""t* i -• 1 . 1 1 INearther Forecaip • oi * • .4, . . • inkormention Clearing, • Dilenuro c-4 . Copier s --See Pogo 4 -• . . VOL. 4. No. 8 Liarm• i ' I 0 t 1 IOP I o 1(- - -,3eeS) Necessi y . I i , , . • , r ree' Kennedy -Men By DOROTHY DRASHER . 1 1 e President needs more "Ken ne y men" in Congress! next year to produce results in his legsla ti e program, •Sen. Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa., said, last night. - CLARK SAID that he has voted for many of the Kennedy -backed bills in the Senate. He pointed out tbat Rep: James E. Van Zandt, R-Pa., who is opposing Clark for the Senate seat in the November election, has expressed '9ppoiition tol many of the Kennedy-sponsor ed bills. 1 I ; . Clark spoke in the Hetzel Union ballroom at the invitation of the University. The - record-in Congress so far in' this session has been "disap .pointing," Clark said, adding that :what has been accomplished still • :.aropares favorably 'with the leg islation in earl days of the New Deal in Franklinßoosevelt's ad ministration. "The historic role of the Demo .A.cratic party in this century has' been to innovate and to create," Clark said. He added that it wasi the• Democrats who 'faced the pt . oblems 'and devised , solutions tcr meet the crises of each decade, both on the domestic scene an d !11!111!MM5 Suburbia's By JOAN MEHAN and KAY MILLS .• • Collegian Revienjers • Suburban life with i its con cerns ,:of hypochondria, property values and sex were - Well mixed oto 'produce So \ evening .of solid entertainment as the Weer Play house presented thY , Tomedy "Send Me No Flowers" at Standing Stone Tuesday night " The Norman Barasch and Car roll Moore script gave the cast ample opportunity to display its comedy talents. The story of a hypochondriac who beOes death is near, . the comed y explor - George Kimball's ',worries about how wife will fare gfter he is gone. • / LEbN B. lITL"VZINS.; cast as the worried huipand who tries to put his affairs pi order ,before the fatal inothent, bring* both a gift - - for huMor arid excellent timing • to his role. • His understanding but 'imprac tical wife Judy is played-by Lydia Bruce. Miss Bruce again demon strates her talents as? a comedi vine, earlier' displayed} in the Ma teer production of Tennessee Wil liams' "Period of Adjustment." Survey Seeks Suitable Location For Educational TV Transmitter A survey of. the, ;Clearfield County area will begin soon to ,locate possible sites for a trans mitter for . educational television programs originating ; from the University, Leslie *P. , Greenhill., associate director of the Division of Academic Research,- and Ser vices, said yesterday. I • THE UNIVERSITY! j xnust find a;suitable location before it can be granted a license ! from the Federal Communications Com mission for broadcasting educa tional television programs, Green= hill said. - s, • !Last year the Univ ersity's ap plication fcir the use 'of Channel 3 from a_site several !miles from here- on Rattlesnake' , Mountain, was denied.' The ivascin given for the denial was that ithe use of that frequency in thisiarea would overlap with the use bf the same channel by a Philadelphia sta - don. The Clearfield - site, if foundltp propriate,,..vould be. rie correct UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 9..1962 communications s a te 11 i t e bill,' which was recently debated, fili bustered and left undecided in the Senate. Debate on the issue; CHICAGO (AF9—A major Vl will resume tomorrow: 'year railroad-labor struggle with Clark said he supports govern- ivast implications for the nation's merit control of the new commu- I economy surged through a near hications satellite, Telstar, which'showdown court phase yesterday. was launched into orbit recently.l Five unions, representing MO,- Control of the satellite by a pri-1000 crewmen who run the trains, Vate profit-making --, corporationl were to go to a federal appeals would hamper efforts 1J use the' court in a second try to block satellite for extensive educational 'purpose's in Latin America, Africa:srging economy work rules w ic _ the railroads have adopted, and other countries around the! ieffective Aug. 16. world, Judge Joseph Sam Perry dis- In addition. Clark said that ) Judge the U.S. District Court suit huge sums of government funds' had been granted to the .Ameri lby the unions asking a declare can Telegraph and Telephone Co„ltory judgment barring the rules which developed the satellite. The changes. An emergency appeal government also launched the sat- 4 was to be taken to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ellite for the company, Clark said.' The .State Department needs tcii . THE RULES. first proposed by JOSEPH S. CLARX have contro' over the satellite be- the carriers Nov. 2, 1959. could lop cause it would be the agency to 40.000 firemen—those who work ... supports administration negotiate agreements with other oh switching and freight diesel • • • countries, on the uses of the - sat - I lbcomotives—from the payrolls. overseas. In contrast, Clark said!eilite• They also includepro runs visions to the Republica yis the "party 'T n part NATIONAL Aeronauti cstget rescribin more work out r of train cre for ws a , of the status quo" and is devoid THE Space Administration as well tp g of new ideas and initiative. as the Federal Communications l daY' 3 work and generally elimi iln an interview at the Nittany Commission, all have a stake in trotting overlapping of work as- Lion Inn before his formal talk, the future use of communications! signments. , - - - Clark expressed his views on the satellites, he said. Is Spark Comedy Somewhat confused by the turn' ofl events and the changes in her husband's behavior, Judy stub bornly draws her own illogical , conclusions about her husband's actions. Each decision triggers mbre' humorous situations for the couple. 1 f .tirnttall confides his worst fears to his next door neighbor Arnold, who becomes alcoholically - sym pathetic. As played by Max Ghlack, the role off Ors a vehicle for many of the play's most amus ing gibes at suburbia. An audi ence predominantly ! of married COuples especially .enjoyed Ar nOld's advice to itimball, such as "Forget the constitution you're dealing with your w Je." Adding to the hilarious con fusion is Ronald Dobkin,. who plays Judy Kimball'i old college bOu. Dobkin is properly obnox it:Ms as the Texas oilman who is ready to take George"s place when `the time comes." IA change of pace for Ed Ander son, usually quite dramatic, is his part as - the jovial cemetery plot salesman who' hums stich litippy melodies as "lock of Ages" and "EnjoY • Yourself, :It's Later 'Than You Think.". Anderson was the surprise of thc 'show in his distance from the other channel, Greenhill said. ; !Programs from this campus would then have td be relayed! tO the transmitter which would be built there and then broadcast through the area, he said. 'The University could conceiv ably have had an ETV station a while ago, but it would have had, td bg'on an Ultra High Frequency Cnannel. Few television. sets In this lo cality have receivers for UHF programs, he said. Most receive , o ly the Very High Frequency c. annels which range from 1 to 1 . i AN ETV STATION operated by ;the University ties in with a long :range plan for a state-wide sys tern of educationali stations in !Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Erie and State College, Green ill said. Once such a basic network can Ibe established, a rya tem of ETV stations ,could (Continued- oataage- eight) FOR A EMIR PENN STATE excellent comedy role SHOWING HIS amazing ver satility, pavid Frank agilely stepped into a character part for this production. Cast-as the genial general practitioner who thinks 'that "specialists really clean up," Frank is the calming force on • Kimball's many ailments. If curtain call applause is any indication of success, the cast di rected by Max Fischer should pro vide, entertainment to full houses during its two-week run. Behind the News Birth control developments are discussed this week by Len Krauss, 12th term indus trial engineering major from Union. NJ. (See page 5 for "Behind the News.") rhetam by X*7 AN INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE viewed talent selected Japanese songs, and David Vaughan. from many Awl& al the Cosmopolitan Club's graduate student in geochemistry, who did two "Aroutut the World 'in SO Minutes" Friday night English Marria Dances and a Northumbrian clog In the Kesel Union ballroom. Among the per- dance. *frog.; wore Mink* sad Akiko.Toshlro, who wok RR Struggle Still Rages , Looming beyond the courtroom stage is the possibility of a, na tionwide walkout of the workers the firenien, trainmen, engi neers, conductors and switchmen —if the railroads stick to their announced intention of tightening Widespread Rain Hits State While Drought Persists Locally By JOEL MYERS ;had been measured here this Although the record drought month has been alleviated in many sec tions of the Commonwealth in; Widespread ram was reported in many areas of the state lam the past two weeks, the State weekend and again - Monday. College area continues' . to su ff e elleavy rain was noted in the Phil from an unequalled lack of rain !adelphia area Tuesday. fall. I Showers spreiid across the state During the six-week period;end-lagain last night, but it was un ing last evening, a mere 0.79 in-:certain whether or not rain would . chew of precipitation has ibeen'fall in this area. measured at the University wea-i The large-scale weather Pattern thee station compared to a nor-Jthat has prevailed for the past mal amount of six inches lot' the four months has allowed only period. sho w e r y-type precipitation to Last month's total rainfall of 077 reach the slate Summertime inches made it the driest July in 'showers are rather spotty. they local weather history. Until: last can give large amounts of rain evening only 0.02 inches of rain; (Continued on page six) up work ruleA drastically Such a strike will come auto matically with the rules changes, the union leaders said yesterday after a conference in Washinglori- Members of the unions received their joint strike instructions sev eral days ago, labor leaders said.• But a stoppage - earlier than mid• October Appeared unlikely. With the sounding of a strike —or, in its absence, the clear certainty of a walkout—President Kennedy could invoke the Rail way Labor Act to cause postpone ment for 60-days. A WHITE HOUSE spokesman said the strike threat is under constant observation from there, although not officially. The Presi dent's move would be naming of a fact-finding board to study the dispute and report to him its sub stance within 60 days. Such• a Study would be' the sec ond by a presidential panel. A commission named by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shortly before he left office made its recommendations for settle ntent; Feb. 28. After efforts of the National Mediation Board failed, the rait roads announced July 17 that the recommendations.of the presiden tial commission would be put into effect Aug. 16.
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