These 900 pound rolls of newsprint sit at HiMes Printing Co. waiting to be
used. A'newsprint shortage has forced The Daily Collegian to cut back on
Its number of. stories. • •
pewsprint shortage
hits Centre County
By CHUCK HALL ' -
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
41 The Daily Collegian has recently been
forced to cut back the number of stories
it is „printing bec,ause. of, a newsprint
shortage - affeding — the - bovsgaper in
clustry. •
According-to editor POte Barnes, the
shortage has primarilyf'affeCted space
allotted for wire storiesi' It also has af
fected coverage of local stories, but to a
lesser degree.
Barnes said that there' have been
complaints recently .from' Collegian
readers concerning the:lack of coverage
in certain areas, especially in sports.
The Collegian regret* the cutback, but
is trying to provide gcOd coverage of the
major campus events' and news, Barnes
said.
"I don't know how . long this shortage
will last, but I'm not happy about it,"
Barnes said. "The editors aren't happy
Winter's warning?
The rain will end this morning, but
skies will remain cloudy and the winds
g will pick up' later today, with showers
rand falling temperatures throughout the
afternoon. The temperature will reach
53 this morning, but it will fall into the
40s this afternoon. Skies will slowly clear
tonight with a few left over showers or
perhaps even some snow flurries. Windy
and cold with' a low of 36. Variable
a i cloudiness and - Continued cold tomorrow
with a high of Only 45.
Eco-Action says
Editor's note: This is the first ill' a
series about recycling in State College.
By LINDA HOWLEY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Everything travels in circles, and if
(it trash is not recycled the circle is
disrupted, Eco-Action recycling director
Dennis McHugh said describing the
group's general philosophy.
"Trash is produced by everybody,"
McHugh said. "Newspapers, cans and
bottles are used and chucked with the
attitude that it is trash.
This attutude is "a kind of mindset,"
he said; adding that Eco-Action wants to
gradually make people see trash as
reusable,material.
Carl Zietlow, former coordinator for
the UniverSity's Energy Extension
steering committee, said recycling
Ai consumes less energy in the long run.
' "If we look at recycling and energy
consumed, aluminum takes 5 percent
energy to recycle, steel takes 40 pereent
energy to recycle and glass takes just as
much," he said.
Zietlow said people can continue to
throw away potential energy or develop
41 ecycling activities.
"We need a, returnable prpgram
because our fossil fuel reserv e s are
dwindling," he said.
Eco-Action has been accepting glass,
tin and aluminum returnables every
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about it, but it's something we'll have to
live with."
Gerry Lynn Hamilton, - Collegian
advisers said, "At this moment we are
vvatchinvour supply • and-doing-.:little
things to be cautious."
Charles Rupert, business manager of
Himes Printing Co., printer of the
Collegian, said that the shortage has
been going on for the last six months and
will probably continue into the first
quarter of 1980.
Rupert said that the shortage has been
caused by increased advertising in, and
circulation of, daily newspapers, as well
as an expected rise of the price of
newsprint in November, and the
resultant desire of printers to try to
stock as much newsprint as possible.
"Nobody anticipated the shortage,"
Rupert said. "Daily Newspapers have
grown so fast that the industry could not
expect it."
He said that Himes is limiting the
number of ' circulars and tabloids they
are printing, thus saving newsprint for
the Collegian and other established
customers.
Steve Braver, business manager of
The Centre Daily Times, said that the
Times has not had to cut back news
coverage, but may have to in the future
depending on the severity of the shor
tage. The Times was forced to cut back
its news coverage during an earlier
newsprint shortage.
Braver said that production is running
normal at the Times, but newsprint
supplies at the paper are lower than he
would like them to be.
other Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at
the University's Parking Lot 83 and the
Military Museum at the Boalsburg
Military Shrine. ;
Eco-Action sells glass at $3O per ton to
the Brockway Company of Brockway,
Pa., which has an "insatiable appetite"
for recyclable glass, Zietlow said. Eco-
Action also recycles tin for about $3O a
ton and aluminum for 25 cents per
pound, he said.
The money Eco-Action receives from
recycling goes back into the group for
Projects such as Sun Day, a solar energy
fair held each May.
Eco-Action also had a market for
newspaper recycling, but it was a losing
proposition for the truck driver,
McHugh said.
"At best he breaks even. He liked what
we were doing and would like to con
tinue; but he has costs to meet and can't
afford to keep on," McHugh said.
To continue recycling papers, Eco-
Action would be forced to borrow or
purchase a baler to compress the
material and a forklift to handle the
bales as• well as find storage for the
machine, he said.
The University and the State College
borough could recycle, McHugh said.
They would not need major changes to
go to the rec.ycling method of handling
solid waste, and they have the money
and manpower, McHugh added.
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University agrees to adapt plant
By PAUL SUNYAK
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The West Campus Power Plant is
tentatively scheduled to undergo a $7
million renovation in order to meet
Environmental Protection Agency clean
air standards, said Robert'A. Patterson,
University senior vice preident for
finance and operations.
Under terms of an agreement between
the University and the state Department
of Environmental Resources, a "bag
house" will be constructed to capture
particulates and smog, said Robert A.
Patterson, University senior vice
president for finance and operations.
The addition will allow the full-time
burning of coal in the plant's boilers,
which can run on coal, oil or natural gas,
Patterson said. •
"With our oil supply dwindling, it
behooveS us 'to burn 100 percent coal if
we can," Patterson said. "We can't do
Police stop investigation of . September rape
By JEAN FOGARTY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
University Police Services is no longer actively in
vestigating a rape reported last month because of the
victim's unwillingness to cooperate with the police, said
Thomas Harmon, police services manager.
The rape was on of three reported to police during the
weekend of Sept. 7. The incident was reported as oc
curing near the president's mansion, behind Hammond
Building.
Harmon said police serivces is continuing in
vestigation of a report of attempted rape of a jogger on
the Blue golf course although all leads have been
exhausted.
recycling completes nature circle
The 112th squadron of the Air National for something worthwhile since the
Guard based in State College provides a guard is funded by taxpayers.
truck and driver for the Boalsburg "The squadron has a warm spot in my
recycling project, McHugh said. He said heart," he said. "At Kent State
it was nice to see taxpayer's money go University in Ohio in the early '7os, the
that right now and be within the
guidelines during peak periods."
According to Patterson and Joseph
Cooper, a DER spokesman who helped
iron out the agreement, two steps
remain before the plan is implemented:
—A consent decree must be obtained
from the Commonwealth Court.
Although the plan has been approved by
the University Board of Trustees and
DER, court approval of the document
makes the court the administrator of the
plan, and refusal to comply with the
provisions and timetables would carry
"contempt of court" penalties.
—Funding must be approved. Pat
terson said the University has received
reasonable assurances and the $7 million
Will be forthcoming from the state
legislature in the form of a capital
program request.
Rep. Gregg Cunningham, R-Centre,
who / said he has been working as a
liaison between the University and DER,
"There is no day-to-day investigation of this case
going on now, but it is still open," Harmon said. "Any
serious matter like this is open until it is somehow
resolved."
Presently, Harmon is waiting for a report on physical
evidence of the crime from the FBI . lab in Washington.
The incident is now a part of an investigator's case load,
but Harmon hopes the lab report may introduce new
leads.
Harmon said there are no spore police officers
available to increase patrol of the Blue golf course, a
scene of frequent crimes.
"We can recommend that people take reasonable
said there has not been such an ap
propriation granted "in at least five
years," because of the state's financial
situation.
"I'm not absolutely certain it will
pass," Cunningham said. "But we're
working toward that end."
Patterson said if the legislature fails to
approve the request, the University
would remain legally committed and
would have to find an alternate way to
acquire the money, "but it won't come
out of the operating budget, I can assure
you."
Cooper said DER has begun
monitoring the plant upwind and
downwind 24 hours a day to determine
how emissions are affecting air quality.
"It's not the Bethlehem Steel facility
in Johnstown, but as far as state
facilities go, it (west power plant) may
be one of the biggest violators," Cooper
said. "However, there does not appear to
be a health problem at this time."
National Guard was killing people. This
cooperation with Eco-Action is a reverse
of the whole thing. It is indicative of the
kind of cooperation needed in order to
have widespread recycling," he said.
• "We must transcend boundaries and
get cooperation on as many levels as
possible," he said. "This is a small
example of what could be done."
Another example of community
cooperation is using balers provided by
Corning Glass Works, Weis and A&P
supermarkets, McHugh said. The
borough considered buying new balers if
a recycling program is approved.
"Why should the borough buy new
balers if it has the use of these balers?"
McHugh said:
Another example of cooperation would
be getting celebrity figures such as Penn
State football coach Joe Paterno to
publicize the project, McHugh said.
"Paterno - has a high credibility
rating," he said. "We've already talked
to him and his response was positive.
With Paterno doing spots on radio and
TV urging recycling, the community
could get over the habit of throwing
away recycleables."
However, he said Eco-Action does not
want to use celebrity figures now
because it feels it could not handle the
expected response.
"We could push recycling like crazy,
but this would mean more man hours,
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The University has up to three years to
make the bag house fully operational,
Cooper said. In the meantime,
meteorologists at the plant will be on the
lookout for temperature inversions
which could cause the air to stagnate,
although such an occurrence is unlikely
because of environmental conditions.
"The likelihood of an inversion
ishighest in the fall, but fortunately the
boilers are not producing at full
strength," Cooper said. "If •it were 10
below zero and they were burning the
hell out of those boilers, there could be a
problem, but you're not prone to an
inversion in the winter because you're
up on a plateau."
Patterson said in the event of an in
version, the plant would revert to bur
ning oil and natural gasin the boilers,
which create steam to heat, cool and
ventilate University buildings. This
would be less polluting than burning
coat, he said.
precautions," he said, "but unfortunately, a crime
cannot be prevented by police anticipation."
University police assisted Pennsylvania State Police
and Bellefonte police in the investigation of the third
rape report. A woman in Bellefonte was abducted at
knife point and forced to drive near the University deer
pens north of campus where she was raped.
Kenneth C. Goehring was arrested and charged with
this rape and is now bound over to the Centre County
Court of Common Pleas.
Referring to the 10 rapes reported to police services
since 1976, Harmon said, "We are fortunate in recent
years to have apprehended a number of people in rape
incidents."
bigger facilitites and, sooner or later,
the start of a business," McHugh said.
"Eco-Action is not trying to be the
recyclers of State College," he said.
"It's not fair to stick the responsibility,
on one group of people. We also don't see
it as our job. We're doing it strictly to
point a finger at the community that it's
everyone's responsibility to recycle,"
McHugh said.
McHugh said Eco-Action would like
the borough to take on the recycling
project, and said . the borough is
"progressing at a, reasonable pace."
State College Municipal Council
President Ingrid P. Holtzman said
"recycling has . been done in enough
places to find information. The main
problem is distance and the amount of
money for trucking.
"Recycling wouldn't work for us. The
matter of disposal is not feasible as a
borough operation because there is no
outlet for selling the recycleables," she
said.
At its May 7 meeting, the council voted
to conduct a study on the feasibility of
recycling to be budgeted for next year if
approved. The study is still in progress.
The finance committee said the ,
venture would mean a $7,000 to $lO,OOO
loss each year. due to the cost of a
storage facility, equipment, land use and
manpower
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