TIME FOR A CHANGE See Page 4 Si tr i an Seventy-Twoo Years of Editorial Freedom 4Iaty CHILLY Low--4'H Partly cloudy today with little chance of rain VOL LXXIII, No. 6 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1962 SEVEN CENTS Seek Citations Against U. of ississ EIGHT PAGES c a s * * * * * Barnett Refuses Meredith Entry Justice Department To Challenge Legality of Administration's Action WASHINGTON (A)-The Justice Department announced last night it would ask immediately for contempt of court citations against three University of Mississippi officials for failing to enroll James H. Meredith as the first Negro student in the all-white institution. Edwin 0. Guthman, department information official, identified the officials as Chancellor John Davis Williams, Dean Arthur B. Lewis and Registrar Robert Byron Ellis. He indicated the department had decided to ignore the actions in the case of Gov. Ross R. Barnett, who a short time earlier had an- * * * * * * * .Announce Women's Chan Judic ;es Regarding Senior Hours Democrats, GOP Work To Kill Bill 4 THOMAS HAYDEN .. . hosts group SNCC Group Seeks Funds By NEIL COSSMAN f Representatives of a Detroit chapter of the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were in Ann Arbor last night seeking funds to support their work in segregated areas of Southern Illinois. They spoke to four members of the Voice Political Party executive committee, including Robert Ross '63, Voice chairman. The group also met with members of Stu- dents for a Democratic Society (SDS), at the home of Thomas Hayden, Grad, former Daily editor and currently SDS president. Ross said that he expects Voice to loan the SNCC group about $250, but the executive committee has not yet made a final decision. Need $800 Gwendlyn Kemp, one of the group's representatives, said that $800 is needed for appeal bonds posted after several students were arrested in Charleston, Illinois, and convicted of "loitering and disobeying a police officer." After being held for two weeks in the Charleston county jail, eight students-four from the De- troit area-were found guilty at a trial last Friday. To appeal that decision, a $200 bond was re- qjuired of, each person. Wish To Continue Efforts Besides the $800 for bonds, the group needs funds to continue its efforts in Charleston and nearby Cairo, where work has progressed to seeking fair employment prac- tices and aiding voter registration, another member, John Watsomi, said. Watson added that most of the work in the two town is done by the Charleston NAACP Youth Chapted and the local SNCC group. Cotton and Relief Watson characterized the Cairo'- Charleston area as "chronically depressed, where going on relief and picking cotton are the two main sources of income," He -said that there is almost no omiddle class in the area, only the very rich and the very poor. nounced he had assumed enroll- ment powers at the university and had denied Meredith's application after a 23-minute interview with him. 'No Legal Effect' "In our view Gov. Barnett's'ac- tions have no legal effect," Guth- man said. "We are proceeding against those names in the court's orders whose responsibility, in our opin- ion, remained unaffected by the governor's action." Guthman had said earlier the contempt citations would be sought against "certain officials" at a hearing last night before United States District Judge Sidney Mize' at Meridian, Miss. Kennedy Interest He made the announcement in the Justice Department press room across the corridor from the office of Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, who had been closeted with top aides planning the government's next moves in the legal struggle over Meredith's attempt to enroll at the university. The department information of- ficer made a second visit to the press room 15 minutes later to an- nounce the names of those against whom the contempt of court ac- tion would be taken. The officials he identified had been named in earlier Federal Court orders directing university officials to admit Meredith, a 29- year-old Air Force veteran from Kosciusko, Miss., who had carried to the Supreme Court his fight to become a student at the univer- sity. Week-Long Publicity A week ago Barnett told Mis- sissippi in an impassioned speech that he would go to jail rather than integrate a Mississippi school and more than hinted that he would close schools before so do- ing. When Gov. Barnett took his ac- tion the court had ordered all Mis- sissippi officials not to interfere with Meredith's admission- to Ole Miss under previous court orders;. to try to arrest Meredith under his conviction on voter registra- tion fraud charges, or to put into effect anorder by Jones County, Miss., Chancery Court which would bar Meredith from the state uni- versity. Postpone Firing Of 'U' Space Craft A four-stage rocket carrying a University-built p a y lo a d was scheduled for firing 120 miles into space last night from Wallops Is., Va. Weather delayed the sched- uled firing of the rocket Wednes- day night. FIGHT IN THE SENATE: To Try Salvaging Foreign Aid Plan WASHINGTON (R)-In a full-circle switch of strategy, Adminis, tration leaders moved yesterday to avoid a sinwdowvn effort in the House at restoring funds sliced from the Foreign Aid Bill. They plan instead to make the fight in the Senate. The leaders had said after a White House breakfast earlier inj the day that they had decided to do battle in the House against at Women's Green Sees For Future DOom Support WASHINGTON (P)-The House balked at accepting any student aid in a college construction bill yesterday, sending it back to a House-Senate conference, where it is expected to die. "I'd say it's dead," Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore), who managed the bill on the floor, said. "I don't see that there's any chance for it." She said also the action prob- ably dooms all Federal aid-to- education legislation for many years. Democrats Support GOP The 214-186 roll-call vote that sent the bill back to conference came on a Republican-sponsored motion that was also strongly supported by Southern Democrats. Although Republicans directed their attack against the student- aid section, many Southerners are believed to have joined them be- cause of the religious issue raised by a provision in the bill for Federal grants to private as well as public colleges. One-hundred and thirty Repub- licans and 81 Democrats voted for the motion to recommit and 156 Democrats and 30 Republicans voted against it. Blames NEA Speaking to reporters after the vote, Mrs. Green said the religious issue was the chief cause of the defeat, and she blamed the Na- tional Education Association for raising it. The NEA, largest national teachers' organization, sent tele- grams to the members urging de- feat of the bill because of the provision for Federal grants to church-related colleges. During debate on the floor, Mrs. Green told the House an NEA lobbyist had "insisted" the House act on a bill to provide funds for elementary school construction and teachers' salaries before tak- ing up the college-aid bill. Success Signifies Failure "If they (the NEA) are suc- cessful in stirring up the religious issue on this bill and thus helping defeat it, I do not think we will see any education b:ll ir this Con- gress in the foreseeable future." The bill would authorize $1.5 billion in construction funds over the next five years, $900 million of it in grants and $600 million in 50-year loans at low interest rates. The grants could be used only for building science and engineer- ing facilities, and libraries. Judge Orders, Acceptance By The Associated Press NEW YORK - A graduate of a, high school honors program, turned down by the city's tuition- free Brooklyn College because his average was .7 below the required 85 has been ordered admitted to the school by the New York State Supreme Court. Justice "Louis B. Heller ruled yesterday that college authorities had made an "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable" decision in the case of Melvin Lesser, 17. Barring Lesser from the free college, Heller said, would penalize him for electing an honors pro- gram in high school and would en- courage students to take easy courses instead. Scholarship Bloc A graduate of Lafayette High School, Lesser completed high school in two and one-half years instead of the normal three by taking the 'scholarship bloc" hon- ors program. The college barred his admission for last January because his av- erage was 84.3 - .7 below the re- quirement for non-tuition day students in the City University of New York divisions. Lesser's mother, Mrs. Mollie Lesser of Brooklyn, petitioned the court to admit her son to the col- lege. Lack of Due Credit Heller said that the high school' had not given due credit for Les- ser's enrollment in the "scholar- ship bloc" and did not even indi- cate it on his transcript. "Why should parents advise their sons or daughters to take the more difficult program which not only gives far more work but jeopardizes their chance to gain admission to one of our city col- leges," Heller asked. (University attorney Edmund D. Cummisky said that it is un- usual for a court to make such an administrative decision. He indi- cated that the University haslnever had to deal with such a situation.) least part of the nearly $1.4-billion cut recommended by the House Appropriations Committee. Showdown Too Risky But a few hours before the bill cameup for debate in the House, Democratic leaders told newsmen they figured a House showdown would be too risky. They feared that opening up the measure to amendments wouldhstir the aid cutters ito action and the appro- priation might end up even further shrunken. The best strategy, the leaders decided, was to let the appropria- tion slide through the House in its present form and then try to jackt up the totals in the Senate, where traditionally this has been easier. Then the final amount would bet worked out in a Senate-House con- ference, although the leaders con-t ceded they might lose some of the ground gained in the Senate. This was the way the Houset leaders had been reasoning before they went to the White Houset breakfast., Hope To Regain Funds ; The $5.9 billion measure com- pares to $7.3 billion President Johnt F. Kennedy asked for economic and military aid. The Administration hopes to re-1 store at least $200 million of thei $457-million slash in the develop-1 ment fund for which Kennedy hadl requested $1.25 billion. An effort is expected to be :made also tol restore part of the $11.75 milliont whacked out of the Peace Corpsf allotment.1 Kennedy had sounded the call to battle for Administration lead-a ers in Congress by denouncing the s cuts as "irresponsible action" c Screening Committee To Function A Special Fact-Finding Agency By BARBARA LAZARUS Barbara Portnoy, '63, chairman of Woman's Judiciary Council yesterday announced a tentative reorganization of the women's judiciary system and also announced that senior women's hours will probably go into effect by October first. Speaking to the president's council of Panhellenic As- sociation, Miss Portnoy explained that Woman's Panel, cur- rently the highest appeal body for women, would be abol- JOHN F. KENNEDY ... worry over bills House Votes" WASHINGTON (P)-By a razor- thin five-vote margin, the House approved yesterday a compromise farm bill' that would give Presi- dent John F. Kennedy some of the tools he says are necessary to control grain surpluses. The 202-197 vote was a reversal of the 10-vote beating the House gave the original Administration farm bill in June. The compro- mise now goes to the Senate, which may act next week. If the Senate approves as expected it will go to the President for his signature. Republicans a r g u e d bitterly against the new version and all but two of them lined up against it. Thirty-seven Democrats, many, but not all from the South, joined Republicans in voting against it. Secretary of Africulture Orville L. Freeman said he is delighted by the House action and described it as a vote of confidence for sensi- ble long-range farm programs. The bill worked out by a Sen- ate - House conference, was not subject to amendment during the one-hour House debate. Plan. To Abolish Panel, FROM EVILS OF BROADWAY: Rabb Cites APA BULLETIN By The Associated Press BUENOS AIRES - Late last night Argentine rebels who dur- ing the day had battled with government artillery outside Buenos Aires, agreed to a tem- porary truce and negotiations. President Jose Maria Guido By MARJORIE BRAHMS The "organic unity of a theatre group" is the concept on which the Association of Producing Art- ists was initiated, Ellis Rabb, founder and artistic director of the APA, explained yesterday. Speaking at a press conference Rabb said the APA was organized "to correct evils, artistic and econ- omic, which exist in Broadway theatre." The middleman - "the dilettante producer who is today rampaging American theatre" - and the lack of direct contact be- tween what the artist wants and what the audience wants are typi- cal evils. VANCM~llihipi 'r., i In the framework of the APA there are playwrights, actors, technical directors, a managerial staff and others. On Broadway too many other interests, besides the artistic, are at stake and this ham- pers a unified production, Rabb explained. Working Philosophy The APA has no overall philos- ophy of acting or staging. "The only definition of the company is the work which it is doing," Rabb said. While membership fluctuates, making an overall philosophy im- possible, about one-third of the players are steady contributors to the company and the rest are Organi though several others have re- cently joined. Student Opportunity Rabb noted that the coming of a professional company to a uni- versity community is an opportun- Expect Regents To Mull LSA Dean, By-Law Change By RONALD WILTON The Board of Regents is expected to consider faculty appoint- ments, leaves of absences, accept gifts and grants and discuss other aspects of University business at their monthly public meeting 2:30 p.m. today in the Regents' Room of the Administration Bldg. Cleland B. Wyllie, Director of Information Services said that the Regents, while not expected to take final action, would probably ' discuss the Estep committee re- port recommending revision of Re- gents by-law 8.11 on University speaker policy. w May Name LSA Dean Also probable is the naming of cJ l& jya temporary dean for the literary college. No action is expected on filling the position permanently ity for students to work in the however. theatre with skilled performers. The Estep committee stems from Seven fellowship students who are the fall of 1961 when Prof. Sam- getting their advanced degrees in uel Estep was asked by University the speech department, are work- President Harlan H. Hatcher to ing with the APA. Similarly, Ty- head a six-man. group whose job rone Guthrie, who is starting a was to review and recommend pos- theatre group in residence at the sible changes in the speaker by- University of Minnesota, insisted law. his permanent theatre be built in The committee handed its re- conjunction with a university. port to President Hatcher last Rabb, who founded the company January but because of his Latin in 1960, will enact a leading role American trip during February as well as direct Sheridan's "The and March he was unable to con- School for Scandal," the first APA siderFi-t. production. Married to Rosemary Harris, who will play Lady Teazle The Regents received the rec- in the play, Rabb will play the role ommendations in April but as they of his wife's would-be seducer. were busy then with tuition and Rab ha npviouipv niaved in the Office of Student Affairs no ished and a general screening- committee may be added to the judiciary structure. Miss Portnoy also said that next Tuesday she would meet with all judiciary chairmen, house presi- dents and house directors of the dormitories and League Houses to discuss methods of implementing senior hours. She will hold a simi- lar meeting with sororities on Wednesday. New Screening Committee 'The new screening committee will be a fact-finding body which will channel judicial matters, in- cluding more serious infractions, to the proper body. This committee would probably ' be composed of a representative of the office of the Director of Student Activities, the chairman of Woman's or Joint Judic and a representative' of either affiliated or independent housing. This group would serve as a fact-finding group, and not a court to judge the student's violation, Miss Portnoy said. It would de- cide if the case should be sent to Woman's or Joint Judic or, if necessary recommend guidance or counseling. Panel Heard Appeals Woman's Panel, which was ori- ginally composed of the dean of women, the chairman of Woman's Judic and the highest woman member of Joint Judic, heard ap- peals from Woman's Judic and cases of a more serious nature. Under the suggested arrange- ment, appeals from one of the ju- diciaries may be -sent to the Sub- Committee on Discipline, com-c posed of faculty members. House Judicst The judiciaries on the house1 level will continue to handle less important cases and to take care of the basic functions of the in-c dividual living units, Miss Portnoyi noted. Appeals from the house ju- diciaries would continue to go to Woman's Judic, as they have int the past. , Mary Beth Norton, '64, Assem- bly Association president, said that the proposed reorganization of Woman's Judic strengthens the appeal structure and the whole idea that women's rules will no longer be separated from the gen-t eral University regulations. Miss Portnoy announced thatt every senior woman who wishes to have unlimited hours must have See PORTNOY, Page 2 r Women Seek Final Quartersr Only about 30 women are nowt left in temporary dormitory hous-s ing and will be placed into per-c manent quarters as soon as pos- sible, Special Assistant to the: Vice President of Student Affairs1 Elizabeth Davenport said yester-s day. She explained that as cancella- f tions come in, women are beings placed in permanent positions. Shea WILLIAN N. HUBBARD, JR. ... more medical schools 'otes Need For School To do its share in meeting an increasing demand for doctors, the University must establish at least one, and perhaps two, new medi- cal schools by 1971 William N. Hubbard Jr., medical school dean, said yesterday. Speaking at'a scheduling meet- ing for the 97th annual session of the Michigan State Med'cal Society, Dean Hubbard stated the case for more state medical man- power. At present Michigan taxpayers are supporting the largest number of medical students of any state in the nation, he said Increased Enrollment During the 1960-61 school year, the state's two medical colleges at the University-200 enrollment -and Wayne State University- 125 enrollment-graduated a total of 248 medical doctors. The graduates represented 33 per cent of the national output of 7,500 medical doctors and os- teopaths while the state's popu- lation represents 4.4 per cent of the national total, he noted. "It's reasonable to say that Michigan's fair share of medical manpower output should be a figure equal to its percentage of national population," Hubbard said. Need for Improvement "If Michigan's population re- mains at 4.4 per cent of the na- tional figure, then we will need to be providing 158 additional state medical graduates to meet our fair share by 1975." In order to provide these 158 additional graduates, it has been proposed that: Wayne's medical school be expanded to increase enrollment to 200; or that a third, four-year medical school for 100 students be built to open in 1971 and graduate its first class in 1975. I ii I ...... ... ... ....... ..