Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 46

              silver and battershall delia phi pledges built the smoke bomb to simulate a volcano for the frater nity's hawaiian theme however the volcano potassium chlorate and charcoal encased in a lead pipe about eighteen inches long was ap parently packed too tight pre venting air from reaching the par ticles fraternity brothers told city police that a similar smoke bomb built the night before the see silver's page 3 a 26-year-old bethlehem man was jailed saturday after he admitted robbing a lehigh student while the student and his houseparty date were sleeping detective ralph e flemming arrested richard d frick of 602 hayes st at 10:30 a.m three hours after the robbery occurred the student involved richard j lohmcyer 59 told the brown and white that he and his date a vassar student and the daughter of a new jersey industrialist and police com missioner had parked in sayre park at 4:15 a.m after leaving the kappa sigma fraternity house of which lohmeyer is a member after an evening of revelry lohmeyer said we were glad to go to sayre park with its bucolic at mosphere he said he and his date soon fell asleep about six o'clock she awakened me lohmeyer said and told me there was a man standing next to the car loh meyer leaped from the car and began to chase the intruder frick however got in his car and drove away and lohmeyer's date jotted down the license number lohmeyer returned to his ford victoria and soon discovered that the keys were missing from the ignition switch and that his wallet containing 10 had vanished from the back pocket of his pants i coasted the car down to fourth st then we walked to the police sta tion lohmeyer said the pair filed see startled page 3 may hold up student center a lehigh valley carpenters strike will hold up the completion date of the university center if it lasts more than a week it was disclosed wednesday by andrew j litzen berger superintendent of buildings and grounds lilzenberger said that other building trades workers are ex pected to continue at their jobs for the remainder of the week and possibly a little longer after that the lack of carpenters will force them to halt their work also the strike could have an even more immediate effect on the other workers if the carpenters decide to picket the center other unions are reported ready to respect the picket lines the carpenters went on strike wednesday morning after the fail ure of last minute negotiations tuesday night between the lehigh valley district council brother hood of carpenters and joiners and the lehigh valley contractors as sociation the contractors increased a previous wage offer by five cents but it was rejected by the union which stood on its de mand for an increase of 1.25 an hour on its present rate of 52.76 plus 13 cents for welfare and pensions last week the carpenters were of fered an increase of 10 cents an hour now with an additional 20 cents in january that was voted down sun day by the general membership of the union yesterday's offer was for 10 cents now and 25 cents in jan uary negotiators informed john l hunt the contractors bargaining agent that they had been directed to fight for the 1.25 increase originally asked plus fringe benefits william kendrick interna tional representative headed the carpenters negotiating team directly after the meeting the 1,750 members of the union were notified the carpenters are among several building contract unions whose old contracts terminated tuesday juniors encouraged to fill activities card all students who will appear in the senior section of the 1958 epi tome and who will not be on the campus next semester should fill out an activities card in mrs moravec's office as soon as possible failure to do so will mean great inconvenience on the students part and possible omission from the book weekend trio slated by m&c mustard and cheese performances tonight and tomorrow night will feature a production of three one act plays speak no returnings a beaver college prize-winning orig inal production alcestis in the underworld and billy budd for the first time ir the his tory of m&c a reader's theatre performance will be presented the production of alcestis it is a comedy by prof ray irwin of syracuse university the play will be read with prof h bar see thespians page 6 charges may be brought against . the two lehigh men injured when a i makeshift bomb they built exploded ] last friday evening in front of the delta phi fraternity house this conclusion is based on a statement made last weekend by district atty edward g ruyak harold e silver 60 who re ceived the full impact of the blast is still in serious condition at st luke's hospital the con dition of barry battershall 60 the other student involved has improved surgeons worked throughout fri day night to remove a piece of metal pipe imbedded in silver's groin a plastic surgeon also was called in to treat facial burns by the sandpaper surgery method silver suffered severe eye and hand burns and deep thigh cuts his right ear drum was ruptured battershall received identical in juries though not as serious since he had been standing at a distance from the bomb when the blast occurred treated at the hospital for minor injuries were william f simmons and miss mary ann gehringer a guest at the house simmons was injured when a fly ing piece of debris struck his right leg miss gehringer suffered powder burns and bruises both were dis charged from the hospital after treatment to enter pops concert — choral group from theta chi shown rehearsing for the contest to be climaxed at the pops concert may is in grace hall finalists will appear in the concert judiciary mum on pro question ones though according to parr con tained mostly praise for the week end one woman who has chaper oned at 20 houseparties told parr that this was the best one she had ever attended many seniors claimed that the hill was especially quiet saturday night very few fights were reported city police who had patroled sayre park all evening said they had very little difficulty one faculty member who lives near campus said this was official word is expected to come from the judiciary committee some time before the next issue of the brown and white while the committee which has had three meetings already deliberates though students con tinued to speculate and relate the stories of the weekend vaughn explained that it will be the duty of his committee to de termine how many of the stories are true stories told by resident chaper the first saturday evening of houseparty that he can remem ber that he wasn't disturbed by students creating a riot rumors circulated about campus monday morning of a multi-house party on the hill sunday night and about a party in an off campus house sunday afternoon however by the time the brown and white went to press details of the parties had become so magni fied that it was impossible to authenticate the many wild stories is any house going on pro this is just as much up in the air today as it was last monday both dean preston parr and ronald vaughn chairman of the houseparty judiciary committee refused to comment on the ques tion uppermost in the students minds they maintained that they will not make any decisions or disclose any information until they have had time to weigh all evidence suffi ciently brown and white b&w scores again rated all-american for fall semester calypso un 6-0331 friday may 3 1957 volley carpenters strike vol 68 — no 46 sayre sackers roused robbed saturday night sec fourth page 3 three times we2kly classification to achieve this honor word of the award was received wednesday afternoon by ray far kas 58 editor-in-chief of the b&w last fall with the announcement was a guidebook detailing the judg ment of the critic gareth d hiebert columnist and former as sistant city editor of the st paul dispatch this top rating indicates dis tinctly superior achievement acp noted it is the fourth all-american award to be garnered by le high's publications in the past two years epitome won this honor for its 1955 edition the first yearbook to be so honored in the annual's 80-year history this honor again came to epi tome for its 1956 book all-american status was won by the b&w for its fall 1955-56 issues the first time it had achieved this top position since 1934 other b&w editors of last fall's award-winning paper were george l beezer 58 managing editor wil liam leclere 57 editorial director peter burdash 58 news editor the all-american honor rating has been awarded to the brown and white for last semester it is the second all-american rating to be achieved by the paper in the past two years all-american is the highest honor awarded to a college publica tion by the associated collegiate press leading rating service for the collegiate press the b&w was among eight papers in the two and minutes after — one of two students injured in explosion at delta phi fraternity last weekend is removed to hospital globe-times fhoto charges possible after hp explosion pops date set the date for the annual pops con cert is set at may 18 band and glee club officials announced wednesday the sale of reserved tickets will begin monday they may be pur chased in the band room in grace hall or from mrs moravec in drown hall