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Egil Krogh
Krogh gets 6-month sentence
WASHINGTON (AP t—Egil Krogh Jr.,
repentant but asking no favors, was
sentenced yesterday to serve six months
in prison for his part in the Ellsberg case
burglary He said President Nixon did
not authorize it "directly or indirectly."
Krogh, supervisor of the White House
agents who carried out the office break
in, thus discounted reports that his
marching orders had come "right out of
the Oval Office "
He said he had only one contact with
President Nixon on the work of the
special investigations unit known as the
"plumbers" and in "that meeting Dr.
Ellsberg's name did not appear to be
mentioned "
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STEVEH. OStROSK Y
Collegian Senior Reporter
Speculation on Rep. Galen Dreibelbis'
future in politics ended last night when
he announced he would seek re-election
from the 77th District to the state House
Representatives.
Dreibelbis. D-State College, will face
Marianne "Mike" Van Dommelen in the
Democratic May primary.
He said his decision to run was "the
realization that without the help of some
good government legislators who are not
running for re-election there will be an
even greater need for the remaining
reformers to carry on the battle."
lie said he never gave "much con
sideration" to running for a higher office
as had been speculated. Sen. Joseph
Ammerman. D-Clearfield. is a good
friend and has done more than an
adequate job. Dreibelbis said, adding he
never considered running for Congress
because of consideration for his family.
Dreibelbis also commented on
dissatisfaction with his actions by some
liberal factions of the Democratic Party.
- Something the Democrats will
Weather
Considerable cloudiness and cool today,
high 37. Tonight mostly cloudy and cold,
lo‘‘ 30 Saturday mostly cloudy and
milder with a chance of rain developing
and continuing into Sunday. High both
days near 45
Tax situation confuses students, officials
i- TERESA VILLA
Collegian Senior Reportet
Students may find the local per capita tax question
confusing, but local officials are not finding the situation
any less complicated.
While the large student population figures favorably in
census counts for federal revenue sharing funds, deciding
just «•ho is taxable raises some problems.
County Tax Assessor David Barr said because the
University gav' him an incomplete listing of students'
names, he must resort to using the student directory to
figure out who is already on the tax rolls and who is not.
The University omitted names of out-of-state students.
Barr said he already has printed an official tax roll for the
count. but will print a supplemental list this spring,
including names of students the University omitted.
Undergraduate Student Government President Mark
Jinks said this is an effort to "catch all the students"
because Barr told him the supplemental tax notices
usually are sent in July when fewer students are here.
Barr said he will add to tax rolls all persons over 18 living
in Centre County.
The county has issued an exoneration policy that leaves
little room for 4udents to escape paying unless they
decide to claim non-residency here. County Com
missioner J. Doyle Corman said a student witheed "darn
good proof that he's a resident somewhere else, like a tax
receipt."
The County allows exoneration for citizens older than 65
who' make less than $l,BOO.
The county commissioners have not released the
reasons for their tax decision, but when they do, Jinks
the
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FORMER READ of the White House plumbers Egil Krogh talks with newsmen
outside the district court house in Washington.
But he said that John D. Ehrlichman,
then the President's domestic adviser
and Krogh's superior, gave the unit
authority to engage in "covert activities
to obtain information on Dr. Ellsberg."
The precise nature of that
authorization and the extent it covered
the break-in are matters to be decided
by the courts, he said.
Ehrlichman, David Young and G.
Gordon Liddy are scheduled to go on
trial in Los Angeles in April on state
charges in the case.
Krogh had pleaded guilty on Nov. 30 to
a single count of conspiracy to violate
the rights of Dr. Lewis Fielding, the
psychiatrist who had been treating
hopefully understand is if I took a vicious
stand against the Republicans, I would
never get elected, - he said.
"This doesn't mean I am not a good
Democrat. I am probably the best
Democrat in the area since I can be
elected in a district which is three-to-two
Republican," Dreibelbis said.
He said he thinks "it may be reward
ing for the county party to go ahead and
take a stand by endorsing a candidate in
the primary."
"I probably won't end up appeasing
the very liberal wing of the party. But
politics is very much a * game of com
promise. The very liberal wing of the
party cannot elect a candidate in a large
area such as my district. The extremely
liberal candidate cannot win an elec
tion...
Dreibelbis said the main issue in the
primary campaign will be his ef
fectiveness as a legislator.
"The campaign will be based on my
own record and my approach to
politics." he said. "I probably will not be
devoting a lot of time to the campaign
because of my duties in Harrisburg. I
don't intend to use up half my term
campaigning for re-election. If I did that
I would not be a faithful legislator."
Dreibelbis discussed his positions on
three of the campaign's major issues
University funding. taxes and lowering
the drinking age.
He said he has and will continue to
Collegian
Glares plans
n to state H
said USG and American Civil Liberties Union Lawyers
will consider its legalities.
County commissioners have discouraged students from
registering to vote here by confusing voting residency
with taxing residency, Jinks said. "We mean business,"
he said in referring to a possible law suit should any of the
three levels of local government interfere with the
student vote, an action he called a "psychological poll
tax."
Two other levels of government levy a per capita tax.
The State College Borough has delayed sending tax
notices until summer while it considers exoneration
policies and possible options to the head tax.
The State College School District tax bills for this fiscal
year have hit nearly 19,000 students, about 7,500 of whom
already have filed for exoneration.
School District Business Administrator Ralph Moyer
said he will not use the county's supplemental tax roll this
fiscal year.
Moyer said he is not sure which Pennsylvania statute
applies to school district taxing policies.
Present exoneration policies relieve the tax collector
from collecting the tax. State College resident Yvonne
Hunter said Local Tax Collection Law (P.L. 1050)
requires the taxing body to enforce payment of the tax,
but Moyer said he is not sure if that is correct.
The law states, "When a tax collector has been
exonerated from the collection of any tax, such action
shall not in any way have the effect of discharging or
limiting the liability of the taxable, but all methods of
enforcing collection of taxes shall continue as though no
exoneration had been made." •
Daniel Ellsberg. Fielding's office was
broken into Sept. 3, 1971, by Liddy and
three others.
Krogh could have been sentenced to 10
years in prison and fined $lO,OOO.
U. S. District Judge Gerhard A.
Gesell, in pronouncing sentence, said
Krogh needed no rehabilitation but "any
punishment short of jail would in the
court's view be inadequate."
He then imposed a term two to six
years, saying Krogh would serve six
months and be on supervised probation
for two years thereafter.
Krogh thus became the first high-level
White House aide to be sent to prison in
the Watergate aftermath
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Dreibelbis
support responsible funding for the
University, which the University ad
ministration knows.
"But I have to be realistic that there
will not be a frozen tuition level or
greatly increased amounts of funding as
long as we don't have a graduated state
income tax," Dreibelbis said.
U.S.
may
WASHINGTON (AP)—The prospect of
the United States, world's leading wheat
exporter, having to import wheat •
springs from the delicate diplomacy of
detente and the straining U.S. economy.
The outlook for American millers
grinding extra Canadian wheat this
spring was heightened yesterday when
the U.S. Tariff Commission recom
mended that President Nixon suspend
wheat import quotas until June 30.
An interim commission report said
Nixon could take the action without
adversely affecting government wheat
programs and the amount of wheat
products processed in this country.
Asst. Secretary of Agriculture Carroll
G. Brunthaver conceded Wednesday
that U.S: wheat reserves are crimped
more than had been anticipated and the
administration already was considering
opening up imports from Canada so
American tables won't run short of
bread.
A Senate Agriculture subcommittee
has voted to hold hearings on U.S. wheat
supply and demand.
The United States is running short of
grain after an 18-month spree of
supersalesmanship which has seen this
country selling its farm products abroad
in unprecedented volume.
The Nixon administration has pursued
a program of pushing food exports as
part of its worldwide peace and goodwill
initiatives and as the best bet for helping
the U.S. position -in a shaky world
economy.
The only way to assure domestic
supplies without turning to Canadian
imports in a crunch would be to stop
shipping our own wheat overseas. And
the U.S. government feels it can't do
to run
ouse
He said under a graduated tax, the
more affluent people would pay more for
education through taxes, making the
cost of education for the student lower.
"Until tax changes take place, I will
advocate increased support of Penn
sylvania Higher Education Assistance
Agency scholarships and lowering the
eligibility requirements for state loans,'
he said.
Dreibelbis has supported lowering the
minimum drinking age in Pennsylvania.
"I have voted five times for 18- and 19-
year-old drinking privileges," he said.
"I don't advocate an 18-year-old going
out and getting boozed. But I think if an
18-year-old is old enough to hold office or
become a policeman, he is old enough to
make up his mind if he wants to buy a
beer."
Dreibelbis defeated Van Dommelen in
the 1972 spring primary by about 600
votes. In the 1972 general election,
Dreibelbis defeated Republican Bud
Yorks by about 3,000 votes.
Dreibelbis is the owner of Nittany Oil
and Gas Co. and is active in local civic
and business organizations.
Correction
The photography of Jim Carter, North
Halls Resident Assistant, which
appeared on page one of The Daily
Collegian yesterday was incorrectly
identified as Black Caucus - President
Lee Coffer
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CAISIS
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Friday, January 25, 1974
Vol. 74, No. 92 10 pages University Park, Pennsylvania
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
wheat imports
be necessary
that. even at the risk of running short at
home. because:
—The reaction from American's
agricultural customers abroad would be
immediate and angry at a time when
international tensions already are
straining near the breaking point.
—The American economy couldn't
stand the shock of losing needed markets
in the short run and possibly steady
customers in the long run.
—Unlike most other wheat exporting
nations, all U.S. exports are handled by
private traders. The government has no
way of controlling their sales except by
slapping on export quotas.
Agriculture Secretary Earl L Butz
said last summer that the massive grain
exports to Russia in 1972 were linked to
diplomatic activity from the new accord
with the Soviet Union and China to peace
in Vietnam. a general theory later
confirmed by the White House
The lure of American food before a
hungry world has become a key to
Nixon's diplomatic initiatives, and one
too valuable to be jeopardized by cutting
off customers now, the administration
feels.
Withholding wheat to countries
dependent on U.S supplies would have
Hearing issue splits
Watergate committee
WASHINGTON IAP The Senate
Watergate committee, divided as never
before, yesterday set about preparing
for an abbreviated set of public hearings
next week that few of the senators
wanted.
The four Democratic members of the
investigating panel overrode their three
Republican colleagues Wednesday and
voted to proceed with hearings into the
Hughes-Rebozo money and the milk
fund. But sources who attended the 3' 2 -
hour closed-door session said the split
cut deeper than mere party line voting
"None of the senators had any
stomach for more hearings," one source
reported yesterday. "Sam Dash
bulldozed them into it to save his own
face."
Dash. the committee chief counsel,
had insisted for weeks that the hearings
would resume and promised they would
expose new and significant evidence
about the 1972 campaign.
One Republican called the vote to hold
six more days of hearings over the next
two weeks an exercise to salve Mr.
Dash's ego." Some Democrats said they
shared that analysis.
When chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-
N.C., and vice chairman Howard H.
Baker, R-Tenn.. announced their split.
Baker called Ervin the victor and
himself the vanquished.
The accounts of several senators and
staff aides who attended the executive
session disclosed this background to the
dispute:
When Ervin returned Monday from_ a
trip to Mexico, Dash and assistants
Terry Falk Lenzner and David Dorsen
outlined the evidence they had to the
chairman. There was little that had not
already beerrpublished, but Lenzner had
been able to - - tie a series of confusing
events into a coherent story about
billionaire Howard R. Hughes' SlOO,OOO
cash payment to President Nixon's
friend, C.G. "Bebe" Rebozo.
Ervin complimented Das'h on the
staff's work and went home to North
Carolina for a one-day rest. Dash told
State College
School District
July I June 30
$lO (plus $1.96
occupation tax)
Jan. 1 and July, 1974
In-state students, excluding
some freshmen and seniors
about 19,000 -
Annual income
less than $l,BOO
Non-residency
$173,500
(excluding students)
5 per cent penalty
after May 1
as soon as possible
(about 7,500 filed so far)
S millers have been buying some
Canadian wheat all along to get par
ticular varieties for blending purposes
or because some northern mills prefer to
bud from nearby Canadian suppliers
Brunthaver says lifting of import
quotas to let American millers buy more
if needed, is thought of primard as a
stand-by authorization rather than an,
rush to import
Meanwhile. the United States has been
using a friendly persuasion approach to
get Russia and Japan to delal. sonic
current orders until the American
summer crop begins to come in
Early U S wheat begins to come in
from Texas and Oklahoma in Mas and
June. and Kansas %%heat is harvested
about the middle of June The
Agriculture Department ,mticipates that
if supplies hold up until mid-June there
be enough cc heat for e% er hod:.
associates the chairman had agreed to
more hearings When Ervin returned,
deputy chief counsel Rufus L Edmisten
met him at the airport and athised him
to "treat Dash with extreme skep
ticism
Ervin reptted there %%ould hale to be
some further hearings to avoid am
inference that the committee %%a,
backing down in the face of White House
pressure. But he said he u anted no more
than three days on each of the t%%0 chief
subjects.
As the executive session began
Lenzner read a '_'.ooo-word report on his
investigative team's findings on the
Rebozo affairs. He said they had learned
the $lOO.OOO gift probably was connected
to then-Atty. Gen John N Mitchell's
approval of Hughes' purchase of a Las
Vegas casino-hotel The Justice
Department's antitrust division opposed
the acquisition
The Lenzner report also covered high
level White House concern about F
Donald Nixon's financial dealings IA ith
the Hughes business empire and the
possibility that they might ernbarriii ,
the President
Sen Herman E Talmadge. D-(;a
interrupted Lenzner repeatedly to
question him about the strength of the
evidence.
"There is only enough exidence to
excite suspicions." the senator said at
one point
Baker. too. was skeptical of the
evidence
Dash said the committee i4ould he
derelict if it stopped the hearing. and
Sen. Lowell P Weicker Jr . it-Conn .
upbraided him for the remark.
Weicker suggested a series of
meetings to permit the staff to present
its findings in public without hearings
When the vote was taken. the two
remaining Democrats voted with the
chairman, who cast the deciding proxy
for more hearings.
Afterward. no one seemed par
ticularly pleased with the decision
State College Borough
Jan 1— Dec. 31
July. 1974
Annual income
less than $l,BOO
Non-residency
$35,000
U.S. POSTAGE
STATE COLLEGE
PA. 1680 1
PrRIFTT Wl.lO
an impact akin to the Arab curtailment
of oil shipments during the current
Middle East crisis, government officials
fear
On the balance. the government feels.
buying a little extra Canadian wheat this
%%inter is a better alternative than up
setting its inn booming export business
Centre Counts
Jan 1 Dec 11
Feb. 1, 1974
Everyone over 18 living
in Centre Cowny
Annual income
less than $l,BOO
if older than 65
Non-residency
$216,000
5 per cent penalty
after June 1
Dec. 31