Brown and White Vol. 67 No. 45

              lehigh university brown and white volume 67—number 45 friday may 4,1956 un 6-0331 b&w one of six in nation gets all american honor the brown and white has been awarded the all-american honor rating by the associated collegiate press it is one of the six publica tions throughout the country in the two or three times weekly class to receive the award this the first time since 1935 that the brown and white has received such recognition it is the highest honor the publica tion could win from acp for 35 years the finest rating service for the collegiate press the paper received 1750 total points from judging the various de partments 1700 are necessary for this honor rating critic judge rat ing the brown and white was gar eth d hiebert columnist and for mer assistant city editor of the st paul pioneer press and dispatch hiebert commended the paper for superior coverage of campus af fairs its high standard of profes sional writing and representation and the effectiveness of your edi torials special recognition was given the sports pages of the paper where hiebert commented he seldom rates a paper excellent in this category sports cover age was rated superior with excellent sports writing the paper received comment on ex cellent makeup layout and its excellent headlines and pho tography in noting general writing hiebert 2 post ball after crash john a nice 57 and kenneth b hill 56 both members of sigma phi epsilon fraternity 61 w mar ket st posted 500 bail on charges growing out of a traffic accident at 10th ave and union blvd friday night nice has been charged with drunken driving hill is accus ed of permitting an intoxicated person to drive his car police said nice was driving east on union blvd when he sideswiped a car headed in the opposite direc tion vehicle damages totaled 350 tc the westbound car owned by john e steers of bethlehem and 15 to nice's car ss exam offered to students may 17 students who were unable to take the regularly scheduled selective service college qualification tests in november 1955 and april 1956 will be able to do so on thursday may 17 1956 applications for the may 17 test must be postmarked no later than next monday may 7 the special test will be administered by science research associates inc a student need not have applied for one of the previous tests in order to be eligible applicants for the test will receive assistance in filling out their application cards from the bethlehem board clerks sue alcock named spring hp queen miss sue alcock a 19-year-od beauty from west chester pa was chosen spring houseparty queen from among three finalists at friday night's formal the brunette queen attends goldy-beacon business school in wil mington del and was a blind date for don macclymont 58 which should up the prestige of prospective blind dates considerably judges for the contest were miss cornelia otis skinner scl performer and noted dramatist paul george a regular houseparty judge and al lentown photographer and eddie grady leader of the commanders judging began at 11:15 p.m and ended at about midnight with the crowning of the queen coming among all the confusion usually evi 1 dent at this semi-annual event in spite of the efforts of the junior class officers to calm the gathering the dance was attended by about 900 couples with the mu sic reported more danceable than most houseparty bands have supplied in the past dec orations were beautiful and me dieval in setting carrying off the knight's rendezvous theme very well the dance immediately followed the skinner performance presented by scl a breakfast sponsored by rhc topped off the evening setting teh scene for saturday's picnics bal game and the saturday night fra ternity parties sweet sue—miss sue alcock the newly-crowned queen of house party and her date don macclymont 58 pose for the birdie miss alcock a 19-year-old pennsylvanian was a blind-date and won out over three other finalists rare editions given library by honeyman a total of 3,953 rare books first edition manuscripts and other liter ary material has been given to le high university by mr and mrs robert b honeyman 20 of san juan gapistrano calif the collection valued at ap proximately 170,000 covers the fields of american and english literature bibliography the classics and the history of sci ence the gift to be known as the hon eyman collection will be housed in the university library according to a ruling of the board of trustees the significance of the honey man collection said librarian james d mack lies in the fact that here in one place may be found the earl iest editions of many of our most familiar works of creative genius the collection will be available to students included in the collection is an edition of pliny's historia na turalis printed in 1469 13 years after the printing of the guten berg bible other volumes date as far back as 1550 and 1590 other prized documents include the declaration of the franco - prussian war signed by kaiser wil helm 11 and a copy of hitler's mein kampf inscribed by hitler himself honeyman is a native of sea bright n.j his father was gradu ated from lehigh in 1888 the don or's son robert 8 was a lehigh graduate in 1947 labor dispute disrupts center dorm projects a general labor-contractor dispute in the lehigh valley has stopped work at all three construction sites on campus representing a 3,063,000 temporary stoppage work on the three — the new university center the new dormitory and the phi sigma kappa house is at a virtual standstill according to superintendent of buildings and grounds andrew litzenberger the lehigh valley construction council is assisting in negotiations with the construction and general laborers union local 1174 and the plumbers and steamfitters local 670 pickets appeared tuesday and wednesday mornings at entrances to the university at brodhead ave and new st on packer ave with signs no contract — no work the contractors and unions have reportedly been negotiating for about a week with no settlement yet in sight the pickets are not sanctioned by the unions but they succeeded in gaining the sympathy of other workers and many not involved in the dispute have failed to show up for work the laborer's union is reportedly asking for a 30 cent per hour pay in crease with fringe benefits while the plumbers and heaters are asking for 40 cents construction in other parts of the valley including some work at st luke's has been halted by the walkout in an effort to stop the strike the lehigh valley construction council sent out word that laborers who re mained on the job until negotiations are completed would be paid retro active to the expiration of the old contract which expired monday night work stoppage occurred however and now the earliest to expect results is tomorrow morning according to litzenberger litzenberger stated there is no chance for agreement before friday night when a genuine effort will be made by both sides to get together the meeting referred to is to be held tonight in the office of the le high valley construction council where it is hoped settlement will be reached with the union davies ends conference with sermon in chapel j the eighth annual conference on i religion will end sunday with the conference leader the rev horton davies delivering the sermon at the chapel service at 11 a.m the confer ence has been in progress since wednesday dr davies topic will be the relevance of christianity dr davies lectures which began on wednesday with discussion of puritanism its advantages and disadvantages were open to students not enrolled in the courses in which the talks were presented a native of south wales davies gives his final lectures this after non in williams 102 at 4:10 p.m and tomorrow morning in coppee 27 on the bible the words and the word of god today's topic is christian unity the distinguished british theolo gian and church historian is at pres ent professor of religion at princeton university prior to accepting this post he was head of the department of church history at mansfield and regent's park colleges oxford uni versity dr davies received both his m.a and his b.d degrees at edinburgh university and his ph.d from oxford today's address at 1 p.m in christmas saucon 303 dealt with gerard manley hopkins — priest and poet an earlier lecture on wednesday at 3 p.m he spoke on the early works of t s eliot and the religious significance of eliot's early works one of dr davies most interest ing talks occurred thursday at a fac ulty seminar at 4:10 p.m when he spoke on the place of theology in the modern university dr davies is the author of the worship of the english puritans in 1948 great south african chris tians 1951 the english free churches 1952 and christian devia | tions his most recent work publish ! ed in 1953 arcadia drops watson due to many absences james e watson 57 has been dropped from arcadia for exceeding the allowable number of absences this action was taken by arcadia at its april 25 meeting watson's re placement will be notified in time for the next arcadia meeting arcadia voted to send a letter of appreciation to andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds congrat ulating him on the decision to pave broughal parking lot this summer the university has al located 9,000 for this purpose robert k haltenhoff arthur f veinott jr f bruce waechter and william e zeiter all seniors and former arcadians have been nomi nated for the dean's service award springtime stop—part of the 900 couples who attended spring houseparty dance to the music of elliot lawrence and his orchestra downstairs in grace hall others danced to the strains of eddie grady and ihs famous commanders sec b&w page 4 see solons page 6