GROWING UP AT A.A. HIGH See editorial page 41it A& t a p n r4 :E3ait BLUSTERY High-60 Low-40 Windy with possibility of rain Vol. LXXIX, No. 26 1 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, September 28, 1968 Ten 'Cents Eight Pages Dissenting Democrats meet today, Channing Philips to speak at Detroit 'unity convenion By DAVID KNOKE Dissenting Democrats will meet in a state convention in Detroit today to unite radical and liberal elements in the party under one organization. Two main groups-the Michigan Conference of Concerned Dem- ocrats (MCCD) and the McCarthy for President Committee - are pushing for a coalition of forces concerned over the Vietnam War, racism and the direction of the Democratic Party, according to Alan Jones, secretary of the MCCD. Blacks and supporters of Sens. Kennedy and McGovern have also been encouraged to at- tend the public session in Cobo Hall. A new name and organizational structure for the coalition will be created and a plenary session this afternoon will elect officers and vote on options for the presi- dential campaign . State Sen. Roger Craig (D-Dear- born) will be the keynote speaker at the plenary session. The Rev. Channing Phillips, the black cau- cus' nominee for president at the Democratic national convention, will speak at a party following the convention. Possible positions for the con- vention to take on the presidential race include backing Hubert Hum- phrey, working for fourth party candidates, voting only in local races, or encouraging a McCarthy write-in. The general leadership of the convention, according to, Jones, hopes to develop a positionj that will not be devisive of the various factions in the organiza- tion. -nTh inrn i cner.4rannc of +h- even mothers convicted for 0 welfare sit-in By RICK PERLOFF and CHRIS STEELE Seven welfare mothers who participated in the Sept. 6 sit-in at the County Bldg. were found guilty of trespassing last night in Ann Arbor Municipal Court. The trial Marks the first in a series scheduled for the 192 persons arrested Sept. 6 for remaining in the County Bldg. after closing hours. Attorney for the mothers George Stewart considered the convictions of all seven "a surprise." Stewart had earlier said he felt he adequately proved the innocence of one mother, and "circumstantial inno- .-- cence" of two others. SThe verdict was delivered eight hours after the trial began early yesterday afternoon. Sentencing was set by Municipal -VP Judge S. J. Elden for 2 p.m- Nov.17 W Convicted were Maxine Hebert, Sammy Hampton, Ethel Mays,f Willie Curry, Doris Burell, Faith or" Castle and Rosatta Sims. Asst. Prosecutor Casper Kast By STEVE ANZALONE called nine witnesses for the state and used movie films to establish Jim "Joe" Lewis, candidate for the guilt of the defendants. Five sheriff in Washtenaw County on Washtenaw County Sheriff's dep- the Citizens for New Politics uties claimed positive identifica- (CNP) ticket, brought his cam- tion of six of the seven mothers. paign to about 50 students at a There was no identification of Diag rally yesterday. Ethel Mays. Lewis told the group that "peo- BLACK PATHER LEADER Eldrige Cleaver Thursday vowed at the University of California at Irvine to make 20 speeches to U of California audiences this year, in defiance of a board of regents ruling that he be allowed to lecture only once. Late yes- terday a three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeal revoked Cleaver's parole and ordered him into jail. His attorney, said an appeal would be carried to the state supreme court.! Cleaver will remain out of jail pending a decision. ; R esearciers at the University reactor's 'swimming pool Newton sentenced to 2-15 year term Phoenix finds peaceful uses, for nuclear en ergy Stewart considered Miss Mays' conviction a surprise, claiming, "No testimony, or evidence whetso- ever has been presented by the' state proving she was at any time in the County Bldg" Stewart also attempted to prove particular innocence of two other OAKLAND, Calif. (I -Black Panther leader Huey Newton was rushed to prison under guard yesterday after being sen- tenced to a two-to-15-year jail term on a conviction of volun- tary manslaughter in the gunfight death of a white police- man. By MICHAEL THORYN Twenty-seven feet from an ag- onizing death, you don't feel a thing. The radiation coming from the box-like reactor core glows bluely through the deep, de-mineralized --1-.,. -4- l- TTy,,.n*c i~t'o 1 io The precise term will b Adult Authority. Newton was convicted af responsible for the death of #Di rector of CEO 0 oresigns, By STEVE NISSEN James W. Westmoreland, for five months the director of the county's anti-poverty program, re- signed Thursday night bitterly citing' "friction" a nd threats against his life as major reasons for the decision. The surprise move left the Washtenaw County Citizens f o r Economic Opportunity (CEO) in a state of limbo until a replace- ment f o r Westmoreland can be found. Contacted last night Westmore- land declined to elaborate on his previously released prepared state- ment. That statement said t h e resignation was "due to friction both from within and without this organization, alliances and coun- teralliances, -also t h e threats which have been made against the lives of both my wife. and myself, as well as the not so subtle innu- endoes." The announcement came at the beginning of t h e CEO meeting Thursday night which lasted nearly five hours as the newly elected executive committee dis- cussed in closed sessiofi the re- placemeapt 'of Westmoreland and plans for an interim operational arrangement. Westmore'land's resignation will be effective in two weeks. The state will probably send a temporary staff assistant while a new director is sought, sources in- dicated. Another factor in Westmore- land's resignation was apparently the continuing personnel problems of the CEO which resulted in the firing of three staff members dur- ing the last month including the: agency's deputy director Mrs. Elaine Hawkins. A special grievance committee was set up by the CEO board to reconsider her dismissal in the wake of Westmoreland's resigna- tion. In submitting his resignation Westmoreland said "My decision is final." "In some parts of the commun- ity, word of my resignation will e set later by the California 1emng sis ewater at the Uiversity' y convention will be taken up with old Ford Nuclear Reactor, part of workshops and committees. The the Michigan Memorial Phoenix ter a nine-week trial of being committee on the Vietnam war Project on North Campus. policeman John Frey last Oct. and foreign policy hopes to go in- The device is operating silently to much greater detail in its policy as Robert Martin, supervisor of 28. The trial was highlighted recommendations than did the the reactor, expounds on its safe- by allegations of white racism. state Democratic convention, says-ty arg-effiviene, Jones. The state convention "The radiation up here is a Superior Court Judge Monroe adopted a resolution calling for tenth of the Atomic Energy Com- Friedman passed sentence yester- an end to the bombing. mission's (AEC) allowable level," day after denying motions for a IT h e McCarthy-for-President Martin says, leaning on the maize new trial and for release on bail. write-in, according to David Man- and blue guard railing. gan, Grad, state chairman for the It is a "swimming pool" reactor Charles Garry, defense attor- movement, has received favorable using the 47,000 gallons of water' ney for the man who founded the attention in the district caucuses to slow down high-speed neutrons Black Panther Party, said he to elect delegates to the conven- caused by fission of the uranium, would appeal the case to the U.S. See DETROIT, Page 8 fuel and to cool the high tempera-" Supreme Court. ture fission process. The maximum licensed power is two million watts. Two white life-preservers are attached to the side of the pool. "No one has eVer fallen in," Mar- tin said. "Putting them there started off as a joke" "Swimming in the pool wouldn't be harmful either," he contin- ues, "as long as you don't dive too deep." In answer to a question that has caused concern in many com- munities close to powerful nuclear reactors, Martin says, "No, this re- actor could never explode. "The worst that could happen would be a power pulse," he,saYs. "There would be a big steam bub- ble and the floor would get dirty. "Some reactors built today are designed to pulsate, but this one is relatively innocuous," he added. The Phoenix Project began in Its functions are to support all women, Mrs. Sammy Hampton manner of research on the peace- and Miss Maxine Hebert. He ful uses of atomic energy and to maintained no evidence was pre- encourage the development of ed- sented proving the two women ucational programs in nuclear were inside the County Bldg., science and engineering, though deputies testified they The FordMotor Company Fund helped the two mothers into the; granted the Project $1 million for paddy-wagons. a Nuclear reactor. It was installed Kast told the jury he copsid- in 1957. Two years later, the ered the arrests "reasonably ac-. Phoenix Laboratory, jointly with curate." At one point he askedy the Los Alamos Scientific Labora- the six women jurors, "Could you tory. announced the first direct be sure of whom ,you arrested" in conversion of nuclear reactor en- the confusion? ergy into electric power. Several identifactions were made Support from the project en- based upon distinguishing char- abled Donald A. Glazer to develop acteristics, although the 22-min- the bubble chamber, a device for ute movie film was the prosecu- visualizing the behavior of atomic tion's main evidence. One deputy particles, for which he won the said he recalled Miss Burell be- Nobel Prize in 1960. cause she was wearing a' "loosely Phoenix, the bird that rises from .;buttoned blouse" that ripped open -the ashes, does not live in the during the arrest. Another.officer glory of the late '50's, however. identified Miss Curry as having worn hair curlers during the day, t x t r M 1948 as a memorial to'formerJni- versity students killed in World War II. ple must feel the police are there to protect them and not to harm them." He said that if elected, he "will be sheriff for everyone.," Lwis is running against incun- bent Democratic sheriff Douglas Harvey and a former sheriff, George Petersen, a Republican. Chances for a Lewis victory ap- pear good, CNP executive secre- tary Barry Blues tone, Grad, told the audience.Bluestone said he thinks Petersen and Harvey will ''split the racist vote."' Erwin Gaede, minister -of the Unitarian Church in Ann Arbor, l urged the election of Lewis. Gaede said the issue of law and order being waged by Lewis' op- ponents is a "phoney" one. The minister said the real issue is public anxiety about "the fer- ment of change." He claimed peo- pie don't want to be bothered by change. They let law enforcement officials and administrators try to stop it." Joining Gaede in speaking for Lewis was Jesse McClure, Grad. McClure said, "The people must decide at what point they are go- ing to determine their awn'des- Spectators in the courtroom shouted "Power tO the people" ' t mpo ar and "Free Huey," drawing scowlsororities fin temporar lie and a rebuke from Judge Fried--- man. . /'1 n 7 .7 70 RP.cpn. c,.hp c nrr irr a i 1v Tt om me -Vol r Newton was spirited from the jail, where he had been held for more than 10 months, out of sight of his supporters. Leather-jacketed' Black Panthers and weeping rela- tives had grouped on the Alameda County Courthouse steps in hopes of bidding him goodbye- Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, now embroiled in controversy asI a scheduled lecturer at the Uni-1 versity of California, had an- nounced there would be a news' conference on the steps to discuss reaction to the sentence. But Cleaver, who had said "ifE Huey is convicted the sky's the limit," abruptly canceled the con- ference. He was reported to have done so on the advice of Newton's lawyer, Charles. Garry. Garry protested the denial of 'bail, saying Newton's appeal would take 18 months to two and one- half years. "Unless bail is granted, he will, be putting in all this dead time Cwithout recompense," the lawyer said. t E Radicals talk at Na w111an Three leaders in student move-' ments at universities will discuss, their views on the New Left at 3 p.m. today at the Newman Cen- ter. Spokesmen for the University ofI Turin Strike Committee (Italy),. the French Sorbonne Action Com- mittee and the Columbia Univer- sity Strike Committee will present their positions and answer ques- tions from the audience. The foreign students came to the United States to attend theI International Conference of Rev- olutionary Students last week at! Columhi in Oxford 'p-easant but limited' By NADINE COHODAS After a controversial agreement with the University, the two black sororities on campus. Delta SigmaI Theta and Alpha Kappa Alpha, havV made a successful move to Oxford Housing.' University housing director John Feldka-mp says the agree- ment with the sororities provides them with housing in Oxford for' one year. If the sororities want, the agreement can be continued another year. By 1970, however, Feldkamp says the sororities must find their own housing.1 Richard Rosen, th° new director of Oxford, says so far the tem- porary situation is working out well. Since the sororities have been at Oxford for barely a month, Rosen says there are many things which "still have not been brought up." Rosen says th° sororities are not taking space away from un- affiliated girls who wanted to live in Oxford. He says 22 spaces were still available in August for un- affiliated girls in the freestanding houses. (Aside from Goddard and Vandenberg, two co-ops are taken up by French and German houses.) Carol Peaks, Alpha Kappa Al- pha president, says it is "nice to be able to be together now." Ox- ford is convenient, she adds, but it is not "the focus" of the soror- ity. Sorority members find there are some limitations to living in Ox- ford. Both sororities occupy co- ops with attached non-sorority suites. Delta Sigma Theta is sit- uated in Goddard House, Alpha Kappa Alpha in Vandenberg. The sororities must share their respec- tive lounges with girls liivng in the suites. versity had in fact come to the trying to find where housing sororities in 1966 offering t h e m needs are. "We had heard of a housing Oxford housing but "somehow need for the sororities," Feldkamp that offer has gotten lost in tha ; says, "and there was a time when shuffle." The sororities turned we asked if they would be inter- down the offer, Miss Peaks says, ested. This was no guarantee they since they did not believe it was would get space, however." a wise move at that time. When Officers of the Inter-Coopera- they took up the offer last year, tive Council (ICC) last year con- Miss Peaks explains "everyone sidered petitioning the University seemed to forget the University Housing Office for permission to made the initial offer." run Oxford as a "true" co-opera- Feldkamp admits "feelers" wer tive. However, the attempt was put out to the sororities but says dropped when the black sororities it wasnot unlike any other situa- droped wen the baksorg tion where the housing office is: gained use of the housing. 0LeL e of the arrests. departments of Physics, Nuclear tinies." Engineering, and Chemistry con- Municipal Judge Samuel J. El-dy tinue what Martin calls 'a "high; den, in a sometimes vehement Lewis charged that Herv ey's de- qualityxprogram. tone, warned the jurors against cision to close the Ypsilanti area Onesericth proectperorm entering the jury room without sub.-station placed an inconven- One service the project performs ting away al other considera- ience on the people of that area is supplying University Hospital s and also laced a reater burden and several other, facilities within eions but the law- la ceet bur an ours divewit a astdecm- Elden, in his 30 minute instruc- on other law enforcement offi- an hour's drive with a fast-decom- , n ote y0 eintu cas posing florine isotope used in di-' tions to the jury, said he was "as-vil agnosing bone cancer. tounded" after reading a "Letter Harvey closed the substation, One researcher .romntheshl to the Editor" in the Ann Arbor because he c I a i m e d it was of edtngin-Pub ealhr i h scoo News. The letter was sent by a "too burdensome for my limited ofd chbickenmath to crhdcktmg fr juror in the Sept. 19 welfare trial staff" and was not an economical facted chicken meat to check for of mothers. In it the juror said operation. sterilization.the six men considered political Other CNP candidates besides Sometimes the labs are empty. ramifications, as well as statutory Lewis include: Eldridge Cleaver "People think researchers are law. for President, Larry Hockman for busy in the lab all, the time," Elden condemned these jurors Vice-President Bert Garskoff for Jones says. "Muchof the time is for "setting aside justice" and Congress in Michigan's - Second proclaimed he was "very firm that District, and University students spent thinking, writing and setting passions and synipathies are not Eric Chester, Grad, and Tom Copi, up." to enter into your judgment-they '69 Ed., for the University Board See REACTOR, Page 8 are not an element of justice." of Regents. 'TWO, THREE, MANY MARCHES' t 1'" New anti-war target: NEW YORK Leaders in the testimony from returning sol- their point loudly and contin- antiwar movement have drawn diers; uously to recoup in visibility up protest tactics for a concert- -Nationwide demonstrations what they lack in numbers. ed attempt to disrupt the pres- demanding amnesty for sol- In Oakland, Calif., Hayden idential campaign and are diers who contend they cannot said peace groups are consider- planning a giant assault on fight conscionably in Vietnam; ing at least one, possibly two Washington during inaugural -Election eve demonstra- massive marches in Washing- ceremonies Jan. 20. tions against both Nixon's and ton. The demonstrations, some of Humphrey's candidacies: "What we do in Washington which have already begun, are . -A voters' strike with par- is cnditional on the outcome being directed by the same or- ticipants voting only for local of the election," Hayden said. ganzes holed the Chicago an congresinonpec cadi- "If it is close enough to go to g rs w hd congessional peace candi the House of Representatives protests during the Democratic dates, and w ilwn ob rudt National Convention.e, we will want to be around to " h -Attempts by demonstrators make our feelings clear. Their purpose is to "put the in Minnesota and New York to "If the winner seems to show new president on notice that turn in their draft cards to total inability to deal with the the pressure isn't going to let Humphrey and Nixon as the Vietnam war and the racial up, that we aren't going to dis- two men vote. situation, we'll be there when appear just because Lyndon Conspicuously exempt from he's inaugurated. 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