Thornburgh fills two cabinet posts
HARRISBURG (AP) Governor-elect Dick Thorn
burgh, filling the most powerful cabinet post in his new
administration, selected former five-term
~SOngressman Edward Biester Jr. as attorney general
7e3terday.
Thornburgh also nominated Lancaster Mayor
Richard Scott, a retired Air Force brigadier general, as
adjutant general the fourth of 17 cabinet selections he
will make before taking office Jan. 16,
In addition, three cabinet-level officials have been
appointed but do not need the Senate approval required
of -cabinet nominees. The new attorney general will
earn $94,500 a year; the adjutant general makes $38,500.
senate Majority Leader Edward Zemprelli, D-
Allegheny, said yesterday he will
_ask the Senate to
,love quickly on Thornburgh's appointees.
"we wish to cooperate in a smooth transition of
power," he said in a statement,
'/s soon as Senate leaders pick the committee
chairmen, Zemprelli said, he will ask the chairmen to
immediately hold confirmation hearings.
:`:"ldeally, the hearings can be held prior to the Jan. 16
inaugural so that the full Senate is in a position on or
about inauguration day to act on these cabinet
nominations," Zemprelli said.
:The 47-year-old Biester, a Bucks County native who
has a private law practice in Philadelphia, is an interim
*election because of a constitutional amendment.
Beginning next year, voters will elect the attorney
general, a post that could become a stepping stone to
higher office.
- Though the powers and duties of an elected attorney
genergeneral have yet to be outlined by the Legislature, he
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Shapp fund raisers
to enter guilty plea
HARRISBURG (AP) A Merlon
couple charged with illegal fun-
draising for Gov. Shapp's 1976
presidential campaign will plead
g uilty on Friday, official sources
disclosed yesterday.
Eleanor and, Samuel Elias, friends
and neighbors of Shapp, pleaded
innocent in November and were
Scheduled to go on trial Monday in
federal court in Harrisburg.
lip . ,
They are charged in a 30-count
indictment with arranging phony
contributions to the unsuccessful
Shapp campaign.
A U.S. Justice Department official,
asking not to be identified by name,
• said Eleanor Elias has agreed to
4 , plead guilty to 15 misdemeanor
_charges and her husband will plead
guilty to nine.
In return, the official said, the
government will drop more serious
' felony charges.
ilk , Friday's hearing is scheduled
before U.S. — District Court 'Judge R.
Dixon Herman, who had been set to
' preside at trial on Monday.
"There's not going to be a trial.
There's going to be a change of plea
,Terrorists murder Spanish military leader
It
MADRID, Spain (UPI) Two young
literrorists firing automatic weapons
?;assassinated the military governor of
tadrid province outside his apartment
i!building yesterday in an apparent new
!effort to provoke a military takeover in
IStiain.
Less than four hours later, the BaSque
. separatist organization ETA took
. 4 responsibility for the killing in a short
tement telephoned to news media in
northern Spain.
t. After gunning down Gen. Constantino
Ortin Gil, the killers sped off in a stolen
lwhite automobile with two other ac
lcomplices.
' e l, Police threw up roadblocks around the
TF.apital. The interior ministry said it
•, would prosecute any news organization
1 •
that publishes any communique in which
' I the killers defend their action.
• Both the ruling Democratic Center
Union of Premier Adolfo Suarez and the
ti s. t
utera skates from political
:PHILADELPHIA ( AP) Robert J. Butera, a Republican
candidate for governor in last spring's primary election, joins
• the Philadelphia Flyers next Tuesday as an executive vice
)resident of operations.
- •
Butera, 43, will attend all National Hockey League meetings
,• land be in charge of all day-to-day club operations except
; ,player personnel, Ed Snider, chairman of the board, said
,Iyesterday.
1 A 15-year member and former leader of the Pennsylvania
iHouse of Representatives, Butera stepped down in May 1977 to
C'entral Pa. recieves new AM station
.
,
( Happy Valley folks can tune in at 1080 Hawks, office manager, said. The sta
:,, ~on their dial to a new AM radio station, tion plans to play contempofary music,
• , YWQRO. from the current top 40 hits to oldies
OP From sunrise to sunset, WQRO will of the past 10 years, and will feature
f, broadcast from Huntindon, Janet local and world news and local sports,
!_ocal bank offers charge card credit
000) Midstate Bank and Trust Co. is now the first bank in Centre
) County to offer direct Visa and Mastercharge credit card
-. ,ipayments to its home office.
An officer at the Allen Street office of Midstate said that up
, l until the end of last year when the service began, all local
charge card accounts were with Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh,
, end all payments had to be made directly to them. Now per
iffiw
. bons who received their Visa or Mastercharge through Mid
,,, state can make their charge payments at any branch of the
batik.
service like this," she said. "But as the bank grew and our
"Any customer can pay their bills directly to any teller, and departments grew, we became large enough to handle all the
if,they have any complaints they can bring them directly to us accounts." —by Sharon Fink
still wields tremendous clout as the state's chief law
officer who advises the governor and state agencies on
legal matters.
What's more, new crime-fighting laws give the at
torney general investigative powers on empaneling
statewide grand juries or using wiretaps.
"My first objective is to create, since the department
is going through a transition, a department based on the
highest professional standards, with hiring based on
merit without politics," said Biester, a former
prosecutor who served as an assistant district attorney
for six years.
"That's the single most important thing. I want to set
exactly the right tone. I see the office potentially
becoming a special place of high competence and great
respect. It intensifies the need to make the office
professional," he said in a telephone interview. .
Biester, who recently served as special counsel to a
Senate Ethics Committee investigating payroll fraud
after the scandal involving formec Sen. Henry J.
Cianfrani, said he has not given any thought to seeking
election. But he would not rule it out either.
"Oh, no. No, I wouldn't rule it out. But I'm really
focusing my priorities on getting the department and
my work under way," he said.
Biester said his other priorities would be cracking
down on public corrpution, organized crime, Medicaid
fraud, anti-trust violations and taking a hard look at
consumer responsibilities.
Biester, who earned his law degree at Temple, served
on the House Judiciary Committee in Congress. He was
a member of panels dealing with constitutional law„
civil rights and parole and prison reform.
on Friday," said Peggy Kopp, Judge
Herman's secretary.
"I think it's fair to say there will be
some disposition . . . There's still
some negotiating going on," said
Washington attorney William Hun
dley, who is representing the Eliases.
Asked if the purpose of the hearing
was for the Eliases to change their
plea, Hundley replied, "Yeah." He
refused to discuss.the case further.
The original 30-count indictment
said the Eliases arranged phony
contributions to help Shapp qualify
for federal matching funds in his•
unsuccessful bid to get the
Democratic presidential nomination.
If she had been convicted on all 24
counts naming her, Eleanor Elias
could have received up to 32 years in
prison and a $570,000 fine. Her
husband was cited in 11 counts and
could have faced up to 19 years and a
$245,000 fine.
Christopher Passodelis, owner of a
_ popular Pittsburgh restaurant, was•
convicted last month of similar
violations involving the Shapp
campaign and is now awaiting sen
tencing. He could get a maximum of
18 years in prison.
Communist Party deplored the terrorist
attack as an incident "aimed at
provoking the armed forces."
The right-wing opposition party
Popular Alliance said the killing showed
"the total deterioration of law and order
and of individual safety in Spain, as well
as the absolute inability of the govern
ment to face up to it."
, In the last three months ETA has
taken responsibility for 41 slayings in its
struggle to win independence for the
Basque region of northern Spain. The
victims included an army major shot
and killed last Tuesday,in the city of San
Sebastian.
Each of Spain's 50 provinces has a
military governor who coordinates
affairs between the local civilian
governors and the armed forces, He also
commands the troops in his province.
"The assassination of Gen. Ortin,
along with the killing yesterday, is the
launch his bid for the governor's mansion. He finished third in
the primary election.
Butera, a suburban Norristown-area attorney, takes over
the job held by Gil Stein, who left the club last January to
become vice president and general counsel of the NHL. •
"The addition of Bob to our executive staff give the Flyers a
solid managerial foundation for the future," Snider said. "It
will also allow me to devote more time to other interests and
projects, which I have been anxious to explore for some time."
instead of making long-distance calls to Pittsburgh," the bank
officer said.
She also emphasized that the service is available only to
people who received their Visa and Mastercharge through
Midstate Bank. If they received their charge cards through
any other bank they still must make their payments to Mellon
Bank.
The officer said whether to alldw direct payment of accounts
or not is the choice of the bank.
"Up until now our bank wasn't large enough to handle a
Subscription rates also raised
Centre Daily Times increases price to 20°
By MARYANNE DELL
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Increased labor, distribution, printing and other costs
mean that readers of the Centre Daily Times now have
to pay more for the paper, said Dave Dickey, Times
circulation manager. ,
A single issue of the CDT now costs 20 cents. The
increase —.from the old rate of 15 cents a copy
became effective Jan. 1, Dickey said. Costs are up for
all industries, and in order to keep up with them, he
said, the paper was compelled to raise the 15 cent price
FASH violence breaks
PITTSBURGH (AP) At least three
truck drivers were injured yesterday as
violence associated with a two-month
old steel haulers' strike flared in Penn
sylvania after a holiday lull.
Two Ohio drivers both hauling
building supplies were slightly injured in
nearby Shaler Township when rocks and
ball bearings were thrown through the
windshields of their rigs, police said.
"The two truckers had face
lacerations and glass fragments in their
eyes," said a police spokeswoman.
A North Hills Passavant Hospital
supervisor said Larry Miller of Amherst
and Larry Wozniak of Vermillion were
released after treatment.
Pittsburgh police said a Portland,
highest point yet in the escalation of
terrorism aimed at destroying- Spain's
nascent democracy," said the chief of
the parliament's Defense Committee,
Socialist Enrique Mugica.
Mugica called for unity of the people
and the army and appealed for the
terrorist "provocations" to be ignored.
Ortin, 63, referring to the wave of
terrorism that took 99 lives in Spain last
year recently told a neighbor:
"Any one of these days they'll put a
bullet or two in me."
Friends said he planned to move into
living quarters inside the provincial
military headquarters to be safe.
Ortin fought in the Spanish civil war as
an officer with Generalissimo Francisco
Franco's nationalist forces.
After the shooting, police forces were
put on general alert and surveillance
beefed up at Madrid airport and railway
stations.
limelight
WHUN, the other radio station in
Huntingdon, broadcasts more rock and
country music, Hanks said. She said
WQRO hopes to appeal to the 18 to 44 age
group.
He serves as an elected member of the national board
of governors of the citizens' lobby Common Cause. His
late father was Bucks County Common Pleas Court
President Judge Edward G. Biester.
The 60-year-old Scott, in his second term as Lancaster
mayor, is a West Point graduate with 28 years of
military service. A fighter pilot in World War 11, he has
a master's degree in political science from George
Washington University.
At the time of his retirement in 1970, Scott was ser
ving as director of operations and administration for
the U.S. Defense Atomic Support Agency.
"I think the key elements in any job are a lot of hard
work and a lot of integrity," said Scott, who will head
the Department of Military Affairs which oversees the
Pennsylvania National Guard and veteran affairs.
"I've never been in the Prussian mold. I'm a loose
guy, easy to get along with. But I like to get the job done
in a first class way," he said in a telephone interview.
Both departments were tainted by controversy
during Gov. Shapp's reign.
Shapp had five attorneys general in his eight years in
office. He fired one, J. Shane Creamer, after a
wiretapping scandal. And he refused to reappoint
Robert P. Kane in an interim role. Among other things,
state police are investigating Kane's role in an alleged
coverup involving the Revenue Department's cigarette
tax bureau.
Former Adjutant General Harry J. Mier resigned in
1977 before pleading guilty to one count of misusing
government property and agreeing to pay $4,616 to
reimburse the government for helicopter fuel.
N.Y., driver carrying aluminum was
pulled from his rig in nearby McKees
Rocks by about 15 unidentified men. His
truck was set on fire and the engine
wires were cut. There were no arrests.
State police said one trucker was in
jured when 12 tractor-trailers and a car
were struck with shotgun blasts and
pellets on the turnpike in Somerset
County. Police said the victim refused
treatment.
Five .trucks were hit, in_ succession
around 12:30 a.m., police said. Less than
a mile away, seven trucks and a car
were struck with pellets at the same
time.
No arrests were made.
"It's a hell of a thing to handle," said a
Gen. Constantino Ortin Gil
which had been in effect since Jan. 1, 1974
Having the paper delivered by mail or a carrier also
will cost more. All mail delivery rates increased 5.75
percent, Dickey said. The actual price increase for the
reader depends on where the paper has to be delivered,
he said. Postal rates increase with the distance the
paper is sent, so readers who live outside of State
College will have larger increases in their bills.
Carrier delivery rates rose from $10.84 to $11.45 for a
three-month subscription paid in advance; from $21.10
to $22.30 for a six-month subscription, and from $38.90 to
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peaceful holiday lull
state police spokesman. "What happens
is they get hit then go to the nearest state
police barracks or back to a rest area
and report it. By the time we get there to
investigate there's no one a'round."
A truck parked at a residence
elsewhere in Somerset County and a rig
traveling Old Route 28 in Allegheny
County were also fired on without injury
in the 24-hour period that ended at 8 a.m.
yesterday, sta te'pol ice said.
State police said they suspect the
violence is the result of the current
shutdown by the Pittsburgh-based
Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers,
although FASH Chairman Bill Hill says
he does not condone violence.
Meanwhile, a federal judge continues
to mull his decision in a $3-million
Soviets call Mc Donald's
a real American dream
MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet
press says the Big Mac is a big mess;
the real American dream as seen
through red-tinted glasses.
The weekly New Times described
the McDonald's hamburger empire
as the epitome of an American
capitalistic nightmare: it allegedly
exploits workers with low pay, grinds
out poor quality food, supports
paramilitary organizations, sets up
secret informer networks and bends
the minds of America's youth.
"McDonald's fully exploits the
mentality of the average American
who tends to look down upon the
whole world from across the two
oceans," New Times said.
It charged that Big Mac buns are
pumped full of air and the tomatoes
are chemically treated to look fresh.
The Daily Collegian Thursday, Jan. 4, 197-
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$42.15 for a year's subscription, Dickey said. Weekly
subscription rates increased from 85 to 90 cents.
Rates will not change for advance subscriptions
which already have been paid, provided the sub
scription expired in 1978, he said. Once the current
payment runs out, however, the new rates will take
effect.
Other area papers, including the Altoona Mirror,
Clearfield Progress and Huntingdon Daily News,
recently have raised their costs from 15 to 20 cents per
issue, Dickey said.
lawsuit in which seven steel companies
claim the strike violates a permanent
injunction protecting steel shipments.
FASH members vow to fight any court
order against them and not return to
work until they win bargaining rights,
more money and unified highway
regulations.
"What's there to go back to?"
remarked one member who attended a
FASH rally in Pittsburgh Tuesday.
"Sure it's hard without money. You
use what you've saved, what you can get
doing odd jobs and what you can beg,"
said John Grime.
But the trucker said he's not ready to
haul steel again. "I'd rather fight," he
said. "I've given up too much so far."
"It looks appetizing if one does not
know of the technological and
chemical manipulations that are
concealed from the public eye," the
international affairs weekly said.
The key, it said, was a multimillion
dollar advertising budget and a
patriotic campaign to make the
hamburger empire synonomous with
America complete with American
flags out front and a plastic eagle
"that looks at the customer with
fierce eyes from the wall inside the
stand."
It said attempts to present em
ployee grievances in an organized
manner have prompted the company
to set up a "secret apparatus" to slow
down organizing attempts "and to
prevent discontent from reaching the
confrontation stage."
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