Cold front sets new records from Minnesota to Miam
By DAVID L. LANGFORD
Associated Press Writer
Spring's - sputtering engine conked out
again yesterday and,Canadian cold riding in
on an errant jet stream set,records from
Minnesota to Miami, spreading rare mid-
April snow into Dixie.
Snow fell in pockets scattered from the
Carolinas to Maine on the heels of a storm _
that left seven people dead or missing.
In Utah, where a soggy mountain almost a
mile high collapsed into Spanish Fork
Canyon and plugged a river, 22 families
were evacuated from one community that
was virtually washed away and an entire
Campus Vigil
Ryna Izenson (12th•landscape architec•
ture) sits contemplating on the steps in
front of Pattee last night with about 50
others; some with' candles as they
remember the millions of victims of the
Holocaust in a vigil sponsored by Ya•
chad; Friends of Israel. Please see
CAMPUS, Page 2.
the
daily
town of 6,500 people was threatened by
flooding should the freak dam break.
In South Carolina, the first measurable
snowfall ever in April was reported in the
Greenville-Spartanburg area, according to
meteorologist Jim Spillers. .
"It's coining down real good," said a
surprised Marion Jones in the Holly Springs
community. "The bushes are beginning to
be covered."
Dozens of cities from Duluth, Minn., to
Miami posted record lows for the date as the
mercury dipped into the teens in the upper
Mississippi. Valley and the Great Lakes
region and into the 20s from the central
Appalachians to the northern Plains.
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"The calendar may say it's spring, but the In New England, where up to 2 feet of
weather maps are determined to conclude snow over the weekend knocked out the
it's still winter," said a statement from the power to almost 100,000 people, merchants
Natibnal Weather Service in North in Augusta, Maine, moved their
Carolina, where up to 4 inches.of snow fell in, merchandise as chtining floodwater from
the northern mountains.‘.. ', • ' the Kennebec River lapped at riverfront
The mercury dropped to 12 degrees in
Duluth, Minn., 5 degrees colder than the
record for the date set in 1928, and 50 in .
Miami, 8 degrees below the 1962 record.
The 20 degree reading at Des Moines,
lowa, was the coldest ever recorded so late
in the season and the snowfall at Allentown,
Pa., in the eastern part of the state, was the
latest measurable snow since 1967 when an
inch fell, on April 27.
Movin' On funds pull through
in narrow USG Senate vote
By CHRISTINE MURRAY
Cojiegian Staff Writer
/ The Undergraduate Student Government Senate last
night, in its final meeting before the 1983-84 senators
take over, allocated $750 to the budget , of the 1983
IVlovin' On, to be held May 7 and 8, and allocated $9OO
for a banquet for the formal induction of the 1983-84
USG executives, senate and academic assembly
personnel.
The original request for the Movin' On budget was
- $1,500, but the. USG appropriations committee reduced
the requested amount by one-half. Senate barely
passed the revised bill with a vote of 13-11.
Local
feel the recession
By JOHN SCHLANDER
Collegian Staff Writer
The common perception of State
College as a fantasyland a
Happy Valley insulated from
"real world" problems is
justified in regard to the problem
of unemployment. Unfortunately,
Centre County as a whole is not
totally covered by State College's
"recession-proof" cocoon.
The county jobless rate hit a
recession-high 13.5 percent in
. -
January, while the State College
rate was 6.1 percent. And some
people might consider that high
for State College, which dipped
below 2 percent several times in
the 19605.
Some areas of Centre County,
such as Philipsburg and
Bellefonte, have been hurt.
considerably by the recession,
analysts said recently. About 6,300
county residents were officially
unemployed in February.
County industries hardest hit
include electronics, coal, lime and
manufacturing in general.
Cerro Metal Products in
Bellefonte has had the highest
number of layoffs of any one
company. Over the course of the
recession, Cerro's employment
has dropped from about 1,250 to
buildings.
In Guilford, Maine, more than a dozen
residents of an apartment complex for the
elderly along the Piscataquis River were
forced to flee Sunday night after more than 2
inches of rain sent the river surging above
flood stage.
In California, the ground was so saturated
at San Bernardino that underground springs
were popping up inside buildings, such as
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Paul Bertalan, Movin' On bands chairman, told the
senate that this year would probably be the last for
Movin' On, due to the switch to semesters.
After a 65-minute committee break, the
appropriations committee passed the bill that would
allow the USG senate to allocate the funds to Movin'
On.
A banquet and inauguration ceremony will be held at
8 p.m. April 25, at Gatsby's, 100 W. College Ave, and is
open to 150 invited USG members only.
USG President Leni Barch said, that to the best of
her knowledge this is the first year USG has ever had a
formal induction outside the HUB.
Please see MOVIN' ON, Page 2.
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750 at last count a 40 percent
drop.
Most of the layoffs occurred in
1982, said Tom Moyer, personnel
director for Cerro. Some
employees have been called back,
he said, but the employment
outlook for the company is
unclear.
"We have been trying, like most
companies, to project when we
think things are going to turn
around," Moyer said, "but our
crystal ball is just too clouded to
make that determination."
Domtar, a Bellefonte lime
company, was hit too hard to
make a recovery. The company, a
division of a Montreal-based
corporation, closed its doors last
June.
However, Les Confer, a Centre
County resident, bought the
Bellefonte property April 8. The
new company, Con-lime, plans to
begin selling lime in the middle of
May, said Mike Cassidy, the sales
director.
Manufacturing is the sector
hardest hit by most recessions,
analysts said, and because
manufaCturing provides a higher
portion of jobs in areas of the
county outside State College, those
areas have suffered.
Please see RECESSION Page 14.
the Inland Cinema where the water was
flowing down the aisles.
In southwestern Virginia, which also got a
.mid-April record of 4 inches of snow in
places such as Bristol, many schools were
closed because road crews had already put
away some of their winter equipment.
In Castleton, Vt., Robert Traverse and his
family had to milk 20 cows by hand because
there was no electricity for'the milking
machines. _
"Between milking and letting the hands
uncramp, it was, gosh, two hours to get 'em
done," he said.
The snow over the weekend darkened
32,000 homes in New England.
inside
Gary Meyer of Wellesley, Mass
won the 87th Boston Marathon
yesterday afternoon
• Members of the Calendar
Transition Grievance Committee
were announced yesterday. Page 3
• The College of Education
begins a faculty exchange
program with the National Taiwan
Normal University next fall.. Page 3
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weather
Mostly cloudy and cold today with
occasional snow flurries with
periods of snow showers
possible, high 37. Cloudy and cold
tonight, low 28.
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—by Craig Wagner