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VOL N0:62. 118
Miller Appointed!
To USG Court
By ROCHELLE MICHAELS 'Record's purpose is to promote l
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The first of two appointments:g°°d public relations.
Bruce Harrison (town area) dis
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to , the Undergraduate .Student)
Government Supreme Court was With Miss Affleck, saying,; ,
aphroved by the USG Congress It (the editorial) is the truth'
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last night. - . !about us—why doesn't it belong
Richard Miller, sophomore ini. in our p a p er?'
arts and letters from Harrisburg.t NO DECISION was reached
was approved by Congress with-;after a half-hour discussion and
out discussion after being nainediSimon's report was adopted with-, 1
to the post of USG President Den-'out amendment.
Ms Foianini. • ,1 I The following were absent from
A sEcoND Foianini appoint-'the meeting: Kent Fuller (town
area), Katherine Johnson .(South
ment to the court, Fred Good,- Halls), Harry McHenry (town
tration from New Holland,
sophomore in business atiminis
,waa area), Thomas Paton (fraternity
area), Randall Scheib (town area)
rejected' by a.' voice vote, because and Allan White (West Halls).
he is presently a member of Con
gress. Good represents the fra
ternity area in Congress
John Witmer -(fraternity area)
said he did not approve of a mem
ber of 'Congress sitting on the
Court because "the judicial branch'
is' a check on the legislative and,
they should be kept separate."
Witmer suggested that. Good
resign before his appointment was
considered further, but Good did
not reply to this
.suggestion.
THE CONGRESS also discussed
and approved a report by Kurt
Simons, editor of the USG news
paper.
Simons Said that the first issue
of the USG Record; which was
distributed. yesterday, had costs
only $5O for 3,000 copies. It was
previously estimated that it would
cost $5O for 2,000 copies. ;.
In disdussing the newspaper,
Lois Affleck (Pollock) said she
thought an editorial on the role
of USG which . appeared in the
paper was in poor taste since the,i
2 A.M. Permissions
'All' coeds will have 2 a.m.'
permissions tomorrow night;
Coeds will have regular 1 a.m.
permissions i tonight. :
• CaMean Maas by Dave Zimmerman
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Top HOPES JUMP HIGH as cheerleading Bottom A CHILDREN'S LITERATURE class
practice begins on the lawn of Old Main. From on Ag Hill escapes from the warm buildings to
this i group the finalists will be chosen who will the breezy lawns as the afternoon's tempera
.go on , to compete for the freshman positions. tures soar. i . .
Voter Percentage" Nears Goal
As 1,450 Cast USG Ballots
By WINNIE BOYLE
As 1.450 additional students
went to the polls yesterday, the
Elections Commission moved
nearer I its goal of a 40 per cent
turnout of eligible voters in the
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment elections. When polls closed
,last night, 25.7 per cent of the
'eligible student body had voted.
. ALLEN FEINGOLD. elections!
Commission -c h air ma n, said
Wednesday that 1,927 students had
voted the first day of elections.
Last night he said that he had
later discovered four additional
sheets of voters' signatures and
ballot numbers. This discovery
raised the first day's total to 2,057.
The 3,507 students who have thus
far cast their ballots represent ap
proximately 25 per cent of po
tential voting student body.
Commenting on the floating
polls which circulated last night
FOR A SETTER PENN STATE
UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 27. 1962
U.S., U.K. Orbit Satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(k)—The United States and
the United Kingdom ' teamed
together ,
launched a scientific satellite.
This feat, coupled with a joint
U.S.-Japariese rocket launching at
Wallops Island, Va., signaled a
new era in international space co-'
operation. •
The two. firings came amid
these other developments:
*America's spacecraft Ranger
4 crashedlanded on the far side
of the moon' .after a 64-hour.
1231,486, mile journey ' through
I space.
•The Soviet Union announced
through the town area, Feingoldicessful, he added, if there werel
said: "I think that tonight a new , more loudspeakers, more cars and'
idea was inaugurated and it came more lighting on the cars.
off smoothly."He said he expects a heavy
This is the first time an Elec: l day of voting today since it is
tions Commission has taken polls full day of classes. Students will
to the, voters through_ a floating'realize it is their last chance ;to
poll system. ; • lhave a voice in determining their
He said the new method was ;student government leaders for
successful enough to continue nextithe remainder of this year and
year, but he added that he thought next year, he added.
,elections could be condensed into, •
la two-day period rather than the l H ot w
present three days of ;voting. Weather
THE FIRST DAY, he said. there
f be a rally to vote on cam
! pus, while •on the second there;
could be a rally off-campus. He
said he felt just as many students
would vote if this type of election'
procedure were adopted.
The floating polls weit• success-
Jul, but they were a "limited,
,success." Feingold said. They:
;would have been even more sue-'
the launching of their fourth
Sputnik in six weeks. The new
earth satellite, Cosmos 4, waa de
scribed by the Russians as packed
with instruments to measure
radiation and other space-probing
gear.
•The U.S. Air Force fired two
mystery satellites a few hours
apart from Point Arguello, Calif.
The first employed a Blile Scout
I:poster combination. These hale
been used for high-altitude re
search.
THE SECOND had an Atlas-
Agena B booster, - such as have
been used for the Samos military
reconnaissance - satellite series and
for the Midas missile alarm
satel
lite series. Other detaili were
kept secret.
By JOEL MYERS , falling slowly through the eve-
The mercury came within three . .
fling hours, but it will probably
degrees ,of April's all-time h i.remain above 67 degrees :until
temperature record yesterday a f t - . midnight. ,
•
ernoon, when the temperature, Clear skies were also observed
touched 87 degrees at the Ifni-' at last ye'ar's carnival : hut; tem
versity weather station. .peratures were near record- min-
Bright sunshine and unreason- imas for the season instead of
record maximal
ably warm weather is expected . ,
again today and the Univeisity GUSTY NORTHWESTERLY
thermometer may approach 90 winds and temperatures in the
degrees, which is the highest-April. upper 30's forced most carnival .
•temperature ever recorded in the' patrons to wear jackets and'over-
State C r oljege area. ,' coats: . 4
NEARLY PERFECT weather is Since the weather pattern peross
forecas! (or tomorrow :evening's the United States has become
Jlearly stagnant. little day -In ( I ;6'
carnival. Skies should he mestlY
clear and . temperatures will ir change is expected until Mimday
pleasantly warm. , or Tuesday. '
After reaching the• upper i 80's: An increasing southwesterly
under partly cloudy skies tumor- flow of jiroist air should carne the
row afternoon, the mercury is exHhumidity to begin increasing to-,
pected to fall slowly. At sunset morrow, a slow increase in
the, temperature is expected to be;rloudiness is firreotett to , begin
near 75 degrees. It should continues tomorrow afternoon
Contenders for 'Miss Penn State,'
He-Man, Queen of Hearts Named
Barbara Isaacson, Linda Krum-Deborah Salzburg were named as
bnldt, Billie Dee Mcllroy, Carole finalists of the Queen of Heart,
Wagner and Allison Woodall were Contest, last night.
chosen as the finalists for the; Eugene Butkus. William Caul
,Miss Penn State contest late antis. Bud Williams, Morton Cross
Wednesday night. and Charles Ililbish were named
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THE FIVE finalists will attend the finalists for the He-M m con
a banquet next Tuesday at the test also held last night.
Nittany Lion Inn where they wilt. THE SPRING WEEK partner%
!meet the contest judges, Carol - of the finalists of the Queen of
•Connelly. chairman of the con-I,llearts content and the iG•=Man
;test, said. ' contest are eligible to compete in
1 The finalists will also be inter- the finals scheduler! for 2 p.m
'viewed by Laurence- H. Lattrnan, Sunday on the 'Jetzt U nion lawn.
,emcee at at Tuesday's Awards Night..
The partners are: M 154 Gerber
Alpha Theta /Y _ and Rob
at 8 p.m. in Recreation Hall. The
Kappa
ertCole of Delta C hi: Mis s Stoltz,
'by Mrs. Eric A. Walker. '
queen will be crowned that night
AlphaOmicronpi,
and William
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Semmel, Delta Chi; Miss Sauer,
Miss Isaacson was s'pansorty.l bv
; rm .-. Delta Delta Delta and Edward
!Phi Sigma Sigma and - Sigma ‘-'"; Lewis, Sigma Alpha Epsilon: Miss
Miss Krumboldt by Kappa 1 Alpha Ewan, Simmons Hall and DaVid
!Theta and Phi Gamma Delta; Miirs .mai .,... ,•._
ma pa Si g ma' and Miss
!Mcllroy by Delta Gamma and Phi. ",..1; 11 _ _.
rg gelta•Phi Epsilon. and
'Kappa Psi: Miss Woodall by Chi "'
Howard Hughes, Theta Xi:
: Omega and Beta Theta Pi; and, Jenaud Schwartz, Phi Mu and
,Miss Wagner by Pi Beta Phi and Rinku.,, Kappa Delta Rho; Jane
)Phi Delta Theta. • I
i : Hoffman, Delta Gamma. and
The contestants were judged on Ctiulauris, Phi Kappa Psi; Margie
activities and scholarshi plus. Weltener. Ewing, and Williarns r
:the interview conducted S ednes -. Alpha Zeta; Rochelle Saikolnky,
day night. • - Sigma Delta Tau, and Cross, P
In other Spring Week activitie4 . Epsilon. Ps: and Carol Mowers.
Thea Gerber, Sarah , Shultit Atherton Hall West, and liilbish,
Marilyn Sauer, Rosalyn Evan and Town Independent Men.
British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan, visiting in the United
States, is expected to announce
a name for the British-US. satel
lite launched from Cape Canaver
al
Meanwhile, it was known b,i its
program ,number, Ssl. British
newsmen dubbed' it UKI, for
United Kingdom.
The gold-plated satellite was
boasted into orbit by a Thor-Delta
rocket—the most reliable U.S.
booster—which scored its eighth
.satellite-launching success in a
row. •
Jubilant officials of both coun
tries announced the 1321,qund
payload was in orbit when a
tracking team at Cape Canaveral
picked up signals from it after it
completed one two-hour - whirl
around the world..
The 23-inch cylinder, bristling
with solar cell panels, experiment
booms and antenna, was. sent
alolt to explore the ionosphere
and cosmic radiation.
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ef
fort may speed the time when the
two great powers-- the United
States .and the Soviet Union—
combine their talents for manned
and unmanned exploration of the
universe.
President Kennedy and Premier
Khrushchev have exchanged TTIC3-
sages on the subject since - the
successful orbital flight of Ameri
can astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.
in February:
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