
on one of the dorms."
Whalen said a student, who
is a member of the Rocket Club
on campus, speculated that the
rocket would have had to sail
several hundred feet into the
air to fall with enough force - to
burrow 14 inches into th e
ground.
He also guessed it would have
had to be launched from a solid
surface and not from the ground.
From the angle at which it en
tered the ground, he estimated
that it was launched straight up.
The attachment of the fins in
dicated considerable workmanship
and the rocket was brightly
labeled Zip 111. The letters BROC
and USAF also were painted on
the tube and fins.
SGA OK's Encampment Appointments
The SGA Assembly Thurs
day night approved th e
recommendations for Student
Encampment ap t ointees sub
mitted by Robe it Umpstead,
Encampment Ch. irman.
Those appointe . are Patricia
Dyer, Marianne llis, Marjorie
Gantor, Patricia H gan, Catherine
Hershey, Elizabet Ingly, Gage
Peck and Martha ilson.
Charles Bere ts, Benjamin
Bronstein, Robert arson, Michael
Dzvonik, Robert .Falzone, Earl
Gershenow, Donald Giagnacova,
Herbert Goldstein, Marc Katzen,
James Nelligan, Barry Rein and
Robert Wayne.
- Thus far, 38 me r and 29 wom
en will attend the Encampment
by position, and 12 women and 8
men go by appointment. The re
maining three places for women
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Week
s Profit
By JERRIE MARKOS
ek Committee announced a profit of about
! year despite the fact that 7000 less tickets
pring's carnival. Wally Caplan, chairman
ave his report before the SGA Astembly
t although the exact figures had not been
calculated, an estimated $lO,OOO
had been taken in. Of that sum,
he said, $5700 has been spent and
an estimated $l7OO will still . be
needed to cover costs. A reserve
balance of $l5OO must be kept in
the fund from year to year, Cap
lan said.
By a matter of simple arithme
tic Caplan deduced that over
$2OOO will be added to the schol
arship fund into which the prof
its from Spring Week are annual
ly donated.
In his recommendations for
next year, Caplan made an ap
peal that the duties of Miss Pens
State begin to take on rail
meaning. He felt she should
represent the University as of
ten as possible.,
This year's Miss Penn State,
Constance Adler, will have her
travelling expenses paid to the
,Laurel Valley Festival this sum
mer and will reign over the
Homecoming activities next fall
since there will be no Homecom
ing queen, he added.
Another committee sugges
tion was that Awards Night be
held in Schwab or Recreation
Hall instead of the HUB ball
room. The seating capacity of
the ballroom, Caplan said, left
many interested students stand
ing in the lobby and outside the
HUB.
However, a member of the gal
lery said he felt that even though
the ballroom was overcrowded
with 600 people, even 1000'persons
would "literally rattle in Rec
Hall."
The committee also suggested
that compensations be given to
the chairmen of the Olympics and
Float committees since their jobs
required as much work as the
other chairmen, all of whom have
already been compensated.
Susan Sherman, SGA secretary,
pointed out that appropriations
for these compensations have al
ready been included in next year's
budget.
In addition, the committee_
felt that the games category
should be dropped from next
year's program. This was the
first time such an event had
been included, and there were
only four contestants from
which to award three cups. -
Two of these groups did not get
enough tickets to receive a re
fund, because people cannot be
moved through this type of event
as quickly as the others, Caplan
said.
will be filled by administration
and faculty members. These have
not yet been chosen Umpstead
said.
Assembly could not take ac
tion on Jacob Dentu's bill con
cerning racial discrimination in
State College housing because
it found itself without a quorum
while the bill was being dis
cussed.
After the original roll call Ju
dith Moore (U-Sr) and Spencer
McGraw C-junior class president)
were found to be absent with
valid excuses already approved
by the Rules Committee. Hermann
Weber (C-senior class president),
Barbara Adey (C-Soph), James
Kridel (C-Soph) and Barbara
WatchOrn (U-Soph) were absent
without previously approved ex
cuses.
A second roll call - was asked
when the parliamentarian; Frank
Milus, discovered that• the num-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. - SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 21. 1960
Plane Captured
in East Germany
WIESBADEN, Germany (IF) East German police reported a U. S. Air Force trans
port ;Wade an emergency landing yesterday on Communist soil and they seized seven men
and a woman who were aboard.
The American Air Force said the plane was unarmed and had streyed• off course.
A new round of East-West recriminations seemed likely.
It seemed possible that new charges of espionage might be raised against the United
States in the wake of the explo
sive in spy plane incident.
During the day Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev in a manifesto
to cheering East German Com
munists was still exploiting his
;version of the U 2 incident as an
(arm of American aggression.
And his Foreign Minister An
drei A. Gromyko was flying to
New York to press spy plane
charges against the United States
in the United Nations.
The twin-engine C 47 trans
port disappeared after taking off
at midday from Copenhagen,
Denmark, for Hamburg on a
route close to the Iron Curtain.
The U.S. Air Force said nine
persons were aboard.
Shortly after the Air Force an
nouncement of a search for the
slow, unarmed plane, The Associ
ated Press telephoned East Ger
man police.
The police said the plane made
an emergency landing at the vil
lage of Brunshagen, near the West
'German border and Baltic coast
anj that the seven men and a
woman had been arrested and
taken to Grevesmuehlen for ques
tioning.
It appeared likely that Khru
shchev knew of the emergency
landing when he spoke to a
Communist mass meeting in
East Berlin yesterday.
I Of the spy plane incident that
contributed to the wreck of the
Paris summit conference this
week before ,it could get started,
Khrushchev said Americans seem
to think they can fly their planes
at will over foreign territory.
"They have done this many
times and they are doing it at
this moment," he said.
Speaking after Khrushchev, the
'East German Communist boss,
Walter Ulbricht, made what was
then a mysterious reference to an
"unwanted rendezvous between
American officers and our secur
ity officials."
Collegian to Hold
Bicycle Derby Day
Watch out, pedestrians!
Here they come.
Nineteen groups of Uni
versity women, both inde
pendent and sorority, will
mount bikes and head for
parking lot 70 at 2 p.m. to
day to take part in The-Daily
Collegian's Bicycle Derby Day.
The site, between old Beaver
Field and the Eisenhower
Chapel, has been blocked off
by Campus Patrolmen and will
be transformed into Penn
State's version of the Akron
Soapbox Speedways.
Cars which normally park in
the east side of areas 70. 70/k.
708 may be parked in any
large area nearby and will not
be ticketed. Campus Patrolmen
■aid.
Five events, the 8 O'Clock,
Deadline, Bluebook, Paper boy
and Pinmate races, have been
scheduled for the afternoon.
They will be run in relays so
that each group needs only one
bicycle to enter. •
Judges for the event are
George Donovan, director of
associated student activities,
Showers, Humidity
To Continue Today
Uncomfortably warm and hu
mid weather is expected today, al
though afternoon and evening
showers and thunderstorms may
bring temporary relief. Temper
atures will be somewhat higher
than those recorded yesterday
with an expected high of 82 de
grees.
_
Showers will be diminishing to
night and temperatures will drop
slightly. The overnight low will
be near 58 degrees.
Mostly cloudy, windy and some
what cooler weather is indicated
for tomorrow. A high reading of
70 degrees is expected.
her had gone below that required
to take action.
After the second roll call
Lynn Marvel (C-Jr), Cynthia
Xanthopolous (C-Jr), Howard
Creskoff (C-Soph), Richard Pi
gossi (C-Soph) and Dean Whar
ton (U-rr) were found lo have
"disappeared" during the course
of the meeting.
The appointments of committee
members and chairmen, a func
tion which ordinarily comes at
the end of the agenda, was ac
complished by the fortunate vir
tue of executive interpretation.
Edgar Grubb, acting presiding
officer when Donald Clagett step
ped down from the position, de
cided that the call for approval
of appointments taken after dis
cussion of Encampment recom
mendations implied all the ap
pointments on the agenda, not
only- those"for Encampment. •
rgiatt
William Fuller, manager of the
Hetzel Union building, and
H. L. "Pete" Stuart, president
of the Athletic Advisory Board.
First, second and third place
winners in each race will re
ceive trophies. A grand prize
trophy will go to the team
compiling the most points in
all events.
The point system is based on
the amount of skill needed for
each race. The points are as
follows: 8 O'Clock and Dead
line Races, first place 25, sec
ond 20 and third 15; Paperboy
and Bluebook Races, first place
20, second 15, and third 10.
First place winner in the
Pinmate Race will receive 15
points, second 10, and third 5
points.
Groups will be limited to
one team of four members for
each of the events they enter.
They may substitute indi
vidual team members or entire
teams for each event. In the
Pinmate Race, however, groups
may enter as many coeds as
they wish provided the coeds
are pinned and their pinmates
are present to ride with them.
•
In case of rain, the Bicycle
Derby will be held at 2 p.m.
Sunday at the same place.
WRA to Give Awards
To Intramural Winners
Winners of the spring intramu
rals will receive their awards 7
p.m. Monday at the WRA first
annual Dessert.
PENN STATE ALUM HONORED—William K. Ulerich, publisher
of the Clearfield Progress, was presented the Pennsylvania Society
of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Service Award for daily
papers last night at the groups' service awards dinner at the Nit
tany Lion Inn. Clark R. Mollenhoff, Washington, D.C.lcorrespond
ent, was the main speaker at the dinner.
Housing
Discrimination
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