Brown and White Vol. 74 No. 25

              lehigh university brown and white vol 74 — no 25 bethlehem pa tuesday jan 8 1963 134,500 given toll in december i 25,0c0 from esso — dr harvey a neville university president receives a check from j e jones manager of | wilkes-bare district of humble oil and refining co a bequest of 108,000 grants in the amounts of 25,000 and | 1,000 and an unrestricted gift of 500 were given to the | university during december university treasurer elmer w glick announced on decem p ber 28 that the university had received the first sum as a bequest | from the estate of the late luther d menough 01 glick said the bequest would be used to establish an en i dowment fund in honor of menough in providing for the be quest menough specified in his will that it be paid to lehigh in appreciation for the lasting friendships formed during my student days and the benefits received by me from my educa | tion at lehigh menough also bequeathed 1,000 to the beta pi house asso 1 ciation of lehigh in 1939 he was a member of that fraternity new york city opera company here feb 3rd the new york city opera com pany in a program sponsored by the university committee on per forming arts will present the turn of the screw here sunday feb 3 the opera adapted from henry james short novel was first per formed by the company in the spring of 1962 and was awarded a citation by the new york music critics circle the lehigh performance to be given in the broughal junior high school auditorium at 3:15 p m sunday afternoon will launch a four-week national tour by the company new york times critic har old c schonberg called the brit ten opera a brilliant synthesis of music and action and an ex ample of how a clever composer can suppress eliminate come up with exactly the right harmony the perfect emotional mood and create a gripping stage work concerning the performance of miss neway in the role of the gov ernment the critic noted she is a brilliant actress and was com : pletely convincing tickets for the lehigh perform ance will be on sale at the uni versity center the university of fice of public information in the alumni buiding and huff's music store in bethlehem arcadia to weigh changes in procedures for elections substantial modifications arcadia xvi will consider sub stantial modifications in the elec tion procedures for arcadia and class elections tomorrow night the reduction of polling stations from four to three the hiring of graduate students to man the sta tions and the extension of voting time are the major revisions pro posed by the arcadia elections review commission r steven schiavo 63 presi dent of arcadia xvi appointed the commission to review and discuss the procedures employed in the recent arcadia elections and to make recommendations for improved efficiency and the facil itating of such procedures in the future the commission was appointed to eliminate confusion and irreg ularities from arcadia elections the last elections were postponed one day because the name of one of the 18 candidates had been omitted from the ballot and an other had been mispelled the commission felt that the present regulations and techniques employed in student elections tend to give rise to confusion which causes considerable doubt in our minds as to the advisability of continuing the present system the commission said problems pa seeks schumacher for state police head lt col f w schumacher professor of military science said yesterday he was asked during the christmas vacation to submit an application for the post of commissioner of pennsylvania state police he said reports in the local press that he had been formally offered the job were misleading he was quoted in the bethlehem globe times as rejecting the offer because the position is open four months before the earliest date at which he can retire from the army with 20 years service and he could not afford to sacrifice the retirement pay he said yesterday that to retire from the army he would have to submit a request and the army has the option of granting or deny ing it but he said if there were no obstacles preventing him from obtaining the post he would like it very much itt lab seen for area would co-operate with u i have every confidence that the international telephone and telegraph co will locate proposed electron tube laboratories someplace in this area professor john j karakash head of the depart ment of electrical engineering said last night the bethlehem globe-ttimes reported on dec 20 that itt would build a 4 million plant and re search tract on a 24-acre tract in palmer township near easton but the allentown morning call and the easton express quoted company repre sentatives on the following day as saying the pal mer site was one of several throughout the nation being considered by the company karakash emphasized that no official announce ment has been made by the company he says he has no information on a specific site the university was linked to the itt project in a dec 28 globe times story which said represen tatives of itt visited here to con fer with karakash on dec 27 karakash however was not in bethlehem that day he said last night that the company has already expressed a formal interest in graduate work the university is planning in the field of micro wave tubes itt representatives are known to have visited the campus as early as november to discuss the project with president harvey a neville an official company announce ment on the project is expected by the end of the month the pennsylvania industrial de velopment authority has approved a loan of 910,000 to the easton area industrial promotional enter prises for the itt development because the pida normally loans about 40 per cent of the total cost of projects of this type cost of the facility was later estimated in local papers at 2.5 million last week's snow — lehigh's snowplow jeep cleared lower campus last saturday attempting to clear roads of dangerous ice which formed in freezing temperatures u adds 425,000 computer unit a 425,000 general electric-225 computer — between 20 and 30 times as fast as the lgp-30 computer formerly the major campus unit — was moved into the packard labora tory computer lab during the christmas va cation the new unit stands in the glass-walled computer lab like a row of shiny refrigera tors and freezers william a smith jr associate director of industrial engineering and director of the computer laboratory said the ge-225 will be able to handle more and larger research prob lems and will be better able to serve more than 20 different university departments because the ge-225 is a solid-state com puter and uses a magnetic tape core memory it can handle problems several times as large as the lgp-30 could smith said the new computer's access file can store the equivalent of 34.5 million decimal-digits on each of the four files which comprise the controller the average access time to a single location is 158 milliseconds on the other hand its average time for the division of a ten-decimal-digit dividend by a five-decimal-digit divisor is 450 micro seconds or 00045 seconds besides the central processing console ge 225 components include magnetic tape units for information storage punched cards and punched paper tape for input-output of infor mation a typewriter for input of material and commands and a high-speed printer for the output of written results smith said that despite the 425,000 value of the computer an educational discount sub stantially reduced the cost to the university see ibm page 5 see arcadia page 7