United
Way
goal
in sight
The pinch of inflation has
hurt many of the nation's
charitable organizations, but
not Centre County's United
Way.
The United Way in this area,
which provides funds for 25
different county service
organizations, has reached 95
per cent of its' projected
$229,000 goal.
Denis Kulchycki
Snowstorm hits utilities
By The Associated Press
The recent snow storm made tropical storm Agnes look like
a picnic in terms , of concentrated devastation, three utilities
•
agreed yesterday.
"Agnes didn't come close to giving us this trouble, not even
a fraction," said A, spokesman for Duquesne Light Co..
"This storm ripped out transformers and miles and miles of
line. It will cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars."
West Penn Power Co., which said some 20,000 of its
customers were still without power yesterday, also said
Hurricane Agnes wasn't as damaging in such a large, con
centrated area.
"For uniform devastation and complte destruction, we're
hard pressed to find a comparable storm," said a West Penn
spokesman.
And Pennsylvania Electric Co., while noting that only two of
the counties it serves were crippled by the snow storm Sunday
night and early Monday, said it has had customers out of
service longer in those areas than any during Agnes,
"This storm hit harder in two or three counties, and in those
areas it's worse than Agnes," said a spokesman.
Agnes roared through Pennsylvania in 1972, flooding
communities, forcing people out of their homes and causing
millions of dollars of-damage.
Utilities and state officials said it was too early to tell what
this storm will cost,.but Pennelec alone said it would cost it
well over $1 million. •
By mid-day yesterday an estimated 40,000 persons still were
without electric service in western Pennsylvania, including
about 15,000 in Somerset and Cambria counties served by
Pennelec, another 20,000 in Westmoreland, Fayette and
Washington counties, served by West Penn, and about 5,000 in
Allegheny and Beaver counties served by Duquesne Light Co.
The three utilities all agreed that there would still be some
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executive director for the
United Way's local branch,
said the organization has
solicited $217,000 since mid-
September.
He said the organization
hopes to reach its final goal by
mid-December.
The United Way depends
mainly on mail solicitations.
Kulchycki , said this method
brings fewer but larger
donations than those gathered
through door-to-door fund
raising.
The United Way also raises
money by solicitation cam
paigns within industries.
Charitable organizations
receiving money from the
United Way in Centre County
include three branches of the
Red Cross, the County
Library,_ the Youth Corps,
Centre Crest, United Service
Organization, the. County
Home Health Organization,
and the Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts.
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Tunisians may let PLO
try Palestinian hijackers
, By The Asiociated Press
An informed guerrilla source said yester
day that Tunisia has changed its mind and
will let the Palestine Liberation Organization
try the' four gunmen who hijacked a British
airliner and killed a West German passenger.
In another :,development, the Arab
newspaper Al Ifayat quoted Saudi Arabia's
defense minister, Prince Sultan bin Abdul
Aziz, as saying his country has concluded an
$B6O-million deal with Frances to improve the
Saudi tank corps and is show' gin the;United
States for other arms.
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The hijackers were membe of a dissident
Palestinian faction that hij ked the plane
with 47 persons aboard in the Persian GulU
sheikdom of Dubai 10 days ago. TheisurrerVc
derect to Tunisian authorities last week after
receiving a promise they would not be handed
over to the PLO. which condemned their ac
tion.
If the PLO actually tries the hijaCkers it
will Ibe the first such tribunal, held.
customers without power by the weekend.
"We're making one repair and finding two more," said the
West Penn spokesman.
Duquesne Light said its biggest problem now is in Beaver
County, where 50 primary power lines and 80 secondary lines
were still down.
"Vie still have major transmission lines down," said the
Pennelee spokesman. "One transmission line, which is about
15 miles long, has 15 breaks in it, andithe same thing is true of
Many distribution lines."
Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Ernest Kline,,acting in the absence of
Gov. Shapp, directed state agencies to step up relief
operations,
"The transportation department civil defense and the
National Guard are stepping up their assistance to area power
companies in restoring service and removing stranded
residents to shelter areas," Kline said.
He added that civil defense officials have provided
emergency generators to permit resumption of water supply
to Somerset, Jennerstown and Central City water plants, all in
Somerset County.
Meanwhile,. Ben Parker, manager of Southwestern Penn
sylvania Water AuthOrity in Greene County, said about 6,000
of the company's 10,000 customers are without water because
its power station on the Monongahela River is down.
"I can't get cooperation from West Penn Power C 0.," said
Parker. "They tell us we don't have priority. We'll be bck up
whenever West Penn gets in the mood,"
Allegheny County Commissioner Thomas Foerstor called
West Penn "indifferent and. insensitive" toward customers
calling with reports of outages.
"Not only are they not getting any sympathy or un
derstanding, most of them are not even getting through to the
power company headqbarters."
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Palestinian terrorists, including the eight who
killed two American diplomats and a Belgian
envoy in Khartoum, Sudan last year, have
been handed over to the PLO in Cairo, but
never have come to trial.
The guerrilla source, a member of the PLO
in Cairo, said Tunisian President Habib
Bourguiba and other officials had been per
suaded to change their minds on refusing to
release the four hijackers. Tunisian officials
hadno immediate comment.
Ip Riyadh, diplomatic sources said the
Saudis went to the Fretch for tanks after the
United States, previously the chief arms sup
plier to Saudi Arabia, refused to sell them its
newest model tank, the M6O.
On Israel' e l i front with Syria, military sour
ces report the Israelis have finished
building a lme of fortifications across the
Golan Heights. The Jerusalem Post said the
fortification) cost $5O million and a "massive
effort", waslnade to complete the defenses
before winter-set in.
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Ford requests funding
for GI education bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) President Ford
yesterday , asked- Congress for $813.7
million to finance the GI Bill it passed over
his veto, telling the lawmakers their action
will cost the nation an extra half billion
dollars.
Ford . presented the supplemental ap
propriation request 24 hours after the
House and Senate voted overwhelmingly
to override his veto of legislation boosting
education benefits for Vietnam-era Gls by
about 23 per cent. The override votes were
394 to 10 in the House and 90 to 1 in the
Senate.
In a letter to Speaker Carl Albert, Ford
said a supplemental appropriation of
$813.7 million was "necessitated by the
congressional override of my veto" and
asserted Congress could have saved most
of this by adopting the more modest GI bill
he had advocated.
As part of his drive to cut federal spend-
The Daily Collegian Thursday, December 5, 1974-
ing and reduce inflationary pressures,
Ford also opposed the bill's provisions for
student loans and an extension of
eligibility for benefits from 36 to 45
months.
Retroactive to Sept. 1, the new bill will
increase educational benefits for a single
veteran with no dependents from the cur
rent $220 a month to $270. A' arried vet
eran with no children will get $321 instead
of $261; a married veteran with one child
will get $366 instead of $29 8 / a nd $22 a
month is added for each child up the scale.
Ash said the supplemental - money would
also be needed to pay for the costs of ad
ministering the new direct education loan
program and other administrative costs.
Under the new loan provision, a GI student
can apply for up to $6OO in federal
education loans if he cannot get a loan un
der other federal programs.
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