—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, April 6,1977
News from
the AP and
UPI wires
Fact sheets to inform students
Frontlash preparing for election
In preparation for the May
17 primary, Frontlash plans
to print up fact sheets on the
local candidates’ stands on
important issues. The
organization feels that local
elections are important to
students, and the plan is the
same as the one implemented
for the fall elections.
The fact sheets soon will be
available at a table in the
HUB, along with information
on other Frontlash programs.
“We set up an organization
to change things by working
within the system,” said Bob
Deer (9th-h'istory of political
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Frontlash.
This is one of the goals of
the National Frontlash
Organization, established in
1968 by the United States
Youth Council. The
organization also worked to
increase voter participation
among under-represented
people through voter
registration drives and turn
out campaigns..
Deer said the local chapter
registered 2,000 student
voters in the fall. The group
also operated a ride service
which served more than 250
voters in East Halls who were
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Nuclear arm detonated
YUCCA FLAT, Nev. (UPI) A nuclear device in the 20 to
150 kiloton range was successfully detonated deep beneath the
desert floor at the Nevada Test Site yesterday morning and
was barely felt in Las Vegas 90 miles away.
A spokesman for the Energy Research and Development
Administration said there were no problems and no apparent
leak of radiation at the surface.
The hydrogen weapon, code-named “Marsilly” and under
the limit of 150,000 tons of TNT, was the first publicly an
nounced test this year.
It was triggered 2,263 feet down at 7 a.m. PST after being
delayed 24 hours because of unfavorable winds.
As a safety precaution explosions are postponed if wind
conditions could carry outside the test site any radioactive
gases that might escape.
Some motion was felt in Las Vegas by observers, but it was
described as very light. The surface tremors reached the
state’s largest city in 40 seconds.
Senate affirms Flaherty
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate yesterday over
whelmingly confirmed Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty as.
deputy attorney general, the No. 2 post in the Justice
Department.
The vote was 87 to 4.
A roll call was demanded by Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-
Ohio, who led the opposition to Flaherty.
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registered
Township.
“The town is a university
town and the students are
inhabitants of the town,”
Penn ' State Frontlash
president Michele Pesta
(llth-labor studies) said.
“The students should have
more of a say than they’ve
had in the past.”
Pesta said she hopes to gain
support for the national
boycott of J.P. Stevens
products.
The company continues to
hire and promote on a racial
basis despite ' a 1976 court
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with workers seven years
after they unionized. The
company also failed to
comply with safety
regulations. The group is
working on the boycott in
conjunction with the
Amalgamated Clothing and
Textile Workers’Union. >
Frontlalsh’s local chapter
needs new members to work
on its programs. The
organization will meet 7:30
tomorrow night in 312 Boucke.'.
Communications majors are
especially needed to work on
a scheduled radio broadcast
on the boycott for WDFM.
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Metzenbaum and other critics accused the nominee of being
insensitive to the needs of blacks and women while he was
Pittsburgh’s two-term mayor, and of urging the school board
to defy 1 the law by refusing to implement school busing for
racial desegregation.
Flaherty and his supporters denied those charges. -
Voting against were Metzenbaum and Democratic Sens.
Daniel Moynihan of New York, Don Riegle of Michigan and
William Proxmire of Wisconsin.
In the debate Metzenbaum said Flaherty had told the Pitts
burgh school board a desegregation order from the state
Human Rights Commission “cannot be enforced” because the
community was against it.
“Such a posture is completely inconsistent with the role of a
public official, and especially one who is being considered for
the No. 2 law enforcement position in the Justice Depart
ment, ’ ’.Metzenbaum argued.
Wage compromise seen
WASHINGTON (AP) As President Carter and organized
labor push their opposing views of how high the minimum
wage should be raised, House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill
predicted yesterday there will be a compromise “somewhere
in the middle.”
' The minimum wage currently is $2.30 an hour. The AFL-CIO
had advocated raising this to $3 an hour this year. The Carter
administration has endorsed a $2.50 minimum.
O’Neill said Carter spent a lot of time at a Tuesday meeting
with congressional leaders talking about inflation and how any
large increase in the minimum wage would aggravate in
flation.
HUB holds
hi-fi show
today at 1
Some 15,000 people are
expected to attend Stereo
Expo ’77, which starts
today at 1 p.m. in the HUB
and continues through
tomorrow night.
Sponsored by the Hetzel
Union Board, the show
features displays from
nearly 50 hi-fi companies.
Educational seminars on
amplifiers, room acoustics
and speakers will be
conducted by Mickey
Bergstein, associate pro
fessor of marketing, and
hi-fi pioneer.
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Environmentalism
—will it muddy
the job pool?
Some people think America will have
to spend a trillion dollars by the mid
1980’s on more pollution control. Could
this hurt your chance of getting a job
you want? We hope not—but it’s a
possibility.
America simply doesn’t have a
trillion dollars to spare. Shifting so vast
an amount from other uses will disrupt
nearly every other national goal.
Adding costly environmental
equipment doesn’t increase industrial
production. So once the equipment is
m place, the handful of new jobs
created for pollution control is more
than offset by production jobs that
don’t appear. Spending large sums on
pollution control means companies
can’t spend that money on something
else—like new jobs.
We’re going to need another
18,000,000 jobs in this country by 1985.
These days the average job costs
$42,168 to create; So a trillion dollars
is more than the total current cost of
creating 18,000,000 jobs.
Even'if we had a trillion dollars,
America couldn’t satisfy its most
extreme environmental demands
already on the books. Air quality rules
now lock important areas of the coun
try out of any new industrial develop
ment. And water quality standards
being applied to all bodies of water, no
matter how they’re used, will stymie
even population growth in many parts
of the U.S.
We all want clean air and water.
We’ve been sensitized to pollution's
dangers for y jars. But the fact is:
' America’s air and water have been
Disabled protest at HEW
WASHINGTON (UPI)
The infirm, the blind and the
deaf - demonstrated in
Washington and other cities
yesterday and were told by
HEW Secretary Joseph
Califano he will move next to
protect the rights of* han
dicapped Americans.
But the protestors gathered
at HEW headquarters
responded with boos and
shouts of “Why not now?”
Some flashed slogans in sign
language.
After Califano, standing on
a wooden end table in. the
lobby outside his office, spoke
for about 10,minutes and left
for another appointment,
some of the demonstrators
continued a sit-in in the
carpeted hallway.
The demonstration,
PLAIN TALK
ON
getting cleaner lately. We’ve obviously
still got a lot to do. But as we do it,
we need to study carefully the costs and
benefits, to keep environmentalism
from tying America up in knots.
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O’Neill said Carter, told the leaders he was going “to the
people” on the subject of inflation after he is filled in by his
Cabinet advisors on the details of inflation’s impact.
O’Neill said Carter did not indicate he was in a mood
compromise on the minimum wage, issue. But he added,
“Somewhere along the line there will be a mimumum wage
increase. And you can almost bet it will be somewhere in the
middle... a compromise between the two.”
Family policies
RADNOR, Pa. (AP) All federal policies ranging from tax
deductions to the number of years between moves in the
military need to be examined to see if they are hurting the
American family, according to Vice President Walter Mon
dale. . -
Writing in the April 9 issue of TV Guide, Mondale said that
the U.S. government has no idea what effect most of its
policies have on the fabric of the American,family.
“The truth is that for decades, government at all levels has
stumbled blindly from program to program and policy to
policy, without really stopping to consider whether' they
contribute to the health and well-being of families or whether
they help tear them down, ’ ’ the vice president wrote.
Mondale said that new laws are passed every day to go with
the hundreds already on the books that have an effect on
family life
He, gave as examples the laws setting tax exemptions for
children, welfare regulations, policies governing location of
low-cost housing, and the practice of moving military families
every two or three years.
sponsored by the American
Coalition of Citizens with
Disabilities claiming to
represent 36 million persons,
was called to demand im
plementation of a 1973 law
banning discrimination
against the handicapped in
federally funded programs.
“I understand how you
feel,” Califano told the
protestors.
“No you don’t,” came
shouts in reply.
The demonstrators ap
peared unimpressed when
Califano explained that he did
not want to issue regulations
covering the handicapped
which might.be “verbally or
rhetorically pleasing for the
moment and on which then
once again I and this
government cannot deliver.”
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He said'this happened to the ,
law designed to prevent
discrimination against'
women'. v
“There are some difficult *
questions,” he said.
Frank Bowe, head of the
coalition, said after Califano
spoke that the handicapped
prefer action now with
modifications in ' the
regulations later if problems
should arise.
“What we’ve been given
once again,” said Eunice
Fiorito, director of the New
York City Office for the
Handicapped, “are the
crumbs of human kindness. ’ ’
Before Califano arrived
from Atlanta to address the
group, about 150 demon-,
strators formed a large circle
in the plaza.
Plain talk about
POLLUTION CONTROL
So far, Armco has spent $260,000,000
for pollution control systems. Running
that equipment costs us another
$26,000,000 a year. We’ve slashed our
air emissions 95%. But now we’ve
passed the point of diminishing returns.
Cutting into that final 5% can cost
more—and waste more electrical
energy—than it took to stop the entire
95%. What’s worse, generating the
electricity to reduce industrial emis
sions, further often creates more
pollution at power plants than industry
removes. As a nation, we need to
carefully examine environmentalist
demands and balance them against
their social, as well as economic,
consequences.
Next time somebody says industry
ought to start cleaning up its act, you
might like to point out that the clean
up is well on its way. The more extra
environmental costs pile on, the fewer
new jobs there may be.
Armco wants vour plain talk
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personal experiences. Facts you’ve
found to prove or disprove our point.
Drop us a line. We'll send you a more
detailed report on the relationship
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