Republican and Herald from Pottsville, Pennsylvania • 11

yriy. Vi.p FVFXTNT, HFRAI.D OF SHENANTW AH ASHLAND MAHAXOY CITY- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1979 PAGE ELEVEN PA. SPOTLIGHT if v- I Hallowell at Agriculture HARRISBURG (LTD As a 12th-generation farmer, Penrose Hallowell understands the problems of those who try to survive from the soil And he makes it clear in what direction his sympa trues win lie if the Senate confirms him as Dick Thornburgh's secretary of Agriculture. 'I don think food prices are too nign. ooa is suu we oiggtai 15 bargain," he said Tuesday in a teiepnone interview irom new Orleans, where he was vacationing after watching Penn State lose in the Sugar Bowl.

"Consumers in Pennsylvania and the United States pay a smaller percentage of their income on food something like 16 or 17 percent tnan any ouier nauuu dim uccu un.iuui6 all the time," he said. He was an important fundraiser in Thornburgh's gubernatorial campaign. Hallowell said he personally contributed "somewhat more than" $1,000 to the campaign and helped raise at least $10,000 more. Agriculture Secretary Kent Shelhamer ran the department "better than many others were run," but it still needs improvement, Hallowell said. "I think we can try to make it more service oriented, recognizing that we are serving the people instead of us telling the people what they should do," Hallowell said.

"The better job we do helping farmers produce and market their goods, the more it's going to help consumers get quality goods that they can rely on to be healthful and to be in good quantity." Hallowell said one of his top priorities will be working to stop developers from using up more of Pennsylvania's prime farmland. "We've had a lot of discussions about land use planning and developing something that will help preserve our agricultural land and help farmers, but nothing really effective has been done," he said. "We have to get the leaders of agriculture and farmers together and develop something that will preserve farmland but still give local governments and counties some leeway." Hallowell operates his dairy farm in partnership with his 24-year-old son, James. He has three other children, including Emily, a 19-year-old sophomore at Pennsylvania State University who is Bucks County's Dairy Princess. "Something like 20 percent of the food consumed uus country goes through restaurants.

It shows an affluent society when people can afford to eat out in restaurants where it costs inree or iour umes wnai ioou wosia ai iiumc. Hallowell, 50, owns four farms totaling 290 acres uttsvuie, Bucks County, although he has also put in some time as a bureaucrat. From 1969-77, he was state director of the farmers Home Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, wnicn loaned millions of dollars to farmers, businesses ana communities in rural Pennsylvania. Hallowell graduated with a degree in agricultural economics from Penn State in 1950 and has continued work toward a master's degree in public administration at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

taken shelter from violence in her home country. The crowd was met by police in the driveway. The home is owned by the Shah's sister. (UPI) BEVERLY HILLS, Iranion demonstrators break through a gate at the driveway leading to the Beverly Hills home where the mother of the Shah of Iran had Allen in State Department Aussie leader visits Carter WASHINGTON (UPI) -President Carter welcomed Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to the White House Tuesday as "one of our closest and most important allies" and thanked him for supporting U.S. recognition of China.

tVi lm' 4 -Vis graduated from West Virginia State College in 1952 and from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1963. She studied urban problems at the Rand and Brookings Institutes and lectured at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at the Lyndon B. Johnson seminar on state-urban relationships at the University of Texas. Ms. Allen is a member of the National Black Elected Officials Organization, the Black Women's Political Caucus and the National Women's Political Caucus.

She was Philadelphia chairperson of the Ford for President Committee and seconded Ford's nomination at the Republican National Convention. public is "absolutely and positively a necessity." Coincidental, the two persons who held the same job in the Shapp administration Barton Fields and C. DeLores Tucker were both blacks. Ms. Allen has traveled widely advocating womens' rights, aid to senior citizens, vocational training in public schools, preschool educational programs and legislation to help urban areas.

She was elected to City Council in 1972 and focused much of her efforts on legislation designed to reduce gang violence. The number of gang-related deaths fell from 75 in 1971 to none in 1977. Ms. Allen attended John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls School in North Philadelphia.

She this will continue in his dealings with all communities, not just the blacks." The Department "of State, which Ms. Allen will head, has many important responsibilities, including supervising elections, licensing professions and regulating charities. Osteopaths are among the professions the department licenses, but Ms. Allen said she no longer practices. On the other hand, Ms.

Allen acknowledged there may be a conflict of interest if she continues serving on the boards of such charities as the YWCA, United Way and NAACP, which the department regulates. She said, however, that strict enforcement of the laws designed to prevent phony charities from cheating the HARRISBURG (UPI) Dr. Ethel D. Allen, Dick Thornburgh's choice for secretary of the Commonwealth, brings to state government a long record of public service and political activism. In choosing Ms.

Allen, an osteopathic physician, Thorn-burgh made a downpayment on the political debt he owes Pennsylvania blacks for breaking decades of tradition and giving him 58 percent of their vote. Ms. Allen, 49, is a native Philadelphian and has served in the City Council since 1972. "I've known Dick for several years and he's always been a man of honesty and integrity ia my dealings with him," she said. "I fully anticipate that Wilburn in Budget, Personnel he says that if he ever changes his registration again, it will be back to Democratic, not to Republican.

But Thornburgh apparently looked first at Wilburn's qualifications and experience and asked about party registration later. Wiburn attracted the attention of Thornburgh's close aides when he served as chairman of the transition team that was studying problems in the state's personnel system. He said Thornburgh recruited him for the cabinet post and that he was reluctant at first to accept it. "I've been very happy at Indiana. I think the four years served since September, 1975 "as president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, which has 12,000 students and a (42 million annual budget.

From 1972-75, he served as vice president of Chase Manhattan Bank N.A. in New York, where he was in charge of financial planning for the bank's world-wide operations. In 1967, he was an economic and personnel analyst in the office of the Office of the chief-of-staff of the Air Force and from 1970-72 he was a policy analyst in the office of Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. Wilburn and his wife, Pat-tiEllen, have two sons, Jason, 8, and Jesse, five months. I've spent there are tbe four happiest years I've had in my life," Wilburn said.

"When I was first approached about coming to Harrisburg, my first reaction was that I had more things that I wanted to do at Indiana and that I had no intention of leaving." But he said that the challenge of combining the old offices of Budget and Administration and of developing a system for choosing patronage employees on the basis of merit became too intriguing to turn down. Wilburn comes into the job with a good reputation in state government and impressive credentials. A native of Latrobe, he has HARRISBURG (UPI) -Robert Wilburn the man Thornburgh has named to manage his budget and personnel office is an unlikely choice for such a politically sensitive position. He will be responsible for, among many other things, devising a system under which jobs the spoils of political wars that Republicans have coveted for eight long years are filled. But Wilburn isn't a-Republican.

When he was named president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1975, Wilburn changed his registration to "Independent." Before that, the 35-year-old economist was a Democrat and i if I In brief remarks in the Oval Office, Carter said, "We're very delighted to have Prime Minister Fraser come. Australia is one of our closest and most important allies and friends, historically, now and also in the future." Fraser said he was delighted to be in Washington at a time "when the United States and the president have taken some very important initiatives" toward China. Eastablishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Peking, he said, "clearly affects policy and development in our part of the world, and for these and other reasons we're delighted to be here. "I would like to congratulate you on those initiatives. I think they're important and I know not without some difficulty at home.

I think they're courageous." Carter replied, "I appreciate your strong support about normalization. I think it's going to be a very good stabilizing factor in the Western Pacific." The White House later said Carter and Fraser met for one hour and discussed a "broad range of global and regional topics" of importance to both countries "including developments in Iran and the Middle East." According to a spokesman, Carter told Fraser he "intends to persevere with his Middle East initiatives." After the meeting, Fraser told a news conference that U.S. recognition of China would remove "roadblocks to the development of U.S. policy. I would see a broadening relationship with the United States and a greater participation by China in the world community.

He said he and Carter discussed their "concerns with Iran, and the extent that could affect the Indian Ocean." Fraser said he also complimented Carter on his political courage in trying to combat inflation. Fraser flew to Washington from Jamaica where he attended a third-world conference with other leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Carter was planning to leave Thursday on a five-day journey to Guadeloupe to meet with British Prime Minister James Callagahan; French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, and Schmidt. BEVERLY HILLS, Iranian demonstrator screams at photographer taking pictures of the mob setting fire to the brush on the hill below the home where the mother of the Shah of Iran had taken sanctuary from violence in Iran. The police department said 1 ,000 persons gathered in the street leading up to the home belonging to the Shah's sister, Princess Ashraf (UPI) U.S., China to discuss future textile trading WASHINGTON (UPI) -Representatives of China and the United States have scheduled meetings in Washington, D.C., beginning Jan.

22 to continue textile trade talks between the two countries, the White House announced Tuesday. China and the United States, which established full diplomatic relations Monday, began the trade talks in August after Chinese imports had risen significantly. The two powers will seek to establish orderly growth for Chinese textile imports into "tic Papers say Churchill urged nuclear attack this country. During the 12 months ending December 1977, China imported 88.2 million square yards of textiles, compared to 189.9 million square yards through October 1978. The trade negotiations will precede the visit of Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsia-ping Jan.

29. Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps is scheduled visit China at the end of March or in early April presumably to discuss a long-term trade agreement. Treasuty Secretary Michael Blumenthal is tentatively scheduled to travel to China in early March. Trade between the United States and China was legalized in 1971, but not officially recognized by China until after President Nixon's visit in 1972. In 1971, the United States imported, through a third country, $5 million worth of goods from China, according to Commerce figures.

A Commerce spokesman said that after President Nixon's first China visit, trade flowed in both directions and gave the following amounts of trade the United States conducted with China: 1972, $95.9 million; 1973, $753 1 million; 1974, $921.6 million; 1975, $461.9 million; 1976, $337.3 million; 1977, $374.0 million. For the first 11 months of 1078 the United States conducted $959.9 million in trade with China, the spokesman said. I Bad idea II HI' 1 But both U.S. and British air force generals favored the air lift, which continued until May, 1949, and ultimately forced the Soviets to end the Berlin blockade. The papers said Churchill made the nuclear war proposal privately in a conversation with Attlee.

"It was rejected immediately," one cabinet document said. Lewis Douglas, U.S.am-bassador to Britain at the time, was quoted as saying the plan was "full of practical infirmities." Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary in the Labor government of the time, also was quoted as saying he "had no use for it." Churchill's proposal came in an era when the United States alone had nuclear capability. The Soviet Union did not yet have an atom bomb. LONDON (UPI) Winston Churchill urged the United States and Britain to launch a nuclear war against the Soviet Union in a bid to break the Berlin blockade in 1948, British cabinet papers made public today disclosed. The late wartime prime minister proposed the attack 30 years ago when he was leader of the Conservative opposition in Britain.

But his plan was rejected by President Truman and Clement Attlee, prime minister in the post-World War II British Labor government, the papers revealed. The cabinet papers were made public for the first time under British government rules which keep all such documents secret for 30 years. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U.S.

military governor in occupied Germany, suggested sending an armored column through the Soviet zone to relieve beleaguered Berlin. SAN JOSE, Calif. (UPI) -An 11-year-old boy decided hot coals from the fireplace were just the thing to heat up his bedroom. They did just that and more. The Fire Department said the boy took a shovel full of coals from the front-room fireplace and walked into his bedroom with them.

Some dropped on the floor and started a fire. He placed the shovel on his bed, and the bed caught fire. He and his 14-year-old sister ran from the home. By the time firemen doused the flames, there was $35,000 damage to the home. There were no injuries.

Th Mahanov Area School Distrit's new educational forground. At bottom Is the academic center with circular pod design housing gymnasium, swimming pool and classrooms. (Yenchik) comdex includes the athletic center (top) for baseball In at left, football at center and paractict area.