USG elections close;
Williams early leader
By MIKE MENTREK
Collegian Staff Writer
Voter turnout for this year's
Undergraduate Student Government
elections reached 6,400, falling about
200 short of last year's voting figure.
The number represents about 20 per
cent of the student body.
Elections • Commissioner Randy
Oppenheimer said final tallies would not
be available until about 2:30 a.m. No
partial figures were released, but
sources close to the elections said early
.returns showed W.T. Williams and Dave
Hickton ahead.
Oppenheimer reported from an eye
count of the voting machine figures that
the faculty unionization referendum vote
was running about three to one against
unionization.
All the candidates were predicting
eventual victories.
Al Leard said, "It's very, very close.
But we feel we pulled it out. I've kind of
got that feeling." i
The Rick Glazier-Leard ticket claimed
a sweep of all the dorm areas except
East Halls. The candidates said they had
probably lost in town by 150 votes, but
Moslem
bow to
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI)
Lebanon's Moslem rebels. bowed to
U.S., Syrian and Palestinian pressure
yesterday and agreed to a 10-day
"trial truce" but warned final peace
depended on President Suleiman
Frarkeh's resignation.
.Moslem Socialist leader Kamal
Jimiblatt's - stubborn - opposition to
Syrian-negotiated settlements and
unyielding insistence on the
resignation of Franjieh, a Christian,
, has fueled the latest fighting. Jum
blatt said the 27th truce in 11 months
would •go into,effect at noon 5 a.m.
EST today. - .
The temporary truce will suspend
the civil war that has claimed more
than 15,700 dead and 33,100 wounded
in seven fierce rounds of fighting
since last April. .
The truce would expire at noon
Monday, April 12, one day before the
first anniversary of the start of the
war. Agreement on an extension of
the cease-fire depended on whether
the leftist demands that parliament
,elect a new president were met,
Jumblatt said.
Jumblatt also demanded that
parliament begin drafting reforms to
strip Maronite Christians of their
favored status in Lebanon through
secularization of the state.
Jumblatt said his rebel forces
would not withdraw from the
positions they captured during the
latest round of fighting. Rebel
Moslem troops overran Beirut's
luxury hotel district and captured it
from Christians. ,
Jumblatt said a force of Palestine
Liberation Army troops and
Palestine Armed Struggle Command
guerrillas would join rebel leftist
troops of coup leader Brig. Gen. Aziz
Ahdab's Beirut army garrison in
State College restricts sign sizes, types
Borough's ordinance a sign of the times
By 808 HAMILTON
Collegian Staff Writer
I shall never see a billboard
As beautiful as a tree
And if the billboards don't soon fall
I won't see any trees at all.
Anyone who has travelled over roads
with signs and billboards leering
grotesquely from everywhere can easily
relate to Nash's poem. Signs can be ugly,
but since the Middle Ages when they
were composed • of pictures and not
words, they have been a necessity.
Imagine walking doWn College Avenue
if all the signs had been removed from
the stores. The street would seem
Weather
Don't worry—those snow flurries will
be out of here by the time the weekend
rolls around. Variable cloudiness,
windy and sharply cooler today with
rain and snow showers roaming the area.
High 45. Partly cloudy, breezy with those
showers ending. Low 30. Tomorrow
partly sunny and pleasant. High 57.
the
daily
predicted they had carried the frater
nities by over 100 votes.
"There was not a big turnout in town,
. which helped us a lot," Leard said. "We
were poll-watching all day, trying to find
out where our supporters had not voted.
Then we were back at the room on the
phones."
Joe Augustine spent most of the
' evening at home, away from the
celebrating. "It's too late to worry," he
said. "Win or lose it's over now. All they
can do is count the ballots."
Augustine said he wasn't sure how
well he had done in the elections, taking
credit for "taking pieces of votes
everywhere." He said the other can
didates weren't considering losing.
"They just won't accept it."
Asked what he would do if he lost,
Augustine said, "I'd appreciate working
with Glazier because he'll support the
students. I'll work with either candidate
to help the students."
Williams and Hickton, asked if they
were confident of a victory, said, "We're
being put in a situation where you can't
be confident. If we do win,' I hope Rick,
Joe and Sharon would work with us, and
insurgents
new truce
patroling the truce.
Jumblatt said the Moslem 'rebels
had renewed the fighting to "force
Franjieh's resignation and impose a
democratic, secular solution."
"Today, the road is open to these
demands and we are ready to offer an
opportunity for the implementation of
a political solution ..:-through a 10-
day truce during which time the
hoUse will amend the constitution, the
current president will resign and a
new one will be elected," Jumblatt
said.
Diplomatic sources attributed
leftist acceptance of the temporary
truce to direct intervention by
Palestinian guerrilla chief Yasser
Arafat. .
The newspaper An Naliar said
Arafat - had ordered guerrillas to
withhold any offensive operations
against Christian forces and fire only
in self defense.
Syria put further pressure on the
leftists to accept the truce with a
strong denouncement of "one of the
parties" that had complicated the
situation by continuing the armed
conflict an obvious reference to
Jumblatt's militia group.
The Syrians had already cut off
arms supplies to leftist forces and
stationed 17,000 troops along 1 the
border in a move seen partly as en
forcing the weapons boycott and as a
threat of possible ' military in
tervention. .
Seven ships of the U.S. 6th Fleet
remained in the eastern Mediter
ranean, steaming in a holding pattern
less than 24 hours from the Lebanese
coast. The ships included the heli
copter carrier USS Guadalcanal
for use if needed for the evacuation
of nearly 1,500 Americans. .
barren, bordered with nameless,
faceless and colorless buildings. It also
would be confusing for anyone wanting
to buy an item or service.
Seven years ago, in an attempt to keep
the main thoroughfares of town from
turning into strips laden with ugly and
overbearing signs, the State College
Council passed a sign ordinance.
Under the ordinance, all businesses
can have no more than five signs. The
total area of all the signs on one premise
cannot exceed 200 square feet and signs
on poles cannot be larger than 25 square
feet. Illuminated signs that blink or
move are strictly prohibited.
Wallace Lloyd, chairman 'of a
municipal council committee to review
the sign ordinance, recently has
proposed certain amendments to the
ordinance.
—Ogden Nash
"It (the sign ordinance) has been in
effect for seven years and the borough
manager and others were concerned
over the difficulty of enforcing it," Lloyd
said.
According to Lloyd, one major
problem of enforcement is a distinction
the ordinance makes between tern
porary and permanent signs. There are
Collegian
I hope some of the programs they
suggested would be implemented," they
said. ,
Hickton added, "I think we won the
thing. I just got that impression. I think
we won.'
Sharon Kelly-Audrey Weinberg
supporters hung up banners in the HUB
and sang "We've got high hopes ..." The
candidates were not available for
further comment.
Oppenheimer and five other elections
workers were locked in a room on the
second floor of the HUB tabulating the
One floor above the sealed-off room,
campaign workers celebrated victories
for the prospective candidates. The
room was filled with a party atmosphere
tables strewn everywhere, people
singing, people dancing, people playing
cards. The smell of beer was on almost
everyone's breath. Outgoing President
Joe Seufer sat at a corner table playing
pinochle with campaign supporters.
About 2800 people turned out to to the
polls yesterday, a figure slightly higher
than election officials had predicted.
Disputes centered around wages
Labor strife
By UPI
Most of the nation's truck drivers and a broad assort
ment of other workers city employes, television
newswriters and technicians, truck mechanics and
brewery workers were on strike yesterday in the
worst outbreak of labor strife in more than a year.
The disputes centered primarily on wages.
The strike of Teamster Union members triggered
scattered instances of violence and threatened to hobble
_ the nation's economy unleSs it was quickly resolVed; ._
Violence flared when an independent trucker was
shot at twice along Interstate 90 in Ohio, another driver
was fired upon from an overpass in Detroit and rocks
and debris were hurled at trucks elsewhere in Michigan
and Ohio in apparent attempts to scare nonstriking
drivers off the highway.
Labor Secretary W.J. Usery, the federal govern
ment's primary mediator, told newsmen at an early
afternoon news conference there were "still some
wide differences of opinion" between bargainers for
Pa. Teamsters take part in strike
By The Associated Press
An estimated 35,000 Pennsylvania Teamsters truck
drivers went on strike yesterday as part of a nationwide
walkout, forcing manufacturers to seek other ways of
moving their products to market.
There were scattered reports of violence, but no
serious injuries were reported. State police said truck
traffic was light on the state's major freeways.
The immediate impact of the strike was difficult to
gauge, but it appeared to be slight. Most of the Team
sters who struck were involved in long-haul driving,
such as interstate shipments of manufactured goods.
State officials had made plans to make' sure
necessary shipments, such as needed drugs, got
through and the Teamsters promised cooperation.
"Our flow hasn't been affected,"said Robert
Buchanan, manager of the Food Distribution Terminal
in Philadelphia. The Terminal handles incoming
produce for many area supermarkets.
Still on the roads were independent truckers or
Teamsters' members • not covered by the general
nationwide contract.
few restrictions on any sign deemed
temporary because "keeping track of
what is temporary can be difficult,"
Lloyd said. -
Currently, the ordinance places no
restrictions on any sign not directly
attached to a window, but a proposed
amendment will restrict other inside
signs that can be seen from the public
way. ;
The final major amendment
eliminates the need to get signs licensed
every three years. Since there is a
license fee, Lloyd said the amendment
should please most people.
The Morgan Sign Co. and the State
College Chamber of Commerce,
however, are unhappy.
According to Virginia 'Eisenstein, a
local attorney representing the Morgan
Sign Co., one major complaint is that
restrictions would be placed on inside
signs.
"If downtown businesses aren't
allowed to have window signs you knock
down competition," Eisenstein said.
She said that if stores could not an
nounce sales on a window sign they
would have to spend more money on
Ear
spreads across nation
400,000 Teamsters and the trucking industry.
"I assume if we don't reach an agreement this af
"but it could change at any time."
Usery said he had conferred by telephone with
President Ford and that the President is "very much
concerned about the national interest, the public."
Ford was reported to be weighing whether, to ask
federal courts to order the truckers back to work for an
80-day cooling-off period under . Taft-Hartley Act
provisions.
In other major labor disputes
More than 1,700 technicians and news writers
members of the National Association of Broadcast
Employes and Technicians went on strike against the
NBC Television Network. The strike hit NBC studios in
New York, Chicago, Washington, Cleveland, San
Francisco and Burbank, Calif. NBC continued
operations with management personnel and said there
was no interruption of service.
In one bright spot in the labor picture, a last-minute
Bill Fry, manager of the Pocono Truck Plaza at
Bartonsville, said, "Traffic is dropping off. The longer
the strike lasts, the more it will fall."
Officials of Conßail, the new national freight railroad
system which came into existence yesterday to replace
seven bankrupt Northeastern railroads, said there was
a 20 per cent increase in traffic since Wednesday.
Steel industry officials said the strike's impact was
not expected to be large and could be limited only to the
shipping of finished steel products. Much of the industry
hauling is done by the Fraternal Association of Steel
Haulers (FASH), which was not on strike.
But FASH president Bill Hill said many of his drivers
were staying home and "laying back to see what
develops." He said, "The Teamsters aren't going out of
their way to start trouble."
One of three non-striking drivers flagged over in
Pittsburgh told police that a carload of men pulled him
over on the city's North Side and
. shot holes in his
radiator
The driver, an unidentified Youngstown, Ohio man
who was unhur i t, said the occupants of the car first
radio and newspaper advertising, which
would drive prices up.
She also said that if price tags on items
in a display window could be seen from
the street they would fall into the inside
sign category. This could affect sales to
budget conscious students who might
think prices are too high if they are not
advertised, Eisenstein said.
Lloyd refuted this point by saying that
no reasonable person would enforce a
law that strictly.
Eisenstein said another disputed point
is that all-non-conforming signs erected
prior to the passage of the ordinance
must be replaced by 1978.
Ralph Brower, president of the State
College Chamber of Commerce, agreed
with her, saying "Merchants with
perfectly good signs that don't comply,
but don't create a hazard to the public,
should at least be compensated."
According to Carl "Fairbanks,
municipal manager, the proposed
amendments are to come before council
April 5, although it is unlikely they will
be voted on because of opposition.
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Leading at :I a.m. was Utit: presidential candidate IV.T. Williams. lle is flanked
by supporters Nlarian 3lientus, left. a former I.'tit: Vice president. and Karen
Nfack ( It I)-libera l arts 1.
contract agreement averted a threatened New York
City transit strike that would have halted bus and
subway service for 3 1 , 4 2 million daily riders. The
Transport Workers Union voted to accept a two-year
contract without a wage increase.
San Francisco city workers expanded a strike
which began Tuesday night, picketing the public
hospitals and tying up the transit system and.other city
facilities.•
Under a "gentlemen's understanding," Mayo!
George Moscone said enough workers were remaining
at the city's hospitals to continue essential care of
patients. Police and firemen remained on duty. The city
water and sewage stystems operated under emergency
conditions.
Some 3,000 truck mechanics went on strike in 13
western states. The mechanics, represented by the
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers, charged trucking firm employers had refused
+0 bargain with them.
accosted him near Allegheny center and fired at his
tires before pulling him over several blocks later.
In Clearfield County, police said a truck had its
windshield smashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. In
Mercer County, a stone was thrown at a truck on
Interstate 80 but no damage was reported.
On Interstate 95 in Philadelphia, a brick was thrown
through the windshield of another independent trucker.
Picket lines were set up at a number of sites, but there
were relatively few signs.
"Everybody knows they are on strike" so there was
little need for pickets, explained Kenneth Moore,
secretary of Local 107 in the Philadelphia area.
Richard Peluso, secretary-treasurer of Local 249 in
Pittsburgh, said only about 150 or 160 of the local's 500
contracts were affected by the strike, and all those
were either warehouses or freight yards.
Many retail outlets, such as supermarkets, were not
immediately affected because their goods are delivered
by truckers under different contracts. Only truckers
under the National 'Master Freight agreement walked
out.