LIFE WITHOUT SGC? Y TRY IT See Editorial Page Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Iait ~ CLOUDY" High-74 Low--52 Gusty wind with chance of showers VOL. LXXV, No. 64 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1964 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES Johnson To Seek Cut Of Over $500 In Retail Excis JOHNSON CITY (')-President Lyndon B. Johnson decided yes- terday to seek repeal next year of $550 million of excise taxes on retail purchases. and to consider reductions in scores of other ex- cises. Johnson made the decisions at a conference at his ranch home with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon. Later Dillon reported on admin- istration tax plans at a news con- ference at the White House press center in Austin. He said Johnson will seek repeal of all excise taxes assessed at retail-taxes on toile- tries, cosmetics,. jewelry, furs, ug- gage and handbags. Most of these taxes add 10 per cent to the purchase price of such goods and have been in effect since the Korean War or, in some cases, longer. They are regarded as a nuisance by many retailers. In addition, the treasury chief4 said, the administration will rec- ommend reduc ions in a number of excise taxes levied at the manu- facturing level. He added that the eventual size of the total tax cut "will definitely be a good deal more" than $550 million. Dillon said Johnson wants to assess the economic outlook later in the year before making a final decision on the scope of the tax cuts, which would be expected to go into effect next July 1. illion STaxes Dillon predicted that the tax proposals will represent "a rather easy bill to pass," and that the administration's biggest problem may be to persuade Congress not to increase its size. Proposals He also said he discussed with Johnson forthcoming administra- tion tax proposals aimed at im- proving the climate for foreign investmentnin the United States, and at ending certain abuses by tax-exempt foundations. The Johnson-Dillon meeting is covering tax legislation for the next Congress along with a review of financial and economic condi- tions on both a domestic and in- ternational basis. The President has called in Secretary of Commerce Luther! Hodges in recent days to talk about the business outlook, ex- ports and efforts to obtain volun- tary compliance with the new civil rights law through the community relations service in the Commerce Department. While Johnson has hopes of holding his new budget under $100 billion, the tax cut would affect the size of the federal def- icit. For the present fiscal year ending next June 30 the deficit now is estimated at $5.7 billion. $15 Billion Eventually wiping out all ex- cise taxes-they apply to such Sororities Reject New Rush Plan Panhel To Consider Modifications Of Defeated Open-Mixer Proposals By PHYLLIS KOCH The legislative body of the sorority system yesterday slowed its recent trend toward liberalizing of rush procedures by defeating a proposal which would have set up unstructured mixers in spring rush. The Panhellenic President's Council, composed of sorority presi- dents and the Panhel executive officers, ,voted 16-11 to defeat the open mixer proposal. There was one abstention in the vote which would have required support from two-thirds of those present or 19 favorable, tallies. However, the prospects for a modified mixer policy are not ended as compromise measures -Associated Press STUDENTS RIOTED LAST NIGHT AND TODAY in Sasebo and Tokyo in protest against the dock- ing of a United States nuclear submarine at a Sasebo naval base. Leaders of the protest claim the docking could lead to the United States' use of Japan as a base for stockpiling of nuclear weapons. U.. Docks, Japanese Riot By The Associated Press As the Sea Dragon drew into U.S. Embassy in Toyko, declaring SASEBO, JAPAN--The United port, the government rushed 2500 that "we can never tolerate the S a t e s nuclear-powered subma- police reinforcements into Sase- outrage (of the docking) to be rine Sea Dragon moored in this bo and- six patrol boats were sent committed in total disregard of tense southern Japan port today. into the Sasebo harbor to pro- strong protests of the Japanese Thousands of students immedi- tect the U.S. nuclear submarine. people." ately began protest demonstra- Still further demonstrations Captain Arthur Farweyy, Com- tions. seemed imminent as leaders of mander of the naval base located were introduced for final con- sideration next week. The proposal rejected yesterday would have permitted a woman- on her own and at her own pace -to visit houses divided into five districts. While she would have ultimately visited all houses, she would have been required to visit only the houses in one district each night. Currently, the women are taken to all the houses in a 60-man rush group. A Panhel rush coun- selor leads the group to houses in a pre-arranged order, stopping for forty minutes at each chapter. The 16 women voting against the proposal did not all voice their objections. However, in re- cent weeks sororities have ob- jected for these reasons: -Compulsory attendance at all ,houses would not be enforce- able.. -Freshmen women would be "insecure" without the guidance of their rush counselor and rush group. The uncontrolled distribution of rushees would cause overcrowding at certain houses; and The demonstrations in Sasebo' and Tokyo today and last night, plus leftist threats of a crippling nationwide strike nresented the i i T .C Prime Minister Eisaku Sato with three-day-old government of its first major political crisis. t F the leftist Zengakuren students association, which spearheaded the 1960 demonstrations against the United States-Japan security treaty, announced they were call- ing two large demonstra ions in Tokyo tomorrow. Despite yesterday's and today's violence, the protest actions were not expected to explode into the in Sasebo, said that the U.S. mili- tary personnel stationed there have not been restricted to the base area. But he said they have been asked to "take normal precau- tions" and to keep off the streets and allow Japanese authorities to handle any trouble that may DOUGLAS BROOK SHERRY MILLER Brook, Miller To Represent SGCin Study ofASGUSA By JUDITH WARREN Student Government Council President Douglas Brook, '65,1 announced at last night's meeting of SGC that he and Sherry Miller, '65, would attend the meeting of the newly formed Associated Student Governments of the United States of America, to be held during Thanksgiving vacation. ASGUSA was formed as an apolitical national student organiza- tion in April of 1964 with its main purpose-"opening channels of communication and cooperation among the student governments of things as automobiles, tires, phone Akira Iwai, leader of the 4.5- calls, luggage, cosmetics, jewelry million-member left-wing Sohyo -would cost almost $15 billion in labor federation, whose members revenue. It also would result a include government w o r k e r s, hef y boost in the deficit-of a threatened a nationwide strike size to preclude anything but se- "as a last resort" if the conserva- lective slicing of the excises. tive liberal-democratic govern- ment allowed the U.S. submarine's Tomorrow President and Mrs. port call. Johnson switch to personal diplo- The leftists claim the United macy and become hosts to Presi- Tate ist laimrthenire dent-elect Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of States will later try tokenlarge Mexico and his wife. Right at the visiting rights to include stockpil- swart there will be one of those ing nuclear weapons in Japan. barbecues for which the Johnsons Injuries are becoming renowned. Last night in Tokyo, 12 police and eight students were injured While he is surveying the pro-in a clash when police tried to gram for his own administration, break up a sit-dwn by about Johnson will be meeting in Diaz brapast-onb bu Ordaz a man with a community 1400 students who snake-danced of interests-more education, more up to the front of the Diet (par- prosperity, social justice for all. liament) building. Nine students were arrested. Each won election by a huge The trouble started when be- majority. Each is a good friend tween 8000 and 10,000 leftist-led of Mexico's ou.going president, demonstrators marched on the AdinsfT Tlf L z Mateos Dit huilding- after a rally in a erupt. bloody riots which marked the 1960 demonstrations. Those dem- He said contrary to, onstrations forced the resignation ports there have been of Prime MinisterhNobusuke Kishi, cations that the 2000 Sato's older brother. nationals employed on1 The Japanese communist party would stage a walkout.1 joined the leftists in their protest duties performed by the by filing complaints with Prime do not involve work c Minister Sato's office and the with the submarine. Britain Hikes Income Ta To Aid Widows and Job LONDON (MP)-Britain's Labor government yesterday ,in a boost in income taxes. The increase will go to pay for a welfare budget intro the new labor government to give more benefits to wid jobless. Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan told Pa the standard rate of income tax would go up by sixpenc U.S. cents) on the pound ($2.80), an increase from 38.5 pe roughly 41 per cent. It was the first increase in the standard rate of British tax since the lost Labor government left office in 1951. Another sniff tax effective im-o mediately was a sixpence (seven . " cents) increase in gasoline taxes. ive Perm s Gas prices here now stand at five shillings (70 cents) per gallon-- and taxes account for more than orS rueti i American colleges and universities." V The organizers of ASGUSA felt that there was a definite need for cooperation on the national level if the individual student govern-r 1 SGC Member, Proposes Limit on Out- Staters By MICHAEL DEAN Student Government C 9 u n c i i member Thomas Smithson, '65, suggested last night that the Uni- versity should consider evaluating the question of out-of-state en- rollment on the basis of the num- ber of Michigan students being educated in other states. Reporting to council, Smithson said, "Figures show that the state of Michigan educates students from states who appear not to bear their share of the nation- wide burden of higher education." Citing figures from a federal study of 1963, Smithson continued, "For example, Michigan has en- rolled a great deal more students from Illinois, Ohio and New York than the colleges in these states have accepted from Michigan. "Whether this indicates a need for revision of admission policy is not yet clear to me," he added. However, he did not his concern that the University maintain a significant percentage of out-of- state students. Smithson's report consisted in addition of a break-down of the enrollment in three University schools for the years 1961-1964 as derived from the figures of the O f f i c e of Registration and Records. These figures show a decrease of the percentage of out-of-state students in the literary college. He also noted that "the per- centage of out-of-state students r ' I i 1 1 ., f 7 f t X I ti C ments were to be effective and !iii' " v"'-". c meaningful. Still Unratified SGC, however, has not as yet Rtepor Cabineti ratified the constitution of ASGUSA drawn up at the meetingS in St. Louis. Therefore Miss Miller and Brook will attend the meet- X ing as non-voting participants. JOHNSON CITY (IP-Presidenta In an interview later, Brook ex- Lyndon B. Johnson was quoted plained that the University's fail- last night as saying "I have asked1 ure to ratify the constitution is all the cabinet to stay."t based on the reservations held by The quote was supplied by the Miss Miller and Miss Mary Beth acting White House press secre- Norton, '64, who were delegates to tary, Malcolm Kilduff, who addedc the first meeting. "so it can be assumed they will Miss Norton felt that ASGUSA stay." was being formed as an anti-Na- Reporters have been checking tional Student Association group. cabinet members who have flown If this were true, the University's to the Johnson ranch for consul- membership in ASGUSA might be. tations on whether they will . re- detrimental to membership in main with the administration. NSA. They asked Kilduff to find out Anti-NSA? about Secretary of Commerce However, Brook emphasized that Luther H. Hodges, who hurried to he is not sure whether or not an engagement in Chicago after ASGUSA is an anti-NSA group meeting with the President. Kil- and that the University's decision duff came up with the word from to affiliate will partially depend Johnson about asking all the on the status of ASGUSA. cabinet to remain. The decision will also be based Secretary of Defense Robert S.' on the prospects for the success of McNamara and Secretary of State ASGUSA. Dean Rusk said Tuesday they are In further action, SGC passed a willing to stay on if the President motion which will allow general wants them to. ticket sales to start the same day Secretary of the Treasury as block sales. The motion also Douglas Dillon said yesterday he includes a provision which limits has to spend full time on the tax each housing unit to three blocks. program for two or three months No block can consist of more than and after that will consider his 60 seats, thus limiting housing future. units to 180 seats. No unaffiliated student may. purchase more than eight tickets, SH nor may lines form more than two hours before the tickets go on le. It is oped tha t teenpro-rello visions will eliminate the long lines and the immediate sell-out of tickets which occurred at the sale! of Homecoming concert tickets. By CANDY EISENSTEIN ti Radio Program S IJIUU u~ll~llg 41aDal 1 downtown park. The marchers handed petitions demanding cancellation of nuclear submarine visits to about 30 social- st Diet members gathered at the gates of the biulding, and the police were called to calm the angry mob. Before the violence broke out last night, bands of demonstra- tors roamed the city, and socialist eaders said at least 1000 students would be on hand to greet the docking of the Sea Dragon. -The changes into an unstruc- tured system would be too abrupt. some re- The proposal's defeat ended a no ndi-; string of Panhellenic actions Japanese aimed at liberalizing sorority rush the' base procedures. He added Last March, a fall rush plan Japanese was excepted, allowing all wo- connected men in good academic standing, except first semester freshmen, to rush this fall. IIn May Panhel approved a new ixes honor code, which ended restric- tions on contact between affili- ated and inidependent women ex- ceptdduring the formal rushing r period. Panhel also eliminated one set ntroduced or rush parties and unstructured the two middle sets by making duced by them open houses. Women's rush had been divided ows and into five sets of two to three days. Within each set, the houses arliament gave parties of specified time e (seven lengths. r cent to Under the revision, the two middle sets have become open h income houses with no time restrictions placed on the rushees. The possibility of future modi- fication was raised yesterday as tS two compromise proposals were l submitted. The first endorsed the concept ire of the unstructured mixer. How- ever, it called for the checking ng Board of attendance by the use of mixer ermission cards which would be stamped at ial-apart-each house. ner of S. The second compromise would proceed postpone use of an unstructured mixer system until smaller fall ted after upperclass rush. Owners Panhellenic President Ann Wick- proposed ins, '65, said that she was "disap- housing pointed that the majority of sor- setbacks. oritywomen did not feel that had been this was not the best plan to relax d the city the rushing structure." She ex- en it was pressed hope Panhel will be able violated to "salvage parts of the pro- posal when a vote on the com- ard, the promising plans is taken next ve rise to week." or safety In other action bearing on the alth and spring rush, Panhel passed a mo- and sub- tion increasing the number of ne." rush counselors. Ten houses will tated it elect a second rush counselor, to e in this bring the total to 31 counselors and that for spring rush. It is believed this o by the will ease the load of counseling yard set- and allow more time for personal contact. half the price. Callaghan also announced that the 15 per cent surcharge on most British imports would be main- tained until Nov. 30, 1965. He said, however, that the charge would be reviewed in the spring. He added that exempted from the surcharge would be "large ships," planes of more than 18,000 pounds weight, and newspapers, books and per- iodicals. British budgets normally are introduced in April. But Callaghan brought, in his "little budget" less than four weeks after the Oct. 15 election to underline Prime Min- ister Harold Wilson's announced determination to "get this coun- try moving again." This increase in taxes comes in the wake of a tariff imposed with- in the past month by the new Labor government. The tariff af- fects approximately 50 per cent of United States exports to Great Britain. The Ann Arbor Housir of Appeals has granted p for the 18-story commerci ment building at the cor University and Forest to with construction. Construction was halt the Ann Arbor Property Association claimed the building violated the stat law regarding side-yard The building permit I issued because it satisified code but was revoked wh( found the building plans the state law. According to the bo variance granted "will gi no public health, fire,c problem, and public heE safety will be secured,a stantial justice will be do: The board further s would allow the varianc particular instance only in the future it would g state law regarding side-3 backs. GOV. GEORGE ROMNEY Report Not LikelyUntil Next Month Gov. George Romney's "blue- ribbon" citizens committee on higher education will not release its findings until at least Dec. 15, the Ann Arbor News reported yes- terday. Rumors which indicated that- the report might be submitted to- night at the semi-annual meeting of the Michigan Association of Colleges and Universities at Lans- ing were proven false as sources revealed the report won't even reach the governor until he re- turns from a two-week vacation. Romney will keynote the Lans- 'ing meeting though, in order to review educational aims and ab complishments in Michigan. He spent Tuesday and yesterday studying the 1964-1965 budget he will submit to the legislature in January, and the requests of the state-supported colleges and uni- versities. Report Besides the governor's address,. the meeting tonight will feature a report of the State Higher Edu- cation Assistance Authority. Sources indicated that outside influences have prevented the final compilation of the report. In addition, the committee's chair- man, Dan Karn of Jackson, was recently hospitalized. Alvin M. Bentley, a subcommit- tee chairman, has also been hos- pitalized. The current auto nego- tiations are taking the complete attention of two co-chairmen, Ed- ward Cushman and Irving Blue- stone. Three Speeches University Vice-President Wil- liam E. Stirton, secretary-treas- urer of the organization, said three speeches are scheduled for Friday including one by Wilbus C. Nelson, chairman of the Uni- versity's aeronautical and astro- nautical engineering department. Others on the program are 'I. R. McConnell, dean of the University of California's center for study of higher education, and Philip Rutledge, director of Detroit's Bureau of Public Health Educa- tion. Romney organized the "blue ribbon" study committee in the summer of 1964 to outline a long- range program for higher educa- tion. Its initial report on immed- iate budget needs was incorporated in the governor's 1964-1965 reegm- mendations. The responsibilities of the com- mittee were to do the following: 1) Determine the state's re- sponsibility to higher education; 2) Determine priorities and rec- ommend procedures for expand- ing higher education in Michigan; PRIME MINISTER SATO Depicts Corrupt Tammany Hall' Politics [he "Little Flower" for his short, ,uat build, his kindness and The Council also passed a mo- tion proposed by Rachel Amado, '67, which will allow SGC to have Tne musical comedUy, "Mrllo!"generosity, and his popularity. is this year's Soph Show presenta- Reads Funnies tion. y La Guardia began his career as the streets and talking to the 1800. As early as 1806, Tammany Reformers such as Charles Mur- people in a language they could city officials were being removed phy and Al Smith tried to cure understand. for corruption. Tammany of corruption but to no La Guardia won the election to The election of Tammany's avail. Tammany officials, such as the surprises of both the Tam- chief official, Martin Van Buren, playboy Jimmy Walker, the main