MORNING RELIGION See Page 4 Y L ti43Ufl i4Eai4- 4 Q., CLOUDY, MILD T Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXII, No. 61 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1951 SIX PAGES Lead Sports De-emphasis, Keniston Urges * 0 * s Restaurants Hit By owProfits (This is the first in a series of articles on the problems of Ann Arbor Arestaurants.) By ZANDER HOLLANDER Dwindling profit margins and declining patronage are giving the men who run Ann Arbor's restaurants a large helping of woe. Squeezed between rising costs and the resistance of a price- conscious student public, the restaurant owners are undergoing some of the leanest years ever felt locally and the future doesn't appear much brighter. THE LOCAL restaurateurs' plight is in part produced by the same "soaring costs-falling business" pattern which the Wall Street Jour- nal warns is plaguing eating places from coast to coast. But the cups of local operators run over with troubles. They have added burdens to contend with, they maintain, and 'the extra weight is forcing them under. The back-breaking straws, the owners complain, are a declining student enrollment and "University competition." PROOFS THAT the pinch is on are many and varied: 1-The alleged sale of horsemeat in local restaurants has been cited by some operators as an attempt to scale down costs and main- tain a normal margin of profit. 2-Recent spot-checks of restaurant iceboxes indicate that most owners are purchasing "commercial" grades of meat rather than "good,' "prime," or "choice" as was frequently the case last year. inspections also reveal that operators are now utilizing meat wastes formerly discarded. 3-There has been a general tightening up of business practices in most local eating places. Cost accounting and efficiency studies are playing an increasing part in owners business methods. Shrewd purchasing and more thorough use of left-overs is now the rule. 4--Most important of all, all but three or four Ann Arbor restaur- ants are up for sale, according to Don Reid, president of the local restaurant association. The explanations for this sorry state are as many as the proofs but vary with whom you talk to. All agree that the background irri- tant is inflation, made more serious for the restaurateurs by an ex- tremely budget-minded citizenry. BUT FROM this point of agreement opinions scatter. A recent meeting of the Ann Arbor Restaurants Association in- dicated one possible cause. One operator after another rose to suggest a general increase in restaurant prices to counterbalance steadily mounting costs. They had held the line too long, they insisted, and now were actu- ally losing money on some food items. Several owners declared their intention of upping prices on milk, coffee, hamburgers, pie and ice cream. Some of these have made the increases. * . s t BUT THE GROUP failed to agree on the boosts as a general po- licy, although most of them could push certain items up a notch under existing Office of Price Stabilization regulations. "To me that (an agreement to boost prices) would have been un-American," Association President Reid said later. "In spirit it would be a violation of our anti-trust laws." However some observers reported that a more important reason for the proposal's being voted down was that more-efficient restaur- ants refused to be bound by the price-boosts of less-efficiently run competitors. The quick turn-down of the price-boost motion left the way open last week for a number of much-publicized price-cuts, especially at a N. Main establishment which proclaimed a return to 1939 prices. The cuts, averaging from a nickel to 15 cents on some din- ners brought a strong plea for Association action against the owners responsible for the move. Meanwhile, 9everal campus restaurants protested yesterday that 'their menus had consistently listed dinners at prices lower than those - of the "scab" owners. * * * C UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS, who have borne the brunt of opera- tors' criticism for the lean times, last week put forward another reason for the red ink on restaurant ledgers. Apart from the drop in enrollment, which has hurt the residence halls as much as the restaurants, the chief cause of the owner's woes is the growth of the drug-store lunch counters, the 'U' authorities said. See RESTAURANTS, Page 2 Wolverines To Open Hockey Season with Spartans Tonight Commandos Strike Again BehindReds Truce Delegates Still Disagree By The Associated Press British Commandos and UN Marines with blackened faces Monday made a second daring night, raid in as many days deep behind Communist lines in North- east Korea., Far East Naval Headquarters in Tokyo said the hit-run Comman- dos struck south of Songjin along the closely guarded rail line that funnels supplies into Korea from Soviet Siberia. Only two Allied casualties were reported. Songjin is about 815 miles north of the 38th parallel. * * * IN THE AIR war, Allied planes clashed yesterday for the ninth straight day with Communist jets, but a lull continued for the sixth day along the 145-mile long battle front. The Navy said the Commandos and Marines scaled a cliff to reach the Red rail lines while the de- stroyer Tingey poured five-inch salvos on the tracks farther north. Meanwhile, a joint four-man subcommittee of United Nations and Communist truce delegates sparred warily Tuesday as they tackled the detailed job of ar- ranging for supervision of a Korean armistice. From the absence of ground fighting, it appeared each side was still hopeful that an over-all armistice agreement , might be reached by Dec. 27 when a 30-day deadline expires. During a meeting of the full five-man delegations Tuesday Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, Chief UN negotiator, proposed that another subcommittee be set up immed- iately to work on the exchange of war prisoners. Heads Chosen For Miehigras Committees The organization machinery for the 1952 Michigras swung into full gear yesterday with the appoint- ment of the committee chairmen who will comprise the central com- mittee. General co-chairmen Pat Smith, '52 and Jack Hamar, '52, announ- ced the following appointments: Finance chairman, Hugh Fletcher, '52' BAd; Concessions chairman, Jay Strickler, '54; General public- ity, Harvey Howard, '53; Daily publicity, Alice Mencher, '53; Post- er chairman, Joyce Ford, '53A and Secretary, Marilyn Karasek, '53. Appointed as committee co- chairman were Polly Kurtz, '53 and Dick Demmer, '53BAd, pro- grams; Gretchen Meier, '54 and Jack Ehlers, '53E, parade; Gerrie Maraulo, '52Ed and Mark Osher- witz, Booths; Frances Windham, '53 and Roy Bloch, '53A, Decora- tions, and Nancy Fitch, '53 and John Mauriel, '53, Refreshments; and Jeanne Beeman, '53BAd and Mike McNerney, '53, Tickets and Pat Walker, '52 and Harry Blum, '54 Prizes. MSC Day LANSING - WA) - Governor Williams has proclaimed today as "MSC - Spartan Day" in Michigan in recognition of the college's progress in "education and athletics." Williams' proclamation call- ed the 1951 MSC footbal team a "great national champion- ship football team led by men of All-American stature." Suez, Battles0 Still FIlash Fifteen Die CAIRO, Egypt-(RP)-Egyptians and British soldiers clashed blood- ily for a second day in the violence- struck city of Suez yesterday, and the Interior Ministry said 15 Egyp- tians were killed. The ministry said 29 Egyptians, including a child, were injured, and that one of the dead was a woman. ,4, * * THE BRITISH listed their losses at two wounded in the hour-long fight near a water processing plant at the edge of the city. Their com- munique said 20 Egyptians were reported killed, but added that this report was unconfirmed. Taken with latest Egyptian reports of Monday's pitched bat- tle at Suez, the bloodiest yet in the Canal Zone dispute, the Min- istry's figures boosted to 65 the number killed in two days. In another disorder in Cairo, seven policemenand"several stu- dents were slightly injured yester- day when students refused to dis- perse. The students were demon- strating against the shooting of Egyptians In Suez. THE BRITISH were making strenuous efforts to restore quiet in the populous city at the south- ern end of the canal. They also said Egyptian police got "completely out of control" Monday and the "deplorable sit- uation that developed in Suez was because 'of direct failure of Egyptian police to maintain law and order." A British cordon of check points sealed off Suez to all motor traffic except for transport of supplies 'and medicine. Gen. Saad El Din Sabour, rank- ing Egyptian officer in the Zone, said the outbreak today developed when a British military filling sta- tion was blown up. The British said it started with an attack on three Bren gun car- riers by Egyptian police and armed civilians. World News , Roundup By The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore.-One person was dead and property damage was- mounting as hurricane-force winds battered the Pacific North- west coast yesterday. NAPLES - U.S. Secretary. of State Dean Acheson sailed for home last night after a parting warning to Europe that "we have not yet passed the critical period" in building up Western defenses. NEW YORK - Republican party leader Harold E. Stassen left for Europe yesterday for talks with Gen. Dwight D. Eis- enhower, and said they would have a bearing on "what part I shall play in 1952 in the Re- publican party." ROME-ANSA, the Italian news agency, reported from Belgrade that Yugoslavia freed Archbishop Alojzijc Stepinac of Zagreb from prison yesterday. Sources at the Vatican said they had no information concerning the reported release of the Arch- bishop, who was arrested by Com- munist Yugoslavia in 1946 on charges of collaborating with the Nazis and sentenced later to 16 years in prison. T T Q A e L r-c - .,.d'zn- 1 Lists Reforms In SportsSet-up Advocates Revision of By-Laws To Curb Athletic Board's Authority (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of articles dealing with' the intercollegiate athletics picture and the wide-spread movement to "de- emphasize" college sports.) By CAL SAMRA Retired dean of the literary college Hayward Keniston yesterday challenged the University "to lead the way" in the Big Ten Confer- ence by returning athletics to its "proper place on the campus." Simultaneously, Prof. Keniston proposed a series of sweeping re- forms in the University's athletic set-up, aimed chiefly toward a drastic revision of the functions of the Board in Control of Inter- collegiate Athletics. ASSAILING THE Board's present authority, the retired dean urged a revision of regential by-laws which would define the Board's functions as strictly an operating and administrative body. At present, the Board, which is comprised of eight faculty members, Athletic Director Fritz Crisler, two students, and three alumni, also makes major policy decisions. Under Prof. Keniston's plan, the Board would be .relegated to a "recommending body" which would submit proposals on athletic poli- cies to the University Senate. Final authority on athletic policies PROF. HAYWARD KENISTON ... a dozen proposals Yishinsky Blasts Accounts t , Of Big Four Arms Meeting PARIS--(P)-Andrei Y. Vishinsky branded as a lie yesterday a report that he had not answered a question in the secret Big Four arms talks about whether Russia would admit: inspectors as soon as atomic weapons were prohibited. The Soviet Foreign Minister insisted, in an involved statement to newsmen, on immediate prohibition of atomic bombs, before an in- ternational ,control system is working. Advised of Vishinsky's angry reaction, Western spokesmen said they had "got a reply, but not an answer" to the question. r VISHINSKY STOPPED IN a UN corridor after the Big Four ses- sion today and issued a blast at newspaper reports, based upon ac- t counts by Western sources, that he Tax Scandals, GamblingTake U.S. Spotlight WASHINGTON - (P)- - Tax scandals and gambling again en- tered the national spotlight yes- terday when a rich Chicago law- yer claimed he was the victim of an attempted shakedown and the. government disclosed that only 7,706 gamblers had applied for the new Federal tax stamp and ordered a nationwide crackdown on dodgers. Abraham Teitelbaum testified before the House Tax Investigat- ing Committee that two men claiming to be in league with a Washington "clique" tried to take him for $500,000. *' * * HE NAMED several men sup- posedly involved in the group which made a practice of looking for "soft touches" to tap. Among the accused was Jesse Larson, head of the General Services Ad- ministration. Meanwhile, to crack down on gambling tax dodgers, Internal Revenue Commissioner John Dun- lap said that special agents 'have been organized into 117 "racket squads" throughout the, country with instructions to take "vigor- ous action." Report of Bias GroupDelayed The report of the joint Inter- Fraternity Council-Student Leg- islature committee studying the bias clause problem, originally, scheduled for release yesterday, will not be made public till next Wednesday night, Jack Smart, IFC president, announced last night. The report was to have been made before an IFC Executive Council meeting last night. had not given a satisfactory an- swer to this question yesterday by U.S. ambassador Philip Jessup: Will the Soviet Union admit international inspectors into its territory on the very day after the prohibition of the atomic bomb is declared? Vishinsky fired back, in his first public comment on the talks, that "of course it is necessary to or- ganize various measures closely connected with control." He said that if this is set forth in a con- vention, only people who seek to delay the prohibition of atomic weapons still would find reasons for delay, such as calling for em- ployment of inspectors, instructing them and sending them to, ap- propriate places. Western diplomats said they felt this meant "no" on the question of inspection within Russia. UN To Open Voting Talk To Germans PARIS - () - The UN special political committee decided 50 to 6 yesterday to invite both East and West Germans to its debates over the proposed formation of a UN inquiry commission on all- German elections. Russian opposition suggested, however, that only the West Ger- mans will be in a position to ac- cept. The Soviet bloc and Israel voted against the invitation, suggested by Pakistan. Their reasons were poles apart. Russia's Jacob A. Malik led the Soviet bloc opposition to this first action to give postwar Germany a voice-restricted, but still a voice-- at the UN council table. He ar- gued that the establishment of the commission would be an insult to the Germans. The Israeli position'was that the Germans should not be invited to UN meetings until Germany has given evidence that she has rid herself of Nazi politics. AGREE TO DISAGREE: WEQN, WQRS Sever Union At Tri-Quad Radio Meeting would thus reside with the facult At the same time, Prof. Kenis- ton suggested that the control of athletic funds should pass from the Board to the Office of Stu- dent Affairs. "This would inte- grate the control of athletic funds with the funds derived from other activities," he ex- plained. And he also proposed that au- thority to determine the academic. eligibility of both athletes and non-athletes should be vested in the Office of Student Affairs. Un- der the present system, eligibility cases for non-athletes are handled by the OSA, while a special com- mittee of the Board deals with athletes. THE ROMANCE language pro- fessor made several other striking proposals: 1-Some of the profit made. by intercollegiate athletics might go to support other extra-cur- ricular activities. 2-The expense for intra-mur- al athletics should be drawn out of the General Fund, If in the future intercollegiate athletie profits cannot support them. 3-He urged that the Uni- versity demand in the Big Ten f at the Rose Bowl and all post- season games be discontinued. "They are nothing but devices thought up by commercialized interests and Chambers of Com- merce," he insisted. 4-He attacked the "Fresh- man Rule" permitting freshman to participate in intercollegiate athletics. "Ali right-minded peo- ple believe that freshmen parti- cipation is undesirable, because of their difficulty in establishing themselves the first year." 5-As "one way of restoring athletics to its place in the stu- dents' lives," he recommended assigning students to sections around the 50-yard line of the stadium. 6-The continuation of the coaching staff should not be de- pendent on winning seasons. "This dropping of coaches when they are not producing winning teams is ridiculous," he elaborat- ed. "I think we should be happy if we win only half of our games each year and a championship every 10 years." * * * ACCORDING TO Prof. Kenis- ton, these proposals could bring sports back to the life of the stu- dents and make sports a typical college function- again. "The University can serve as a model and lead the way," he added. "The other institutions will follow." Later, Athletic Director Fritz Crisler had little to say about Prof. Keniston's proposals, other than a flat, "It's up to the Regents." NEXT-The Defense SL To Consider Thy BBLANDOWAE The newly formed Midwestern Collegiate Hockey League will have an auspicious beginning when Michigan clashes with its peren- nial rivals from Michigan State in East Lansing tonight. The game will also be the sea- son's opener for the NCAA cham- pion Wolverines, and will mark the debut of eight newcomers to the Michigan puck scene. THIS IS ONLY the third year of competition for the Spartans but they have apparently passed the novice stage of the first two years and' have served notice that they intend to be strong league contenders as well as challengers to Michigan's title and hockey -dominance in the state. The Spartans are under the tutelage of Amo Bessone who is in his first year at MSC. Formerly coach at Michigan Tech, Bessone has been called upon to replace Harold Paulsen Bessone may even start three of his freshmen on the front line. In this combination he has Steve See HOCKEY, Page 3 In a heated, deadlocked tri-quad meeting yesterday, WEQN, the East Quad radio station again severed r a d i o relations with WQRS, the West Quad station for the second time within two weeks and at the same time mutually squelched hope for inter-dorm ra- dio cooperation. South and West Quads attempt- ed a compromise proposal calling for central committee to discuss and decide on the provisions of an earlier WEQN plan for a coopera-. tive station, staff, policy committee and coaxial cable. They decided this committee could serve to represent the three men's dorms at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Resi- dence Halls, scheduled for Decem- ber 5, in their request for permis- sion to use advertising. But WEQN station manager Bill Gerson, '52, expressed a reluctance to commit his station to the deci- sion of a central committee with- out a definite .plan as basis, and called a again for acceptance of the East Quad proposal. Remus Boila, '53 BAd., repre- senting the West Quad, said he was willing to go along with the cooperative station as long as there was hope that the central station would eventually be moved from the residences to a neutral spot. Students for 'Ike' Formation of "Students for Eis- enhower" originally scheduled for tomorrow night, has been moved ahead to next Tuesday, December 11, Dave Cargo, Grad., reported last night./ According to Cargo the Thurs- day date would have conflicted with several other political meet- ings which are being held that night. ON FOREIGN POLICY: CribTo SponsorT YR, YD Debate By ALICE BOGDANOFF The Democratic Administration's foreign policy will get a thorough going over tonight as two Youna that there "is no policy." Truman foreign Nationalists on Formosa and will join Halby in blasting President Truman for not having armed South Korea before the war. BLUMROSEN WILL answer