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B ff j y ' - Vol. 77, No. 122 16 pages
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Hickton leaves for England
USG vice
By KATHY O’TOOLE
Collegian Staff Writer
Undergraduate Student Government Vice
President Dave Hickton said yesterday he will
resign from office as of March 14, because he
will not be at University Park for the full Spring
Term.
Hickton said he is participating in the
University’s Foreign Studies program, and will
leave for Exeter University in England on
March 16.
Ordinarily, he said, his term in office would be
completed on April 1,' following the induction of
the new USG officers. But this year, he said, the
Senate passed a bill that would extend USG
members’ terms in office to the seventh week of
the term, providing a four-week transition
period for the new executives.
The bill was recommended to the Senate by
Quebec party seeks
QUEBEC CITY, Canada (AP) An in
dependent Quebec would move closer to the
United States economically and might encourage
worker participation in the management of
private enterprise, the provincial government’s
chief economic planner says.
“The future for Quebec is in the processing of
our raw material products here, and in many
north-south international exchanges with the
United States, especially the East Coast,” said
Bernard Landry, minister of state for economic
development.
Landry, 39, is a member of the three-month
old Parti Quebecois (PQ) government. The PQ
has vowed to lead the French-speaking province
toward independence from the rest of English
dominated Canada and says it will put the
question to Quebec voters in a referendum.
Economic and cultural concerns are in
tertwined in the separatist movement, Landry
Envoy attempts to settle Canal feud
PANAMA CITY, Panama (UPI) The U.S.
team trying to settle the long-festering feud over
the Panama Canal said yesterday President
Carter is anxious to conclude a new treaty at the
earliest possible date.
$ Senior Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who
helped lay the groundwork for the talks, and Sol
Linowitz, an old hand at Latin American
diplomacy, landed at Tocumen airport and
talked briefly to reporters before flying on to the
small island of Contadora, where the talks will
be held.
The U.S. delegation was greeted at Tocumen
by Foreign Minister Nicholas Gonzalez Revilla,
who last Thursday replaced Aquilino Boyd at the
head of the Panamanian negotiating team.
Bunker, making his 17th trip to the Central
Centre Region needs extra power line, utility says
Editor's note: This is the first in a two
part series.
By JAMES DePIETRO
Collegian Staff Writer
Power lines do not move gently or
gracefully through the landscape. They
leave a trail 100 feet wide wherever they
go. Most people probably would say it is
a small price to pay for the convenience
and comfort received from theelectricity
tl® lines carry.
West Penn Power Co., a subsidiary of
Allegheny Power System, has decided
that an additional 230-kilovolt trans
mission line from the Shingletown
substation to the Milesburg power
station is needed to meet the power
demands of the Centre Region. The new
line will increase the load-carrying
capacity of the region seven times. Cost
of the project is estimated at $3 million.
West Penn has indicated a preference
for what has been called the “eastern
route.” This route goes from the base of
Tussey Ridge, across Harris Township,
over Mt. Nittany, and into Milesburg.
Power officials say this is also the
cheapest route to build.
The Centre Region Comprehensive
Plan says all new utility lines should go
through already existing paths. The
power company has rejected use of the
existing right of way, saying it would
defeat one of the main purposes of the
project —increased reliability.
William Henery, a University
graduate student in economics, did a
cost-benefit analysis of the alternative
routes.
“The reliability issue is hard to
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assess,” Henery said. “The two 230-kv
lines that carry power to the
Shingletown substation run along
parallel lines. So if the reliability of the
system is equal to the weakest line, all
you would be doing is making the ser
vices within this region more reliable.”
“If there is a decision here as to how
much unreliability we should live with,
who should make that decision?” Ron
Milito, a University instructor of Health
Education, asked.
Here is the point at which the con
troversy grows into an issue larger than
just that of route selection.
It would appear that if the power
company is serving the needs of an area
and if it needed additional capacity to do
a better job| the community would be
thankful for the service. After all, who
wants to turn on a light switch and not
.have the light goon?
But the problem is some local
residents and community officials
disagree with the power company on
how to improve community service. Also
they want to know that if a larger
capacity is needed, what the judgment is
based on.
Although many officials are not
convinced a new line is needed, the
problem is that there is no way to
evaluate what the power company says.
Paul D. Weener of Boalsburg owns
property that will be intersected by the
power line if the eastern route is chosen.
According to Weener, there are other
issues besides route selection that are
involved in the power line controversy.
They include the utilities’ power of
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Rick Glazier, chairman of the USG
Reorganization Committee, Hickton said. Since
it will require an amendment to the USG con
stitution, the bill must also be approved by the
other Executive Council organizations to take
effect, he said.
“Everyone seems to be in favor of it,” Hickton
said. “I think it’s in the best interests of the
students to have someone replace me to help
with the transition.”
Hickton said he has not discussed any possible
replacements with USG President W. T.
Williams.
“It’s entirely up to W.T. We haven’t even
tossed any names around,” he said. “All I know
is that it will be someone who knows what’s
going on; someone who can help with the
transition.”
said in a recent interview.
“In the Quebec tradition the fight against
domination has always linked the two patterns,
the cultural and the economic,” he said.
“We have discovered through the years that if
you don’t have good control over your economy,
your culture is in danger.”
Landry said he and his staff have been
studying Western European worker par
ticipation schemes, “but we have not chosen any
formula at the moment. ” .
"I favor participation, especially when I
consider the West German experience, where it
has given evidence of increased efficiency,
social harmony and other benefits,” he said.
Under the West German plan, worker
representatives sit on company supervisory
boards and have a strong voice in major
decisions. 1
But Landry said such power-sharing in Quebec
American nation, said the United States is
willing and eager to negotiate a new pact set
tling the dispute over which country will control
the waterway.
“A successful negotiation requires that each
side bring to the negotiating table the political
will to conclude a treaty,” Bunker said. “I can
assure you that on the U.S. side such political
will exists.”
He also said, “We have made known to our
Panamanian friends our concern that the just
interest of the canal employees be safeguarded.
We are confident that Panama shares this
concern.”
Linowitz said the United States wants to sign
the treaty quickly, but added, “such agreement
must, of course, assure the availability of the
canal for world commerce at all times, and it
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Hickton said he is announcing his resignation
in advance to give Williams time to choose a
suitable replacement.
“I also wanted to clear the field for those
planning to run for USG president," he said.
Choosing to go to England was a difficult
decision, Hickton said.
“I wish I didn’t have to resign,” he said. “I’d
like to be here to run for president.” •
Hickton said he feels his year in office has been
very worthwhile. '
“I’ve seen so much progress this year,” he
said. “There’s a lot of programs that have been
started that I’d like to stick around to work on.”
Hickton will continue to take part in Black
Caucus next year, he said.
“I’ll also serve USG in any capacity I can,” he
added.
would probably not be made mandatory by
legislation. Instead, the PQ might make it a
condition for joint business-government ven
tures “In other words, not a legal intervention
but other kinds of pressure from the govern
ment.”
Landry, a lawyer and economist, helped
create the Quebec mining and petroleum
development corporations in the 19605. At that
time he was working for . Natural Resources
Minister Rene Levesque, who later became PQ
leader and is now Quebec’s premier.
“I became a separatist while I was a civil'
servant in the Ministry of Natural Resources in
1964,” Landry said. “We had a feeling of
powerlessness. The real power was in Ottawa.”
Nationalization of private enterprise will not
be “an important instrument” in Quebec’s
economic plans, Landry said with the possible
exception of the asbestos industry.
must protect the security of the canal.
The talks, expected to last about four days,
were to begin tomorrow when the Panamanian
team joins the Americans in Contadora island.
President Carter, putting settlement of the
dispute with Panama near the top of his foreign
policy priority list, assigned Linowitz former
U.S. ambassador to the Organization of
American States to join Bunker as joint heads
of the U.S. negotiating team.
One major issue is Panama’s demand for
control of the Canal Zone, which the United
States has held since a 1903 treaty established
Panama’s independence from Colombia.
Others are the status of Americans living and
working in the zone; the duration of a new
treaty; and the possibility of eventually making
the strategic waterway a neutral zone.
eminent domain and the question of
conservation vs. expansion.
“We have tried to use this issue as a
forum,” Weener said. “We can’t attack
the larger picture of energy use but we
can start here and make sure that this is
necessary.
“The main problem is that the utility
companies are making decisions for the
entire community as to how we will grow
and what our energy use will be. The
people never get a chance to decide that
for themselves. We want to see other
inputs brought to the equation instead of
doing what is the most profitable.”
The power companies were set up by
law to guarantee the reliable supply of
energy. Because of the high fixed costs
involved, it was thought they could
operate more efficiently as monopolies.
There are no energy use guidelines set
down for the comapnies. They operate
more or less like any private company.
Because they are monopolies, however,
the government regulates the rates they
charge to make sure the rates are not
excessive.
“Because of the structure of utilities,”
said Terri A. Ferrar, director of the
Center for the Study of Environmental
Policy, “some economists feel there is a
tendency for the utilities to overcapital
ize. Because the rates are based on the
ratio between revenues and total cap
ital, if you increase the capital invest
ment, then you decrease the rate of
return. This enables them to raise the
rate to increase the rate of return.”
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Freezing
for local
By JUDY MESKO
Collegian Staff Writer
Trusting their weather predictions to the
extent of investing money in them has made
Accu-Weather in State College a $40,000
profit in the frozen orange juice futures
market.
In mid January, the forecasters spotted a
massive cold front moving southward and
took up an office pool for a $5,000 investment
in frozen orange concentrate. They bought
the concentrate for 43 cents a pound and after
the sub-freezing Florida weather, the con
centrate was worth 70 cents a pound.
“The futures market in citrus products is
one of the few places where you can ac
curately predict the economic effects of
weather,” Accu weather vice president Elliot
Abrams said. “If the weather gets cold in
Florida you know the price of citrus is going
to go up.”
The forecasters publicized their weather
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their investments. They announced that the
cold front moving southward would reach
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“Anyone who listens to Accu-Weather
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Ambassador's comments
'not critical/ Carter says
PLAINS, Ga. (UPI) President Carter said
yesterday he did not believe U.N. Ambassador
Andrew Young’s statements about Henry
•Kissinger’s handling of the Rhodesian situation
were meant “in a critical way.”
The President, obviously enjoying his first
weekend back home, attended church before
flying back to Washington to receive an evening
briefing from Young and to welcome
• Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo today.
As he wound up his 10-day visit to Africa,
Young commented that Kissinger, in seeking to
bring black majority rule to Rhodesia, “put a
burden on Britain’s back and then abandon
them.”
Carter, standing on the grounds of the Plains
Baptist Church where he gave opening prayers
at the men’s Bible class and the worship service,
was asked about Young’s comments.
“Because of the election year,” he replied, “it
was obvious President Ford and Secretary
Kissinger couldn’t proceed as vigorously or with
winter profitable
weather staffers
negotiations with other countries also affect
the price of crops, he said.
Accu-Weather tried investing in orange
concentrate eight years ago when another
cold front was approaching Florida, but the
freeze wasn’t widespread and Accu-Weather
waited too long before selling its shares,
Myers said.
“We actually lost money on that one,” he
said.
The weather has to have a major effect on
a crop in order to affect its price, he added. A
freeze in citrus-growing areas happens only
once every eight or 15 years. It happened this
year for only two nights, but it had great
impact on the citrus crops, he said. Less
orange juice was available and the price
went up, he said.
The expected flooding this spring from all
the melting snow won’t have a sizeable effect
on crop prices, Myers said. The streams and
rivers won’t flood into fields but they may
hinder crop transportation, he said.
Accu-Weather sells predictions to about 45
radio and television stations in the country as
well as to 50 ski areas and several hundred
municipal governments nationwide.
Accu-Weather could sell its predictions to
commodity brokerage firms but many firms
already employ weather fore asters, Myers
said.
The profitable prediction could bring in
more clients for Accu-Weather, he said
adding, “there have been a few inquiries
already.”
as much influence on Rhodesia as they could
have had President Ford been re-elected.
“I don’t think Andy said it in a critical way. As
long as Kissinger was destined to be secretary
four more years or whatever, he had more in
fluence to help the British.”
The name of Eva Whitley, Association for
Women Students outgoing president, was
misspelled in Friday’s issue of The Daily
Collegian.
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cloudiness and blustery today with a few passing
flurries. High 36. Chance of snow developing late
tonight and continuing tomorrow. Low tonight 23
and high tomorrow 27.
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