v- ' !' •- 4 ; .► • • : ■ • ' • | Wte lathi wm ffialiwtatt I » Rather Cold j i •v/ —s•• pct&e 4 VOL 62. Np. 94 SNOW PILES LINE STREETS—Huge pile* of snow. some almost as high as the' parked cars, line both sides of Stale College streets after Tuesday's 21-inch snowfall. Borough crews were at work last night removing the snow. Foiqhini to Ask Congress To Okay Bus Proposal By JOAN MEHAN USG President [Dennis Foianini ■will ask the Congress to econom ically endorse a proposal, tonight to provide "bus service for stu dents; to major cities during va cations. ; - “If USG charters buses, we could run them at a saving to the students,” Foianini said. "Students could sign up in the Hetzel Union Building for reserve seats and the buses would take them to their destination by die most direct route without making any stops,” he said. I THE SERVICE could be run by the USG President if Congress provides the financial support that is needed to charter the buses, Foianini said. i Since there is inot enough time to advertise thei service for this term, Foianini said that he thought that' it should , begin at the end of the spring term. -The .buses would be run as a non-profit service of student gov- Final Costs Estimated at $4OOB For Removal of 21-Inch Snowfall j By MEL AXILBUND The cost of remoying Tuesday’s 21-inch .snowfall will reach ap proximately $4,000 before the job is finished, Henry L. Yeagley Jr., director of maintenance and utili ties, said last night ABOUT 55 UNIVERSITY em ployees and an additional 25 workmen hired through four area contractors have -been working almost continuously since 4 a.m. Tuesday to removie the snow. Concentrating first on major campus and later on the less-used paths and 1 parking areas, estimated'tob; about 80 per cent complete-last evening' Lewis Barr, head oflandscape and form maintenance, said. Barr said the job, except for the lin a 1. mopping-up operation, should be completed by midmorn- ing. ’ ; . He, noted that the early start and the lack of ’delays .caused'by breakdowns in the poorer equip ment the men are using were re sponsible far the rapid (progress. |.3 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.| THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 1962 ernment-he said. Passengers to: Philadelphia or Pittsburgh could save "somewhat over $1” com pared to the normal bus rates. Passengers to New York City could save "about $3.” FOIANINI WILL appoint Linda Petry, sophomore in secondary education 'from Mountain Lake, N.J., as (secretarial committee chairman at tonight’s meeting. All appointments are subject' to approval by the Congress. Miss Petry will take over the duties of 'USG Secretary-Treas urer Mary 1 Swed, who will be student teaching in Easton during the spring term. Miss Swed saia that Miss Petry has been working-with her during the term and also has been active on the sophomore advisory board: Miss Petry! is already a member of the secretarial committee which the permanent USGj includes stenographer and the office sec-i „ retaries. ■ - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.. (AP)i Foianini Vill also ask-Congress—A .complex solar observatory | to designate the week of finals as soared into orbit yesterday toj probe mysteries of -the sun, how it controls conditions on earth and the peril that; giant solar Hares hold for human spac£ orbiting. Nicknamed OSO for orbiting solar observatory, the 458-pound laboratory was hoisted into a 350- mile-high ‘orbit by a Thor-Delta i rocket, launched from this space port at 11:06 a.m. Almost immediately, OSO’s in struments began radioing infor mation on radiation streaming from the sun. From its vantage point above the cluttering veil of the earth’s atmosphere the sat ellite . provided scientists wlttf their first direct solar studies. OSO IS THE first of several ob-j servatories planned to seek basic scientific data about the-sun, the huge furnace at the center of the solar system about which the earth and eight other planets or bit The State Highway Department; in Beliefonte and boro officials also predicted yesterday an early return to near normal conditions. All major roads were' “at least passable” last night, the depart ment reported. SNOWPLOWS AND high-lift equipment were the major tools used by the University mainten ance force. Hand-shovelling was another method used in the battle against the snow, Barr said. During a major snowstorm in February, 1961, the cost of snow removal was estimated at about a day. Before, the current snow- cover necessitated removal operations, expenditures for this purpose were running about 20 to 30 per cent below the amount spent, last year, Barr said. The early start on snow removal was also helpful in reducing in juries due to slippery conditions, Ritenour Health Center person nel said.' The Campus Patrol re ported no automobiles, involved m accidents. FOR A BETTIS PENN STATE 24 To Nations Reduce * WASHINGTON (AP) The White House has announced a se ries of tariff-cutting agreements with 24 countries, and said the United States has gained a 4-3 ad vantage in their negotiations. In making this contention, it said other countries agreed to lower tariffs on items which, in 1960, accounted for $1.6 Ixlllloo worth of their purchases from the United States. On the other hand, U.S. tariff concessions covered commodities involved in $1.2 billion worth of U.S. purchases from those coun tries in the same year. THE NEGOTIATIONS were de scribed as the largest and most complex in the 28-year history of the Trade Agreements Act They were conducted in Geneva and involved, in addition to the United States, all the member countries of the European Economic Com munity and 18 other nations. On most items slated for lower tariffs, the reductions will be 20 I a “dead week” on. campus. This would mean that Congress would recommend to other organizations that they suspend meetings and not sponsor activities during the finals period.. CONGRESS WILL also vote on the Election Code tonight. It was discussed at last week’s meeting. For acceptanee~the Code requires a ‘ two-thirds vote'pf the present and voting members of Congress after having been 'read and dis cussed at a previous regular meet ing. j Allen Feingold will present a calendar for spring elections at pie meeting. These dates are. sub-1 ject to the approval of the Con gress I Solar Lab Launched Into Orbit The National Aeronautics and Space Administration hopes a pro cession of such satellites will nelp answer such questions as how the sun'determines the earth’s weath-' er n disturbs radio and television! communications .by bombarding the ionosphere with radiation, and alters the composition of the globe-girdling Van Allen radiation belts. THE SPACE observatories will investigate the’danger posed to astronauts by oceans of radiation flowing through the universe dur-] ing periods of great flare activity: per centj In a few cases, however, the cuts .'range up to 26 per cent. One notable example was auto mobiles,' where tariffs will bej slashed by 24 per cent ; The White House estimated] yesterday that, once the reduc-j tion on pew cars goes into effect,! the average American auto shipped ;to the European market' will cost $126 less. On foreign-' made' cars entering the United] States,*tariffs would be cut about! $21.50 a car. j THE TARIFF cuts are ex-, pected to be put into effect soon,; but the ;exact time is yet to bei determined It has to be worked; out- among all the nations in volved. ; i In the negotiations, an under-[land and the United Kingdom, standing-was reached that the Eu- The announcement said that in ropean Economic Community will addition to autos. Other countries negotiate later on lowering tariffs; ordered tariff concessions of par on American agricultural com-; ticular importance oni chemicals modities, The White House saidiand pharmaceuticals,! industrial this represented a fundamental]and electrical machinery, textiles, change in the position of the Eu-1 canned and preserved* fruits and ropean naUons. j fats and oils. 7 The tariff cuts negotiated inj The main concessic ns granted these agreements went about as; by the United States covered au far a* President Kennedy could go tos, certain classes of machinery under the present trade agree- and electrical apparatus, some ments law which expires June 30<' steel products and glassware. More Snow Expected Tomorrow As New Storm Moves Eastward Clean-up.operations from Tues- eastern states with heavy snow day’s 21-inch snowfall were aided and pounded the east; coast with yesterday by partially sunnv skies winds of up to 80 miles an hour and above freezing temperatures, finally moved out to sea Tuesday Travel conditions became haz-i n 'Bht leaving 10 to 30 inches ardqus =again last night as the] D * snow from Virginia to Penn mercury dipped below freezing, isylvania and millions of dollars Additional melting ; ls expected | . . today, hut a new storm may bring! j bc P* rt J*T £*° u<, y more snow to this area rathw cold, and •high tem - . . perature of 37 is expected. Th*s new system is moving east-1 Increasing cloudiness and cold ,ward from Missouri and thei wea ther is indicated for tonight, cloudiness ahead of it is forecast 'The minimum will be about 26. to overspread Pennsylvania to-; S now possibly mixed with rain night, s j or gleet and cold weather are pfe- I The storm that walloped the.dieted for tomorrow. On the sun. The studies may make it possible to predict periods of intense • activity and enable rock etmen to schedule deep-probing manned space flights around them, i Development, of an accurate forecasting system is a high pri ority go*i> of the United States, which plans to launch three-man Apollo; spaceship crews 'around and to; the moon in the 1966-68 period I— a time when formulas worked out by scientists indicate ! flare activity will be heavy. I THE SPACE agency hopes to Library, Bookstores to Sponsor Student Book Collection Contest *How" many good book a do youj THE PURPOSE of the. contest have? The University Library, in is to increase interest among conjunction with Keeler’s, the! undergraduate students in the Pennsylvania Book Store and the;joys of reading and tywk coltcct- Nittany News, is holding a contesting, Ralph W McComb. Univer to determine which librarian said, has the best single collection J The jud?e , wil , lhrw facuUy A collection should include 35, Known forltheir famih-- ; books ;or more, the contest group arity with books in aiwide variety ’.specified. No maximum has been of fields of knowledge and cre set, a*, numbers will be considered ativity. secondary to the selection. ' • • The; collections will be judged* Students may Obtain entry on tha basis of intelligent interest:* o ™* ,n the library at the mam shown, knowledge of the books!™*?™™* in Pattee, the.Eng as revealed through annotations Sparks or at any included’on the entry form and, °« me bookstores named, imagination shown in creating the; The deadline for entries is April collection. Rarity, handsome for- 6. The best 10 collections will be [mat or monetary value will be of exhibited at .the library, where -secondary consideration. ‘awards will be made April 13. Agree Tariffs KENNEDY on Jan. 25 asked Congress to enact a new trade law which would permit him to ;negQtiate 50 per cent: tariff cuts ] with Western Europe and provide -for the gradual elimination of all |tariffs on a wide variety of in dustrial items. ! The proposed new taw would ]authorize lower tariffs on categor ies of goods, instead of item hy .item- The agreements announced [Wednesday were limited by pres ent law to item by item action, j Reciprocal trade cuts were ne gotiated with the common market [countries and with Austria, Cam ibodia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Haiti, India. Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan', Peru, [Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzer- launch at least one solar observa tory a year to chart; a full 11- year sunspot—or flare—cycle. ■ Packed in the OSO payload was a dazzling array of 13 experi ments to measure such things as flare activity; various types of radiation in many energy ranges; how millions of tons of hydrogen on the sun are converted into helium with the spillover being transferred to the solar system in the form of heat and light; solar X rays whicfi penetrate [deep into the ionosphere and iaffect radio communications. FIVE CENTS
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