I—The Daily Collegian Thursday, April 16, 1981 Back on the job President Reagan went over some paper work in the study of the second floor conference. The White House has been swamped with get-well cards and letters for residence of the White house yesterday. Although Reagan is doing his recoperating Brady. Well-wishers, who are acquainted,with his nickname - " Bear," have sent away from the public eye,. Press Secretary James Brady, still confined to a countless toy bears and a three-foot high solid chocolate bear. hospital bed told Reagan on the phone yesterday he feels strong enough for a press New violence By The Associated Press New violence broke out in the West Virginia coalfields yesterday and coal itrucks were pelted with rocks in Ken :Lucky amid reports that the United Mine fforkers and coal operators were still far ;apart on ending a 21-day-old strike by 460,000 miners. West Virginia' uthorities arrested two ;Philpott Coal Corp. guards on charges of firing at two UMW officials outside the ?union's District 29 headquarters in Beck ley, W. Va. Two shotguns and ammuni tion were confiscated. Kentucky state police said rocks were thrown at coal trucks passing a group of (about 50 pickets near Pikeville. No inju ries or arrests were reported. ,I& Washington, talks between the lUMW and the Bituminous Coal Opera tors Association were recessed until Fri- Oay after Tuesday's meeting ended with Ino progress reported toward a new con tract. In the West Virginia shooting, Joe ~Sparks and Mike Durham, UMW District Board officials from Wyoming County, said they were driving to the union head quarters in Beckley Tuesday night when Constitution i 'By, CHARLES J. HANLEY !Associated Press Writer MONTREAL (AP) The debate over ;Canada's constitution enters a new and :critical phase today, having been trans formed from a dry legal duel into a passionate political fight punctuated by a charge of "fascism" and a rare filibuster in the Canadian Parliament. .1 Eight provincial premiers opposed to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau's plan to reform the country's antiquated constitutional structure will gather in a televised ceremony in Ottawa today to sign a document offering their own ,alter native proposal. The question is 'whether Trudeau will negotiate. News Briefs • . English classes "so we have to feel the High school survey' results are valid." •Principal William Faunce said the high shows students bet school is helping students who have trou ble controlling their gambling, and offers counseling by Gamblers Anonymous. "I feel the biggest problem is in the parents' attitude," Faunce said. "To them, (gamblin'g) isn't wrong like when kids drink . . . and they know the dangers of drugs. But there's no danger with kids going into the casinos. All they can do is lose money, and there's always the chance they can thake money." • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) Sixty four per cent of the students surveyed at Atlantic City High School say they have gambled at neighborhood casinos and 25 percent say they got free drinks while they were at it. New Jersey's legal age is 18 for gam bling, 19 for drinking. The student newspaper Viking sur veyed 1;120 of the school's 2,500 students in January. Among the findings, which were made public in area newspapers yesterday: • 13 percent of the students call them selves regular gamblers. • 86 percent said they had no trouble getting past casino security guards. "If you don't act childish and dress appropriately, they should let you in," a 14-year-old wrote. • 42 percent of the 14-year-olds have gambled at least once; 5 percent call themselves regulars. "My sister is 10 and she plays the slots," one.student said. • 79 percent said their parents knew of their gambling; 18 percent said their parents objected. "I only go to the casino with my paren ts," said a 15-year-old. State law and casino regulations prohibit minors from entering a casino, even with parents. Martin Rimm, a Viking editor, said the questionnaires were completed under strict teacher supervision during recent in coalfields they heard a shot and three men carrying guns approached the car. "They threatened us and told us we didn't belong there," Sparks said. "Then one guy pointed a shotgun at us and told us to move on out." Officials said Walter E. Blackwell and Perry Leylan Harper, both 29 and of McKewport, were charged with bran dishing weapons and public intoxication. A third man was being sought. John Meeks, a Philpott vice presid ent, . said the • arrested men were company guards, but called the shooting charge."a lie." In Nicholas County, W.Va., about 75 pickets with metal pipes attacked George Prutsok, superintendent oT Beth= lehem's Jerry-Fork mines enrly-Wednes diy as~he &bye to thelnine; company officials said, and a supply clerk also was attacked as he was driving out. Both suffered minor injuries. "We're trying to get a temporary re straining order. to limit the picketing," company spokesman Tom Schwartz said. "But we're certainly not going to risk our employees' livei by sending them back there." n new phase The argument is over a U.S.-style bill of rights and a constitutional amendment procedure. •These items might seem unobjectionable on the surface, but they have fired up the regional and ethnic antagonisms that have long troubled the Canadian confederation. • A law of the British Parliament, the British North America Act of 1867, estab lished the confederation and still Serves as its basic charter. The Canadians have left it in British hands because they have been unable to agree among themselves on an amend ing formula. quarreling over such questions as whether more populous provinces should have a veto over consti tutional change. U.S to increase peanut import quota WASHINGTON (AP) Agriculture Sec retary John R. Block said yesterday an expansion of the U.S. peanut import quota will help meet the needs of peanut butter eaters and other consumers until new supplies are available from this year's crop. President Reagan announced the quota boost on Tuesday, raising it by an addi tional 100 million pounds and extending its deadline to July 31. Last fall, President Carter proclaimed the special quota at 200 million pounds, with an expiration date of June 30. Nor mally, the yearly quota is about 1.7 million pounds of shelled peaputs. The action was taken to help ease the demand crunch on the U.S. peanut sup ply, caused by a sharp decline in last year's harvest. The 1980 crop, at less than 2.3 billion pounds, was reduced National industrial output rises By ROBERT FURLOW Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's industrial out put, boosted by, a surge in auto assemblies, rose 0.4 percent in Maich, offsetting February's production decline, the government reported yesterday. Analysts inside and outside government saw the new Federal Reserve Board figures as a new sign of a flat or growing national economy in• coming months with little indication of a recession such as the one that hit last spring. The Commerce Department also released figures showing the seasonally adjusted value of inventories up 4.1 percent in February while total sales by producers, wholesalers and retailers dropped 0.1 percent a potentially negative sign for the economy. 1. . -_ ..., • j ilt . ' 1"., ~ A,V ' •,, F. v.,. , vi- '/•' Is .. wttiatwi'VA'' slyt.tte '''' .. t'S .o'. , ' wR , mooi , r ~... ko,r. ..i,' • ~ ''',..: Ai 4 ,-.`: -4 - ~„ - q ' 5 . \ ,:. ,' , ..$:-Y. ,-- , .. more than 40 percent by drought. Block said the larger import authoriza tion will not interfere with the domestic price support program "because the special quota will expire before the new crop comes on the market." Market rallies as space stock gains By CHET CURRIER AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) Airline and aero space stocks scored standout gains as the stock market rallied sharply in a busy session yesterday. Analysts said the advance drew some of its impetus from optimistic comments about the inflation outlook by Chairman Paul Volcker of the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones average of 30 industri als climbed 12.61 to 1,001.71 for its best single-day showing in three weeks. • On March 25 the average jumped 19.09 to an eight-year high of 1,015.22. New York Stock Exchange volume reached 56.04 million shares, up from 48.35 million Tuesday. An even better showing than the Dow Jones industrial average's gain was reg istered by Dow Jones' average of 20 transportation stocks, up 8.97 at 446.59 thanks to widespread buying of airline issues. The airline stocks have been on the rise for the past several days amid signs of downward pressure on oil prices. In Yesterday's trading, Trans World was up 2 0 at 28 as of the 4 p.m. close in MEM .:.~~. New York; Eastern Airlines gained 3 / 4 to 11 1 / 4 ; Delta 2 1 / 2 to 76; UAL 1 * to 28., and American Airlines 1 to 18. American led the active list in trading that included 500,000-share blocks, at 17 and 17®. The company reported a $3.9 million profit for the first quarter, against a loss of $41.9 million in the comparable period a year ago. Dow Jones Average 30 Industrials High 1004.41 Low 987.03 Close 1001.71 n. Up... 12.61 April 15, 1981 Panda match may be parents soon MEXICO CITY (AP) Chin-Chin, a giant panda at the Chapultepec Park Zoo, may be pregnant again. "It happened about 25 days ago. Chin- Chin and Pe-Pe got together and there were unmistakable signs that Chin-Chin UPI wlrephoto Rik economists took that development in stride, 1 3 , flat" economy in the second quarter of this year, and noting that inventories have been kept relatively lean in she caid the new industrial production figures were "on recent months. the positive side."! . .. The overall increase in industrial production, after .i, adjustment for seasonal variations, included al2 per- William Cox, Commerce's acting chief economist,.; cent gain in auto assemblies —to an annual rate of 6.5 said the overall production figures would have been uP : million units and a 7.6 percentage point increase in only 0.1 percent rather than 0.4 percent without the l' automotive products in general. robust auto output. ' The auto jump was a little more than some econo- And he said the new figures added up to a continuing mists had expected in March, but rising output some- indication of "a flattening of the trajectory of growth" ' time this spring was not considered surprising in light of. in the economy after a steep rate of increase during the heavy car sales so far this year. last half of 1980. Several analysts noted that the heavy sales have He said the rising inventories could indicate "some ' eaten into factory inventories, leaving room for contin- involuntary backup," but he noted that much of the tied production. increase as well as the 0.1 percent sales decline could be;;., Y ~ One analyst said Data Resources expects a "general -1 rattributed to declining wholesale , oil sales. ?f,.* 1, 14 if' 1 • , •—,..;,, 2 • : • . • • • . , ' , ~t, .. _ . i t; e:: , ~ ' Ats t.. / S , * Reagan supports TV-satellite links By NORMAN BLACK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Rea gan administration, in a blow to established' broadcasters, made it clear yesterday that it supports ear ly authorization and operation of direct satellite-to-the-home TV sys tems. • Without diFectly backing the only application now pending with the Federal Communications Commis sion to build such. a system, Com merce Department officials said they were urging the FCC to proceed quickly with interim licensing stan dards and to avoid stringent regula tion. Established broadcasters, led by the National Association of Broad casters, have argued that satellite to-home television raises so many important policy questions that only Congress not the FCC should address the issue. "Even if the FCC were to approve Direct Broadcast Satellites today, it would be 1984-85 at the earliest be fore the first direct-to-home signal was received," said Dale Hatfield, acting chief of the National Tele communications and Information Administration. 'For this reason, we believe that regulatory delay of approval could amount to regulatory denial of the service to the American public." ' The NTIA is the arm of the Corn merce Department responsible for formulating administration policy on communications matters. Com merce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, in what was seen as a bid to under was in heat," the zoo ' s administrator, Dr. Gabino Vasque z, said in a telephone interview yesterday. "Maybe she is pregnant but, again, maybe not. We'll have to wait for the 127- day gestation period to end before we know. We're certainly not going to try checking and maybe upset Chin-Chin and spoil everything," he said. Chin-Chin gave birth to a female cub Aug. 11, 1980, but the cub died eight days later, apparently smothered by Chin- Chin. Exxon cleared of Overcharging claim DOVER, 'Del. (AP) A federal' udge in Wilmington has cleared the Exxon Corp. of allegedly overcharging by more than $lOO million for natural gas liquids while the company was under price controls,.a spokeswoman for Exxon Company U.S.A. said yesterday. In a telephone interview from the Houston-based company, the spokeswo man, who did not want to be identified, said the ruling was issued April 9 in U.S. District Court by Judge Walter K. Sta pleton. The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed in November 1978 against the feder al Department of Energy by Amoco and 14 other oil companies. The ruling con firms the companies were in compliance with DOE regulations,. the spokeswoman said. • score the administration's commit ment to satellite-to-home broadcasting, sent a letter to the FCC stressing the NTIA position. "Direct Broadcast Satellite has the potential to bring valuable new services to the TV marketplace, to advance U.S. technology in satellite communications and to create new jobs while providing our equipment manufacturers with both new do mestic and international markets," Baldridge wrote. The technology for providing TV programs directly from orbiting sa tellites to the home, while fairly new, is already undergoing tests in other nations such as Japan and Canada. The key to such a system is the use of special high-power satel lites that can beam a signal to earth with sufficient intensity that it can be received by antennas as small as 2 1 / 2 -feet in diamater antennas that can easily-be mounted on the roof of a house. The Communications Satellite Corp. has already formed a subsid iary and filed the first application with the FCC to establish such a system, saying it is prepared, to spend more than $6OO million to launch the service. COMSAT's sys tem would offer three channels .of pay TV programming and the firm has estimated it could attract 5 million to 7 million subscribers na tionwide. What COMSAT is proposing, how ever, is nothing less than a dramatic change in the American system of distributing video programs. Excess baggage The tax departments of every state are usually very busy this, time of year. And Pennsylvania's Depart ment of Revenue is no exception. These bags of letters contain tax payments that will total into the mil lions and will most likely be invested by the end of the week. wirepholo Vietnam vet sends Reagan purple heart WASHINGTON (AP) A disabled Viet nam veteran sent President Reagan one of his three purple hearts along with wishes for a speedy recovery from the bullet wound Reagan suffered in an at tempt on his life, the president's spokes man said yesterday. "I believe you deserve this purple heart more than I do," wrote Ishmael Franco. "I want you to have it and tell Mrs. Reagan she don't have to hang it in the living room." • Franco, a former Marine corporal, lives in Fremont, Calif. Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said both the president and the first lady were "clearly very touched by the gesture." He said Mrs. Reagan has hung the medal on the wall of the living room on the second floor of the White House. Franco, 35, was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and drafted into the Marines in 1965. He was wounded in action twice in Vietnam and also received a superficial gunshot wound to the head. He is consid ered permanently disabled. In his letter, Franco said that since he left the Marines "I have done everything possible to better myself, I don't have a formal education but I'm working on it. However, I always knew you were the best governor California ever had and you will be the best president this coun try ever had." T Y 1 C, '1 EASTE pi um NITTANY LION INN N. 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ENTREES Roast Top Round of Beef, Au Jus and ; Baked Ham with Brandy Sauce (both carved to order) Seafood Newburg on Toast Points Baked Chicken Coq Au Vin Baked Kielbasi and Sauerkraut Plus perfectly cooked vegetables, crisp salads, tangy relishes and morel Irresistible desserts like blueberry angel pie, straw berry shortcake and maple nut torte. Coffee, tea, milk or punch and jelly beans, of course! Adults, $9.50; children under 12, $4.95 12:00 to 2:30 pm 6 to 8 pm Dine 6 to 8 pm and register for 2 FREE DINNER THEATRE A 536 VALUE TICKETS [ . l . olq . __6lkjel_llll_AinL_El "Business in Today's Economy" Topic: Morning Sessions 10:45-12:00 Afternoon Sessions 1:30-2:45 Local service finds roommates PRODUCTION Company Keynote Speaker Ralph E. Peters President, Berger Associates 9:45 a.m. HUB Lounge *All Students Welcome * r~ ~~ ~~ 7 ~~ ~~ for the good times The College of Business Student Council Presents: Today in the HUB By SUZANNE M. CASSIDY Daily Collegian Staff Writer State College has a new service to help apartment hunters of all ages find compatible roommates. Roommate Introduction Service, Suite 500, 111 Sowers St., was organized to find suitable roommates for students, professionals and elderly citizens. "RIS will find a compatible roommate for any person who requests it," said part-owner Charlene Smith. For University students and State College residents alike it offers an alternative in the search for an agreeable roommate. "I plan on finding a roommate from Roommate Introduction Service," said Althea Smith (9th-accounting). "Instead of just finding a roommate from the bulletin board, I'd like to personally meet them, and so I went through RIS. "I've only been with them a short time, but they've been very helpful," she said. MATH ABILITY Metropolitan Life Inswance Company will be recruiting on campus on April 22 for full time positions in its actuarial student program. Students of any discipline will be considered for this program, which leads to management positions provided they have good math ability. Please register at the placement center an Equal Opportunity Employer It•I* tt 4 443 '4ll'' IT°S NOT TOO LATE!! STUDY MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY IN THE SUNNY CARRIBEAN * World Health Organization Approved * Hospital Affiliated * Government Chartered ' * Modern Classroomsanci Equipment * Clinical Experience * Tuition Loan Program * U.S. Clerkship Program For infomation pamphlet and Admission Application contact: Student Laision, P.O. Box 27, Walden, New York 1 . 2586 Robyn Grove, a medical secretary at Centre Community Hospital, said she also applied recently and has been satisfied with the service "It's not only for students, it's for professional people like me. A lot of the time the only people advertising 'lnstead of just finding a roommate from the bulletin board, I'd like to personally meet them, and so I went through RIS. I've only been with them a short time, but they've been very helpful.' in the paper for roommates are students," Grove said. "It just seemed like the best way of going about meeting a roommate." If you need to sublet your • apartment, RIS will also help you to find an appropriate tenant, Smith Established in January, this business is coordinated by Charlene Smith and Suzie Hawbaker, both of State College. The two women said they modeled their organization after —Althea Smith (9th-accounting) a similiar operation in California that matches professional adults with suitable living companions. Both Hawbaker and Smith said they have had previous experience with apartment rental and , • IPPPRIMme , '. The Penn State Wildlife Society presents LTonight, 4/16 7:30 p.m. Lori Baldwin "Surveying WilcJlife in West Africa" The Daily Collegian Thursday, April 16, 1981— management. Because they had frequent contact with apartment-dwellers, they said, they realized the need for some sort of organization to match persons who want to find roommates with like persons. Roommate Introduction Service was the result. Hawbaker and Smith said they match roommates based on the information that each applicant must give on the application form. This information includes such factors as the applicant's marital and occupational status, or student status, housing and facility preferences, financial ability to share expenses and personal ideas as to the type of person the applicant desires to have as a roommate. • "Because you come in and fill out the application, everyone is screened," Grove said. "Rather than just someone advertising in the paper, you can find out more about them and find out if they're more compatible." 301 Ag. Admin. Everyone Welcome fo • • '‘
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