RESIDENCE HALL CRISIS See Editorial Page Y A& tg Iaitj Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom I VOL. LXXV, No. 7 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1964 SEVEN CENTS Block Negro Attempt To Integrate Schools COFO Threatens Legal Appeals To Do Away With Racial Barriers MERIDIAN, Miss. (A,-Two _dozen young Negroes-one of them the brother of slain civil rights worker James Chaney-were blocked yesterday in attempts to lower racial barriers at five of this city's all-white elementary schools. Public schools in this city of 50,000-second largest in Missis- sippi-have not been ordered to desegregate by federal courts. The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), which rep- resents the major civil rights groups active in this deep south state, " said it would take legal action 'U Prep ares for New Reveal Plan To Buy Land' On Ingall St. Set * * * * * $70 Reduction in Fe ' Bombers' IL Could Face Court Action Whatever person or persons wer involved in setting off a bomb at 'South Quad early yesterday morning will probably face a stiff penalty if caught and convicted, an'Ann Arbor police officer said yesterday. Both the Ann Arbor, police and South Quad personnel are looking k for whoever threw the small bomb from an upper floor of South Quadrangle. It blew out eight din- ing room windows and seaited the sidewalk in front of the eastern front entrance of the quad. Lt. Louis Staudenmaier of the police department anticipated yes- terday that the department will charge with a misdemeanor any suspect in the case it believes ' guilty. A, misdemeanor carries a maximum penalty of $100 or 90 days in jail-or both-for any- body convicted. On Watch Staudenmaier noted that off- icers have been informed of the situation and are on watch for any new information on the bomnbing. Detective Greogry Catapoulas, who is heading the department's handling of tle case, sai4 that South Quad Director Robert Hughes is working with his resi- dent advisors in looking for any who might have been involved in the incident. Staudenmaier commented that no student cases involving quad- rangle stunts such as the bomb have been serious enough to go to the city's courts "as far as I can remember" in the last several years. Hughes was not sure whether the case would go outside the Joint Judiciary Council. He indi- cated that whether the case would go outside the quads would depend on how many individuals were in- volved and the range of their offenses. The apparently homemade pack- age of explosives was reportedly dropped from a bathroom window on the 5700 corridor of Gomberg House. The time was about 12:30 a.m. yesterday. A fuse and a loos- ened screen were discovered in the bathroom. A night watchman said he also found pieces of the explosive's cas- ing on the sidewalk below. The explosion jarred scores of people out of their sleep in the quad and elsewhere. There were several witnesses to the explosion, but none were able to identify whoever threw the bomb. There was even some initial disagreement on its origin before the evidence was found in the 5700 corridor. C'No Connection' Hughes felt the bomb had no connection, as some had thought. with the current dorm housing crisis. Most residents Of, South Quad also dismissed any connec- tion. The bomb was dropped as two students were passing by. The amount of damage it caused led Hughes to comment that the case is a "very serious matter." He in- dicated that loss of life or serious injury could have resulted had the r bomb landed much nearer any- body. As it was, the bomb blasted out one dining room window with its initial explosion. Hughes said the shock wave apparently travelled across the room, bounced off the opposite wall, and blew out seven more windows as it came back. He commented that if any students had been studying in the room at the time severe injury could have resulted. Manager Louis Vogel of South1 Quad estimated the cost of re- placing the eight broken windows at under $35. The, incident occurred while a thranuad nrnty raid was gning to desegregate the facilities. Earlier Attempts The integration move here was similar to attempts earlier this week by 19 Negroes to gain en- trance into Canton junior-senior high school in' rural Madison county. Canton, like Meridian, is not under court order to admit Negroes to white schools. Meanwhile, it was disclosed that two Negroes had registered without incident to attend first grade classes at a Catholic paro- chial school at Gulfport. It mark- ed the first announced integra- tion of Catholic schools in the. state under a recent directive by Bishop R. O. Gerow that they should end operations on a segre- gated basis this fall, beginning with the first grade. At Biloxi, 17 Negro children finished the first week of inte- grated classes in four previously all-white elementary schools. A lone Negro girl is attending school with whites at Carthage in rural Leake county. Jackson Public schools at Jackson have registered 43 Negro first graders for desegregated classes which be- gan Sept. 14 and the Clarksdale public school system is under or- ders to desegregate but has not yet received any applications from Negroes. Police and federal agents kept a close watch at Meridian. Officers ordered two white men to leave the grounds at Witherspoon ele- mentary school. A COFO spokes- man said three white men had tried to block Negroes at High- land school, but police said they didn't know about it. Each of the Negroes was met at the school door by school author- ities, who read a written state- ment: "I cannot accept you in this school." They would not comment fur- ther. Proper Procedure After being turned away, some of them went to the office of city school Supt. L. O. Todd, who said he told them they must fol- low proper procedure to transfer to other schools. At least three Negroes returned to the school they attended last year, received transfer papers and went to an all-white school, only to be rebuffed again. COFO said if the denial was based solely on race, it was ample grounds for a federal court suit. The civil rights group also said that a Negro tried to enroll in the fifth grade at St. Patrick's Cath- olic school, but was told that only the first grade had been ordered to drop racial barriers. Act Furthers College Expansion Program By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM The University announced pre- parations yesterday to purchase 17,000 square feet of land flanking Burton Tower on South Ingalls St. This site, plus adjacent University land will hold a $4 million literary college structure containing class- rooms and faculty offices. The building, slated for 1968f completion will mark another phase in the college's continuing program of expansion. University representatives have notified the owners of two apart- ment buildings and two private1 residences on the South Ingalls St. block that the University wilr purchase the properties, a business office spokesman said. The University, as a public in- stitution, has the right of- eminent domain over these properties. That' means it can buy the properties once. sufficient notice is given oni them and a fair market price is paid. To pay for the $4 million struc- ture, the University is asking the Legislature for a first installment of $1.9 million in 1965. The re- quest being submitted this month will be one of the high priority items in a $14-million application for state building funds. The University can then seek the remainder of the $4 million over the next three years. Some federal money might also be avail- able by that time. The structure is not the only literary college building planned in the near future. A complex of, buildings, at least two in num- ber, is being sought for the resi- dential college, a related division. This unit, its own integrated hous- ing, studying and educational school will be located at the gate- way to North Campus. In order to maximize planning and construction flexibility, the residential units and $4 million literary structure will be funded by the same state pool. Total cost: $9 million. The announcement yesterday of the Ingalls preparations follows an expansion program drawn up in 1963. Called the central campus plan, it envisioned an entire remodelling of the Hill Aud. area. The strip north of Hill on Ingalls would go to the literary building, offering classrooms such as those in Haven and Mason Halls. This structure, the plan states, would face a pedestrian promenade extending from the Rackham Bldg. to the General Library. North University traffic would be permanently closed off. A parking plan for the central, north and athletic campu goes along with building plans for the areas. It plans new parking struc- tures and lots a decade into the future. The furor on North Cam- pus over parking regulations this summer stemmed from new park- ing rules - part of the parking1 plan. For Crowd red Dorm Si *alists COMMUNIST TIES: 'Top VotingHUAC Hears Testimony In Chile On Student Trip to Cuba SANTIAGO (W)--Pro-American Senator Eduardo Frei scored a sweeping presidential victory yes- terday and crushed Communist hopes for a quick takeover of Chile. "We have obtained a truly im- mense victory," said Frei, a mod- erate Christian Democrat, in a radio broadcast after his Com- munist-backed Socialist opponent Salvador Allende conceded. Frei's followers began victory celebrations as Allende's enraged supporters shouted "revolution! revolution!" and charged that President Lyndon B. Johnson and' Pope Paul VI had supplied money to beat their man. Steel - helmeted police armed with automatic rifles and teargas bombs were on hand to prevent riotous clashes between the rival groups. U.S. Reaction Meanwhile, U.S. officials heard Chile's election returns withun- concealed delight, though neither the White House nor the State Department had any public mo- ment pending the final count.. From a balcony Frei vowed to "push forward greater changes to obtain social justice, to build houses and schools, to give all Chileans stable work." Although opposed to Commun- ism, Frei is a left-of-center poli- tician. His election marked the first time a South American country had returned a "demo- cratic leftist" with a program much like that of Europe's socialists. Aboslute Majority With four fifths of the 2.5 mil- lion ballots counted, it was certain Frei .had an absolute majority. Consequently there would be no need to throw the elections into the House of Representatives as many experts had predicted. Allende, close friend an'd strong supporter of Cuba's Prime Min- ister Fidel Castro, told his fol- lowers he was not throug. Victory for Democracy The apparent landslide victory for Frei was regarded by U.S. policy makers as a victory for democracy over Communism. The impact of an Allende win would have boosted Red influence throughout much of Latin, America and hurt the U.S. and the Alliance for Progress Social- Economic Development Program, it was believed here. WASHINGTON (I)-The leader of a summer trip to Cuba by United States students freely admitted to the House Committee on. Un-American Activities yesterday that he was a member of a Com- munist organization. The witness, Edward Lemansky, 21, of New York, told the com- mittee he was a member of the Progressive Labor Movement, which he then described as a Communist organization. When Rep. August F. Johansen (R-Mich) asked if he was a member of the U.S. Communist party, there was a spray of quiet laughter from Lemansky's friends and said, "no." The committee, in its annual report, describes the Progressive Labor Movement as an offshoot of the Communist party, and says it prefers the party line of the Chinese Communists to that of the Soviet Union. Committee counsel Alfred M. Nittle then asked Lemansky if he had ever been a member of the Communist party, and he replied, "no." Lemansky answered most ques- tions about himself but took the 5th amendment and refused to an- swer when asked any questions that might involve others. The amendment protects a witmss from giving information that might tend to incriminate him. Once, when asked if members of the Progressive Labor Move- ment had asked him to serve as head of the student travel group,. Lemansky replied: "There is a word in Yiddish- chutzpah. That's what you people have in asking me about other people. Chutzpah.' That means! nerve." Lemansky frequently embellish- ed his replies with comments about the committee and U.S. policy toward Cuba. George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi party, and two of his followers sat in back of the huge committee room to hear Lemansky's testimony yes- terday. in the audience. Lemansky waited EDWARD L"MANSKY U .S. Launches6 UOGO'Satellite CAPE KENNEDY (OP) - America's largest. scientific satel- lite-a giant metal dragon fly named OGO, soared into orbit last night to make the most ex- tensive study yet of space myster- ies and to chart dangers to man's space exploration. The odd-shoped satellite rode into space atop An Atlas Agena rocket that blazed away from Cape Kennedy at 8:23 p.m. 'U' Cuts Overhead Assessment By CHRISTINE LINDER Final University assessments for overhead costs of research have been reduced on federal contracts for 1963-64, Vice-President for" Research A. Geoffrey Norman an- nounced recently. 'SELF-PERSECUTION': Dotson Defines Cause of Racial Crisis By DICK WINGFIELD Our current political, racial, and social problems stem from an attitude in the individual man-one of selfishness and cruielty to others, Rev. Paul Dotson, director of the Protestant Foundation for International Students, said. Addressing a luncheon at the Guild House yesterday, Rev. Dotson said in regard to the racial problems, "I do not believe that the core of this strife is the white man's hate -of the Negro; rather, I believe that it is a deeper problem based upon man's tendency to be cruel to himself." On politics, Rev. Dotson asserted that men like Goldwater and Meader lack the capability to size up the dimensions of the world we live in. He added that a large amount of Goldwater support comes from those who find in that candidate a, justification for discrim- ination. This comfortable position is blind to social justice, he et- plained. "Our objective is to seek out justice in our society, even if love is not possible." Northern Injustice Rev. Dotson said that although the South is the racial whipping horse, the North bears a comparable heritage. "You see racial and political injustice in the South, but even when we come back to Ann Arbor I don't believe that the real problem is any different in prin- Rev. Dotson quoted one Southern lady as saying, "You can't take two different men and force them together. It's a process of re- demption and sanctification." The lady was an executive in a Pres- byterian headquarters. Rev. Dotson agreed that the problem was one of redemption and sanstification, but that the basic improvement should come to- all men, and not, as the lady inferred, just to those of the lower echelon. Human Communication According to Rev. Dotson the greatest hope is to be found in communication between human beings, and not between political factions, social interests or racial diplomats. He said that if major differences in society could be reduced to a simple, common under- standing, there would be promise for progress against some of our current racial difficulties. During the question and answer period one person commented that when a relationship between parties is reduced to a simple, amiable diversion, both persons or groups come dangerously close to forgetting that they are diametrically opposed on more significant issues. This effort would then turn into self-deception for both parties and do mutual harm to both. End Distrust Uncertainty regarding overhead rates on federal contracts may also be eliminated, if a recent agreement between University and federal authorities can be im- plemented, he said. Approximately' half of the money spent on research at the University is held under federal contracts that can be affected by the agreement. Rate Reduction A retroactive reduction in the tentative overhead rates charged on the federal research contracts during the fiscal year ending June 30 has been negotiated. The re- duction is from 50-45 per cent on the campus contracts and from 42-39 per cent at Willow Run. Overhead, or indirect, costs in- clude portions of salaries of people related to a project but not direct- ly employed by it. Under this heading also falls building, ad- ministration and library expenses associated with research. Indirect cost assessments are set by negotiation between federal and University authorities. They are usually about 50 per cent of the salaries and wages of people directly employed on the project, or 30 per cent of the total direct costs of the project, as a general rule. Fixed Rates In a d d i t i o n, predetermined, fixedrrates for indirect costs of research for contracts in effect between July 1, 1964 and Dec. 31, 1965 are being set. The policy of having advance agreement on _ _- - . 1--1- .« t svnwll Rev. Dotson answered that the most important objective in our society is not to see the other man as opposition. He said that in our - n-fas of mit andfid t rn-naes cannnt he made. I I 1;