—The Daily Collegial! Friday, December 2, 1977
The bigger,
Bart Hetrick (Bth-chemical engineering, left)• and Joe
Lokay (10th-electrical engineering) prepare to "light up"
their prize-winning Daily Collegian joint, made in the
Penn State Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws
joint-rolling contest late last term. The contest offered a
Energy dept.
WASHINGTON (AP) The Depart
ment of Energy on Thursday spelled out
tactics to cope with any winter shortages
of natural gas, oil, coal, propane, or
hydroelectric power, including possible
allocation of fuels and mandatory
thermostat settings.
David J. Bardin, head of the depart
ment's Economic Regulatory Ad
ministration and chairman of a special
task force, issued a two-volume
"Energy Emergency Planning Guide."
He said it is not a fixed plan of action,
but rather a set of guidelines.
The guide points out, for example, that
the imposition of mandatory thermostat
settings in non-residential buildings
would be so hard to enforce and have
such uncertain fuelsaving benefits that
it probably would not be applied except
in an extreme fuel shortage.
The government prepared fuel
emergency plans in past years, but these
were mainly linked to immediate
problems such as the Arab oil embargo
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issues emergency rules
of 1973-74, and the chronic winter
shortages of natural gas.
The new planning guide is the first
major attempt at a comprehensive
outline of potential problems in all the
major energy sources and the options
open to federal and state agencies to deal
with them.
Flaherty to begin governor race
HARRISBURG (AP) Former
Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty, said
Thursday that he'll authorize a
gubernatorial fund-raising committee
within the next two weeks.
Flaherty, who left the mayor's office
lag April to become head of the U.S.
Justice Department's criminal division,
announced last Saturday that he would
leave the Washington post.
At that time, he said he would decide
before the end of the year whether he
special prize to the person who could'roll the best joint
from a Collegian. It is not known whether newsprint can
provide the same "high" that other, more illegal sub
stances can.
The department last month, forecast
less severe natural gas shortages this
winter than last, if the weather is nor
mal. Even in a hard winter, substitute
fuels should be available to avoid
economic hardship in most areas, it
said. But the guide points out that energy
emergencies could develop in a number
of other ways.
would enter the 1978 Democratic guber
natorial primary.
Authorizing a fund-raising committee
is normally the first step to entering a
political campaign.
"I plan to set up that authorization
before Dec. 15," Flaherty said in a
telephone interview.
The date is important because that's
when a Pittsburgh group is planning a
$l,OOO per person reception to start a
Flaherty warchest.
County planners want balance
Community needs vs.
The Centre County Planning Staff
presented a comprehensive plan; to
improve, the balance between natural
resources and community needs to the
Centre Regional Planning Commission
last night. ..
In a slide presentation, Robert B.
Donaldson, Jr., director of the Centre
County Planning Staff, discussed
recommendations to develop and
maintain areas of environment and
community.
environmental elements include open
space areas such as agricultural lands,
forests, and mineral resources, and
developed space areas such as flood
plains, soil resources, and sloping lands.
Assasi nation queries unanswered
WASHINGTON ( AP) Newly
disclosed FBI documents - on the
assassination of John F. Kennedy raise,
but do not answer, questions about Lee
Harvey Oswald's movements in the days
before Dallas, and about . the source of
the bullets that killed the president.
The 597 pages of documents are the
first of more than 40,000 the FBI will
release Dec. 7 to comply with requests
under the Freedom of Information Act
for its material on the investigation of
Kennedy's death in Dallas, Nov. 22,1963.
The first three volumes were provided
to a private researcher several months
ago and were made available to The
Associated Press on Thursday.
The documents, many heavily cen
sored, show that the FBI attempted to
trace the fatal bullets from the time they
were manufactured until they reached
the assassin's hands. -
Agents were preplexed at first by a
piece of evidence they found. .
The bullets were 6.5-millimeter
Mannlicher-Carcano ammunition.
Agents determined that the manufac
turer was the Western Cartridge Corp. of
East Alton, 111 . .
Agents in Illinois examined the
company's production records and found
that the firm produced four million
rounds of this type of ammunition for the
U.S. Marine Corps in 1954.
"The interesting thing about this order
is that it is for ammunition which does
not fit and cannot be fired in any of the
USMC weapons," said an FBI memo
dated Dec. 2, 1963.
"This gives rise to the obvious
Community needs include housing,
transportation, facilities and services,
according to the plan.
Donaldson said that the purpose of the
comprehensive plan is to help boroughs
and townships develop natural and
community resources. The staff com
piled a report and recommendations
from individual studies of environment
and community problems.
The commission agreed to review the
report. They also asked Donaldson to
give another presentation before the
Centre Regional Council of Govern
ments in January and municipal of
ficials and planning commissions in
February.
speculation that it is a contract for
ammunition;placed by CIA with Western
under a USMC cover for concealinent
purposes," the memo continued.
In other words, FBI officials
speculated that the CIA was using the
Marine Corps as a cover to purchase
ammunition in secret.
A memo written at FBI headquarters
the next day noted that the George
Zucker Sales Co. of Chicago had pur
chased about two million rounds for
commercial resale in 1962.
In the first batch of files released,,
these were the only two memos dealing
with the ammunition. The material said
Outing. Club completes
Mid-State trail relocation
The Outing Club has completed a
relocation of the Mid-State Hiking Trail
in Rothrock State Park.
The construction of section three began
in September, 1969 and moves the trail
away from the Crowfield road, taking it
farther into the woods.
Tom Thwaites, faculty advisor for the
Hiking Division of PSOC, said the 2.9
kilometer trail was, "really made with
student power." Almost all sections of
the trail were cleared and are main
tained by PSOC members, Thwaites
said. '
resources
Thomas J. Pelick, Ferguson Township
representative, reported that a corn
mittee discussed several legislative bills
with State Sen. J. Doyle Corman (R-34th
senatorial district). These bills included
flood plain legislation storm wateer
management, and joint zoning or
dinance.
The commission voted to discuss the
bills further with State Rep. Helen Wise,
(D-77th district), before recommending
any action to the local councils of
governments.
In other business the commission set
up a nominating committee' for new
officers for 1978. ,
nothing more to explain or resolve the
agents' speculation. Nor was it known
whether the files to be released next
week, and another 40,000 pages due
later, would shed more light on the
question.
The Warren Commission investigated•
the assassination and concluded that
Oswald, acting alone, killed Kennedy.
The commission reported that this type,
of ammunition "is readily available for
purchase from mail order houses as well
as a few gun shops." It noted that "some
two million rounds have been placed on
sale in the United States." •
According to Thwaites the club started
exploring for the trail in 1967. The first
section opened in January, 1972 and the
trail has been expanding ever since.
The Mid-State Trail is located entirely
on state park land and is a public
recreational facility.
'Section three leaves the old route at
Shingle Path, passes through Penn
Roosevelt Park, climbs the western most
ridge of Broad Mountain arid connects
with the old route where Centre, Hunt-,
ingdon and Mifflin Counties meet.
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