■The Daily Collegian Monday, Oct. 15,1979
■News briefs
Legislator's trial to start today
LAKE CHARLES, La. (UPI) ber, is accused of buying votes to win
The vote-buying trial of Rep. Claude his seat in Congress.
“Buddy” Leach, D-La., begins today, Leach, 45, was indicted by a federal
and the outcome could determine the grand jury in Alexandria, La., in July
freshman lawmaker’s political on charges of conspiracy, vote buying
future. - and illegal campaign contributions.
tt c Government prosecutors, have
U.S. District Judge Earl Veron will j d ig4 persons as potential wit
begin jury se ectmn by intemewing nesses in a f rial tha t could last as long
prospective jurors in chambers, a asamonth
process that could take two or three Wilson, who has filed briefs before
daj,s> a House Committee to invalidate the
Leach, who defeated Republican election, said he would not be wat
opponent Jimmy Wilson by 266 votes ching the trial with ahy special in
in the general election last Decern- terest.
Gays march for rights laws
WASHINGTON (UPI) Tens' of where several speakers urged
thousands of homosexual men and homosexuals to press for passage of
women from the United States and gay rights bills,
abroad marched on the capital Participants, predominantly white
yesterday to urge passage of gay males dressed in sports clothes,
rights legislation. carried a variety of banners, in-
Organizers of the first National eluding one that said: “Two, four,
Gay Rights March predicted 100,000 six, eight; how do you know your kid
persons would participate before the is straight?”
day was over. “We are everywhere,” another
Early unofficial city police declared,
estimates were far less but were The marchers’ demands included
expected to be revised upwards as the repeal of state and local sodomy
marchers streamed for hours laws, passage of federal legislation to
yesterday afternoon down a 10-block protect gay rights and a presidential
stretch of historic Pennsylvania order banning discrimination against
Avenue. homosexuals employed by the
.They gathered at a rally site on the military, the government or federally
* Washington monument grounds, subsidized contractors.
Bill calls for county pay hikes
HARRISBURG (AP) Most ficials who were in office at the time,
county officials would get a $6,000 pay Thus, the increases would be the
hike next January from a bill first since 1971 for the county of
scheduled for a vote this week in the ficials, some of whom hold what are
House and an already-pending in- considered part-time jobs,
crease. The $3,000 raises proposed in the
, bill represent increases of 9 percent
The bill, already passed by the to27p^rcen[idepe „ di „ eon , te s™of
S to coSnty commissioners, theconntyanditssali>ryscale .
k«ct attorney/and rn» oiftom JSfZS?
such as prothonotary and register of misslone “| insteadot u, e legislature,
Wll s ' to set county salaries in the future.
But the legislation would take ef- The double raise does not comply
feet at the same time that the officials with President Garter’s voluntary
collect another $3,000 pay hike from wage guidelines and are “very in
legislation passed in 1976. That 1976 flationary,” said Joseph H. Carter,
raise could not go into effect during spokesman for the President’s
the four-year terms of county of- Council on Wage and Price Stability.
Brown wants Cuban relations
NEW YORK jtUPI) Gov. Jerry
Brown of California said yesterday he
would establish diplomatic relations
with Cuba as president even if the
Soviet Union refuses to withdraw
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said.
The unannounced candidate for the
1980 Democratic presidential
nomination told interviewers on
ABC’s “Issues and Answers” that it
is absurd to link U.S. recognition of
Cuba with the withdrawal of Soviet
combat troops.
Israel not to take Arab land
JERUSALEM (UPI) Israel’s has already approved Efrat. He
Cabinet yesterday voted not to seize said a group of “pioneers” from New
privately-owned Arab land for seven York City wants to settle it.
Jewish outposts in the Jordan West The decisions were certain to anger
Bank but stuck to its policy of the United States and Egypt, both of
establishing settlements throughout which have condemned Jewish
the occupied territories. _• settlements on the West Bank
n * ,• , . private land or not—as illegal and an
“We will not confiscate any inch of £ bstaclet e .
privately-owned land Bethlehem Mayor Elias Freij
Secretary Arye Naor told repor e . ob j e cted to the decision, saying there
Only land that is known and ap- . g nogovernment land on the West
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for these purposes. We are not going , <This . g land which is being used by
to start a campaign or launch an i oca i Palestinian inhabitants in
attack on the problem of ownership. the terriories,” he said. “Every
Naor said the Cabinet also decided (Jewish) settlement you enlarge is
to go ahead with construction for the like knocking a big nail in the coffin of
building of a city on the West Bank it peace.” ;
Colorado nuclear plapt dosed
PLATTEVILLE, Colo. (UPI) in less'thaij„two years due to equip-
The Fort St. Vrain Nuclear ment malfunction. .
Generating Plant was shut down Gary Reeves, spokesman for the.
yesterday because of a cooling plant’s operator, PublicN Service
malfunction, and radioactivity was Company of Colorado, said the
released into the atmosphere, of- shutdown occurred at 7 a.m. when
ficials reported. helium, the primary coolant used at
The plant is located 40 miles north the plant, seeped into a back-up water
of Denver. system.
The plant was automatically shut Reeves said the incident was not
down, officials said, due to an made public until 11 hours after the
operating problem in the generating incident because it was not con
facility’s helium circulator system! sidered an emergency. He said under
They said a “minute” amount of NRC regulations, the utility was
radioactivity was released in the required to immediately report any
reactor building and the atmosphere. potential public hazard but Sun-
There were no reports of employees day’s shutdown was not considered
being exposed to the radioactivity, an emergency that could endanger
The shutdown was the facility’s third citizens.
Jordan recommends ex-date
NEW YORK (UPI) White House in the note, addressed “To whom it
chief of staff Hamilton Jordan wrote may concern,” Jordan allegedly
a letter of recommendation for Jan wrote, “This is to recommend my
Tyler, the woman who accompanied friend and former employee Ms. Jan
him to the Studio 54 Discotheque on Tyler who worked for me for two
thiie night he is accused of purchasing years when I served as chief of staff
cocaine there, New York Magazine for then-Governor Carter,
reported yesterday. “Jan served as my administrative
The one-page letter, hand-written assistant, performing a variety of
on White House stationery under a .duties,” the letter said. “She per
typed date of April 2, 1977, was formed her responsibilities wiP
reprinted in the latest edition of New dedication and efficiency.”
York, which reaches newsstands The letter is signed, “Hamilton
today. Jordan, assistant to the president.”
Jerry Brown
Pa- survey says Cdhhaily, Reagan favored
PHILADELPHIA (AP) John Connally. of Texas and Howard Baker of Tennessee, each 2; Rep. John Anderson of
Ronald Reagan of California, both former governors* are the California 1; undecided 6; declined to respond 12 and one who
top choices of Pennsylvania Republican county chairmen for said he could not choose between Connally and Bush,
next year’s GOP presidential nomination, according to an Twenty-eight Democrats favored Kennedy as their first
Associated Press survey. choice and 16 stuck with Carter. Vice President Walter
On the Democratic side, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Mondale got one vote, seven were undecided and 12 declined to
Massachusetts has nearly a two to one edge over President - participate.
Carter. - Fred Lebder, chairman of the Fayette County Democrats,
Each chairman was asked this question: “Who would you
most like to see as your party’s presidential nominee in 1980?"
Only three chairman from each county, out of the 67 in the
state, could not be reached in the poll.
Reagan and Connally each received 14 votes. The rest were
divided this way:
Former President Gerald Ford 9; Alexander Haig, once
chief of President Nixon’s White House staff and former head
of NATO, 3; former Texas Congressman George Bush and Sen.
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expressed the sentiment of those who could not or would not
make any choice: “We’re in a local election, and nobody’s
really giving serious thought to the presidential race. Besides I
want to know who really will be running. ”
“It’s really much too early, to be thinking about a
presidential choice,” said Martin Weinberg, the Philadelphia
Democratic boss and a strong supporter of retiring Mayor
Frank L. Rizzo. Nearly a fourth of the state’s Democrats are
registered in Philadelphia.
The African Students Association
Organization of African Unity -
Model Conference
HUB Assembly Hall
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' HOUSE OF FINE SOUPS 1 CREPES
237-2806
254 Calder Way (behind Mid-State Bank)
Open Monday thru Saturday— 11:00 thru 8:00
2 for 1
Soup arid Salad
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Now open on Sunday
from 10:30am
and the
Black Caucus
present
John Connally
1 pm until 6 pm
Parking garage, cars damaged
• A car driven by Thomas W. Matticks
of Sunbury, Pa., struck a parking garage
wall at Park Hill Apartments, 478 E.
Beaver, Ave. on Saturday, knocking
bricks onto a parked car.
According to witnesses, Matticks
turned south onto Hetzel Street from
Beaver Avenue at a fast speed, lost
■control and hit the wall. The parked
vehicle, a Chevy Vega, is owned by
Gerald Snead of Moscow, Pa.
Damages were estimated at $250 to the
Matticks car, $lOO to the Snead car and
Folklore Society scheduled to meet at 7:30 tonight
• The Free Uhiverslty will sponsor the
following activities tonight: aikido
7:30 .to 8:30, Intramural Building
• The Cahipus 4-H Club will meet at 7 wrestling room; bridge —7, 301 HUB;
tonight in 215 Armsby. nutrition basics 6 to 6:45, 200 W.
College Ave., room 204; holistic alter-
* The Folklore Society will meet at
7:30 tonight in 320-21 HUB.
• The Undergraduate Student Z ’ u C °J g a
Government department of minority 204; o B ™ prophecy and revelation - 6
affairs will meet at 7 tonight in 307 HUBI to 8:3 ?> 321 Boucke :
° women’s support group —8,304 Willard;
gay/bisexual men’s support group —8,
• Students for a Pennsylvania Public 2 19 Willard; assertive empathy-7:45 to
Interest Research Group will meet at 10:1S Wesley Foundation.
7:30 tonight in 173 Willard.
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•The Free University is accepting sponsor physics tutoring from 7to 9
applications for Gentle , Thursday tonight in 103 Osmond
coordinator. For details, call the Free U
office at 863-0038. Application deadline is
Oct. 31
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University’s Health care system may give
you one. If you’re bugged by the way
Ritenour Health Center is run, let us
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gripes to 203 HUB or
call 863-1874
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$5O to property, the State College Police
Department said.
‘ • A suitcase owned by James Rummel
of Edinboro, Pa., was reported stolen
from Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, 346
E.'Prospect Ave., State College police
said. The suitcase and its contents,
valued at $420, were stolen sometime
between 11:30 p.m. and 3:30 a.m.
Friday, police said. i
• Academic Assembly is sponsoring
registration for the College Bowl team.
Pehn State vs. Syracuse
October 20, 1979
Giants Sfardium
East Rutherford, N.4> „
Tickets: $lO &$8 (low endzonej
PENN STATE TICKET OFFICE
237 Recreation Building
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• State College police reported that a
large glass panel pushed from a balcony -
at Beaver Hill Apartments, 340 E.
Beaver Ave., on Saturday hit a-car
parked below. The car is- owned by
Donald Caiarelli, Apt. 631, Beaver Hill.
No estimate of the damage was given.
<- • Wilbur Miller, University Main
tenance and Operations, reported to
University Police Services that someone
damaged a room door at 415 Porter at
about 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Damage was
estimated at $2OO.
Players may register individually or as • The Marine Science Society will
teams of four. Pick up registration present Ronald Keiper speaking on the
forms at the HUB desk, Kern desk or biology of the Chincoteague ponies at
Academic Assembly office, 203-A HUB. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in 112 Walker.
• Campus Crusade for Cjirist will . • pood Service and Housing Ad
sponsor Ron Hostetler, former Penn ministration 410 will present an Italian
State football player, speaking about Renaissance meal at 5:30 p.m. Wed
winning at 7 tomorrow night in the HUB nesday in the Maple Room of the Human
main lounge. Development Building.
• A program on medical school in
terviews and MCAT preparation will be
held tomorrow in 69 Willard.
• Yachad will present a program on • The College of Education student
Israel’s West Bank settlements, a " council will hold elections for council
speaker from the Israel Aliyah Center, president from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
and careers and programs in Israel at 8 Wednesday in the Chambers Building
tomorrow night in 324 HUB. lobby.
in accident
• University police received a report
from Mike McCarthy, 12 Grange, that a
storage shed at the tennis courts north of
Pollock Halls had been upset and broken
into about 6 p.m. Saturday.
• Neal DeLuca, Apt. 9F, Graduate
Circle, reported to University police that
someone hit his car while it was parked
in the Graduate Circle area about 5:15
p.m. Saturday. No damage estimate was
given.
• Amnesty International will meet at 8
p.m. Wednesday in 101 Kern. '
—by Dana McClelland
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