New Teacher Code Battle Not Over Yet See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State D~Ati CLOUDY; WARMER VOL. LXVI, No. 123 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1956 SIX PAGES 0 5 ,. 'Opera' Ends All Male Tradition Union Board of Directors Approves Co-ed Production, Change of Name By PETE ECKSTEIN Ii The 48-year-old tradition of Union Opera as an all-male farce' ended last night with approval of plans for a co-ed show. The Union Board of Directors, in unanimously agreeing to the Opera Committee's recommendation to allow women in the show,. specified that the name "Union Opera" be changed. General chairman Don ,Medalie, '57BAd, immediately requested that proposed scenarios for the co-ed show be turned in by Wednesday, April ii. Ar .Wants Fresh Writing While some plot outlines with "possibilities" have been submitted, Medalie said he hopeO the idea of a co-ed musical comedy will attract Adams Elected On Initial Ballot Sawyer, Wrona, Dygert, Engman, Woodard, Shorr Also Victorious By DICK SNYDER Incumbent Bill Adams, '57, received 786 first ballot votes last night to be elected to a second Student Government Council term. A total of 5,531 students voted in the two-day all-campus elections, a record low for the three SGC elections since the beginning of the new student government a year ago. Others Elected Other candidates elected were incumbents Tom Sawyer, '58 and Lewis Engman, '57, John Wrona, '57, Jim Dygert, '56, Ann Woodard, '57, and Ronald Shorr, '58. Adams, present Council treasurer, received 115 votes more than the necessary quota of 671. The unusually small number of spectators in the Union Ballroom applauded as the results of the first ballot were announced. Disappointment Shown Council members and elections workers expressed disappointment at the low turnout of voters and placed most of the blame on yes- terday's "typical Ann Arbor weath-T - f ,. Stevenson Campaigns In California LOS ANGELES (A)-Adlai Stev- enson yesterday accused Sen. Estes Kefauver of trying to "injure me and win support" in California by the same "false and divisive boss nonsense," he raised in Minnesota. Stevenson, sparked into renewed action by his defeat 'by Sen. Ke- fauver in the Minnesota primary last week, opened his head-on bat- tie with the Tennessee senator for California's 68 Democratic presi- dential delegate votes in a pre- pared, televised address. He declared that by "discredit- ing the leaders of the .Democratic party" in California, Sen. Kefauv- er and his spokesmen "can only weaken and divide the party and thereby help the Republicans." Takes Pot Shots Stevenson took pot shots p' Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower's ad- ministrational handling of for- eign and domestic problems. But he aimed his heaviest salvos at Sen. Kefauver, who just concluded a whirlwind five-day campaign of Southern California. The' former Illinois governor said "I have no alibis" for his Minnesota defeat, but he added something "happened in Minne- sota that I must speak about be- cause it also happened here in California." Denies Machine That something, he said, was the charge by Senator Kefauver and his supporters that Stevenson was backed in Minnesota by "political bosses" and a "machine" that was trying to freeze Sen. Ke- fauver out. He said he was hon- ored to have the "unsolicited sup- port and confidence" of Sen. Humphrey, Gov. Orville Freeman and other party leaders in Min'ne- sota. He added his slate of delegates in California includes many party leaders who "came to me volun- tarily and without any strings at- tached." Stevenson added: Kefauver Sought Support "I am advised that Sen. Ke- fauver personally sought the sup- port of many of these very same people-of Atty. Gen. Pat Brown, of John Anson Ford, Los Angeles County Supervisor; of Elizabeth Snyder, Democratic state chair- man; of Paul Ziffern, Democratic national committeeman and a score of others. NAACP May Send Petition To Congress x The University's chapter of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People may petition the national Congress for the outlawing of lynching. Peter Ward, '59M, made the sug- gestion at the organization's meet- ing last night in the Union. The y n cmcnni 0+4 an martAn nfl ,'v, ,n A4n >fresh writing efforts from both men and women. He asked that interested persons contact the Opera office in the Union between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. today. Medalie also announced that petitioning foradditional positions on -the "Opera" Executive, Com- mittee will be opened for interested women. Tryouts for male and fe- male cast members will be held in, the fall. Anticipate Increased Interest Major considerations in the change were an anticipated in- crease in interest in the show by both participants and the campus at large. Another advantage will be a greater source of talent for the shqw. Union President Todd Lief, 56, called the change a needed "shot in the arm" for the Union show, one he expected the campus will welcome. Medalie predicted co-ed participation would lead to a "more professional-looking show." A coed road show, if properly chaperoned, would be entirely feas-. ible, according to Medalie. He said the Deans of Men and Women had approved the princi- ple. The Board of Directors last night. also approved a $30,000 project to move the Union student offices to' a still-unfinished area in the new addition. The required remodelling will be cheaper if plans are made before current construction ends. -Daily-vern Socen TOP THREE VOTE GETTERS-Incumbents Bill Adams and Tom Sawyer, along with Council Newcomer John Wrona, were the first three candidates to win election to full-year Student Government Council terms. Left to right are Adams, elected on the first ballot, Sawyer on the second and Wrona on the fifth. World News Roundup By The Associated Press WASHINGTON.-Pr esi den t Dwight D. Eisenhower returned to the capital yesterday "well satis- fied" that his talks with Canadian and Mexican leaders served to build good will and generate fresh determination to check the spread of communism. The President's special train pulled into the Union Station at 3:15 p.m. after afive-and-three- quarter-hour run from White Sul- phur Springs, W. Va., where he held a round of informal confer- ences with Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent of Canada and Presi- dent Adolfo Ruiz Cortines of Mexico. * * * - WASHINGTON --Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) said yesterday he has no desire to lead the Texas delegation at the Democratic Na- tional Convention if it represents "any one faction." He thus stepped into at least the edges of the quarrel between Texas factions led by House Speaker Rayburn and Gov. Allan Shivers, who have been feuding over Shivers' support of Republi- can Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. Rayburn has proposed that Johnson head the state conven- tion delegation and be Texas' fav- orite son candidate as well. Tues- day night, in a speech at Houston, Shivers termed the Rayburn pro- posal "a cynical and calculated effort to divide the conservative Democrats of Texas." He said the Rayburn element was trying "to take over the state convention, the Texas delegation -and Lynon Johnson." WASHINGTON - The' Internal Revenue Service said yesterday the sudden and sweeping federal tax raids against Communist par- ty offices and the newspaper Daily Worker were in line with standard operating procedure. While the Daily Worker's at- torney talked in New York of going to. court and its editor de- nied any tax debt, Revenue Com- missioner Russell C. Harrington said in a statement for reporters: "I can assure you that this case is being handled precisely as any other similar taxpayer matter would be handled by the service under its obligation to enforce the revenue laws." Harrington had just gone over the case with Donald R. Moysey, the New York regional tax chief who apparently engineered the Tuesday raids without advance notice to Washington. Theater Topic Ballot-counting A ttracts Poor Crowd in Ballroom By BILL HANEY Ballot-counting of the all-campus elections returns in the Union Ballroom last night seemed to lack an essential element demanded by such an important event: interested spectators. Student Government Council officials had provided most of the other necessary factors. It was difficult to walk ten feet without tripping over a radio announcer or his microphone cable. Off-duty newspaper reporters milled about, hoping to happen on some human interest facet of the evening's proceedings. Typewriters Silent On-duty newspaper reporters viewed the quiet goings-on over '-silent typewriters most of the eve- 'U To Help With City's Road Repair Thie University and the city of Ann Arbor will cooperate in the payment for a program of street improvement in the business dis- tricts around State and Main. Resurfacing and widening of several streets will be done this summer if the City Council ap- proves the proposal of Alderman Wendell Forsythe, chairman of its' public works committee. Streets to be widened and re- paved in the first stage of the two- part plan, are S. State from E. William St. to Monroe, Fletcher Ave, from N. University to E. Huron, and E. Washington from State to Fletcher. In the second stage of the pro- gram, the city will pay for repair on parts of S. Main, Madison, and S. Fifth. Forsythe said the plan is "part of the council's overall efforts to relieve traffic congestion." The total vote indicated that " t only 2,031 stude~ts voted .yester- day, as compared to 3,500 during the first day of voting. Last semester's elections record- ed a total vote of 7,120, while in the spring balloting a year ago, 6,070 votes were.registered. Available records indicate that campus student government has seen only two elections with lower vote totals. Both occurred during the seven-year existence of Stu- dent Legislature. Weather Responsible Elections Director John Walper, '58, said, "The low vote is more indicative of bad weather than anything else. I don't think it represents a lack of interest in SGC or the candidates running- at least I hope so." Sawyer's re-election on the second ballot was announced shortly after Adams' victory, while Wrona won on the fifth ballot. Dygert was elected on the sev- enth count, Engman on the ninth, Woodard on the fourteenth and terday's typical Ann Arbor weath- Since Shorr was elected in the seventh place spot established to fill an interim vacancy, his term of office will last for one semes- ter. The other six candidates will serve on the Council for full one- year periods. City To Vote Next Monday, Ann Arbor citizens vote April 2 on two city council positions and three proposed city charter amend- ments. Seeking one of the two alder- man-at-large positions is Albert J. Logan, unsuccessful Democratic nominee for mayor in last year's elections. The other Democratic candidate is former council mem- ber Dean W. Coston. The Republican candidates are two present council members, Rus- sell J. Burns and Wendell B. Forsythe. Proposed amendments to the city charter relate to the annaxa- tion of land, procedure for sub- mitting bids to the council and social security for city employees. Rejection is urged of the pro- posal to annex the 46 acre Burk- Webber farm because the council considers it an expensive area to provide with city services. ning. SGC members and affiliates scurried about inside a roped-off area, picking ballots from the los- ing candidates' stacks and deposit- ing them on the eventual winner's. Most of the people outside the rope were those with vested inter- est. Almost everyone displayed a little white card, distinguishing the' bearer as, a candidate, counter, SGC member, newspaperman, or radio reporter. The spacious ballroom, packed with hundreds of students for the spring rushing decision last week, was "jammed" with less than one hundred most of the evening. Ballroom Not Crowded As one of the spectators re- marked, "Maybe the ballroom gave up people for Lent." Even the cold coffee and smoke- laden atmosphere which usually characterize elections were absent. A few candidates retired to the nearby Union study hall to study for mid-semesters while SGC offi- cials worked over new ballot fig- ures and new quotas required after the dropping of a candidate. But despite the comparative emptiness of the ballroom, the election still had that "old thrill" IMMEDIACY?: 'Integration' Proposals Debated Before YD's By JIM ELSMAN Prof. Richard L. Cutler of the psychology department, dominated a debate last night as he proposed "immediacy" to best solve the South's integration difficulties. Prof. Cutler, Prof. William R. Leslie of the history department, and two students, Bob Evans, '56L, and David Marlin, '57L, partici- pated in a Young Democrat-sponsored debate, "How Best to Secure Integration in the South/" P r e m i s i n g his "immediacy" argument by labeling the segre- Male Voters Pass Union Referendum The referendum proposing af increase in the number of Union senior officers from two to three passed yesterday by a vote of 2414 to 450. The present officers-a president and executive secretary-will be replaced by a president, executive vice-president and an administra- tive vice-president. Because all three officers will sit on the Union Board of Direc- tors, the number of student board members elected at large has been reduced from five to four. To avoid confusion with the new officers, their titles will be changed from vice-presidents to student direc-. tors. Six Chosen Six "student directors" were chosen last night instead of seven vice-presidents. Elected from the law school was Gene Hartwig, '58L, and David Smith,'59M, was chosen for the medical-dental school position on the board. Buck Bebeau, '57BAd, Tom Cleveland, '57, Mark Sabin, '58, and Fred Williams, '57, were elect- ed from the campus at-large. J-Hop Results In other election results nine sophomores were elected to J-Hop committee Those finishing ahead of a field of 15 were Shelly Baum, Art Epker, Mike Gordon, Marilyn Houck, Mike Jackson and Lenore Shlensky The list continues with Ann Mc- Donald, Vera Ptak and Pat Skelly. Alternate to the committee is Steuban Simish. Three of four candidates were elected to the Board in Control of Student Publications. They were Dave Baad, '56, Gordon Black, '57 and George Corey, '56. In the contest for election to the Board in ControlĀ« of Inter- collegiate Athletics James Van Pelt, '57, was elected the winner. Spring tStorm Strikes Middle Part of Nation A fierce spring storm lashe.d the nation's middle yesterday smoth- ering crops in the Great Plains' with dust and casting sleet, freez- ing rain, snow -and ice on the northern Midwest. Chill, 30-to-60 m.p.h. winds raged from Kansas northward into the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wiscon- sin, Michigan and the Great Lakes. Sections of the Midwest were virtually paralyzed as near-bliz-' zard winds felled utility lines and CAROL DE BRUIN .. . Panhel President A LONG ROAD: deBruin Gets. Panhel Pos Carol de Bruin of Delta Delta Delta was named president of Pan- hellenic Association yesterday. She defeated Martha Stockard of Kappa Alpha Theta for the position. Miss de Bruin emphasizes in her platform, the need for education and participation of s o r o r i t y women on a general 'Panhellenic and campus level. Future Proposals Her proposals for future Pan- hel operation include assisting Junior Panhellenic in the orien- tation of pledges to the senior group and pre-petitioning meet- ings for prospective candidates for Panhel offices. With respect to the Executive Council of the organization, she suggests an extension and shuf- mi na o in f aa Peace Pigrim Visits Campus By DAVID KAPLAN Daily Feature Editor_ Voicing a prayer for the world to "overcome evil with good, false-w hood with truth and hatred with love," Peace Pilgrim strolled into{ Ann Arbor yesterday for a brief visit. The slim, middle-aged woman was clad entirely in blue-the color of peace-from her blue tunic with "Peace Pilgrim" on the front and "Walking 10,000 miles for world disarmament" on the back, to her blue shirt, blue slacks and blue canvas shoes. Her grey hair was tied in a} loose bun. Her trek has taken her more than three years and she is now on the second- leg of the 10,000 mile trip. The first leg was a zig-zag trail across the United States from Los Angeles to New York. Finish in Florida4 Now on the second leg of her journey "Peace" walks 100 miles in each of the 48 states, spending two weeks in each state. She came to Ann Arbor after walking through Kalamazoo, Jackson, Flint, Saginaw, Lansing and Pontiac. From here she goes on to Dearborn, Detroit and then to Ohio and the East. She expects to finish her walk in Florida next fall. "I am walking as a prayer for world peace," Peace Pilgrim says. She is not affiliated with any organization and has F.B.I. sanction for . n nJ-ifn v - ni gationist Southerners as "psycho- logically sick" in that they ration- alized their stand by classing the Negro as "biologically inferior, dirty, and lacking in value judg- ments," Prof. Cutler said gradual- ism is not the cure-all. 'End Worth Price' Prof. Cutler, when pressed for a specific forced integration pro- gram, proposed: a federal "dec- laration of intent" to use troops, and to risk that "guys like Milam might pick up a gun," saying that the "end was worth the price." Evans, a former president of the campus NAACP, urged intergation to proceed with "deliberate speed." He defined his terms as "pushing harder for integration in the border states and pushing gener- ally all around." Provokes Analysis President Dwight D. Eisenhower was ticketed as a "President Emer- itus" by Prof. Leslie for his and I th mrO' n' ctivity toaet an