PIRG plan denied By LEAH ROZEN Collegian Staff Writer The push for a PennPIRG (Penn sylvania Public Interest Research Group) chapter at Penn State came to a grinding halt during term break when the University Board- of Trustees ap proved collection of funds for the organization by a positive check-off system rather than the PennPlßG backed negative check-off plan. Students for PennPIRG, claiming it would be impossible to raise enough money through positive check-off for the projects they had promised, rejected the 'rustees' plan to negotiate a contract with PennPIRG. Thomas “Doc” sweitzer, representative for PennPIRG, said the organization now may begin to explore legislative action to gain ap proval of the negative check-off plan. Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and a strong backer of the Penn State Penn- PIRG chapter, called the trustees' action "tvrannv, lTTfistvle " Governors ask support Wallace NEW ORLEANS 'UPL - Alabama Gov. George C Wallace yesterday rejected increasing pressure from Democratic leaders that he pledge his loyalty to tne party and its 1976 Presidential nominee Wallace arming for the 67th annual National Governors' Conference said there was no reason for him to make a loyalty pledge as long as other can didates and partv leaders refused to announce that they would support him if I" .ns the Democratic nomination ahace told reporters 'I wonder if all •-e eaders want to announce thev ar' to support me if 1 m the nominee 1 don • know why I'm required to take >a|t\ oa'd until they do." Wallace r a sidewalk interview as he for tne meeting .r. his •- U'tlair 7 - c A atiam.a governor nas seen ~.;.v zee from the waist down since he .-no' during the 1972 Presidential t ary Campaign . refore Wallace arrived, he . r e \ne cen'er of attention as other -rrors began gathering for four days v rk and frolic m historic New ■ !i started when_Florida Gov tc.r.m. Askew asked Wallace to ar. publicly tnat he would supper' : *"t DemiKiratic nominee c. • he party. same time. Louisiana G-w - Ed wards discounted Wallace as a candidate and l'*a r . Go\ faun pinn. chairman ni he r.ationa. -:erence, said he could -'cl suppor" '.he guerrilla killed attacking troops Arab after V. !V AP' An Arab guerrilla -übrr.achine gun fire and threw irenades at Israeli troops hitch a: a crowded road junction ir Israel yesterday ■ ' ana kilied'him and there were no ;-ae!i casualties, police and witnesses ver. nours later, a bomb exploded in . , apartment complex in the center of •wr Saha, a town not far from the Beit „ d intersection where the gun battle erupted, but again no Israelis were hurt. Kfar Saba, is 10 miles northeast of Tel \v Iv. Israel's largest city. Witnesses §aid the Arab guerrilla, partly concealed in an orange grove, threw a hand grenade at the soldiers returning from weekend passes to their bases in the occupied West Bank of Jordan. VA runs out of money WASHINGTON (UPI) The Veterans Administration has run out of money to pay half a million educational benefits under the GI Bill. About 900,000 of the 1.4 million recipients got their scheduled checks at the beginning of this month, VA spokesman Frank R. Hood said, but the other 500,000 must wait for Congress to pass a $l5 billion supplemental ap propriations bill that includes continued funding for the VA and other agencies. Even to pay the 900,000 veterans, the VA had to borrow from its pension fund, which does not issue checks until later in the month, officials said. At issue is a dispute between the House and Senate over how much to spend for improving railroad beds. After several vain compromise efforts, the Senate is insisting on $175 million and the House is willing to spend only $5 million. The House takes bill again today. The first June payment went out on •.ime. Hood said, but “education checks due 88.000 veterans have been tem porarily delayed.” He said the value of those checks is $27 million "We cannot obligate the money the daily The approved positive check-off, sup ported by University President John W. Oswald would have students indicate on their tuition bills their desire to add $2 to their term bill for transfer to Penn- PIRG. The negative check-off plan, which the PennPIRG supporters advocated, called for the University to assess students for $2 on each term bill with an opportu- : '_, for the student to refuse to pay the money or request a refund if they did not wish to support PennPIRG. The Board of Trustees voted 19 to 7 against an amendment supporting the negative check-off plan proposed by John C. Pittenger, state secretary of education. Oswald, in supporting the positive check-off plan, said the PennPIRG students' plan had failed all other education institutions where it was tried, but “if they want to make it work, they can make it work. " nixes party oath Alabaman because of his state of health. "I ve been stirring up a lot of op position.’' Wallace said but added that it was coming from '.he Democratic party hierarchy which never has supported him He'said “The people” supported him and that he would wage “a peoples' campaign ” Wallace, who nas not officially an nounced his candidacy but is expected to do so soon, said “Everybody has been talking anout the governor of Alabama and 1 just got here 'l'm not even a candidate and there is all this brouhaha," Wallace addect The orouhaha has been raised because of the mess in this country " Asked about Hampton s remark that he was not well enough to serve as president or -ice president, Wallace replied “U i necide to run, it's because I'm well enough to run “Everyone seems to be jumping on me for something. " Wallace said. Askew Edwards. Rampton and Govs. James B Longley of Maine, Wendell R. Andeni.m of Minnesota, and Christopher k Bond or Missouri were interviewed on Meet the Press j ( NBC-TV) as the gov ernors assembled for the conference. Although more |than 40 governors arrived for four dbys of work sessions and New Orleans’ traditional hospitality, the administration was v irtually ignoring the event. President Ford was invited, but the highest ranking member of the administration expected was Housing and Urban Dev elopmenl-Secretary Carla Hills Also absent were the governors of He (hen fired wildly at the crowd with a submachine gun. the witnesses said. The grenade bounced off the chest of one soldier and fell to the ground without exploding. The soldier and others on the corner stormed into the orange grove and killed the guerrilla from short range. As the troops pumped bullets into him, the guerrilla tried to pitch another grenade, but it too failed to explode. The junction is known as a gathering point for soldiers hitchhiking to bases in northern Israel and in the West Bank. Across the intersection from the grove is a maximum security prison for Arab guerrillas and Israeli criminals. Not far away is another prison where Archbishop Hilarion Capudji, a Greek Catholic prelate, is serving a 12-year sentence for gun i running for Arab guerrilla organizations. The soldiers because we don’t have the money,” Hood said. The 88,000 checks were the ones due as of Friday, he said. If other payment schedules are missed because of ■ congressional inaction, the number of checkless veterans would total 500,000 by month’s end. But once the bill is passed it will take only two days to get the backlog and current checks in the mail, said VA Deputy Chief Benefits Director Joe Mulone. Rep. Lester Wolff, D-N.Y., charged Saturday the VA had chosen newly qualified veterans, rather than those who have previously received benefits, to go checkless. Hood said that wasn’t true, but ex plained that those who got the checks June 1 were “generally those who are the ones continuing in school. ” The ones whose checks did not come and are now being held up are “those who have some sort of adjustment—they reduce their load in school or they have a baby or something like that, or had an error in processing." Collegian Michael Baker, president of the Board of Trustees, said “the Board went the distance that they could go in good conscience.” The trustees also approved affiliation agreements between the Milton S. Her shey Medical Center and the Harrisburg and Clearfield hospitals to provide student residency and other educational programs with an interrelation of staff physicians. They gave their okay to final plans and construction of the Hazardous Waste Storage Building and the Daily Breeding Research Center Addition on campus as well as renovations and improvements to the Nittany Lion Inn. Incumbents Helen Wise. Jesse Arnelle, Harry Ulrich, G Albert Shoemaker and Samuel Hinkle were reelected to three-year terms as trustees. J. Luther Snyder and Kenneth L. Holderman, also were elected to three-year terms some of the nation's biggest states—California, New York. Illinois and Massachusetts Askew was asked whether he agreed witn Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield that he could not support Wallace for president or vice president, and replied: The answer will be much simpler when Gov Wallace announces he will support the nominee regardless of who •he nominee is and will stay in the Democratic party " Asked specifically if the party should demand a loyalty oath from Wallace. Askew skirted the question and said only. “I hope we don't get into any type of third party I would hope Gov Wallace would stay in the party “ Edwards also dismissed the question of a loyalty oath and added "I don't see him at all as a possibility " for either the presidential or vice presidential nomination. Edwards conceded there is no can didate—himself included —who could stop Wallace in Louisiana, but said this does not hold true in the rest of the country. 1 Edwards said Wallace has the support of 20 per cent of the voters which has put him at the top of the polls, and vailed that backing “locked in ” Bui he added that’s as far as he goes ’ Anderson, discussing Wallace after the program was aver, did not call for a loyalty statement but recalled the Alabaman s third party effort in 1968 and his failure to support the party ticket in 1964 and 1972. "Wallace's track record is not good,” tie said, and added he did not expect Wallace to be nominated but that he would draw a lot of support. Anderson said he hopes more Democrats would enter the primaries, specifically mentioning big state governors and Askew. Rampton said he expected other candidates to emerge, specifically Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine Drug corruption hearings to begin WASHINGTON (UPI)—A Senate subcommittee opens hearings today into sweeping charges that corrupt federal narcotics agents have committed murder, theft and many other crimes in the line of duty. Subcommittee sources stressed the allegations are just that—allegations—but said the hearings will cover a broad and lurid variety of corruption charges against federal narcotics men. The sources said these will include allegations that agents have murdered informants, kidnapped and planted evidence on suspects, used illegal wiretapping and stolen from the huge federal payroll for informers. One line of investigation, they said, will probe claims that Howard Hughes’ Summa Corp. bankrolled federal agents at Las Vegas gambling tables to help them establish “cover” in a drive against drug dealers known as “Operation Silver Dollar.” “We will talk an awful lot about corruption in federal law enforcement,” said one source on the Permanent SLA jury divided; fails to reach verdict SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) The jury in the murder trial of alleged Symbionese Liberation Army members Russell Little and Joseph Remiro yesterday remained divided in the 10th day of deliberations and failed to reach a verdict. Jurors met for five consecutive hours, skipped their usual 90-minute lunch break, but were unable to resolve their differences. By going into the 11th day, the jury will tie the California criminal trial record for the longest deliberations in recent years. The jury in the Charles Manson murder case took 11 days to reach a verdict. Earlier, Superior Court Judge Elvin Sheehy told the grim-faced jurors ,to continue deliberating, but ordered a report on their progress on Monday. Headaches THIN MhNK KEl’f-.\iKl> itself time after time \esterda\ as 11 .(MHI students began to arris e for summer term. CIA report to go public WASHINGTON L'PI President Ford studied the still secret Rockefeller Commission report on the CIA yesterday, then shot a round of golf before a busv week that starts with a news conference this evening « White House sources said Ford will announce at the news conference at 7 30 p m EDT that he will make the mam CIA report public But they said Ford has decided to withhold an ac companying document dealing with alleged CIA plots to assassinate foreign leaders, and give it only to a Senate committee investigating the entire intelligence community. The news conference also gives Ford his first chance to provide the nation a full assessment of the six-dav European tour he completed last Tuesday That might include his judgement of Middle East peace prospects in the light of his talks with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat in Austria. Ford will meet in Washington Wednesday and Thursday with Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for follow-up Middle East talks. Subcommittee on Investigation, which is conducting the hearings The sources said the hearings will also focus on the dramatic increase in federal requests for “buy ' money—funds used to pay off informers—which skyrocketed from $500,000 ii>l969 to at least $9.6 million sought this year by the Drug Enforcement Administration. There have been allegations, sources said, that agents have drawn money to pay an informant, forged his name to a receipt and pocketed the money. They said the hearings will also investigate the high incidence of murders of informants and the possibility that non-federal police may have had access to DEA files identifying drug informants. Subcommittee Chairman Henry M. Jackson, D ’Wash., said only that preliminary inquiries have “shown that federal drug agents, particularly those involved in the internal ... enforcement, are subjected to considerable pressures which in some instances have resulted in personal compromise or corruption.” The eight-woman, four-man jury deli berating the fate of Remiro, 28, and Little, 25, reported itself split 10-2 on Saturday and 6-6 on Sunday but did not disclose which charge or which defen dant the votes applied to. Jury foreman William Sprague told the judge the panel was continuing to work and wanted, “reassurance" from Sheehy that it would be allowed to continue its deliberation. “I believe the jury is of the opinion This is the first issue for Summer Term. Publication days for the term will be every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Registration is tomorrow in Rec Hall and classes begin Wednesday. Ten cents per copy Monday, June 9,1975 Vol. 76, No. 1 12 pages University Perk, Pennsylvania Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University A White House spokesman said Ford spent about two or three hours vesterday morning reading the CIA report given him Friday by the commission headed by Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller. The aide said Ford put in a similar amount of time reviewing the report Saturday night and added, "this has really been the major part of his work" through the weekend Early in the afternoon, Ford shot a round of golf at Burning Tree Country Club in suburban Bethesda, Md., where he also plaved Saturday Ford planned to meet this afternoon with his top economic and energy advisers The meeting. Ford's first with his energy advisers since before the European trip, comes as the House takes up an energy conservation bill Democrats hope to pass as a sub stitute for the program Ford wants. The President planned to hold the news conference in the White House Rose Garden if weather permits that verdicts can be reached," Sprague told the judge. Remiro, a Vietnam War veteran, and Little, a college dropout, are charged with the Nov. 6, 1973 cyanide-bullet assassination-style murder of Oakland Schools Superintendent Marcus Foster and the attempted murder of his deputy, Robert W. Blackburn. They face life prison terms if con victed. Sheehy said unless the jury reached verdicts by night, he would meet with the panel again on Monday. Jurors had already heard Sheehy’s instructions on conspiracy, reasonable doubt, the weight of questions as evidence, aiding and abetting a crime and circumstantial evidence. The jury had also previously heard the cross examination of prosecution wit- Students arrive When Summer Term begins Wednesday there will be nearly 1,360 students experiencing their first class at University Park. These students are freshmen, transfers and Com monwealth Campus students. Total Summer Term enrollment is about 11.000. For the new group, arriving here can be somewhat of an ordeal. The next few days also will be a problem as the new students try lo find classroom buildings, figure out the difference between the. Undergraduate Student Government and the Association of Residence Hall Students, and decide on the most inexpensive place to buy textbooks. To help with these and the other problems faced by a new student, an Orientation Program has been established. According to Marilyn Schorr, coordinator for the program, its purpose is as the name implies—ori entation Those students designated as orientation leaders, who are working in cooperation with resident assistants, have special background knowledge of the testing and other things all new students must go through when entering Penn State. Schorr said To keep the events straight, an orientation booklet has been made available to all new students. Starting at Penn State involves more than just taking tests, however To get to know the campus and fellow students and learn about the social and extracurricular activities available, the orientation program has developed several events for next w eek These will include a presentation by University Police Services on students' rights, open swimming at the Natatorium, a library tour, a discussion on sexuality, and movies Almost all events will take place in East Halls, the only dormitory area which will be open Summer Term Eight dorms, four for women and foui for men. will house 2.ooo students Photo by Ed Paisa Some 30 to 35 witnesses will be called in the course of the hearings, including past and present federal narcotics officials, various other federal officials and police chiefs. ? A subcommittee source said "Operation Silver Dollar’—allegedly involving Hughes' corporate money—was run by the DEA’s predecessor agency, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Its purpose, the source said, was to infiltrate an organized crime drug-ring operating out of Las Vegas. He said Hughes' Summa Corp. reportedly gave or lent $20,000 to BNDD agents so they could gamble at Hughes' Frontier hotel and ingratiate themselves with the suspected drug criminals. Seven or eight organized crime figures were alleged to be involved in the ring, but only one was arrested and convicted of conspiracy to sell narcotics. The source said Intertel, a security consultant firm which has the Summa Corp. as a client, has asked the Justice Department to return the $20,000. ness John Lenser by both Little and Remiro. Lenser, executive director of the Alameda County Criminal Justice Planning Board, had testified Foster was opposed to the controversial plan to increase security in the schools. After Foster’s death, a message from the SLA to San Francisco area newspapers said the popular black educator was killed because he favored a plan to put “police with riot shotguns” in the schools. Sunny and mild today with temperatures in the mid 60s to low 70s. Tuesday sunny and warmer. Highs in the 70s. Weather
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