ic, -C Stir tra Seventieth Year of Editorial Freedom ~aii4 CLOUDY, MILD Partly cloudy with little temperature change High-75 low-57 -- --- --- ------- -- ------ - ____ ,...,_. .e ! TW u ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1960 FIVE CENTS ?SI ......,. CANDIDATE FOR SURE-Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas talks to newsmen at his press conference yesterday where he formally announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomi- nation. "I expect to be nominated," he said. Johnson Formaly Joins Race for Party Nomination WASHINGTON (1om-Lanky Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson-to nobody's surprise-yesterday formally jumped into the battle for the Democratic Presidential nomination and declared he expects to be the Party's choice in Los Angeles. The Texan made his announcement at a nationally televised news conference held in the auditorium of the new Senate office building before a packed crowd of reporters and applauding Johnson partisans. Johnson said he hadn't come'out for the nomination earlier be- cause Congress was in session and "somebody has to tend the store." This referred to his duties as Senate majority leader. But a campaign -'committee has been working hard 1Business Fiudings Reported Consumer optimism has shown a "marked decline" this spring, the University Survey Research Center reports. In interviews with 1400 adults representative of the U n i te d States population during May, the Center found doubts and uneasi- ness about the business outlook have become more pronounced. Prof, George Katona and Eva Mueller, directors of the study, contended that neither the col- lapse of the summit talks nor the drop in the stock market has been a major cause of this change. Of much greater importance, they said, is the fact that many people see no new developments which can stimulate the economy fur- ther. They cited the following ex- amples from the survey: Future Conditions (1) When questioned as to how business conditions a year from now will compare with current conditions, three out of five said there will be no change. (2) In recent months, people have heard little news of eco- nomic interest. Consumers constantly need new stimulation toremain optimistic, the University researchers de- claredm"Widespread concern with the next recession probably is related to the recent weakening of optimism. Since people believe that a recession will come sooner or later, they look for signs" Recession Expected Three out of five persons inter- viewed said they felt the United States would at some timeexperi- ence another recessionw ith un- employment comparable to 1958. One out of six believe the reces- sion has already started or will set in very soon, the researchers found. Examples of a decrease in buy- ing plans are the following: (1) Plans to buy houses during the next 12 months, either newly built or old houses, have declined in every income group as com- pared to a year ago. (2) Plans to buy TV sets have declined in frequency d (3n Plans to buy cars and houses dropped more sharply than other expectations and attitudes. Attitudes toward compact cars re- main favorable, but intentions to buy used cars are now much lower than a year ago Favorable Attitudes Among the more favorable at- titudes found in this survey are: (1) A slight reduction in con- cern with and fear of inflation during the next year. This decline is in all income groups. (2) An increase in buying in- tentions for large household ap- pliances - refrigerators, washing machines, etc. (3) An increase in plans to make improvements, additions and repairs to the family home making the consumer index equal to the best previous year, 1956. U.S. Protests Illegal Oil Seizurc Cuban AmbassadorResigns Nehru Sets Growth Goal NEW DELHI (M)-Prime Min- ister Nehru's Government yester- day took the wraps off an ambi- tious $21 billion five-year plan aimed at giving this nation of 400 million a self-sustained economy. It is India's third five-year plan and will cover the 1961-66 period. It has a five-fold goal: To achieve self-sufficiency in food grains; raise the national income by five per cent annually; expand basic industries such as fuel, steel and power; boost employment; and achieve equitable distribution of wealth and income. Parliament and 15 state legis- latures will examine the plan, due to begin April 1, 1961. They and various development councils will put it in final shape. Here are some of the high- lights: The plan envisages a total in- vestment of 102 billion rupees, or $21 billion. Outside aid was esti- mated at 22 billion rupees, with the United States as the princi- pal country. Highest priorty is given to ag- ricultural production in order to meet the food needs of a popula- tion expected to hit 480 million by 1966. Present food grain pro- duction is 75 million tons, 10 per cent short of basic requirements. It envisages a target of 10,200,- 000 tons of steel ingots and 1 /2 million tons of pig iron by 1966. Present finished steel production, is 2,600,000 tons compared with a million in 1950. rI Cuban Cabinet Authorizes Property Grab HAVANA (P)-The Cuban Cabi- net early today authorized the ex- propriation of all property owned by American companies or United States citizens residing in Cuba "when deemed necessary in the national interest." A post-midnight announcement' said the measure was adopted in' view of "the constantly aggfessive attitude" of the United States government. The decree specifically places in the hands of President Osvaldo Dorticos and Prime Minister Fidel Castro power to take over what remains of the nearly one-billion- dollar investment which the United, States and its citizens had in Cuba when Castro overthrew dic- tator Fulgencio Batista 19 months! ago. The announcemnent cited as a for him for some time. In opening the news conference, Johnson in his prepared statement made no direct claims for himself, but said some of his supporters had told him he might be nomi- nated on the third ballot. "Whether this is true or not, I cannot say, nor can anyone," he added. But in the question and; answer session later, the Senator did declare flatly: "I am a candidate for President and I expect to be nominated President." Johnson did not make any spe- cific delegate claims of his own. He said merely his friends had told him he would have more than 500 votes on the first ballot and that his "chief opponent" - ob- viously Sen. John F. Kennedy - would have less than 600. It will take 761 votes to win the nomina- tion. The Texan did not mention Kennedy by name at any point. But a number of his comments were clearly jabs aimed in the direction of the Massachusetts Senator. Johnson's prepared statement was written in a rather low and solemn key. It laid great stress on the serious world situation and the problems which will confront the next President. Cardonaa Seeks Grant Of Asylum HAVANA (P) - Jose Miro Car- dona resigned yesterday as am- bassador-designate to the United States because of ideological dif- ferences with Prime Minister Fideld Castro's government. In an obvious move to avoid ar- rest or other reprisal, the veteran diplomat-lawyer took refuge im- mediately in the Argentine Em- bassy.] The Cuban Foreign Ministry later announced it had dismissed Miro Cardona and Manuel Piedra1 de la Concha as ambassador to Italy. , Piedra de la Concha told news- men in Rome he had not received formal word of his ouster but "should my government recall me, I would return home and take any other post my government might give me." Another announcement said Francisco Garcia Amador, am- bassador to Geneva, and Francisco Vidal, ambassador - designate to San Salvador, also had been re- lieved of their posts "because of the reorganization of the Foreign Ministry." Only last month Luis A. Baralt, Cuba's ambassador to Canada, re- signed and sought asylum in that country because of disagreement with Castro's policies. Resigna- tions have occured also In Cuban embassies in Latin American coun- Itries. Miro Cardona, who was the first prime minister under Castro's rev- olutionary regime, had been wait- ing .for some time to take his Washington post. He was accepted by the United Stt Stat De- partment in mid-May. Milionaire Imprisoned BOSTON (tP) -Bernard Gold- fine, gift-giving millionaire textile tycoon, went to federal prison yesterday for contempt of court in a tax case. Although he once boasted of friends in high political office, Goldfine was handcuffed to a convicted bank embezzler as he was led away to serve 90 days in the Federal Correctional Institu- tion at Danbury, Conn. His secretary and business as- sociate, Mildred Paperman, was hustled off to a county jail in adjoining Cambridge to serve 10 days on a similar contempt charge. Federal Judge Charles E. Wy- zanski Jr., sent them off to serve time after denying petitions by counsel and a personal appeal by Goldfine for 10 days or two weeks more of freedom. The stocky, balding Goldfine accepted sentence clamly. Later he smiled wanly and waved to newsmen as he left in the per- sonal automobile of Deputy United States Marshal Richard Sawyer for the estimated four-hour drive to Danbury. By MICHAEL BURNS Three high school E n g lis h teachers participating in a panel discussion on "Evaluating the Theme'" decided rather to evalu- ate the teacher's assignment yes- terday, However, the student was gen- erally criticized for lack of or- ganization and the representative themes presented for discussion received grades that were com- paratively low. Vague and unimaginative top- ics which teachers assign, receive the censure of the panel. These, they said, were the causes of many student difficulties. The panel consisted of !6uth Chamberlain of Waterford Town- ship High School, Beverly Arment of Mt. Pleasant Jr. High School and Carl Wonnberger of Cran- brook School, Bloomfield Hills, with Prof. James Downer of the English department serving as moderator. The teachers generally agreed that the rhetorical approach is more important than the mech- anical. Miss Chamberlain said the pur- pose of high school composition should develop the "exact man." A student's personality of per- sonal problems cannot be allowed to distort the teacher's evalua- tion of his ability to compose a theme. The assignment and construc- tion of a theme should help the student think and to aid the class and the individual to obtain the "tools" of expression that may be applied to other fields of schol- arship- The theme should also serve to develop a pupil's artistic apprec- iation. "We must be careful as teach- ers to make certain what we are doing will fit into the total scheme of things," and "use care in ascertaining the fitness" of the assignment, she said. Miss Arment stressed the need for motivation in writing. Crea- tivity must not be stifled, but ex- actness of direction is necessary. at least at the junior high school level. Constructive criticism should be introduced at this stage dealing with content, form and mechan- ics. Style and refinement at the junior high level are "merely icing on the cake," she said. "Bad teaching is bad because the whole approach to composi- tion is wrong," Wonnberger said. "We must start with the princi- ples." Teachers must have a purpose in assigning compositions and should do away with "busy-work" fill-in books and many traditional grammar books. Since writing is the transferral of emotions from one person to another, obstructions of all kinds should be avoided, including poor mechanics. A student cannot operate in a vacuum and must have a clear assignment. Many forms of ex- pression' should be assigned. All EDUCATION PANEL - Three Michigan high school English teachers yesterday discussed problems in teaching, both from the standpoint of the teacher and from that of the student. The panel was monitored by Prof. James Downer of the University English department. ENGLISH TEACHING: Panel Evaluates Assignment forms of composition develop a student and "pure exposition is a bore," he said. b Students and teachers must be scholars. There must be no dif- ferences in English for prospec- tive college students and those planning to work immediately upon graduation. All students must think, he said. To further a student's interest, the topics assigned should be made important to the writer. Judgments are necessary for a student to learn to express his convictions clearly and impres- sively, If a student carefully thinks about his presentation, the mechanics will usually be fairly good, Wonnberger explained. All three stressed the need for rewriting themes, if the difficulty was with the student and not with the teacher's vague assignment. Grades assigned to the demon- stration themes in the discussion were lower than average, which prompted Prof. Downer to say that they would normally receive higher marks in most Michigan schools. Prof. Slosson To Give Views There will be an organizational meeting for all interested in the summer "Challenge" program at 7:30 p.m. today at 523 Packard. Prof. Preston Slosson, of the history department, will present his views on the program, which is still in the organizational stages. The program, to begin in the fall semester, will include seminars and lectures on a general theme for the full academic year. Soviet Aide Warns Against Tests Without Participation GENEVA (P)-Semyon K. Tsarapkin said yesterday any nuclear research blasts conducted by the United States without full Soviet participation would automatically end the truce on nuclear weapons' tests. The Soviet delegate made the statement to newsmen after an- other session of the United States-British-Soviet talks aimed at achieving agreement on a permanent test ban. The three powers have not set off any atomic weap- The panel agreed and said this was due to lack of time in correct- ing themes and the knowledge of the individual facts concerning each theme and the progress of the class. Picketers,- .Diplaced Meetings of the local group which has been active in protest- ing what they consider to be dis- criminatory practices by various Ann Arbor merchants will no longer be held in Osterweil Co- operative House, according to a statement released by members of the house. "After a long, heated meeting on Tuesday . . . the members of the house have voted to abolish picketing meetings within the confines of their residence," the statement said. The reasons given for the ac- tion, as given by the majority, were as follows: "There is an in- convenience to the house mem- bers who feel that their study and leisure time is imposed upon; there has been rudeness and in, consideration shown to the mem- bers by the picketers; in the past, there has been damage done to the house and its furnishings." As examples, representatives of the house said that during meet- ings it was impossible to move around in the house and some- times those who did so were rudely treated. They also com- plained that a new rug in the house had several cigarette burns made in it during the meetings. Th erepresentatives i n s 1 s t e d that the decision was reached, not because of any opposition on a large scale to the purpose of the group of picketers, although they admitted there were some who did not agree with the group's meth- ods, but that the residents and boarders of Osterweil objected to the misuse of the property and the inconvenience involved. Picketing meetings are to con- tinue at a place to be announced later, the statement concluded. The picketing group first began activities against a local dress shop and three branches of chain department stores April 12, as a protest of what they considered to be discriminatory practices either on a local basis or in Southern outlets. Directories Oin Sale Now The Summer Student Directory will go on sale today on the Diag, U.S. Urges Trade Law Recognito Diplomatic Note Cal Cuban Intervention Economic Aggressio HAVANA (P)-The Unit States quickly followed Brita yesterday in protesting what called the arbitrary and illej seizure of foreign oil refineries Cuba by Fidel Castro's regime. A formal United States n4 urged the Cuban government reconsider its action and return the island's two American refin- eries to their owners, Esso Stand- ard and Texaco oil companies, The British protest note de- manded that Castro restore the Shell oil refinery to its Dutch and British owners. Delivers Protest The United States protest wa delivered to the Cuban Foreign Ministry by Ambassador Philip Bonsal. It stated: "The Government of the United States cannot but feel, with pro- found regret, that the interven- tion and seizure of these refiner- ies is further evidence andcon_ firmation of a pattern of relent- less economic aggression by the Government, of Cuba designed t destroy Cuba's traditional invest- ment and trade relations with the free world." The protest pointed out Stand. ard and Texaco were guaranteed 20 years of operation by a 194 Cuban law under which their re- fineries here were built o(r e- panded. Rejects Right The United States sharply re- jected Cuba's assertion of a righi to insist the plants refine Soviel crude oil, pointing out that the 1954 law ,exempted both compan ies from a 1938 law which Castr- quoted as his authority for takinj over the refineries. Cuba's intervention, the note charged, "will be forever tainted' by government efforts to illegall force the plants to process the Russian oil. "The government of the Unite States deems these actions to be arbitrary and inequitable, withou authority under Cuban law an contrary to the commitments made to these companies," the note said. V Pr 'U Pogram Successful The University of Michigan' Dearborn Center experimental pro gram in business administratio and engineering has proved sue cessful, said Director William Stirton. Operating under a minimuin budget since last September, th program has-- 1) Shown that the cooperative work-study arrangement involvin alternate semesters on campus an on work assignments can achiev all of the purposes for which i was established. 2) Proved the soundness of th University's decision to begin in struction at the third year leve This has permitted the develop ment of extremely cordial rela tionships with the junior an community colleges in the stat With the cooperation of thel local industry and business, st dents enroll at the Dearbo Cen ter for the start of the junc year and spend alternate semen ters on campus and on the waor assignmentin their home town Stirton explained. The compense tion for scemesters spent on wor assignments can make the studer self-supporting, he said, and the same time the student is de veloping roots which wil keep his at home with the local firm whe he has received his University a Michigan degree. Stirton said that with the e perience gained in the conduct , the pilot program, the Dearbor Center now is prepared to launc ons blasts since November, 1958. The United States is planning a series of 12 underground blasts as part of a large-scale research program. Tsarapkin has demand- ed that Soviet scientists be per- mitted to inspect nuclear devices used to see they are not cloaking weapons tests, Such close inspec- tion is barred by United States legislation. The German communist news- paper Neues Deutschland quoted Tsarapkin recently as saying the proposed United States tests might wreck the current negotiations. Asked about this, he said: "The resumption of nuclear tests without agreement means that the situation under which . no country did any nuclear testing, would come to an end, and the United States would be responsible, "In such a case, we would be Dramatist Understood Technique of Life' By JUDY OPPENHEIM While he lived, Jean Giraudoux, author of "Amphitryon 38" which opens tonight at eight at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre by Playbill Summer 1960, described himself as "A diplomat for eleven months of the year; for one a playwright." After spending eleven months as a roving official of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he would go off to the south of France and spend the twelfth month working on a novel or a piece for the theatre. The fact that Giraudoux was recognized as the leading dramatist of the French theatre of his time (he died in 1944) although he did write only in his spare hours, has been attributed to the theory that plays of serious importance are only likely to be written by men "whose understanding of the technique of life is greater than their familiarity with the technique of the theatre." Giraudoux was one of these men. Giraudoux made no pretense of copying situations which were literally true to life, but presented the truth as he saw it through the use of imagination and fancy. With him, scenes that seem deceptively realistic in the conven- tional manner suddenly become colored by a dream-like magic through .:,,u. >: