state/nation/world
Educational renewal:
Study shows school progress
By EVANS WITT
AP Political Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. A year
after a stream of reports warned of
mediocrity in American class
rooms, a study released yesterday
by a task force of governors, edu'-
cators and businessmen has found
that educational renewal is "well
under way" in dearly every state.
The report, "Action in the
States," charts the progress of all
50 states in implementing various
education reforms. It found that 46
states are working on comprehen
sive plans to improve public
schools. Twenty-seven initiated
such plans in the last year alone.
The report noted these steps:
16 states have boosted teacher
salaries by 8 percent or more since
1983.
• 19 states have passed master
teacher, career-ladder or merit
pay initiatives to encourage better
teaching. Forty-five states have
implemented tougher teacher cer
tification requirements, annual
teacher evaluations and other
steps to bolster the teaching profes
sion.
• 39 states have passed curric
ulum reform measures in the last
three years.
• 27 states have lengthened the
school day or school year, reduced
class size, or provided state fund
ing to increase instructional time.
44 states have stiffened high
school graduation requirements to
require more math, science, for
eign languages, English, social sci
ence and computer education.
• 20 states have adopted new
student discipline policies.
Spending on public education is
on the upswing, said the report.
State legislatures introduced more
I got it!
It was a case of crossed gloves and closed eyes for Danny,Kozuch, left, and Tony Camlnlti, right, both 7, on a pop-up hit during an Instructional league game in Bristol, COnn.
Driver held for . L.A. sidewalk rampage expresses 'remorse'
By CAROLYN SKORNECK
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES A man held in a
sidewalk auto rampage that killed
one person and injured 54 "express
ed remorse" yesterday for the vic
tims, his Ip'wyer said.
"He looked very withdrawn, very
quiet, very solemn," said Fred J.
Nameth, attorney for Daniel Lee
Young, 21.
Young, who has been described as
a "walking time bomb" and "really
paranoid," was booked for investi
gation of murder and was held with
out bail at county jail after the
Friday night incident on a crowded
sidewalk in Westwood, near one of
the Olympic Villages.
than 7,000 education related bills in
1984, and the public seems more
willing to accept education-related
taxes.
But the report, released at the
summer meeting of the National
Governors' Conference here,
warned that the progress of the
past year could be lost unless
states build on the current momen
tum. Specifically, it urged that
states must do more to enlist teach
ers and principals in the school
reform effort.
Thornburgh to talk issues
on own cable TV program
By ARTHUR BUCKLER
Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG Gov. Dick
Thornburgh is planning to star in
his own monthly cable television
show, a spokesman for the gover
nor says.
"If all goes well, we expect to
have something ready to go in, the
fall," said the spokesman, David
Runkel. "We want to do it for sure.
It's a question of getting the de
tails down."
Thornburgh would be following
the lead of about 35 state legis
lators who communicate with con
stituents on their own cable TV
programs.
"This is not something that will
be unique to the governor," Run
kel said.
Each program would be 30 min
utes long and available on video
tape to local cable TV companies
to show on their public service
channels, he said.
The exact format of the show
has not been decided, but each
Police will present the case to the
district attorney today and Young
may be charged then or at an ar
raignment tomorrow, police Officer
George Sumpter said.
"I had to keep asking him ques
tions to bring things out of him,"
Nameth said. "He doesn't quite un
derstand what's going to happen to
him. He expressed remorse about
what happened to the victims."
Young was not prone to violence,
Nameth said, but an older sister
"who seemed to know him best"
perceived a problem.
"'Walking time bomb' was how
she described him," Nameth said.
"She just felt he needed help and he
wasn't getting any," he said, adding
that he didn't remember the sister's
"The message of this report is
simple," said Delaware Gov.
Pierre S. du Pont, chairman of the
Task Force on Education for Eco
nomic Growth which produced the
report. "We've made progress, but
if we stop here, we'll quickly find
ourselves falling behind again."
The report follows by 13 months
an initial Task Force study, "Ac
tion for Excellence," a widely pub
licized education reform proposal
which echoed the Reagan adminis
tration's call for merit pay.
show will likely feature the gover
nor and one other public official
discussing one or two issues. It
will not have a lot of "action,"
Runkel said. •
The state will pay the cwt of
producing the show, but the cable
companies will be responsible for
distributing it, he said.
"We've been assured by the
cable industry that it would be
used," the governor's aide said.
About 1.9 million Pennsylvania
households are wired with cable.
How many people will watch is
another question. Legislators who
appear on their own shows say
they don't know how many view
ers they have.
Sen. Anthony "Buzz" Andrezes
ki,D-Erie, said he taped his own
sow for seveh months, then
stopped.
' "We were doing it and getting an
audience of maybe three people,"
he said. "It wasn't something that
people went looking for, believe
me."-
name. Young has nine sisters" and
two brothers.
In the incident, a car jumped a
curb and careened at 35 mph for a
long block along a crowded sidewalk
in Westwood, Village, killing a teen
age girl from New York and injur
ing another 54 people, most of them
local residents. Westwood Village is
adjacent to the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles where an
Olympic Village houses athletes
from around the world and where
Summer Games competition began
Sunday.
Young told officers the night of his,
arrest that "he wanted to get even
with police," Officer Scott Gilliam
said.
But Nameth questioned whether
This is a weather satellite picture taken at 2:15 PM EDT yesterday. Federal weather watchers say the satellite, GOES
EAST, which is used to track Eastern weather patterns, failed yesterday when a light bulb that enables the satellite to
read the angle from which It takes pictures of the earth burned out.
Weather satellite fails at crucial time
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON The satellite
that provides weather pictures for
the eastern half of the nation has
failed at the onset of the hurricane
season, and it will take nearly
three weeks to maneuver another
into position to offer similar cover
age, the National Weather Service
reported yesterday.
The satellite that normally pro
vides West Coast weather pictures
will be moved to the center of the
country in an effort to cover both
coasts, but that process, to begin
tomorrow, will take 19 days, said
Bill Callicott of the weather serv
ice's satellite office.
that was really the motive, "or if he
was trying to get people's attention,
to get people to listen to him," he
said.
"He was having some problems in
his life that he was having trouble
dealing with," Nameth said. "He
said he had written some music and
was trying to get it published, but he
thought someone was taking his
ideas.
"All this had been building up
inside of him for a long time, and
this was a release from all the
frustration and anger he had,"
Nameth said.
Commenting on a photograph of
Young grinning broadly from the
back seat of a police car shortly
after his arrest, Nameth said, "I
The failure comes at the begin
ning of hurricane season, when
satellite images are crucial in lo
cating and tracking tropical
storms. They provide photographs
of the Earth every half-hour, allow
ing meteorologists to find the dis
tinctive cloud patterns of these
storms and to track their
movement.
"It is a very bad time," said
David Briggs, shift supervisor at
the National Oceanic and Atmo
,
spheric Administration.
The satellite, one of two used to
keep an eye on patterns across
North America, went out at , 8:53
p.m. EDT Sunday, said Briggs, and
"attempts to recover the instru
ment were unsuccessful."
couldn't figure out what was behind
that picture."
Until yesterday morning, Young
was strapped down with "four-point
restraints" on his wrists and ankles
in the hospital ward of Los Angeles
County Jail, sheriff's Deputy Mason
Kenny said.
"It's a precautionary measure
because of statements made by his
family that he is undergoing psychi
atric treatment," Kenny said. "The
policy is that once a person is placed
in that type of a situation, he has to
undergo a psychological evaluation
at the facility to find out if it's
necessary to keep him in that posi
tion or to release him (from the
restraints):"
Asked if Young had protested the
The Daily Collegian
Tuesday, July, 31, 1984
The satellite pictures are seen
daily by millions of people through
television weather • shows and
newspaper weather pages. With
the outage, daily satellite photos
will be limited to western parts of
the country until the remaining
satellite is repositioned.
However, regular forecasting ac
tivities will continue to provide
charts of weather systems based
on radar and other collecting sys
tems.
Callicott said once the western
satellite is relocated in the middle
of the nation it will be able to
provide images of both coasts, but
some coverage of more distant
parts of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans will be lost. •
Rabies
victim
serious
By MICHAEL L. GRACZYK
Associated Press Writer
HOUSTON A 12-year-old girl who con
tracted the nation's first human case of
rabies this year was in a coma yesterday
and not expected to live, and doctors said
they don't know how she got the disease.
"One of the confounding problems in this
patient is not only is there no history of a
bite, but upon physical examination, no
evidence of a bite," said Dr. Ralph Feigin,
Texas Children's Hospital's physician in
chief.
"Sometime in the remote past, she may
have come in contact with a bat or some
other animal that might have bitten," he
said. "But at the time she was lucid, she
denied such exposure."
Feigin said rabies is slow to develop and
could take as little as seven days or as long
as 18 months to show up.
The girl, whose name doctors would not
release, was hospitalized July 11 after com
plaining of a sore throat and headache,
Feigin said. She was transferred to Texas
Children's Hospital on July 16.
"The patient deteriorated quite quidkly,"
Feigin said.
Doctors believe hers is the first human
case of rabies since an incident in Michigan
in March 1983.
Feigin said-it was.not Until Saturday that
physicians were able to determine for cer
tain that the' girl had rabies. Once it was
confirmed, she began receiving ribavirin,
an experimental anti-viral agent "effective
in the test tube against the rabies virus.
restraints, Kenny said, "Even if he
did, we can't make any comments."
Young, who was not allowed any
visitors at the jail until Nameth
arrived yesterday, remained hand
cuffed, the attorney said.
Young has been "really par
anoid" and under psychiatric thera
py including medication since an
April 1983 burglary conviction, said
his brother, Larry Young, 24. •
Nameth said he did not know what
kind of medication Young had been
taking.
Eileen Deutsch, 15, of Queens in
New York City, was killed in Fri
day's rampage. Of the 54 people
injured, three remained in critical
condition yegterday.
igh-speed train derails near Scottish village
By The Associated Press
POLMONT, Scotland Three cars of a
high-speed, train carrying commuters and
tourists hurtled off the track near this village
yesterday, killing 13 people and injuring 44, A regional British Rail manager, Vivian
British Rail and police reported. Chadwick, had said earlier that the final toll
The lead coach somersaulted and crashed "appears to be 13 dead and a lot of people in
upside down in a woodland, demolishing a hospital, but we can't be precise."
stone farm wall and tearing up part of the The six-car express was carrying some 300
track, said Donald McTeggart, a British Rail passengers on the Edinburgh-Glasgow run,
spokesman in Edinburgh. The two following McTeggart said. The accident occurred at
coaches toppled on their sides, but three 5:30 p.m., 30 minutes after the train left
others remained upright after running off the Edinburgh for the 35-mile run.
track. Soon afterward, an oncoming train on the
Helicopter hunt begins
in Grand Canyon area
By ROBERT MACY
Associated Press Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nev. Planes and
boats searched the Grand Canyon
and Lake Mead yesterday for a
missing ; sightseeing helicopter
carrying a family of four and its
pilot.
The helicopter took off at 9:45
a.m. Sunday from the Hughes
Aviation Terminal at McCarran
International Airport in Las Vegas
and was due back 3 1 / 2 hours later.
More than 15 helicopters and
fixed wing aircraft were joined by
boats in tracing the route of the
missing craft yesterday.
ALLEGHENY WOMEN'S CENTE
an out patient medical clinic offering
• Abortion-asleep or awake
• Morning After Treatment
• Birth Control
• Related Services
PHONE 412/362-2920
Medical Center East Building
Penthouse Right (Bth floor)
211 North Whitfield Streat
• tiegheny
omen's Pittsburgh, PA 15208
enter
Shakii
Sandals are
e I
r• - /4 10
46.
wro,"
• the contoured cork sandal
unsurpassed in comfort
• made in Holland with that
European flair for style
• longer wearing because the
foot bed is completely wrapped
in soft suede
Available at:
New Morning Natural Foods
115 South Fraser Street
State College, Pennsylvania
(814) 234-8333
Authorities had said earlier that more than
100 people were injured, but police coordinat-
ing the rescue work at Stirling, a nearby
town, later revised the injury toll to 44. They
put the number of dead at 13.
"We're in contact with the
search people and they're con
ducting a full sweep along the
route," said Alice Bauer, one of
the owners of Bauer Helicopters,
the company operating the sight
seeing craft.
The helicopter was piloted by
her son, David Bauer. She de
clined to identify those on board
other than to say they were tour
ists.
Newton Sikes, chief ranger for
the National Park Service in the
Lake Mead area, said the passen
gers included a man and wife and
their two children.
- .N..m.- -
Vir ri o
OA
as 4.
NIP 4110
40
quar
Wide Selection
of food items
especially reduced
for
our sidewalk
sale
.
var ji
0 , 11
Candy Cane
128 W. College Ave.
Glasgow-Edinburgh run screeched to a halt with blankets and there were dozens and miles from this village in southeastern Scot
to avoid smashing into the wreckage of the dozens of people helping the injured out." land. Police in Stirling, 12 miles away, said 39
first train and hurled passengers to the floors Two Canadian tourists Jeff Chomyn, 26, people were hospitalized there, some with
of the cars. Police said 13 people on the and his wife, Jane, 28, were traveling in a serious injuries.
second train were injured. rear coach. Telephone wires were torn down, cutting
The mangled remains of a cow or bull were " The , first we knew that something was off service to many homes in this village of 5,-
found on the track, but British Rail officials Wrong was when the carriage in front of us 000 people.
said it was not clear if the animal caused the started to shudder," Chomyn said. "The Tom White, assistant administrator at the
express train capable of traveling at too brakes then went on violently and the car- Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary, said
mph —to leave the track. riage disappeared in a cloud of dust. I some of the injured had serious head wounds
"It was just utter devastation,"-slid Bill grabbed my wife and was screaming, 'Hold but most had broken limbs and severe
Mailer, editor of a local paper, the Falkirk on, hold on!."' The couple escaped serious bruises.
and Grangemouth Advertiser, who joined injury. Chadwick, speaking of clues to a possible
rescuers." There were severed limbs around Ambulances ferried the injured to a hospi- cause, said: "The only thing revealed so far
the embankment. The dead were covered up tal in the nearest sizeable town, Falkirk, four is the remains of an animal. "
Philadelphia homeless want to vote
Committee of street people go to court for voting privileges
By PETE BROWN
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA A man who
gave his address as a bench outside
City Hall testified at a U.S. District
Court hearing yesterday that he
wants to vote because he is worried
the U.S. is headed for "another Viet
nam."
Sidney McFadden, a 34-year-old
veteran of the Vietnam War, took the
stand in a suit aimed at forcing the
city commissioners to allow Philadel
phia's homeless to register to vote.
Chief Judge Emeritus Joseph S.
Lord denied a preliminary injunction
against the commissioners yester
day, but he agreed to hear arguments
aimed at securing a permanent reme
dy. No hearing date was set.
nittanv h7tt springs
Ycw're in ilot \VLLICF no\v..
and you deserve it. 44.
Today, how about a long,
relaxing soak in a hot tub?
Escape to Nittany Hot
Springs ... private re
treats include in-ground
tubs, stereo systems and
color tv's in a, tropical
patio atmosphere. Hour
ly rates start at ' . 4r"
Nittany Hot
Springs...you've
earned •
`lf we send an investigator out on high noon on a
sunny day, how are we able to tell what person is
attached to what park bench?'
Being challenged in the dispute is a
city requirement that a registrant
give a specific street address for their
residence. Authorities maintain the
outcome of the dispute could affect
voting rights for as many as 8,000
street people here.
Three homeless Philadelphians and
a group of street people calling them
selves the Committee for Dignity and
Fairness for the Homeless are asking
that they be allowed to give any
—Ralph Teti, deputy city solicitor
location they have staked out as their
own such as a park bench or street
corner along with a mailing ad
dress, such as a shelter for tran
sients, when they register to vote.
Stephen F. Gold, the lawyer for the
homeless group, noted that the Dis
trict of Columbia adopted such a
practice earlier this year. He said a
similar challenge is underway in New
York City.
City commissioners have refused to
4 Competitive Values lc*
N. l / 4
- in Used Cars
MERCEDES BENZ
1980 450 SL Blue $32,700
1978 450 SEL $20,700
1983 DATSUN SHORTBED Dark blue metallic, roll bar, off road lights, spoker wheels, 5 speed, very AV ,_•rery_
sharp SE
1982 DATSUN KING CAB TRUCK White with accent stripes, 5 speed, jump seats, AM-FM radio, only
24,000 miles $6,895
1981 OLDS CUSTOM CRUISER WAGON Burgundy with matching vinyl interior • fuel efficient diesel
engine, very nice condition $3,950
1979 DATSUN 510 2DR. HATCHBACK 4 cylinder, automatic, radial tires, AM—FM radio 3,495
1981 CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO LANDAU Automatic, cruise control, tilt wheel, AM—FM stereo,
wire wheel covers, new radial tires, 39,000 miles, light blue metallic with dark blue vinyl top & matching interior
JUST ARRIVED
1979 PONTIAC TRANS AM Beautiful dark blue metallic with full Trans AM striping - raised white letter
radials, automatic transmission, AM—FM stereo, factory air conditioning WON'T LAST
1983 BMW 320 I Alpine white With contrasting blue interior, all the equipment befitting the automobile: 5
speed transmission, sliding sunroof, factory air conditioning, Alloy wheels, digital stereo cassette, 2 years
remaining factory warranty $15,300
1980 CHEVY C.lO 4x 4 TRUCK Silver with sport stripes & sport wheels only 28,000 mites $6495.00
1981 DATSUN 280 Z( Silver with contrasting aed vinyl interior, 5 speed, factory air conditioning, Alloy
wheels, raised white letter radials $91'75.00
1982 200SX HARDTOP Gorgeous 2-tone Blue, 5 speed, Air Conditioning, stereo cassette, power windows
,sports Luxury Package $7995.06
1983 SUBARU 20R. HARDTOP G.L. Almost new only 4,700 miles 5 speed, power windows, AM-FM
stereo, remaining factory warranty Much Less Than A New One
1979 LINCOLN MARK V Classy—classy car wedge wood blue exterior with matching landau roof & cloth
interior all the possible options one local owner with only 46,000 miles $8,250
1983 HONDA ACCORD HATCHBACK LX Silver blue metallic with matching cloth interior, 5 speed,
stereo-cassette, power steering. This car is so new it still's on the factory warranty $8950.00
1984 JEEP GRAND WAGONEER "The last year of the model" V-8, auto, power steering, air,power
windows, cruise, leather interior, alloy wheels, silver with woodgrain New One $21,700
Ours $18,500
1982 HONDA WAGON 5 speed, radial tires, AMIFM radio, burgundy with cloth interior $5495
1982 TOYOTA TERCEL SEDAN Front wheel drive, 4 speed, radial tires, AMIFM radio and only
22,800 miles $5295
1975 -TRIUMPH SPITFIRE "Classic British Roadster", soft top, full tonneau, radial tires, 38,000 miles.
French blue with accent stripes $2995
1981 DATSUN SHORTBED 4x4 TRUCK Silver with sports stripes, AMIFM radio, 4 speed radial tires
one local owner $699S
1979 DODGE RAM CHARGER V-8, Automatic, power steering, power brakes, 52000 miles, light green
metalicyrith matching vinyl interior $4850
1980 HONDA PRELUDE Only 32000 miles, automatic, electric sunroof, AMIFM stereo and tape, extremely
nice car, finished in maroon metallic with matching cloth interior $6495
1980 VOLVO 242 DL Dark brown with a tan cloth interior, nicely equipped with automatic transmission.
power steering, AMIFM stereo, brand new steel belted radials this is every nice one owner car with
48,000 miles $7950
1979 PLYMOUTH CHAMP 2 DOOR HATCHBACK Front wheel drive, gas saving "twin stick"
transmission, radial tires $3495
1979 CHEVROLET CAMARO COUPE 6 cylinder, automatic, power steering, AMIFM stereo, light blue
metallic with white canopy roof and accent stripes. One local owner $4495
1980 DATSUN 310 COUPE GX Very sporty hatchback with the practically of front wheel drive and high
gas mileage, 5 speed, AMIFM radio, radial tires, silver with a blue cloth interior and one local owner $4375
1975 PORSCHE 9115 SOLD $11,900
1981 SAAB 900 "S" 3DR SOLD $8650.00
The Daily Collegian Tuesday, July 31, 1984-5
Want to sell Penn State?
Tell Penn State!
Advertise in
day Collegian
relax the requirement, arguing that
such a change would heighten the
possibility of voter fraud.
"If we send an investigator out on
high noon on a sunny day, how are we
able to tell what person is attached to
what park bench?" asked Ralph Teti,
deputy city solicitor.
McFadden, who said he lives on the
west side of City Hall and uses his few
possessions as a pillow, was one of
three homeless people to testify yes
terday.
"I figure my vote will count, maybe
change the policies and change things
that are gong on in Central Ameri
ca," he said.
"If you read. the news and watch
what's going on, if the policy doesn't
change soon, they're going to have
another Vietnam."