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Spectators at University Park airport watch as Charles J. O’Reilly’s hot air balloon is readied for flight Saturday.
Demos pledge aid for
CHARLOTTE,' N.C. , (UPI) Four Democratic templated and applause for each of the four appeared to
‘ presidential contenders told black leaders.yesterday .beequal,
creating jobs is their top priority and pledged to name Colorado Lt. Gov. George Brown, who ran the panel of
minority group members to high federal posts. ,questioners, said, “All the candidates appeared to have
But none would commit himself to a black running at least passed the examination but some had obviously
mate. ! V .• • < ' higher scores than other.” He would,not mention
Jimmy Carter, Rep. Morris. Udall, Sen: Frank Church names,
and California Gov. Edmund Brown, Jr! all claimed a . The'Rev. Jesse Jackson, director of People' United to
solid.record of:help for-minorities before a panel,of Save Humanity, said “Brown of California got some
questioners, picked;,irom the. nearly 1,000-member .numbers' and Carter got some also.”. 1 V;'--* ""
Caucus of BlackDemocra6:~' i L ~r-" '* Udall 'came down -the hardest-for school busing,
The candidate forum was the highlight of three days promising “I would order the buses to roll to preserve
of meetings to draft a platfomvof minority'goals, which constitutionalrights.”
the-group/said must be embraced by any Democratic Church and Brown said they would enforce court
candidate seeking black support. ordered busing and Carter repeated his stand that he
No cauciis endorsement of . a candidate was con- favors voluntary busing. ~-
Funds never reach nursing homes
HARRISBURG (AP) Barely six
per cent of a $lOO million bond issue
approved'overwhelmingly by voters two
years, ago has found its way to the
nursing homes it was meant to save.
In , that time, 72 nursing homes were
, forced to close with a loss of more than
4,500 Beds. ■ '
Some • closed because they were
uneconomic, too small or too old. But
Dr. Leonard Bachman, state Secretary
of Health, said most closed because the
operators just didn’t have the cash to
repair or renovate their homes to meet
federal Life Safety Code regulations.
.That was the problem the bond issue
was supposed to remedy.
Marijuana pros and cons
Editor’s note: The following is part.of a
series examining, drug, traffic in State
College. ‘
By CHRIS SIMEONI
and PHIL STOREY
Collegian Staff Writers
A day-long conference'at Rosemont
College recently, had statewide
significance. ' { ' " ■
Seventeen ‘speakers, several
legislators and a small audience
gathered at the Catholic, college on
Philadelphia’s Main Line to talk about
,pot. ’ 1
“Sale of marijuana and hashish ex
poses the uninitiated buyer to the drug
subculture, which deals not only with
these two items, hut also in narcotics,
heroin, amphetamines and barbitur
ates,” Joseph Glancey, presiding judge
of the Philadelphia Municipal Court,
said in a prepared statement.
“There’s ho question but by exposing
an individual, especially a child, to the
sources of marijuana, opens up to the
child the use of other drugs,” Glancey
Said. ' v,
Glancey wasn’t the only witness at'tHe
hearing who was against the
decriminalization of marijuana. -, .
Millard Meers of the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Chiefs, of Police
Association, said, “Crimes would
decrease if marijuana disappeared.
Crime has a connection with marijuana
among young people.’.’
House Bill 1699' is currently being
reviewed before the House Law and
Justice Committee. Proposed by Rep.
Norman Berson of Philadelphia and
Joseph Rhodes of Pittsburgh, the bill
would’make punishment, for possession
off small amounts of-marijuana and
hashish a summary offense instead of a
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1 by the state House Health and Welfare
Committee, chaired by .Rep. Sherman
Hill, R-Millersville.
Other criticisms:
There aren’t enough beds now, and
the report said that by 1980, the state will
have a shortage 0f40,000.
• " Fewer homes accept Medicare and
Medicaid patients. The report said by
1980,95 per cent of all long-term patients
will depend on Medicare and Medicaid to
pay their bills. Only 50'per cent rely on
such funds now. -.
“The federal standards are closing
them down,” Hill said. “They have a
period of time to comply and if they
misdemeaner. The maximum fine would
.be $lOO and the user would not go to
prison.
Meers said the proposed changes are
“simplistic and unreasonable.” He
claimed that follow-up prosecution' and
identification of suspects would be
impossible.
Meers compared the proposed law to
shoplifting, which is a summary offense.
He said 35 per cent of the shoplifters'
caught do not show up in court and that
the same ■ would hold true for those
caught with pot.
> Thomas Garvey, president, of the
Pennsylvania Fraternal Order of Police,
spoke on what happened when the
drinking age was lowered in New Jer
sey, comparing it to what would happen
if pof were decriminalized here.
Garvey said the findings showed there
was an “alarming rise of'abuse” of
alcohol. He said the use of marijuana
would equal the fashion that alcohol has
taken and added that alcohol leads to
crime.
' “Any decriminalization would open
the doors to legalization,” Garvey said..
Representatives from both elemen
taryyand secondary education systems*
said they felt decriminalization would
make iharijuana more available in the
schools'and would lead to further drug
abuse., • ,
Thomas Chilcote, a high school
principal from Montgomery County,
read a statement from the Pennsylvania
Association of Secondary School Prin
cipals which said in part:
“The current tendencies to make
marijuana more available are bad
because they inevitably foster a climate
of ennui, a willingness to embrace a
languid life, and to escape from reality.”
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Bachman’s health department, which
oversees nursing homes, admits its loan
approval procedures have been too slow.
“We ran into tremendous legal
problems that delayed the loans a whole
year,” Bachman said: “We have,to
prove the bond issue was constitutional,
then it took 10 months for the Internal
Revenue Service to decide the loans
were tax free.
“Also, we wanted to make the loans as
carefully.as possible so there would be
no hanky-panky,”,he continued. “The
loans are very narrow and restricted. ’ ’
Joseph Fanone; executive director of
the Nursing Home Loan Agency, said of
The statement also said, “We believe
that only a very rare student user of
marijuana will refuse the opportunity to
use other drugs when marijuana is not
available.” '
Alan Erb, an elementary school
principal in Montgomery County said,
“To decriminalize the use of marijuana
at this time is to weaken the position
administrators, parents and .teachers
must take if they are to foster the pur
pose of idealism and academic spirit in
our students.” '
Erb said that an “inverse relation
ship” existed between academic
achievement and pot use. “If a student
feels he has excellent chance of getting
away with something (like smoking
pot), he’ll do it,” he said.
Tlie comparison of marijuana to
alcohol came up again.
When the legislators asked the two
school principals if they drank, both said
they were social- drinkers. The
legislators then asked if they would
continue to drink socially if drinking
became illegal, a misdemeanor offense,
and a fine were imposed.-Both principals
said they would continue to do so.
Dr. David Mann, pharmacologist from
Temple University' said that use of
marijuana lowers the body temperature
and produces disruptions in motor
coordination*- Mann said smoking
marijuana can produce a “Charlie
Chaplin” walk in users.
Mann said there is no such thing as a
safe drug. He said marijuana use can
produce “delusions and paranoia.”
Sidney Schnoll, of Philadelphia
General Hospital, and Dr. Wolfgang
Vogel, professor of pharmacology at
Thomas Jefferson University both
favored the decriminalization bill.
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minorities
The. four agreed with the caucus platform that
creating jobs', with an emphasis on minorities, was the
priority among 12 issues the group put into its position
paper. They agreed to support a, full employment bill
now before Congress.
The four also were unanimous, however, in opposition
to a guaranteed annual income, a form of which the
caucus adopted.
■ The candidates also agreed they would appoint black
federal judgesjn the South, : but said while picking a
blackrunning'mate Was a possibility, a commitment to
that was inappropriate'at this time.•
Basil Paterson, vice chaihnan of the Democratic
National Committee and'caucus chairman, said the
session showed “there is now authentic competition for
the black vote; That’s been made crystal clear."
Carter consolidates lead
Texas race spurs on Ford
DALLAS (AP) Ronald Reagan’s
extraordinary sweep in Texas foretells a
long and increasingly bitter contest with
President Ford for the Republican
presidential nomination.
Shut out in Texas, Ford resumed his
campaign yesterday, suddenly cast as
the candidate with something to prove.
He needs a victory now.
While Ford and Reagan wage an
escalating campaign for GOP support,
former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter is
consolidating his command of the
Democratic race.
Carter won big in Texas, and while he
stopped short of claiming a lock on the
victory in Texas assures him of the
Democratic nomination,’’ said Gov.
Dolph Briscoe.
Reagan’s was the startling showing
in the first-ever Texas primary on
Saturday. ■.
He won all 96 Republican delegates,
shutting out an incumbent President
who had campaigned hard, beating the
state Republican establishment led by
Sen. John G. Tower, and proving his
claim to be a winner in the South and the
Southwest. Ford is still ahead in delegate
strength, but Reagan is now close behind
him. The President has 283, Reagan 236
and there are 329 formally uncommitted.
R takes 1,130 to pick a nominee;
On the Democratic side, Carter gained
93 delegates, while Sen. Lloyd M.
Bentsen, who ran as a favorite son after
53 applications given final or tentative
approval, only 17 have been closed, or
finalized with legal agreements.
Weather
As the warm air heads south, cold
Canadian-air laden with snow flurries
moves towards town today. Blustery,
windy and cold today with a few snow
flurries in the afternoon. Temperatures
warmest in., the morning and falling
through the 40’s during the day. Windy
and bold tonight with a few snow flurries.
Low 32. Partly sunny and. not as cold
tomorrow. High 54.
argued at state hearings
Vogel cited studies done in Jamaica,
Costa Rica and Greece of persons who
have smoked marijuana daily for 20
years. Vogel said the studies showed
that no discernible differences were
found between the smokers and the
control group, those persons from the
same area and class who did not smoke
marijuana.
William Eckensberger, chairman of
the committee, said he could not see how
evidence in the studies could be com
pared with pot use in the United States.
Schnoll told the legislators to evaluate
the evidence without prejudice.
“When I say the Jamaica studies can
be extrapolated to this country, I say this
from years of study and experience,”
Schnoll said.
Schnoll said many legal drugs that are
dangerous are not outlawed.
For example, he said, two milligrams
of the tranquilizer valium' impairs
driving up.to four hours,■ adding that
doctors prescribe valium without »
warning of its side effects.
Schnoll said one drug should not be
“singled out” for legislative discussion,
but that drug use should be looked at
from a “global sense.”
Alan, Ellis, a local attorney whose
workload consists mostly of drug cases,
testified at decriminalization hearings
held in Pittsburgh.
“My experience has led me to believe
that pot arrests breed bewilderment and
contempt for the law among young
people,” Ellis said.
Ellis said when possession of
marijuana became illegal in 1937,50,000
people smoked marijuana. Today, he
said, 13 million people smoke regularly.
Arrest procedures take three hours,
Ellis said, and added that police should
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quitting his own presidential campaign,
could gain only five. Alabama' Gov.
George C. Wallace,.once a powerhouse
in Texas, was shut out in the delegate
competition also.
Texas Democrats are picking 32 more
delegates in caucuses that will lead to a
June 19 state convention. That process
began Saturday night with precinct
caucuses just after the polls closed.
Carter is virtually certain to gain most
of those delegates, too. Briscoe said
Texans had overwhelmingly indicated
that they want Carter.
He now has 447 of the 1,505 Democratic
delegates needed for nomination.
Jackson has 196, Udall 175, Wallace 113
and 242 are uncommitted.
Carter said in Charlotte, N.C., that he
was pleased vat the outcome but not
ready to claim that he had the
nomination won. He has said he does
expect to win it, and on the first ballot.
Enroute to encores
Pianist Billy Joel fingers melodies familiar to the audience of about 5,000 in Rec
Hall last night. See review page 6.
be out on the street looking for more
serious crimes. Ellis said a citation
would only take 15 minutes of the
policeman’s time.
Richard Horman, first executive
director of the Governor’s Council on
Drug and Alcohol Abuse, testified in
favor of decriminalization at the
hearings in Pittsburgh. He formed his
views, not because the council favors
marijuana, he said, but because it would
make “things more rational and con
sistent.”
Herman said heroin addicts start out
on alcohol. He said heroin addicts abuse
all drugs, according to council studies,
and added that only two-and-one-half per
cent of chronic pot smokers reach the
heroin level.
Representative Joseph R. Zeller (D-
Lehigh) asked whether “the kids should
have what they want,” since their
parents are allowed to drink. “If'we
become more liberal, will it cure
society? "he added.
Horman said the marijuana question
is not one of liberalism versus con
servatism, but that {People smoke
marijuana to fill a need. “Nothing in the
law will change this," he added. ,
Horman also said mhrijuana' use, is
common among lawyers and doctors.
Marijuana use is not “directed towards
minors or just one part of the com
munity,” he said.
Keith-' Stroup,' coordinator for the
National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws (NORML) said an in
dividual should have the right to make
up his own mind if he wants to smoke
marijuana. “We have forgotten about
freedom in this country,” Stroupsaid.
W 202 PATTEE
Over-all, Carter had quite a week. He
won the Pennsylvania presidential
: primary in a landslide, and saw his two
major rivals quit the campaign as a
result. Sen. Henry M. Jackson of
Washington withdrew as an active
candidate Saturday, for lack of money.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota
announced in Washington on Thursday
that he will not compete for the
nomination, but remains available if the
Democrats want to draft him.
That left Rep.' Morris K. Udall,
Wallace, Sen. Frank Church of Indiana
and Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. of
California as Carter’s opponents. Udall
and Wallace haven’t been able to win in
the primaries; Church and Brown have
yet to be tested. ;
In Texas, normally Democratic voters
swelled the turnout in the Republican
primary. Tower, Ford’s campaign
chairman, said most of them were
switched sides to back Reagan.
Stroup said it is not a constitutional
right to smoke marijuana, but that as
the right to “privacy as a risk” in
creases, “the paramount right to
privacy will go down.”
Emmett Fitzpatrick, district attorney
of Philadelphia, said he favors
decriminalization because he “can’t find
a reason not to.”
Fitzpatrick said Philadelphia
currently has decriminalization en
forcement. The police will “only arrest
someone with pot if they stumble on it,”
he added.
Fitzpatrick said decriminalization
would make the laws across the state
uniform, and added, in his opinion,
marijuana use would not increase.
Richard Atkins, a member of the
Philadelphia Bar Association, said
possession trials backlog the courts.
More serious trials, such as rapes and
murders, may be delayed because the
judges prefer to hear the possession
trials, which are easier to take care of,
he said.
Atkins said disparity in enforcenient
of marijuana laws among counties
should be eliminated. He said, three
counties, Montgomery, Chester and
Delaware, are separated by only a few
blocks in one area, but each county
enforces possession laws differently.
Representative Kenneth Brandt (R-
Lancaster) said the bill probably “will
be killed in this committee.”
Brandt said even though Philadelphia
practices decriminalization, other
counties should be allowed to enforce
their laws if they so desire.
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