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Sunday, January 9,2000 STATE Altoona Mirror Page AS Palumbo name is familiar jat colleges i ST. MARYS (AP) A.J. Palumbo's name is becoming about as common on college campuses around Pennsylvania as Doc Martens'. The former coal miner and mine 'owner who boasts he would rather negotiate a business deal than eat has given $14.1 million in the last 33 years to Pennsylvania colleges; the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, and Elk County Christian High School. The donations prompted the naming of the A.J.

Palumbo Center and Antonio J. Palumbo School of and Administration at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh; the A.J. Palumbo Academic Center at Gannon University in Erie; the A.J. c'Palumb'o Science Center at La Spche College in suburban and the A.J. Palumbo of Science and Technology at College in Pittsburgh.

.1 A student endowment is named for Palumbo at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, and the sick children's wing at the Mayo. Clinic also carries the Palumbo name. Palumbo, 93, never attended school. i "I believe in education, and the is getting keener and You've got to prepare," Palumbo said at his home in Elk 'County.

"Can you tell me a better investment than in the future of your country?" Palumbo said. "Some people say, 'What do you care? You're going to die That's not the way to think. I like fo do what 1 can to help and still make a living." He entertains college presidents. and others who ask for money and sends them off with a bottle of his homemade wine, often a zinfandel. Despite his trifocals, pacemaker and hearing aids, he conducts business nearly every day.

Palumbo gave the Mayo Clinic money in 1996 after three decades of occasional treatment there. "What he said to me one night is, i'I want to give some of what I've earned back to people who have i worked said Dr. F. Rolland Dickson, a physician at the clinic and development director at the Mayo Foundation. Palumbo was born in 1906 in Tyler, Clearfield County, to immigrants from Gallo, Italy.

He started as a blacksmith in coal mines at age 12 and later kept the books for his father's company. Those days led to the nickname he now uses for himself: "P.C.M.," for "Poor Coal Miner." Farm show opens with great fanfare HARRISBURG (AP) With politicians talking about preserving farmland and poultry squawking in their Pennsylvania opened its yearly indoor showcase of agriculture Saturday for a six-day run. The 84th Pennsylvania Farm Show is expected to draw farmers preparing for a new growing season as well as others for whom a trip to the barn is a venture into the unknown. Organizers said the event typically draws more than 350,000 people. "It's going to be a good experience today," said Roberto Guarducci, a factory worker from Mountville who grew-up on a farm in Italy's Tuscan Alps.

Like many who crowded the 1931 complex that houses the show, Guarducci toured the cattle area with two small grandchildren who normally would see a cow only from their family car. More than 5,000 cattle, goats, horses, poultry, rabbits, sheep and swine were on hand awaiting competitions or auctions. Judges are expected to evaluate everything from apples to creative cheese-carving during the show. Gov. Tom Ridge opened the event by plugging the agricultural aspects of a five-year environmental funding bill signed into law last month.

The $646 million package- retooled last year after resistance from lawmakers included $100- million over five years for efforts to preserve farmland by paying landholders to forgo development rights. The figure was about $25 million more than the administration first proposed last year but equaled what was spent more than a decade under a previous program, said Agriculture Secretary Samuel E. Hayes Jr. Ridge said his administration planned to approve 100 farmland-preservation applications and fund one new environmental project a week over the 100 days between the show and April 22, which is Earth Day. About 1,500 applications for farmland-preservation funds are awaiting action.

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