WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1968
Convention Rejects
Tax Amendments
HARRISBURG (fP) Constitutional Convention dele
gates rejected yesterday two proposed amendments that
would have removed the exemptions from real estate taxes
now granted to Pennsylvania public utilities.
One amendment, introduced by delegates Blain C.
Hooker of Dauphin County, would have permitted the
le-:i 'ators to impose a uniform, state-wide real estate tax
on the operating facilities of utility companies. The state
would have distributed revenue from the tax to local
municipalities.
Hocker’s amendment was defeated by a 101-49 vote.
The second amendment, submitted by delegate William
J. C. O'Donnell of Chester County, would have permitted
local government units to levy real estate taxes on utility
properly now immune from such taxes. It was defeated by
a 90-53 vote.
Both amendments were designed to replace a Taxa
tion and State Finance Committee recommendation that
would r equHe the state to return to all local municipalities
a portio i of the gross-receipts tax it collects from utilities.
OpDonents of the committee proposal argued that it
would harm rather than help the state’s financial structure
by knocking a hole in the state budget.
“This proposal would not be a tax on utilities, but a
tax on the commonwealth,” Hocker said, pointing out that
any funds taken out of the gross receipts tax would create
a deficit in the General Fund.
Delegates of the committee proposal, however, argued
that a real estate levy would penalize utilities, which are
the only firms that pay the gross receipts tax.
Moreover, they contend that the imposition of a real
estate tax would only lead to higher rates for Pennsyl
vania’s consumers.
Fohner state Sen. Robert P. Casey disputed this
viewpoint, however. “I am hard pressed to explain to con
sumers, who pay many taxes in addition to real estate
taxes, why utilities should be exempt from real estate
taxes simply because they have to pay tax A, B or C,”
Casey said.
Moreover, Casey took issue with statements that the
tax would penalize utility companies. “I am not concerned
with arguments that this would be unfair to or penalize
utilities,” he said. “From my experience in the Senate, I
know that the utilities are quite capable of taking care of
themselves.”
The utility proposal has generated controversy since it
was adopted by the tax panel two weeks ago. That action
came only after extended and often heated debate.
The exemptions utilities now enjoy are not granted
Under a constitutional provision, but because of a series of
court decisions.
Only operating facilities, such as power generating
stations, are tax exempt. Utilities do pay local real estate
taxes on other property, such as office buildings.
Singing Contest
Set for Monday
. Preliminaries for the “Greek ment for both competitions.
Week—’6B” Sing Competition Howard Schultzbei-g, a staff
will begin at 6:45 p.m. Monday member of Radi Station
in 112 Chambers, according .to WMAJ, will act as emcee for
Greek Week .o-Chairman Bob - the finals.
DiOrio. The finals for the com- The 14 sorority-fraternity
petition will be held Friday, choral groups are Delta Gam-
Feb. 23rd. ma and Chi Phi, A’pha Phi and
Choral groups representing ntu
the 28 participating sororities a li?.
and fraternities will sing two ?f >S i!* 0 2.^ u £ e; - Beta Tau,
selections each in the competi- *i u^™ 3 a
tion. Each choral group, con- Alpha Omicron Pi and Pi Kap
sisting of, eight members Sf
four sorority women and four sl > P
fraternity men—will sing one 7, Belta
number of their own choice. 'v a "hi Sigma Kappa, Al-
Their second arrangement will a lamina Delta and Phi
be a standard number selected IffP 3 Kappa Delta and
by the Sing Committee. Alpha Kappa lambda. Alpha
P h T v l is I ,rs b , e » r . , - ,e " , “ M " ra,r
rnyuis 1 saw. sigma chii and Kappa Kappa
Groups will be judged by pro- Gamma and Tau Kappa Epsi
fessors from the music depart- lon.
No Immediate Action
On Bookstore Issue
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initial funding of the enterprise can be managed by bor
rowing the money. “The cost of borrowing money can then
be applied to the operation throughout the year,” he said.
Regarding Lewis’s contention that there would be
delivery and timing problems,” Gerson said that any busi
ness organization would have to face these problems,
whether University or privately owned.
Gerson disagreed with Lewis’s comment that students
primarily interested in saving money on books, and
that this would be the basic reason for having a bookstore.
• A s , s * a * ec * ' n the report USG prepared, Gerson empha
sized that “students will not save a lot of money: our main
interest is in service to students and the academic value.”
Gerson said he realized that the administration “can
not snap their fingers and have things happen," but that
it has been a full year since USG passed the bill calling for
a bookstore, with no response from the University to this
time*
As a first step, Gerson said that Lewis would have to
make a provision for a full-time manager in the Book Ex
change m the budget, then subject it to the approval of
President Walker and the Board of Trustees.
The approval for a bookstore would have to go through
the same channels of the president and the trustees.
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Ofi, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
ONE CAN HARDLY see the machines for all the men at the University's computer
center. The Daily Collegian is running this picture as a public service to counter rumors
that the computer is making man obsolete.
Ex-Communist Luce Accuses
SDS of 'lnfantile Leftism'
By JIM HARVEY
Collegian Staff Writer
The aitference between the
“advocacy of civil disobedience
and the advocacy of attempting
to overthrow the government”
was discussed by Philip Abbott
Luce last night at: symposium
sponsored by me Young Ameri
cans for Freedom.
Luce, formerly a powerful
member of the Peking-oriented
Progressive Labor Party,
warned of the danger of con
sidering all leftist org?>"'-a
tions, such as Students” for a
Democratic Society, to be .suo
serviant to Communist leader
ship.
This, he said, not only gives
the Communists more credit
than they deserve, but jepor
dizes freedom of speech.
Luce criticized SDS and what
he called its policy of “infan
tile leftism” attempting to
destroy the present society
without concrete plans for re
building it.
Tims, Luce explained, an SDS
pamphlet instructs’. its mem
bers to run for student govern
emnt in the hope that enough
of them would be elected so
they could abolish it.
At its inception, Luce said,
SDS was financially supported
by the League for Industrial
Democracy, with the stipula
tion that communists could not
join.
When the LID leaders de
tected. a “close working rela
tionship” of SDS with commu
nist organizations, Luce con
tinued. they withdrew their fi
nancial aid and SDS withdrew!
its communist disclaimer rule.
While Luce noted that some I
members of SDS desire to im
prove societv through violence
Summer Jobs
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jobs. Openings for waiters,
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life guards, counselors, etc.
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jobs including where to
write to, jobs available’and
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA
if necessary, he said, other the Washington Monument. An
radical organizations such as other plan was to assasinate
the Revolutionary Action Move- members of- the NAACP and
ment, RAM, seek destruction to the Urban League, hoping that
facilitate a communist take- blame would be placed on the
over of society. Whites, and a Negro revolu-
RAM members. Luce told his tion would result.
audience, have been arrested Luca stressed t u t this an
on a wide variety of charges, archist disobedience should not
According to Luce, one plot in- be confused with what he
volved blowing up the Statue of termed civil- disobedience
Liberty, the Liberty Be I ’, and aimed at social reform.
Liberal Arts Council
Plans Course Guide
The Liberal Arts Student political science: Henry Finch,
Council decided last night to professor of philosophy; Lau
push aheaa with plans to pub- rence H. Lattrm.i, professor of
lish a course evaluation guide geomorphology: and David
late this winter. , Shepard, instructor in theatre
According to Larry Wallace, arts.
Course Evaluation Committee Leviathon, the bulletin of the
chairman, the guide empha- College of Liberal Arts will be
sis will be upon interesting, published tomorrow. Students
little-known liberal arts may pick up copies in Sparks
courses. Joint action ivitl other or the Hetzel Unior Builcj'ng.
college councils is also being- In other council business,
considered. Adeno Bellegia, chairman of
The council also discussed the Academic Dishonesty Com
plans to sponsor a lecture by mittee, announced that 4,000
author Pearl Buck with Asso- questionnaires will be mailed
dated Women Students. The Friday. The questionnaires are
talk is scheduled Women’s desl « ned to measure student at-
V'eek in April titudes toward cheating. Their
Speakers for the council- r 2 e 2 quested by 12 noon
sponsored lecture series for the __
remainder of the term were,|
announced. They are David'
Keynes, assistant professor ofl
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The Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils
of Susquehanna University
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University Adopts New
Time-Saving Computer
By BETH GOIDER
Collegian Staff Writer
Last year students taking computer
science courses and researchers running pro
grams were speaking to a different com
puter in a different computer language than
those being used this term.
A modified form of time-sharing is an
important advantage of the IBM Operating
System/360 Model 67 computer, which has
been available for general use since Oct. 1,
Burton E. Squires, assistant professor of
computer' science said in an interview.
He explained that the University’s type
of time-sharing, which has been used by
researchers since Jan, 4, is not the same as
“time-slicing,” where the computer con
tinually switches back and forth between
programs, executing several at once.
'Remote Job Entry'
Squires said the ‘‘Remote Job Entry”
(RJE) system, now used by the University’s
360 computer for six and one-half hours a
day, enables programmers to type their pro
grams on a keyboard which is connected to
the computer. They can then type a com
mand asking the computer to read back
their program, or one to put the program
on a tape or another to execute the program,
which it does after a wait of at most a few
minutes to finish another person's run.
Thus, while programmers cannot active
ly participate while the computer runs the
program, they do have communication other
than through cards or tapes containing their
programs.
Squires said the main advantage of RJE
is in saving the programmer’s time, rather
than the computer’s. He gave the example
of a professor in Electrical Engineering West
sitting down at that building's typewriter
terminal, printing out a program connected
with research on the ionosphere, and being
told the program results or errors in a few
minutes.
Time, Energy Saving
This time-saving is a contrast to the pre
vious procedure of taking the program to the
computer building, which is located across
the street from the Natatorium, beside East
Halls, then returning after the program is
run, perhaps half a day later. Squires added
that researchers using any of the 15 termi
nals can automatically store their programs
and data in data cells or on tapes by giving
the computer the appropriate command.
Concerning the use of RJE, Squires said,
“we’re making it as available as we can.”
He explained that over 1,000 students take
computer science courses each term and since
USG Sponsors 'Lion Line'
As part of its program en- nounced a Rat Auction, spon- singer, and an editorial staff,
couraging student involve- sored by the HUB Special j n other USG news Presi
ment, the Undergraduate Events Committee March 4. <j on t j e ff Long said that “stu-
Student Government is is- Objects up for bidding are dents are urgently needed
suing a weekly publication, donated by local merchants. for the, Senate Committees.”
The Lion Line.” Proceeds will go to the USG H e urged students to apply;
Emerging every Monday, bcholarship Fund. applications are available for
the newsletter explains USG’s Editor of the paper is the various committees at
activities for that week. Ricky Feilke, assisted by Di- the HUB desk.
The first edition intro-
duced the USG ORGY pro
gram, “Organization Review-'
ing Government for You,”,
the effort to have officer-to
student dialogues. j
Also included in the first
issue was the USG Slogan,
Contest, ending Feb. 12. A;
prize of $25 was offered for
the motto best exemplifying’
USG. ;
The second newsletter on'
Monday presented the USG
College Bowl, currently be
ing conducted in the HUB on'
various evenings. j
“The Lion Line” also an-!
present
there are presently only 15 terminals each
student cannot be given a fair chance at
using the RJE.
Presently University staff members who
have research accounts and graduate stu
dents working on their theses may use the
terminals, Squires said. He noted that 400
to 500 graduate students are included in this
category.
He pointed out that during the regular
operation of the computer, although two
user programs cannot be executed at once,
the much more time consuming operations
of card reading, paper print-out. etc., can
be done at the same time that programs are
being run, through a secondary supervisory
program called HASP, which was developed
by the Houston branch of the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration (NASA)
and modified by programmers at the Uni
versity.
A benefit of the new computer which
reaches to the undergraduate students is a
■decreased processing time for their pro
grams. Last year a program could only be
run once a day and last term a program
could be run twice. However, this term the
cards for each program are put on a disk,
along with others, and then these programs
are run whenever the computer has free
time. Thus it is now possible to resubmit
a program four or more times a day.
Computer building personnel have
warned however that as more and more
programs are run toward the end of the
term, there will be more of a lag in hand
ling a program.
Another innovation this term is the
Computation Center branch station located
in the basement of Old Main. Squires said
that researchers may now hand in their
programs there, but since there is no key
punch laboratory for students and there is
only one card reader and one card printer,
the students will continue to submit pro
grams in the computer building. The Old
Main branch station is connected to the 360
computer by a broad band telephone line,
Squares noted.
The change in computer language since
last year, which was mentioned in the be
ginning of this article, is actually a change
of dialect. The DAFT (Dual Autocoder Fort
ran Translator) computer language which
was used for the old computer (the IBM
System 7074 computer, which is still in use)
was actually a University modification of
Fortran, which is in standardized use as the
main language for scientific programming.
With a few modifications, DAFT programs
can be converted into Fortran.
Camp Tanalo
in the Pocono Mountains
will interview en campus for
General and Specialty Counselors
(men and women)
February 28 and 29
Also positions for Kitchen 1 Management
Undergraduate and graduate students
Family accommodations
Further information available through Office of Student
Aid, 121 Grange Building. Appointments should be made
in advance.
From She people
who brought you
no radiator.
No carburetoe
Inside the left rear, fender of every 1968
Volkswagen Fasfback and Squareback, there’s a
small metal box full of transistors, wires and
stuff like that.
This box is on electronic computer.
What it computes is exactly how much gas the
four fuel injectorsought to shoot into the manifold.
What the whole business does is replace the
carburetor.
So you can forget whatever carburetor prob
lems you've had in the past—dirt, flooding, jam
ming, you name it —because there's no more
carburetor. What you get instead is quick, sure
starts and efficient engine operation under all
conditions.
That's because electronic fuel injection is a
whole new way to make car engines run.
The closest thing to it is a $325 optional extra
on a car that costs almost twice as much. But elec
tronic fuel injection is .standard equipment on
Fasfbacks at $2,179 and on Squarebacks at $2,349.
All of which should make you feel the same
way about the carburetor as you do about put
ting anlifreeze and water into the radiator.
You can learn to live without it.
MIERLEY VOLKSWAGEN
ISOO N. Atherton St.
State College
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