FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY At P.. .PW FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1967 THE lIHCIIIGAN DA III' rAc!kkyz 'lnnb Court Issues Restraint in NFO Strike 'Intimidation' Cited; Milk Farmers Told To Curtail Actions DES MOINES, Iowa (PA)-Mem- bers of the National Farmers Or- ganization yesterday, were placed by a federal judge under a 10-day restraining order forbidding acts of violence in their ilk-holding action. Judge Roy L. Stephenson em- phasized, in granting the order asked by the U.S. Justice Depart- ment that it does not bar the NFO from continuing the milk holdout begun March 15. He ordered the militant farm group to refrain from "threaten- ing, intimidating, harrassing, or engaging in acts of violence" against nonmember farmers, milk carriers 'and milk processors. The order allowed the NFO to engage in peaceful picketing but limited pickets to no more than four at any one site. i m Yesterday's -court action :came on the heels of a request by Ag- riculture Secretary Orville L. Free- man to President Johnson seeking restrictions on dairy product Im- ports many farmers and congress- men blame for low prices. Government attorneys intro- duced at the hearing an affidavit stating some NFO members used threats, intimidation and violence to prevent milk deliveries in Wis- consin. They said some of the milk was headed for other states, pla- cing it under federal jurisdiction. Lawrence Scalise, former Iowa attorney general, argude on behalf of the NFO that the government's charges were vague and that the farm group has discouraged any violence by its members. "If there is any evidence of vio- lence by any individual, that in- dividual should be restrained, not the NFO itself," said Scalise. But Judge Stephenson ruled the government affidavit indicated the iaw had been violated and since the restraining order does not say the violence was committed by NFO members, the judge noted, could do no harm. Although the milk strike has been riddled with truck hijacks, trucks being shot up and milk ruined or dumped, it has had little visible effect over most of the country. At first the NFO concentrated on dumping milk or buying it off store shelves, but now it is trying to channel milk into plants which have signed contracts. Once there, the milk would be processed into cheese, butter or powdered milk and then placed in storage. The NFO's leaders, insisted they will 'keep up the holdout action until they get their price raise of two cents a quart. ~ Bombing of FIGURES APPROACH KOREAN RATE: Marooned -Associated Press TELEVISION NEWSMEN picketed yesterday outside American Broadcasting Company studios in New York City. A announcer's wage strike has hit four networks across the nation. Management employes have taken the place of striking newsworkers, who are members of the American Fed- eration of Television and Radio Artists. Pictured are (left to right) Jules Bergman, ABC science editor; Betsy Tucker, reporter for WABC Local TV, and Bill Beutel, ABC network newscaster. $570,000 NOT TRACEABLE: Harlem Antipoverty Agency Charged withMismanagement, Ship To Halt Torrey Canyon's Oil Washed Out to Sea; Crisis State Eased LAND'S END, England (/P)- Bombing of the grounded super- tanker Torrey Canyon indicated yesterday that most of her 35.8 million gallons of oil have flooded out to sea or have washed ashore on the beaches of Britain. Three direct hits by navy jet bombers-Sea Vixens and Buc- caneers-set off only small fires that went out quickly. The Royal Air Force planes were aiming at the one last tank of 16 on the 61,000-ton tanker. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins said these reports in- dicated all oil in the Torrey Cany- on probably was destroyed or had floated off. Divers might be sent down today to check the wreckage that has been under bombardment for three days. "It looks as though this prob- ably is the end of the bombing operation," Jenkins declared. 'At Sea' Crisis "I wish I could say the crisis is over, but I can say a certain phase is probably over. We still have the crisis ofdealing with the oil at sea and that which comes ashore." He thought the operation so far could have cost more than $2.8 million, but he had no accurate figures. For five miles around the reef where the tanker grounded there was little evidence of oil, but plen- ty was still floating in the sea. The biggest patch, 30 miles long and five miles wide, was heading toward the island of Guernsey in the English Channel. Wreckage of the tanker, owned by the Union Oil Co. of California and registered in Liberia, still hung from Seven Stones reef, where she was impaled 12 days ago during a voyage from Kuwait to Britain. The battle went on today to save the miles of beaches already pol- luted and to keep the remaining oil offshore. Bulldozers scraped away oily sand along the Corn- wall beaches. A navy spokesman said a fleet of 56 ships sweeping up the oil slick and spraying it with deter- gent "is winning the battle." Along the 120-mile shore line of western Cornnwall and Devon, Britons fought the oil slick with foam barriers, sweeping operations and detergent. Prime Minister Harold Wilson also appeared optimistic. He said he planned to take his regular vacation in August on the Scilly Isles, now ringed by oil. SAIGON (R)-Two bitter battles and dozens of lesser engagements last week set combat death records in Vietnam for both the American forces and the Communists, the U.S. Command announced yester- day. All told. 274 Americans were killed-along with 203 South Viet- namese and 10 of the other allies -in action March 19-25 that cost the Viet Cong and North Viet- namese units 2,774 dead. The "kill-ratio" was a near- record 5.69 to 1 in favor of the allies. The figures reflect a surge in figthing brought about by more U.S. units. in the field-18 cam- paigns are under way-and per- haps the enemy's willingness to gamble lives against U.S. fire- power for a showpiece victory in the hope of promoting mass dis-1 affection for the war among the American people. Infiltration Despite record losses for two weeks, the U.S. estimate of total Communist troop strength in- creased by 1,000 men last week and 4,000 the week before, to a total of 287,000. This indicated continued heavy infiltration from North Vietnam despite the U.S. combing and successful local re- cruiting of guerrillas. Amesrican troop strength drop- ped for the first time in the war,' being reported at 425,000. This was 2,000 less than the total force reported the week be-' fore, but U.S. headquarters issued no explanation of the decline from U.S. headquarters. Some sources made comparisons between these Vietnam statistics and those from the Korean war. In Korea's first year, before the war settled into trenches and truce talks, the United States suf- fered 74,700 combat casualties- 21,000 killed and 53,700 wounded. A projection of Vietnam losses1 under the current deadly tempo of operations escalates U.S. battle casualties in Southeast Asia during 1967 to 61,100-8,320 killed and 52,786 wounded. Up Since '66 This is based on recent U.S. combat losses which have averaged 16'0 killed and 1,015 wounded per week in the last three months. In 1966 weekly combat casualties averaged 96 dead and about 575 wounded. If the recent casualty rate is maintained, the United States commitment in Vietnam in terms of life and limb since 1961 would mount by the end of the year to 104,482 battle casualties-14,964 killed and 89,518 wounded. In Korea the United States suf- fered 33,629 battle deaths andE 103.284 wounded. World War II battles killed 291,557 Americans and wounded 470,846 others. Non- combat deaths in World War II raised the cost in lives to 406,742 while the over-all toll of the Ko- rean conflict was 54,246. Meanwhile, in current Vietnam action, South Korean troops sweeping Viet Cong from a seg- ment of Highway 1 on the central coast had a sharp fight with an enemy detachment Wednesday in Phu Yen Province. They said they killed 50, while their own casual- ties were light. Jungle Advance U.S. operations included a drive into jungles of the coastal foot- hills in the central highlands. A spokesman said 10 soldiers were wounded. There was no report on enemy losses. B52 jets from Guam, flying in with their 30-ton bomb loads, staged three raids on Communist troop bivouacs in South Vietnam. Despite poor weather, U.S. pilots flew 108 missions Wednesday against North Vietnam. A storage complex 27 miles northeast of Hanoi was one of the prime tar- gets. Viet Cong troops promoted the two big fights of the week in that period, striking in human wave assaults against dug-in GI units north and northwest of Saigon in War Zone C. Over-all American casualties last week were 1,606. In addition to the 274 U.S. servicemen killed, 1,320 were wounded and 12 were reported missing or captured. The over-all record is 2,092 in the week of March 12-18, when 211 Americans were killed, 1,874 wounded and seven missing. Vietnam Casualties Hit Record Proportions as Action Flares New York Papers A vert Strike by Printers Union NEW YORK (AP-The antipover- ty agency generally credited with keeping Harlem cool in 1965 poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into unauthorized or unidentified programs and rolled up nearly a million dollars in unpaid debts, the city said yesterday. In a report that confirmed de- tails first mentioned 10 months ago the city reported the program- HARYOU-ACT -'- received $13.4 million from July 1, 1964, through June 30, 1966. It finished the per- iod with $800,000 in debts and less than $39,000 in unspent cash. The name "HARYOU-ACT" is a combination of initials that re- present the two experimental workshops that combined in 1964 to form the agency - Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Associated Community Teams. Charges Verified The first report to be officially made public out of numerous investigations, it' substantiated charges of sloppy and improper operations that brought a tem- porary halt in the flow of federal funds in late 1965 and sparked half a dozeninvestigations by fed- eral, congressional and municipal agencies. A report on the federal govern-, ment's investigation, made by the Office of Economic Opportunity, is expected to be released within a few days. Some highlights of the city re- pIort: " More than $700,000 went for "miscellaneousandunclassified" expenses, much of this difficult to trace. 0 A private accounting firm auditing HARYOU-ACT's books was unable to trace $569,066 in payments, and had to "allocate the unidentified expenses on a formula rather than an exact basis." Back Taxes was not listed in any of the books or records. *Equipment bought for the Black Arts Theater, whose hate- white plays and poetry were fund- ed despite federal disapproval, never ha$ been recovered. The report did not determine its cash value, but the earlier AP in- vestigation indicated that at least $95,000 had been spent on all phases of the Black Arts program. Board Ignored Finances The report said auditors' studies of executive board minutes in- dicated that board members did not look into fiscal matters, al- though these were referred to them by the board of directors. NEW YORK 'P-Negotiators worked successfully against a mid- night strike deadline last night to avert a walkout of 17,000 employes 7f five major New York daily newspapers. The powerful printers union scheduled slowdowns against the Daily News but announced it was withholding strike action. The union called the News an obstacle to any over-all settlement, and said it planned to hold meetings during which News printers would leave their jobs. Others among the 10 industry unions, however, could wreck the armistice and spearhead a walk- out that would cut off a combined circulation of nearly four million daily. Neverthless, an expression of cautious optimisn came from John J. Gaherin, president of the Publishers Association of New York City, which bargains for the five newspapers. "I'm confident nobody wants a strike. I sincerely hope that we'll be able to find an accommodation to the situation by the midnight deadline," he said.. .Wages are the chief issue in the dispute. Four times in as many past years some or all of New York's major dailies have been shut down by union walkouts. In that period also, the number of major news- papers, has shrunk from nine to six, a decline publishers attributed to rising labor costs and recurrent strikes. Involved in the current contract crisis were the morning Daily News and the Times, and the af- ternoon World Journal Tribune, the Long Island Star-Journal and the Long Island Press. The afternoon New York Post is not a member of the publishers association and does its contract bargaining separately. The 10 unions involved were the International Typographical Un- ion of printers, newspaper de- liverers, electricians, machinists, photoengravers, mailers, stereo- typers, pressmen, paper handlers and the New York Newspaper Guild. Leaders of the deliverers, elec- tricians and machinists have strike authorization already in hand. The professional Guild an- nounced in advance that it would honor any picket line of another union The ITU sought wage increases ranging up to 20 per cent. The publishers' initial offer to the printers provided a four per cent increase in each year of a three- year contract. Based on the $151.85 weekly pay of day-shift printers this would be $6.07 a week each year, or a three-year total of $18.21. The printers called the offer insufficient. 0 HARYOU-ACT at one time Forty-four suggested reforms in used $445,390 in federal and state administrative and accounting de- tax funds for operational expenses, tails were listed in the city report, still owes $200,000 in unpaid with- most dealing with detailed proce- holding taxes and $600,000 to dures for hiring, operating, ac- commercial creditors. counting and recovering some of " A revolving fund of $550,000 1 the misspent money.' AFTRA Strike Continues; Talks Set .for Tomorrow World News Roundup I By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-The Teamsters Union ordered a nationwide strike vote yesterday in deadlocked con- tract talks for some 500,000 work- ers in the nation's trucking in- dustry. The action, for a strike vote to be. taken over the weekend, came after union negotiators spurned a ieported three-year, 37-cent-an- hour wage hike offer from in- dustry negotiators representing some 12,000 trucking firms. The industry offer is less than half the union's original 75-cent- per-hour demand for a new three- year national trucking contract. WASHINGTON - The federal government told auto manufac- turers yesterday they must meet new safety standards by next Jan. 1, but left the door ajar for pos- sible modification of the regula- tion for softening and padding in- teriors. The agency did, however, make some minor, technical modifica- tions on three of the 20 standards. MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Gov. Lurleen Wallace yesterday asked the Alabama Legislature to give her authority to take over all pub- lic schools in the state if the federal courts insist on enforce- ment of a sweeping statewide in- tegration order. She urged the House and Sen- ate also to issue "as an exercise of the police power of this state, a cease-and-desist order" direct- ed to the three-judge federal pan- el which last week ordered all schools in the state desegregated by next September. And she requested the legisla- tors to "consider whether addi- tional state troopers may be re- quired in order that the children of our state be protected." Mrs. Wallace told the jointly assembled House and Senate that the court order-which she said would force the closing of all Ne- gro colleges as well as compel fac- ulty as well as pupil integration of public schools-"is calculated to destroy the school system of Alabama." NEW YORK (M)-The unprece- dented two-day old strike of four broadcasting networks by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) may last a week or more, network and union spokesmen said yesterday. "I'm afraid this could be a long one," one Nationad Broadcasting Co. management official said, and an AFTRA spokesman echoed: "I would certainly hope that isn't the case, but it's entirely possible." The walkout was in a dispute involving 300 of AFTRA's 18,000 members. The on-the-air newscasters who triggered the strike seek a revision of their income formula, which comibnes base salary and a per- centage of commercial fees. It appeared there was no chance for settlement at least until to- morrow when both sides were ssheduled to meet in Washington with a federal mediator. In the meantime, network supervisory personnel continued to substitute for striking broadcasters and announcers and filmed reruns were substituted for programs usually shown live or on video- tape. Feeling on the picket lines, es- pecially at NBC, ran high over the decision by Chet Huntley to go on the air despite the strike. He said he went on because he did not feel that AFTRA was the right group to represent him. Some of the strikers, at a mid- town bar frequented by NBC per- sonnel, took down an autographed photograph of Huntley, draped it in black crepe paper and placed it in the window. Triple picketing of the NBC Rockefeller Center headquarters was planned during Huntley's news program, shown in New York at 7 p.m., to protest his appear- ance. The NBC pickets were to be joined by pickets from ABC and CBS. Normally they picket only their own networks. CINEMA II Presents Billy Wilder's I ALPHA KAPPA LAMBDA ALL-CAMPUS CHARITY MIXER UNION BALLROOM' March 31 9-12 P.M. Irma La Douce (CinemaScope and Color) FRIDAY and SATURDAY 6:30and 9:15 PM. SUNDAY at 7 P.M. only I TONIGHT EL (THIS STRANGE PASSION) dir. Luis Bunvel, 1953. Spanish, subtitles. 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