I Weather Forecast: Sunny, Cold I i i VOL. 61. No. 65 University to Control Anti-Sub. Research For U.S. in Italy At the invitation of the U.S. government, the University will asume responsibility for the management of an anti submarine warfare research center at La Spezia, Italy, Presi dent Eric A. Walker announced yesterday. 'or the laboratory, to be effec tive immediately will be formal ly transferred to the University by the Raytheon Company of Waltham, Mass., which organized and managed the center initially. Research policy for the center will be provided by the Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic (SACLANT). A North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sci entific council serves in an advi sory capacity to SACLANT. President Walker said the University. through its mem bership on the board of directors of the laboratory and its early I appointment of a managing di , rector, will be responsible for the entire project and will in fluence its scientific as well as its management procedures. University personnel may be Irecruited from time to time for [ research and counsel. The laboratory, located in northwestern Italy on the Ligu rian Sea, is designed to study the underwater universe and to help provide answers to problems posed by the increased menace of the Soviet submarine fleet. The anti-submarine warfare research center was organized in 1959 with nine NATO nations contributing scientists and tech nical data after the United States voiced the need for in creased scientific cooperation among the nations of the free world. The laboratory was incorporat ed in Italy as a subsidiary of Ray- Itheon Company which asked to be relieved of management re sponsibility after the original cr ganizational phase. The University was subse quently tapped to assume corn ,rnand primarily because of the success with which it has operat ed the underwater research lab oratory on campus for the U S. Navy. Because of the presence of Rea -1 #mically-oriented scientists on the staff, University direction of [the project was deemed important to its continued success, Walker indicated. Only four or five in- Istitutions in the United States were considered capable of un dertaking the assignment, he said. Countries participating in the I,project are Canada, Denmark, France, West Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Nor way, United Kingdom and the United States. Administrative direction SGA Will Study ASA Allotments The budgets of all student groups receiving money from Associated Student Activities will be reviewed with an eye to redistribution of funds in the near future by the SGA Budget Committee. According to Susan Sherman, chairman of the committee and SGA secretary-treasurer, the find ings of the committee will not af fect this year's budgets. "What we want to find out," she said "is whether or not each organization is receiving an ap propriate amount." Some or ganizations, she explained, are lacking funds, while others have large accumulations of funds in bank accounts. In the review, the committee will delve into records from up to three years ago to determine past allotments granted and mon ey spent. William Fuller, manager of ASA, said yesterday that some groups have made money on their own initiative, which is their pre rogative. Other groups, however, have a backlog of accumulated allotments, he said. The committee will be find ing out how groups are making use of the funds they receive with the eventual aim of redis tribution . Fuller declined to say which ac tivities would have their budgets altered until the end of the study, ydaich he predicts will be late next semester, Other members of the commit tee are the four class presidents, the SGA advisors, the ASA trea surer, Frank J. Simes, dean of men, and Dorothy J. Lipp, dean of women. THE UNIVERSITY has agreed to manage this anti-submarine warfare research center at La Spezia, Italy. They will manage it in conjunction with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. .. „ 1 r 4 a i g ( i64.- ! , rgi : - else) ' --' STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 5. 1961 FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Diplomats Journey As U.S., Cuba Cut HAVANA (W)—U. S. officials hauled down the Stars and Stripes from the embassy flagpole,•yesterday, ending 60 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and its Cuban neighbor. Then most of the staff of 87 joined the exodus of Americans for home, leaving behind 11 embassy personnel headed by the charge d'affaires, Daniel M. Braddock of Grand Students Set Record For Vacation Safety University students racked-up a better safety record this past vacation period than any other Christmas . vacation since 1955, but one professor was seriously injured Monday on his way back to the University. No students, up to late yesterday afternoon, had been seriously injured during the vaca tion, according to the University's Two Students Department of Public Informa tion. State College Police and State Police at Rockview report ed yesterday that only one Uni- Judged Guilty versity student had been involved eNg in an accident in the Centre County Bad %Ail kiLI County area since the vacation Two University students from started on Dec, 21, and he escaped Philipsburg were held guilty of uninjured. disorderly conduct by Justice of Barry S. Brinsmaid, assistant the Peace William P. Bell on Dec professor of music, was injured when his car and a truck skid ded on an icy road near Sayre, according to scanty information received by Hummel Fishburn, head of the Department of Mu sic. Brinsmaid, Fishburn said, is in the Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre with some broken ribs, loss of some upper teeth and severe bruises. Brinsmaid's car was com pletely demolished. Another accident involved Richard Feldman. senior in arts and letters from Newton, Mass., following his return to the Uni versity. State College Police said that Feldman's car collided with a truck driven by Richard Heaife of Brisbane at Berry Alley and E. Prospect Ave. due to icy con ditions of the roads. No one was injured, but damages were esti mated at $5OO to the car and $250 to the truck. Since 1955, the last period free of students involved in major ac cidents, four students have been accidentally killed and five in jured during the holiday period. During the 1957 Christmas vacation there were no traffic accidents but one student was electrocuted at his home while (Continued oh page eight) 21. The students, Philip Turner, sophomore in business adminis tration, and Alan Gette, sopho more in liberal arts, were charged with annoyance at the NeW Col lege Diner in the early morning hours of Dec, 21. Both men admitted guilt and paid fines of $lO and costs amounted to $11.50. Bell said. Bell said that the students had been drinking and were using loud profane language at the diner when police were called. The police had to use force to remove the students from the diner, he said. The .pair spent the remain- der of the night before their hear ing in the State College jail, Bell added. Deno To Address Seminar Dr. Norman C. Deno, professor of chemistry, . will address the Electrical Engineering Seminar to be held at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday ,in 207 Electrical Engineering. Haber May Give Report On 'State' of Assembly The Student 'Government Association Assembly may get a chance to hear a report similar to a state of the union mes sage tonight if Richard Haber, SGA president, presents his resume of the Assembly's accomplishments during the past year. As of last night, Haber was not sure whether he would present the report. He said that he still had to contact persons on from the current fall semester. certain "vital" issues and would Also at tonight's meeting. the try to do this today. sponsors of the bill for a Univer- The only definite information i sity bookstore may reaffirm their he had was on ROTC. Haber said cause before the bill is presented that if he gives the report tonight. o the Board of Trustees' meeting 'it will be done during the time, slated for tomorrow tad Satur allotted on the agenda for exec-'day in Harrisburg. utive reports. Among some pre-assembly The call for a "state of the as- suggestions is the sending of sembly" message came at the telegrams to each member of Dec. 15 meeting of the Assem- the board expressing SGA's bly when Wayne Ulsh (Jr.- concern and opinions on the is. Ind.) introduced a resolution sue. that the president of the Assem- i Theodore Simon,. who prepared WI give an annual report on the i an extensive research report 6n progress and actions of the the bookstore, has sent a revised group each year. 'copy of his report to each board Haber's report, if given, would,member. include work done by the Assem-1 The board would haVe to. ap bly from the Spring 1960 semcs-iprove the SGA request in order ter. since some of the presentlthat such a store be established members were elected then and ion campus. New Year's anlßesolutions i --See Page 4 Rapids, Mich. The 11 will clean up details, then hand over U.S. property and the conduct of affairs to the cus tody of Swiss Ambassador Walter Rossi: Many Americans joined the em bassy staff aboard the ferry "City of New Orleans" for the 16.-hour overnight trip to West Palm Beach, Fla. The embassy arranged for spe cial trips by the West Palm Beach 'car ferry and asked Pan Ameri can World Airways to fly special flights from Miami. • Despite the embassy's urg ings -for all Americans to leave. there appears to be no great exodus of Americans. Many have lived here for fears. "I've seen lots of revolutions here in my time, but this is the first time I've ever seen Old Glory ' pulled down," said an lAmerican - businessman whose 'property was seized last year by Cuba. The State Department esti mates 3,000 to 3,500 Americans are in Cuba. But the embassy says this includes all persons who might have any claim to U.S. citizenship. The ' embassy estimated there are 500 to 800 Americans who Cams from the United States and remained part of the foreign community. A formal note from the Cuban government offered U.S. officials whatever time -they need to com plete the withdrawal. As personnel left the embassy for the ferry, Cuban applicants jammed the front and side en trance in a frantic attempt to get American visas. Tension appeared high in most of Havana. It was empha sized by a brief burst of auto matic gunfire near the Hotel Nacional and The Associated Press offices Apparently a gun in the, hands Of a young -militiaw)man guard ing the hotel went off. Before the shooting ended apparently without casualties more gun fire came from several points near the West German and Jap anese embassies. FIVE CENTS Home Ties
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