Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 34

              all the money stolen at the fall houseparty dance has been covered through insurance and reissued checks university officials reported last week the travelers insurance com pany settled a 535 claim by the university for cash stolen at the dance according to elmer w glick university treasurer the sum which was stolen totaled 1105 of which 570 was in the form of checks made out to the class of 57 the checks were from six fra ternities and from individuals in dravo house who had written some 110 in checks upon warning from official sources the fraternities which had made out checks cancelled them and made out new checks none of the originals was cashed arrangements were made by jacque smith chairman of ticket sales for the dance with university officials to establish the total amount of the loss however all the money that was stolen was covered by the university policy and full damages were collected bethlehem police were notified of the theft but no leads as to the identity of the thief have been established dean carl elmer allen — shown in his office in christmas saucon hall home of the college of business theta chi pledges lead in averages theta chi fraternity had the highest average of any lehigh fra ternity according to dean preston parr pledges at that fraternity had a phenomenal 3.04 cumulative average this was the highest pledge average in several years for theta chi which consistently has a good average in this re spect the average last year was 2.7 according to officers in the house though the fraternity does not rush men solely because they have a good average primarily they must have a good character and secondly they must have good potential and an in terest in extra-curricular activities music festival adds musical to weekend finian's rai n b o w harburg saidy-lane broadway musical will be spring music festival's friday night and saturday afternoon offer ing as part of this year's show april 12 13 and 14 in a surprise announcement friday festival coordinators bob croneberger 58 and bill murray 57 released the addi tion to the weekend and first auditions were held sunday eve ning in grace hall with setting in mythical missi tucky the story of impoverished share-croppers will afford choral and solo parts for 20 male voices and eight female singers according to croneberger the fes tival production of the show will necessarily be a shortened version of the original script he stressed the fact that parts will feature all types of singers and none of the music will be eliminated in cutting down of the length of the production by herm merrill this is the first in a series of articles depicting the lives of lehigh university deans lehigh was almost without the services of dr carl elmer allen dean of the college of business ad ministration because of an incident which occurred in 1929 while he was teaching at the university of illinois dr allen and another grad uate teacher at the university of illinois were leaving the library and approaching dr al len's new two door sedan when two thugs sprang from some nearby bushes and jammed pistols in their backs ordering them into the car after making them drive about ten miles into the country they robbed them of their cash and jewelry and drove off after con see dean page 3 lehigh university brown and white tuesday march 5 1957 vol 68 — no 34 un 6-0331 george feyer to echo here liquor case appealed to pa superior court dr ralph e lapp tells his friday night audience that enlighten ment and information are our best and only hope for control of destructive radiation lapp spoke to a near-capacity crowd lapp captures atomic interest hp receipts recovered yale boycotts dining service george feyer a northampton county court de cision which interpreted sec 493 of the pa liquor code of 1951 as meaning that it is unlawful for any person to give or sell liquor malt or brewed beverages to a minor has been appealed to the pa superior court and will be aired in the ses sion commencing march 11 if the decision made here by judge william g barthold is reversed it will mean that all drinking on the lehigh campus is legal however from the very nature of the case that is being appealed it appears as if the northampton de cision will be confirmed in this case drinking by minors on the campus will remain unlawful both robert c randall and sofie wofsy who were convicted by the court for giving liquor to minors and also for corrupting the morals of children under 18 have ap pealed their cases against the com monwealth the combination of the two offences may have some influ ence on how the individual as pects of the case are treated another aspect which may have some bearing on the case is that each of the five minors con cerned was under 18 the defendants appealed the liquor part of the case on the grounds that the prohibitions con tained in sec 493 do not apply to them since they are not connected in any way with a bar sec 493 of the code states that see questions page 6 familiar classics and popular tunes will all be on the program next friday evening march 8 as pianist george feyer performs in broughal junior high school auditorium at 7:30 p.m sponsored by the student con cert-lectures series feyer is a native of hungary and came to this country in 1951 the voice of firestone and ed sullivan show are among the numerous television programs on which he has been featured he is a veteran of scores of college appearances and has gained wide spread popularity through his echoes series of lp recordings for vox the pianist composers dohanyi kodaly and szekely recognized a promising talent in feyer and were as surprised as many of their coun trymen when feyer shifted to the field of lighter music he soon be came known as one of the best en tertainers in europe playing in ex clusive hotels in paris deauviller nice monte carlo the hauge geneva and st moritz feyer's refinement and taste are the hallmarks of his presen tations in which european tradi tion blends skillfully with the best in american music his repertoire is literally limitless and in his program of best-loved tunes he is said to play the classics with a touch of broadway and broadway with a touch of the clas sics when he came to the united states feyer received help and en couragement from the gabor family paul lukas ilona massey and others among the hungarian colony in new york city the release of his records by vox made feyer an immediate success in the united states feyer has produced thirteen al bums with total sales reaching over the 500,000 mark playing popular music with a clas sical touch and vice versa george feyer is responsible for a new bouy ant style in the world of piano music those planning to attend the pro gram should take note of the earlier time 7:30 and the change in loca tion from grace hall to broughal auditorium soph banquet to hear franz paul j franz assistant to the president will speak on the univer sity's development program thurs day night at the sophomore class banquet at hungarian hall members of the class of 59 will be given the opportunity to quiz franz after his speech tickets for the affair are still available and can be purchased from any member of the class cabinet for 2 more than 200 yale university stu dents boycotted a dining hall of one of the univeristy's residential col leges thursday because several stu dents suffered stomach disorders after eating there the complaints were lodged by students of jonathan ed wards college after a number of students were hospitalized earlier last week william h durham jr master of the residential college said the uni versity's health department ". . . should spare no efforts in trying to ascertain the specific food and its source jonathan edwards is one of 10 residential colleges for undergrad uates at yale the universiyt said all food for undergraduate dining halls is prepared at a central kitchen yale students pay for their food by the semester when they pay their tuition and housing fees by john mortimer mimnaugh radiation startling revelations of its biological effects on the human body and implications that atomic research and development hold for humanity held a near-capacity crowd in awed silence in packard lab auditorium friday night dr ralph e lapp told his attentive listeners that the products of an atomic explosion that happened in the far pacific three years ago could be measured in each of their bodies the internationally known physicist warned that enlightenment and information remain our best and only hope for control of destructive radiation speaking on radiation fallout and man the physicist traced the development of the atom bomb from x-ray experiments in bavaria by dr rankin in 1885 through the re cent tests at anawetok in the i pacific fallout as produced by the atom bomb he said contains over 200 radioactive emitters they presist for days months even years he added that 18 or more pounds of strontium 90 produced by a bomb blast are carried into the stratos phere by the fire ball and mush room of the blast then they are transported around the globe by wind currents these radioactive particles fall to earth with precipi tation at the rate of 10 per cent each year strontium he added is car ried into the body through cow's milk and deposited in the bones especially in babies re ports have been received from all over the world of people with varying concentrations of strontium in their bones he said the element is not a ser ious hazzard to adults he added but will accumulate in infants bodies when lapp told a friend of the problem the friend said good the patient is now becoming so sick he must call in the doctor the physicist said we must discuss ra see a-bomb page 7 28 years ago thugs rob dean allen