TRUE UN NEEDS RED CHINA Y Sirtga ~Iaitii HOT High-0 Low-67 Warm today and tonight with chance of showers. See Page 4 Seventy-One Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXII, No. 6 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1961 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES Literary College Enrollment Rises Gain of 616 Startles LSA Officials; Engineering Numbers Drop 163 By ROBERT FARRELL and PHILIP SUTIN The breakdown of University enrollment figures released yester- day showed a highly unexpected rise of 616 students in the literary college enrollment. They also showed the expected* rises at the Dearborn Center Flint College and in the garduate school. The engineering college enrollment dropped 163 students from last year to a total of 2910. LEWIS DECLINES TO TALK: Motion on OSA Study' Unit Causes Varied Comment U.S. Asks UN Assembly To Name New Leader, This drop was due primarily Honors Gets Most Pu Ipils Out-of-State By MICHAEL OLINICK Non-Michigan students make only one-third of the freshma class, but 70 per cent of the nu ber admitted to the literary co lege honors program this fall. The large majority held by ou of-state residents reverses a pr vious trend toward a high pe centage of Michigan students. F the first two years of the honor program, state students made half the enrollment with the fi ures moving toward a 60-40 sp: in their favor last year. Prof. Otto G. Graf, director the Honors Council, explained th this was the first year in whic College Entrance Examinati Board's Scholastic Aptitude Tec results were available on all Mich igan applicants. Out-of-state students have lo been required to take the SA before admission. More Conservative Selection "Selection of in-state studen was a little more conservative tli year as we had more concret evidence on their abilities thi ever before," he said. Applicants for the class of ' were required to take the SAT part of a program to test ti effectiveness of these examine tions. The results are not present used as admission criteria for i itial entrance into any of t University's undergraduate schoo Prof. Graf had personal inte views with the bulk of the 24 freshmen admitted into the pr gram. Those invited to participa in the Unified Science sequen met with Prof. A. Bruce Clarke the mathematics department. Discover Motivation "We tried to get away from t test scores and high school tra script in these half hour inte views and discover the student motivation for college study an his breadth of interests as be we could," Prof. Graf said. Noting a sharp jump in t number of freshmen who receiv advanced placement credit un der other CEEB exams, Prof. Gr reported that 172 students h showed the results of 270 suc exams. The advance placement exam test achievement in special, a vanced high school courses. Co lege credit is given if the st dent receives a satisfactory scor Show Advance Placement About two-thirds of those wi: advanced placement have join the Honors program, Prof. Or: said. Most of the rest are not e rolled in the literary college. There are only two state ad vance placement programs opera ed in cooperation with the CEK One Is in Ann Arbor and t other is located in Grosse Point U.S. Protests New Arrests In Germany BERLIN (MP)-The United Stat fired off a strong protest at ti Russians yesterday because of ti h detention by East German poli of two American soldiers. The two were held by Comm nist police for six hours yeste j day on a trip westward along tb road linking Berlin and West Ge many. They were released after Soviet officer intervened and co to the decrease in the number of -freshmen admitted, which of- ficials had know about in advance. The literary college increase from 7,400 to 8,016 students was due to an unusually low drop-out rate among academically eligible students, officials agree. Reasons Since the freshman class of the literary college is now larger than last year and' the numbers of transfer students and flunk-outs approximately the same, the num- up ber of students returning to the an college must have been larger n- i- See figures, Page 5 than expected, Dean Roger W. e-Heyns, explained. He proposed three possible ex- or planations for the unintended rs rise, which was mostly in the up sophomore class; g- 1) A tight Job market which may lit have kept students from leaving college for full time employment. Pressure of 2) Increasing pressure on all at students to complete a four year ch course of studies.I on 3) Competition for places in col-I st lege which may have discouraged h-i students who intend to complete their education-from leaving col- nT lege temporarily.I Heyns indicated that some very substantial pressures must have been at work to create this sud- ts den rise of 616 students, approxi- ,is mentely 8 per cent of the total te enrollment. The normal dropout an rate for academically eligible literary college students is only 65 approximately 6 per cent. as, No Figures he Although definite figures are a- not . available for engineering ly freshmen-yet, the college has suf- n- fered the first loss in class size he in recent years. National figures ls. have been dropping for several: r- years. 43 Dean Arlen R. Hellwarth cited °- the community colleges as one te cause for the drop in freshmen. He ce noted that many students are of taking their basic engineering courses at these institutions and then transfering here. he Interest Rises n- He noted that the difficulties of r- the rapidly developing field of 's engineering was raising the level id of interest and ability requiredI 'st of students to succeed in engi- neering.1 he ed a- Russians Fire h Another Bomb ms I WASHINGTON (P) -- Another d- Soviet atomic blast was fired yes- I- terday, the 15th since the Rus-, u- sians resumed nuclear tests Sept.I e. 1. By JUDITH OPPENHEIM Student Government Coun- cil's Wednesday motion on the Study Committee on the Office of Student Affairs has brought varied comments from the heads of groups concerned with the study. The motion, which requested that four SGC members be ap- pointed to the study commit- tee also questioned the estab- lishment of such a committee "functioning outside normal University channels" and ask- ed the student delegation re- port back to the Council in open session regarding the proceedings of the study com- mittee. Asks Release The resolution requests that the report of the University Senate's Student Relations Subcommittee, which made the original study of OSA, be giv- en to the Council. It also calls for appointment of one mem- ber of the original student group involved in the study as- an ex-officio, non-voting mem- ber of the study committee. The student group, w.which compiled information on OSA last spring, consists of the 1961 Daily senior staff and three Zembers of the SGC Human Relations Board. (Five of these students are still on campus.) Vice -President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis refus- ad to comment on the motion until after thesstudy commit- tee meets Tuesday. Prof. John Reed of the Law School, chairman of the study committee, expressed surprise at the SGC proposal. "My understanding was that the committee invited two stu- dents to join the committee," he said. "I have no personal objection to having more student mem- bers, but as chairman of the committee I am anxious to keep the total number within manageable limits so that work can proceed as quickly as pos- sible." To Consider Reed said he is certain the committee will consider the possibility of accepting four SGC members and an ex-offi- cio member at its Tuesday meeting. "But the committee must reserve the right to de- cide," he said. The committee is already considering the possibility of making its proceedings open. "But," Reed said, "should the study begin to involve discus- sions of personalities, informa- tion might be brought up which would be both touchy and only secondarily relevant to the committee procedure." General Study He said the committee's study of individual posts with- in OSA is intended to be pri- marily general and structural and not personal. Reed was "somewhat dis- mayed" at the prospect of hav- ing student members report back to SOC in open meeting for purposes of discussion and debate. "Sometimes it is best to con- sider unfinalized points be- tween meetings," he said. "If the committee's actions are subject to weekly review by an- other body, statements which were only first impressions or suggestions by committee mem- bers will take on the character of final decisions."{ Ad Hoc Group Regarding the statement that SGC does not necessarily ap- prove of the establishment of the committee "functioning outside the normal University channels" he said, "Certainly this is an ad hoc committee. It was approved for a specific purpose by Vice-President Lew- is. "It may be outside the reg- ular channels of study, but then so is the charge levelled against the Office of Student Affairs." Speaking for the student re- lations subcommittee, Prof. Marvin Pelheim of the English department expressed complete approval of SGC's action. Enthusiastic Felheim, the chairman of the subcommittee, said, "We are very enthusiastic about the motion. We are definitely of the opinion that students should be a part of the study committee. "We are not particularly con- cerned over the exact number," he said, "but we certainly agree. that they should be ap- pointed through and responsi- ble to SOC., See OSA, Page 2 Re ject Troika Proposal CONFERENCE - West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, right, discusses problems with his Economics Minister, Ludwig Erhard. Report New U.S. Stand On East German Issue, BERLIN (JP)-Informed authorities indicated yesterday that:Unit- ed States spokesmen in Germany had taken a new blunt line with the West German government. (At the same time, State Department officials in New York and Washington referred to unidentified "rumors from Germany attributed to American sources" as "highly inaccurate." The department state- ment continued that the United ~ ". . rrrr ar... - --Vtii::::h:.... .":":tt:N y.m ..........r..,..... r. t tg .. .,... r:h LABOR: GM Makes New Tries with Talks DETROIT (-) - The United Auto Workers and GeneralrMotors made slow progress yesterday in joint efforts to speed settlement of a strike that has crippled GM's car production for the past two weeks. UAW officials and GM labor re- lations representatives met with leaders from more than a score of dissident local unions blocking a return-to-work movement at some of GM's 129 U.S. plants. The series of meetings in GM's main office building and a near- by office building owned by GM was unprecedented in GM-UAW bargaining. Leaders of locals at 24 plants were summoned to Detroit by UAW President Walter P. Reuther for the talks. A settlement was made yester- day at the Chevrolet plant in Kansas City, Mo., and it was not necessary for the local union to send its leaders here. Local lead- ers at the Chevrolet plant in St. Louis stayed home because they were close to agreement. Republicans Narrow Field For Con-Con President By MICHAEL HARRAH Special To The Daily ST. JOSEPH-Republican leaders at the State Central Commit- tee Meeting here have narrowed the field of hopefuls for the post of president of the constitutional convention. Front running American Motors President George Romney is getting a strong challenge from former State Senator Edward Hutch- inson (R-Fennville), who is receiving support from the State Farm Bureau Director Stanley Powell and former State Treasurer D. Hale Brake. Iranian Say Soviet Plan Unacceptable. Hammrarskjold Death, Berlin Crisis Seen As Major Problems UNITED NATIONS UP) - The United States yesterday urged the United Nations General Assembly to defy Soviet opposition and name an outstanding world leader as temporary secretary-general. Secretary of State Dean Rusk issued a statement asking quick action as the 99-nation assembly plunged into opening policy de- bate. The situation caused by the death of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the Berlin crisis quickly emerged as the two top issues troubling world leaders. Rejects Troika Zentaro Kosaka, Japanese for- eign minister, told the assembly his country could not support the Soviet troika plan for a three-man UN executive, made up of repre- sentatives of the Communist, Western and neutral nations. "Such a system would bring into the key position in the UN con- flicts that exist between different political philosophies and systems, paralyze the functions of the Sec- retariat and destroy the very basis of its international neutrality," he declared. Hossein Ghods Nakhai, Iranian foreign minister, said Troika would deal a mortal blow to the UN. Ask Berlin Settlement The Iranian and Japanese for- eign ministers,'along with Brazil- ian Foreign Minister Afonso Ari- nos de Melo Franco, all appealed for a negotiated settlement of the Berlin crisis. The Brazilian expressed hope that President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- chev would reach a compromise on Berlin. Kosaka said the only way is through negotiations. He backed the Western view that four-power rule over Berlin cannot be set aside by any one power. Rule Out Force The Iranian appealed to both East and West to rule out use of force in the Berlin crisis. Rusk's views, were disclosed in a statement distributed at the UN and delivered also in a speech to the foreign press association in New York. It gave impetus to a move by a group of middle-of-the-road coun- tries who were behind a proposed resolution to name a stop-gap head for the UN secretariat. More than 30 countries were reported to have lined up in support of the resolution. Rusk said the UN is at a critical crossroads because of Hammar- skjold's death at a time when the organization is engaged in urgent peace-keeping action in the Congo, the Middle East and elsewhere throughout the world. He said the troika plan would- paralyze the executive and cause irreparable damage. Discount Others General agreement discounts the chances of versity President John A. Hannah, who didn't Prof. James K. Pollock of the po- Michigan State Uni- attend the meeting, GOP CONVENTION: Miller Says Kennedy, Aides Failed Promises Special To The Daily ST. JOSEPH-"These Democrats do not understand Communism; they never have and they never will." These were the words of Republican National Chairman Rep. William E. Miller (R-NY), as he addressed verbal pot-shots at the administration of President John F. Kennedy last night at the meeting of state Republicans in St. Joseph. He rapped the President for his actions in the Cuban Invasion, the Laos crisis and the Berlin crisis. Red China Issue He also stressed the importance of keeping Red China out of the United Nations. "They didn't need Al Capone on the police force to help clean up Chicago, and we don't need Red China in the UN to help clean up the world." Saying we should not compromise with Communism, he asserted that "Dwight Eisenhower got the same words and tough talk from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that Kennedy is getting, and he just threw them in the wastebasket, saying he would not negotiate freedom under any circumstances." Wt Inheritance litical science department and for- mer Rep. Alvin Bentley (R-Mich), who tacitly supports Hutchinson. The group was somewhat dis- appointed when Senatro John G. Tower (R-Tex) failed to appear1 at the meeting Thursday. j However, Chief Counsel for the Republican National Committee Fred C. Scribbner, Jr., former un- dersecretary of the Treasury, fill- ed in for Tower. He praised the GOP for their landslide in the con-con election victory, then turned around and called them "self-satisfied, stuffy old party-unwilling to go out and meet strangers." Attack In a broadside attack on the administration of President John F. Kennedy, Scribbner accused Sthe President of failing to live up to his promise of appointing the best qualified men to office, to put new life into the nation's economy, to improve American prestige ("funny how they don't take polls anymore."), and to keep a balanced budget. He asserted that Kennedy had provided just the opposite of lead- ership-"slick salesman." Meanwhile, the moderate state senators planned to present their program to the gathering this morning, just before the stateI central committee meeting. Warns GOP Yesterday morning Whitehall .Forum publisher Lewis Berman solemnly warned the GOP: "If you fumble this opportuni- ty, it will be your last for 16 years" to get Michigan a new constitu- tion. And according to Berman, the Republicans have done a bad job of communicating the need of a new constitution. Local Family Goes to Berlin To Hunt Son BERLIN (A)-An Ann Arbor1 mother and father hoped to learn today on just what charges or pretext the Communist East Ger- mans are holding their 28-year- old student son.1 They are Mr. and Mrs. MillardI H. Pryor, whose son, Fikederick, is4 held in East Germany, presum- ably on spy charges. The son dis-1 appeared in East Berlin Aug. 25.1 The Pryors, who heard of their son 's disappearance through a friend only last Thursday, flew here and engaged Wilhelm Stark,. one of four West Berlin lawyers1 with a Communist license to;' operate in East Berlin to repre-1 sent their son.j States would not comment further on these rumors.) The officials in Germany are reported to be telling Adenauer's government that the West Ger- mans must face up to letting the Communist East German regime have a share of the power access to Berlin, and that East Germany is a fact of life which will con- tinue to exist for years. This plain speaking started af- ter Sunday's election in West Germany - elections in which Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's party lost ground, although this seems only coincidental. The voicing of the United States viewpoint in blunt terms also ap- pears to have coincided with the arrival in Berlin of Gen. Lucius D. Clay, as President John F. Kennedy's personal representative. The Adenauer government at Bonn has refused formally to ad- mit that another German govern- ment, run by the Communists exists in East Germany. But actually, the East Germans have maintained certain controls for several years over' the travel of West Germans to Berlin, 110 miles inside East Germany. The two Germanys also have formal trade agreements. This is the way one American viewed the situation today: "Right now there are two Ger- man states, one of which will not talk to the other. The atmosphere isn't right for them to talk now, but in five or six years it may have to come." Court Rejects }Immunity Rule Within State LANSING (M)-University Hos- pital lost its immunity to negli- gence suits when the Regents bought liability insurance covering the hospital, the state supreme court decided today. In other action, the court ruled that a Detroit public hospitalrpos- sessed no governmental immunity from suit, discarding immunity, rulings which had held sway for over a century. Its ruling provided that no fu- ture rulings would grant immunity to public institutions being sued for negligence. The full extent of the ruling was not apparent, how- ever, since the institutions to which it might apply were not plainly specified. Kennedy, Leader May Talk Monday, UNITED NATIONS (IP)-Presi-1 dent John F. Kennedy and Prince Norodm Sihanouk of Cambodia will confer in New York Monday, a usually well informed source said yesterday. The prince, Cambodian chief of state, will call on the President in the latter's hotel suite after Ken- nedy addresses the United Nations1 General Assembly. t POLITICAL SCIENTIST: Stein Becomes First Honors Professor A greying scholar and govern- ment consultant who labels him- self "if anything, a political scientist" completed his first week yestetday as the literary' college Honors Council's first Honors Professor. Prof. Harold Stein, from Prince- ton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will conduct two Honors seminars on United States poli- tics and society during his year stay on campus. "We have set up honors pro- fessorships for men of national stature in fields of interdisciplin- three hour discussion once a week where Prof. Stein and 25 junior and senior honors students delve into some of the "main themes" of 19th and early 20th Century America. "The reading and discussion will not be limited to a single dis- cipline," Prof. Stein said, point- ing to a reading list which will en- compass both the Bill of Rights and Theordore Dreiser. Plan Spring Seminar In the spring, Prof. Stein's seminar will be on the nature of government in the United States in the Mid-20th Century. T;'rmerly a deputy chief of the Polish Mission of the United Na- tions Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Prof. Stein also did work for the French Provision- al Government. "That was in late 1944 and 1945 when I helped draw up plans for restoring the French economy." Like many University faculty- men, Prof. Stein found his first class much larger than he had expected. "There were 37 students registered for the seminar, several more than the number of chairs. I had to cut the class down to a manageable size." I -M,