Possible
kidnaping
r reported
By LAURA SHEMICK
Collegian Wire Editor
State. College Police Ser
vices requested Thursday
uiat a University Police of
ficer be sent to their station to
interview a man who claimed
his friend had been assaulted
and kidnapped between
Human development and the
HUB. Police are still in
vestigating the incident.
Municipal police also
reported receiving an
anonymous phone call Friday
saying “What you want is in
the trash can in front of
Willard.” Campus police
mvestigated and discovered
numerous marijuana plants
in the trash can. They were
turned over k to Municipal
police.
Campus police assisted
jftitenour in an ambulance
call Thursday when an
unidentified employe 'at the
power plant had passed out
and was taken to Ritenour for
treatment.
- Lori Klemow of Hazleton,
fca. reported Thursday of
being harassed by. an assistant
coordinator during Winter
Term. The investigation of
the incident is continuing.
'Jury exposure may
mean Harris mistrial
. LOS ANGELES (AP)
The William and Emily
Harris trial, rocked by ex
plosive allegations against
the judge, jury and bailiffs,
enters its seventh week today
with both sides fearful that
there may be a mistrial,
fe Only the seven women and
five men of the jury remained
insulated from the raging
controversy which erupted
shortly after they began their
' deliberations Friday.
The jurors, who met
■ Saturday but took a break
* yesterday, were to resume
deliberations today. At the
same time the- jury is
meeting, an emergency
hearing. is scheduled- to
reconvene on a motion for a
mistrial —■ based on defense
allegations of juror-prejudice
▼"and the withholding of in
formation by the judge.
Both defense i 1 and
prosecution attorneys said
outside court that a verdict
should not be permitted until
' the question of prejudice in
, the jury room is resolved.
' The jurors are considering
11' charges of kidnaping,
robbery and assault against
the Harrises. Patricia Hearst,
already convicted of bank
robbery in another case,
faces the same charges as the
V Harrises but is to be tried
separately.
Superior Court Judge Mark
Brandler, whose conduct is at
the center of the controversy,
. refused to. suspend jury
deliberations indefinitely. He
fj scheduled the jurors to
resume their talks today.
“We have a situation here
where a verdict rendered by
this jury could not stand up irn
any court,” said chief defense
attorney Leonard Weinglass.
It' was Weinglass who
launched the emergency
inquiry Friday into the
judge’s conduct. Presenting
testimony from witnesses, he
said Brandler had been
alerted by another judge of
possible prejudice on the jury
. but Brandler apparently had
1 made no effort to alert at-
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Two female .students
- reported at different times to
police Thursday that they had
been being harassed by
unknown persons. Police are
still investigating the in
cidents.
Robert Baisley, 231 Music
Building, reported an elec
trical fire in Room 6 of the
Music Building. Estimated
damage was $5O.
Ronald Hugick, 213 Porter
Hall, reported Friday that his
bicycle had been stolen from
a bike rack at Porter Hall.
Estimated value of the
bicycle was $l5O.
Mary Gessner, 303 Ritner
Hall, reported Friday that
unknown persons took her
parked bicycle from near
Pollock Dining Hall.
Estimated value of the bike
was $lO5.
A University Police officer
observed a vehicle traveling
on the wrong side of Park
Avenue early yesterday
morning and arrested . the
driver, John O’Malley of
Avoca, Pa., for driving while
under the influence of alcohol.
Malley was arraigned before
District Magistrate Keith
Bierley in Centre Hall and
comitted to Centre County
Jail in lieu of $250 bail.
-Mike McCarron, Penn
sylvania - Furnace Rd,
'reported Friday that
unknown persons . had
removed a wire rim wheel
cover from his vehicle,
parked in Brown F. parking
lot. Estimated loss was $7O.
tornevs,
The special hearings
Friday and Saturday
developed these facts:
—Two women who sat as
prospective jurors iri the
Harris case overheard a man
now a sitting juror say
that the outcome of the trial
was “a foregone conclusion.”.
—One of the women report
ed this to a municipal court
judge, a personal friend,
saying she was worried the
man would be an unfair juror.
The judge telephoned Brand
ler..
—Brandler instructed his
bailiff to call the woman,
Jeannie Barton, and “check
on” her complaint.
—The bailiff, R. J. Burrell,
said he spoke to Mrs. Barton
by telephone for one hour with
two other sheriff’s ’ deputies
eavesdropping, that he tried
to allay her fears but never
told the judge just what she
had complained about. He
said the judge never asked for
a report. 1
University woman
breaks male circuit
By DIANA YOUNKEN
Collegian Staff Writer
Colleen Hecht thinks competency in
electronics is one of the best skills a woman
can have, and understandably so. Having
recently - completed an 8,000-hour ap
prenticeship at the University’s Physical
Plant, Hecht is the first woman to become a
television and electronics techniciaf at Penn
State.
A former Penn State student, Hecht
dropped out of school four years ago to look
for work on campus. After a three-month
stint as a night janitoress, she decided to quit
and look for a job elsewhere. She’d heard that
several apprenticeships were available in the
University’s Physical Plant and recognized
this as a chance for “an alternative
education.”
Although she’d had no previous electronics
experience and had majored in art, Hecht’s
mathematical abilities were good, and she
found th.e electronics position challenging.
“It just looked really exciting to me,” she
said.
The plant technicians told her they would
teach her everything she’d need to know.
Since her first day there she has found the
technical jargon “overwhelming.” “Every
piece of equipment is different,” she said.
Sight of 5 police saved
NEW YORK (AP)
Medical teams said yesterday
they were successful after
struggling for nearly 24 hours
to save the eye sight of five
policemen who were among
16 officers doused with
buckets of corrosive lye and
ammonia hurled at them by a
man they finally shot ,to
death.
The five policemen were
temporarily blinded Saturday
by the burning mixture when
Calvin Haywood, 38, went
berserk and barracked
himself in his Harlem
apartment. After holding off
more than 10 policemen for
more than an horn*, officers
said Haywood was shot and
killed by police.
The five officers were listed
in satisfactory condition
Sunday.
Authorities gave this ac
count of the shooting:
Two patrolmen went to
Haywood’s apartment to
arrest him for the stabbing
Wednesday night of John
McCoy, 60, who is in the in
tensive care unit of St. Luke's
Hospital.
They found the . door
barricaded and called for
'support.
Believing Haywood was
armed with a gun, the officers
wore bullet.proof vests and
carried shotguns. They used a
battering ram to smash into
\the two-room apartment but
Haywood rushed at them with
a salad bowl full of a caustic
mixture of lye, gasoline and
ammonia. He threw the liquid
Being a full-time electronics apprentice
involves repairing two-way radios at the
plant’s electronics shop and helping to install
public address systems at football games,
trustee meetings and commencement.-The
electronics shop also coordinates sound
systems for Rec Hall events and at the Arts
Festival Tent every year. “We do most of the
big things on campus,” Hecht said.
Hecht said she also learned to operate
videotape machines and recordings at
WPSX-TV and helped broadcasting students
create their own tapes. She spent most of her
time at Instructional Services in the Mitchell
Building, where she prepared closed-circuit
television programs and TV courses.
Being the only female technician hasn’t,
bothered her, Hecht said. “I wasn’t really
worried about working with men. Most men
are pretty open-minded about it.” She said
she feels women have an advantage in a field
like electronics because these days women
are taking more non-traditional jobs.
Hecht plans to train two or three more
years at the electronics shop because she has
a lot more to learn. She said she’s uncertain
what she will do after that, but she may start
her own electronics business. “Even if I don’t
want to stay in electronics,” she said, “I
always have it to fall back on.”
into the faces of five officers.
Burned, temporarily
blinded and screaming with
pain, policemen stumbled
down the stairs and into the
street.
One- of the officers ran
across the street into the
Moulin Rouge bar where the
patrons rushed out and threw
buckets of water into the
faces of . the injured
policemen.
“I was standing outside
when cops ran down the stairs
and fell into the street,”, said
Robert Liscomb, who lives
nearby.
“They were screaming and
holding their eyes. Four or
five people got water from the
bar and kept pouring it on the
cops’ heads to wash the lye
out of their eyes.”
The other 11 officers were
treated at hospitals and
released.
Meanwhile, reinforcements
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surrounded • the tenement
building, but Haywood kept
them at bay with repeated
soakings of the solution. -
Police said 39 shots were
fired at Haywood through the
door and rear window.
“I won’t come out alive,”
Haywood told police.
He began . mixing large
quantities of lye, drain
cleaners, ammonia and
gasoline police said.
Haywood sprayed the of
ficers with pails of the mix
ture every time they, rushed
the apartment.
Sgt. Louis Sciscioli and
Detective Michael Warncke
had reached the second floor
when they were hit with a
searing splash.
Finally, • Officer Douglas
Russell, across a rear alley on
a fire escape, got a bead on
Haywood and fired a shotgun.
The suspect spun and
collapsed.
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A first in electronics
Colleen Hecht is the first woman ever to complete the television and electronics technician
program at Penn State. Part of her work included the set-up of public address systems at
commencement and Rec Hall events.
Calif. kidnaper may have alibi
CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (AP) A man who
worked for Frederick N. Woods says he may
be able to furnish his boss an alibi for the day
authorities say Woods helped kidnap a bus
load of school children.
Craig Hunt; 18, told the San Francisco
Examiner that Woods was at his parents’
sprawling San Francisco Peninsula estate
between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on July .15 the
day 26 Chowchilla children and their bus
driver vanished.
The bus was commandeered about 4 p.m.
near this farming community, which is be
tween three and four hours by car from
Woods’ home in Portola Valley.
, “I saw Fred Thursday (July 15) and there
was not a thing different about him, not a
Monday - Sunday, August 2 -7, 1976
Tuesday, August 3
Shavers Creek Nature Center, “Frogs, Toads and Snakes,” 7 p.m., Stone Valley.
GSA outdoor concert, The Dance Band, 7:30 p.m., Fisher Plaza.
Festival Theatre, “Little Mary Sunshine,” 8 p.m., Pavilion Theatre.
Festival Theatre, “That Championship Season,” 8 p.m., Playhouse Theatre.
Shavers Creek Nature Center, evening nature movie, 9 p.m., Stone Valley.
Thursday, August 5
Shavers Creek Nature Center, marsh walk, 6:30 p.m., Stone Valley.
Free U “Disco Dancing,” 7 p.m., Room 301 HUB.
Festival Theatre, “Little Mary Sunshine,” 8 p.m., Pavilion Theatre.
New York Renaissance Band, 8 p.m., Music Bldg, recital hall.
Festival Theatre, “That Championship Season,” 8 p.m., Playhouse Theatre.
Un-Common After DinrierTheatre,'“Yankee Doodle Tune,” 8 p.m., Roomll2Kern.
Friday, August 6 s
Interlandia Folk Dance Club, 7:30 p.m., HUB terrace and ballroom.
GSA Commonsplace Coffeehouse, Bob Doyle and the Buffalo Chipkickers, 8 p.m.,
Room 102 Kern.
Festival Theatre, “Little Mary Sunshine,” 8 p.m., Pavilion Theatre.
Festival Theatre, "That Championship Season,” 8 p.m., Playhouse Theatre.
Shavers Creek Nature Center, “Ghoulies and Beasties and Things that go bump in the
night,” 8 p.m., Stone Valley
Un-Common After Dinner Theatre, “Yankee Doodle Tune,” 8 p.m., RoomJl2Kern
Saturday, August 7
Festival Theatre, “Little Mary Sunshine,” 8 p.m., Pavilion Theatre.
Festival Theatre, “That Championship Season,” 8 p.m., Playhouse Theatre.
Shavers Creek Nature Center, evening program, 9 p.m., Stone Valley.
Sunday, August 8
Shavers Creek Nature Center, nature-ecology walk, 3 p.m.; evening program, 9 p.m.,
Stone Valley.
Wednesday, August 4
Bicentennial Summer Series, Dr. Ira D. Gruber, Rice University, on “Why the
British Lost the War for American Independence,” 8 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
FILM
Thursday-Sunday, August 5-8
ARHS film, “Death Wish,” 8 and 10 p.m., Pollock Rec Room.
MEETINGS
Monday, August 2
' Penn State Overcomers, 7 p.m., Room 110 Sackett.
Wednesday, August 4
Penn State Magazine Club, 8 p.m., Room 324 HUB.
5.1.M.5., 8 p.m., Room 112 Chambers.
Museum of Art: American Paintings and Furniture from the Permanent Collection.
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Juried Crafts Show. Prints by Penn
sylvania Artists.
HUB Gallery: Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts: Elementary and Junior
High Art, through August 13
Zoller Gallery: M.F.A.~Show, Suzanne Glascock, Printmaking; Charles Moore,
Printmaking; Jan Mrozinski, Ceramics.
Hammond Gallery: M.F.A. Show, Anthony Herrera, Painting, through August 7.
M.F.A. Show, Joseph Sc'opa, Sculpture, August 8-14.
Chambers Gallery: Melanie Lynch, Hangings; Margery Johnstone, Rugs.
Kern Gallery: Aliza Thomas, Prints. Printmakers in Art, through August 14.
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thing, nothing,” said Hunt, a mechanic who
worked with Woods repairing old cars, in an
interview published in yesterday’s Examiner.
Hunt said in the interview he has been
questioned by investigators and he believes
they are changing their minds about the
number of kidnapers.
Woods, James Schoenfeld, 24, and Schoen
feld’s 22 year-old brother, Richard, are
charged in the kidnaping. Bail was set at $1
million each.
Alameda County Sheriff Tom Houchins
saickhere is no search for additional suspects
at this time. But he conceded there are dis
crepancies between the three men in custody
and profiles of the kidnapers provided by
witnesses.