'I —The Daily Collegian Monday, August 18,1980
Anderson blames conventions for poll drop
Unitcd Press International
Independent presidential candidate John Anderson
said yesterday his campaign has been obscured by the
“millions of dollars in free air time” given to the
Republican and Democratic conventions, but will soon
climb in the polls again.
He told television interviewers he expects to meet
qualifications set by the League of Women Voters to
participate in presidential debates this fall, and called
himself the candidate with the best chance to defeat
Republican Ronald Reagan.
Anderson appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” and
was pressed for full answers to two questions how to
explain his recent drop in the polls to a low level of 14
percent recorded by Gallup in yesterday’s papers, and
whether he would be able to persuade a nationally
respected Democrat to become his running mate.
Reagan begins
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Ignoring the
traditional post-convention political
recess, Ronald Reagan began a four
day, cross-country campaign trip
yesterday, featuring speeches to the
nation’s two largest veterans
organizations.
The Republican nominee who spent
World War II as an Army Air Corps
officer narrating training films in
Hollyood is scheduled to address the
Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in
Chicago today and the American Legion
convention in Boston Wednesday.
Today in Philadelphia he will tour a
ship yard and appear at a fundraiser for
GOP Senate candidate Arlen Spector.
Reagan relaxed at his mountain ranch
north of Santa Barbara, Calif., during
last week’s Democratic National Con
vention. Aides said yesterday he is now
ready to do some “serious cam
paigning” and take advantage of the
current lead he enjoys over President
Carter in the polls.
At a news conference Saturday to see
running mate George Bush off on a nine-
News briefs
Math genius shoots self, dies
DAYTON, Ohio (UPI) James D.
Egbert 111, a teen-age mathematical
genius with a mysteriously troubled
personal life, was disconnected from
life support systems and died from an
apparently self-inflicted gunshot
wound in the head, officials said
yesterday.
Egbert, 17, died Saturday in
Grandview Hospital six days after
the shooting without ever regaining
consciousness. He had been kept
alive by cardiac and repiratory life
support systems.
Volcanic eruption jolts Iceland
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) A
volcanic eruption, described by
Icelandic officials as “enormous,”
hurled hot ash and smoke 15 miles
into the sky yesterday and lava
threatened nearby towns.
The cloud of smoke and ash could
be seen in Reykjavik, about 70 miles
to the west.
The 4,747-foot-high Hekla volcano,
erupted at 1:18 P.M. (9:18 A.M. EDT)
with a series of minor earthquakes
jolting the island nation.
Officials could not determine the
exact course of the steaming lava,
but ash was falling on Akureyri,
Helen's dome still unchanged
VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPI) A
glowing red lava dome inside the
inner crater atop simmering Mount
St. Helens appeared unaffected by
the volcano’s latest eruptive activity,
the U.S. Forest Service reported
yesterday.
The volcano itself was “just sitting
there steaming a little,” U.S.
Geological Survey scientist Don
Finley said. Ash and steam were seen
drifting over the lip of the main
crater towards the southeast, but no
earthquakes were detected, he ad
ded.
■ Spotter pilots flying over the peak
confirmed that the lava dome, a 100-
foot-wide mound of solidifying molten
rock pushing up from the volcano’s
core, had not been blown out by
Bolivia says Post part of plot
LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPI) —Bolivia’s
military government accused the
Washington Post yesterday of
publishing a story alleging govern
ment involvement in drug trafficking
as part of an international plot to
discredit the regime.
A statement by the Foreign
Ministry said a Washington Post
story Aug. 14 alleging official in
volvement in cocaine traffic was
“filled with slander, not only against
the Bolivian government, but also the
Bolivian people.”
U.S. State Department spokesman
David Passage was also taken to task
Producers may
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Movie and
television producers will decide today
whether to break an impasse in
negotiations and return to federal
mediation with striking actors, a
spokesman said yesterday.
Phil Meyers, speaking for the
producers, said if representatives
determine at a 10 a.m. meeting to
resume mediation, they probably will
face the actors’ union Wednesday or
Thursday.
He said he had anticipated a sharp fall-off in support
during the conventions, but believes “in the period of
the next two or three weeks we will recover ... and
meet the debate qualification.”
The League of Women Voters has decided the
debates should be open to any candidate who is on the
ballot of enough states to have a chance of election, and
who has 15 percent or more support in recognized
national polls.
Reminded that he had dropped from around 24
percent in June to 14 percent yesterday, Anderson
replied:
“Those figures should be viewed in the context of the
two national conventions which dominated millions of
dollars of free air time while we were in the shadow. ”
He also was pressed to name Democrats who have
cross-country
day trip to China and Japan, Reagan
accused Carter of making “distorted
charges” against him during the con
vention to draw attention away from his
own administration’s failures.
“I’m not going to spend this time
dealing with the distorted charges that
After fishing, Carter at Camp David
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Carter and members of
his family wrapped up a weekend of trout fishing in central
Pennsylvania yesterday, then returned to Camp David, Md.,
for more relaxation.
White House aides their campaign plans against
Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan fairly well
set also were taking a few days’ rest in the lull before the
traditional Labor Day opening of the race for the presidency.
An aide said Carter probably will return to the White House
Wednesday or Thursday. On Thursday, Carter will travel to
Boston for the American Legion convention where he will
make his first public appearance since being renominated at
last week’s Democratic National Convention.
Carter was booed during a 1976 campaign speech to the
American Legion when he repeated his pledge that as
The Montgomery County Coroner’s
Office said the boy was disconnected
from the machines after doctors
repeatedly tested for brain wave
activity and found none. He. was
taken off with the approval of his
parents and died at 3:50 p.m.
From the time of Egbert’s ad
mittance, doctors gave him no
chance of recovery.
Last August, Egbert disappeared
from Michigan State University,
where he was studying computer
science
Iceland’s second-largest town with a
population of 14,000. The ash had
already damaged houses and cars in
the area.
There were no plans to evacuate
Akureyri.
The area immediately surrounding
Hekla is inhabited mainly by far
mers.
There is also a hydroelectric plant
near the volcano and power from.the
facility was interrupted for about 20
minutes just after the eruption.
The last serious eruption of Hekla
was in 1947. There was a minor one in
1971.
Illustration by Cyndl Shoup
Friday’s mild eruption that shot
steam and ash 15,000 feet into the sky,
Forest Service spokeswoman Jan
Simmons said.
in the statement for “echoing the
insidious offense.”
Passage said Friday the U.S. ex
pected no cooperation from Bolivia
on drug control in light of reports of
official involvement in the cocaine
trade.
The Foreign Ministry complained
that “Bolivia is now in a difficult
situation because it lacks the means
to control the drug traffic.”
It added, however, the government
was willing to hold talks with the
United States on any issue, “however
delicate.”
agree to talks
Kim Fellner, Screen Actors Guild
spokeswoman, said the SAG is willing
to participate in mediation talks if
producers will do likewise.
The strike, which enters its fifth
week today, has paralyzed the movie
and television film producing in
dustry, idling 60,000 actors and ac
tresses who belong to the SAG and the
American Federation of Television
and Radio Artists.
His answer to both questions was an emphatic yes
were made by the president in his effort
to keep as far away as he could from
having to talk about his own record.”
"Asked about specific Democratic
charges, he replied, “I know I’m not
irresponsible.”
"I suppose if you’re in a fantasyland,”
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indicated they will, or may, support him or even join
him on the ticket. But he did not do so. He
acknowledged the difficulty “for a Democratic office
holder to turn his back on his party,” but said he had
talked to a number of them and will have the support of
many.
Anderson did not commit himself to a choosing a
Democratic running mate, although the new Gallup
poll said most of his supporters would prefer one. But
he replied: “Yes I don’t want to limit myself, but
yes,” to the question whether his running mate will be
“someone with a national reputation who holds, or has
held, an elective office.”
On CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday, liberal Sen.
George McGovern, D-S.D., said he had pledged his
support to Carter and believes most of the other
Democrats who previously supported Sen. Edward
Kennedy also will do so.
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campaign trip
president he would offer a blanket pardon for Vietnam-era
draft law violators. He made that his first official action.
The White House confirmed the president flew to Hun
tingdon County, Pa., near Franklin, to fish in Spruce Creek
a spot he has visited before. Wayne Harpster, a dairy farmer
at Seven Stars and a member of the Spruce Creek Rod and Gun
Club, was Carter’s host.
Carter was joined by his wife Rosalynn, daughter Amy, sons
Jack and Chip, and two old friends, Carleton Hicks and Jim
Bishop, both of Brunswick, Ga.
Observing its traditional secrecy about Carter’s fishing
expeditions, the Secret Service did not even notify the Penn
sylvania State Police the president was coming to the area and
kept a ring of tight security around the presidential camp,
sources said.
Is this goodbye?
Reagan said about the president,
“everything else looks like a fan
tasyland.”
Reagan also shrugged off a post
convention remark by Carter that the
minority vote would clinch his re
election in November.
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NEW YORK (UPI) The worker
unrest rocking Poland may result in
some unorthodox modifications in the
country’s communist system but it is
unlikely to topple the government of
Edward Gierek, says an expert on
Eastern Europe.
“There’s just no alternative to
Gierek waiting in the wings,” said
Prof. Jane Curry of Columbia
University’s East European political
science division. “And, the strikers
aren’t demanding a change in
leadership, as they have in the past.
The-Poles know their problems are
more complex.”
The 35 million Poles face a $2O
billion dollar foreign debt that claims
70 percent of the country’s budget
just to meet interest charges. It’? the
result of rapid industrialization that
failed to meet expectations due to bad
planning, bad harvests, the Western
recession and the energy crunch.
Gierek, “a master politician” who
tightened his political grip at
February’s party congress by in
stalling his own people in all major
posts, set out to ease Poland’s
disastrous finances July 1. He at
tacked food subsidies an explosive
issue that brought him to power in
1970 and has been the downfall of
Polish leaders since 1956.
He ordered the amount of meat sold
in higher priced “commercial”
stores increased over that sold in
regular state stores. Some 150 strikes
later, he is holding firm despite the
continued labor troubles.
The Polish government, Curry
said, has been anything but con
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troops as it did in the past, “the
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government has been willing to buy
off individual groups, one by one
giving them pay raises.”
Rare for a communist system, the
workers are meeting with local
managers to settle their disputes,
giving them a direct voice in their
affairs. At the giant shipyards in
Gdansk, they called for dissolution of
the Central Council of Trade Unions
in Warsaw and freely elected workers
committees.
“But that’s a lot less threatening
than a demand for another party or
leader,” Curry said.
Poland has always been a country
of compromise with communism a
majority of the land- is held,in small
private farms worked by peasants,
the church is very strong and the
dissident movement is allowed to
express itself relatively freely, she
said.
Workers have not been organized
nationwide and instead, each, group
has generally concentrated on its own
demands.
The dissidents have tried to
organize the workers but “they have
failed,” Curry said. Even among
them, the demands are for reform
within the communist system.
An underground group known as
Experience and the Future which
represents some of the top leaders in
the country has issued two reports
calling for decentralization and a
return to individual responsibility to
improve Poland’s manpower
productivity, among the lowest in
Europe.
“Everyone sees the possibility of
Russian intervention as the worst
possible alternative,” Curry said.
Chimney sweeps preserve an age-old occupation
than 200. chimney sweeps from 28 states model their working attire at the world’s largest gathering of sweeps held in Lancaster in June. Among them
Eob Williams of Red Lion Chimney Sweeps, 248 S. Burrows Road.
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Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Remember Mary Poppins?
Remember all those grown men running
around looking silly in what looked like
old magicians’ costumes? Believe it or
not, even today, they are for real.
In fact, they just had a convention in
Lancaster in June marking the largest
gathering of chimney sweeps known to
the world.
Bob Williams, of Red Lion Chimney
Sweeps, 248 S. Burrows Road, was
among the 230 sweeps from 28 states
participating in the convention held by
August West Inc., the largest supplier of
specialized sweeping equipment in the
country.
They came from as far as North
Dakota, Boston and Canada, both part
time and full-time, single people and
married couples working together, from
19- to 46-years-old, some owners of their
own businesses, like Williams, and
others not.
Chimney sweeps have an interesting
history.
According to Williams, long ago an
ancient king was out horseback riding
when the horse suddenly got away from
him. A chimney sweep happened by and
calmed the horse down. The sweep
walked away before the king got a
chance to thank him for his help.
From then on, the king would bow
down to any chimney sweep he saw to
express his gratitude. Soon, sweeps
became a symbol of good luck and the
tradition has continued to this day.
Also fast becoming a tradition in the
world of sweeps, is August West’s
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convention. Williams said he thoroughly
enjoyed the convention where there
were many speakers and, of course,
much socializing. He said he learned a
lot of different sweeping methods from
both the speakers and the other chimney
sweeps.
Williams said the first rule of chimney
sweeps was decided at this year’s
convention: For something to get clean,
someone or something else must get
dirty.
7 expect that business will
increase soon because
more and more people are
heating with wood."
Speakers at the convention discussed
topics such as safety measures for
sweeps, new information on sweeping
equipment, insurance protection, en
trepreneuring skills and general in
formation on heating with wood,
Williams said.
Among the speakers at the convention
were Jay Shelton, a prominent
researcher of wood-burning and wood
burning stoves and author of many
books on the subject, and Tom Risch,
one of the founders and now president of
August West, Inc., he said.
Williams, 31, has been in business in
State College for three years now. “I
expect that business will increase soon
because more and more people are
heating with wood,” he said.
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