Eastgate inspection set for Feb.
Tenants may delay paying rents
By CORLISS BACHMAN
and ANDY RATNER
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
Eastgate tenants will be allowed to
delay paying February’s rent until after
the Feb. 7 sheriff’s sale which will
determine the ownership of Eastgate
Apartments, according to manager
Gene Parenzan, who spoke at a tenant’s
meeting Monday night.
A major inspection of the building will
also be held after the sheriff’s sale, said
James Pettingill, State College Housing
Code Enforcement officer,
“I don’t think you’ll be forced to move
in February,” Parenzan told tenants.
Pettingill said five Centre County in
spectors will make a thorough check of
the complex, and then “the management
will be given a reasonable amount of
time to repair damages. Maybe three
months, six months.. .”
If Eastgate were to be condemned, he
added, tenants would be . given “a
reasonable period of time to' find a new
place to stay.” '
Tenants complained loudest about the
lack of hot water and heat in many of
their apartments. Seeing that these
Union vote, labor suit seen in cab drivers dispute
By KAREN LYNCH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Employees of the Golden Cab Co. of State
College will vote within 30 days on union
membership with the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employees.
Also in the next month, union lawyers plan to
file suit with the Pennsylvania Labor Realtions
Board against company owner Kermeil E.
Tressler because of the recent firing of a cab
driver.
Greg Evans, a company driver for the past
five years, said he was fired Jan. 2 because he
was trying to unionize. He said Tressler used an
Flu shots recommended again
WASHINGTON (UPI) Govern
ment influenza advisers Monday
recommended a national im
munization campaign against the
Russian flu which was first identified
in this country last week.
If Health, Education and Welfare
Secretary Joseph Califano approves
the recommendation, two vaccines
would be produced for several “high
risk” groups thought to be most
vulnerable to Influenza A-U.S.S.R.-
1977.
But one adviser, Dr. William Elsea,
Fulton County, Ga. health com
missioner, referred to last winter’s
ill-fated swine flu immunization
campaign and warned: “A large
proportion of the public and some
professionals think we have cried
wolf before.”
“Crying wolf is what you do when
there is no wolf,” responded Dr. June
Osborn of the University of
Wisconsin. “We do have a wolf. We
Won't order miners to work, Carter says
WASHINGTON UPI) President
Carter said Monday he has no immediate
plans to seek a back-to-work order
against striking soft coal miners, but he
has initiated new measures to conserve
the nation’s dwindling coal supplies.
Federal mediators, meanwhile, sought
to convince negotiators for the United
Mine Workers and the Bituminous Coal
Operators Association to return to the
bargaining table in an effort to end the
eight-week walkout.
With some areas of the nation facing a
Laetrile
By BARBARA KLEIN
and PAM STEIN
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
Editor’s note: This story is the second of
three articles about iaetrile and its ef
fects. Tomorrow: A patient deals with
laetrile. .
There is no doubt that laetrile is a
controversial form of cancer treatment.
However, the controversy actually
results from the research (or lack of
research) on the laetrile itself.
Experiments have been performed by
both the pro- and anti-laetrile factions.
The conclusions of these experiments
have been questioned.
The major research in determining
the ‘effectiveness of laetrile against
cancer has been conducted at New York
City’s Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer
Center. One such test studied laetrile’s
effectiveness in combating spontaneous
mammary cancer in mice. The mice
were treated with amounts of one to two
grams of laetrile per kilogram of body
weight. The tests showed the spread of
cancer was inhibited and the animals’
general state of health improved. The
results of this experiment conducted by
Kanematsu Suguira have never been
duplicated.
the
, daily
problems are corrected will be the first
priorities for the housing code office,
Pettingill said.
“The first thing we have to do is get
the roofs and heaters fixed,” Parenzan
said.
'Right now Parenzan has five main
tenance men working on the long list of
reported damages. Only one of them,
however, is qualified to service the gas
heating system, he said.
"As a matter of fact, he’s on the job
now,” Parenzan said at 8 Monday night.
“I called the unemployment office
Monday and last Friday,” Parenzan
said, “but they can’t send me anyone
trained to work with the gas. I have
enough laborers.”
Several tenants at the meeting
volunteered to help with the main
tenance work. "If you would hire some
people who live here, you’d have cheap
labor,”. Dan Schack (Bth-advertising)
said.
“I appreciate that,” Parenzan said.
“I’m in a bind now, though, because
until we know which way we’re going
(after the sheriff’s sale) I won’t know
how many to hire.”
argument Evans had with Tressler as grounds
for the firing.
The labor relations board recently cited
Tressler for unfair labor practices in a similar
case involving the firing of an employee two
years ago. John Strand, who said he was fired
because of his involvement ih previous
unionization attempts, said Tressler has been
ordered to rehire him. He said Tressler so far
has refused to obey the board.
The labor board is also computing the amount
of back pay the cab company owes him, Strand
said. Strand was fired Jan; 20,1976.,
Tressler and some of his employees formed a
just don’t know how tame that wolf
The Soviet flu which actually
may have come from mainland China
has been identified among
Cheyenne, Wyo., high school
students. Government health officials
said the Soviet flu was no more severe
in terms of fever and other effects
than other flu bugs.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disease
which causes paralysis or death,
occurred among some persons
vaccinated against swine flu during
the Ford administration. The out
break resulted in the prbgram’s
failure, with government-sponsored
free shot clinics closed or without
patients.
The panel recommended a vaccine
be produced for persons under age 24
with cystic fibrosis, heart disease or
other chronic illness. Children and
young adults are least expected to
have immunity.
coal shortage within the next 30 days,
Carter was asked during a news con
ference if he intended to seek a Taft-
Hartley injunction ordering the union
back to work for 90 days. .
“I see no immediate prospect of having
to exercise Taft-Hartley provisions," he
replied. “It only provides for the
president to intercede if national security
is endangered. We certainly have not
arrived at that yet.”
Carter said he had discussed the
problem earlier in the day with Energy
research
Consequently, Sloan-Kettering
Institute issued a statement saying the
results of the tests were leaked to the
press and were inaccurate. Chester
Stock, spokesman for the Institute, said
the experiments went badly because of
clumsy injection procedures.
Illustration by Tom OeSanto
Several tenants were worried that
they would be forced to pay for damages
to their apartments that they did not
cause.
“I have no idea where all the original
damage reports are,” Parenzan said.
“The former management cleaned out
the files before I got here.”
Organization of Town Independent
Students (OTIS) representative Mike
Popcke reminded his fellow tenants of
the importance of keeping a notarized
copy of their damage reports.
Throughout the meeting tenants
argued that because of the change in
management, their leases are no longer
binding. OTIS representative Marty
Scarano said the lease is not null and
void, however. Tenants could be freed
from their contracts only “if I deemed
the apartments unfit for human
habitation,” Pettingill said.
As it stands now, tenants will have to
go to court to regain $43,000 in security
deposits taken by Rojay Management
Co. when they left Eastgate early in
January. OTIS will wait until after the
sheriff’s sale to decide if they will file a
bargaining unit at a labor board hearing Mon
day. The hearing decided which of the 23 em
ployees may vote in the coming union election.
Eighteen drivers and two radio dispatchers
are eligible to vote. Three “supervisory em
ployees’ ’ were omitted from the list.
Employees hired after the hearing but before
the union election may not vote. This practice
protects both the employer and the workers and
keeps the employer from hiring new people and
inducing them to ,vote non-union, hearing
examiner Forrest Myers said.
Since the employees filed their application to
A vaccine containing protection
- against 'as~many as "three other - flu
strains if necessary would be
prepared for all other persons, with
priority given to adults ;with chronic
illness and persons over age 65.
But Osborn, vice chairman of a
government-assembled panel of
doctors and scientists, warned
Califano must consider questions of
legal liability for vaccine-caused
illness.
Dr. David Karzon of Vanderbilt
Medical School said doctors are
having trouble getting volunteers for
testing the vaccine due to last win
ter’s problems with the swine flu
vaccine. -
Even researchers conducting the
experiments “are in a vulnerable
position with regard to legal
protection,” said karzon.
The first tests of vaccine on humans
could begin in March.
Secretary James Schlesinger and con
cluded there are some steps the ad
ministration can take to avoid a national
emergency.
He said he has ordered a cutback of
power to the nation’s three gaseous dif
fusion plants, which produce atomic
reactor fuel. Energy Department of
ficials said they were preparing for a cut
back that would free enough electricity
to serve up to 2 million people.
He also called for conservation in
snowbound sections of the country
only complicates issue further
The National Cancer Society and the
Food and Drug Administration state that
before human testing can begin on any
potential anti-cancer drug, its toxic
qualities must be demonstrated against
a variety of tumors in experimental
animals (mice and rats) or in cancer
cells grown in tissue culture.
The American Cancer Society claims
that Sloan-Kettering conducted an
exhaustive study on laetrile between
1973 and 1977 and found laetrile had no
effect on cancer. Yet the National
Cancer Institute claims that laetrile has
never been able to pass preliminary
tests and as a result clinical tests have
never been conducted.
Dr. Dean Burke, former head of the
National Cancer Institute, recently said
“I don’t know whether laetrile is any
good or how good it is, but I believe it
should, be tested so, we can find out. So
far, all the actions of the Food and Drug
Administration have been based on
prejudice, ignorance and superstition.”
Burke’s statement appeared in a 1974
edition of the Los Angeles Herald-
Examiner.
"Just as laetrile has not been proven
effective, it has not been proven harm
class-action suit against Rojay on behalf
of the Eastgate tenants.
“There’s still an outside chance that
Rojay may retain the property,”..
Scarano said, “so court action will have;
to wait."
The 60 or 70 tenants at the meeting last
night made the office noisy and crowded.
Popcke hsked tenants to elect one or two
representatives per floor of their
buildings so smaller group meetings
could be more productive. The next
tenants meeting has tentatively been
scheduled for February 8.
Popcke also said he will propose at the
next OTIS meeting the formation of a
sub-committee for housing affiars.
Representatives would be from tenants’
unions from all student apartment
complexes in State College.
Student tenants from Laurel Glen and
complexes owned by A. W. & Sons have
already begun to organize to fight rent
hikes and poor housing conditions.
“These things have been overlooked
for too long,” Popcke said. “The ball is
rolling all over town now, and we can’t
let it stop.'’
See related story, page 3,
Safety lacking for earth orbit
Garter to ask halt to satellites
(UPI) President
Carter said Monday he will ask the
Soviet Urtion to stop launching nuclear
powered earth orbiting satellites unless
“fail safe methods” can be found to
insure no radioactive material from
them reaches earth.
Carter, describing how the United
States monitored a Soviet nuclear
powered spy satelite that crashed in
northern Canada last week, said more
rigid safety precautions are needed.
“We would be glad to forego the
deployment of any such satellites
altogether and will pursue that option
along with the Soviet Union,” he said.
Asked if he would try to dissuade the
Kremlin from putting more nuclear
reactors into space, Carter said, “Yes,
certainly in earth orbit, I think this is
something we should explore. ”
He said attempts should be made to
insure that no radioactive material from
such satellites reaches Earth and “if we
cannot evolve those fail-safe methods.
“because transportation won’t let even
the available supplies come into these
regions.”
. Chief federal mediator Wayne L. Hor
vitz told reporters he was talking to both
union and industry officials by telephone
in an effort to set up a new meeting.
The strike, soon to be the longest in the
union’s history, began Dec. 6. Talks
collapsed Sunday when the two sides
were unable to narrow their differences
over wages and other economic issues.
less,” said the American Cancer
Society.
“Legalization of laetrile, even as a
placebo treatment (an inert medication
given to soothe the patient), supports the
‘make-believe’ that it is a legitimate
therapy.. It leads to the further danger
that it will be chosen as an alternative
therapy over proven cancer treat
ments.” %
■ Other experiments have been con
ducted throughout the United States and
Europe \yhich indicate that laetrile has
positive effects on cancer.
According to Burke, the Pasteur
Institute in Paris maintained a human
cancer strain in mice. The use of B-17,
Laetrile, increased their life span and
delayed their tumor growth.
At the Southern Research Institute in
Birmingham, Alabama, mice bearing
lung cancer received 400 milligrams of
laetrile per kilogram of, body weight.
These mice also showed an increased
life span.
An American Cancer Society
publication says, “It is the Society’s
position that the public has a right to
protection in an area medical
treatment where they cannot have
unionize on Dec. 15, 11 employees have quit or
been fired from the company.
They’ve left for “various reasons,” driver Ben
Nead said, “but they feel if they can do
something for minimum wage, why bust your
ass for a buck seventy? ’ ’
Several drivers said they do not bring in
' minimum wage even with tips included. Tressler
pays his drivers $1.70 per hour and estimates
they also earn 60 cents per hour in tips.
Though this sum does not meet the new $2.65
minimum wage, Tressler says his company’s
gross annual income does not meet the minimum
set in the federal wage law, according to em-
then I think there ought to be a total
prohibition against earth-orbiting
satellites.
“I would favor at this moment an
agreement with the Soviets to prohibit
earth-orbiting satellites with atomic
radiation material.”
Carter said America’s last nuclear
powered satellite was launched in 1965.
In his second hews conference this
year, Carter also was asked several
questions about Republican David
Marston, the former U.S. attorney from
Philadelphia who was ousted this month
with the president’s apporval.
Although many people have criticized
Carter’s handling of the case, since
Marston was reportedly investigating
Democratic Reps. Joshua Eilberg and
Daniel Flood when he was fired, Carter
stood by his actions.
“I see nothing improper in the han
dling of the case,” he said, adding that it
did not conflict with his campaign
promise to remove politics from ap
pointments of judges and U.S. attorneys.
Carter said he has no regrets about
taking a telephone call last November
from Eilberg, who asked that Marston’s
removal be “expedited.” The president
said he routinely gets requests on ap
pointments, and if the situation occurred
again, “I would do the same.” But he
also repeated that he did not know when
he took the call that Eilberg was under
investigation. .
On the Middle East, Carter said he will
decide later this week what weapons he
will ask Congress to sell to Middle East
nations, including Egypt. That means
the decision will be made before
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s
weekend visit.
sufficient knowledge to protect them
selves against quackery.”
The FDA, in compliance with the
American Cancer Society’s stand, stated
that laetrile is an unapproved form of
treatment and its manufacture,
distribution and sale in interstate
commerce is illegal.
Various proponents of laetrile, in
cluding The National Health Federation,
The International Association of Cancer
Victims and Friends, The Cancer
Control Society and the Committee for
Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy,
have been instrumental in the
legalization of laetrile in several states.
The Committee of Freedom of Choice in
Cancer Therapy has been influential in
court rulings. They claim a membership
of 25,000, of whom 1,200 are physicians.
Those states which recently changed
their policy concerning the legalization
of laetrile are Alaska, Florida, Indiana,
Texas, Nevada, Arizona and
Washington.
Pennsylvania supports the FDA
rulings. However, a legalization bill has
passed the Senate and is before the
Health and Welfare Committee in the
House of Representatives.
W 202 PATTEE
State College Housing Code enforcement officer James Pettingill will conduct a
major inspection of Eastgate Apartments in several weeks. If Pettingill says he
thinks Eastgate is "unfit for human habitation,’’ it will have to be condemned,
he said.
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ployee Madge Ludwig. Tressler says he’s
therefore not required to raise his employees’
pay
Tressler began deducting taxes based on the 60
cent tip figure in the beginning of January, the
drivers said, further reducing their earnings.
The Public Utilities Commission awarded the
Golden Cab Co. a rate hike last August which
Tressler had requested because of increased
salary and business costs, Nead said.
Tressler would not comment on these issues,
and no official negotiations between Tressler
and his employees can begin until the election is
held.
Carter also said he does not think
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
authorized a new settlement at Shiloh on
the West Bank of the Jordan, although
administration officials said he sent
Begin a letter asking him to make sure
no settlement is established at the site,
where archeological digging is going on.
On other subjects Carter said:
If any element of his tax Cut-tax
reform program is modified “it can
destroy the balance.” He said his
proposal to cut taxes by $25 billion
means a reduction three times the size of
Social Security tax increases this year.
As an anti-inflation measure, he is
asking business and labor voluntarily to
hold wage and price hikes below the
average increases they got for the last
two years.
He sees no need at this time to in
voke Taft-Hartley in the nationwide
coal strike. Under Taft-Hartley, the
president may order workers back to
their jobs for a cooling off period.
While he deplores an American
Nazi Party plan to march through the
predominantly Jewish Chicago suburb
of Skokie, courts have ruled the Nazi
have a right to free speech and “I don’t
have any inclination to pursue it fur
ther.”
If American farmers got their
demand for 100 percent parity, it would
add $2O billion to $25 billion to the federal
budget and make food prices “ex
traordinarily high.” He said the demand
is “not well founded.”
He has no plan to reinstate a
program under/ which Mexican workers
could enter the country to work for
stated periods of time.
The testimony given in Harrisburg by
anti-laetrile groups was based primarily
on the opinion that laetrile provides only
false hope to cancer victims. They also
raised the question of why contributions
should be spent on investigating a drug
that is thought to be ineffective, when
there is treatment available that is
known to be useful in the control of
cancer.
Advocates of the legalization of
laetrile contend that it is a matter of
consumer choice and, at the very least,
it is the opinion of many physicians that
laetrile may be worthless but it is still
harmless.
Powderpuff snow
Snow returns today, but since tem
peratures only will reach the low 20s, the
snow should be light and powdery,
causing, a small nuisance with ac
cumulation of an inch or two at most.
Winds will pick up a bit later today, with
occasional flurries possible tonight and
Wednesday, as the low drops to 8 tonight
and the high reaches the upper teens
tomorrow.