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Democrats Propose Bi Is .
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To H
C urb Price Increases
• WASHINGTON 'VP) Legisla- ' •Make It easiertior the govern
.tion designed to curb general ment to use the antimonopoly
price increases was introduced; in laws to break up big business con
the Senate yesterday as Demo—__ centrations.
cratic leaders pressed ahead with No specific' company or Indus
mopping-up operations after their try was named in Gores third
battle. with Big Steel. ! I bill. But Atty. Gen. Robert F.
_ 'SENATE REPUBLICAN' Lead- Kennedy said last week that one
er Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois of the questions being studied - by
'Sp:lke out against the "punitiv the 'Justice Department wa 3
' spirit" which he said President whether one company, namely
Kennedy displayed in crushing U.S. Steel, so do . mates the in
out a price-rise movement start- dustry that it controls prices and
ed last week by U.S. Steel Corp. should be broken up.
and other producers. - - i
• ' THE ATTORNEY general went
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey . of ahead with a New York federal
Minnesota, assistant ' Democratic grand jury investigation of the
leader of the Senate, called .for steel industry, despite . Friday's
-the appointment of a presidential cancellation of the $6-a-ton price
:commission to make a study of all
f incense announced last Tuesday.
fphases of the steel industry.
• Subpoenas were served in New
I three-day struggle between the •
THREE BELLS inspired by the York on officials of U.S. Steel,
I ,Bethlehem Steel Co., and 10
i Kennedy administration and Big other steel companies, to produce
•Steel were introduCed by Sen.
anti-
Albert D. Gore, D-Tenn.
They would: .. their records for th i e Senate
ALBERT GORE . t:ust subcommittee. ,-
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1.. faGive the president power to ..•
. introduced 3 bills KEFAUVER WANTS the data
• halt any general price increase in • • • .- assembled for his subcommittee
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I steel - or other ; basic ' commodities' board to examine and Iby mid-May, but staff aides said
I for an,Bo;day study period. 1 report on the facts in proposed' it may take another two or three
' •Set up A' national
.consumers price increases.. !months to analyze , the figures.
I.ooOki - 00i Pledge State A
By MEL AXIIBUND ;
Two' candidates foil 'the goVer
norship of Pennsylvania 'pledged
themselves; to greater, state sup
port for the 'University over; the
weekend. ' , • •
". Richardson Dilworth, forrrier
mayor and district attorney . ; of
Philadelphia, said in an interview
Saturday morning that the Uni
versity deserves support adequate
ito enable to discharge its re
taponsibilities as the state's only
land-grant college.
STATE GRANGE MASTER
. J. Collins McSparran,. in an inter
view reported • Friday in The Cen
tre Daily Thnes, said theUniver
, sity deserves "special conOerri"
from 'the state on the matter, of
financial support. • ,
McSparran, an independeht:can
• didate , for the Republican guber
, natorial nomination, and Dil
worth, organization candidate for
the Democratic nomination, were
in State College for the , nieeting
of the Zniversity's Board of 'l*s
tees. Dilworth has been al Board
member for six years and, Mc-
Senators Mundt; Humphrey Debate
Direction of Administration Policy
„ • .
President_ John F: Kennedy's
forceful executive action received
strong criticism from Senator Carl
E. Muntdt, R-S.D., and equally
'strong support • foam Senator
Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn!, as
the conservative Republican iind
_liberal Democrat debated Satur
day night. The debate was son
-'cored by, the University Lecture
Series. - •
'To make freedom work, Iwe
'can't' adopt totalitarian, tech
siiqUes,” the soft-spoken • Sduth
Dalsotan said, in arguing against
'Kennedy's recent request for new
taxing power and the right to
• regulate , tariffs by executive ac-
Aion.
MUNDT' POINTED out that' the
- framers of ,the U.S. Constitution
divided the powers of the govern
ment betweed the President ,and
Congress in order 'not to crinten
_trate the power in the hands of
one man. . i I
, Humphrey's protest vigorously
that Kennedy is "more propeOplej
than any president since Franklin
Roosevelt
"'THE ; KENNEDY adrainlitris
• tion doesn't want' to sacrifice, the
liberties' of the people., It i wantsl
to do something fcir people..:The
tax, power and tariff power ;will ;
give Oa - President the means to'
UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 17. 1962
Sparran has served since June
1959.
ittIeSP.A.BRAN; who was report
ed, however, not to have ttended
any of the Board's sessibns, and
Dilworth, who wa s : present
throughout the meetings seemed
to be in agreement on the ques
tion of the University's status 'as
an institution of highe; educa
tion. .
McSpartan said `Tenn State Is
Pennsylvania's only hind-grant
college." •:
"X THINK." Dilworth said, "that
the status of Penn State. as the
state's land-grant college is well
defined now,.both by the legisla
tion which has from time to time
been enacted and by the treat
ment the University has received
from the state."
McSparran, while saying he
didn't want to see the state sub
sidize every person who wants
to go •to college, said that he
favored a revolving loan fund,
perhaps provided by banks or
corporations, as a means of in-
do the job he needs-to do in the
20th century," he said.
At a coffee hour in the Hetzel
[ 'Union. lounge after 'thedebate
i the two senators continued their
discussion of current problems.
THEIR DEBATE centered on
the topic, " Is the: New Frontier
Moving the Nation Ahead". With
.this question in' mind, the two
Senators presented their evalua
tioni of pcent government at-
!ions..
Speaking of the unemployment
;problem, Mundt cited as a fact
that 4 . million people remain un
employed and are without any
;forthcoming help. He added that
!an alt-time high has been hit in
bankruptcy and business failure.
."This," he said, "is the measure
ment of human happiness and
therefore a grim stet'stir' • "
In his: opening remarks, Hum
phrey. expressed the hope that he
Niuki tke th• Ile "feel bet
cot. _ malts. le people .eel
ter" after hearing 'the sad, de
pressing- picture which my col
league has drawn."
.Of the 101 distressed commu
niteis• existing at the end of the
Eisenhower. administration, only
51 remain; , Humphrey said. -
• "We are on a safe, challenging
journey and are moving ahead,
he added.
FOR A BETTat PE*l STATE
suring deserving students the
right to go to college.
DILWORTH'S POLITICAL ac
tivities over _the ; weekend in
cluded a Saturday afternoon meet. ;
l ing with some members of the
faculty at which he said he hoped
to enlist support for his campaign.
• McSparran . participated in a
radio interview Friday morning.
He also' held a meeting Friday
with the leaders of his local cam
paign.
USG ' AGENDA
Two bills concerning election
expenses will be presented at
the USG Congress meeting at
8:15 tonight in •203 Hetsel Un
ion Building.
A. bill to limit. to $lOO the
expenses of each slate of can
didates. for the Spring. Elec
tions will be presented by .lon
Geiger (North).
Fred Good (fraternity area)
will .propose that the political
parties handle all expenditures
thran9h the Associated Student
Acirreliek . s office.
—CaUsk. 11**44n by Too Brew isik
SENATORS ELABORATE' and explain views were questioned by separate student groups
on Kennedy's 'New Trot:dire to students in concerning the present administration's poll
the Nebel Union Building Saturday after their cies toward both national and international
abate In Schwab. San. Hubert' H. Humphrey, Issues.
D-Mina. lofts and Sam Karl E. Mundt, .11-5. D.
Political Parties
Announce Slates
Campus-Liberal
i
Party-switching and Impromptu
meetings characterized the pro
ceedings of Campus and Liberal
party politics this weekend.
Allison Woodall, junior in arts
and letters`4rom Wallingford, re-
Iceived the Campus party nomina
tion for USG president. The meet
' ing had been changed from - 7:30
Ito 6:30 p.m. ,Sunday by Dennis
lEisman, Campus party chairman.
EISMAN SAID the meeting
time was changed Sunday after
noon because "some important
party members could not
present at 7:30," -
Other Campus party candidates:
nominated Sunday are Katherine
Johnson, senior in arts and letters'
from Bradford, USG secretary ,
treasurer; John "Buddy" Torris,l
business administration major
from Jeanette, senior class presi
dent; Martin Eichelberger, coun
seling student from York, junior
class president; and Nick Morris.
freshman in agriculture from
Chester Springs, Nittany repre
sentative to the USG Congress.
Morris said last night, however,
that he was withdrawing from
the election because of "other
obligations."
'ANNE MAHONEY. a member
of Campus party who said she
Was planning to run for that
party's USG secretary-treasurer
nomination, claimed she was .
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Bbiby Named
Dr: Paul W. Bixby, professor
of education and assistant
dean for continuing education in
the College of Education, was
named associate dean of the col
lege at the weekend meeting of
the Board of Trustees. •
'ln the new position, effective
May I. Bixby will succeed Dr.
Abram W. VanderMeer, who was
named dean of the college in
January.
DR. BIXBY came to the Uni
versity In 1997 as an associate
professor of elementary educa
tion. He has been serving also. as
co-ordinator of student teaching.
Since July, he has been director
University
From a noisy, over-heated,
smoke-filled room in Sparks Sun
day night, came University party's
final slate of candidates for the
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment elections. The elections IVO
slated for April 25, 26 and 27.
Dean Wharton, junior in busi
ness administration from Camp
Hill. Morris Baker, junior in lib
eral arts from Harrisburg; and
I Margo Lewis, junior in education
from Philipsburg. were nomi
nated for the offices of USG presi
dent, vice president and secretary
ensurer respectively.
UNIVERSITY CANDIDATES
for the class presidencies are Ran
dolph Carter, psychology major
from Philadelphia, senior class;
Ralph Wise, business administra
tion major from Altoona, junior
class; and Thomas Miller, hotel
management .major from Camp
Hill, sophomore class.
Candidates nominated to fill
the vacancies in the USG Congress
are Joseph Tech, chemistry
physics major, for the Nittany
position, and Thomas Kiley, busi
ness administration major for the
West Halls seat. Both are fresh
men from Pittsburgh.
ALL CANDIDATES with the
exception of Kiley and . Miller
were accepted by party acclama
tion.
Miller defeated- Harold Gibber,
freshmen in liberal arts from
Southhampton, , y.y., by a vote
(Continued on page eight) .
ssociate Dean
of the Peace Corps program et
the University, training volun
teers for service in the Philip
pine Islands.
A NATIVE of Richville. Mon.,
Dr. Bixby received his bachelor
of education degree at State
Teachers College, St. Cloud,
Minn.. his master of arts degree
at the University of Minnesota
and his doctor or education de
gree at Columbia University, '
He is a member of the National
Education Association, Depart
ment of Elementary School Prin
cipals, American Association of
IDniversity-, Professors and Phi
Delta Kappa.
FIVE CENIS