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VOL. 56. No. 81
New Tapping System
Presented to Council
The new system for tapping men for hat society mem
bership was formally presented to the Hat Society Council
ist night by Donald Reidenbaugh, council president.
The system was passed by the Council on Nov. 1, upon
a recommendation by Skull and Bones, senior society.
Dates Set
For Spring
Elections
Th e All-University elections
will be held on March 21 and 22
it was decided last night by the
Elections Committee.
The dates are Wednesday and
Thursday of the last week before
Spring vacation and fall on the
days just before "the IFC-Panhel
Ball big weekend.
Another set of dates which was
considered by the Committee was
April 11 and 12, but the Commit
tee generally agreed that it would
be better for the elections to be
completed before the vacation
break.
Committee Chairman Roger
Beidler said he felt that the break
definitely. was bad for student in
terest in the elections. He said he
thought continuity of the clique
meetings and campaigning should
be followed directly by the elec
tions and if the routine was inter
rupted the student body might
lose interest in the campaign.
Allows for Adjustment
Another advantage to 'the earlier
elections which was brought out
by Gordon - Pogal was that it would
give the newly elected officers
more time to get adiusted to their
new duties—especially the persons
elected to Cabinet posts.
Beidler also announced that the
newly elected All-University
President will be an independent.
and the vice president and the
secretary-treasurer will be frater
nity members.
The senior class president will
also' be an independent and the
Senior dais vice president will be
a, fraternity member, while the
junior class president will be a
fraternity member and the vice
president will be an independent.
Friday Meeting
These arrangements were made
last Friday at a meeting between
Beidler and the clique chairman of
the two parties, Thomas Dye-Lion
and Tack Abele-Campus. Dye
since has been repladed by Robert
Spadaro.
The distribution of offices be
tween fraternity and independent
(Continued on page eight)
2 Seniors - Involved
In. Auto Collision
Damage estimated at $165 re
sulted when cars driven by two
students collided at 4:30 p.m. Sat
urday at Sunset road and Ridge
avenue.
Drivers of the cars were Milton
Scherpf, senior in dairy science
from near Lititz, - "a n d Francis
Yonker, senior in electrical en
gineering from State College.
Police' said the accident occur
red when both cars' reached the
intersection at the same time.
There is no stop sign at the inter
section, they said.
Damage to the Scherpf vehicle
was, estimated at $75, and The
Yonker auto at $9O. •
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Snow Flurries, Clouds •
Predicted, for:Todoit
Snow flurries, inoderate cloudi
ness, and somewhat warmer wea
ther is -the . prediction, for today,
according - to the students in the
department, of .meteoitlogy.
The expected high is 35 to 40
degrees with a low of 15 to .20.
The high today. was 38 and the
10w was 23. .
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By PAT HUNTER
The need for a new method of
membership selection was first
discussed during Student En
campment. At that time a com
mittee was appointed to investi
gate the possibilities of a new
selection system.
Under the new system, men
will fill out cards listing their
name, address, extra-curricular
activities, all-University average,
and preference of society, if any.
The cards will be placed in
four separate files according to
the class of the applicant.
Filing is Continuous
The filing system will be con
tinuous regardless of whether
the applicant is tapped or not. If
he is not tapped in his junior
year, the card will be moved up
to the senior file making him
eligible for a senior society the
following fall.
The only requirement is that
the applicant add his activities
as he acquires them.
At the time of tapping, the
presidents of each hat society - will
remove the cards from the file
that contains his society's prefer
ence list. These names will then
be presented to the members of
his society and they skall tap ac
cording to their respective con
stitutions.
Plan Replaces Applications
This method was presented by
Skull and Bones to replace a sys
tem which involved :no honor
since the applicants had to ask to
become members.
Too many men sit down at their
typewriters the night before the
applications are due, and tell the
societies what great guys they
are, just for the sake of " a hat,
Reidenbaugh said. Also, under the
old system many men failed to
apply because they felt.unworthy.
System Maintains Prestige
The new system will help to
revive the justification of hat so
cieties, Reidenbaugh explained,
and it will maintain the prestige
of a service as well as an honor
ary society.-
Filing cards for the new sys,
tem will be available March 1,
at the Hetzel Union desk.
5 O'Clock Theater
To:Present Comedy
'The Devil and Donny Metzger,'
a comedy by- Phillip Wein, senior
in 'arts , and letters, will be pre
sented today in the basement of
Old Main by the 5 O'clock Thea
ter.
The show will be directed by
Walter Vail, graduate student in
dramatics - frord Upper Darby.
Plays will be presented by the
theater every 'Tuesday this semes
ter.
2 Lawyers Summone4l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (iP)
—Two oil company lawyers
Who figured in the offer of a
$2500 contribution to Sen.
Francis M. Case (R.-SD) dur
ing the Senate scrap over the
natural gas' bill were summoned
today to testify before a federal
grand jury.
The attorneys are Elmer Patnian
and John M. Neff. They'represent
the - Superior Oil Co. of California.
The grand jury is to hear them to
morrow.
Case rejected the $2500. Patman
has told. Senate investigators he
turned over the money, from per-
Sonal funds of Harold B. Keck, Su
perior Oil Co": president, to Neff to
be donated' to. Case's : re-election
campaign fund.:
Neff has testified he passed tbi
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 14. 1956
IFC Board Asks
Probation,ssoFine
For Pi Kappa Phi
The Interfraternity Council Board of Control recommended last night that Pi Kap
pa Phi fraternity be placed on Board of Control probation and fined $5O for its part in an
orientation week fraternity prank.
The board recommended that the probation begin Saturday night And end April 28.
Robert Simmons, Board of Control chairman, told IFC that Article HI, Section 3, of the
IFC social code implies that a fraternity and its officers shall be primarily responsible for
the good conduct of its members.
Fire Teams
Will Inspect
Business Area
Eight volunteer fire teams from
the Alpha Fire Company will be
gin an inspection of the State Col
lege business area as part of a
borough-wide check for possible
fire hazards.
Fire Chief Tom Sauers said
working conditions and inconven
ience were probable reasons for
the delay of the investigation pre
viously scht.duled to begin last
Saturday.
Plans call for the inspection of
business areas for a "week - or so,"
and to fraternities and private
homes in that order, according to .
Salters.
Sauers said he could give no
date for the completion of the
investigation. He stressed that the
firemen were only volunteers and
that their time is limited.
Sauers said that the firemen
will especially search for warm
ashes loaded in • non-metal con
tainers and placed near inflam
mable partitions.
Sauers said owners will be
asked to fill out questionnaires
presented by the firemen.
Bridges to Talk
At GOP Dinner
. Republican Senator Styles S.
Bridges of New Hampshire will
speak on "The Republican Party
in the Future" at the Lincoln Day
dinner at 6:30 tonight in the Nit
tany Lion Inn.
The Young Republicans Club,
in conjunction with the- Centre
County Young Republicans Club,
have sold 300 tickets for the din
ner.
Othgr Lincoln Day speakers in
previous years have been Arthur
Flemming, defense mobilizer;
Senator William Knowland (R-
Calif.), and Harold Stassen, spe
cial assistant to the president in
charge of disarmament.
money on to Business Manager E.
J. Kehler of the Sioux Falls, S.D.,
Daily Argus-Leader for relay to
Case.
Both Patman and Neff swore n.
strings were attached.
Now they and probably other
witnesses will be called on to re
peat to the giand jury here, start
ing at 10 a.m: tomorrow, the story
they already have related to a
special Senate investigating com
mittee.
Winds Up Hearings
The committee wound up its
own hearings, at least for now,
With-Neff testifying today that the
$2500 Case rejected was the only
contribution he made to any sena
tor.-
Charles W. Steadman, the com
mittee counsel, said the commit
tee knows of no other such contri
butions by Neff, ,or' anyone else,
related to the gas bill. _
Maneuvers were under way,
This was the standard
Nitta
the board considered when passing the penalty.
The incident started between se
mesters when four members of Pi
Kappa Phi removed three pieces
of furniture from Phi Kappa Tau
fraternity.
The men were found guilty of
disorderly conduct and fined
$61.50 apiece by Justice of the
Peace Guy G. Mills. The subcom
mittee of the Senate Committee
on Student Affairs placed the stu
dents on disciplinary probation.
Dean's Office to Act .
The board's recommendation
will go to the dean of men's office
where it will be acted upon. If
approved, Pi Kappa Phi will be
under intensified Board of Con
trol observation. Any violation of
IFC rules by the fraternity dur
ing probation will be considered
in conjunction with the previous
incident and dealt with accord
ingly, Simmons said.
Making a general statement
concerning this type of fraternity
prank, the board said it' will "con
sider and act upon any violation
of the IFC codes or any action
which is detrimental to the good
name ,of the University."
Tickets for the IFC-Panhel Ball,
March 23, will go on sale Feb. 27,
John Russell, IFC vice president,
announced last night.
Sales to be Limited
Russell said the first two days
of sales will be limited to frat
ernities only. He said the closed
sale was decided upon to make
the dance "a more fraternity af
fair."
Only 1000 tickets will be sold,
he said, but houses may bring
checks to the Feb. 27 IFC meeting
for as many tickets as they wish
to buy. Price of the tickets is
$5.00.
Corsages Discouraged
IFC also . voted to' discourage
corsages at the dance. The action
was taken since members felt it
would lighten the financial load
of the .weekend.
Houston Elam, chairman of the
IFC future housing committee,
told the group that the University .
Board of 'Trustees will, discuss the
need for' fraternity building_ land
at its March meeting.
The committee had looked into
the problem of land availability,
Elam said, and found there was
(Continued on page eight)
in Gas Probe
nevertheless, to broaden the hunt
for any possible additional dona
tions, with signs of a rivalry shap
ing up between two Senate com
mittees. A possibly expanded in
quiry might go back as far as the
1952 and 1954 political campaigns
in search of any efforts to influ
ence senators.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
was reported to have discussed the
bill with his Cabinet today.
No: Decision Reached
However, Press Secretary James
C. Hagerty said t'no" when asked
whether any decision had been
reached to'sign or veto it.
The
_bill would exempt produ
cers of natural gas from direct
federal price controls. The big ar
gument in Senate debate were ov
er what effect this would have
on consumers' gas bills, and whe
ther the bill meant a big windfall
for oil companiet and other gas
producers.
Ed Majors'
8-Week Plight
Soo Page 4
House Repairs
To Delta Sig
Are Continuing
Repairs of the Delta Sigma Phi
fraternity house which was gut
ted by fire the morning of Dec.
11 are proceeding ahead of sched
ule.
•
Irving Boerlin, - advisor to the
fraternity, said last night that he
is sure repairs will be completed
by the deadline of April 1.
Sprinkler systems have been
installed at strategic points in the
house to help prevent any repe
tition of the fire which caused be
tween $40,000 and $50,000 dainage.
Some of the sprinklers, which are
concealed behind newly-placed
plaster, are located in the base
ment and the upstairs clubroom.
Boerlin said the sprinkler sys
tem was probably the first to be
installed in any fraternity at the
University.
He expects the water system to
be installed this week. Work is
also progressing on complete
plastering of the house and in
stallation of the wiring systems.
The first and third floors have
been completely wired, Boerlin
said, leaving about one-third of
the fraternity 'to be rewired.
Repair work is being done by
the firm of Vernon J. Dietz, State
College general contractor, who
was let a contract of $55,000 early _
in January.
Dietz said then that the frater
nity, located at Locust Lane and
Fairmount avenue, would be al
, most a new structure and would
be "safer and better" when re
pairs were completed. •
Victim Improving
From Cabin Blaze
. Eric Proudfoot, sophomore in
arts - and letters from Oil City,,has
been reported as improving from
second-degree burns to the face
and third-degree hurns to the
hands in the Vermont blaze,
Feb. 6.
Proudfoot, whose burns required
skin grafts, -is expected to be in
the Brightlook Hospital, St. Johns
bury, Vt., for at least five weeks.
Theodore Miller, a sophomore in
agricultural education from Wash
ington, Pa., a victim of the fire
who returned to the University,
said yesterday that Proudfoot's
face and hands are still bandaged.
Eng Council to Discuss
Final Exam Exemptions,
Byron Smith, senior in electri
cal engineering from Hollidays
burg, will discuss exempting sen
iors from final examinations at
a meeting of Engineering Student
Council tonight in 214 Hetzel
Union.
Law Dean to Speak
Ralph E. Khkras, dean of the
Law School of Syracuse Univer
sity, will speak at a meeting for
students- who are interested in
attending law. school at 7:30 to
night in 203 Willard. The meet
ing is sponsored by Pi Lambda
Sigma, pre-law honorary society.
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