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
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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