IN DEFENSj9 OF JOHN BIRCH See Page 4 Seventy Years of Editorial Freedom Iaii4 SHOWERS 11g9175 Low--4Q Cloudy, warmer; clearing tonight VOL. LXXI, No. 140 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1961 FIVE CENTS SIX PAGES British Rep ort Russia Agrees to * Laos Ceasefire 'U.S. Military Units Move to Front Line Americans Prepare To Offer Needed Strategical Aid to Royalist Forces By The Associated Press LONDON - British officials reported last night Russia has agreed to join Britain in a joint appeal for an immediate ceasefire in Laos is the first step toward a peace settlement. Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts is to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Moscow today to tackle a few unsettled points in a three-step program designed to produce final agreement on a unified, neutral and independent Laos. On the Front Meanwhile, on the front, United States military men in Laos discarded all pretense of being civilians and made ready to enter * * * * * * * * * * * S M' Tax Package Acceptable To Swainson LANSING (W) - Gov. John B Swainson indicated yesterday he would accept a continuation of the $50 million yearly so-called nuisance taxes beyond their June 30 expiration date if it would mean higher appropriations for educa- tion, mental health and other de- partments. The Governor's action was a re- versal -of a former position in which he had hinted that he might veto an extension of the nuisance tax package if such a measure reached his desk. In reversing his field, Swain- son tied in any continuation of the taxes on beer, tobacco, tele- phone and telegraph services and similar items with adoption of his budget and a bonding program %or construction of new buildings. The Governor said he met with a group of educators this morn- ing in an emergency session called by Lynn M. Bartlett, superintend- ent of public instruction. Attending the meeting, to which newsmen were not invited, were four university presidents and some members of the governing boards of Michigan's nine state- supported colleges and universi- ties. The Chancellor of Michigan State University-Oakland told House budgetmakers it would be "kinder" to close down ,the new institution than try to operate it under the Senate-approved budget for 1961-62. "We simply could not get along on the $12,300 increase we would realize in the Senate appropria- tions bill for higher education," Durward B. Varner said. Mixed Parties in Apartments Ruled Legal Joint Judiciary Council said yesterday it will interpret the forthcoming regulation permit- ting women to visit men's apart- ments to mean that "apartment parties are permissible as long as all other rules applying to this sort of gathering are not violated." A statement released for Joint Judic by Chairman Charles Gess- ner. '62, said that "probably any violations occurring under the new ruling will stem from illegal and/or excessive use of alcoholic beverages. The statement explains that the state law applying to the con- sumption of alcohol very definite- ly applies to apartment parties. Minors are not permitted to con- sume alcohol in Michigan. The Joint Judic statement also says students will be expected to conduct themselves in such a manner as not to bring themselves to the attention of civil authori- ties. Students who violate the rule and thus jeopardize the privileges of the other students can expect their actions to be viewed serious- ly, the statement said. Air Force Flyer Attacked in Korea 6T.%^rr IV e- TT #. f Air. -front line combat zones to in- struct hard-pressed royal troops on tactics to use against pro- Communist rebels. Brig. Gen. Andrew Jackson Boyle of the United States Army, commander of the Americans, told an interviewer his men will be as- signed to units as small as bat- talions and will go frontline ac- tion if necessary. But he said they will not fight. The main, difference facing a ceasefire: Britain, speaking- for the West, is insisting that any true in Laos must be verified before a peace parley is held. Russia Accepts Russia has accepted this de- mand with some qualifications that would give her a sort of veto over any judgment that the truce has in fact been breached. This envisaged: 1) A Joint British-Soviet cease- fire call at once. 2) An immediate meeting in New Delhi of the Indian-Cana- dian-Polish truce control com- mission which then would check. the situation in Laos. 3) Invitations to a conference of 14 nations in Geneva May 5, where negotiations would take place to set up a neutral, Inde- pendent government in Laos. Regents Plan To Examine LAppropriation Discussion of the state Senate's proposed University appropriation will highlight today's Board of Regents meeting. The Senate approved $35.4 mil- lion appropriation for 1961-2 is $2 million less than Governor John B. Swainson's request for $37.1 million and $8.5 million below the Regents' recommended $43.9 mil- lion. The Regents are expected to consider various proposals for both reducing University expen- ditures and raising additional funds. one possibility for raising funds, a tuition increase, will not be re- commended to the Regents by the administration at this time. There have been five tuition increases since 1950. The most recent, ap- proved last year, raised instate student tuition $30 to $280 and outstate student' tuition $150 to $750. The -Regents will also consider a literary college proposal for area study centers, similar to the Cen- ter for Japanese Studies, for China, the Near and Middle East, Southern Asia and Russia. MSU Plans To Freeze Standards By MICHAEL OLINICK Prompted by a feeling that "we have just about reached the level we should," Michigan State Uni- versity has frozen its admissions requirements for four years. Under this policy students ap- plying for admissions through 1964 will be judged on the same level as the student who applies today, MSU Vice-President Gordon A. Sabine said yesterday. The East Lansing school is buck- ing a trend in other universities to raise admission standards each year because it feels that parents should be given an "assurance" that their son or daughter can gain admittance. New Tension "The greatest new tension in the secondary schools is the inability of college administrators to give such an assurance," Sabine said. He stressed that it is the faculty which sets the admission stand- ards by their demands on the stu- dents. "We evaluate these demands and the students intellectual ca- pacity to determine if he will be able to do successful work." Sabine said that MSU hopes to be able to admit every Michigan student who can meet the demands of the faculty "provided only that we get the necessary funds." No Arbitrary Limit He claimed that the school in- tends not to place any arbitrary limit on size, with the expectation of increasing to an estimated 30,- 000 students by 1965 and 37,000 by 1970. The current enrollment at MSU is 23,383 with a freshman class numbering 4,690. Corresponding figures for the University are 23,- 278 and 3,642. Sabine also announced an ad- vance-admissions policy which would enable a graduating high school senior to be admittedgfor any quarter in the next four years. Such a policy would aid the per- son who does not want to enter college immediatelynafter high school but may want to earn money to finance his extra school years or fulfill a military obliga- tion. Improve Quality Sabine said that the MSU stu- dents would continue to improve in quality as there is a "natural improvement in caliber as the high schools get better." Faculty men have been "a great deal rougher" in grading MSU students than in previous years, Sabine said. "We've improved a lot" Advising the high school stu- dent, Sabine said, "Tell him that high grades count. Tell him they count a lot. Tell him no one ever gets admitted to MSU because he or she is a member of 17 different activities or has been elected queen of the May." "Grades," he said, "count a whale of a lot." onAbandon Cubans to Reds President Says U.S. May Act Alone To Protect Itself Against Infiltration WASHINGTON (M-President John F. Kennedy served notice on Communist foes and non-Communist friends yester- day that the United States will act on its own against Cuba's Reds if necessary for United States security. Kennedy did not specify when this time might come. But in a speech delivered to an editors' meeting amid news of a crushing defeat for anti-Cas-Q tro invaders, he said somber- ly --AP Wirephoto EGG BOMBARDMENT-Anti-Castro pickets tossed eggs at the Soviet Embassy in Washington yes- terday apparently while the policeman stationed in front was away on call. Some 60 anti-Castro pickets marched in the vicinity of the Russian Embassy and also in front of the White House during the better part of the afternoon. The three men in the background were struck with the eggs. le ports-Differ On Cuba Crisis By The Associated Press MIAMI-Reports from the In- ter-American Affairs Commission in Miami, a private group, list Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Cas- tro as incapacitated either phys- ically or mentally-presumably the former-as a result of rebel plane bombings in Havana on Monday. But an observer in Havana claims that Castro and his asso- ciates are in good health.. In Washington, President John F. Kennedy had a secret confer- ence with the chairman and five members of the anti-Castro revo- lutionary council of Cubans. Salinger Tells White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger told reporters yes- terday that Kennedy's strongly worded statement on the Cuban situation to the nation's newspa- pers was largely a result of that conference. In the wake of the parley, the Cubans announced that Cardona and other Council chiefs will hold a news conference in New York at 10 a.m. today. Telephone Reports Telephoned reports from Ha- vana claimed that large numbers of Cuban citizens have been rounded up and detained and added that "about all United States correspondents" are being held. However, as the Castro govern- ment once again observed that the revolution had been put down, a source close to Cuban insurgent leaders said yesterday that the landing operations in Cuba had been successful, that the fighting had been bloody and costly, but that much of the contingent was safely in the mountains. Must Not Abandon "Cuba must not be abandoned to the Communists. And we do not intend to abandon it either I.. Any unilateral American in- tervention, in the absence of an external attack upon ourselves or an ally, would have been contrary to our traditions and to our in- ternational obligations. "Should it ever appear that the inter-American doctrine of non- interference merely conceals or excuses a policy of non-action- if the nations of this hemisphere should fail to meet their commit- ments against outside Communist penetration-then I want it clear- ly understood that this govern- ment will not hesitate in meet- ing its primary obligations which are to the security of our own na- tion." 'Go It Alone' And should America have to go it alone, Kennedy added-in ob- vious reference to the Soviet Un- ion, "we do not intend to be lec- tured on 'intervention' by those whose character was stamped for all time on the bloody streets of Budapest. "Nor would we expect or accept the same outcome which this small band of gallant Cuba refugees must have known they were chancing, determined as they were against heavy odds to pursue their courageous attempt to regain their islands freedom." I Witness Claims Meisenbach Attacked Policeman in Riots West Europe Hits Kennedy LONDON (A')- President John F. Kennedy has lost stock in much of West Europe by his handling of the Cuban crisis, Many non-Communist news- papers across the continent yes- terday deplored his backing of the faltering invasion of Fidel Castro's island and said United States pres- tige would suffer. Sample comments before the President's speech yesterday: Swedish Paper Stockholm-Tidningen, often the voice of Sweden's socialist govern- ment, compared United States policy toward Cuba with Russia's intervention in Hungary in 1950. It asserted "when Kennedy took over, the damage was already done. It is, however, difficult to avoid the impression that he could have chosen cleverer measures to repair it." The Manchester Guardian said "few people have done more to speed the advance of Communism in Latin America than Kennedy has in the last few days. "No one has any obligation to protect a rebellion against the legal government of a sovereign state." An undertone of sympathy for the dilemma facing Kennedy nevertheless ran through many of the criticisms. Natural Wish Some West Germany, Austrian, Italian and British editorial writ- ers recognized as natural the wish of any United States government to topple a pro-Soviet regime only 90 miles away. Britain's Spectator said: "If Castro falls the United States is tarred with the brush of im- perialist aggression. If he stands. the added charge of incompetence can be levelled against her . . . The New York Times -"The language used by Kennedy was strong and clear, which is what the situation required. It can be taken as certain that an over- whelming majority of Americans will applaud and support the poli- cies he expressed." Union Board Forbids Chess, Cards in MUG SAN FRANCISCO (A)-A prose- V cution witness in the city hall riot trial testified yesterday he saw RoberteJ. Meisenbach hit Patrol- man Ralph E. Schaumleffel on the head with the officer's billy club. John W. Stansfield, a private in- Russia Raps U.S 'eceit' By The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS-The Soviet Union declared last night the United States has raised the bogey of international communism to cloak its aim of trying to over- throw Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin made the charge before the United Nations Political Committee. vestigator, firmly identified Meis- enbach in the court room as the man he saw strike Schaumleffel during student demonstration dis- orders outside a House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing last May. Under cross-examinationStans- field acknowledged he had seen Meisenbach for only three or four minutes during his struggle with the officer. Stansfield said he had watched the melee on the second floor ro- tunda lobby of the city hall from a third floor balcony overlooking the scene. Stansfield took the stand as the second state witness after Schaum- leffel stoutly maintained through four hours of sharp defense cross- examination that the student clubbed him and was subdued only after a grappling struggle on the rotunda lobby floor. Property Value Decline Not Caused byNegroes By ROSALYN CHAPMAN Luigi Laurenti, San Francisco planning consultant, in a speech on "Property Value and Race" last night at Rackham Aud. said that- an influx of non-whites into a neighborhood does not cause a decline in property values. He said that the myth that property values fall when non- whites move into a previously all-white neighborhood is at the root of all housing discrimination. This is a "guilt-free basis to support discrimination" but not the real underlying"reason, which is fear of losing social status. I I Myth Ini This myth influences buyers, s many others and is the basic caus PICKET IN DETROIT: Demonstrators Protest Intervention' iMCuba B BEATRICE TEODORO About 75 demonstrators, including ten University students, pro- tested "American intervention in Cuba" in front of the Federal Building and City Hall in Detroit yesterday afternoon.l Under the close supervision of at least 15 Detroit policemen, the group picketed for an hour and a half, carrying placards claiming "Castro: Your Cause is Lincoln's Cause" and "The Government of Cuba is Christianity in Action." 'e~ 'U' Participation The University participation was organized by the Committee for Improved Cuban-American Relations and the Venezuelan Students Association. Jack Erfurt, Grad., explained that the counter-revolution must have been American supported because "the Cuban refugees couldn't have done it with their own resources." About 30 of the demonstrators were from Wayne State Univer- nfluences ellers, builders and planners, among e of the behavior that is generally " observed in a changing neighbor- hood. This behavior often takes the form of "panic" to leave the area, and causes white home own- ers to sell their homes at a loss. Laurenti did his research on property values from 1943-1955 in the, San Francisco and Philadel- phia areas. Research Compares His research compared price values in two identical areas, one, the control area was totally white, while the other, the test area was becoming mixed. His re- sults showed that 41 per cent of the test areas had no difference in price from the control areas, 44 per cent of the test areas had higher price values than the con- trol areas (this difference ranged from 5-26 per cent), and 15 per cent of the test areas had lower price values than the control areas (this range was only 5-9 The Union Board of Directors last night passed a resolution for- bidding the playing of cards, checkers or chess in the Michigan Union Grill. Paul Carder, '62, Union Presi- dent said the Board action was basedon two considerations. First, the Union maintains facilities elsewhere for this type of activity. Checker tables are found in the lounges, and bridge tournaments are sponsored weekly on the third floor. Second, at most times during the day, tables in the MUG are in great demand, Carder said. Only one dissenting vote was I g,=m -