Lkiiii Thrill Crowd
Weiss Captures All-Around, Leads
State Over Scandinavian Gym Team
Ely PAUL LEVINE
Collegian Sports Editor
When a gymnast has confidence in a routine, it
just naturally shows. Everyone, from the coaches to
the judges, to the fans in the balcony can tell if a
gymnast is sure of himself.
And last night in Rec Hall, Greg Weiss exuded
a confidence the likes of which may never have been
seen before. In the midst of the most difficult part
of his parallel bars routine, Weiss casually waved to
more than 7,300 hushed fans crammed into Rec Hall.
One Arm Handstand
So what, you say? Not much, except that at the
time, Weiss was in the midst of a one-arm handstand.
His left hand was planted firmly on the bar, as
straight and rigid as the obelisk on the Mall. His
right arm was extended perpendicular to his body,
and with a casual flick of the wrist, Weiss said hello
to all his friends.
The little wave didn't seem to bother the judges
at all as they gave Weiss a 9.65 on the routine and
the ex-Lion star went on to win the all-around com
petition with a score of 56.45, an average of 9.41 per
event. In the process the former two-timeNCAA all
around champion led Penn State to a 272.20 - 270.55
victory over the Scandinavian all stars.
"I just couldn't resist waving," Weiss said after
the meet. "I knew that I had the routine made, and
I've always wanted to do something crazy like that.
Cloudy and cold today with snow
developing by mid-day and con
tinuing through most of Sunday.
Accumulation may exceed six
inches. Snow may be mixed with
sleet and freezing rain at time.
High today near 22, with tem
peratures remaining around 20
tonight and tomorrow.
VOL. 68, No. 51
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Four Soviet 'lntellectuals' Sentenced
MOSCOW Four Soviet intellectuals active in Mos
cow's literary underground were convicted yesterday of
anti-Soviet activities and sentenced to terms of up to seven
years imprisonment.
Their five-day trial was closed to all but a half-dozen
relatives and was unreported by Soviet news media. The
mother of one defendant told waiting friends that all
were found guilty as charged.
The defendants had served almost a year in a Moscow
jail awaiting trial. Three of them are expected to be sent
this weekend to Patma, a labor camp on the Volga notorious
among Soviet liberal intellectuals. The fourth, sentenced
to only one year, will be released Jan. 20, sources close to
the defense said.
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Friends of the defendants broke through a police line
outside the courthouse after the trial to present red carna
tions to the four defense attorneys.
First Egyptian War Prisoners Released
TEL AVIV, Israel A small contingent of Egyptian
war prisoners crossed the Sinai Desert in a whipping sand
storm for home yesterday, the first of 4,500 to be repatri
ated under terms of a general Israeli-Egyptian prisoner
exchange.
The Egyptians will free nine Israeli soldiers and six
civilians now being held in Cairo jails, the Red Cross said.
Details of the exchange were sketchy because a news
and photo blackout has been imposed by both countries.
But it was understood that a "small number" of
Egyptians were taken from their prison camp near Haifa
by bus across the desert to El Qantara on the Suez Canal,
where they were handed over to Egyptian authorities
about midday.
The operation is expected to be completed next week,
probably Thursday.
The Nation
Committee Plans Further Hearings
WASHINGTON Public hearings planned by the
Senate Foreign Relations committee this year are likely
to produce sharp new criticism of the Johnson adminis
tration's overseas policies.
The panel includes several of the leading Senate
critics of the Vietnam war.
They include the chairman, Sen. J. W. Fulbright,
D-Ark., who said the goal of the inquiry would be "to try
to develop as best we can what our policies ought to be."
One area expected to be explored will go to the heart
of the Vietnam dispute between President Johnson and
Fulbright. Th chairman has expressed support for a pro
posal that the committee take a close look at the origins
and nature of the Viet Cong and its political arm, the
National Liberation Front.
The
Hershey Cancels Speech
PHILADELPHIA Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selec
tive Service director, has canceled a speaking engagement
today in suburban St. Davids because of the threat of an
antiwar demonstration.
Leaders of the proposed demonstration said they de
plored Hershey's action and said the general missed an
opportunity to open a constructive dialogue with those
who opposed his conduct.
Hershey was scheduled to address the annual business
meeting of the Valley Forge Council of Boy Scouts.
Hershey said the decision was the "first time" he had
been forced to cancel a talk because of protestors. But he
said, he had "a responsibility as a Boy Scout leader to see
that scouting does not get involved in a controversy"
unrelated to it. Hershey is a board member of a Boy
Scouts' regional office.
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LETTERS
NEW FRAT HOUSE
COLLEGIAN NOTES
GRAPPLERS, GYMNASTS ....
GYMNASTICS SPECTACULAR
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It would have served me right to have fallen off on
my head."
But' Weiss didn't fall, and neither did his team
mates as the young Lion squad hitswith remarkable
consistency to upend the 'more-experienced Euro
peans.
Penn State junior Bob Emery finished second in
the all-around, with a 54.95 total, an average of 9.16
per event. Emery's scores ranged from 8.80 on the
parallel bars to 9.50 on the side horse, and he credits
at least part of his success to Steve Cohen.
"After I did badly on the p-bars," Emery said, "I
was sitting back in the corner." Steve came over and
told me to calm down and think about the last rou
tine, th'e high bar. It's good to know that somebody
has confidence in you."
Since Emery came up with a 9.40 on the hori
zontal bar, it isn't hard to figure out why Cohen has
some faith in him.
Cohen had already bounced himself out of the
all-around competition when he fell off the side
horse and his score plummeted to 7.35. The rest of
his scores varied between 9.25 and 9.50 but it was
only good enough for a fifth place finish in the all
around.
Denmark's Hans Peter Nielsen finished third in
the all-around with a 54.60 total for the six events.
One of the pre -meet favorites in the competition,
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Draft Violations Increase
Johnson To Plan
Riot Measures
WASHINGTON (AP)—Presi
dent Johnson will sit down with
the nation's governors at the
end of February for a discus
sion likely to focus on measures
to prevent or curb organized
racial street rioting next sum
mer.
The preliminary agenda for
an unusual Feb. 29:March 1
meeting of the National Gov
ernors' Conference in Wash
ington reserves no time for dis
cussion of Johnson's Vietnam
war policies.
But the governors, with Re
publicans holding a 26-24 major_
ity, are expected to grapple
with the problem of providing
funds for education, jobs and
housing for ghetto areas de.
spite the ever-mounting costs
of tho Asian conflict.
Interstate Riot Control
Democratic Gov. Otto Kerner
of Illinois is expected to pro
duce recommendations for in
terstate policing of riots from
a conference committee on the
National Guard.
This may deal mainly with
halting demonstrations after
they have started. But as chair
man of the President's National
Advisory Commission on Civil
Disorders, Kerner is expected
to urge support for recommen
dations the commission is ex
pected to make to head off big
city outbreaks.
The Illinois governor told a
news conference Wednesday
that the commissions report
is "going to be uncomfortable
for the people of the United
States."
Former Vice President Rich
ard. M. Nixon, a potential candi
date for the Republican presi
dential nomination, and Gov.
George Romney of Michigan,
an announced candidate, have
predicted separately that the
nation may face planned-in
advance street warfare next
summer.
In recognition of this threat,
Democratic National Chairman
John M. Bailey said yesterday
the President and his party
will stress law and order as a
major campaign issue in the
presidential race.
'Stew of Bigotry'
Bailey said some Republicans
he did not name plan to "stir
the stew of bigotry" in the
campaign.
He expressed his views in a
speech prepared for a Rocky
Mountain Democratic rally in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
"We are not going to let them
get away with it," Bailey said.
"President Johnson and the
Democrats in Congress are
going to make clear that in this
nation we make changes with
the ballot, not bombs."
The governors' conference,
headed by GOP Gov. John A.
Volpe, who is running as a fa-
Mononucleosis
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
Three researchers at Children's
Hospital here disclosed yester
day they have found evidence
that a virus of the herpes type
may cause mononucleosis—the
"kissing disease" that saps the
strength of high school and
college-aged youths.
Drs. Gertr• Je and Werner
Henle, husband and wife, and
Dr. Volker Diehl, said they
found a relationship between
the disease and an elusive virus
of the herpes type. Herpes type
viruses cause shingles and the
Emery Second
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1968
vorite-son candidate for the
party presidential nomination
in Massachusetts, scheduled a
three-hour meeting at the White
House the morning of Feb. 29.
It will be followed by a lunch
eon which Johnson may attend.
The governors and their wives
will be White House dinner
guests that night.
The conference will hear re
ports from 11 committees.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of
New York will have a report on
health and welfare, while Dem
ocratic Gov. Calvin L. Hamp
ton of Utah will report on edu
cation and Democratic Gov.
Philip H. Hoff of Vermont on
taxation.
Six LSD Users Blinded;
School Not Disclosed
WASHINGTON (IP) Six young college
men suffered total and permanent blindness
by staring at the sun while under the in
fluence of the drug LSD, it was learned
yesterday.
The six, all juniors at a western Penn
sylvania college that officials decline to
name, lost their sight after they took the
hallucinatory drug together last spring.
Norman M. Yoder, commissioner of the
Office of the Blind in the Pennsylvania
State Welfare Department, said the retinal
areas of the youths' eyes were destroyed.
Federal officials questioned about the
case said it is the first they have heard of
in which total blindness resulted. The only
similar case officials knew of was one re
ported last May in which four students at
the University of California at Santa Bar
bara suffered permanent loss of their read
ing vision by staring at the sun after taking
LSD.
Yoder said in a telephone interview from
Harrisburg that the six Pennsylvania stu
dents all had taken LSD at least once be
fore. He said they went in the morning to a
grassy area in a woodland, about half a mile
from the college, and took the drug there.
Then, he said, they all lay on their backs in
the grass "and were not consciously looking
at the sun."
The youths were found at the scene,
blind and helpless, the afternoon of the
same day by fellow students who knew of
the "trip" plans. Those using the drug had
been gone about six hours.
Pentagon Drops
- WASHINGTON (AP) The
Pentagon canceled yesterday a
$175-million program that would
have provided a big new nu
clear warhead for the nation's
land-based strategic missiles.
Virus Found
familiar fever blister on lips.
The virus is designated
"EBT,' for Epstein-Barr virus,
from the name of two British
researchers who identified it.
Describing their findings to
the staff of Children's Hospital,
the researchers said they have
found antibodies caused by
EBV in all of a group of 42
persons suffMng from mono
nucleosis. They v lied, how
ever that EBV antibodies have
also been found in persons with
good health and persons suf
fering from leukemia.
in Gymnastics Win
DISPLAYING PRIZES they won at last night's Penn State- (center), second place finisher, helped the Lions with 54.95
Scandinavia gymnastics meet are the fop three finishers in points. Scandinavian gymnast Hans Peter Nielsen (right)
the individual all-around competition. Greg Weiss (left), took third place with a 54.60 total. Weiss and Emery helped
State's champion, raises the prize mug he earned scoring lift State to an exciting 272.20-270.55 victory.
56.45 points, an average of 9.41 per event. Bob Emery
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LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Warhead Canceled
Defense Department sources
said the program's cancellation
re-emphasized the c ur r e n t
trend toward developing multi
ple war heads which can be
carried aloft by one missile,
then directed individually at
widely separated targets.
The department said it has
informed members of Congress
that development work on the
Mark 17 re-entry vehicle, or
warhead, has been terminated
after $45 million in expendi
tures.
Funds origiaally earmarked
for Mark 17 work will go in
stead into the Mark 11 single
warhead programs.
The Mark 11 warheads go
atop the Air Force's Minute
man, an ICBM targeted against
points in Soviet Russia and
Communist China.
Other re-entry systems soon
will give the later M.nuteman
Tour•
~, Review of the Week
leport Shows New Record
in Card Burning, Dodging
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP)
President Johnson. leafed
through a report yesterday that
showed . draft card hurnings
and other Selective Service law
violations jumped 77 per cent
in 1967 to a 20-year peak. There
were 952 convictions.
The report also said riots and
other extremist activities have
put a severe strain on the Jus
tice Department's intelligence
efforts, Plans are under way to
enlist the help Jof computers
and the FBI and the strain may
result in a bid for more legis
lation.
Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark left
the report when he conferred
Yoder said the youths didn't even rea
lize they were staring at the sun "until they
came out of the trance," but that they had
come to their senses when the other students
arrived.
The afflicted students have since been
receiving rehabilitation services of the Penn
sylvania Welfare Department.
"It's a real tragedy," Yoder said, "when
kids can ruin their lives this way. And the
parents are asking: 'How can something, like
this happen'?"
Yoder told the Department of Welfare
of the case in a letter last Nov. 13. Depart
ment spokesmen said no attempt has been
made to determine whether other cases have
occurred elsewhere in the country.
Dr. Leon Jacobs, deputy assistant secre
tary of welfare for scientific affairs, com
mented that the case is "another evidence of
how disastrous the effects of LSD may be."
He said he hopes the "demonstration of what
a terrible thing happened to them may keep
other kids away from it."
To combat what federal health officials
consider a serious national problem, !spe
daily among students, the government , is
trying to confiscate supplies of the drug.
Yoder said "I feel very strongly that the
public ought to know just what can happen—
the unanticipated results of this"—taking
LSD.
In the California case, one of the stu
dents has been quoted by a spokesman for
the Santa Barbara Opthalmalogical Associa
tion as saying he was "holding a religious
conversation with the sun."
Program
3 missiles multiple vk arheads
packa.res. Two Men Arrested
The Pentagon was extremely
cautious in discussing the mat
graphter issuing, a three-para
statement of the cancel- or PSU B
omb Threa s
lation,
The statement said AVCO
Corp. of Wilmington, Mass.,
had received a contract for
research, development an d
production of the Mark 17 in
April 1966. Had the warhead
gone into production, the pro
gram would have involved the
spending of $175 million
through .Tune 1970.
But, the Pentagon said, the
entire re-entry vehicle require
ments for Minuteman missiles
were re-evaluated recently and
it was decided to cancel the
Mark 17 before additional re
search and development or
heavy production costs were
incurred.
with the President Thursday on
the Justice Department's budg-
White House press secretary
George Christian said Johnson
was going through thi:l and
other papers at the LBJ Ranch
yesterday as well as the State
of the Union message he de
livers to Congress Wednesday
night.
Humphrey Report
A detailed report from Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey
on his nine-nation African tour
came to the President. Chris
tian said Johnson told him it
had a number of constructive
suggestions. There was no elab
oration on that, or on word that
the President believes the mis
sion of U.S. Ambassador Ches
ter Bowles to Cambodia was
useful.
Bowles went to Cambodia
from his diplomatic post in In
dia to discuss the problem of
Vietnamese Communists' use of
Cambodia as a refuge.
Christian had two announce
ments:
Chancellor Josef Klaus of
Austria has accepted a presi
dential invitation to pay an of-
Flu Epidemic Near?
Ritenour Active
By BILL STREIN
Collegian Staff Reporter
The numoer it illness cases
at the Ritenour Health Center
has shown a gradual rise dur
ing the week, Dr. Albert L.
Ingram, Ritenour director, said
today.
Ingram said that the number
of cases of illness in Ritenour
continues to be above the num
ber of this time last year, but
the illnesses "are nothing to
cause alarm."
He said that few cases of
influenza-type illness have been
seen.
The flu has it several major
eastern cities in epidemic pro
portion. School absenteeism
has been high.
Infections
Ingram reported that most of
the Ritenour cases involve a
diffuse upper respiratory infec
tion, with sore throat and fever.
He said that there were 54
Two men have been charged with involvement in
Fall Term's campus bomb scares, it was learned last night.
Phillip Turco, a student at the University last term,
and William Linder, of North Wales, were arrested Thurs
day at Schwenksville. They were freed on $3,000 bail,
pending arraignment in Centre County Court, according
to the Associated Press.
Local state police, however, reported that as of early
yesterday Linder had failed to post bond.
The men were arrested in connection with anonymous
threats received at Willard Building the morning of Nov. 2,
1967. They have been charged with providing false in
formation about a bomb, and conspiracy to commit an
unlawful act.
Turco, a former chemistry major from Ambler, and
Linden were taken into custody following extensive in
vestigation by State Police and University Security of
ficials.
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SEVEN CENTS
ficial visit to 'Washington April
10-11..
Dr. Edward D. Re, chairman
Of the Foreign Claims Settle
ment Commission, will be nom
inated assistant secretary of
state for educational and cul
tural affairs.
Law Authority
An authority on international
law and diplomacy, Re is a 44-
year-old native of Marina,
Italy. His new job pays 827,000.
He will replace Charles Frank
el, who resigned and voiced
displeasure with Johnson's
Vietnam policy.
Clark's report on crime con
trol activities listed a record
668 indictments handled by the
department's organized crime
and racketeering section in
1917.
A record 57 school desegrega
tion cases were filed, along
with 53 public accommodation
cases—the latter up from 34 in
1966. Eight employment dis
crimination cases were filed.
New antitrust cases totaled 54.
All told, the Justice Depart
ment took 34,512 criminal cases
to court last year, an increase
of 2,587 over 1586 and the larg
est total in more than a decade.
students in the hospital yester
day, compared to 49 Thursday
and 37 Wednesday.
Thursday, Ingram announced
that student visiting hours at
Ritenour were being suspended,
due to the increased number
of patients.
lie urged students to get
proper rest as a preventative
measure against illness, and to
report to Ritenour at th first
sign of illness.
Restrictions at CCH
Meanwhile, the Centre Coun
ty Hospital, in Bellefonte, yes
terday placed restrictions on
visiting hours.
"The curtailment of hospital
visitation is a precautionary
measure in view of the current
inflenza epidemic," Robert C.
Kurtz, administrator, said in
a statement.
Kurtz requested that family
members with symptoms of
colds or illnesses refrain from
visiting the hospital.