the
daily
Alleged rapists
arrested, jailed
Two Altoona men were arrested and
jailed Friday in connection with the
abduction and rape of a woman in
State College last month. '
. Thomas Lee Hughes, 32, Altoona,
was arrested, and charged with
criminal attempt, criminal homicide,
two counts of aggravated assault,
simple assault and recklessly en
dangering another person, unlawful
restraint, involuntary deviate sexual
intercourse and indecent assault and
rape. _
James Edward Beasom, 25, also of
Altoona, was charged with criminal
conspiracy and rape. •
Hughes turned himself in to Altoona
police four hours after Beasom was
arrested.
Both were arraigned before
District Magistrate William B. Lower
Carter food stamp proposal passage seen
WASHINGTON (UPI) An ad
'ministration
i official predicts Congress
will approve President Carter's proposal
to issue free food stamps even though
the Democratic party's top congression
al farm spokesmen oppose it.
Under existing law, a family eligible
for food stamps must buy some for cash
before it can receive an additional
allocation of free "bonus" stamps.
Under the proposal Carter sent
Congress last week, there would be no
purchase. An eligible family simply
would be given the bonus stamps.
For example, some families of four
now buy $lOO worth of stamps monthly
with their own cash and get another $66
worth of 'stamps free. 'Under Carter's
Ecoriorriist says accord 'not inflationary
New steel
' WASHINGTON (AP) The steel
industry's new wage settlement appears
in
and`
with government expectations
and is unlikely to be criticized as in
flationary by the Carter administration,
a government economist said yesterday.
"It appears to have come in at about
what we expected," the economist said.
"There doesn't seem to be anything
shocking or unusual about it."
However, the Council on Wage and
Price Stability, which reviews all major
labor agreements but has no en
forcement authority, said it will review
the pact.
"We will ask the parties immediately
to provide us with the precise terms of
the contract and we will embark on a
thorough analysis and attempt to cost it
out," said Jack A. Meyer, the council's
acting assistant director.
President Carter is expected to an
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spring weather returns today. After a
chilly start early this morning, the
temperature will rise to 77 this afternoon
under bright sunshine. Clear skies will
remain with us tonight and tomorrow.
The low tonight will be near 50, and the
high tomorrow a summer-like 84.
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plan, the family would could get the $66
worth of stamps .gratis, with no
qualifying purchase.
Administration experts say about 7
million of the current 17.3 million food
stamp beneficiaries would get smaller
bonuses than they now receive or would
be dropped from the program. Others
would get unchanged or increased
bonuses, and nearly 3 million additional
people might enter the program.
Assistant Agriculture Secretary Carol
Foreman said she thinks "we'll get a
food stamp bill."
Administration officials are not
seriously considering congressional
proposals to operate a pilot test of the no
purchase plan before adopting it
pact okay with administration
nounce an anti-inflation program this
month and encourage laboy and
management to consult voluntarily with
the government on the possible in
flationary impact of wage and price
decisions.
The three-year contract, approved
Saturday by the United Steelworkers
union, includes a relatively modest wage
gain that will raise the existing $B.OB
average hourly wage by 10 to 15 per cent
over the life of the agreement.
Industry officials estimated that cost
of-living increases , and fringe 'benefits,
including stronger income security for
senior workers, make the overall value
of the package comparable to last year's
auto workers' settlement. The auto
workers won a three-year, 34 per cent
boost in wages and benefits.
That would raise the steel industry's
total hourly employment costs per
worker, now $12.60, by about $4.
Higher steel prices are likely to follow.
The industry suffered a dismal first
quarter with at least three major
producers sustaining losses.
"We all know that ultimately prices
must cover costs," J. Bruce Johnston,
vice president of U.S. Steel Corp., and
the industry's chief negotiator, said
after the contract was approved.
Arnold Weber, dean of the graduate
Joseph Ammerman
of Altoona. Bail was set at $50,000 for
Hughes and $15,000 for Beasom.
Beasom and Hughes were lodged in
Centre County Prison in lieu of bail.
The' preliminary hearing will be
held sometime this week before
District Magistrate Clifford H. Yorks,
according to State College police.
The arrests stem from an incident
in the parking lot of the State College
Holiday Inn on March 31, in which a
woman was forced into a van at
gunpoint and raped. She was pistol
whipped and sustained injuries to the
head. She was taken to the Moun
tainview unit of' Centre Community
Hospital, treated and released.
State College police served the
warrants with the aid of the Altoona
Police Department and the
Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania State
Police.
Photo by Chris Newhumid
Coast Guard seizes
Soviet fishing trawler
BOSTON (UPI) A Soviet fishing
trawler, which President Jimmy Carter
said he had ordered seized "to draw the
line" on overfishing, is scheduled to
arrive in Boston today and be placed
under the custody of the U.S. Attorney.
The seizure was the first under the
new 200-limit Fishery Management and
Conservation Act of 1976, that took effect
March 1. The law bans foreign vessels
from fishing for certain species unless
they have permits. ,
The 275-foot Russian stern trawler
Taras ShevehenkO was said to have
caught more than 1.5 metric tons of river
herring in excess of its authorization and
was seized by the Coast Guard late
Saturday about 240 miles southeast of
Boston.
Carter yesterday told reporters out
side the First Baptist Church in Calhoun,
Ga., that he had ordered the vessel
seized because "we had to draw the line
somewhere" on violations of the new 200-
mile limit.
"We have released several of them.
We informed the Soviet embassy that we
nationwide, she said, despite opposition
to the Carter plan from two powerful
committee chairmen.
One is Thomas Foley, D-Wash.,
chairman of the House Agriculture
Committee; who said in an interview:
"I'm not persuaded this should be done
without a study and demonstration
project first."
His comments were mild compared to
those of Senate Agriculture Committee
Chariman Herman Talmadge, D-Ga.
"Free food stamps is not reform of the
program," he told a hearing. "It is
destruction of the program.
- "By simply issuing the amount of
bonus value in free food stamps,
elimination of the purchase requirement
school of Industrial Administration at
Carnegie-Mellon University in Pitts
burgh and former director of the
government's now defunct Cost of Living
Council, also said that it would probably
have an upward effect on prices.
But he said, "It doesn't really seem
stratospheric. Given the union's internal
political factors and the need fora good
settlement to preserve the no-strike
bargaining format, it doesn't seem like a
bad deal all around."
Government economists had forecast
a year of moderate wage gains, with
increases matching last year's 8 per cent
average level. This would serve to
sustain inflation but not increase it, said
Meyer, of the wage-price council.
However, increases now described as
moderate could become immoderate if
inflation soars and boosts compensation
via cost-of-living escalator clauses,
which adjust negotiated wage increases
upward as prices rise.
•The steel contract provides wage
increases of 80 cents an hour over three
years in increments of 40 cents, 20 cents
and 20 cents. Incentive pay for extra
work will add 'another 10 cents, and the
cost-of-living provision will add more as
prices rise during the life of the
agreement.
The contract covers 340,000 workers in
By PETE BARNES
Collegian Staff Writer
Joseph S. Ammerman, .congressman from the
23rd District, said in an interview Friday he is
working to introduce a bill that would prohibit
tobacco companies from using advertising as a tax
shelter.
"It should discourage the industry from inticing
other people into the habit," Ammerman said.
Amnierman said he supported the congressional
Ethics Bill, citing changes that will be made in the
franking privilege. He said last year, the Republican
party printed $250,000 worth of re-election material
for GOP Congressmen and mailed it, under the
franking privilege at a cost of $2.5 million.
"If it's government business, then the franking
privilege is legitimate; if it isn't government
business, it isn't," he said.
The new requirements, he said, will limit anything
being mailed under the franking privilege to
government documents or publications.
Ammerman recently mailed several hundred
calendars to people in the district, using the
franking privilege.
"I think' there , the activity of a government
product should be circulated," he said. He claimed;
each member of the House is given 2,000 calendars,
' but he mailed only 850.
Ammerman said the House passed a bill that will
increase fluids for public works projects from $2
billion to $6 billion.
• He added the House' is undertaking an in
vestigation to lower the eligibility requirements for
the funds. The median income in State College is
currently too high to qualify for these funds, local
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could no longer continue to release
them, that we just had to enforce the
law," Carter said.
The seizure followed recent criticism
from many Northeast fishermen and
politicans who said the law would be
useless unless .harsh measures were
taken against foreign violators.
By midday yesterday, the 18-year-old
trawler was about 100 miles southeast of
Cape Cod and was being escorted by the
Decisive to the Coast Guard support
center at Boston Harbor.
"Once it ties up, the ship and cargo go
under the custody of the U.S. Attorney's
office, and immigration and customs
officials will become involved," Coast
Guard spokesman John Bablitch said.
"The Coast Guard will provide sur
veillance of the ship as long as the case is
under litigation," he said: Bablitch said
the crew members would be confined to
the ship. He said there have been a
number of seizures in the past four
years, and that legal action in some
cases has stretched to two. or three
months.
makes a mockery of the food stamp
program's nutritional purpose."
He said the program is designed to
make sure an eligible family has an
adequate diet: The family's purchased
stamps plus the bonus stamps add up to
enough to provide a nutritional diet, and
all benefits can be spent only on food.
If the purchased stamps are dropped,
Talmadge said, there is no assurance the
cash saved will not be switched to other
family bills.
If Congress moves to drop the pur
chase requirement. Talmadge said he'll
push his own alternative. It would ex
tend the existing stamp program for one
year beyond its scheduled Sept. 30 ex
piration date.
the nation's 10 biggest steel. companies
and is likely ,to 15e extanded to 180,000
more workers in other steel plants. It
was negotiated under an agreement that
banned a nationwide strike and called
instead for arbitration of any issues not
resolved at the bargaining table.
While the contract includes what was
described as "a major step" toward
lifetime job security, it is far short of
retiring Steelworkers president I.W.
Abel's goal proclaimed at the start of
negotiations, of "a job for life with a
decent, respectable income for life."
Government economists said this is
the area they will examine most
carefully because the benefits are likely
to be copied in other industries. The
telephone workers begin bargaining for
500,000 workers later this year and also
have made job and income security a
key goal. .
Steelworkers ' will receive beefed-up
pensions and increased supplemental
jobless benefits, which are provided on
top of regular unemployment insurance.
Earlier retirement was, provided for
workers after age and years of service
add up to 65, so long as they have 20
years seniority in the mills. The early
retirees will be entitled to a $3OO monthly
bonus if they have been forced out by
disability or extended layoffs.
officials have said
Discussing proposals to change requirements in
the food stamp program, Ammerman said some
students fit into the category of needing food stamps.•
because they cannot afford to spend much money on
food.
"The proposal will apply the (proposed) stan
dards to everybody. •If the student meets the stan
dards, he can get the food stamps," he said.
On the matter of federal aid to students,
Ammerman said the cost of a college education
today requires a substantial amount of support from
the government in the form of grants and loans.
"In the past, this was sort of a scholarship prize
situation I think it's a necessity now," Ammer
man said. He indicated he would look into the matter
and support other congressmen's proposals.
Discussing energy problems, Ammerman said the
country would have to utilize coal. He also said,
however, that he would not support strip-mining on
federal forest lands. All of the federal forest land in
Pennsylvania is in the 23rd District, he said.
Ammerman said a bill is in committee that would
establish a national strip-mining law. He added that
he believes Pennsylvania's strip-mining law is
adequate and that imposing a national law on the
state law would require the state to "do the whole
thing over again." He said he was working to
exempt Pennsylvania from the law.
The Congress recently defeated the common situs
bill, which would allow a single Nlldiirg trades
union to close down a construction site even though
its dispute might be with only one subcontractor at
the project. Ammerman voted against the bill.
"The great majority of people in the district were
Need seen for local
rehabilitation program
By RICH ZIEMBA
Collegian Staff Writer
Drug and alcohol therapists and
educators are high on Centre County's
counseling services, but they believe
there is a need for a, comprehensive
detoxification and rehabilitation
program. .
Steven Winger, director of Counseling
Service's Inc., Bellefonte, said the county
needs a detoxifibation program.
Winger said Counseling Services Inc.,
a non-profit mental health and family
service agency, must send patients to
Philipsburg Hospital for detoxification.
"I would like to see Mountainview
Hospital administer detoxification," he
said, "and then we would follow up with
rehabilitation."
Deborah Cooke, drug and alcohol
community educator for the Centre
County Base Service Unit, said the
county needs a formalized detoxification
program.
However, she added, the county's drug
and alcohol program is, young and an
effective detoxification program would
take time. - .
Dr. Guy Pilato, a psychiatrist at the
Mental Health Center; said Centre
County needs a place for detoxification
service.
"Although the hospital approach is
perhaps not the best treatment," he said,
"I am in favor of Mountainview having
crisis intervention."
Pilato said Centre County has greatly
improved its crisis intervention services
mainly through the work of On Drugs,
Inc. .
Sam Hargrave, planner-evaluator for
On Drugs, said 24-hour crisis in
tervention is On Drugs' most important
service.
"Our main purpose is to deal with
emergencies," he said. ,
The emergency service includes over
the-phone counseling and advice and an
emergency dispatch service that sends
staff members to an emergency scene.
On Drugs also offers a free drug
analysis program and conducts drug
education workshops free of charge for
interested groups.'
Hargrave said On Drugs offers short
term, confidential counseling for people
who currently have a drug or alcohol
problem.
"We help people who are already
users," he said, "but the counseling is
only a supportive mechanism."
"The people with problems have to try
to help themselves," he said.
On Drugs' services do not include long
term counseling or rehabilitation, but
they do provide a refer,ral service to
other agencies.
Included in the referral system are:
the Mental Health Center, Counseling
Services Inc., Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Dußois Hospital Detoxification
Unit.
Hargrave said that while he favors a
detoxification program in Centre
County, a system to reach people in the
outlying areas is equally important.
"Services are not evenly distributed in
Centre County," he said.
Cooke, whose primary job is commun
ity ,education, said the outlaying area is
not served because of a lack of money.
"Most rural counties haye a money
problem," she said. "Last year the Base
Service Unit received no additional
allocations because of inflation."
Cooke said the county also needs more
therapists and Winger of the Counseling
Service agreed.
"We need more workers in the area
because of the time, needed to
rehabilitate a drug or alcohol user,"
Cooke said.
The Counseling Service provides out
patient counseling, psychiatric
evaluation and in-patient rehabilitation
primarily for alcohol users.
"Eighty per cent of our clients are
alcohol users although a lot of them mix
drugs," Winger said. '
The Mental Health Center, located in
Boucke, serves students who are just
starting to use drugs or alcohol, ac
cording to Pilato.
He said heavily addicted students are
referred to an agency, such as On Drugs.
Dr. Dave Brown, also from the Ment4
Health Center, said anyone with a drug
crisis is sent to Danville Hospital
because Philipsburg and Dußois
Hospitals are just for alcohol-related
cases.
Brown said he favors a comprehensive
program that includes detoxification
and a halfway house.
Hargrave agreed, saying a program
for getting drug users back to a normal
way of life is lacking in Centre County.
However, Brown said, the new
programs always are responsive to the
political and economic scenes.
At a recent meeting of the Centre
Community Hospital's Board of
Trustees, board member Jack E.
Branigan said there are plans to provide
psychiatric and addictive care at Moun
tainview.
However, he said, the scope of the
needs is difficult to envision.
"We don't have a total grasp on the
needs," Branigan said.
tax shelter
opposed to that bill," he said.
Ammerman said it is unfortunate that so many
people turn to the federal government rather than
local or state government for solving problems.
"A lot of people just assume that everything is
done in Washington Washington can't do
everything," he said. "Government becomes much
less personal, much more subject to the whims of
bureaucrats, the farther it is removed from the
people it deals with."
He cited a Pennsylvania mayor who wrote to him
about a problem with the allocation of natural gas by
the Public Utilities Commission.
"The Public Utilities Commission is in
Harrisburg," Ammerman said.
He said he supported President Carter's economic
proposals, including the increased aid for public
works projects. He added, however, that he didn't
think the tax structure could be changed this year.
He said the rebate Carter has proposed is the
fastest way of putting money into the economy.
On his own political beliefs, he said, "I'm a
Democrat not only by inheritance, but by belief. But
I'm also a middle-of-the-roader in that I don't think
the answer to everything is to spend money."
Ammerman said his first impression of
Washington was that unless work and activity is
organized, "it could overwhelm you."
"There's so much going on that there were a
couple of times in the beginning I thought I was in a
spin dryer," he said.
Aside from serving on the House Administrative
Committee, Ammerman is a member of the House
Agricultural Committee and three of its sub
committees.