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VOL. 68, No. 52
from the associated press
News Roundupe
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Communist Troops Attack Supply Column
VIETNAM CommUnist troop ambushed a U.S.
supply column yesterday, leaving 24 enemy dead, while
U.S. casualties were listed as 3 killed and 13 wounded.
Communist troops opened up with bazooka-type roc
kets and machine guns on three armored personnel car
riers of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division leading a convoy of
trucks on Route 14 from Kontum to Dak To and forward
American outposts.
The personnel carriers were damaged lightly but none
Of the supply trucks was hit.
In the air war over North Vietnam, a Communist
MIG2I shot down the 36th American warplane of the war
in aerial combat. An Air Force FlO5 Thunderchief fighter
bomber was downed Sunday during a radar-guided strike
on the Yen Bai air base and storage area 78 miles north
west of Hanoi. The pilot was reported as missing. It was
the 786th U.S. plane lost in combat over North Vietnam.
Earthquakes Strike Sicily; 300 Killed
PALERMO, Sicily A shattering succession of earth
quakes rumbled through the snowy and mountainous
western tip of Sicily yesterday. Police estimated nearly
300 persons were killed.
With many of the stricken communities still out of
touch, officials feared the final death toll might go to 500
or even more. The injured were expected to exceed 1.000.
About 10,000 persons were left without homes and spent
the night outdoors or under tents pitched by the Italian
army.
• The quakes toppled houses, hospitals, medieval castles
and churches in the worst disaster to hit the island since
1908. A hospital at Montevago collapsed burying 200 per
sons. Police said most were killed.
Spurred by police reports of almost 300 deaths in the
rubble of half a dozen towns and villages, the Italian gov
ernment mounted a massive rescue and relief operation.
It was Italy's second successive winter tragedy. Only
14 months ago, the north and central regions were ravaged
by the worst floods in the nation's history.
New Program to Stop Dollar Flow to France
PARlS—President Charles de Gaulle may have to dip
into his gold hoard this year because of the Johnson admin
istration's program to redress the American balance of pay
ments.
This is the opinion of business and diplomatic sources
trying to evaluate the consequences of president Johnson's
plans to bolster the dollar,
Though financial experts emphasize the difficulty of
arriving at a precise calculation, they concur that restrictive
American measures will increase the probability France
will run a balance of payments deficit in 1968.
Another measure likely' to hurt France-will - be the ef
fect of the U.S. proposal to cut its losses from tourism by
one quarter. If the administration succeeds, this could mean
a further loss to France of perhaps $25 million this year.
Also to be accounted for, though it is not related to
the recent U.S. measure; is the loss to France this year
of the $2OO million once spent annually by the American
military establishment. The effect of last year's U.S. troop
departure will be felt in 1968 for the first full year.
The Nation
Powell Proposes That Negro Leaders Meet
MIAMI, Fla. Adam Clayton Powell yesterday pro
posed a meeting with militant Negro leaders on his Bimini
island retreat to "sweat out" a position paper on Black
Power.
. "Black Power depends on how you define it," Powell
said. "It's fragmented. One group says 'No whites.' Another
group
.says 'Kill 'em,' and some just want equality and
dignity."
Powell said he would like to meet with Floyd Mc-
Kissiek, head of the Congress of Racial Equality, (CORE);
H. Rap Brown, leader of the Student Non-violent Coordi
nating Committee, (SNCC), and Stokley Carmichael, who
preceded Brown in the SNCC leadership.
"What we'll probably do is take Rap, Stokley and
McKissick and spend a few days in Bimini and sit down
and talk and compose a synthesis. We need to get together
and sweat this thing out and do a position paper," he said.
Aid For Alaskan Flood Damage Partisan?
WASHINGTON The government lent a prominent
Alaska Democrat sB94,ooo—nearly all he asked for—and
cut in half the request of the state's Republican governor
after the Fairbanks flood damaged their rival motels last
August.
- A low-level Budget Bureau lawyer, Robert M. Wein
berg, 28, spotted the case in a routine check of the Small
Business Administration's books.
Although the $894,000 loan for Pruhs's Golden Nugget
motel needed no higher approval than that of the Snit's
San Francisco office, a government source said Pruhs re
tained a Washington lawyer to help him get it.
Just across the street from Pruhs's Golden Nugget is
RepUblican Gov. Walter J. Hickel's Travelers Inn, much
larger, built on lower ground, and—by Pruhs's own esti
mate—harder hit by the flood.
Hickel asked the SBA for $1.2 million; he got $623,400,
The SBA refinanced an earlier loan to the Golden
Nugget, Pruhs said. It would not refinance the Travelers
Inn's two mortages, said Hickel's brother, Vernon, who
manages the inn.
Rules Committee to investigate Absenteeism
HARRISBURG A Western Pennsylvania delegate
gate why many of the 13 ex-officio legislative leaders have
gate why many of the 13 ex officio legislative ueaders have
failed to attend more, than one session.
The delegate, Charles P. Henderson of Beyer County,
said the legislative leaders have ignored a convention rule
that requires any delegate to request a leave of absence if
he cannot attend a session.
I am at a loss to see why the elected delegates must
petition for leaves of absence," Henderson said, "while
some legislators attend at will, and, in some instances, have
not attended any of the sessions—with the exception of the
first session."
Lt. Gov. Raymond J. Broderick, convention president
and an ex officio delegate, said Henderson's proposal that
the matter be investigated would be turned over to the
convention's Rules Committee.
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L''::.:*.'.': ::: . lindness at Edinboro?
PHILADELPHIA (IF) A 1966 incident in which six
college students were permanently blinded by the sun
while under the influences of the drug LSD occurred at
Edinboro State College in Western Pennsylvania, the Phil
adelphia Inquirer reported last night.
, The Inquirer story, appearing in editions this morn
ing attributed the information to extremely reliable sources
in Harrisburg and Philadelphia.
Dr. Chester T. McNerney, Edinboro president, denied
the charge when asked, the Inquirer said.
"To the hest of our knowledge, this is not true . . . To
the best of my knowledge we have had no drug problems
here. We haven't even had a case of marijuana," the In
quirer quoted McNerney.
Dr. McNerney came to Edinboro, whose campus of
some 4,000 students is located about 15 miles south of
Erie, in September, 1966, several months after the blind
ing incident reportedly occurred.
In Harrisburg, Gov. Shafer's office confirmed yester
day that the six students were in fact blinded staring at
the sun while in a psychedelic trance, at the same time de
fending their anonymity. •
In a separate statement, Dr. Thomas W. Georges Jr.,
secretary of public welfare said:
"Revealing the name of the institution where the in-
—Collegian Photo by Pierre Bellloll
THE REV. ALAN R. CLEETON, director of the Wesley Foundation and secretary of the
Centre County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, discussed freedom of
speech with international students at the year's first Advanced Seminar of American
Language and Culture.
Interfraternity Council
Holds Winter Workshops
By MARGE COHEN
Collegian IFC Reporter
The Interfraternity Council held its first
workshop program of the year last week.
Other workshops are planned for the spring.
Intended for the exchange of ideas with-,
in the fraternity system at the University,
the workshops are attended by officers of
individual fraternity houses. Each is devoted
to the discussion of one phase of fraternity
life with the hope that new ideas and im
provements will be introduced. Problems en
countered by individual fraternities are also
discussed, and solutions for these problems
are considered.
Winter Term IFC Workshop was headed
by Ted Btown, of Theta Delta Chi. He said
that he was satisfied with the results of the
workshop and hoped that the ideas resulting
from discussion at the winter workshops
will be put into effect before the workshops
in spring.
Brown was assisted by the nine men who
were selected as chairmen of the individual
workshops. They included Glen Pitman, of
Chi Phi, in charge of the Presidents' Work
shop; Chuck Pearce, of Alpha Tau Omega,
heading the Scholarship Workshop, and Jim
Moser, of Acacia, in charge of the House
Managers' Workshop.
The Caterer's Workshop was headed by
Sol Weiss, a member of Zeta Beta Tau, and
the Pledge Masters' Workshop by John Van
Buren, of Delta Sigma Phi.
Mike Erdman, of Theta Delta Chi, led the
Workshop for Corresponding Secretary-
Alumni Relations, while Jerry North, also of
Theta Delta Chi, was in charge of the Social
Chairman Workshop.
The Rush Workshop was directed by
Dave Cronrath of Alpha Sigma Phi, and Van,
Quereau of Sigma Alpha Epsilon headed the
Treasurers' Workshop.
At the Presidents' Workshop Pitman and
attending fraternity presidents discussed a
president's chief problems: maintaining dis
cipline and controlling factions within the
individual fraternities. The men concluded
that maintaining discipline was usually
carried' out through talks with brothers with
in the fraternity and, if that failed, imposi
tion of a fine for rule violations.
Fine Collection Difficult
The collection of that fine is a different
matter, they agreed. Some of the presidents
supported the idea of each brother's paying
a deposit at the beginning of the year, similar
to the University's General Deposit. The
amount of a brother's fine would be deducted
from his deposit. Otherwise, the violator
must be asked for the sum at the time of the
violation.
The rise of factions within a fraternity
aroused much discussion among the frater
nity presidents. They agreed to have talks
with the leaders of both parties. Through
conferences of this nature, with the president
as the neutral factor s most fraternities solve
this problem.
The scholarship chairmen heard Steve
Hinytzke, a speech instructor at the Univer
sity, give his opinions on good fraternity
scholarship. Afterwards they discussed hav
ing a scholarship committee within each fra-
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1968
Workshop Chairmen
cident occurred would be tantamount to naming the stu
dents.
"These college students have already paid a terrible
price—the total and permanent loss of their vision—for
experimenting with LSD. Neither Dr. Yoder• nor I can
see any reason to harass them or their families any
further."
The reference was to Dr. Norman Yoder, state com
missioner for the blind, who first reported the incident
to Washington authorities. Yoder said that about 18 months
ago six - Western Pennsylvania college students were blind
ed while staring at the sun after using the drug, LSD.
During the scramble to establish identities of the stu
dents, two college officials questioned whether the inci
dent actually had occurred.
Their premise was lack of official reports to other
agencies such as the division of drug control in the state
Health Department.
Both state and federal drug control agents have denied
any knowledge of the case.
Pennsylvania drug authorities contend that sale of
LSD comes within the scope of a state law which regu
lates narcotic and hallucinatory drugs.
A spokesman for Gov. Shafer's office said:
'The incident did take place. Six students did and are
ternity to instill the ideals of good scholar
ship in the brotherhood, placing more stress
on the big and little brother system, enforcing
quiet hours and using the bluebook files in
each fraternity more effectively.
Participants in the Scholarship Work
shop also considered what can be done when
brothers do receive poor grades. They were
in accord with imposing either a loss of vote
or the loss of pin number—seniority—on a
brother whose average does not meet with
house approval. The action would depend on
the individual fraternity.
Managers and Caterers
The workshops for house managers and
caterers combined to discuss these phases of
the :fraternity set-up. Wilbur Alwine, the
manager of the new Fraternity Purchasing
Association (FPA), met with these groups to
discuss the role of the FPA.
The Pledge Masters' Workshop was pri
marily concerned with fraternity pledging
programs. A report of the IFC pledging com
mittee, headed by Eric Prystowsky, was read
to the participants, who then discussed the
report and' different pledging programs of
the fraternities in the council. Comnl4ints of
pledges and brothers in regard to pledging
were brought out by the report and then dis
cussed. Three major points evolved from that
discussion.
The three points which will be incor
porated into the pledging programs of fra
ternities, were to have express goals of
pledging, a distinct line between brothers and
pledges, and the elimination of apathy of
many brothers toward pledges, i.e., pledges
are not to be considered servants. The pledg
ing period is to be given more meaning for
the pledges as well as the brotherhood of a
fraternity.
Welcome Alumni
The workshop for corresponding secre
tary - alumni relations featured Ross Leh
man, the assistant executive secretary of the
University's Alumni Association. Lehman
spoke of the feelings held by most alumni
when they return to their respective fraterni
ties for Homecoming Weekend especially.
He said that most of the alumni did not feel
a part of the fraternity and that, in the fu
ture, they should be made to feel more wel
come in their former college residences: He
also said that alumni should be encouraged to
return to the University for weekends. The
workshop participants agreed completely
with their guest speaker and said that they
could only hope that this area of fraternity
life would receive more attention within
every house.
The topics of discussion for the social
chairmen attending their workshop ranged
from socials with sororities to enforcement
of IFC regulations concerning fraternity
parties. The social chairmen discussed the
possibilities of having other social functions,
such as Wednesday night socials, with soror
ities in addition to the standard Friday night
socials. Homecoming and Spring Week bids
were also discussed—lt was announced that
fraternity bids to sororities for Spring Week
will be issued the third week of this term.
Spring Week Bids
Each fraternity is to submit a list of five
sororities with whom they would like to
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International Students Study
American Civil Liberties
By KITTY PHILBIN and BILL SKEIN
Collegian Sta ff Writers
The slim edge between free speech and
slander may be quite clear to an American.
but it is not as obvious to an international
student, as the Rev. Alan R. Cleeton dis
covered last night at an Advanced Seminar
in American Language and Culture.
The seminars meet at 7:30 p.m. every
Monday night in 173 Willard for the benefit
of those international students' who wish to
gain additional insight into American cul
ture.
Last night's guest speaker, the Rev. Mr.
Cleeton, Director of the Wesleyan Foundation
and secretary of the Centre County chapter
of the American Civil Liberties Union, pre
sented a discussion of American freedom of
speech.
Cleeton took the 16 students on a short
discussion of the American constitution,
focusing on the freedoms guaranteed by the
Bill of Rights. He cited many examples to
show modern applications of these laws: the
late George Lincoln Rockwell's right to ad
vacate even - Nazism in this country, 0r,...at.
the other extreme, H. Rap Brown's right to
advocate Negro militancy.
Cleeton stressed'that Wjlile citizens
not
support certain causes, they may not
always have the right to carry them out.
In connection with the ideal of free
Kelly to Get Award
The national director of the Job Corps, complishments with the Job Corps program."
William P. Kelly, will arrive on campus to- Attending the convocation will be repre
day to receive the first annual "Distinguished sentatives from Job Corps centers in Drums
Service to Youth Award" from the College and Marienville, Pa. The girls from Drums
of Human Development. will present Kelly with a citation on behalf
The award will be presented to Kelly of all Pennsylvania youth who have bene
at a convocation of the college at 8 p.m. in fited from Job Corps programs.
the Hetzel Union ballroom. The public is in- Kelly will then speak on "College Stu
vited to attend. dents and the Other War," namely that on
Kelly has been director of the Job Corps Poverty. The theme of the speech will be
since December 1966, winning praise from "Man, Help Me To Be Square." This idea is
Congressional and business sources for his taken from the plea of a 17-year-old, slums
efforts in administering the program. reared, unemployed school drop-out during
his firsts Job Corps interview. The youth
Regarding Kelly, Sen. Charles E. Goodell begged h interviewer to help him "be
has said, "Since you took over as Job Corps ~ sauare t in e other words learn how to make
director, you have done a magnificent job --- ' •
his way in a world that'demands a skill of
in moving this program toward what many some sort from everyone.
of us felt it should have been in the first The director is also expected to discuss
place." other experiences with disadvantaged youth,
During Congressional hearings, Sen. and to suggest ways for university students
Joseph S. Clark said: "I like your enthusi- to help with the Job Corps' work.
asm, Mr. Kelly. Keep it up!" Prior to the convocation, Kelly will be
In Oct. 1967, Business Week magazine honored at a dinner given by executives
reported: "Corps Director Kelly, who has from some of the nation's private industry.
been on the job 11 months, is given credit Job Corps centers in urban areas are spon
by many for putting spine and direction in- sored by private industry. One of these "con
to the organization." tractors," Westinghouse Electric Corp., is
Echoing similar sentiments, the Student the host for the dinner. Approximately 25
Council of the College of Human Develop- industrialists, Penn State administrators, and
ment has chosen Kelly as the recipient of its student representatives from the college will
award, "occasioned by his outstanding ac- be guests.
U.S. Told To Avoid Peace Efforts
Without Saigon's Full Consent
SAIGON (AP) President
Nguyen Van Thieu indirectly
told the United States yester
day to avoid peace efforts in
which it did not have the full
consent of the South Viet
namese government.
A wide-ranging speech by
Thieu amounted to a major
hardening of South Vietnam's
position on negotiations and a
halt to the bombing of North
Vietnam in the face of pressure
for an easing of the air raids to
test Hanoi's intentions.
"The Republic of Vietnam
most naturally should have the
central role in any develop
ments relating to the events in
Vietnam," Thieu said. "To
overlook or to disregard this
normal setup is to give leeway
to the Communist tendentious
propaganda, and damage the
success of the common cause.
"I regret to say that in the
past our allies sometimes have
not avoided these pitfalls, by
placing themselves at the cen
ter of peace efforts on Viet-,
nam, for instance by asking
the United Nations or other
governments to help solve the
Vietnamese problems, while
such a move should be made
by the government of Viet
nam, as the principal party,
with the support of all allied
and friendly countries." NGUYEN VAN THIEU
receiving services from the Office of the Blind. This office
is backing Dr. Georges and Dr. Yoder in their refusal to
name either the school or the students."
In a related development, Sen. Benjamin R. Donolow,
D-Philadelphia, who headed a drug investigation in 1965,
called a news conference for this afternoon in Philadelphia
on the case. Donolow has demanded that state officials dis
close at least the identity of the school.
In a related development, Sen. Clarence D. Bell, R-Del
aware, said he would ask his Judiciary Committee whether
it wanted to investigate the effectiveness of state criminal
law regarding the sale of LSD, marijuana, or other dan
gerous drugs.
"Something is radically wrong in Pennsylvania when
six college students are blinded for life and no criminal
investigation is undertaken," Bell said.
Georges declined to comment any further on either
the Bell statemeht or the case as a whole.
While Yoder's original report identified the students as
merely juniors at a Western Pennsylvania college. Georges
said "federal law clearly prohibits the release of the names
of those persons without their written consent." He added:
"The six col'ege students are undergoing rehabilitation
and receiving other services from the Office for the Blind,
an agency of this department. Our concern is centered on
rebuilding their lives."
speech and peaceful assembly, Cleeton ex
plained the purpose of the American Civil
Liberties Union; namely, the protection of
the citizen's right to freedom of belief and ex
pression.
The questioning period revealed that
what may be so apparent to the average
American is often quite puzzling to those who
are unfamiliar with our judicial system.
A German student posed a legal ques
tion involving liability in a defamation of
character case, illustrating the problem of
the ambiguity of American slander law.
• An inquiry about the legality of Uni
versity professor Ernest C. Pollard's recent
proposal that students who interrupt official
activity be suspended revealed the inter
national students' perceptive interest in Uni
versity affairs.
Commenting on a question posed by the
moderator, John Spiel mane (graduate
speech-Bellefonte), Clecton said, "The Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union is a pressure group
only in the sense of preventing anything that
might be an injustice.", Cleeton also' con)-
mented on the ACLU's involvement in such
controversial areas as• the flag desecration
case
.involving two University students.
'Future seminars will cover topics
ranging from the Civil War to the hippie cul
ture, All international students and others
who are interested are encouraged to attend
the series.
Jab Cori's Leader
Ho w eve r, he scored the
United Nations for not taking
a major part in the search for
a peace settlement and sug
gested that Secretary-General
U Thant visit Sout% Vietnam.
he owes it to himself,
and to the United Naions, to
have more complete informa
tion on this subject," Thieu
said.
Barrier To PrOgress
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U.S. officials in Saigon had
only a "no comment" on
Thieu's remarks.
The speech coincided with
the disclosure that a group of
20 Vietnamese, many of them
former government officials, is
circulating a peace proposal
which goes directly against the
policies of the South Vietna
mese government.
The detailed proposal calls
for an end to the bombing of
North Vietnam, among other
things, to bring about a negoti
ated settlement of the war.
The purpose of negotiations
under the plan would be to set
up a coalition of the present
government and the Commu
nist National Liberation Front
—NFL.
The authors of the proposal
remained anonymous, expres-
sing fear of government re
taliation.
In his speech to the Society
of Vietnamese Newspaper Edi
tors, Thieu spelled out his gov
ernment's reasons for opposing
a bombing pause and peace
negotiations without some def
inite sign of de-escalation from
Hanoi.
He noted that the bombing of
North Vietnam did not begin
until February, 1965, more than
three years after "Communist
aggression had started."