Ift CDITIOft WtJ?", s> ;'r ? *vt'/. '’X f> ; > , < 'V ■* <'/ > If it was under my nose, I’d know! " There’s an old rule that says the best place to hide something is in a , place so obvious no one would think to look for it there. Police Services have learned that „ little trick the hard way. “ Last Monday, David Hironimus, a .« University landscaping employee, Now for something completely different Do you like to make faces at people on a bus? Do you like to stand facing , the back of elevator cars? Have you ever considered asking your calculus ■professor a question like, “Is war . ever just?” in the middle of a class? ' If so, Free U has the course for you. This term’s Free University course guide lists, among several rather original courses, a “creative -So Why can’t I pay the tuition? The May issue of “Changing students with summer jobs earn an Times” magazine reports that Penn average of $1,500 during the summer • State students rank second highest in second only to Augustana College in earnings from , summer jobs com- South Dakota whose working students pared to other college students in the earn an average $1,750 a summer country. ‘ • The magazine drew their con- However, on the average about 41 elusions from information supplied P er , , a student body from eighty-two “large and small, works; only 33 per cent of the Penn public and private, urban and rural” State student body works. colleges and universities across the All we have to figure out now is, country. , what in the world could they be doing According to the survey, Penn State in South Dakota? /Another reason to park with a friend In their May meeting, the Presently at University Park, a University Trustees approved, student can park all term in parking among other things, plans for the lot 80 for ten dollars. At that rate, you construction of a parking lot for 125 could pay off a 125 space, $119,500 student cars at Penn State’s York parking lot in 23.9 years, campus at an estimated cost of That’s a lot of time, and for that $119,500. , . amount of money per space it might That works out to $948 per parking be easier to buy 125 used cars, space to be covered by student But then, where would they park parking fees. them? Australia! Australia! Australia! Ever have a sudden urge to drop all trade your ’7O VW for a Land Rover to your books and take off to the tour the mysterious Outback? Australian wilderness? Have you Face it, practically none of us have ever been seized by a sudden desire to ever felt like that, but if any of us ever should, the HUB information desk is ready. Weather Here’s'a chance to get a good start on class assignments as indoor studying weather continues. Today we’ll have variable cloudiness, breezy and cool with a high of 65. Partly cloudy and cool tomorrow night low near 45. An improvement for. the weekend, however, with mostly sunny and warmer weather Saturday, high 70. The outlook for Sunday: Partly sunny and warmer. GOP names commissioner nominee i I By FRED LANCASTER . Collegian Staff Writer Russell 0. Spicher, 59, was nominated Wed ! nesday night by the Centre County Republican •{ Committee to succeed J. Doyle Corman as i county commissioner. Corman vacated his seat .when he was elected to the State Senate May 17. .! Spicher’s nomination must be approved by ■\ .Common Pleas Court Judge Paul R. Campbell, ■i who can accept or reject the 1 recommendation. The new commissioner cannot | be a Democrat because state law prohibits one I party from occupying all three seats. Corman w was the lone Republican commissioner. Names of the other thirteen applicants were not released. Ruth Meyers, Centre County ; Republican committee vice chairman, said: | “In a community the size of Centre County, * most of the applicants would know the others who applied. This could create tensions among |ldi Amin at home, threatens Britons I NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) Uganda’s j President Idi Amin yesterday ended his game of international hide-and-seek with the British i Commonwealth, admitting it was all a hoax to f disguise what he said was a secret meeting with VJf African revolutionaries. ’! Radio Uganda also announced that an un named Briton had been arrested on spying < charges during Amin’s absence and “will be . ex ecuted by firing squad if found guilty. ’ ’ 1 The report increased fears that Amin, who j Coo! weather a phenomenon I? The unseasonably cool and overcast weather rfthat has plagued the State College area for the ~past several days is not just a local phenomenon !|but is the general pattern throughout the north 'n? Stern United States, said meteorologists at i'the University weather station. j The temperature fell to 39 degrees Tuesday |morning, only three degrees from the record low *: -:0?'r #4®&i sxsig^ p ''t £ w Along - with footballs, frisbees, softball bats, .'softballs, and volleyballs, the HUB desk also carries one genuine Sportcraft boomerang. As of yet, there are no kangaroos on campus that you can hunt with the boomerang, but considering the HUB desk, it’s probably just a matter of time. discovered (and turned in) a marijuana plant he found growing outside the Police Services offices in the Grange building. So the next time you discover your own personal stash running a little low, remember an old rule. silliness” class. The course is geared for “simple minded public absurdity” and lists as a prerequisite a fondness for “slapstick, Woody Allen and Monty Python.” If this starts a trend, who knows? We might start seeing classes like “Buffoonery 202” or maybe “Clown Ed. 490.” Mark Van Dine those who applied. The nominated could be in a precarious position.” The eight members of the selecting committee were chosen by Republican Committee County Chairman Eugene M. Fulmer. A geographical balance was attempted in choosing the panel members, who were: Meyers, chairman, of Beech Creek, Hubert Shirk and Jerome McCrea, both of State College, Edward Agostinelli of College Township, Bonnie McCormick of Patton Township, Robert McNichol of Bellefonte, William Campbell of Centre Hall, Earl May of Benner Township, and James Potts of Phillips burg: According to "its press release the panel felt a successful business background with fiscal and management skills was the most important asset sought in an applicant. Emotional balance, the ability to handle controversy and accept criticism, was required. The release also stated the appointee must barred 300 Britons from leaving Uganda on Wednesday, might follow through on his threat to do “something serious” against the Britons. The radio also accused other unnamed Britons of “subversive activities.” The Radio broadcast a series of vague war nings in which Amin thanked France for helping him carry out his hoax, told France to stop helping Britain, appealed to Britain to reopen its embassy in Kampala, warned that anyone Who bought British goods did so “at their own-risk” of 36 degrees. Throughout the northeast 80 to 100 year old low temperature records were broken. The temperature then struggled Tuesday to a high of only 55 degrees during the daylight hours, making it the coldest June 7 in State College on record. Weather records for the State College area have been kept for 90 years. Meanwhile, the southwestern part of the United States is sweltering in 90 degree weather. the daily Bill faces House opposition Senate votes lower drinking age The State Senate voted Wednesday 27 to 21 to lower the drinking age for all alcoholic beverages to 19. J. Doyle Corman, newly elected State Senator from the 34th district, voted for the bill. The bill now goes to the House Liquor Control Committee which has a new chairman, James Barber, who is op posed to the bill. Rep. Helen Wise, however, said that she thinks the bill will Movin' Excavation continues for the new track and field complex just south of Beaver Stadium Union to hold forum Teamsters By DAVE SKIDMORE Collegian Staff Writer After an 8-hour negotiating session Wednesday Teamsters Union Local 8 will take a new wage package back to its membership for a strike vote June 30, a University spokesman said. A two-thirds majority vote of union members is required to reject the offer and' initiate a strike. Nearly 2,000 food service, maintenance and technical University employees are union members. Both the University and Teamsters consider the position of county commissioner of prime importance; decision-making should not be colored by conflict of interest. Another quality strongly weighed by the panel was the ability to sift through different points of view in making fair judgments, according to the release. Although all registered Republicans in Centre County were allowed to submit resumes, no ■women or University students applied. Spicher, a self-employed businessman, has been precinct chairman of the party since 1957. He served as Spring Township auditor for 16 years, first by appointment by Judge Campbell and twice elected by write-in vote. Spicher is a director and vice president of the Pleasant Gap Water Company and a director and secretary of the board of the First National Bank of Centre Hall. If his nomination is confirmed by Campbell, Spicher would serve the remaining two and one half years of Corman’s term. and said he was going on a honeymoon. The bizarre mystery of Amin’s whereabouts began three days ago when Uganda Radio an nounced that the unpredictable dictator was en route to London to gate-crash the Com monwealth Conference from which he had been excluded. He was reported aboard a borrowed military jet flying over Dublin, Brussels and Paris and later was reported to have stopped in a “friendly African country” to plan his arrival in London. Earlier yesterday, the radio said that Amin actually Had arrived in London and coupled that news with the warning he would do “something serious” against the Britons in Uganda unless the 6-foot-4, 250-pound dictator was carried shoulder high through the streets of London. Britain immediately denied that Amin was in Britain and Prime Minister James Callaghan said he believed Amin had never left Kampala. Hours later, Kampala Radio announced that Amin was back in Uganda from a secret meeting he had with “top revolutionary military officers from Tanzania and Zambia” held on the border between Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. Collegian Friday, June 10,1977 “ Vol. 78, No.' 2 16 pages •'sylvanlr reach the floor of the House quickly, perhaps in the next few weeks. Last month Wise told the Collegian that while many Philadelphia and Pittsburgh legislators had thought lowering the drinking age would in crease violence in their areas, there was now significant support from these representatives. Although the State Senate also passed a bill to lower the drinking age in its 1975- officials refused to disclose details of the offer or the recommendations of the Teamsters negotiating team to union members until Local 8 informs its members of the offer. Local 8 president Jane Pikovsky said she would release more information after the union meets 7:30 tonight at the 1.0.0. F. Hall on College Avenue. No further negotiating sessions are scheduled before the strike vote is taken. After the last negotiating session, union officials said a strike seemed tonight to vote on wage offer Carter energy proposals dealt a 'stunning blow' WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House Ways and Means Committee dealt President Carter’s energy program a major blow yesterday by voting down his gasoline tax and severely abbreviating his “gas-guzzler” auto tax. The committee voted 27 to 10 to kill Car ter’s proposal for a gasoline tax that would have come in five-cent amounts each year that gasoline consumption failed to meet conservation goals. Members voted 25 to 11 against a com promise, one-time three-cent tax for 1978. Earlier yesterday, the committee voted 24 to 13 for Carter’s idea of taxing fuel inefficient cars, but not before putting the effective date off for a year and considerably weakening the tax on 1979 and subsequent models. It also voted 31 to 5 to kill the rebate that Carter wanted buyers of efficient cars to get. In debate on the gasoline tax, Rep. Jim Guy Tucker, D-Ark., said, “There should be some good conservation justification. How much are we going to save and who is going to bear the burden?” He said the poor and people in rural states with long driving distances would be hurt the most. Carter proposed to return the gasoline tax in the form of income tax rebates at the end of the year. Opponents said that combination would not save appreciable amounts of fuel, which is the main idea of the Carter program. Rep. Abner Mikva, D-111., summarized the shambles the Carter program was in: “I have a feeling that what is left would not be enough to be meaningful. The fuel-efficient car rebate has been shot down. The guzzler tax has been watered down sub stantially . . . There are not enough carrots and not enough sticks.” Mikva tried unsuccessfully to persuade the committee to tax existing cars that fail to get 6 session, it was defeated in the House 93- 100. Members of the black caucus are expected to lobby against the bill because they think it will cause com munity problems. Another bill, House bill 905, which would lower the drinking age for all alcoholic beverages to 19 is presently in the Liquor Control Committee. Since the Senate bill passed, the House bill will unavoidable, but one Teamster, a University technician, said a strike was unlikely because most maintenance and food workers were satisfied with their pay, while most skilled workers were not. He said the skilled workers do not have enough votes to carry a strike. The University and Local 8 signed a two-year contract last fall, but the contract had a one-year re-opening clause for wages and surgical benefits. The contract will expire June 30 unless an agreement is reached. C. Rodney Knepp, secretary-treasurer University Park, Pennsylvania Published by Students of ThePennsylvanla State University stay there and the committee will work on the Senate bill. If this bill fails, it is unlikely the House bill will pass either. Undergraduate Student Government president Grant Ackerman said, “Our efforts now will be to prepare for the bill when it goes to the House.” He said USG will continue its campaign to encourage students to write their congressmen. of Local 8 said Tuesday that an agreement on surgical benefits had already been reached. The only issue that remained to be discussed on Wednesday was wages, he said. Last fall a majority of union members voted to strike, however, the vote fell 84 short of the required two-thirds. The union officers had recommended ac ceptance of the contract. The union voted overwhelmingly to reject the University’s first offer last fall after the officers recommended rejection. a certain fuel mileage. Amid charges by Rep. Bill Frenzel, R-Minn., that the idea is “fairly absurd . . . totally unworkable” and unfair, Mikva withdrew his idea. Carter’s original gas-guzzler proposal lost on a 23-14 vote, but the committee then passed a compromise far short of his goals. Chairman A 1 Ullman, D-Ore., said the compromise was a reasonable way to en courage Americans to buy more fuel efficient cars, without "disruptions and unemployment” through higher taxes and possibly lower car sales generally. Rep. Otis Pike, D-N.Y., said, “I don’t think we are getting anywhere. We should be biting bullets and we are gumming marsh mallows.” Carter’s proposed rebate was killed 31 to 5. He would have given the buyer of a 1978 model rated at 20 miles a gallon an $B9 rebate, for example. A 1985 model rated at 38.5 would get a $493 rebate. Carter’s tax plan wanted 1978 models, which come out in a few months, to be taxed on how far they fell short of gas mileage standards that are already in law. A 1978 car getting at least 18 miles to the gallon would have escaped the tax. By 1985 models, the Carter tax would fall on any car not getting at least 27.5 miles per gallon. By then the tax would have been $2,488 on the worst offenders. What's Inside Editorial Temple tuition rally Festival Theatre Lawyer-Judge relations Baseball Football planning Washington News World News National News ".... Photo by Patrick Uttta
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