_f , NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 BUSINESS PHONE: 764-0554 T4r, 51cr4!Mrn ttit second front parge MASS MEETING TONIGHT 8 P.M. Ugh Multi-Purpose Room ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION, CHICAGO April 5 PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM Presents FtrTatfra Festival Theatre of Canada Thursday, April 3, 1969 Ann Arbor, Michigan Page Three the news to day by The Associated Press and College Press Service Welfare groups ask credit rights V car T rli GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER was interred in the crypt Org of a chapel in his hometown of Abilene, Kansas. Arb President Nixon, former President Johnson, and other dignitaries a ca attended the short funeral rites in a chapel near the Eisenhower dep Library yesterday. ber Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower was weeping as she left the interrment divi services, but was composed as she paid a final visit to -the chapel N three hours after the services. disc Police estimated over 100,000 people visited the small Kansas by town to pay last respects to the former president. ofc A CZECHOSLOVAK LEADERS, bowing to a Soviet ultimatum, it c clamped down on the press and others who oppose Soviet-dictated cre policy. Sea The Communist party presidium yesterday ordered censorship divi of all news media and directed the Interior Ministry to find "perpe- izen trators of unlawful acts" and punish them. The government ordered M the army to assist the police in maintaining order. The directives came in the wake of widespread anti-Soviet out- bursts following the victory of the Czechoslovak hockey team over Pr the Russians last week. The offices of the Soviet airline Aeroflot were sacked as 200,000 Czechs celebrated the victory in Prague. Following the outbreaks the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister and i Defense Minister visited Prague, apparently to deliver a warning to O Czechoslovak leaders. By STUART GANNES Kant to burn your Sears Roebuck credit -d? his afternoon, George Wiley, executive actor of the National Welfare Rights ;anization (NWRO) will be in Ann or to aid local groups in organizing aampaign to get Sears and other major artment stores to give credit to mem- s of welfare rights groups without in- dual credit checks. WRO claims "Sears Roebuck & Co. criminates against welfare, recipients refusing to allow them the benefits credit." lthough the Sears management says onsiders "the extension and amount of dit a personal matter" and therefore rs "makes its credit decision on an in- dual basis," local welfare rights organ- s doubt their sincerity. vrs. Kate Emerson, an ADC mother res ident UPCO CCNY Fe feels the current process "doesn't usually work out and that welfare recipients ar e denied credit fairly automatically." In the past few days, representatives from four welfare rights organizations in Washtenaw County have been negotiating with C. W. Jones, manager of the Sears store in Ann Arbor. The groups are trying to convince Jones to accept the NWRO demands that: - Sears enter into a formal written agreement with NWR to assure nondis- crimination for welfare recipients; -- The agreement assures each NWRO member family at least $150 of revolving credit; - There be no special interest charges beyond those normally charged on unpaid balances; - that $8 per month be the maximum repayment schedule of welfare recipients. Local organizers say that if the store accepts the NWRO demands, it will be following a precedent already set by a Sears store in Pamona, Calif. However, Paul Haywood, a welfare rights organizer, feels that the demands are flexible. "We don't care what kind of changes they make as long as the mothers get credit," he says. "There are safeguards to our proposal, explains. Haywood. "A person has to be a member of a welfare group for three months before he could get a credit re- ference." If Sears refuses to grant credit to wel- fare recipients, NWRO will probably pro- ceed with an economic boycott of Sears products. The local welfare rights groups are seek- ing support in the community to pressure Sears to accept their demands. Haywood says he is "confident we could have an impact on Sears' sales if we have a lot of support in the community." M1ING REVIEW: deral court draft law ruling ises constitutionality, questions THE ALCHEMIST with William Hutt, Powys Thomas, Bernard Behrens Directed by Jean Gascon Apr. 4, 5, 6 ' "Bubbling cauldron of bravura!" -DET. NEWS "A fantastic theatrical romp!" -A.A. NEWS TEN ARMY ENLISTED MEN have asked a U.S. District resG .s Court to enjoin army authorities from interfering with their right to protest. From Wire Service Reports In a petition filed Tuesday in Columbia, S.C., the ten charged Charging'budget cuts were the Army with violating their rights under the First Amendment. seriously endangering the opera- They complain the Army has prevented them from holding'discussion tion of his school, Dr. Buell G. groups on the post and attending, off-post meetings. tionagofrhrsihol.d.sBue G Four of the men are in the Fort Jackson stockade charged4 with Gallagher has resigned as presi- breach of peace. They were at a meeting of an organization called dent of the City College of New "G.I.'s United Against the War in Vietnam." York. Gallagher, who has been presi- A BLACK PANTHER PLOT to bomb New York City depart- dent of the system for 16 years, ment stores today was broken up with the indictment of 21 said in a letter that city and state militants yesterday. fund shortages totaling $41 mil- lion would mean that CCNY could Officials said the group planned to bomb five Manhattan stores, admit no freshman next Septem- tracks of the Penn Central Railroad in Harlem, and a police station ber, in the Bronx. He called budget cuts a "stag- New York police arrested 12 of the -defendants, who pleadedeng blow upon New York City's gering bo pnNwYr ys innocent to the charges. Two of those named are already in prison, y o u t h," "unconscionable," and and police are still seeking seven. "unbelievably stupid." * * * New York's city colleges have AN EGYPTIAN SPOKESMAN said yesterday that Egypt does refused to admit any freshman. not insist on Israeli withdrawal from occupied lands before any until the schools' budgetary situ- peace talks, ation is clarified by the city and "Egypt is willing to accept a settlement as a package deal," the the state legislature. official said yesterday. He did not elaborate on what would be an The 165,000-student City Uni- acceptable package deal to Egypt. versity is composed of nine senior The statement came on the eve of Big Four talks on the Arab- colleges, six community colleges, Israeli dispute at the United Nations. a Graduate Center and two Urban Skills Centers. WELFARE PROGRAMS in New York City will be cut back Some 10,000 college students because of slashes in welfare appropriations by the state legis- converged on the state capitol in lature. --Albany last month to protest pro- The city's human resources administrator yesterday said the posed budget cuts for higher edu- cation in New York. Gov. Nelson average welfare payment of $226 a month to a familiy of four will Rockefeller has proposed a five be cut to a flat $208. He said a family of six would have less than per cent across-the-board cut in $4 a day to spend on food. all state spending. i BOSTON (CPS)--The ruling by a federal judge here that the Se- lective Service Act "unconstitu- tionally discriminates" against non-religious conscientious ob- j ectors sets the stage for a review of the 1967 draft law by the U.S. Supreme Court. If the high court upholds Tues- day's decision by U.S. District Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, athe- ists, agnostics, and others-reli- gious or not--would be entitled to exemption from the draft if they oppose war for profound moral reasons. Now, objection to war must be based on "religious training and belief." The Supreme Court in 1965 offered a broad definition of that term, the Congress in 1967 altered the law to exclude non- religious co's. So the issue now will return to the high court, if the U.S. Justice Department decides to appeal. The prosecutor for this case says he will recommend an appeal, but the decision rests with justice officials in Washington.A spokesman said Wednesday that a decision will be withheld until after the case is studied: The case will come to be known as the Sisson Decision, after the defendant, John Heffron Sisson, Jr., 22, who had been convicted of refusing induction. Sisson, a Harvard graduate and former Peace Corps volunteer, had sought a CO deferment until he learned of the narrow religious restriction. Technically, his conviction was not overtirned. Judge Wyzanski merely issued an arrest in judg- ment, staying the sentence and allowing for a quicker appeal. Sis- son could have been fined $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison. In his 21-page opinion, the judge commented: "In short, in the draft act Congress unconsti- tutionally discriminated against atheists, agnostics, and men, like Sisson, who whether they be reli- giously motivated or not, are mo- tivated in their objection to the draft by profound moral beliefs which constitute the central con- victions of their beings." The decision also opened the question of "selective" conscien- tious objection, which would allow exemption from the Vietnam war but not other conflicts. The ruling said that the 1967 draft act violated the provision of the First Amendment prohibit- ing laws "respecting an establish- ment of religion." It called the Sisson case "a clash between law and morality" and warned "when the state, through its laws, seeks rai .to override reasonable moral com- mitments, it makes a dangerously uncharacteristic choice. The law grows from the deposits of moral- ity. "When the law treats a reason- able, conscientious act as a crime, it subverts its own power. It in- vites civil disobedience," the deci- sion continued. A similar case is pending now before the Supreme Court. A Los Angeles computer engineer W h o contends the CO provision was ap- plied improperly to him is waiting for th7e high court to decide if it will hear his appeal. A Federal District Judge in Baltimore'ruled in December that an atheist who believes killing is an unendurable sin can qualify [or a CO exemp- tion. That ruling was based on the 1965 Seeger case before the Su- preme Court. The Seeger decision held that a person does not have to belong to an organized church to become a CO. But the high court avoided the issue of broadening the ex emption to include avowed athe- ists. If the Sisson case is appealed, the Supreme Court will have to decide whether non-religious per- sons can conscientiously oppose war and be exempted from the draft because of their convictions. Eves. 8:00 P.M. Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 P.M. Closes Sunday! MENDELSSOHN THEATRE El I "ONE OF THE YEAR'S TEN BEST. Every now and then a movie comes along that gives one the feeling that things are going to change:'The Graduate','Bonnie and Clyde'. This year it may wellh be 'Joanna'. It is fresh; its spirit is contemporary; its attitudes are youthfully free of cant or moralizing. It is a joy to watch. 'Joanna' s right out of today. In its way it is brave and bold." -Hollis Alpert, Saturday Review "HAIL 'JOANNA'! "MICHAEL SARNE MAKES THE MOST DAZZLING DI- RECTORIAL DEBUT OF THE YEAR. His heroine is a Sassoon-style adolescent who plays musical beds with every boy who rubs against her, makes friends with the world, and generally lives without any of the conventional moral hang-ups. As the amoral wide-eyed girl, Genevieve Waite is startling." -Time Magazine , I "'THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG', 'A MAN AND A WOMAN', 'ELVIRA MADIGAN'- and NOW'JOANNA"' "'JOANNA' scored with me. This film about abortion, violence, racial love out of wedlock will be controversial sol suggest you go see it." -Liz Smith, Cosmopolitan -Judith Crist, New York Magazine ' . J "INGENIOUS. Wit, power, old-fashioned sentiment and technical brilliance.. solid performances. "ONE OFTHE YEAR'S TEN 5EST!" -Hollis Alpert, Saturday Review COLOR by Detuxe 20. R c. 0! "GENEVIEVE WAITE, abreathless young Lolita who waltzes her way through an orgy of high fashion, music, 1 r