ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL See Editorial Page CY1 [r A6F A6F .Aitr t an &4 tti9 FAIR High-62 Low--44 Clear and cooler. cloudy in evening Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIV, No. 157 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1964 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES h son nnounces a1s ett ement J House To View Minor Fund Cut House May Postpone Deadline; Newton Scores Non-Residents By BRIAN BEACH As University operating budget and capital outlay appropriations approach the final stages of enactment, rumors of conservative cuts trickle from a deadline-conscious Legislature.1 Rep. Carroll C. Newton (R-Delton), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee said last night that the committee will con- sider "for sure" one or two small reductions in operating budget levies to colleges and universities. But, legislative sources indicated that these minor cuts will suffice for even the most fiscal-minded members. Pending before the House committee is the University's $44 million operating budget appropriation and $5.7 million capital out- < lay levy. Both-bills have been pass- ed in the Senate. Last night's deadline for action on all bills other than budget bills has prevented the Ways and Means Committee from meeting to study the education budget measures, committe chairman Ar- nell Engstrom (R-St. Clair) in- dicated. Rep. Gilbert E. Bursley (R-Ann Arbor) confirmed reports that the House may even postpone the Ways and Means Committee Fri- day deadline to get the bills it is considering out of committee to the House floor. Not Carefully Considered "We haven't carefully consider- ed the higher education approp- riations bills up to this point and I don't know what we will do with them," commented Rep. William Henry Thorne (D-Dearborn). When the final test comes, the CARROLL NEWTON old issues will be cropping up, sources indicated. Outstate-instate student ratios C Passes remain a concern to the Legisla- SG C ture. Rep. Newton explained that the state universities have a re- Stu # Mdotion sponsibility to shoot for a goal Studot eventually of 15 per cent outstate students within any school's total enrollment. "Instead of seeking The Student Government Coun- this goal some of the state's uni- cil last night passed a motion versities and colleges have main- which will set up a committee to tained a high percentage of out- study student government on the state students," he asserted. University campus. Not Low Enough In other action it approved the About 29 per cent of the Uni- election rules f-r 1964 and passed versity's students are not Mich- a motion to endorse the drive for igan residents, he said. ntributions and signatures in "We want to investigate the $10 cport of the John Fitzgerald million in the $131.1 million high- supportofh Jh Ftga er education operating budget bill Kennedy Library. which was designed for 'beefing The motion establishing the up' education and 'catching up' to committee to review student gov- other states," Rep. Newton said. ernment was entered before Coun- This year's appropriation to the cil by Carl Cohen, '66, and Barry University is $6 million higher Bluestone, '66. The committee will than last year's $38 million levy. be composed of three faculty mem- Rep. Newton thought the Sen- bers, four students, and two rep- ate passed the appropriations bills resentatives of the administra- a little higher than they wanted. tion recommended by the vice- The Senate appropriated $75,000 president of student affairs. more to Michigan State than Gov. Conclusions reached by the com- G e o r g e Romney recommended. mittee may be presented to the Sen. Stanley Thayer (R-Ann Ar- campus in the form of a referen- bor) indicated at that time that dum. The final report must be he thought State got the increase submitted to SGC no later than as a result of restructuring of March 1,1965. their request by the Appropria- Ma c 1, tions Committee. He considered The election rules were drawn up this unintentional. jointly by Eugene Won, '66, Cohen University administrators main- and Bluestone. They concern ad- tain official confidence that the ministration of election, candidate University's appropriations will eligibility, rules of campaigning, remain intact. voting process and procedure in Capital outlay levies will prob- case of violation of any election ably not be changed, Rep. Eng- regulation. strom noted. House and Senate SGC President Tom Smithson, leaders collaborated on setting '65, presented the motion concern- capital outlay levels more than ing the John Fitzgerald Kennedy they did for operating budget Library. funds. he indicated. To Set Up Separate Ins titute By LAURA GODOFSKY Collegiate Press Service CHICAGO-A report recom- mending the establishment of an independent National Humanities Foundation, similar to the Na- tional Science Foundation,.will be issued next month by the Com- mission on the Humanities. The mission of the proposed humanities foundation would be broad-including support of "so- cial sciences not supported by the NSF," scholarly research and "creative arts" projects, teacher institutes, student fellowships and the construction of needed facili- ties in relevant areas. The Commission on the Human- ities is composed of 20 distinguish- ed educators and humanists-in- cluding Prof. William Frankena of the philosophy department-and the chairman of International Business Machines. It is sponsored by the American Council of Learn- ed Societies, the Council of Grad- uate Schools in the United States, and the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. Report Outlined The forthcoming report, which is still in the draft stage, was out- lined at a session of the National Conference of the Association of Higher Education Tuesday by Charles Blitzer, the commission's staff director. Hopefully, the proposal for a national humanities foundation will be introduced to Congress as legislation next January, Blitzer said. Both Blitzer and the other panelists who participated in the session stressed, however, that if the foundation is to be set up, humanists themselves will have to campaign actively for it. In other words, there seems to be a need for scholar-lobbyists. The immediate goal of the foundation's supporters is the rec- ognition of the principle that there should be a federal agency sup- porting the humanities for their own sake rather than for any contributions their study might make to national defense or any other particular concern of the federal government. Fear Federal Control Congressional opposition is an- ticipated to the commission's basic conclusion that the federal gov- ernment should provide support for the humanities because the health of the humanities at all levels is an issue of national con- cern. Another issue in creating the foundation is its location in the Executive Branch of the federal government. Three institutional forms have been suggested for the foundation: -A National Institute of the Humanities, similar to the Nation- al Institutes of Health, located in the Department of Health, Educa- tion and Welfare as a part of the Office of Education. -An expanded NSF which would include the humanities. There seem to be few, if any, champions of this proposal, al- though outspoken opposition to it has also not been heard. -A separate National Human- ities Foundation. STILL FACE SECOND TRIAL: Jury Acquits DAC Picketers By MICHAEL SATTINGER Acting Associate Managing Editor & After a heated courtroom de- bate, seven members of the Direct Action Committee were acquited last night of sidewalk-blocking charges. They still face arraignment on charges they interfered with a police officer fulfilling his normal duties. The acquittal came from a jury composed of five whites and one Negro. It finally was selected Tuesday night after about seven hours of hearings in which 47 prospective jurors were excused. Municipal Court Judge Francis L. O'Brien is presiding over the trial. Forced Off Awaits Approval By Labor Unions emoves Threat of Nationwide Halt Of Trains Scheduled for, Saturday. WASHINGTON MP)-President Lyndon B. Johnson announced settlement last night of the 5-year-old railroad work rules dispute. The settlement, which requires ratification by the five unions involved, removes the threat of a nationwide rail stoppage scheduled to start at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. "This is a good day for our country," Johnson said in announcing the settlement on a hastily arranged nationwide radio-television hookup. Accepted in Principle Speaking for the unions, Roy 9. Davidson of the Railway Brother- hoods said the agreement was accepted in principle subject to the ratification procedures of the} nl k .M1 The incident occurred Feb. 28 when eight DAC members picketed Ann Arbor City Hall. It was charg- ed that the demonstration forced pedestrians to stepp off the side- walk into a muddy lawn extension. At the demonstration, the DAC members became involved in a scuffle yith firemen and police. The demonstration protested alleged police brutality, citing as an example the handling, of the arrest of several Ann Arbor youths earlier in the week of the demon- strations. The prosecution brought forth testimony from witnesses led by Assistant City ~Attorney S. J. El- den, to the effect that they saw persons stepping off the sidewalk to go around the demonstrators. However, the defense, consisting of Milton Henry of Pontiac, Sol Plafkin of Detroit and Eddie Smith of Detroit's GOAL group, argued that the prosecution was unable to produce one witness who was himself actually forced off the sidewalk by the DAC picket- ers. Out of Respect They argued that people who went off the sidewalk to go around the picketers did so out of respect for the picket lines and not be- cause they could not stay on the sidewalk. The defense called Judy Weiss- man to the stand, who testified that the picketers were sufficient- Turks Reject Makarios Plan To' Get Peace, NICOSIA, Cyprus (P)-Turkish Cypriots rejected last night a package proposal by President Archbishop Markarios for a gen- eral amnesty and other measures to restore peace to this troubled Mediterranean island. A Turkish Cypriot official called the proposals by the Greek Cypriot leader nothing but propaganda. "The Turks only fought to de- fend life and property from at- tacks and are not guilty of any acts as suggested by Markarios," Defense Minister Osman Orek said. "To accept his offer of an amnesty would amount to an ad- mission of guilt." Swedish troops of the United Nations force meanwhile are re- ported to have rushed to western Cyprus where three Greek Cyp- riots, including a woman, were wounded in a flareup of village fighting. ly far apart to walk between them. Also, the city ordinance per- taihing to such offenses as were considered in the trial does not mention sidewalks. Implication The defense further argued that the seven DAC members could not be found guilty of blocking pass- age because the police, in the time before the scuffle broke out, did not arrest them, the implication being that there wasn't sufficient illegality to arrest them. The second part of the trial- on charges that the picketers ob- structed the duties of a policeman -will begin today. There were eight DAC members involved in the incident, but one of the eight, as yet unidentified, is reported to have left the state. DAC was formed last summer by civil rights advocates opposed to the more moderate methods of other local civil rights organiza- tions. Its methods centered on raucous demonstrations w h i c h sometimes bordered on the viol- ence the group often threatened. A predominantly non-student group, DAC nevertheless focused on the University as a target for many of its protests. Some of its members provoked strong contro- versy in October by periodically interrupting a speech by Mis- sissippi Gov. Ross Barnett in Hill Aud. with jeers and catcalls. Pickets Ad Building DAC also picketed the Admin- istration Bldg., demanding prefer- ential hiring of Negroes by the University. The group threatened to "shut" the Administration Bldg. with a violent picket, but this sec- ond demonstration never material- ized. Its methods were condemn- ed by the local chapter of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. The group has labeled Univer- sity President Harlan Hatcher a "bigot" and picketed his home, al- legmngthat Hatcher is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club and on the board of directors of a De- troit company, and that both or- ganizations discriminate against Negroes. Among the adults arrested at the sidewalk demonstration were Del- mar Barnard, David Barnard, Amanda McKenzie and Miss Weis- man. Bill Classifying Units as Private Clears House A bill classifying fraternities, sororities and co-ops as private housing units, passed in the House last night, Rep. Gilbert E. Burs- ley (R-Ann Arbor) reported. He authored the bill, which if it passes the Senate, will offer the units $5000 each in property exemptions. In other action Bursley intro- duced a resolution that would provide $52,000 for operating ex- penditures for the University sponsored space launching site in the Upper Peninsula. The resolu- tion seeks to release the money from the $750,000 State Research Fund appropriated last year. It will also require concurrent Senate passage. PRESIDING AT THE TRIAL of seven Direct Action Committee picketers is Judge Francis L. O'Brien (,left), while Assistant City Attorney S. J. Elden heads the prosecution. The picketers face charges of blocking the sidewalk and obstructing the police. labor organizations. "While the agreement falls short of satisfying all the important de- said, "we recognize that significant mands of the employes," Davidson gains have been made." J. E. Wolfe, chairman of the National Railway Labor Confer- ence and chief management spokesman, said the settlement "promises to restore the morale of our 700,000 employes to its highest level and bring a rebirth of the spirit of cooperation be-E tween union and managementE leaders." Most employes of the five un- ions involved who are paid on an hourly basis will receive seven paid holidays. Suitable lodging and $1.50 for a meal will be paid to trainmen who must spend more than four hoursf away from their home terminal. Inequity adjustments were made to bring wages of employes paid by the hour closer to the wagel rates of those paid on a mileage basis. Railroads Gain The railroads won the right to reduce the number of employesf required under present rules to man self-propelled track main- tenance equipment. Also in the1 companies' favor, new rules will be etsablished which enable them+ to a limited extent to use road crews for certain kinds of yard+ work.1 Management will benefit under the agreement also by the unions'+ withdrawal of their request for+ overtime pay for road employes and their request for night shift differential pay for all classes of employes. Labor Department spokesmen said the agreement provides a bas- is for complete settlement of all the issues in the five-year-old dis- pute, with one exception. One Exception The exception is the railroads' proposal to combine some division- al runs, thus requiring train crews to work longer before being re- lieved. Government spokesmen empha- sized that this issue could not lead to another strike threat. The question of inter'dlvisional runs is being referred to a com- mittee of the unions, railroads and mediators. Federal officials expressed con- fidence that the final drafting of the detailed agreement would be accomplished in a short time. Other features of the agreement include: -The unions withdrew their request for overtime pay for road employes. (Yard service workers now receive overtime beyond eight hours.) -The unions withdrew their re- quest for night shift differential pay for all classes of employes. Railroad Proposal -The railroad's proposal to combine some divisional train runs, thus lengthening the runs before crews are changed, was re- ferred to a committee composed of the parties and two sof the mediators, George Taylor and Theodore Kheel. The committee will discuss the issue further but will not have the power to make any binding decision. A govern- ment spokesman said the issue could not lead to any possibility of another strike threat. New rules will be established which will enable the railroads to a limi -,4 -vfan .n ma ,.arl rav Outlines War OfAttrition, On Poverty By FOREST FORD "The best we can do is to reduce systematically the sway that pov- erty holds in this country." This is the solution to today's poverty problems as told by Prof. Robert Lampinman of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin last night in the Union Ballroom. He is the braintruster behind President Lyn- don B. Johnson's "War on Pover- ty" program. "This systematic reduction of poverty is a war of attrition," Prof. Lampman said. It mainly entails a three point plan of attack. First Cure One of these cures is that of "achieving and maintaining full employment," he said. He emha- sized that unemployment-espe- cially its duration-is an impor- tant cause of poverty. Prof. Lampman said that 15 per cent of the United States popula- tion is unemployed at one time each year. Those who oppose this percentage are only taking a cross - sectional view by not evaluating unemployment for the entire year, he added. "How much higher would our total national income increase if unemployment would decrease?" Prof. Lampman queried. Second Cure A second panacea he proposed is "to improve the rate of eco- nomicaligrowth." "We are in a situation where if we can reduce the level of unemployment, we can simultaneously raise the level of national production," he com- mented. "Growth is going to come to us, but what kind of effort is going to effect this growth," Prof. Lamp- Educator Council Hears, Objectors to Flint Growth By ANN HARRIS The Michigan Co-ordinating Council for Public Higher Education listened to opposition Tuesday to the University's proposed expansion in Flint. But the advisory educational body put off formal action until the next meeting, according to Chairman Warren Huff, trustee of Mich- igan State University. The council heard complaints from two faculty members of the Flint Community Junior College, who are opposing the University's lan to enlarge its upper division 1965. IT? 1 1a Adopt Statement . .w w+ V SWING INTO SPRING: Tubey To Usher in Michigras Carnival w eekena The gray of winter has parted asunder to make way for the 'gras. The usual dull college routine will be broken this weekend as Michigras '64 gets into full swing. The bi-annual extravaganza is expected to draw 50,000 people and raise over $10,000 in net profit for donations to six nation- al and local charities. The weekend carnival takes an early start with a frugue contest ,, . . - 4- - --,- X e e The Regents adopted a state- ment at their monthly meeting last Friday announcing their in- tention to review all expansion plans with Gov. George Romney's Citizen's Committee on Higher Education. There was no specific mention- of the co-ordinating council, but Regents emphasized their willing- ness to work with community col- lege officials. Members of the community col- lege wired their disapproval to their representative on the co- --lnnf ,, nn t mlTha Phlli PROF. ROBERT LAMPMAN man cited as a reference John Kenneth Galbraith's book, "The Affluent Society." Prof. Lampman suggested an improvement in the mobility of labor with financial and educa- tional resources being directed towards the poor. Third Cure Thirdly, he suggested that a transfer of income and services r ... r a yaY is f v:.. ..