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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.
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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
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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." -
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