Cause of girl's death is linked to asphyxiation By TONY GRECO, LYNN OSGOOD and MARC TECHNER Daily Collegian Staff Writers University Police Services discovered the body of a 21ryear-old woman on the front seat of her Car in Parking Lot 83W Sunday morning. Judith Brennenstuhl (llth-account- ing) was foundat 11:15 a.m. Sunday ’<*' slumped over in the front seat of her Oldsmobile Omega by a police officer and her roommate, according to Arthur V. Ciervo, director of public infor mation. Police said the car was found backed into a snowbank with the ignition on and the gas tank empty. Ciervo said death may have been caused by asphyxiation. A University maintenance employee said a tailpipe would have to be tightly packed with • snow to cause an exhaust back-up. Friends and police said Brennenstuhl left her room at Bigler Hall at about 12:30 Saturday ■ afternoon to clear the snow off her car At first,, when she failed to return, friends thought she had traveled to Philadelphia to visit her boyfriend. He had wanted to visit her over the weekend, but due to the weather she telephoned him and told him not to come. After not hearing from Brennenstuhl, Margaret .L. Reinsel (Bth-accounting), her roommate, contacted several area hospitals Saturday night for news of recent automobile accidents. Reinsel reported Brennenstuhl missing Bell fears misunderstanding by customer Phone deposit charges frustration for user By ANDY RATNER Daily Collegian Staff Writer ■ ■ . Telephone installation and security deposit charges ; are costs incurred even before one uses the phone in his new home. James C. Walck, manager of Bell Telephone’s State College office, thinks that misun derstandings about these initial costs generate much frustration for telephone customers. Walck said deposits are not standardized and not alj customers are asked to pay the charge." “We don’t say that all students have to pay, or all waitresses of all taxi-drivers. That would be pay ; discrimination, which is illegal,” he said. , ' Walck said most people are under a distorted im pression that Bell uses the deposits for ‘cheap capital’ money. The amount is equivalent to a two-month bill or a minimum of $25. “That would be illegal,” he said. ”We put the money _ in a seperate escrow account and pay the going rate of “• interest, 6 percent. So we are not overzealous to request security deposits.” A ruling by the Public Utility .Commission states that every suscriber must pay an installation connection CATA, bus drivers reach tentative contract By JIM ZARROLI Daily Collegian Staff Writer After six months of negotiations, an informal contract agreement has been reached between the Centre Line Bus Drivers and the Centre Area Trans portation Authority. But according to Thomas S. Kurtz, General Secretary of the Centre Region Council -of Governments, a formal contract will probably not be drawn up and agreed upon until Jan. 30 “at the very earliest.” Kurtz, who has been acting as CATA representative at negotiations, stressed there would be no delay in bus service <■ '>■ • -k' - & • A student attempts to find his car wider piles of snow Sunday afternoon in Parking Lot 83. Stanley P. Mayers Jr., professor of health care planning at the University, said carbon monoxide asphyxiations are common occurences after snowstorms. He said every once in a while similar deaths occur along the highway. When the exhaust pipe is blocked by snow, noxious fumes, lacking a place to escape, may flow into-the passenger compartment. The danger is that as the carbon monoxide level increases it can’t be detected because the gas has no odor. The victim will lapse into un consciousness, because of the lack of oxygen, and eventually die, Mayers said. A complete oxygen cut-off will cause death within a matter of four to five minutes, Mayers said, but it may take longer, depending on the concentration of the toxin inhaled. Brennenstuhl lived at 9963 Frendale St. in Philadelphia. She graduated from Nazereth Academy -in Northeast Philadelphia. - today, even though this is the first day the" drivers are permitted by law to strike. According to Jeff Zinser, president of Local 12038 of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Friday’s snowstorm prevented the two sides from meeting, as had been planned. Zinser said that in order to come to some agreement before today’s deadline, AFSCME representative Lee Cogan spoke Friday with a lawyer representing CATA and submitted the union’s final salary offer. The figure had ■ ,5 at 10:21 Sunday morning, shortly after receiving a telephone call from Brennen stuhl’s boyfriend in Philadelphia. Police officer Paul E. Stamm found the girl dead in her snow-covered car at 11:15 a.m. David E. Stormer, University Safety director, said exhaust gases may have entered the vehicle; The exact cause of death will not be known until an autopsy is performed at the Mountainview Unit of 'the Centre Community Hospital this morning, Centre County Coroner W. Robert Neff said. charge. The same fee is applicable to Bell of Penn sylvania customers all over the state. The installation fee is $l7 if all the telephone facilities are present and $22 if the phohe or hook-up equipment is not already there. Bell of Pennsylvania recently filed with the Public Utility Commission for a rate increase of $39 million. If the PUC approves the request, Walck said his company will change their installation charge structure to a ‘multi-eleinent’ basis. Under this rate system, “those who cause the ex penses will foot the bill,” Walck said. The charge will be lower for people who don’t need installation work done, such as inside wiring, than for those who do. In either case the charge will be more than it is now, Walck said. The Federal. Communications Commission made a national ruling at the beginning of December giving all telephone customers the right to install their own phones. - According to Walck, one can buy a private phone from a retail store or vendor and hook it up to Bell’s equipment if the apparatus’ service number is ap proved by the phone *<■' '* v .'r.'v/'-.'’"'' - K '*•*«. • v m i^pijiipsp p; i daily been arrived at during a union meeting Tuesday night. . The settlement included several unexpected fringe benefits and a wage agreement of $4 per hour for the first year of the contract and $4.40 per hour for the second, John Strand, shop steward of Local 12038 said. “I think both sides are pretty happy that we settled,” Zinser said. “We’re really happy with this package. We got more than a lot of people thought we were going to get.” ‘ Strand said he felt the union had done a good job in securing a contract, but Y« j% ' - 'H-T ; .* y? v. % . ■ •*> «U' »ss as at. v* .•••>*» vi'.V I '' < 'V ’< ' , ~ , 4 ** l^P • ' • ... *■• . ••...-• ■?■■: ! . •. •. -- » . Photo by Lynn Dudlnsky A fingerprint specialist prepares to examine the auto where Judith Brennenstuhl (Uth-accounting) died Saturday of possible asphyxiation. Walck said the.new FCC ruling has caused a bit of confusion. “Some vendors don’t understand the new rulings. One area store advertised the private phone option as a ‘freebie’.service, but that’s not how it is at all,” Walck said. “In fact, if we find that the phone is bad, we won’t service it, but we’ll charge $25 for the visit, ” he said. Walck added that if ; Bell is able to test the phone directly from their office equipment, they won’t have to make the costly trip. If a customer does opt to buy his own phone, Bell will give him 55 cents- worth, of credit towards his monthly bill. . V .v ■'/, ■' ■ The telephone company, can hold general deposits for up to 11 months; If a customer gets back on the right track and pays his bill for an entire year, Bell has to return the deposit with interest. Some students have complained about the deposit charge, Walck explained that if one member of a household gives the phone company bill-paying fits, all the roommates who are also on file with the phone company, suffer. ' Jill '> '.if- V f Photo by Richard HoHmCrt ,4 It Ml W . i .* • aw^" ''' MS' •Maim ■ v ■ • , ' • A K 'V-? * <“* * :■ . that it could have gotten more money for the second year salary. The negotiations period has lasted more than six months, extending past Jan. 1, the date of the expiration of the original contract. CATA submitted its final wage offer to the drivers on Jan. 13 and it was rejected. However, both union representatives and CATA previously said they were optimistic. Today would have been the first day the drivers may call a strike, since it is one month after Dec. 22, the date of the first negotiations session attended by a mediator. Snow closes University By DENISE RYAN Daily Collegian Staff Writer A record-breaking snowstorm paralyzed the county Friday and closed the University for the first time in 12 years. Governor Shapp called a state of emergency in all 67 Pennsylvania counties on Saturday. Bus service was shut down over practically all the East, according to a Greyhound bus represent ative. The Campus Weather Service said that this month is “the snowiest January on record in State College." Already, 41.8.ihches of snow have dropped in the Nittany; Valley this month, and about two feet remain. According to the weather service, the normal snowfall for January in State College is 10.5 inches. The public information office said that Jan. 31, 1966, was the last date that classes were canceled due to snow. Dozens of students tried to shovel their cars out of student lots 80 and 83 on Friday, using trash cans, dust bins and brooms/ Campus Loop buses were operating throughout the weekend, but routes had to be slightly altered because some roads had not been plowed on the outer loop, Loop manager Bruce Younkin said. The N University's official statement was: “The University is closing for all but essential services at 2 p.m. The library/will remain open until 4 p.m.” Announcement of the closing was left mostly to the local radio stations. The decision was made by President Oswald on the basis of the emergency called by Shapp/ Art Ciervo, director of Mars ton From our wire services PHILADELPHIA Republican U.S. Attorney David W. Marston joins the ranks of the unemployed Monday, the loser in a battle against a Democratic administration and the American system of political patronage. Marston, however, says “I’m not going to run away and: hide, I guarantee you that.” He is scheduled to speak later this week at the National Press Club in Washington. Reports indicated Marston’s ouster may have been prompted by political pressure brought on the Carter ad ministration as a result of Marston’s investigation of Reps. Daniel Flood and Joshua Eilberg, both D-Pa., for allegedly profiting from a $65 million addition to a Philadelphia hospital. Earlier investigations by Marston’s office led to the convictions of two other powerful Pennsylvania Democrats, former state Sen. Henry J. Cianfrani and former state House Speaker Herbert Fineman. Bell has not hinted at who might succeed Marston. Jerome Shestack, chairman of a committee of local lawyers named by Bell several weeks ago to screen possible candidates, said Saturday the committee’s last word from Bell was to stand by. Marston’s firing, meanwhile, has become a Joshua’s horn in the hands of Republicans on the state and national level who are trumpeting furiously at the walls of the Carter White House.. National Republican Party Chairman Bill Brock has called for a public information, said. However, Provost Edward D. Eddy said it was based largely on reports they received saying a lot more snow was on the way. “Essential services", including food services, Ritenour Health Center, the power plant, physical plant, and security remained open. All classes were can celed as were all evening exams. Administration offices were closed at 2 p.m. and Oswald’s office was vacated at 2:07. According to Eddy, all instructors are given the option of canceling classes before the announcement to'close the University. He said the great majority of faculty members were making “every attempt to make all their classes.” A spot survey by The Daily Collegian showed that most professors did not hold classes on Friday. Gordon S. Bergsten, professor of Economics 370, said he gave his students the option of taking their exams Friday or later. “If I hadn’t had to give a test at all, I probably would have left it up to the class,” Bergsten said. “But I think most of.them would have left.” The University is using a giant snow blower on campus that is normally used to clear the airport runway and. roads that are blown shut, according to William L. Hetrick, director of physical plant administration. He said the large quantities, of snow have forced the physical plant to use heavier pieces of equipment and more people for longer hours. Hetrick said about 100 people worked last Friday to clear the show and worked UnlversltyPark, Pa. 16002 Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University GOP raises cam Monday, Jan. 23,1978 Vol. 78, No. 106 10 pages gets axed\ congressional probe into Marston’s “ruthless firing” which Brock suggested might be handled by a joint House-Senate committee. Pennsylvania’s two Republican senators, Richard Schweiker and H. John Heinz 111, both have said'they would support a call for such an in vestigation. Schweiker even has suggested an attempt in the Senate to block con firmation of whoever the Carter administration appoints to fill Marston’s post. Marston’s otherwise routine replacement with a change in ad ministrations became a controversy because of Carter’s campaign pledge to appoint and retain U.S. attorneys on a merit, not political, basis. The dispute flared when Carter said at a Jan. 12 news conference that he had asked Bell to expedite Marston’s removal on behalf of Rep. Joshua Eilberg, D-Pa., who Carter said phoned him Nov. 4. An Eilberg aide since has con firmed that Marston’s office is in vestigating Eilberg in connection with a $64 million, federally assisted construction project at Philadelphia’s Hahnemann Hospital. Bell, in a prepared statement issued Friday, said Marston’s removal will not impede criminal prosecutions. Bell has conceded, however, that one of three Justice Department lawyers sent here to assess the im pact of removing Marston reported that some investigations might suffer a temporary loss of momentum. overtime on the weekend. He said housing cooperates with the physical plant in asking students to shovel snow. According to Hetrick, the immediate problem is what to do with all the snow. He said some of the excess snow will close off some of the feeder walks. Otto E. Mueller, assistant vice president of Housing and Food Services, said the only problem caused by the snow stdrm was personnel who failed to show up for scheduled work. Mueller said menu changes may be necessary because fresh produce probably didn’t get delivered. “Some workers will work more than eight hours and will be paid time and a half, but this is all included in the union contract.” Mueller said. Dining halls ran out of lettuce on Friday because suppliers couldn’t get in, Mueller said. Information for this story was collected by Daily Collegian ' staff writers Harry Glenn, Tony Greco, Mark Harmon, Betsy Long, Mike Mentrek, Patty ,Rhule, Jon Saraceno and John Ward. Blinded by the glint Keep the sunglasses within reach. Bright sun glint will pester the un prepared, but temperatures should remain in the teens all day. Tonight, another clear cold night with a low near 10 will be accompanied by a bright moon. More bright news: Moderating temperatures are expected starting totnorrow. 15*
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