2—The Daily Collegian Friday, Nov. 8, 1985
Ordinance creates as many problems as it solves
By LINDA KRIEG
Collegian Staff Writer
An effort to prevent private park
ing lots in Calder Square I from
being blocked by traffic and deliv
ery trucks has inadvertently re
sulted in problems for businesses in
Calder Square 11.
The State College Municipal Coun
cil passed an ordinance last month
that switched parking for delivery
trucks from the north side of Calder
Alley to the south side.
Mayor Arnold Addison said seve
ral businesses in the block from
McAllister Street to McAllister Al
ley had complained that delivery
trucks and private vehicles blocked
private lots. No private vehicles are
allowed to park in the alley except in
spaces paid for on private lots.
Council President Mary Ann Haas
said at the time she believed the
change would only occur in Calder
Square I. However, the ordinance
azards of smokeless tobacco are focus of campaign
By LAURA PRAH
Collegian Feature Writer
At the turn of this century, the
average American consumed four
pounds of chewing tobacco and 100
cigarettes per year. In 1965, they
were consuming only a half-pound
of chewing tobacco and 4,000 ciga
rettes per person each year.
Decreased use of chewing tobacco
resulted from the invention of a
cigarette rolling machine, which
made cigarettes a cheap alterna
tive. In addition, advertising during
World War II established cigarettes
as a "macho symbol" for soldiers.
Tuberculosis, which was trans
mitted by spitting associated with
smokeless tobacco. was the leading
killer among Americans and lung
cancer was virtually unknown.
Today chewing tobacco sales are
again on the rise up 69 percent
since 1978 --- and much of the chew
ing is by college students. The Na
tional Collegiate Survey shows that
8 percent of all male college stu
dents are regular users of snuff, a
common term for smokeless tobac
co.
Elaine Jurs, executive director of
the Centre County unit of the Ameri
can Cancer Society, said the society
recently started a campaign to edu
cate young people on the harmful
also switched parking regulations in
Calder Square H.
"There's no private parking on
the north side (in Calder Square
II)," Haas said, therefore, the argu
ment that delivery trucks block pri
vate lots is not valid.
Businessmen from McAllister Al
ley to Pugh Street said several prob
lems have developed in Calder
Square II as a result of the ordi
nance.
Pat Daugherty, owner of the Tav
ern restarant, described the change
as an "overreaction."
"There's no parking at all from
the brick walkway (in McAllister
Alley) to Pugh Street, so why
change it on that side? It's a disas
ter," he said.
Daugherty said the change sur
prised most people, adding that a
UPS driver was unaware of the
change until he received a parking
ticket.
Daugherty said deliverers may
effects of smokeless tobacco by dis
tributing information in the school
systems.
"The thrust of the campaign is to
keep kids from starting in the first
place because once you start it is
extremely difficult to stop," Jurs
said. "Isolated incidents of young
men developing oral cancer are
highly correlated to smokeless to
bacco. -
"It only makes sense to warn
people about the higher risk of using
it, but the problem with young peo
ple is they don't believe there is
anything as awful," she said.
U.S. Tobacco Company promotes
smokeless tobacco by aiming adver
tising at young male students and
athletes through College Marketing
Programs and Rodeo Scholarship
Programs. Gregory Connelly, den
tal director for the Massachusetts
Department of Health, has con
ducted studies on the clinical effects
of smokeless tobacco.
The popularity of smokeless to
bacco may be a case of history
repeating itself, Connelly said. Peo
ple are recognizing the health haz
ards of cigarettes and are trading
the site of the cancer from the lungs
to the mouth. Unless action is taken
now to prevent the use of smokeless
tobacco, cancer of the mouth by the
turn of the century will be a major
opt for the $lO violation to park
closer to the businesses or may
decide to unload from College Ave
nue, creating more congestion
there.
Steve Long, University Book Cen
ter general manager, said some
deliverers may park illegally and
others legally, therefore crowding
the alley.
Suggesting that parking in Calde
II should be switched back to the
north side, Long said, "I don't think
it would confuse anyong to have two
different ways of parking on two
different stretches of the alley."
Daugherty and Long agreed that
north side stores receive heavier
and more freqent deliveries and
winter ice and slush will make un
loading treacherous because deliv
erers will have to cross traffic.
Trucks will have to park farther
into Calder II because telephone
poles would hit side mirrors on
trucks if they parked too close,
epidemic as tuberculosis was in the
past and lung cancer is now.
Clarence Stoner, assistant profes
sor of physical education and head
baseball coach at the University,
said chewing tobacco has unfairly
been traditionally associated with
baseball•more than any other sport.
He said he classifies smokeless to
bacco as a distasteful habit along
with smoking and alcohol.
Tom Wallace, athletic director at
State College Area High School, said
he k - seen a decrease in the use of
smokeless tobacco this year among
students. The big campaign in the
high school, he said, is not warning
agajnst the harmful effects of tobac
co smokeless or cigarette but
alcohol and drug awareness.
"Chewing tobacco was a fad stu
dents got caught up in because ev
eryone else did it, but weren't really
crazy about it, - Wallace said.
Chewing tobacco constantly irri
tates the mouth and causes a break
down in oral tissue, said William
Hiel, a dentist at Ritenour Health
Center. The extent of the damage
depends on how often someone uses
it. and in what stage the irritation is
caught. Sometimes a biopsy will be
performed to check if the damaged
tissue can recover.
There have been no serious cases
or malignancies due to smokeless
Daugherty said.
Daugherty also said the south side
businesses receive deliveries from
Pugh Street and McAllister Alley
rather than from Calder Alley.
Charles Petnick, owner of Mr.
Charles in Calder I, said the ordi
nance won't prevent vehicles from
being parked in.
Trucks have to deliver items, but
private cars park anywhere in the
alley, including Mr. Charles' pri
vate lot, he said.
"People are parking and running
into stores and leaving their cars
there," Petnick said. "That's the
problem.
"The police have to patrol. Once
people start getting tickets, they'll
get the hint and won't park there,"
Petnick said.
Lieutenant Jack Orndorf of the
State College Bureau of Police Serv
ices said he did not know of any
private parking problem in the al
ley, but that a lot of tickets are given
AccuMeather
Forecasts for the world via State College
By ERIC SCHMIDT
Collegian Staff Writer
A Soviet farmer enters a bank in
Moscow and requests from a com
puter an extended weather forcast
for the Soviet wheat belt, just as an
American commerical airline pilot
is deciding whether to land his
craft in a storm. The two may be
miles apart, but• both could be
receiving weather information
from State College, site of the
world's largest private weather
forecasting organization.
Accu-Weather Inc., 619 W. Col
lege Ave., has been in business for
23 years,' said company president
Joel N. Myers.
Myers, who is also a University
trustee, started the business as a
graduate student of the University
in 1962, and provided weather fore
casts for local ski areas. Since that
time, the business has grown to
employ 120 people serving 88 coun
tries from its office in State Col
lege, he said.
The list of clients has grown from
local ski areas to include about 100
radio stations, the United Press
International, Reuters and about
200 television stations affiliated
with the ABC and CBS television
networks, Myers said. The Accu-
Weather name is recognized today
by about 140 million Americans.
Myers said that Accu-Weather
does not gather weather informa
tion. Instead, the company orga
nizes and distributes information
from various sources, including the
National Weather Service, the
Armed Forces and the National
Satellite Center in Suitland, Md.,
he said.
Accu-Weather receives its infor
mation through land lines simi
lar to telephone lines, but
dedicated to providing one type of
information on a continuous basis
and satellite transmissions, said
Michael A. Steinberg, associate
vice president.
Accu-Weather's success is due in
part to its computer network which
allows the company to collect and
distribute information in a variety
of forms, including charts and
graphs.
The information can be used, for
example, to determine the devia
tion from the expected weather
condition for that location, Stein
berg said.
Accu-Weather's 55 meteorolo-
tobacco in the last year at Ritenour,
Hiel said.
Snuff tobacco leads to oral cancer,
irreversible gum disease, gum dam
age, discolored teeth, bad breath,
tooth abrasion and cavities, said
Richard Asa, manager of media
services for the American Dental
Society.
With a high sodium content of 207-
1,200 mg per container, smokeless
Congress eyes new warning
A bill that would mandate warning labels on con
tainers of smokeless tobacco is currently being consid
ered in Congress, a spokesperson for the subcommittee
on health and environment said recently.
"Earlier this summer the Surgeon General convened
a committee to look at the tobacco problem and there is
a possibility the committee will recommend a warning
label," said Gregory Connelly, dental director for
Massachusetts Department of Health.
Although it hasn't been proven, smokeless tobacco
occasionally has been cited as a health hazard, the
health and environment spokesperson said.
If the bill is passed, the warning labels will include
three statements: "Contents may cause mouth can
cer," "contents may cause gum disease and tooth
loss," and "this package contains nicotine which can
be addictive." Warning labels would be highly and
visibly displayed on packages and advertisements.
"Unfortunately, we don't have
enough manpower to have someone
down there all the time," Orndorf
said, "When our cars go through
and they see someone illegally
parked, they ticket them."
Trucks with permits are allowed
to stop in Calder Alley as long as
they are in the process of loading or
unloading, Orndorf said.
Addison said parking regulations
were •changed because of com
plaints from businesses that private
lots were being blocked.
Although the Pedestrian Traffic
Commission looked at the problem
and recommended no change be
made, the commission did not re
port its recommendation to the
council, Addison said. Consequent
ly, he petitioned to the Public Works
Committee of the Council, which
advised the council to change deliv
eries to the south side.
"We wanted to free private park-
gists use the information it collects
to provide the most up-to-date and
accurate forecasts possible, he
said. To insure accuracy, Accu-
Weather meteorologists collabo
rate on the forecasts, so the opinion
of one meteorologist will not bias
the report, he said.
Accu-Weather provides other
services for its clients in addition to
simple forecasts. It provides a li
brary of stored computer graphics,
ranging from weather maps to
sketches for clients, Steinberg
said. The client accesses the graph
ics computer via telephone and
airs the graphic, superimposing
the approriate information over
the design.
Accu-Weather also sells weather
data in two forms through its
ACCU-DATA system. One form
"raw" weather data is pure data
in its coded form, such as wind
speed and direction, temperature
and precipitation, Steinberg said.
Data is also available in a recon
figured form that is easier for a
non-technical person to use, Stein
berg said.
The information in ACCU-DATA
is useful to a variety of clients
television stations, airlines, utili
ties and any company that has a
tobacco changes systolic blood pres
sure which causes hypertension,
Connelly said. Nicotine demon
strates cardiovascular effects and
studies show an increase of 13 heart
beats per minute among smokeless
tobacco users. Tobacco also con
tains flavoring which can cause
halitosis.
Advertising in the mass media
has implied that smokeless products
One amendment of the bill included disassociating
outdoor events with smokeless tobacco in advertising,
the spokesperson said.
In May, the Surgeon General appointed three com
mittees to study the effects of smokeless tobacco:
dental effects (gum disease and mucousal charges,.
cancer and addiction, Connelly said. The subcommit
tees will report to the main committee in April Itttifi
with their findings
"The American Dental Society considers smokeless
tobacco a health hazard and would hack up any
initiatives in labeling snuff and smokeless tobacco that
would identify them as such," said Richard Asa,
manager of media services for the American Dental
Society.
The bill was co-sponsored by :35 congressmen, includ
ing three from Pennsylvania: Republican representa
tives Don Ritter and Bill Goodling and Democratic
representative Austin Murphy. —by Laura Prah
ing entrance and exiting," Addison
said. "People are paying for that
space."
Addison said he knew of com
plaints about heavy deliveries, but
he is not concerned about them
because deliverers have equipment
to move them.
"The difference is about 15 feet,"
Addison said. "So I don't think that
argument holds water at all."
Dean McNight, senior vice-presi
dent of Mid-State Bank, said he
complained to the borough about a
year ago that the bank's drive-in
window was being blocked by deliv
ery trucks.
Also, people who transported cur
rency from the bank were often
blocked in and had to wait with
large sums of money in their cars,
he added.
Addison said, " What we have
done is not going to solve all the
problems. If it's a miserable failure,
I'll be the first to admit it."
need for accurate weather infor
mation.
Accu-Weather also provides a
full forcast for radio stations in two
forms, Steinberg said. An Accu-
Weather meteorologist can read
the forecast over the phone lines to
the client who then has the option of
airing the forcast live or recording
it for future broadcast. Clients may
also elect to transcribe the forecast
and have their own disc jockey
read it.
WQWK-FM and WRSC-AM use
both forms, said the owner/opera
tor of both stations Bob Zimmer
man. The textual form is phoned
into the station where it is taken
down as dictation and later read on
the air, Zimmerman said. Sessions
that are recorded for later broad
casts are read directly into a re
cording device and broadcast when
time permits.
Computer graphics are not the
only graphics services Accu-
Weather provides, Steinberg said.
The company also sends weather
maps to newspapers nationwide
through a digital facsimile ma
chine that sends the graphic
through the telephone lines to an
other device that translates the
information back into a graphic.
are safe, although medical and den
tal authorities say otherwise, Asa
said. In magazine advertisements,
sports figures promote tobacco
which has helped widespread social
acceptance and increased use
among young male athletes. People
who are using, have used or are
starting to use smokeless tobacco
honestly believe it is a safe alterna
tive to smoking, he said.
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