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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.
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