Mystery man dead
Billionaire businessman Howard R. Hughes, 70, pictured above in 1951. died yes
terday en route to a Houston hospital.
Riots, arrests hit Peking
HONG KONG . (UPI) Chinese
security forces this morning arrested
"several, hundred" persons who par
ticipated in a day-long rampage by tens
of thousands in Peking's' Tien An Men
( Gate of Heavenly Peace) Square,
Peking residents reported.
In the worst outbreak of violence in the
Chinese capital since the chaotic
Cultural Revolution almost 10 years ago,
the mobs yesterday set fire to at least
three vehicles and a large building
apparently in protest against the
removal of wreaths honoring the
,late
Premier Chou En-lai, who died last
'January.
They ransacked the building while Wu
Teh, chairman of the Peking Municipal
Revolutionary Committee, appealed for
calm and order, the residents said.
The distrubances began after security
Calls emissions, wastes 'lethal'
Physicist questions nuclear safety
By PAT McKENNA
Collegian Staff Writer
Nuclear physicist William A. Lochstet
said last night that the safety of nuclear
reactors deserves more public in
vestigation.
Lochstet presented- a program and
slide show on the problems involved in
operating nuclear power plants. "There
is a lot of disagreement as to how safe
nuclear reactors really are," Lochstet
said.
During the . slide presentation,
Lochstet illustrated the difficulties in
maintaining safe conditions in a nuclear
plant. The main problem is the safe
disposal of potentially lethal waste
products of• nuclear power production,
he said.. ' .
Several methods are now used to
dispose of these materials, but Lochstet
Demos predict more primary wins
By the Associated Press
Three Democratic candidates, in the
final countdown to another primary day,
spent yesterday trying to parlay their
pre-election predictions into post
election claims of success whatever the
actual result's.
Sen. Henry Jackson was in New York,
where he has predicted victory as part of
his strategy to sweep the Northeast
industrial states. Rep. Morris K. Udall
and Jimmy Carter did their last-minute
campaigning in Wisconsin, scene of
today's other primary.
Both Udall and Carter say they will
win in WisConsin and polls there indicate
a close race between the two, with the
former Georgia - ' governor holding a
slight lead in the latest. Carter has said
that if he wins in Wisconsin and finished
a strong second in New York, he could be
unbeatable.
Udall, who has not yet won a primary,
needs a victory in Wisconsin and a good
Weather
It's going to be basically dry, windy
and pleasantly cool the next few days in
town. Partly cloudy, breezy, and milder
today. High 58. Mostly clear and frosty
tonight. Low 31. Abundant sunshine and
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forces took down the wreaths placed at
the Martyrs' Monument in the center. bf
the square in honor of Chou.
However, Wu Teh said the mob ac
tivity was connected with the current
power struggle among the top Chinese
leadership:
He called the disturbances
"destructive activities by anti
revolutionary elements aimed against
Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the
Communist party."
The disturbances which defied police,
soldiers and militiamen apparently were
an outgrowth of the current power
struggle bet Ween C l hiang Ching, wife of
Communist party Chairman Mao• Tse
tung, and supporters of former acting
premier Teng Hsiao-peng, the man who
delivered Chou's funeral eulogy and had
been expected to succeed him.
contends that none of them are totally
fool-proof. Most of these methods rely on
the transportation of waste material by
truck to disposal centers, where it is
buried underground in barrels.
..
"The amazing thing is that disposal
problems existed in 1945 and nobody
started to do anything about it in 1946,"
Lochstet said.
During the program, a debate
developed between Lochstet, Frank
Wolfe, a 1975 graduate of Penn State and
a nuclear engineer at the Dresden Power
Station in Morris, 111., and Henry Collins
( graduate-nuclear engineering). The
debate concerned the amount of
dangerous emissions a nuclear plant
produces.
The average person is, exposed to 102
millrems of radiation per year, a
millrem being the standard measure of
showing in New York to begin over
taking the early momentum Carter built
by winning five of the first six
Democratic contests.
Ronald Reagan, meanwhile, began a
tour of Texas as part of his Sun Belt
strategy to wrest the Republican
nomination from President Ford.
Reagan, winner in North Carolina two
weeks ago, did not campaign in
Wisconsin, .depending instead on the
nationwide address he made last
Wednesday. Aides say they do not expect
him to defeat the President there. Ford
campaigned in Wisconsin over the
weekend and has predicted victory.
Jackson has been aiming for New
York since before the Feb 24 New
Hampshire primary, first stop on the
nationwide caravan that will end June 8
in California, Ohio and New Jerky.
Jackson has received considerable
support from labor, from regular
Democratic leaders and from Jewish
groups who favor his stands on the
Mideast and Soviet treatment of Jews.
The Washington senator first
predicted a landslide, and later modified
that to say he would win more than half
the 274 delegates at stake. The
modification came after the state
legislature approved a law allowing the
names of the candidates to appear on the
ballot with the delegates pledged to
the
daily
Recluse Hughes , succumbs
HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) Howard
Hughes, the phantom financier, who
ruled a business empire valued at more•
that $2 billion from a series of secret
hideaways, died yesterday enroute tota
hospital here for treatment. He was 70.
The aviation pioneer died aboard a
chartered ambulance jet half an hour
before it landed in Houston, according to
spokesmen at Methodist Hospital.
"We've no idea" of the cause of death,
hospital vice president Larry Mathis
said. But in Los Angeles, an attorney
who said he had represented Hughes for
25 years said the billionairae died of a
stroke. The attorney, Greg Bautzer,
refused to identify his source.
The hospital disclosed Hughes' death
in one brief statement: "Today at 1:27
p.m. en route from Acapulco, Mexico, to•
Houston by air, Mr. Howard R. Hughes
expired."
'Mathis said the hospital learned about
9 a.m. that Hughes was coming to
Houston for treatment. A medical team
in an unmarked ambulance met the jet
when it landed at Houston Inter
continental Airport about 2 p.m., but
Hughes was already dead, Mathis said.
In death, Hughes was shrouded in the
anonymity he had sought in life.
Shortly before the plane landed, its
crew alerted airport officials to get
Political slogans, shouted and written
on wreaths, appeared to connect the
disturbances with the power struggle.
'Teng, who also is a party vice chair
man and acting chief of the general staff
of the armed forces, has not appeared in
public since he delivered the eulogy Jan.
15.
Some demonstrators read Teng's Last night's meeting found the mayor
reporting that he had not received a
eulogy aloud, a gesture taken by single, properly filed complaint. He said
political analysts as an indication of that he had received two oral com
support for Teng who returned to power plaints, but . that neither one was
after being purged during the Cultural properly followed up by the initiator.
Revolution of the lat e 19605.
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~ , Councilman Dean , Phillips said that
Security forces Cleared away Wreaths - -- lie.:"had received complaints of "real
which had been placed at the Martyrs' discrimination" and , blamed the
Monument in tribute to Chou. The mayor's lack of complaints on "lack of
wreaths were laid Sunday, a traditional publicity" about his task.
holiday called Ching Ming honoring the Phillips proposed a resolution,
dead. similar to last year's ordinance, to ban
radiation. Lochstet cited as dangerous
the Humboldt Bay,, California plant
which spews an additional 1000 miflrems
into the air. Next ,to the South Bay
Elementary School, these radioactive
emissions can cause cancer, Lochstet
said.
Wolfe took exception to that example,
saying it was not a fair representation of
the entire industry. He said a meter in
his office on the plant grounds showed no
significant rise in radiation since the
plant has been in operation.
According to Lochstet, an accident at
a nuclear power station may be
devastating. In a study done by the
Atomic Energy Commission in 1965, it
was revealed that the pollution
resulting from the melted fuel core of a
nuclear reactor would cover an area
about the size of Pennsylvania and kill
However, Donald Manes, president of
the New York City borough of Queens
and the senator's New York campaign
manager, now downgrades that from 35
to 40 per cent and said the earlier figures
were used to "rally the troops."
An additional factor is some un
committed slates in upstate New York,
the strongest in the Buffalo area backed
by Erie County chairman Joseph
Crangle. They are believed leaning
toward Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, who
is not a candidate.
Udall has been helped in New York by
the withdrawal of Indiana Sen. Birch
Bayh, many of whose delegates have
now switched to the Arizona
congressman and given him a boost with
New York City's numerous liberals.
Udall, who originally had slates in 21 of
the 39 congressional districts, now has 37
and says he will give Jackson "a run for
his money" in the state.
Carter has been touring the state
denouncing the primary system and the
fact that there is no statewide popular
vote as such. He claimed that his polls
showed him leading by a 2-1 margifi in
selected upstate regions and running
even with Jackson in the New York
metropolitan area.
There are 274 delegates at stake in
New York, making it the second largest
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ready "io service a bed patient in a
diabetic coma," U.S. Customs
spokesman Charles Conroy said.
Customs agents did not know who the
patient was until the plane landed and a
doctor said that the patient was dead and
his name was Howard Hughes, Conroy
said.
An unidentified Cugtoms inspector
caught a glimpse of the body as it was
carried off the plane.
"She said he looked emaciated, thin
and aged ... his hair appeared matted,"
Conroy said.
Hughes reportedly had lived at the
Acapulco Princess Hotel in the Mexican
seacoast resort since early February.
Since 1970, he had lived in a series of
tightly guarded hotel suites in North
America, the Bahamas and London.
Hughes was a man of many passions
for power, perfection, pretty faces
and fast planes. But his greatest passion
was for privacy.
He shunned publicity and had not been
seen in public for two decades.
Despite his eccentric reclusion, his
Rights law still hot issue
By LEAH ROZEN
Collegian Staff Writer
State College Municipal Council's
hottest issue last year, the proposed
Human Relations Ordinance which
would ban all types of discrimination,
returned to the limelight at last night's
Municipal Council meeting.
Almost' a year ago, the council post
poned action on the ordinance, charging
Mayor Jo Hays with collecting corn
plaints of discrimination and to report
them to council a year hence.
as many as 45,000 people.
The report is incomplete in that it
does not consider the likelihood of such
an accident taking place, Lochstet said.
The Commission kept the report secret
Until Ralph Nader threatened to bring a
freedom of information suit against the
agency, he added.
There are presently 56 nuclear power
plants operating in the United States,
four in Pennsylvania. Ninety new plants
are now being built across the country,
with seven of those being built in the
Commonwealth. .
"The nuclear power process must be
examined from begiruiing to end, not
just in the reactor stage," Lochstet said,
adding that the public must be aware of
the various options it has in the
production of power and how to make it
safer.
delegation at nett July's Democratic
National Convention. Voters will select
206 and the other 68 will be assigned at
a state convention in proportion to the
vote accumulated by each candidate.
But the voting procedure is cum
bersome. Only three weeks ago, the
legislature approved the law placing the
names of the candidates on the ballot
with the candidates pledged to them.
None of the Democrats has full slates in
all congressional districts because of
; challenges that disqualified a flock of
potential delegates. _
In most of New York, an uncommitted
slate believed leaning to Ford, is un
contested ,on the Republican ballot.
There • are Reagan slates in four
districts, but the former California
governor's name is not on the ballot
because the law
.on that applies only to
the Democrats.
Some 117 Republican delegates will be
selected today. An additional 37 at-large
delegates, all of them uncommitted,
have already been picked.
Wisconsin's primary is more
traditional in form. There will be a
statewide popular vote and the 68
Democratic delegates will be ap
portioned according to the popular vote.
There are 45 delegates at stake in the
Republican contest.
name made headlines around the world
on several occasions in recent years.
In 1971, writer Clifford Irving an
nounced that he was writing an
authorized biography of Hughes. A man
who said he was Hughes, in a conference
telephone call with reporters, denied he
okayed the book. Irving' and his wife,
Edith, went to prison for fraud.
Last year, Hughes' name surfaced in
disclosures that the CIA had used his
mystery ship, the Glomar Explorer, in
an attempt to salvage a Russian sub
marine from the floor of the Pacific
Ocean off Hawaii.
Hughes built a family oil-drilling
business into a diversified complex that
over the years included manufacturing
of planes, helicopters, spacecraft and
electronics devices.
He produced movies and owned
studios, owned airlines and became a
major economic force in Nevada with
purchase of hotels , casinos, land and
mines valued at $3OO million.
He began building his financial empire
in 1923 when he inherited three-fifths
all types of discrimination "based on
race, color, religious creed, ancestry,
age,- sex, national origin, marital status
and sexual preference" in State College.
Council postponed action on his
resolution, sending it to the Human
Services Committee for - further study.
The resolution will go back before
council at next month's meeting.
About 15 protestors, carrying signs
with slogans like "Discrimination is
Real" and "Help Let Me Out of the
Closet" demonstrated' in front of the
Municipal Building before the meeting
and filled the council's chamber during
the debate. They represented
organizations including Homophiles of
Penn State, National Organization for
Women and University Coalition.
Council also adopted the revisions to
the - existing sign ordinancesroposed by
the special committee which drew them
up. Council, however, deleted the
definition of a sign from the revision on
grounds that it was confusing.
Councilman Ingrid Holtzman, who
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interest in the Hughes Tool Co., founded
by his father and valued then at
$500,000.
Two years later, when he was 21,
Hughes gained sole control. He used the
Houston-based tool company as a
nucleus and began the job of building a
$2-billion empire which made him one of
the world's richest men.
Exhibiting a Midas-like touch, Hughes
gained financial success as a
manufacturer of aircraft and oil drilling
tools,a major stockholder in an airline,
owner of a brewery and a movie
producer.
His contributions to the advancement
of aviation, such as new designs and
speed, ranked him with the outstanding
air pioneers.
He left Nevada Thanksgiving Eve
1970 after four years of residence in a
guarded Las Vegas hotel room for a
similarly guarded suite in the Bahamas,
leaving behind orders to fire the boss of
his gaming operations.
suggested the deletion, said, "I think we
can encourage the business community,
within a time limit, to remove unsightly
window signs."
In other business, the council :
approved the recommendation of
the Public Works Committee that it not
repaint the bicycle lane lines on South
Allen Street, which would cost $5,000. "It
does not improve the safety of the
streets," councilman James McClure
said. "It may even add to the illusion of
safety."
decided to hold a public work
session to review preliminary office
location proposals for the new Municipal
building, including the location and size
of the council's new chambers.
adopted an ordinance establishing a
five•member Shade Tree:Commission
- undet the home rule charter and ',lli- -
proved the appointment of Emory
Enscore to the Centre Area
Transportation Authority and Phillip
Hallock to the Building and Housing
Code Board of Appeals.