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    i6—The Daily Collegian Friday, December 6, 1974
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By JOE NAPSHA
Collegian Sports Writer
For students hunting jobs in The coal strike has also af-
Centre County, the "outlook is fected firms in this region.
gloomy" and may not improve The lack of coal, which is used
until March or April, the
manager of the State college to make steel for cars, has
slowed down car production
Employment Office said yes- and torced firms in this area
terday. id"itwhich make car parts to lay-
Manager John Solic off workers, Sac said.
has been difficult to fin jobs"
for people, whether or t they To ' help unemployed
have degrees. Solic lamed workers, the federal govern
this on the poor state of the ment set up job programs
economy. which ',could be implemented
The sluggish econom is one in tovhis with more than six
of the main reasons ,400 of per cent of the population
the 40.000 potential wo ers in unemployed. With revenue
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ployed, Solic said. The unem
ployment rate for October was
3.4 per cent and Solic has
predicted 3.8 per cent for
November.
Many workers from con
struction, manufacturing and
wholesale companies are
unemployed in Centre County,
Solic said. Seasonal layoffs
and the decline in manu
facturing and wholesale
orders are reasons for this, he
added.
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create jobs which must be
filled by people from these
towns, Solic explained.
Centre County has six com
munities which qualify for job
prOgrams, but the county
"hasn't created any yet,"
Solic said.
The rise in unemployment is
coupled with the rise in in
come assistance applications,
according to Margaret At
thiger, supervisor of income
maintenance for the Centre
County Board of Assistance.
"Our applications have
quadrupled since Sep
teMber," Attinger said. This
includes food stamps and
medical and cash assistance,
she added.
Attinger estimated the
board gets about 1,000 ap
plicants per month, half of
them students.
Although applications in
crease around the holidays, it
"is more this year than the
last four years," Attinger
said.
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Codeine shortage faces U.S.
WASHINGTON '(UPI)—
Codeine, that popular reliever
of toothaches, coughs and
other ailments, will be
rationed in'the United States
next year due to increasing
worldwide demand for opium,
Congress was warned
yesterday.
The pain -killer is the major dnstry will be able to meet
derivative of opium and a only about 80 per cent of next
representative of three year's projected demand for
registered crude opium codeine, McGrew testified.
importers told a Senate "The balance of medical
health subcommittee U.S. need could be satisfied only
codeine sales this year have by reducing processors' in
exceeded opium imports by ventories to a level which
more than 100 per cent, would require periodic
Jane Lang McGrew, an suspension of 'production
attorney for the 'opium im- . thereafter," she warned.
porters, did not disclose "In order to avoid such an
details', of the rationing plan, eventuality a year from now,
which Sen. Edward M: a formal program of
Kennedy, D-Mass., said could rationing bulk codeine will be
be the first rationing of a drug • inevitable in the beginning of
in this country except in 1975, I might add."
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medical demand for codeine,
morphine and other opium
related drugs "threatens the
adequacy of medical care in
the United States," McGrew
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ministration and drug
company representatives
also said several other drugs
are getting scarce in the
United States, although they
predicted no such rationing
procedure. They include
heparin, the anticoagulant
used to treat former
President Nixon, and the
- antibiotic ampicillin.
Dr. John A. Jennings said
increasing worldwide
demand for opium, the
Turkish production halt and
Brezhnev 'seeks peace'
PARIS (UPI) Soviet Communist party
Genera] Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev said
yesterday his goal is "peaceful and cloudless
skies on our planet," and his Vladivostok
summit meeting with President Ford helped
contribute to this.
Speaking at a dinner given in his honor by
French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing,
the Soviet leader said "There is no more
important or more noble goal than ensuring
peaceful and cloudless skies over our planet.
"We must spare no efforts and no toil to
achieve this. In the light of this, we can say
the results of the recent talks in Vladivostok
with Mr. Ford, the United States President,
were positive."
The dinner rounded off a day of summit
talks between the French and Soviet leaders
in the medieval splendor of the chateau of
Rambouillet, 40 miles west of Paris.
'yhe two l leaders announced quick
agreement to step up cooperation, between
their countries in all fields. The talks were
scheduled to continue until noon tomorrow.
In his dinner speech Brezhnev cautioned
that the world stilllaces dangerous situations
in the Middle East and elsewhere.
He urged early convening of a 35-nation
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such short-term factors as
adverse weather conditions
for India's crop and "Do you see any chance of
epidemics and disasters were running into a situation where
all part of the problem. India might say to the United
There was no hint at the States, 'unless we get food to
hearing that illegitimate use feed our starving people, you
of opium overseas to make are not going to get opium to
heroin had anything to do treat sick people'?" Kennedy
with the shortage. asked McGrew.
Ninety-five per cent of the "Senator, you have outlined
crude opium shipped into the a very frightening situation,"
United States is used to make she replied. "This is a very
codeine and Jennings real, though unspoken, worry
predicted the actual codeine of the drug companies."
summit conference to wind up the stalled
Geneva talks on security and cooperation in
Europe.
Giscard d'Estaing said cooperation with
the Soviet Union is a basic element in French
foreign policy."
"It is inseparable," he said, "from the
efforts we are making in favor of relaxation
of international tensions. This policy has
never been linked with a wish to adapt our
foreign policy to temporary circumstances.
It is a permanent direction in our policy."
Giscard d'Estaing and Brezhnev opened
the talks in Queen Marie Antoinette's 18th
century boudoir in the chateau. A French
spokesman said they cover three Amair
subjects political aspects of French-Soviet
cooperation, the stalled Geneva Conference
on Security and Cooperation in Europe and
ecorliitaic and financial cooperation between
thelo countries.
The spokesmen paid the two leaders will
sign a new five-year agreement today under
which trade between the two countries will be
greatly expanded.
A Soviet spokesman said Brezhnev
believes the Soviet Union and France are
well placed to help lessen tensions in Europe,
the Middle East and other trouble spots.
Big magnetic field
plotted near Jupiter
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (UPI) With data from Pioneer
it's encounter with Jupiter, space agency scientists yesterday
mapped out the giant planet's magnetic field.
The area, 9 million miles wide, is so enormous that if it could
be seen from earth, it would be four times as big as the sun
even though Jupiter is six times farther away from earth.
Inside the magnetic field lies the . deadly radiation belts that
peril spacecraft. The physicists' map of the belts containing
trapped atomic electrons and protons look like the familiar
pattern of iron filings around a bar magnet.
The magnetic field rapidly contracts and expands like a
jellyfish. This is because it is constantly buffeted by atomic
particles in the solar wind. Somehow, as electrons and protons
move relatively. close to Jupiter, they accelerate. A few of
these particlesgain the energy to break out of the magnetic
field and shoot intß. interplanetary 'space.
Recently, particl with Jupiter's . :"signattire" have been
identified on earth. They travel in rhythms with the 10-hour
day of the fast-rotating planet, 1,300 times bigger than earth.
How these particles break out of the magnetic field is a
secret which, if understood, would apply to the making of
nuclear energy on earth. The Jeirian region is a vast .
laboratory in which spacecraft can measure phenomena on a
grand scale that earth scientists study with their nuclear
accelerators.
One effect confirmed was that the Galilean satellites,
Jupiter's four biggest , moons, tend to sweep up electrons and
protons from their orbit around the planet. In contrast, the
earth's moon has no effect on earth's radiation belts because it
is too far away.
Pioneer 11 approached to 216,000 miles from Jupiter Mon
daAnd is now on a five-year jouPney to Saturn. The picture of
Jupiter's surroundings was explained by James A. Van Allen
of the University of Iowa; John A. Simpson, of the University
of Chicago; Edward J. Smith, of the Jet Propulsion
I.aboratory; and' 'John H. Wolfe, chief project scientist for
NASA.
shortages will occur in 1976 or
1977.