Jackson speaks
JESSE JACKSON, national president of People United to Save Humanity, last
night told a Rec Hall audience, “Our dominant characteristic must be moral
strength and excellence in the things of life that are necessary.” See story, page 3.
Chamber of Commerce inquires
into bookstore selling practices
By MARY JANE KERRIGAN
Collegian Staff Writer
A letter from the State College
Chamber of Commerce inquiring about
items being sold at the newly-opened
campus bookstore should reach
University officials today or early next
week, according to Charles Mong,
Chamber of Commerce executjve
director,.
The Chamber’s board of directors
yesterday voted to draft the letter of
inquiry after the State College Down
town Association proposed a resolution
protesting the contents of the University
bookstore. Mong said the board will wait
for a reply before considering further
action on the matter.
The continued concern of downtown
merchants over campus bookstore sales
items other than text books is not ex
pected to interfere with-the University’s
plans for the store. Vice President for
Business Ralph E. Zilly said he does not
anticipate problems resulting from the
Chamber of Commerce inquiry.
“We plan to make changes not
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Apartment problems many
By CARL DiORIO
Collegian Staff Writer
With more people apartment
hunting than there is housing to
accomodate them, students have to
take what they can get even if the
apartments are in less than
habitable condition, according to
Bruce Kelly, Organization of Town
Independent Students president.
“If we would go ahead on an all
out fight to get these places con
demned what would you do, have
everybody camp out on the lawn?”
he said.
Labeling State College real estate
business a seller’s market, Kelly
said OTIS is “basically in a rear
guard type action, trying to get a lot
of little things cleared up.”
Local apartment complexes
basically are well constructed, he
said, but problems still crop up.
Kelly cited lack of hallway and exit
lighting in Bluebell Apartments as
an example of such problems.
Borough Housing Inspector
Joseph Sousa said, “A great many
deficiencies” exist in Bluebell but
because of a recent ownership
change an agreement was made not
to inspect the complex until June.
Sousa said borough officials
“pnforce the regulations and or
dinances to the extent that we can.”
He said “the letter of the law u is not
upheld but added many students
would have no place to live if it
were.
Kelly said the planned 800-unit
Southgate Mews development will
help alleviate the housing squeeze.
Old houses, converted to apart
ments, bring complaints of sub
standard conditions more often than
complex apartments, Kelly said. He
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prompted by the Chamber of Com
merce.” Zilly said. Some of the items in
question will be sold until the stock is
depleted, while other items, notably
Penn State souvenirs, are considered
“legitimate” merchandise for a college
bookstore, according to Zilly.
“We want to carry some things they
will probably object to, but I feel the
volume isn’t sufficient enough to give
them concern,” Zilly said, adding
downtown merchants are exaggerating
a problem that is “so small it's
ridiculous.”
University bookstore Manager Dayton
Henson said he does not understand why
the merchants are upset, since no less
than 80 per cent of the store’s total
business concerns selling and buying
back books. Henson pointed out that
items now sold have been sold in the
HUB annex for at least the last five
years without downtown businessmen
complaints.
Merchanise comparisons were made
with the bookstores at two other state
related universities, Temple University
and the University of Pittsburgh, ac
cording to Henson. He said these stores
sell “what the students want.”
“The student is most important as far
as I’m concerned,” he said but added
interests are not considered in deciding
what should be sold in the campus
bookstore.
Undergraduate Student Government
President Mark Jinks said the
University cannot afford to “be in
business” and therefore cannot take all
student interests into consideration. If
students had their way, Jinks said, “I
think we’d have a co-op.”
added often upper stories of con
verted houses carry more weight
than they were built for.
Kelly singled out Sun S.C. Corp.
apartments as being in questionable
condition and called Sun heating
bills, outrageous because of
inadequate wall insulation.
Poor apartment soundproofing
also annoys many tenants, Kelly
said. He said recent OTIS attempts
to improve soundproofing for
apartments over Shandygaff Saloon
failed because the borough lacks a
noise-control ordinance.
Richard Kummer, borough
councilman and associate professor
'You have to do a lot of digging
when you find a guy in violation
to do anything about if
of architectural engineering, said
he submitted plans for a noise
pollution law to a study group 16
months ago.
Kummer said although the group
is highly qualified and local ex
pertise is also high, the men are not
paid for their work so “con
sequently it is a low priority on their
lists.”
A maximum street noise level
would be included in the ordinance,
Kummer said, adding truck traffic
through downtown areas therefore
would be decreased.
Concerning chances of borough’s
council accepting the law, Kummer
the
daily
Barker
WASHINGTON (AP) Bernard L.
Barker yesterday said he broke into the
Watergate “as a matter of national
security” to look for documents showing
leftist or Cuban contributions to the
Democratic presidential campaign.
He said he found none.
“I considered it duty for my country,”
Barker told the Senate Watergate
committee. He added he has not changed
his mind.
Foremost in his mind and in the
minds of the three Cuban-Americans
arrested with him was to gain support
in high places for another operation to
liberate Cuba from Fidel Castro’s
Communist government.
“I am part of a team with which I am
very proud to be associated,” Barker
said in a choked voice. “We’ll have to
live with the word ‘burglar.’ But we
resent, very emotionally, the words that
we were hired.
“There was no need to buy our silence.
We were not for sale... We’re just plain
people who very truthfully believed that
Cuba has a right to live.”
He denied suggestions from the
Senators that he was engaged not in a
Jinks said he does not see the Chamber
of Commerce inquiry as threatening the
bookstore’s existence. “There’s no way
they are going to stop that. The mer
chants can complain if they want bubthe
University has enough influence to exert
pressure on them,” he said.
Although it is too early to know if the
University bookstore will break even,
Jinks said without the extra items the
bookstore would be operating below a
subsistance level budget. “There’s no
money in books anyway,” Jinks said.
Higher tuition may affect Temple funding
By PAT HUNKELE
Collegian Staff Writer
Temple University will lose its state
funding unless it guarantees it will
match state appropriations increases
with a decrease in the announced tuition
hike, Senator Henry J. Cianfrani, D-
Philadelphia, said Wednesday.
Temple announced Monday it will
raise its current $970 yearly tuition by
$4O a semester.
Cianfrani, chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee, said the
decision to raise tuition was a “rash,
premature and arbitrary action on the
part of the university.”
According to Vince Carocci, Senate
press officer, Temple administrators
anticipated the university would receive
$49.7 million budgeted for Temple by
Gov. Shapp and did not expect more
said, “I think it’ll be passed but I
hope that it’s not so watered down
that it’s worthless.”
Kummer suggested such an or
dinance would be “a backdoor way
of assuring better construction
standards” in State College.
“I think there’s a lot of con
struction going up that’s too light,”
he added.
Kummer said non-steel sup
ported, low-rise complexes are the
strongest apartments built.
The walls of steel-supported
structures often are very thin and
poorly soundproofed, Kummer said.
Since walls are not relied on for
support in the steel-frame system
lighter wall materials are used, he
noted.
, Kummer expressed concern
about apartment builders’ attempts
to use lenient building codes.
The Building Officials’ and Ad
ministrators’ Code is supposed to be
met by all buildings constructed in
the borough. But there is also a
statewide Labor' and Industries
Department code less stringent
than the borough’s.
When State College adopted
BOCA’s code, a provision was
added to insure it would not hinder
enforcement of the state cole.
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tells break-in motive
national security operation but in
political espionage.
Barker received limited immunity for
his appearance. He was preceded on the
stand by Gerald Alch, former attorney
for convicted conspirator James W.
McCord Jr.
The committee then called Alfred C.
Baldwin, the former FBI agent who
monitored the wiretapped conversations
from Democratic Party headquarters.
Baldwin said he asked no immunity
for his testimony but relied on govern
ment promises not to prosecute him if he
agreed to testify.
Barker, whose parents are
Americans, was born in Cuba and spent
half his life there. For a time he worked
in the pre-Castro Cuban police depart
ment.
He was one of five men arrested inside
Democratic offices June 17 and one of
five who pleaded guilty to conspiracy,
burglary and illegal wiretapping
charges.
“What sort of documents were you
primarily looking for?” Barker was
asked.
A. Documents that would involve
One reason for the downtown mer
chants’ complaints is that the University
has a higher buy-back rate than town
bookstores. “The buy-back rate is where
Jerry Gruhn (Student Book Store
manager) makes his money,” Jinks
said.
The University sells high-profit items
to compensate for losses on textbooks.
Jinks suggested if downtown merchants
succeed in forcing the University
bookstore to give up selling these extra
items, downtown stores would get back
their business and their profits.
state funding for the 1973-74 academic
year.
“There is absolutely no foundation to
the university’s position that the state
appropriation to the institution will be
held to its current level of $49.7 million,”
Cianfrani said.
Kummer said local builders
sometimes interpret the provision
as meaning they only have to meet
state regulations.
A borough official who asked to
remain nameless said beam fire
protection for Alex Woskob’s 12-
story Penn Towers Apartments
meets state but not BOCA stan
dards.
Alpha Fire Company Chief
Ronald Ross ; said in many com
plexes tenant vandalism has left
buildings lacking safety equipment
such as fire extinguishers, fire
alarms and exit lights. He said
Bluebell is in “a hell of a mess”
from such abuse.
A false alarm is set off in Beaver
Terrace Apartments two or three
times a month, Ross said. As a
result only about five or six firemen
now answer calls from the building,
he said.
Another dangerous effect of the
pranks is that Beaver Terrace
residents sometimes stay in bed
when they hear an alarm, assuming
it to be phony, Ross added.
He urged that sprinkler systems
be built in apartment buildings for
fire protection. Ross said he does
not know of any complexes with
sprinklers, but the Hotel State
College, the Campus Restaurant
and other downtown businesses use
the system.
Although adequate, local fire
codes should be defined more
clearly, Ross said. “You have to do
a lot of digging when you find a guy
in violation to do anything about it,”
he said.
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contribution of a foreign nature to the
Democratic campaign, especially to
Sen. George McGovern and possibly to
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Q. Were you looking for documents
reflecting a contribution from any
particular foreign government?
A. Cuba.
Barker said he received money from
Ms. E. Howard Hunt, the now-deceased
wife of a third conspirator.
Barker also said he participated in
Skylab 1
prepared
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)
Skylab 1 astronauts, the first space do-it
yourself repairmen, are poised for a 9
a.m. launch today and the start of a
salvage mission which must succeed if
America's space station is to be saved.
Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Dr.
Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz will
be lofted into orbit aboard an Apollo
command ship packed with tools and
materials to repair the overheated and
underpowered Skylab station.
Engineers, scrambling to complete
the sun shields to shade the space
station, raced against the clock to ready
the devices.
Space Agency officials, meanwhile,
hesitated in selecting which of four sun
shade designs to fly on Skylab 1 and in
what order to deploy them.
“All of the devices work to one degree
or another,” said William C. Schneider,
Skylab program director. “All of the
devices have drawbacks to one degree or
another.”
The shades include an umbrella, a
sail-shaped curtain, an A-frame shade
and one shaped like an inflatable life
raft.
Schneider said a decision would have
been made late yesterday. Part of the
delay in deciding, he said, was the need
to coat material for two of the shades
"The university knows full well that I
have committed myself to exert what
influence I can to secure additional state
funds not only for Temple but for other
colleges and universities,” he added.
Carocci said Temple’s tuition increase
came before the appropriations bill for
state-related colleges was brought
before the House or the Senate.
Cianfrani said, “No bill appropriating
funds to Temple, regardless of the
amount, will be brought to the floor of
the Senate for a vote” unless university
administrators submit a written
guarantee that any money the university
receives above the recommended $49.7
million will be used to reduce the
proposed tuition increase.
A Temple spokesman yesterday said
he did not know how the university would
respond to Cianfrani’s ultimatum.
three operations with Hunt last year, all
on Hunt’s word that “this was national
security and above the FBI and CIA.”
“The original operation was the
Ellsberg operation," said Barker, one of
the team that rifled the psychiatric files
of Pentagon Papers figure Daniel
Ellsberg.
“It was explained to me that this was a
matter of national security,” Barker
said.
repairmen
for mission
with” special paint and chemicals
Schneider said if the shades are not
finished in time for today’s lift-off, the
launch would be delayed until tomorrow
morning.
The fate of the $294 million orbiting
laboratory, the essential element in
America’s new $2.6 billion space
program, depends on whether the
astronauts can erect a shield to shade
the sun-baked vehicle.
If they fail, men will be unable to live
aboard the space station where tem
peratures are above 120 degrees. The
experiment-packed orbiting laboratory
then would be useless.
Successful deployment of a sun shade
would permit the astronauts to carry out
the balance of a 28-day mission. It also
would make possible the 56-day Skylab 2
and 3 missions in August and November.
Today’s launch must come within a 10-
minute period after 9 a.m. to place the
craft in proper orbital phase with
Skylab, orbiting overhead at 275 miles
per hour.
The astronauts will spend seven and
one half hours chasing the space station.
They will rendezvous with the lab over
the Pacific Ocean about 4:40 p.m. and
spend 30 minutes flying around it, in
specting the ships' wounds. The in
spection will be televised.
The two other state-related schools,
the University of Pittsburgh and Penn
State, are planning tuition hikes unless
the General Assembly appropriates
more money than Shapp budgeted for
them. Carocci said Pitt and Penn State
are waiting for the final state ap
propriations to pass before making any
final decisions on the amount of tuition
hikes.
Shapp decided to freeze spending for
higher education at current levels.
According to Carocci, officials at
Temple, Pitt and Penn State said
Shapp's action was in effect an ap
propriations cut because of increased
university operating costs.
Pitt's tuition now is $994 per academic
year and the university has not released
proposed tuition hike figures. Penn
State’s tuition is $855 a year with a
proposed $9OO tuition hike.
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