loto by Gerry Hartshorn
'Undergraduate Student Government Vice President Jim
Maza explains his proposed student Bill of Rights to the
USG Senate at last night's meeting in the HUB
Assembly Room.
Oswald, students
to discuss plans
for Bill of Rights
B> SHEILA McCALLEY
■ Collegian Staff Writer
Freedom of speech, and the rights
to dissent, organize and demonstrate
are four of 17 proposals for a student
Bill of Rights that University
President John \V. Oswald will
discuss with student leaders this
week. • i
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment Vice President Jim Maza, who
will introduce copies of a proposed
draft of a bill to Oswald and members
of the Student Advisory Board, said
he wants Oswald. to approve the
concept of a student Bill of .Rights.
Maza said Raymond 0. Murphy, vice
president for Student Affairs, also
win receive a copy of the proposal.
Maza said he hopes Oswald will dis
cuss the proposed draft Thursday
at an SAB meetine
Maza also said any approved Bill of
Rights would be only a “gentlemen’s
agreement" between students and
the University administration,
because students have no way of
enforcing the bill.
Some proposals were deleted from
the draft Oswald will receive this
week. Maza said. He said a recom
mendation for a student-elected
judiciary, to replace the Student
Standards Board, and another
U.S. holds gold auction
WASHINGTON PUP I) —. The
go\ ernment found buyers at acceptable
prices lor only little over a third of the
gold offered in its first public auction
yesterday, and results of the sale
depressed gold prices around the world.
Bids ranged as low as Si and as high as
SlB5 an ounce. The Treasury Depart
ment set the minimum acceptable price
at 5153 an ounce, and determined that
some 750,000 ounces out of 2 million
auctioned were sold ,to bidders who of
fered that price or iugher.
The unsuccessful bids below that price
totaled another 200,000 ounces, meaning
slightly less than half the gold for sale
was bid upon.
"In deciding what volume of the offers
to accept, the Treasury was faced with
the necessity of balancing on the one
hand the desirability of not selling at
prices far below market indications
with, on the other hand, the desirability
of lollowing procedures which will not
place the U.S. [government un
necessarily in the role of setting prices,”
Treasury Secretary William E. Simon
said.
As a result of low prices in the auction
‘a minimum Sl7O an ounce was the ex
perts' valuqti&p before the sale) and the
weak American demand for gold since
the ownership ban was lifted last Tues
day. world market! prices dropped as
much as $5 an ounce.;
Gold went for nearly $2OO an ounce a
week ago in London, but closed
yesterday at $169.
The successful high bidder for at least
2,800 ounces at $lB5 per ounce was Herff
Jones, a ring manufacturer in In
dianapolis. The highest individual bid of
proposal that students pass student
regulations are missing from the
proposed draft.
Maza said the draft Oswald will see
is “just a piece of paper to say
something was done.”
Maza said although some proposals
may seem - obvious, they are
necessary. He said he has heard of
due process being denied to some
students at disciplinary hearings.
The USG Senate last night repealed
a bill preventing it from giving money
to organizations outside the
University. The bill had restricted
money to student organizations or
events that benefitted the student
body directly, or to worthwhile
causes.
Trustee Committee Chairman Tony
Stemberger said he hopes to have a
•comprehensive Board of Trustees
reform proposal ready by USG
elections.
Stemberger said the committee has
no formal suggestions yet, but hopes
to propose increased student voting
membership, and decreased
agricultural and industrial mem
bership.
Stemberger said agricultural and
industrial members seem least
responsive to student requests.
$lBl per ounce was made by Robert W.
Holt, a 68-year-old gas station ownert-jn
Federalsburg, Md.
Another Maryland gas station owner,
Eugene A. D’Onofriop submitted an
unsuccessful bid, the only bid ac
companied by cash, of $l2O per ounce.
“I thought I’d take a gamble,” he said.
Ah earlier high bid of $lBB per ounce
from Leslie E. Ellisson of Wayne, N.J.,
wad withdrawn.
Germany’s Dresden bank submitted
the [largest number of offers, for more
than 400,000 ounces, but the prices
ranged widely and the amount pur
chased by the bank was not known yet,
Simon said.
The largest known acceptable bid,
moj-e than $9 million, was made by the
Swiss Credit Bank of Zurich, one of the
world’s major gold traders, which
submitted prices from $l6O per ounce
and up.
Simon said the cutoff point of $153 per
ounce was determined when the price
seemed to balance “prudently” with
750,000 ounces.
Simon said the U.S. sale should not be
taken as an attempt to determine a
wjrld price for gold.
SThe average price of sale iin the
auction was not immediately; deter
mined, but the prices offered indicated
thiere was little demand for gold by U.S.
citizens, Simon said. More than half the
offers to buy, which covered 954,800 of
the two million ounces offered; came
from foreign banks and individuals.
Simon also said speculators who drove
the price of gold up swiftly in an
ticipation of the end of the U.S. gold ban
"are going to be taking some losses.”
Indian dispute
GRESHAM, Wis. (UPI)—Gov.
Patrick J. Ovjcey called out the National
Guard yesterday night to aid law en
forcement officials at the Alexian
Brothers monastery which was taken
over by militant Indians on New Year’s
day. M j
Lucey said ia a statement released in
Madison that Shawano County Sheriff
Robert A. Morftour asked for the help
because “he now believes that the
continued protection of life and property
requires the Presence of the National
Guard.’’ *
The first battalion of the 127th Infantry
from Green Bay under the command of
Col. Arthur Heinkel was called up,
Lucey said, and would be at the scene by
6 a.m. today.
“The guard shall take charge of the
law enforcement responsibilities in the
area and shall take charge of the
negotiations with those who are oc
cupying the novitiate,” Lucey said.
The governor said the action would
permit the law enforcement officials
aiding the' Shawano County sheriff’s
department to “return to their area and
the job of protecting lives and property
within their local communities.”
Command, troops lose contact in Phuoc Binh
Saigon officials fear bunker loss
SAIGON (UPI) The South Viet
namese military fcommand lost contact
last night with 100 government troops
holding out inside the Communist
overrun provincial capital of Phuoc Binh
town 66 miles north of Saigon, military
sources said. '
The defenders, including.rangers and
infantrymen, commanded by the
province chief, jhad been holed up in an
underground bunker that had resisted
North Vietnamese attacks for three
days. l j
The sources said 200 rangers just south
of the town also had lost radio com
munications with government aircraft
circling over the town since the Com
munists captured it last Saturday.
Communists gunners lowered their big
130 mm guns and fired directly into the
concrete bunker yesterday, blowing
.away the bunker antenna, field officers
reported.
“We now fear the worst,” an officer in
Saigon said. “We are afraid the whole
bunker is gone and we don’t know what
has happened to the troops.”
The sources also said two companies
of rangers less than a mile south of the
town were attacked early today and
overrun.
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
troops since Dec. 14 have overrun four
districts and a number of villages in
Phuoc Long province which lies near the
Cambodian border and now control the
whole province.
iField officers reported Communist
gunners Sunday and ■•yesterday fired
more than 2,000 rounds of artillery and
rocket into Phuoc Binh.but were unable
to drive the lpst government defenders.
The Viet Cong also lobbed Soviet-made
rockets into Saigon suburbs early in the
day, killing at least five persons and
“The American people are a good deal
smarter than some people gave them
credit,” Simon said.
The Treasury Secretary also said
there may be another gold auction in the
future but that nothing specific had been
determined.
The bids were opened by five em
ployes of the General Services Ad
ministration, the government’s property
manager. They gathered around a plain
table and recorded amounts being of
fered for 400-ounce bricks of 99.9 per cent
pure gold.
It is expected to take several days to
determine what bids are acceptable and
what their prices average.
Yesterday’s auction was arranged in
anticipation of high demand and was
intended to prevent an outflow of dollars
to Europe by providing gold here. It
represented less than one per cent of the
government’s gold holdings.
PHEAA to allot awards
HARRISBURG (AP)—The board of
the state scholarship agency meets
today on allocation of $4.1 million in
grants approved by Gov. Shapp Dec. 30.
The money won’t fully fund all 19,0QP
students who have applications pending
before the Higher Education Assistance
Agency for the 1974-75 school year.
A priorities system must therefore be
established at the meeting, said Kenneth
R. Reeher, agency director, .j
The applicants are veterans; late
applicants; students whose principal
wage earning parent is retired, dead or
disabled; students with special cir
Lucey also said it would ease the
financial burden now faced by Shawano
County “which must pay the substantial
cost of enforcement in this situation up
until this time.”
The action by the governor cameih the''
sixth day of the occupation. < Earlier
yesterday the Indians were told they no
longer have immunity from prosecution
and will not be given the 225-acre
complex surrounding the 64-room
building.
A ceasefire went into effect at 12:30
p.m. yesterday and Lucey said he has’
appealed to all involved to keep the
ceasefire in force. There had been
sporadic gunfire during the, weekend,
including several exchanges of shots
between Indians and law officers, but no
injuries were reported.
A groupof about 50 men, women and
children moved into the monastery on
New Year’s, demanding that the order,
which operated a novitiate at, the site
until 1968, be turned over to them.
But yesterday Brother Florian Eberle,
head of the Alexian Brothers order, said
in Chicago he felt there is little chance
now for the Indians to have the place.
He said if the Indians had “come to me
wounding 17 more, the Saigon command
said.
About 100 government infantrymen ’
and rangers including the province chief
were holding out in a thick concrete
walled bunker inside Phuoc Binh, 66
miles north of Saigon, against repeated
Communist attempts to root them out.
Government airstrikes yesterday
knocked out four of 10 Soviet-built T 54
tanks that entered Phuoc Binh at dawn,
but, the town remained under control of
the Communists, the Officers said.
The fate of the estimated 26,000
civilian inhabitants Was unknown
yesterday. Reports reaching Saigon
indicated there .were at least 1,200
Million-gallon oil mishap
threatens Asian beaches
SINGAPORE (UPI) A Japanese supertanker ran
aground' about five miles southeast of Singapore harbor
yesterday spewing an estimated one million gallons of crudt
oil into the sea and threatening to pollute the beaches of thre*
Southeast Asian nations.
The 237,698 : t0n Showa Maru, bound from the Persian Gulf b >
Japan, ran aground half a mile west off Buffalo Rock in the
Singapore Straits, gashing open three tanks.
The Japanese tanker spilled an estimated 23,400 barrels of
petroleum. The worst such incidents were a rupture in a pump
mechanism that spilled 800,000 barrels of oil into the Santa
Barbara Channel of California in January of 1969, and 700,000
barrels of oil polluting England’s Cornish coast when the
tanker Torrey Canyon ran aground in 1967. *
Port of Singapore authorities said the ship’s master had
reported that approximately one million gallons of crude oil
had poured put of the tanks, threatening beaches of Singapore,
Malaysia and Indonesia.
In Tokyo, government sources said the Foreign Ministry
had contacted the Japanese Embassy in Singapore and talked
to a Tokyo shipowners organization about the possibility of
rushing oil fences and chemical neutralizers to the scene of
the accident. |
Maritime authorities’ in Singapore issued an oil pollution
.alert and sent “fire-fighting ships to spray detergents on the
spreading oil slicks.
The Defense Ministry and the Ministry of Environment also
PRD ordinance repealed
By DAVE SHAFFER
Collegian Staff Writer
State College Borough Council without
discussion last night repealed the
borough zoning ordinance permitting
Planted Residential Developments*
(PRD).
Council members denied they had
discussed the ordinance at a closed
session prior to the meeting.
The PRD ordinance, enacted in 1970
cumstances; and applicants who applied
on time but were late in submitting
financial data.
Reeher said he will recommend giving
first priority to veterans who have filed
applications by today and students who
have lost the aid of the family wage
earner. *
But there are other options, such as.
giving everyone a partial grants he
added.
Shapp could have allocated the $8.7
million approved by the
the agency but cut $4.6 million in-an
economy move. ;
bindery
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brings
in peace” in the first place and asked for
the monastery the order might have
given it to them but now “I do not believe
the Alexians would ever decide to give
the property to the Indians.”
Shawano County District Attorney
Richard Stadelman, who took office
yesterday, said the Indians no longer
have a promise of immunity from
prosecution. But he* Said if “they drop
their arms and ciine out peacefully,
they will not be harassed.”
Stadelman said that in the early
morning hours yesterday before the
ceasefire, about 25 rounds were fired
from 'the novitiate. ,
The Indians had been offered im
munity twice late last week but refused
each offer and they also turned down
yesterday an offer to allow women and
children under-.J4 to leave the novitiate.
The chief spokesman for the militants^,
in the ’. first I days’ of the takeover
yesterday was denied a request that he
be allowed to join hi $ brothers inside the
sealed-off complex. Neal Hawpetoss
approached ajroadblock shortly after 11
a.m. and was tur. led back by State
Patrol Sgt. W.H. Lampa.
Officials in Keshena said arson was
government troops missing since the
battle began Dec. 14.
The Saigon command continued to
deny Phuoc Binh had been overrun. It
said i radio communication with the
defenders in the bunker was still
operative.
The ,'commarid said Communist
gunners twice yesterday fired 16 rocket
rounds j into the vicinity of Bien Hoa
airbase, 15 miles north of Saigon. The
first salvo of fire killed one government
airman! and wounded 11 others, the
command said.
Also in suburban Saigon, Communist
gunners early yeiterday hit Vietnam’s
main communic; tions station and a
nearby residentia area with 12 Russian-
and later revised, was an attempt to
“entourage inno l ations in residential
development” an alternative to
conventional single-family develop
ment.
It permitted he mixture; of single
family, ‘duplexes, and high-rise apart
ments and gave Council the authority to
approve development site plans.
In recent months, PRD.
ordinance has become a subject of
controversy after a local firm submitted
a PRD site plan on a tract off Branch
Road for Council approval.
In a series of public meetings, local
residents objected to the PRD proposal,
clainaing it would drastically. increase
the | population density in their neigh
borhood.
The. PRD site plan proposal was
rejected by Cot ncil in December,
although it is bf ing appealed to the-
Zoning Hearing .Soard and eventually
may end up in O unty Court.
Asked why t.iere had been no
discussion at the meeting, Council
President Arnold Addison said, "We had
talked it to death.” >
Also last night, Council received the
State College Planning Commission’s
proposed rezoning proposal. The new
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believed to have caused a fire that
destroyed an abandoned building that
once housed the local American Indian
Movement headquarters. *
Fire Chief Harley Lyons said he
believed the blaze may have been set by
Indian children who. he said, had been
overheard planning such a fire in recent
weeks. A spokesman for a group sup
porting the takeover said, however, he
felt the blaze was started by whites.
Stadelman told a news conference that
authorities considered 'the’ takeover an
“unlawful assembly.” He also said there
had been no communications with the
Indians between 7:30 p.m. Sunday and
11:45 a.m. yesterday.
Authorities cut off other telephone
service into the building and also cut off
power lines, leaving the building without
electricity.
Stadelman said the.lndians have some
civil defense rations that were being
stored in the complex, food that a
caretaker had stocked in case of a
snowstorm and animals on the grounds.
He said he understood the Indians had
slaughtered a horse Sunday and had
another horse and some ducks available
to them.
made rockets, the command reported.
At least six rockets slammed into the
civilian homes, killing four persons and
wounding six others, the command said.
On the political front, the speakers of
the South Vietnamese Lower House and
the Senate yesterday called on the
United Nations and the 12-member
signatories of the Paris peace
agreement to pressure Hanoi to with
draw its troops from Phuoc Long
province.
The speakers said in a statement that
the North Vietnamese troops “must stop
their aggressive war and destroy peace
and at the same time stop fighting in
Phuoc Binh town so that the civilians can
be evacuated.”
were alerted in case the oil should be washed toward the
island republic's beaches. «
Port officials said one oil slick more than a mile long had
drifted into the outer reaches of the harbor. They said some
smaller slicks had reached some of the small islands south of
Singapore, and prevailing currents threatened to push others
near Jurong on the island’s west coast. :
An officer aboard the Showa Maru told UP I by ship-to-shore„
telephone that the oil leakage had "almost been stopped” by
nightfall.
The governments of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia
have repeatedly expressed concern about a disaster involving
a supertanker passing through the Strait of Malacca.
Yesterday's spill was believed to be the first of such a
magnitude in the area and could well cause serious pollution
on the beaches of all three countries.
A salvage company spokesman told UPI that a smaller
tanker would pump off some of the Showa Maru’s remaining
oil cargo today in an effort to lighten and refloat the tanker.
Six salvage tugboats were standing by to assist the attempt
to get the Showa Maru off the coral reefs and rocks where it
went aground.
Singapore port officials alerted all local oil refineries to
stand by to render assistance in fighting the slicks.
Taiheiyo Kaiun Co. of Tokyo, one of the owners of the Showa
Maru. said they are dispatching a three-man party to Singa
pore today to check any damage done by the leaking oil
zoning plan, which will affect future
development of the downtown area, will
ibe taken up at a public session Feb. 10.
Council also approved collection of an
Occupational Privilege Tax. The tax
presently is collected and used entirely
by the State College Area School
District.
The Borough, under state law. is
permitted to collect half of the SlO tax.
Tax bills still will be mailed by the
school district.
In other*action. Council rejected a
proposal to permit two-way bicycle
traffic in Calder Alley.
In a report to Council in November,
Police Chief Elwood Williams said
trucks unloading along the alley make
bicycle movement impractical.
Centre Region Planning Director Ron
Short, however, said the proposal still is
being studied by the planning staff and
requested Council reconsider the
proposal after the study is completed.
Partly cloudy and not as cold today,
4l. More clouds late tonight. Low
31. Chance of light rain tomorrow. High
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