Missile Race, French Crisis Top '58 By BARTON HUTHWAITE Gaulle's powerful supporters had a strong 189 vote plurality in the legislative house. Unexpected events crowded into the year of 2958 causing shifts of So far, the World War II hero has kept silent on his Algerian power and the emergence of new figures on the world's political scene. policies. French Army officials have said they will not obey de Gaulle The policies of tomorrow will, in large part, be determined by these if no other solution than integration with France is reached in Algeria. events of the past year.f Meanwhile the Algerian Nationalist Movement, the FLN, continues to harrass troops and demand complete independence. Space Race Tightens . '..Alaska Becomes 49th State .. . Missiles made news the entire year as the United States began to Alaskans widely celebrated June 30 as the Territory was voted in show signs of outstripping the Russians in space developments. A 4ska ely celUnton. Spurred on by public indignation over the Soviet's Sputnik I anda tsa eothns en d II, Army, Navy and Air Force scientific teams sent six successful space tlaska's acceptance spelled an end to a battle begun in 1916 when shots aloft. Explorer I, the United States' first answer to the Sputnik. th- first statehood bill w ias introduced to Congress. Purchased from rocketed skyward Jan. 31 to a record breaking satellite height of 1,587 F assia in 1867 for only 7.2 million dollars, eSeward's Icebox" eagerly miles. awaited their first opportunity to vote for representation in Congress. _ 1-WiT liT . E iAn was elected sovernor in the first state- Since then, three more satellites ha'1e been fired into orbit around the earth; the Navy's Vanguard I an a the Army's Explorer III and IV. After several failures, the United States finally launched the first moon-probe Pioneer I to an unheard height of 71,300 miles earlier this month. The Pioneer III failed in an attempt to orbit the sun but scientists} termed the firing a "success" on the basis of data collected. France Finds New Leader... - Plagued by political unstability and the long-smoldering Algerian civil war, France's Fourth Republic toppled dramatically last May. Parachutist General Jacques Massu led Algerian rightist military leaders in demanding the recall of Pierre Pflimlin as the country's 25th postwar premier. In his place, the powerful army called for 68-year-old ex-General Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle dissolved the faction-rid National Assembly, assumed near-dictatorial powers and mapped out a new constitution for France's Fifth Republic. The constitutional draft was unanimously accepted later this year and the subsequent election revealed de D.emnocraL" iiaii ,al\mipt1uLusv gv lvi.._-; wide election. Congressional leaders foresee Alaska's success as a F strong indication that Hawaii will become the 50th state in the Union I in the near future. Revolt in Iraq . . Long celebrated as the West's strongest Arab bastion in the Middle East, Iraq fell under the sweeping tide of Arab nationalism last July. In a bloody but quiet coup, nationalist leader Major General Abdul Kareem El-Kassim led a handful of military officers in overthrowing the pro-Western regime of King Faisal. Without firing a shot, the nationalists silently took over all important government positions in Baghdad and assassinated King Faisal and Crown Prince Abdul Illah. The revolution caused a rift in the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact and the Arab Federation of Jordan and Iraq. El-Kassim proclaimed himself Premier as well as Minister of Defense and the Interior. One of his first acts was to sign a treaty of mutual defense with Nasser's United Arab Republic. The new govern- I See REVIEW, page 2 FIRST SATELLITE-The Gantry moves away from Jupiter C missile prior to the missile's January launching which carried the first United States satellite into orbit from Cape Canaveral. I 6SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS SixtEigoian Sxy-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom.. :!Iai4I CLOUDY, COWER VO. LXIX, No. 76 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 158FIVE CENTS EIGHT PAGS I House Committee Asks Seat Refusal GroupWants Alford To Stand Aside Pending Full Election. Investigation WASHINGTON (A) - A special House committee yesterday rec- ommended that the House refuse to seat Dr. Dale Alford, segregation- ist who defeated Rep. Brooks Hays (D-Ark). The committee divided 3-2. The majority report was submitted by Reps. Thomas O'Neill (D- Mass.), Kenneth Keating (R-N.Y.) and David Dennison (R-Ohio). Should Stand Aside The majority report read to newsmen stated that Alford should be "asked to stand aside and be not seated" pending a 'thorough investigation of the i Controlle Suspend Recommi University nds State Payments 'Would Necessitate i Bretton Says Creal Against Urban Plan By LANE VANDERSLICE Prof. Henry Bretton of the po- litical science department said yesterday that the election of] Cecil Creal as Ann Arbor's mayor -would mean the end of urban re- newal in Ann Arbor. Creal "would preside over the burial" of urban renewal if he is elected, Prof. Bretton said. Against Urban Renewal Creal has privately opposed ur- ban renewal in the past, he said. "Whether Creal has changed his personal attitude toward urban renewal or not, many of his pres- ent backers, including Mayor Brown, certainly would want t6' kill urban renewal with a venge- ance," Prof. Bretton said. Notwithstanding Creal's fine; contributions to community life, he could not divorce himself from a basically negative social philos- ophy if elected mayor, Prof. Bret- ton said. Lacks Incentive To Improve . This would show up, Prof. Bret- ton said, in the absence of an in- centive to improve and modernize municipal services. "To take a specific example, the city's fire department is in need of moderni- zation. I doubt if Creal would do! anything significant towards the improvement of that service," he said. . Creal, who has served 14 years in City Council posts, will run against Dr. Frederic B. House, former board of education presi- dent in the Feb. 16 Republican primary. Bretton said he was "positive" that what he termed the "small' but vociferous" group in the city opposed to urban renewal would be found in the Creal camp. "I have grave doubts that Creal would disown this group," Prof. Bretton said. election. Alford won the election as a write-in candidates against Hays who had called himself a moder- ate on the school integration is- sue. The majority report said that testimony presented by Little Rock weekly newspaper publish- er John F. Wells "established in the opinion of a majority of the -ommittee a prima facie case of fraud and irregularity in the con- :uct of the general election in the fifth congressional district of Arkansas directly affecting the outcome of the election and the right of either candidate to a seat" in the House. Committee Lacks Time The majority report further said that the committee which ex- pires Jan. 3 lacks time for a full investigation and said that its lim- ited inquiry showed that the prob- lems raised by Wells' complaint could not be resolved by Jan. 3. "The magnitude and gravity of the charges and the supporting evidence now before us require a complete investigation," the ma- jority said. The recommendation suggested the House should set a time limit for investigation completion. The minority members were ' Reps. Clifford Davis (D-Tenn.) and Robert E. Jones (D-Ala,.). Group Starts New Engme Development WASHINGTON (P) -- This country's hope of being the first' to rocket a man into space took an upward turn yesterday - at a prospective cost of about 200. million dollars. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) gave a California firm the job of developing a huge engine de- signed, NASA said, "to deliver far more thrust than any other rocket et now in existence." NASA's head, Dr. T. Keith Glennan, disclosed in a speech last night that the effort to put a man into space is called Opera- tion Mercury. "We shall be workingtvery hard," Glennan said, "but at the very earliest, success of this ven- ture is several years away." NASA selecvted Rocketdyne to design and develop an engine with up to 1,500,000 pounds of thrust. "Performance flight rating tests of the engine will be based on un- manned vehicle applications," the announcement said, "but it may eventually propel manned satel- lites and space craft." Such an engine could launch space payloads weighing several tons. SGC Fails To Pass FUL By PHILIP MUNCK A move to re-establish the Free University of Berlin exchange program failed to pass Student NATO Plans Build-Up Government Council by one vote last night. With a vote of six for and six against and two abstentions, SGC's president, Maynard Gold- man, '59, chose not to break the tie And the -motion failed. If passed, the program would have sent two students to the West Berlin university and brought one German student to the campus. STUDENT EXCHANGE: Pro osal-- 11 Million Loan the Junior year abroad program than all this effort spent on the State Wayne Free University of Berlin." Michigan State, 4 U PARIS ('-) The North Atlan- The total program, Scott unrys- tic Treaty Alliance voted formally ler, '59BAd., said would have cost yesterday to beef up its defenses SGC about $700. He reported the with more missiles, planes and di- first year's cost of the program, visions, was about $1,400: The program The alliance took the decision was discontinued last spring. in a formal resolution to doits Ask Program Reports best torbringtedefinseodorces The Council later passed a mo- best t rin ih udefense forces tion by David Kessel, Grad., call- clared necessary by Gen. Lauris nataional Committee to report to Norstad, supeme allied com- the Council on the various ex- mander i rope. change programs available to But the goals for increased de- University students. fensive might were listed in the The exchange program with resolution as objectives. And the FUB is good and interesting, Barry history of NATO is that objectives Shapiro, '59, said, but "we have are usually ahead of achieve- already had it. It is time to look ments. around for other programs." The annual military review es- Various Council members ex- timated there was no reduction in pressed interest in programs in the extent of the Soviet war ma- the Near East and Southeast Asia chine nor any reduction in its and in pushing a junior year threat. The Soviets were pictured abroad program. Goldman said as able to pour one million, troops one reason he did not vote is that quickly into Central Europe in "I think the Council could better any showdown. devote its time to something like Gives Tentative Approval SGC gave tentative approval to a plan to bring an unspecified number of state legislators to campus to give them "first-hand knowledge of the University and what it is doing." The plan now calls for the legis- lators to arrive on the noon of Jan. 12 and spend that day and the next touring the campus and attending classes with student guides. This all. depends, Barton Buck- halter, '61, newly-appointed Edu- cation and Student Welfare Com- mittee chairman said, on whether any legislators will come. The legislative session begins Jan. 14. Vote Against Loyalty Oath Student Government Council last night adopted a resolution against student loyalty oaths, spe- cifically referring to the National Defense Act of 1958. Under the Act, student partici- pating in national loan and fel- lowship programs must swear to "bear true faith and allegiance to the United States" and to "sup- port and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." The Council did not approve a resolution against written affi- davits, after the statement against oaths was passed by a divided vote. Resulting from a letter report- ing similar action by the Swarth- more Student Council last week, the motion, presented to the Council by Al Haber, '60, calls "test oaths of this nature" an "in- fringement on academic freedom." It also states such oaths "exer- cise a restraint on free inquiry, and are ineffective either in fight- ing subversion or encouraging loyalty." Sta ubach Sas May Be'Affected b Action State Controller James W. Miller recommended yesterday the state suspend all payments to the three large state universities until March. If carried out, the University would have to borrow almost $11 million to continue its operations until March, University President Harlan Hatcher said in a statement yesterday. Recommended to Governor Miller, who does not have the power to stop such payments to the University, Michigan State and Wayne State Universities, recom- mended the action to Gov. G. Mennen Williams as the only way out of the state's "cash crisis." The state currently owes the University two SPREAD CHEER: 'Caroling Urge Seizes Campus Groups monthly payments of $2.6 mnillion4 each. Miller said the retention of the $28 million normally due the universities by March 1 offered "the most reasonable answer" to the state's financial crisis, in light of a predicted state debt of $100 million by July. President Hatcher's statement termed such action "disastrous for higher education in the state," adding, the University cannot meet its December payroll without bor- rowing. Doubt Borrowing Ability 'the statement continues: "In addition to a substantial burden of interest charges on whatever it can borrow, there is serious fi- nancial and legal doubt whether the University could obtain the almost $11 million necessary to finance its operations into March." The Regents authorized Uni- versity borrowing to meet pay- rolls at their meeting Dec. 12. Miller, in his call to Gov. Wil- liams, who is vacationing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said, "when we could resume supporting the uni- versities would depend entirely on how soon the legislature acted to get new cash into the till." Legislature Must Act The legislature, which opens its regular session Jan. 14, must act or there will be no further pay- ment at least until March, Miller said. MSU President John A. Hannah and President Hatcher "don't like the situation," Miller said, "but they were realistic about it and recognized the conditions." Miller said stopping payments4 to the universities will keep $28 million in the state treasury for payrolls, welfare, and "other es- World News Roi dp By The Associated Press TOKYO - Mao Tze-Tung's re- tirement as president of Red China raised hopes amnog anti- Communist Asians yesterday that the Peiping regime is cracking.' But most Western diplomats ex- pected no change in Peiping pol- icy. The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, in a carefully worded communique breaking the news to the 600 million Chinese oi the mainland, emphasized that Mao is still the boss, , * S BOGOTA - Colombia mourned for 82 victims of fire and panic that turned a department store into a death trap for Christmas shoppers. The fire and frenzied stampede swept the Vida store im downtown Bogota Tuesday night. WASHINGTON - The personal income of Americans climbed to a record rate of 360 billion dol- lars a year in November. The Commerce Department, re- porting this' yesterday called it a 2% billion dollar gain from Oc- tober. The substantial rise assured an all-year income total of more than 353 billion dollars. This would be five billion more than 11~ By FAITH WEINSTEIN With the approach of the Christmas season, several groups on campus have been seized by the urge to go caroling. Among these groups was a combined chorus of Mary Markley's Elliot House and South Quad's Reeves House, who spread Christmas, cheer over a good part of the campus last night. After a rousing, if rather chilly start at the house of University President Harlan Hatcher, the group descended on the Law Quad, where they were received with some rather annoyed comment from several busy students. The carolers retaliated with a chorus of "Good Night Ladies," and moved on. They were followed by a cry of "but there is no Santa Claus" from a disgruntled law student. On to West Quad West Quad was the next recipient of tht carolers' unbounded spirit. The group sang several carols which were received with less I trac"e than at the TIan CviOu;4 Rut* ti,,, ,'ovrn,,,,,r.a i,,,'lirntpd. JIB,%