The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 17

THIRD THE MORNING CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1986 B3 -Jr HP 1 ter r' I i I 1 A- Jit v-Jl. i X'. 1 Ttirti- T7" At far left, two students walk through a lower level hallway of Lafayette's new William E. Simon Center. Above is the exterior of the building's main entrance, which bridges both buildings.

At left is the lobby, featuring a Gattling gun donated by Simon. PETE SHAHEEN The Morning Call 1 i 4 I Jhf I Hfe -j I --J I-J. i t-' I ded to 8ii Lafayette College's new William E. Simon Center for Economics and Business'Administra-tion will be dedicated today and open to the public tomorrow. The dedication is by invitation only.

The center will be opened to the public at 10 a.m. tomorrow as part of the school's homecoming festivities. The $2,325,000 building, named for former Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon, a 1952 Lafayette graduate, was designed by Spill-man Farmer Architects, Bethlehem, and financed with gifts from Simon and his wife, Carol, as well as commitments from 13 alumni and friends of the college and seven corporate and foundation donors. Among the foundation donors were the F.M.

Kirby Foundation of Morristown, N.J., the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations of Jacksonville, and the R.K. Laros Foundation of Bethlehem. The new four-level structure links two existing buildings, the old Jenks Hall and a steam plant, which hasn't been used since the 1950s. The lowest level features a 144-seat lecture amphitheater, lounge, classroom and a workroom, as well as maintenance areas. A reading room, computer terminal room, classroom, office and additional maintenance areas make up the ground floor.

The first floor, at entry level, contains a lobby, three classrooms, six faculty offices, two seminar rooms, a secretarial office, audiovisual area and a small kitchen The second floor has 10 faculty offices and a secretarial area. A native of Patterson, N.J., Simon served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1974 to 1977. He headed the United States Olympic Committee for the 1984 Olympic Games, and currently serves as chairman of Wesray Corp. afaye Peace trekkers say Lehigh County camp offer is unsuitable By DAN PEARSON And TED MELLIN Of The Morning Call Lehigh Valley leaders of the Great Peace March will seek an emergency meeting with Allentown and Lehigh County officials today to find a suitable site in the city for marchers and support people to camp overnight on Thursday. The tract must be large enough to accommodate 300 tents.

"The site coordinators will be in town and we're facing a deadline to make arrangements for 700 marchers and 75 support vehicles," said Heidi Freemer of Allentown, area coordinator for The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. She suggested that the meeting be held in City Hall or the county courthouse. "I am proposing that the officials ce cat sit down with us and come to a mutually agreeable decision. I know that a solution to this problem is possible; it always works out," she said. Freemer, a former Philadelphian who graduated from Muhlenberg College, said her local group does not want to appear unappreciative of Wednesday's offer by Lehigh County officials to use Jordan Parkway West or a country tract along Route 222 near Trexlertown.

"The county's offer was very gracious, but neither of these sites is suitable. They are too far west. We need a site in Allentown and the only one that's suitable is Jordan Park, between Jordan Creek and MacArthur Road," Freemer said. Freemer said that Jordan Park has large, paved parking lots and more than enough room to erect the tents. The site coordinators were im It recently was announced that the Championship Auto Racing TeamsPPG Indy Car World Series will be held at the track Sept.

20, 1987. The race will be telecast on ABC on a same-day-delay basis. No time for improvements other than paving the track have been announced, but plans call for paving the pit and paddock areas, and building permanent restrooms, concession stands, garages to accommodate race teams, and corporate boxes. The plans show a triple-high guard rail on the inside perimeter of the track, 30 car-transporter spaces behind the pit area, and a hospital in the infield. "It's moving," commented Lower Nazareth Supervisor Thomas O'Don-nell when the plans were unveiled.

OTJonnell said after the meeting that the township engineer had inspected the track and determined it could be paved without township approval, as long as the configuration was not changed, because the existing clay and dirt surface is as impermeable as macadam. That plan for raceway to L. SazaretSi Racing surface to be paved, seating area to be increased pounded our problem because people think we now have a site arranged. I even received calls of congratulations. We do not have a site.

"Because of the county's offer, the city is now ready to close its investigation as to whether we can use Allentown park land. We need a tract that meets our requirements: Appropriate mileage no more than 20 miles from next destination, sufficient room for 300 tents and parking for 75 vehicles, including six tractor-trailers. Jordan Park meets all of those requirements," she added. Freemer said the marchers have had no major problems obtaining sites during the past seven months and have a Campscape unit assigned to leave a site as clean, or cleaner, than it was found. "We even have letters of commendation from municipal and police officials.

This is a proposed grandstands, and near the tunnel to the infield, south of the main entrance. Existing paved access roads remain. ODonnell was present during the recent inspection and said last night that Penske only talked about using the track as a racing facility. The township has approved other uses for the facility, including concerts, sporting events and fairs. night camping in the parks.

I don't want to take the posture of having our parks a camping ground for everyone who comes into town," Marushak said. Karl Kercher, executive assistant to Mayor Joseph S. Daddona, said the mayor and several City Council members are sympathetic to the marchers, and considered their request to camp in the city park system. "They city officials had some difficulty in overlooking the precedent-setting nature of the request," Kercher said. "For any event like this, the city requires standard liability insurance coverage and, unfortunately, they the marchers don't have it." When asked about the liability issue, Freemer replied, "We always sign a waiver of liability wherever we camp and there have been no claims against a municipality yet." Office workers vote to unionize at Steel plant Non-exempt office and clerical workers at Bethlehem Steel 3rd Street plant office yesterday voted 55-23 in favor of affiliating with the United Steelworkers.

H. Nelson Demarest, a USW staff representative, said the bargaining unit would begin negotiating a contract in about a week. The workers are represented now, but it takes about a week for the election to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board, he said. The workers will have a separate USW local but specifics have not been determined yet, Demarest said. It has not been determined if the unit would bargain separately or with the Steelton plant employees, who were unionized last Friday, he said.

Office and technical workers at the Steelton plant voted 35-17 in favor of forming a local union. According to Demarest, the workers would be looking to come under Bethlehem Steel's "master agreement" it has with workers at its various plants. "It is a very, very good agreement," he said, but declined to comment specifically on the agreement until the non-exempt home office and technical employees at the Martin Tower plant have voted on whether they want unionization. The 246 eligible employees are scheduled to vote Wednesday. "After the victory Friday in Steelton, and today, we are very optimistic about the outcome of next week," Demarest said.

Yesterday's vote included two no-shows and two disputed votes, he said. pressed by the park when they visited Allentown last week, she reported. The marchers, who intend to be in Phillipsburg on Oct. 17, try to limit their daily trek to 12 miles. Since they consider 20 miles the maximum, they cannot camp at a site west of Allentown and remain on schedule.

Freemer said it is 17 miles from Center Square, Allentown, to the east end of the Northampton Street Bridge, Easton. The additional mile between Jordan Park and Center Square makes it 18 miles. An encampment at the county's Jordan Parkway West would pose too long a road march next Friday, Freemer noted. The marchers will spend Wednesday night at the Kutz-town Fairgrounds. They do not yet have a site selected for the stay in Phillipsburg.

"Lehigh County's offer just com means paving would not add appreciably to water runoff. The existing concrete retaining walls on the outside perimeter of the track have been tested and are structurally sound. Parking is planned for the grassy area along the main entrance near Route 191 up to the existing grandstands, along Route 248 behind the INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY (Preliminary Site Development Grass Parking Area highly organized operation designed to avoid inconvenience to a community. We travel with our own food and water, and have our own sanitary facilities," Freemer pointed out. The coordinator said part of the problem appears to stem from misconceptions of the Peace March on the part of Allentown officials.

Misconceptions or not, the Allentown Recreation Commission has unanimously backed Park Superintendent Donald R. Marushak's decision to deny the marchers use of any city park land. "I have been adamant over the years in denying permission to anyone to use the parks for camping. The Peace March asked to use the park system. I told them Marushak told commission members at a meeting yesterday.

"I am seeking your support to keep the standard not to allow over But Dan LuginbuhL vice president of public relations for Penske, said recently, "At this point, Roger is committed to making this the finest one-mile facility in the country." He also said that, once the track is paved, other sanctioning bodies will be invited to tour the facility. There is a possibility other races could be scheduled, perhaps before Sept. 20. 8 1 1 Vk Dy I By KAREN FINNEGAN Of The Morning Call A site plan for Pennsylvania International Raceway was formally presented last night to Lower Nazareth Township supervisors, showing plans to pave the track and increase seating capacity with additional grandstands. The track, at Routes 191 and 248 in the township, was purchased by a corporation set up by Roger Penske of auto racing fame.

The existing grandstands, which seat about 16.000, remain in the plan. The additional grandstands will be between Turns 1 and 2 on the one-mile track with a tri-oval configuration. Additional parking, with total spaces for about 3.000 cars, is shown, as are corporate chalets, near Route 248 and Georgetown Road. Paving of the track is due to start almost immediately. The track operated from 1982 to 1984 as a dirt track under the name Nazareth National Motor Speedway..