10—The Daily Collegian Monday, April 14, 1986
Business is good
By W.T. HOLLAND
Collegian Staff Writer
DUBOIS U.S. Rep. William F.
Clinger, along with representatives
from federal trade and business
agencies, urged regional business
men Friday to view the federal gov
ernment as a potential customer.
More than 100 representatives from
the 23rd district's small businesses
and industries were told in a confer
ence held here Friday not to believe
negative reports about doing business
with the federal government.
Instead, local businessmen were
told to contact local service agencies
and representatives from the Small
Business Administration and the In
ternational Trade Administrations to
find more information on doing busi
ness with the government.
The meeting,is only one of several
Congressional Business Development
Conferences that Clinger, R-Pa., has
sponsored with trade agencies to urge
small businesses to produce goods
and services to be sold to the govern
ment and to markets abroad.
"Everyone has heard the horror
stories about doing business with the
government . . . you don't get paid,"
said Larry Barletta, representative
for the Southeastern Development
Association of the Centre Region
Council of Governments.
"Those stories simply aren't true,"
Barletta added. "Payments are
promptly met, and if they aren't
you'll get interest."
With enactment of the Gramm-
Rudman budget law, government has
become more cost-conscious and is
more interested in competition be-
tween many sources for supplies and
services, Clinger said.
Clinger added that too many small
businesses see government contracts
as sole property of the large, estab
lished multinational corporations
such as General Motors or Kodak.
"A lot of companies could be seek
ing to provide goods and services to
the federal government," Clinger
said. "There is a whole range of
things we can offer through export
'and procurement."
"The procedure can be complex.
(Local businessmen) all think it is
more complex than it is," Clinger
said. "One of our jobs at this confer
ence is to get them to say, 'this is
something we can do.' "
Clinger added that his district, the
largest in the state, has three region
al planning committees. These com
mittees offer primary assistance to
small businesses looking to sell goods
or services to the government under a
contractural agreement a process
called'procurement.
These local agencies are the North
Central Business Development Inc.,
Northwest Pennsylvania Regional
Planning and Development Commis
ssion, and the Southeastern Devel
opment Association Council of
Governments, Centre County.
"A lot of these companies are not
even aware that these agencies ex
ist," Clinger said, pointing to the
conference assembly participants,
most of whom were talking and ex
changing business cards.
Richard Seagrave, assistant re
gional administrator for the Philadel
phia-based Small Business
Administration, asked local business
with the
men in his workshop to aggressively over $1 million for construction con
pursue the government like any other tracts, to guarantee a percentage of
client. the business going back to small
Preparation and a personal inter- business in the form of subcontract
view with the procurement officer in ing. Sub-contracts present a great
the region will land more government opportunity for small business, Sea
contracts than just filling out the grave said.
correct forms, Seagrave said.
Under revisons to the original
Small Business Act of 1953, it is now
mandatory for any large federal gov
ernment contracts over $500,000, or
Clinger to business: Explore foreign markets
By W.T. HOLLAND
Collegian Staff Writer
DUBOIS American businesses should be
moving now to become competitive in foreign
markets to take advantage of a devalued dollar
abroad, said U.S. Rep. William F. Clinger.
Clinger, R-Pa., spoke to local businessmen at
tending the Congressional Business Development
Conference, urging them to consider producing
more goods and services suitable for export in the
international marketplace.
"The governor has declared this year to be the
year of exports, setting aside money for devel
opment of Pennsylvania export businesses and
assigning four export agents around the world that
work to promote Pennsylvania industry abroad,"
Clinger said.
"Pennsylvania has as much to offer in those
foreign markets as anyone else."
In a subsequent interview, Clinger added that
exporting on the part of small American firms has
become much more feasible and realistic than it
was just a year ago, but he added that the nation as
a whole must meet several challenges to be a
competitor overseas.
Among the challenges are: better education,
including more emphasis on foreign languages;
U.S. gov't., Clinger says
Stephanie Davis, of the U.S. Army,
said she signed contracts for mostly
maintenance and repair of military
vehicles, but will also buy parts for
those vehicles from smaller firms.
re-training the labor force for skilled technical
jobs; and relaxation of anti-trust laws.
"We have put too many limitations on our
companies that are in the export business now,
who want to follow anti-trust laws, and find them
selves locked in," Clinger said. He added that the
Japanese are ahead of the United States because
firms in that country are allowed to employ
research and development, finance, management
and marketing services on a larger, horizontally
integrated scale.
"We try to do that here and we are accused of an
anti-trust violation," Clinger said.
In addition, Clinger said providing a better
climate between domestic labor and management
is needed to enter the export market.
"For too long there has been an adversarial
(selling) relationship between the two . . . you've
got to be a dependable source of supply to deal
with foreign nations."
Christopher Domsan, manager of international
market development for American Sterilzer Com
pany, said his company, "absolutely has to oper
ate in the marketplace."
Domsan emphasized the need for firms that
export to modify and alter products in relation to
changing tastes and needs in the international
markets.
"Uncle (Sam) is trying to build a Coratomic, a medical device - firm in
base for small business to come to Indiana, Pa.
before it goes to General Dynamics," "You have to put forth the effort,
she said. "The army is a business and if you're not afraid of the work
requiring anything you would need that is ahead of you in going for a
for an office building or an auto parts contract, then you stand to make
.
store." some money," he said.
Dave E. Kailas, a member of the Kailas said he has gone through
audience, said the conference coy- procurement procedures with other
ered many useful aspects of procure- government agencies including the
ment. Much of this information he Nuclear Regulatory Commission and
has used previously in his work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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"If you produce a product which looks like this,"
Domsan said, picking up a plastic drinking cup,
"but the Chinese drink out of things like this,"
he pinches the cup in the middle "and you don't
change it to fit that identified need . . . well you've
just limited your market."
John A McCartney, trade specialist from the .
U.S. Department of Commerce International Tra
de Administiation, said businessmen in remote
areas such as the central and northwestern Penn
sylvania regions do not have access to information
on how foreign competitors are quietly entering
their markets.
"I think a lot of small businesses in remote areas
tend to be less tuned into the latest flow of
information of who is here, or whether the foreign
competition is already selling into this region,"
McCartney said.
Foreign countries often target particular state
markets in a region for a specific period of time,
he added.
McCartney said a strong international market
exists for hardwoods that grow in the region.
"In advance of the U.S. market being overtaken
by foreign competition, look at what's selling in
the international marketplace," he said.
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By 808 GREEN
AP Golf Writer
AUGUSTA, Ga. Jack Nicklaus
was down, playing poorly, and his
pride was hurt.
The unwelcome, hurting question
kept coming: "When are you going to
retire?"
But it was a newspaper article
which really enraged golf's Golden
Bear.
"It said I was dead, washed up,
through, with no chance whatsoever.
I was sizzling. I kept thinking, 'Dead,
huh? Washed up, huh?' "
He answered with one of the great
performances in golf's long history, a
stunning, thundering, magnificent
rally that brought Nicklaus a record
sixth Masters championship yester
day. •
In perhaps the finest hour of a
career that is unmatched in golf, he
won the 50th Masters by overcoming
an international corps of the game's
finest players in a dramatic run over
the final nine hilly holes at the Augus
ta National Golf Club, a stretch he
played in a record-matching 30.
His round of 65 was highlighted by a
12-foot eagle putt on the 15th hole that
pulled him within two shots of the
lead. "I remember I had that same
putt in '75, and I didn't read enough
break," he said.
He called on more than a quarter
century of experience, of winning and
losing at the game he's played with
more success than any other man.
"This was Sunday at the Masters.
There's a lot of pressure. The other
guys feel it, too. They can make
mistakes. I knew that if I kept my
composure down the stretch, as long
as I kept on making birdies, as long
as I kept myself in there, I'd be OK. I
kept that right at the front of my
mind," he said.
And he was right.
Seve Ballesteros made a mistake.
Tom Kite failed to take advantage of
an opportunity. Greg Norman made a
mistake that led to a bogey on the
72nd hole and cost him the tourna
ment.
"I don't like to win a golf tourna
ment on somebody's mistakes. But
I'M tickled pink," Nicklaus said.
"Over the last few years, some peo
ple have done things, things I have no
control over, that kept me from win
ning golf tournaments.
"This time a couple of guys were
good to me and allowed me to win."
The 46-year-old Nicklaus used the
Lady taxers runni
By TODD SHERMAN
Collegian Sports Writer
Saturday was a tune-up day for the
No. 1 women's lacrosse team.
What Head Coach Sue Scheetz
found in her team's 15-5 win over
Rutgers at Lady Lion Field was that
all cylinders in the Penn State la
crosse machine are running smooth
ly.
But don't think that the 9-0 Lady
Lion juggernaut does not have any
knocks or pings.
"We have some things to work on in
being a little bit more disciplined,"
said Scheetz after her team scored
goals on almost every other shot
against the Lady Knights. "We were
caught sometimes throwing the ball
into a crowd when we knew we
shouldn't. We want to. stop making
dumb mistakes not giving the ball
to the other team. If they are going to
take it from us, then we have to make
them work for it. We need some more
work in that area. We were making
some turnovers that we really
shouldn't have."
Other than that, Scheetz had little
else to be unhappy about as Penn
State made 15 of 31 shots count for
goals. And once again a number of
Lady Lions figured in the scoring.
Maggie Dunphy led the way with four
goals to up her team-leading total for
the season to 31. Tami Worley and
Amanda Veal each scored a hat trick,
while Beth Thompson dished in two.
Mix Hughes, Lisa Borger, and Anna
Marie Vesco each chipped in one.
Vesco had a particularly good day, as
she added three assists to her scoring
total. Vesco is becoming an increas
ingly familiar name on the scoresheet
and Scheetz noted that she will play
an important part in the top-ranked
team's continued success.
"She is coming into her own and I
think that is what we need for her
to start feeling good about herself out
there," Scheetz said. "She has had
some good games lately and she is
looking better in practice all the
time."
With games against upset-minded
I Lafayette and No. 3 Maryland com
ing up this week, Saturday's contest
with 3-4 Rutgers was supposed give
the Lady Lions a break. But Penn
State did anything but coast through
the game, and when Worley charged
) out and scored the first goal of the
game, only 11 ticks had gone off the
Bear thunders to Masters win
opportunity to answer the queitions
about retirement.
"I'm not going to quit. Maybe I
should. Maybe I should say goodbye.
Maybe that'd be the smart thing to
do. But I'm not that smart.
"I'm not the player I was 10 or 15
years ago. But," he added, with a
grin, "I can still play a little bit at
times."
He was at his best on a hot, sunny
spring Sunday when he turned back
the clock with a 7-under-par 65.
"I didn't expect to be in position to
win, but I felt this morning if I shot a
66 I would tie, 65 I would win, and
that's exactly what happened," Nick
laus said.
"I was doing things right. I finally
made a bunch of putts. That's what
was fun. I haven't had this much fun
in six years."
What had been a season of success
for "no-name" players and misery
for the game's luminaries turned
abruptly in the Masters. Five of golf's
biggest stars Norman, Ballesteros,
Bernhard Langer, Kite and Nicklaus
led or shared the lead at one point
over the final 18 holes. In the end, it
was the biggest name of all on top of
the leader board.
This Masters evoked memories of
the 1960 U.S. Open, when Arnold
Palmer, at the top of his game ; beat
Nicklaus, then a youthful amateur,
and the aging Ben Hogan; of the 1975,
Masters when Nicklaus turned back
the two major challengers to his
supremacy, Tom Weiskopf and John
ny Miller; and of the 1977 British
Open, when the young Watson beat
Nicklaus in an incredible shoot-out at
Turnberry in Scotland.
Nicklaus lost two of those tourna
ments, but he wasn't to be denied this
time.
"Fantastic," he said. "You don't
win the Masters at age 46."
But he did, for a record sixth time,
to tie Harry Vardon, a six-time Brit
ish Open champion, for the most
victories in any of golf's four majors,
It pushed to 18 his record accumu
lation of victories in those events, five
more than runner-up Walter Hagen.
The list, which started with the 1962
U.S. Open, now includes the six Mas
ters, a record-tying four U.S. Opens,
a record-tying five PGA national
championships, and three British
Opens.
It also provided Nicklaus with his
first major title since 1980 and his
first victory of any kind since the 1984
Memorial tournament.
Penn State's Suzie Jones keeps close to a Rutgers opponent Saturday at Lady
Lion Field. The No. 1 Lady Lions defeated the Lady Knights, 15.5 to increase
their record to 9.0.
clock. Scheetz said she did not want
her team to get off to a slow start, an
affliction that has been plaguing the
Lady Lions all season.
"I was pleased at the way we were
opening it up right from the beginning
and not allowing them to drop,"
Scheetz said. "We have been working
on our defense in being more offen
sively oriented maybe not in get
ting the ball, but at least in pulling out
some of those players that were sag
ging in on us the last couple of
games."
The Penn State defens'e not only
opened up the goal for the offense, but
shut down the Lady Knights attack,
limiting them to only five shots on
goal in the first half, and 15 for the
game. After scoring a quick goal
three minutes into the game, Rutgers
was shut out for the rest of the first
half as the Lady Lions ran up an 8-1
lead.
Jack Nicklaus watches his putt go for a birdie on the 17th hole at the Masters golf tournament yesterday in Augusta, Ga
The putt gave Nicklaus the lead and his sixth Masters title.
ng smoothly
Tri-captain Thompson said that
despite the score, Rutgers was test
ing Penn State in the right areas.
"They were a lot stronger than I
thought they would be," Thompson
said. "Some things Rutgers did, like
putting a lot of people in front of the
cage to try and stop our passing
game, are things Maryland and La
fayette will do to us."
The Lady Knights opened the sec
ond half scoring with a goal within the
first minute of play. All thoughts of a
Rutgers comeback died quickly, how
ever, as Thompson and Dunphy an
swered back with goals within the
next two minutes. And when, with 15
minutes to play, Rita Sweeney of
Rutgers gave her team a glimmer of
hope as she scored to make it 10-3,
Vesco and Dunphy slammed the door
for good as they pumped in goals 14
seconds, and 1:14 later.
Flyers crush Rangers, 7-1
By KEN RAPPOPORT
AP Hockey Writer
NEW YORK Peter Zezel had
three goals and an assist, and Tim
Kerr scored twice and added an
assist as the Philadelphia Flyers
avoided elimination from the NHL
playoffs with a 7-1 victory last
night over the New York Rangers.
The victory tied the best-of-five
Patrick Division semifinal at 2-2,
and sent the series back to Phila
delphia for the deciding game to
morrow night.
On the verge of elimination after
losing 5-2 to the Rangers on Satur
day night, the Flyers made short
work of New York with seven
straight goals in the first and sec
ond periods.
The tight series has been some
what of a surprise because the
Flyers mauled the Rangers the last
two seasons, winning 18 of 19
games prior to the series. Philadel
phia had won the Patrick Division
regular-season championship with
the second-best record in the NHL,
finishing 32 points ahead of fourth
place New York.
After Pierre Larouche scored for
the Rangers 4:15 into the contest,
the rest of the game belonged to the
Flyers as Zezel scored twice late in
the first period, then contributed a
goal and an assist to a five-goal
second period that sealed the out
come.
Goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck,
who had been a game-saver for the
Rangers early in the first period,
was removed after giving up Ze
zel's third goal, making it 5-1 at
5:17 of the second period.
The only thing that the crowd of
17,387 at Madison Square Garden
had to cheer was Larouche's goal,
which came on a 25-footer from the
slot on a power play.
Zezel then tied it for Philadelphia
at 15:44 when he beat Vanbies
brouck after taking a pass from
Ilkka Sinisalo. Zezel made it 2-1 at
18:36.
The Flyers wasted little time in
the second period as Dave Poulin
and Kerr scored in the opening
seconds. Poulin, the Flyers' cap- -
tain, connected from the blue line
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Philadelphia Flyers' Rick Tocchet (22) sails over New York Rangers' James
Patrick (3) during first•period action of the Patrick Division playoffs in New
York's Madison Square Garden last night. The Flyers kept their hopes for the
Stanley Cup alive by defeating the Rangers 7.1, tying the Patrick Division
playoffs at 2.2.
at 16 seconds, and Kerr punched in
a 40-footer at 1:01.
After Zezel's third goal, Rick
Tocchet beat substitute goaltender
Glen Hanlon at 6:24, and Kerr
completed the string with a back
hander from the slot at 17:20.
Flyers goaltender Bob Froese,
who was shaky in the 6-2 and 5-2
losses to the Rangers earlier in the
series, was strong in the nets, stop
ping 30 New York shots.
North Stars 7, Blues 4
ST. LOUIS (AP) Brian Bel
lows and Neal Broten scored two
goals apiece as the Minnesota
North Stars staved off elimination
from the NHL playoffs last night
with a 7-4 victory over the St. Louis
Blues.
The North Stars' triumph forces
a fifth game at Minnesota on Tues
day night to decide the best-of-five
Norris Division semifinal series.
The winner will play the Toronto
The Daily Collegian
Monday, April 14, 1986
Toney to
miss year
for Sixers
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The
NBA season officially ended for
guard Andrew Toney yesterday
when the Philadelphia 76ers ex
cluded the injury-plagued guard
from their 12-man playoff roster.
The Sixers, who open the play
offs at home against Washington
Friday, also left out Kenny
Green, a rookie foward obtained
from the Capitals in a mid-season
trade.
To bolster their ranks at guard,
the Sixers retained Michael
Young, who originally signed a
10k:lay contract that expired yes
terday, team spokesman Harvey
Pollack said.
Young, who came from the
Detroit Spirit, was voted the most
valuable player in the Continen
tal Basketball Association.
"Concerning Kenny Green,
they felt they were were deeper
at forward than at guard, and
Michael as a big guard can add
some depth in that position in the
absence of Toney," Pollack said.
Toney has played only six
games all season. He originally
suffered from fractures and bone
spurs in his feet. Despite com
plaints of pain, he was reacti
vated the last week of March
under threat of suspension if he
refused to play.
After one game, doctors discov
ered a groin injury and he under
went surgery March 31.
"Toney will begin his rehabili
tation this week to prepare for
next season," Pollack said.
The Sixers' playoff roster in
cluded two players still suffering
from injuries: Bob McAdoo and
Moses Malone.
Pollack said the team hopes to
put McAdoo in the lineup Friday.
He injured his knee March 28, the
same day Malone's eye socket
was broken.
Malone, still wearing an eye
patch, will report to practice ear
ly this week for the first time
since the injury, Pollack said.
"Moses is still hurt," he said.
"The only excersize he's had
since suffering the injury is rid
ing a bicycle. He's had some
dizziness and headaches. We'll
have to see what happens. . .."
Maple Leafs in the best-of-seven
division final.
Minnesota's specialty teams
dominated the game as both of
Bellows' goals came on the power
play and Dirk Graham scored a
short-handed goal in the secota
period to break the game open.
Minnesota's Dennis Maruk had a
goal and two assists, giving him 11
points in the four games.
Mark Hunter scored twice for the
Blues, who were trying to avenge
defeats to the North Stars in play
off series the past two seasons.
After the first period ended in a 3-
3 tie, Bellows scored his second
power-play goal of the game at 2:54
of the second period. Graham
scored a short-handed goal four
minutes later after Minnesota had
held off the Blues while skating two
men short for 1:48. St. Louis man
aged only one shot on Minnesota
goalie Don Beaupre during the
power play.
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