Indiana Gazette (Newspaper) - March 4, 1980, Indiana, Pennsylvania IUP Step Toward Independent Status SUB Writer Indiana University of IUP Board of Trustees has taken the first step to ward having the school removed from the Pennsylvania State College system State Senator Patrick J Stapleton speaking as President of the IUP Board of Trustees sent a letter Feb 28 to Patricia M Coghlan Chairperson of the Board of State College and University Directors informing her of lUPs intent to withdraw from the state college sys tem particularly in view of the current State System of Higher Education bills now awaiting action in both the House and Senate The would current state college system into a statewide univer sity system The 13 schools now designated as state colleges would gain university status along with IUP Stapleton had opposed the in the Senate and had it Sent to Com where it still remains Recent support voiced by both the governor and the secretary of education however may move the of committee in the near future according to Stapleton The IUP board agreed during the Feb 22 meeting to attempt to have the school re moved from the and have IUP seek a status in the state education system somewhere between the research oriented institutions such as Pitt or Penn State and the 13 state colleges The letter which was sent to Coghlan along with the presidents of the state colleges and others involved in the state education system listed the following reasons for the boards de cision IUP is different from the col leges in terms of size ability to attract stu dents quality of students variety of academic programs degrees awarded level of commu service and IUP has the potential to serve the com and students as a state university with a mission which lies be tween that of the large universities and the smaller stateowned colleges In the next decade IUP will enroll be tween and students and will con to emphasize quality teaching job prep aration and competency To realize its potential IUP must be come a separate and distinct university judged on its own merits mission enrollment quality and variety of instructional research and service programs As part of the State College and University System lUPs demon financial needs have not been met Al though IUP teaches 17 percent of the stu dents it receives only percent of the funds allocated for the system As a result the university is precipitously close to a collapse of its support services IUP needs to be able to present its case directly to the state admin and General Assembly The board had approved a resolution at the See Page 4 Column 3 The Indiana County Area Newspaper That Serves Every Member of the Family TEDDY That rustling you hear is the candy people putting Easter rib bon on the Valentine goodies that didnt sell 207 Four Sections a 1980 Indiana Printing and Publishing Company All Rights Reserved Indiana Pennsylvania Tuesday March 4 1980 LATE Thirtytwo Pages Twenty Cents Iranian Militants Reject Visit By Commission BEST EVER Cindy Davies left is congratulated by her coach Pat Kelly after she scored 25 points to become the leading scorer in state girls basketball history with a career total of points Davies performance led the Indiana High girls to a 4427 victory over Hollidaysburg in a District 6AAA semifinal game last night See story and other photos in todays sports section Gazette photo by Beale Talks Resume Guerrillas Wont Reduce Demands BOGOTA Colombia AP The leftist guerrillas holding Ambassador Diego Asen cio and some 26 other hostages in the Dominican Republics embassy for a week vowed that they would not reduce their demands as they prepared for negotiations with the Colom bian government today I We wont give in on any said the leader of the 30 guerrillas who invaded the em bassy during a diplomatic re ception last Wednesday But we no he added in a telephone inter view One of the guerrillas was kill ed in the takeover and the lef have released 23 hostages including 15 women Those still held include at least 20 foreign diplomats two protocol of Rain Or Snow Chief Will Know The weather right now is go ing through a period of change says Chief Tommy Hawk so dont worry when it snows one day and rains the next Weve got Both in todays forecast Rain tonight will change to snow f 1 u r r i e s Wednesday af Lows tonight will be from 35 with the high tomorrow in the mid 30s Chance of precipitation is nearly 100 percent Thursday will see a chance of flurries Friday will be sun and it could rain or snow on Saturday See our supplement in to days Gazette Henry Hall Extra Touch Now Open in ladies large half sizes Warren Indiana from the Colombian Foreign Ministry and at least four other persons Mexican Ambassador Ri cardo Galan one of the hos tages said everything was calm inside the embassy which is at the end of a deadend street in a quiet residential district We are waiting for the nego to he report ed by telephone A Foreign Ministry source said the negotiations would re sume today Galan sat in on the first nego session Sunday a 90 minute meeting between a masked woman guerrilla and two deputy foreign ministers held in a panel truck outside the embassy Obituaries on Page 26 ADAMS Mrs Elsie M Smith 93 Grandview Country Manor Glen Campbell KENDRA Agnes Ned 86 MILLER Joseph 51 2665 Shelly Drive In diana MOYER Diana Jean 21 Cherry Tree ROTH Bernard 78 Nu Mine THOMAS George Adam 79 Rural Valley RD 1 ZENDEK Steve 65 Homer City LATE DEATH MYERS Lillian 69 Plant City for merly of the Penn Run area By The Associated Press The militants holding the Embassy in Tehran today refused to allow a in commission to visit all their hostages until after the panel reports to the world on the alleged crimes of the shah and America The new conditions imposed by the militants seemed to rule out a meeting between the American hostages and the Rape Suspect Arrested BLAIRSVILLE A 21year old Lewisville area man was arrested Monday and charged with kidnaping and rape over an incident early Saturday morning in Blairsville Arrested at his home near Lewisville by Blairsville Borough and state police from Indiana was Milton Ray Rob erts Roberts appeared in Indiana County Court Monday morning for sentencing on a lated incident that took place Sept 11 1979 in Saltsburg Judge Robert C Earley sen Roberts to 30 days pro bation fined him and di him to pay the court costs after the Lewisville area man pled guilty to growing marijuana in Saltsburg where he was arrested by borough police Blairsville police have filed kidnaping charges against Rob erts for forcibly abducting a 27yearold female clerk from the Blairsville Sheetz Kwik Shopper store around Saturday State police filed rape charges against Roberts for al raping the young wom an northwest of Blairsville His vehicle was impounded under court order and is bring processed by state police crime lab experts The arrest came on the heels of a telephone tip Blairsville Police Chief Joseph R Cam eron received around Monday at the Blairsville police station The white Dodge ger with green trim being sought by police was parked in front of the Ha Borough Police station Monday morning while Roberts appeared in county court for sentencing Cameron said the tipster a See Page 4 Column 2 commission during the five commissioners current visit to Tehran expected to end by this weekend The new stand also set the militants on another col course with President Abolhassan BaniSadr In another development Ira nian Foreign Minister Sadegh rejected a request by the that Victor L Tomseth one of three diplomats in custody at the Foreign Ministry be hand ed over to the revolutionary courts for questioning about al links with an Iranian ter group The approximately 50 Embassy hostages began their fifth month in captivity today Tehran radio reported that spokesmen for the militants told the Foreign Ministry a vis it to the hostages by the panel could only be part of a plan the militants would present the panel with docu ments proving that some of the hostages were spies commission could then visit with those hostages and interr ate them as witnesses the commission in its re port to the United Nations manages to convey the will of the brave and oppressed nation Crash Near Area Woman Killed on page 1 section 2 CLYMER A 21yearold Cherry Tree woman was fatally injured in a traffic mishap along Route 286 about miles west of Clymer at Monday The victim identified as Diana Jean Moyer was pronounced dead at the scene at by Deputy Indiana County Coroner Danny Sacco Death was attributed to head injuries The wreck occurred when the drive shaft on a westbound pickup truck driven by James P El mond 28 of 1890 Saltsburg Indiana broke and dropped onto the roadway causing the truck traveling downgrade to veer out of control The car operated by Moyer was traveling up grade at the time and the truck slammed into the car in the eastbound lane The Moyer car then rolled over several times leaving the highway and coming to rest right side up in a field Clymer firemen and Citizens Ambulance Ser vice paramedics removed the victim from the car A daughter of John and Betty Leslie Moyer the young woman was a student at Indiana Uni versity of Pennsylvania The Gwin Funeral Home at Cherry Tree is in charge of funeral arrangements DIANA JEAN MOVER 900 Jobs To Go Formers Nurses Among Welfare Cuts HARRISBURG AP Farms and nursing schools are among the casualties of a Wel fare Department plan to cut 900 jobs off its enormous payroll and shift its focus to patient care We will be getting rid of swineherds dairy farmers and among other po sitions Welfare spokesman Jim Wiggins said Monday In addition certain research programs will be killed under used wards will be consoli Rest Of South Digs Out Florida Citrus Crop Spared Further Damage From Cold By The Associated Press billion citrus in dustry was spared another hard freeze that was expected today and officials said they the cost of a morning cup of orange juice to go up much after all It doesnt look bad at said Earl Wells spokesman for the Florida Citrus Mutual in Lakeland Temperatures fore cast in the low and just didnt develop Through out most of trie area there were high 20s and low 30s which is no real Elsewhere in the South resi dents dug out from under record snow and hoped for warmer weather Meanwhile California braced for more rain and Colorado got eight inches of snow The Southern storm roaring in from the Midwest over the weekend dumped more than a foot of snow in Virginia and up to 30 inches in North Carolina It was blamed for at least 36 deaths in 1C states In Florida blossoms of next years orange crop turned black Monday in the temperatures that hit the north and central sections of the 34 county citrus belt But things were looking up today While Wells said there had been some damage it was too early to assess the losses We dont anticipate there will be any material effect on the price of the juice at the con sumer Wells said Were just not in that bad straits as far as the industrys The Monday freeze had brought dire predictions Ice coated the unharvested early and midwinter orange crop amounting to 15 to 20 mil lion boxes And rapidly matur ing Valencia oranges about 85 million 90pound boxes ready to be harvested for frozen concentrated orange juice froze on the trees in 20degree temperatures Sunday and Mon day We are in serious said Herb Rilsy of the Florida Fruit Inspection Service as growers and inspection teams checked millions of acres of groves from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic and from Palm Beach County in the south to Gainesville in the north Right now were extremely concerned about next years said Don Linn ex of Seald Sweet Growers Inc of Tampa a marketing group for growers The freeze prompted speculation about increased consumer prices and larger returns for growers because of a shorter supply Grower Ed Mackenzie said he expected less juice from Valencias and possible increases Jn retail prices of orange concentrate Were in supply trouble again with an inventory only about two million gallons of concentrate more than at the same time last year When we had no weather McGee of the Or United Growers See Page 4 Column 8 dated 250 jobs will be abolished and some services now provided by full time employees will be supplied by outside tors Welfare Secretary Helen OBannon said the depart ments foremost function is to provide direct handson care to patients in state general and mental hospitals And she said that job is not be ing done as well as it could be We are trying to add staff in the area of direct care to meet certification she said We continue to be cited for deficiencies in many instances for an inade quate number of direct care Vacant positions in the high priority patient care area will be offered to many of the 908 people scheduled to receive furlough notices starting March 12 Businessman Dies In Buffalo Joseph C Miller of 2665 Shelly Drive Indiana died Monday March 3 in the Ros well Park Memorial Institute Buffalo He was president of Charles H Miller Lumber and was vice president of the Peoples Bank of West Leba non In addition he was a for mer director of Scottdale Wood Products and Mr Miller is survived by his wife two children and two sis ters A complete obituary ap pears on page 26 of todays Gazette A special team will be avail able to help people find work within the department or in other state agencies Radio dentists and others whose jobs will now be filled by contractors will be able to bid on the services Mrs OBannon said Wiggins said the payroll cut from to should save the department 52 million this fiscal year and million next year The state expects a onetime windfall of million from the sale of livestock and salva geable farm equipment from state mental hospital farms plus reduced liability insurance payments of Iran and to convince the world body of crimes in Iran and wrongdoing by the de posed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi then a meeting with all the hostages to inquire into their health and conditions will be Militant representatives pre sented this plan to BaniSadr and four members of the ruling Revolutionary Council at a two hour meeting Monday night The government news agency Pars said the officials turned down the militants condition for the commission to first sub mit its report noted that au had promised the panel a meeting with all the hostages and said that if they did not fulfill their pledge the government position would be weakened The commissions spokesman has said he as sumes the panel will leave Teh ran by the end of this week to report back o ters in New York The prosecutors demand for Tomseth stemmed from em bassy documents that allegedly showed a connection between the 38yearold diplomat who was the embassy political cer and the ter group seven of whose members were executed Monday for five assassinations an attempted assassination and a bank robbery Tehran radio reported that informed the that T seth or the other two diplomats at the ministry would be hand ed over only on the orders of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini or the Revolutionary Council The spokesman for the five man commission an Monday that Bani Sadr and the Revolutionary Council agreed unanimously that the panel would meet with all the approximately 50 hostages who today began their fifth month in captivity But BaniSadr who has always backed down before when the militants refused to go along with his proposals for the hostages today repudiated a statement that indicated he might try to force them to com ply with the Revolutionary Councils decisions See Page 4 Column 1 Man Struck Killed By Train BARNESBORO Pompa 28 a former resi dent of Barnesboro reportedly was struck and killed by a train near Robson La accord ing to the Shreveport La sheriffs office Authorities report the engi neer sounded his horn but Pompa failed to move out of the path of the oncoming train MUGABE WINS Marxist guerrilla leader Robert Mugabe will be asked to form Rhodesias first internationally rec black government after winning a major ity in the election last week See story on page 8 SHARKS AND CRITTERS Being a decoy cop in Philadelphia can be re warding but dangerous Sometimes the critters and have teeth Story and photos on page 32 OTHER FEATURES Business Dear Lottery Womens
