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Borough water supply adequate
The State College Water Authority has
more than enough water to supply all of
its customers in the near future, a State
College Chamber of Commerce official
said yesterday.
. Speaking at a chamber Area
,Development Committee meeting,
chairman Arthur Rose said the water
authority will soon relax restrictions on
'ihe installation of new water lines, but
reports on the long range water supply
: are not available yet.
Money needed for the drilling of new
ells, Rose said, will be the key factor in
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who brought you...
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until further notice), you get one for
the price of two,
That's right: starting 3ulSl 1 you
can get an official copy of your
transcript for $2 (previously $1) and
an unofficial copy for only 50 cents
( previously 25 cents).
Available at 101 Shields building, or
call, ,
The groiand floor exit to the East
Unit of Pattee Library will be closed
l , or the summer.
So don't use it.
The crook giveth
and taketh away
Just about any major poll on the
subject will tell you that crime in our
country is spreading.
That may be true for the inner city,
but for State College, although things
aren't perfect, they are looking
better.
Case in point: Roy Smith, who lives
at 2848 S. Atherton St., had his 5-speed
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evaluating the long-term water supply
for State College.
On July 1, the State College Water
Authority will absorb Patton Township's
water system, but the system must be
upgraded and will not add significantly
to State College's water supply.
The committee also considered the
installation by West Penn Power
Company of a 230,000-volt power line
from Milesburg to Shingletown to
replace or supplement the present 46,000
volt line.
Shingletovn substation, which powers
western Centre County, is presently
Schwinn bicycle stolen from his house
sometime during the second week of
June.
But the story doesn't end there.
Instead of just stealing his bike and
leaving Roy without any tran
sportation other than his feet, the
thief left an old, junked-up bicycle
where the other bike had been.
It wasn't exactly a fair trade, but it
does give the thieves in State College
a more compassionate image.
Knock three times
on the ceiling
Code enforcement officers lead
interesting lives.
Consider the case - of the officer
who, according to Free Lance, a
School of Journalism publication, ran
into a landlord who had converted his
'basement into apartments with 5-foot
ceilings.
He said he planned to rent to short
Asian students.
Another landlord tried to rent a
basement - apartment in which the ,
sewage pipe ran above the floor.
Instead of lowering the pipe, he
decided to build a toilet with steps.
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10-meter hoard and prepares for entry
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connected to a 230,000-volt line from the
Pennsylvania Power and Light com
pany, and Milesburg's substation, which
powers eastern Centre County, is con
nected to a 138,000-volt, line from
Ridgeway.
The 46,000-volt line is becoming less
reliable as more facilities tap the line,
according to Fred Sovyak, a West Penn
Power representative, and small voltage
problems have already begun to occur.
Growth projections of State College,
Sovyak said, predict the present line will
reach its capacity in 1978-79.
In another part of Free Lance, an
editor's column called "In addition"
appears.
The editor, R. Thomas Berner,
assistant professor or journalism,
said he wrote the column as a chance
to use a pun.
He should have called it "In
remission," in apology for a bad pun.
We didn't know
he indulged
Quote of the Week: Bill Cluck,
president of the Penn State
Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws at the organization's
last meeting, after saying he had met
with leading political figures: "I
didn't get to meet Dr. Oswald he's
too high for me."
Thanks for the
memories. Right?
A student government is important,
right? To become involved in an
organization run by students and
Brezhnev garners Soviet
presidency, gains stature
See the wire digest on page 10 for re
sults of other European elections.
MOSCOW (AP) Soviet Communist
party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev took
over that nation's presidency yesterday
to become the first top Soviet official to
combine the power of party chief with
the dignity and honor of president.
In the biggest Kremlin power shuffle
since Nikita S. Khrushchev was ousted
13 years ago,. the Soviet parliament
removed Nikolai V. Podgorny from the
largely ceremonial office of president by
unanimous vote and gave it to Brezhnev.
Podgorny, Brezhnev and Premier
Alekei N. Kosygin made up the troika
leadership that took over from Khrush
chev in 1964. In recent years, however,
real control of the country has centered
more and more around Brezhnev.
In St. Georges, Grenada, where he
attended a meeting of the Organization
of American States, U.S. Secretary of
Something to croak about
County vote fraud discovered
Elmer Toad lives at 924-B Walnut St., State College. Elmer
Toad is registered to vote in Centre County. Elmer Toad
received an absentee ballot this spring. Elmer Toad toes not
exist.
Donald A. Asendorf and Edward J. Todd, both of State
College, wanted to show everyone how easy it is to defraud the
voter registration system. They procured an absentee ballot
for an Elmer Toad using Todd's address, then, afterwards
they wanted to make it public to point out the weaknesses in
the system.
Asendorf, the Centre County controller, said he and Todd
were not sure how to release what they had done. Then one day
Paul Dobbs of the Pennsylvania Mirror was in his office and
they decided to give the story to him.
The plan seems to have backfired. The state officials were
not impressed, the county solicitor doesn't know what to do
and legal action may result from the fraud.
In a letter released Tuesday State Secretary' C. DeLores
Tucker asked that the county commissioners investigate the
Toad affair for possible violations of voter registration and
mail fraud laws. Tucker said she wished to be`notified of what
action the county takes.
Tucker said that the phony mail registration form and the
subsequent request for an absentee ballot are misdemeanors
punishable by a fine of up to $lOO, imprisonment of up to five
years and a loss of voting rights for ten years.
Furthermore, the state is not any happier just because there
was no criminal intent, or because Elmer Toad never actually
cast his ballot.
In order for there to be postal fraud the law says that either
money or property must be obtained by the defrauder. If the
Post Office sees it that way, Asendorf and Todd will only have
to worry about the commissioner of elections.
Sally Kagen, acting commissioner of elections for the state,
Religious work breaks denied
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme
Court ruled yesterday that employees
don't have a legal right to take a day off
, from work for religious reasons.
The case involved a Trans World
Airline worker who wanted to take
Saturdays off for religious reasons. But
the court said that to require TWA to
give the employee Saturdays off when
his seniority did not afford him that
privilege would "involve unequal
treatment of employees on the basis of
their religion."
Specifically, the court's 7-2 decision
held that employers are not required to
give an employee certain days off to
accommodate religious beliefs when a
union seniority system stands in the way
or when the accommodation would
result in preferential treatment for that
worker.
The result is a legal setback for the
millions of persons throughout the nation
whose religions dictate that they not
work on particular days of the week. It
designed to serve them certainly says
something for your personal
character and abilities, right?
Well, your average Joe Campus
might think so, but apparently, some
folks who have done it don't.
Joe Seufer and W.T. Williams, both
USG presidents, (Joe for the '75-'76
school year and W.T. for the '76-'77
school year), graduated last term,
but in the yearbook, neither listed
being a USG president as one of their
extracurricular activities.
Joe did list the Racquetball Club as
an activity and W.T. listed the Vet's
Club.
Old presidents never die, they just
seem to forget.
—Mark Van Dine and
Dave Skidmore
Oh where,
• Imagine a dog with wings, flying
through the air, building a nest,
digging for worms (imagine the
holes!), and in general doing
everything that a bird would do.
That, you'll admit, would be a
problem.
The real problem isn't quite so bad
as that, but it's close.
Recently, Municipal Council ap-
By JIM LIGHT
Collegian Staff Writer
oh where has my little dog gone?
State Cyrus R. Vance said Rrezhnev's
election to the presidency had been
"anticipated." and added:
I would expect relations of the Soviet
Union and the United States will con
tinue on the same course and hopefully
improve in the period ahead."
Brezhnev's assumption of the
presidency puts him on a ceremonial
level with other heads of state and will
allow him to receive the 21-gun salutes
and other honors accorded to them.
His new office, however, was not
expected to change Brezhnev's policy of
consulting with other Politburo mem
bers and governing by a form of
"collective leadership in contrast to the
one-man rule of Stalin and Khrushchev.
"I don't think the new presidency adds
ono jot to firezhnev's real power." one
Western diplomat in Moscow said, "It
does add to the dignity of his position,
has particular impact for those whose
religions observe any day other than
Sunday because American work
schedules free most persons from work
on Sunday.
A 1972 amendment that Congress
tacked on to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
orders employers to accommodate
workers' religious beliefs and practices
when such accommodation does not
involve "undue hardships" for the
employer.
Without ruling that such a law is an
unconstitutional establishment of
religion, the court's decision Thursday
effectively nullified the impact of the
1972 amendment.
In dissent, Justices Thurgood Mar
shall and William J. Brennan called the
court's action a "fatal blow" to the
government's intent of protecting
religious freedoms.
"The ultimate tragedy is that despite
Congress' best efforts, one of this
nation's pillars of strength our
proved an allocation of $8,063 to fund
a research program aimed at
figuring out how to rid the State
College area of its starlings and
blackbirds, which have been cited as •
a local nuisance and potential health
hazard.
The allocation has sparked some
controversy, and few have been more
outspoken on the matter than Ms.
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said she was alerted by the county of the Toad affair. The job
of her department• is to advise the county if the law has been
broken, she said, and to recommend an appropriate course of
action.
Kagen said yesterday if a false name was, in fact, put on a
registration form, the facts of the case should be turned over
to the district attorney. Kagen said she understands the
reason why Asendorf and Todd carried out the Toad affair, but
she said there are better ways of showing that fraud can be
committed than by committing fraud.
Kagen, who said she was speaking for the state secretary.
said that the registration system is not as weak as the Toad
perpetrators would have one believe. "The only weakness
there could be," she said, "is if cases of fraud which are found
are not followed up."
Kagen said that the real strength of the system is it involves
the federal government and there are fairly strict penalties.
She blamed the Post Office for delivering something as
important as an absentee ballot without checking that the
addressee actually lived there. She said the Post Office is not
supposed to deliver mail to mailboxes without the addressee's
name on them.
- Kagen - said she is aware of the difficulty of enforcing that
rule in State-College because of the transient nature of most of
the residents, but important documents should be delivered
with more care.
Kagen pointed out that the mail delivery policy, if adhered
to, will make the mail registration system much harder to
defraud.
The good intentions of Asendorf and Todd and the fact that
they publicized the affair themselves is not going to affect the
recommendation of the secretary of the commonwealth. "We
are not the courts," Kagen said, "it's not up to us to determine
what the intent was."
Asendorf expressed some regrets yesterday and said he
hoped that the state drops the whole thing.
hospitality to religious diversity has
been seriously eroded.
"All Americans will be a little poorer
until today's decision is erased," thetwo
justices said in an opinion written by
Marshall.
Summer weather will he here for the
next couple of days complete with high
temperatures and thunderstorms
Parth• sunny and warm today with a
high of 85 Partly cloudy tonight and
tomorrow with a few showers or thun
dershowers possible. low tonight 65. high
tomorrow WI The outlook for Sunday:
Partly sunny with the possibility of a
shower or thundershower.
Yvonne Hunter of State College.
The birds are not the real problem
in the eyes of Hunter. In her opinion,
"Council should stop chasing birds
and their imagined problems and go
after the real problem . . . dogs."
The real problem could be dogs or
birds, we're not really sure. Any way
you look at it though, it is a fairly
sticky problem.
but he will continue consulting with the
other leaders."
Brezhnev, 70, served previously as
president from 1960 to 1964 before
taking over Khrushchev's job as party
chief, and wes succeeded first by
Inastas Mikoyon and then by Podgorny.
An official announcement to . the
nation's 1,500-member parliament
yesterday morning proposed that
Podgorny, 74, be dropped from the
presidency "in accordance with his own
desire and in connection with his
retirement on pension."
The notion had been expected.
Podgorny was removed on May 24 from
the Communist party's ruling Politburo
and has not been seen in public since.
His name' ceased to be included on of
ficial documents, and he has been absent
from state functions.
He was not present yesterday to
confirm his desire to step down.
Justice Byron R. White wrote for the
majority in reversing a decision in the
Bth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that
had been won by Larry G. Hardison, a
former TWA employee at the carrier's
Kansas City maintenance shops.
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