CENSORSHIP STRIKES AT MICHIGAN STATE See Editorial Page YI rL Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedomn PaAi CLOUDY High-68 Low--45 Chance of showers, clearing this evening VOL. LXXVI, No. 14S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1966 SEVEN CENTS SIX PA Biggest EDITORt'S NOTE. This is the ful third in a four-part series on Michi- hot gan's racial climate. I By GENE SCHROEDER Del Associated Press Writer ad Is a house a home? R Not necessarily, say Michigan's ties Negro ledaers, when that house abc is part of a slum "ghetto." A Despite prosperity and high em- tion ployment-which has helped keep eni the lid on potential racial strife lege in the state-the No. 1 civil rights hea complaint still is the inability of A Negroes and other nonwhites to 'The live where they want in the kind er of house they want. Cou Findings of the State Civil ers Rights Commission show 50 per pan cent or more of the housing units C rented by nonwhites in virtually ed all of Michigan's largest cities are Cou dilapidated or deteriorating. acc Saginaw, Jackson, Kalamazoo be and Grand Rapids have Negro age clum "ghettoes" described as piti- Civil by Jim Rose, the commission's using director. n Lansing, Flint, Saginaw and troit, freeway projects have ded to relocation problems. Rose says officials in some ci- s are striving to do something out the housing situation. A recent door-by-door inspec- n in Saginaw resulted in a tight- ng up of previously lax and al- edly unequal enforcement of alth and building codes. According to Malcolm McCrea of e Saginaw News, a close observ- of the racial scene, the City uncil has an enlightened lead- hip which endorses open occu- ncy and civil rights. ;hurch members have been urg- by the Saginaw Area Religious uncil on Human Relations to ept any persons who want to good neighbors and to discour- panic selling and moving. These efforts "have changed Rights Saginaw's atmosphere from stifled resentment to wary encourage- ment," McCrea reports. Ku Klux Klan and Black Mus- lim activities have been noted in communities with large automo- tive plants. In Flint, for example, a collec- tion was taken up for the defense of the accused slayers of Mrs. Vio- la Liuzzo, a Detroit housewife who, was murdered on an Alabama highway while helping the Selma- to-Montgomery freedom marchers. The defendants were KKK mem- bers. Black Muslim rallies in Flint have attracted sizable crowds. According to Allan Wilhelm of The Flint Journal, the situation is relatively calm, however. "Prosperity and high employ- ment in the Flint area prob- ably account to a great extent for the fact that ripples are not be- coming waves," Wilhelm reports. omplaint . Pontiac has had its share of ra- cial problems, and city officials have clashed with the Civil Rights Commission over the seriousness of the picture. Mayor - William Taylor accused the commission of listening to only one side of the story, but a spokes- man for the agency said com- plaints of widespread discrimina- tion aired at a monthly meeting were allegations only, not commis- sion findings. According to the Michigan Chronicle, a Negro newspaper, Pontiac's situation can be sum- marized as "housing, schools, jobs. voicelessness-the same old prob- lems, but intensified." The Pontiac Press doesn't agree the city is the powder keg it has been painted in some quarters. Editor John Fitzgerald reports the Board of Education has gone so far with mixing Negro and white children from different schools in joint functions there are protests about it,+ ing forced integration. A major complaint of Po Negro leaders, says Fitzger a two-year-old system for e city commissioners. The city charter calils for inations from seven separa tricts but election by thec large for each district. "This still insures each d of representation by someo ing and nominated from the trict," Fitzgerald explains," may not be the one they since the city at large make final selection." Some Negro leaders cc their districts have been franchised in the process. Grand Rapids, with abou 000 Negroes, has seen growin tests over "ghetto" housinga facto school segregation. egro s that "Fair employment ne claim- been as big an issue her Floyd Allbaugh of The ntiac's Rapids Press, "and public rad, is modations are practically alecting cent open." Allbaugh says a sizable r' nom- most forgotten minority te dis- 5000 Spanish-speaking res city at Grand Rapids. "In contrast to the Negri district reports, "these are scatt ne liv- various parts of the city a eir dis- gone unrepresented while "but it organizations have compe want, leadership of the Negroes.' :es the In a unique move, a 90-d atorium recently was deck ontend the sale or showing of h disen- Negroes in one Grand neighborhood to halt s ut 18,- panic selling by whites. ig pro- The action was taken and de Grand Rapids Real Estat in an effort to stabilizei Housin ver has tion of the area in the city's north e," says east section. Grand Urban renewal- the destru accom- tion of slums to make way for ne 100 per housing or freeways-has run int opposition in many Michigan c and al- ties. Principal complaint is tha are the many displaced residents canna idents of find decent houses elsewhere at price they can afford to pay. oes," he In Lansing, lawmakers have in tered in troduced several bills aimed a nd have remedying the problem. various One would prohibit the demoli eted for tion of even one house or lettin of one contract by the State High way Department before the Stat ay mor- Administrative Board has receive lared on written confirmation from the to omes to cal governing body that resident Rapids have been relocated in' suitabl o-called dwellings. Whether the bill will become la, by the is anybody's guess. e Board TOMORROW: A Study in integra- Contrasts. OFFICIALS FEARFUL: Ky Renews Attacks on Proposed Draft Substitute Rebel Forces at Da Nang UIGON OP) - Premier Nguyen Fresh blood pouring into the Reports reaching Saigon said r Ky's marines and paratroop- political conflict stirred fears in heavy fighting was going on about hl d, tA k-uvo,.tred attancrks some U.S. offiicals that the fight- 300 Yards from the 1st Corps' Da Hailed by Cutle 4 Cao ar 1 er nlurle MLL IA. Uan s r at rebeal strongpoints in Da Nang today in a renewal of bloody fight- ing with the Buddhist-led insur- gents. The loyalist forces sought to drive the disidents into Buddhist compounds. ing might undermine the basis of the larger U.S.-Vietnamese war against the Communists. Several Vietnamese AlE Sky- raiders circled the city during the fighting, which was punctuated by occasional mortar fire. N a n g headquarters compound. The headquarters is on the out- skirts of Da Nang on a road lead- ing to the big U.S. air base. There were reports also -that several hundred persons had been arrested for violation of a 24-hour, curfew clamped on Da Nang. As the Viet Cong sought a wind- McNamnara Vetos Draft Substitutes Y'U' Officials fall from the internicine struggle, CA NEWS WIRE THE UNIVERSITY REGENTS will be holding their monthly meeting today, just one week after the Faculty Planning Com- mittee for the Residential College submitted its report rejecting proposed architects changes in the college. At their last meeting the Regents voted the acceptance of the residential college program on the condition that revisions be made to lower cost to the point where differential fees not be required. Administration officials had been hopeful at one point that the architects revisions could be sent to the Regents and accepted at today's meeting. Sources indicate now that no action will be taken today, but it is expected that some discussion of the changes may take place. WASHINGTON (,P-),SEN. EDWARD M. Kennedy (D-Mass) proposed yesterday that unauthorized possession of LSD be made illegal. He complained that Public Health Service officials are "not unduly aroused" about the dangers of the hallucinogenic drug. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn), chairman of the Senate juvenile delinquency subcommittee, suggested manufacture of the drug be made a felony. It is now a misdemeanor. Dodd said users of the drug are "driven out of their minds," adding that severe penaalties should be provided for its manu- facture. But Surgeon Gen. William H. Stewart and Dr. Stanley F. Yolles, director of the National Institute of Mental Health testi- fied they think the flow of LSD can be cut off under the Danger- ous Drug Act passed in 1965. While they called LSD a dangerous drug, they said they would not now recorr mend that its possession be made illegal. And they said, contrary to Kennedy's prediction, they don't know that its use will continue to increase. THE NEW MICHIGAN BUDGET will be under $1 billion, probably between $965 and $980 million, according to the two state legislators most responsible for shaping the 1966-67 spend- ing program. Substantial cuts in Democratic budget bills, particularly in proposed spending for education, were promised yesterday by State Senator Garland Lane (D-Flint), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and State Rep. Einar E. Erlandsen (D-Escanaba), chairman of the House Ways and Means Com- mittee. Gov. George Romney proposed a budget of $944.9 million for the upcoming fiscal year. Lane suggested axing about $30 million from the House- passed school aid bill, for a total expenditure for secondary and elementary schools of about $266 million or about $30 million more than present spending. He also proposed lopping about $7 million from the higher education spending bill. THE OFFICE OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY has announced a summer program that will use college faculty members as leaders of civil rights enforcement teams. A spokesman for the office said that they are trying to recruit faculty members from all disciplines to serve for two or three months during the summer on inspection teams that will acting U.S. Ambassador William Porter yesterday urged Premier Ky to put an end to the strife. iMilitary Dlefermetis Crisis Over Troops f e ino Service But the issue was caught up, within Ky's military junta, re- I(d-, Officials Say ported undergoing a crisis over the decision to use troops against oWASHINGTON (/ - Secretary dissidents in the north. It was' ofDefense Robert S. McNamara is problematical wthnerthe gen- opposed to the idea of allowing rals could w keep any considerable service in the Peace Corps or a e c k sunity.b similar program to be accepted as A riot in My Tho reflected a a substitute for military service, it spread of the opposition that was learned yesterday, flared after Ky made plain he U.S. officials, filling in some of expected to remain in office at the unanswered questions about least another year and that he McNamara's speech in Montreal considered the Constituent Assem- on Wednesday, said that the de- bly to be elected this fall is but fense secretary feels it would be one step toward a return of civil- very undesirable to permit defer- ian rule, ments from military draft duty Police hurled tear gas grenades for those who might sign up for to break up a Buddhist-led crowd volunteer help-mankind programs, that took to the streets of My McNamara believes that his Tho, 20 miles south of Saigon, speech was in line with Johnson'sf chanting antigovernment slogans. administration policy. I k -Daily-Thomas R. Copi NO PARKING Death Toll Down The Viet Cong hoped to profit, Their underground radio urged all government troops to revolt. That appeal coincided with disclosure that government combat deaths fell below that of the Americans last week for the third time this spring.r Among military and politicall developments: -The 2,500 government troops who took control of most of Da Nang in a battle Sunday tightened their perimeter around rebel hold- ings in four hours of fighting. -Maj, Gen. Huynh Van Cao, newly named commander of the t1 t Cor nrpeawith headauarters At the White House, press sec- liigh winds damaged this partially completed parking structure yesterday. There was no personal retary Bill D. Moyers told inquir- injury although there was a crane in the wreck. ing newsmen that the speech did --- - not depart from administration Dl TDT * AFIONT policy in any way. He said Mc- MS UA Namara had submitted a rough draft of the speech in advance. Some observers had read the possibility of such substitute serv- ice into McNamara's suggestion Wednesday that inequities in the draft might be remedied "by ask- ing every young person in the United States to give two years of service to his country" in uni- form, the Peace Corps or similar, work at home and abroad. Desire To Rerve The Paper Appears Today Without Board Authorization Praise Draft Alternatives Back MCNamara's Call For Service to U.S. In Nonmilitary Roles University officials and profes- sors yesterday praised Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's pro- posal that young Americans give their country two years of service in either a military or civilian role. McNamara's suggestion, con- tained in a speech delivered Wednesday to the American So- ciety of Newspaper Editors, sin- gled out service in the military, the Peace Corps or "some other volunteer development work at home and abroad" as suitable forms of national service. Vice-President for Student Af- fairs Richard Cutler emphasized that a national service require- ment should be universal and apply to both sexes. Cutler wrote a lengthy proposal on the same subject six months ago. "So long as national security permits - until such time as we have a bona fide national mili- tary emergency, there ought to be a variety of service options offer- ed," Cutler said. National Problems "There is plenty to- be done in the world," he continued, "and we have resources to do more than we are doing. Nationally, we have urban redevelopment problems, inadequate education, the Appa- lachia problem, all of which need attention." Cutler urged that some means be found whereby individuals who are either economically or intel- lectually less privileged should not be penalized by the fact that they have been more likely candidates than others to be tapped for na- tional service. "We should have a system in which persons who are able to go to college do not gain doubly by both avoiding the service and get- ting the consequent economic awards and status privilege," Cut- ler said. "For example, I could see some- one earning a PhD in physics giv- ing two years to his country with little renumeration," he added. Service Options Encouraging Cutler said he found it encour- agingatoefind McNamara advocat- ing alternative national service options. Prof. Julian Gendell of the chemistry department called the idea "excellent," and added that it is one a number of student groups have been advocating for some time. Prof. Richard Mann of the psy- chology department praised the nronosanl- as "realv nrviding 21- By BETSY COHN and MICHAEL HEFFER Cr arwirzi ri. mia nniiv s1 rp l tl'3 21tc li tcctuq Gtu5[ ( cv speelal To Tie Daily at Da Nang, objected to Ky's The officials stressed that Mc- : EAST LANSING - The Paper, troops' operations, but claimed to Namara's intent was to introduce student weekly newspaper at be still in charge. into the minds and hearts of young Michigan State University, an- -Vietnamese casualties in the people, particularly young men, a nounced yesterday that it had clashes at Da Nang this week feeling of obligation to serve in found an Indiana printer to re- were unofficially estimated to some fashion, place the Michigan one it charges range from 15 to 30 killed and 100 They emphasized his use of the "blacklisted" it. Michael Kindman, to 150 wounded, more than in some word "asking" and "volunteer" to '67, The Paper's editor, said they reatvely havy enggeentsof throw down any impression that plan to have the issue ready for the war against the Viet Cong. he was suggesting some sort of sale today. 'Stay Out of Politics' compulsory universal service for Yesterday was the regular pub- -With some units reported par- young people. lication date of The Paper, but alyzed by uncertainty and con- Ad lacking an edition because no flicting loyalties, the government At the same time, officials said publisher could be found to do ordered all military men, includ- that McNamara sees a new appeal the printing, the newspaper's staff ing chaplains, to stay out of poli- in a so-far stillborn program to distributed copies of The Daily in- tics. But Maj. Gen. Ton That rehabilitate, medically and educa- stead. While selling 3000 Dailies, Dinh, a former commander of the tionally, young men who cannot the staff distributed mimeograph- 1st Corps area, called at the rebel qualify for military service even ed sheets stating their situation city of Hue for the ouster of Ky's though they have volunteered, and their appraisal of that situa- regime. Dinh said "I can see no This indicated a new impetus tion. solution until that happens." behind what the Army used to call In these, The Paper charged In Washington U.S. officials its "step" program-a plan to re- "There is reason to believe the said they understood that North habilitate about 15,000 young university was involved in the Vietnamese troops had moved into would-be volunteers and bring printer's admitted attempt to the demilitarized border zone sep- them up to physical and mental blacklist The Paper with all print- arating North and South Viet standards which would permit ers in the area." MSU officials Nam. But they characterized it as them to serve, denied knowledge of any contact a shallow penetration. Officials discounted the likeli- with the printers. After receiving reports from hood of any legislation to back up Kindman has also distributed Saigon, however, these officials McNamara's proposal of service sheets outlining The Paper's ob- said there was no indication that for every young person, saying this jections to the handling of the of board members may delay such a meeting until the end of the month, or later. In last Friday's meeting, the board, with six out of the 10 members present, voted unani- mously to withdraw their authori- zation from The Paper because of "bad taste and indecency." According to Prof. Robert Ebel, a board member, "their taste has been questionable for a long time, but the climax came in the May 12 edition of the paper which printed two articles which seemed in exceptionally poor taste." The articles Ebel was referring to were the cover of an informal talk by Paul Krassner, editor of "The Realist," and a discussion of nudity. Ebel said the board felt these articles "were not de- cent and did not have any mean- ingful message or discuss topics of great importanceorcontro- versy." Senger embellished on Ebel's de- scription of the subject matter, labeling the articles as "filth, bad taste and material that will not be distributed under the auspices of MSU." Another factor some board mem- bers mentioned was finances. Sen- The only other apparent differ- ence their withdrawal will make is the removal of the statement on the masthead of the paper which reads, "The Paper is authorized to operate on the Michigan State University Campus by the Board of Student Publication." One question remaining is whether The Paper will be al- lowed to distribute on campus. Senger said the board has noth- ing to do with this. Jack Breslin, university secretary, apparently is the one who rules on this. So far nothing has come from his office on this matter. He was out of town yesterday. Senger said he saw no reason why The Paper should be denied the right to dis- tribute on campus. The Paper's staff feels that at any moment they may lose the right. Kindman has denied that any- thing in The Paper is pornography, obscenity or smut. Prof. Charles Larrowe, The Paper's advisor, has backed Kindman up on this and said he found the board's acting without even' informing The Pa- per's advisor incredible and un- heard of. Kindman said that when he saw Senger on Friday before the meet- ing he was told that the board