57.4 4. 6 Weather Forecast: ' . (111:11,11rgt Partly Sunny, Z • 1 k94.41 7+: Somewhat Milder '1856. VOL. 64, No. 64 Viet Nam Hit by 2nd Coup Since Nov. Picketing Stopped at Pond Lab Union pickets withdrew from the Pond Laboratory addition site yesterday, paving the way for continued work on the stalled project. Stanley H. Campbell, vice president for business, said that representatives of the Building Construction Gamma Sig Initiates 66 Coeds Sixty-six women were initiated into Tau chapter of Gamma Sigma Sigma, national women's service sorority, recently in Waring Lounge. At the white , rose initiation ceremony, Mary Louise Fiorillo was chosen outstanding pledge for her work at Laurelton State Hospital Christmas vacation. Linda Hartsock, senior resi dent in McKee, was given honor ary membership in Tau chapter and is now the co-advisor for the organization. Tooma Spoke After the official ceremony, Barbara Tooma, assistant dean of women and sorority advisor, spoke to the new members. ': t:catise Gamma Sigma Sigma is a service sorority, the pledges must put in a minimum of 10 hours of service on various chap ter projects such as working with the bloodmobile, Peace Corps representatives, the Associated Services and infirmary. Pledge project this year was work at Laurelton State Hospital. The pledges sent letters and Christmas presents to Laurelton residents and helped with rec reation. Initiated The following women were in itiated Sunday: Linda Ames, Virginia Bow man, Mary Sue Bradley, Kath ryn Brinsfield, Barbara Buech ner, Grace Crowell, Sarah Da vidson, Ellen Divine. Mary Louise Fiorillo, Marilyn Fix, Loretta Franovich, Ellen Frledenberg, Veronica F r i e s, Toby Goldstein, Pat Gro v e, Karen Haldy, Saundra Ham mond, Judith Helker, Elizabeth Hoehn. Janet Hoyt, Louise Jenkins, Mary Louise Kaczowka, Janice Kerr, Joan Kosciolek, Joan Kosturick, Joyce Kretschmer, Bar bar a Mager, Catherine Marchiano, Lisbeth Mastilak, Lynn Matzkin, Maureen Mc- Evoy, Sylvia Meleshenko, Con stance Micklow, Karen Miekam. Marilyn Mikulan, Nancy Mil ler, Allison Mook. Betsy Neff, Barbara Orre, Antonette Peters, Mary Jo Pullman, Sandy Rea buck, Kathryn Reamer. Pam Reese, Karen Ricketts, Pamela Rifkin, Carol Riggle, Rebecca Rollins, Donna Roth, Harriet Savasten. Audrey Schaefer, Freya Schmidt, Barbara Schwab, Re becca Schwab, Karen Schroeder, Vera Settlemyer, Linda Silver, Joan Skordy, Nan c y Stone, Marguerite Thrasher, Cheryl Tollen, Lynne Tyrala, Charlotte Warfield, Judith Wilcox, Sandy Zierdt. Coroner Says Ex-Journ Prof Took Own Life A former University advertis ing professor "took his own life" yesterday morning according to W. Robert Neff, Centre County coroner. Richard 0. Byers. 47, was found dead yesterday by his wife and a friend in a home he was building at 118 Marylyn Ave. Neff would not give details of the death, but said the autopsy report would be turned over to' Mary L. Willard. University pro fessor of chemistry, who would perform tests. Byers. who is survived by his wife, Gwendolyn. two daughters and a son, taught advertising at the University for 10 years and resigned in June, 1961. He came here from an adver tising agency in Rochester, N.Y.. and had been working as a local representative of Clark, Dodge. stockbrokers, since he left the Univeraity. Trades Council of Bellefonte (a consolidated organization representing area unions) noti fied the University yesterday morning that the Operating En gineers Union, Local 66 of Pittsburgh would cease picket ing immediately. Since November Since Nov. 20, members of the engineers union had been conducting an informational picket against contractor Paul E. Hickes, advertising the fact that he is a non-union em ployer. Last week Hickes, the only non-union contractor among four working at Pond pulled his men off the job. Although he had continued to work despite the pickets, union members re ,fused to cross the picket line. As of last Thursday, Hickes had gone as far as he could alone, and construction stopped. Campbell said that heating, electrical and plumbing work must be completed by the three union contractors before Hickes can return to the project. 'Do Their Jobs' The union representatives whom Campbell spoke to yes terday said that they would call off the pickets to "let the union contractors do their jobs . . ." They insisted, how ever, that "Hickes can't be there," Campbell said. Before the operating engi neers sent men to Pond in November, Hickes had been plagued by union pickets both here and at the Altoona cam pus. In October the Carpenters District Council, AFL-CIO of Pittsburgh, forced the contrac tor to leave Pond because of damage they had done to his equipment. An injunction issued against the carpenters union in Altoona had no effect on the group's picketing here. They did quit Pond in November, however, following an explosion at Al toona. AWS Asks Mrs. RFK To Speak Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, wife of the U.S. Attorney- General, has been invited to speak at the University in con nection with Women's Week. Linda Ballantyne, Women's Week chairman, made the an nouncement last night at a meeting of the Association of Women Students Senate. She added that as yet no reply has been received from Mrs. Kennedy. Previously Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and Maine GOP Sen. Margaret Chase Smith were issued invitations to speak dur ing Women's Week which is scheduled for the week of April 6. Both declined. Catholic U. Players Another highlight of the week will be the presentation of a play by an off-campus theatre group. According to Miss Ballantyne the commit tee in charge of the play is con sidering a portrayal of Shake speare's "T aming of the Shrew" by the Catholic Uni versity Players. In other business. Senate voted to grant two a.m. permis sions to coeds for Saturday, Feb. 29. Sadie Hawkins Day. In addition, the resignatiOn of Sandra Wall, first vice presi dent was accepted. Miss Wall resigned her position for health reasons. Milder Weather Expected Today Partly sunny skies and some what milder weather is expect ed in this area today. The high temperature will be near 40 degrees. Partly cloudy cold weather is seen for tonight, and the low will be near 25. Rain or snow changing to rain is forecast for tomorrow and tomorrow night. Chilly temperatures were re corded across Pennsylvania yesterday. Early morning read ings were mainly between 5 and 15 degrees and afternoon maximum temperatures varied ~• om the tanner 20's to the low 30's. At the University weather station, the mercury varied be tween 11 and 32 degrees. —Collegian Photo by John Lott CLINTON SCORES: Lion center Carver last night. Nittany cagers return to action Clinton hits for two points in first half against Temple Saturday night at she action of State's 86-62 victory over Colgate Palesira in Philadelphia. Soviets Admit Downing U.S. Plane Over East Germany WIESBADEN, Germany Washington declared the T 39 ille (4')—The Russians disclosed `vas" shot tu h e ot str d ong n est aridprotested terms." yesterday a Soviet fighter Russians rejected the protest forced down a U.S. Air immediately. The U.S. plane was not armed, Force trainer in Communist an Air Force spokesman in East Germany Tuesday, kill- Wsehningranulsati. Freeman Jr , ing all three officers aboard. Army commander in chief in Greek Week Fraternities Hold Exchange Dinner By SALLY BROWN "Unity with Individuality," the theme for Greek Week 1964, was put into action last night through fraternity and sorority exchange dinners. Representatives from each sorority visited fraternities, and fraternity men visited other fra ternities in an effort to promote understanding among Greeks. In addition to dinner, each fra ternity provided a program in- eluding a speaker and a social hour. ' Greek Week activities continue , banquet Tuesday at the Nittany tonight with a bridge tournament Lion Inn. At this time the out in the Hetzel Union Terrace, standing fraternity and sorority , Room. will be announced, as well as Thirty-nine fraternity and so- the first and second place win rority groups will play duplicate ners in the over-all competition. bridge, beginning at 7:30. 4 Those who will attend the ban- Sing Finals I quet include the presidents, ad- The sing contest finals will be ,visers and outstanding pledges held at 8 p.m. Sunday in Schwab.:of all the Greek organizations, Between performances by each and representatives of the ex group of finalists, other enter; ecutive boards of the Town Inde tainment will be provided. Sing ;pendent Men's Council, Men's contest trophies will be awarded Residence Council. Association to winning groups at this time. lof Women Students and the Winners in the sorority pre- Undergraduate Student Govern liminary competition and their onent. .iiiiiiiimmiimmiiiiiiiiiiimilim Past Prexies 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.111' Allen Only a 'Spectator' (This is the second in a ser ies on Penn State's 12 Presi dents.) By JOHN THOMPSON The sudden death of Penn State's first President, Evan Pugh, in 1864 left the young institution in a period of un certain leadership from which it would not emerge until 1882 with the election of Pres ident George W. Atherton. In the 18 years between 1864 and 1882, the college had five presidents, with terms vary ing from nine months to nine years. Each new executive attempted to guide the school through this period with fi nancial aid from the state General Assembly and, to some degree, each failed. Upon Pugh's death, Jacob S. Whiteman. vice president and professor of botany. served as acting president until June 1864. when William H. Allen was elected president of the college. Allen, a graduate of Bow '~u~6~uuunuuuuuiuw~uun«uuuu~nnuuuuiunuuuununui~ununmunnnunnnuuuuuinuuiiumounnnnn~unuuaunuunuunuunuu~nenunnuuunuuunen~~uuw FOR A BETTER PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1964 optional songs were: Alpha Gamma Delta, "Sing for Alpha Gam": Delta Zeta, "Dreams"; and Kappa Kappa Gamma, "Round and Round," Each group was required to sing "Three Folk Songs." Judges for this category were Maryann Frazier, Jane Leslie. and Mrs. Harry Addleman, all of whom are music teachers in ;State College area high schools. Banquet Tuesday The climax of the week's ac tivities will be the Greek Week doin College. had been profes sor of chemistry and natural history for ten years at Dickinson College, and served as president of that institu tion for one year. In 1850 Allen became presi dent of Girard College and served for 12 years before re tiring to his country home in 1863. When he was called in 1864 to the Presidency of the Agri cultural College of Pennsylva nia, as Penn State was then known. Allen faced a college whose indebtedness was more than 550,000. In addition, fi nancial aid promised under the Morrill Land Grant Act was held up in a legislative battle in Harrisburg. Appropriations Fight State legislators had pro posed a plan to divide the land-grant aid among six col leges in the state, instead of only to the Agricultural Col lege. After a bitter fight, the plan was defeated but aid to the college was delayed by Europe, insisted the Russians open an 'immediate investiga tion and called for a reply "on a most urgent basis." The fate of the twin-jet train er was disclosed in a stiff So viet note released in Moscow, accusing U.S. military authori ties of gross provocation "aimed at aggravating tne situation in central Europe." The Soviet note did not say specifically that the trainer was shot down. But the State De partment declared it was shot down, was obviously lost and , was "no threat of any sort to, the Soviets." Soviets Reject Protest Rejecting the protest, Georg!. M. Kornienko, minister-counsel lor of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, told newsmen, "It was a clear intrusion, the plane was intercepted and then it did not obey two orders." The plane crashed near Er furt, East Germany, about 140 miles northeast of its takeoff on a flight from the Wiesbaden air base. Air Force officials said it had run into a storm. The incident came at a time of a so-called thaw in the col& war and immediately raised tempers in Washington. Some members of Congress declared the case showed there was no, letup in the cold war. Sen. Richard B. Russell, D- Ga., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said the , downing of the plane "has all the earmarks of premeditated, unnecessary and cold-blooded , murder." Only One Plane The Soviet note mentioned only one Soviet fighter, but Freeman's letter to the Rus sians said, "Radar tracks show that two interceptor planes pur sued the plane which subse quently crashed in the vicinity of Erfurt." WILLIAM H. ALLEN . . . President, 1864-66 Saigon Occupied; Bloodless Revolt Ousts Anti-Diem ists SAIGON (FP) Troops and armored vehicles occupied Saigon yesterday, ap parently carrying out a bloodless coup d'etat against the revolutionary junta that has ruled South Viet Nam since Nov. 1. Military sources said. the coup, which began before dawn, successfully ended by 8 a.m. local time. The newest uprising was said to have been led by Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khahn, comman.er of the Ist Army Corps in the northernmost part of the country. According to first fragmen tary reports, Nguyen Khanh carried out his power play against pro-French elements in the junta, notably Maj. Gen. Le Ven Kim, second in com mand. No violence or shooting was reported in any part of the country. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge apparently was informed of an impending coup late last night. The interior minister, Jam. Gen. Ton That Dinh, also was believed under arrest and pos sibly scheduled for deportation from South Viet Nam. The top officer in the junta, Maj. Gen. Dong Van Minh (Big Minh), apparently rem - in , in power but possibly as little more than a figurehead. Minh's residence was sur rounded by tanks long before dawn. The change is power struc ture was believed to be essen tially pro-American and anti- French. Khahn's forces apparently consisted of airborne trooos from south of Saigon, elements of the Mekong River delta 7th Divi sion marines, and other forces. Saigon airport was closed im mediately and no fights were allowed in or out. Rumors quickly spread through the city that counter coup might be in preparation. As of midmorning, Saigon Ra dio still had said nothing about the coup and Saigon appeared normal except for tanks and troops in some areas. In the pre-dawn movements, several police headquarters were surrounded by tanks and tank muzzles were pointed, down major streets at many intersections. For the most part, their crews appeared relaxed and not preparing for a fight, how ever. Demonstrating Banned Demonstrations in Saigon were banned last week after a series of anti-French street marches were held by students. The provisional government and the armed forces high com mand were reshuffled Jan. 6 in an attempt to speed up the war against the Communist Viet Cong. On Jan. 9, Premier Nguyen Ngoc Tho pledged military and civil reforms, long advocated by the United States, in a "State of the Nation" address. The Vietnamese government on Tuesday denounced France for recognizing Red Chin a, banned further imports of French goods and said it was considering other measures. Delayed News This indicated censorship may have delayed news dis patches. Johnson did not discuss the Vietnamese situation with con gressional leaders during a White House meeting on for eign affairs late yesterday afternoon, it was added. U.S. policymakers were ;studying; the incoming reports in an effort to size up the new ' situation in the Southeast Asian country. The United States is heavily committed in ithe fight against Red guerril las. additional battles over state appropriations. To ease the financial crisis, tuition at the college was raised from $lOO to 8200 a year and Board of Trustees mort gaged the college property for 880,000. After ,paying its debts, the school was left a balance of 823,500 with which to operate. The school was also en gaged in a controversy over curriculum changes. Many of the professors sought to dis card the peculiar objectives of the school as an industrial and land-grant institution and offer courses similar to those in classical colleges. Lost Appeal This switch in policy lost for the people of Pennsylvania the special appeal of the col lege as an industrial and ag ricultural school and patron age dropped. On May 7, 1866, Professor John Fraser, aho later was to become Penn State's third pres!clent, of fered to the * att Conference Allenberr Officials Discuss University's Role The role of University ad ministrators and the future of Penn State were discuss ed in detail early this week by 145 top University offi cials at a special three-day con PSU Must Increase Enrollment By LARRY LAMB The University each year must admit 1,200 additional , students—the size of the' average American college— if it is to fulfill its commit ' ments to the Commonwealth's educational system. This fact and others - cOn . - tained in University President Eric A. Walker's annual report to Pennsylvania citizens re fleets the vast program of ex pansion and change facing Penn State. According to Walker, the University must begin to pre pare for its future obligations now with higher enrollments, rapid construction, and some basic realignments. Core College One of the most basic ad justments has already taken place. The three-core college plan, instituted during the summer term, "groups basic disciplines in ways which strengthen both teaching and research," Walker explains. He also points out that the core colleges provide a flexible organization which can easily be adapted to future condi tions or trends. Also in preparation for to morrow, the faculty is deter mined to "continue raising the quality of instruction," the President stated. However, these goals and measures, he said, are depend ent upon exceptional teachers, classroom and laboratory fa cilities, and money all of which are in short supply. Quality and Quantify The University is now ad mitting more students than ever before, but the processes of selection have also im proved. "The quality of Penn State's students is now at an all-time high," Walker said. Additional measures taken to prepare for the University's future include better use of learning resources and state wide resources, and develop ment of new University fa cilities. The change in education has gone, Walker said, from a "lei surely evolution into a drama tic revolution." school faculty a curriculum plan that guaranteed the insti tution's place as a land-grant college. President Allen's term of office lasted only two years. He resigned on November 1, 1866, and soon became presi dent of Girard College again. 'Not Happy' Allen remained president of Girard College until his death in 1882. Though considered a man of character and culture, Penn State's second president was not happy at his work, and failed to grasp the col lege leadership with a strong hand. In the controversies over college curriculum and fi nances, Allen was described as only an "interested spec tator." Allen's main significance in the history of Penn State lies in his having held the land grant for the institution and having furthered its financial prospects by securing the SBO,OOO mortgage. Fraternities Must' Face Challenge --See Page 2 FIVE CENTS ference at Allenberry, in Boiling Springs, Pa., near Carlisle. The group included all depart ment heads, deans, directors of Commonwealth campuses and the President and his staff. Highlights of the meeting were a talk, "Penn State in 1970," by M. Nelson McGeary, assistant to the President, and a message by Eric A. Walker. Talks at Conferences Walker talked to the admin istrators at the conclusion of the conference Tuesday. He dis cussed the mission and educa tional role of the University and the complexities of communica tion among officials of the insti tution. Details of the two messages were not released. A special sub committee, headed by Richard Jahns, College of Mineral In dustries dean, will study and edit reports and messages given at the conference and released them before the end of the aca demic year. Many conference reports and conclusions may be published in various Journals-.0f,-higher .edu cation, according to. John - R. Rackley, vice president for resi dent instruction. The University officials divided into 10 groups during this week's meeting to discuss the various responsibilities of department heads, deans and the President and his staff. Program Planning The program was planned by D o r o thy Houghton, associate dean of home economics. Gen eral chairman of the Allenberry conference planning committees was Richard Cunningham, head of the department of mechanical engineering. Entertainment for the admin istrators was provided by the Hi-Tones, a University student dance band. R. H. Wherry, head of the department of commerce and management, was in charge of the entertainment committee. Leslie P. Greenhill, director of the division of Instructional ser vices, served as consultant to the Allenberry planning committee. IGAL MOSSINSOHN . . . Israeli playwright Israeli Auhor To Lecture On Literature "Life as Reflected in Current Israeli Literature" will be the topic of a talk by Igal Mossin sohn. Israeli playwright ani author. He will speak at the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundatior service at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Mossinsohn, born in pre Israel Palestine, has written r.ome of Israel's important cur rent plays. Some of these have ieen produced in New York _.os Angeles and Buenos Aires "El Dorado," one of Mossin Dhn's dramas, was recently imed and soon will be shows n Israel. The playwright and author is currently in the Unitec States in connection with the production of some of hii .corks. Mossinsohn's talk is intendec to keep a cultural exchangt between Israeli and. America:- Jewish youth.
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