,ftittlitrr VOL. 2. No. 13 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 26. 1960 FIVE CENTS U.S. Declares Proof in Recent 'Downed UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The United States declared yesterday it has scien tific proof the Soviet Union deliberately pushed a U.S. R 847 plane off its course and shot it down over international waters in a "criminal and reckless act of piracy." U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge told the U.N. Security Council Soviet actions recently make people wonder "whether the Soviet leaders are actually seeking a pretext 20 Students To Attend Conference The graduate seminar on problems of elementary edu cation, taught by David W. Russell, professor of educa tion, will travel to Harrisburg tomorrow to participate in the state conferences which will con sider recommendations from the recent White House Conference on Children and Youth. The 20 members of the class will be guests and participants in the followup conference which will d'termine which recommen dations of the national conference will be carried back to the local units. The national conference com piled 670 recommendations for "promoting the opportunities for children and youth to realize their full potential for a creative life," according to Mrs. Rollin Brown, national chairman. The Penn State group is at tending by invitation and will be the only group of students participating in the conference according to Dr. Russell. The conference includes a gen eral session tomorrow morning, a luncheon address by Governor David L. Lawrence and afternoon workshops. A closing general ses sion will review the recommen dations and reports of the work shops. "The state conference is the best way to disseminate the in formation compiled at the na tional forum to the individual schools," said Russell. Press Bias Viewed In Markham Article Criticism on the press's handling of news pertaining to political parties and candi dates reflects a public belief that the American press is not meeting its obligation, Dr. James W. Markham said in an article in the current "Nieman Reports." "Barely six weeks of this presi dential election year had passed before the familiar cry of press bias was heard in the Wisconsin primary campaign," Markham said. Charges that we have a one party press have increased during the 1950's and may well multiply during this campaign, Markham said, especially if the religious is sue complicates the problem of news handling. Criticism of the press during the decade has related not only to news of politics, but also inte gration and treatment of the early years of the Eisenhower administration. Whether the criticism is pro voked by dissatisfaction with press treatment of race, class, re ligion or politics, it reflects a public belief that the press is not meeting its obligation to present FOR A BETTER PENN STATE for war." In a dramatic counterattack on, Soviet charges, the chief U.S. dell egate asked the Security Council either to name an impartial in ternational commission to probe the July 1 R 847 incident, or sub-I mit the entire matter to the Ind ternational Court of Justice. Somebody, Lodge said, lied about the incident. "Now we wonder why the So viets have presented so many distortions about this. Perhaps the Soviet air force was reluc tant to admit to Chairman Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev that the aircraft could not be shot down over Soviet airspace for the good reason that it was not ' there and therefore did not inform him of the facts." Lodge said. "Perhaps they did not tell him, they had to go 200 miles from' Cape Svyatoy Nos to follow the R 847. Perhaps Chairman Khru shchev has been lied to. That is one possibility. There are others. We can all speculate." The U.S.S.R. immediately re jected this proposal. Repeating its charges that the R 847 was on an aggressive spy mission, the Soviet Union accused the United States of "cynicism without precedent" in the American rebuttal. Lodge displayed maps to, the council to indicate how he Said the R 847 was deliberately man euvered off its course by a So viet fighter plane. Britain, from whose terri tory the R 847 had taken off, strongly backed up the U.S. coun terattack, and so did France. Lodge indicated frequently the United States had scientific proof lof what happened to the R 847 plane, but U.S. sources said he did not go into detail because the (proof included secret information potentially of great interest to the (Soviet Union. full information and a wide range of opinion, according to Markham. "The best way to answer such criticism is with facts," Mark ham said. "No one can say for sure whether the American press has been less than fair in the election campaign news treatment because no comprehensive study has been made of press perform ance on a wide enough scale to justify such a generalization. "Yet the need for assessing press performance is greater now than ever because condi tions make an impartial news report indispensable," Mark ham continued. Trends toward one-newspaper cities, toward fewer newspapers with larger circulations are evi dence that an increasing degree of responsibility for determining the kind of news to which people have access belongs to a decreas , ing number of individuals, Mark ham noted. Studies of press performance, he said, should provide a descrip tion that can serve as a basis for estimating what kind of news the reader is exposed to; a similar measure and evaluation of the news flow; an examination of make-up values, policies and news desk decisions; and survey of reader attitudes. Talfrogiatt of Soviet Piracy Plane' Incident CulturalAttache To Discuss Iraq Dr. Salih Jawad Al-Toma, cul tural attache with the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq, will speak at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Hetzel Union assembly room. His talk, titled, "What Iraq and : the Arab World Hope For and What It Expects from the West" is one of the public lectures pre sented by the Education for; World Understanding Workshop. Al-Toma is a graduate of High-' er Teachers' College in Bagdad and received his master of artsH and doctor of education degrees : from Harvard University. Prior to this present appoint-! ment, he was assistant dean of the College of Education at the; University of Baghdad. Trends of Penna. Historical Groups To Be Evaluated Past accomplishments, present activities and future trends of !the statewide, county and local historical societies and agencies in Pennsylvania will be docu- • • mented in a national survey. The evaluation, undertaken by! the American Association for State and Local History, will cul minate in a published report one', : year from now, according to I W. P. Workmaster, curator of the; Pennsylvania Historical Collec tions at the University and secre-1 tary of the Pennsylvania His: torical Association. Workmaster said that the sur vey will be of great assistance; to Pennsylvania, for the state has failed to realize the full po-I tential of its heritage through' adequate conservation of its his- 1 torical resources. It will encourage new effort in discovering the role - of Pennsyl vania's communities in the de velopment of America, Workmas ter said. Collegian Cooperates In Retail Dollar Days Cooperating with 34 town merchants sponsoring "Dollar Days," the Summer Collegian will publish and distribute its next issue Thursday morning instead of Friday, the usual publication date. "Dollar Days" will run Thursday, Friday and Saturday and include special features such as the Sidewalk Sale Thursday morning from 9-12 a.m. Latshaw To Give Adult Puppet Show George Latshaw, noted puppe teer, will present a program for adults titled "Hand in Glove" at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Schwab. The program includes such num bers as "A Fable of the South" with a Tennessee Williams slant. "Especially for Long Hairs," "Space is Way Out," "Pas de Deux pour Trois," and "Party for Picas so." "This Hammer for Hire," a spoof of the Mickey Spillane hero; "A Small Kabuki" which is adapted from the Bunraku Figures of Japan; and "The Nix •n C41::;i:-T.:.;-: - ...ils GOP Storm CONVENTION HALL, Chicago . M—Bristling, bickering Republicans rocketed their 27th national convention off to a stormy start yesterday, but presidential nominee-to-be Richard M. Nixon quickly cla . mped a heavy,. calming hand on the controls. The vice-president flew in from Washington to the con vention which almost automati cally will plant the party presi-I dential banner in his hands to- ew Plays morrow night. There were plenty of prospects that he was heading into a rough, t - rousing fight over civil rights on; (neer, the convention floor, standing side by side with Gov. Nelson A.' Rockefeller o New York the; man who wanted to challenge him, oat Barn for the presidency but never man-; aged to muster a serious threat. Shakespeare's "T we 1 f But then it immediately i be came clear that Nixon intends ” opened yesterday asst to have his way about the civil ',Nil a teer Playhouse. while Boal rights plank and all other ba sic pronouncements. !Barn will present the first per formance of Noel Coward's The convention platform com-! mittee refused to rubber stamp', them word for word particular- , stamp',, Lives Thursday. ly a call for aggressive action to : "Twelfth Night" will run for do away with every vestige of ra- two weeks until Saturday. Aug. cial segregation or discrimination ti Under the direction of Max in every segment of national life. The committee struggled fur- Fischer, the play has been trans iously through the night, then lated into modern terms with the came up with a civil rights plank. aid of up-to-date costumes and It was a sort of split-the-differ sets by Ann Keel ence deal btween liberals and y. conservatives that left practically The play, one of Shakes nobody happy. peare's light comedies, deals i The product fell short of what with adventures and misadven- Nixon wanted. He told a news' tures of a twin brother and sis cOnference it was "unsatisfac tory so far as lam concerned." ! ter, Sebastian and Viola, and Then he let it be known what the comic people they meet on ihe expects and intends to get, not . the way. • ;only on civil rights but all other ( platform declarations: : Patricia Thompson will be fen "We can't have a platform," he Lured in the role of Viola and said, "which repudiates what the David Frank will be featured as presidential candidate stands for the roisterous Sir Toby Belch. and will stand for." That was tough talk. But Nixon Curtain time is 8:40 p m. ;was in a position to talk tough.. "Private Lives," a romantic He has the presidential nomina- comedy will run for two week, tion in his pocket, even though ends at Bind Barn . ;tarling at ;some delegates were squirming 8:30 Thursday. Viand muttering about it as a re-, It deals with a fashionable isult of the platform dispute. young gentleman Ellyot who is 'honeymooning on the Riviera only Commencement Set to rup into his former w;fe Aman lila, also on her •honeymoon. Jon (For Mail Aug. 12 I '' !Barrie Wilder will. play Ellyot and Amanda will be played by Sum Mer session commence- . Marion Glass. rent will be held at 6 p.m. Fri- . day, August 12 on the Mall, i n'Claremont Quartet front of the Pattee Library, it has! been announced. In case of rain ..rp • ni . the ceremony will be held in RecH 10 nay Tomaht reation Hall at the same time. ! The Claremont String Quartet The summer sessions band, will play compositions by Franz directed by James W. Dunlop, 'Schubert, Hobert Schumann, and and the summer sessions chorus , .Max Reger in its concert at 8 to with W. Paul Cambell conduct- night in the Iletzel Union ball ing, will provide music ,for the room. occasion. The program will open with There will be no faculty pro-,s c h n h er r s Q uar t e t i n E fi at ma _ cession, but faculty members and'jor, Opus 1 9 5, No. 1. !their families are invited to at Quartet No. sin F sharp minor. tend and may sit together. Opus 121 by Refer has been se- Candidates for degrees, their lected as t h e eompoAtion to be (families, and friends may eat din -,played. ner in Redifer Hall from 4:30 to, The program will conclude with 15:30 p.m. on Commencement Day. 'Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Opus !Tickets, which must be obtained,4l, No. 1 by Schumann. fin advance, are $1.50 each. They, !will be sold during the week of: !August 8 at Redifer Hall. Orchestra to Present 1 • I'Mister Cory' Scheduled IConcert on Th urs day 1 The summer sessions orchestra, As Movie Tomorrow !composed of students enrolled in The movie, "Mister Cory," willthe various programs of the sum be presented at. 9 p.m. tomorrow'mer sessions, will present a con 'on the lawn south of the Hetzel cart at 8 p.m. Thursday in !Union Building. The technicolor Schwab. film stars Tony Curtis, Martha! The orchestra is conducted by ;flyer, Charles Bickford, Kathryn!Lowell M. Boorse, associate pro :Grant, and Kenneth Moore. 'lessor of music. Taming of the Shrew" which is , theatre at the University of subtitled "A Mad Mime for Two North Carolina and Yale Drama Hands" a - re also on the program. Schools. He is a former presi- The program is sponsored by dent of the Puppeteers of the Department of Theatre Arts, America. and is open to the public. , Latshaw is recognized as one Latshaw is currently teaching•of the most creative artists in the a course oni the history, theory field of puppetry today, and and practice of puppetry. among his accomplishments wt ye The course is designed both for the design and direction of the teachers who hope to use the:Detroit - Puppet Theatre's preduc puppetry in their classrooms and tion of Aaron Copeland's - Holy for students who might enjoy the Kid." 'using puppets for their own ex- Latshaw presented a pi , pression. show for children entitled "V. , Latshaw was !rained in the bur and the Giant" on July 13.
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