LECTURES BREED MEDIOCRITY See Editorial Page i i SirAO it COOL High-_0 Low-65 Fair and pleasant, turning warm tomorrow Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom .LXXIV, No. 27-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1964 SEVEN CENTS FOUR PA . )emocrats, Republica rehm iry Campaigi [sPpCivi1 Rights Leaders Seek [I Strategy Scranton To Host GOP Unity Talks Name Pastore To Deliver Keynote WASHINGTON (P)-Democrats picked a fiery Johnsonian, Sen. John O. Pastore (R-RI) as their keynoter yesterday-then took a gingerly approach to what could be the most divisive row of the 1964 national convention. This revolves around the ques- tion: should the convention seat an all-white delegation from Mis- sissippi, sent by a state convention which has carefully kept the door open to defection to Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz). Or should it seat a delegation from the predominantly Negro Democratic Freedom party, ex- pected to back President Lyndon B. Johnson to the hilt? Maneuvers Apparently maneuvers aimed at coling off this potentially big fight were going on behind the scenes. Chairman John M. Bailey of the Democratic National Com- mittee was not prepared to say just when the convention's cre- dentials committee, which will rule on the fight in the first instance, will hold its first meeting. The credentials committee is headed by former Gov. David L. Lawrence of Pennsylvania. It was indicated he would call meetings in Atlantic City 7 sometime in the week before the convention opens there Aug. 24, but beyond that ,Bailey said the plans had not jelled. The convention's arrangements committee held a closed session yesterday, and then Bailey an- nounced the choice of Pastore as temporary convention chairman, or keynoter. Pastore will, speak the night of Aug. 24, and if he follows tradi- tion he will, in his booming tones, find no fault with the Democrats but plenty with the Republicans. SBut less certain was the Missis- sippi question. Mississippi Democratic leaders were maintaing a solid and large- silent guard around their pres- idential plans until the national convention chooses candidates and a platform.. With such matter's as patron- age and congressional committee essignments complicating the question of where party support will go in November, factions feud- ing over whether to back the con- servative Goldwater and how to do it have decided to delay a show- down.. Follow Governors This came only after Gov. Paul Johnson urged delegates to delay action until the state party sees what the national party will do. As a result, the state party simply named a slate of 44 dele- gtes to the national convention .and recessed until Sept. 9 without selecting and presidential electors. Because nobody wanted to jeop- ardize the chances of the Missis- sippi delegation to be seated at the national convention, nobody would interpret publicly what the action meant. Johnson Says 'No' at Present For TV Debate WASHINGTON (/P)-The White House left unanswered yesterday the question whether President Lyndon B. Johnson would debate Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz) on television, but quoted Goldwater as saying "I don't think a Presi- dent of the United States should debate anybody." Press Secretary George E. Reedy said a Johnson-Goldwater debate "is not a matter the Democrats would consider until thecampaign begins." Goldwater, the Republican pres- idential nominee,had told House Republicans Tuesday he is "ready. willing and able" to debate John- son on nationwide television. Reedy, asked for White House reaction, said, "All we have seen so far are some newspaper ac- counts of what Sen. Goldwater has said, either directly or throughj intermediaries." On Jan. 31, Reedy said, Gold- water declared on a television program, "I think it's kind of dan- urarn.ic fnmihiPvf* n.Pride'bnt ofE SEN. JOHN PASTORE GOV. WILLIAM SCRANTON MODERATE To Organize Local Party, Two University instructors are organizing a local political group with the goal of helping to defeat Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz) in Nove nber. The group-and all who vwish to join-will meet to formulate ob- jectives and plans for the next few months at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Guild House, 802 Monroe. "We plan to extend feelers and offer help to any political group which shares our basic aim-to defeat Goldwater," David Spaan, an instructor in the engineering English department, said yester- day. Spaan, along with James Clark, an English instructor in the lit- erary college, and Rubin Zavin, head of - the Co-op Bookstore, issued a statement yesterday of their plans for Sunday and after: "We will discuss the organiza- tion .of a group of independent voters who, in the belief that Goldwater's candidacy has be- come a rallying point for unin- formed and irresponsible elements, will support a moderate political program and moderate candidates in the fall." The three founders of the group are planning a future pamphlet "stating the case against Gold- water and taking a representative group of his past pronouncements and refuting them," Spaan com- mented. Plans for the pamphlet and for further action will not be final- ized until after the meeting Sun- day, he added. Spaan emphasized that the group will co-operate with any other Ann Arbor political organi- zations-for example the Demo- crats, CORE, NAACP, or even moderate Republican groups-who wish to see Goldwater defeated in the fall. WASHINGTON (P)-Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz) enlisted three top Republicans yesterday, Penn- sylvania Gov. William W. Scran- ton among them, in his crusade to forge a unified party and wrest the White House from President Lyndon B. Johnson.' "I'm very pleased with the way the Republican party seems to be coming back together," the GOP Presidential nominee declared. Goldwater announced thati Scranton will serve as host when he summons Republican leaders from across the nation into a sum- mit conference on party unity next month at Hershey, Pa. He named Ohio State GOP Chairman Ray Bliss and the party's former national chairman, Leonard Hall, to serve on a steer- ing and planning committee that will map his campaign strategy and schedule. Goldwater announced those moves at an impromptu news con- ference, with Bliss at his side. The GOP nominee, fresh from a conference with his party's top Congressional leaders, also: -Said he thinks Johnson even- tually will agree to meet him in televised campaign debates, but suggested a new format and added he still is "apprehensive" about the possibility that secret informa- tion could slip out in a wide open meeting. Goldwater called for two-man debates, without the panels of newsmen who questioned former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and the late President John F. Kennedy in their 1960 campaign meetings. He said in foreign af- fairs and military areas the nom- inees would have to "tread very carefully." -Commented he is convinced after meeting with Johnson last Friday that inflammatory talk, particularly about a white back- lash against the civil rights move- ment, will be kept out of the campaign at the nominees' level. ~-Reported the party is moving more quickly than he had expected toward unity for the Presidential campaign.. "I expected when we left San Francisco that we were going to have devisive problems up until the middle of August," he said. The appointments Goldwater announced -yesterday signaled his headway toward unity. Scranton campaigned - some- times bitterly - against Gold- water's nomination. Bliss labored throughout the primary campaign to keep Ohio's delegation uncom- mitted. And Hall is said by Gold- water aides to have told them pri- vately he was comlitted to the fortunes of Nixon. Correction An article in The Daily Sa- turday, stated that the Univer- sity has placed a tentative or- der for a new IBM 360 com- puter. It implied that plans have been made to replace the 7090 computer at the computer center. This is incorrect. There are no such plans at present. Goldwater said the steering committee will, be the most im- portant force in shaping his cam- paign. Others on the committee will be Denison Kitchel, general direc- tor of the campaign; William Warner, top aide to his running mate, Rep. William E. Miller (R- NY); and Republican National Chairman Dean Burch, in an ex- officio role. House Wants New Social Security Hike WASHINGTON (P)-The House passed legislation yesterday that would give a five per cent raise to the 20 million retired or dis- abled workers. widows and chil- dren who receive social security payments. A 388-8 roll call vote sent the bill to the Senate. If the Senate approves the meas- ure, the additional benefits es- timated to total $925 million an- nually will begin flowing two months after the bill is signed. To pay for these benefits, an in- crease in social security payroll taxes, initially a hike of as much as $31.20 a year each for employ- ers and employes, would go into effect Jan. 1. However, some senators plan to try to write into the billa version of the health plan for the aged favored by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Such a move, if success- ful, could lead to a Senate-House fight with unpredictable results in the final weeks of the Congres- sional session. Besides raising benefits, the leg- islation. would add present and future beneficiaries to the social security system which now covers nearly all Americans who are pri- vately employed. The largest group would consist of persons now in their 70s or old- er who had paid, or whose bread- winners had paid, some social se- curity tax during working years but not enough under present rules to qualify for retirement. The bill would provide a new minimum payment of $35 a month 'under liberalied rules estimated to make 600,000 persons, mostly women, eligible. Senate Accepts Defense Costs Of 46 Billion WASHINGTON (P)-The Senate voted last night to spend more than $46 billion for defense. As the measure goes back to the House it carries a net of some $15 million more than was approved by the House earlier. But it is $1.4 billion less than Congress vot- ed for defense last year and more than $696 million below President Lyndon B. Johnson's initial budg- et requests. Several Senate-House differ- ences must be adjusted and then approved by both chambers be- fore the bill goes to Johnson for signature. "We can't afford to be second best," Sen. Richard B. Russell (D- Ga) told his colleagues as he steer- ed the measure to passage by the unanimous vote of 76 senators. Efforts to cut the $46.7 billion appropriation, the biggest money bill of the fiscal year, were turn- ed back. .A series of moves by senators anxious to expand the government's shipyards extended the debate to eight hours. THREE OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS who called for a "broad curtailment, if not total moratorium" on mass demonstrations yesterday were (left) James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality; Roy Wilkins, executiWe secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. I ,+&INNN- \.Oo ' -% ... o" .n.. a- NEW \ r WF .ice - ,.s....."- v -=- -ML. _Ulm ...+/ -m- -ELM All., 4/ .w.. lww my i 141,1 ,*. L AL Kv.0 mmm- Auto Talks--Days of R DETROIT VP)-With preliminary probing and propaganda barragesa out of the way, new contract bar- gaining in the auto industry yes-; terday appeared headed toward hard - core, day of reckoning phases. Since contract talks between the auto industry and the United Auto Workers Union started June 30, both sides have expended most; energy in preparing to blame each other if 1965 car model prices increase. Along the way, agreements .have, been reached-as in the past-on some minor clauses such as those recognizing the United Auto Work- ers union as bargaining agent and 'specifying time and a half for work beyond 40 hours. Work Conditions The issue of improving working conditions-the UAW's top goal for current negotiations-has been taken up at both Ford and Gen-, eral Motors. It is due to come up shortly on the UAW-Chrysler agenda. Ken Bannon, director of the UAW's Ford department, predict- ed Tuesday what newsmen have, anticipated for some time: new; contract offers from the "Big Three" about mid-August. Current three-year pacts with General Motors, Ford and Chrys- ler expire August 31 and Bannon recalled that "historically an of- fer doesn't come until 12 to 14 days before expiration." Union Demands Up to now, five-week-old bar- gaining has centered primarily on union demands for wide-reaching economic gains, which include higher wages, bigger pensions, earlier retirement and larger sup- plemental unemployment benefits. Working conditions came up again yesterday at General Motors, as they did there Monday and at Ford on Tuesday. The union is insisting on what amounts to two 10-minute coffee breaks in addition to the 12- minute personal relief periods af- forded workers now on each eight hour shift, among other "improv- ed working conditions." At Ford Tuesday, Mike Cum- mins, Ford labor relations direc- tor, disclosed that the UAW had demanded additional work-breaks for production personnel working at jobs other than those on the assembly line. Heretofore the UAW has cen- tered its demand for additional relief time on assembly line work- ers whom it claims are "tied to monotonous jobs where machines are the masters." Cummings said the union in- dicated it wants maintenance and inspection employes, among others, afforded the new breaks it is aiming for. Objections The automakers have voiced strenuous .objections to any relief time in excess of 'the two 12- minute personal relief periods. They have pointed out two 10- minute breaks, in which the UAW wants assembly lines shut down, would cost them 20 or more cars a day in production at car-a- minute plants. Productivity per worker occu- pied a general bargaining session at General Motors. The UAW in- sists that the current 2.5 per cent annual improvement factor should be raised to at least 4.9 per cent. The union contends that an annual productivity increases of 3.2 per cent estimated as the aver- age for industry generally by the present President's Council of Economic Advisors falls short of the yearly gain in autos. Annual Salary A long standing UAW demand that production workers be plac- ed on an annual salary, instead of an hourly wage, was a main topic of discussion at Chrysler-UAW ne- gotiations Tuesday. reckoning Earlier retirement also is near the top of the union demands this year. The UAW says "earlier re- tirement should be made avail- able at the earliest age that may be practicable and in any case not later than either age 60 or on the basis of a factor system which gives recognition to long service by workers who are still short of 60." Southern Cities' Desegregation SP edsSlows By The Associated Press Civil rights were hastened and, slowed in the South yesterday. United States Attorney General Robert Kennedy used his newly- acquired civil rights authority for the first time in Alabama. But in Atlanta, a federal judge refused to order faster desegrega- tion of the public school system there. Kennedy filed suit under the new civil rights law, charging that 15 eating places in Tuscaloosa have violated the law by refusing to serve Negroes. In the Atlanta school hearing, U.S. District Judge Frank A. Hooper said that in carrying out a grade-a-year desegregation plan, the Atlanta School Board had "shown a spirit of very fine co- operation." Hooper said he would make full "findings of fact" for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court when the case reaches them on appeal. Goldwater" Want Political Activt To Intensify; Call Hai To Major Protests NEW YORK (P)-Six nation: civil rights leaders called yeste: day for a "broad curtailment, not total moratorium" on all ma marches, picketing and other den onstrations until after the Nov. Presidential election. In a statement following a tw hour civil rights "summit mee ing," the leaders explained thW all steps to prevent the election( Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ari must be taken. They emphasized that poltic activity, such as voter registratic drives, should be intensified. Issuing the statement were R Wilkins, executive secretary of ti National Association for the A vancement of Colored People, Ma: tin Luther King Jr., president the Southern Christian Leadersh Conference; James Farmer, ni tional director of the Congress c Racial Equality; Whitney la Young, executive director of tl National Urban League; A Phil Randolph, head of th Brothe: hood of Sleeping Car Porters, a John Lewis, chairman of the StA dent Nonviolent Coordinati Committee, Temporary Change Their statement called for "temporary change of emphas and tactics in the civil righ movement, wherein the "maji energy" would be aimed at e couraging "the Negro people, nor and south, to register to vote." But the leaders emphasized a news conference following t neeting that their appeal was n intended to halt small local ci rights demonstrations, "In our view the election co test which is shaping up is a mo imperative reason for a morato ium on large demonstrations thi any local or state condition th has confronted our forces heret fore," the statement said. Feel Threatened' "We see the whole climate liberal democracy in the Unit States, the climate in which go ernment has been brought prope ly into the service and protectic of the people, threatened," t statement added. They minced no words in cri cizing the Republican nominee. "We believe that racism h been injected into the campai by the Goldwater forces," t statement said "The senator, hr self maintains his "position th civil rights matters should be le to the states." They said this evidence w "clear enough language for a Negro American." But in announcing the stat ment to the press, Wilkins said could not be interpreted as a pr Johnson document. Good Republicans, Too "There are a lot of Republi ca we don't want to see go down t drain," Wilkins told newsmen. " don't want to say that any go leader who happens to be a 1 publican should be thrown out t window." The statement described t GOP platform as a "state's right platform, and attributed its a thorship to "the Goldwater foret at the convention. "The proponents of liberalizi the civil rights planks of the pe form to include specifics 'of t obligation of the federal gover ment were hooted down," the lea ers contended. "The platform as adopted call for 'maximum restraint' of fe eral 'intrusion into matters m productively left to the in vidua," the statement said, ad ing: "We call upon our members a supporters to utilize the moni 1 ahead to enlist voters, to expa: the enforcement of the new ci rights act and to win new frier and new supporters for the ci rights cause. TTake Steps' To Counter World News Round'up By Tlhe Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Encouraged by riot-scarred Rochester's calm reaction to the lifting of a. dusk-to-dawn curfew, officials de- cided yesterday to end a four-day ban on the sale of liquor. The probation on alcoholic beverage sales and the curfew were imposed late Saturday after police were unable to control pillaging mobs surging through the streets in Negro neighborhoods. PASADENA-Ranger 7 cruised PARADOX OF DETAIL T Oxtoby Sees Past as More, Less Distant By CHRISTINE LINDER Paradoxically, the past is both more and less available to us than ever before. We have accumulated much material about the past, but we are less able to understand it, Prof. Willard S. Oxtoby, a visiting professor in the Near Eastern languages and literature department, said last night. The reason: technological and religious changes limit our bases for understanding. Oxtoby told a Hillel audience that society has undergone such a great change in its pattern of living as a result of technological ad- vances that we have difficulty understanding how our ancestors ex- perienced the problem of "wresting a living from the soil." New Place Recovering the past is important to us for several reasons, Oxtoby noted. Men have'a fascination with what is old. Armchair archaeologists avidly follow new discoveries although they do not care to get out into the field and scrape tediously on pottery. "What were the things leading up to the present?" is a question that has also led men to examine the past. We search for casual hypo- theses concerning the success or failure of the present, he explained. "Evidence of this attempt to avoid mistakes can be seen in the motivation to write history and in the study of the Biblical scriptures." "How have we come to be as we are?" is a question that has led us to seek our identity, personal or corporate, in the past. While the past offers us an identity, we have an option of accepting or not on course toward the moon yester- day and jubilant scientists gave it an 80 per cent chance of re- turning the first close-up pictures of unknown terrain where astro- nauts may land. They predict it will smash, while traveling 5800 miles an hour, into the sea of clouds at 9:25 a.m. Friday. ELISABETHVILLE, The Congo -Travelers returning from North Katanga yesterday said Congolese troops are estimated to have slaughtered more than 400 civil- ians in a drive last week on rebel-' held Kabalo. Military sources said the dead, were rebels or rebel sympathizers who had opposed the troops in their 130-mile march northward to Kabalo.