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Crankcases an untapped oil reserve
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nor's Energy Council is working on a
plan to reclaim millions of gallons of oil
from largely untapped sources found
just about everywhere in Pennsylvania:
automobile crankcases.
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With the help of a $30,000 federal
grant, the council hopes to have a pilot
program operating in 17 counties by
spring, Dennis Seipp, manager for the
waste oil recycling program, said.
The program could collect about 27
million of the 63 million gallons of waste
oil generated each year in the state and
sell it for seven cents a gallon to a
recycling refinery, he said.
"Waste oil is a valuable energy
resource today," Seipp said.
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Board of Trustees ruled
defendant in airport suit
The University Board of Trustees will
be included as a defendant in a suit
against the Centre County Airport
Authority as a result of a ruling made
Wednesday by Centre County Court of
Common Pleas Judge Richard M. Sharp.
The judge's ruling was based on
arguments heard Nov. 27 from attorneys
representing the plaintiffs, the
University and the Airport Authority.
At the time, University lawyers
argued against including the University
in the suit, while the plaintiffs' attorney,
Winifred Jones-Wenger said that since
the University Park Airport is main
tained by the authority but owned by the
University, both parties should be
Novel deemed suitable for class
A special committee at the Penns Valley School District
decided that a best selling novel several parents have com
plained about is suitable for use in a high school English
course.
Parents complained at a September school board meeting
that "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough should not be
read by high school students. As a result, the board directed
high school principal John Rimmey to set up a committee to
evaluate the book.
The committee, chaired by Rimmey, was made up of a
district administrator, a teacher, a librarian and citizen in
vited by one of the parents. Another citizen who was asked to
serve declinecl.
Because of "raw bedroom scenes," obscene language and
statements "throughout the book" that showed disrespect for
God the book should not be used at all, said Ella Baker, the
Fraud alleged in bridge project
PITTSBURGH ( AP) Construction
of a $20.8 million bridge over the
Monongahela River here was tainted
with inefficiency, mismanagement,
graft and shakedowns, according to
newspaper reports quoting a state audit.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in its
Monday editions said state Auditor
General Al Benedict has compiled a 25-
page document outlining alleged
irregularities in the construction of the
Birmingham Bridge, which replaced the
old Brady Street Bridge.
Benedict's office refused to release a
copy of the audit to the Associated Press
in advance of a press conference to be
held this afternoon in Pittsburgh.
The Post-Gazette also said that
Patrick Sthith, chief investigator in the
audit, had his life threatened by
telephone, found his car sabotaged and
later had his car window smashed and a
brief case full of confidential memos
stolen.
brought to court.
The initial complaint was filed by the
four plaintiffs Aug. 31 oh behalf of the
Mid-State Airport, located in Philip
sburg. The suit maintains that the
University Park Airport is illegally
competing and interfering with services
and flights already provided by Mid-
State.
The suit alleges that the airport, by
leasing land from the University and
contracting with a car rental agency and
two commercial airlines to provide full
commuter service to Pittsburgh, is
duplicating services already available
at the Mid-State Airport east of
Philipsburg. The two airlines are Trans
The audit reportedly charges that
personnel of PennDOT accepted
gratuities from contractors and
salespeople during construction of the
bridge.
It is also said to allege poor work
manship, payments for work never done
and assignments of unqualified in
spectors to oversee the work.
Benedict, asked by the Post-Gazette to
confirm the audit, said the findings are
"a living testimonial, a monument to
waste, mismanagement, bureacuratic
blunders and a total lack of control on
the part of the state and all those in
volved in the construction.
"We have information that one of
PennDOT's five project inspection
supervisors assigned to the Brady Street
Bridge' received gifts of gasoline,
automobile parts, food, appliances and
other things from Joseph Bucheit and
Sons, the bridge's general contractor,"
Benedict added.
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The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Dec. 19, 1918-3
citizen who was invited to serve on the committee. Baker was:
the only member to vote against using the book.
Kathy Wilson, one of the parents who complained, said she
took her 16-year old son out of the class and intends to watch
what books are assigned for other courses.
The course, called "Best Seller Books," is an elective.
Sex is described in the book as "all one-sided" because the ,
man gets all the pleasure, Wilson said.
She said she also objeCts to the book because the female
characters "Couldn't care less if they were married or nol."
Superintendent of Schools Robert C. Downie, said the
district has not received any more complaints from parents
since the decision.
Rimmey would not comment on the committee's action.
—by Mary Ann Harvey
Penn and Pennsylvania Commuter
The basis for the suit is the Penn
sylvania Municipal Authorities Act of
1945, which regulates competition
between municipal and state funded
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facilities.
Rich Lambert, Trans Penn's director
of Operations, said full commuter
service out of State College could he
justified by the fact that most of the.
commuters to Pittiburgh live in the:
State College-Bellefonte area. .
Judge Sharp refused to comment on'
the case and said a court date had not
been set because the suit was still in the
pleading stages.
The Pittsburgh Press also reported
yesterday the president of the con
tracting firm, Pete Bucheit, said a
PennDOT inspector attempted to shake
him down for $4,500.
Bucheit reportedly blew the whistle on
the unnamed inspector, who allegedly
had been the recipient of the gifts, at a
July 1977 meeting with area PennDOT
officials, the Press said.
PennDOT Secretary George Pulakos
told the Associated Press he had not seen
the report.
Correction
It was incorrectly reported in The
Daily Collegian on Friday that tuition at
the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is
th'e highest rate in Pennsylvania. At
$4,440, Hershey's tuition is among the
lowest of medical school tuition rates in
the state.
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