2—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Oct. 30, 1986 Unusual costumes the norm at area shops By JANlls A. STEWART Collegian Staff Writer On All Hallows’ Eve, the ghosts and ghou lies are coming out, but this year you may find a Ninja or a gorilla knocking at your door instead of the traditional witch or vampire. • Costume shop and store owners are haunt ing the attics to bring out their most popular Halloween costumes. At both New World Headquarters and Tinderbox Gifts, it’s the Ninja warrior. The Fright Gallery already business sold out of Jason hockey masks from Friday the 13th; at the Party and Wedding Corner, people are going bananas over a foam ba nana suit; and at the Prop Shop the favorite item is a star-decked wizard suit. Though exact figures were not available, costume shop owners agreed that they do up to 80 percent of their business during the few weeks before Halloween. 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Fright Gallery owner Douglas Albert an nually transforms his art gallery on McAllis ter Alley into the Halloween costume display, a one-month-only shop for Halloween cos tumes and accessories. Albert said he moved the Fright Gallery from Uncle Eli’s, 129 E. Beaver Ave., another store he owns, because he could devote more space to Halloween merchandise. Costume shop owners each have theories about what customers look for when they descend on the local shops during the October haunting season. “Customers have an idea of how they want to look before they come in,” said Bari Prop, proprietor of the Prop Shop, 2508 Buchen horst Road. “Sometimes they find what they want and sometimes they change their minds while they’re here.” However, New World owner Gary Filkins iMS2 BsjMiaaaaa FOR PSU EMPLOYEES AND DEPENDENTS Wise Eyes Optical in STATE COLLEGE, BELLEFONTE, and PHILIPSBURG will accept your benefit coverage as payment in full for the following services; • COMPLETE EYE EXAMINATION • SINGLE VISION OR ST BIFOCAL LENSES • ANY FRAME FROM GROUP ‘A’ OR ‘B’ • 2 YEAR GUARANTEE And as always, no extra charge for SCRATCH RESISTANT PLASTIC LENSES TOEiJSS Bellefonte ' Philipsburg State College 355-1354 342-5361 234-1040 The Dally ColtoQlan and the Career Development and Placement Center publish this section each Thursday as a service to the student community. 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People come in and look, go back, come in and make another decision.” Smith sees a greater number of residents dressing up for Halloween/ “People are becoming more easy-going and willing to dress up,” Smith spid. “Many of the residents weren’t willing, to have any thing to do with it before ” Filkins said older residents and students choose costumes differently. “Adults rent the traditional costumes such as Mae West, saloon girls, the Sultan costume and Charlie Chaplin,” Filkins said. “Students definitely border more on the bizarre.” Albert, who specializes in costume sales, said some customers are reluctant to buy costumes instead of renting them. “There’s a throwaway attitude about the holiday,” Albert said. “Many people, espe cially students, think spending $3O to $4O on a Halloween costume is out of the realm of U.S. Air Force Wealher Officer Meleorology Aeronautical Engr . 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Albert described his most unusual cos tumes as “whimsical and creative.” One which sold out early was a red lame lobster outfit with a hood and “giant glove claws.” The most unusual costumes at New World, Filkins said, are a Miller beer can and a three-layer birthday cake with candle on top. Prop said the most unusual item in her shop, which specializes in handmade histori cal costumes and period pieces, is an “outlan dish” Henry VIII outfit Although costume shop owners can always count on these attention getters, as well as their basic vampires and gorillas, there are always a few outfits that do not work out. Filkins said New World’s failures this year were the prisoner suit, normally a success, and the Statue of Liberty outfits bought because of the excitement surrounding Liber ty Weekend last summer. At the Party and Wedding Corner, Smith said, people are passing over the “less color ful” items such as witch outfits. Other stores, though they might not be completely taken over by the Halloween The University Scholars and USG Dept, of Political Affairs present A CURRENT AFFAIRS PANEL . / ★Students and faculty discussing national and international issues ★ Thursday, Oct. 30 8:00-10:00 p.m. 102 Chambers 0268 KAY JEWE L E R S The diamond people® This Could Be Your Last Chance for a Career With KAY JEWELERS Kay Jewelers operates 275 stores coast to coast and is one of the largest jewelry retailers in the United States. We offer a professional Career Development Program and we believe in its results — we promote 100% from within Kay Jewelers will be recruiting Manager Trainees on campus To find out more about Kay Jewelers contact your placement office. DO IT TODAY! © 1986 Kay Jewelers, Inc. spirits, also look forward to the holiday. Steve Artz, owner of Tinderbox Gifts, 137 E. Beaver Ave., said a regular store draws in customers who are not just looking for a costume. “We are pulling in customers for cards, candles, wrapping paper, decorations and candy,” Artz said “Just because this is a gift shop, it doesn’t mean you’re not going to look for a costume here,” Artz said. Raymond Agostinelli, manager of McLana han Drug Store, 414 E. College Ave., said the chain’s downtown stores stock low-priced Halloween items because of the University traffic. “We carry more of the less-expensive items,” Agostinelli said. “Costume shops carry the more expensive costumes.” Agostinelli said costume shops usually car ry a larger costume selection, including the more unusual items, but they stock similar makeup items and accessories. Lower-priced items, such as vampire and bunny accessories, sell better for Agostinelli. “Halloween is the only time of the year when people live out their fantasies if that’s what they want to do,” Filkins said. “It’s the only holiday where people spend money on themselves.” USG casts endorsement votes By SUSAN KEARNEY Collegian Staff Writer The Undergraduate Student Government Ex ecutive Endorsement Committee yesterday an nounced its support of candidates for governor, U.S. senator, and state senator and representa tive. Todd Sloan, co-director of USG’s Department of Political Affairs, announced the committee’s endorsement of Republican Lt. Gov. William W. Scranton 111 for the gubernatorial race over Democratic opponent Bob Casey. “We view Mr. Scranton as a new-generation representative,” Sloan said. USG President Matt Baker said Democrat U.S. Rep. Bob Edgar received the committee’s en dorsement for the U.S. Senate seat instead of Republican incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter. Baker said the committee supported Edgar because of his strong stand against the Gramm- Rudman budget-balancing law and his opposition to cuts in student finacial aid programs. “(Edgar’s) plan to revitalize the economy of Pennsylvania is a good one, too,” Baker said. “He has been solid and consistent in his voting record.” Plant closings topic of Wachob proposa could prevent the dramatic impact a plant closing can cause in the small communities that depend on the in- PHILIPSBURG Democratic dustry to support the economic viabil- Congressional candidate Bill Wachob ity of the totfn.'he said, presented a plan yesterday to limit Wachob’s three-part proposal in the impact of plant closings across eludes requiring advance notification the country a strategy he said of plant closings and major layoffs, could have saved the General Cigar alternatives to prevent plant clos- Co. Inc. from shutting its doors to its ings, and his previously introduced 400 employees in this small town. National Development Bank. Wachob, who is running against “Without advance notice of a clos- William F. Clinger for the 23rd Dis- ing, there is no way to save a plant trict seat, released his plan in front of like the General Cigar C 0.,” he said, the plant that will close in January. “If it can’t be saved, workers need Almost no employees attended the time to rearrange their lives.” press conference, but they could be He said his proposal would limit the seen working inside the factory. economic damage done to workers, “Plant closings tear at the very their families and communities as fiber of our communities,” the candi- employees are forced to look else date said. “We need to act much where for jobs. more forcefully in order to prevent In the state House, Wachob said, lie future plant closings and to bring in proposed plant-closing legislation new jobs to replace the lost ones.” that was defeated by the state Senate The nation needs legislation that because it thought it was just another By JANE KOPACKI Collegian Staff Writer dtogfl A ©©Duffel? HALLOWEEN OVERNIGHTER Outing Club Hiking Division Friday to Saturday Organization Meeting Tonight 7:30 I.M. Building, Rm. 8 \ Or Call Mark Ramsey 234-6872 COMPARE the CANDIDATES for STATE REPRESENTATIVE ' ■ • O ■ ! RUTH RUDY JOYCE CONKLIN Voted to allow the Philadelphia WILLIAMSON School district to keep a $l3O . , ± .. .. . .. million school subsidy that no Believes that Philadelphia should other school district in the state pay its fair share of the cost of can qet education. Joyce would prefer to y ‘Motion to suspend the rules appropriate additional money to H.B. 209, July 1,1986. support education for all of Pennsylvania. Voted against allowing the Public Utility Commision to take a Supports making- utilities utility’s operating efficency into accountable for the ratepayer s consideration when setting rates. money. We should not have to . , .. „n IMQ pay for a utilitily s poor Amendment to H.B. 1639 mananpmpnt November 20,1985. management. Voted to spend $l4l Million to PhHadelphia already ha^a build a Convention Center for Convention sl?~ntnt nn PhiinHfiinhia would have been better spent on P Amendment to H.B. 383 £ Convention Center in Central June 25,1985. Pennsylvania. . 'y7t£-' ,0-rtS . Paid for by Friends to Elect Joyce Conklin Williamson USG Vice President Sue Sturgis announced that the committee is supporting Democrat George Field as representative for the 77th District over Republican incumbent Lynn Her man. “We need a representative who knows the needs of Penn State and who is willing to fight the good fight," she said. Field, who was present for the announcement, said: “This is going to make the race for me. This is the kind of support I need to go to Harrisburg. We’re going to make a difference to Penn State.” The USG committee also endorsed Republican incumbent J. Doyle Corman for state senator because of his "track record” on student and University issues, said John Jablowski, co-direc tor for Department of Political Affairs. Last week, the committee endorsed Democrat ic candidate Bill Wachob for the 23rd Congressio nal District’s seat. Sloan said, “The endorsement committee feels with these candidates the Commonwealth will forge ahead.” Baker said that although the committee en- ‘Plant closings tear at the very fiber of our communities.’ Bill Wachob government imposition on business and industry. He added that the legis lation was similarly defeated in the U.S. Senate. Wachob said decisions to close plants are not made overnight and that workers have a right to know about the future of their jobs. He said investigations by “econom ic SWAT teams” would evaluate the market and profits of a plant and alternatives to a closing, including employee buy-outs or aid from his proposed development bank. “The industrial experts would eval uate a plant from top to bottom, to see <;MA • PSMA • PSMA • PSMA • PSMA • PSMA • PSMPfi s: ■ CO > o. • CAREER NIGHT -o < {g £ Baxter & Travenol - Alcoa • Xerox > • Stern’s • McNeil Consumer Products s: 1 a. . Thursday, October 30 301 HUB 7:00 p.m. professional attire For those who HAVE HOT registered, walk-ins will be accepted at 6:45 p.m. < C n £ 2 £ M A • PSMA • PSMA • PSMA • PSMA • PSMA • PSMA>. dorsed three Democrats and two Republicans, the political affiliation of the candidates was not a factor in the endorsement process. The 1986 USG endorsements were based on personal interviews with all the candidates ex cept the gubernatorial ones and Corman; public speeches; debates; and a USG supplementary questionnaire that was submitted to USG by most of the candidates, said Baker. “We feel that these candidates best represent the needs of the students,” Baker said, adding that the purpose of the endorsements is to inform and educate students. Baker said that in the past “students have traditionally voted for the candidates USG has endorsed.” The endorsement committee is composed of 10 USG executives: Baker; Sturgis; Bob Bender, executive assistant; Frank Cleveland, coordina tor of the Student Alliance for Education; Sloan and Jablowski; Jenifer Bolden, co-director of the Department of Minority Affairs; Cary Hazzard, representative from the Department of Women’s Concerns; Susan Papalardo, director of the De partment of International Affairs; and Lizanne Daukas, treasurer. whether it is feasible for it to keep operating under different manage ment,” he said. “In those cases where the plant cannot be saved, the development bank would provide low interest loans to help investors and workers bring a new company into an old plant.” He added that many times a parent company will remove a particular plant, not because it is unprofitable but because the company could make more money through other invest ments. Wachob’s proposed $5 billion Na tional Development Bank would tar get loans to help workers meet the costs of a buy-out when they cannot do it on their own, Wachob said. “Workers have shown throughout the country that they are willing to make enormous sacrifices to keep a plant going,” Wachob said. “We need to meet them halfway with loans.” ymv&ct! Celebrating Our 14th Year with a Happy Birthda ' SALE! 10% to 75% Off Storewide Sunshine Imports 127 E. Beaver Ave. Open Thur. & Fri. nights -a c n > The Daily Collegian Thursday, Oct. 30, 198r —3
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