Area residents showed up at last night's Municipal Council meeting to voice their opposition to a March council decision not McClure; Dylan Lindsey, State College; Madison Brewer, who brought a petition carrying 425 names in favor of buying
to buy land at Sunset Park. Fromleft to right are John B. Frantz, associate professor of history; retired council member James additional land; and Patricia Farrell, State College.
Council to reconsider Sunset Park land acquisition
By KAREN KONSKI
Collegian Staff Writer
Because of strong citizen support, the State College
Municipal Council's decision not to consider buying
additional land at Sunset Park must be reconsidered
within two months by the council.
Although Council President Joseph Wakeley Jr. and
council members Fred Honsberger, John Dombroski and
Gary Wiser spoke against reconsidering the decision,
council member Daniel Chaffee announced that according
to the municipality's home rule charter, if at least 2
percent of State College's voting population brings in a
petition, a decision must be reconsidered within two
months.
Many ciitizens spoke at the council% meeting last night,
including Madison Brewer, 320 E. Hartswick Ave., who
presented the council with a petition signed by 425
residents in favor of reconsideration.
According to Chaffee, 2 percent of the voting population
is equal to 88 people.
The council voted against acquiring almost 14 additional
acres adjacent to Sunset Park, located at the northwest
Mount St. Helens
sees action again
By 808 BAUM
Associated Press Writer
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP)
Mount St. Helens belched steam and
shivered in the grip of the strongest
underground tremors in almost two ,
years yesterday after erupting twice
during the night, sending clouds of ash
and steam four miles into the sky,
scientists said.
Another eruption "is certainly
likely, very likely. The mountain is
definitely churning underneath," said
A.B. Adams of the University of
Washington geophysics center in
Seattle. "We are in a complete state of
uncertainty."
Instruments trained on the
southwestern Washington volcano
recorded steam bursts at the rate of
almost one per minute, while
seismographs nearly nine miles away
detected a rhythmic underground
movement that can signify the
coursing of molten lava inside the
mountain.
The underground tremors were the
largest since the summer of 1980,
scientists said.
Three helicopters took off at
daybreak yesterday carrying
scientists from the U.S. Geological
Broken home
Alpha firemen hose this older house to keep down dust, while a bulldozer moves in to remove the second floor
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Survey, but bad weather and a thick
blanket of steam kept them from
viewing the crater.
However, it appeared that the
overnight eruptiOns which.,
sprinkled ash up to 120 miles away
damaged a section of the north side of
the volcano's lava dome, said Kathy
Cashman, a USGS geologist who flew
over the volcano in a plane early
yesterday. .
Blocks of hardened lava almost 15
feet in diameter-may have fallen off
the dome during the eruptions, rolling
more than a half-mile away, Cashman
said. :
A flow of mud stretched about a
mile down the rampart leading to:the
north side of the crater, where ash fell
thickly.
No evacuations were ordered and
there were no reports of injuries,
property damage or flooding. But the
National Weather Service continued
its flood watch for rivers near the
volcano.
The weather service said
Packwood, about 40 miles northeast of
the mountain, got a light dusting of
ash in the overnight blasts, and there
were also reports of scattered light
ash in the Wenatchee area, about 120
miles northeast of the volcano.
corner of the municipality in Ferguson Township at its
March meeting, even though about half of the purchase
price would have been funded by a federal grant..
Wakeley said he opposed the purchase of the land
because he said he has seen the municipal budget increase
$1 million in two years and has seen the council buy much
property that is not needed.
Acquisition of this land is not a priority issue, he said.
Because no one has utilization plans for the park, he
said, he does not think the land should be purchased.
Dombroski cited inadequate use of the existing park by
residents including children and poor quality of the land as
reasons why he is opposed to buying the land.
If an accident occured at the park and the municipality
owned the land, he said, the municipality would be
responsible.
Chaffee, however spoke in favor of acquiring the land
"We have an opportunity to have federal help," Chaffee
said, "and we have the turn-out of citizens, and we haven't
had that before, and I think that's important."
AmOng the citizens who spoke in favor of the council
buying the land was Dylan Lindsey, 8, of 829 W. Thomas
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Reagan, Orge-•.FalkliOndlieaco
President keeps low profile on Argentinian, British dispute
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan urged
Great Britain and Argentina yesterday to settle their
dispute over the remote Falkland Islands without
bloodshed, saying "I just don't think it's an issue"
that justifies a military confrontation.
Reagan, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office,
said the United States was in a "very difficult
situation" because it was friendly with both nations.
He refused to say what his administration would do
if the two go to war.
"Both sides have threatened the use of force, as is
evidenced with Argentina's military landing there,"
Reagan said. "I just don't think it's an issue that
should come to that point."
Britain sent a large fleet steaming toward the
South Atlantic islands yesterday.
Meanwhile, Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor
Costa Mendez told the Organization of American
States at a meeting in Washington that his
government is considering invoking the
Interamerican Reciprocal Assistance Treaty of 1947.
It calls for the signatories to respond to an attack on
any American state as though it were an attack on
themselves. Both the United States and Argentina
signed.
A State Department official had said earlier,
however, that it was "premature" to declare whether
the United States would feel obligated to support
Argentina under the pact.
Costa Mendez referred to the treaty as "an
Ave., who said if he could vote he would choose to buy the
land because he enjoys playing there.
Retired council member James McClure, 331 E. •
Hamilton Ave., said he thinks the council should
reconsider its decision to protect the land from
development that could hinder the water shed located
directly above the park.
Patricia Farrell, 320 E. Beaver Ave. also said she favors
the acquisition because the muncipality should not allow
the opportunity to buy valuable parkland slip away.
"We mostly use University land to play," she said.. "It's
about time we got some town land to play on."
Honsberger said, "If it were such a prime piece of land,
why haven't we seen any plans for it?"
Former State College Planning Commission member
Arthur Anderson said he thinks with all the council's talk
about planning; the commission should have been involved
in the decision.
"The planning commission seems to be the one body not
involved," Anderson said.
On-going costs of development and maintenence were
also among Honsberger's reasons for opposing the
instrument within this system'which is verydelicate
and which should be used with great prudence, but
which is and has been a fundamental element of the.
system.
"This question is under study on the part of my
government," he said, adding that Argentina would
consult with other governments in the Western
Hemisphere before taking action.
Costa Mendez also said Argentina had always been
willing to negotiate but the British had "refused to
even discuss the topic.
"There has just been a resurgence in our .
hemisphere, in all its crudenesi and in its most
classic form, of the old colonial theme which we
thought had been properly superseded ; " he, told the
delegates.
Christopher Crabbie, first secretary of the British
Embassy in Washington, who attended the OAS
session, said, "We are always willing 10 . negotiate.
"We are very anxious to reach a negotiated
settlement although the British government has
made it quite clear that we cannot accept - this illegal
occupation of British territory," Crabbie said. . -
Beyond that, he added, "I doubt that it would be wise
at this time to speculate on the statements of the
Argentine foreign minister."
Asked whether the United States was attempting to
mediate the crisis, Crabbie said, "I would not like to
comment on the U.S. position. That is something
which the United States is better placed to talk on."
Reagan said the United States stands - "ready to do
anything we can to help them in what we hope for,
and would like to help in doing . . . a peaceful
Hijack attempt ends
with all home safely
By MIKE McQUEEN
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI (AP) A Delta Air Lines
jet forced to Havalia with 103 people
aboard returned safely to Miami
yesterday, after three hijackers who
doused' the plane and a stewardess
with gasoline were taken into custody
by Cuban authorities.
Passengers said the hijackers a
middle-aged man and two young men
who called the older man "father"
spoke Spanish and threatened to set
the plane on fire. One of them told a
passenger he did not like the United
States, the FBI said.
"The hijackers were last seen being
led away by Cuban immigration
officers," FBI spokesman Welton
Merry said.
None of the seven crew members or
93 other passengers was injured,
Merry said. The Chicago-to-Miami
Flight 591 was in Havana nearly three
hours.
It was the third hijacking of a U.S.
plane to Havana in nine months.
The plane left Chicago at 10 p.m.
EST Sunday and was hijacked at 12:15
a.m. over La Belle, Fla., 22 minutes
before it was due to land in Miami,
Delta spokesman Jim Ewing said. It
landed at Jose Marti International
Airport in Havana at 1:09 a.m. and
returned to Miami at 3:55 a.m.
"One of the men poured gasoline at
the front and the rear of the plane and
in the lavatories and threatened to
blow up the aircraft;" FBI Special
Agent Jim Freeman said.
"One stewardess, unidentified,
asked him to stop. And he poured
gasoline over her he soaked her
clothes," he said.
Linda Infantino, 18, of Chicago, said
after the Plane returned to Miami,
"They poured it everywhere; I was
petrified."
Passenger James Phillips of Miami
said he heard the two younger men
call the older man "father!'
"The only identification we have is
the names on the passenger roster,"
Merry said. "They listed themselves
as Pedro Chavez;llincente . Glinzales
and Carlos Rodriguez. One of them
we don't know which one was about
50 years of age and the others about
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acquisition, he said
In applying for the grant, the municipality cited $5,000
from the State College budget to cover these costs.
John Fiantz, 1327 Pennfield Road, said he thought some
of the council members' objections to buying the land
because it is part of Ferguson Township, and not the
municipality, was invalid.
He said the park attracts people from many
neighborhoods and many people come to the borough for
other beneficial activities.
"The constituency will respect you more if you reverse
yourselves," Frantz said.
In other business, the council voted to ask for bids for the
repavement of Locust Lane and Foster Avenue.
The council had discussed repairing the streets with
funds from the community development block grant; but
Just night decided to use revenue sharing funds instead.
' Block Grant . Director Henry. Lawlor said asking for bids
on the streets would preclude using the block grant funds
according to federal rules.
resolution of this with no forceful action or no
bloodihed."
He said the United States continues to support the
U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a
withdrawal of Argentine forces from the Falklands.
State Department spokesman Dean Fischer,
meanwhile, said the United States is obligated by a
1962 agreement to make available to Britain the U.S.
airfiejd on the AscenSion Island, a possible stopover
point for the southbound flotilla.
But Fischer said that does not mean the United
States has committed itself to the British side.
Ascension is a British-owned island in the Atlantic,
midway between South America and Africa, on which
the United States maintains an airbase.
"Our view on this is that Ascension Island is a
British possession," Fischer said. "The United
Kingdom has the legal right to land military aircraft
there."
Fischer added, however, that "such use of the
airfield does not in anyway constitute U.S.
involvement in the United Kingdom-Argentine
dispute."
Fischer said he did not know whether the 1962
agreement provides the British with refueling rights
for its warships and aircraft
Reagan said he had received a message from
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher "with
regard to the appointment of a new foreign minister"
following the resignation of Lord Carrington.
Fischer said Secretary Alexander M. Haig Jr. had
sent CarringtOn "a personal message."
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