DETROIT ELECTION REAFFIRMS PROGRESS See Editorial Page Y Sir b 43Iaitbp CLOUDY High-49 Low-25 Continued cold with chance of late rain Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVI, No.63 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN; WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1965 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES I I New York SThrown' into Confusion Power Returning To Affected Areas; City at StandstillE By The Associated Press 'I The mammoth complex of New York City and many of its suburbs, ! the most populous metropolitan area in the world, spent last night{ in frightening darkness. A power blackout which hit most of thei Northeast threw the city into tur- moil at the height of the com- muter rush hour yesterday after- noon. Consolidated Edison officials' ~reported that power was gradually being restored early this morning.1 The power failure, affectingE more than 10 million people in the city and environs, came at 5:28 p.m. The blackout began first with a dimming. Then the lights flickered on again and off again several times. But within minutes virtually the whole city on the ground, below and above the g ru as dark. ionsdActivity Halts With startling suddenness, nor- al activity stopped. Building lights went out. Street #lights went out. News tickers stop- ped. Network radio and television stations were silenced. Thousands f of office workers were stranded Iin elevators in black skyscrapers. Air traffic stopped at the city's two major airports-Kennedy and rLaGuardia. Planes ciriny in the air were unable to get down and lanes on the ground were unable mtake of. Radio and radar com- munications apparently w e r e blacked out. After about a half hour, the planes in the air were diverted to Newark, Philadelphia and other eastern fields. Emergency Lights Along Kennedy International's longest runway, emergency lights were posted for emergency land- ings. The Transit Authority reported at least 850,000 stranded in sub- Sways. This did not include the thousands of suburban commuters wose trains suddenly were not running. In at least one mid -Manhattan subway station, hundreds of peo-! pie were yelling in the darkness, "What happened. What's goingf on.", Huge Crowds outside many subway stations, huge crowds of commuters gather- ed trying to get down - while others were trying to get out. There was some chaos in the streets with traffic suddenly halt- ing. But on some street corners 'ordinary citizens took on them- selves the role of traffic police and tried to direct traffic. Many stores along Park and 5th ?.Avenues, even those with flash- lights, barred their doors and put up steel grills to avoid vandalism. Emergency Meeting Mayor Robert F. Wagner sped I in a police car to city hall to meet with the city's emergency board, comprised of officials from the health, police and hospital depart- ments. In many areas of the city the: flow of water was suddenly stop- ped because of the failure of elec- trically operated pumps. The emergency board's first action was to order water diverted to a grav- ity flow system._ Shortly before 7 p.m., a White House aide telephoned city hall that President Johnson would pro- pvide whatever federal assistance was needed. Trains Stalled In the confusion, thousands of commuters were stalled at Grand Central and Pennsylvania Sta- tions, where the trains stood mo- tionless without electric power. In the stations and in Times Square as well as many other areas, New Yorkers lined up by the thousands outside of telephone booths trying to contact their homes spread across the hundreds of miles of the metropolitan area. What's New At 764-1817 1 Hot Line Hearings on the University's use of its tuition and residence hall incomes will be begun by Rep. Jack Faxon (D-Detroit) at 10 a.m. today in the Regents meeting room. Administrators are scheduled to testify in the morning, and students in the after- noon. Mayor Wendell E. Hulcher said last night that he was not surprised with the criticism aimed at his appointments to the newly-established housing commission. Hulcher referred to remarks by Dr. Albert Wheeler of the NAACP, Fred M. Remley of the Federation for a Housing Com- mission and H. 'C. Curry, Democratic councilman. All three questioned the representative character of the commission, stat- ing that the appointees with one exception had not been com- mitted to solving the problems of low-income housing. "I am not surprised," said Hulcher, "because it was my intention to get broad, community leadership on the commission, and in doing this I knew certain people would be unhappy." While the criticism did not surprise the mayor, one endorse- ment did, that of George Lemble, secretary of the Citizens Com- mittee on Housing. Hulcher said he was surprised by the en- dorsement because Lemble had publicly called for the appoint- ment of one or more persons who had opposed the commission's establishment. * * * * Councilman Richard E. Balzhiser of the engineering depart- ment asked Council Monday night to officially endorse the President's policy on Viet Nam, and to oppose by all lawful means civil disobedience and groups promoting it. Council will consider the motion at its next meeting. * * * * The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs finally agreed Monday to admit to future meetings a representative from the Student Government Council. SGC representatives have so far been admitted only to meet- ings of subcommittee of SACUA, Gary Cunningham, president of SGC, explained last night. He and several other SGC members had informally asked for permission to send someone to the meetings of SACUA, which coordinates the work of all the sub- committees and serves as advisor to the University Senate. t'* * * * The Young Republicans elected the following people to office last night: Chairman, Ralph Heikkiner, '66; vice-chairman, Robert Stocker, Grad; secretary, Carol Adams, '68. Representatives-at- large are: Linda Vorhees, '68; Arthur Collingsworth, '67; James Mitchell, Grad; and Dick Branch, Grad. * * * * Congressman Weston E. Vivian (D-Ann Arbor) has an- nounced that the University has received an $83,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a research project on heat an water vapor exchange at air-sea interface. This work will be under the direction of Prof. Donald J. Portman of the depart- ment of meterology and oceanography. National Science Founda- tion grants were also awarded to Profs. Donald L. Katz and John E. Powers of the chemical engineering department for a project on heat of mixing gaseous fluids ($39,600), and to Prof. Donald J. Lewis of the math department for a project on "Number Theory" ($26,300). University President Harlan H. Hatcher and a committee chosen by him have not yet decided who will be appointed as the new dean of the Law School. No date has been set for the an- nouncement of their choice. A contract for construction of the University's East Medical Center parking structure, which will accommodate 1,051 cars, was awarded to Jeffress-Dyer, the low bidder, at the meeting of the Regents recently. The contract will be in the amount of $2,127,157. A total project budget of $2,774,000 was approved by the Regents. The Board of Governors of the Lawyers' Club plans a $900,000 renovation, which will be primarily concerned with the club's inadequate heating, plumbing and electrical systems. Other items that will receive attention include cleaning and refinish- ing the dining room, landscaping the grounds and replacing walks. Government Allocation A lied For Regents' Request for Research Center To Be Investigated By LEONARD PRATT Charles Orlebeke, educational assistant to Gov. George Romney, yesterday confirmed that the State Boar'd of Education has plans to investigate the Univer- sity's request for $1.06 million to create a state-wide Center for Research on Learning and Teach- ing (CRLT). He said the board is expected to issue a recommendation to Rom- ney's office to aid him in deciding whether or.not to include the re- quest in the state appropriation which he will ask the Legislature to give the University next year. By ROGER RAPOPORT Selective Service cards in every purse. A two-year hitch in Ala- bama registering Negroes. . . . Membership in the Ready Reserves of Project Head Start. Sound impossible? Well, hold on to your draft card! Over a cup of insipid MUG cof- fee, a high-ranking Peace Corps official has sketched for me his visionary blueprint to change the Selective Service System, based on suggestions he has culled while touring the nation's campuses for the corps. Robert Satin, until recently the director of the Peace Corps in the restive Dominican Republic, and now reassigned as a public relations officer in the states, has been impressed by such activist groups as Students for Democratic Society who claim that non- militant service can be just as valuable as two years in Viet Nam. ?Unique Idea Why Not General Draft?j I Board President ThomsJ. From this attitude, Satin has Brennan (D-Detroit), say nh built his unique proposal: Why not saw "real value" in the program, let all draft-age citizens, male or said he felt this year's "monitor- female, "serve" theirucountry. ing" of budgeting procedures "I'd like to see a truly univer- would "establish the board's right sal selective service system where to work in these areas." men and women would be pre- sented the choice of "serving" No Master Plans their two years in the Peace Corps, Brennan emphasized that the ! Marine Corps, Voter Registration board would be operating without centers of the South, Project Head its Master Plan for development Start, Teachers Corps, the Job of the state's educational system Corps, or the Army," he declares. as a whole, but felt that if the "That would mean that some-F board began budget consultations time in the ten-year period be- this year, it would thus "establish tween 18 and 28 every man and a precedent" which would allow it woman would have put in two; to do the same next year with its, years of service." plan completed All Should Serve University President Harlan H. His logic is that, "Everyone j -Daily-Steve Goldstein ROBERT SATIN, FORMER director of the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, is currently on campus for the annual recruiting campaign. During the Dominican revolt last April Peace Corps volunteers were working in a rebel hospital patch- ing up soldiers who had been shot by U.S. Marines. Hatcher emphasized that he sup- ports the board's proposed actions regarding the CRLT. "It is ap- propriate for them to consider new educational ventures," he said. Hatcher said that the board has a "definite responsibility" to ad- vise the Legislature on the state's needs for new education programs. "It's not a matter of rights," Hatcher commented, "it's a clearly defined matter. The issue thus is simply for the board to get on with its work." First Time! Under the new proceedure, Hatcher explained, the state con- troller's office submits to thel board descriptions of all college programs for which state funds are being requested for the first time. (Prior to this, the center has been supported entirely on general University funds.) The CRLT was originally es- tablished in 1962, in close co- operation with the Institute of Human Adjustment. Orlebeke characterized the board's review of the CRLT as being substantially different from the rest of its planned activities regarding the University's budget. Not Geared Up "The board is just not geared up," he said. "It just does not have the staff to thoroughly ana- tyze the entire budgets of the state colleges." Therefore, he predicted, the board will make no detailed rec- See STATE, Page 6 should be 1-A because everyone operated through existing Selec- has something to offer to his tive Service boards. society. Each young person should Here's how: be given the opportunity to use "Every high school senior could whatever physical or intellectual take a placement test. At age 18 skills he has to further what has he could go to the Selective Serv- loosely been called the American ice board to propose how he will way of life." fulfil his two year service obliga- Satin, a University graduate, tion." believes the new system could be Students would have the option of performing military or social service. Some Possibility According to Satin, "A young person might take two years of college, then serve two years in the Peace Corps and finally re- turn to complete college. Or a girl' could go to college for four years' See PEACE CORPS, Page 2 Washigon Plans Probe Of Failure Report Breakdown Caused by Disruption Near Niagara Falls By CLARENCE FANTO President Johnson last night ordered a sweeping investigation of a massive power failure which plunged New York City, Boston and vast sections of the Northeast into eerie darkness last night. Utility experts told the Presi- dent, however, that they are "pretty well agreed" that no sabo- tage was involved in the blackout. 800 Square Miles The power failure hit cities, towns and countryside in an arc extending from north of Toronto, Ontario, east to the New England coast and south into Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It was estimated that more than. 30 million people live in the affected area. The cause was reportedly a dis- ruption near Niagara Falls, N.Y., at a vital point in a vast grid sys- ten carrying electricity to the northeastern states. Communications media in New York were hard hit by the black- out. Television networks hurriedly switched programming to Wash- ington, Chicago and Los Angeles. The worldwide news - gathering agencies, the Associated Press and United Press International, pro- vided emergency service from neighboring cities unaffected by the power failure. New York City's newspapers failed to publish their early editions. Countless commut- ers were stranded in subways and commuter trains in New York and Boston. Riots and Lodting Chaos broke out in some of the affected areas. There were reports of looting in Rochestbr, N.Y. Massachusetts Gov. John Volpe ordered police to a prison riot near Boston which was quelled after more than four hours bf wild fighting. In general, however, most citi- zens remained calm in the face of an unprecedented emergency. The power failure was the longest and affected the largest area in recent U.S. history. Government officials in Wash- Sington apparently accepted the explanation that the breakdown stemmed from technical difficul- ties rather than a planned act of sabotage. But the huge power failure raised the issue of the vul- nerability of the power system in case of nuclear attack'. The Fed- eral Power Commission will meet in Washington later this week to consider this question. Power Overload Richard L. Meier of the con- servation department of the Nat- ural Resources School explained that a power overload might have resulted from a high rate of elec- tricity consumption in New York City. Engineers have been .aware of the sensitivity of the north- eastern power grid, Meier said, and plans have been formulated for a major revamping of the sys- tem by 1975. The northeastern " grid, which interconnects areas from southern Ontario and Quebec to New Jer- sey and Pennsylvania, including all the New England and most of the Middle Atlantic states, is "highly susceptible" to power overloadMeier said. The New York State Power Authority attributed the black- out to a "load rejection" and "power surge." The Robert Moses plant at Niagara Falls, which has a production capacity of more than two million kilowatts of power was knocked out. A Consolidated Edison official said the blackout in the New York metropolitan area occurred when its system suddenly found part of its power supply being drained out toward Niagara Falls, rather than flowing from that area. This caused power plants in the metro- nolitan area to shut off auto- Program Offers Junior Year For Study in Aix-en-Provene By LAUREN BAHR Wisconsin the junior year abroad Assistant Managing Editor program at the University of Aix- Marseille was born in September, Six years ago the Literary Col- 1962 and is currently in its fourth I lege Steering Committee became y6ado s retli.u excited about starting a junior y ooperation. year .abroad program and sent The program as it is set up now1 James H. Robertson, associate of provides for students in all courses the literary college to Europe to of study except the sciences. "We investigate the possibilities. felt it should be reasonably de- "We decided that the kind of manding in order to attract top program we wanted should not be students. with good competence in located in a major metropolis French and an ability and promise such as Paris, but should be a to learn more since all instruction first-rate provincial university ?o-ss- i i at in atypicaluniversity town," Robertson said. Pooling forces with the Univer- sity of Wisconsin which was also interested in such a program, the city of Aix-en-Provence, France was chosen as the best location for the program. Born in '62 Under the cosponsorship of the University and the University of French instruction at the college level is divided into three areas: the institute which is for foreign students only; the Propedeutique which is for French students in their first year at college and the Licence which is the regular de- gree program. "We are aiming at getting our students enrolled in one of the latter two," Robertson said.E Prof. Jean Carduner of the French department, who was di- rector of the program during the first two years explained that a structured program of this type offers many advantages over in- dependent study. "If you go alone to Paris, which many people erroneously think is France-the rest of the country being some sort of desert-you might possibly get some opportun- ity to speak French if you can es- cape from the Americans and find the French." Carduner said. Live Together "A structured program enables students to live and study with French students.iBy attending the programs specifically set up for foreigners by the French univer- BULLETIN JOHNSON CITY, Tex. UP) - President Johnson last night summoned top military, diplo- matic and political leaders to Washington for a full-scale re- view of world events Thursday. NORTH CAMPUS PROJECT: ICC Asks 'U' for Co-op 0 -m~ - - -- n aj No specific reason was given for holding such a meeting at this time, but it was assumed that the course of the war in By RICHARD CHARIN The ICC has tentatively re- Viet Nam would'form the ma- quested that the firm plan for a jor focus of the talks. The Inter-Cooperative Council building with accommodations for (ICC) has formally requested that 180 to 200 people. Suites with sin- the University set aside a tract of gle or double bedrooms for six to sities, you will meet a lot of for- land on North Campus for the eight people would each have s eign students but no French," construction of a co-op housing living room and small kitchen, and Carduner explained. project. The request was contained would be connected to the main Adaptation to the French sys- in a letter to Richard L. Cutler, a unit having a cafeteria. 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