Back home
NAVY LT. j.g. Mark Gartley (center) and Navy Lt. Norris Charles (lower center)
are greeted upon arrival in New York last night, following their release from
North Vietnam. Waving at right is Cora Weiss, one of the peace activists who aided
in the release of the POWs. The third freed prisoner of war, Maj. Edward Elias, is
not shr•tia.
Court decision favorable
By PAT STEIVART
Collegian Assistant City Editor
A case designed to enforce out-of-state
graduate student drivers license
requirements has ended favorably, but
the results may not establish the desired
precedent.
The situation started last Winter Term
when a graduate student, Chester Nash,
was stopped by State College police
while driving home.
After examining his license, the of
ficer told Nash his Colorado drivers
license was not valid. Later, Nash was
charged with not having a resident
license according to Section 601(A) of
the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code.
The section on out-of-state automobile
registration in the 1972-1973 edition of the
University's booklet, "Policies and
Rules for Students," exempts full-time
students, including graduate assistants,
from this resident license requirement if
Cities welcome federal help
Revenue sharing
NEW YORK (AP) The short-term
impact of revenue sharing will be
minimal, city officials say, but they
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welcome the principle of having the
federal government help cities carry the
burden that large numbers of poorer
residents put on city finances.
Final congressional approval is ex
pected next week for the $3O billion, five
year revenue-sharing bill, which will
provide the first major federal aid to
cities that can be used for operating
expenses in basic services like police,
fire and recreation programs. President
Nixon has backed the bill which city
officials first began pushing for six years
ago.
Cities and other local governments
would get about $3.5 billion and states
about $1.7 billion this year. The Treasury
Department is ready to mail checks for
the first half of that in October.
But the money, which increases
slightly in each of the five years, won't
have an enormous impact in the first
year. In 12 of 28 large cities, the amount
from revenue sharing is less than the
increase in operating expenditures
between 1969 and 1970 or between 1970
and 1971, including New York, San
Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, Detroit,
Milwaukee, Philadelphia, St. Louis,
Atlanta, Phoenix, Houston and
Columbus, Ohio.
The revenue sharing money in cities is
restricted to use in areas of public
safety, environmental protection, public
transportation, recreation, social ser
vices for the poor and aged, financial
administration and libraries.
Most city officials had not specifically
targeted where they would spend the
money since the exact dollar amounts
for cities were only determined Wed
nesday night.
Moon Landrieu, mayor of New
Orleans which will get $14.7 million, said
the money would go mostly into basic
municipal services and some capital
projects.
Collegian
the
daily
they have a valid drivers license and
registration from their home state.
On this basis the Graduate Student
Association decided to sponsor the case
to establish what GSA President Sam
Tabak termed an "important
precedent."
In a flyer to all graduate students,
GSA explained that an unfavorable court
decision in this case might mean that all
non-Pennsylvania graduate students
would have to obtain Pennsylvania
drivers licenses or face the $5O fine.
Following the flyer, Tabak said, the
local police switchboards had been
swamped with phone calls from con
cerned graduate students who hoped to
prevent a negative decision.
The case was postponed about six
months before District Magistrate
Clifford H. Yorks finally dismissed the
case.
According to Charles Weyandt who
"It will offset a $7 million deficit next
year and prevent substantial cutbacks in
already inadequate services," Landrieu
said, "but in the long run it would give us
breathing room for development of
solutions and of growth in our tax base."
In Indianapolis, which will receive
$10.4 million for its consolidated city
county government, Mayor Richard
Lugar said he had proposed spending
$12.8 million from revenue sharing and
some other sources in 1973 on policemen,
firemen, streets and roads and a 1 to 2
per cent property tax rate reduction.
He had not counted, as some cities
Voting: what you need
Q—How old must I be to register?
A-18. If your birthday falls on or
before Nov. 8 (the day after the
election), you may register to vote.
Q—Where may I register?
A—You may register Oct. 3 through
Oct. 6 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the
Pugh Street parking garage in State
College or from 9 a.m. to noon and 1
to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at
the Centre County Court House in
Bellefonte.
Q—What is the last day to register?
A—Oct. 10.
Q—My 18th birthday is after Oct. 10,
but before Nov. 8. Can I register?
A—Yes. You may register before
your birthday (and before Oct. 10) if
you will be 18 by Nov. 8.
Q—l am a college student from
another state who is attending
school in Pennsylvania. Can I
register?
A—Yes, if you meet certain stan
dards. You may register in Penn
sylvania if you intend to reside
within the Commonwealth for 30
days preceeding the election (not
preceeding the date of
registration).
Q—l attend school in one county of
State to join in voting suit
The state will join University student
Janet Sloane in her suit against the
Centre County Commissioners.
A motion will be made to allow the
state to intervene in the case Monday,
in the Scranton federal court
Monday's hearing is an attempt by
Sloane, on behalf of about 7,000 other
University students, to gain a
preliminary injunction against the
commissioners for "discriminatory
practices" against students attempting
to register to vote. The American Civil
Liberties Union is representing Sloane.
State Deputy Atty. Gen. Justin Blewitt
said if the state is granted the right to
intervene, it will be able to take "active
participation" in the case. This means
the state will have the right to cross
examine, call witnesses and take any
action it deems necessary, Blewitt ex
plained.
"We would hope that they would rule
that what's going on up there is im
proper or not justified," Blewitt said,
"but that's as much as I can say on the
merits of the case."
The commissioners are also looking
forward to the outcome of the case.
Commissioner J. Doyle Corman Jr. said
it will be of help to have the matter
resolved.
Transportation center considered
Pugh parking
ated Press
The borough's $2 million Municipal
Parking Garage at Beaver and Pugh
streets is not making money. It has
never been filled to capacity; at its best,
about 225 of its 350 parking spaces have
represented Nash it was necessary to
prove that Nash had residency in
another state with reciproc driving
regulations.
To establish this Weyandt explained at
the hearing that Nash was registered to
vote in Colorado, owned property in
Colorado and had plans to return to
Colorado upon graduation.
It was a "heated issue," Weyandt
added, and the district attorney did not
submit a written opinion as requested.
The results were positive in this case,
but the precedent has not necessarily
been established or as Weyandt ex
plained, "it is not an across-the-board
statement."
Weyandt added that it would be
"dangerous" to rely on this one case as a
precedent for future situations. He
explained it is necessary to receive a
ruling from a "court of record" to
establish such a precedent.
impact small
had, on getting revenue sharing money
for 1972, but said, "We may need a
portion of the 1972 money to fulfill our
plans for 1973."
Lugar also hailed the principle 3ehind
the bill. "The concept is important
because we have been mandated by the
federal government to meet a number of
national goals, from small ones like
Social Security payments to substantial
ones like the water quality in the White
River," he said. "Until now there were
no funds to help us with those, and it's
important that the federal government
should help pay for the goals it sets."
Pennsylvania (and live there during
the school year), but my home is in
another Pennsylvania county.
Where can I register?
A—ln either county, but not both.
You may register in the county
where your school is located if you
meet the requirements stated above
for non-Pennsylvanians.
Q---Can I register by mail?
A—According to Pennsylvania law,
servicepersons and their depen
dents and Federal employees (and
their dependents) residing outside
the territorial limits of the U.S. may
register by mail for all elections.
Federal law provides for mail
registration for the offices of
President and Vice-President, but
Pennsylvania has not changed its
law to conform. For this reason,
those persons outside the special
categories mentioned above who
register by mail are eligible to vote
for President and Vice-President
only. They must register in person
to be eligible to vote for State and
Local offices.
Q—lf I register as independent, can
I vote in the primaries?
A—No.
By MITCH CHERNOFF
Collegian Staff Writer
By ELAINE HERSHER
Collegian Senior Reporter
"I hope that when this is all over we'll
know whether to ask residency questions
or not," he said.
Corman expressed the belief that the
current action of the commissioners is in
accordance with state law. "Penn
sylvania state law says you must
determine people's residency. That is
why we're asking residency questions.
I'm not an obstructionist," he said.
"[ think we're correct," Corman
added, "this is what the suit will an
swer."
Ambrose Campana, the ACLU lawyer
handling the case, claimed the law is on
his side. He cited similar cases in New
Jersey and New Hampshire, the 1970
Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Con
stitution.
The fight over registration here has
had a long history. A suit against the
Centre County Election Board was
threatened in April 1971, when a student
gained ACLU encouragement.
In September of that year, a suit was
filed by five registered Centre County
voters to prevent students from voting.
They claimed students were improperly
registered because their residency had
not been challenged.
The suit was successful. Judge R. Paul
Campbell issued an injunction that
removed 195 students from the voting
rolls and required 340 others to prove
been occupied. Borough officials expect
it to take five years before the garage
breaks even.
On that note, combined with the
borough's sagging economy, council
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members are considering the garage as
the site of the new Transportation
Center. That adds up to 18 Greyhound
buses, numerous taxis and a car rental
service, going in and out via the already
congested Calder Alley.
If you've never worried before about
traffic congestion in State College, this
may be the time to start. The one-way
system going west on College Avenue
and east on Beaver Avenue should
contribute to better traffic flow once
traffic lights have been installed at busy
intersections. But, in the eyes of some
skeptical Parking Authority members,
placing a major traffic source smack in
the middle of town might not be such a
good idea.
"The major problem is the additional
congestion in Calder Alley," John Mc-
Cormick, a local bander and'member of
the Parking Authority said at_ an
authority meeting yesterday. "Com
mercial properties must be served from
the rear. If you've ever seen the trucks
come through there around noon, you'd
know how bad it gets," he said.
"I don't want to vote on anything I
haven't seen," Irwin Holtzer authority
member and owner of the Carriage
House, 109 S. Pugh Street, said referring
to parking buses on Calder Alley. "I
have mixed emotions about the whole
New Centre Region bus plan
complements campus
By 808 YUSKAV AGE
Collegian Senior Reporter
Complementing the new campus bus
service is a rejuvenated Centre Region
system of 6 routes which began
operation Monday and has been running
"reasonably well" despite some early
problems.
Joseph Carroll, professor of business
logistics and consultant at the Univer
sity's transportation center, offered that
opinion of the new service which serves
State College Borough, Patton and
Harris Townships.
Bus fare is 25 cents.
The biggest problem, Carroll said,
was two equipment failures Monday
causing two buses to stop. "We really
stretched the resources of Fullington
Bus Company," he said.
The other major problem was road
construction in town and on campus
Carroll said, causing buses to detour
from their routes. Most of the routes
have stops on campus, at North Allen
Street and Curtin Road and Shortlidge
and Curtin Roads.
The campus and Centre Region
systems are separate services, Carroll
Senate adds $2 million to PSU bill
The State Senate, in considering the
University's budget for fiscal 1972-73,
late yesterday passed an amendment
upping the budget by $2 million.
The legislation must sit, by Senate
rules, until next Monday before it finally
can be voted on. University money from
1971-72 runs out tomorrow.
The amendment was introduced
yesterday by Joseph C. Ammerman,
Democratic senator from the 34th
district including State College, after the
Senate Appropriations Committee sent
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Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
they were residents of Centre County.
An appeal was made and a last minute
decision allowed students to vote on
special ballots that were kept separate
until the case was resolved. This finally
came about on Nov. 19, as the State
Supreme Court overturned Campbell's
ruling and validated the 268 student
votes cast in the elections that month.
March 1972 brought charges by the
Undergraduate Student Government
Pa. ballots
HARRISBURG (AP) The Depart
ment of State has reluctantly ordered all
county election boards to print separate
ballots for the November election listing
only the presidential and vice
presidential candidates.
The instructions, mailed Tuesday to
county boards, were forced by the
legislature's failure to bring state laws
on absentee balloting and registration
into compliance with federal law.
Deputy Secretary of State Ronald
Pettine, designated to "insure total
compliance" by county boards, said
there would have to be a federal ballot at
the polls in November for anyone who
registers by mail because he's away
from his district during the registration
But state law does not permit period
The 1970 amendments to the federal
Voting Rights Act specified that voters
wishing to register by mail or vote after
getting an absentee ballot would be
permitted to vote for all federal can
didates.
garage
thing," Holtzer said
McCormick boiled the problem down
to possible added congestion versus
economics. "I don't think the Parking
Authority should contribute to
congestion. On the other hand, the
revenue would really help," he said.
That "on the other hand" is the crux of
the Transportation Center dilemma.
The plans for a center on N. Atherton
Street fell through when the local trans
portation companies discovered that
neither they nor the borough could af
ford the rent.
"The center was a wash-out,"
Borough Manager Carl Fairbanks said,
"we just couldn't get up the revenue."
Now Fairbanks is pushing for the garage
center. He says bus traffic will not tie up
Calder Alley; the alley will merely have
to be reversed from its present westerly
one-way direction.
According to Fairbanks, bus parking
in the alley will cause only one foot of
overlap, since there is a six-foot wide
gravel area between the garage and the
alley. Buses,
,however, are eight feet
wide and will be parked one foot from
the garage pillars. However, Fairbanks
said, "Any truck can pass when a bus is
parked."
He also mentioned tractor-trailer
passage in the alley could be eliminated,
although at added expense to merchants
compelled to rent smaller trucks to
transport their merchandise from
tractor-trailers.
Within a 24-hour period, 18 Greyhound
buses would stop at the center, taking a
maximum of 15 minutes, Fairbanks
said. Holzter mentioned that at the
said, but both are experimental. Carroll,
assisting the Centre Area Transit
committee, said, "What we really want
to see is whether a need for bus service
exists, and what kind of need it is."
If a need is shown, he said, an ap
plication for a federal grant will be
made. Needed equipment would be
bought if the grant is approved, Carroll
added.
A federal grant would finance up to
five-sixths of the operation.
In any event, Carroll said, the transit
committee is committed to bus service
through the end of this year, and could
operate through June with state aid.
Presently, five buses complete five
regular routes and a morning-evening
route. That is the Boalsburg-Harris
Acres run, which Carroll termed "very
successful."
The five regular routed routes include
Hospital-Toftrees-Laurel Glen, South
Borough R, South Borough Q, Park
Forest-Westerly Parkway and Borough-
Nittany Mall.
In addition to those five buses,
Fullington Bus Company is bringing
three to State College today. Carroll said
the original $81.7 million bill to the
general assembly.
Several weeks ago, the House passed
an $83.7 million bill with a similar $2
million amendment added by Rep.
Galen E. Dreibelbis of State College. The
Senate committee, however, stripped
the amendment before reporting the bill
out.
Ammerman's amendment prevented
further delay in passage of the budget.
Had the budget been passed without the
addition, a conference committee would
that the Shapp administration had
backed down on a promise to take legal
action against Centre County because of
political considerations Blewitt called
those charges "absolutely false" and
said the state had been in the process of
drawing up papers for a commonwealth
court suit when Sloane said. "They (the
state) could have moved on this before.
Now that the suit's in existence it's
really good they're supporting us "
changed
registration by mail or voting in person
once an absentee ballot has been applied
for.
Commonwealth Secretary C DeLores
Tucker said she felt obliged to order the
separate presidential ballots so that
persons disenfranchised by the tighter
state laws would still be able to vote for
federal candidates.
a lemon?
present N. Atherton Street station stops
aren't so short. He also questioned the
"obnoxiousness" of bus fumes, to which
Fairbanks replied, "They could shut
their buses off if we wanted them to."
On Sunday nights, six buses arrive in
State College at about the same time
Although, as Fairbanks pointed out, all
of them stop at the HUB, buses have
always continued to the main Greyhound
station in the past. If that policy
remains, six buses could converge in a
space that will accomodate, at
maximum, four
Whatever the fate of the Trans
portation Center, to be decided at
Monday's Borough Council meeting, the
need for more use of the parking garage
is evident.
According to Fairbanks, its use is
increasing, especially with the return of
students in the past week. But five years
is a long time to wait for it to pay off.
Meanwhile, downtown merchants are
contributing $25,000 a year for up to 10
years td keep it going.
"It's the cheapest parking rate in the
state," Fairbanks emphasized. The cost
is 15 cents an hour, $1.50 for 12 hours and
$2 for everything more than 12 hours.
For $l5 a month unlimited parking
rights are available.
To make it easier on students, Fair
banks has proposed a flat rate of $3O per
term parking fee.
To prove his point about the feasibility
of 'a Pugh Street center for tran
sportation, he will escort a group of
Parking Authority doubting Thomases
to the garage Monday to watch a bus
park on Calder Alley
service
the additional buses should improve
service.
"Patronage increases everyday as
more and more people become aware of
the system and use it," Carroll said.
"We have received financial support
for the service from certain interests,"
Carroll said, adding they include the
Nittany Mall, Toftrees and Laurel Glen
Apartments.
Students, faculty and staff need public
transportation from apartments to
campus, Carroll explained, as well as
elderly people who wish to go to down
town State College.
The three municipalities Fullington
serves agreed to finance one-third of the
bus company's loss. The state Depart
ment of Transportation underwrites the
remaining two-thirds.
Fullington operated a service last year
at a loss and threatened to discontinue
service this year if not subsidized.
Carroll said what is now needed to run a
successful service includes running
buses regularly and on schedule,
placement of bus stop signs, wider
distribution of schedules, collection of
data for study and a persevering public
have been called to work out differences
in the versions of the two houses.
The final vote was 26-20. The rules
could then have been suspended to allow
immediate voting on the bill, but
proponents were scared of losing after
only 426 senators supported the amend
ment. A two-thirds majority 34 votes
is required for passage.
In the meantime, temporary loans
have been arranged to keep the
University operating until the new
budget is passed and payment begins.