IGNORING MILLIONS P Seventy-One Years of Editorial Freedom See Page 4 ~?IW V ~7~PTY ~Y... ifl -L J."4d^I, N *. U16 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY.OCTOBER 5.1961 - . I I . . + f +r a G Y ' 9 l L P l 1i2. rA PoliceShooi RedOfficial In Gunfight BERLIN OP) - West and East German - police engaged at dusk last night in a gunfight over th iron curtain border during a Communist police pursuit of two East German refugees over' the rooftops, eyewitnesses reported. One refugee's flight to the West ended in a fall to his death as he shouted "freedom." The other was captured by the Communists. Red Wounded A Red policeman apparently was wounded. The exchange of fire occurred as the Communists chased the refugees over houses in Bernauer- strasse-the scene of many dra- matic escapes to the West. - West Berlin police then drey pistols and fired at the roof in an attempt to . hold. back the Red pursuers, the eyewitnesses said. One Communist policeman ap- parently was hit in the thigh and was dragged away by his com- rades, several witnesses said. Serious Incident It could turn out to be the most serious shooting incident on the sector border since the Commu- nists began erecting their barri- cade Aug 13. About 200 West Berliners wit- nessed the shooting on the Bern- auerstrasse. This is the street where East Berliners have been jumping from residences in Com- munist territory to sidewalks in the West. West Berlin police confirmed that they opened fire. V / k~ e U.S. Accepts Soviel For Choosing UN IMtc Acadmic ortiianRarely CallsV By MICHAEL OLINICK -AP Wirephoto FEW PICKET FORt--Only a small number of the more than 30,000 United Auto Workers who are striking the Ford Motor Company are picketing. This scene at the Rouge plant is quite a contrast to strikes of other years when mass picketing and hundreds of picket signs were used by the union. 'Non-economic and local disputes are the major issues barring agreement between Ford and the union. Bair gainers TryfTo 'Solve Local Issues DETROIT (AP)-Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers, agreed yesterday to give priority to, settling 'disputes at the plant level in an effort to end the day- old strike of 120,000 production workers at the auto firm. Labor contract negotiators put off discussions of a national con- tract on working conditions un- til 2 p.m. Friday. In the mean- time, they will try to clear the way for a final settlement by-ef- fecting settlements at the plants. SGC Defeats Amendment On Procedure A two-part motion for amend- ing procedure in Student Govern- ment Council executive sessions was defeated by SGC last night. A motion originally proposed by Brian Glick, '62, called for the following' items to be incluced in a report from all executive ses- sions: statements of all motions brought up; records of the num- ber of members voting for and against all motions; lists of ab- stentions; records of roll call votes when taken, and statements of criteria used in selecting petition- ers and applicants to fill partic- ular posts. A motion by Daily Editor John Roberts, '62, to divide the ques- tion making point five a separ- ate issue was passed. The first section was defeated after Council President Richard Nohl, '62BAd, voted to break a tie. The second portion, including the establishment and making public of a list of criteria was defeated by a roll call vote. Voting in favor of this segment of the motion were William Glea- son, '63, Glick, Kenneth McEl- downey, '62, Roberts and John Vos, '63. Against the motion were Mich- igan Union President Paul Card- er, '62, David Croysdale, '63, Per Hanson, '62, Inter - Fraternity. Council President Robert Peter- son, '62, Arthur Rosenbaum, '62, Assembly Association President Sally Jo Sawyer, '62, and James . Yost, '63. Women's League President Bea Nemlaha, '62, and Panhellenic As- sociation President Susan Stiller- man, '62, abstained. NAACP Appoints Greenberg Counsel NEW YORK (M)-The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People appointed a white man yesterday to the post of chief counsel, Chosen to replace Thurgood Marshall, who has been appointed a judge of the United States Cir- cuit Court of Appeals, was 36- . year-old Jack Greenberg, who has been Marshall's chief assistant. Pakistan Claims Afghan Invasion The decision was made in two one-half hour sessions yesterday. The UAW shut down the entire Ford system Tuesday after ac- cepting a money package describ- ed as better than the one it ob- tained from) General Motors last month. Blames Company UAW President Walter P. Reu- ther blamed the company for the strike. He said Ford negotiators waited until shortly before the 10 a.m. strike deadline to discuss non-economic issues. At resumpUon of negotiations yesterday, Ford's vice-president for labor relations, Malcolm L. Den- ise, disputed this. He said most of the time was spent on the un- ion's last minute demands that Ford improve on the GM settle- ment. "We didn't get all the frosting on the GM cake until 7:30 a.m. Tuesday," Denise said. The frost- ing involved improvements in lay- off pay benefits, pensions and in- surance. Denise said they meant labor cost increases but he couldn't say how much. No Indication Neither Denise nor Reuther gave any indication that a quick settlement on non-economic is- sues could be expected. Asked if the negotiations could drag on, for another two weeks, Denise said this was possible and added quickly "I hope not." Reuther said he was suggesting to the company that they speed up bargaining at the local level and put together a complete pack- age on working conditions. He said "we .will work out a practi- cal mechanism to do that."t Denise said "we're going to have to clean up everything. We can't do it in two pieces. We have been; working on 'the local stuff. The best description is that we will continue to work on it." The negotiators, rested after a 24-hour cooling-off period, dis- cussed procedure for half an hour and then recessed until 2 p.m. to explore their areas of difference and discuss procedure. Reuther ducked newsmen after" the forenoon session by Denise discussed the situation in detail. AT MEETING: Labor Party Demands EndofPolaris Bases BLACKPOOL ()--The Labor party yesterday demanded with- drawal of American polaris submarine bases from this country and denial of training facilities for West German troops in Britain. Delegates at the party's conference also called for -settlement of the Berlin crisis on the basis of Western recognition of East Germany. They condemned both the Soviet Union and, the United States for resuming nuclear weapon tests and insisted that such ex- You can't buy insurance against! academic mortality. The next best thing you can do t is gain admission to the Univer- sity, or at least that's what the figures indicate. Due to a selective admissions policy, the University boasts the lowest academic drop out rate of any public institution of higher learning in the country, Edward G. Groesbeck, director of regis- tration and records, explained yes- terday.# High Success Rate More than four out of five freshmen make a success out of their time on campus, achievement being measured against a 2.0 grade point average. A study in depth of a recent freshman class showed that 64.9 per cent eventually received a de- gree from the University and that 17.2 per cent dropped out although their averages were a C or better. Only about one out of every ten freshmen fails to enter his soph- omore year because' of academic reasons, associate dean of the literary college James H. Robert- son reported. Still Dropping And that figure may be on the way down, Robertson said, since the class of '64 lost only eight per cent of their initial enrollment because of grades. n d Another five per cent bid f are- wells to Ann Arbor (many of these only temporary) before graduation for a variety of reasons: financial problems, marriage, poor health, enlistment in the armed forces. Michigan residents are "some- what harder hit" by academic at- trition than out-of-state students, Robertson reports. This is partially offset by the greater number of non-Michigan students who drop out because of financial pressure. Also, a greater percentage of Michigan residents will return to the University if they wish to continue their col- lege education several years after, they have dropped out. Women Highest The largest identifiable 'group of drop outs are the women out- of-staters, Robertson said. Al- though the female set chalks up higher grades in the classrooms, they are more likely to let an early marriage close up their notebooks for a few years. "The out-of-state girl also faces a tougher financial problem than the men do," Grosebeck said. "The boys will generally be able to do more work, get along on less money, and parents are more ready to make ,sacrifices to help their job future." The admissions office makes a1 "relatively small number of er- rors," Robertson said. "The stu- dents who are let in are ones who have the mental ability to profit by a University education." The principle reason a few averages drop below 2.0 lies in I the "personal unreadiness for col- lege" in the unsuccessful student, he stressed. "This, unreadiness ' is demon- strated by a confusion over goals, inability to accept responsibility, unrealistic aims and a too early illusion of grandeur." For many students, academic difficulties arise out of a "'too narrow view of what is relevant and pragmatic." Can't Predict Although the admissions officers are "very careful" in judging abilities and achievements, "they can't predict the degree of drive or enthusiasm a student will have nor where it .will be channelled," Groesbeck noted. Misdirected enthusiasm is often the result of what Robertson calls "inverted values." This is a com- mon problem of students who de- vote too much energy to extra- curricular activities and not endugh to studies. "Their conception of college as a place for leadership training leads to working for extracurricu- lar activities at the expense Hof in- tellectual development," he ex- plained. Uruguay Sets Soviet Limit MONTEVIDEO (P) - Russia's sixty-man diplomatic staff in Ur- uguay may soon be limited in its activities, sources close to the gov- ernment executive council disclos- ed yesterday. They said Russian and other iron curtain delegations here are expected to be accorded treatment similar to that imposed upon Ur- uguayan diplomats in the Soviet Union. The Soviet embassy in Monte- video,'with the largest personnel in the hemisphere, has been re- ported the center of Communist activities in the southern part of the Americas. Say Edgerton Asked Knight To Withdraw LOS ANGELES W) -- Former Governor Goodwin J. Knight yes- terday identified Los Angeles financier J. Howard Edgerton as the Richard Nixon spokesman. he says tried to get him out of the 1962 governor's race. But Edgerton, Knight's finance chairman in three campaigns, de- nied ever asking Knight not to oppose Nixon's bid for the state office. Nixon himself declared that Ed- gerton's statement "completely repudiates this whole ridiculous charge." n "I have no further comment," the former vice-president said. plosions be halted at once to pre- vent poisoning the human race. Then, confusing their position, the Laborites rejected a ban-the-- bomb resolution and supported a broad policy statement to keep Britain firmly linked to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the American Alliance. For Hugh Gaitskell and his moderates, it mixed victories with defeats. The same could be said for the left wing-pacifist Laborite group which seeks ot commit Brit- ain to a neutralist policy. Gaitskell stressed to the dele- gates that German troops train- ing in Britain came here as part of the combined western defensive team, and declared "defense and collective security are forced upon us until such time as there is an effective wooid government." He praised the international record of the Kennedy administra- tion except for the Cuban inva- sion fiasco. SECOND CALL: The Pentagon yesterday ordered the draft of more than 700 doctors, dentists and veterinarians to "meet the requirements of the current military buildup." The call was the second medical draft this year. Before then, doctors had not been drafted since- 1957. It had been six years since dentists had been called and nine years for veterinarians. The Qdraft was necessary, the Penta- HOWARD, SKOWRON HOMER: Ford Shuts Out Reds with Two-Hitter NEW YORK (P) - Whitey Ford spun his southpaw magic over " " "IA ue i gven the Cincinnati Reds with a 2-hit 2-0 opening game victory for volunteer for commiss the New York Yankees yesterday and set a World Series record as enlisted men but with eight victories. chance to become of Once again the Yanks, who hit 240 homers in the regular right to choose thei season, fell back on their familiar weapon with home runs by branch of service was 1 Elston Howard and Bill Skowron and broke the back of the National the advantages for v League champions. Of the medical stud Jim O'Toole, 24-year-old Cincinnati left-hander, hadn't allowed University, none have a home run since July 28 in 16 regular season games. But Howard to active duty yet, Rol curled one into the lower right field seats in the fourth and field, Administrative 1 Skowron bombed a 420-footer into the lower stands in left in the Medical School, the sixth. The medical staff o: Boyer Aids Hospital will lose 's Sensational fielding by third baseman Clete Boyer eased Ford'soctors-in-training to For's hre fistyear stud( path as he ran his string of consecutive scoreless innings to 27 ternal medicine and c over a two-year span. year student of intern Boyer thrilled a chilly crowd of 62,387 with a brilliant stop of have been drafted thi pinch hitter Dick Gernert's smash in the eighth. Throwing himself Roger B. Nelson, Adr into the dirt as he dived to his left, Boyer gloved the ball. Then Assistant of *the Medi he threw out Gernert from his knees. In the second inning Boyer The hospital was a] made another difficult stop and perfect throw from his knees, by the extension of tb nipping Gene Freese. service for some pert Without Help had been expected to r The Yanks did this without help from the M & M boys. the military. ~ff W