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Carter rationing plan
gets Senate approval
WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate
approved President Carter's standby
gasoline rationing plan 58-39 yesterday
but unanimously told him not to use the
power except in dire national
emergencies.
, Senate acceptance sent the latest
version of the often-modified plan to the
House, where action was anticipated
tomorrow.
The president generally agreed to go
along with a unanimous Senate
resolution spelling out circumstances
under which he could invoke the
rationing power.
At the White House, President Carter
issued a statement applauding the ac
tion, saying: "We do not expect that we
will ever need to use this plan, but, as
with our military forces, .we would be
foolhardy not to be prepared should such
a need ever arise."
To win Senate approval, the White
Hot stuff
Our hazy, hot, and humid weather will
continue under partly cloudy skies for
the next few days and all weekend long.
There is just the slightest chance of a
brief shower at any time though.
Daytime highs will be near 87 and
overnight lows near 69.
Prostitution exists here,
police and 'Johns' say
By BARBARA KLEIN
and PAM STEIN
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
To some, prostitution is a dirty word;
to others it is away of life. But no matter
what the interpretation, prostitution is a
thriving business a business that has
not bypassed Happy Valley.
"Prostitution is certainly a crime you
don't see a lot of arrests for," a former,
State College police officer said. "But
that doesn't mean it doesn't exist; it
does. Just frequent the Sheraton and the
Holiday Inn and you can see it."
Much of the Sheraton Penn State Inn's
and Holiday Inn's business comes from
convention business, according to
representatives of the inns.
"We do not get many off-the-street or
walk-in customers," Barbara Zig,
Sheraton general manager, said.
"Usually companies will reserve blocks
of rooms for their conventions."
However, according to Sheraton bar
manager Cubby Bair, the rise of con
ventions does not necessarily result in
the rise of prostitution.
"A motel always gets accused of that
(prostitution), especially a busy one,"
Bair said. "We have the busiest bar in
Centre County without a doubt; that's
why we get die reputation."
Yet other motel managers do not view
the problem so simply. In fact, many see
prostitution as a problem that needs to
be dealt with,
Jamie Stiteler, asistant manager of
the Holiday Inn, is aware of the talk
about prostitution. But she quickly notes
the management is attempting to deal
with the problem.
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House made a number of additional last
minute concessions, including a promise
not to use rationing to ease lines at
gasoline stations caused by temporary
shortages.
The president also promised to make
more gasoline available to farmers and
to industries engaged in producing
energy under a compromise readied
moments before the Senate showdown.
These concessions came in addition to
modifications made by the president
earlier modifications which the
Senate accepted on a 66-30 vote shortly
before approving the overall plan.
By this vote, senators went along with
the president's decision to change his
plan to guarantee a larger share of
rationing coupons to individuals living in
states where average gasoline con
sumption is high.
The rationing plan is intended only as
a standby program, one that would be
kept on the shelf until needed in a crisis.
And once Carter invoked such a plan,
Congress would have 15 days in which
either chamber could veto it.
"ln the absence of contingency plans,
including rationing, we would not be able
to deal with the crisis except in anar
chy," Sen. Henry M. Jackson, chairman
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"Since I started working here in Oc
tober '77, the manager and I have been
throwing those types out of here; we
don't want them in our bar," Stiteler
said. "First we politely ask them to
leave; then if they don't, we bodily throw
them out. I've heard that most of them
have moved to the Sheraton."
HoWeyer, Zier denied prostitutes
operate out of the Sheraton lounge. "I've
never heard of anything here," she said.
"I don't know of anyone particularly
coming into this lounge."
But prostitutes are available down
town, according to an employee of one
downtown motel. And he said a specific
procedure is followed for arranging
meetings between men and prostitutes.
The head of the bar lines up the men,
goes to the desk, takes a room key and
then signs the register "Rip Van
Winkle," he said.
The State College Police Department
is aware of prostitution in the borough,
but, according to Investigator Robert
Abernethy, there have only been three
arrests in the past three or four years.
One incident resulted in the conviction of
two women working out of the Holiday
Inn on charges of disorderly conduct.
Prostitution is not limited to the
downtown area, for it can also be found
on the University campus, according to
Stuart. A man who has been spending
time and money with prostitutes since
fall 1977, he said the problem is more
widespread than most people believe.
"Girls are in it for the money," he
said. "They're doing what they know
how to do best. One girl I had said she
was making $250 a week."
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U.S. reaches SALT II agreement
WASHINGTON (UPI) The United
States and Soviet' Union have, wrapped
up a SALT II nuclear arms accord and
stand "on the threshold" of signing it
after some minor finishing touches,
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance an
nounced yesterday.
"Details concerning the time and
place of a summit meeting will be an
nounced in the very near future," Vance
said in announcing the break-through in
negotiations that have dragged on for
seven years, spluttering and surging
with the fortunes of "detente."
U.S. officials said President Carter
and the ailing Soviet President Leonid
Brezhnev would probably meet in mid-
June for the first time either in
Geneva, Vienna or Stockholm. Brezhnev
is too frail too travel to the United States.
That will give Carter another grand
moment of foreign policy triumph to
match his Middle East peace and
Panama Canal treaties but it will only
precede a brutal, uphill battle for Senate
ratification, a battle with 1980 election
year overtones for all involved.
Administration officials concede they
are now more 20-25 votes shy of the
required two-third's Senate majority
67 votes if all 100 senators participate
and the proof was in the muted
congressional reaction yesterday.
Even among the Senate's politically
moderate leaders, no one at first came
out with a flat, unqualified endorsement
of SALT 11, which is designed to slow the
nuclear arms race by putting fixed
limits on the number of missiles and
bombers each side may have.
Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, chair
man of the pivotal Foreign Relations
Committee that plans to take up the
treaty in July, said Senate action would
depend on whether SALT II "is balanced
and gives no possible advantage to the
Soviet Union."
Senate Democratic leader Robert
Byrd declined to speculate on the
treaty's chances. Republican leader
Family ties may cause conflict in mall voting
By JIM WILHELM
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
.A member of the Ferguson Township
Planning Commission is a cousin of the
Dreibelbis family, owners of the 150-acre
farm where the Oxford Development
Company wants to build the proposed
Ferguson Mall.
Cecil Irvin, a commission member,
will be among the planners who will vote
on a recommendation to township
supervisors about the fate of the mall.
The vote will follow two days of public
hearings on the mall on May 23 and 24.
It is the third possible conflict of in
terest to arise in connection with the
mall decision.
At a meeting of the planning com
mission May 7, commission member
Martha K. Hummel voluntarily ab
stained from any discussion and
recommendation vote on the mall.
Hummel said she had a conflict of in-
Another "john" knows co-eds in the
dorms and in apartments who perform
oral sex for $5. The former are said to
spend the night and perform additional
acts for $25. These girls advertise by
"knocking on doors" and other methods,
he added.
"You can just tell," Stuart said, "even
by the way they dress. Bars and bar
tenders are contacts and the 'wall' isn't
too bad if you're sober and looking."
Although Stuart said he hasn't had any
trouble with the police, he warned, "You
have to be cautious."
According to David Stormer, director
of University Police Services, there have
never been any arrests made for.
prostitution on campus.
"Most investigations," he said, "have
stemmed from co-eds who have been
solicited for prostitution by individuals
downtown."
Stormer, who has been on major
college campuses for 20 years and on
Penn State's for six, said he's "always
heard of it (campus prostitution)."
However, he added, "I've never sub
stantiated it. And, of course, no one is
willing to go to court."
Stormer said "Contacts are made
along the 'wall' or on the streets, in pizza
places or outside bars." But the girls
who make these contacts are in the 13- to
17-year-old age bracket, he said. "For
the older women downtown, it's a
business," Stormer said. "For the
younger ones, it's a weekend activity."
Like many others, Abernethy said the
problem existed only in town and said he
doubts "if any prostitution exists on
campus." He believes prostitution is
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Howard Baker said he told Carter
yesterday, at a private White House
briefing, he is "leaning against" the
pact.
Liberal Sens. George McGovern, D-
S.D., and Mark Hatfield, R-Ore.,
restated their threats to oppose the pact
as insufficient to curb the arms race,
while Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash.,
attacked it from the opposite quarter
and predicted the Senate would
"amend" the treaty as it pleases "to
plug its many loopholes."
Joined by Defense Secretary Harold
Brown, Vance appeared in the White
House press room to announce he and
Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin
have resolved the last remaining SALT
issues and have instructed lower-level
negotiators to finish up "the few
remaining secondary items" in the next
few weeks.
Then Vance and Brown swung into the
task of whipping up public support, and
converting the McGoverns and Bakers,
Major terms of SALT II treaty
WASHINGTON (UPI) Here, at a glance, are the major
provisions of the SALT II treaty:
A ceiling of 2,250 strategic missiles or bombers for both
sides by the end of 1981. Both sides must be down to 2,400 within
six months of the treaty going into effect.
Within the ceiling, no more than 1,320 missiles and
bombers may be equipped with multiple warheads or cruise
missiles. Within that subceiling, there will be no more than
1,200 land-based, sea-based, or air-to-surface ballistic
missiles. Within that subceiling, no more than 820 land-based
ICBMs with multiple warheads will be permitted.
Soviets to dismantle some 270 strategic missiles to get
down to the initial 2,400 ceiling.
Soviets to stop production and deployment of the SS-16
strategic missile
Both sides may construct and deploy a single new type of
strategic missile.
Both sides accept limits on the number of warheads they
can place on their new missile: no more than 10 on a land-
terest on mall decisions because she is
employed as a sales associate by Ralph
F. Brower.
Brower is a Century 21 realtor em
ployed by the Oxford Company to secure
options to buy homes near the mall site.
He, too, has a possible conflict of in
terest.
Brower is a running unopposed for
third ward supervisor in the township in
the Tuesday primary elections. When
contacted by The Daily Collegian last
week, however, he denied any conflict
and said he was running "because I'm
sick and tired of some of the things I see
going on in the township."
Irvin, unlike Hummel, joined Brower
in denying any conflict of interest
even though he is a relative of the
family.
"I don't feel there is the slightest bit of
conflict if I vote on the mall recom
mendation," Irvin said. "I talked this
more prevalent in the better motels and,
hotels, "especially ones that handle
conventions. In these situations girls
charge $5O to $2OO a night."
In Pennsylvania, prostitution is a
misdemeanor and those convicted can
be fined as much \as $2,500. But arrests
are hard to come by and the women will
usually plead to lesser charges, Aber
nethy said. "If there isn't a commotion,
there isn't too much we can do about
prostitution," he noted.
The former officer said the public does
not want to be involved with prostitution.
"The people of the borough don't see it
as a problem," she said. "There has not
been much research conducted or in
terest expressed in it, but it's still
there."
by reviewing all the arguments in favor
of this agreement and all the dangers in
having no treaty,
Brown stressed the military ad
vantages, noting that the Soviets would
be able to build their formidable ground
based intercontinental missile force to
far greater levels without SALT II than
with it,
On the other hand, he said, the treaty
will allow the United States to continue
development of crucial new weapons
systems such as the controversial MX
mobile missile.
Vance stressed the need to create a
stable framework for peace, calling
SALT II "an essential step toward a
safer America and a safer world."
"Our purpose in SALT II has been to
strengthen our nation's security and that
of our allies through sensible and
dependable restraints on the nuclear
arms competiton," he said.
"We are now on the threshold of
over with the township solicitor and we
agreed there would be no conflict of
interest. I have dozens of relatives in the
township and some of them are for the
mall and others are going to be badly
affected if any mall is constructed. I'm
right in the middle of the whole thing."
"Cecil came to me in November to see
if there would be any problems involved
if there was a mall vote," Ferguson
Township solicitor Ronald M. Lucas
said. "Since he has relatives on both
sides of the issue and he is not an im
mediate member of the Dreibelbis
family, I don't see any reason why he
couldn't vote."
Lucas said the two main criteria for
deterthining conflict of interest are
financial investment and the in
volvement of immediate family, such as
father, mother, brother or sister.
"Financial involvement is the biggest
thing, I think," Lucas said. "If a
District Magistrate Clifford Yorks
doesn't believe prostitution exists here.
"When 75 percent of the population is
between 18-23, there's no need to pay
when you can get it free," Yorks said,
"You can go to the Sheraton any night
between 4:45 and 6:45 and see at least
four to six girls coming in and going out
every half hour, but I don't think they're
getting paid for it."
Abernethy said some prostitutes are
fairly well known. For example, he said
one is a secretary at the University, and
another is often seen in her red Cadillac
driving around town.
Except for rumors, Rev. Robert Blair
of the United Campus Ministries, said,
"Neither in my social welfare work, nor
in my role in the Choice counseling
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based strategic missile; no more than 14 on a sea-based
missile
Cruise missiles carried on heavy bombers would not be
limited in range, but other cruise missiles (launched from the
ground or ships or tactical fighters) would be limited to . a
range of 366 miles
A treaty banning anti-ballistic missile systems, signed in
1972, remains in effect.
A protocol to the main agreement restricts both sides
from deploying land-based mobile ICBMs, sea-launched and
ground-launched strategic cruise misiles and ICBMs carried
aloft in aircraft until after Dec. 31, 1981.
The agreement-will be monitored by U.S. and Soviet spy
satellites and other intelligence means.
A "Backfire" letter in which the Soviets agree not to
deploy the swing-wing Backfire bomber against the United
States at Arctic bases nor increase its current current
production beyond the present rate, judged by the United
States to be 30 per year.
signing a SALT agreement which will
soundly and effectively realize this
purpose."
Officials stressed SALT II still needs
two or three weeks of work by lower
level , negotiators who must work out
final wording of the mind-boggling
package of docuMents. But they see no
fatal hitches in that phase.
Two-thir s ds of the Senate 67 if all 100
members vote must approve the
treaty for it to take effect. Hearings
were expected to begin in June and final
action on the treaty was expected by the
end of the year in time to become a
central political issue in the 1980
presidential campaign.
Chief among the variety of complaints
is th,e so-called "verification" issue
how can the United States can be sure
the Russians won't cheat on the treaty
terms, especially now that the United
States has lost two of its key electronic
missile-test monitoring stations in Iran:
member of a governing body had a
direct financial investment in the
decision he was going to make, he should
immediately announce his involvement
andab§tain from voting on it."
He said Hummel's decision to abstain
from voting was not a precedent in that
situation. Lucas said he read in some
literature that a husband-wife team in
California recently was forced to abstain
from voting on a decision because of a
conflict of interest. Although Lucas
wasn't sure of the details of the case, he
said the wife was on the town's planning
commission and the husband was a
member of the governing body.
Benjamin Novak, attorney for the
Park Hills Homeowners Association, a
group opposed to the mall, said he was
unaware Irvin was related to the
Dreibelbis family until contacted by the
Collegian.
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program, have I encountered any
problems with prostitution."
Yet Blair, who called himself "so far
removed from the 'real world' that it's
hard to know much about such things,"
said he has heard many rumors.
"I have heard rumors," he said, "that
on big weekends, a relatively well
organized crime ring brings in anywhere
from five to 10 girls from Pittsburgh and
around."
But women who are prostitutes cannot
be placed in one category:
"There is .no typical profile of a
'prostitute," the former officer said.
"There are many reasons women turn to
it money to support a drug habit, or
simply because they enjoy it and don't
mind being compensated."
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