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StateRegion electors vote 25-0 Blind Santa rdjoices iif jrdg JlSt Faithful Braille, for a computer for her PHILADELPHIA AP) celebratio a of Reagan 7 mother and "food for all the poor children in the world" Fw herself? "iifJV would like a Barbie don, said Christy, who has been sightless since, birth. Pruszynski told Christy that her list was "'very nice and we'll have to work hard at the North Pole to fill it" "Your beard's funnv," Christy said as she stroked it "Ho, ho, ho. It took long time to grow it," Santa replied. you been a good girl?" "Yeah," said Christy. "And you call my mom on the phone and check.

It was Santa's turn to smile through his whiskers as be -hugged David Pruszynski has been putting on Santa's red costume for half Ms life 'ever since learned he was going blind from retinitis pigmentosa. But this year was the first time, accompanied by his guide dog, that he listened to the holiday dreams of blind children. "This is my favorite time of year," the 32-year-old social worker for the Associated Services for the Blind said. Pruszynski took the children's Christmas wishes in the center city office of Sense-Sations, a workshop sponsored by the Associated Services for the Blind. Christy Lynch, 7, sat on Pruszynski knee, and asked in ber letter to Santa, written in lRismc Pennsylvania' will investigate 220 possible abandoned' lazardous-.

waste dumping sites wit Swperfund Environmental Resources Secretary Nicholas. DeBenedictis said yesterday. The DER will use the money for preUmintry' assess meats atiti federal emergency list and perform follow up investigations' at Wither sites. Of about 1,000 eW municipal dumps, garbage pitet and closed landfills in the states the emergency list, Vl have been assessed and 225 invest eated. DeBenedictis said.

PER and By Harry Stoffer Posi-Gazette Hatrisburg Correspondent HARRISBURG Sis weeks after the general election, the only Pennsylvanians whose votes really count in the selection of the nest president have cast their ballots. Not unexpectedly, the result was 25 for Ronald Reagan and 0 for Walter Mondale, fcV In fact, during the ceremonious hour-and-40-minute meeting of the Pennsylvania Electoral College Democrat Mond ale's name was not mentioned aloud even once. The was -ordained 200 years ago by the U.S. Constitution as the official method of choosing the president and vice -president because of fears that direct election would give unfair advantage to large states and that voters wouldn't know enough about candidates to make intelligent decisions. But the meetings of electors have turned into victory celebrations for political party stalwarts at least in states whose electoral votes go to the candidate who is the winner nationwide.

Reagan carried Pennsylvania by lue federal Environmental Protec including purchase of gold-trimmed souvenir Bibles for each member, will be 16,000 or less, state election bureau officials said. That was the amount appropriated last summer by the General Assembly for the 50th meeting of presidential electors in Pennsylvania. The number of electors, determined by the size of each state's congression delegation, including senators, has been on the decline for Pennsylvania from a former high of 38. Besides Bell and Malone, those voting yesterday included Ginny Thornburgh and Coral Scranton, wives of the governor and lieutenant governor respectively; Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association President Frederick Anton III; former Attorney General Harvey Bar-tie; Cambria County Commissioner Theodore Metzger Washington County businessman and GOP Chairman Thomas Milhollan; former state GOP Chairwoman Martha' Bell Schoeninger, and former U.S. Rep.

John Ware III of -Chester County. Had Mondale and Geraldine Fer-raro won Pennsylvania, a different group of electors would have gathered. They would have included state AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Judith Hen; state Roxanne Jones of Philadelphia; Cathy Irvis, wife of House Speaker K. Leroy Irvis, D-Oakland; House Majority Leader James Manderino, D-Mones-sen; and state National Organization for Women President Nancy Nancarrow. other states and District of Columbia, and by Jan.

7 all will have reported to Congress that Reagan, needing 270 electoral votes to win, got 525. Mondale, who had about 41 percent of the popular vote nationally, will get just 13 electoral votes, or 2.4 percent That will be the count as long as no elector defies the decision of his or her state's voters. No Pennsylvanian has ever been a "faithless elector" that is, one who votes for a loser in the popular balloting but it has happened in other states and some have passed laws to forbid faithlessness. The Electoral College's distortion of the sine of election victories is one reason why the biggest topic of discussion every time electoral votes are cast is whether the college should be abolished. That puts it in company, at least in some minds, with the Miss America Pageant, football's Pro Bowl and even the national political conventions.

But traditions by' nature endure. "I suspect will live and die and we will still have an Electoral Col- lege," said Marian Bell of Oakland, who described herself as a leading raiser of funds for the GOP in Allegheny County since 1952. "It's a beautiful ceremony a Cirt of, I feel, the tradition of the nited States," said Bell, who was also an elector for Richard Nixon in 1972 and Reagan four years ago. Guiding the electors through the carefully scripted meeting was college Chairman James F. Malone III, WD 1 SfVi Hill tion Agency plan to complete as-'sessments of all potcntial jjroblem sites within 18 months.

DER, assisted by EPA in some cases, assessed 375 sites under a similar $468,000 federal grant last year. Merit pay to begin HARRISBURG A new merit J-'pay system for more than 2,200 Clipper- and middle-management 70 DURING, state employees will begin Jan. 'emDiov ni rait of 1700 11 200 or pwrcin uic pupuwr vote, he gets 100 percent of the IJtivV depending on job perform- r. eieviumi vuica in urc wmuci-uanc Stance, wort ir i workers -yf jet. 6 SALE! INFANTS THRO JUNIORS F0H GfRLS I INFANTS THRU SIZE 20 FOR BOYS I Wreaths PflMMMrt moot bMiMlftjl ceMKtlsn el wrMih, Nv or rtMcM.

emwwlerpwn. a Fox Chapel attorney and Republican State Finance Committee chairman. Malone said presidents should still be chosen by electors but the process of casting the votes could be streamlined. Despite its embellishments, the cost of holding the college meeting, wim an w.ti-,:-,, ft lory job rating will noU. merit rv The merit pay system will not TWrefore, those gathered apply to the following workers: Dep yesterday the, fitting, turn-of-the-uty secretaries; attorney phjfsk century opulence of the state House clans; press secretaries; jsaecial awl el "RepresenUum chamber were executive assistants; personal staffs i names from the Pennsylvania Reef agency beadiegbtwe.

liaisons. Employee WW "Vitally 'rjthe choicesj were re-bor contracts alsooe not affected wards for the g00j party by the new systeffl. those who toil in the vineyards or those who contribute substantial Lotto resche. HARRISBURG Chdices were made by the Rea-vania Lotto iPM'rrr'gan-Bdsa campaign conurrittee. scheduled for Dec.

SiQto Hectoral College cere-day earlier, the said, monies were scheduled in the 49 Aid for aged is increased HARRISBURG (AP) G0vi secoad bill will ga for construction Thornburgh yesterday signeflVIegisi oliiamps, upgrading entrances and lation that will earmark 810 million1 exits, improving or installing bath-for improvements to senior citizens' roams fo- handicapped persons, up-centers and will allow 150,000 mor heating and i plumbing elderly to qualify for the new pr facjJSties and adding or enlarging scription drug program. dining facilities at 541 centers Jr across the state. 1 One biu would raise the income TWnhnroh c9i tbfMJMi liktfij SmMi NMa-in. it. UMumi Hftf.

nenfi mil, nnrwgm fin at NfeM Pittslbiiiirg eligibility retirements for the mori per capita on senior program by 83,000. citizens than any other state in the country double wnat is spent in 1 Beginning April 1, the maximum income for. a single person in the New Jersey and four times what is wroeram will eo from 89.000 spent in, New; York, A AAA ....1. A L.W IftUL tk WAfM.4i mm "wz 812,000 and for a couple froth scriptions, Pennsylvania-will spend nearly 81 billion for services and programs for more' than 2 million senior citizens, the governor said, i "We provide unprecedented levels of assistance to the generation that built 20th century Pennsylva-' ma" 812,000 to 815,000. 4 fii-rr: Nearly 300,000 senior citizens are already in the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly program.

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