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Haas, Chaffee top borough council race
By PAtRICIA iVIcCAFFREY Republican, ran on both tickets which gotten his point. “I want to continue that Even Dershimer, the candidate na
Daily Collegian Staff Writer gave them an unusually high number of good job," he said. ' lagging in the most votes at 4 a.m;, could '.-w;
Unofficial results show Daniel Chaffee votes because of straight party voting. Chaffee said he ran a general cam- come from behind to win depending on ■ - j&f |g|iggb&agjjj^'.
and incumbent Mary Ann Haas won the. Chaffee, who was a write-in candidate paign and did not gear his efforts toward returns from the unreported precincts. Hj
majority of votes'in the State College j n the spring primaries said, “I’m any particular group. He said he. is In 10 of 15 reported precincts, Hhas led . W -'wl- ■'
Municipal Council race for two of the delighted, of course. Ecstatic may be a pleased with the election of Mary Ann .in number of votes, and Chaffee ranked iCf
four open seats; however, the other two, better word since I was not on the ballot Haas and is confident that he can work consistently second. - HHH
seats were too close to call as of 4 a.m. 'at all at first.” well with her. However, Chafffee led Haas in four jffip y
1 AUast.counts with 15 of .18 precincts • hLThf ov^ 1 !!}!, 1 °[ ‘ could not be reached for comment. dominated. Haas and Chaffee tied in one
reporting, Mary Ann Haas had 2,278. . y „ ine . exlra eage 01 As of 4 a.m., three of the precincts that precinct. Scanlon, ranked consistently 'WMamr. I ,
votes;;;, Daniel Chaffee, 2,i29;Fred •..'“"“"eonßoinucKeis.- . had not reported account for 2,430 votes, last in all reported precincts. |HHb v 'V* \ K ejj^H
Hansberger, 1.680; James Deeslie, During the campaign, Chaffee Because of the extreme closeness bet- Overall turnout in State College for the f|9Hra \ WM = jjpfaHSr . .
1,582; Joseph Wakeley, 1,595; and J. claimed that the present council had ween candidates Honsberger,'Wakeley 15 precincts was 31.3 percent. In eight 1 j _ ' MBjfttf l S S
Steven Dershimer, 1,529. Student write- been doing a good job and did not and Deeslie, even a prediction could not student dominated precincts, turnout IjjflHKSjgUft. .War / ... -
in candidate Michael Scanlon had ,170 overre|ulate as other candidates had be made. Election officials did not ex- was 20.4 percent. In the seven other IW
Chaffee, a Democrat, and Haas, a
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Turnout low in student precincts
By PETE BARNES
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Voter turnout in eight student-dominated State
College precincts was 20.4 percent in yesterday’s
Selection, according to unofficial county returns.
* Overall, in 15 of 18 State College precincts, 3,411 of
10,898, or 31.3 percent, of the registered voters turned
out. • ' r .
H In the studenUdominated precincts, 1,251 of 6,119
1 registered voters turned out. In seven of the 10 other
8 precincts, 2,160 of 4,779, or 45 percent, of those
voted.
With 53 of 82 precincts reporting, 12,161 of 24,580, or 49
percent, of the registered , county voters turned out.
The student-dominated precincts are West Central;
East 1,2, 3 and 4; and East College 1, 2. and 3. These
precincts include most of campus and many downtown
Official rates University loan defaults low
By CIIBRYL BRUNO . ' / .
Daily Collegian Staff Writer >
The default rate for the National
direct Student Loan in 1979 for
University graduates is-8.82 percent, 8
points lower, than the national average,
Deputy Controller Gebrge Eafte sai3?'£/
The Chronicle of Higher Education
recently reported the national default
average as 17 percent. ,
“There is some assertion that the
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November nonsense
Cloudy, breezy and damp today with
*some lingering morning'showers and
Home occasional drizzle possible. Ter
mperatures- will not Vise from the
morning high of 43. Becoming clear and
cold tonight with the low going down to
26. The sun will be out early tomorrow
morning, but we can expect increasing
cloudiness and overcast skies by evening
Las the high temperature struggles to 41.
fCan snow be far away?
Iranian students
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Iranian demonstrators, supporting the seizure of the U.S. embassy and dozens
of American hostages, hold up posters depicting President Carter and the for-
mer Shah as condemned men before the firing squad.
Chaffee said. the voters must have
delinquency. problem is related to
students accepting a loan and not:
knowing it was a loan,” Director of
Financial Aid John Brugel said. “We
htake it clear in the Joan ,packagfcwe j
give to students thaf this is a loart.”
■ NDSL has provided more .thaii 25,000
loans for University students, totaling
more than $32 million, since the program
began in 1959, Lane said. He said over
$lO million has been collected;
Lane said that as of June 30 the
University issued $21.4 million in 15,000
working loans. Eleven hundred of the
15,000 loans, or $1.9 million, are con
sidered to be in default. When a'loan is
considered in default, a student has not
made payment for at least 180 but
most of the loan defaults are more than
two years old, he said.
In calculating the default rate, the
federal government uses the $1.9 million
figure, which is the total amount of the
delinquent loans, Lane said. Actually, of
the $1.9 million, $728,000 has to be paid
by borrowers.
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apartment buildings, student residences and frater
nities. ‘ '
The two leading vote-getters in State College in the
race for Municipal Council. Daniel Chaffee and Mary
Ann Haas, led in the eight student-dominated precincts.
Chaffee finished first in four, precincts and Haas in
three. In one precinct, East 3,they tied, each receiving
105 votes. ■
In seven of the other 10 precincts, Haas maintained
the lead over Chaffee. Overall, in 15 of 18 precincts,
Haas won 10 and tied for first with Chaffee in one.
Chaffee won only four of thfe reporting precincts, all of
them student dominated., ‘
Last minute student Write-in candidate Mike Scanlon,
president of the Organization for Town Independent
Students, finished last in six of seven student
dominated preciricts, while receiving no votes at all in
another.
pect final results until sometime early,
today.
Lane said all studentswith NDSL loans
are interviewed .at the Student Loan
Office before .they leave school. Each
student is given written information
listing their responsibilities for
repaymentpftheloan. y
After an interest-free grace period of
nine months, beginning the day the
studehf graduates, the Office of Student
Loans begins quarterly billing with 3
percent interest; Lane said.
“If we don’t, receive payment or a
student makes no arrangement for
payment, we are as careful and liberal
as possible;” Lane said. “After six
months (of delinquency), we must turn
the account over to a collection agency
because of the federal Due Delinquency
Law.
“This law says that any means must
be taken' to collect the delinquent
money,” he said. “The collection agency
tries whatever means to collect the debt.
Legal action can be taken, but it rarely
is.” ’ • '
leaders
TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) Rifle-brandishing Moslem
students yesterday threatened to kill all the American
hostages in the U.S. embassy, and Washington received
reports of a major Iranian oil terminal shutdown that
could affect shipments to America.
In a surprise diplomatic . gesture, the Palestine
Liberation Organization announced that Yasser Arafat
is sending a delegation to Tehran to “use all possible
means” to save the lives of the 60 to 65 Americans held
captive since Sunday . , , .
Earlier yesterday, Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan
resigned, further complicating Carter administration
efforts to free the American hostages.
Brandishing guns and chanting, “Carter must be
killed, either by a gun or by fists,” hundreds of Moslem
students rallied in front of the U.S. compound, which
was smeared with anti-American slogans in ornate
Persian script.
“If the United States or its hated agents in Iran make
the slightest military or. non-military move to free the
hostages, all the hostages will be destroyed and the
responsibility for this action will rest directly with the
United States,” a student leader shouted over a loud
speaker.
The students said armed guards around the hostages
had been reinforced.
“We are getting more armed every day”’ they
boasted.
A student spokesman said restrictions on the
hostages had been slightly relaxed on their third day in
captivity.
“All the hostages are well and free to move" around a
confined area, he said. "They are not blindfolded any
more.” :
In Washington, the State Department and, a Carter
administration official said they had received un
confirmed reports that no loading of oil was going on at
Iran’s main oil export terminal. A total cutoff of U.S.
exports would deprive the nation of roughly 5 percent of
its imported oil.
"We have an unconfirmed report that Karg Island,
Iran’s.crude oil export terminal, is shut down,” said
State Department spokesman David Nall. “This is not
confirmed. But the report is it (the port) is not, loading.”
The sudden PLO move, which it stressed was an
independent effort to “save lives,” was announced at
the United Nations after U.N. Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim opened a diplomatic offensive to win the
release of the Americans.
reported precincts,, turnout was 45
percent.
University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
; In all eight student-dominated, precincts, Scanlon
received 129 votes. Downtown, Scanlon fared just as
poorly, receiving 41 votes in the other precincts.
The lowest percentage of student turnout was in
precinct East 2,which includes South Halls. There, 6i of
678, or 9 percent, of the registered voters turned out. '
The precinct with the highest proportion of student
turnout was East 1, which includes East Halls. In that
precinct, 299 of 896, or 33 percent, of those registered
voted. '
In the student-dominated precinct with the highest
number of voters registered, East .4, which includes
Pollock and Nittany Halls, turnout was 13.4 percent.
There, 152 of 1,134 registered voters turned out.
In the race for county' commissioners, Republican
Jeffrey Bower swept all eight student-dominated
precincts. He was followed by incumbent Democrat
John Saylor.
The University has one of the lowest
default rates in the country, Lane said.
Last year the University’s delinquency
rate was 11 percent. ,
“We are the best in the country
because we have an in-house collection
agency,” Lane. said. “I get the im
pression that many other universities
hire an outside agency for . total
collection; We have ’ people at the
University who. are working very, very
hard to track down students who are
delinquent in their payments, I think you
can do it better by yourself.” .
The Housing, Education and Welfare
Office said any school having
delinquencies exceeding 10 percent of its
funding would be affected by a reduction
of its federal funds for this program, he
said.
“We have a pool of funds," Lane said.
“Whatever we collect from loans that
were issued five or six years ago can be
used for loans that we: issue this year.
The money we collect is turned over and
loaned back to the students. ”
threaten to kill hostages
“The question now is: who do you deal with?” one
Washington official asked.
White House spokesman Jody Powell ruled out any’
military action and warned against "unwarranted
speculation” in the press.
Nall said there also were unconfirmed reports that
two other Iranian oil export terminals might have been
shutdown.
An Energy Department official said the United States
would lose between 300,000 and 400,000 barrels of oil per
day-if Iran cut off exports in its effort to force U.S.
extradition of the deposed shah. Total daily U.S. crude
and product imports is about 8 million barrels a day,
meaning an Iranian cutoff could deprive the United
States of 5 percent of its imported oil. U.S. domestic
production exceeds 9 million barrels a day.
Waldheim met with Iranian Charge d’Affaires Jamal
Shemirani. A U.N. spokesman said Waldheim, “is in
touch with various parties in order to be helpful” and
was staking his international prestige on the rescue
effort.
Hasa A. Abdel Rahman, the PLO’s deputy permanent
U.N. observer, announced that PLO chief Arafat has
instructed the Organization’s office "to use all possible
means to save the lives of the hostages.”
He.said Arafat also was dispatching a delegation
today from PLO headquarters in Beirut to secure the
release of the Americans. Stressing the independence of
the action, Rahman said the PLO “is making its good
offices available in the hope to play a constructive role"
because of its concern "for human lives.” '
Bazargan’s resignation left the government in the
hands of the secretive Islamic Revolutionary Council, a
group dominated by the clergy, who endorsed the
students demand that the the Americans' lives be
traded for exiled Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
“The United States has been given assurances by the
authorities in Iran that the safety and well-being of
Americans will be protected,” said a White House
statement. "The United States, expects that these
assurances will be honored.”
In an attempt to keep his zealous followers under
control, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a
statement from his office in Qom calling on students to
call off further marches.
“At this juncture when the nation is confronting the
big powers, tension should not be created over matters
of this sort,” Khoemeini said. ‘‘These marches are
against the interest of Islam.”
Dan Chaffee
Bower,
next commissioners
By MICHAEL FLACH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Republican Jeffrey Bower led the
voting for county commissioner with
53 out of 82 precincts reporting, with
6,232 votes, unofficial results in
dicate.
Bower was followed by incumbent
Democrat John T. Saylor, with 5,753
votes; incumbent Republican John
Glatz, with 5,025 votes; and
Democrat Stanley R. Gryczuk, with
3,777 votes.
The top three vote-getters will
assume the . county commissioner
positionm January. .
Bower said that after a successful
spring primary, in which he was the
top vote-getter, he expected to do
well.. -
■ “My supporters worked very hard
to prepare for the spring primaries
and for this so,we had hoped
to do very well," Bower said.
“It’s been a very long race and I’m
just pleased that it has come to a
successful end," Bower said.
Gryczuk, who whs running last in
the commissioner’? race, said he was
obvipusly disappointed with the
results;, but it was what he had ex
pected.
! ’The Republicans were very well
organized and did a good job getting
their voters out,” Gryczuk said.“lt is
hard to win an office as large as
county commissioner without parly
support, and I don’t feel that the
DOern'oerats, were that well
organized! ,
Gryczuk also said name
recognition was a problem for him in
the campaign.
"I ran my own campaign and so
people did not know my name,”
Gryczuk said.
“I’m disappointed that it is often
name recognition and not candidate
qualification that most often decides
an election," Gryczuk said. "I state
my campaign on my qualification. "
he said. “I took an early stand on the
important issues." '
Gryczuk said his opponents did not
take a stand on issues which could
have hurt them.
In the contest for judge of the
Centre County Court of Common
Pleas, unofficial results indicate that
incumbents
Charles C. Brown Jr., who ran
unopposed, received 9,993 -votes.
Brown become? Centre County’s
second. Common Pleas judge with
Richard Sharp, who narrowly
defeated him. for the post in last
year’s election.
In other county offices. Republican
Richard V. Waite had 7.192 votes to
Democrat Andrew P. McKinley’s
3,869 votes in the race for sheriff.
Democratic incumbent Ruth C.
Rudy had 6,600 votes to 4,49.4 votes for
Republican Robert T. May in the race
forprothonotary.
For county treasurer. Republican
Paul M. Dubbs was leading
Democrat Steven L. Stem by 6,848 to
4,094 votes.
. Republican Harry R. Burd had
6,595 votes to Democrat Sam Bar
nhart’s 4,352 votes, in the contest for
register of wills.
For recorder of deeds, Democrat
John W. Miles had 6,185 votes to 4,739
votes for Republican Louis .W.
Hanscom.
In the race for county controller,
Republican Donald Asendors had the
lead over Democrat Arthur Reede Jr.
by 6,574 votes to 4,253 votes.
For county coroner, Republican W.
Robert Neff had 7,049 votes to 3.887
votes for Democrat Michael P.
Krehel.
For school director for the State
College Area School District, all three
candidates ran unopposed on both
tickets. They are Richard M. Bunnell.
Duane j; Doty and Kay Rossi.
In state judicial races. John P.
Flaherty, who ran unopposed for
justice of the state Supreme Court,
received 9,517 votes.
In the race for judge of the state
Superior Court, Republican Richard
B. Wickersham received 5.896 votes;
James R. Cavanaugh, who ran on
both tickets. 7,985; Republican Zoran
Popovich, 4,914; Democrat John G.
Brosky, 4,192; and Democrat Donald
E. Wieand. 3.962.
In the race for judge of state
Commonwealth Court. Republican
John A. MacPhail received 5.-110
voles: David Craig, who ran on both
tickets, 7.492: and Democrat Robert
W. Williams Jr.. 4,562.
The students stormed the embassy compound Sunday
and overran Marine guards in a three-hour battle. The
State Department Tuesday said they estimated (he
number of Americans seized at between 00 and 05. in
cluding 28 military personnel.
The students demanded the extradition of the ousted
shah, who is undergoing cancer treatment in New York.
The State Department has flatly refused.
Other.students grabbed two American cultural of
ficers outside the compound and added them to the
hostages inside the embassy. In Tabriz and Shiraz.;
students were reported still holding U.S. consulate;
buildings, which were closed when the shah was;
overthrown last Feb. 11.
Another student communique broadcast by the!
government radio ordered Bruce La ingen. the U.S.;
chief of mission and charge d'affaires, to surrender.;
Laingen was away from the embassy when it was in'-;
vaded Sunday and tried unsuccessfully to get govern-;
ment assistance before the embassy fell. ; •
The State Department said Laingen was at the!
Iranian Foreign Ministry in Tehran awaiting word on!
who he should deal with now that Bazargan was gone.
“When we find out," a State Department official said.;
“we will have several options to consider. But we can’t;
do anything until we know who is running things." ■
In his letter of resignation to Khomeini, Bazargan, 71,.
said he was quitting because of .•‘interference, med : !
dling, opposition and differences of opinion." 1
"The discharge of our duties and continuance of our;
responsibilities have for some time been impossible,";
he said Monday in the letter addressed to Khomeini. ;
Bazargan, wishing Khomeini success in forming a;
new government, said thafa “unified administration"-
was needed to ensure “the success of the revolution.’ ’
“I, therefore, submit my resignation so that you may!
appoint someone with whom a harmonious relationship;
ritay be possible to form a new government.”
The Islamic Revolutionary Council asked Bazargan’s
ministers to stay in their posts.
.The students hailed Bazargan’s resignation and!
claimed it resulted directly resulted from their action.
“We believe that he was not pro-American but was
not revolutionary either,” one spokesman said.
One of Bazargan’s last acts in office Monday was to;
cancel a 1959 friendship treaty with the United States.;
The move, however, apparently failed to satisfy!
demonstrators, who demanded a complete rupture of!
Iran’s diplomatic ties with Washington.
Mary Ann Haas