6—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Aug. 2, 1984
Ex-cop denies taking bribes
By LEE LINDER
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA Former Chief Inspector Joseph
DePeri, one of seven ex-cops on trial for taking bribes,
flatly denied yesterday that he had ever taken protection
money from "anyone."
DePeri's testimony in the courtroom of U.S. District
Judge Daniel Huyett 3rd came as a surprise as none of the
defendants in the trial, now in its fourth week, was
expected to take the stand.
"No sir, no way," DePeri told a federal jury of nine
women'and three men as his lawyer, ticking off the names
of over a dozen prosecution witnesses who testified about
paying cops to protect illegal gambling, asked whether he
ever got money from them.
"Did you ever receive any payment from someone
known as 'Black Cat?' " asked attorney Malcolm Lazin.
"Neither from 'Black Cat' nor anyone else," DePeri
replied coolly.
DePeri is charged with extortion and racketeering in a
conspiracy the government claims netted officers more
than $350,000 between 1980 and 1984
,from operators of
illegal gambling establishments.
He is also accused of obstructing justice by allegedly
ordering destruction of evidence. Prosecutors say DePeri
Was working to block the FBl's investigation of corrup
tion in Philadelphia's 7,300-member force.
Already, seven former policemen have been sentenced
to jail terms in the probe. An eighth cop has pleaded
guilty and is awaiting sentencing.
• Besides DePeri, the other defendants in the current
trial are former Deputy Commissioner James Martin,
who was the city's No. 2 cop before he resigned in April;
former Cipt. Dennis Linso, former Lts. Henry Pecic,
George Katz and Theodore Murphy and former Patrol
man George Morrell.
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The seven were indicted last May with eight others who
are scheduled to go on trial Sept. 5.
DePeri took the stand after a parade of character
witnesses for himself and some of the other defendants.
Over government objections, he detailed his 24-year
police career, including assignments to "investigate
wrongdoings by police . . . to see that officers did their job
to protect the people . . . and handled security for the
President and the Pope."
DePeri yesterday focused mainly on discrediting the
chief prosecution witness, a former vice lieutenant who
turned FBI informer to avoid prosecution. Former Capt.
Joseph Alvaro claimed DePeri•got him transferred to his
command stictly to handle bribe collections.
"That is absurd," DePeri said. "I never laid eyes on
Alvaro, or even spoke to him, until I interviewed him
after I was made inspector in the Northwest division.
"The criteria I used in selecting officers was honesty
and ability," DePeri said, acknowledging that Alvaro did
ask to be allowed to pick one man on the four-member
vice squad.
"Alvaro said he wanted a man with experience who
could report back to him and tell him what the others
were doing, a man he could trust, and I bought it," said
DePeri, explaining how Alvaro brought Albert Ricci
along with him when he came to Northwest near the end
of 1980.
Ricci, a former lieutenant who pleaded guilty when the
current trial began, testified that Alvaro recruited him as
"his bagman . . . to make the collections," and that he
once gave an envelope of money to DePeri when Alvaro
was absent.
"It was quite common for me to get envelopes of
money," DePeri said. "There were various collections for
the needy, for kids, during Thanksgiving and Christmas,
for the Police Athletic League.
"There was nothing unusual•for someone to hand me an
envelope with money. "
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Labor force:
White males now make up less than half
By MERRILL HARTSON
AP Labor Writer
WASHINGTON For the first
time in the two decades the govern
ment has kept such records, white
men constituted less than half of
the U.S. labor force last year, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics says.
In 1983, according to a new analy
sis, white males age 16 and over
comprised 49.7 percent of the labor
force, the pool of Americans who
either held jobs or searched for
work last year.
But white males did continue to
claim slightly more than half of all
people who held jobs last year,
analyst Deborah Klein said.
Of 100,834,000 people who worked
in 1983, she said, 50,621,000 or
50.2 percent -- were white males.
But the decline of the white male
as the principal bread-winner in
American society has been unmis
takeable, the government's labor
force figures show.
White men constituted 50.0 per
cent of the labor force in 1982, down
from 50.5 percent in 1981 and 50.9
percent in 1980. In contrast, white
males represented 62.5 percent of
the !atom' force in 1954, when the
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cy, began keeping such records. In
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In June, the most recent month
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available, white men comprised
49.3 percent of the total number of
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last year. •
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population in 1983, governme . nt fig
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77.6 percent worked at some
time during the year.
This so-called employment-pop
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the percentage of eligible males
who held a job'at some point during
1983 was the lowest since the
government began keeping such
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male as the principal.breadwinner
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Because of cost and convenience advantages, food
manufacturers have begun to switch from metal cans
to plastics as the predominant food container, a Uni
versity professor of food science said.
Gerald Kuhn said within 10 years, the ratio of metal
to plastic containers used for food packaging and
storage will be greatly reduced.
As plastic manufacturers come up with more rigid
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resistant, plastics will replace cans at the rate of one
for-one, he said. He added that it is possible for all cans
to be replaced by plastics laminated by paper or foils.
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place, prices will increase at a slower rate, he said.
He added that plastic containers cost one-third to
one-half less than their metal counterparts.
Metal cans can often cost more than the food they
contain, he said. Two-serving metal containers cost
twice as much as the food inside them. .
Also, he said, plastics weigh less and fit together, so
they are more convenient and less expensive to ship.
Another advantage of plastics is that they can be
shipped to the manufacturer in sheets and formed into
containers at the producer's site, which also reduces
shipping costs.
Kuhn said plastic containers are also more conve
nient for consumers.
Recently, he said, consumers have shown an in
creased demand for smaller packages of food. He said
plastics are more suitable for packaging smaller
quantities, and can be resealed when only a portion of
the contents is used.
He said using plastic for small food containers is also
more cost-efficient.
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induced a change to plastics, Kuhn said.
Although plastics have many advantages to produc
ers and consumers, they do have drawbacks, he added.
Seals of plastic containers may not be efficient
enough for long-term storage of some foods. Also, some
are not durable enough for display and consumer
handling in stores, Kuhn said.
Kuhn said industries would not switch to alternative
containers unless consumers indicate they favor a
change, even if the advantages outweighed the disad
vantages.
Al Austin, vice president of containers and capital
improvement at the Campbell Soup Company, also
believes that consumer demands contribute to a com
pany's policy changes, such as a switch from metal to
plastic containers. He said his company is "driven by
the needs of the consumer."
"We want to take full advantage of all the new
technology at our disposal in metal, glass and compos
ite materials, as well as plastic," he said. "Our aim is a
high level of convenience and quality for the consum
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Drought of Olympic tourists
irritates L.A.'s businessmen
By RICHARD DE ATLEY
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES There are empty
streets in business districts and emp
ty tills for merchants. Apparently,
Summer Olympic doomsday fore
casts about crowds and traffic jams
convinced tourists that L.A. is NOT
the place.
For months before the Games, offi
cials predicted choked freeways,
overbooked events, hand-to-hand
combat for $5O parking spaces and
general chaos as Olympic visitors
vied with other tourists and residents
for facilities.
But now, amusement parks, hotels
away from venue sites, taxi and lim
ousine services, souvenir vendors
and even escort services find the
warnings have scared off their usual
business, or at least kept away any
thing additional.
"Who do you blame? I don't know,
quite," said Ernest Badalian, owner
of the Tropicana Motel in Anaheim
advertised as "Just Across The
Street From Disneyland" on Har
bor Boulevard.
"Most of us could see for months in
advance that it wasn't going to hap
pen, because of the bookings. ... But
they kept right on saying how every
thing was going to be crowded," he
said yesterday. •
Badalian said he's usually 90 to 100
percent booked for his 140 rooms. On
Tuesday night, he had guests in 30
percent.
There were other signs that L.A.
had proven something less than a
Mecca.
The Daily Collegian Thursday, Aug. 2, 1984-7
• California Department of Trans ,
portation officials, who's forecast tra-
ffic would be up by 10 percent for the
16 days of the Games, said traffic ,
during the first two business days
actually was down 2-3 percent from'
the same time last year.
• At Los Angeles International
Airport, where construction crews ,
raced to complete a new terminal
before the Games started, spokeswo
man Virginia Black said, "We have
not experienced a surge at all."
• The Greater Los Angeles Visiz.
tors and Convention Bureau reported.
a vacancy of more than 6,971 rooms
for the week.
• Major theme parks in Southern
California also felt the pinch. Atten:
dance was way down at Disneyland in
Anaheim, Knott's Berry Farm in,
Buena Park, the Universal Studios,
Tour in Universal City and at Magic:
Mountain in Valencia.
"While some locals may have left
because of the horror stories, it has
also kept many tourists away, too,",
said Disneyland spokesman Robert
Roth.
When the stories first circulated,'
limousine service owners sought to ,
cash in and raised Olympic rates to
$1,500 a day, 10-day minimum, for a'
"stretch" limo, said Rene Celaya,
dispatcher-chauffeur for Starlit&
Limousine in Beverly Hills.
"That was the going rate for all the,
limousine companies. There .were no
takers," he said. "On opening day,:
the rates went down to $5O a day, 12
hour minimum. Now its back to nor-;
mal rates, $4O an hour with a three
hour minimum." ,