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“It was a mutually decided thing,” she
said. “I don’t know who brought it up.”
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NEW YORK (UPI) Wall Street had
its biggest day in history yesterday with
a record 81.62 million shares changing
shands on the New York Stock Exchange
as government anti-inflation measures
reverberated throughout the investment
community.
Stocks were broadly and sharply lower
most of the day but managed to regain
some strength in late trading.
3g, Panicky sellers swamped the stock
market, driving volume past the
66,370,000-share all-time record with 90
minutes left in trading and finishing the
■ day with 81,620,000 shares changing
hands.
Trading was so heavy that the high
-speed reporting tickers ran more than
' an hour late at times.
Prices fell across the board in an
extension of Tuesday’s worst decline in
five years. The widely fallowed Dow
Jones industrial average dropped more
than 24 points at mid-session before the
slide halted.
M By the close, blue-chip stocks
"managed to trim their losses, putting the
average down 8.27 points at 849.32. In
cluding Tuesday’s 26.45 loss, the Dow
has surrendered 48.29 points so far this
week. -
The record volume was 23 percent
■ ■ higher than the previous record set Aug.
3, 1978, when the market was on an
upswing.
“The stock market is bending under
the weight of record high interest rates
and record low confidence in America’s
leadership,” said Robert Stovall, vice
$ president of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.
“People are scared,” said former
presidential economic adviser Alan
Greenspan. He said there is a “broad
degree of uncertainty” because events
of this type have never before been
experienced.
lif’ Comparisons with the Crash of 1929
now being recalled on its 50th an
niversary this month are inevitable
but analysts say incorrect.
Gold soared on bullion markets
yesterday. The “very nervous trading”
f 202 PATTES
Both resignations are effective at the
end of the month.
The governor’s office had no im-
record day
1929 crash
was the result of a “general feeling that
the credit-tightening moves taken by the
Fed will be recessionary without being
strong enough to support the dollar,”
said R. Leslie Deak, vice president of
DeakPerera Group.
The dollar continued to weaken on
world money markets.
The Federal Reserve Board has forced
up interest rates in recent months in an
effort to curb inflation but the demand
for loans continued unabated because of
the high amount of money in circulation.
Shifting gears, the Fed announced
Saturday night it would now let interest
rates find their own level and would'
instead concentrate its efforts on con
trolling the money supply.
This credit-tightening, which tran
slated into an all-time high prime len
ding rate of 14% percent by banks
Tuesday, will roll through the economy
to make consumer loans and mortages
more expensive and in some places
impossible—to get, analysts said.
“It’s going to be very difficult for Mr.
and Mrs. America to obtain new mor
tgage commitments,” said Kenneth
Biederman, chief economist for the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board. He
predicted mortgage rates would average
12 percent nationwide by the end of the
year.
The Fed actions that tightened its
control over bank reserves and focused
on money supply growth had been
widely prescribed by businessmen and
economists as the medicine to cool in
flation.
“This is just another example of how
erratic people on Wall Street are
because up until this week they have
been after the Fed to control the money
supply and that’s just what it said it will
do,” said Irwin Kellner, economist for
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.
Alfred Kahn, the administration’s
chief inflation fighter, said Americans
have no choice but to put up with high
interest rates and other anti-inflation
efforts.
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Dr. Gordon MacLeod
He told reporters that “getting
through either by telephone or in person
was exceedingly difficult.” He said he
requested a meeting with Thornburgh in
June and did not see him until Aug. 27.
EPA to assess borough's recycling plans
Editor’s Note: This is the last in a
series on recycling in State College.
By LINDA HOWLEY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The State College Municipal
Council will meet with the En
vironmental Protection Agency in
Philadelphia to discuss recycling
options, Municipal Manager Carl B.
Fairbanks said recently.
The date of the meeting should be
set in a couple of weeks, he said.
In a letter written Sept. 14, the
borough invited an EPA consultant to
State College to review its recycling
or resource recovery plan, proposal
by Raymond Regan, the borough’s
resource recovery project coor
dinator.
■ This would begin what the ERA
calls “zero phase!’ work under
contract, Fairbanks said.
“There will be a joint meeting
scheduled • with the county, the
Cunningham's amendment approved, then defeated
legislators convinced the House to later remove the
provision.
Because 21 House members were absent yesterday,
leaders on both sides of the unilateral issue decided that
a fifth —and final —vote would be held Tuesday.
“They agreed that there then would be a vote on the
full (divorce) bill, either with or without unilateral
divorce in it,” said Democratic Whip James Manderino
of Westmoreland County.
But Scirica said he could not say whether supporters
of unilateral divorce would try to send the entire bill
back to committee if unilateral suffers another defeat.
In the second unilateral vote yesterday, two
legislators switched their votes and opposed unilateral
divorce. But both said they were not pressured.
“If there had been pressure, I wouldn’t have
changed,” said Rep. Harry Cochran, D-Fayette. “It
was such a close vote, I reviewed the bill to see if what I
did was right.
“Statistics that showed that divorces increased in
California after they adopted unilateral divorce helped
change my vote,” he said.
By LINDA CAMPBELL
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
and The Associated Press
HARRISBURG The state House yesterday ap
proved a compromise amendment proposed by Rep.
Gregg Cunningham, R-Centre retaining unilateral
divorce, but later flip-flopped and defeated the
amendment.
The reform bill still contains alimony, equitable
property distribution and mutual consent divorce,
which would let a couple agree to dissolve a marriage.
By a 90-92 vote, the House failed to restore unilateral
divorce, which would allow one spouse to end a
marriage after a two-year separation.
The provision, in the form of Cunningham’s amend
ment, had been reinserted in the bill earlier in the day
by a 95-93 vote. Cunningham’s amendment extended the
separation period from one year to two.
Opponents of unilateral divorce refused to accept the
compromise and had the amendment vote recon
sidered.
“Last week you voted to say that unilateral divorce is
lls competed with foot injury
By MIKE POORMAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
On the advice of her coach, Penn State
All-American Kathy Mills decided to
compete last fall with a foot injury that
endangered the future of her running
career.
Mills, whose injury was diagnosed by
an Olympic camp podiatrist as plantar
fasciitis - a partial tear of the, ligament
on the muscles that support the bottom
of the foot - sought help from former
-women’s cross country coach Chris
Brooks on deciding whether to run and
risk further injury or be red-shirted for
the season, as she had wanted to.
“Coach Brooks had a point - the team
had a good shot at the national title,”
Mills said. “But I felt we had a strong
enough team to do well without me. I
wouldn’t have made that big enough
difference.
“I was in the middle and didn’t know
which way to go. The doctors and my
parents were saying not to run ... I
wanted to red-shirt,” she said.
Mills said she never told Brooks she
wanted to redshirt because “I didn’t
know how she would take it."
With Mills’ status still in question, the
coach had to make a decision about the
All-American’s capability to run com
petitively —and with some help she did.’
“We discussed it with a number of
doctors,” Brooks said, “and then we
decided to let her run. I would have
Coach advised star to run; cortisone used for pain
In addition, he said he refused to
declare an emergency at the Sarah Allen
nursing home in Philadelphia although
Rich Glanton, a deputy counsel with the
Governor’s Office, advised him to do so.
borough, the University and an EPA
consultant, and everyone is in
terested in the project,” Regan said.
- Three options will be discussed at
the- meeting: Having people from
other states come to State College to
discuss how their, resource recovery
systems are working,' "having the
council members visit other com
munities with resource recovery
not alright,” Rep. Martin Mullen, D-Phila., a leader of
the opposition, told his colleagues. “Now you want to
say that it will be alright after 24 months.
“You can’t compromise with hell. You want to stay
out of hell,” Mullen said. “What we’re talking is a
principle, more than a time limit.”
Although Cunningham originally voted to remove
unilateral divorce from the bill, he said his compromise
was an attempt to save it from recommital to the House
Judiciary Committee, a move threatened by supporters
of unilateral divorce.
Cunningham said Rep. Anthony J. Scirica, R-
Montgomery, a leading proponent of unilateral divorce,
supported his amendment.
“A two-year separation makes unilateral divorce
more reasonable than unilateral with a separation of 12
months. If there is not reconciliation within that time, it
is not reasonable to assume that there will be one,”
Cunningham said.
Two weeks ago, the House upheld unilateral divorce
for a period of 12 months, but intense lobbying by the
Pennsylvania Catholic Conference and Catholic
donethe same thing again. I felt that
Kathy wasn’t prepared to just quit. If it
was a lesser athlete, we probably would
have done it differently.”
Also influencing Brooks in her decision
to allow Mills to run was the possibility
of gaining a berth on an international
team.
“In Kathy’s situation, the doctors said
that if she made the team it would heal in
a few months and she could run with the
(U.S.) team in March,’’Brooks said
when reached in Raleigh, N.C.
To gain a spot on the U.S. World Cross
Country team, Mills had to place in the
top two at the Association of In
tercollegiate Athletics for Women
National Meet on November 18, 1978, a
meet where Brooks. hoped she could also
lead her team to a title.
Mills’ problems started when she
injured her foot at her home last sum
mer. Mills continued to run on it, first in
a race in Seattle, then at an Olympic
Development camp run by Brooks.
Stepping her mileage up from five to 10
.miles a day, Mills continued to run,
hoping the problem in her foot was only a
bone bruise, she said.
Upon diagnosis of the severity of the
injury, Mills’ foot was taped for support
since no definite treatment is prescribed
for this type of ailment. She continued
running as the school year approached
and the chances of a national cham-
“There was no dispute with the
governor. There was never a harsh word
between us,” he said.
MacLeod, a pioneer in health care
programs, or having a local sym
posium, Fairbanks said.
A second meeting will then be held
to discuss the best options for a State
College resource recovery system.
“I believe the borough is sincere in
its attempt to find out how feasible
resource recovery is,” Regan said.
Regan said the project would cost
$20,000. Half of the project would be
funded by the borough and the other
half by EPA grants, he said.
“If the meeting is not in a couple of
weeks, I’m going to get on the phone
and ask them (EPA) why they’re
stalling it,” he said.
“We’re not panicky about moving
quickly,” Fairbanks said. “We have
winter to plan for it, and we’ll begin
activity in the spring. ’ ’
According to the March 1979 issue
of Waste Age magazine, a study for
the EPA was conducted by' SCS
Engineers, a consulting firm, on
resource recovery for small towns
pionship for Brooks and the Lady Lions
increased.
Arriving at school still in pain,Mills
contemplated red-shirting herself, she
said. However, she said it was decided to
wait out the first three meets of the 1978
season and see if she could recover in
time to run the AIAW National meet.
For the next three weeks Mills went
through an extensive • rehabilitation
program. She swam and ran in place in a
pool, rode a stationary bike, lifted
weights, had ho‘t wax treatments, wore
special heelcups, and had her foot taped
a variety of ways.
Ultrasound the use of sound waves
to alleviate pain and break up scar tissue
—was also tried, but it too failed.
“It even hurt swimming and riding the
exercise bike,” Mills said.
With the regional competition ap
proaching, Brooks took Mills to see a
Philadelphia podiatrist. Mills was given
. a shot of cortisone and fitted for a pair of
hard orthotics. When inserted into her
running shoes, these plastic molds of her
feet were designed to alleviate some of
the stress on her foot created by running.
“The cortisone masked the pain, so I
was training harder than before. I was
continuing to tear the tissue and make
my injury worse, without even realizing
it,” Mills was quoted as saying in the
Fall 1979 edition of Nutshell magazine.
Sports medicine doctor and
Washington Post writer Gabe Mirkin in
administration, took a two-year leave
from the University of Pittsburgh to take
the cabinet job.
and facilities such as hospitals,
prisons, universities and airports.
SCS Engineers found that modular
incinerators for energy recovery and
source separation for direct recycling
of commodities like paper were the
most desirable concepts, the
magazine said.
The EPA’s grant to the consulting
firm also, required researchers to
determine other information that
shpuld be included in the study.
Waste Age cited three necessary
studies outlined by SCS. They in
clude:
detailed, in-depth waste
characterization studies for small
generators.
studies of building design to
determine if changes would aid
resource recovery; •,
studies of large-scale, refuse
driven fuel systems in development
stages to apply similar procedures to
small-scale generators.
his book, The Sportsmedicine
Book: “Not only can they (cortisone
shots) weaken the fascia (Mills’ injured
muscle), but they can stop the pain
nature’s warning signal that you should
be taking it easy and by continuing to
exercise, you can cause further
damage.”
Her foot molds, Mills said, made the
injured foot “hurt even worse.”
No wonder, as running podiatrist Dr.
Steven Subotnick reported in his book,
The Running Foot Doctor, "... the
plastic (of hard orthotics) may actually
cause irritation to the fascia, which
tightens as the runner gets up on the
balls of his feet. For speed training, I
generally recommend semi-flexible or
sofidrthotic,”
Eventually, Mills said, she changed to
softer orthotic molds, which provided
some relief.
However, she continued to run, and
place well, in all her meets. She won the
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It's now November
Cloudy and November-like today with
a few rain showers this afternoon. The
high , will be an unseasonably cool 47.
Continued cloudy and very cool tonight,
with a few lingering sprinkles and a low
of 39. Tomorrow will be yet another
mostly cloudy, breezy and cold day with
a high of only 45.