Candidates take stands on issues
By DAVE GILMARTIN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Democratic Rep. Joseph S. Am
merman and Republican challenger
William F. Clinger Jr., candidates for
the 23rd Congressional District seat,
have outlined their positions on such
issues as conflict of interest legislation,
the establishment of federal standards
for the 1981 reapportionment of
congressional districts, and the Equal
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Advertising truth topic
. c . HARRISBURG ( AP) The most
talked about item in Pennsylvania's
gubernatorial race the past two weeks is
„ truth in advertising, a mud-slinging
battle raging over the state's airwaves.
%.• Which candidate is giving the voters a
,square deal? Is it Democrat Peter F.
Flaherty, when he says he cut taxes and
reduced spending during his seven-plus
• years as mayor of Pittsburgh?
Or is it Republican Richard L.
Thornburgh, trying to cut the heart out
of Flaherty's claims when he says his
opponent really voted to raise taxes and
ran a disastrous administration?
Thornburgh opened the barrage with a
bliti. He unleashed three, 30-second
commercials hammering at Flaherty's
• record, formed a "truth squad" of five
"Pittsburgh Democrats telling what it
was really like in Pittsburgh, and an-
nounced . his staff had found 16
misrepresentations in Flaherty's ads.
While many of those points get bogged
down in semantics and point of view, the
main thrust is whether Flaherty is a tax
cutter or a tax-raiser.
. In 1969, councilman Flaherty had been
elected mayor. Before he took office,
Flaherty was one of nine council
fi s 'members who voted for the tax in-
creases to offset a projected debt of $7
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'.' AS mayor, Flaherty reduced that
record hike in real estate taxes three
'different times, though the current tax
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still is higher than it was before the 1969
, increase. He also managed reductions in
.:the business taxes and eliminated the
city's 1 percent wage tax for two years,
'=though it was re-instated in 1976.
"It's the oldest political shell game in
Dorm maintenance jobs redefined,
Residence hall maintenance workers
: will have new duties at the beginning of
\ I .Winter Term, a University housing
official said.
Donald Arndt, director of housing
services, said 26 positions of residence
hall maintenance workers will be
eliminated. These workers carried out
trash, cleaned public areas and repaired
R minor ' housing problems. _
These duties will be split among the
two newly created positions of
preventive maintenance and utility
workers: 20 utility workers will carry
,out the trash and clean up the public
%areas; 10 preventive' maintenance
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Rights Amendment through a
questionnaire sent out by Common
Cause, a national nonpartisan citizens
lobby.
The questionnaire, which was sent to
all candidates for the 96th Congress,
asked if the candidates would support a
proposal requiring House members to
abstain from voting on matters affecting
their personal financial interests; or
permitting them to vote as long as they
filed a statement in the Congressional
Record describing the possible conflict
of interest and explaining their decision
to vote on the issue.
Ammerman said he would support
such a proposal.
Clinger said he would support the
proposal but said he believed provisions
were needed to determine the propriety
of members' explanations to vote on
matters where conflicts of interest exist.
Ammerman said he is undecided
whether he would support federal
legislation establishing strict standards
for redrawing congressional district
boundaries after the 1980 census.
Such legislation, Common Cause
believes, would prevent legislatures
from drawing congressional districts to
favor the incumbent legislator or the
majority party. •
Clinger said he favors such standards
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the world. First you up the taxes a
record amount, then you give back the
nickels and dimes later on," Thornburgh "Why has he waited nine years to
said, complain about my salary. Isn't there.
Flaherty says his tax cuts saved city something phoney about a guy who waits
residents a total of $72.9 million. nine years? Why isn't he complaining
He also admits that city spending about the present mayor whose salary is
climbed from $9O million to $122 million.-.. s4s,ooo;V•Flaherty said. • , ,• •1; i
That's a total' of 33 'percent;' or an ' ' 4 :"`'Anottlei ad 'S67S: "Pittsburgh went 'SO'''
average of 4 percent a year half the deeply into debt that its credit rating has
rate of inflation. dropped twice since he left office.
Comparatively, state spending in the Available housing declined by over 2,500
same period climbed by 275 percent. units... And Pittsburgh lost over 32,000
Moreover, Flaherty voted to raise the precious jobs."
mayor's salary from $25,000 to $35,000 But in July of this year, the bond
before he took office. He asked for no rating service of Standard & Poors kept
raise after he was re-elected with both Pittsburgh's credit rating high because
the Republican and Democratic of "the recent continuation of favorable
workers will fix general maintenance
problems such as doors or windows.
East Halls and Pollock Halls will have
three men in each area for general
maintenance repairs. All of the other
dorm areas will be serviced by one
worker per area.
John Dombroski, personnel and
training• director, said 75 people had
applied for preventive maintenance
jobs, and 51 applied for the utility worker
jobs. Arndt said the 26 workers whose
positions are being eliminated were
hired for the new jobs. The remaining
four positions will be filled by University
employees from other departments.
Arndt said the change should improve
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but believes it would be difficult for the
federal government to ensure fairness in
all cases.
Both candidates said they favor the
Equal Rights Amendment.
The survey also reported Ammerman
said he would support a system of
financing House general elections where
small individual contributions (up to
$100) would be matched with funds from
the voluntary dollar check-off on income
tax returns. He would also agree to put a
limit on the money spent in a campaign.
Clinger said he would support such a
system only if the number of terms a
congressman could serve was limited,
since he feels limited public financing of
congressional elections gives ,an in
cumbent congressman a tremendous
advantage.
Both candidates said they favor
legislation requiring the Congress to
review and approve the continuation of
all federal programs and review tax
subsidies, credits, and other tax ad
vantages.
When asked to indicate three steps the
federal government could take to im
prove its effectiveness, Ammerman
suggested assigning high priority to the
reorganization and streamlining of
federal agencies, making it easier to
in race for
nomination in 1973 with 88 percent of the
vote.
residence hall service and save money
by fixing minor problems and avoiding
major repairs.
Some of the workers affected differed
in their opinions of the new system.
"Buildings are getting older and need
more maintenance," a new preventive
maintenance worker said. "It might be
more efficient with the people right in
the area."
Another preventive maintenance
worker said, "I'd sooner have it the way
it was. It might be more efficient, but it
isn't fair for the utility workers to have
more buildings and to take a cut in pay."
A new utility worker said, "It should
have been done a while ago. The more
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Peter Flaherty ,
reward productive federal employees
and replace incompetent ones, and to
enact sunset legislation (legislation that
reviews all federal programs for ef
fectiveness and/or necessity. )
Clinger said his top priorities are to
enact Sunset legislation, substantially
reduce government spending programs
and the services and benefits provided
by such programs, and to reduce
government regulation of business.
William Clinger
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financial operations."
"According to data from the city's
occupation tax receipts, employment in
the city has actually risen by 8,000 or 3
percent from 1973 to 1977," it said.
On housing, the magazine said, "For
several years five dwelling units, mostly
abandoned, have been demolished for
, every new one built."
And the. exodus of business to the
suburbs means "total employment in
Pittsburgh has declined by a com
paratively modest 5 percent since 1971."
But Fortune concluded, "The great
lesson of Pittsburgh is that it is possible
for cities to shrink successfully."
The third, Thornburgh ad says
Flaherty, an anti-organization
maverick, has "three times endorsed
and supported" outing Gov. Milton
Shapp. Shapp now is a political
albatross, thanks to a scandal-plagued
administration.
"So he wants to tar me with the Shapp
brush. What he neglects to tell you is that
he was appointed U.S. attorney by
Richard Nixon and sponsored by Hugh
Scott," Flaherty, who mentions the
discredited president and the former
senator as often as he can, said.
Flaherty's ads, however, don't quite
match the record in ther•areas.
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Thornburgh has city documents that
show there only were 31 additional
playgrounds built during Flaherty's
reigns and that only 17 new senior citizen
centers are now in operation, most in
existing buildings like church
basements.
increased
skilled maintenance workers could do
the repair work. The utility workers are
doing almost exactly the same work for
less wages."
Preventive maintenance workers will
be paid $4.67 per hour, and the utility
workers will get $4.34 per hour. The
former residence hall maintenance
workers received $4.48 per hour.
Dombroski said the employees' union,
Teamsters Local 8, had questioned the
pay scale for the two new positions and
had filed some grievances.
Jane Pikovsky, local 8 president, was
not available for comment.
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WASHINGTON (AP) The Carter
administration, with one big energy
victory behind it; is preparing a second
energy progam to close what it views as
gaps in the first plan.
Federal energy officials say the new
plan will be aimed more at boosting U.S.
energy supplies than was the big energy
bill passed in the closing hours of the
95th Congress.
The administration is expected to
submit its "National Energy Plan Two"
to Congress in January or February.
Proposed federal grants, loan
guarantees and stepped-up research for
a wide variety of energy projects
ranging from transforming coal into
clean-burning fuels to better utilizing
wind, geothermal, solar and
hydroelectric energy are expected to
be included.
But the oil-pricing issue probably will
generate the most controversy.
Congress killed the crude oil tax that
Carter called the centerpiece of his first
energy program. It would have raised
U.S. oil prices to world levels in three
yearly steps.
Although they voted to lift federal
price controls on natural gas in 1985,
lawmakers wound up doing nothing
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By WENDY ZOLDOS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
"The free world as we know it is not
going to survive," Dr. Edward Teller,
regarded as the father of the
hydrogen bomb, said in a lecture
given last week on the topic of "The
Man-Made Energy Shortage."
Teller said that if people continue to
be timid with respect to our
development of technical energy
sources, they cannot expect to
maintain our current standard of
living.
The scope of the energy problem is
world-wide. Teller said that the per
capita consumption of energy from
1950 to 1975 increased four-fold in the
developing countries. The need for
increasing energy sources in these
countries is due to the industrial
revolution.
Teller said the problems of in
creasing world population are due to
two factors.
First, the development of new and
advanced medical practices, par
ticularly preventive medicine, has
caused the death rate to drop sharply.
The population explosion is a direct
consequence of the industrial
revolution, Teller said, and the
energy crisis is a result of the
population explosion.
Second, the need for more energy
sources is a result of global ur
banization, he said.
Teller believes that the energy
problem was prematurely
aggravated by the formation and
boycott by the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Since over half of the world's oil
reserves are concentrated in the
Middle East, the OPEC countries can
control the fate of the world's oil
supply.
How do we solve the energy
problem? According to Teller, the
answer is obvious. To solve the
problem, we must use every
reasonable method, including energy
conservation, Teller said. We are not
economizing with regard to
automobile usage and mileage, he
said. We also need to properly in
sulate our homes, he added.
"Saving energy is not enough,"
Carter plans second
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use. of energy
crisis solution
said Teller. Production must be in
creased to overcome the energy
problem. . Teller advocated the
following methods of production as
means of solving the problem:
an increase in the production of
oil and gas. Teller also advocated the
de-regulation of prices. He said
although prices would initially rise,
they would fall in the long run.
development of methods to
improve coal mining techniques, as
well as inventing ways to clean up
emissions from coal-burning plants.
devlopments in solar heating
technology.
developments in wind power.
developments in nuclear
energy.
Teller's plan for the use of nuclear
power as a source of energy concerns
primarily the advanced countries of
the world.
He would like to see the developed
countries of the world using
generators to produce nuclear
electricity. The developing countries
could use the oil saved by the ad
vanced countries.
Teller stressed the need for world
co-operation in solving the global
energy problem. "We need to replace
the competition with world-wide co
operation. The road to nuclear
proliferation is paved by good in
tentions."
Teller is a world-renowned
researcher in thermonuclear reac
tions, particularly in the application
of thermonuclear principles to the
development of weapons. He has also
developed programs exploring the
peaceful uses of nuclear explosives.
A native of Hungary, Teller came
to the United States in 1935 to serve as
professor of Physics at George
Washington University. During his
lifetime, he has made significant
contributions in chemical, molecular,
and nuclear physics. Teller has
authored eight books, and holds 16
honorary doctoral degrees.
He has devoted his past three years
to the energy issues which now
confront us, having recently com
pleted a book entitled "Energy from
its Inception to Adolescence," to be
published in January.
about the price of oil
"I think (the crude-oil tax) will be
recycled in one form or another,"
speculated Ari Weiss, House Speaker
Thomas P. O'Neill's energy
troubleshooter.
"I'm sure the next Congress will deal
with oil pricing. It will want to do it in a
non-election year," the O'Neill aide said.
The price controls instituted to keep
the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo from
sending domestic oil prices skyrocketing
will expire at the end of next May. These
controls currently hold U.S.-produced oil
at an average of about $4 less per 42-
gallon barrel than imported oil.
Altho'ugh Carter can extend the
controls through September 1981, he
vowed at last summer's Bonn economic
summit to take unspecified steps to raise
U.S. oil prices to world-market levels by
1980.
Without the crude oil tax his options
are limited.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman
Russell Long, D-La., predicts Carter will
both allow the controls to expire in May
and propose a tax to keep oil companies
from reaping windfall profits.
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