—The Highacres Collegian Severe drought hits local counties During the past several months Schuylkill, Carbon, Luzerne and several other counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as areas throughout the nation have been plagued with and are forced to deal with a severe water shortage. Residents of many Hazleton area com munities, among the hardest hit areas of the drought, have been restricted to state-imposed water rationing plans. In the nearby community of Summit Hill, for instance, ration ing will mean a water use limit of 40-55 gallons per person each day for those people in a single residence, and rationing will be slightly less for families or homes with more than one occupant. Hazleton residents have been provided with a special number with which, by a phone call, their daily allotments of water can be acquired. At press time, the reservoir which supplies water to the Hazleton area contains only ap proximately 20 percent of its capacity. Factories, businesses, homeowners, and even schools are forced to comply with water conservation plans. The Highacres campus of Penn State, in compliance with water-use Economic Recession affects Northeast The third quarter of this year was in many ways a repetition of the second quarter for the economy of this three-county metropolitan area. The recession continued to take its toll. Employment changes did not match seasonal patterns and unemployment rose. Local in dustries supplied a disappointing number of jobs. Checkbook spen ding was weak. But the toll was not nearly so heavy as past recessions have taken in this area. Despite losses, the level of jobs supplied by in dustries located here is 5 percent higher than it was right after the last recession. Employment of people who live in the area, regardless of where they work, is generally at as good a level as it was last year in the third quarter. While it plum meted from January through Ju ly, about 80 percent of the loss was recovered in August and September. By September, unemployment was at its lowest seasonally ad- restrictions has had its swimm ing pool closed for the winter term, forcing the cancellation of several physical education classes which made use of the pool. Area business establishments have been forced to cut consump tion by at least 25 percent, and water is not supposed to be serv ed in restaurants unless so re quested by the patron. These conservation measures, which may seem ridiculous and unreasonable to the citizens of the local communities faced with this extreme shortage of water, must be adhered to and taken seriously. Some helpful tips for conserva tion are: wash only full loads of clothing or dishes, avoid washing cars and watering grass or garden areas, make sure all faucets are shut off completely, and only flush toilets when it is absolutely necessary. Without full compliance' with water restriction regulations and cooperation with "mother nature" in providing our area with enough rainfall before the ground completely freezes for the winter, the extreme water shor tage that has plagued our area for the past several months may drag on indefinitely. justed point since March. Fac tory activity began to improve before the quarter ended. The factory sector, after losing jobs from February through July, restored about a third of its losses in August and September. Now the level is about where it was toward the end of last year, which wasn't bad at all. Within the area, its major in dustrial counties, Lackawanna and Luzerne, had differing ex perience with their factory sec tors. In Lackawanna County, the job level stayed relatively good. Luzerne County, on the other hand, dropped in July to the lowest factory job level in 21 years and so far has not made much of a recovery. Luzerne County continues to de pend more heavily than does Lackawanna on the soft goods producers: 64 percent of its fac tory jobs were in this industry group in 1978, 57 percent for Lackawanna. It appears that the durable goods producers are holding their Jobs better now, and HASD Teacher joins faculty part-time A part-time instructor from the Hazleton Area School District Joined the Highacres faculty Winter term to help the shorthanded campus English staff handle an overflow of students scheduled to take Dr. Jump* English 10 and 20 classes. Miss Arnold, an English and J. Jumpeter literature teacher at Hazleton High School, is teaching English earns doctorate 10 sixth periods Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at the Professor Joseph Jumpeter of Hazleton campus. the Pennsylvania State Urdversi , The part-time teaching position ty, Hazleton Campus, has receiv is only temporary, according to ed his Doctorate degree in Music Campus Director Dr. William Education from the Penn- David. "She will be employed on- Sylvania State University in ly Winter term," David said, but November. he went on to say that "if the need For his doctorate Professor arises," Miss Arnold may be ask- Jumpeter did his research on an ed to work for the University experimental study with a again. "Part-time faculty are teaching method called the Per employed on a term-by-term sonalized System of Instruction. basis," the director explained. He used the PSI method in a Because of high enrollment and Music Appreciation Course the absence of one faculty where it has never been used member, Mr. Breckenridge, who before. is studying for his doctorate at Professor Jumpeter the University of Pittsburgh, campus officials found it necessary to hire an outside in structor. Miss Arnold is not new on the college level. At Luzerne County Community College, Miss Arnold taught a composition and literature course (English 102), and at Lackawanna Junior Col lege she taught a similar course so helping Lackawanna. While durable goods industries tend to fluctuate more than others dur ing business cycles, this par ticular recession seems to be hav ing a spotty effect, hitting certain industries much more severely than others. How it would affect a particular area depends partly on what the relationship is between the firms there and other firms in their own industry. So there is room for conjecture on why this area, so badly hurt so often in the past, seems to be far ing better this time. Of course part of the answer is that this is not such a severe recession so far, compared with others. A certain amount of strength has developed recently in na tional conditions, but conditions here are not likely to get a strong boost any time soon. Excerpted from the Nov. edition of the Pennsylvania Business Survey published at The Penn sylvania State University. Alice Warne is the editor. E. R. Eisenberg gets promotion Elliot R. Eisenberg, an instruc tor at The Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus, was recently promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor of Engineering. Professor Eisenberg is a graduate of Cornell University where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering Physics and his M.S. in Aero Space Engineering. In addition Eisenberg did advanced graduate work at Cornell Univer sity and Clarkson College in the field of Fluid and Thermal Sciences. Prior to teaching at Hazleton Campus, Eisenberg was an in structor for three years at Clarkson College. In addition, he did summer work for the Boeing Students spored Tuition Hike by Chris Hausammann Tuition at Penn State has in creased each fall term over the past ten years due to many fac tors, the largest of which is infla tion, according to Dr. William David, Campus Director. As long as current inflation continues, David said he "sees no end to this pattern." This past summer, however, in flation was not the only problem which threatened PSU students with a mid-year tuition hike. Although tuition was raised by ten and one-half percent for the fall term, it was rumored that there would also be another in crease for winter term. As students now know, there was no tuition Increase for the winter term. The possibility for such an increment, though, was very real, as expected state fun ding for the University took an unexpected turn. Each year the Pennsylvania State Legislature appropriates money to various institutions, agencies, etc., which it divides in to two broad categories "pref erred" and "non preferred." Into the preferred graduate of the Pennsylvania State University where he receiv ed his Bachelor of BciencedeOree in Music education, his Master of Fine Ake degree in vocal per formance, and his Master of Education in 'secondary ituisic education. He is a member Of many pro fessional organizations which in clude: the Pennsylvania Music Education Association, Music Education National Conference, and the American Choral Direc tors Association. He also serves as the Pennsylvania represen tative for Junior Colleges on the National Committee of the American Choral Directors Assn. In addition he is a member of Phi Mu Alpha, a national music honorary society, Phi Delta Kap pa, a professional music society, and the College Music Society. At the Hazleton Campus, Dr. Jumpeter is the Director of Chorus. ' The chorus presents a number of concerts for the area throughout the year along with the annual Medieval Festival. Off campus Dr. Jumpeter is a soloist at the Beth Israel Temple in. Hazleton and serves , as organist and choir director for the First Methodist Church in Berwick. He is also on the Board of Directors and a member of the Hazleton Oratorio Society. Company as an assistant Research Engineer, involved in analytic work relating to the sonic boom. Also, he was assis tant Aeronautical Engineer for the Claspal Corporation, where he assisted in research in pro blems of Chemical Kinetics. His professional membership includes American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Secretary for the Mechanics Division of American Society for Engineering Education, American Association of Univer sity Professors, and Sigma Xi. At the Hazleton Campus, Eisenberg teaches mechanics, thermodynamics and graphics. He serv es , as group leader for the Mechanical Engineering Technical program appropriational category fall all state-owned institutions, agen cies, and the state government itself. Since Penn State is not a state-owned institution, but is, in stead, a state-related one, it belongs to the non-preferred category. Before any non-preferred fun ding can be distributed, all preferred appropriations must be made. The problem this summer was that after making these preferred allotments, the amount of money which remained for non-preferred appropriations was lower than anticipated. This initially meant that the Governor would not be able to give the University the total state ap propriation previously planned for the year. After discovering an abate ment process which allowed him to give Penn State full appropria tion for the months of July, August, and September, Gover nor Thornburgh later was able to raise the funds necessary to con tinue full appropriation. As a result, PSU students did not face a tuition hike for the winter term.
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