FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1966 TH'E MICHIGAN DAILY VAf4W FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY A £'U' ,ttu'~rn, rA. £ l .* £5Z I,5J 'Sales] Asks Safety Issue Brings Drop In Car Sales Sales Down from '65; Industry Presidents Blame Bad Publicity DETROIT (M)-The auto indus- try reported yesterday that new car sales dropped in early May at the peak of publicity about auto safety. General Motors, Chrysler and American Motors all reported their May 1-10 sales were off the 1965 pace. Ford Motor Co. was the ex- ception as its early May showing was the best in company history. Preliminary sales reports show- ed 192,429 new cars were sold in the period, some 35,000 behind the industry pace in early May of 1965. Sales Attract Attention The 10-day sales reports at- tracted more than usual attention since they were the first compiled by the industry since May 5 when it furnished a Senate subcommit- tee a list of defects found in U.S. cars since 1960. The reports submitted to Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff (D-Conn), chairman of a Senate subcommit- tee probing auto safety, showed that about 8.7 million of the 47 million autos built in the U.S. plants since the 1960 model had been checked out. Auto companies insisted not many cases of real trouble were found but, millions of cars were checked nevertheless. About 40 per cent of the defects cited men- tioned brakes, steering systems or suspensions. Presidents Speak A dip in April auto sales prompt- ed two auto company presidentsto speak out on the safety issue. Ford President Arjay Miller ex- pressed belief that what he term- ed "harassment" on the safety is- sue had influenced sales. American Motors President Roy Abernethy added this week that AMC's surveys showed the safety 4 hearings had "a negative effect on sales." Chrysler President Lynn A. Townsend said his firm was study- ing the situation but had not made up its mind. Sen. Ribicoff quoted General Motors President James M. Roche as saying the auto hearings had not affected sales. . Roche said later that the dip in April sales was due to many fac- tors, including the war in Viet Nam, bigger tax bills than some taxpayers had anticipated on April 15 and the prospect of larger in- come tax deductions beginning May 1. Industry sources had shown some concern when April sales fell behind those of April 1965, and they had awaited the early May reports to see if the downward trend was reversed. Industry leaders generally had no immediate comment on the sales figures. One, who asked that he not be identified, said "We want to look things over carefully before we say any more about the auto safety issue. After all, there may be other factors in the picture including a bit of soften- ing in the economy." Auto stocks slipped on the New York Stock Exchange even before the late afternoon announcement of sales figures by GM, Chrysler and AMC. Auto production schedule ad- justments downward were made by the Big Three-GM, Ford and'1 Chrysler-in the wake of April market reports. All gave the same reason - to get production in line with inven- tories. Dip, Auto for Safet, Industry i Guides , I- .1 READY FOR ACTION Pilots from the North Vietnamese air force are shown ready to take off on a mission against American jets. so African Regime 'Bans' Local Pro-Keenedy Student Restrictions Proposed by Car Makers Congressional Guides Asked To Set Limits To Safety Standards WASHINGTON ()-The auto- mobile industry proposed yester- day that the federal government's power to set auto safety standards be restricted by a series of con- gressional guidelines. Any standards Detroit considers improper apparently could be ruled out by one of the proposed re- quirements: that standards be consistent "with innovation, pro- gressiveness and customary mode changes in the automotive indus- try." The industry urged also that the House Commerce Committee adopt a procedure that could take as long j as 4% , years for any safety stand- ards to take effect. The adminis- tration bill calls for a four-year maximum, a period criticized by some congressmen as too long. Limit to New Cars Another revision backed by the industry would limit the measure to new cars. The administration bill is aimed at new cars but would permit standards to be applied to used cars in later years. As submitted by Washington at- torney Lloyd N. Cutler to the com- mittee yesterday, the industry backs the administration's position that the secretary of commerce "have the authority and the duty to establish such motor vehicle safety standards as he determines to be necessary to accomplish the purpose of this act." But the manufacturers, expand ing on a proposal they made dur- ing questioning by the House com mittee, urged that Congress limi the secretary by the following guidelines: * "The standard should be con- sistent with efficient designing engineering and manufacturing processes and with innovation progressiveness and customary model changes in the automotive industry." 9 The standard, means of compliance and test methods "shall embody feasible devices and techniques that are available or can be made available in a reason- able time and at costs commen- surate with the benefit to be achieved." * Promulgation of standards shall allow enough time for design- ing, engineering, tooling and pro- duction. Report Sees ' More Racial Turbulence Poverty Program Called a Failure;j Violence Increases WASHINGTON (A) - A study of racial problems in the south warned last night that anger and violence among Southern Negroes is nearer to the surface and near- er to exploding. "The miracle of nonretaliation from Negroes cannot be expected to continue. The only hope," the report said. is that "the realiza- tion of promises and potential can be speeded." It called on all lev- els of government to do this. The report was prepared joint- ly by the Southern Regional Coun- cil and the American Jewish Com- mittee. Resentment Increases . Since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it said, resentment on the part of both lower- and middle-class Ne- groes has been building up. "The first feeble gains, opening I the door just wide enough to let those outside look at life inside," it said, "have spurred a greater desire to participate in that life; I at the same time frustration with lagging progress tempts the out- siders to destroy it." Adding to the Negroes' frustra- t tions, the report said, was a gen- eral misunderstanding throughout the nation last fall of the South's condition. "As Negro children began what some newspapers termed 'mas- sive' integration of Southern pub- lic schools in September 1965, the nation was surprised that South- erners accepted the change in a peaceful manner," the report said. "Yet the result of violence will a never again be the old fearful withdrawal," the report said. * "Now a 'civil rights assassin' who gets off with a stern reprimand y by the judge and a hearty hand- y shake from his cohorts may trig- ger widespread violent reprisal by y Negroes in city slums and on the e land." S Throughout accounts of the white South's violence, the study said, "there runs a new thread of - Negroes' fearlessness and determi- nation-and a warning: 'I've been - stomped down and stomped down t all of my life. It's been long enough'." "The poverty program had prom- ised to do more than 'dole,' to al- low poor people themselves to g launch an attack on poverty by means of increasing their own y training," the report said. "Yet it has failed in many in- stances to provide even the stop- f gap measure such as commodities s to fill immediate needs of those who are desperately poor. Its ef- r feet was to deepen the disillusion- ment." s e E SAIGON (I)-American combat deaths again exceeded those with- in South Viet Nam's armed forc- es last week, this time by 82 to 61, briefing officers disclosed yester- day. Political tides still washing around Premier Nguyen Cao Ky's military government and increas- ing U.S. commitments in the war were among factors reflected in the statistics. Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc- Namara testified before the Sen- ate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington on Wednesday that South Viet Nam's political disor- ders have hurt the war effort. He said, however, the "reduced effec- tiveness in recent weeks will ter- minate shortly." The U.S. combat death roll for this year rose to 1,386 and for the whole American involvement since Jan. 1, 1961, to 3,234. However, the South Vietnamese combat deaths so far this year alone exceed that, totaling 3,334. Saigon's ground, air and sea units outnumber the 255,000-man American contingent nearly 3-1. Ordinarily they carry by far the, POLITICAL TIDES: American.Casualties Exceed South Vietnamese Figures greatest load and the 61 deaths in action May 1-7 were their low- est in 1966. A Vietnamese spokesman turn- ed aside a reporter's request for an assessment of government mili- tary operations as a possible ex- planation for the decline, saying "I have no news." A weekly summary listed 79 Viet- namese field actions, an increase of 10 per cent over the previous week. However, though some in- volved several battalions, none showed a high number of Commu- nist dead. Overall allied operations, which led to the death of three men among Australian, New Zealand and South Korean units, were re- ported to have accounted for 456 Viet Cong killed and 121 captured. The same number-456-had been listed as killed, 98 captured in the previous week. The first instance in which American losses were greater than those of the South Vietnamese was in the turbulent week of April 3- 9, at the height of antigovern- ment and anti-American demon- strations that led Ky's regime to promise elections within three to five months. Though the government's mid- April decree for elections abated open turmoilstensions have arisen again over South Viet Nam's poli- tical future and the prospects for return of civil rule. Buddhist agitation for swift ac- tion has been reported among troops -of the 1st Corps area, a re- cent hotbed of dissidence that ad- joins North Viet Nam; and the 2nd Corps area, which covers much of the ceitral highlands. - Though some critics want him out immediately, Ky has announc- ed he expects to remain in power at least another year. That would be after several steps toward civil- ian rule-the election of a Con- stituent Assembly in September or October, writing of a constitution, and election of a Legislative As- sembly to form a new Saigon re- gime. In addition to the 82 Americans killed last week, 615 were wound- ed. None was reported missing. That compared with 70 killed, 589 wounded and seven missing or captured in the week of April 24- 30. Mocs JOHANNESBURG, South Africa WAP-University students through- out South Africa denounced with "abhorrence and disgust" yester- day government action against a student leader instrumental in ar- ranging a visit by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) next month. At a rally here, 1500 students roared approval of a resolution that expressed their "horror and deep distress" at restrictions against Ian Robertson, 21, order- ed by the white supremacist gov- ernment of Prime Minister Hend-, rik F. Verwoerd. In Dufban, students condemn- ed the action as "contemptible, cowardly and contrary to West- ern democracy."3 Protest Rallies Similar protest rallies were held at the country's other English language universities in Cape Town and Grahamstown. Johan- nesburg students planned a mass march through the streets today. Robertson, president of the mul- tiracial National Union of South African Students, was declared a "banned" person by an order is- sued Wednesday under the sup- pression of Communism law. He is prohibited from taking part in student union activities, is restrict- ed to the Cape Town and neigh- boring Weinberg districts and may not teach. He will be permitted to complete his law studies, however. The order cannot be appealed in court. Invitation Accepted Kennedy, a leading supporter of the U.S. civil rights movement, has accepted an invitation from the student union to speak next month on the annual day of af- firmation of academic and human freedoms. 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