Fire Destroys Cattle am ....„ /..11"at& -,,' ,10 :' . %1. '1 flo 4, ",. .1.',7 VOL. 61. No. 3 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 17. 1960 FIVE CENTS = 4 :144 . ~" ,3t i?sits S. , , , ''' ,;;.,.: " . .'''''.:::',:%;St-..:; . ,' —Collegian photo by Rick Dower THE UNIVERSITY SUFFERED a major loss yesterday when a beef cattle barn was destroyed by fire. The Alpha Fire Company responded to the alarm about 2:30 p.m. Preliminary esti mates placed the loss between $50,000 and $75,000. New Stadium Officially Opens For 1960 Starter Against B.U. • See Stadium Seating Plan, Page 8 The largest all-steel football stadium in the country wll officially open here today at 1:30 p.m. That's when Penn State at Beaver Stadium, the spank Beaver Stadium has a Dedication To Include 1909 °Lions , Football fans at Beaver Sta dium will witness the old and the new this afternoon when the University's 1909 football team returns for the official opening of the new stadium. The oldsters will be welcomed by President Walker and will participate in special halftime degrees for the second 40. ceremony in which they will be This type of construction makes introduced individually by Deana more feasible to have flashcarcl Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the cheering, which will be initiated College of Physical Education andiin the stadium today by the Athletics. iplock 'S' Club. The Hat Societies and the, The University estimates that cheerleaders will also have a part)the whole job of constructing the in the dedication and halftimei :new stadium cost close to $1.6 ceremony. In addition to the usual Honor The The scoreboard and press box Lane formed before the begin-!also were transported from the ning of each game, all hat society members and cheerleaders w injold site and will be in use this form a special Honor Lane for:year. However, the writers cov the 1909 players. iering Penn State games won't After the oldtimers participatOlave that long walk up to the in the. halftime ceremony they anymore. From now on they'll will be official guests at a-rece p _have elevator service. lion and dinner. I Beaver Stadium, geared for the . Originally 13 pl a y ers were schedules of the future, is one of scheduled to attend the reunion the most modern in every respect. but Frank 0. Keller of Largo,! There are complete clubhouse Fla. (originally of Philadelphia),facilities beneath the stands in was detained by Hurricane Don-!addition to rest rooms, first aid na and his_ presence is doubtful. ;rooms and refreshment stands. aim Students Ma Cl . . Bikes y lanes rather than six, which Anyone who has lost a bicycle: means that even the original on the campus may claim it at! stands will be farther from the the Spruce Cottage basement in: field than they were. the Campus Patrol office. ) Another feature of the new sta- Those persons wanting to claim dium are the box seats on both their bicycles must be able to'sides of the field. These seats arc describe them. (Continued on page fifteen) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE :,:•.1 : _: :..:. ~ ,,k , ; -"',".•%- , ;k•‘,-: ~, N. .•i;,,l`,- and Boston University square off in the 1960 football opener ng new home of the Nittany Lions. ,eating capacity of 44,000 compared wth only 30,000 at Beaver Field. Strange as it may sound, Beaver Field is the main part of the new stadium. Following the Holy Cross game last Nov. 14, workmen began dis mantling Beaver Field which was located near Recreation Hall and the Nittany Lion Inn. Beaver Field came apart like an erector set and was transported to the northeast end of campus in 700 pieces. It was reassembled beneath the new superstructure and now tow ers 80 rows high on each side, from goal line to goal line. Only the closed end of the horseshoe remains as it was. The slope of the stands is gradual about 20 degrees for the first 40 rows and about 25 .. ... . . .. .. ~ • ?:, ' 4 . 1 % - :.T,',:`:: :, - - - g:-%4 - : - - -- .f:;,..f . ,.::,, ~, ~.... N' .• ''. : 4'..,.;,;,,,•;',,.. Cloudy Skies, Rain Predicted Cloudy skies will provide the weather background for the first football game of the season today. Rain will begin late in the day as the remnants of hurricane Ethel moves northward from the Gulf states. The precipitation should continue tonight and much of tomorrow with the pos sibility of the rain being heavy at times. Temperatures will remain rath- i er mild today with a high of 721 degrees. Tonight's low will be about 60. Somewhat cooler tein peratures are predicted for to-i morrow with an expected high of: 68 degrees. 1 Coed Fall Rush to Start Tomorrow . , The fall semester informaDgroups which will visit the soror-lbe. rushing this seine Act:: Alpha 1 !ities for a period of 20 minutcsiXi Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Dc!- rushing program will open to - leach. Each group will visit five;ta Delta, Delta Gamma, Kappa Al morrow wth 15 sororities par- each day of open houses. pha Theta and Pi Beta Phi. :suites on One sorority woman will act as. Allp a Epsilon Phi, Sigma ticipating in open house rush-' a guide for each -group of rushers., Delta Tau,• Phi Sigma Sigma ing. . I No refre s hments wi l l be served : and Delta Phi Epsilon wilt rush All women wishing to 1,101 this during open house rushing. i this semester but will not par semester must register from, ti! A semi-strict silence will be oh-1 ticipate in open house rushing. a.m. to 12 noon today in the Pan-' served by all sororities after the , Sororities which wilt not he hellenic Office, 129 Grange Hail.,start of open house rushing. ;rushing juniors arc Aloha Eosilan As 2 fee will be required to cover] All second semester fresh- ',Phi, Alpha Gamma Delta Alpha the- cost of registration and rush.-; man woman transfers from any Omicron Pi. Delta Zrta Kappa ing. i of the commonwealth campuses Delta and Zeta Tau Alpha A mass meeting, which is re-, having a 2.3 All-University av- 1 A student Panhellenic toomPl quired for all rushers will be erage and all other upperclass i-ing program will b e a ..., 01 „ 10 ,, to conducted at 12:30 p.m. today in transfer women from the cam- ;every rus h ee star ti ng the firstday 121 Sparks. At this time all the; puses having a 2.00 average are rules for rushing and open houses eligible to rush. All other trans- 'of the informal chati,:r date,--„The counselors are Greek women who will be explained. fer women of a third semester have yeilded their Open houses will be held at or above ranking fro other i sorority itien m tity for the duration of the uti.•ll 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow and ; schools are able to rush without :period. These counsetori will be will continue on Sept. 24 and 25 i 1 presenting their average 'from available in the P:inl)el REINA. eV at the same times. 1 the other school. I ery evening until prefcrentials . All rushers will be divided into} The following sororities will noChave been-signed. Students Save 100 Cows, Costs May Reach $75,000 A raging fire that was still burning at midnight com pletely destroyed a beef cattle barn at the northeast . end of campus yesterday. The blaze which broke out about 2:30 p.m. was brought under control about 6 p.m. by the Alpha Fire Co., whch rushed to the scene with all units at its disposal, but the fire still smoldered long into the night. About 106 head of cattle were led to safety by five students who were working near the barns when- the fire started. Dr. Rissell C. Miller, head of the department of animal .hus bandry, roughly estimated that the damage may reach $50,000 to $75,000. The barns are covered by insurance. An open-pole shed where class rooms and. show cows were kept was razed, but the fire was con tained. It spread was halted be fore reaching the main beef cat tle barn on Park Ave. and Short lidge Rd. directly across the street from North halls, men's residence units. Seventy-five tons of hay, valued at over $2BOO, 60 tons of straw, valued at over $lOOO, and $7OO worth of grain concentrate were also lost in thes blaze. There was no equipment kept in the shed. The origin of the fire was not determined, but it was believed to have started in the hayloft. John Whiting of Lock Haven, Don Kinman of Miami, Fla., Tom Williams of Valencia, George Wherey of Washington and Doug Kent of Lititz discovered the blaze when they noticed • billows of smoke pouring from the hayloft. They immediately raced to lead the cattle out into nearby pas tures. The cattle had recently been brought back from the Ohio State Fair in Columbus where 16 were judged champions and 19 won blue ribbons. Gail Long, instructor in ani mal husbandry, said the cattle will probably be moved to the sheep barns and the old horse barns. ' A crane was brought in by G. M. McCrossin, Inc., Bellefonte contractors, ' to aid in the fire fighting at about 4:30 p.m. and a bulldozer was brought in about 7 p.m. to knock down gutted por tions of the building and prevent further damage or spread of the fire. A few firemen were temporar ily overcome by smoke while fighting the blaze, according to Alpha Co. Fire Chief George Miley, but were quickly revived by the administration of oxygen at the scene. Erection of new cattle barns at another location had been under consideration by the University in its long-range expansion plans, according to Miller. A special Collegian sports section can be found starting on page 11. The Collegian will begin regular daily publication, Tues day through Saturday, this Tuesday. By JOHN BLACK Edifor Communists Forced Out Of Congo LEOPOLDVILLE, the Con go (AP) Soviet.ied COMMU 'nists burned dOcuments and packed up last night in prep aration for a dismal getaway from the Congo. Their adventuring effort to ex ploit a foothold in central Africa appeared to be ending in failure: Patrice Lumumba, the puppet' they had been shaping up, had vanished, and the facade of Soviet Inver with him. The Communists from Eastern Europe started their preparations to leave on renewed orders from the new Congolese army strong man, Col. Joseph Mobutu. He said they must clear Out before another nightfall. Papers were burned in the courtyard of the C2ech embas sy. Workmen then nailed covers on big wooden crates. Three carloads of Soviet off i !dials left the Soviet embassy. Other cars- loaded with suitcases ;stood in the courtyard. " Wel are all leaving tomorrow," !mid a correspondent for the So viet news agency Tass. The correspondent said the Soviet embassy had received a formal request to leave the country from President Joseph Kasavubu. I Col. Mobutu announced Wednesday he was giving the 'Communist bloc 48 hours to leave the Congo. The first ,signs that they would obey came last night. The Russians and their Commu nist allies had moved into the Congo in a big way after inde pendence June 30. Roadwork to Slow Curtin Rd. Traffic Traffic on Curtin Rd. will be somewhat curtailed on Monday when, weather permitting, con sruction work is expected to be gin at Frazier Rd. • Workmen will begin digging a ditch across Curtin Rd. for in stallation of an electrical conduit after the heavy morning traffic has leveled off. One-lane traffic will be. main tamed as much as possible. The work is expected to be completed by Monday noon.
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