o—The Daily Collegian Friday, June 10,1977
Pennsylvania vocational outlook sunny
There’s good news for Pennsylvania’s job
hunters this spring there is higher em
ployment, lower unemployment and more
factory jobs in the state than expected for the
summertime, a University researcher said
yesterday.
Figures show that total employment for
Pennsylvania increased by 100,000 workers,
Alice E. Warne, an economics researcher, said.
Unemployment dropped by 51,000, making the
total number of unemployed Pennsylvanians
349,000. This i,s lower than last year’s unem
ployment, Warne said.
“The significant thing about these figures is
that employment went up and unemployment
Committee probes 'beach-partying" ex-general
HARRISBURG (AP)
Parties thrown in a beach
trailer at government ex
pense by former Adjutant
Gen. Harry Mier were part of
a National Guard recruiting
effort, a former officer
testified yesterday.
“Incentives in the National
Guard are few and far be
tween. It (the trailer) was an
outstanding recruiting in
centive. We need more like it.
I even recommended to Mier
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State College: Hills Plaza • S. Atherton Street (Route 322 E.) & Branch Rd.
we put some in the Poconos,”
said Col. John McDonald of
Scranton, former director of
recruitment and retention.
McDonald testified before
the Committee on Military Af
fairs and Aeronautics, which
is holding hearings on
allegations that Mier abused
his office for personal gain.
The committee has no penal
powers and has not decided
what it will do with the in
formation it is gathering. It
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went down in spite of more people having en
tered the work force,” Warne said. “It shows a
healthy trend in the economy.”
More jobs usually open up in the spring, Warne
said, but the employment increase is “above and
beyond” what normally occurs.
Warne said there are more factory jobs than
had been anticipated, but the factory industries
were still depressed.
“The factories are pulling out of a bad period,”
Warne said.
The steel and coal industries are also picking
up, she said. The production indexes for these
industries are much improved over those of last
year.
can turn evidence over to the
state Justice Department if it
feels such action is merited.
Mier resigned March 31
following disclosures that he
used the trailer on a Delaware
beach to entertain friends and
that he arranged the sale of
clothing for personal profit.
No formal charges have been
brought against him.
The federally owned trailer
is hooked up at a military
reservation in Bethany
Men’s and
Ladies’ Jeans
Beach, Del. McDonald said he
arranged for two com
manders who had outstanding
recruiting drives to stay at the
beach for two weeks in August
1974.
He also said that the sale of
sports coats in a hallway of
the headquarters at the In
diantown Gap Military Reser
vation was similar to
programs enacted in other
states.
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Pennsylvania, a strongly industrial state, is
affected a great deal by changes in industries
like steel and coal, more so than the rest of the
nation as a whole, Warne said.
Warne said the national economy has been
doing well in seyeral sectors. Personal income of
almost every kind is advancing and six of ten
leading economic indicators relating to
manufacturing activity are rising.
Pennsylvania cannot be said to be doing any
better or worse than the nation as a whole
because of its special status as a heavily in
dustrialized state, Warne said.
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Mier owned a clothing fac
tory that produced the sports
coats purchased by guards
men.
McDonald said he placed a
sign near the rack that said:
“This is another service of
your friendly R&R recruit
ment and retention.”
“Apparently, it was very
popular because the hallway
was loaded. I bought a jacket
myself,” McDonald said.
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Group cites hospital abuses
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A
group of former mental
patients yesterday released a
previously unpublished 92-
page state report detailing
charges of beatings, con
traband and deaths at Far
view State Hospital.
The group, the Alliance for
the Liberation of Mental
Patients, opposes involuntary
psychiatric treatment and
wants the state to close the
hospital for the criminally in
sane in Wayne County.
“Our tax dollars are being
used to fund a concentration
camp,” charged alliance
member Diane ©aren at a
press conference at which
copies of the report were
handed out.
The report, a series of in-
No injuries in cycle
Police Services reported a
motorcycle operated by
Garry Lee McMarr, 1326 E.
College Ave., and a vehicle
operated by Lee William
Russler Jr., Lewistown,
collided on Shortlidge Road
June 9. McMarr was unin
jured.
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terviews, was finished in 1975
after a six-month in
vestigation by officers of the
Investigations Bureau of the
state Justice Department.
“I!m disturbed that
somebody would hand out
results of an official report,”
said Robert Savard, bureau
director. “It’s something that
shouldn’t be done.”
In the report, patients at
Farview told investigators
that they were beaten by
guards or that they saw other
patients beaten.
Some patients said that a
patient died after a beating
and others refer to unre
corded graves on the hospital
grounds. One investigator ad-
vises state police to ask an in-
Tortsten Bjalme (6th
mineral science) reported the
theft of two fire blankets from
containers near rooms 9 and
23 Mineral Science Building,
Police Services said.
Stephen Clyman, 217 Snyder
Hall, reported the theft of the
mate about an alleged mur
der. ' , «
Some Farview employees
say in the reportithat they wit
nessed patients being hit,
while others say they have no
knowledge of any mistreats
ment. •
Other parts of \ the report
contain charges that guards
received kickbacks and sup
plied patients with drugs,
liquor or contraband. V
In a cover letter to the
report, state investigations
chief Cecil Yates recom
mends improving the quality
of the Farview staff,
disciplining guards in cases oi
proven brutality and adopting!
written procedures for report]
ing injuries to guards or
patients. !
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rear wheel from his bicych
parked outside Snyder Hall
Police Services said.
State College Police report
ed the theft of two wheels!
from a bicycle at 532 E.j
College Ave. Estimated valued
was $5O. J
Weis Markets, Westerly]
Parkway, received a $69;
forged check May 30. John 1 ;
Gorman, owner of the check,:
had lost it earlier in May at;
Stone Valley, State College'
Police said. Don Foster
Collegian notes;
The Nutrition Clinic, 243'
Ritenour, is open to assist
pie in weight control, vegetar.
ian diet evaluations and any.,
other areas concerning food
Summer hours are 6:30-9:3(<
p.m. Tuesday, 2-5 p.m
Wednesdays and 9-12 a.m
Thursdays.
The Penn State Internation,
al Soccer Club for men ant
women will hold a practicd
session 1 p.m. Saturday ir,j
Pollock field.
Park West Manor orienta,
tion will be held 7 p.m. Mon,
day in 323-24 HUB.
Students interested iij,
meeting foreign students anil;
helping them with conversa j
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Language Testing Center, 30 .j,
Sparks, or call 865-7365. , .! j
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