4—The Daily Collegian Monday, Nov. 2, 1981
Tour explains
By RON WATERS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
It has a pulse. It moves. Until recently, it was
thought to be eternal.
But as the Centre Region learned last winter, the
water supply for the area won't always meet the
demand, which is why the Centre Regional Planning
Commission sponsored a bus tour of the Centre
Region water system Sat4rday as part of its 1982 mid
range water planning project.
The 50-member tour began where the system ends,
. and where most of the water used in the region
finishes its own tour the sewage plant.
At the University Area Joint Authority sewage
treatment plant, the effect of water conservation
practices' can be measured for half of the municipali
ty and most of College, Harris, Patton and Ferguson
. townships. The effect is seen in big round gauges.
Assistant superintendent of the facility Richard
• Weaver said the system now processes 2.6 million
: gallons of water a day.. That compares to 3.8 million
gallons per day back when the system was working
- near capacity in pre-conservation days.
The drop "is due to the good people conserving the
water," Weaver said.
• The finished product is clear and looks drinkable,
although Weaver advised not to. He said the water
does not undergo enough tests to determine its purity.
"Although there was a time when a sixth grade
: class came through," Weaver recalled. "One little
kid took a dipper full and had some before I could get
to him. He survived."
The water is dumped into Spring Creek and the
sludge is trucked to nearby fields to be pumped below
ground. The aerobic sludge unlike other sludge
makes a good fertilizer for everything except vegeta
bles, he said.
The privately owned grass fields where cows can
be seen grazing are approved by the Department of
Environmental Resources as a disposal site. There is
no charge for the sludge.
"We're glad to get rid of it and they're glad to get
it," Weaver said.
Harris Township earned a special stop on the tour
because it is the only township in the Centre Region to
rely exclusively on a surface water system. Instead
of using wells, Harris receives its water from a
reservoir.
A disadvantage of a surface water system, State
College Area Water Authority member Howard Hal
verson said, is that a surface system feels the effect
of a drought before a subsurface water system, but
when the drought begins to ease, a suface system is
the first to recover.
"What happened last year, our surface flow started
Centre Region water system
Donald Johnson, a member of the Harris Township Planning Commission, tests purified water at the
University Area Joint Authority sewage treatment plant.
falling in mid-October and we sent out letters re
questing voluntary conservation . . . Then about a
month later we were in good shape. That's about
when the people on stored water began to hurt."
He said all houses are metered in Harris Township
and residents pay between $3O and $4O each quarter
for their water.
In a speech during the tour, Robert Schmalz, a
water authority member, said the search for new
water supplies to meet the growth of the Centre
Region beyond 1990 should begin now.
Schmalz said the search for water to meet the
present decade's demand began in 1964 but the first
exploratory wells were not drilled until 1972. The
results of that effort three wells west of State
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He said a major problem is that limestone geology
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"It takes time and .it takes money. It is always
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Planning Commission member Chris Lee said the
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By ANNE CONNERS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer.
Calling Consumer Party Candidate
Ray Boyle "a shining light in a dim
election," Undergraduate Student Gov
ernment President Bill Cluck yesterday
strongly endorsed Boyle for a State Col
lege Municipal Council seat.
Cluck also endorsed incumbent Demo
cratic candidates James Deeslie and
Felicia Lewis. •
"Ray Boyle has addressed the issues of
how the community will deal with Reaga
nomics; in fact, he has formed solu
tions," Cluck said. •
Cluck,said he was not endorsing Boyle
merely because he was a "student-candi
date."
"Ray Boyle is not a student-candi
date," Cluck said. "Hehappens to under
stand student needs better than any other
candidate, but he understan6 the rest of
the issues too."
Cluck said he was endorsing Deeslie
"because of his experience in local gov
ernment, his ability to identify with the
average resident of State College and the
fact that he has an idea of progress
planning."
Lewis represents the needs of the corn
munity, Cluck said.
"What impresses me the most about
Mrs. Lewis is her service to the commu
Council to discuss Hillel
rezoning proposal tonight
The State College Municipal Council is
scheduled to discuss tonight for the first
time a proposal that the Hillel property,
224 Locust Lane, be converted into a
parking lot, council President, Mary Ann
Haas said.
The. State College Planning Commig
sion last month recommended that the
Hillel property not be rezoned to allow
the construction of a parking lot:
Haas said she expects the council to act
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nity in that she doesn't represent any
special interest except for the special
interest of State College," he said. "She
should be heard."
Cluck spoke out strongly against Re
publican candidates John Dombroski,
Gary Wiser and Ralph Way.
"I don't trust candidates .who serve
special interests such as the group of
candidates under the banner of one, two,
three," he said. Cluck said the three
candidates refused to discuss the issues
and instead relied on hype and large ads
for voter appeal.
"Someone who sits on the council has
to represent the community, not a single
group in the community," he said.
Urging all students to vote in the elec
tion, Cluck said, "This election• will de
cide the tone of this town and which way
it will go."
Because he is president of USG, Cluck
said, he felt he should speak out and
endorse candidates as the "spokesperson
for the student body."
Cluck said he did not want to extend his
endorsement to the countywide district
attorney or State College Area School
Board races.
Although the USG Senate will also
endorse candidates at its meeting to
night, Cluck said he would "prefer not to
have an impact on that decision."
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proposed by the Sign Review Board of
the Community Appearance and Design
Review Board.
The council will also discuss a request
from several downtown businessmen to
vacate McAlligter Alley so that property
owners on both sides . of the alley can
develop it as a pedestrian walking mall.
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Fewer vets may qualify for
Loan and grant eligibility tightened by Congress
By RON CROW receiving less aid in the GSL and Pell credits to their children
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
New legislation in Congress may make
it harder for veterans to qualify for Pell
Grants, John Moyer, vice president for
legislative affairs of the Pennsylvania
State University Veterans Organization
(PSUVO), said.
"Legislation is -in. Congress now to -
lower the ceiling for qualification for Pell
Grants (formerly Basic Educational
Oportunity Grants) from $28,000 to $15,-
000 (family income),' Moyer said Friday
during a question and answer session to
discuss financial aid for veterans with
U.S. Rep. William F. Clinger, R-central
Pa., at the Vets' house, 227' E. Nittany
Ave.
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"We don't know what the
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Ad
ministration is going to do with the 1983
budget," Clinger said. "But I' would
assume they're going to try and initiate
some more cuts."
Veterans at the meeting expressed
concern about new regulations for qual
ifications for Guaranteed Student Loans
and Pell Grants. Congress's Omnibus
Reconciliation Act, which went into ef
fect last month, designated all veteran's
benefits as financial aid, Moyer said.
Because of this designation, veterans are
Youth key
By MARGARET ANN WALSH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The youth of today must take over the nation's crumbling
society and become decisive leaders of tomorrow, a U.S.
representative said Friday night. •
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"The quality of leadership in our society today is so bad and
so absent that our society is on the verge of collapse," U.S. Rep.
Charles F. Dougherty, R-Philadelphia, said at the Life Cele
bration Banquet and Awards Ceremony sponsored by the Penn
State Students for Life. .
People are often insensitive toward one another whidh is
reflected by the increasing abortion, suicide, alchohol abuse,
divorce and crime rates, he said.
"If we can be so•hard as to snuff out the life of an unborn baby
the most precious, innocent in the world what can we as a
nation, or a people, care about?" •
Dougherty said the pro-life movement has been accused of
trying"to legislate morals and agreed it is true.
However, 90 percent of all legislation is moral, he said. When
lawmakers mandate that children must stay in school until
they are 16 and when they take tax money to provide social
services for the less fortunate, they are legislating morals.
Different polls say most Americans are in favor of abortion in
some form but "the best abortion poll was in November 1980
when the American people sent a pro-life president to the White
House," Dougherty said.
The success of the pro-life movement is in the youth, he said.
"It's one thing for a legislator or a pastor to speak out against
abortion, but it is much more effective when young people take
a stand," Dougherty said. "To have a young college girl say she
is against the taking of an innocent life far outweighs anything
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Additionally, veterans who entered the
service after January 1977, and contrib
uted part of their pay to a fund for
educational expenses are now told that
money which they saved is gift aid, he
said.
"Everything you have contributed dur
ing the service is now considered finan-
cial aid," said Brian Clark, veterans
coordinator at the University. "Vets
aren't going to be able to borrow enough
to get by."
Clinger said there will not be much he
or any congressman can do about these
changes resulting from the Omnibus Act
since it has been passed into law. He
urged veterans to speak up and write
letters so more cuts in financial aid will
not be passed by the Reagan administra
tion.
"I'm in favor of a new GI bill and think
one will be adopted soon," Clinger said..
"There is a lot of pressure building up
and down the line."
He said a popular concept for a new GI
bill is one involving the transfer of credit.
This would encourage people who may
not be able to afford college to stay in the
service and then transfer their financial
to pro-life,
Communities must rid themselves of adult bookstores and
television shows that contribute to this mentality, he said.
The long-range plans are for people to develop new spirits
and new hearts through religion, and decent and good poetry
and literature, Kovacs said.
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The Rev. Albert W. Kovacs, pastor of Salem Reformed
Church United Church of Christ in Oley, Pa., said there has
been a continued prohibition of abortion throughout the ages,
starting in the Bible.
The fact that Moses and Jesus were saved from the two
slaughters of newborn Jewish boys is proof that "love super
cedes even the law," Kovacs said.
Hitler tried to find a "final solution to the problem of Jews,
epileptics and the, handicapped" but the love of some people
kept some of the persecuted people alive, he said.
``Some pro-choice people say it is cheaper to abort babies
than raise them on welfare. Well, when did we ever get so cost
efficient about human life?
"All anyone needs is food, shelter and the love of other
people," he said.
Kovacs said the pro-life movement has three goals: short
range, medium-range and long-range.
The first step is "to stop the killing, stop the abortions, now
immediately," he said. "Some people say they want to save the
world well, you can't save the world if all that's left are dead
people."
The medium-range plan is to change the "Playboy mentality
that exists in our communities the belief that women are to
be perused'and abused."
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"In the past the government has used
The GI bill as an incentive for young
people who would otherwise not be able
to afford a higher education to join the
service and then be able to pay for an
education," said Joe Stasik, president of
PSUVO. "Then when they get out, veter
ans are . told that their pay counts as
financial aid."
"I've been disappointed in what we've
done this way," Clinger said.
"Unless we pay a lot of attention to, the
personnel needs of our militaiy, we
aren't going to have the means to use our
new weapons."
Moyer said the Veteran's Organization
has been sending letters to the Common-
wealth Campuses and other veterans
organiiations to urge people to protest
any more cuts in aid.
"Our major concern is future cuts," he
said. "If we don't make some noise there
will be more cuts later."
Clinger came to the PSUVO house
Friday after a group of veterans from the
University came to a town meeting he
was holding in Bellefonte. The veterans
asked several questions about financial
aid which he couldn't answer at the time,
Moyer said.
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