1975_03 The Daily Collegian March 1975

              CSUF consumer group
checks into leases
Students for Consumers are
currently working on various
surveys as well as Investigating
tenant-landlord agreements, said
Bill Fellers, an assistant direc¬
tor of the organization.
Fellers said one survey under¬
taken ls an Investigation of the
CSL'F Kennel Bookstore's book
buy back prices along with the
buy pack policy.
Besides the book survey, Fel¬
lers said the organization's regu¬
lar food survey of comparing
prices at local supermarkets Is
continuing. Armando Khan, or¬
ganizer of the food survey, satd
Ms group ls also looking Into
chain supermarkets to check for
price variances Indifferent parts
oi iowii and Investigating prices
or  low  income bracket grocery
:-(tilers said Students for Con-
sun nrs Is supporting legislation
thai would make It mandatory for
Individual food Items to be priced
Individually, rather than the new
system of coding used by some
suivrmarkets. Legislation to
have all consumer goods priced
individually is also supported by
trie organization, Fellers said.
: he organization's gas survey
-.-  ond of ln limbo" according
to Fellers, because of pending
state legislation sponsored by
Sen. George Moscone. The Mos.
cone proposal would outlaw dis¬
crimination by gas companies ln
the selling of gas to Independent
and brand dealers, Fellers said.
Another member of Students
for Consumers ts Investigating
tenant-landlord agreements, he
satd.
"We  U
He said the organization will
survey apartments In the CSUF
area and will publish its report
for students next fall.
FeUers said the organization
has also requested more money
from the Student Senate.
"We're experiencing growing
pains, and we would like to ex¬
pand," he said. "I Just feel tt
takes a lot more money to run
this  thing  than  what  we've got
Fellers satd anyone with Ideas
for the organization can suggest
them through the consumer sug¬
gestion boxes on campus. He
said anyone Interested in helping
the group or having a consumer
complaint can come to the Stu¬
dents    for   Consumers  Center.
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MONDAY, rvTARTJH 3^ 1978
LXMX/89
.TjffiMAN
CALIFORNIA     STATE      UNIVERSITY,     FRESNO
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10   I
In CU 3i
HUELGA! — The crimson flags
supporters of the UFWs boycott (
rally, attended by between 8,000(i
the  UFW),   was  the  culmination  <
United Farm Workers of America fill the air In Modesto as
all Gallo products gather to hear Cesa> Chavez speak. Saturday's
cording to the Modesto police uepartment) and 20,000 (according to   '
a two-pronged, week-long march from Fresno and the Bay Area,
world news in brief     Collective bargaining and students
I   KILLS   FOUR   -
our  persons were killed and three
allf. when a man began shooting a
ti-powered   rifle  at   a   motel-trailer   resort  Sunday.  A suspect
- taken Into custody near the Oregon border.
KNIED FOOD STAMPS - according lo a Senate staff study,
re than 20 million needy Americans are being denied food stamp
hy the restrictive policies of the Department of Agriculture.
e 71 -page report by the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human
•Is said only 38 per cent of those eligible were getting food stamp
iKWAGE DOESN'T SMELL - the U.S. Department of Agriculture
s nffered two years of research to prove U.S. sewage doesn't
.11 Department officials have developed a method of combating
>rs that often accompany sewage ti
id States ls sending
irvlng  people of tftf*^ city, according to a U.S.
Ii an NOW ONE-PARTY STATE - Sh;
creed Iran a one-part slate Sunday a
lip new political organization.
The office of the Legislative
Advocate for the .California
State University and Colleges
Student presidents Association
(CSUCSPA) said today the first
collective bargaining bill to be
considered by the legislature has
had Its original hearing date
changed  to Tuesday, March 11,
The bill will be heard before
the Senate Governmental Organi¬
zation Committee chaired by Sen¬
ator Ralph Dills (D-Gardena).
The healing will begin at 2 p.m.
In Room 5007 of the State Capi¬
tol Building.
CSUCSPA, along With repre¬
sentatives of the University of
California Student Lobby (UCSL)
and the California Community
Colleges Student Government As¬
sociation (CCCSGA), held a Joint
press conference announcing they
will be approaching the commit--
tee asking that the bill be amend¬
ed to provide for student partici¬
pation In Ihe collective bargaining
Scott   Plotkln,  chairperson of
CSUC PA stated: .
■There Is a student community
of Interest which must be repre¬
sented at the bargaining table.
CSUCSPA argues that this com¬
munity of Interest should be rep¬
resented by student partir.lpa-
Scott went on to state the jus¬
tification for student Involvement
In the collective bargaining pro-
"Conslderatlon should also be
given to the fact that universities
exist primarily because of -their
students and as a result, students
have a right lo participation In
decision making as .a matter of-
rlght and responsibility,'he
the t(
foret
1. Ills
ployment of teachers." >
Joy Hay, legislative advocate
for CSUCSPA stated:
•We have formulated the at¬
tached amendments based on In¬
put from students In all three
segments of public hlghereduca-
tion In California. This model for
student participation will be pre¬
sented to the members of the
GovernmenlalOrganlzatlonCom-
mlttee when the bill ts heard on
March 11.
•We have already begun to
lobby members of the committee
and have received some very fa¬
vorable responses to ouramend-
•We are asking that students
in the state universities and col¬
leges write to members of the
GovernmentalOrganlzarlonCom-
mlttee supporting the adoption.
Special collections library: a CSUF time machine?
By Phyllis Wild
-'••; into CSUF's time machine
vou can be transported back
"al! of the special collections
department at the Library Is
umr- to assist you. The depart¬
ment   is   headed by Ronald Ma-
A wealth of literature, art,
Pos'ers, stamps, pamphlets,
fiaps and records awaits you. You
iame it and Mahoney will do his '
best to find It.
The oldest book In the Library
l! on permanent display. It Is
"Vita Chrlstl* ("The Life of
Chrlsi*) and was printed by
monks in a Strassburg monastery
Ml years ago In 1474.
fl display now and until the
•nd or March ls a personal col-
[•ctlon of original manuscript
•»ves dating from the ?th to the
16th Centuries. Many are Arable
and Persian manuscripts.
A comprehensive UnitedStates
"•mp collection, dating from
*M7 to 1956, is on permanent
"l< inciudesconfederate stamps
J™ »lr mall stamps (costing
w *■•"■:*, ji.30 aaeiu.60) which
»«'° used whenthaGraf Zeppelin
£J«ed the United States," Ma-
'f*a Graf Zeppelin
was dismantled by the Nazis for
scrap   during  World   War  II."
Mahoney Is especially proud or
the International fair collection
which Includes books, postcards,
pamphlets, posters and some
artifacts like souvenirs. He satd
it covers the period from 19S1
to 1940 and Includes Items In
many languages.
•There were close to 100 fairs
during this period,* Mahoney
said. 'Many of the fairs were held
tn California. No major library
has a collection like this. San
Francisco has the San Francisco
material but no one has a general
collection this as far as we know.
"We have contacted 'cities
wherever an international fair
waa held and asked them to search
for material. Some fairs are very
obscure and ln some cases there
ts no known material on a par¬
ticular  fair  ln   this   country."
Mahoney said the central part
of the collection was given to the
Library by Don Larsen, profes¬
sor at Fresno City Collage, and
that CSUF U c
hooey si
•We, have been very lucky to
get material on these'fairs by
contacting dealers rather than
waiting until it appears In a cata¬
log,* he said. «We have been
able to gat things very Inexpen¬
sively tola way. By the time yew
read lt In a catalog it ls gone.
I just missed a collection of 500
Items. I called as soon as I got
the catalog, but lt was gone."
Mahoney said with the bicen¬
tennial coming up more emphasis
will  be  placed on this subject.
He satd International fairs
were held in' Moscow In the
1870s and 1880s. In 1860 when
civil war was brewing In the
United States, Mahoney said, the
government sent two representa¬
tives and an exhibit halfway
around the world toDunedtn.New
One book by Gen. A. J. Plea-
sonton which Is shelved ln the
department, Is bound ln blue and
printed tn blue Ink. The United
States had a 'blue period* about
1873, Mahoney said, when It was
thought blue would enhance plant
life and other living things.
"People were using tbe color
blue to cure Illness and many had
bedrooms with blue glass win¬
dows," J»a aald.
Other Interesting items housed
In Special Collections are:
-An English translation of the
•little red book* of Mao - 'Quo-
tatlons from Chairman MaoTse-
-A Ku Klux Wan poster giving
the detail* or a Klan wedding to
be  bald  at  the   Fresno Fair-
in 1849 when Professor John W.
Webster killed Dr. George Park-
man at Harvard University.
parkroan's body was never
round, but Ms teeth were, ac¬
cording to Mahoney. He said It
was the first case in American
history In which corpus delicti
was accepted from partial re¬
mains. Webster's books were
sold and ware advertised as "Sale
or a Murderer's Library." Ma-
' hooey said ha had found an Item
tn a catalog listing a book written
by Webster about the Azores.
"it was a very scarce book, so
we bought it," be said. It turned
out to be Webster's own copy. I
bought tt from a bookstore In
Cambridge. He (Webstar) didn't
even get a free copy."
Tha Fresno City Directory of
1894 notes that total assets of
the People's Savings Baflrat Tu¬
lare an I (now Broadway) wars
$100,000. In that year Ambroo
Brook farmed at Clark Street
and McKenzie Avenue. Gentleman
and ladies could swim together
at the Fresno Swimming Baths
on H Street near Mariposa. A
back could be rented at any boor
rrom Excelsior Livery and Feed'
Stable, the "only brick stable ln
Fresno." Meals at a "first class
family hotel," Cowan ifouse at
Tulare and K (now Van Ness),
were  to be bad for 25 cants.
Also ln 1894, Dr. G. L.Matney
on Kern Street advertised that he
could "positively cure drunken¬
ness.* His appealing ad read,
■Have you a Mend or relative
who ts suffering from the baneful
effects of the liquor, opium, mor¬
phine, cocaine or tobacco habit?"
Mahoney said tha staff treats
the leather binding of the books
when they are received and about
once a year thereafter. Some ara
ihoused there because of their
value, tbelr fragility or because
they would be bard to replace.
Some are first editions.
The special collections de¬
partment waa started ln the 1950s
when a collection was given to the
Library by the family of Roy J.
Woodward, a Fresno banker. The
on San Joaquin Valley and Cali¬
fornia history.
■One of the stipulations when It
waa given to as waa that lt be
housed separately and that It be
non-circulating," Mahoney said.
None ot the books in tha de¬
partment may be circulated, bat
arrangements may be  made to