Brown and White Vol. 62 no. 8

              deferments extended for thirty days audience appeal has been the principal concern of the planners of this year's production accord ing to herb hoover coordinating director down in the valley by kurt weill lehigh victor ious a musical presentation of the record-breaking 1950 football season and varied folk themes make up the program of music wandering wastebasket sent home a wastepaper basket with a yearning for knowledge myster iously turned up in one of the dorms recently its presence was discovered and it was returned to the sidewalks of new york from whence it came it was one of the 374 heavy wire litters which has disappear ed from new york streets in the past year it was returned by dean j d leith dean leith in hi letter to the sanitation department wrote we do not know un der what circumstances the item was transported nor by whom lehigh paid shipping charges of 1.94 for the return of the 44 pound wayward basket to its street corner home the check was returned accompanied by a letter from henry liebman sani tation department official he wrote we are ready to allow new york's official conscience to have the last word in the matter of reimbursement if we have to face russia again we must not fight the rus sian people but the russian gov ernment in his lecture on 18 months with the russian government dr miroslav kerner now doing research on russian laws at har vard told a meeting of the cos mopolitan club sunday night that it is too late to negotiate a peace dr kerner a native of czechoslovakia spent from nov 1943 until the end of the war as an officer in the chechoslovakian army at tached to the russian army he was among a group which left england to join the red army in russia dr kerner told of ihe inefficient planes poor roads crowded quarters and poorly equipped troops which russia | red cross cautions blood donors on diet dr miroslav kerner pershing rifle drill unit gels second place a spectacular exhibition of pre cision drilling brought second place to lehigh's penning rifle drill team saturday in the na tional invitational drill meet at the university of illinois eleven teams from schools throughout the country partici pated to train for ihe meet the persh ing rifles group trained for three weeks from 7 to 8 a.m and 4 to 6 p.m on the return trip the group was delayed lor three hours be fqjjg takeoff due to a heavy snow bioxtt all members of the lehigh fam ily who have volunteered to do nate blood friday at grace hall are urged by the blood program committee to return their verifica tion cards for appointment as soon as possible and also to watch their diets nearly three-fourths of the cards returned to dale indicate that only six students have can celed their scheduled appoint ment three have asked for re scheduling at a later date while others have changed their minds completely in making up the de ficit for cancellations replace ments will come from the 26 hold overs retention of n s a discussed continued memership in nsa and the problem of providing a campus infirmary were discussed by arcadia at its meeting last thursday evening at next year's arcadia elec tions the student body will vote on the referendum question should the lehigh student gov ernment retain membership in n.s.a.r richard saraydar n.s.a committee chairman who was , f e author of the motion felt that by next march membership in ihe national group will have proved itself one way or the other for students to vote on it echoing a brown and white editorial which stress ed the desirability of a cam pus infirmary vice-president lapides made a successful motion that the new arcadia be urged to appoint a com mittee to investigate the mat ter v other business before the coun cil included the fact that the fac ulty evaluation plan committee will send letters to the faculty to see r&a page 7 those who are to donate blood are reminded by the red cross to watch their diets butter cream fats meat eggs or fried foods should not be eaten for four hours before donating blood light refreshments are desirable during this four-hour period in the light-food category are included : fruit fruit juices bread crackers dry toast raw vegeta bles boiled in plain water jam jelly or honey skimmed milk black coffee or tea with sugar every donor should arrange to be at the bloodmobile for at least one hour local selective service boards have been ordered to grant ad ditional 30-day postponements to all college students upon receipt of a written application the post ponements are meant to give stu dents the opportunity to enlist in a branch of the service of their choice or to obtain employment in essential industry if they are technically qualified according to correspondence received from the director of se lective service these postpone ments will go into effect at the end of the statutory postponement for students pursuing full time study statutory postponement is defined as the close of the academic year or the failure ef a student to do satisfactory work whichever is earlier ist addition the statutory term expires upon graduation un less students enroll for furth er work for the remainder of the current year local boards are authorized to cancel ihe order to report for the induction of anyone apply ing for the postponement during the 30-day period the student may enlist in branch of the ser vice and a new order for induc tion will be issued if the student has not enlisted within the 30 day period during the postponement per see deferments page 3 ticket sales announced for festival volume 62 — number 9 i.e yu 8 bethlehem pa perm state is first lu second in el wa filipos feuerbach win titles tuesday march 13 1951 smiles o victory see state page 5 cision and previously unbeaten john lee of harvard in the semi finals karns made the finals by defeating bob gerbino 1950 champ from syracuse lehigh continued its dominance in ihe lower weights when george feuerbach won a hard fought 6-3 decision from lou tickets for the 1951 lehigh mu sic festival go on sale thursday in the festival office on the lop floor of drown hall three prices have been decided upon for the tickets to the fourth annual pro duction on friday and saturday april 13 and 14 in grace hall reserved seats will cost 1.80 and 1.60 and unreserved will cost 1.30 blocks of seats can be reserved by living groups for either performance in the 1.60 sections louis neuweiler sales manager announced this week combined beaver-lehigh re hearsals began saturday at bea ver college when the lehigh group traveled to jenkintown pa to rehearse for the festival and to appear in a combined con cert another beaver-lehigh re hearsal is scheduled for next sat urday mike filipos left and george feuerbach right leare no doubts as to their feelings of being crowned champs in the 113 and 130 pound divisions gerald leeman acting lehigh coach if shown congratulating the pair after the meet ex-red officer believes soviet people blameless see picture page t had the speaker went on to tell how see ex-red page 4 lehigh university with the aid of two champions perm state's nittany lions won the 47ih eastern intercollegiate wrestling championships at state college friday and saturday for ihe tenth time since its entrance to the league lehigh the runner up in ihe tourney also had two champions along with one each for princeton cornell rutgers and yale at the end of the final bouts george graeson yale 167 pounder was awarded a trophy as the most outstanding wrestler in the tournament mike filipos of lehigh de feated bob kams of west point saturday night to re gain the 123-lb champion ship that he lost last year when defeated by bob ger bino of syracuse hants at one time led mike 2-0 but filipos escaped and later cored a take-down to win 14 filipos gained the right to wrestle in the final round by de feating walt powell of perm by a fall in the preliminary round john reese of perm state by de inside ... oldest grad 3 sports 4 5 editorials „ .* little 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