—The Daily Collegian Monday, March 12, 1979
Jammed jam
Student's parents found in wrecked plane
By DAVE SKIDMORE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The parents of a University student
were found dead in the Seven
Mountains area yesterday inside
their wrecked plane that had been
missing more than two months.
The ' wreckage of the plane,
presumed to be carrying Mervin and
Bernice Heisey, parents of Stephen
M. Heisey (9th-business ad
ministration) was sighted about 15 1 / 2
miles southwest of State College near
Reedsville by a commercial pilot
Student misses council nomination deadline
By PAULA FROKE , .
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
• The ballot for party nominations in the State College
Municipal Council primary race this spring almost
included one more name that of a University student.
But Republican Jim Ridenour (7th-political science)
didn't quite make the deadline to file nominating
petitions for the office. In fact, he picked up his petition
form at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte only
an hour before the 5 p.m. filing deadline last Tuesday.
"I started thinking about entering the race about a
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More than 750 people jammed into the HUB Ballroom last night to hear Tahoka Freeway perform their stuff.
yesterday afternoon, according to
Civil Air Patrol Lt. Mona Whetstine.
Two planes from the Civil Air
Patrol Group 1300, based in
Bellefonte, confirmed the location of
the plane betkveen 3:30 and 4 p.m.,
she said.
Between 50 and 60 members of
Group 1300 and State Police at
Lewistown arrived at the crash site
about 5 p.m., she said.
The Heiseys, flying a red and white
single-engine Grumman American,
had been missing since Jan. 5 when
month ago, but I didn't have time to find out some of the
important details, like when the filing deadline was,"
Ridenour said.
As a result, he and Undergraduate Student Govern
ment Vice President Tany Cortese didn't realize until
about 3 p.m. Tuesday that they had only two hours in
which to assure that Ridenour's name would appear on
the ballot, Ridenour said. '
At 4 p.m. Tuesday, as the last few candidates were
dropping off their petitions at the courthouse, Ridenour
and Cortese came in asking to get a petition. They were
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they left Lancaster Municipal Airport
enroute to University Park Airport to
visit their son.
The original search lasted 23 days
and involved more than 300 people,
including Civil Air Patrol Groups
based in Bellefonte and Harrisburg, a
snowmobile club, the Air National
Guard and state police. -
The search covered the air route
between Lancaster and State College
several times and later ranged as far.
west as Altoona.
The crash site is in the area
covered, but poor visibility and
weather• conditions had hampered
searchers' efforts.
"We assume the plane was covered
by snow," Whetstine said.
Mifflin County Coroner Reid A.
Leopold said he has not positively
identified the bodies, but said, "I feel
certain it's the right plane."
Samie Snider, search and rescue
coordinator for the state Bureau of
Aviation, confirmed that the downed
aircraft was the Heisey plane.
back with the petition and the required 10 signatures
about an hour later, but they walked into the courthouse
one minute after election officials closed the books for
accepting petitions.
"We thought the clock outside the courthouse said it
was still a few minutes before 5, but the clock inside
said 5:02," Ridenour said.
People still wishing to run for the council or for other
local offices may do so by conducting write-in cam
paigns.
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Member of fraternity dies
A University student died Saturday at came to his aid were unable to fincra
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, 321 E. pulse, the spokesman said. • .
Fairmount Ave. An ambulance was summoned, but Vie.
Glenn E. Frymoyer, 21, of Shillingto crew was unable to revive Frymoyer.
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was a 12th-term management major and The County coroner, W. Robert Neff;
a fraternity member, an ATO was unavailable for comment op
spokesman said.
Frymoyer's death. However, his wife
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told The Daily Collegian it was•assumed
Frymoyer was "feeling fine when he the death was due to natural causes. The
woke up," the spokesman said. At about body is still being examined to detei
-3:30 p.m., Frymoyer fell on his way to mine the exact cause of death, she saict)
the bathroom and the brothers who —by Bill Leonard
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said before the banquet yesterday that
"important issues remain to be
resolved. All of us are dedicated to
continue with our best efforts to reach
success." . .
Begin's spokesman Dan Pattir said
progress was achieved on the "dif
ficulties that exist." But he cautioned
that other differences remained and
both sides were dealing with them.
Egyptian officials said yesterday in
Cairo that in his three-day peace mission
to Egypt, Carter` brought Sadat strong
assurances .of increased American
military and economic aid once a treaty
with Israel is signed.
"Never before has the United States
gone this far in relations with Egypt and
in such clear-cut terms," said a senior
official. - ,
Photo by Sherri
Larson promises to
make pothole repairs
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earmarked $76 million of the proposed
budget for a one-year, one-shot pothole
patch-up program. .
The real solution to the problem,
however, lies in the use of good'
materials to make sound repairs in the
summer so the potholes will not erupt in
the winter, Larson said.
"We spend an enormous amount of
money in resurfacing and patching the
roads," he said, "but too often the
materials don't last. You can't put
materials down this year, and then
replace them next year, and still be cost
effective;" he said. .
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"Potholes are above all a symptom of
bad maintenance," he said.
But bad maintenance results from
more than simply using poor materials,
Larson said. He pointed to the political
patronage system, which has placed a
number of poorly
,qualified people in
PennDOT management jobs, as "the
Israel to send reply to Egypt
The Carter mission was still having
major repercussions in the Arab world;
In Beirut, radical Palestinian guerri4
leader George Habash criticized
Arab governments yesterday for their
leniency with Sadat and called for - the
use of the "oil weapon" another
embargo to fight the spread :of
American influence in the Middle East. :
Carter's Middle East peace mission
created minor disturbances in the qi
cupied West Bank town of Ramallah
where youths hurled stones at passitig
vehicles and troops. One Israeli woman
aboard a bus was injured, a militirj
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spokesman said.
The Israeli state radio reported Carter,
brought partial Egyptian agreemeht
with him on the several issues includi . riP,
giving the peace treaty priority over
Cairo's defense commitments to its Arab
sister states and about linking the pact td
the future of the Palestinians.
thing that brought the department to6s,
knees." • : •
To end the patronage system and
assure -that qualified people assume
PennDOT's jobs, Larson said he has
developed a maintenance management
review program through which local
committees from each county will
recommend three candidates f0r,)1)6
management team. From these three;
Larson said he will select the most
qualified person from each county.
"In the past, we have had people- in
these positions who are not competent;''
he said. "But if I don't have control,. of
these people, then I won't be secretaryAf
the department. I won't be responsible
for half a billion dollars of maintenance
money over which I have no control."
Another change which Larson said he
plans for the state -transportation
department concerns resumption :of
highway construction, which wa - •,-
stopped in July 1977. - • .