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. This weekend, most
of the costume shop stocks will be loose in
State College, getting strange looks from the
populace.
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Both New World and Party and Wedding
Corner rent out costumes throughout the year
and concentrate on other products during
other seasoas.
New World, 118 S. Pugh St., is a store
dealing in used and unusual clothing, while
Party and Wedding Corner, 140 N. Atherton
St., provides supplies for weddings and simi
lar events.
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
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said people often have no idea before they
come into his store.
“Most people come into the store because
they have a party to go to and they want to
dress up,” Filkins said.
“Most people come in at the last minute,”
said Bobbi Smith, manager of the Party and
Wedding Corner. “It’s indecisiveness. 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
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“There’s a throwaway attitude about the
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All of the costume shop owners have at
least one unusual item sure to gain attention.
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
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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
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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
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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.”
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