Renewal rea Residents Differ Widely Urban necessary maintain, will cost. Renewal is absolutely 1 for Ann Arbor, some and worth whatever it; Renewal is unnecessary, others answer, and would waste tax- payers' money. Urban Renewal is opposed by a few selfish men-by the vast ma- jority of area residents. Renewal would leave widows and old people without homes-it is necessary to let people live like human beings. These and many other argu- ments, some reasoned and some irrational, rage across the city. Perhaps more common than either a pro or a con opinion is the state of baffled'ignorance in which many still remain. Nowhere are the lines of con- flict more sharply drawn than in the renewal area itself, a rec- tangle four blocks wide running from Ann Street to the railroad tracks. Even there, though, a great many peqple remain uninformed. 'Liviii Like Rats ., "I definitely dislike living with rats," Mrs. Benjamin Wilson of 633 N. Fourth Ave., says. She is not troubled with many now, she said, though her house is "susceptible to rats" only be- cause a large, black and white lab- oratory rat once got loose in her house and seems- to deter other rodents by its presence. "But I'd like to live in a house where there aren't any rats," she said, "black and white, gray, or any other color." "I'm in favor of Urban Re- newal," she declared. "I'm in favor of anything which will make me a little more proud to live here. "I'd like to live in a neighbor- hood I could tell people I lived in and they'd know I live in a nice neighborhood with well-built houses and good lawns, where people can take pride in what they have." Houses 'Too Sound',... "A relocation program is inap- propriate for Ann Arbor," Walter J. Wickliffe of 305 Beakes St. de- clared. Rehabilitation would be all right, he said, but the area is "structurally too sound" to need a relocation program. Relocation has Merit, he ex- Even if their homes could not plained, "if you go into an area be fully rehabilitated, he said, why, with no economic value left, and not simply say they could not be with-nohigecontoialueland- passed on to another owner while with a high rate of absentee land- they were below code? That devicej lordism." Ann Arbor's proposed would allow their elderly occupantsI renewal area, however, is "not to live in them until they die, and characterized by extreme dilapida- when they did the houses would tion," and it is 80 per cent home- be rehabilitated or removed. owned, Rehabilitation should be enough, Wickliffe said. Only about 11 houses are in such bad shape that they should be removed. "Volun- tary rehabilitation has been going on for several years." One local financial institution alone, he said, has $610,000 in mortgage and FHA improvement loans in the area. "The possibility of Urban Renewal has retarded voluntary rehabilita- tion in the area." The present plan is "fine inI theory," Wickliffe says, but it falls down because it "doesn't consider the human element." He says the area is "characterized by a high, percentage of elderly people, in- cluding widows and World War I veterans, who fully own their homes, and whose homes could last them as long as they live." Eminent Domain . . If Urban Renewal comes in, he says, many of these people will be unable to borrow enough money to bring their homes up to code, despite the PHA guarantees of loans. "If you couldn't get a loan without Urban Renewal, you couldn't get one with it. For any loan the circumstances must be sound, and age and reduced in- come are primary considerations." Wickliffe is president of the North Central Property Owners' Association, a group formed to op- pose Urban Renewal that includes relocation. Last July the group cir- culated a petition against the re- newal plan among the owners of property in the area. Wickliffe said it got the signa- tures of 95 per cent of the pro- perty-owners. Since then, he said, only one person has asked to with- draw his name. "The property- owners don't want Urban Re- newal," he declared. Another petition was circulated last November, he said -- among the owners of property on the west side of Main St. between Felch and Summit. -It protested the re- zoning as residential of those pro- perties. It got more than one hundred natnes, including those of almost all the residents and pro- perty-owners who would be affect- ed by the rezoning. The people affected oppose the rezoning, he said, because it would decrease their property values. [The change has been written into the plan, and the City Council has not acted on the petition ex- cept to have it filed. Wickliffe called the Plan Stand- ards Committee "the most dis- graceful thing that's ever hap- pened in Ann Arbor city politics." Of its 28 members, he said, only eight represented the North Cen- tral Property Owners' Association, See AREA, Page 8 SELF-HELP-Virgil Huey works at keeping his house and lawn in good condition. Though he concedes that many of his neighbors do not, he says they should be given a chance to do so be- fore Renewal. I :w .. waaaavv vv svaawww" FACULTY-STUDENT CONTACT GOOD AT 'U' Oee Page 4 Sixty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom Uh CLOUDY, WARMER VOL. LXIX, No. 164 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1959 FIVE CENTS TEN PAGES Professors Report MSU Row Healing Hart Denies Accounts Of Increasing Strife By THOMAS HAYDEN A sensitive dispute between Michigan State University faculty and administrators over the rights of teachers is slowly mending, the head of the MSU chapter of the American Association of Univer- sity Professors said yesterday. Prof. Harold Hart told The Daily that he and other members of the AAUP were "grossly misquoted" by wire services and state news- papers who reported that faculty- administration strife was increas- ing. Although some divisions of opinion exist, "we (faculty and ad- ministration) are coming closer together and the situation is gen- erally improving." Describes Administration One professor had been quoted as describing a "dictatorship by the administration. Many of us are not only told what to teach but how to teach." Prof. Hart said there have been "alleged" violations in some areas, particularly in "dictation of course content" by the adminis- tration. Such difficulties have come up, notably in the MSU basic college (a two-year school for freshmen and sophomores), he explained. Faculty curriculum committees are now ironing out problems how- ever., Prof. Hart added. Holds Prerogative He maintained "curriculum mat- ters are the -prerogative of the faculty." Another professor, Marvin D. Solomon, of the natural science department, was quoted by a De- troit paper and the Associated Press as saying "two communities exist on this campus-one is for the administrators and the other for the teaching faculty." Curriculum matters, he con- tinued, are the "exclusive province of the teaching faculty - but at MSU this is absolutely not the case." Prof. Solomon refused to com- ment further to The Daily, but said he had been both "misquoted and quoted out of context." TTennis Team Downs Indiana Special to The Daily BLOOMINGTON - Michigan closed its regular dual-meet ten- nis season yesterday by downing Indiana's netmen 9-0. The Wolverines highlighted the season's climax by handling highly rated Illinois, 6-3, Friday and then whitewashing the Hoosiers. Overall this year the 'M' net- ters have earned a nine won, one loss record, the only loss to power- f . rn nama CAIRO: Press Hints SChOOIS Seek ' Iraq, Reds May Split CAIRO (-) - The Cairo Press hinted yesterday there may be an Faculty b Crisis IDurm0 State Cas . -Daiy-Jua . odriguez ROTC AWARDS--Dean Robert L. Williams of the education school presents Robert B. Johnson with the University of Michigan President's Award. Waiting for the same presentation, symbolic of highest standing in the three graduating ROTC classes, are John 0. Grettenberg, Carl D. Martenson and Richard J. Trzas- koma. Cadets 'Get Awards Durn Celebration Presentation of 46 awards highlighted the annual Armed Forces celebration by the University's combined Army, Air Force and Navy ROTC units yesterday at Ferry Field. Army Cadet Colonel Robert B. Johnson, Midshipmen John O. Grettenberger and Carl D. Martenson, and Air Force Cadet Colonel Richard J. Trzaskoma received the University of Michigan President's Minister Abdel Karim Kassem ndL gislators This is the first time in months that the Egyptians have expressedPdR any hope that Kassem could be saved from Communism.h- Since late last year the local" press has tended to write off Kas- In .X a 11ni sem as a hopeless prisoner of the Communists. Some papers even said Kassem was a card-carrying WASHINGTON W) - Congres-' Communist himself. sional tax leaders expect the Eisenhower Administration to ask Carry Reports Congress soon for another increase Today, however, Cairo'sstwo in the government's debt ceiling, most widely circulated papers, Al now at a peacetime high. Ahram and Akhbar El Yom, car-[ They are guessing that Secretary ried front page reports of growing of the Treasury Robert B. Ander- tension between the Communists son sometime in the next few and Kassem. weeks will propose a new limit of Both papers stressed Kassem's 290 billion dollars. This would be resistance to Communist demands two bilions above the present for participation in the cabinettw bilig a ov n the andfortheresmpionof egii-ceiling and not far under the and for the resumption. of legiti- World War II figure of 300 billions. mate political party activity. The present permanent limita- Akhbar El Yom said the Iraqi Communists had decided to go un- tion on government borrowig is derground after being frustrated 283 billion dollars. But Congress in their bid to take over Iraq last year, as it has done periodi- through open political pressure. cally, raised this temporarily to Communists Get Panicky 288nbillion dollars, effective until "The Communists, who only last Jues0. week were getting ready to take President Dwight D. Eisenhower wek in Iraq's government, are [has suggested raising the perma- partnyIman yA nent limit from 283 to 285 billions. suddenly becoming panicky," Akh- But with the government hard bar El Yom declared. "The Com- Bes for readyvcashnAndero munist Party suddenly received in- pressed for ready cash, Anderson structions last week that it should now is expected to ask additional immediately reorganize its secret tor y b authority to borrow up machneryso tat i migt goto 290 billion dollars to get through machinery so that it might go the coming year, underground in a bid to wrest power by force." Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.), Al Ahram said the situation in chairman of the House Ways and Iraq at the moment was "not at Means Committee, told a reporter all comprehensible." The paper he plans public hearing when An- went on to list signs of friction derson appears before his com- between the Communists and the mittee. Kassem government. Mills declined to comment on Al Ahram pointed to Kassem's the nature of the hearing. Other refusal to legalize political parties sources, however, said committee despite Communist demands and Democrats would attempt to pin his refusal to admit Communists down Administration revenue to the cabinet, even though one of plans, and try to determine his own ministers had demanded whether the Administration has this. any proposals to cut spending. MOSCOW SPEECH: Khrushchev Boosts Hope For Useful Negotiations GENEVA (P)-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev opened up yes- terday a prospect of serious negotiations between Russia and the Western powers at the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference. In a speech in Moscow, Khrushchev rebuffed the Western package plan approach to a German peace settlement and the problem of European security and disarmament. But he added: "The proposals of the Western powers contain some matters which are worthy of examination and which we shall not oppose. On the contrary, we shall be prepared to= seek solutions at the round table." Herter Plans Strategy The statement came as Secretary of State Christian Herter was reported planning to propose secret diplomacy for the next phase of the talks here. Herter has decided" that it is the best way to probe Russia's real aims here and flnd .ac lt e w out whether it is possible to make " enough progress toward agreement O m prom ise to justify a summit conference. Khrushchev said the Western A t Geneva r lan "10 4enl.frai n '> (M' Trackmen Score Victory At Ohio State By The Associated Press COLUMBUS - Michigan's high flying track team continued unde-t feated in outdoor competition with{ an easy 873-43% victory over Ohio State yesterday. In the season's final dual com- petition the Wolverines took 10 ofi 14 first places and star sophomore Tony Seth broke the Ohio Stadium< record for the half-mile run. Seth was timed in 1:50.7 only four-tenths of a second over the, Big Ten record. Robinson Stays Here Michigan's sensational sopho more sprinter Tom Robinson re- mained in Ann Arbor as his in- jured right thigh has been a little slow responding to treatment. With Robinson shelved, John Gregg, who has been traveling, in Robinson's shadow all year, took over and won both the 100-yard1 and 220-yard dashes to become thej meet's only double winner. Gregg's; winning times were :09.8 in the 100-yard dash and :22.0 in the1 220-yard dash. Senior pole vaulter Eeles Land- strom continued his winning ways with a jump of 14'8". Treux Wins; In the two-mile run Don Treux' won his initial triumph romping c., rvr rrr.vw - r -._c Award from Dean Robert L. Wil- liams of the education school. The award is given annually to the outstanding cadets in each of the three classes. Midshipman Martenson served as commander of the troops as they marched in review before the reviewing officer, Associate Dean Walter J. Emmons of the engi- neering college, and other civil, military and university dignitaries. The troop commander is selected from the three branches in ro- tating years. About 900 cadets participated in the review. Four military exhibitions rounded out the day's ceremonies. STARRING LEON peace pian -is put frorward only for one purpose, to put the blame on us. They won't have that pleasure."E The Soviet leader declared that the real author of the Western proposals is not in Geneva. Refer- ing to West German Chancellor} Konrad Adenauer, he said: Adenauer's Shadow Present "The shadow of Adenauer is there." Herter made known his views to close associates after watching initial sessions of the conference which opened here last Monday. The work of the conference, moreover, is approaching the point for what diplomats call private discussions. That means resort to a limited secret diplomacy with a sharp reduction of public disclos- ure about what is being discussed. I A AMES: By JUDITH DONER "I'm not optimistic about their reaching a meaningful agreement, but this does not rule out some sort of compromise," Prof. Harold Jacobson of the political science [department said of the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference at Geneva. "A lot of sort of sparring has, been going on," he asserted, "but this can never lead to any change in the power status or to unifica- tion of Berlin." Archibald Singham also of the political science department in effect concurred with Prof. Jacob- son's analysis, maintaining that S"although some concessions may be made, it, at most, clears the air for a Summit Conference. Singham insisted that "you couldn't find two plans so far distant from one another," as the remedies which the West and So- viets offer to the German problem. Authority Differs He emphasized that the West. cannot expect any dramatic solu- tions, given the nature of the So- viet system. '"The delegation of authority to foreign ministers is not the same as in the United States," Singham reported. "The Soviets negotiate only on the basis of their heads of state," he noted. Realizing this, he continued, the press has a real responsibility not to delude the public to expect any- thing great from Geneva. "The news was 'managed' to assure suc- cess at the last Geneva Confer- ence," Singham claimed. This can- not happen again. Calls Geneva 'Stage' Niehuss Sees Coming Year As Critical Vice-President Gives Three-Point Program By NAN MARKEL More schools are looking for new faculty members at the Uni- versity because of the state's cash crisis, Vice-President and Dean of Faculties Marvin Niehuss indi- cated yesterday. Earlier, in a speech before more than 300 surgeons and physicians gathered here for Doctors' Day, he said next year will be especially critical in determining whether or not the University can hold its faculty. "I have seen 60 to 70 offers to our faculty from other schools and colleges," he told the group. They offer positions ranging from assistant professor upward and carry average salary offerings of $13,400, he said. Cites Lower Average The same positions here cur- rently pay an average of $10,000. Stressing the damage in the un- certainty which the crisis gives to the future, Niehuss outlined a 3- point program of action. 1) The University will put money it gets from the state into salaries first. This is essential, he emphasized. 2) The lid will be put on student enrollment, holding it at this year's level. I 3) The state must make sub- stantial increases in faculty sal- aries for next year. The vice-president also gave figures on the University's current financial condition, noting that a similar situation exists at Michi- gan State University and other state-supported schools. Must Find $1.2 Million "The University must find $1.2 million in they next two weeks to meet the May 30 payroll," he said. In addition, it needs $1.3 million for the June 7 payroll and $1.5 million for the June 12 payroll." Earlier in the week, a statement from the office of Vice-President in Charge of Business and Finance Wilbur Pierpont showed the state owed the University $8,970,830 in unpaid vouchers as of May 1. For the balance of the fiscal year ending June 30, the state- ment noted payments due adding up to $2,795,830. Hospital Holds Visitors' Day Comedy'Howie' To Open Tomorrow The Drama Season will present "Howie," a new comedy, in a e I week-long run beginning Monday.