House committee approves
$20.1 billion tax cut bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) The House
' tys and Means Committee completed
isii action on a $20.1 billion tax cut bill
csterday that would provide cash
■ •hinds of up to $2OO for all who paid 1974
■come taxes and a cut in withholding
:\es lor, everyone later this year.
I'he anti recession measure, pushed
lirough the committee in just four days,
aas approved 28-5. Action by the full
■ louse was expected within several days
l its return Feb. 18 from a 10-day
i-cess.
besides granting $8 billion in 1974 tax
telunds and payments to individuals,
,md another $8.3 billion in withholding
lax relief to individuals the last half of
his year, the bill would provide $3.8
nillion in tax incentives and assistance
lor business expansion.
But committee members turned down
Funding
By JANICE SELIN’GER
t ollrgian Matt \\ l iter
I’enn State might be forced to raise
| ml ion if the 1975-76 budget recom
mended by the Slate Board of Higher
Education is accepted by Gov. Shapp.
t'hc board’s recommendation is about
-■« h million less than what the Univer
-ity is now requesting.
I’enn Slate originally requested $111.6
.ullion. but now is asking for $114.5
million because of $2.9 million needed to
cover retirement costs.
Thg State Board’s recommendation of
ibyui $105.8 million was based on the
'111.6 million figure, said Russell Evans,
xecutive secretary of the board. This is
■ocause the board’s recommendation
(as made in November and the new
mdget request was just announced at
lie January trustee .meeting, University
I’resident John W. Oswald said.
Oswald said the Board’s recoin-"-
mendation is lower than what Penn State
■equested because there is a built-in
8.5% unemployment peak seen
WASHINGTON (UPI)— President
Ford's chief economist predicted
> esterday that unemployment would
i each a peak of about 8.5 per cent this
\ear befone_.beginning a slow descent.
Chairmad Alan Greenspan of the
( ouncil of Economic Advisers said
is nothing the government can do to get
unemployment down from around an
average of 8 -per cent in 1975 and 1976
uiihout creating an unacceptable and
dangerous inflationary impact.
Even if the planned fiscal 1976 deficit
ol $52 billion were.nearly doubled, to $lOO
Weather
Partly cloudy today. High 27. Fair and
colder tonight Low 14. Chance of light
■.now tomorrow .'High 30. Continued cold
Minday.
Pornography
Just a peek
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the
cteily
a proposal for a $1 billion tax break to
help rescue financially ailing American
business gjants that included the
Chrysler Corp., and put a $lOO million
ceiling on investment tax credits for the
American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Some 62 per cent of the rebate would
go to those making less than $15,000
while about 15 per cent would go to those
making mode than $20,000. The average
lamily of fopr would receive a rebate of
$lOO at $lO,OOO of income, $126 at $12,500
of income, $l7O at $15,000 and $2OO at
$20,000.
All told the bill’s $20.1 billion price tag
was $4.1 billion above President Ford’s
recommendations, all of it in increased
lax relief to individuals. Ford also had
proposed lax cuts on 1975 individual
income but as a part of his energy
conservation package rather than his
cut may increase tuition
inticipated tuition increase. According
■ o Oswald, for four years the board has
been pushing to make tuition at Penn
State, Temple University and University
of Pittsburgh tqitions $l,OOO.
Oswald said he originally wanted to
raise tuition gradually in order to
eventually reach the $l,OOO figure.
I lowever, due to the state of the economy
right now, Oswald said he would like
tuition to remain where it is at $960.
Oswald’said speculations on whether
we will have a tuition increase will have
to wait until the governor presents his
budget to the state legislature.
The board’s figure is only a recom
mendation, Oswald said. The real
budget comes from the governor’s
* budget, which probably will be sub
mitted to the legislature March 1,
Oswald said.
’ Oswald said he cannot promise that
there won’t be a tuition increase, but he
said he hopes it won’t be necessary. He
also said he hopes the governor's budget
billion, the extra economic stimulation
would not pull the unemployment rate
down to an average of 5.5 per cent by
1976, he said.
Greenspan sat at a table"on the stage
of a Senate auditorium for three hours,
answering questions from Congress’
Joint Economic Committee about his
grim forecasts for two years of high
unemployment and high inflation.
The January unemployment rate is to
be announced by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics this morning. It is expected to
be significantly higher than the
December rate, which was reported at
7.1' per cent but, in a recomputation,
Greenspan reported, actually turns out
to be 7.2 per cent.
Every percentage point increase
amounts to about 900,000 more idled
workers. •
THIS GENTLEMAN PICKS up a pornographic magazine but
decides he’d better not buy. According to local magazine
venders, sales of pb£npgraphic material are falling off.
economic recovery, program
Reshaping Ford’s proposals to em
phasize tax relief for low and middle
income groups, the committee for the
lirst time incorporated in legislation a
so-called negative income tax provision,
cash payments from the government for
persons, too poor to have Jowed any in
come tax for 1974.
The minimum standard deduction,
now $1,300 for a single return, would be
raised to $1,900 for a single return and
$2,500 for a joint return. The standard
deduction would be calculated at 16 per
cent of adjusted gross income •
than the 15 per cent it is now, with the
maximum increasing from its present
$2,000 to $2,500 on a single return and
$3,000 on a joint return.
However, anyone making more than
$30,000 could get no more than
will include the funds to cover the added
$2.9 million retirement costs.
T. Reed Ferguson, Penn State’s
legislative liaison in Harrisburg, said he
has not heard any discussion on campus
concerning a tuition increase, but he
said he hears a lot about it in
Harrisburg. According to Ferguson;
those in Harrisburg feel Penn State’s
tuition should be increased to be more in
line with private institutions in the state.
Ferguson said he is optimistic that the
governor will give Penn State enough
money so that a tuition increase will not
be necessary.
Chalmers G. Norris, budget officer for
Penn State, said it is,too early to predict
if there will be a tuition increase.
“It all depends on whether we can
save physical plant cost, but we will try
every means to avoid it,” Norris said.
Once the governor’s recommendation
budget is submitted to the legislature,
budget hearings are held where requests
and appropriations are discussed, said
Greenspan heard expressions- of
anguish about the prospective high
unemployment rate. Rep. Margaret M.
Hecklery, D-Mass., said the idea was
■‘frightening.”
“If you're talking about eight per cent
in this country, 1 dread to think what
talking about in Massachusetts,”
shfe said. “The bad news is unen
durable.”
Greenspan said the administration
would not hesitate to alter its policies if
change seems necessary.
“In the judgment of the President,
these are the policies that for the mo
ment make sense,” he said. But they are
not “frozen unalterably,” he said.
On the other hand, Greenspan said, it
could turn out that the administration is
pessimistic. He said the private
economy contains remarkable
sales low in State College
$9O to $lOO. The final rebate figure will be
calculated later to remain within a
committee-imposed -limit of $8 billion.
The rebate would work this way:
Every family or single taxpayer would
get back 10 per cent of the taxes he paid
in 1974 up to a maximum of $2OO. Those
who paid less than $lOO in taxes would
get baclc the full tax they paid.
The maximum would begin shrinking,
when income reached $20,000, phasing
down to the maximum $9O to $lOO at
$30,000 of income.
A form of negative income tax for the
working poor was approved earlier by
the committee. This provision would
grant a payment of five per cent of
earned income to anyone making $4,000
or less even if they paid no taxes. This
credit would phase out as income went
above $4,000 one making more than
$6,000.
Paul Muench, executive director of the
Slate Senate Appropriations Committee.
At this time, Penn State and other state
university representatives are asked to
appear before both Houses of. the
legislature to defend what they
specifically requested and relate to what
the governor recommended, Oswald
said.
Goin:» before the legislature is often an
effective way of getting extra money
appropriated. For example, two years
ago the governor did not want any in
. crease] in Penn State’s budget, but by
appearing, before the [ward Penn State
was able to get a 6 per cent increase,
said Neil McAuliffe,- administrative
assistant to Senator Joseph Ammerman.
The figure recommended by the board
lor all Pennsylvania colleges and
universities is 12 per cent higher than
last year, Evans said. Yet this 12 per
cent is still less than what all the
universities requested, Evans added.
“recuperative elements.”
But Greenspan stressed his view that
the worst conceivable course would be a
policy! concentrating so singly on getting
unemployment rates down in the short
term ! that the long-term inflationary
consequences are ignored.
“There’s something plain wrong in our
policies to have to accept eight per cent
unemployment for two years,” com
plained Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis.
No, said‘Greenspan. What was “plain
wrong,” he said, were past government
spending policies that ignored the
“inflationary Was” they created in the
economy. He said he abhors unem
ployment, too.
“I can assure you senator," he ‘told
Proxrrlire, “I do not enjoy looking at the
numbers any more than you do.”
By DAVID KASZYCKI
Collegian Staff Writer
Smut is no longer a big thing, at least according to those who
sell it in State College.
The pornography boom brought on by Liberal Supreme
Court decisions several years ago has leveled off and begun to
wane. '• *
"Local young people are not buying pornography,” said
Richard T. Flebotte, owner of Progressive News, the maga
zine and book distributor for central Pennsylvania.
Progressive News discontinued it’s line of hard-core sex
books last year because of poor sales.. The manager of Graham’s reports that owner Fred Hurvitz
"The trend is away from cheap skin magazines. Nugget, had planned to drop the “dirty books” but a recent shipment
Dude, etc. are all dying because the market is saturated,” has been “selling like hotcakes.”
Flebotte said. f ' : Popular porn such as “The Happy Hooker,” “The Seinsuous
And Cathy Bell of Nittany News on W. College Avenue'said, - Couple” and “Inside Linda Lovelace" falls into Bell's second
"Kids seem to be singularly more interested in mysticism and category. These books, including many of the current best
drugs than sex.” selling books, are sold at every bookstore as wellas groceries
The skin magazine market, according to Flebotte, is?' and other stores,
dominated by Playboy and Penthouse, which control 90 per ' Harry Weitzel of the. University Book Store on campus
cent. reports that the pop sexual advice book “Joy of Sex’"is now
While national sales of these magazines are about even,
Flebotte said Penthouse outsells Playboy 4,000 to 3,500 in State
College.
Other skin magazines include Playgirl and Viva, aimed at
women, and After Dark, favored by gays. Bell said she does
not really consider those magazines pornographic.
"It’s hard to believe it but (17 years ago when Nittany News
opened) the idea of women selling Playboy was scandalous.
There were letters to the editor, church groups complained,
etc., 1 ’ Bell said. »
Complaints these days are few, usually over a Penthpuse
displayed in the,window,” Bell said.
Playboy and Penthouse can be bought in more than a dozen
places in town and on campus. While Graham’s on S. Allen
Street offers the greatest variety of skin magazines (nearly
30), others can be found in dairy stores such as Kaye’s Komer
and Bootes or fast-service stores like Ma-Jik Market. •
While X-rated movies are shown in the area and individuals
rent stag films to fraternities and other groups, State College
does' not have the clientele to support an adult bookstore,
Flebotte said.
The closest adult bookstore is 30 miles away in Mill Hall.
Photo by Jim Caprio
bindery
; riday, February 7, 1975 ;
'ol. 75. No: 116 12 pages University Park, Pennsylvania
’ublished by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
en cents per copy
%Time for a breather
DANCERS TAKE A BREATHER in last year’s IFC dance marattyon. An annual
event, the marathon raises money for charity. This year's charity is the Easter
53 Seal Society. Thedance is this weekend.
Dance marathon
1
Ig More than 30 couples will dance
•:4 the weekend away in the HUB
•g Ballroom for the benefit of the Easter
& Seal Society and their own pockets.
& The Interfraternity Council’s third
annual Dance Marathon begins at 7
Sjj tonight and will continue until Sunday
1 night. _ •
Last year the marathon raised
-more than $lO,OOO for the Central
•» Chapter of the
8 American Heart Association. Ac
cording to Steve Siegal, IFC public
relations chairman, this year they
hope to raise more than $15,000.
& Each couple pays a $2O entry fee.
ijij: The fee can be paid by the couple or
by sponsoring dormitories, frater
nities, sororities or area merchants.
S If the couple is sponsored by an area
S merchant, the sponsor’s name must
§ be imprinted on the T-shirt. The
couples will dance to 48 hours of
continuous live music provided by 21
§? area bands. Judging will be done by
two members of the Easter Seal
iij Society.
Merchandise prizes have b#en
5 COPIES
tb raise money
for Easter Seals
Until it was mysteriously destroyed recently
bookstore operated in Cresson.
Bell said, the large market that deals with sexuality is
displayed in a variety of ways. She classified sexually explicit
literature into four distinct categories. -
A first category is the plain “medium-core” books blatantly
meant to arouse prurient interests. These books sold ;at Nit
tany News and Graham's, with standard titles like; “Pale
Throat” and plots just as .standard, are bought almost ex
clusively by older, married town men, Bell said.
his biggest seller, even bigger than “Centennial” and j'Gulag
Archipelago." I
Another category includes classics such as Henry Miller's
“Tropic of Cancer” and “Anango Rango,” an old Asian
treatise on the art of love-makihg. These books, Although
censored in the past, are now recognized as fine literatures in
their own fights. j
The classics can be found in the three textbook-selling
bookstores as well as Nittany News.
A subcategory of classics are the hardback art books
dealing with eroticism, sold for up to $35 at the textbook
stores.
A final category is the “head” pom found in underground
comics sold at headshops'. While some comics were described
as “garbage” by Dave Talmus, owner of the Lazy J. on E.
College Avenue, others are recognized as “excellent art,
outrageously funny.”
Bell said “head” cartoonists such as R. Crumb and Gilbert
Sheldon are recognized as artistic geniuses.
“Those over 30 might find it totally repulsive...but : l don’t
consider anything but violence pornography^Anything that’s
natural is not obscene,” Talmus said.
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STATE COLLEGE
PA. 16301
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donated by Stats. College and Nittany j:-
Mall merchants, fhese prizes will be :§
raffled off by lottery during the >:•
marathon.
There are two categories for prizes. ¥:
The first, “Time and Money," is $
judged on the number of net points
received by a couple. Net points are
determined by the amount of money
donated in bach of the couple’s
tiames, each dollar being worth one
point, minus the points subtracted for
breaks and failure to dance.
Five points are duducted for' each V
break, fjancing penalties will be >S
determined by the judges. First prize $;
m this category is $5OO. second is $3OO js
and third is $lOO.
, The second category, “Time," is
judged solely on time danced and is
does not include points for donations.
First prize is $3OO, second is $2OO and B
third is $lOO. ij
In case of a tie, the judges will :£
select the winners on the basis of their ;i
dancing ability throughout the Bi
marathon.
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