NNE DY. LEADS; ",CO PANTS PARTNERS C Lf Se Page 4 Colder with cloudi Seventy Years of Editorial Freedom o. 93 ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1961 FIVE CENTS JDY 1-47 -28 Increasing ness SIX]I Legislators To Consider First Bill LANSING (P)-Michigan legis- lators returned from a four-day weekend yesterday and met briefly to introduce a few bills. With the session one month and three days old, the first bill has yet to be passed. The Senate Business Committee was considering a constitutional amendment to limit a governor to two two-year terms. The bill was sponsored by a bi-partisan group of 15 senators; but got no support from Sen. John Fitzgerald (R- Grand Ledge), chairman of the committee. "To start limiting the terms of the governor smacks of political vindictiveness," he said. The measure was introduced only a month after former Gov. G. Mennen Williams finished a record-long 12-year period of serv- ie. Fitzgerald said the Legislature must act fast if it is to be readied for a statewide vote in time for the April 3 election. In the House, Rep. Harry A. De Maso (R-Battle Creek), submitted a package of six bills designed to help the satte and local communi- ties attract new industry and re- tain what they have. One measure would authorize local governments to issue bonds, with voter approval, for construc- tion, of industrial buildings. Another would permit counties, cities or townships to allocate funds to organize and maintain industrial development agencies. A third would set up a state industrial development authority and create a development fund of $5 million to grant loans to local industrial developments up to 30 per cent of the cost of the project. Counties and cities also would be authorized to levy a special tax to seek and develop industry, if voters approved. It could not exceed five mills. "We must provide the essential tools to hold and attract industry now," De Maso said. "We must fight fire with fire if we are to forge ahead in the industrial pro- curement race facing us." County Eyes New College The county Board of Super- visors took an official interest in the proposed local community col. lege and a controversy over train- ing and employment practices by the county sheriff's department at its meeting yesterday. The board's education commit- tee will study the county's role in establishing colleges such as has been proposed by local school boards to offer more vocational courses than the University. The problems of training and qualifications for sheriff's deputies were referred to committee in r- sponse to an article in the Ann Arbor News last weekend critical of present practices in the depart- ment. Board member John Rae said he initiated the study as some- thing the board should investigate, not because of his personal ideas on the sheriff department's prac- tices. Caif ornia ATO Sele FORD ASKS COOPERATION. Hits Congressiona Inaction By BUEL TRAPNELL Rep. Gerald R. Ford, Jr. (R-Mich) yesterday said he "detects a lack of urgency in the new administration." In a speech to the Young Republicans he noted that there had been a minimum of effective legislation in the seven-week session of the new Congress. "We must support the new administration if they want to con- tinue the strength of our military power." But Ford said that where differences in policy do exist, the Republicans have a duty to point them out. Most Issues On most issues in the areas of foreign policy and military strength he sees "unanimity" between the Ford UrgesI Progressive GOP Action By HARVEY MOLOTCH Republicans must be careful to stand ,by the "moderate progres- sive" 'principles of the 1960 GOP platform to ensure Republican victories at the polls in the next four years, Rep. Gerald R. Ford Jr. (R-Mich) warned Washtenaw County Republicans last night at the Michigan Union. In outlining a "formula for vic- tory" for guests attending the an- nual Lincoln Day Dinner, the Uni- versity graduate said the party should neither go "hard right" nor "radical left." Explains Platform Ford explained that the Repub- lican party had disavowed the "eighteenth century buccaneering, catch as catch can" philosophy of the past. But at the same time, the Republican platform does not stand for a "hobo's utopia" where "nobody has anything and you share it with everybody.". The Grand Rapids congressman cited the 1960 Democratic plat- form as the best example of a "hobo's utopia" and warned that if the administration follows through on their campaign prom- ises, "you can look forward to this kind of existence." Cites Merits Ford cited the merits of the Republican platform as "sound and practical." Particularly in the area of federal assistance to edu- cation, Ford contrasted his party's plank with the Democratic pro- gram, as "not just dole out money and distributing it with neither rhyme nor reason." The Republican role in the future calls for= a "responsible op- position . . . positive, affirmative, and under no circumstances, ne- gative," Ford said. In foreign policy and military areas; "we stand shoulder to shoulder" with the Democrats, as long as they proceed "along the line of the previous Eisenhower administration." Ford described this as "true bi- partisanship." policies of the Republican party and the new administration, but there are differences in domestic policies. The legislator, who was under consideration for the vice-presi- dential nomination last summer said "in the last six years, with a Republican President and a Demo- cratic Congress, the Congress re- duced defense spending a net of $1.6 billion." Thus the Democrats in effect supported President Dwight D. Eisenhower's military program de- spite the public criticism of some Democratic spokesmen, Ford ar- gued. To a substantial degree they also supported the Elsenhowe:' f or- eign policy. United Nations He suggests that our foreign program "should support the United Nations in the Congo even more adamantly now that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has gone off on another tangent. Con- tinued support of the UN is our only way to victory in the cold war." Effective Leadership He said that it is the responsi- bility of the party to provide ef- fective leadership for the minor- ity, the 34 million Americans who voted Republican last year. Debunking a reputed Republican coalition with Southern Democrats, Ford asserted the Republican party will take the stand it feels is right, and other groups taking the same position-sometimes the Southern Democrats and sometimes the Northern Democrats - are wel- comed as allies. strument in the future" if it is In response to a question from the audience, Ford recognized "considerable appeal" in the Youth Peace Corps idea and said that it could be "a valuable in- properly implemented by legisla- tion and appropriations. 0 .n©c _ 'Y techniaue No Re-Creation of Life Possible If life were destroyed on Earth today, it would never return, No- bel Laureate Harold Urey said yesterday. Prof. Urey, professor of chemis- try at the University of California, discussed the origin of organic molecules to inaugurate "The Na- ture of Biological Diversity" series sponsored by the Institute of Science and Technology. The problem of recreating living organisms after all have died away stews from the relative amounts of hydrogen and oxygen in the earth's atmosphere. These ele- ments, along with carbon and ni- trogen, are the chief constituents of organic materials. Abundance Varies Such a condition of oxidation accompanied by an excess of oxy- gen available at the earth's sur- face (through escape of hydrogn from water in the higher atmos- phere) does not yield conditions favorable to the synthesis of or- ganic bodies. Conditions Reversed The conditions on Earth 4.5 billion years ago were reversed, however, and permitted, organic compounds to form whjch may have led to pre-biological evolu- tion of, living things, Prof. Urey said. 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