NEW COMMITTEES A CHANCE TO ACT See Editorial Page C, r Si44U ~Iaitw OVERCAST High--64 LOW--40 Slightly warmer today with chance of showers tonight Seventy-Two Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIII, No. 15X ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1963 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAC MAY AID 'U' BUILDING: House Passes Grant-Loan Bill By KENNETH WINTER The House passed yesterday President John F: Kennedy's bill' providing construction grants and student loans for medical and dental schools. The bill offers $175 million in federal funds for buildings at college and university medical schools. Vice-President 'for Research Ralph A. Sawyer said last night that these funds may help to build two proposed University buildings: the Medical Science II unit and a new Dental College building. Planning funds for both these buildings are already forthcoming- part of the "quick-action" budget passed by Michigan Legislature last week. However, Vice-President Sawyer cited several "ifs" that must become reality before the funds come through. First, the federal bill must gain approval in the Senate. Second, the two proposed build- *..F*.rmings must receive state support in the University's capital outlay ap- propriation next year, Vice-Presi- dent Sawyer noted. The federal funds must be matched by state funds under the new act. We'll Be Able However, "my opinion is, we'll be able to get money for the t o buildings," Vice-President Sawyer commented. Though the University thinks "the facilities money is more im- portant than the student loan funds provision of the bill," it was the latter issue fthat threatened to kill the whole bill. The student-loans section, simi- REV. IRVING R. MUR$AY lar to one which caused a con- .bias ordinance gressional hassle last year, pro- vides $30.7 million for loans to " students in medicine, dentistry ew s Local "andosteopathy-up to..$1500 a HousinAg Law By WILLIAM BENOIT and ORVAL HUFF "Ann Arbor's anti-bias prob- lems will not be ,over if the fair- housing ordinance is passed," Rev. Irving R. Murray, chairman of the Maryland branch of. the American Civil Liberties Union, said last night. The proposed Ann Arbor ordi- nance covers only 20 per cent of the city, and makes no provisions for discriminatory practices in ad-' sertising and real estate transac- tions, he told the annual meeting of the local ACLU chapter. Rey. Murray pointed out that violation of the ordinance, if it is passed, would only constitute a misdemeanor. "however, he real penalty would lie in adverse pub- licity for the violator," he contin- ued. Negro Demand Addressing himself primarily to realtors, Rev. Murray noted the large Negro deiand for middle- priced housing. "Intensive work done by anti- bias groups on fair employment practices has given the American Negro more money and a higher level of education than ever be- fore," he said. "Realtors can capitalize on this and tap untold new markets, in- creasing their business and adding to the good of the community at the same time," Rev. Murray maintained. Exempt Groups Religious bodies and fraternal organizations should be exempted from both municipal and state anti-bias regulations, he said. "However,j there is frequently a moral wrong in this manner of discrimination, even though under the law there is no offense," Rev. Murray continued. The national ACLU believes that non-discrimination policies should not be in conflict with the right of the individual to choose his own friends. 13 Years To Pay The loans must be repaid in 13 years after graduation; payments would begin the third year after the student finishes his education. The American Medical Associa- tion opposed the student-loan pro- vision,, which insisted these funds were not needed. But Rep. B. F. Sisk (D-Calif) attacked the AMA "hierarchy," charging the organization with seeking to limit the number of future medical school admissions by keeping the student-loan func- tion in its own hands. The loan program will be ad- ministered by the individual col- leges, which must put up 10 per cent of the funds. Russian Response Discourages West, WASHINGTON-President John F. Kennedy has received a dis- couraging response from Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to yesterday's United States-British See Earlier Story, Page 3 plea to get moving on atomic test ban negotiations. United States Ambassador to Moscow Foy Koh- ler, who saw Khrushchev yester- day with British Ambassador Humphrey Trevelyan, made a pre- liminary report to Kennedy on Khrushchev's views shortly before the President's news conference. RALPH A. SAWYER ... federal funds PETITION: Alther SGC Committee By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM and ROBERT POUTASSE Student Government Council re- organized its standing Committee on the University last night to fa- cilitate future student-faculty re- lations. Passing a set of motions intro- duced by SGC Executive Vice- President Edwin Sasaki, Grad, Council laid plans to work with nine committees of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA). SACUA is the working body of the University Senate. The motions changed the SGC Committee on the University (re- naming it the Committee on Uni- versity Affairs) so that two non- SGC members will be added for each SACUA committee with which Council wants 'to try to work. In another motion, Council call- ed for the establishment of nine subcommittees which would try to meet with SACUA committees dealing with educational and re- search policies as well as those concerning student and public re- lations. SGC President Tom Brown, '63BAd, announced that interested students may acquire interview forms for positions on these nine subcommittees, as well as for 13 other SGC committees and re- lated boards, in the SAB. In addition to these interview forms, applicants for the nine subcommittees will be expected to submit a statement giving their view of "the concepts and role of higher education and student- faculty government." Interviews will be held Sunday, May 5, at 1:00 p.m. in the SAB. U' Plans Increases In Salary By RICHARD KELLER SIMON The University will allocate a "major proportion" of the $1.51 million budget increase to salary' raises on a merit basis, and a "rel- atively small proportion to urgent staff improvements," James E. Lesch, assistant to the vice- president for academic affairs said yesterday., The administration declined to release the precise figures present- ed to the deans at a special meet-E ing yesterday because such in-1 formation will not be final untilf presented to the Regents on June; 21 Tentative Lesch called the figures a "ten- tative outline subject to slight fluctuations." Executive Vice-President Marvin L. Niehuss added that the admin-; istration has proposed that a part of faculty Blue Cross be paid on an across-the-board basis. Every- thing else will be on merit, ac- cording to Lesch. They noted this as an "improvement in compensa- tion." Urgent staff improvements will include additions to the faculty in key areas, and possible library fund increases. Ask Advice The University will send out budget sheets on Monday to each unit for individual recommenda- tions, and will formalize proposals for the June Regents' meeting. The current figures are only. working ones, Lesch stressed, ex- plaining that the administration is discussing. ideas and will attempt to come to conclusions in the next few days. Vice-President Niehuss noted that the general suggestions have already been presented to the Re- gents and received approval. Senate Gives Water Funds The Senate passed a bill Tues- day providing funds for water- resource research at land-grant colleges and universities. The bill, passed over a Republi- can move to cut the proposed out- lays, now goes to the House where its fate is uncertain. The House Interior Committee, under the leadership of Rep. Wayne N. Aspinall (D-Colo) has bottled up a similar wilderness bill for quite some time. Senator Clinton P. Anderson (,D-NM) a former chairman of the Senate Interior Committee, led the Senate floor fight for the admin- istration-endorsed water research bill, as he did for the wilderness bill. He hailed the water bill as a needed investment in a vital re- source. The Senate rejected, on rollcall votes, two attempts to trim the measure. It beat down by a vote of 61-30 an amendment by Sen- ator Gordon Allott (R-Col) to limit the program to a total of five years and to reduce the au- thorized expenditures by $5 million a year. According to Vice-President for Research Ralph A. Sawyer, many University staff members are in- terested in water research. "We would probably ask for grants" to support research at the new Water Pollution Center on North Campus, Sawyer added. U.S. Envo To 1 1 SCIENTISTS HONORED: Academy NamesNeel, Wilder The National Academy of Sci- ences elected Professors James V. Neel, chairman of the human gen-I etics department of the Medical School, and Raymond L. Wilder of the mathematics department to its membership Tuesday. The Academy itself is not a: governmental agency, but its mem- bers, composed of the nation's sci- entific elite, serve in advisory po- sitions to the federal government. Membership, based on distin- guished work in original research, is one of the highest honors ac- corded to a scientist. Professors Neel and Wilder join six other. University faculty members in the Academy: Professors David Denni- son, chairman of the physics de- partment; Robert Elderfield of the chemistry department; Thomas Francis, Jr., chairman of the epi- demology department of the Pub- lic Health School; Ralph Gerardof of the Medical School; Berwind Kaufmann of the zoology depart- ment, and J. Lawrence Oncley of the chemistry department and the Medical School. Prof. Neel was awarded the 1960 Albert Lasker Award for his work in Japan with survivors of the atomic bombings. A faculty member since 1946, Prof. Neel' soon may direct the University's new Buhl Center for Research in Human Genetics. Prof. Wilder, a faculty member since 1926, was named Henry Rus- sel Lecturer in 1959 for his re- search in topology, a new branch of mathematics. This is the high- est honor accorded a faculty mem- ber by the University. He has taught at Brown Univer- sity, the University of Texas and Ohio State University. He is also a past president of the American Mathematical Socie- ty. National PBK Selects TNeoro From Georgia ATHENS, Ga. (P)-Hamilton E., Holmes has become the University of Georgia's first Negro member of Phi Beta Kappa, national hon- orary scholastic fraternity. Holmes, one of the initial two members of his race admitted to the university, was notified Mon- day that his high grades led to his election and the right to wear the coveted key. Holmes and Charlayne A. Hun- ter took part in the desegregation of the university after racial bar- riers were ordered lowered by the federal courts. The first day they went to classes, in January, 1961, was cap- ped by night-time disorders in- volving white students and out- siders. The two were suspended tem- porarily for their own safety and then readmitted about a week la- ter under new court orders and assurance from authorities that order would be preserved. I SELECTED-Professors Raymond L. Wilder (left) and James V. Neel were named recently to join the National Academy of Sci- ences, an organization of the nation's top men in various scientific fields. RIGHT WINGER: Wesleyan Fires Teacher, For Acaedmic Reasons' By CARL COHEN Prof. Harold Hughes of 'West Virginia Wesleyan University, economics department is being dropped from the faculty because of what Wesleyan President Stanley H. j Martin called "academic reasons." Martin said that Hughes has been teaching "essentially as an evangelist and does not really convey the fundamentals of economics." However, Harold G. Cutright, a former West Virginia Wesleyan Trustee, charged yesterday that Prof. Hughes was dismissed because of his "right-wing beliefs and y Visits Laotian Send Planes, 3000 Troops1 To Thaland.: Harriman To Deiver Message to Russians Explaining New Move WASHINGTON (P) - Presiden John F. Kennedy announced yes terday he is rushing a top diplo matic trouble-shooter to Mosco to head off the mushrooming crisis in Laos. The Defense Department, in a accompanying display of force, or dered 3000 troops and some je planes into neighboring Thailan for maneuvers next month. Kennedy told his news confer ence that Undersecretary of Stat W. Averell Harriman, now in Lon don, will arrive in Moscow at 6:1 p.m. tomorrow (Moscow time: "with a short message for Khrushl chev from me explaining the pur poses of his trip." He did not explain further tb message's contents. But it ha been reported earlier that Kenne dy was considering an appeal t Khrushchev to help stave off re newed civil war in Laos and t explosive East-West crisis thl would follow. Harriman, who has just con pleted meetings- on Laos wit French Foreign Minister Couve d Murville and British Foreign Se retary Lord Home, will confer i the Russian capital with Sovi Foreign Minister Andrei Grom ko, Kennedy said. The President made it clear i feels the threat to the non-aligr ed coalition government i La posed by military moves of pr Communist forces thereendange all Southeast Asia. He emphasized that Laos is sovereign power whose neutrali was guaranteed by 14 nations, it cluding the Soviet Union, Comm nist China and =North Viet N4a through the Geneva agreemen that established the present go ernment. He agreed that if it should 0e to the Communists there would a danger to Thailand's border and increased Red pressure .ca Cambodia, South Viet Nam a Malaya to, bend them toward t Communist world. "the SoviethUnion is the c 'chairman (with Britain) an" t signatory to the Geneva accord Kennedy said. It has assumed special responsibility for the mai tenance of a neutral and ind pendent Laos. We would hope th r the Soviet Union would make a effort to fulfill its commitmen under the Geneva accord-as t United States i! attempting to dc Harriman's mission will provi a clearer idea whether "the Cor munist Chinese, the North Vietn 1mese and others are prepared see a neutral and independe: Laos, or determined to try a mi: tary takeover," the President sai "We are also conscious of 0 threat to Southeast Asia" fro the Red Chinese, he added. Advisors Back Version of ,Bi On Youth jo By The Associated Press Soviet Crisi Stem THREE FACTORS: Wilson Cites 'U'Assets In Attracting Research The University has the three necessary bases of "research depth for a single area," according to Prof.. James T. Wilson of the geology department, acting director of the Institute of Science and Technology. In order for a university to have "research depth" it must be "competent in most, if not all, of the presently important scientific fields"-and outstanding in a fewt teachings." Cutright charged that the dismissal came as a result of a recommendation from a "labor racketeer of the worst kind." 'False' Rationale Martin called his charge on the dismissal rationale "utterly false." He also claimed that Cutright was "out on a limb" about the charge that a letter from labor leader Miles C. Stanley had anything to do with the firing. "There was a letter, " hut it came well. before the action and it had nothing to do with the dismissal," he explained. Stanley said that a few persons had brought Hughes' teaching to his attention and that he had merely passed the information along to Martin. "I did not even suggest a course of action," he asserted. Stanley's letter to Martin was dated April 1, and the announce- ment of dismissal came on April' 3. However, Martin said, "Hughes was advised months before that in all probability we would not re- new his contract." Out of Place? Hughes said, "it is a case 9f a conservative in a liberal institu- tion, my viewpoint is not popular here. I am proud to be a con- servative, a n d this viewpoint should be expressed, however the school has a right to exclude who- ever they want to." Cutright explained, "It is ob- vious to anyone that Martin acted on the request of Stanley because the dismissal came immediately after he got the letter from the labor boss." Cutright stated that Hughes is the only person in economics who has a doctorate. and that he has been in "Who's Who" for the past 60 years. To the explanation of academic incompetence, he said, "baloney-he is a sound econom- ist and a good Christian." "The students are un in arms down here protesting the move." Cutri.ht said. "We are Planning to organize a petition to oust President Martin," he announced. "'The school is being run by a little group of left-wina colI-ctiv- ists. or socio-Marxists," who re- c(,ntly have joined uwith "in- norts" who got in on the Kennedy bandwagon, h-e said. Of S'anting News Delay Move' Dfe feats Bill'' By The Associated Press LANSING - A minimum wage bill sought by Gov. George Rom ney perished in confusion and con- troversy yesterday as the'House reached its midnight deadline for passage of bills. In a stormy final hour, the bill was prevented from almost certain passage by delaying tac- tics chiefly on the part of Repub- lican opponents of the measure. The explosive hour brought chafges from Rep. Marie Hager (R-Lansing), the chief sponsor of the bill, that other members of her party were repudiating their governor. Clock Watchers Democrats, embittered by the defeat of the minimum wage bill after it appeared to have as many as 10 more votes than the 56 re- quired for passage, also assailed Republicans for defeating the bil by stalling out the clock. The measure would have called for a minimum wage of $1.15 an hour, as opposed to the $1-per- hour minimum proposed earlier Students" working part-time or those in executive, professional or administrative p o s i t i o n s are among those who would have been exempted from such a minimum salary under the measure as it finally came to the floor of the House. The battle over the minimum wage bill climaxed a full day of activity in which House Repub- licans rammed through a bill set- ting up Michigan's 19th congres- sional district over the fierce ob- jections of Democrats. Caucus Decision The bill, approved on a vote of 57-49 that followed strict part3 lines, was worked out during a lasi minute GOP caucus. The plan differs from earlier proposals in that it sets off the. Upper Peninsula as a single dis. trict, despite the fact that its population of 305,000 falls short of the population requirements mapped out earlier and endorsec by Romney. Among earlier redistricting pro- posals was a plan to make three districts by combining parts o: Fear of them. However, when a conflict does The second major base, Prof. arise, and occasionally this is in- Wilson said, is an institution's evitable, the ACLU has directed participation in the "currently its branch organizations to bring glamorous" fields supported by our the problem out into the open and military and space organizations. not to be afraid of making a deci- "Industrial research organiza- sion contrary to popular opinion, tions related to healthy manufac- he said. turing establishments" is the third t "Prejudice thrives on fear. As base for research work in a region, long as there are people who em- he noted.' ploy threats of recrimination, not Urging that Michigan take full only against the individual con- advantage of these bases, Prof. cerned, but also against his fam- Wilson noted that the signs of ily, there cannot possibly be any "research depth for any region is significant steps made in the area the variety of its products and of racial discrimination," Rev. by-products." He went on to say Murray concluded. that the production of trained people was just as important as " manufactured goods.' Postpone-.i'4e He believes that it is "signifi- cant" that one of the leading re- At Canaveral fsearch centers, Massachusetts, is also "an exporter of PhD's." CAPE CANAVERAL(R) - A Prof. Wilson said Michigan machinists' strike, set for 6 a.m. schools have produced about 4500 today, was postponed last night PhDs between 1950-1960 placing th-in rto1-Q sixt1h in the nan. Spring Weekend Horseplay 1 f f r WASHINGTON-A limited v sion of President John F. Ke nedy's youth employment bill day was approved by the Yoi E m p 1o y m e n t Subcommittee presidential advisory committee However, the report that v issued to the President failed approve certain specific legislat proposed by the administratioi The bill, having passed the Si ate, is now awaiting action by t House Rules Committee. It. wo authorize the expenditures of $ million to help provide emplc ment and training for youths urban and conservation project The committee recommend $100 million annual appropri tions for three years for this p pose. Five members of the 32-n committee issued a joint statem .... .. . o v u m ... ........ .......... IRM