Many participants 'bitter' over Fulmer nomination
By PETE BARNES
Collegian Staff Writer
The nomination of Centre County
Republican Chairman Eugene Fulmer
at the GOP District Convention Tuesday
night revealed that a definite division
Nexists within the GOP structure of the
34th State Senatorial District.
Despite the calls for unity made by
Fulmer, his defeated opponent Rep.
Walter DeVertu from Mifflin County,
and State Tarty Chairman Richard
Framer, many participants in the
convention , walked away bitter and
* dissatisfied. -
`' "He isn't going to be our next senator,
for one thing; he can't carry Clearfield
and he isn't liked," a Clearfield County
cenferee said, adding that the members
of the Mifflin and Clearfield delegations
"were all hurt."
Indications that a split was developing
appeared several weeks before the
convention, though, when Fulmer
claimed he had the sole power to choose
the conferees from Centre County ac-
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Leonard Nimoy, known to thousands of "Star Trek" fans as
Mr. Spock, first officer on the U.S.S. Enterprise, gives the
Anorexia nervosa: Consequence of diet obsession
Anna, 15, thought she should lose some weight from her 5-
foot-3,128-pound frame, so she decided to go on a diet.
t,» In May, she began to diet and exercise strenuously. As she
began to lose weight, her family and friends began com
plimenting her on her new look. Soon, dieting became an
obsession with her. She rarely ate more than a mouthful at any
meal, and when she did eat, she would force up what she had
eaten.
-By September, she deteriorated to an emaciated girl of 93
pods, still refusing to eat, saying she "just wasn't hungry."
Het once flattering cheekbones now protruded from her
sunken face. Her parents were frantic. Anna was slowly
starving herself a victim of her relentless will.
'Anna is a victim of a rare psychosomatic disorder, Anorexia
nervosa, which, if not caught in time, can lead to severe
malnutrition and in some cases, death. In this actual case,
Anna is lucky; she is recovering after two years of successful
therapy. However, not all anoretics are this fortunate. It is
estimated between 5 and 15 per cent of all anoretics die from
this puzzling disorder. It is also estimated the disorder occurs
in 20 to 60 people in a population of 100,000 persons.
_ Although the disorder is rare, psychiatrist Hilde Bruch says
for every child who declines to the pitiful state of emaciation,
there are thousands who waste their energies and efforts
trying to be thinner than is natural for their body. Our society
is so preoccupied with slimness, she says, that there is a need
to draw attention to the fact that many people can achieve it
only at a great sacrifice to physical and mental health.
Anorexia nervosa occurs , mainly in females, between the
ages of 12 and 18, although cases are found in older persons.
The disorder is characterized by a refusal to eat, a weight loss
or more than 20 per cent of total body weight without organic
cause, brittle skin, low body temperature, slow pulse and the
cessation of menstruation in females.
The disorder is difficult to deal with because its cause is not
understood. Some psychoanalysts suggest this relentless
dieting is an unconcious wish to avoid growing up, become
independent and accept a mature sexual identity. Because
a girl is afraid of maturing and dealing with body changes,
such as menstruation and breast-development, she seeks to
By CATHY BARNETT
Collegian Staff Writer
cording to provisions in the State
Republican by-laws. State Com
mitteeman J. Doyle Corman of
Bellefonte lead those who unsuccessfully
contended that Fulmer call a meeting of
the GOP County Committee to par
ticipate in the selection of conferees.
The situation was further complicated
when Fulmer indicated that he would not
release the names of the conferees. He
came under criticism from Clearfield
County Chairman Jean Brodas, who said
that because Fulmer was withholding
the names, she would not release the
names of the Clearfield conferees until
Fulmer did so.
The division in the party became
clearer, though, on the night of the
convention. The major controversy
surrounded Harvey Wagner, a proxy for
Cameron County GOP Chairman
Anthony McNamara, who is vacationing
in Florida. Under the proxy system,
Wagner would cast his vote as a
representative of McNamara.
the
daily
reverse the process. By not. eating, ,she controls her body,
stopping menstruation, reducing her body to child-like
proportions and temporarily regressing from adolescence.
Some doctors suggest the person believes she is unwanted
by her family, and by starving herself, she will move to the
center of their concerns. •
Bruch says there are three difficulties which all anoretics
encounter: misperception of body size; failure to recognize
nutritional needs and a paralyzing lack of identity.
An anoretic will deny her illness because she suffers from a
misperception of her body size. When she looks in the mirror,
she believes she sees her body as fat, and continues dieting to
reduce its size. One girl says, "I really can't see how thin I am.
I must be thin, because when I feel myself, there is nothing but
bones."
Although anoretics appear tired from lack of nourishment,
they are usually hyperactive, trying to burn off as much fat as
they can. One girl ran up and down the steps of the Washington
Monument every morning to burn off calories.
Along with a distorted body image, anoretics suffer from a
failure to recognize nutritional needs, resulting in periods of
starvation, followed by an uncontrollable impulse to gorge.
Most anoretics say they feel full after eating the slightest bit of
food. Although they refuse to eat, they talk incessantly about
food.
An anoretic , usually knows the caloric value of any food and
some will go to extremes in preparing the little food they allow
themselves. One girl carried around blotting paper to wipe
off the last traces of fat from the leanest meat. Another girl
kept a scrapbook of food ads which she would look through
when she was hungry, instead of eating.
While characteristics of body image distortion and
misconception of nutritional needs are recognizable, the third
problem, a lack of identity, is camouflaged by the anoretic.
Anoretics are characterized as excellent students, usually
over-achievers. Bruch says anoretics are acting only in
response to , the demands of others, not doing things because
they want to, only because they have to. This "over
conforming behavior" Bruch says, is a camouflage for self
doubt. An anoretic's lack of identity and need for control may
result from a conflict in the home.
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In one case, a teenager felt her feminity was the barrier to
Shortly after the meeting was called to
order, Fulmer's name was placed in
nomination by a Centre County conferee
who described Fulmer as baying done
"a fantastic job for us." Fulmer's
nomination was seconded by Wagner.
Mifflin County GOP Chairman Rocco
Soccio placed DeVerter's ' name in
nomination. "He has served well and
with dignity," he said:
With the preliminaries of the meeting
out of the way, State Chairman Framer
was about to initiate a roll call vote when
Jerome McCrea, a conferee from Centre
County, asked for voting by block, in
which each county would vote as a
whole.
The Clearfield delegation immediately
requested time for a caucus, and
Framer granted a 15-minute recess.
When the conferees reconvened,
Brodas, the Clearfield County Chair
man, asked that the roll call vote
remain. Framer, despite continued
opposition from McCrea, agreed with
Brodas and had the roll call started in
alphabetical order by county.
Wagner was called, and as he said,
"Fulmer," GOP State Committeeman
Max Narby, also from Cameron County,
interrupted the voting from the back of
the room to challenge Wagner's proxy
vote. Framer did not acknowledge
Narby's challenge and the roll call
resumed. Narby unsuccessfully again
tried to challenge Wagner, after the
voting was over. Later, it was learned
that during the recess, Narby had tried
to convince Wagner to change his vote to
DeVerter.
Singly, the conferees called out their
votes. Fulmer's victory was assured,
though, when the last Centre County
conferee called out her choice; Centre
County's 21 votes plus Wagner's single
Cameron County vote gave Fulmer the
needed twenty-two votes to become the
GOP candidate.
The votes' were tallied: Clearfield
County's 13 votes, Mifflin County's six
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Ford, O'Neill among recipients
Airline admits illegal payments
WASHINGTON (UPI) American
Airlines, saying it paid $51,000 in illegal
campaign contributions in 1971 and 1972,
reveared yesterday the recipients in
cluded Gerald Ford, Speaker Thomas
O'Neill and 67 others who were members
of Congress.
Under a law passed in 1973, none of the
present or former congressmen would
be eligible for prosecution because of a
blanket statute of limitations covering
contributions for the 1972 campaigns
and before. •
Others listed by the airline include
Transportation Secretary Brock Adams,
Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz., a
presidential candidate last year, and
Rep. Al Ullman, D-Ore., chairman of the
House Ways and Means committee.
The payments in 1971 and 1972
amounted to about $5,000 and "were
made from a cash fund . . . going back
to at least • 1964 in amounts which are
alleged to have totaled at least $275,000,"
the airline said. • '
Mcßride victor in steel union
PITTSBURGH ( AP) Lloyd
Mcßride, who left school at age 14 for a
factory job, was the apparent winner
over rebel Edward Sadlowski yesterday
in a bitter contest for the presidency of
the United Steelworkers union.
An unofficial survey by the Associated
Press gave the 60-year-old St. Louis
native a 65 per cent plurality with almost
500,000 votes cast in the 1.4 million
member union. .
The AP figures, compiled from reports
to the union's district offices, gave
Mcßride 299,877 votes and Sadlowski
198,472 votes with returns from almost
4,000 of the union's 5,000 locals.
Both candidates also kept unofficial
returns.
Sadlowski's camp disputed the AP
tptals, claiming its candidate had 171,531
votes to 166,980 for Mcßride with 2,170
locals reporting.
"I think there were a lot of
questionable figures in the district of
fices," said Clem Balanoff, a Sadlowski
aide. "The fact is, we are holding our
her mother's affection which was lavished on the girl's older
brother. Not until the girl starved herself did the mother
recognize a problem. .
Most doctors agree restoring and maintaining weight must
be attended to before psychological therapy can begin.
Because an anoretic is not usually seen by a doctor until she is
severely undernourished, hospitalization usually is required.
Several treatments for gaining weight are used, including
drugs to stimulate the appetite. One of the most successful
treatments is behavior modification. In this treatment, a
patient is rewarded with activities, such as watching4W-'or
visiting her family, if she gains a certain amount of weight
each day.
Dr. Albert Stunkard, a leading advocate of behavior
modification, says the impairment of food intake is a specific
learned behavior, reinforced by environmental problems. In
the treatment, he says, the patient learns to eat again, but by
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votes ; and Cambria County's two votes
all went to DeVerter for a total of 21
votes. The rest went to Fulmer.
Framer declared Fulmer the
Republican candidate for the state
senate, and a spettator from the
audience yelled out, "We've got another
loser."
As DeVerter was walking ter the front
of the room to make his concession
speech, a Centre County conferee stood
up and demanded the floor, shouting,
"We've got a winner, We've got a win
ner."
Many protests came from the
audience and conferees, calling for the
Fulmer supporter to sit down. Soccio
began knocking the supporter's chair
against the floor. As Framer demanded
order, the conferee took his seat and
DeVerter began his speech.
Asking the conferees to disregard
their personal feelings, De Verter told
them, "If we truly want this seat, we're
all going to have to work; it's not going
to be easy."
O'Neill, through a spokesman, said,
"I've never knowingly accepted cor
porate contributions and of course I've
never personally accepted' a con
tribution."
A spokesman for Senate GOP Leader
Howard Baker, also named, said the
airline's chief lobbyist purchased five
$lOO tickets to a fundraiser prior to the
1972 campaign and that "there was no
way for him (Baker) to know it was
corporate money."
Most of the congressman said they had
no knowledge the money came from the
corporation.
American identified the recipients in a
report to the Securities and Exchange
Commission. It has already been fined
for making the payments but this is the
first time the names of those involved
were disclosed.
The report also gave new details on the
method former President Nixon used to
' solicit a $lOO,OOO contribution.
American said its lobbyists . used
Mcßride's staff had its candidate
ahead by 281,632 to 196,263 at 4,529 locals.
"We could claim victory now and be
safe," Mcßride said by telephone from
his home.
"We've agreed we will not make an
official claim to victory until
tomorrow."
Mcßride's major support came from
the South and West, where most of the
locals are small ones outside the basic
steel industry. In Canada, he took a
sizeable 30,000-vote plurality.
Sadlowski concentrated his campaign
effort within the basic steel section of the
union, where about one-third of the
membership is clustered in large locals
in the industrial Northeast and Midwest.
The results from many large locals
still were being counted yesterday, but
the strength Sadlowski hoped to derive
from them did not appear to be enough to
reverse the trend.
A Mcßride victory guarantees a
moderate course for the USW, rather
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no means can the therapy end there. It must be continued by
the family to maintain the subject's weight.
In the treatment, the anoretic usually is isolated in a room,
with no TV or radio and only visits from the staff. She usually
is fed three meals a day with snacks in between. The patient is
weighed daily, and if her weight has increased by a certain
amount from the day before, she is given privileges. If her
weight decreases, she is put back into isolation.
Although the patient appears to be cooperating, her
behavior can be deceiving. ilt's not unusual for the patient to
flush theiood down the toilet, hide it in drawers, or give it to
other patients. Most doctors say it's a battle of wills to get the
patient to eat, but once she starts to gain weight, she usually
maintains it and can be discharged from the hospital.
Successful treatment of Anorexia nervosa must involve the
family, according to some doctors. Dr. Salvador Minuchin, of
the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, says parents avoid
dealing with existing problems between themselves and their
children by concentrating on the anoretic's refusal to eat.
Minuchin and his associates counsel families by way of a
lunch session, where the family and a therapist eat in the
setting which could have been the start of the patient's
problem.
In one case, a wife constantly criticized her husband's table
manners, upsetting' their child and forcing him to associate
eating with hostility. With suggestions from the therapist, the
parents were made aware of the child's unhappiness and
instructed how to resolve the conflict.
The family treatment at the clinic has been quite successful.
In the past five years, 53 persons have been treated and 85 per
cent have recovered and returned to normal lives.
In addition to family therapy, individualized therapy helps
an anoretic achieve her identity. By making the patient aware
of her participation in other areas of her life, Bruch says,
especially her relations with 'others, eating is no longer the
"pseudo-solution" to her lack of identity.
Treatment of Anorexia nervosa depends on the individual.
Most times, the patient, after a period of therapy, can return
to a normal life. Sometimes, however, a patient is still
cautious about eating, and only with support from family,
friends and physician, can she return to eating normally
without feeling guilty. ,
He made no references to his op
ponent's method of selecting the Centre
County conferees, but later said that he
might have something to say about it in
the future. As he walked to the back of
the room, he stopped to congratulate
Fulmer on his victory.
In his acceptance speech, Fulmer
called for cooperation among the party
chairmen of the five counties
represented in the district.
"We haven't got much time to pull
together," he said. He also said that in
his campaign, he expected to learn of the
problems in the district and added that
"we will address ourselves to the
issues."
Later, Wagner, whose vote gave
Fulmer the GOP candidacy, said that he
had been with Fulmer and the Centre
County delegation at a dinner meeting
before the convention .
, He said, though,
that there had been no pressure put on
him to vote for Fulmer.
money from a secret cash fund in
violation of a federal law that prohibits
corporate money to be spent on U.S.
political campaigns. The contributions
were in amounts of $33 to $l,OOO.
The illegal practice began in 1964 and
ended in 1973 when the Watergate
Special Prosecutor charged the com
pany with making an illegal contribution
of $55,000 to Nixon's re-election cam
paign.
At the time of the Nixon contribution,
the alleged congressional •recipients
included Rep. Peter Rodino, D-N.J., who
later chaired the House impeachment
proceedings against Nixon, American
said.
American also named Senate
Republican Leader Howard Baker, R-
Tenn., Rep. Harley Staggers, D-W. Va.
and Rep. John McFall, D-Calif. Staggers
chairs the House Commerce Committee
that oversees airline matters while
McFall - heads a subcommittee
responsible for airlines.
than the militancy Sadlowski espoused.
The most. immediate effect of the
election will be felt next week when the
union opens negotiations with the 10
largest steel firms.
The election outcome is likely to be
challenged by Sadlowski, who claimed
there were irregularities hours after the
voting began.
Weather
The long-awaited January thaw has
finally arrived two weeks late. The
much-needed respite from winter's icy
grip will be welcomed by everyone
except the groundhog, who is not content
to see his forecast go down the drain.
Today we'll see mostly sunny skies along
with the mildest temperatures since
before Christmas. High 45. Becoming
partly cloudy, breezy, and still milder
tonight and tomorrow, with a chance of a
few showers tomorrow. Low tonight 33
and high tomorrow 48.
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