l —The I)ai 1 \ Collegian Monday. November 20, 1972
Truman fought VP spot
NKW YOKK (AP) Harry S Truman
fought against his own nomination as vice
president m 1994 because he knew President
Franklin D Roosevelt was a sick man, and
Truman didn't want to go into the White
House "through the back door," his daughter
sU\S
In her forthcoming biography other father,
Margaret Truman Daniel says that after
accepting the nomination at Roosevelt's
telephoned insistence, Truman visited the
president at the White House and was “ap
palled" at his physical condition
" The president had just returned from a
Pacilic inspection trip," Margaret wrote in
excerpts of the book in this week’s Life
magazine
"It had been an exhausting ordeal for him.
and he had suffered, we now know, at least
one cardiac seizure during the journey
' M\ lather told close friends how the
president's hands shook so badly at the
luncheon that he could not get the cream
Irom the pitcher into his coffee He spilled
most ot it mto the saucer
He talked with difficulty 'lt doesn't seem
to he any mental lapse of any kind, but
pin sically he's jus! going to pieces,’ dad said.
I m \er\ much concerned about him.’
Roosevelt died of a stroke April 12, 1945.
His doctor said later that Roosevelt suffered
irom congestive heart failure for the final
sear ol his life There have been reports that
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Roosevelt suffered a heart attack in June,
194-1, but his sons denied it.
Dr Howard G. Bruenn, who was
Roosevelt’s physician in 1944 and 1945, said
Roosevelt suffered an attack of angina
pectoris Aug 8, 1944.
Bruenn said it was not a “heart attack,”
but a transient pain which does not damage
the heart. He said he was with Roosevelt at
the time, and the president told him of the
attack, which lasted only a few minutes.
Several days before the July Democratic
convention in Chicago, her father had written
her a letter which indicated that he knew
Roosevelt was a sick man.
•Yes,’’ Truman wrote, “They are plotting
against your dad. Every columnist
prognosticator is trying to make him VP
against his will
“It is funny how some people would give a
fortune to be as close as I am to it, and I don’t
want it .
"Hope I can dodge it 1600 Pennsylvania is
a nice address, but I'd rather not move in
through the back door or any other door at
Margaret says that Roosevelt’s illness was
on her father’s mind when he remarked to a
reporter: "Do you recall what happened to
most vice presidents who succeeded to the
presidency 9 Usually, they were ridiculed in
office, had their hearts broken, lost any
vestige of respect they had had before.”
GSA works
Committee backs homophiles
The Graduate Student Association supports gay
rights at the University through its Ad Hoc Com
mittee on Minority Affairs. This generally means
working hand in hand with Homophiles of Penn
State, an organization which was thrown off campus
and has sued the University as a result.
According to Jim Guthrie, committee chairman,
the committee was started Winter Term in response
to the University’s stand on HOPS. “That was a
major part of it. There are quite a few gay
graduates,” he noted.
Guthrie said he believes there are at least 3,500 to
4,000 gay undergraduate and graduate students on
campus and termed them an “invisible minority.”
He said very few, other than HOPS members, choose
to identify themselves as gay.
Guthrie explained GSA supported HOPS last year
through sponsoring events on campus. He said this
included arranging campus press conferences and
sponsoring a dance in the HUB. He pointed out other
organizations including Undergraduate Student
Government, Women’s Liberation and Free
University supported and sponsored HOPS ac-
Alpha
By 808 YUSKAVAGE
Collegian Senior Reporter
State College borough and
Alpha Fire Company officials
are planning a new fire
station with facilities which
will provide “considerably
speedier” access to
emergencies for fire trucks
and other equipment.
The new fire station is
planned for the southeast
corner of West Beaver
Avenue and S Atherton
Street, replacing the present
one at the Municipal Building,
118 S. Fraser St , according to
Clifford Bastuschek, Alpha
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The authority was formed
last spring to work with an
architect and a fire company
committee The committee
was designed to describe the
fire company’s operating
needs to the planning com
mittee.
The authority last week
approved the new fire
station’s preliminary floor
plan, and pending expected
approval of the external plan
this week. Bastuschek said
the total plan will go to
borough council for its ap
proval for construction. An
occupancy date has not yet
‘been established if the plan is
approved
"Two things led to the
planning of the new fire
station,” Bastuschek said
“One was the advent of the
one-way system downtown
Also, the present location is
not advantageous for quick
Brandt wins German re-election
BONN <AP) Willy
Brandt won re-election
yesterday as West Germany's
chancellor in the greatest
triumph of his political
career Opposition candidate
Kainer Barzel conceded
defeat on the basis of com
puter projections about an
hour after the polls closed.
‘‘You have won the elec
tions,” the leader of the
Christian Democrats
messaged Brandt
The victory gave Brandt a
clear mandate to proceed
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“Originally HOPS could do what it wanted under your tongue turns the paper green you're gay,” he
USG and GSA charters But the University suggested
ro=nftoH ed n ch ‘ u 'f. ers ;’’ Guthr| e said. This Guthrie said the committee's activities have not
resulted in other student charter organizations involved the expenditure of anv GSA funds He said
SP rmhriß g =aiH n tH US events , for HOPS ; the committee only seeks to provide a forum for gav
pffin/q 6 " ew student activity rules which students He said this is consistent with GSA’s effort
went into effect September forbid any campus group to provide student services
fronting for another organization He said this “For gays it’s a matter of a fight for survival
clause was a direct response to HOPS events being Anything that can be done for them is verv im
sponsored last spring by other student groups. portant. When you're fighting for survival yo ?n<£d
m 6< h thC n6W rU ( S S Un , en " some sort of organizational base. GSA provides
S ° g dSe ' recognition of this right for survival, " he said
Any University event has the potential of Guthrie compared homosexuals' fight for
becoming a HOPS activity, according to Guthrie. He rec °gnition to the situation of blacks several years
said if they wanted to, homosexual students could a §° O n 'y now you see administrators standing in
attend meetings in large numbers and make their c * oor *'* te George Wallace did," he said,
feelings known Guthrie said many townspeople support HOPS as a
“I doubt if the University would want to get in- ma tter of civil rights HOPS has been meeting at the
volved with telling specific groups of students they es^e y Foundation
can't go to meetings," he said. He said the The committee has been somewhat inactive this
University wouldn't be able to enforce such a policy term, Guthrie said, because nothing has happened
anyway “They’d have to ban every meeting on with the HOPS suit against the Unnersity and
campus " meetings are being held off-campus He said plans
‘Or they always could have a security guard at the are being made for Winter Term activities
to get new station
service to the east (part of
State College),” he explained.
Increased downtown traffic
congestion, Bastuschek said,
was making it difficult for
drivers to get onto Beaver
and College Avenues from
Fraser Street
"The fire company itself
was interested in moving to a
more convenient location,”
Bastusqhek said He added
that borough offices were
becoming increasingly
crowded and the borough
wanted to take over ad
ditional office space as well
as space for storage of police
\ehicles and other equip
ment
"It's a question of growth
for both the town and the fire
company. The present
location was no longer
adequate for the borough or
the fire company,”
Bastuschek said. The fire
company needs better access
to town and the borough needs
with his policy of reducing
tensions with the Soviet bloc.
Computer projections
showed the ruling coalition of
Brandt's Social Democrats
and their partners, the Free
Democrats, greatly increased
its control of tne Bundestag,
the lower house of the
parliament, which chooses
the chancellor. The projec
tions showed Brandt’s
coalition winning a 48-seat
majority in 496-seat
Bundestag.
The computer projections
also showed the ruling
coalition winning 54.2 per cent
of the total vote to 45.1 per
cent for the opposition.
The Social Democrats won
46.2 per cent of the vote and
the Free Democrats won 8 per
cent. The Christian
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more building space
Bastuschek said.
The Alpha Fire Compan>. a
40-member volunteer
organization which also
operates an ambulance
service, is the State College
area's only local fire-fighting
unit
Bastuschek said fire trucks
heading to an emergency
would exit the building onto S
Atherton Street. To head
north or south, the trucks
would simply use Atherton
Street To travel west,
vehicles would go south on
Atherton to College Avenue
and turn left, and for business
in the east part of State
College the trucks would turn
right on Beaver Avenue
Presently the fire com
pany’s trucks must circle an
entire block to reach Beaver
Avenue for eastbound travel
Bastuschek said the station
would be about 60 feet from
the intersection and Alpha
control of the intersection's
Democrats and their part
ners, the Christian Social
Union, won 45 1 per cent,
according to the projections
Herbert Wehner, deputy
chief of the Social Democrats,
said the newly elected
Bundestag will convene Dec
14 to formally re-elect Brandt
as chancellor.
The dramatic outcome
after a hard-fought campaign
was also a prestige boost for
the Free Democrats who had
hovered close to the 5 per cent
minimum vote needed to get
into parliament in the 1969
elections.
Brandt’s coalition had won
control of the Bundestag in
1969 with a 12-seat majority
But defections caused the
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The planned two-story fire
station, composed of north
and south portions, will face
on Atherton Street The south
part, a three door engine
room, will be about 45 feet
long by 100 feet deep and
house the Alpha's fire
engines
The south portion is
planned to include a repair
shop, air compressor room,
watch shop, space for storage
of operating equipment, of
fices. conference room, and a
two-car ambulance garage It
will be about 50 feet deep The
entire project is planned to be
about 100 feet wide and 150
feet deep
The second floor will house
Alpha company meeting
rooms, about 40 by 50 feet in
size Fire trucks will re-enter
the station from the alley in
the rear, while ambulances
will re-enter from the back
parking lot
majority to disappear and
forced Brandt to arrange for
new elections a year early
In 1969 Brandt's Social
Democrats won 42 7 per cent
of the votes and the Free
Democrats, led by Foreign
Minister Walter Scheel, won
5 8 per cent The Christian
Democrats and their partners
the Christian Social Union
won 46 1 per cent
Socialist parliamentary
whip Karl Wienand said the
apparent victory was due
mainly to the towering figure
of the 58-year-old chancellor
■‘The voters." Wienand
said, "have recognized that a
new note has been struck m
the areas of security, foreign
and peace policies
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