1 —CeH«xi*n Phet» fcy T«m Brawn* NANCY STRING EH receives her Miss Centre County trophy from last year's queen. Paula 'Wiggins. As pageant winner. Miss Stronger, sophomore in the arts from West CaldwelL will also receive an all-expense paid trip to next month's Miss Pennsylvania competition. Stringer ■An Alaskan igloo in tribute to the 49th state set the stage on which Naincy Stringer was crowned Miss Centre County of 1962 last night by Paula Wiggins, 1961 pageant winner, in' the Bellefonte Junior High School auditorium. The Miss Centre Courity pageant, sponsored by the Belle fonte Area Jaycees, is a inofficial preliminary of the Miss America contests i The first runner-up in the competition was Margaret Schaub. Carol Wagner was second' runner-up. The two other semi finalists were Sally Mollenauer and Michele Ohrman. - JOYCE FARNSWORTH was, selected Miss Congeniality. The entrants in the contest select the girl who will receive this award for being the most congenial during the pageant proc eedings In the Miss Centre County pagean.t contests are judged in the same; three categories -4 evening gown, talent and.bathing suit as in the Miss America competition. In addition, the live finalists are asked to answer three-questions to test their poise.. ! ■ . USG Sends 7 Delegates To i NS A . Region Meeting To fulfill| its first obligation as a temporary memberof the United States National Student Associa tion, the Undergraduate Student Government yesterday sent seven delegates ' to the Pennsylvania- Virginia regional conference being held in Pittsburgh this weekend. The delegates dre Whiton Paine, former Liberal party chairman; Morris Baker, USG vice president; Jeanne Alexander, East; Francis Conti, vice I chairman of Univer sity; party; |Thomas Kiley, West; Anne Morris, Liberal party chair man; and Rochelle Michaels, :ad vanced reporter for The Daily Collegian. ' AT THURSDAY'S USG meet- 5 ing, Congress approved the j ap pointment -of Robert Polishobk, junior in pre-med (from Haverford,' as chairman of. the float parade and homecoming Studies. j 1 ! Polishook; this year’s Spring Week chairman, tyill look into Ithe possibility- i of having a float Residence Hall Phone System To PeSrmit Local Dialing in Fall Free service from residence hallj THE CHANGE in telephone telephones to the local dialing policy was announced April 27 community will begin at the s tart jby Wilmer E. Kenworthy, execu of the . fall term rather than ;in,tive assistant to the President. September 1963 as originally an-j ,„ ;u „-u u, * nounced, Stanley H. M h ,' to , ® vice president for business, said *°- p ] ace , , long yesterday t i .distance caJls- Service to Adams, Campbell said the agreeirient exchanges, with, the Bell Telephone Co.i [of F* *°- tI H n i v y“ rty l um ' Pennsylvania calls for the comple-i]*”’ ’ WI wlthout cnar 6 e * how tion of changes in the automatic; ver ‘ t dialing equipment by September Campbell also said yesterday Phone service is not expected 'to that student phone directories be interrupted during the change- would again be printed by College over period,! he added. . M I Science Publishers-in-September. Crowned parade in the fall, specifically on Weekend, USG pres ent Dean Warton said. I Melvyn Schulman, junior in business administration from Hav erstraw, N.Y. r was approved to head, the student government’s fall encampment. ; SCHULMAN'S appointment fol lowed a short discussion ques tioning his ability to be chairman of encampment since he has never attended the program. He is presently chairman of the Book Exchange and has headed the Used'Book Agency. The Congress r postponed action on . the appointment of Ross B. 'Lehman, executive secretary of t ie Alumni Assdciation, and Frank J. Simes, dean of men, as addi tional advisors to USG. . . | IT ALSO postponed voting on the appointment of Paul McPher son, sophomore • in agriculture from New' York, as business manager of encampment, and iatly VOL. 62. No. 129 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING'. MAY 12. 1962 FIVE CENTS Pro-Reds Advance To Thai Border VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) —Pro-'of a demand by neutralist Prince battalions attacked Houei Sai aft« Communist batallions have com-;Souvanna Phouma ta halt the of-jer pursuing the retreating govern pleted the occupation of northwest fensive, seemed certain to bring ment forces from Nam Tha. U.S. Laos in a surging advance that; new demands by Thailand for ac-'military sources, however, have carried them more than 100 miles;'tion by the United States or the 1 discounted Vientiane claims of beyond the cease-fire line to the'Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza- Red Chinese involvement border of pro-Western Thailand, tion to check the rebels. j AN OBSERVER said six Ameri- Battered royal Laotian troops THAILAND’S Prime Minister,Jean military aid group personnel yesterday were reported fleeing Marshal Sarit Thanarat, planned. vfere still in Houei SaV early yes across the Mekong River into a personal inspection of the border, tiirday, .but that two American Thailand after abandoning Houei area before deciding whether to staffers attached to the Tom Sai, last government outpost in send more Thai troops to the fro'n-jDooley Foundation Hospital had the northwest tier. ' |movea across to Thailand with . T . “We must' first find out what|most of the hospital equipment. TME , f lO government ex-*the Communists actually want and Muong Sing, where the late Dr. pressed fear the Pathet Lao rebe.s w j, al they’ll do next," he told; Dooley founded tf jungle hospitai were ready to follow up their push ;newsmen . lonly five miles from Red China’s t° the Thai border with a gen-f royal Laotian spokesman!border, fell last week to rebel eral offensive agamst the royal; c ] a i m ed three Chinese Communist .troops capital of Luang Prabang in the:' heart of Laps and on the admin-, istrative capital of Vientiane in : the south The Defense Ministry said that* three to five Soviet-made trans-jj ports have been unloading men and war material daily at twos bases in the rebels newly won ter-h ritory since the fall Sunday of! Nam Tha. A communique also re-1 ported movement of an artillery-' equipped Red column from the rebel headquarters in the Plaine des Jarres. IN VIENTIANE. King Savang Vathana appealed .to Laotian lead ers to try to solve the crisis peace fully. He did not name the lead ers, but his remarks were clearly aimed at the rebel side. In a speech from the throne to the Na tional Assembly, the king lauded royal army troops who, he said are sacrificing their dives to’ op pose foreign invasion—a reference to Communist Vietnamese and Red Chinese units reported by the royal government to have partici pated in the latest thrusts. The rebel advance, in defiance Donald Morabito, sophomore in arts and letters from New Castle, to the USG Court. The reason for postponement on I these -appointments was because jthey did not appear on the'agenda and the congressmen wanted time to study the. appointees’ qualifi cations. 'ULAH COMPOSITION: This exhibit, done gallery. The display, which will continual by Kerry Osipower, junior in architectural thriftgh May 31, represents the best work of engineering from Sellersrille. *ls one of several students in the departments of art. art educa currently .an display in the Hetzel Union tlon. and home arts. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE jßackley Endorses Student Government Student government is impor tant because it affords an oppor tunity for students to apply their education practically in preparing themselves for the future, John R. Rackley, vice president for resident instruction, said last night. Rackley, speaking to the Or ganization of Student Government Associations, told the students that one of their main responsi bilities as student leaders is to help l the students of the various centers achieve the goals for which the University stands. He said the University Is pre paring students to live in a chang ing- world, as well as preparing them for various occupations. HE ALSO urged that the stu dent leaders strive to establish better student-faculty relation ships and impress upon the stu dents at the various campuses the fact that they act as public rela 'tions agents in showing adults the seriousness of their intentions. "A talented young man of to- Iday is entitled to develop his tal ent,” he said. j. "If this were not the case, so ciety itself would suffer,” he added. THE "BABY population of the i’4o's” has had the benefits of "im proved circumstances” because jthese young people now have the incentive to realize the importance (Collegian of a college education and the tradition to assume that it is es sential, he said. The OSGA conference, which ends today, includes workshops on the incorporation of honornry : societies at all the commonwealth centers into a Keystone "Society., the centers' fiscal policies ana evaluation of the recently insti tuted insurance plans at the cen ters. New OSGA officers will also be elected today. Pleasant Weather Seen for Weekend Pleasantly warm weather is forecast for today and tomorrow, but chilly temperatures are in dicated for today and tomorrow, but chilly temperatures are in dicated for tonight. No rain is expected through the weekend except for the chance of a shower or .thunderstorm to morrow afternoon. The band of showers that threat ened to bring rain to this area yesterday passed just south of the local area. Rain fell in the south ern sections of the state during the morning and' early afternoon. A high of 70 degrees is pre dicted for this afternoon and • maximum of 75 is likely tomor row. Tonight's low should be near 48 degrees. ■ ..-4 ~ ! ‘ - 1 -s, r fp. '- '*■ !•'- 'k r:^i ■, •
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