.-.3 . . Weather iorecast: • t ip : '''. t r . 4 - Homer Study ft, -..- ; * 0 4.. Course 0 11 ' Elatipi .. I. A . u ti rgitt .. tt ! Hot_` -S4llO purl 4 _ • , VOL 62. No. 133 USG Congress Defeats Motion to bn ch Paton For Unexcused Absences The Undergraduate Student Government Congress last night defeated"' by 'a 9-17 margin a motion to impeach a. congressman the first such motion it has ever considered.. George Gordon, chairman cif the Rules Committee, moved to impeach Thomas Paton, fraternity area,: because he had missed two Congress meetings without a valid • ' excuse: - ; The constitutional by-laws state "if any member of Congress shall fail to attend two regular meet ings without treasonable excuse, he ,may be impeached by a two thirds vote of the entire member ship :of Congress. Conviction by a two-thirds vote-of Congress shall result in removal from office." , • A - REASONABLE EXCUSE is defined in the by-laws: at ill ness; a simultaneous examination or a serious personal incident Gordon said the Rules Commit tee had met with Paton and de cided that his. two excuses were invalid. Paton said he was absent the first time 'because he had to study for two bluebooks on the following day and the second time because he had:setioglicting meet- He argued the decision of the Rules'. Committee about his sec ond absence, 'saying he was a "victim of circumstances." • Paton stressed that .the meet ing in question, April 26 was the •shortest meeting so far this' year, lasting about 45 minutes. He said he had intended, to come to'the meeting' at about 8:30 p.m., but that it, was over when he arrived. . SPEAKING, in favor of im peachinent, Jon Geiger, North, said USG is ,not "just another Scranton, Blatt Will Address Press 'Meeting U.S. Congressman William W. Scranton, Republican guberna torial candidate, and Miss Gene vieve Blatt, secretary of internal affairi 'and Democratic candidate for• re-election, will speak to the annual Pennsylvania Press Con ference today at the Nittany Lion Inn. • Miss Matt, the first woman ever elected to a statewide office, will speak to newspaper editors and staff members at 4 p.m. in the first of a two-part "What are' the Issues?" series. Scranton will deliver the second address of the series. Miss .Blatt, an attorney, has served since 1948 as the' secretary of ithe Democratic state commit tee. She has served for two terms in her current position, prior to which she held several offices in the Pittsburg!' city gtivernmeno SCRANTON represents the Ly- coning County area near the city of ; Scranton, which his ancestors helped to establish. He was elected to Congress •in 1960, following several years of service as special assistant to Christian Herter, Sec retary of State during the Eisen hOwer administration. Scranton will speak after din ner tonight. IHe is expected to arrive froth Philadelphia around 4 p.m . . after a meeting of the party finance committee. The Republi can county committee , announced yesterday tluit it will maintain a reception room for Scranton at the Inn throughout the day. Approved Fraternities 'All social i fraternities except Zeta Psi and Alpha Phi Alpha are approved! for' social . activities tonight. AIL are approved for to= morrow night. UNIVERSITY PARK...PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 18. 1962 activity" and that Paton should not have inftsed that meeting. He added that it would be a poor precedent lo other congressmen to acquit Patoh on this basis. John Witmer, fraternity area, termed the issue "not as cut and dried as some would wish to make it." Witmer said he thought' Paton had valid intentions in choosing to miss the first part of the meet ing. He explained that if neces sary he would do the same thing, since little is usually accomplished in the meeting's first hour. Therefore, Witmer said Paton Was not irnparing 7 . his representa tion on Congress. CONGRESS ALSO defeated two; proposed amendments to the con-.' stitutional by-laws, sponsored by' Anne Morris, chairman of the, By-Laws Committee. The first proposed that all or ganizations reciving direct fi nancial support from USG state that fact on the _piograms of its activities, , and that they should submit a detailed account to Con gress of the money spent. The second pro Posed that all USG appointments be submitted to Congress for possible rejection. CADETS BRAVE WEATHER: A group of union in the Army ROTC Provisional Bat talion was one of several - Army ROTC units which marched in tha annual Armed Forces Day Parade last night. Units from the Aix Force Parade Honors Braving 90-degree temperaturet, Corps, three companies of mid-! over 1,100 students and area resi- : shipmen, the Navy Color Guard] dents paraded through downtown and the Navy Drill Team, which, State College last ngiht in observ-!won the drill team competition! ance of Armed Forces Day. lon Mother's Day.l 1 The parade was led by the 19621 THE MR FORCE ROTC repre-, Mil Ball Queen, Mary Patterson, ntatio_n inc luded thscatletat band,? The in education from Oak-1 3e .. dale. I ncers. the Air Force ROT C the Air Force ROTC Standard! The Army ROTC unit consistell iDrill Team, Color Guard, Angel; of the Provisional Battalion StaffiFlight and the Air Force Trick! the Army ROTC band and a com-'Flight Tram,which won the trick pang of. Army ROTC seniort. -- , drill event in Mother's Day Com- ROTC . ttanger Platoons and thei petition. ; /2,....et'siunßinel_Drill Team, ,,,„ w unitere I In addition to last night's Pa-, also i ncl u ded "1 the ' - '-'-'y ;rade, Armed Forces Week obser-: Inc NAVY ROTC contingentkances will include displays in the: included the. cadet officers, thelNaval Armory at Wagner. Navy ROTC ' Drum -and ' Buglel ...Studentav and the general pub.- FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Marines Camps in Thailand BANGKOK, Thailand (Al U.S. Marines, lugging, bristling loads of military hardware, set up their first camps last night along Thailand's Mekong River rim. They were in a position to back , up the Laotian government if Communist forces launch any at tempt to seize southern Laos, though military spokesmen said the Marines' only purpose is to defend Thailand against any ag gression. They received a friendly wel come from the Thai people, jeal ous of their independence. Looking trim despite their mot tled jungle uniforms, the force of 1,800 Leathernecks moved easily in Bangkok's turgid heat as they unloaded tons of equipment „from helicopters and warships. THE FIRST UNITS of the task force were flown immediately from Bangkok's Don Muang air port in big U.S. Cl3O transports to Udon, 350 miles northeast of the Thailand capital. Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 9th Regiment, from Okinawa, set up camp at Nong Lah.an, 20 miles east of Udon, in a flat area that is hot and dusty in summer, soggy winter. , The camp is 40 miles southeast lof Vientiane. the Laos adminis trative' capital across the Mekong Inn flint* by Ken Franklin ROTC and Navy ROTC also look part in the parade. Observance of Armed Forc - es Week will continue with an exhibit -in the Nary , Armory at Wagner tonight and tomorrow . afternoon. Armed Forces Establish' River. This is more than 200 miles 'The Army group is part of a southeast of the segment of Thai—Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza land's far northern border thatjtion maneuver force here two was exposed to infiltration by the weeks ago. It is to be reinforced recent offensive of pro-Commu-;by more than 1,000 Army men nist Pathet Lao forces' in north-1 from Hawaii in a few days to west Laos.' make up the 5,000-man fore or- 1 QTHER MARINES were ex- Ipeeted to be moved to a 500-mile arc extending along the Mekong southeast of Udon to Übon near the southern tip of Laos. • American spokesmen said the U.S. Army's Battle Group of the 87th Regiment,about 1,300 me't —was being moved back, to a camp 50 miles southwest of Kho-1 rat: That center. 130 miles north-' east of Bangkok, has rail and road connections with Udon and Übon. --------- Resignation as Physics Head Department CondMons Study Sauer Spurs The — resignation of John A. Sauer, professor of physics, from the post of head of the Depart ment of Physics has spurred a study of conditions in the depart mmit. Howard A. Cutler, assistant to i the vice president for academic affairs, said a committee of three iwas appointed Monday by Presi 11c are invited to view the ex hibits which will ,be open today from 7 to 9 p.m:eand tomorrow from 1 to 3 p,m. :INCLUDED in the displays will be a Navy 5-inch gun, an Army parachute exhibit, an Army engi neer bridging display and Artny communications and small arms exhibits, plus models of torpedos, mines and ships. 'A Nike Ajax supersonic anti-, aircraft missile and a full-tracked amphibious cargo and personnel carrier, .which were situated , at either side of the reviewing stand during the parade last night, will also be on display at Wagner dered into Thailand by President Kennedy under U.S. defense ob ligations to this Southeast Asian nation. In his news conference yester day, Kennedy was asked what* the chances are of getting caught in a shooting war in Laos. KENNEDY SAID the three princes of Laos will have a con ference. "I hope they produce a government." he said, which is the object the United States seeks. dent Walker to "look into the Situation and conditions that exist in the department and college and to make recommendations perti nent to enabling the department to realize its objectives" Cutler, John C. Griffiths, head of the Depin lment of Mineralogy, and Henry W. Sams.; professor of English, comprise the commit tee. 'SAMS SAID last night that di* committee was to adv4se what ad. , ministrative moves ;Would con tribute mot beneficially to tbir operation of the department. Richard G. Stoner:professor ci; physics, said the faculty.of the department last week wrote Walker and the Board of Trustees requesting that Sauer's resigna tion be inveNtigated. A group of graduate students in the department.sent a 'Milder letter, to Walker and the Board of Trustees, Wilmer E, . Kenworthy, executive assistant to. the Presi dent. said yesterday. Three members of the state's General Assembly last night - re= ported that they each had re celved two lytterit Om:et - fling Sauer, Da. THOMAS W.*ING. Jr., R- Butler.. said one of the letters he received was a protest of Sauer's "dismissal." Charles A. Auker, R•Blair, Maid one of the two letters he received wa:; from a group of students while the other was signed by a group of faculty mcnribers. Eugene M. Funnel, R•Centre, said he- also received two letters, but said he could! not eiabotate further. Temperature Hits 92 for 3rd Day The thermometer at the Univer , city weather station recorded a high of 92 degrees!yesterday for the third successive day,- It was Lthe fourth day in a row that the mercury exceeded 90 degrees. The record-smashing heat wave should continue unabated through the weekend with afternoon tem peratures reaching or exceeding 90 each . day. IThere is a slight!) , better than 50-50 cbance that the mercury iwill today tie or exceed the high est temperature ever recorded in IMay, which is 93 degrees. The stationary high pressure cell' that in breeding the abnormal ly hot and humid weather in the ,eastern states is expected to show virtually no movement for at least 'two days. Skies should be sunny during Ithe daytime and partly cloudy at •night. Overnight low readings ishould range between 62 and 63 degrees. Rain is unlikely before Sunday, when a thunder torn may de velop in the afternoon.
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