FRESHMEN HOURS: LET THE WOMEN DECIDE See editorial page Y Si4 a 4i PASSING CLOUDS limh-ti8 Low-42 Partly cloudy and mild. Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVIII, No. 39 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1967 SEVEN CENTS TEN PAGES END RACIAL IMBALANCE: State Bureau Prepares School Integration Plan I By WALLACE IMMEN in public elementary and second- "We are urging all school dis- !ary schools. tricts to integrate their teaching Ira Polley, state superintendent staffs, even if there are no Negroes of public instruction, has instruct- in their communities," Vence Boh- ed all school superintendents to nam of the state Department of submit a report of steps they have Education said yesterday. taken to improve the racial mix The state's Bureau of Equal Ed- of schools in their districts. These ucation Opportunity is preparing a findings are being incorporated in- detailed set of guidelines for equal to a plan to supervise better in- opportunities for all racial groups tegration at all grade levels. Welfare Units Get Contilued State Aid The need for such action was emphasized this week by the re- sults of the state's first public E school racial census, which found that over three fifths of all white pupils in the state attend schools in which no Negroes enrolled. The study, conducted by the University's Survey Research Cen- ter and the State Board of Educa- tion, covered about 90 per cent of the pupils, teachers and prin- cipals in the state public school systems. Three other states-California, New Jersey and Massachusetts- have conducted similar surveys, he said. Bohnam said the survey found that 97.6 per cent of the teachers Open Housing On State Agenda Romney Urges Legislative Approval Of Law Strengthening Tenant Rights LANSING UR) - Gov. George Romney yesterday prepared to campaign for statewide open occupancy legislation, despite predictions of a long battle which could effect the governor's announced bid for the 1968 Republican Presidential nomina- tion. Romney added the question of open housing as well as tenants' rights and housing code enforcement, to the agenda for the current special legislative session. The governor planned to be out of state all next week to attend a national Governors' Conference held Qn a cruise ship.sailing from New York to the Virgin Islands. "I expect to see us get it at this session," he told a news conference yesterday. "If we don't, it'll be right back at the next session. We've By JILL CRABTREE Washtenaw County's Depart-: ment of Social Services may gain a temporary exemption from aa state order which would reduce its staff of welfare case workers, a county official said Thursday. Herbert Ellis, a representative of the Welfare Committee of the County Board of Supervisors, said he learned in a meeting with John Gumbatto, an administra- tive assistant to the state's di- rector of social services, that the county department may appeal for extra workers.t Ellis met with Gumbatto to ask, him to give Washtenaw County special consideration because of1 the large number of people on; local welfare rolls as a result of the _United Auto Workers strike of the Ford Motor Co., and the fact that the county is growing more rapidly than most others in; the state., Cuts in county social service programs throughout the state, have been necessitated by low leg- islative appropriations to the State Department of Social Services. Professor s Firing Stirs NMU Furor The directive to Washtenaw working in the state are'wite, County, effective Oct. 1, provides while less than 85 per cent of the for a budget cut of at least $2 pupils are white. He said even million and a reduction in staff though there are no Negroes in a from 64 to 51, including a cut in community. "hiring of qualified the number of caseworkers from Negro teachers must be encour- 34 to 27. aged to provide children with a taso7.ads model of the world which has a racial mixture." The report states' This has necessitated "signifi- that three fifths of the state's cant increases" in caseloads per Negroes attend schools which have worker in a number of public from 60 to almost 100 per cent Ne- assistance programs, according to gro enrollments. Catherine Mudie, County Social Services supervisor.CIsolation Barrier Ellis said Gumbatto told him "This racial isolation presents! the state department could pro- a serious barier to quality educa- vide counties with supplementary tion," Polley told the State Boar'd caseworkers and clerical help if on Wednesday. "We've been urging the County Social Services direc- districts to take action toward a tor submitted an appeal contain- realistic racial balance for years; ing a statement of total caseload we are confident we can quickly and caseload per worker. solve the imbalances which nowF "Gumbatto said if it could be exist." shown by these criterion that the A State Board review of instruc-! situation needed help, we would tional materials is already under get it. We have been assured that way. Schools in many cities are re- any requirement based on fact drawing their districts and plan- would be honored," Ellis said. ning new buildings which will im- Temporary Aid prove racial balances. Planners of- However he added that such ten create "regional education aid would be only for a one or parks," in which all of a district'sj two-month period, and could not schools are built on one site, bring- be extended indefinitely. ing together students from a wide A similar emergency relief pro- range of neighborhoods, Bohnam d i in ntnitexplained. I } r 4 WOLVERINEY MEETS Ti Wolveriney, formerly known as Sparty, makes an appearance at Thu Sigma Chi fraternity. Wolveriney was hi-jacked from a Michigan S ago and has since been repainted maize and blue. He will appear at so game. Prof. Hazel Losh of the Astronomy Dept. and a corps of Univ East Lansing resident. gramn was institutea in during the recent riots, presently in operation be the effect the Ford strike in that area, accordingt batto. Ellis noted that local COM chve bP~ al em and is cause of has hadI to Gum- citizens'' dri by the MARQUETTE {.F}-Th'ie admire-groups navep een aarmn uuy istratQon and the faculty and effect that cuts in county welfare students at Northern Michigand programs will have on services. sUdiersty appeartheradeihowand The local chapter of the National University appear headed toward scain fScalW krs a showdown over the dismissal of Association of Social Workers and the Citizens' Advisory Coun-! a history professor critical of the cil to the Probate Court have been school's expansion plansy The professor, Robert McClel- lobbying the state Legislature to Ian, who had joined a local home- approp'iate more funds. owners' group to oppose the ex- pansion plans, has been fired, ef- fective next June. rs V .shv Two faculty members have re- J ,j signed in protest, and all nineJ members of the Faculty Serate r U i resigned, seven of whom were FU immediately re-elected. - Students also began circulating petitions Thursday protesting Mc- WASHINGTON !P - States' Clellan's dismissal. support for higher education has Representatives of the Student soared over the past eight years Government Association began to a record total of $4.4 billion- picketing yesterday morning to but it still isn't enough-a new underscore their protest. educational survey reported yes- The president of the associa- terday. tion, Don Keskey of Escanaba, Support for public colleges and said the'picketing of the office of universities from individual states interim NMU President Ogden rose from $1.4 billion in 1959-60 Johnson would continue c.n an to the $4.4-billion figure this year, around-the-clock basis until Mc- the survey shows. Clellan has been reinstated. The results are reported by Pair Schools "But, there are still many meas- ures which can be taken to mini- mize segregation," Bohnam said. The survey found that in an ex- treme case, of the four elementary schools in River Rouge, two have no Negroes enrolled and two are over 95 per cent Negro-attended. Bohnam noted that these sets could be "paired" so that kindergarten through third grade could be held at one and fourth through sixth at the other, thus creating a way out the racial mix. PLAN SIT-IN AT PENTAGON: Leaders of Peace Mol Denied Parade, Rally By DAVID KNOKE last Friday. refused to grant the! The way things are developing, permits unless the mobilization just showing up at the Oct. 21|sponsors agreed to renounce a march on Washington, D.C., may planned voluntary picketing and constitute an act of civil disobedi- sit-in at the Pentagon under the ence. theme "Confront the Warmakers." The National Mobilization Com- The committee refused to yield. mittee, an umbrella structure of Its members say that officials are about 100 anti-war and peace withholding permits on technical groups which have planned the ac- points and that they will probably tivities for the last four months, have settled differences with the has so far been unable to secure GSA by Friday. Negotiations with permits for a rally it plans to hold GSA will resume Monday. at the Lincoln Memorial and for The mass march is similar to a parade to the Pentagon. giant protest rallies in New York Authorities in Washington, and San Francisco April 15 against speaking through the General the Vietnam war, but a major dif- Services Administration (GSA) ference is the inclusion of civil dis- got to get it before the snow's off the ground - and the sooner the better." In his open housing message to the legislature, Romney outlined specific housing proposals and at the same time called for more effective and complete work by government .'to secure the public safety whether an individual criminal act is involved or a wholesale riot. ' - "We must attack the full causes of our slums and ghettos which in turn breed joblessness, lawless- H E BLUES ness and poverty," Romney said. Romney previously had main- rsday night football rally outside tained Michigan's new constitu- tate fraternity house two weeks tion provided for open housing Mme time during this afternoon's enforcement through the State 'ersity students greet the former Civil Rights Commission. Fair housing advocates in turn accused Romney of shying away from the controversial topic be- cause of national political am- bitions. Asked if he feared national po- litical reprecussions, Romney said, b m ization "No, I don't. I've been supporting this for seven years, I fought for the (civil rights) commission pro- vision in the new constitution. I'm e mgoing to push as hard as I can" The governor noted in his mes- sider the legal questions involved, sage to the legislature that pend- according to Prof. Sidney Peck, ringcourt challenges of the civil co-cairmn ofthenatinal o-'ights commission's authority have co-chairman of the national mo- left "nagging doubts as to the bilization committee. true nature of the fulfillment of Speakers who have already been human rights in our state." engaged included Coffin and Romney's proposals, for which Spock; Floyd McKissick of the he said he had "general sup- Congress of Racial Equality; port" of legislative leaders,'closely Msgr. Charles Owen Rice of Pitts- follow those of the New Detroit burgh; and leaders of various Committee, formed to help re- peace, civil rights and ethnic build Detroit in- the aftermath groups. of the July riots. Art Sale To Aid Children oeineatosb ini l - -IL ..rw_, LI- -.. T titam.p/7 ar GOV. GEORGE ROMNEY City Leader's To Support Housing Bill By ANN MUNSTER "In a sense, passage of open occupancy legislation in Michigan would mean that the state was catching up to Ann Arbor," Councilman Robert P. Weeks said last night in reaction to Gov. George Romney's addition of the open housing question to the leg- islative agenda. "We enacted the broadest cov- erage fair housing law in the United States," he said, referring to an ordinance which was passed here after a long struggle and subsequently declared unconstitu- tional on the grounds that a state law pre-empted it. Weeks pointed out that'open occupancy was only "one sector of a broad front to bring about social justice." He said employ- ment was really a more basic ows States' Support rsities Insufficient Prof. M. M. Chambers of Indiana University. They are being issued by the Office of Institutional Re- search of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Even though state support is growing, the Chambers repim s states,, increased demands on public higher education systems in many cases still are oucstrp- ping the financial suppoi't. "Despite impressive percenmtoge increases. the states have not kept up with the increasing re- sponsibilities placed on public higher education," Chambers says in his report. "As state support has grown, demands and costs have i'isen even more rapidly." The report cites population and enrollment growth, an increase in the number of graduate students, inflation, and rising salaries among the chief reasons for mounting costs. Paradoxes The Chambers report also cized some paradoxes between increases state appropriations for educa-! tion and per-capita support for higher education. Massachusetts, the report says, registered a 3 per cent increase in appropriations for public cdu- cation over the past eight years, but still trails almost every other state in per-capita support for higher education and the propor- tion of state residents to whom public higher education is avail- able. In the South, North CarolinaI and Georgia have shown above- average gains in appropriations, but both states ar'e below then- tional average in per'-capita sup- port for public higher education. according to the Chambers repori'i Institution Report The report covers only appro- priations for operating expenses of higher education. The Institu- tional Research Office of the Na- tional Association of State Uni- versities and Land Grant Coileges t I it i 3 obedience actions by individuals' l a i v t tnm w a and groups in the planned Wash- ington march. On Monday, between 500 and The Ann Arbor Committee of time. COR estimates that from 10 1000 draft-age men will return Responsibility COR) will sponsor to 12 children might be treated in their selective service cards and anait sale today and Monday to the course of a hospital year, de- refuse to cooperate with the diaft raise funds for the hospitalization pending on the length of each system, according to a spokesman ;of war-maimed Vietnamese chil- patient's stay. for The Resistance, a California- d'en. The national COR chairman, Dr. based organization which is co- The sale of paintings, pottery Herbert L. Needleman of Phila- ordinating the 'effort. and other art objects by a hundred delphia, expressed hope that more The Justide Department will also area artists will take place from war-maimed children will arrive be informed of the move from 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. on the second from Vietnam for treatment. He protst to resistance; the Selec- floor of the First Congregational noted, however, that it took nine tive Service Act makes it a crime Church, corner of State and Wil- months to arrange the evacuation ive "evicseAtakreit acrimeriliam Streets. 1of the first three. The children will to "counsel, aid or abet anothei' a; Srets to refuse or evade registration." Three Vietnamese children in- be returned to Vietnam after the ]ui'ed in the war have already ar- completion of surgical and con, Other groups are planning to rived in San Francisco to receive valescent care. disrupt operations at local draft treatment which is not available Dr. Needleman recently returned boards, war supplies plants and at the present time in their coun- from on-site inspection of hos- napalm factories during the week. try. National COR has chapters pital facilities in Vietnam. He gye and2oter professions oerI in major cities throughout the testified last week on the situation gymen and other professionals over United States. More than 500 and needs of Vietnamese civilian draft age have signed a statement physicians have pledged to COR war casualties before a Senate supporting these actions, free professional services. Hospital subcommittee on refugees under However, one University student beds in eight major cities have the chairmanship of Sen. Edward who had tried to organize a draft been offered. Kennedy (D-Mass). refusal movement locally said, "I Ann Arbor COR hopes to raise Sponsors of Ann Arbor COR in- finally dropped the effort after $15,000, according to Bruce Abra- elude Mrs. Harlan Hatcher; Rev. calling around the country and hamse, who is directing the art James Middleton; Robert Faber; finding there wasn't much support sale. About one sixth of that Mrs. Eunice Burns; Nicholas for the idea except for the West amount has been raised by individ- Schreiber; Dr. Gerhard Bauer; Dr. Coast." ual contributions. The money will Isadore Lampe; Dr. Frederick Ep- The Washington march will be pay approximately the cost of one stein:, Mrs W. Scott Westerman; preceded Friday night by pre- year's hospitalization for as many Rev. Hoover Rupert; and Rev. liminary "skull sessions" to con- children as can be treated in that Patrick Jackson. Ford, UAW Bids DETROIT P)-Ford Motor eo. announced last night that it had made a new contract offer to the United Auto Work- ers Union, which, morment' later, said it had responded with a counter-proposal. Neither side would reveal what was contained in either offer. problem, that it underlies im- provements in 'housing, though the two are intertwined. Mrs. Emma Wheeler, chairman of the Ann Arbor chapter of National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People (NAACP) said "I'm pleased." She said that knowing nothing about what the governor had proposed or what could reasonably be ex- pected from the Legislature, she had no further comment. PRESSURES IN RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE: ast uad Coeds Endure Mens Rooms By LEE WEITZENKORN The Prescott House recreation "We often have to face former 'The shaving mirrors and tie room, the girls also complain, has Prescotters who come back to look racks are very nice, but they're no few other facilities other than around their old home," says{ substitute for more closet space," a Coke machine. "Even a few Laurie Robinson, grad, a resident said Laura Museo, '71, one of the folding chairs would be appreciat- fellow at Prescott House. "We 112 women in the first class of ed." says one resident. must also explain to the pizza the Residential College which now Most of the girls, however, en- man that he no longer has the occupies temporary quarters in joy the 'atmosphere at East Quad, run of the dormitory." that Prescott House has no house- mother. Another difficulty seems to be that the Residential College is isolated socially because, as a new unit, it has no social committee or other established, channels throcrh which tn nn event. _.