FIRST APPLICANT ACCEPTED: Elizabeth Markland (12th general science-Secane) is congratulated by Edward Schiff man as the first Peace Corps volunteer accepted from the University under the new condensed recruiting program. She will be assigned to Guatemala after training at New Mexico Slate University. Peace Corps Informaion Desk Will Remain Open Tomorrow Because of increasing stu dent interest the Peace Corps Information Center will remain open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m, to morrow, Edward Schiffman, member of the Corps' experts team, has announced. Over 45 persons have taken the placement test, more than 450 questionnaires have been distributed to interested stu dents and approximately 400 people have seen the movie about the Peace Corps, Schiff man said. Committee Recommends Transmitter Purchases By DENNIS KNECHT The WDFM Transmitter Com mittee is tentatively planning to purchase six radio transmitters which will permit reception of radio station WDFM on AM re ceivers, Gary Koerner said Wednesday night. Koerner, whose reappointment as committee chairman was ap proved by the Undergraduate Student Government Wednesday, told Congress the plans await approval by University adminis tration officials. IF APPROVAL is received, he said, the committee plans to ask Congress for an approximate allo cation of $B5O for each transmit ter to cover costs of shipping and installation. Installation of the transmitters is scheduled to begin in the fall. A transmitter will be placed in each main residence hall area except West Halls, which already has its own radio system, Koer ner said. - With these transmitters, resi dence areas could also develop their own radio programming, he added. Congress also heard a report from Spring Week Chairman Peter Lockhart which stated that approximately $2,250 profit on Spring Week events will be do nated to the student scholarship fund. A COMPLETE breakdown of the accounts is incomplete, Lock hart said, but the final report should be ready early next week. In other business, Ann Morris, Infirmary Committee chairman, reported that the majority of the health center’s patients which her committee interviewed "were critical of the service.” Committee members are now interviewing State College doc- He stated he expected a high acceptance rate of students tested at the University. Schiffman estimated that pos sibly half the applicants may be accepted, instead of the usu al rate of one out of every six. The reception the Peace Corps has received from stu dents, -faculty, the press and the television stations is grati fying, he said. The placement test will be given at 8 a.m., 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. tomorrow in 216 HUB. tors to determine their opinions of the infirmary’s service. They are also sending letters to other state universities inquiring about health plans at those schools, she said. The impeachment proceedings scheduled for Wednesday night’s meeting were cancelled because the congresswoman in question, Carol McFadden (South), re signed. AWARDS CEREMONIES: More than 30 cadets this morning with two more awards programs, from the Army's ROTC program are receiving Lyman E. Jackson, dean of the College of Agri awards in several categories at two-day cere- culture, presents a Ranger certificate of merit to monies on Wagner drill field. Several presenta- cadet Stuart Ruehle (121h-foreslry-Newcastle). tions were made yesterday and will continue afltp Saily VOL. 63. No. 137 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 24. 1963 FIV€ CENTS Alabama Schools To 1,000 Negro BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (/P)— New hopes for racial peace surged through this Deep South city yesterday with the return to school of a thousand Negro pupils, ousted for street marches, and the seating of a new government that pledged immediate steps for progress. DISCLOSURE OF grave eco nomic problems accompanied these developments. A chamber of commerce group reported the city has suffered heavily because of racial troubles and said something must be done. Under court order, 1,081 Negro children suspended Monday went back to school. They were among about 2,400 Negroes arrested in month-long demonstrations pro testing segregation. The government changed hands under an Alabama Supreme Court decision which turned over City Hall reins to Mayor Albert Bout well, a comparative moderate, and nine councilmen. "WE ARE NOW free to enter, clothed with full authority, upon decisive action to provide a pro gressive government,” said Bout well. USG Changes Site, Duration Of Encampment Undergraduate Student Govern ment Encampment will be held at the University, Sep, 18, 19 and 20, according to Paul McPherson, Encampment chairman. Encampment was originally planned as a two-day program at Mt. Alto School of Forestry, However, Mt, Alto became un available because of construction projects planned there for the summer McPherson said. The forestry school is currently being converted into a Common wealth campus. McPherson said the committee expanded Encampment to three days because observance of the Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah, would probably eliminate morn ing sessions. Applications for En campment must be turned in at the Hetzel Union desk today. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE He said his attitude will be sympathetic toward a biracial agreement, and added that he had not recognized it as an unofficial pact because he could not act with authority. He said he hoped to discuss a racial solution with the governor. The council’s legal victory paved the way for removal from office of the fiercely segregation ist police commissioner, Eugene Connor, 23-year City Hall veteran and dominant force in city gov ernment. His orders to use police dogs and fire hoses in quelling Negro crowds and demonstrators drew severe reaction from many quar ters. Negro leaders hailed the ruling and wished the new mayor and council "the best of success in sics Situation Unclear Kenworthy Declines Comment on Dept. Wilmer E. Kenworthy, execu tive assistant to the President, declined to comment yesterday on the resignation of four mem bers of the physics faculty. Neither Ferdinand G. Brick wedde, dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics, nor John J. Gibbons, acting head of the Department of Physics, could be reached yesterday for comment on the situation. Four resignations have been announced by Gibbons since Tuesday. John A. Sauer, professor of physics, resigned his position as department head last spring. At that time he said his rea sons for resigning the position were personal. THE ISSUE raised controversy among members of the faculty and students and letters were sent to Eric A. Walker, Univer sity President, and the .state’s General Assembly. The manifest interest prompted Walker to appoint a committee which would “look into the situ ation and conditions that exist in the department and college and to make recommendations pertinent to enabling the depart ment to realize its objectives.” --Howai’d A. Cutler, former as sistant to the vice president for Re-Open Marchers making Birmingham a city of which tho whole world can be proud.” These developments were punc tuated by a federal move in the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out n suit by Gov. George G. Wallace of Alabama to prevent use of troops in Birmingham. WALLACE HAS bitterly de nounced President Kennedy's sta tioning of 3,000 soldiers at two Alabama bases for possible action in the city after Mother’s Day rioting, ignited by bombings of Negro dwellings. The federal government said In a brief that Wallace’s petition of last Saturday failed to stale a justifiable claim for an injunc tion against the President and that the government has not con sented to the suit. academic affairs; John C. Grif fiths, former head of the Depart ment of Mineralogy; and Henry W. Sams, head of the Department of English, composed the com mittee. The committee’s findings were never made public. On Wednesday Sauer resigned from the University's physics faculty. He will become bead of the department of mechanics at Rutgers University in New Jer sey. RAYMOND PEPINSKY, re-, search professor of physics, also resigned formally to become head of the department of physics at Florida Atlantic University in September. Two other members of the physics faculty resigned their posts this week. However, their names were not available through any source. Students, Faculty To Raise Funds For Birmingham Collecting tables will be set up for “Project Birmingham” today and tomorrow at the Corner Room, McLanahan’s and Keeler’s Book Store, all on College Ave nue, Jacques Rose, co-chairman, said yesterday. The tables for “Project Birm ingham,” the name given to a drive to raise funds for the Rev. Martin Luther King, will be manned from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. King is one of the leaders of the current anti-discrimination campaign being conducted in Birmingham, Ala. ROSE SAID the University ad ministration would not permit them to demonstrate on campus. He was also told money couldn't be collected on campus if the funds were not for University students or students of another univex'sity. Rose said the idea for the proj ect was spontaneous and unspon sored. Many faculty members and other students have taken a “live ly interest” in the project, Rose said. “I hope the contributions will be as generous as possible,” he added. "People must have an aware ness of the savagery and inhu manity going on in Birmingham," he said, “and the problem can’t go on any longer.”
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