TTIiT IUL Weather Foreca Showers,, Mild VOL. 61. No. 133 Student Arrested Sunday Morning; Admits Shooting Danville Police Chief After Attempt to Pass Forged Check A University student was arrested early Sunday morning after he called State College police headquarters and admitted shooting and wounding the Danville chief of police. The shooting occurred when Thomas J. Maxwell, senior in premed from Hazelton, tried to purchase some goods in a Danville clothing store with a check, according to State College Police Chief John R. Juba. The clerk became suspicious and checked the identifical him, J'uba said. Finding the iden- - tification false, Juba said, the clerk notified the Danville Chief ,of Police Robert Burke, who ap proached Maxwell 4n the store. While escaping. Maxwell shot Burke in the left foot and hur ried from the store, according to police reports. Burke said that before fleeing Maxwell threat ened to shoot him again or any one else who tried to get in his way. Burke was admitted to the Gei singer Memorial Hospital, treated and released. The pistol that was,l used in the shooting is believed to, have been taken from Metzger's April 20, Juba said. Maxwell called State College ,Police to surrender from a tele phone booth in the parking lot of the campus shopping center, po lice reports said. The police ap• prehended him in that area short ly after the call. ' Following his apprehension, Maxwell was admitted under guard to the University Hospi tal for observation. police said. Maxwell had taken an overdose of medication, police said. But it is not known whether or !not he had taken the medication I before or after the shooting, they added. Maxwell has been 'returned to the custody of Danville author-1 ities on charges of aggravated as -1 isault and battery. After facing charges there, po-I lice said, he will be returned to State College and charged with burglary, shoplifting and posses-, sion of approximately $3,000, 'worth of stolen property. The stolen property found in Maxwell's apartment included 'luggage, portable radios, hi-til ,speakers, furniture, clothing, jew elry, fireplace tools and various other items, police reports' showed. Wet, Wintery Weather Due Here Tonight Warm moist air covere• Pennsylvania and most of the eastern third of the United Statesi yesterday, A storm system that is moving towards Pennsylvania from the mid-west caused considerable shower and thunderstorm activity' in the Ohio and TennPF , • Val leys yesterday and last night. Some of these thunderstorms were locally severe and were attended by strong winds, heavy rain, hail and vigorous lightening displays As the storm mo v es northeast ward across Ohio this morning, show- thunder- ers and stows should continue in this area; but with the passage of this storm late today, cloudy, windy and cooler weather will spread through Central Pennsylvania. Mostly cloudy, windy and mild weather is predicted for today and showers and thunderstorms are forecast for this morning. Tonight should be mostly cloudy, breezy and cooler. A low of 43 is. expected. Mostly cloudy, windy and colder weather is predicted for tomor row and a high of only 52 degrees is expected. A Senior Week supplement is carried on pages 5 through 8 of this issue. University Designs New Matric Cards The University will issue a new type of matriculation card beginning in the fall term, Robert M. Koser, Jr., associ ate registrar, said yesterday. One part of the card will be used for permanent identification and the other part will be a certificate renewed at each registration, he said. The official student identifi cation card will be laminated plastic printed in dark blue and white, Koser said. It will be used by the student during the entire time that he is enrolled, he added. The plastic card will have the student's name, student number and date of birth embossed on the front. Koser said that the card will be used as a print for various forms and documents. "It's like a charge account plate. The library, the men's physical education classes and the people at registration will use the card to print forms," he said. The back of the permanent card will have a picture of the stu dent and will list the regulations for use of the card. Koser said that the pictures used on this year's matriculation cards will be used again next year. Incoming freshmen will have their pictures taken at the summer counseling program, he said. IHIS St:l 41. .1,11 1 106: \ '' „ ' o r t ift B at i g ,f,-- ,: ,_•,„:„,,,,T u ti rg i t 1 • ~..__ By WINNIE BOYLE By CARMEN ZETLER The second part of the new identification card will be a certificate of registration is sued each time the student reg isters for classes. It will also in clude the student's name, birth date and student number and will be used as an activity card. Koser said. He added that the certificate will be good from the day of registration until the last day of classes. At registration each student will be given a double-sectioned plastic carrying case in which to carry his identification card and his current certificate of registra tion, Koser said. He said that one of the reasons that the University is switching to the new matriculation cards is that it would simplify keeping rec ords. He said that the cards would also be much more diffi cult for a student to duplicate or change. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1961 lion that Maxwell had given Moran May Be Finished in Track By JIM KARL Collegian Sports Editor Ed Moran, Penn State's greatest miler, is quitting track. Moran said yesterday that he has been bothered by a back ailment since last fall and that he won't resume running un less the condition clears up. The 23-year-old Moran starred on Lion track teams in 1957, 1958, and 1959. He's currently doing graduate work at the University and had been run ning for the New York Athletic Club. Moran said that lately his back ailment has prevented him from finishing races ----401061,-- with a strong 1 -„* 4irt burst of speed. "It started to ow bother me last, fall," he said. "It didn't pain - me— I just couldn't Of I' move my legs • fast enough." Moran recent- % ly•returned from a State Depart- I " ment - sponsored 7 :4X, „.' A tour of South Ed Moran Africa where he and three other American athletes participated in 12 track clinics and competed in seven meets. His best times on the tour were 4:09 in the mile and 1:51 in the half mile. He listed poor competition and having to run at a high altitude for his sub par times in the mile. "We had to run at 4000 feet and it's very hard to run at that height," he said. The former Lion great said he isn't sure whether he will. ever return to track, "I'm just going to quit until my back gets better. I won't run if I don't run respectably. If everything isn't perfect I'm (Continued on page twelve) Choir to Give Spring Concert The fourth annual spring con cert of the Meditation Chapel Choir directed by James W. l Beach will be presented at 8:3O p.m. tomorrow in the Helen ,Eakin Eisenhower Chapel. Tickets are available at the first] floor desk of the Chapel. The program will include the Buxtehude cantata "Jesu, Meine Freude," an opera-oratoria by Giacomo Carissimi called "Jeph thah" and the Flor Peeters musical setting of the "Te Deum." William E. Mastrocola, senior in secondary education from Clif ton Heights, will open the pro -Igram with Dietrich Buxtehude's Prelude, Fugue, and Chaconne." Mastrocola will also play the postlude, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott." U.S. Salutes Astronauts WASHINGTON (fP) A proud, grateful nation paid Its fullest homage yesterday to the first American to breach the barriers of space. President Kennedy lauded astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. and pinned a medal on the man who ventured 115 miles into the heavens Friday on a giant stride across the space frontier. Congress praised Shepard with personal greetings and a fOrmal resolution. And from perhaps 250,000 ordinary folk jammed along the curbs, a warm, roaring, continuous salute rolled with the astronaut along historic Pennsylvania Avenue as he drove to the Capitol. numbly and modestly Shep ard accepted the accolades. And almost from the first to the last moment of a day of glory he in sisted on sharing every honor ' with the six fellow astronauts who were left behind .during his flight and with the hundreds of scientists and artisans who put years of sweat , and worry and brain power into the man in-space program. At his first full-fledged news conference since his exploit, Shep ard put all the emphasis not on what he did but on what "we" did. There was emphasis, too, not only on the flight into space but on the challenges and tasks ahead of a nation still lagging behind the Soviet Union in some areas in space. Shepard voiced pleasure and encouragement at the results of his journey into space and add ed: "We plan to press ahead with the best possible speed." Yes, he said, he felt some ap prehension ahead of time be cause there was always the pos sibility of partial success or even failure. He took a long look at the missile which hurled him aloft, he confessed, because he thought it might be the last time he would see it. But on .the flight itself: '"I don't think we had any bad mo ments at all." The five minutes of weightless ness he experienced was "quite a pleasant sensation," he said. He added there is "no difficulty in maneuvering ourselves, in con trolling ourselves . . . and it has given us no difficulty at all." What were his feelings at the (Continued on page Three) Foionini Suggests Encampment Change Dennis Foianini, president-elect of SGA, said last night that he will recommend to the Assembly that next year's student Encampment be held on campus before the fall term begins He said that this would lessen expenditures for the program, and that the money could be more useful elsewhere. In previous years, Encampment has been held before Orientation week at the Mont Alto Center for all student government leaders "Encampment can serve no real purpose this year because we are still not sure who will be in student government next year," Foianini said. "Therefore, it would be a waste of money," he added. Foianini •explained that next year's Assembly members will probably not be elected until the fall term. Previously, all but freshmen Assemblymen were chosen in the spring elections. However, all present assembly men and leaders of SGA will be invited to attend Encampment, according to Foianini. lie added that any interested student will att Coed Hurl Friday In 100-foot Fall Near Bellefonte A coed was injured at about 10 p.m. Friday when she fell 100 feet from a cliff near Fishermen's Paradise south of Bellefonte, Patrolman Michael lA. Mulch, of the • State Police Barracks at Rockview, said yes terday. hMarilyn Weiss, sophomore in art education from Boiling ;Springs was admitted to the Cen tre County Hospital early Satur day morning. Hospital author ities reported her in "satisfactory" condition yesterday. The accident occurred when Miss Weiss accompanied by Whick Carpenter, junior in arts and let ters from Fayetteville,. N.Y., and five other couples were having a private picnic near the cliff. All the males in the party were members of Beta Theta Pi fra ternity, Paul Kemmerer, presi dent of the fraternity, said, but, he added, the picnic was not fra ternity sponsored. He said that Miss Weiss' com panions "assumed that she did not know how close she was to the edge of the cliff since it was dark." When questioned about the in cident, Wilmer E. Wise, assistant to the dean of men in charge of fraternity affairs, said that the "IFC Board of Control was inves tigating the accident to see if it called for any action." By ROCHELLE MICHAELS also be encouraged to participate. Another recommendation which Foianini said he will make to Assembly is that the revised SGA constitution not be passed this week. He stated that his reason for this is that 'Thursday night will ,be the first time many people will see the whole constitution put to- Igether. "One more week of careful investigation will avoid the pos sibility of making a serious er ror," Foianini said. "However," he continued. "I want to see reorganization settled by the end of the semester so we can come back in the fall and start to work right away." Foianini added that he is going to use the next three weeks to "set the house in order and make the new student government an effective organization." - Join Now —See Page 4 111111:11=1:1 FIVE CENTS
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