When the lights went out in East last night, Gershon Hoffer (4th-food service,
housing and administration) took to the halls of second floor Geary in search of
emergency lights to study by. Like New York's power outage last week, the
blackout was caused by inclement weather lightning for short.
Electric blackout
East, downtown
A power failure, apparently caused
by a passing electrical storm, kept
East Halls in darkness from 8:20 p.m.
until 9:16 p.m., according to a
UniverAity maintenance authority.
The power could not be restored as
promptly to Eastview Terrace, an
apartment complex on campus,
because that building is fed by West
Penn Power Company, he said.
Begin offers detailed Mideast peace plan
WASHINGTON ( AP) Prime
Minister Menahem Begin of Israel
presented President Carter yesterday
with a comprehensive Middle East
peace plan that calls for broad Israeli
withdrawals in Sinai and the Golan
Heights and establishment of a
semiautonomous Arab civil ad
ministration on the west bank of the
Jordan River, sources said.
Begin left the detailed proposal for
Carter to consider after the leaders held
their initial two-hour meeting at the
White House.
The Israeli plan also suggested
reconvening the Geneva conference in
the fall with sub-committees set up to
deal with the details of settlements on all
three fronts, the sources said.
Hot and humid
Just another hot day. Hazy, hot, and
humid today, high 90. Warm and humid
tonight, low 70. Hazy, hot, and humid
again tomorrow with a chance of a
thundershower late in the day, high near
90.
Preachers 'doing God's work,' seekin
By WAYNE JOHNSON
Collegian Staff Writer
Bro Cope and Steve Michaels have been
preaching in front of Willard for 12 weeks both
came here from different parts of the country; both
say they're here to do what the Lord sent them to do.
Cope, a former Marine who graduated from Penn
State in 1972 and returned to State College 14 months
ago, said he gave up a $16,000 job as a systems
programmer for Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia to
preach.
' Michaels said he studied the Scriptures after
being discharged from the army, and came to State
College last September to preach.
"God wanted us to do his work," Cope said, and he
showed them that he wanted his church restored in
State College.
Revival re-energizes old ideas, Cope said, while
they preach restoration to correct faults and restore
power and respect to the church of God.
They realize other religions won't accept this,
Michaels said, only those Christians who are sin
cere.
Cope said he used to attend church in State
College, but the Lord brought him out and never led
him back in.
Many religious organizations are built around a
worldly authority structure which is not Scriptural,
and they refuse to submit to it, said Cope.
- "The Scriptures say if you're a friend to the world
,you're opposed to God," Cope said.
"Many of the churches are trying to hold on to the
world and serve God, but it can't be done," said
Cope. .
Though they're accused of splitting religion into
more factions, the time has come for the separating
of the church by God, Cope said.
They preach on campus to communicate the issue
to the students and to further explain their beliefs,
Michaels said.
' Their preaching is intended to force people to
make a clear-cut decision whether to testify to the
Problems in a Beach Creek sub
station accounted for the vast number
of people affected by the failure.
Blackouts resulted in Jacksonville,
Beach Creek and Zion.
In the State College area, E. Foster
Avenue, E. Hamilton Avenue and
Carlton House were affected, sources
at West Penn Power Company said.
There is no place in the Begin plan for
the Palestine Liberation Organization to
be represented at the peace table.
Without divulging details of the
document, Carter's spokesman, Jody
Powell, said Begin had offered proposals
that were "forward-looking and worthy
of consideration" by the Arab states.
Begin planned to outline his approach,
Which has the unanimous backing of the
Israeli cabinet, at a news conference
today.
One of the central points, according to
the knowledgable sources, is Israel's
determination to retain at least official
control of the west bank, which was won
from Jordan in the 1967 war and is
inhabited by some 600,000 Palestinians.
However, the resident Arabs would
have considerable control of their day
to-day affairs. " '
There was no immediate indication
that the proposal would get Carter's
support, let alone the endorsement of the
Arab countries or the acceptance of the
PLO, which demands nationhood for its
people.
On the other hand, Begin took a con
ciliatory view towards the Sinai and the
truth and serve God or cling to the material world,
Cope said.
People who profess to be Christians and won't
back down will always conflict• with organized
religion, which comes down hard on those who don't
conform, said Cope
They want to see the church in State College
restored, breaking all denominational walls, and
collecting all true believers with God at the head of
the church, Michaels said. _ _ _
Gilbert R. Kingsley, acting head of Campus
Crusade, said, "We agree with their basic message.
We feel their basic message is the only way to know
God is through Jesus Christ."
Their disagreement comes in their approach to
spreading their message.
"We just feel that we've been called to talk with
people on a personal, one-to-one basis," said
Gilbert.
Their are different ways of communicating the
same message, Gilbert said, and if they feel that
their preaching is God's calling, then they're doing
what's right.
Many students questioned said they believe the
two had every right to preach in froat of Willard, but
their methods are getting more negative results
than positive.
Their "fanatic" approach to preaching is turning
off more people than it's converting, said Michael
Sapper, a Penn State student.
Though some students are offended by the way
the preachers express their views, most listen but
simply leave the two alone. Some attempt to refute
their statements.
They've had few complaints, said Cope, but
several people, though not believing in their
teachings, support their right to openly express
their opinions
They have seen several people dedicate them
selves to God, said Cope, and they have a small
group of followers who meet regularly to pray and
counsel each other.
Budget
HARRISBURG (AP) The legislative conference
committee approved a budget yesterday that would
increase the state's 2 per cent income tax to 2.3 per cent
and remove sales tax exemptions from household
items.
. The corporate net income tax would go from 9.5 to 11
per cent.
The increases total about $3BB million and would pay
for a budget that maintains state' services and prevents
any layoffs, committee members said.
Votes in both houses are expected either today or ,
tomorrow.
After the budget is passed, the House will start work
on a separate bill to increase the taxes.
Senate and House leaders said the new proposal
should pass.
"We're as close to it now (a final budget) as we have
been at any point," said committee chairman Henry
Messinger, Democratic Senator from Lehigh County.
"We'll come very close in the Democratic caucus to
HARRISBURG (AP) Those who know Senate
Democratic ,floor leader . Tom Nolan say they weren't
surprised when he refused to sign the budget proposal
this week.
He was just being his usual unpredictable self.
In a twinkling of an eye, the tough 60-year-old Irish
man can switch from advocate to critic. ,
He's been known to condemn a program one day and
embrace it the next.
In 1974, he vowed an open meetings law would never
pass his State Government Committee. After that
appeared in print, he became the bill's top supporter
and toughened it.
And just• last week, he declared he would ask the
Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional.
.Perhaps the key to his shifts of mood is'his lightning
quick temper.
When asked about his expense spending earlier this
the
daily
Golan Heights, where Israel would make
substantial pullbacks under conditions
that would provide security protection
against Arab attacks.
Subcommittees would deal with each
front. Israeli and Jordanian negotiators
would handle the west bank, an Israeli-
Egyptian committee the Sinai and an
Israeli-Syrian subcommittee the Golan
Heights.
Begin brought three Israeli maps to
the first of his three sessions with Carter
to illustrate his argument that, as he
said at an arrival ceremony, "peace is
inseparable from national security."
Meanwhile, Hatem Huseini, a PLO
spokesman, said all of Palestine should
be turned into a secular democratic
state with full rights for Jews, Moslems
and Christians.
Huseini, at a news conference in the
Arab cultural center here, charged that
"Begin has no peace plan. He has a
gimmick, as you will find out
tomorrow."
Powell said Begin and Carter were in
basic agreement to move to a recon
vened Geneva conference and to
Committee passes 0.3%
Nolan's 'contrariness' no surprise
maintain "the momentum toward
peace."
Carter and Begin spent about 15
minutes alone in the Oval Office before
moving to the Cabinet Room where they
were joined by key advisors for the rest
of the discussion.. They planned to talk
again at dinner, then hold a final
meeting today.
Carter "made it very clear" to Begin
that he will not impose a solution to the
Arab-Israeli conflict, Powell said. The
spokesman said the atmosphere was
"frank, but extremely friendly" and
essentially not a negotiating session.
Rather, he said "it was an opportunity
on both sides to present their ideas."
One key item was the question of how
the Palestinians should be represented
in any Geneva talks. Israel, backed by
the United States, opposes a seat for the
Palestinian Liberation Organization in
Geneva.
Begin's visit began with the Israeli
leader telling Carter in a welcoming
ceremony that the Jewish state intends
to guard its national security but is
committed to a settlement with its Arab
neighbors.
They are not a part of an organization, but two of
many persons coming out of the 60s drug culture
who have joined the Jesus movement and have
simply taken to the road to preach, without any
means of support, said Cope.
"Both of our lives were wrecks, and we turned our
lives over to Jesus, and he put them back together,"
said Cope.
"My wife and daughter left me, I was heavily
involved in drugs and $10;000 in debt," said Cope.
"Finally I turned to the Lord."
Cope is now living in his car, while Michaels is
living with a friend in State College.
They do not solicit, said Cope, and they refuse to
take money for preaching, though both are
unemployed.
Whenever they have a need, they simply pray and
the Lord provides it, Michaels said.
People who believe in what they're doing come up
and offer them meals, money or lodging, Cope said.
They preach because they feel the end is near,
Cope said, "and we want to prepare things for his
coming."
The restoration of Israel as a nation is a primary
sign that the world is heading for judgment, said
Michaels.
Some people have labeled them false prophets,
but the persecution they receive is a fulfillment of
the Scriptural relationship between prophets and
the world, said Michaels.
If there is no persecution there is no threat to the
devil, said Cope.
Evangelists who collect money don't love the
Lord, they love money, said Cope.
"We have no ulterior motives," said Cope, and
said they are not doing this for money, or notoriety.
Until the Lord sends them somewhere else, they'll
continue to preach in State College, until the church
is restored, Cope said.
"When the church is healthy, it can handle itself,"
said Michaels.
passing it," said Rouse Majority Leader James Man
derino, also a committee member.
The committee approved the budget 4-2.
The tax increase will mean $3O more a year for
persons making $lO,OOO.
To figure your tax, multiply your present salary by
.023.
Leaders said the increases will pretty much restore
taxes to pre-1974 levels. A general tax reduction was
passed that year.
The latest budget proposal was passed after leaders
found they could not win the needed support for a 2.6 per_
cent income tax.
A budget calling for that much revenue was approved
earlier yesterday but withdrawn four hours later when
leaders couldn't swing any votes
Democratic committee members huddled with
Senate President pro tempore Martin Murray and Lt.
Gov. Ernest Kline and decided where to cut $142 million
from the $5.6 budget.
year, he told reporters he'd no longer take questions in
person. When he and the issue cooled down the edict
was forgotten.
His attack on the Sunshine Law followed attempts
by reporters to force their way into the conference
committee room with a court order.
Nolan is not one to be pushed. He spent 30 years as a
United Auto Workers local union president and he's
used to getting his way.
He's now after increased property tax relief for senior
citizens and more money for mental health and
retardation institutions.
As a majority leader, he feels he should have some
say about the budget and its contents.
But this time, some senators say, Nolan was bypassed
by the rest of the conference committee.
Nolan would sit in the meeting and watch Chairman
Henry Cianfrani huddle with House member James
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Financial assistance
restraints imposed
University students applying for
financial aid may have to forfeit their
National Student Direct Loan
( NSDL) if they apply for a State
Guaranteed Loan (SGL), a member
of the Graduate Student Association
said yesterday.
Jesse L. McMannes, associate
director of student aid, told Alex Holt
of GSA and Grant Ackerman, USG
president, that the University student
aid office will no longer permit
students to have both NSDL and SGL
loans, in an effort to "spread the
money around."
The interest on both loans begins to
accumulate nine months after the
student leaves school, but the interest
rate on the SGL loan, funded by the
state, is 7 per cent while the interest
rate for the NSDL loan, funded by the
federal government, is 3 per cent.
Two evangelists, Bro Cope and Steve Michaels, have been preaching to students in front
of Willard for the past 12 weeks. A -1
tax increase
The proposed $225 million increase in school subsidies
was cut to $125 million, welfare grants were cut $l5
million and medical assistance $5 million. Both welfare
and medical assistance money will still be above last
year's levels though.
The small difference will be enough to swing about a
dozen Senate Democratic votes and over 50 House
Democratic votes to the budget, Messinger and Man
derino hope
One other Senate leader was not so sure, however.
"Whatever they're trying to cut in the budget, they're
just spinning their wheels," said Democratic floor,
leader Thomas Nolan.
"I see no need for an increased tax budget."
Rank and file lawmakers have been inundated with'
anti-tax mail, in some cases several hundred pieces of
mail a day to individual senators
"The taxpayers feel the well has run dry," said
James Nelson, an Allegheny County citizen visiting his
senator to complain about taxes.
Manderino and then with President pro tempore Martin
Murray.
His fire was ignited when the committee refused five
of his amendments.
Although always leaning toward holding the line on
taxes, he was willing to accept tax increases if his
concerns were met. They weren't. So he took his im
portant vote and left.
"Tom Nolan's a rebel by nature," said one senator
"He was elected and burst on the scene as a no-taxes,
hold-the-line guy," a senator said. "That's just
reemerging."
The administration no doubt doesn't forget Tom
Nolan from the last time a tax increase was pushed
through.
He was one of two senators who refused to support the
income tax. He even accused the administration of
trying to bribe him by offering his unemployed brother
a $25,000 a year state job.
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A form letter sent out to students
awarded University aid states, "It
you wish to pursue a Guaranteed
Student Loan, you should decline the
University aid offer (which includes
NSDL) and forward this declination
to the Office of Student Aid."
A spokesman for the regional office
of education in Philadelphia said that
nothing within the regulations
governing the programs says that
students cannot have both the NSDL
and SGL, but the University does
have the ability to award NSDL.
McMannes later said that things
are not yet finalized.
"A lot of people are calling but any
official word should come from Dr.
Brugel, director of student aid,"
McMannes said.
Brugel has been unavailable for
comment for the last two weeks.
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