uclear Tests VOL 62. No. 91 ! UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 3. 1962 FIVE CENTS Spring Elect ion Dotes Suggested by Feingold - The tentative ’> dates for thei spring elections are April 25, 26 and 27, Allen Feingold, Elections Commission chairman, 'said, last night' If the proposed Election Code is accepted, by the USG Congress, Feingold said, candidates will 'be running for USG president vice president and secretary-treasurer and* the sophomore, junior and senior class presidencies in the spring. i THE ' ELECTION * CODE was proposed 7 by the USG By-Laws committee iheaded by Anne Mor ris, North. Halls. representative. The USG Congress discussed the code at their last, meeting and will vote oh tt this Thursday. In announcing bis calendar-for elections, Feingold said these [dates are subject to approval by the Congress. He will go .before Congress on Thursday to present the calendar. His proposal calls for the-first political party registrations to be held on April 1, the first Sunday in the spring term. The second and final party registrations would Debaters' Congress Names 'Gavel Girl' By STEVE CIMBAIAi Miss Carol Claire,' Oswego Col lege was named • Official Gavel Girl for the 1862 Joseph F. O’Brien Inter-State Debaters Con- Kat last night’s Congress uet in the Hetzel Union. The Congress, a convention of 150 delegates from 22 colleges and universities,- acts as a legislative body in toe manner of the U.S. Congresi The delegates propose legislation through the use of .a "civil rights” committee and an "anti-trust” committee, on two t |l Fraternity Goals Publicized l by IFC The first of a series of annual -reports op .the major activities, ! accomplishments and goals of the ; 53 fraternities on campus was re cently i published I by the Inter- Fraternity Council. The report, entitled "Fraterni , ties at Penn State,” is ’aimed pri j manly i at the faculty : and ad -1 ministration, Richard Moyer, IFC vice president, said. The purpose of tiie report is to show that fra ternities do have a'valuable func tion,here, he said; Divided into, three sections, the report idiscusses i services which the •fraternities, render to each other, the University and the community, future plans and con tinuity qf toe fraternity system. Johnson to Speak at Career Day ; Vice President Lyndon B. John son will f speak, at the College of Business: Administration Career -Day April 10, a spokesman-told the University yesterday. ! CoL W. F. Jackson, military aide to the vice president, confirmed tiie speaking engagement by tele ; phonelate yesterday afternoon, Robert Barraclough, Career Day chairman, < Tentative plans call for Vice President Johnson to speak' -on equal (employment opportunities, Barraclough said. Johnson is chairman at the President’s Com Sally FOB A BETTS PENN STATE be a week later on April 8, Fein gold said. At. this time the parties would also hold primary nomi nations, he added. THE FINAL nominations and voting in the political parties would take t place the following Sunday, April 15, he said. At mid night the campaigning would be gin and continue until Wednesday of the next week which would be the first day of the three-day election period, he said. “These dates were selected so we could have elections as early as possible,” Feingold said. “Early elections will give the new .offi cers a good start on taking over their duties.” “Although the election dates fall during Spring Week, I don’t think this will interfere with elec tions since. Spring Week won’t be as much work with the float pa rade eliminated,” he said. Feingold said that he plans on having a large Elections Commis sion of about 100 members. Applications, for the Commis sion will be out early next term, he said. The present Elections Commission has about 70 mem- major legislative topics dealing with the subjects of these com mittees. GAVEL . GIRL finalists deliver humerous speeches at the Con gress banquet, and the gavel girl is selected On the basis of content and presentation of speech. The -congress’ opening commit tee sessions began yesterday after a welcoming address by DnHarold J. O’Brien, associate dean of liberal arts. Congress Manager-Edgar Snyder said that th& committee sessions were- largely successful in de veloping legislation for today’s session, and added that the com mittees had compiled a formal speaking agenda for their up coming assembly sessions. • LAST MIGHT, the "civil rights” committee in its assembly session, read the final committe reports and debated the proposed legisla tion, after which the bills were amended and voted upon. ■ - Tomorrow the “anti-trust” com mittee will conduct its assembly session to formulate and vote on the final drafts of its proposed legislation. Following this. Professor Clay ton H. Schug, head of the Univer sity speech department*, will ad-, dress a general assembly of the delegates and present Swards to those delegates who have been judged best “parliamentary speak ers’ r during the Congress. mittee on Equal Employment Op portunities. The speech is scheduled for 8 p.m., April 10 in Schwab. Ticket distribution should begin April 2, Barraclough said. .Career Day will include panel discussions on job opportunities by representatives of industry, labor and government. The program is also designed for students to learn from leaders of American industry the qualities of character and education essen tial to successful business and public service,” Barraclough said. aUrijtatt bers" who, if they are still. in terested, will retain their posi tions, he said. Interviews will be held to select the new members, Feingold added. Feingold said that he thought the proposed Election Code was “quite fair,” but that more quali fications should be added for stu dents running for the executive offices and the class presidencies. THE CODE does not set an average requirement except the 1.7 prevoius term average'require ment 'set by the University for participation in extra-curricular activities. Feingold said that he thinks, a minimum 2.4 or 2.5 re quirement should be added to the code for these positions. A 2.4 requirement was written into the previous Election Code, he added. Feingold said that he was not a member of the committee which drew’ up the proposed Election Code, ’ but that they had asked him for suggestions. 1 'No Comment' on Library Issue By ROCHELLE MICHAELS "No comment” was the general response of the administration yesterday .when the question of an iuinounced but refuted $75,000 allocation to the University Li; braryi was raised. r RALPH J. McCOMB, Univer- aity Librarian, released an an nouncement Thursday to the Lib eral Arts faculty that President Eric A. Walker nad provided for the allotment -so departments which had exhausted their book funds could continue-purchasing . fk«t« Ifrir Dm C«Uau> BURPH2SED DEBATER—CaroI Claire of Cs- quei. The Congress ends loda; after more vego College flashes ea exiibarsnl smile at the debating add presentation of parliamentary announcement of her selection as Debate Con- speakers* awards, grass "Carel GirF at last night's congress ban* to Begin !.S. to Resume Testings i April, Kennedy Says i WASHINGTON (fP) President Kennedy announced « last night that the United States will go ahead with tests in the air by the latter part of April, unless "a firm A greement” with die Soviet,Union to halt nuclear blasts has l»een reached by then. Kennedy made his long-awaited announcement in a nationwide, 30-minute radio, and television speech, j The : President coupled his notice of intent to! go ahead with atmospheric shots—the first time for the United States since November 1958—with a promise to Soviet Premier Khrushchev of a summit meeting at Geneva if the Soviet Union should accept a test ban treaty in the first month pf the 18>-nation general disarma ment talks, slated to start in the Swiss city March 14. I , He pinned the choice directly bn Khrushchev “It is' the leaders of the Soviet Union who must bear the heavy responsibility of choosing, in the Weeks that lie ahead, whether we proceed with these disarmament steps—or proceed with new tests,” Kennedy said. THE PRESIDENT told the na tion "in all candor,” however, that last fall's. Soviet test series, “in the absence of further West ern progress, could well provide the Soviet Union with a nuclear attack and defense capability so powerful as to encourage aggres sive designs.” J Should the United States not protect its security by resuming 'atmospheric tests, Kennedy con this year. The grant was a tempo i rary one, Re said at the time, and was to be spent before May 1. [ Walker said later that night, ■ however, that he had no knowl -1 edge of such a grant McComb - then - reported that he' had re ceived a "budget amendment” r from Howard A. Cutler, special . assistant to the President con . cerning- the-allotment. „■ Both ' McComb and Cutler to -1 day responded “no comment” to i questions about the apparent mis understanding about the grant. : Included in the questions was, “Is tended, the Soviets would see this ; as a sign'of weakness 1 and fear. ! So by resuming tests, the Presi dent said, he hopes actually to ' strengthen peace prospects be- 1 cause the Red leaders will real- : ire then “that the West will no - longer stand still" while Russia tests. KENNEDY GAVE a detailed defense of his decision to resume tests in the wake of; the Soviet action in breaking the atomic test moratorium last fall. Must of the modern US. missile jarscnal re lies on atomic warheads which ■ have never been o perationally tested, . And weaponeers arc * searching for a breakthrough to- : ward an antimissile 1 missile to . shoot down attacking Interconti nental rockets. ; Kennedy declared that U.S. se- : curity requirements, and those of : the free world, demand that the 1 United States proceed with its • testing. At the same time, he : blamed the Russians for U.S. re- ; sumption and deplored the step up in the arms race 1 there an additional allocation to the library or not?? WILMER E. KENWORTHY, ex ecutive assistant to the president, said yesterdav there jwas an “ob vious mix-up between the parties concerned. He declined to give any further information on the matter until next week. At that time, Kenworthy said, the three parties involved—Walk er, McComb and Cutler—will have met to try to determine what happened. ; Walker could not! he reached for comment last night.
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