6—The Daily Collegian Friday, December 20, 1974 Studen is The University has been the temporary housing unabli to get students out of situation this term "com tempdrary housing because a fortable" since there wre no higher percentage of students more than two persons in a registered for classes this' study lounge. term,' according to William Students in temporary Mulb4rger, manager of the housing are still getting a $2 Assignment Office. a weekly refund for every week temp Oraq IVlullberger said 30 men and 25 women are stiJl in tern- spent in the study lounge. Mulberger said last term 12 porary housing. . or 13 students having dorm .4 contracts moved downtown He said he estimated rooms and signed other leaks. He housing- would be provided for the men said legal battles between in byikM end of January. dividual students and the Mulberger said he thought University would determine if still in 200-lb. bomb hurts 3 in London LONDON (UPI)—A bomb exploded last night in. a parked car on London's busiest shopping street only two blocks away from the U.S. Embassy, injuring setral persons. It was the third bomb attack in Britain in as ma y days. Middlesex Hospital said it had teeated three persons for cuts, shock and bruises. The injured included two women' and a man. One of the women, a police officer, had been Clearing people from the area and was cut by flying glass whorl the bomb went off. Scotland Yard said the bomb could have weighed as much as 200 pounds, making it one of the largest since the bombings began in Britain in early 1973. A 35-year-old man died Tuesday night in an explosion at a telephone exchange about one mile from Selfridges store. Two SHANDYGAFF, presents Michael St. John with current hits and oldies. We will close Dec. 23 and reopen Ja4i. 2 noon. UiNe G iiC this, chri6 APPLE 3418 George Harril on APPLE 3417 ,other bombs went off at telephone exchanges in the city within minutes of the first. Late yesterday an explosive wrecked another telephone exchange in Dungannon, a Northern Ireland city 45 miles west of Belfast. No one was injured. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the bomb went off in the middle of Oxford Street opposite Selfridge's department store 15 minutes after -the Daily Mirror newspaper received a telephoned warning from a man who spoke with an Irish accent. The London fire brigade said the blast caused extensive damage to storefronts decorated for Christmas. Last night was a late closing night in the area and only an hour before the 9:07 p.m. explosion sidewalks had been jammed with shoppers. Police had managed to clear the area after being told of the warning. The car had been left in a part of Oxford Street usually blocked off to all traffic except taxis and buses. The explosion was loud enough to be heard at St. Paul's Cathedral, two miles away, and in Parliament, more than a mile away. Police cordoned off the area in case there were other bombs in the vicinity. Another bomb almost destroyed the telephone exchange in Dungannon, a Northern Ireland town 45 miles west of Belfast, but police said there were no injuries. Police believe the blasts were the latest in an 18-month wave of bombings by the Irish Republican Army which have jqfled 52 persons and injured more than 700 in Britain in an attempt to drive the British out of Northern Ireland. aode monis they should be released from their dorm contracts. If the decision is in the student's favor, -these resi dence hall rooms would be available for those in tem porary housing. Assistant Director of Residence Hall Programs Linda Higginson said the cases are decided on an in dividual basis when the student comes to Residential Life to get out of his dorm con tract. If you'd like to volunteer some of your free time, call your local Voluntary Action Center Or write: "Volunteer" Washin: ton. D.C. 20013. g oiya, Ce,(9-64Jtvci Post House Tavern 146 N. Atherton ~treet State College someone polluting, point it out. It's litter in the streets. It's air that smells. It's a river where fish can't breathe. You.know what pollution is. But not everyone does. So the next time you see pollution, don't close your eyes to it. Vviite a letter. Make a Call. Point it out to someone who can do something about it. People start pollution.PeOple can stop it. rr a i ll Pubic A A SeNrce of This Newspaper & An .. The Advertising Couisol k.13111C1 APPLE 3416 EPA discovers cyanide in Pittsburgh area water, PITTSBURGH (AP)—The Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday three major steel firms are dump ing more than a ton of cyanide a day into the Monongahela River, from which suburban South Hills residents get • their drinking water; 4 The' pollutitth figures were gained while the EPA studied industrial spillage into the river. Months of hearings and negotiations had resulted in proposed EPA recom mendations which would slash allowable cyanide levels to from 2,481 pounds per day,to 15.1 The EPA said U.S. Steel Corp., Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. and Wheeling- Pittsburgh Steel Corp. filed for an adjudicatory hearing late Wednesday. That, in effect, could delay im plementation of the water quality standards for as little as six months or as long as three years. "We were very surprised by their action"," an EPA spokesman said. "We thought they had agreed to the proposal." Bethlehem Steel Corp. recently accepted a similar EPA proposal to scale down its discharges into the Conemaugh River from its Johnstown, Pa. plant. The adjudicatory hearing, o be heard before one of four. administrative law judges in the country, would end Ih Keep America Beautiful 99 Park Avenue New York New York 10016 'l/ I SHOP OUR talk (4 ))OA-E-Iff WE HAVE RED TAG REDUCED =lOOO S OF LP. 'S TO tot 127 S. Allen, S.C. the judge deciding what standards would be ap plicable to bring Monongahela water to ac ceptable national standards. There was no immediate comment from spokesmen for U.S. Steel, Jones & Laughlin and Wheeling-Pittsburgh. The EPA charged four US Steel plants spew 1,440 pounds of cyanide a day into the river. In recent weeks, where hundreds of persons have been stricken with nausea, 'diarrhea and other gastrointestinal ailments, which the EPA says are related to the drinking water. An EPA spokesman said Wheeling-Pittsburgh's Mon esen plant discharges 676 pounds of cyanide a day into the river. Under the proposed regulationS, that 'would be cut S. Allen By DAVE MacDOUGALL Collegian Staff Writer State College Police Sunday reported that a State College woman was raped on the 600 block of S. Allen Street. Her attacker was described as 6 Police log feet tall and wearing a green army jacket. The victim was taken to Ritenour Health Center. Glenn Miller (Bth-animal science) Sunday reported to State College police thethe theft of some meat from e back of the Alpha Zeta fraternity house on N. Burrowes Road. Loss was set at $4O. John DuPree (sth-animal science) Monday reported that a watch, tie pin and $23 ***************i -* Keep America Beautiful 4W1044;410'44,441i 237-5876 to 1.5 pounds daily by early 1977. J&L'.,s Pittsburgh plant puts 387 pounds of cyanide a day into the river, the EPA said. It proposes a level of 2.7 pounds. In addition to limiting the cyanide discharges into the Monongahela, - the proposed EPA rules would have required the six plants of the three firms to cut their phenol levels from 869 pounds a day. Phenol, a caustic acid - byproduct of steel production,. is specifically being blamed for the recent outbreak of - illnesses. "We i had hoped the com panies wouldn't take us through a time-consuming series . of judicial hearings," said Maureen Graham of the EPA. "Daniel Snyder regional scene of rape had been stolen from rooms 631, 632, 633, and 634 Beaver Hall. Total loss was estimated at $73. Edward Sarson, personnel and faculty administration instructor, Thursday reported the theft of a target pistol from White Building. \Niue of the pistol was set at Si A. ' Police _Services reported Sunday that three pine trees were taken from the Blue golf course and one tree was taken from the White course. Cost was not known. Thomas Smith (4th science) Sunday reported the theft of his bicycle, valued at $165, from the rack at Pinchot Hall. - EPA administrator hag already said people are getting sick from the waker; and we thought it w a critical concern to Pittsburgh to get it cleaned up quickly." She said the proposed cuts, to less than one per cod of current discharges of cyanide, and about 9 per cent of current phenol dumping, would have brought the Monongahela into line with other.rivers used for drinking water in the nation. According to the EPA, the three steel firms argued that the proposed regulations were too strict. "We went through the whole thing with them," Graham said. "We monitored the river, we negotiated, we bargained, and finally came up with what we thought were good guidelines." Terry Cooke (11th vocational industrial education) reported to State College police Sunday that his 1968 Oldsmobile was recovered in the parking lot of Imperial Towers. The car had beeneported missing earlier Sunday. An accident last Friday involved a car driven by Suk Jai Yim (graduate engineering mechanics) and a car driven by Lee Drake of State College on S. Atherton Street south of Whitehall Road. There were no injuries. An accident involving a car driven by Jean Barrick (12th nursing) and a car driven by Russell Dutcher Jr. of State College resulted in $6OO damage to both cars. There were no injuries.
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