South Africa Breaks
With Commonwealth
Over Racial Issue
LONDON (/P) With a stern warning, South Africa de
cided last night to quit the British Commonwealth.
The rupture, threatening economic repercussions in the
multi-racial group of nations, came over South Africa's racial
segregation policies.
The nation's white supremicist
prime minister, Henrik Verwoerd,
was quoted as telling a Common
wealth conference: "The proceed
ings at today's meeting which
have obligated me to take this
regrettable step, in my opinion,
mark the beginning of the disin
tegration of the Commonwealth."
Blaming Asian-African mem
bers of the Commonwealth for
raising the apartheid issue, Ver
woerd mentioned India, Ghana,
Malaya and Ceylon.
Verwoerd took the step when
the other members insisted on
their right to denounce South Af
rica's apartheid policy.
The decision came after three
days of argument by the 11 prime
ministers and presidents behind
locked doors.
It was a bitter blow to Brit
ain's Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan. Aware of the con
sequences of South Africa's
withdrawal, Macmillan ha d
toiled in and out of the confer
ence to get a formula acceptable
to everyone.
But three leaders of the oppo
sition stood firm Prime Minis
ters Nehru of India, John Diefen
baker of Canada and Tonku Ab
dul Rahman of Malaya.
Verwoerd, a mild-mannered
Man of 60, made the announce
ment in a quiet way and no voices
were raised from any side at the
closed meeting.
Informants quoted Verwoerd
as saying: "This free associa
tion of states cannot hope to
survive if instead of devoting
itself to cooperation on matters
of common concern, Common
wealth prime ministers are go
ing to continue the practice of
interfering in each other's do
mestic affairs, and if their meet
ings are to be made the occa
sion for attacks on fellow mem
bers.
South Africa's withdrawal
means the end of its 30-year mem
bership in the Commonwealth.
Only once before has a nation
quit this steadily growing inter
national association. Ireland left
in 1949 because of bitterness en
gendered by its struggle for in
dependence.
Steinhauer Gets
Large Response
To Questionnaire
The SGA Bookstore Commit
tee has "a laundry bag full" of re
sponses to the 1000 questionnaires
which were sent out last week.
Philip Steinhauer, chairman of
the committee, said last night
that he could not estimate the
number of returns on the ques
tionnaire, but the ones that have
come in fill a large laundry bag.
The committee will begin tab
ulating the results of approxi
mately 1000 questionnaires sent
out last week as soon as all of
them have been returned, Stein
hauer said.
"I urge all students who re
ceived the forms to return them
by the end of this week, so that
our committee can go ahead with
its research," Steinhauer said.
After the results are tabulat
ed, he said, they will be incor
porated into the committee's final
report for the Board of Trustees.
The board at its December meet-,
ing asked that SGA prove the,
need for a bookstore before ap- 1
proval would be given for the es
tablishment of one.
The results will be recorded and
research continued whether or
not need is proven by the survey
returns, Steinhauer said.
Working with committee mem
bers in tabulating the results is
Leslie P. Greenhill, associate di
rector of academic research and
services.
Thespian
Rehearsal
Meets Delay
The dress rehearsal for the
Penn State Thespians' pro-
I duction of Leonard Bern
stein's "Wonderful Town,"
which will open at 8 tonight
in Schwab, was delayed last
night because of a missing cor
net score.
The disappearance was discov
ered Tuesday night when two cor
net players could not find the mu
sic which had been placed in a bin
with their instruments in Car
negie.
The panic was resolved when
a businessman agreed to pick
up a new score in New York
City and bring it to campus for
dress rehearsal last night.
At the time the dress rehearsal
was scheduled to begin, the mu
sic was still on a train between
here and New York. After some
delay, the show began without it.
"Wonderful Town" opened in
February 1953 at the Winter Gar
den Theater in New York and
starred Rosalind Russell and
Edie Adams.
It is the story of two sisters
from Columbus, Ohio, who
come to New York, planning to
take it by storm, but find
themselves mixed up in many
exasperating adventures in
cluding the rental of a weird
Greenwich Village apartment
which opens onto a main street
of the town.
"Wonderful Town" will star
Anne Grant and Susan Brown as
the sisters from Ohio; Vince Lan
dro as Baker, a hard-boiled mag
azine editor; and Walter Glick
man as Wreck, an ex-football
hero.
Besides tonight's performance,
shows are scheduled for 8 p.m.
tomorrow and 2 and 8 p.m. Sat
urday.
Tickets for all performances of
"Wonderful Town" can be pur
chased at the Hetzel Union desk.
Film Will Depict
'lvan's' Daily Life
A candid look at "Ivan Ivan
ovich" in his daily round of work
and play as seen by a Russian
speaking journalist from Minne
apolis will be presented in a col
or film and lecture scheduled for
7:30 p.m. next Tuesday in the
Hetzel Union ball room.
The program, sponsored by the
Slavic Club, is open to the public.
Scientists Collect Data on Local Blast
By NICKI WOLFORD
Assistant Editor
Fire went shooting across
the top of a cliff as a dynamite
explosion brought approxi
mately 200,000 tons of lime-
I stone tumbling down at noon
yesterday in a quarry five
miles southeast of Tyrone.
Similar explosions are set off
each year by the Warner Com
pany of Union Furnace in order
to get its annual supply of lime
stone. The company used 61,000
pounds of dynamite in this ex
plosion.
This year, scientists from the
University of Michigan, Michi
gan State University and Penn
State used the explosion to gath
er data on seismic waves (shock
waves which travel through the
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Frosh Arrested;
Released by P • lice
Students Caught
Taking Articles
At Mclanahan's
State College police arrested
two freshmen Tuesday on
charges of pilfering approxi
mately $825 in clothing and
lother goods from 21 down
town stores and several fra
ternities.
The two students were appre
hended in McLanahan's Drug
Store on S. Allen St. Tuesday,
according to John R. Snedden,
arresting officer. The pair was
caught, he continued, when store
officials saw the two slipping sev
eral items into their coat pockets.
Store officials detained the stu
dents until police arrived, he
added.
The freshmen have been re
leased in the custody of the Uni
versity, Sgt. Matthew A. Seck-
Inger of the State College police
said last night.
The two students, whose names
are being withheld by police until
their hearing this morning, ad
mitted shoplifting since the mid
dle of the fall semester, Snedden
said.
Snedden said that 189 stolen
items worth an estimated $825
were found in the boys' Runkle
Hall room Tuesday afternoon.
The articles range from beer
mugs and shot glasses to ber
muda shorts and sweaters. Other
stolen items include: records,
books, a radio, a camera and a
typewriter.
All of the recovered stolen ar
ticles were spread out on the
council table in the borough build
ing yesterday so that the victi
mized stores and fraternities could
identify stolen items.
Leroy S. Austin, associate dean
of men, reported last night that
the students would be handled
through the normal disciplinary
channels of the University after
police action had been taken.
Students May Order
Caps and Gowns Now
All seniors and graduate stu
dents who will receive degrees
at commencement on June 10,
may now order their caps and
gowns at the Athletic Store. The
deadline is May 15.
Students will be measurc " for
cap and gown sizes and must
place a $10.14 deposit. A total of
$6.50 will be refunded when the
cap and gown are returned.
earth's crust after an explosion,State experiment, Prout said,
or earthquake). ;"They've got a real show over
In addition to the scientists,
about 30 people traveled, via
an old hay wagon, to the top of
a ridge running parallel to the
quarry and watched the explo
sion. It resembled a very minia
ture version of those which took
place at Yucca Flats.
James Prout, a research asso
ciate in the University of Mich
igan's Institute for Science and
Technology, said his group set up
equipment in three different
places in Pennsylvania in order
to record the vibrations after the
explosion.
The Michigan group is measur
ing the vibrations of explosions
and earthquakes in an attempt to
learn the differences between a
large explosion and an earth
quake, Prout said.
In commenting on the Penn
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
—Co!legion Photo by John floatage
RECOVERED ITEMS: Patrolman John R. Snedden of the State
College police force examines two of the 189 stolen items found
in the residence hall room of two University students. The students
have been arrested for stealing articles worth $825 from down
town stores and fraternity houses.
SGA to Hear Plans
For Reorganization
Plans for a complete reorganzation of the Student Gov
ernment Association will be presented to the Assembly to
night by Duane Alexander, chairman of the SGA Reorgan
ization Committee, in his first report on the concepts of a re
,
lised student government.
Alexander will present a new constitution embodying
Colder-Weather
Today should be partly cloudy,
windy and colder with a high
temperature•of 40 degrees. There
may be a few brief snow flurries,
particularly during the morning
hours.
Partly cloudy and colder tem
peratures are predicted for to
night and the low will be about
24 degrees:
Tomorrow should be cloudy
and cold with a chance of snow
beginning late in the day or at
night.
there."
Yosio Nakamura, pa luate
student in geophysics and head
of the University group, said
his investigation was an at
tempt to discover the depth of
discontinuity of the velocity of
seismic waves. He explained
that the speed of the waves usu
ally increases as they go deeper
into the earth's crust.
The success of the investiga
tion could not be determined until
the collected data had been in
terpreted. Nakamura said. He ex
plained that this investig-4f_on
was only a "practice" session to
prepare for experiments to be
continued over the summer.
The University group set up
their equipment in a railroad bed
west of Pine Grove Mills and
15 miles away from the explosion.
Toilrgiatt
concepts of student government
totally different from the pres
ent SGA. He has reported that
preliminary provisions under con
sideration for change are the ba
sis of representation, the size of
Assembly, the role of Cabinet and
changes in the executive and leg
islative powers.
It will be up to the Assembly .
to appiove or disappr6ve the
plans. which will then be sub
mitted in final form to the Uni
versity Senate Committee on
Organizational . Control for op
proval.
Alexander said Tuesday it will
take at least three meetings for
the constitutional changes to be
approved by SGA. He said this
process should be completed by
the second week of Apr:l.
To date, none of the plans
which Alexander's committee has
been working on have been made
public, although he says the com
mittee has been working on the
proposed changes since late last
fall.
According to a procedural
rule passed by Assembly last
fall, all Assembly committees
must submit a report _o Rules
Committee within one week of
their committee meetings. Joan
Cavanagh, chairman of the
rules committee, said yesterday
that the committee has made
"no report so far" to Rules
Committee.
Alexander's committee met yes
terday with the Senat: Suh-com
mittee on Organization Control
for preliminary discussion of pro
posed plans.