COMING TO GRIPS: CONFLICT OF INTEREST See Editorial Page £i~rI!JU :4E aaii4 COOLER High--75 Low--50 Variable cloudiness; showers likely Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVI, No. 65S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1966 SEVEN CENTS FOUR PAGES Sells Checks Removal of Protest Sign Plant Department Has No Authority To Take Student Political Signi By PATRICIA O'DONOHUE J. Duncan Sells, director of stu- dent organizations, said yesterday that "the wheels might be slow to turn" but that something would be done to "clear the lines of au- thority" in allowing students to post signs on campus. Voice political party, the Uni- versity's chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, had request- ed Sells to look into the removal! and destruction of their sign pro- testing U.S. involvement in the Viet Team war. They accused the Plant Depaztrment of "outright po- litical suppression" by removing the sign. Sells spoke to Alfred B. Ueker,; plant manager, yesterday about the removal of the sign and Ueker said that he would look into the matter. He added that his people "had no business" removing the sign, if they had in fact removed t. He said that he would check: with other members of the plant department. Ueker was unavail- able for comment later because he attended a meeting out of town. Sells will speak with Richard Cutler, vice-president for student affairs, today. Cutler, when ques- tioned about the line of authority in 'this matter, said that "it de- pends on where the sign is and who gave the authority for its display." He said that if the Of- fice of Student Affairs authorized the placement of the sign it alone should have the power to have it removed. Sells indicated that Cutler and Gilbert Lee, vice-president for business affairs, would discuss the matter later this week. Voice officials said they are adopting a "wait and see" atti- tude. A Voice spokesman said the plant department will receive a copy of Voice's complaints today.; He added that Voice members have not had a chance to discuss the removal of the sign because of the Midland picketing of Dow Chemi- cal Company but Will meet today to plan further action. Sells told Voice members that they will probably receive finan- cial compensation for the destroy- ed sign and public assurance from Lee that similar actions will not* occur in the future. Voice had originally charged the plant department with "political suppression" when their sign was removed twice last week. After the second removal Voice members found the sign broken in half in the basement of the Student Ac- tivities Building. Office of Student Affairs offi- cials said the plant department has the authority to move a sign under either of two conditions; if' it interferes with lawn mowing when it may be moved to the gravel area in front of the UGLI, or if it is outdated, when it may be moved to the basement of the! SAB. Yet the Voice sign was not out-! dated at the time of its removal and an OSA official said they had not requested Voice to place the sign in the gravel area. Voice members felt that it was an "act of harrassment" on the part of the plant department. oo 0 he SiWigRE aaly NEWS WIRE t Late World News By The Associated Press LANSING, MICH.-SQUADS of police firing tear gas broke up a mob of 200 Negro youths at a downtown intersection last night and then said this capital city's second night of racial violence "definitely was contained." That appraisal was made by Sgt. C. W. Croy at Lansing police headquarters after scores of city policemen, sheriff's men and state troopers cordoned off part of the Negro section and broke up the mob. Earlier, roving bands of teen-agers shattered store and auto windows and threw gasoline bombs at passing cars. Police report- ed several officers and at least four civilians injured. In Chicago, suburban Cicero, once the scene of a race riot when a Negro moved into town, was named last night as the tar- get for a civil rights march for open housing. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an assistant to Dr. Martin Luther King in his civil rights action program, said the march will be staged this week, but did not name a day. WASHINGTON-SECRETARY of Labor W. Willard Wirtz said last night the prospects for settling the airlines strike at the bargaining table were "ceiling zero, visibility zero." Wirtz adjourned negotiating attempts after nearly eight hours of fruitless efforts to budge deadlocked negotiators in the month- old strike of mechanics against five major airlines. BUENOS AIRES-THE ONGANIA government charged last night that U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk had interfered in Argentine affairs. It said it objected to statements by Rusk and Lincoln Gordon, U.S. undersecretary for inter-American affairs, concerning the seizure of Argentine national universities by the military regime of President Juan Carlos Ongania. A protest note was delivered to U.S. Charge d'Affairs Leonard Saccio by Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez. TRIAL JUDGES FACE NEW obligations to assist police and law enforcement officers as a result of the recent Supreme Court decisions, Charles W. Joiner, associate dean of the University law school, said in Montreal Sunday. Police and law enforcement officers need assistance in de- termining the correct course of action in light of Miranda v. Arizona and other cases dealing with search and seizure, he said. "They are confused. The obligation of the trial judge is much greater than ruling out confessions at trial, or throwing out illegally obtained evidence." The trial judge, Dean Joiner asserted, can be the catalyst around which understanding can be developed so that in the future, police will be able to act in a way permitted by the Constitution. MICHIGAN'S FOUR-YEAR colleges and universities face financing problems in handling the growing number of transfer students from community colleges, the Associated Press reported an admissions official saying yesterday. Richard E. Hensen, assistant director of admissions and scholarships at Michigan State University, says there were 60,016 students in Michigan's 19 two-year colleges last fall. Enrollment will reach 100,000 in 1967, he estimates, and stud- ies are under way for more community colleges. Hensen says some four-year schools already have limited the number of transfer students they will accept. Hensen discusses what he calls a "partnership in education" between two-year and four-year colleges in the Michigan State Economic Record, an MSU publication. MICHIGAN'S SEPTEMBER DRAFT call has been boosted by 450 men and its October call will be 3700, largest since the Korean War, the Associated Press reported from Lansing yesterday. State Selective Service Director Col. Arthur Holmes said the September call has been boosted from 2,525 to 2,975. He said Michigan took 5000 to 6000 men a month for the first six months of the Korean War. In recent months, he said, Michigan's call has averaged around 2500 a month. The August call was 3,430 and the July call 2,525. Starting in August, Holmes said, local boards have had to call childless men married before Aug. 26, 1965-taking the oldest, under age 26, first. Holmes said he did not know whether the high calls would continue at the higher rate after October, or whether they were to make up for low enlistment rates. -Daily-Thomas R. Copi THOUSANDS OF WORKERS AT the Dow Chemical Co. in Midland (of which several are pictured above, left), reported to work Mon- day morning to find anti-war demonstrators picketing their plant. Though many of the workers were curious as to what was going on, most simply ignored the demonstrators and went about their business. The anti-war pickets, from Kalamazoo, Detroit and Ann Arbor, were protesting the production of napalm by the huge Midland-based corporation. Students Picket a o Factory, Protest Manufacture o Napal-m Conflict Law May Affect U Officials Attorney General To Judge State Rule on Business Interests By LEONARD PRATT Co-Editor Two key University officials had mixed reactions yesterday to re- ports in the Detroit Free Press that a new state law may force them to "give up off-campus busi- ness interests." The law regulates conflicts of interest in the deal- ings of public officials. "I have no comment now, nor will I," said University President Harlan Hatcher. Regent Robert Briggs, however, said he would "put matters in front of theAttorney General;" emphasizing that "these relation- ships were entered into without my council and in all innocence." Briggs is executive vice-presi- dent of Consumers Power Co. in which the University owns $658,- 000 in stocks and bonds according to the mst recently available figures. Hatcher drew $9,300 in direc- tors' fees last year from Detroit Edison Co. in which the Univer- sity holds over $963,000 in securi- ties, according to the same figures. He is also a director of the Ann Arbor Bank, in which the Univer- sity maintains commercial ac- counts. These connections may be illegal under the new law when it goes into effect this spring, according to a story in Sunday's Free Press. John Hannah, president of Mich- igan State University, and other officials and governing board members at MSU, Eastern Mich- igan University, Central Michigan University, Northern Michigan University and Western Michigan University were also mentioned as being affected by the law. For example, "Four of EMU's eight trustees and its two top ad- ministrators serve as directors of banks-all but one of them Ypsi- lanti and Ann Arbor institutions the school deals with financially," the article by Free Press Lansing correspondent Roger Lane said. Lane noted that NMU Presi- dent EdgarL. Harden is a direc- tor of the Union National Bank of Marquette, in which NMU de- posits half of its bank-held funds. MSU official activities by Vice- President for Finance Philip J. May and trustees Donald Stevens and C. Allen Harlan were. also mentioned as possibly being cov- ered by the new law. Briggs noted that the law had so far had no "legal interpreta- tion" by the Attorney General and that it was" not law until this spring in any case. He also said that Consumers Power Co. is a public utility "whose profits are watched over by a public commission." He said that the company sold very few services directly to the University. The securities which are the substance of the University's re- lationship with Consumers were purchased "after independent con- sultation with an investment serv- ice by University officials over whom I have no control," Briggs said. Lane quoted state House mem- bers as being "disturbed" that the University, "with daily working balances of $2 million" permitted Hatcher to serve with the Ann Arbor Bank, "where large sums are kept." He noted the same feel- ing on the part of Senate investi- gators who "criticized links be- tween CMU and banks it patron- izes in Mt. Pleasant." EMU Vice-President for Finance Lewis E. Profit predicted such a wide interpretation of the law "will knock some of the greatest public service participation in the state out of whack." By CAROLE KAPLAN Tfhe 85 anti-war demonstrators from Ann Arbor, Detroit and Kala- mazoo who picketed the Dow Chemical Corporation offices in Midland yesterday found that their demonstration was primar- ily an exchange of written state- ments. The protest, organized by Stu- dents for a Democratic Society, was part of a nationwide attempt to draw attention to the fact that Dow manufactures napalm, an extremely harmful chemical sub- stance currently used by Ameri- can soldiers in Viet Nam. At 7:30 a.m. yesterday morning, as the Dow workers entered the plant, about 40 University stu- dents marched with picket signs " saying "Dow Shalt Not Kill," "Would Napalm Convert You?"; and "Napalm Burns Can't Be Healed with Candy Bars," as well as the more common "Withdraw from Viet Nam." Except for a group of about 15 who remained outside the doors making occasional remarks about Communists, the factory workers ignored the protest, refusing to accept leaflets prepared by Voice Political Party. Midland police observed the march and made sure the demon- strators and reporters stayed on the part of the sidewalk near the lations department exchanged street, which was marked by a line statements. The Voice statement of yellow tape. The workers' refusal to notice the demonstrators was attributed to a bulletin posted in the factory asking the employes to refrain from "contact or conversation" with the protestors. After the workers entered the factory, the march moved to Dow's executive offices, where the dem- onstrators and the Dow public re- protested the manufacture of na- palm on the grounds;that it causes "some of the war's most horrible suffering." The Dow statement said that! the company is a "supplier of goods. . and not a policy maker." It added, "Simple good citizenship requires that we supply our gov- ernment . .. with those goods they feel they need." During the Dow picket there were very few onlookers, but a later march d'owntown drew some attention. SDS representatives said that other companies that produce na- palm had been picketed over the weekend, and that further at- tempts to reach Dow would be made when a Voice delegation meets with Herbert Doan, the president of the company, on Aug. 22. MARCH ON LANSING: State Employes Stage Parade To Emphasize Union Demands 'U' PROFESSOR IN MOSCOW: McConnell Describes Memory Transfer Psychology Prof. James V. Mc- Connell of the Mental He. lth Re- search Institute, in Moscow for the 18th International Congress of Psychology Aug. 4-11, has describ- ed his research demonstrating the transfer of training in planarians via "cannibalistic" ingestion. McConnell's studies, along with similar ones at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Copenhagen, have led to premature speculations that man's memory and learning abili- ties can be improved with the aid of chemicals. In a symposium on "The Biol- ogical Bases of Memory Traces" McConnell described his and his students' experiments of six years ago. Using light as a conditioning did not know which cannibal had eaten which type of victim. The researchers found that the cannibals that had eaten condi- tioned victims performed better than did the cannibals that had eaten untrained victims. Two years later, McConnell re- ported tentative evidence that much the same sort of "trans- fer" could be achieved by extract- ing ribonucleic acid from the bod- ies of trained planarians and in- jecting it directly into the bod- ies of untrained animals. "In all these cases, however," McConnell pointed out, "the mem- ory that was transferred was that of a clasically conditioned habit pattern and the question was oft- en raised as to whether it was indeed a 'memory' that was pass- returned to its home aquarium for eight cannibals, each of which was a period of several minutes. trained to go to the same color Twelve animals that showed a arm as had been the victim it ate preference for the dark arm were then trained to go to the light (the positive transfer group). The arm. Another 12 that preferred the eight cannibals in Group II were light arm were trained to go to tramed to go to the opposite color the dark arm. arm he had the victim they ate During training, the animals (the negative transfer group). The were "rewarded" for choosing the eight cannibals in Group III were correct arm by being returned to given two feedings, each of which their home aquaria. They were consisted of part of one worm that "punished" for choosing the in- had been trained to go to the light correct arm by being picked up gray arm and part of another with a brush and returned to the worm that had been trained to go, start of the maze. to the drak gray arm (the con- The animals were considered flicting instructions group), "trained" after achieving a score Twenty-four hours after theirl of nine correct choices out of 10 second feeding, all the cannibals daily training trials, "but the were assigned code numbers and animal had to achieve this score were trained to criterion by an on two successive days," McCon- observer who did not know which nell said. A ftpra, few ,z, v ' tP' . A.n-,ih.n1 h i A ..n 'Which ,A,.i.-.- By WALLACE IMMEN About 150 members of Ann Ar- bor Local 1583 of the Michigan State Employes Union are in Lansing today to join in a parade and protest rally at the state of- fices. The demonstration has been planned to display a mass sup- port for union demands protesting "undesirable" labor relations prac- tices. Union demands focus on wage and workload questions which are plaguing public em- ployes throughout the country and on the recent controversy over the right of civil service employes to strike. Robert Grosvenor, coordinator of the march, yesterday expressed the hope that as many as 8000 union members would be in Lans- ing for the program. He said each of the 50 locals in the state will be represented by a large con- tingent in the parade, which will begin at 9:30 this morning. Parade License Grosvenor explained that this is a "parade" because according to Lansing city ordinances, it is illegal to hold protest marches in the city and only peaceful pick- eting is allowed. But if the group obtained a parade license, they would receive police protection and traffic would be cleared for them. The goal of the marchers is the Lewis Cass Building in Lans- ing, home of many state offices. Some are expected to remain and picket in front of the building; One of the union's strongest arguments is the fact that the state civil service has found it in- creasingly difficult to recruit workers to jobs in the government in the face of more lucrative of- fers from private industry and or- ganizations. They have noted that a greater than normal employe turnover and early retirements has created severe staff shortages in many departments. A u n i o n spokesman stated that if this con- dition continues it may well force the state to increase wages in order to remain competitive on the labor market. The union represents employes of state-operated institutions, such as universities and hospitals, and services, such as the police. They are moving for three basic reforms. Dollar Gap They claim first, that there is a gap of more than a dollar an hour between wages paid by the state andwthose paid by private industry. Because of this, turn- over rates are high and it is ex- tremely difficult to fill many posi- tions, resulting in unfavorable workloads for already short staffs. Secondly, they claim many jobs, such as work in mental hospi- tals, is dangerous and difficult and workloads should take this intoI consideration. Finally, they are fighting for bargaining rights for the 3600 civil service employes who at the pres- ent time have no right to strike. ECONOMIC POLICY; IAckley Calls for Revision of, 'Present Wage-Price Guides Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Eco- nomic Advisers told 1,750 Univer- sity graduates Sunday that pres- ent administration wage - price guideposts are "far from ideal." "The policy we have relied on- our wage and price guideposts-is A national wage-price policy "is no easy task to devise," Ackley said Sunday. Yet he urged labor and management to recognize and adhere to such a national policy in order to slow down a spiraling economy. He said what is more disap- He said one of the things that disturbs him is "the apparent readiness of many in the Congress to add sums-up to $5 billion or $6 billion-to their favorite civil- ian expenditures programs without either cutting back other expendi- tures, or facing up to the probable ,.Paw4 to nvfc~t the infla4Aroaxv im- i