IN nti--Sad.' TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Hardline of steaoit • • Arab leaders assembled here Thursday ness." :for a Libyan-sponsored "summit of re- Abo: ');sistance' to break the momentum of .. it ie Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's bold the Pc new peace. overtures to Israel.. "No negotiations, no settlement, no a s . tucco eposr recognition," read fresh signs along the ,palm-lined streets of this seaside A fa , :capital, reflecting the intransigence of day Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy. scheduled , ;Other banners said: "Welcome, heroes Thursday. til Alpha fireman Brent Peters inspects his eqpipment while answering a at Park Hill. Apartments, where a man died Thursday. Man dies in apt mis By JIM MCGUIGAN Daily Collegian Staff Writer State College police are in vestigating the death Thursday night of an unidentified man at the Park Hill Apartments, 341 E. Beaver Ave. , Police said they received a call from a first floor resident of Park Hill at 6:05 p.m., who said smoke was coming from the apartments' heating system. Officers arriving at the scene found the body of an unidentified man near a leaking acetylene torch the man was using. Police said the man, an employee of A. W. and Sons Enterprise, State College, was repairing the heating EDITIOR But whose knee does he sit on? The "jolly old Saint Nicholas" housed in the cottage at the end of the mall isn't even old enough to drive a car, let alone a sleigh with eight reindeer. • Tom Neff, 14, was hired by the State College Area Chamber of Commerce to provide a lap and take Christmas orders for kids from age one to 92. Karen Neff, secretary to the Chamber of Commerce and Tom's sister, said he was hired as •the last resort because it was difficult to get a Santa Claus this year. The Chamber of Commerce. put ads for the job at the employment services in town and on campus but got only two responses and neither consented to work the hours required for the pay $2.30 per hour. When not in costume, Tom doesn't quite fit the bill of a rat, white bearded Old gentleman in a red suit, but he said he feels his, age doesn't hamper him in his duties. "I can handle it," Neff said. Neff said he's gotten the most requests for "Stretch Armstrong" dolls from both boys and girls. Barbie dolls are still a popular item for girls, he added Neff's got a line prepared in case any doubting youngster asks why there are so many Santas around. "I just tell them I can change from place to place pretty fast," he said. College students come in to see t Arabs gather for 'resistance summit' tness, to the land of steadfast- i) Ot ,000 we o 'eo , s N dq ed k KI )rnul i opl anti& demonstrators shouting are right" massed outside Palace, the elegant white quarters of King Idris, :hadafy in 1969. lening session of the two dat conference was begin inside the palace fit but was postponed until the daily system of another first ment when he died. The smoke apparently smoldering insulation in police spqkesman said. ' All residents of the evacuated while exhausted the fumes, coroner Robert W. an autopsy Friday cause of death, a r tre Community 1-14 Acetylene gas official at the Pittsburgh said. the gas of more th cause asphyxiation, Santa, too, Nefl let the older ' "The most me was riding fire truck Thanksgiving) One little gi she had been she had been . OK," Neff said. and be good." What is th toyland? The pe to shove Back by popular is the Eco-Ac► newspaper recycli • Each week, all 1 the big blue recyc) dorm area will weighed before ^ recycled. The (it ratio of paper= student will week's "In Editio) In addition to mention, the dor tains the best re( month will have their name to sylvania Conserve of $2O per ton of pl all the dorm areas Recycle your Co one way or another. Friday. The Arab leaders met privately among themselves into the night. It was the first of several competing conferences spawned by Sadat's Jan. 19- 21 trip to Jerusalem. Still to come are another "rejectionist" conference called by Iraq for Baghdad next week, Sadat's pre-Geneva meeting in Cairo in mid-De cember and another preparatory con ference called by U.N. Secretary- General •Kurt Waldheim. Only Israel, the United States and the Compromise may be reached House sends taxes to HARRISBURG (AP) The House voted Thursday to personal income tax from 2 percent to 2.1 percent and send the income tax fight to a six-man legislative the corporate income tax from 9.5 percent to 11 percent. conference committee, where a compromise will be It was the fourth time in 11 days that the House worked out to fund the state-aided universities. decisively defeated an income tax hike. The committee will consist of two Democrats and a However, on the third tax vote, three Republicans and Republican from both the House and Senate. a couple of Democrats who were strong anti-tax votes A similar committee set up last summer worked over changed their minds and voted for a tax hike. a month on a compromise state budget. But in the end„ 'I think it (the conference committee) is being done its recommendations were ignored by the Senate. to soothe some feelings here and in the Senate," said a . . House Speaker K. Leroy Irvis told the House he hoped House Democrat, who asked not to be identified. the committee would develop a tax compromise over the weekend, so the House could vote on it by Monday ."There were people in the House who didn't want the - afternoon. Senate telling them what taxes to vote on, and there A Senate spokesman said he did not know how soon were senators who didn't want the House telling them the three senators would be ready to negotiate with the what to do." three House members. Republicans suggested the House vote on a bill that ' The House set the stage for the conference committee ' would cut about $BO million from the state budget and by voting 77- 12 to reject a Senate proposal to raise the use the savings to partially fund the schools. • ' PS I U may close if loans stop, By COLLEEN GALLAGHER Daily Collegian Staff Writer The University will close down rather than cut its bUdget further if banks refuse to continue loaning the University money to' operate without state aid, accordg to Stanley, 0. Ikenberry, senior vice president for University Regular room' cleaning development and relations. "f "Obviously there's a limit beyond _ ,- - - - • -• • - whiCh the' bankswill not gd," Ikenberry said. "N have not been advised of what I tb' baid' anymore that limit is or it will come," he said University, which had its itinued last month due to its rating, plans to pay its .Temp loans di poor nn State is in less loans because it lncially than funds have United Nations are expected to join Egypt at the Cairo talks. Waldheim's in vitation drew a negative reaction from Israel while among the Arabs only Jordan' indicated it was accepting. Khadafy beamed behind dark glasses as he greeted guests flying in for the speechmaking and strategy, sessions designed to counter Sadat's initiative. The assemblage of Arab leaders in Tripoli, particularly President Hafez Assad of Syria, was a symbolic victory • lan berry said, because "we cannot make internal ,cuts sufficient to account for a $lO9 million deficit the amount of state funds the University has not received." About $24 million was cut from the Dirtier dorm rooms will be another ef fect of the current budget crisis the University is experiencing. - Because of the increasing cost of labor, the frequency of maid service in student rooms has been reduced beginning this term. Otto, Mueller, assistant vice president for housing food service, said scheduled service has been cleaning per term. leaned only during for Khadafy's oil-financed Arab revolutionary brand of leadership op posed to any concessions to Israel. But Assad, distinctly more moderate than his mercurial host in his approach to Middle East peace prospects, showed reluctance to get involved in any ex tremist outbursts. "It is natural that when a nation faces a danger, the faithful sons call to meet and work to prevent the catastrophe University's budget this summer when the state legislature was deadlocked over how to finance state programs. "We said from the outset that the University can't conceivably continue to term breaks and tenant changes. Previously cleaning - was done on a three week schedule. - Mueller said retiring employees and those leaving, for other reasons are not being replaced due to the budget situation within the Housing and Food Services department. ‘, An increase in room was alleviated by the. Mueller said which is about to take place," he said on arrival. Though he reaffirmed Syria's refusal to attend peace talks with Israel in Cairo, Assad avoided any mention of Sadat or the bitter Arab criticism Egypt has faced since the Jerusalem journey. President Houari Boumedienne of Algeria was the first to land at the former Wheelus U.S. Air Base, now Khadafy's military airport for Tripoli. 15$ Friday, December 2, 1977 Vol. 78, No. 80 20 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University committee But the Democrats refused, saying the budget-cutting bill would not be voted on until the House votes on the tax increases. Together, the increases and budget cuts would provide $3OO million for the universities and other state aided institutions. "There is a report that the major universities are borrowing another $77 million," said Rep. Matthew Ryan, the assistant Republican floor leader. "What we're doing is keeping $B5 million or $B2 million in the state coffers while the schools are out borrowing $77 million at interest." Democratic leader James Manderino again told the Republicans to either come uk with specific budget cuts that would replace the income tax hike or vote for the taxes. "As long as you don't face up to the problem, we will be here," Manderino said. official says operate without a state appropriation," which makes up about half the University's budget, Ikenberry said. Therefore, if the banks close their doors to the University, then the University will close its doors to the students, Ikenberry indicated. The University could not operate as it does now if further cuts in services were made, Ikenberry said. Nor could the money be made up through increased tuition, he said. "If we had to attempt to compensate through tuition hikes alone, then half the student body would be shut out of an education overnight, and that income would be lost, too," he said. "The problem is one of getting the University's appropriation through the legislature so that the borrowing can cease and the escalating interest costs can be stopped," ' Thursda - tl rsity began board rates change,
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