Mostly sonny and warmer today. Highinear 80. Mild tonight. (You don’t really , care that- it will be partly cloudy). Low near 55. Variable cloudiness • with. scat tered ' Showers and ■ thunder thowers by late tomorrow. High near: 77. Cooler Thursday. VOb. 68, No. 4 ijjj smmmmm from the associated press | News Roundup: I From the State, Nation & World _The World North Vietnamese Continue Marine Siege SAIGON The big-gun duel at Con Thien ranged with increased fury yesterday and the North Vietnamese ihowed no signs of easing their three-week artillery siege of U. S, Marines guarding invasion routes across; the de militarized zone into South; Vietnam. Again 852 bombers blanketed suspected enemy gun and . supply positions with tons of bombs while 7th Fleet warships pounded at the Reds’ east flank from the South China Sea. The Marines kept up their intense rate of counterfire: about five artillery rounds a minute. Since the Communists opentd the dueling Sept. 1, 61 Marines have been killed and 785 wounded—most of thm in the past two weeks. Communist casualties are unknown,- but Marine offi cials figure them to be high. Communist broadcasts say there are high civilian casualties on the North Vietnamese aide of-the DMZ. While the Communists kept up unrelenting artillery and 1 rocket attacks, the U. S. side let it be known there would be no letup from the south. The U. S. Command re ported a massive leaflet drop around the North Vietnamese village of Pen Quang, above the DMZ, to warn civilians they should defect southward or face “the terrible rain of death and destruction” of 852 bombing attacks still to come. ■k Hr tr Suez Cease-Fire Broken Again TEL AVIV, Israel Egypt and Israel traded mortar and machine-gun fire yesterday, breaking the Suez cease fire for the eighth time this month. In Israel, near the old ■frontier with Jordan, a terrorist bomb killed a 3-yesr-oid boy, The Suez battle was preceded, according to an Israeli account, by a few minutes of Egyptian automatic weapons fire near Great Bitter Lake, 19 miles south of Ismailia on the Suez Canal. The Israelis did not respond and the shoot | ing died down. ! An hour and a half later, Arab jnachinettunners and , mortarmen opened up on Israeli pqsjtions in Sinai, on the | east bank of the deserted watcrwayrihe IsraeM army : "id. It said the Israelis returned the fife, and shooting con tinued sporadically for three hours until United Nations observers restored the cease-fire. 4 No Israeli casualties were reported, -At Qaffin, just inside Israeli-occupied Jodran, prim faced Israeli troops searched house-to-house for a trace of Arab terrorists blamed for the death of Yosef Solomon, 3, in a predawn bombing at Ometz, six miles away in Israel, The Nation ; Romney Talks With Negroes in LA. < LOS' ANGELES, Michigan Gov. George Romney had a, sharp exchnage .with two militant young Negroes during a tour of poverty areas, yesterday, then later nsias told by a Negro who was in Detroit during summer rioting: "We. don’t want help. We want opportunity.” The words typified'most of the answers given Rom ney, who kept asking “What do .you want?” He is on a nationwide tour, looking first-hand at problems of urban areas. Later ‘ the Republican governor, eyeing a bid for the 1968 GOP presidential nomination, headed for Atlanta. ■ His day began with a breakfast in the predominantly Negro south-central area of Los Angeles. Voices rose as he discussed with two young Negroes health care prob lems and ways to end violence. Would Romney improve conditions for Negroes should he be elected president, they' asked? "That is why I am making this tour to learn first hand what the problems are and what is being done to solve them. I want to know what you want, and what you think can, be done to find a solution short of violence . . . If we don’t find a solution, there will be violence.” ★. * * JO/OQO Agents To Strike WASHINGTON A union spokesman said yester day some 10,000 agents for Prudential Insurance Co. will be called out on strike tonight unless the firm’s negotia tors change, their rigid bargaining position. Some members of the union walked off the job and set up picket lines in Pittsburgh yesterday without an official strike call, but Vice President Joseph Pollack of the AFL-CIO Insurance .Workers International Union said there were no plans to order them to stop striking. “That’s what they are all going to be doing as soon as the executive board goes through the formality” of an official'strike call, Pollack said. In Rochester, N.Y., a local agent said 140 agents in that._city were not working. . The unions executive board is scheduled to meet to- night. ’ Negotiations broke off after the old contract expired at midnight Sunday. Federal Mediator James A. Holden called a meeting of both sides for late yesterday. . The talks covered some 17,000 Prudential insurance agents in 35 states and the District of Columbia. About 10,000 of them are members of the union, '.* * * The State School Strike Broken UNIONTOWN, Pa.’'— Albert Gallatin School District’s third attempt to get around a bus drivers strike and start the fall term was successful yesterday. "Everyone should be pretty happy now,” supervising principal William Hanley said. “We’re in real good shape. Attendance is close to normal.” It marked the virtual end of labor'problems which have plagued -officials of four Fayette County school dis tricts since members of Teamsters Local 491 struck for wages near the close of the last school year. ' The drivers went back last spring so the schools could finish up.. But they walked out again this fall at Browns ville. Laurel Highlands; Frazier- and Albert Gallatin. I The district serit its 6,600 students back to school yes terday on leased buses operated by the district's own dri vers. Under the old system the school districts contracted with the bus owners, who hired drivers.' The drivers struck the contractors shortly after school 'opened this month. They asked a $l.OO an hour pay increase over the $1.50 they were getting. Specter Brough Before Supreme Court PITTSBURGH A lawyer told the Pennsylvania Su preme Court\yesterday that Arlen Specter should resign as district Attorney of Philadelphia or withdraw as Re publican candidate' for mayor I ' But Specter challenged this view and said he has a right to remain district! attorney while campaigning for mayr\i After listening to opposing lawyers debate the issues for b , or than two hours, the seven Supreme Court justices left the bench without indicating-how soon they would hand down a ruling. r Disputing Specter’s right to remain district attorney while running for mayor is Paul M. Chalfin, -Democratic candidate for city controller. I What's Inside j LYNDA BIRD PLANS NEST PAGE 3 NEW FACULTY APP&NTMENTS PAGE 4 ROTy REVIEW PAGE 7 LEVINE'S SPORTS LINE PAGE 8 ENCAMPMENT PAGE 10 'J \ % Wg mmm Two University students were charged yes terday morning iii Centre County Court with desecration of the American Flag. Rochelle Janoff (7th-speech pathology and audiology-Monroeville) and Steven Hough (Bth liberal arts-Monesson),. both arrested by State College police on July 4, are now being held for trial after their charges were approved by a grand jury. The two were arrested with four other Uni versity students and a sixteen-year old girl from State College while they were staging an anti-war demonstration during the July 4th Al pha Fire Company Independence Day parade, Hough, Miss Janoff, Michael Hayman (7th general arts and sciences-Brooklyn, N.Y.), Robert Levin (llth-history-Philadelphia), Dav,id Milton (Bth-art education-Wilkes Barre) and Steven Pincus (lOth-physics-Philadelphia) were convicted ok July 14 of disorderly conduct. None' were disciplined by the University. Hough, however, has said that if he and THE DAILY COLLEGIAN’S increase in circulation and the initiation of new paper stands is "christened" by Kenneth • The Daily Collegian, beginning with this issue, will substantially increase its circula tion for the first time in five years, accord-, ing to Dick Weissman, business manager.'' The paper’s- new circulation base of 12,500 is an increase of 3,000 from last year’s 9,500. The increase in circulation was pri marily brought about by Jon Fox, Under graduate Student / Government vice presi dent and Weissman. Fox, who served on the board of Collegian Inc., publishers of the paper, suggested that the paper increase its circulation .base. “Last year the Collegian .had to achieve approximately three impressions per copy in order to hope to reach all students, fac ulty and. administrators at University Park,” Fox said. Encourage Readers “Being the only all-campus medium of daily communication, it is imperative that as many students have the opportunity to read the paper as possible. TTiis increase will help the paper to achieve that goal,” Fox added. Along with an increase in circulation, The Daily Collegian will now be distributed on campus and downtown in 26 new distri bution stands. The paper, the officially-chartered stu dent-run publication of the University, is free to all undergraduate and graduate stu dents and available to faculty and adminis tration members at reduced subscription rates—delivered to their office by campus WASHINGTON (AP) - A panel of six U.S. business lead ers and scholars urged anew ■yfesterday that' the United States drop active opposition to Red China membership in the United Nations and support ef forts for a two-China represen ■ tation. If the Communists accept this arrangement, the panel said, they should b_ permitted to re place Nationalist China on - the U.N. Security Council. 1 The group headed by former Undersecretary ofthe Treas ury Robert V. Roosa and Fred erick S. Beebe, chairman of Newsweek, Inc., and The Wash ington Post, made similar rec ommendations last year. Three New Departments It said the call is toeing pushed again especially In light of three developments in the past year: Red China's H-bomb Students Face trial On Flag Desecration Collegian Circulation Base Increases by 3,000 Business Leaders, Two China Represe UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1967 Arrested July 4th Miss Janoff are convicted of desecrating the •flag, acting Dean of;Men,James A. Rhodes said they will be expejled. \ The statute forbidding desecration carries a maximum penalty of. six months imprisonment and/or a $2OO fine. ; Prosecutor Lt. Matthew A. Seckinger, of the State College police force, charged yes terday that HoOgh and Miss Janoff unfurled an American flag with the anti-war slogan "Make Love, Not War!” written on it. The allegedly desecrated flag had been displayed at the July 14th hearing gn the disorderly conduct charges, . , Defense attorney! Harry Lore of Philadel phia requested that the charge of desecra tion be dropped, but ■his} request was denied. In other court; action, graduate student Leverett Millen was acquitted of charges of hindering a witness. Hjs case was dismissed, with the county assuming all costs.—by Bill Ep stein. . . ) SPLASH i Gottschall, circulation manager, while Dick Weissman, business manager, of ficiates. mail on the morning of publication. The paper will be delivered to; campus and downtown points, and according' to Kenneth Gottschall, circulation manager, should be at the campus points before 8:30 a.m. and at the downtown points before 9:30 a.m. The distribution points for campus will be: the Hetzel Union Building.' upstairs and downstairs in the Lion’s Den the Pollock Union Building; Simmons lounge; McElwain lounge; Redifer lounge, in South Halls; Atherton Hall; ana Warnock lounge in North Halls. . Other campus distribution points are: Findlay and Johnston Union Buildings, in East Halls; Waring lounge in West Halls; Pattee Library; the University Creamery; and Sigma Chi fraternity. ) Downtown Points Downtown distribution -points oh .Col lege Ave. will be: Winky’s 1 ; the Cornet Room; Keeler’s; the New Student Book Store. The paper will also be available at the following points in the Campus Shopping Center: Winky’s; McLanahan’s; the Korner Kupboard: and the Nittany Lodge. Distribution points on South Allen St. will be: Horner’s Book Store and McLana han’s. A new distribution point added this year will!be Thrift Drugs in the Westerly Parkway .Shopping Center. Air additional 225 copies of the paper will be distributed to downtown fraternities. explosion, the intensified in ternal struggle' jm \ mainland china and shifting of positions on China by other delegates to the U.N. General Assembly. Both Communist China ahd Nationalist China have rejected any “two-China” representa tion, each insisting it is the sole government of China. The. panel expressed concern over the implications of a state ment |by Secretary of State Dean Rusk at a news confer ence on Sept. 8 that he does not expect that anything much will change on the China rep resentation issue at the United Nations this year. Won’t Vote Out Taiwan He said a substantial ma jority of the membership is not going to vote out Nationalist China in order to. admit Com munist China Koos a said this was taken to Scholars Urge ntation in U.N. mean there would be no change in the U.S. position. The panel’s report said “The United States should support ef- * forts now to open the way for mainland China to participate in the U.N. so that this option} will be available to the main-' land government when it de cides the time has come to maintain normal orderliness in - its relations with other coun tries.” . U.S. Should Prepare “This means, in the panel’s view, that th U.S. should be prepared at the forthcoming session of-the General assem bly to support the representa tion of both Taiwan and Peking in the General Assembly and, if Peking .accepts this arrange ment in the assembly, to sup port I a change under,' .which Peking would represent 'China in the Security Council.” CHARLES F. MILLER Police Think Miller Knew His Murderer By RICHARD WIESENHUTTER Collegian Edit or A man who reportedly made a late night visit to University student Charles F. Miller be fore his death Saturday morn ing may be the student's killer, State College Police said last night. Police Chief John R. Juba said a witness had seen a man go to Miller's room late Friday night or early Saturday -morn ing. The Police chief also said be believes Miller knew his killer. Police have not elaborated further on any details of the investigation. Juba add e dv though, that police have “sus picions and hope to get the break we (the police) are look ing for,” hast night, he said police were “working on the case very hard; we're digging up things, but we have nothing definite yet." Miller, a 7fh term major, in ceramic engineering at the Uni versity, died of two gun shot wounds of the chest and one in the head. He also had a long gash across his back when police found him in his two-man room at 220 S. Nittanyi Ave. Two more bullet holes] were found in the wall. Juba said the bullets were fired from a small caliber automatic pistol.- Millar-was-rniirdered - shortly. - e f o r'e 4:30 a.m., Saturday morning. Residents called police after they heard shots. Juba said that a woman care taker at the rooming house heard the shots and also a scuffle and someone running away'. Police did not say whether they connected this person with the man reported to have made the earlier visit. Married and the father of a y - ar-old son. Miller was 20 years old. He was from Falls Church, Va., a suburb of Wash ington, D.C. According ‘to Washing 1 0 n newspapers, Miller's wife,and child were staying in Arling ton, Va. with her parents; but were to join him later in State College. Miller’s murder is the first student murder to occur in State College since 1940 when a 17-year-old coed was found beaten to death four miles from campus. Her murder has not been solved j Homecoming Applications | ~1 To interest more stu- y .s dents in Homecoming 1967, % t now set for Oct.' 20-21, a 4 $ new application method is- j being tested this year. i Applications for posi.- tions as chairmen and 1 committee - members will ;; be available today to resi- dence hall students ) •” through Junior Residents ;t « and Residence Hall Coun- fj i selors, Homecoming., Co- : 's -I chairmen Janet Rittner *- and Terry Klasky an- jt nounced last night. Appli- -/ i cations are due by., 9 a.m. Wednesday in, 209 i Hetzel :;s Union Building. ;i Town and Greek men ,'t | and women may pick up j$ •8 applications at the HUB '$ 'J desk. ' -js I Appointments will be •n- J- 4 nounced in The Daily Col- :‘‘- ' legion Thursday. s? ■.suia ! vk tr&s.. 5 Registration Figures At the close of‘registration to day, the University reported 32,879 students enrolled for the Fall Term, which opened yes terday, with 23,054 at the Uni versity Park campus. The incomplete figures, which are about 3,300 above those at the close of registra tion a year ago, indicate a rec ord enrollment of nearly 35,000 resident-credit students with more than 24,000 expected at University Park. Final figures a year ago showed 32,234 as the , total with 22,495 at University Park. , T. Sherman Stanford, direc tor of academic affairs, re -1 ported 548 students at the new Capitol Campus at Middletown and 40 at the,new Milton S. Hershey Medical, Center. The Capitol Campus enrollment in cludes 333 upperclassmen, 107 graduate' ‘students, 60 adjunct students, and 48 'in the associ ate degree program. Complaihts From Bluebell The Town Independent Men's Council, at its first meeting of the term last night, revealed that the number of complaints about town housing are rapidly piling up. | TIM legal awareness com mittee chairman David j Vini koor told the Council that he has “a notebook full of corrj plaints,” most of them protest ing alleged unjust witholding of damage deposits by Whitehall Plaza Apartments and alleged leged $4O raise in rent without $4O raise in rent without proper notification on the upper leve|s of affiliated Bluebell apart ments. i TIM is also investigating var ious other complaints against Bluebell, and has accused tile management of the new fi\4- building complex of violating|a borough ordinance stipulating that all apartment buildings must have fire extinguishers.! Petition Circulated Vinikoor circulated a petition in three of Bluebell’s five build ings last week stating that “We the undersigned object to bo|th the attitude and actions of Blue bell . : . and to the raising of rent without proper notifica tion.” Two hundred eighty Bluebell residents signed the petition. ( Herbert Dean, office man- ager of both Whitehall and Bluebell, said Thursday tlVat furniture and lighting problems at Bluebell were ‘‘just part [of getting organized” land would be straightened oub as soon as possible. In reference to the rent raise, Dean said it wps necessitated by a $200,000 mortgage assessment last March. Each Bluebell lease states that the management may raise rent when it feels it Is necessary, but must give |6O days notice. Vinikoor alleged that persons moving into Blue bell In September were noti fied Aug. 31 by mail, and that Bluebell thus violated the lease. 50 Complaints Vinikoor claimed that he now has over 50 complaints against Whitehall Plaza pro testing the' withholding of: dam-, age deposits. He told Council that since TIM can not afford to fight ’each single case in court, he has referred .wo of them! to the State Bureau* of Cotfsumaf Frauds 'and Protection. If the bureau finds the cases worthy, it has told TIM it will lump them together and take collec tive action against the ownlers of Whitehall, State Asso- dates in New York. Dear defended Jean jefendeL Whiteha|ll’s actions against the complaining students vehemently, insisting Employees OK Contract By BILL EPSTEIN Collegian Administration Reporter The University’s technical service employees ’ratified Fri day night a three-year contract between Local 764 of the In ternational Brotherhood! of Teamste”s and the University. The contract, under negotia tion since last May, received 989 votes of support. One hun dred and thirty-four persons cast "no” votes., j The agreement calls fori an average pay increase off 34 cents per hour over a three year period, including such fringe benefits as partial | in surance payments. An average increase of 12 cents'per hous Will be made available (this year, retroactive to July ll s Union security is provided for in the new contract, although the campus will not be a 100 per cent union shop. ,75% Union Shop ; According to Jerome H. Ger ber, Harrisburg attorney hired by the Teamsters, the Union’s bargaining committee was| not able to get the University to agree to full union security. A plan was reached whereby 75 per cent of the technical-seijvice employees will start as ; union members. Within three years, ,the University will be close to 90 per cent unionized. Those employees who April signed pledge cards ing to accept the Teamste: their sole bargaining agent] automatically become U members, Gerber explai This will account'for a 71 cent unionized shop. Gerber said that with an an nual turnover of aproximately 125 employees, within three years 90 per cent will be union \ "There is no clear-ciit answer '“You people, have had no union as to whether or not the [Uni-. security on this campus. As a versity can give a 100 per [cent yoiir' supervisors have union shop.” he stated. “If the been pushing you around.” University did allow a com- Despite jGerber’s argument, pletely unionized shop, it could at least four employees at the be upset in the courts.” afternoon meeting in- Schwab “We wanted 100 per cent askedj to [have their pledge union; security,” Gerber - said, cards returned. "but the University made us After- the. contract was sp an offer that was terrible.? proved, Qerber claimed that Stormy Negotiations | “Three drunks there this after- Gerber said! that the Union- noon-fthat was the main op and the University "battled position."; ,> back and, forth." He reported Eric A. [Walker, president of that at least three) times jdur- the University, said Saturday, ing summer bargaining, i one “The overwhelming response in side or another "stormed? out support of the agreement con of|the negotiations. ! ,| firms my [belief , that it is fair ( Included In the con- and equitable for the technical-, tract is a provision for vacation service employees, the union pay in the case of an employ- and the University. ! congratu ee ? quitting. ' Formerly/ the late our [employees on their University’s policy was not to demonstrated resppnsibi Ii t y make good op owed vacation and loyalty in approving the pay If a quit work.) - agreement.” ( Spotting the Bnomy that he had taken Vinikoor to ai of the apartments in ques tion and j shown him the dam age. Vinikoor; contended that the damage was indeed there, but that jit had not been 'done by many of tkje present White hall residents.iWhitehall has no files on'l tenants before Sept. 1966 because 'of frequent changes in management. Endorses Candidates In other action. TIM en dorsed three ; candidates for Town Congressman to the Un dergraduate- Student' Govern ment. '. -. ? The three:' chosen were Torvance Klask.v (7th-counscl ing-Elkins Park), Alan Bross (7th-secondar y". education-Alex andria., Va.),and.David Vin ! - koor (9th - pre - law - FhlladeU phia). 4 | Klasky emphasized the need for the University to give its support |to TIM, Support by the University wou l d alleviate many problems, he said. He also favored: a more,'.liberal hours policy; for women and abolition of “in-loco parentis.” An apathetic student body is the biggest problem facing stu- ■ dent government, according to Bross. He proposed a door-to door campaign to acquaint town mgn with ; TIM. {There must be mass student support for student ['government,- he said, or it will never; be able to help the student body. Vinikoor emphasized I the need for USG to take agreater concern in town problems, TIM is faced with a substantial num. ber of legal and financial prob. lems which;it cannot; handle alone, he said. Through collec tive action with other organiza tions besides TIM, Vinikoor said, progress can be made in the downtown area. ;'. TIM President Edward Dench announced after the meeting that TIM intends to /compile an "approved hdusing !list.” He intends to Inspect and evaluate all town housing and then compile and publish a list of those apartments and room ing houses which stand' up to borough, county and state hous ing ordinances. Despite what he termed "re markable" | improve m e n t in fown Zlibusihg conditions in. the last three years'tinder Borough Housing Inspector Fra he 1 s Faxon, Dench said "it is hot enough.” -/"There are ; still places downtown,’ ‘he declared, "which violate 1 borough ordi nances,”, and -they must be ■rooted out jahd prosecuted. 5 The Uniyrirsity has no right to fine a person by taking his vacation pay away,” Gerber said; ■ ' ; , Voting on the contract took PLa c e Friday afternoon in Schwab arid ‘ during the eve :ning in the Fbrum Building. At both places, employees first listened to Gerber’s explana tion of the contract. I • “L am pleased to report to you that' after some pretty knock-down, drag-out meetings, we have finally reached a point where we have a package that is reasonable,” Gerber, said. "You have by any standard one of the most remarkable con tracts any {bargaining [commit tee could bring you.” j Opposition During the afternoon meet ing, Gerber received some op position front several members of the audience. One employee, who.refused to be identified, questioned; Gerber about the Teamsters’ .failure to 'secure a 100 per cent' union shop. ‘‘ln six j ‘months without a union shop; you’ll be dead.” the employee 'shouted. 'Til not waste •my Jtime unless we are 100 per cent unionized. If you don't have i a union shop you're going to lose." j “I say anyone who votes for this contract is foolish," the unidentified man hollered as he made an early departure from the meeting. He later said, last | vot es as .will nion (ned. per "It’s bad enough I have to work; in this, rat’s nest.’’ "Don’t .destroy what you have because you’re peeved at the little things you aren’t get ting"! Gerber countered. “I! you vote ‘no’ you are destroy ing unions on the Penn State campus. If you vote ‘yes’, you will have an effective union." Gerber told the employees,
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