6 MACE .REPORT: TRAGIC MISTAKE See editorial page Y e Lw ujan Y ~E~adjP RAIN Hiigh-89 Low-6U Showers and thunder showers today and tonight. Vol. LXXVIII, No. 27-S Ann Arbor Michigan, Tuesday, June 11,11968 Ten Cents Six Pa Millage issues passed; Heusel, Lockett, Wood /win school board seats) Grand charges lury lev to inestigat Bled at * Voters turn out at 40 pet. rate - By MARCIA ABRAMSON Voters in the annual Board of Education election y e,s t e r d a y passed an operational levy of 11.66 mills and elected Dr. Harold J. Lockett, Richard M. Wood and w Ted Heusel to the board. Lockett is an incumbent. The millage passed by a vote of 8852 to 6800. The levy includes a renewal of 4.5 mills and a new 7.16 mill package. Local observers had expected the millage to be defeated due to a variety of fac- tors. Defeat of, the millage would have left the school system $5.5 million short of the nearly $18 million budget the board says is the minimum needed to operate the school system in the current manner. Final votes in the board race were: Lockett, 8,032; Wood, 7,659; and Heusel, 6,352. Other candidates' votes were: Cecil Warner, 6,010; Duane Renm ken, 5,885; Mrs. Frances Felbeck, 5,113; Mrs. Joan Adams, 3,606; and Bill Ayers, 1,781. Mrs. Felbeck, an incumbent, lost her seat. Voting was fairly heavy for the board election. Nearly 16,000 vot- ers turned out, some 40 per cent of Ann Arbor's 40,000 registered school board voters. Wood said he was "personally, tremendously gratified" because he had worked for passage of the millage. Both Lockett and Heusel have warned that more than the pres- ent millage will be needed by the % schools. "Passage of the millage will not assure that the schools will open in the fall. The teachers, to have any strength, will have to strike in the fall," Heusel explained. Lockett said, "There has to be a vigorous effort toward changing the method on which we now fi- nance schools. The property tax is outmoded and outdated. A more equitable tax will have to be found." In pre-election statements, Locket admitted that "the present millage will not raise teachers salaries." But he said "Because of the state of the economy and the attitude of the taxpayers, it would be most unrealistic to present a high budget and a millage in- crease to the citizens at this time. Harold Collins, president of the Ann Arbor Teachers Association, said that although the AATA was "happy to see the millage pass," the group "did feel the 11.66 mill- age was basically inadequate to cover the kind of program custom- ary in Ann Arbor." Negotiations between .the board and the teach- ers for contracts have not been completed. In 1967 voters defeated a 51/ mill increase twice, on May 8 and June 12. FINAL RETURNS These are the final, results of the Ann Arbor School Board election and the vote on the proposed millage increase. Milage. . . . . ............Passed 8,852 to 6,800 Dr. Harold J. Lockett ...... ...:......... 8,032 Richard M. Wood............. . ........7,659 Ted Heusel ........ ....... ............... 6,352 Cecil Warner...........................6,010 .'Duane Renken......... .............. 5,885 Mrs. Frances Felbeck ..................... 5,113 Mrs. Joan Adams.............. . . ....3,606 Bill Ayers..............................1,781 King killngs ect faces return toUS * * * * Harve State may Itlld join jury's --____inquiries 'Stop-andfrisk' uph e LONDON (AP)-The U.S. govern- ment obtained last night a pro- visional British warrant charging James Earl Ray with the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., clearing ground for a formal ap- plication in the next day or two for Ray's return to the United States. The move followed a calm and impressive appearance by Ray at a perfunctory ,two-minute British court session during which he was assigned a British lawyer in what legal experts said could be his! first move to fight extradition for trial. It was the first bit of legal sparring in a case capable of spiralling into months of argu-I ment if the suspect contests the U.S. Justice Department request to extradite him "very' soon." Legal sources said the earliest possible date for Ray's return would be June 28, but arguments could run into August if there is a battle. Quick movement was already delayed yesterday when Ray, 40, was ordered held without bail by Chief Magistrate Frank Milton, for a hearing June 18. The issu- ance of the warrant followed. Asst. U.S. Atty. Gen. Fred W. Vinson Jr., is expected to make formal application to Britain's home secretary for extradition as soon as he receives the necessary documentation from the United States. The home secretary, James Callaghan, will forward the ap- plicatiofi to the chief magistrate at Bow Street Court who will con- sider whether the documentary evidence submitted by Vinson would be.substantial for extradi- tion. The application is expected to reach the court tomorrow. Ray will then have 15 days to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. Under British law and the 1935+ treaty of extradition between Bri- tain and the United States, the home secretary cannot surrender Ray to U.S. authorities before 151 days have passed. Security measures so tight that even lawyers submitted to frisk- ing, were in effect when Ray was] brought into court yesterday. No7 one except the police and local officers had seen Ray since his arrest Saturday when he tried to board a plane for Brussels. Under the name Sneyd, Ray was charged with using a false pass- port with that name and carrying an unlicensed, loaded gun. Sitting a few feet from the suspect was Vinson, who went di- rectly from the court to a second day of consultations with British officials in his effort to speed up Ray's extradition. , Scotland Yard, meanwhile, re- ported police were still investigat- ing the case and making inquiries about Ray, who had been hiding out in London since mid-May. U.S. legal officials in London had said earlier "the process to- ward extradition is already in mo- tion and we hope to get him back to the United States very soon." National SDS ,meeting opens EAST LANSING (M)-The na- tionwide convention of Students for a Democratic Society began at Michigan State University yester- day with the election of a steer- ing committee. Above the registration desk-at which 450 SDS members had sign- ed in by Sunday night--a poster warned delegates: "Drug busts have happened here this week (a la Stony Brook). Issues have been politicized. Cops are uptight so ... please keep cool." The sign referred to the arrest last week of seven students and five non-students on charges of selling narcotics. Student protests of campus police involvement in the arrests led to the arrest of 26 demonstrators. The agenda for the week-long convention calls for numerous workshops on summer work, the direction of the movement and national direction, as well as a panel discussion on "Racism and White Response to Black Rebel- lions." The "National Convention Plenary" was to discuss major resolutions -and elect new national officers later in the week. Leary appeal4Y hearing sated WASHINGTON (R) - The Su- preme Court swung to the side of policemen yesterday, ruling they can stop suspicious looking per- sons on the street and search them for weapons. These searches must be care- fuly limited, Chief Justice Earl Warren said in the 8-1 decision, and can be made only when the )fficer fears for his own or others' safety. "The officer need not be ab- solutely certain that the individ- ial is armed," Warren said. "The issue is whether a reasonable pru- dent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger." The go-ahead for policemen to search suspects without arrest warrants, though limited, runs counter to most recent Supreme Court decisions in the criminal law field. In other action yesterday the Court agreed to hear an appeal by Dr. Timothy J. Leary, tenta- tively sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for bringing less than half an ounce of marijuana into the United States from Mexico. In appealing his 1966 federal convinction, the former Harvard teacher said the federal law re- quires purchasers of marijuana to reveal themselves to the govern- ment by paying a tax violates the constitutional protection against self-incrimination. In granting Leary review next term, the Court agreed to hear his challenge to the tax provisions. The Court refused to review the' contempt conviction of a former' college editor who claimed jour- nalists have a right to keep the sources of their news stories secret. Annette Lesley Buchanan, for- mer managing editor of the Uni- versity of Oregon Daily Emerald,r asserted this right in refusing ton give a Lane county grand jury thea sources of a story she had writtenr -Associated Press Sounding out the fury7 President Johnson met yesterday with his newly created commission to seek the causes and cures for violence which has plagued the nation. The commission, which was conceived by the President after the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy last Wednesday, has been given a 12 month deadline to come up with a report on the "causes and prevention of violence." CON TRO VERSL4L PROVISION:' City Council ap"p"rovesN. mo_0di*fied shop otat P~ 3 By LESLIE WAYNE ' a bill incorporating a similar pro- council would offer a $30,000 sub- Ann Arbor City Council last vision last year, however, the State sidy to the firm. night approved a contract with Supreme Court his not ruled on The city also discussed the pos- municipal employes that included ; its legality. sibility of granting the franchise a controversial provision for a Councilman James E. Stephen- to Short Way Lines, Inc. However, modified agency shop. son (R-Fourth Ward) claimed the company asked for an annual The section of the contract this proposal makes the city ap- subsidy of $105,000 for the city dealing with the modified shop pear "desirous of maintaining a and the school bus service., effect only if the monopoly power." Although the City Bus Com- wouState Legislatureff the State Su- "With this provision, the city pany received an $8,500 annual preme Court approve its legality. is asked to speak for and to bind subsidy, the company lost about all of its employes," he continued. $20,000 last year and was forced Under terms of the contract, all Stephenson noted that in the to terminate operations. city employes would be required past two years over 75 illegal St. Johns Transportation Com- to join Local 369 of the American strikes were staged in Michigan. pany has tentatively agreed, to Federation of State, County and He added he "feared when the follow the same routes of the City' Municipal Employes. union has this much power." Bus Company as well as the routes If an employe wished to remain Under the present contract, the of present school bus service. out of the union, the equivalent of modified agency shop would go A rate schedule was not agreed union dues would be deducted into effect automatically upon ap- upon in the contract., from his wages and put into an as proval of the Legislature. Council yet unspecified special scholar- defeated a motion by Stephenson Ann Arbor has been without bus ship fund. to delay bargaining on the pro- service since May 22 whenCity The State Legislature defeated posal until after the Legislature Bus Company drivers went on takes such action, strike for fewer hours and higher Councilman John Hathaway wages. Two days later, Arvin Mar- (R-Fourth Ward) claimed the ad- shall, owner of the company, an- ministration of the scholarship sounced the discontinuation of fund by union members and the service. 0 city "was contrary to the basic Council is expected to approve t i~purpose of the fund." formally the contract next Mon- t " YY A l Hthaway said the fund should day., By PHILIP BLOCK Three Washtenaw County Cir- cuit Court judges will soon take action on a petition they liave received concerning alleged viola- tions of state criminal laws by county Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey; The State Attorney's General's office may also 'be participating in the investigation of Harvey. In a statement issued Friday 'night, presiding Circuit Judge James R. Breakey Jr. said, "A pe- tition has been filed with the pre- siding Circuit Judge for a one- man grand jury-to investigate cer- tain actions alleged to have taken place in the administration and conduct of the office of the Sher- iff of Washtenaw County, Dou- glas J. Harvey." Although the judges declined to mention the names of the peti- tioners informed sources indicate that Leonard Young-acting as attorney for ex-deputy Fred Post- ill-presented the petition. Postill, secretary of the Wash- tenaw Deputies Bargaining As- soefation has been fired twice by Harvey in the last six months. In May, and appeal board of the State Labor Mediation Board :SLMB )upheld a January ruling by SLMB trial examiner John McCormick which forced Harvey to reinstate Postill. The judges also declined to name any of the charges leveled against Harvey. However, two of the alleged actions probably con- cern charges that Harvey has vio- lated the state Veterans Prefer- ence Hiring Act and PA 235, which. places a residency require ment on -any'new deputies which the sheriff hires. The judge's statement said the petition "is now and will continue to be under consideration by this court which has already directed that an investigation in depth be made concerning -said charges; such investigation is now in pro- gress." The wording of the statement gave rise to speculation that the state Attorney General's offie was being called in on the case as it has been in several other Grand Jury- investigations. Secretaries in the Attorney General office said the "attorney general's assistant John Wilson is handling the, case." Wilson is a member of the office's criminal division. When asked if he was involved in the Harvey investigation, Wil- son said "At the moment I am not in a position to say anything about the case." Although the one-man Grand Jury will specifically investigate the charges listed on the petition, it will also look into any other charges filed against the sheriff's office. The Ypsilanti Press has already printed charges concerning Har- vey's 'alleged misconduct on an air flight while bringing a pris- oner back from Tucson, Arizona. The judges said that they ex- pect the report will be available "in the near-future." See related story, Page 3 titled "Students Condone Mari- juana Use." The May 24, 1966 article related that seven students had used marijuana. She was judged in contempt and fined $300. The court's refusal to hear her appeal lets the conviction stand. The action, announced without amplification, averts a substan- tive high courtruling on the claim that the traditional newspaper practice of shielding news sources is grounded in the First Amend- ment's free press provisions. i!! 4 } 4 r SPOCK TRIAL Boudin shows defense 's stra (1 4 ~ & U,/ Prof. Joseph Sax of the Law School is currently in Boston ob- serving the Spock conspiracy trial. His analysis of the courtroom situ- ation will be published in The Daily until the end of the trial. By JOSEPH SAX Special To The Daily BOSTON - The case of Dr. Benjamin Spock moved into high gear yesterday, as the trial entered its fourth week and as Leonard Boudin, who represents Dr. Spock, showed the spectators what it means to be a great trial tactician. Boudin, who has written ex- tensively on constitutional law and is an experienced defend- er of left wing causes, began the day with Mayor John Lind- say of New York as a defense witness. It was a dramatic opening. Lindsay is not only an enormously impressive fig- ure in appearance and demean- ,6peration with city officials. Lindsay seemed to negate con- clusively the prosecution's ef- fort to characterize the dem- onstration as an attempt to im- pede the operation of the in- duction center. He recounted his conversation with David McReynolds, who was the or- ganizer of the Whitehall pro- test; according to Lindsay, Mc- Reynolds had said that he hoped the demonstrators would be arrested promptly, "as it was cold in December and they didn't want to sit on the pave- ment too long." Boudin next continued a process he has been developing all through the case. He put several witnesses on the stand with expert knowledge of the war, including a Life Magazine photographer who had visited North Vietnam, a professor of ground that the condNct of the war is immaterial to the case. Of course, Boudin knew very well that such evidence would be excluded, but his strategy is designed to accomplish two im- portant purposes. First, he is signalling to the jury that the nature of the war is a critical issue to the defendants, and he is trying to make them curious about what they are being pre- vented from learning. This is a classic legal technique of making a virtue of adversity. In this case, the effort is to make the jury interested and, hopefully, to make them re- sentful of the prosecutor for objecting to evidence they would like to hear. At its best, such a tactic is designed to make the bait bet- ter than" the meal; the, jury may even come to believe that on the showing of bona fides. Their bona fides as to issues such as the allegation that the United States is violating the rules of war under the 1949 Geneva .Convention, may be provable only by showing the facts underlying that belief. The balance of the day was devoted to the testimony of Dr. Spock himself. Boudin is care- fully leading him through an explanation of his views and conduct; that testimony will probably take another day, and adequate analysis should await its completion. Finally, a brief amendment of my previous comments on Judge Francis Ford seems ap- propriate at this point. Earlier I praised Ford for his fairness and disinterestedness, and I would still stand by that eval- uation at the time it was made. tility to their case. While a witness is being examined, Ford will interpose with a question of his own which frequently seems constructed to put the defendants in an unfavorable light. For example, while Mayor Lindsay was testifying, he said that he told the organizers of the Whitehall demonstration that he wanted to protect their right to free speech. Judge Ford interrupted to ask Lind- say, "Did you tell them the rights of the First Amendment are not absolute?" During Dr. Spook's testi- mony, when Boudin asked Spock if he had read the views of both pro-war and anti-war writers, Ford interposed and asked Spock whether he' saw any merit in the views of those who supported the war. Such small incidents have occurred be administered instead by "those it would benefit." At an earlier council meeting, City Administrator Guy C. Lar- com, Jr., said if council did not approve the agency shop provi- sion the unions probably would not accept the contract. At the same meeting, City At- torney Peter W. Forsythe noted that several other cities have ap- proved the agency shop provision without waiting for specific court rulings or legislation. Larcom said earlier that city departments affected by the con- tract are "90 to 95 per cent un- ionized." Councilman Brian Con- nelley (R-Fifth Ward) estimated that about 42 municipal employes do not wish to belong, to the union. The contract also included a no strike clause and provisions for a six per cent wage increase to become effective July 1. The provision would apply to all muiipal empnloyee 'except