SGC CANDIDATE EVALUATIONS See Editorial Page :Y Seventy-Two Years of Editorial Freedom :4Ia it ~ PARTLY CLOUDY High--36 Low--25 Little change in temperature through Monday VOL. LXXIII, No 121 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1963 SEVEN CENTS TWENTY-FOUR PA a' i Syrians Ask UAR Help To Establish Harmony Between Arab NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER JOHN F. KENNEDY ....his own plan ... shifts strategy Executive tax Revision Bill On Schedule Under Study WASHINGTON (IP)-President John F. Kennedy's tax revision program is on schedule in the House but its contents may not follow, the blueprint the White House sent to Congress. A check with members indicated yesterday that the Ways and Means Committee will agree on a bill in time for the House to vote in June, on or close to the date House leaders have marked all along Lfor action. Nations Nasser Gives Recognition To Regime 'Moderate Socialism' Seen as Basic Theme Of New Government BEIRUT (P)-Syria's new revo- lutionary command denounced yesterday the 1961 split between Syria and Egypt and told Egyp- tian President Gamal Abdel Nas- ser of the United Arab Republic the Syrians still want strong Arab unity. The leaders of the military coup that overthrew Syria Premier Khaled El Azem Friday referred to the outcome of the Syrian revolution against the United Arab Republic 18 months ago as "the disaster of separation." It was the strongest statement they have mad-e on the svbject. They did not spell out whether this was a bid for reunion. First Recognition Nasser was among the first Arab leaders to extend diplomatic recognition to the new regime. Neighboring Iraq and Jordan also quickly recognized it. Algeria was among other Arab nations to extend salutations and g o o d wishes. The predominantly civilian gov- ernment is headed by Ba'ath So- cialist Salah Bitar. Ba'ath Domination The 20-man cabinet appeared to be dominated by members of the Ba'ath party. A cable sent to Nasser said the Syrian army and people "toppled See Related Story, Page 3 the rule of reaction, opportunism and treason and wiped out the disgrace of separation." The old regime, it said, plotted to, maintain separation. Concerning Syrian - Egyptian unity from 1958 until the 1961 revolt, the message termed this "a period of pioneer trial." 'Good Lesson' "The disaster of separation was a good lesson, even so," the mes- sage said. "The people have come out of this with more faith in unity . . . it strengthened the bonds between the Arab peoples in their various countries." Friendship with Nasser is i line with general Ba'ath policy. Nine members of the, cabinet have been idetified as Ba'athists- members of the Arab Social Ren- aissance party which espouses moderate socialismathhome and anti-communist neutralism in foreign affairs. Bitar is a politician who helped found the Ba'ath in 1942. Educators Analyze Con-Con Document (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series dealing with a study report on the proposed state constitution. Today's article views findings on the education section; Tuesday's article will con- sider the seven remaining analyses.) By GERALD STORCH Five University professors have taken part in a "balanced," non-partisan probing of eight major sections of the proposed State Constitution. "Neither the ideal document the proponents would wish to persuade the voter to believe nor the reactionary document its detractors claim," the new charter requires impartial, expert analysis in order "to help the serious citizen make his decision," a statement from the Inter- UniversityFaculty Committee on Constitutional Revision de- clares. Each of the eightanalysesx was prepared by a member of:>< the committee; each examina- tion received varying amounts of praise and criticism.. Mixed Reactions In general, comment on edu- cation, civil rights and local .>;r-:': }'. government sections was fav- orable. Apportionment, execu- '. tive structure and highway pro- < visions were appraised equivo- cally, while taxation and fi- nance and judiciary clauses were termed steps backward. Coordinated by Prof. Samuel J. Eldersveld of the political SAMUEL J. ELDERSVELD science department, the com- n super n mittee thrashed out the various issues and opinions, and suggested but did not dictate re- visions in emphasis and content within individual analyses. Composed of Democrats and independents, the group did, however, find itself in "near unanimous" accord in viewpoint, but didn't take a composite stand for or against the Constitu- tion. The education article analysis was written by Prof. Leo Stein of Western Michigan University. Although doubting that the proposed document fashions a more adequate system of financing education than is now the case, Prof. Stein found the other major innovations in this section an improvement. Significant Question One change-appointment of the state superintendent of public instruction by the State Board of Education, rather than his state-wide election-"raises an important question: Political scientists think he should be chosen, by the gov- ernor because "schools are an ever-increasing part of the state government" and need closer integration with the admin- istration, Prof. Stein said. Educators, on the other hand, support appointment by the board to keep the schools "free of partisanship." This is dif- ficult to agree with, however, "as long as members of the board are selected on party tickets." Both the political scientists and the educators do agree that the proposed clause is better than having the super- intendent elected at-large. The revamped board would also have presently-unknown powers of coordination of budgets and related educational See PROFESSORS, Page 9 DELTA COLLEGE: Jamrich Hits 'U' Branch Plan By KENNETH WINTER The establishment of a Univer- sity campus at Delta College is likely to touch off "a great deal of detrimental competition" among the state's universities for branches of their own, Dean John X. Jamrich of Michigan State University's education school pre- dicted last night. Dean Jamrich, advocate of an independent college for the Delta area, cited two reasons why such a competition mightnget started 1) For political and prestige reasons, none of the state's uni- versities will sit by while the others set up branches all over the state. 2) Having a branch in a given area benefits a university by pro- viding it "grass-roots support" in that vicinity-a kind of support no university wants to pass up. Dangerous Rivalry Dean Jamrich added that there is nothing wrong with competi- tion, in itself. The danger is that due to this competition, univer- French Miners Reject.Plea To End Eight-Day Walkoul PARIS (MP)-France's 170,000 coal miners vigorously turned down today a government plea to end their eight-day strike, now a majo: crisis for French President Charles de Gaulle. Pledges to continue the walkout poured in from strike committee; throughout the nation's coal fields following French Premier George; Pompidou's nationwide appeal last night on radio and television "We don't want promises, but guarantees," was typical of unioi answers to Pompidou's Friday"" night talk.NoMr No More rt The Premier did not offer the sities will begin setting up branch- miners anything beyond the pre- 's--r-political puros~eseven it vious government package: a 5.7 Ask d pinions ~1Of Studet The House Committee on State Affairs, now studying a bill which would assess college graduates $1200 over a 12-year period to finance new construction, is seek- ing student opinion on the pro- posal, Rep. Lester J. Allen (R- Ithaca) has'reported. Allen is a member of the com- mittee and sponsorrof the meas- ure, which also calls for a $1500 fee, payable at a minimum of $125 a year with four per cent: interest, for students graduating with a doctoral degree. Under the measure, students would sign promissory notes be- fore being allowed to receive di- plomas.' The bill also contains a pro- vision which allows married wo- men to be excused from the ob- ligation of repaying the notes. This is intended to meet objec- tions that such an obligation would hinder a young woman's possible marriage plans. Five Topics Specifically, comment is de- sired on five questions: 1) Would you have enrolled at the University if this proposal was in effect; 2) Would this legislation have deterred your interest in acquir- ing a college education; 3) Would payment of such a sum limit future donations you might consider for your alma mater; Female Exemption 4) Is it discriminatory to ex- cuse married females, demon- strating financial need, from pay- ment (this is the only exemption in Allen's bill); 5) Is it fair to tax non-college students to provide funds for operating expenses and capital outlay of universities? Allen, whose address is the State Capitol Bldg. in Lansing, noted that student commentary ought to arrive, as soon as pos- sible, as the committee must act on the bill by March 20. Bus Drivers Vote,-to Strike City Bus Line _The City Bus Co. will be struck by its drivers next Friday unless wage and hour demands are not met by that time. The seven full-time drivers The general expectation is that the bill will contain tax reduc- tions on the general order Ken- nedy recommended - some $10 billion over three years-but not many of the structural changes in the tax code for which he asked. There already have been indications the administration is prepared to seek these in separate legislation later. Advisers Kennedy's economic advisers have been urging a tax cut to help forestall a recession in 1964 or 1965, when the economy is ex- pected to move off its present high "plateau." At the same time they do not feel Congressional rejection of his appeal for a $10-billion reduc- tion in taxes would necessarily result in another recession before then. The sales talk the President has been using forhis tax pro- gram has shifted in the past year. Spur to Growth OriginallW, he argued that a slash would supply a needed spur to economic growth. Last Feb. 14 he told a news conference that failure to cut taxes "substantially increases the chance of a recession." And more recently he said "I am not predicting a re- cession for 1963." Meanwhile, New York Gov. Nel- son A. Rockefeller criticized Ken- nedy's economic program as a failure and proposed an alternate one of his own. Rockefeller said the Kennedy program should be replaced by one that would have immediate impact, and deficit financing and "restore confidence in our eco- nomic future." Not a Candidate Rockefeller, prominently men- tioned for next year's Republican presidential nomination, t o 1 d newsmen he is not a candidate-- that it is too soon for the situa- tion to "crystallize." He said he was offering his economic proposals because "full public discussion of this issue is vital." He also lashed out in a full scale attack against the economic policies of the Kennedy Admin- istration, and summoned the Re- publican party to unite, in his words, as "the party of the people." Paying tribute to the conserva- tives of the party as those "who would save the best of the past." the New York governor attacked Kennedy's fiscal program as a failure. But it was references to party unity, to "free enterprise in a climate of growth," and to the emphasis of government at the local level that drew most of Rockefeller's attention. Finally, he suggested that the trend toward university branches, if it got rolling, would do serious damage to the third level: the junior colleges. Noting that the most likely areas for future branches are the areas which now have community colleges, he ex- plained that the setting up of such branches would dilute the liberal-education role of thes two-year schools. This would leave the junia colleges as little more than tech nical-vocational schools, he com menited. This, in his opinion would cut out an important par of their students' education-th post-high school general educa tion. the resulting arrangements are educationally unsound. Urging any expansion of Mich- igan's college system be viewed in a statewide perspective, Dean Jamrich said that in such a ^on- text the branch idea is unsound in principle. He envisions a statewide sys- tem involving colleges of three levels. At the top, three or four universities would stress graduate instruction and research. How- ever, they would maintain an un- dergraduate student body, smaller than they have today, composed' of the state's top undergraduates. Independent Colleges The next division would be a string of independent four-year colleges, to handle the rest of the state's students who are willing and able to gain a baccalaureate. Finally, an extensive string of junior colleges would maintain a virtually "open-door" policy, en- abling high-school graduates who for various reasons could not get into the four-year colleges to re- ceive -some post-high school edu- cation. He asserted that the University- branch plan essentially involves an unnecessary connection in which one of the big universities runs one of the second-level col- leges. In addition to its potential for destructive competition, such a connection adds unnecessary complications to the administra- tive framework of the schools in- volved, Dean Jamrich cconmented. per cent wage increase spread over a year and a promise to examine the miners' pay scale next Septem- ber. The miners walked out March 1, demanding an 11 per cent pay increase, a 40-hour week-down from 46-and other benefits. At Douai, in the rich northern fields where about half of France's coal is mined, a union official asked for equal time on the gov- ernment-controlled radio and tele- vision network to answer Pompi- dou. "We would like to explain the position of the miners to the pub- lic over radio and television," he said, and promised' that strike action would be stepped up. Boost Pickets "Monday we will increase the strike pickets at the entrance of the mines," he said. From the Lorraine Basin, near the German border in Eastern France where 31,000 miners work, a strike committee sent the pre- mier an open letter headed: "No, Monsieur Pompidou." "Don't push the miners beyond the limit," the letter read in part. "They are conscious of their dut- ies, but also of their rights." From the southern fields near. Provence, the local strike commit- tee commented that the Premier's fireside chat had no concrete pro- posals. The committee urged that the strike continue "with more unity, calmly and with discipline and dignity." The government so far has not tried to enforce the requisition order that would draft miners in- to the pits under threat of- fines, jail terms or loss of pensions. National riot police are concen- trated in the mining areas, how- ever, and the situation is explosive. Calm But an outward calm hangs over the drag mining areas. Idle miners spend their days playing a favorite outdoor bowling game, strolling the streets of their towns and vil- lagesand clustering in local bars and cafes. A frequent complaint from the strikers is that profits for French businessmen have soared with the current European boom and the miners' wages have not kept pace. The government argues that French prosperity is not as solid as it appears on the surface and that a new round of wage and price increases would put the country in trouble. The unified strike committee served notice Thursday to the miners that they should not ex- pect a quick settlement and in- vited mayors of several towns to attend a meeting March 12. 'BOURGEOIS PER VERSIONS': SKhrushchev Raps Abstract Art MOSCOW (J)-Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has bluntly told Soviet writers and artists their works are weapons of the class struggle and that there is no place in' the Soviet Union for Western abstract art. "Socialist realism, he said, can- Groups Urge Changing Proposed Housing Law By MICHAEL SATTINGER The Ann Arbor Area Fair Housing Association-Congress on Racial Equality recently recommended several changes in the proposed fair housing ordinance. In a communication to the City Council, AAAFHA- not peacefully coexist with such "bourgeois perversions." Khrushchev also thrust a jetty into the swelling tide of anti- Stalinist works. "Those years un- der Stalin were not a period of stagnation in the development of Soviet society," he declared. Friday Speech His speech, delivered Friday to a meeting of Soviet artists, writers and Communist Party leaders, was released by the news agency Tass early yesterday. The crackdown on liberal trends among artists-and writers was seen as an admission of the might of the pen and the artist's canvas in the Soviet Union and the grow- ing influence here of Western art. The thrust at anti-Stalin out- bursts that Khrushchev himself triggered in 1961 was believed to be an attempt to ward off boom- erang effects that might hit other areas of Soviet Communism. Ehrenburg Critic Khrushchev poined in the criti- cism of veteran Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg, a defender of modern art. Informed sources said that Ehr- enburg did not hear Khrushchev speak but left Thursday after he was criticized by Leonid Ilyichev, the party's chief official propa- gandist. Ehrenburg was reported to have told a young writer as he departed, "I will never see the blooming of Soviet art, but you will see it, in 20 years." CHARLES DE GAULLE ... faces crisis RESEARCH: committee Alters Bill By WILLIA4 BENOIT The ,House Ways and Means Committee sent a package of ap- propriations bills to the floor Fri- day with two of Gov. George Rom- ney's favorite projects missing. Absent were the $750,000 pro- gram for research grants to state- supported universities and $150,- 000 requested by the governor to finance a study of state govern- ment operations. Both requests w e r e contained in Romney's budget message. However, the omission of these two requests does not mean the committee will not recommend funds in a second consideration. The bills will be sent back to the committee for further delibera- tion after they have been printed and read twice on the floor. At that time, the committee could conceivably tack funds for research on the original bills. Romney's research plan . pro- vided $750,000 for the best r - search projects submitted by Michigan universities. Under the program, projects would be fi- nanced in the order of their im- portance to the state's economy. "Most of us on the committee are in favor of research, but we want to get the wording of the research provision c h a n g e d around," Rep. Arnell Engstrom (R-Traverse City), chairman of the committee, said. "We will be hearing some more information on researen before making a final decision," the Traverse City Republican de- clared. He explained that the bills were sent to the House without such a provision due to tne limited amount of time allowed for de- liberation of bills left before they go to the floor of the House for approval. One legislator, .however, inter- preted the omission of the Rom- ney sponsored proposal as indicat- ing a basic split in the commit- tee's sentiments regarding state- supported research. 'Five of the bills that did go to the floor would furnish a total of $182.5 million for general govern- ment, welfare, public safety and defense, regulatory agencies and conservation - recreation-agri- culture spending. Dantas To Ask TniirPn i ck A ld CORE calls for use of the city code definition of a multille housing accommodation, regula- tion of the operations of real es- tate brokers, residential builders and also single parties controlling multiple housing accommodations, even if they consist of units on non-contiguous lots. The organization further de- sires a modified section on dis- crimination by financial institu- tions expanded to include all transactions. AAAFHA-CORE also sees .a need for retaining an in- junctive relief. However, it sug- gested that the City Council rather than the city attorney be given the power' to ask the circuit court for an injunction. One reason given by AAAFHA- CORE to change the ordinance to cover single parties controlling multiple housing accommoda- tions independent of contiguity is BIG TEN W EEKEND): fi*9 STeamsake Championships Michigan teams completed one of their most successful winter Big Ten Weekends in recent history yesterday, taking two champion- ships and a second place.} The first w ent to the w~r estling and gymnastics squads. The grapplers downed defending champ Iowa by 10 points with a gr and total of 52, copping two individual ciowns in the process. The, gym- nasts meanwhile at East Lansing made a rout of it with 210 poits, Iowa once again being runner-up with 831. The Wolverines took seven individual firsts in this one. Br See pages 10 and 11 for complete Big Ten Weekend coverage.h The swimming team couldn't outperform Indiana, but did manage to finish second ahead of Minnesota, 147%-1401/. The defending champs had 238%. ; . " ,. _ :.