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Senate Coalition to Pass
Additional State Gas Tax
HARRISBURG (/ P) Senate Democrats yesterday
counted oii enough Republican votes to pass a $74 million a
year gasoline tax boost but not tonight as planned.
It appeared the Democratic caucus might concede to
West Germany
Offers Payment
For War Debt
BONN, Germany (TP) West
Germany announced yesterday it
is offering more than $9OO mil
lion in immediate financial help
to the United States.
The money would be prepay
ment for $325 million in military
equipment and $587 million in
postwar debt over the next 27
years.
This offer falls short of what
the United States has asked and
is linked with a condition bound
to meet with opposition there.
That is that the remaining $2OO
million in West Germany’s post
war debt be canceled in consider
ation of German assets seized in
the United States during World
War 11.
In Washington, Secretary of
State Dean Rusk refused yester
day to say whether he was satis
fied with the recent West German
offer.
Rusk told a news conference he
would not comment on the offer
because discussions with the West
German government are continu
ing.
A government spokesman a
voiderl officially connecting the
financial help offer and (his form
of compensation for the seized
assets. He merely said he hoped
the two would bo considered to
gether.
Bridge Thief Sentenced
To Nine Months in Jail
SUNDERLAND, England UP)
.Judge Arthur Boyle frowned
darkly at James Teasdale in court
last ‘night.
"It is monstrous impertinence to
try to steal a bridge,” the judge
declared.
Teasdale, 32, a commercial art
ist, went do jail for nine months,
He was found guilty of cutting
through two steel girders of a
foot-bridge owned by Sunderland
Town Council as the first step to
ward removing the entire struc
ture.
Prosecutor H. A. Percy, in ai
tone of shocked admiration, told;
the jury: “There are certain dif-j
ficulties involved in stealing ai
bridge. You can steal a cat or a|
dog or a pearl necklace and quite j
easily carry them away. 1
There's Still Time Brother (Sister)
Rush to the
FROSH CIRCULATION
STAFF MEETING
212 HUB 8:30 P.M.
Feb. 7,1961
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Present Members Must Attend
making the proposed two-cents
a-gallon increase a temporary
one-year levy. They will decide
at a meeting today.
The Senate returns to action at
7 p.m. today. The House ad
journed‘until 11 a.m. Tuesday.
House and Senate leaders in
dicated they would hold post
midnight sessions, if necessary,
to give final approval to the gas
lax boost.
Sen. Z. H. Confair, (R-Lycom
ing), who said he would join
jDemocrals to pass the bill, de
clared the increase “will have to
be temporary.
“If they won’t make that change
I won’t support it,” he asserted.
Any amendment would postpone
a final vote until at least Wednes
day.
An informal poll of Demo
cratic senators indicated senti
ment favored keeping the gas
tax bill as it is written—that is,
to make the tax permanent.
However, there was general
agreement that, if necessary,
they would back amendments
making the boost temporary.
I One Democratic senator who
had indicated some reluctance to
support the bill declared he would
support all of Gov. Lawrence’s
proposed $lBO million revenue
program—including the gas tax
boost.
He is Sen. John Carl Miller, (D-
Beaver), who said, “I’m going
with all of' it.”
But Sen. John J. Haluska, (D-
Cambria), was still a question
mark. Over the weekend he in
dicated he would not support
the program unless he had as
surances there would be a sub
stantial increase in highway
construction in his county.
Democrats and Republicans are
split 25-25 in the Senate.
In other action Sen. William J.
Lane, (D-Washing(on), said he
would ask the Senate Tuesday to
reconsider the vote it cast last
week that defeated proposed fair
housing legislation.
JOURN-CLUB
ELECTIONS MEETING
214-215 HUB 7 P.M.
Speaker: DR. CLIFFORD ADAMS
Author "Making Marriage Work,"
Ladies Home Journal
Free Refreshments Following Meeting
TH& DAILY GOLLEGIANf STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Kennedy
Asks Action
On Bills
WASHINGTON (TP) Presi
dent Kennedy asked for billion
dollar action on his anti-recession
proposals yesterday. He sent Con
gress two bills, one to extend un
employment benefits, the other to
help children whose fathers are
out of work.
The two bills would provide
more than $1.2 billion of assist
ance to the unemployed.
A third bill, calling for a boost
in the minimum wage,'will reach
Congress today.
The most expensive bill in the
package was the pne on unem
ployment benefits. It temporarily
would continue or reinstate pay
ments to those who have exhaust
ed all their benefits and still have
no job.
Kennedy estimated this bill
would provide $950 million for
three million workers.
His second bill would authorize
temporary help to needy children
whose fathers are unemployed.
An estimate of the cost: $305 mil
lion for the 15 months of its oper
ation.
Kennedy noted that the coun
try now has 5.4 million unem
ployed workers and that 500,000
already Have exhausted their
state benefits.
2 Parties Approve
JFK's Gold Plan
WASHINGTON UP) Demo
crats and Republicans had ap
proving words for President Ken
nedy’s gold message yesterday.
But. some in his own party said
jhe should go further by cutting
foreign aid and asking more help
from prosperous allies.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Virginia
Democrat, said “a much more
'positive and constructive effort
must be made to reduce our for
eign economic aid.
“If the foreign economic assist
ance is still necessary, the time
is overdue when these nations
should assume their share of the
’responsibility,” Byrd said.
Voices May Be Coming
From Soviet Satellite
TURIN, Italy (TP) A group
of Turin University professors re
ported last night hearing “ar
ticulated noises” that might be a
human voice on a tape recording
made Sunday of radio signals on
a frequency often used by Soviet
satellites.
The professors said these noises
—and sounds on another record
ing made several days earlier —
could indicate the probable pres
ence of a living being.
Both recordings were played for
the professors yesterday by the
two amateur radio operators who
monitored the signals.
HOW SMALL CAN YOU GET?
Today let us address ourselves toaquestion that has long rocked
and roiled the academic world: Is a student better off at a
small college than at a large eoltege?
To answer this question it is necessary first to define terms.
Wlmt, exactly, do we mean by a small college? Well sir, some say
that in order to bo called truly small, a college should have an
enrollment of not more than four students.
I certainly have no quarrel with this statement; a four
student college must unquestionably be called small. ludeed,
one could even call it inlime if one knew what intime meant.
But I submit there is such a thing as being too small. Take, for
instance, a recent unfortunate occurrence at Crimscott A and M,
Crimscott. A and M, situated in a pleasant valley nestled
between Pcnver and Baltimore, was founded by A. and M.
Crimscott, two brothers who left Ireland in 1706 to escape the
potato famine of IS4I. As a result of their foresight, the Crim
scott brothers never went without potatoes for one single day of
their lives—and mighty grateful they were! One night, full of
gratitude after a hearty meal of French fries, cottage fries, hash
browns, and au gratin, they decided to show their appreciation
to this bountiful land of potatoes by endowing a college. They
stipulated that enrollment should never exceed four students
because they felt that only by keeping the college this small
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could each student be assured of the personalized attention, the
camaraderie, the feeling of belonging, that is all too often lacking,
in higher education.
Well sir, things went along swimmingly until one Saturday a
few years ago. On this day Crimscott had a football game
scheduled against Minnesota, its traditional rival. Football was,
of course, something of a problem at Crimscott, what with only
four students enrolled in the entire college. It was easy enough
to muster a backficld, but finding a good line—or even a bad
line—baffled the most resourceful coaching minds in the country.
Well sir, on the morning of the big game against Minnesota,
its traditional rival, a capricious destiny dealt Crimscott a cruel
blow—in fact, four cruel blows. Sigafoos, the quarterback,
woke up that morning with the breakbone fever. Wrichards, the
slotback, was unable to start bis motorcycle. Beerbohm-Tree,
the wingback-tailback, got his necktie caught in his eSpresso,
machine. Langerliaus, the fullback, was stolen by gypsies.
Consequently, alas, none of the Crimscott team showed up at
the game, and Minnesota, its traditional rival, was able to score
almost at wall. Crimscott was so out of sort 3 that they immedi
ately broke off football relations with Minnesota, its traditional
rival. This later became known as tho Dred Scott Decision.
So you can see how only four students might be too small an
enrollment. Tho number I personally favor is twenty. How
come? Because when you have twenty students and one of
them opens a pack of Marlboro Cigarettes, there are enough to
go around for everybody, and no one has to be deprived of
Marlboro’s fine, mild flavor, of Marlboro’s easy-drawing filter,
of Marlboro’s joy and zest and steadfast companionship, and
as a result you have a student body that is filled with sweefc
content and amity and harmony and concord and togetherness
and soft pack and flip-top box.
That s how come. e Mushuimßi^
You will also find twenty cigarettes—twenty incomparable
unaltered king-size cigarettes—in each pack of Marlboro'»
new partner in pleasure—the Philip Morris Commander,
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1961
Woman Parachutist Dies
After Exhibition Jump
LIMA, Peru (TP) The body of
an Argentine woman parachutist
was washed ashore at Ancon yes
terday, the day after she made an
exhibition jump at the Pacific
beach resort of Santa Rosa.
Miss Maria del Rosario Carri
zo apparently was pulled under
the surface when a strong wind
caught her chute after alighting.
A companion, Miguel Angel Terzo
jumped first and signalled to her
not to jump because of tricky
get the signal. Both were promot
winds. She apparently failed to
ing opening of the resort.
On (tapis M&Mnian
uthor of “I SFas a Teen-age Dwarf ’ "The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis", etc.)
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