Assertion best retail bargaining method for
ByJUDYMESKO another and then finally the manager, he
Collegian Staff Writer said. Being polite but firm and keeping
' Assertive personalities are likely.to good eye contact and posture are also
get what they want from a store. They important, he said.
can get a salesman to wait on them, To learn these skills, students should
*>•' demand a lower price on an item, insist rehearse the situation they expect to
in that the manager take back an item they encounter at the store, Kenigsberg said,
are dissatisfied with, and outsmart This rehearsal, he said, can be done in
agressive salesmen. - front of a mirror, planned mentally, or
% For students who want to be more practiced with a group of friends, each
''-assertive in a store, thebest waytolearn playing the different roles of customer,
is to watch and imitate other assertive salesman, and manager. This will make
-j personalities, says Marty Kenigsberg, the rehearsal as close as possible to the
iniake' supervisor for the campus actual situation in the store, he said.
ni psychology clinic. The psychology clinic in 315 Moore
Most important is for students to know offers free assertiveness training to
f.Vwhat U'eir rights are and to insist on students, Kenigsberg said.
•"©em, Kenigsberg said. If one salesman Students can be assertive in a store to
1 won’t help them, they should talk to the point of being a “Pain in the ass,”
McCarthy to
name Cabinet
NEW, YORK (UPI)
Independent presidential
candidate Eugene
McCarthy said yesterday
he would name his
prospective Cabinet this
week, but might leave his
vice presidential choice up
to the Electoral College if
he is elected.
4T The former Democratic
senator from Minnesota
also took Democratic
nominee Jimmy Carter to
task for his tax reform
proposals and said
Schorr criticizes 'Eastern elite' press
L ,M AKRON, OHIO (UPI) said that because CBS had in February, Schorr, a 23-
Former CBS newsman Daniel done all it wanted with the year veteran with CBS,
■ -Schorr says that in the seven report, he went shopping for a leaked a copy of a House
■’ since he leaked a publisher and “unhappily” Intelligence Committee
'"■soci.lit government document the Village Voice was the report to the Village Voice.
-to a New York newspaper, he “last resort”. Highlights of the report,
has fallen “in love with the “The Eastern elite critical of the CIA, had been
people of America and out of newsmen and politicians felt used by Schorr on CBS.
•■‘love with a lot of my -col- they had a monopoly on The committee voted to
• leagues.” sophistication and that the make the report public, but
Schorr said Saturday night millions in TV-viewingland the House as a whole decided
he/jeels the public had a right • never knew or understood to keep the contents secret,
to know the contents of the because they were not in- At a news conference prior
a "intelligence document. He siders,”hesaidinaspeech. to the speech Schorr said he
keep limits on water
LONDON (UPI) The
"■G&eat British Drought of 1976
the reverse of an old
cliche yesterday forgotten
wbut not gone. „ v
."'Weeksof regular "rain have'
"fmade it seem that the worst
-British drought in 500 years
• Tii' ispr really happened.
■“? 'Vifrass is green again,
country lanes are muddy and
there are puddles on main
-roads.
Water rationing became a
'thing of the past this
'
Supplies to the homes of
' mure than 140,000 people in
'.Devonshire, cut off com
pletely when the drought was
at its worst, are being switch
ed on again the county "
had its heaviest September
rains in 16 years.
sJore than 260,000 persons
in Wales, where water was
Clouds bar
open house
- The scheduled open house
"at the Davey Lab observatory
was cancelled this past
-weekend because of cloudy
i. skies.
' The open house, sponsored
&f the Penn Slate Aslromony
Club, ,was scheduled for
Friday *' and Saturday
unemployment could be
alleviated by shortening
the work week and
distributing overtime work
to the jobless.
He said he would name
“principal Cabinet
members” in Madison,
Wis., Oct. 8 or 9. “We may
not name the vice
president, because that’s a,
decision which probably
ought to be made by the
Electoral College. That’s
the procedural issue. The
other is that vice
cut to homes for 17 hours of
each 24, have had supplies
restored.
Tough restrictions on water
use remain. It is still illegal to
wash a car,’water a lawn, fill
a swimming pool or wash a
building.
People are using more
water than before restrictions
were imposed. This, and the
apparent normality of a
rain-soaked country, has
water officials badly worried.
“All this rain has en
couraged people to relax their
vigilance over water saving,”
said Gerald Payne of the
Thames Water Authority.
COMPLIMENTS OF THE PENN STATE BOOKSTORE
presidents really clutter up
campaigns.”
McCarthy, who served 16
years on the Senate
Finance Committee, said
the income tax codes
criticized by Carter are not
“that unfair.”
“I think we’ve reached
abouMhe limit of what we
can accomplish by
manipulation, particularly
of the individual income
tax rates and I don’t even
know what Carter has in
mind,” McCarthy said. He
said Carter’s proposal last
spring to do away with the
interest deduction on home
mortgages is “a ridiculous
proposition.”
“We could have a very
simple tax code, if we had a
simple life in this country,”
he said. “The Russians
“But the situation is still
very serious, and it will be for
a long time.”"
To underline the point, new
water restrictions came into
force for 4 million users in
East Anglia Saturday—a day
when some, parts of the area
were flooded by heavy rains.
Throughout September,
contrary to weathermen’s
predications, Britain proved
the truth of another cliche:
that it never rains but it
pours.
In some areas September
rainfall was the highest on
record.
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said a local store manager, and it
doesn’t always work.
The manager, who asked not to be
identified, said he had no preference in
giving quiet persons or troublemakers
what they want. “I would just as soon
wait on the pain in the ass and get him
out of the store, because I don’t want a
scene,” he said.
Anyone could be a pain, he said,
simply by disagreeing with everything
the clerk or the manager tells him. But
these persons usually don’t win anyway,
he said. “Once they finish bitching,” he
said, “we tell them we don’t need their
business.”
Two clerks from the manager’s store
said they would rather wait on those who
knew what they wanted and were
have a simple code, but
they then tell people who
gets the apartment house,
who gets the car, who gets
the preference and that.”
Relief for the middle
class, McCarthy said,
would affect 90 per cent of
the taxpayers “but there’s
not much relief you can
offer to 90 per cent of the
American taxpayers and
still pay the bill, but it
doesn’t amount to very
much. You offer them an
explanation you don’t go
around saying this is a
disgrace to the human
race.”
The best way of
redistributing wealth,
McCarthy said, is “a force
out on capital gains every
eight to ten years;’
expected the leaked report to
result jn a “24-hour.flap.”
Instead, he was suspended
from his broadcasting job and
subpoenaed before the House
Ethics Committee.
“The CIA never killed any
foreign leaders, but it wasn’t
for the want of trying,” he
said. “It was out of utter
inefficiency they never
succeeded.”
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assertive enough to ask for it, rather
than shy persons unsure of what they
want.
When students want to be waited on
while the clerks are stocking shelves or
taking inventory, they should simply
ask, the manager said. They shouldn’t
approach the clerks by asking, “Do you
work here?” he said. Then there is the
temptation to say no and let the students
help themselves, he said.
One sure way for students to get
service in a store is to look suspicious
and sneak around the shelves of the
store, said Deb Moody (7th-political
science). Moody has been a salesclerk at
a retail clothing store for two years and
said the clerks will think sneaky persons
are shoplifters and will quickly wait on
Giancana killing also examined
Book links CIA to Hoffa death
MIAMI (UPI) A new
book by a reputed former
Chicago underworld
assassain will assert that ex-
Teamster President Jimmy
Hoffa was slain on orders
from the Central Intelligence
Agency by the same person
who killed underworld
.overlord Sam Giancana at his
Oak Park,- 111., home in 1975,
the Miami Herald reported
yesterday.
In a dispatch from its
Washington Bureau, the
Herald said in the forth
coming book Charles
“Chuckie” Crimaldi will
claim that Hoffa’s body was
placed in a car at an auto
junkyard. The scrapped car
was then compressed into a
block of metal and dumped
into a steel smelter.
The book claims Hoffa and
Giancana both were slain on
orders from the CIA. It
contends Hoffa was the liason
between the CIA and the
Mafia in unsuccessful plots to
assassinate Cuban Premier
Fidel Castro.
Herald writer Vera Glaser
noted that Crimaldi will say
in the book, “The same man
that killed Mono Giancana
took care of Hoffa for the
same reason: He knew about
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Assertive students can get lower
prices for items only in certain
situations. If students point out that the
price of an item on the shelf is lower than
the price on the package, they will be
charged the lower priqe, the store man
ager said.
Moody added that when students point
out flaws or other damage on an item, the
manager will lower the price if he has the
authority to do so. In larger stores, prices
are often controlled by a central office
and the manager can’t change them un
der any circumstances, she said.
Students generally don’t have trouble
returning items if they have the saleslip,
the manager said. Assertive students
don’t have trouble returning items,
the Castro plots.”.
Crimaldi will claim in the
book that he was present at a
meeting between his former
boss, loan shark Sam
DeStefano another
mystery slaying victim and
Giancana, at which
DeStefano and Crimaldi were
asked to take on the Castro
assassination assignment.
Crimaldi quotes Giancana
as saying, “I was tapped by
some guys from the CIA. I
was promised special
government consideration
for a lot of aggravation that
was coming my way.”
Crimaldi quotes Giancana
as saying, “What you guys
will do is jump bail. It’ll be in
all the papers who two
gangsters skipped the
country, so there won’t be
anything phony about your
leaving. After you’re situa
ted in South America, you’ll
be contacted.
“You’ll be picked up there
and eventually you’ll be
dropped off on the Cuban
coast. They’ll pick the time
and the place to do the hit.
After you whack him, you can
come on back home and
everything will be taken care
of. Okay?,” Crimaldi quotes
Giancana as saying.
The Daily Collegian Monday. October 4,1976 —t:i
The book said DeStefano
asked for time to consider and
eventually rejected the
assignment on the advice of
underworld elder statesman
Paul “the Waiter” Ricca.
The Crimaldi book is ghost
written by retired U.S. Air
Force Col. John Kidner, who
told the Herald he doesn’t
know where Crimaldi lives
and has no direct means of
communicating with him.
Crimaldi has been given a
new secret identity by the
Drug Enforcement
Administration, with which
he has been cooperating. The
Herald said the underworld
allegedly has a $50,000 price
on Crimaldi’s head.
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students
sometimes without a slip, Moody said.
All they have to do is make a scene and
say, “The salesgirl told me I could bring
it back,” or' “I wouldn’t have bought it
if I didn’t think I could bring it back,” she
said.
Assertive students must outsmart ag
gressive door-to-door salesmen in order
to get what they want.
Agressive salesmen are likely tobe the
ones paid a. commission for every sale
they make, Moody said.
“These salesmen will remind you
that you can write a check, charge an
item, or bring an item back if you’re not
satisfied. The best way t' andle these
salesmen is to say no, ; eave,” she
said.
Kidner told the Herald
when he wants to talk to
Crimaldi he puts an ad in a
Chicago newspaper and then
waits days or week for
Crimaldi to appear.
Kidner told the Herald that
after Giancana was killed, he
placed an ad and about three
weeks later Crimaldi ap
peared .
“He came straight to the
point: ‘Momo was hit by the
CIA,’ ” Kidner said. “I told
him that would take some
proving. He replied, ‘I don’t
need proof. The CIA used
one of our guys; an import..
Nobody’ll ever pin this on
anybody.’ ”