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State Executes Schuck
At Rockview Last Night
Special to The Collegian from WRSC News
The administration of capital punishment returned to
Pennsylvania last night after an absence of two years, when
convicted murderer Arthur G. Schuck was executed at Rock
view penitentiary.
Schuck, 41, was electrocuted at 10 o'clock after the
governor's office announced last
week there were no legal grounds
for a reprieve or stay of execu-
Schuck was sentenced to die
January 30. but was granted a
9-month reprieve by Gov. Lawr
ence because the state legislature
was considering two bills to
abolish the death penalty.
After the legislature defeated
this proposal. Lawrence set
Schuck's execution for the week
of October 23. This was the first
execution performed in the com
monwealth during the past two
years.
Schuck, a resident of Baden
(Beaver County), was convicted
of slaying Vincent Quigley in a
shooting spree in 1957 at Economy.
He also killed William Engel and
wounded Quigley's fiancee.
The state claimed Schuck was
trying to shoot Mrs. Rose Rogo
zinc, who reportedly broke off a
romance with hirh. The car in
which Engel, Quigley and his
fiancee were riding, resembled a
vehicle owned by Mrs. Rogozine.
Schuck mistook the car and its
occupants and opened fire from
ambush with a hunting rifle.
Earlier yesterday before he was
transferred to Rockview from
Western Correctional Institution
in Pittsburgh, Schuck slashed his
wrists with part of a razor blade.
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To date, 18' fraternities and
three living units have entered
the Homecoming Display contest.
Fraternities must build their
displays around the theme "Cali
fornia-Penn State Game." Final
judging will be Friday evening
from 6-9 p.m.
The judges are Frank Schlow,
local merchant, William Fuller,
head of the Associated Student
Activities, and Mrs. Hadley
Wafers.
Participants are not to exceed
a budget of $5O for, their displays,
Richard Moyer, chairman of IFC
lawn displays said. The winning
group will receive the .Alumni
Association Trophy and will be
honored at an Alumni Associa
tion banquet Friday night. Alpha
Chi Rho currently holds the
trophy.
Entrants in - the Homecoming
Display contest are Alpha Chi
Sigma, Alpha Gamma Rho, Delta
Upsilon, Kappa Delta Rho, Phi
Delta Theta. Phi Gamma Delta,
Phi Kappa Theta, Phi Mu Delta,
Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa
Alpha, Sigma Nu, Sigma Pi,
Theta Chi, Triangle, Theta Sigma
and Zeta Beta Tau. Watts Hall,
East Halls C and B have also en
tered the contest.
Credit
Staff
4 P.M., Today
Compulsory
New Members
Collegian
Office
6:45 —Thurs.
James Moroney, the warden at
Western, said the self-inflicted
cuts were superficial and he did
not believe Schack tried to take
his life. He may have slashed
himself to "arouse sympathy," the
warden added.
Yesterday, twelve pickets, all
of the Quaker faith, protested
Schuck's execution at the state
office building in Pittsburgh.
A spokesman for the pickets
said, "we are not concerned with
the innocence or guilt of Schuck.
We are here because of an in
tense feeling against capital
punishment."
Two executions scheduled last
week were held up by the gover
nor and the state pardons board.
They are George Lee Rivers, 23.
and James Cater. 23, convicted of
killing a North Philadelphia. drug
gist in 1957. Their cases will be
considered by the state •in early
December.
THE BELL TELEPHONE
How many more people will need telephone
service in Illinois by 1970? How many more tele
phone !buildings should be built, how much more
equipMent ordered? Helping to find the right
answers (because the wrong ones could be very ex
pensive) is the job of Carl Horn, a telephone com
pany economist who graduated from college just last
year. His studies and estimates help management
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA
Club to Present
Flower Show
This Weekend
The Horticulture Club will pre
sent its 48th annual horticulture
'show from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. this
Saturday and Sunday at the live
stock judging pavilion.
The show entitled "A Century
Ago" will feature gardens of the
North and South from the Civil
War period. Other displays will
include a functional water wheel
which is to depict Northern in
dustry while a mansion will
characterize the beauty of the
South. A Union and a Confederate
flag will be displayed in red, white
and, blue flowers.
The Penn State marigold,
,named in honor of the College of
;Agriculture, will be exhibited for
the first time during the show.
The flower, which was developed
by the W. Atlee Burpee Seed Co.,
commemorates the centennial of
1 the founding of the Land-Grant
College system in 1862.
Students will begin construction
of the show tomorrow and will
continue working until the open
ing of the show on Saturday morn
ing. Featured will be exhibits in
landscape architecture, plant
breeding and food processing.
—The first women students were
admitted to Penn State in 1871.
—The Penn State Alma Mater was
written by Professor Pattee. after
whom the library is named.
COMPANIES SALUTE
CARL HORN
Student Describes
Nigerian Summer
Spending seven weeks in a small village in eastern Ni
geria constructing a flight of steps leading to a water hole
is regarded by Bernice Parr, junior in arts and letters from
Pittsburgh, as one of the most rewarding experiences of her
life
Miss Parr, along with 13 Ameri
can and 11 Nigerian students,
spent, ten weeks in Nigeria this
summer working on an Opera
tion Crossroads project. The pro
ject was the building of 275
cement steps down a steep slope
to a stream which the people of
the village of Achina use as their
water supply.
Operation Crossroads is a pro
gram, founded and directed by
the Rev. James Robinson of New
York, which sends American stu
dents to Africa to work among the
people. In this third project, there
were 200 students comprising 18
groups in 14 different African
countries.
Africa is not the kind of a
country everyone usually thinks
it is, Miss Parr said. There are
no wild animals roaming
around, the temperature is
never more than 75 to 80 de
grees, and although the people
are very poor. they are not
backwards, she said.
make important forecasting decisions. Decisions that
will bring advanced communications to the nation.
Carl Horn of Illinois Bell Telephone Company,
and other young men like him in Bell Telephone
Companies, help make your telephone and com
munications service the finest in the world.
i3O; . BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1961
By PEGGY RUSH
While they were in Achina, the
students in the project were in
vited to other villages to watch
tribal dancing. They also visited
schools and talked with the native
children.
"The children are very inter
ested in America and want very
much to come to school here," Miss
Parr said. The problem of dis
crimination in America is magni
fied and of great concern every
where in Nigeria, she added.
The majority of the natives
are Moslems, although Chris
tianity is becoming more wide
spread, Miss Parr said. She
explained that these are also
many pagans among the people.
Miss Parr met one boy whose
father was a polygamist with
18 wives and 171 children.
Besides working in Achina, the
group also spent some time tour
ing other parts of Nigeria and
visited Ghana. "The people of
Ghana seem to be moving ahead
quite fast," Miss Parr said.