Small.was healthy during the first
half of 1977 and inflation as
measured by the • Consumer
Price Index has slowed
somewhat after increasing at
a 10 percent annual rate
during the first three months
of 1977. ,
rise in
nation's
prices
WASHINGTON (UPI)
The nation's economy was
"strong and well-balanced"
, during the second quarter,
rowing at a 6.4 per cent
annual rate, the' Commerce
► Department said yesterday.
In a separate report, the
f) Labor Department said the
prices consumers pay at the
grocery store and other retail
outlets rose a "moderate" 0.6
r i'aer cent, matching the lowest
K increases of the year in May
P I and March.
The two governinent
1 7 economic reports confirmed
~ p!lmiiiistration projections
Vf that the economic growth rate
Carter heads home
for 'town meetings'
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (UPI) After six months in office,
6 President Carter was back on the campaign trail yesterday,
,jtelling an audience in his native deep South that battling
unemployment and inflation remain his major priorities.
Carter held his second mock town meeting in a sweltering
high school auditorium, keeping a campaign pledge to meet
with the people and answer their questions.
"We've had kind of a mixed bag in our first six months in
office," Carter told a young man who asked the President if he
' felt he had carried out his campaign promises since taking
office Jan. 20.
k i "I'm pleased overall —so far I like the job," he 'said with a
smile. Then turning serious, he said: "We still have high
A o unemployment . . . and the inflation rate is still too high."
Mall banners stolen
University police reported unknown ,persons took five
overhead banners from the campus mall Monday.
Estimated value was $250. ,
State College police reported that $140.58 was taken
from the Ceramic Finishing Company of State College,
1160 Oneida St., between July 17-20.
University police reported an unknown person threw a
M-80 firecracker from Tener Hall onto the roof of Fisher
Hall. No damages were reported.
University police reported unknown persons broke into
a candy machine in the coatroom of the Materials
Research Building main lobby yesterday. Estimated
damage is unknown this time.
Correction
Alt was incorrectly reported there might be a further in-
Wednesday in The Daily crease if taxes are not raised.
Collegian that GSA president Also, the report on graduate
Trish Morrison said there student status on campus was
would be a $4l tuition increase reported as having been sent
for graduate students. •to President Oswald —it will
Actually, this is in effect now; be sent soon.
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"Economic growth in the
second quarter was strong
and well-balanced," said
Courtenay Slater, chief
economist for the Commerce
Department.
"Unlike the first quarter,
when the GNP rise was
heavily concentrated in'motor
vehicle purchases and
business inventories, second
quarter growth was spread
among almost all major GNP
components."
Mrs. Slater said residential
construction' showed a par
ticularly strong increase in
the second quarter and gov
ernment purchases showed
`isignificant gains" for the
first time since mid-1975.
Although the 6.4 per cent
growth was considered
healthy, it fell below
projections by administration
economic officials who
forecast an increase in the
range of 7 per cent.
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Weekend arrives, still
no state budget decision
HARRISBURG (AP) The legislative conference com
mittee adjourned for the weekend yesterday without reaching
any decision on a new state budget.
The six-man panel met with Revenue Secretary Milt Lopus
and Welfare Secretary Frank Beal yesterday and asked about
revenue estimates and where budget cuts could be made.
The committee questioned Lopus about $lO million set aside
by the Revenue Department to pay potential tax refunds
stemming from a court case.
House Majority Leader James Manderino said his 'staff
found no cases where utilities affected by the court case have
filed for refunds.
"We - see it as a contingent liability we have to budget for,"
Lo . pus said later.
Beal was asked if cash grants and medical assistance could
take cuts. He said the two programs could use $5O million
more than proposed to make it through the fiscal year.
He said the cash assistance rolls have stayed high this year
instead of dropping in the spring. The rolls went from 157,000
in March to 254,600 in June, he said.
✓aworski to chair Korean probe
WASHINGTON (AP)
Former Special Watergate
prosecutor Leon Jaworski,
named to direct the House
investigation of alleged
Korean influence-buying, said
yesterday he would resign the
post if he is hindered in
carrying out the probe.
"If I feel a roadblock has
been put in the way of a
complete investigation, I
would not hesitate to resign
Angolan forces routed in border fight
WINDHOEK, South West Africa (UPI) Pro-Western
guerrillas firing rockets, mortars and machine guns routed
Angolan forces from the southern Angola border town of
Cuangar, tribal authorities and refugees reported yesterday.
More than 100 Angolan troops died, and hundreds of others
deserted and sought refuge across the border in South West
Africa to escape guerrillas roaming the jungle, South African
officers said.
Radio South Africa reported
.from the border region that
Cuban reinforcements have been sent to three southern
Angola towns surrounded by guerrillas Rocadas, Calueque
and Periera de Eca.
The fighting erupted Wednesday morning when 200 mem
bers of the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola
Fisher Plaza concert planned
GSA will sponsor an outdoor The Penn State Association
concert featuring Round II 7-9' for the Handicapped will hold
p.m. Sunday in Fisher Plaza. a meeting to discuss a center
for the handicapped and
related issues 7:30 p.m.
Monday in 323 HUB. The
public is welcome. • •
The Gym Club will hold an
introductory meeting for
interested beginners 9:30-11
tonight in 107 White Building.
Bring old gym clothes.
and then to let the public know
why I did," Jaworski said,
indicating that he was
referring to any attempts by
congressional leaders to curb
his promised independence.
The Texas lawyer also said
he'll recommend prosecution
of any wrongdoing, no matter
who is hurt.
"If I find a crook involved in
this matter, I want to bring
him out and I want the public
feehouse- - presents , - Paul
Gallagher and Nina Fellin
The Metropolitan Com._ plus "Waupelani" 8 tonight in
munity Church will hold 102 Kern.
Unemployment in the state is contributing to the high rolls,
said Beal, who estimated 1,200 persons a month switch to cash
assistance when their unemployment compensation runs out.
• Committee chairman Sen. Henry Messinger said the staff
will get more figures from the governor's office and work
through the weekend on the budget proposal.
Rank and file lawmakers haVe rejected two proposals this
week that would have increased taxes by $529 million and $3BB
million respectively.
Leaders have indicated they must reduce the proposed tax
increase further.
Messinger said no decision has been made on whether the
committee should shoot for a no-tax budget, as some law
makers have demanded.
The proposal to increase school subsidies seems a likely
candidate for the chopping block, leaders have indicated.
The original proposal called for $225 million in increased aid
for all school districts and $42 million in postponed loan
repayments for Philadelphia schools.
to know about it," Jaworski
told a news conference in
Houston.
"It will make no difference
to me who is involved in this
matter, be they Republicans
or Democrats," he said.
Meanwhile, the House
ethics committee voted to
hire Jaworski as chief in
vestigator of the probe and
guaranteed him "full and
complete independence."
attacked the government outpost along the Kavango River,
which divides Angola and South West Africa.
Kavango tribal authorities and refugees who crossed the
fast-flowing river to safety said many soldiers of Angola's pro-
Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola died
in an ambush after the attack began.
Maj. Gen. Wally Black, commander of South African troops
here, said about 400 refugees fled Angola.
"A large percentage of the refugees who crossed the border
were supporters and troops of the MPLA," he told Radio South
Africa. •
The Johannesburg Star quoted reliable sources in the
Kavango tribal homeland as saying National Union forces
went on a rampage and killed civilians indiscriminately in
their villages.
worship services 7:30 p.m.
Sunday in Eisenhower
Chapel.
Commonsplace
That written promise was
contained in a "Memorandum
of Understanding" approved
by the committee.
Jaworski succeeded Philip
A. Lacovara, who quit the job
last week in a dispute with
Rep. John A. Flynt, D-Ga.,
chairman of the panel.
Flynt said he expects
committee hearings, possibly
public, to begin in Sep
tember on schedule.
SUMMER SALE at
the earth shoe store
Wed., July 13th to Sat.,
• All Earth
_ brand
• Shoes
• Sandals 211 w
• Boots U7O off
The Daily Collegian Friday, July 22, 1977-
Group ponders
zoning change
By ROSEMARY GARHART
Collegian Staff Writer
State College Planning Commission is considering a
proposed zoning ordinance amendment that would
require all existing off-street parking areas, loading
spaces and driveways to conform to new rules within a
year.
The amendment, discussed at last night's meeting and
in the planning stages for the last three years, calls for
landscaping at the perimeter of all parking areas and the
ratio of one shade tree to every five parking spaces.
Parking areas having more than 30 parking spaces or
exceeding , l2,ooo square feet will be required to have trees
for interior shading and raised islands.
Planning Commission Chairman Wallis Lloyd showed
slides of various areas that would be in violation of the
amendment. McDonald's.on S. Atherton Street was shown
as an example of what the amendment will require.
The amendment will require loading spaces to be
located on their respective lots. Spaces will not be per
mitted in front yards. Also, loading spaces would have to
be screened from adjacent residential areas and must be
located within 40 feet of the nearest intersection.
Commission chairman Wallis Lloyd said that Calder
Alley would be an exception to the loading space
provision:since it would destroy the recent' development
there.
"The Calder Way development is getting along well
without it," Lloyd said.
Commission m4mber James Delesie suggested an
amendment section on a compact car zone that would
require parking lots to devote an area to compacts in
order to allow for more parking spaces.
Commission member Carol M. Herrmann said that a
transportation study done for State College showed that 40
per cent of the cars in State College are compacts.
Lloyd said that the planning commission has tried to
apply regulations to existing lots so it will not be im
possible to meet the ordinance's requirements.
"The motor vehicle is the single most difficult problem
of the planning commission," Lloyd said.
He said that he commission wants input from all parts
of the community on the proposed amendment.
UMW election in doubt
WASHINGTON (AP) won the June 14 union elec-
Arnold Miller staved off a tion.
challenge to his election as
president of United Mine Earl Dudley, attorney for
Workers yesterday, but the Lee Roy Patterson who lost
man who ran second in the the election, said Patterson
contest promised to continue will take his allegations of
the fight. election irregularities to the
The union's executive board Labor Department in a fur
voted 84 to 55 to accept tellers' ther effort to overturn
reports showing that Miller Miller's election.