r COMMUNICATING FOR RADICAL ORGANIZATION See Editorial Page YI e 46F A& r tgan i~Iait61 COOL AND DRY High--75 Low-58 Partly cloudy and cooler Vol. LXXIX, No. 61 -S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, August 8, 1969 Tn Cents Four Pages SETS AUG. 14 DATE: udsge Deake delays Collins examination U S. gdr charges ps In' By JUDY SARASOHN Ypsilanti District Judge Ed- ward Deake postponed until Aug. 14 the preliminary exam- ination of John Collins, ac- cused murderer of Eastern Michigan University coed Karen ,Beineman, when the suspect told district court he lacked funds and asked for a court-appointed lawyer. Collins was to have faced a pre- liminary examination yesterday. However, after Deake read the murder charge against the de-: fendant and asked if the prosecu- tion and defense were ready to proceed, Collins' lawyer, John M Toomey,. asked permission to ad--{ dress the court. Toomey said Loretta Collins, thef suspect's mother, requested a;-.- . court-appointed attorneybecause ~she lacked the financial resources to continue retaining a lawyer. Mrs. Collins had originally re- tained Toomey and his partner NEWS REPORTERS mill around the Ypsilanti Robert Francis, but the two at- Collins, a student at Eastern Michigan Universi torneys said additional funds charged last Friday with murder in the sla ated Press would be needed if they have to csi Natedores conduct ballistic and blood tests E Norman different fromthose made by po- SENATE ACTION NEXT: t Court- lice officials. N_._ According to Toomey. Collins' S -- had told him he would do "what- , ever his mother suggested" con- L ceringattorneys. Collins later ~f ~ l erin~g 'ar'~''s""3n= Hu epas. said in court that he wanted Toomey .and Francis to withdraw, from his case. 9 (1 The Collins' family lawyer, Hale{ Saph III, also addressed Deake xrl e concerning the court-appointment Sof lawyer. S pock",cas~e WASHINGTON (MP - The government yesterday aban- doned its case against Dr. Benjamin Spock. It yielded without appeal to a circuit court's reversal of the famed pediatrician's conviction on a charge of conspiring to persuade young men to avoid the draft. At the same time, the Justice Department asked - and was later granted - more time to study whether to seek a Supreme Court review in the, cases of two Spock codefendants. The decision not to puruse the Spock case was disclosed after Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold filed a petition ask- ing another month to review the reversal granted July 11 by the U.S. 1st Circuit Court in Boston. Griswold's motion pointedly sought an extension only for the cases of the Rev. William- - _------- -Associated Press I District Courthouse yesterday where John Norman ty, was taken for a preliminary examination. He was Ping of Karen Sue Beineman. -Associ FRATERNITY BROTHERS of accused murderer John' Collins gather on the lawn in front of the Ypsilanti Distric house yesterday. BELOW MINIMUM LEV E L: Feldkamp di scios dorm surplus dro By JUDY KAHN John Feldkamp, director of University housing, yesterday that this year's General Student Residence contains funds under the minimur amount recor by the University. The disclosure wa.s made at a m the Student Advisory Committee on Housing. The reserve is a holding account created from p the residence hall system. It is used to refurbish do: and to defray costs on new projects instituted by the office, said Edward Salowitz, associate housing direc During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, the f ses massive pa ckage disclosed Reserve nmended eeting of profits of rmitories housing tor. fund had "Because of this lack of funds V we feel the financial resources of yest Washtenaw County should be en- pron listed for a court-appointed coun- at I sel," said Saph. the Deake then proceeded to ques-' A tion Collins from a written form' mea about his financial status. He new asked Collins about his possession visi of stocks or bonds, bank accounts naI and a motor vehicle, this Collins replied negatively to A each question except the one con- wou cerning the motor vehicle. "I have char a motorcycle," the defendant said, the Once Collins signed court papers F requesting an appointed lawyer, taxp Toomey informed the court that 11971 See COLLINS, Page 3 rin WASHINGTON iPi-The House, A special low-income allowance for business spending on equip- ,erday passed a massive tax bill would remove t w o million poor ment repealed; dozens of tax ben- mising ultimately tax cuts of families from the tax rolls and efits trimmed and an .o v e r-all east five per cent for all but extend its benefits well above the upper income brackets. actual poverty line. The standard minimum income t a x would be 394-30 vote sent the bulky deduction also would increase, imposed with the intention of sure to the Senate, where re- helping millions who do not have guaranteeing that no high-in- ed battles over its major pro- enough special deductions to item- come recipient could use any re- ons are' expected to delay fi- ize. maining shelters to avoid taxa- enactment at least until late Other provisions would grant tion completely. year. additional relief to widows, wid- Proponents called the measure major disputed provision owers and single persons over 35.; the most sweeping revision of the ild extend the income tax sur- The relief would be only partly tax laws since the income tax was rge-at five per cent-through offset by the provisions aimed at voted in 1913. Some critics, how- first six months of 1970. wealthy individuals and corpora- ever, said it does not go far enough or. the bulk of middle-income ' tions using tax shelters. - - while others asserted it is pun- )ayers, relief would come in The oil depletion allowance itive. and 1972 through reductions would be cut from 27.5 per cent to Tables compiled by the House ates. 20 per cent; the investment credit Ways and Means Committee gave among examples of the bill's ef- Sloane Coffin, Yale University chaplain, and author Mitchell Goodman, two codefendants in the case. Asked why no mention was made of Spock and Michael Per- ber, a Harvard University grad- uate student convicted on the same charge, a Justice Depart- ment spokesman said officials had decided not to appeal . in these cases. The appellate court directed ac- quittal verdicts for Ferber and Spock and ordered new trials for Coffin' and Goodman. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger granted Griswolduntil Sept. 9 to file petitions seeking a review of the appellate court decision as it pertained to Coffin and Goodman. Spock, sailing off the east coast, could not be reached immediately for ;comment. But Ferber, in a telephone inter- view in Boston, responded with only partial enthusiasm. "It's been going on so long now and changing so many times that I don't feel that strongly one way or the other any more," he said. "I guess I really won't be pleas- ed until we're all found innocent," he added. The four men were convicted June 14, 1968, of conspiring to counsel young men to violate Se- lective Service rules. Five had been, indicted on the charge Jan. 5, 1968, but one defendant, Marcus Raskin of Washington, was ac- quitted by the trial jury. The appeals court held there was insufficient evidence that Spock and Ferber intended to use illegal means or adhere to illegal aspects of an antiwar, antidraft agreement. It ruled that Coffin and Good- man were not entitled to acquit- tals but were entitled to new trials because their rights had been pre- judiced when U.S. District Court Judge Francis J. W. Ford told their jury to answer 10 specific questions in addition to returning verdicts. The Circuit Court's ruling was written by Chief Judge Bailey Aldrich and concurred in by Judge Edward M. McEntee. Each of the four had been sen- tenced to two years in prison, and Spock, Coffin and Goodman also were fined $5,000 each. Ferber was fined $1,000. Nixon to speak on weif are WASHINGTON (41) -President Nixon will announce a new $4 bil- lion program designed to provide an income floor for needy Amer- icans and to require the able- bodied to be available for work, the Washington Post said in to- day's edition. Nixon is to address the nation by radio and television at 10 p.m. ED today on his welfare pro- posals. Education school Dean Wilbur Cohen is scheduled to be on an NBC reaction panel following the president's speech. The Post said the new plan to replace the present system of pub- lic welfare provides the first fed- eral payments to the working poor -families with a man in the house whose income is below poverty level. The aid to dependent children would be abolished, it said, ani the present food stamp program virtually Junked. Other provisions in the proposed program, according to the Post, include: -A federal minimum floor for welfare recipients in every state -about $1,600 a year for a family of four. -Every head of a household re- ceiving the federal payments would be considered an applicant for training and employment and would lose hiĀ§ benefits by reject- ing such offers unless he were physically or mentally unfit. -Mothers who head households would not be required to accept training or employment if they have to care for preschool chil- dren, but a major new system of day care centers would be provided to encourage them to do so. Following his speech, the Presi- dent is scheduled to leave for Cali- fornia tomorrow to spend more than a month working and relax- ing at his San Clemente home. only $290,286,far below the Credit union elecats board The newly-formed S t u d e n t' Credit Union yesterday announced it will begin accepting applica- tions for loans Sept. 15. Any student, member of a stu- dent family or special adviser who! pays the $5 entrance fee will be able to obtain low interest loans and maintain savings accounts with dividends returns. At a meeting last night the nine-man board of directors elect- ed Gene Smith, president; J. Miv- hael Senger, vice president; Tom Brown, secretary and Marelen Duffey, secretary. Other board members include William Bachmann, Mary Farrell, Neil Hollenshead, Patrick Murphy: and Jane Moore. $500,000 limit the University recommends as the minimum amount for the fund. Feldkamp explained that at the beginning of last year the fund held $1,754,678. However, he said substantial expenses were incurred on maintenance 'and improvement projects on North Campus, Mosh- er-Jordan Hall, in the Residential College and in the food service. In addition nearly $97,000 was. spent to defray debts in South Quad, Markley Hall and Oxford Co-op. This was necessary, Feld- kamp said, because these halls did not operate at full capacity. last year. For the fiscal year which began June 30, 1969, the reserve 'hasf $462,000. However, a fire alarm system is' being installed within the housing system which will deduct $100,000 or more from the fund. If meat portions are increased, another $32,000 will be deducted.- Salowitz said another $500,000 will be added to the reserve if on- See REVEAL, Page 3 Senate affirms stand on ABM by defeating more amendments fect, if it were enacted and fully in operation: A family of four with income of $3,500, now paying $70 tax, would' pay none; a similar family at the $7,500 level would pay $576 in- stead of $687; at the $15,000 lev- el $1,846 instead of $2,082. ! WASHINGTON P-The Sen- computers at the two initial Safe- Fulbright cited a July 18 letter While the rate cuts would go , ate cemented its approval of the l guard sites in North Dakota and he received from the office of the all the way up the scale, the com- Safeguard missile defense system Montana but to withhold authority Comptroller General, saying that mittee estimated that elimination yesterday, but Democratic Leader j for deployment of its missiles. on May 12 the Army gave the or reduction of privileges would Mike Mansfield expressed hope Mansfield, noting statements Bureau of Public Roads approval increase over-all taxes for those President Nixon will delay deploy- by President Nixon that he "would "to program preliminary access with incomes of $100,000 or more. ment to spur arms control talks 'be guided by events as to whether roads" near the Safeguard site in; Widows, widowers and mature with the Soviet Union. or not he would deploy the ABM," North Dakota. single persons, given treatment The decision to deploy the Safe- told reporters he wouldn't be sur- The letter adds that the Fed- like that now afforded heads of guard system, made in two tight prised if Nixon decides to hold off eral Highway Administration in households, would have substan-, votes Wednesday, was hardened as deployment for a while. turn authorized North Dakota's both proponents and opponents of "I am encouraged by his state- highway department to spendti the ABM teamed to defeat an ments," Mansfield said. $75,000 "for preliminary engin- Such persons with $1,700 in- amendment by Sen. Thomas J.' But Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D- eering related to accommodate come would pay no tax; at $3,000 McIntyre (D.-N.H.). Ark.) said "They're already de- construction traffic and future they would p a y $75 instead of The vote was 70 to 27 against ploying." He said preparations are operational traffic" but that no $329; at $7,000 $975 instead of $1,- the proposal to approve deploy- Iunder way to build access roads construction is planned before 168 and at $16,000 $2,532 instead ment of the ABM's radars and ' at the first two ABM sites. spring 1970. of $3,154. .SPACE ODYSSEY SGC discount store joins Union By BARD MONTGOMERY Expansion is a sign of success, they say. And so it is. with the Student Government Council Discount Store. After seven months in a two- room set up on the first floor of the Student Activities Bldg.," the store will reopen Aug. 25 on, the second floor north lounge of the Union. "Everybody knows where the Union is," says store manager Dennis Webster, "but not every- body knows about the SAB. We're a lot more accessible here and we'll have office and stor- age space, as well," he adds. SGC received regental ap- proval for the store in November. But because there was "a good deal of pessimism" about the success of the store, the Regents store's success as a non-profit project> since it fell about $900 short of meeting operating cost. Most of the loss came on a four week experiment of staying open Sundays and week-nights. Nobody came. Although the store has done only $3000 business monthly in May and June, compared to $7500 per month during the reg- ular term, its sedate business hours-12 p.m.-5 p.m. every- day except Sunday-have al- lowed it to come within $20 of breaking even. Webster hopes that a promo- tion campaign centered on the store's new and better known location will attract the fall rush in full measure. This may boost the average 15 per cent sales' discount to 20 per cent, and pay off SOC's funding out- The McIntyre amendment mark- ed the final effort to limit the ABM in the current debate. Many of the most outspoken ABM critics, including Sens. Mans- field, John Sherman Cooper (R- SKy), and Philip A. Hart (D-Mich) opposed it on grounds it would put them in the position of approving a partial deployment on the Safe- guard system. McIntyre, who had pushed, his proposal for weeks as a "com- promise" but never elicited en- thusiasm from either side, said a heavy vote for his proposal would strengthen- President Nixon's hand in arms talks. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC), opposing the amendment, said it "would cast a cloud of ambiguity over the entire Safeguard devel- opment." With the ABM issue disposed of-at least until the defense ap- propriations bill is considered later this year-the Senate turned to the rest of the $20 billion military procurement authorization bill. But Mansfield was unsuccessful in trying to hold a Saturday ses- sion in an effort to complete the bill before the Senate starts its ?2.a:.. M IWARMARROMFIEWAR WIPW