16—The Daily Collegian Thursday Oct. 30, 1980
No ruling on bong law;
more testimony needed
By LORRAINE ORLANDI
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
No decision was made yesterday whether the State College
drug paraphernalia ordinance is constitutional.
Judge Richard Conaboy heard the case in U.S. District Court
in Scranton. Conaboy’s deputy law clerk said the judge will
receive additional testimony until Nov. 19, before making his
decision.
The hearing followed a request by two local businesses, Lazy
J Limited, 232 E. College Ave., and Quickdraw Accessories,
137 N. Patterson St., for a —temporary restraining order
against the bong law.
The plaintiffs, David A. Talmas, president off Lazy J, and
James Bauer, Dpresident of Quickdraw, are challenging the
constitutionality of the law, saying it is vague, indefinite and
does not adequately define what items are prohibited.
Joseph Wakeley Jr., State College municipal council
member, attended the hearing. He said he did not think the
real issue the constitutionality of the ordinance was ad
dressed at the hearing. (
“They (the plaintiffs) really didn’t get down to the point of
discussing the constitutionality of the ordinance,” Wakeley
said. “It was as though they were on trial, as though they were
being prosecuted under the ordinance.”
Council member Fred Honsberger, who was also at the hear
ing, said he also felt the problem was not addressed.
“They addressed the problem that the municipality might
confiscate their property, ’ ’ Honsberger said. He said it was in
dicated at the hearing that some inventory from Quickdraw
had been moved to College Township because of the fear, it
might be confiscated.
“But these are fears that they, themselves, have,”
Honsberger said. No State College businesses have been pro
secuted under the ordinance.
Wakeley said Conaboy also did not seem sure that the real
issue was being addressed, but wanted to allow full testimony
for both sides.
Dracu/a: separating
By SUSAN FOLEY
and WALT De TREUX
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
Bloodstained fangs, an ashen face,
hypnotizing eyes and a long black cloak
are features of vampires. Count Dracula
is the world’s most famous vampire.
That is unless you ask Radu Florescu,
a world reknowned expert on Dracula.
Florescu, a professor at Boston College
and an author of three books on Dracula,
offered a unique view of the Count last
night at Eisenhower Auditorium. 1
Florescu described Dracula as both
“the worst tyrant in history” and “the
George Washington of the Romanian
race.”
.Florescu said Dracula was a vicious
Romanian prince who killed up to 100,000
people in six years during the, 15th cen
tury. Dracula, which means, “son of the
devil,” became a Romanian national
hero because many of his victims were
The Economy of Centre County
Rep. Cunningham ...
... proposed and won the Governor’s approval for a plan to
delay a scheduled 12 million dollar cut in University
funding until deficiency appropriations could be arranged.
... proposed and secured passage of his legislation ap
propriating 8.5 million dollars to equip the University
power plant with an air pollution filtration system.
... proposed and secured passage of his legislation in
creasing Penn State’s appropriations by 1.8 million
dollars.
... proposed and secured passage of his legislation ap
propriating .7 million dollars to modernize main campus
buildings by eliminating barriers to the access of hand
icapped persons
.. assisted in securing 4.5 million dollars in state funding
to complete Penn State’s “living filter” sewage effluent
treatment system.
... successfully supported cost of living adjustments in
retirement benefit levels for state and public school retirees.
... introduced and secured passage'of legislation to amend
the Constitution to provide for cost of living adjustments in
retirement benefit levels for widows and widowers of deceas
ed state retirees.
... supported legislation ending mandatory retirement age
discrimination against university professors.
Constitutional Spending Limits
Recognizing that the Public Sector (Government) cannot con
tinu&to spend without regard to the ability of the Private Sec
tor (Tax Payers) to fund this level of spending, Representative
Cunningham pushed for, and the House passed, restraints
that will limit the annual growth of government spending to
nothing in excess of the rate of growth of personal income as
averaged over the two previous fiscal years.
Unemployment Compensation Reform
Rep. Cunningham supported what will be the first in a series
of remedies which tackle Pennsylvania’s “most serious
economic problem” in an attemptto bring the system out of
bankruptcy while balancing the interests of working people
and employers alike.
Welfare Reform
Rep. Cunningham supported legislation designed to remove
from the welfare roles general assistance recipients who are
fully able to work and appropriated the savings to the truly
needy.
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enemies of the counfry.
Speaking as part of Colloquy’s fall
term program, Florescu said the vam
pire myth began as early as 1462 when
Dracula was still alive. Vampirism, as
known in Eastern Europe, was a form of
punishment which forced the cursed per
son to victimize family, neighbors arid
even certain animals.
“A vampire hates his role.” Florescu
said. “It is a purgatory on earth.”
When someone drives a stake through
a vampire’s heart (the only method of
killing a vampire) “it lifts the vampire
from the curse,” Florescu said.
“The vampire utters a cry of triumph;
he is no longer confined to his mission of
vampirizing.”
Count Dracula is said to have enjoyed
seeing his victims die by impalement.
Florescu said that Dracula became
associated with the vampire myth when
the Romanian people told tales of
REPRESENTATIVE
GREGG CUNNINGHAM
Talmas testified that the ordinance had caused him not to
exhibit certain posters in his store, such as one of a former
Penn State football player who had been arrested on a cocaine
charge in Florida.
Robert Abernathy, a State College detective, appeared as a
witness for the municipality to establish the fact that there is a
drug abuse problem in State College, Wakeley said.
'They (the plaintiffs) really didn't get down
to the point of discussing the con
stitutionality of the ordinance.'
—Joseph Wake/ey Jr., State College
municipal council member
Jack L. Hopson, director of training at the state Bureau of
Drug Control, appeared as an expert witness to explain to the
court items indicated as drug paraphernalia in the oridinance.
Wakeley said that a brief, presented to the court on behalf of
the borough by State College municipal solicitor Robert K.
Kistler, defends the constitutionality of the ordinance by citing
similar ordinances which have been upheld, other relative
cases, and different judges’ commentaries on the ordinance.
The bong law, adopted Oct. 6, is based on a model act drafted
by the U.S. Justice Department. It follows an opinion of a
judge in a Parma, Ohio, case where a similar ordinance was
upheld.
The law prohibits the sale of items which are used, intended
for use or designed for use with illegal drugs. Conviction under
the ordinance requires that the seller of an item know the item
is being purchased for use with illegal drugs.
fact from fiction
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.epresentati've , /esses a television press conference with Governor
Richard Thornburgh, Lt. Governor William Scranton.
U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker, Congressman William Clinger, Representative Gregg
Cunningham.
Dracula drinking the blood of his
victims.
Romanians take many precautions
against the bloodthirsty vampire,
Florescu said. Clusters of garlic are
hung from windows and doors to “ward
off the devil and his cohorts,” he said.
They avoid black cats, bats and
snakes, believing that vampires often
take on these forms, Florescu said.
These beliefs were not created in
Hollywood;' they are genuine Romanian
folklore, but movies have contributed to
the Dracula legend, he said.
“Movies play their role an,essential
role. in the vampire tradition,”
Florescu said. But, he said, “the vam
pire has been completely romanticized”
in recent movies.
Florescu issued a warning for tomor
row night: “Vampires play on Hallo
ween. Good people must stay indoors.”
LEADERSHIP IN HARRISBURG
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COORDINATION WITH WASHINGT
Consumer Party candidate Douglas Mason, left, makes a point during last night’s debate with Democratic candidate
Peter Atigan. Mason and Atigan are vying for the U.S. House of Representatives seat in the 23rd district occupied ny
Republican William Clinger.
Candidates argue on education
By KAREN KONSKI
baily Collegian Staff Writer
In a debate last night between the
opponents of U.S. Rep. William F. Cl
inger (R-central Pa.), Democratic
candidate Peter Atigan said he favors
student grants for education while
Consumer Party candidate Douglas
Mason, said he advocates helping the
institution rather than the individual.
Atigan said he is against loans,but
he favors grants. Atigan said he
agrees with Franklin Roosevelt’s
theory of a free education for every
person. ■
“This doesn’t mean a loan,” Atigan
said. “We need to let people study
with the people who already know the
facts.”
Mason, however, said the govern
ment should strengthen the educa
tional system by giving help directly
to the institution rather than awar
ding loans or grants to individuals.
However, he also said education
should be made available to the mid
dle and lower classes even if that
would mean giving grants and loans.
Both candidates said they favor us
ing funds from the Energy Depart-
ment to develop solar energy.
Mason said he thinks the develop
ment of solar energy will help im
prove the job market as well as the
energy situation.“ For every one job
in nuclear energy, ther are four jobs
in solar energy,”he said.
“The oil companies are trying to
squeeze every last dime out of fossil
energy,” Mason said. ‘‘This is a real
problem. We have to make the path to
solar energy easier.”
He said he feels the nation could
have solar energy at a lower cost if
the government would show how to
obtain solar energy more easily.
Atigan took this opportunity to at
tack Clinger’s stands on energy isues.
He said Clinger got money from oil
and gas companies and therefore will
not say anything against the nuclear
plants. Atigan said Clinger also said
solar energy should be used.
“He- is speaking with a forked
tongue,’’Atigan said.
While both candidates agreed that
the federal budget should be cut, they
disagreed on how it should be done.
Atigan felt the budget cut should
come from funds for the welfare
Hazardous Chemical Waste Management
Rep. Cunningham helped lead the successful fight to control
the transportation and disposition of industrial poisons that
threaten the health and lives of all Pennsylvanians.
Divorce Reform
Rep. Cunningham helped write the first significant change in
Pennsylvania's divorce laws in one hundred years, and was
the architect of the compromise which broke the impasse
that had threatened to defeat the bill.
Public School Code Recodification
Rep; Cunningham was a prime drafter of this rewrite of Penn
sylvania school law and won approval of an unprecedented
eight amendments on the floor of the House.
Initiative and Referendum
Rep. Cunningham has introduced legislation which will allow
voters to change the law directly even over the objection of
the legislature.
Budget Reform
Rep. Cunningham has introduced legislation that will change
the budgetary process to provide for continued funding of all
appropriations in the event of a budgetary impasse and
prohibit legislative adjournments until the impasse is
resolved. *
Judicial Reform ,
Rep. Cunningham has introduced legislation that will bring
new accountability to judicial elections by giving voters a real
choice through abolition of retention in favor of competitive
reelections, prohibition of cross-filing with both parties and
elimination of the ban on candidate discussion of substan
tive judicial campaign issues.
Crime Victims Compensation Reform
Rep. Cunningham has introduced legislation designed to see
that victims of crime are paid restitution by convicted
criminals before the courts can collect their fines costs. '
Agriculture
Rep. Cunningham has been rated within one vote of a perfect
record on agricultural issues by the Pennsylvania Farmers
Association.
program. \
Atigan said that only the sick, aged,
and needy should receive aid. Atigan
said programs such as those! used in
the New Deal of the 1940 s performed
a service and put able-bodied men
back to work. He said he favors these
kind of programs today to reduce the
number of people on welfare.
Mason said the military budget
should be cut to decrease the federal
budget..
Military expenses could be cut 30 to
50 percent, Mason said. A lot of un
needed programs could be cut and
more money could be given to people
in the military without reducing effi
ciency, Mason said.
The candidates agreed on some
other issues.
Both candidates said too many
farmers have been forced to sell their
land to real estate companies
because of low profits in farming.
The country needs the small
farmer because if more people are
producing food, prices will go down,
Atigan said.
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