Polish authorities detain Walesa
Labor leader
released after
9-hour drive
By BRYAN BRUMLEY
Associated Press Writer
GDANSK, Poland Martial law
authorities detained Lech Walesa for nine
hours yesterday, his wife said, driving the
labor leader "around the city" while
hundreds of Poles protested against his
detention in the streets of Gdansk and
Warsaw.
Police fired tear gas to break up two
crowds in Gdansk and sprayed high
pressure water into knots of protesters in
downtown Warsaw as they chanted "Free
Lech!" and "Down with the junta!"
Danuta Walesa, her voice choked with
emotion, said her husband was "brought
back by the same people" who whisked him
Woman killed as car
hits truck on 322
By PAUL CHILAND
Collegian Staff Writer
A 40-year-old State College
woman was killed last night in a
two-vehicle accident on U.S. Route
322, across from Meyer Dairy
Store, 2390 S. Atherton St.
Mary Bernadette Skeels, 3058
W. Hamilton Street, was driving a
compact car west on Route 322,
about 220 yards east of Rolling
Ridge Drive, around 8 p.m. when
she' hit a pick-up truck from
behind, according to a
spokeswoman for the State
College Police Department.
The pick-up truck, operated by
Local
jobless rate
low but
By MARY STEPHENS
Collegian Staff Writer
Although interest rates may be
falling, the recession evidenced by
the unemployment rate continues
even in Happy Valley.
The unemployment rate for the
State College Metropolitan area
may seem low compared to
Pennsylvania and the rest of the
country, but it is on the rise.
The seasonally adjusted
unemployment rate rose to 8.8
percent in State College during the
month of October; in October of
last year the rate was 6.7 percent,
said Norma Gavin Pappas, editor
of the Pennsylvania . Business
Survey, published by the College
of Business Administration.
Adjusted unemployment rates .
have been calculated to account
for seasonal variations. For
example, you can expect retail
sales to increase during the
holiday shopping season, she said.
October's figures are the most
current available for State College
because the Department of Labor
does not release unemployment
figures for metropolitan areas
until a full month later, Pappas
said. The State College_
metropolitan area encompasses
all of Centre County.
Although unemployment has
risen in State College, it remains
far below the state's seasonally
adjusted unemployment rate
which rose from 11.5 percent in
October to 12.1 percent in
November, Pappas said. The
national unemployment rate rose
from 10.4 percent in October to
10.8 percent in November.
Although unemployment rose,
total employment in the State
College Metropolitan area
reached 42,300 in October from
41,700 in September, she said.
The rise in the unemployment
rate, Pappas said, can be
attributed to an increase in the
labor pool. For example, wives
whose husbands have been laid off
may be entering the work force
and more teenagers reaching
working age could be looking for
jobs.
Even though monthly reports
away late yesterday morning.
"He still doesn't know why he was taken
away," Mrs. Walesa said. "But he assumes%
it was to keep him from appearing" at a
memorial service for workers slain in anti
government riots in 1970 and 1981.
The former head of the outlawed
Solidarity labor union had planned to
address the rally in his first public speech in
more than a year of martial law.
The government did not publicly •
acknowledge that Walesa had been
detained, although a White House
spokesman said in Washington that
President Rea6n had learned of his release
through "official statements of the Polish
government."
Official Warsaw radio said 12th
anniversary commemorations of the
December 1970 food riots, passed without
incidents yesterday in the tri-city area of
Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot. It said people
laid wreaths and flowers on monuments to
workers killed in the riots, but ignored
leaflets urging them to demonstrate.
Asked where Walesa was taken, Mrs.
Walesa replied, "He was driven around the
20-year-old Norman J. Spackman
II of Boalsburg, was stopped in the
left westbound lane of 322 and was
attempting to turn when Skeels'
car, a 1981 Chevrolet Chevette,
failed to stop for unknown reasons.
Skeels was removed from her
car by members of the Alpha
Rescue Squad and was
pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m. at
Centre Community Hospital.
Cause of death was listed as
massive head and internal
injuries.
Spackman and a passenger in
the truck, Deborah Seitz, 18, of
245 1 / 2 N. Spring St., Bellefonte,
were treated and released
increasing
can be indicative of the economy,
the Pennsylvania Business Survey
prefers to consider yearly
quarters, Pappas said.
"We don't go much on a month
to-month change," he said.
For the quarter from July to
September, the non
manufacturing sector had a drop
of 4,000 jobs, Pappas said. This
represents a 10.9 percent decline
since the April-June quarter. Non
manufacturing jobs include
employment in construction,
mining, transportation, service,
government and the University.
The University, the largest
employer in the area, creates a
stablizing factor in the State
College metropolitan area's
economy.
"State College is one of the
better areas'in the state because of
the large, massive employment
that doesn't fluctuate much," said
Glenn Lynn, labor market analyst
for the United States Department
of Labor.
George L. Lane, University
controller, said the business
nature of a university causes it to
be more stable.
The University provides 15,118
jobs at the University Park
campus, Lane said. No violent
fluctuations have occurred in the
number of jobs in the past few
Ray T. Fortunato, assistant vice
president for personnel
management, said the recession
has not forced the University to
lay off employees.
"We have not been hit by the
recession," Fortunato said.
"We've had full student counts."
Lane said because the
University is state funded, the
recession may actually increase
its attractiveness. The co:,;. of
private schools could force many
students to enroll in state-funded
schools.
Like the University, downtown
businesses also are not laying off
workers, said JoAnn R. Lew,
president of the Downtown
Business Association. '
She didn't attribute the rise in
unemployment to layoffs, but to an
employer reluctance to replace a
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city." She did not disclose any other details
of his detention.
Hours before Walesa's planned speech, he
was taken from his apartment and driven
away in a black Mercedes sedan,
accompanied by another black Mercedes.
A witness who requested anonymity said
seven policemen came to Walesa's door at
10:25 a.m. (4:25 a.m. EST) and said he was
wanted for questioning by the Gdansk
prosecutor on alleged financial
irregularities of the city's Solidarity,
chapter. He was released about 7:30 p.m.
(1:30 p.m. EST), Mrs. Walesa said.
Walesa, who was chairman of Gdansk
Solidarity, had spurned a summons from
the prosecutor's office on Wednesday and
the witness said he asked the
, plainclothesmen yesterday if they carried a
warrant.
"We won't bother with papers today," the
witness quoted police as saying, adding
Walesa did not resist as he was led to the
waiting Mercedes.
Western reporters were blocked by police
from reaching the 10-story building. A half
dozen who tried to get to it were detained
Comforting arms
Santa Claus offers seasonal solace to Vince Polons at a Christmas party for
mentally retarded residents from the Laurelton Center. The party was sponsored
by residents of sixth and seventh floor Pennypacker Hall and third and fourth floor
Sproul Hall last night in Fisher Hall. Please see story, page 3.
9 killed in Calif. B-52 crash
By DOUG WILLIS
Associated Press Writer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. A B-52 bomber crashed in a
muddy field and exploded just after taking off on a
training flight yesterday, killing all nine crew
members. Witnesses said the pilot steered the plane
away from buildings where more people might have
died.
The Air Force said the plane, stationed at Mather Air
Force Base, carried no nuclear weapons, although
similar aircraft stationed at the base near Sacramento
do carry the weapons.
Base information officer Clarence Fagan said the
plane had a full load of fuel and carried "tailgunner"
ammunition when it went down in a muddy field at 8:45
a.m. PST (11c45 a.m EST). The eight-engine bomber
FBI charter hits Ohio bookstore
By TERRY KINNEY
Associated Press Writer
MONTGOMERY, Ohio A plane chartered by the
FBI crashed into a bookstore yesterday, killing all six
men aboard, including a suspected embezzler who
surfaced after being declared legally dead and was
leading agents to the site of his buried loot.
At least four people in the suburban Cincinnati
bookstore were injured, including two in critical
condition, authorities said.
The FBI identified the dead as agents Robert W.
Conners, 36, and Charles L. Ellington, 36, both of
Naperville, Ill.; Terry B. Hereford, 34, of Wheaton, Ill.;
and Michdel J. Lynch, 35, of Woodridge, 111.
Also killed were Patrick Daly, 68, a former Chicago
policeman from Evergreen Park, 111., and Carl H.
Johnson, 48, a former bank executive accused of
embezzling $615,000 from a Chicago bank in 1975. Daly
was an investigator working for Johnson's lawyer.
Alfred E. Smith, special agent in charge of the
and questioned by police.
An AP reporter and photographer saw
Walesa being driven away and tried to
follow the car. But they were overtaken by a
marked police car, escorted to a police
station and questioned for 2 1 / 2 hours before
they were released.
Protests broke out in Gdansk and
Warsaw, shattering more than a month of
relative calm, as reports spread by word-of
mouth that Walesa had been detained.
About 250 protesters, many of them
youths, gathered near St. Ann's Catholic
church in Warsaw and jeered police, who
then sprayed the crowd with a water
cannon.
Several dozen demonstrators took refuge
in the church, but police surrounded the
_building. Three officers darted inside and
dragged away one of the youths, prompting
shouts of "Gestapo, Gestapo!"
After a special meinorial mass in Gdansk,
several hundred Poles walked toward the
monument to the workers slain in the 1970
and 1981 riots. But they were cut off by
police in riot gear who fired at least three
rounds of tear gas to break up the crowd.
and its crew were based at Castle Air Force Base, 100
miles to the south.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known;
names of the dead were withheld pending notification
of relatives.
"I saw the thing coming," said Mike Koewler,
president of Sacramento Rendering Co., near the crash
scene. "It was level. It looked to me like a normal
takeoff, then it took a substantial drop in altitude to the
point where you knew the guy was in deep trouble.
"At the point of impact, it looked to me like the first
thing to go was the tip of the right wing," he said.
Koewler said it appeared the pilot intentionally
headed for the field. If the plane had gone straight,
Koewler said, it "would have wiped out a couple of gas
stations and maybe some houses."
"It looked to me like he saved a lot of lives," he said.
Cincinnati FBI office, said Conners and Hereford were
qualified FBI pilots and were flying the twin-engine
Cessna 411 when it crashed into the Sheppard
Bookstore, a converted three-story frame home.
Smith said Johnson, who had been declared legally
dead just before surrendering to the FBI in Chicago
earlier this month, had said he buried $50,000 of the
stolen money in the Cincinnati area. He was leading
agents to that site.
"The object of our investigation today was for our
agents to hook up with the agents coming in from
Chicago and to be led to the site where this money was
allegedly buried," Smith said.
The crash occurred in a residential area about 10
miles from the Lunken Field airport.
The plane was in the approach pattern to Lunken
Field, one of three airports serving Cincinnati, officials
said. It dropped so abruptly that it avoided hitting a
house across the street from the bookstore, yet went
under a 20-foot-high power line along the street and
slammed into the store near its foundation.
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Drug arrests made
in nearby counties
By MICHAEL J. VAND
Collegian Staff Writer
More than 100 police began
serving arrest warrants yesterday
for 55 persons, as Pennsylvania
State Police and other law
enforcement agencies began a
massive drug raid in nearby
Cameron, Elk, McKean and
Potter counties.
Agents purchased cocaine,
methamphetamine, LSD, hashish,
marijuana and look-alike drugs
from drug dealers, police said.
The raid began at 6 a.m.
yesterday, and agents purchased
cocaine, methamphetamine, LSD,
hashish, marijuana and look-alike
drugs from drug dealers.
A state police spokesman in
McKean County said the raid
resulted from a six-month
investigation by undercover
agents. In addition to charges of
sale and delivery of controlled
substances, conspiracy charges
were filed as a result of the
transactions, police said.
Forty-sirsuspects were already
in custody, according to The
Associated Press. They are being
held in Potter, Cameron and
McKean county jails with bails
ranging from $5,000 to $55,000.
State police from Emporium
and Kane in McKean County and
from Punxsatawny, Jefferson
County, and Montoursville,
Lycoming County, participated in
Lech Walesa
Witnesses said riot police also fired three
or four cannisters of tear gas to disperse a
large crowd outside the central railway
station in the port city.
Earlier, hundreds of workers had
gathered at the monument outside the V.I.
Lenin shipyard, witnesses said.
The workers unfurled red-and-white
Solidarity banners, shouted the union's
name, and chanted, "Free Lech!"
the raids, police said. They were
assisted by Cameron County
deputy sheriffs, and city and
township police friim Emporium,
Kane, Port Allegany and Bradford
in McKean County and
Johnsonburg and Ridgway in Elk
County.
Agents purchased
cocaine,
LSD, hashish,
marijuana and
look-alike drugs
from drug
dealers.
Wire reports said arrests were
made in Centre County, but State
Police at Rockview said they were
not aware of any local arrests.
The police spokesman did not
release any figures about the the
amount of drugs confiscated or
money spent on the operation.
However, wire service reports
said agents purchased more than
$7,000 worth of drugs.
While the arrests will not end
drug traffic in the area, police said
they expect the arrests to
adversely affect area drug traffic
for some time to come.
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cloudy with some sunshine pos
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temperature of 33 degrees. To
night will become clear and cold
with a low temperature of 19
degrees. Tomorrow should be
partly cloudy with a high temper
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temperature should be in the
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