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Columbia takes off, but may return early
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Columbia's crew took
the shuttle on a brilliant return to space yesterday and then
learned a "dead" fuel cell might force an early end to their
five-day mission. The astronauts were not in danger and
NASA laid plans for a landing as early as tomorrow.
NASA officials were taking it one day at a time.
Astronauts Joe Engle arid Richard. Truly were to cram
Columbia's most important tasks into today's schedule in
case a weekend return became necessary.
Less than seven hours after Columbia's breathtaking
$6 million budget
presented to council
No tax increase included in 1982 plans
By GENE GRYGO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Municipal Manager Carl B.
Fairbanks presented to the State.
College Municipal Council yesterday
a proposed $6 million budget for 1982
that does not include any tax
increases, but proposes increases
for garbage collection and the sewer
rental charge and predicts an
increase in the parking rate.
The council also voted to hold a
public hearing on the budget on Dec.
7 at its regular meeting and to act on
the budget at a special meeting on
Dec. 14.
Fairbanks presented the proposed
$6.2 million budget of all funds, an
increase of 7.3 percent over the 1981
budget
In his budget message, Fairbanks
also proposed using the Community
Development Block Grant
entitlement funds to build street •
lights downtown and for
improvements on the 18-unit
Bellaire Court apartment building
for senior citizens.
"I think they're (the street lights
and Bellaire Court) pretty good
ideas, but, of course, the Community
Block Development Grant
committee and the council can make
any changes they want to,"
Fairbanks said.
The council may spend up to
$200,000 to install street lights
downtown. The money will come
from a separate Block Development
Grant budget. The council will get
final notice in December on the
eligibity requirements for the
money.
The cost of garbage collection in
residential areas may increase from
$45 a year to $72 a year, and
commercial rates may increase
from $45 per cubic yard to $6O per
cubic yard. The apartment owners'
$3O per unit rate will not change.
Fairbanks also said that the
garbage collection rates have
increased because the cost of
garbage collection has increased,
and recent court decisions require
that revenues meet that cost.
"If the collection of garbage
increases in commercial areas, then
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the rate must go up. If the cost
increases in residential areas, we've
got to raise that too," he said after
the meeting.
Fairbanks said he did not know
how much it would cost to improve
Bellaire Court.
Fairbanks also proposed that
amusement licenses for bowling
allies and pool tables be raised from
$lO tO $2O, and for pinball machines
$25 to $5O.
Also at yesterday's meeting, the
council voted to hold a .public
hearing on a request by the owners
of The Tavern Restaurant, 220 E.
College Ave. and owners of other
properties bordering McAllister
Alley to vacate the alley. The
hearing will concentrate on whether
to vacate or lease the alley to the
property owners. The council did not
set a date for the hearing.
The property owners want to close
the alley and build a pedestrian
walkway. They recently suggested
that gates be set up at either end of
the walkway, but most of the council
members said they had not heard
this plan before.
"There are classes at night, and I
wouldn't want students to have to
walk around the block to get home,"
Council member Fred J.
Honsberger said.
Honsberger also said a lease
arrangement with the restaurant
owners would be a better use of the
property.
"When you're the landlord, you
have more control," he said.
Council member Joseph Wakeley
said during the meeting that the
council could close off the alley and
and line the area with two
walkways.
Council president Mary Ann Haas
said she was considering Wakeley's
proposal, but that she was
undecided.
"As to whether it should be leased
or vacated, I guess I'll have to
weasel out of that one," Haas said.
In other business, the council
approved State College's share,
$372,541, of the 1982 Centre Regional
Council of Governments budget.
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10:10 a.m. EST launch, NASA spokesman John McLeaish
said a fuel cell failure was forcing the space agency to
invoke.rules calling for the "mimimum flight" 54 hours.
The original flight plan called for 124 hours, 83 orbits.
Columbia's fuel cells there are three produce the
ship's electricity and drinking water. With two fuel cells
working, flight director Neil Hutchinson said•last night, "We
could fly ad infinitum in the configuration we're in now."
Still, plans called for no more than a "minimum mission" of
54 hours, 36 orbits.
"That does not mean we are going to come tomorrow or
the next day or the next day," Hutchinson said. "It does put
A Penn State tradition
Affiliation of stadium friskers unknown
By LINDSAY NAYTHONS
and STELLA TSAI
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
Students entering Beaver Stadium for the Alabama
game tomorrow may get unexpected trouble from
mysterious men in blue who may attempt to stop
spectators from entering the stadium with alcoholic
beverages.
Several members of the Undergraduate Student
Government are currently trying to determine
exactly which if any campus organization is
behind the stop-and-frisk policy being carried out by
unknown "officials" stationed at the student and
visitor entrances to the stadium.
USG Vice President Ken Reeves said students have
complained to USG about men in blue jackets who
stop and frisk them, confiscating their alcoholic
beverages.
Darryl Daisey, USG senator, said he was coming in
the student gate at a recent game when he was
approached by a man in blue who patted him down
"real quick I didn't even have time to object."
But Thomas R. Harmon, manager of University
Police Services, said he didn't know for a fact that
these alleged pat-downs are occurring.
"I first heard about it a couple of weeks ago,"
Harmon said. "I resent any implications that our
officers are involved."
All of the students who have been stopped-and-
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us in a posture that if we do decide" to come down, we can
do it.
If Columbia is called home early, it will be only the third
time in 33 flights that a manned U.S. spacecraft has been
summoned in mid-flight because of. trouble.
Of Engle and Truly, Hutchinson said, "They're doing just
fine and they're anxious . . ..to get in as.much as we cap."
He added that the shuttle "is designed and capable of
sustaining a fuel cell failure and truck along as if it didn't
have one."
It was possible the full mission could survive, but
Hutchinson noted that about 70 percent of Columbia's flight
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frisked said the men with blue jackets wore no
obvious identification. Harmon said "all our officers
are in , uniform with patches on their jackets. I have
no reason to believe that they're doing anything
unlawful."
"It was really bizarre," said Emil Parvensky
business) in describing his experience with stop-and
frisk. "I wasn't expecting it. It's happened to me
before at concerts, but never at Penn State."
USG Senator Leni Barch said many students under
21 years old don't bother to question the men in blue
jackets about why they are being frisked because
they fear the consequences of underage drinkiiig.
Barch said she was standing at the entrance to a
student section when she observed students being
searched; their alcohol was seized•and placed into a
trash can.
Reeves said no arrests have been made by the men
in blue who usually start their searches at the student
and visitor gates a half hour to an hour after the gates
open, when the ticketholders' traffic flow is heaviest.
The athletic department has its own beverage
control personnel at the entrance gates who minimize
the alcohol control responsiblity for ushers at the
entrances to the individual sections. Athletic
depaitment employees warn the students that they
must either drink their alcoholic beverages outside
the stadium or the ushers will confiscate them.
David E. Stormer, director of University safety,
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objectives could be met with a return tomorrow. Today,
Columbia's astronauts was scheduled to exercise the ship's
mechanical arm the main in-flight test for the mission.
Hutchinson said the errant fuel cell "is literally dead . . .
We literally ran it out of juice . . it cannot be restarted."
Draining the cell was, necessary for safety reasons once its
malfune,tiqn was discovered. ~ • .
A problem appeared early With cooling on two of
Columbia's auxiliary power units the hydraulic system
whose failure last week caused an eight-day delay in
Columbia's launch
said standard University policy is and has been to
stop people and ask them only to open any bags or
knapsacks they may be carrying. If the students
and alumni don't comply, they will be asked to
leave the stadium. If they have any alcoholic
beverages with them, the beverages will be taken.
Claim slips for the confiscated beverages are
available, several USG sources said, but most people
don't know this or don't bother with filling them out
and then retrieving their liquor or beer after the
game.
Reeves said most students "aren't really aware of
their rights. We want to determine just exactly who is
doing these pat-downs." And if any students are
stopped-and-frisked tomorrow, he said, ':They should
notice who does it, ask for identification and contact
USG about the incident; some students are afraid to
object and question for fear of fine or arrest."
No one seems sure who is responsible for the pat
downi incidents. Reeves speculated that it could be
ushers or police "lower in the ranks" and that "their
superiors aren't aware of their actions" or it could be
people, such as parents or local residents, "who have
decided to take their own actions to stop what they
perceive to be a detriment to society."
"Maybe it's a local chapter of the Moral Majority,"
Reeves said.
Photo by Roberta Foote
Please see related story, Page 7
inside
• In June 1978, University pro
fessor John Balaban began an un•
usual cross-country journey.. Page 6
• Many students living off-cam
pus call apartments rented from
S.C. Sun home despite condi
tions that might seem most un
homelike to other people Page 10
weather
Mostly sunny today with highs
near 48. Clear tonight, with lows
near 25. Partly to mostly sunny at
kickoff tomorrow with afternoon
highs in the low 50s. Clear tomor
row night with lows near 30. Partly
sunny on Sunday.
—by Mark Stunder
last issue
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Collegian for Fall Term. We will
resume publication for Winter Term
on Thursday, Dec. 3. (By the way,
Happy Friday the 13th.)