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In Centralia,. another -Tire burns' underground
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By The Associated Press The main fire moved beneath Route 61 in January, Koshoff said the townspeople were told of the second
forcing its closure. fire at their monthly meeting with DER officials
CENTRALIA, Columbia County A new Then subsidence of old mine shafts threatened to Monday.
underground coal fire, sparked by drilling, reached collapse part of the road. Nicholson Construction Co. of Nicholson Construction and DER are working on a'
temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees yesterday near Bridgeville, Allegheny County, drilled 81 bore holes and plan to extinguish the fire, with a decision expected
this small coal town already plagued by a 20-year-old filled them with rock and gravel to support the road. tomorrow, Mashek said.
mine fire. During the drilling, the coal seam ignited.
The second fire started Feb. 28 in a bore hole along State resource workers flushed the bore hole and The main fire, still unchecked despite four attempts
Route 61, Centralia's main highway, about 600 feet from temperatures dropped from 100 degrees to normal and $3.5 million, is now burning on two fronts. It
threatens one-third of Centralia, a town of 1,050 residents
the town, said Department of Environmental Resources underground mine temperatures of about 50 degrees,
in central Pennsylvania's hard coal region, and 84
spokesman David Mashek. Heat from the friction of a said Centralia council President John Koshoff.
residents of the nearby village of Byrnsville.
drill bit ignited an anthracite coal seam. "Then a day later, it (the temperature) increased and
Temperatures in the bore hole yesterday were 1,075 it's been rising ever since," Koshoff said. The main fire jumped a fire break and is moving
degrees. Six nearby holes, 10 feet apart across the A camera dropped into the bore hole March 17 toward Byrnsville on one front. The portion under
Smoke from the first underground fire in Centralia is vented. highway, ranged from 60 degrees to 210 degrees, Mashek confirmed the fire was still burning, Mashek said. The Centralia has forced the relocation of 36 families since
Heat from a second fire reached 1,000 degrees yesterday. said. fire is about 130 to 140 feet below the road. 1969 because of carbon monoxide fumes.
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Senate budget committee lessens reductions
By DAVID ESPO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON The Republican-controlled Senate budget committee
sheathed President Reagan's budget knife on welfare, food stamps and other
key social programs yesterday as it tentatively crafted an overall spending
program containing $11.3 billion more than he wants for non-defense items.
In contrast, the same panel had slashed his defense buildup by one-half in a
lopsided vote last week.
The committee left welfare, food stamps and subsidized housing programs
virtually unscathed, and slowed his cutbacks in Medicare, Medicaid and
other health programs considerably. And instead of a 1-year freeze on federal
pay, it voted for a 6-month delay of the next boost.
Dormant
accounts
to go to
the state
By MIKE NETHERLAND
Collegian Staff Writer
Beginning tomorrow, all banks
and other financial institutions
will yield to the state any of their
customers' checking and savings
accounts :which have been •
dormant for seven years, said a
staff aide to state Sen. Michael A.
O'Pake, D-Berks County.
The banks have been instructed
to comply with an amendment to a
section of the 1929 tax assessment
and collection act pertaining to
abandoned property. The
amendment redefines the period
of time of financial accounts and
other property dormancy from
seven to 21 years.
The senator's staff aide, who
declined to be identified, said the
amendment was railroaded
through the House and Senate
during the last two days of a lame
duck session of Congress last year.
The Thornburgh administration,
realizing the proposed budget
would run a deficit, expected to
raise $6O million with the measure,
the aide said.
The aide said the measure was
put to a vote so quickly before the
end of the session that opposition
lobbying did not have a chance.
Such an abandoned property act
is in effect in nearly every state,
the aide said, however, the time
period varies.
The seven-year count on
financial accounts would be
restarted if the account is
increased, decreased or a
statement on its status is
requeSted thereby redering the
account "active." •
The amendment also redefines
property.to include "virtually
every conceivable thing you can
own," the aide said. As a result,
the administration has
underestimated the amount of
revenue the state stands to
generate. By redefining property,
the revenue might exceed $l2O
million, the aide said.
With Individual Retirement
Accounts (IRAs) the Revenue
Department would start the seven
year count after it matures.
Certificates of Deposits, however,
are not specifically addressed and
regulations implementing the
amendment have not yet been
published by the Revenue
Department, the aide said
Howeve'r, Wayne Miller of Mid
State Bank said no real problem
exists with such accounts. Checks
cashed on the interest payments
on CD's quarterly or monthly
activates the account and restarts
the seven-year count, Miller said.
So far, Mid State has 120
dormant accounts averaging less
than $lOO that it will make
available to the state, Miller said
the
daily
Minorities:
The numbers of minority faculty
and students at the University were
criticized by three black legislators
at a state House appropriations
hearing in Harrisburg earlier this
year. As of Fall Term 1982, black
students made up 2.5 percent of the
total University student
enrollment; full-time black faculty
members made up 1.1 percent of the
entire University faculty.
Daily Collegian reporter Anne
McDonough talked to University
administrators and Students about
minority retention. In tomorrow's
issue, administrators and student
leaders will address the social and
cultural aspect of minority life at
the University.
By ANNE McDONOUGH
Collegian Staff Writer
-Although no figures are available
of the number of black students who
leave the University each year
before graduating, black University
Still ahead was a decision on possible tax increases, yet another area where
aides said the panel was likely to override Reagan.
The committee was expected to complete work on its tax and spending
blueprint late yesterday or today. Some aides cautioned, though, that a
majority of the panel might reject the emerging plan entirely if the deficit
became too large.
The latest decisions were all put together by committee chair Man Sen. Pete
V. Domenici, R-N.M., and were embraced by both sides (Republicans hold a
12-10 majority):
Committee members voted to provide $1.7 billion more for education than
Reagan wanted, junking his proposed cuts in guaranteed student loans as
part of the package.
Instead of Reagan's proposed $3l billion reductions in Medicare, Medicaid
University's
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administrators and student leaders
agree that the University must do
more about its lack of success with
the retention of black students.
The University could alleviate the
minority student retention problem
by fulfilling the needs of current
black students, said Larry Young,
director of the Paul Robeson
Cultural Center. These black
students, in turn,•could relate their
experiences to prospective
students, he said.
"It's well documented that happy
alumni and happy students are the
best salesmen for any University,"
he said.
If minority students are made to
feel a part of the University
community and if the University
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shows that it cares, they will
become good ambassadors for the
community, he said.
"Penn State has been victimized
because it doesn't have a sufficient
mass of blacks that have had a
totally positive Penn State
experience," he said.
The University must strive to
develop these students if the
retention problem is to be solved,
Young said. '
Students will have either a
positive or indifferent reaction to
college it affects them postively
or has no effect at all, he said.
Young asked whether the
University is responsibile for
instilling values in the students.
"It's an age old question which I
don't know the answer to, but I do
know that this is the last stop."
If black University students have
a positive experience here, they will
stay here, he said:
A University setting is a place for
values, attitudes and assumptions
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and other health programs over five years, the committee supported cuts of
$l4 billion. Aides said this makes it unlikely Congress will approve Reagan's
plan to increase hospital costs for many Medicare patients in exchange for a
new program of catastrophic health insurance.
It rejected Reagan's proposed cuts in welfare, food stamps artd subsidized
housing. The president wanted to trim food stamps by $l.l billion, claiming
that could be saved from "waste and corruption." But a Congressional
Budget Office study issued earlier yesterday said such a cut, in a program
now costing $l2 billion, would fall upon the nation's poorest families.
The panel voted to reject entirely Reagan's call for revision of the Civil
Service retirement system.
In place of his proposal for a, one-year freeze on cost-of-living increases for
federal retirees, the panel endorsed a six-month delay.
to be challenged; a situation that
will not occur in the workplace, he
said. The problem is that large
American universities do not see
this as•a priority, he . said.
The University must believe that
it has a responsibility to the larger
society and that it imparts to
students the opportunity to explore
other peoples, he said.
When a student leaves, the
University "has sent a time bomb
away from here" a time bomb
that will eventually explode, Young
said.
The University cannot
realistically telephone every
student who leaves, he said
Black administrators and student
leaders agree that the presence of
more black faculty would alleviate
the retention problem.
One of the most important aspects
of student satisfaction at this
University is whether students are
respected
Please see UNIVERSITY, Page 16
Thursday, April 14, 1983
Vol. 83, No. 156 16 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University
Lines
of the times
They're becoming the rule rather than the
exception long lines of unemployed people
seeking jobs. '
Across the country yesterday, hundreds of the
jobless waited for a chance to apply for
openings.
Outside a department store in Rosemont,
Calif., far left, about 900 jobseekers lined up for
blocks to apply for the 120 jobs that were
available.
The lines were longer in Buffalo, N.Y., though,
as a crowd of 15,000 gathered to apply for 200
federally created jobs, above.
In the Buffalo line, left, four men warm their
hands near a fire.
inside
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State/nation/world.
weather
Mostly cloudy, breezy and mild
today with afternoon showers or
perhaps even a thundershower.
The high will be 62. Cloudy and
breezy tonight with occasional
showers and a•Iow of 43. Mostly
cloudy tomorrow with perhaps a
lingering shower and a high near
60. —by Craig Wagner
fyi
State and federal tax returns are
due tomorrow.