—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, August 1, 1973
Leads in GOP governor's race
Heinz
HARRISBURG (AP)
U.S. Rep. H. John Heinz, R-
Allegheny, received the
strongest support from a
group of Central Penn
sylvania Republicans polled
on the governor’s race.
Andrew 'L. Drew Lewis,
Republican state finance
chairman, finished second in
the previously unpublished
poll. Also strongly favored for
a “spot on the ticket” were
House Speaker Kenneth B.
Lee and former Sen. D.
Elmer Hawbaker of Franklin
County.
The poll results came from
questionnaires distributed to
the Central Pennsylvania
group at a July 20 dfhner in
Altoona. 7 About 135
legislators, county com
missioners and county
Concert
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) There was
no mistaking this for Woodstock.
The sense of community, the “together
ness” and “good vibes” that four years
earlier transformed a wet and hungry crowd
into Woodstock Nation, never seemed to
materialize in this town of farm folk and race
cars.
The exhilaration the crowd brought with it
to this “Summer Jam,” a festival far bigger
than that first grand assemblage of flower
people in 1969, soon gave way to frustration
and disappointment for those yrho could not
get within sight or sound of the stage.
“The ultimate bummer,” said a young
woman from Boston. '
She told of driving 11 hours to Watkins
Glen, walking three hours to the concert site
and leaving barely an hour later. “You can’t
hear the music, you can’t get any shade and
you can’t get high enough to have a good
For weeks the concert was billed as a
Woodstock revisted, only better. Promoters
said they were going to sell only 150,000
tickets to keep the crowds down.
What they did not count on was 600,000
people.
The traffic jams started Friday night 150
miles away. Those clever enough to sneak
into the town by back roads found the main
road to the race circuit clogged with aban
doned cars.
receives support
chairmen attended, and about
80 answered the question
naires,- according to Sen.'
Stanley G. Stroup, R-Bedford,
who organized the group. j
The survey results' were'
analyzed from about the first
65 to 70 returns, but later
questionnaires conveyed the
same trends, Stroup said.
Asked who they favored for
“some position” on the
gubernatorial ticket, Heinz
was chosen by 96 per cent;
Lewis by 79 per cent;
Hawbaker 68 per cent and Lee
61 per cent'.
Others mentioned included
Rep. deorgej Gekas, R-
Dauphin, 42 per cent; Dist.
Atty. Arlen [Specter of
Philadelphia, 37 peri cent;
golfer Arnold Palmer, ;35 per
cent; and Allegheny County
causes problems
At the site there was no sign of the
promised crowd control and no ticket takers.
“It’s a free concert,” one young man
proclaimed.
“So why did I pay $lO if everybody’s get
ting in free?” another wanted to know.
By noon, when the Grateful Dead began
playing, the “grassy knoll” in front of the
stage was a mass of-bodies and garbage.
With no trash barrels in sight, concert-goers,
who sprawled well beyond the range of the
50,000 watts sound system, used the ground.
“It’s like camping in a garbage dump and
listening to a transistor radio,” one young
man complained.
Caches of bottled water disappeared long
before the music started. The economics of
refreshment quickly pushed thie cost of a cup
of ice to 50 cents, while lukewarm soda went
for 35 cents.
One young man hawking “acid, mescaline,
THC and grass” attracted few customers.
But youths continually walked through the
crowds asking plaintively, “Anybody got any
downs?” They searched for barbiturates,
quaaludes and other currently popular
depressant drugs.
Hot and dehydrated, a great many people
slept through the event.
“How come nobody here’s having a good
time?” one very dazed you/ISp- man
repeatedly asked. &
Controller Robert Friend, 33
per cent.
In a question asking
respondents to select the
strongest 1974 ticket, Heinz
was first choice of 43 per cent
with Lewis second at 33 per
cent.
All respondents indicated
their chosen ticket could
defeat Gov. Shapp. Of those
who said the GOP - could
defeat' anyone except a
particular Democrat, 87 per
cent mentioned Pittsburgh
Mayor Peter Flaherty as the
most'feared opponent. Only 15
per cent believe Shapp was as
strong or stronger now than in
1970: Sixty-nine per cent rated
him weaker.
Shapp trailed Auditor Gen.
Robert P. Casey, Mayor
Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia
and Flaherty in a question on
the strongest Democratic
candidates. Only Rep. K.
Leroy Irvis, D-Allegheny,
finished behind Shapp.
A . similar question,
referring only to a
Democratic primary fight,
found Shapp as the second
strongest candidate, behind
Casey. Rizzo rated third and
Flaherty fourth.
State taxes, spending,
welfare and highways were
the only issues prominently
mentioned for the 1974
campaign. Fifty per cent
rated, taxes the top issue, 23
per cent picked spending, 10
per cent welfare and 10 per
cent highways.
Seven per cent picked
farmers’ problems as the
number one issue.
Not mentioned as top issues
were drug control, prison
reform, no-fault insurance,
size of the state payroll,
public employe jaws,
unemployment and the death
penalty. :
Stroup said. the , Central
Pennsylvania group will
conduct similar polls in other
areas of the state.
The senator, who spoke in a
telephone interview from his
Bedford home, recalled [these
counties participating in the
poll: Blair, Huntingdon,
Somerset, Bedford, Fulton,
Franklin, , Adams, Cum
berland, Perry, Mifflin,
Centre, Clearfield, Cambria,
Jefferson, Snyder, Union,
Northumberland, Indiana,
Bradford, Clinton and Tioga.
Beef
HARRISBURG (AP) Meat processors said
yesterday the shortage of beef in Pennsylvania will
become even more critical in the weeks ahead as
supplies dry up and prices go up.
Some 500 workers in the wholesale beef industry
in.the Philadelphia area already have been thrown
out of work, and layoffs and cutbacks are numerous
in other parts of the state because of the beef crisis.
“You almost have to double your orders to get
what you need,” said Joe Olsen, meat manager for
Karn’s Prime & Fancy Foods in Mechanicsburg. “If
you need eight sides of beef, you order 20 and expect
to get four or five. It’s going to get worse before it
gets any better.”
Robert Kessler, owner of Kessler’s Inc., a
wholesaler in Lemoyne, said the company ran out of
steer beef last week, is getting none this week and
expects none next wedk. Processing beef, for frank
furters, bologna, some sausage and meat loaf, is
still available in limited quantities but “it’s almost
a day-to-day proposition,” Kessler said.
Kessler’s normal supplier is in Souderton, Pa.,
Montgomery County. But the supplier stopped
selling beef of any kind last week. Kessler found
another supplier near Selinsgrove, Snyder County,
but this supplier is selling only the processing beef.
Because of the scarcity of domestic beef, Kessler
says he has increased his purchases of imported
processed beef, not subject to the price freeze. He
passes the increased costs on to his customers,
which include restaurants and institutions but no
retail consumers.
The scarcity of beef has increased the demand for
pork, Kessler said, and consequently his pork prices
have gone up as much as 35 cents a pound since the
pork price ceiling was lifted. “The oniy solution is
for the President to lift the ceiling on beef,” Kessler
said.
A survey of Berks County beef wholesalers
disclosed a seriously deteriorating beef supply.
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it may be hamburgers and hot dogs.”
A spot check of Pittsburgh area meat packers and
wholesalers indicated the beef shortage there is
hitting big and small processors alike.
In Lancaster, William G. McCoy, president of the
Lancaster Stockyard reported fewer cattle are
being offered on one of the largest stockyards east
of the Mississippi River, adding there was evidence
of a beef blackmarket. McCoy saidjless than one
half the usual number of cattle were offered on
Monday. ; j
Rocco' Rossano, president of [Amalgamated
Meatcutters Union Local 95, said “the day of
reckoning” in the Philadelphia area will be this
weekend. He called the situation not good, adding,
“One supermarket chain has already laid off all its
part-time help." I
“There is just no beef product around,” said the
president of a private meat wholesaler in Pitts
burgh, who asked that his firm no| be identified.
“There is a tremendous beef shortage...and it’s
going to get worse.” |
His firm normally handles about 250,000 pounds of
meat a week, he said, but volume currently is off 30
to 40 per cent. He said his firm had today off 30 of its
130 employes last week because of j the beef shor
tage, although “a few were recalled this week
because we got a shipment.” j
Ronald Isenberg, lawyer for the Wholesale Meat
Dealers Association of the Delaware Valley, said
the 500 workers laid off by the 26 companies in the
association represented about 20 pier cent of the
work force in the Philadelphia area. He said most of
those affected are meatcutters andi truck drivers.
Isenberg said some of the companies reported
they are operating at. only 50 per cent of capacity
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had been laid off and volume “is way down.” One
Armour source said, “There’s plenty of business
all kinds of demand, but hardly any sources left.”
A. spokesman for Blue RibboaMeat Co. in Pitts
burgh said three of its eight employes had been
laid off because of the beef shortage. “If things keep
going this way,” he said, “we may close up for a
couple of weeks. And it looks like they’re going to
keep on going this way.”
Isenberg said it appeared breeders are holding
steers from the market until Sept. 12, when the
Nixon Administration lifts the price ceiling under
Phase 4. The breeders, he said, cannot recover
increased costs from the wholesalers because
wholesalers are limited by the price ceiling.
Present controls do not cover the price at which
farmers can sell cattle, but the prices of processed
beef are frozen. This means processors have to pay
more for cattle than they can sell them to super
markets, restaurants and other outlets.
Isenberg said Philadelphia-area wholesalers plan
to go to Washington, D.C., to inform the Cost of
Living Council of the hardship the ceiling has placed
on the beef industry. Under Phase 4, which went
into effect July 19, relief was granted for pork and
lamb prices but beef prices remained frozen.
Sol Herman, general manager of the Frontier
Beef Co., Philadelphia, said his firm was “definitely
on a cutdown operation.” Herman said, “You can’t
pay more for a product than you can get for it'and
stay in business. It’s a stinking situation.”
John Taxin, president of the Old Original Book
binders seafood house in Philadelphia, offered an
answer to the problem: “Let them eat fish. They’ll
live longer anyway.”
Taxin blamed spiraling meat costs and scarcity of
beef on overseas sales.
“In Japan they’re getting sl2_a pound for beef,”
he said. “The meat suppliers can say ‘go to hell, we
don’t need you, we can sell to other countries.’
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