On the stump
JCLIE NIXON EISENHOWER, above, campaigned for the re-election of her
father yesterday in a senior citizens’ housing project in Kansas City while
Democratic Senator George McGovern chatted with farm organizer Cesar Chavez
\esterda\ at a labor committee breakfast in San Francisco (picture below story).
Commission sets
Editor's note: following is the final part
of a three-part series on planning in the
Centre Region.
By 808 VUSKAVAGE
Collegian Senior Reporter
Working with the stated purpose of
'enhancing trie quality ot hie" locally,
the Centre Regional Planning Com
mission has offered a set of “Human
Community Goals” as the second part of
its tentative goals for the Centre Region.
These goals are included in the
commission’s recent update of the
regional comprehensive plan, now
prepared for local citizen review. The
plan is a charter outlining the future
physical development of the area.
Included in the Centre Region, which
the commission advises on planning
matters, are six municipalities: State
College Borough, Ferguson, Patton,
College. Harris and Halfmoon Town
ships
In the area of general land use, a
proposed goal is “to identify and phase
out existing abuses of land, such as the
commercial blighting of main ap
proaches to State College.’’
Claiming that “too much of the
greenery that characterized an older
State been sacrificed to later
expansion." the plan calls for the im
plementation of a community land
scaping program, with emphasis on tree
planting
Concerning housing, the commission
states it wishes to insure “desirable
adequate housing for all segments of the
population, taking into account variation
in income, age, minority groups,
transients and other relevant factors.”
Ron Short, commission planning
director, said one possibility under this
section would be the construction of
downtown for students which
would have adequate space for parking
and recreation.
With regard to the quality of
residential neighborhoods, the com
mission lists as a goal the control of the
number and location of multi-storied
residential structures and when per
mitting their erection “to W'eigh pros and
cons of the esthetic impact they will
have on their locales.”
Two other significant goals listed are
ACLU to ask injunction
University students may have little
trouble registering to vote in State
College by next Tuesday.
An attempt to obtain a preliminary
injunction against the Centre County
Commissioners for “discriminatory
practices,” will be made Monday, at the
federal court in Scranton.
The suit is being filed by Janet Sloane
(sth-liberal arts) with the support of the
Pennsylvania chapter of the American
Civil Liberties Union who claims her
“basic rights” are being violated by the
commissioners’ refusal to register her.
Ambrose Campana, the ACLU lawyer
handling the case was optimistic. “We
have sufficient legal precedent to
sustain our position,” he said.
Last November, State Attny. Gen. J.
Shane Creamer ruled that students could
vote where they attended college.
Campana cited similar cases in New
Jersey and New Hampshire, as well as
the 1970 Voting Rights Act and the U.S.
Constitution. The fact that students can
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the development of the pedestrian
nature of residential neighborhoods,
with controls over the uses of
automobiles, and the adoption and en
forcement of building codes and
regulations designed “to safeguard
structural standards, health provisions
and maintenance requirements.”
To discourage standardization in
residential designing, the plans ask for
the promotion of “diversity of housing
types and character.”
For the rural areas of Centre Region,
the plans call for “retention of rural
surroundings in close proximity to
populated areas and ... to favor their
protection against unnecessary urban
encroachment.”
The protection of agriculture as part of
this region’s economic base, coupled
with advantages such as tax relief to
counter “premature” urban develop
ment are encouraged. The use of
pesticides and fertilizers harmful to the
ecosystem is discouraged.
For the commercial sector of Centre
Region, goals include the promotion of
the central business district of State
College as the “primary commercial
focus of the region . . . through the
promotion of inviting surroundings.”
The need for “rational rather than
haphazard” development of other urban
and suburban shopping centers as well
as discouraging the “proliferation of
particular enterprises beyond the
existing or probable need for them” is
also listed.
Industrially, non-heavy industries
which will employ regional skills,
particularly those compatible with the
“sparsely industrialized character” of
the region are encouraged. Goals also
seek to insure that every industry in the
region be non-polluting. Planned in
dustrial parks also are encouraged.
An expanding public park
aimed at the distribution of open spaces
throughout urban and suburban areas
and the provision of all-season
recreational facilities for all age levels,
is another goal.
In the transportation realm, the
development of mass transportation and
the alleviation of environmentally
harmful transportation and the
alleviation of environmentally harmful
register easily in 36 other Pennsylvania
counties is also being taken as an en
couraging sign, Campana said.
Campana said he was confident that
the action would be completed before the
Centre County registration deadline of
Oct. 10.
Support of the suit has come in from
other sources. State Secretary C.
DeLores Tucker endorsed the action
yesterday. She said the commissioners
“have shown contempt for students.”
Tucker’s statement read in part, “it
has been appalling to see how
the...commissioners have twisted the
constitutional provisions concerning the
right to vote in order to fit their otfn
narrow view of democracy.”
She added, “By asking students and
other voters whether they have a
checking account or have paid taxes, the
Centre County officials are clearly in
violation, and I am determined to see
them stopped.”
The case will be heard by Judge
William J. Nealon at 1:30 p.m. Monday.
Coasts hear 2 candidates
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NEW YORK (AP) While antiwar
demonstrators shouted “Stop the
Bombing!”, President Nixon paid
tribute yesterday to the immigrants who
came to America in search of freedom.
Standing beneath the Statue of Liberty
on Liberty Island in New York Harbor,
the President was forced several times
to pause in his remarks dedicating the
$7-million American Museum of Im
migration.
Nixon supporters chanting “Four
more years! Four more years!”
drowned out the cries of the group of
about a dozen protesting U.S. bombing of
North Vietnam.
Police escorted two bearded young
men and one young woman from the
crowd. The officers’ hands were
clamped over the mouths of the trio.
The crowd of about 3,000 clustered at
the base of the famous statue included
hundreds of school children of various
ethnic groups who had arrived by boat
before Nixon’s helicopter landed.
In praising the millions of immigrants
who came to America, Nixon said they
believed in hard work, and “they didn’t
come here for a handout.”
He continued that “when it comes to
love of country, love of America, those
who came from other lands are the very
first.”
goals
effects of transportation is encouraged.
The use of non-polluting vehicles is
advocated as well as the elimination of
traffic noise through proper regulation.
The goals encourage “the continued
development of educational op
portunities designed to meet the needs of
a broad range of area residents
regarcjless of age, income or race.”
The promotion of “the best possible
health care in terms of prevention,
treatment and rehabilitation,” accesible
to every resident of the region is one of
the proposed goals, as well as the ex
tension of mental health, health
education and public health services.
Goals were prepared by a Regional
Consciousness Committee composed of
15 citizens representing the six
municipalities.
Detailed lists of the proposed goals are
available at the planning commission
office, 118 S. Fraser St.
Short urges all Centre Region citizens,
including students, to study the
proposals and to attend the meeting of
their local planning commission to
provide input. If unable to attend the
meeting, he asks citizens to write to the
Centre Regional Planning Commission
to present their views.
“For direction and basis, we need
input from all the people of the area, and
that includes students. Students should
be a very important part of the plan,”
Short said.
The meetings of the planning com
missions are Patton Township, Oct. 16;
Halfmoon Township, Oct. 17; State
College, Oct. 19; Harris Township, Oct.
23; Ferguson Township, Oct. 26.
University Calendar revisions planned
Senate okays recommendati
The University Faculty Senate
yesterday approved a slate of recom
mendations to University President
John W. Oswald concerning revision of
the University calendar.
The recommendations prepared by
the Senate Committee on Academic
Affairs include:
—scheduling Fall, Winter and
Spring Terms between Labor Day and
the beginning of June and Summer Term
between June and the end of August;
—maintaining a final examination
period for faculty who choose to use it;
—beginning Winter Term at least two
weeks before recess for Christmas
vacation;
—scheduling a vacation of “at least
two weeks” between Winter and Spring
Terms but no spring recess within
Spring Term;
—placing non-academic orientation
activities within instead of before each
term;
—maintaining Summer Term as a ten
week period, but postponing any final
Today will continue to be warm with
considerable cloudiness, high 78. Oc
casional light rain late tonight, low 63.
Occasional showers tomorrow morning
with partial clearing in the afternoon,
high 70.
By WOODY DEITRICH
Collegian Staff Writer
Weather
“Let’s always be worthy of their love
of America . . . their Jove of peace,”
Nixon said as he concluded and moved
through the fringes of the crowd shaking
hands.
The antiwar demonstration was the
first Nixon has encountered since he
began his re-election campaign.
The first stop in a journey carrying
him from New York to California un
derscored the President’s quest for
support from normally Democratic
ethnic voting blocks.
From Liberty Island, Nixon’s schedule
carried him to hotel meetings with
Jewish leaders from across the country
and with his New York Republican and
Democratic backers.
Then it was a late-night speech at a
“Victory 72” dinner.
The sl,ooo-a-plate dinner in New
York’s Americana Hotel was one of 30
such dinners across the country in a
major Republican effort to fatten an
already sizable campaign kitty.
Republicans hoped to raise upwards of
$lO million through the dinners.
A closed-circuit television network
was set up to beam the President’s
speech to the other dinners, where a
galaxy of Republican stars was ap
pearing.
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was in
Chicago, Tricia Nixon Cox in
Washington, Julie Nixon Eisenhower in
Kansas City and other Cabinet members
and celebrities were appearing
elsewhere.
Nixon planned to fly early today to
California for a noon fund-raising speech
in San Francisco and another sl,ooo-a
-plate dinner tonight in Los Angeles.
New York with 41 electoral votes and
California with 45 are key elements in
the President’s re-election strategy
aimed at carrying the big states.
Likewise, his strategy calls for
making inroads into the usually
Democratic voting blocs.
decision on possible alternative shorter
period combinations.
In his opening remarks Oswald
termed the situation “urgent.” He
pointed out the present calendar ends
with Spring Term Commencement in
June.
“We will have to be acting on the new
calendar by Oct. 15,” he said.
The president’s office has the .final
responsibility for preparing the
University calendar. Three sample
calendars illustrating different ways the
recommended revisions could be im
plemented were presented.
However, a few undesirable elements
were apparent in the samples. Two of
the samples had classes scheduled on
Independence Day. One had final exams
set for the day before Thanksgiving; this
would require teachers to grade exams
over Thanksgiving.
Other problems the sample calendars
had separately or-in common included
classes on Memorial Day, only one week
vacation between Winter and Spring
Terms and registration on Labor Day.
Each Sample calendar contains faults.
The calendars were not presented to be
voted on by the senate, but as examples
of possible plans.
Points for debate raised by senators
were fielded by a member of the
Academic Affairs Committee. He an
swered questions by citing specific
provisions of the committee’s report or
indicating ways the new calendar would
prove advantageous, with regard to the
Wednesday, September 27, 1972
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Hopeful hits
labor record
of President
LOS ANGELES (AP) Sen. George
McGovern slashed away at the Nixon
administration’s labor record yesterday
and said he believes if the President is
re-elected he’ll ask Congress to pass a
national right-to-work law.
The Democratic presidential nominee
told a labor gathering in San Francisco
he thinks Nixon also would move toward
compulsory arbitration, ask Congress • Pollster Louis H Bean said
for a national sales tax that would cost McGovern has to get up to 43 per cent of
every worker $2OO a year and would the vote for Democrats to retain control
screw down federal wage ceilings, of Congress. He said Democratic
members of Congress have traditionally
run about 7 per cent ahead of their
presidential nominee
McGovern said there have been
numerous “leaks” from the ad
ministration about a national right-to
work law banning compulsory union
See related story, page 10
membership. He said it is the kind of
thing which appeals to Nixon’s financial
backers but said nothing further about
where he got his information.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, who op
posed McGovern in the California
primary last summer, joined him in
yesterday’s California labor ap
pearances and asked his own labor
following to support McGovern.
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point under consideration.
One problem the committee’s report
did not resolve was the switch from the
old calendar to the new calendar which
would occur next June or September.
The new calendar will call for Summer
Term, to begin in mid-June and Fall
Term to begin in early September.
Oswald acknowledged the problem of
transition and said there are three
possible solutions:
—overlap Spring and Summer Terms;
Senior American diplomat
escapes Cambodian death
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP)—The
ranking American diplomat in Cam
bodia escaped a powerful terrorist bomb
this morning, but the blast killed three
Cambodians and set afire the diplomat’s
armored limousine, authorities
reported.
Thomas 0. Enders, the 6-foot, 8-inch
U.S. charge d’affaires emerged unhurt
from the battered wreckage of the car.
He was on his way to the U.S. Embassy,
where he is in charge while Ambassador
Emory C. Swank is on home leave in the
United States.
The dead were two motorcycle police
escorts and a Cambodian civilian. Four
Cambodians were injured.
Enders, 40, was reported cool after the
While McGovern was criticizing Nixon
on labor issues, some important union
officials were endorsing Nixon
Joseph Tonelli, president of the
315,000-member United Paperworkers,
endorsed Nixon for re-eiection at a
Washington news conference Later nine
presidents of member unions of the
International Building Trades Unions
added their endorsements.
The airline industry cut off air travel
credit for the Democratic National
Committee yesterday, bowing to new
regulations governing extension of
campaign credit.
Other airlines joined the cut-off after
American Airlines cancelled the com
mittee’s 12 air travel cards. American
said the Democrats owed the airline
$11,658, including $6,227 that was past
due.
In other campaign developments
yesterday ■
Sen. Robert Dole. R-Kan., GOP
national chairman, issued a statement
criticizing McGovern for failing to be in
the Senate yesterday to vote on an aid to
Israel bill and efforts to cut off money"
for the Vietnam war.
The League of Women Voters said it
is urging the Justice Department to
enforce full compliance with the Voting
Rights Act of 1970. In a letter to Atty.
Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst, the League
said at least 13 states have not taken
necessary steps to guarantee eligible
citizens a vote in the presidential
election.
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—overlap Summer and Fail Terms;
—devise a special transition eight
week Summer Term.
The spokesman said tfie report was not
intended as an “endorsement of the term
system in perpetuity.”
In line with this, Oswald announced he
will establish a joint senate
administration commision to evaluate
the present term system, its pros and
cons and alternatives to it
attempt to kill him, which occurred
shortly before 7 a.m.
“It would take more than a bomb to
ruffle Tom Enders,” an embassy official
said.
Swank escaped a similar
assassination attempt a year ago
because the bomb proved faulty.
The force of the explosion blew out
windows of neighboring houses, in
cluding the Polish Embassy. It stands
less than 50 yards from the point where
the official white Chevrolet limousine
was hit, close to the city’s towering red
sandstone independence monument on
October 9th Boulevard, one of Phnom
Penh’s main streets.