—The Daily Collegian Thursday, October 20, 1977 Legislation raises pay by $1.05 Senate okays minimum wage bill WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate approved compromise legislation yesterday which would raise the minimum wage to $3.35 an hour by 1981, the biggest increase in history for the country's lowest-paid workers. The legislation, worked out in its final form by Senate-House negotiators, was passed ' by voice vote and sent to the House. Final action before adjournment is assured. The bill would raise the minimum wage to $3.35 by 1981, a $1.05 increase over the present $2.30 an hour. Minimum wage workers would receive an increase to $2.65 ,an hour Jan. 1 -- the 'first raise approved by Congress since 1974. The wage floor State House okays anti porn bill HARRISBURG (AP) The House yesterday. approved an anti-obscenity bill whose explicit language in defining the sexual conduct that could not 'be shown in books or movies prompted one member to say he found the bill itself patently offensive. The bill was sent to Gov. Shapp, who has vetoed similar bills in the past: But Rep. Martin Mullen, D-Philadelphia, said there's enough support in both the House and Senate to override a Shapp veto. s Mullen said this latest attempt at banning pornography Is more specific than earlier laws in order to avoid another run-in with the state Supreme Court. The court struck down Pennsylvania's last anti-obscenity bill in 1975 because the law failed to define the sexual con duct that could not be shown. The propoSed bill, approved 174-21, contains several lines of explicit r III TFiiS COUPON GOOD FOR D II 111 i BACK THE LIONS I i 1 i Large Pizza I a I 1 choice of any 2 items . 1 153.76 p lus tax I .. 1 (a $5.50 value) II i , . p li , • I 1.1 (I* Little Caesars Pizza I g \ lE , L-t i n " Across from Old Main" I I , I •-• ' . "Above the My-O-My Bar"; I Entrance front and rear ! I Expres ,i I Oct ' 30. 197.7 11D 237 ' 1401 I LIMINumf one coupon per plzzaima would climb to $2.90 an hour in 1979, $3.10 in 1980 and $3.35 in 1981. Although the bill is considered one of organized, labor's few victories of the session, it does not include everything the unions wanted. Rejected by both the Senate and the House was a proposal for automatic open-end increases in the future geared to a fixed percentage of factory pay. . The Senate and House also agreed to exempt more small businesses from having to pay the minimum wage. The curregt exemption excludes business with sales of $250,000 or less but the bill raised the ceiling to $362,500 in sales. Some 800,000 workers who no longer would come under the minimum descriptions that comprise the state's idea, of "patently`" offensive sexual conduct." The - description lists explicit sexual acts, including masturbation, excretory functions and lewd exhibitions of genitals. "The attempt to censor is in itself obscene," said Rep. Joseph Rhodes, D- Allegheny, who opposed the bill.. . "If the Secretary of the Com monwealth distributes this bill, then will the secretary and the legislature be guilty of violating the law?" he said. The bill further defines obscene matter as that which appeals to prurient interests and lacks serious literary, educational or• scientific value. "In the past, the community standard of obscenity was left up to individual counties," Mullen said. "Now we have a standard for the whole state, so we won't „ , have any dual standards." ' In the long run, it could be up to juries in county court to decide if certain McCall pattern #5174 SAVE gss_, 21% .17alru STEVENS HEATHER WASHABLE WOOL COORDINATES 54" wide 50% wool/50% Trevire polyester. Colorful solids and plaids. Reg. 6.99. SAVE 1.44 YD wage law are protected against any pay cuts. But the Senate and House, backed by labor, also rejected efforts to set a lower minimum wage for teen-agers. Labor Department officials * estimated that the compromise worked out by Senate and House negotiators eventually would increase the wages of nearly 5 million workers. About 3 million persons now receive the current minimum wage. Employees who get tips and now get only half of the minimum wage waiters, waitresses, porters and other service employees will get 55 per cent of the minimum wage in 1979 and 60 per cent the following year., material is obscene First, the district attorney would have to ask the county court to enjoin an adult book store, for example, from selling pornographic magazines. A judge would hold a civil hearing, at which time the defendant could request a jury trial. The if the judge cr jury decides that the magazines are obscene, an injuction would be issued against their sale. But there would be no criminal offense including fines and iMprisonment until the book store owner continues to sell his magazines in violation of the injunction. Mullen said he wanted a law_ that would penalize the store owner without having to ' wait for him to violate the injunction. But he said the weaker version was accepted in order to maintain override support in the Senate. THE PATHFINDER 137 E. Beaver 4:lunlicim duraflee GUARANTEED 100% WATERPROOF Open 9:30 - 5:30 daily Monday & Friday 'till 9 SAVE 37% , , DRABLE SOLIDPA yard INTERLOCK 60" wide 100% polyester interlock knit is ideal for blouses and dresses. Terrific color selection. Reg. 2,99 yd. SAVE 1.11 YD. SALE EFFECTIVE THROUGH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22. Kidnap victim is dead MULHOUSE, France (UPI) Police acting on a telephone call from the Red Army Faction terrorist group Wednesday found the body of kid napped West German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer in the trunk of a car. West German police, who flew by helicopter to this small town near the German border, identified the body as that of the 62-year-old president of the German Employers' Association who was kidnaped Sept. 5 in Cologne. Despite assurances by German police that the body was Schleyeres, district attorney Pierre Raynaud, leading the French investigation, declined to make any statement on the body's identity before,. taking fingerprints and comparing , them with those of Schleyer in German police records. Raynaud also diclined to give any indication of the condition in which the body was found or of the possible cause of death. Schleyer's body was found one day Positions open for USG group The application deddline for the Race Relations Board and the Undergraduate Student Government:Supreme Court has been extended to Friday, USG President Grant Ackerman said. Ackerman said that because the. Race Relations Board is new this year, all four board 'positions are open to University students. 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Police found the body following anonymous telephone tips that Schleyer had been killed in retaliation for a West German commando raid on the hijacked plane in Mogadishu, Somalia, which freed 86 hostages and killed three of the four hijackers. Schleyer was kidnaped in cologne on Sept. 5 in a machine gun attack that killed four of his bodyguards. A police officer who saw the body removed' from the green Audi 100 four-seat car in the courtyard of Mulhouses's central police station said it bore traces of blood around the neck. The police officer, who refused to be identified, said Schleyer could have been strangled. 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A communique said to be from the guerrillas was published in the left wing Paris newspaper Liberation. It said Schleyer was killed on the 43rd day of his captivity apparently Monday, the day of the West German raid on the hijacked plane. Leider said one of the court's main purposes is to make decisions in cases involving . new campus organizations wishing to become registered, and to review existing organizations ib determine if they are fairly serving the University students. ' • - t ‘,. Leider said one of the open positioJs will be filled immediately, and the othpy will take effect beginning Wintei Terrn. Applications for both the board and Se court can be obtained in the USG offibe in 215 HUB. 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