Windy and excrutiatingiy cold today with occasional snow flur ries, some briefly heavy: High near 12. (East Halls parking lot slightly colder) Continued bitter co'rt tonight. Low near minus 5. Partly sunny and cold tomorrow. High near 18. VOL. 68, No. 71 Lambert Trophy Found THE LAMBERT Trophy was presented to Penn State for the fifth time following the 1987 football season. Campus patrol retrieved the 3-foot trophy last night from a card board box in Beaver Hall. Bel! Office Claims No Wiretapping By BILL STREW Collegian Staff Writer Is there any truth to the rumors that students tele phones have been wiretapped? The answer is an unqualified “no,” according to James C. Walck, commercial manager of the State College office of Bell Telephone Co. , Walck said yesterday that it is strictly illegal for any one, including officers of the federal, state or local gov ernment, .to wiretap a telephone. ---- - He defined wiretapping as "attaching some foreign device to a telephone line for the purpose of obtaining information to be used against the persons making the call. “If the F. 8.1. came in here and asked us to wiretap a phone, we would have to say, ‘we’re sorry, but that is illegal’.", Bell Telephone does offer an observation service which is. used by large corporations to monitor their own calls. Walck pointed out that evidence obtained through this service cannot be used to prosecute or dismiss an unfaithful employe. Since it regards the University as the sole customer of all campus telephones, the company is obligated to the University rather than to the individual student. For this reason, Walck said, Bell would install an observation ser vice if the University requested it; but, he added, “I can guarantee that the University does not have this service.” Walck pointed out that many persons suspect that their lines have been tapped because they hear buzzing or clicking noises on the line. These noises, however, are due to interference from heavily-loaded equipment in the cen tral office. If the line were tapped the person would “probably notice a substantial decrease in volume,” Walck said. He admitted that there is a possibility, although very small, that someone could tap 1 a line without the telephone company’s knowledge or consent. There are two places where this could occur—at the Telephone Building (located in back of Boucke) which is the central office for all phones on the University exchange and in the residence rails. The connection points in the residence halls are gen erally located in the corridors, making it almost impossible for anyone to use them without being detected. According to Walck, these connection points are supposed to be locked to prevent anyone from tampering with them; it is the University’s responsibility to see that they are secure. . Walck said that the possibility of wiretapping in the central office is very remote. The building is manned from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. by l telephone company employes. If anyone tampered with the equipment at any other time, Walck said that maintenance men would notice it Immediately. Debate Tickets Gone All tickets for fhe ‘‘Sym- there are no plans for moving posinm on World Affairs” be- the program to Recreation tween Sen. Hugh Scott and Hall. It will be held at 8:30 Sen. Joseph S. Clark tomor- p.m. in Schwab as scheduled, row night have been dis- A coffee hour and question tributed, Artist Series officials answer period will be held in announced late yesterday. the main lounge of the Hetzel Since the demand has been Union Building after the sen steady but not spectacular, ators’ discussion. Wilson Asks For U.S. Restraint In Vietnam LONDON Behind Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s plea for American restraint in Vietnam is his belief that Russian leaders are reappraising President Johnson’s ap proach to peace talks. Informed diplomats reported last night Wilson formed that impression after hours of intensive discussions with Premier Alexi N. Kosygin and other high Soviet officials in Moscow last month on ways to end the war. If the Russians are indeed taking a second look at Johnson’s “San Antonio formula,” any progress would be the main outcome of Wilson’s mission. The President pro posed in San Antonio', Tex., last September that Americans would quit bombing North Vietnam, given an. assurance that productive peace talks follow promptly. Kosygin asked Wilson if he could guarantee that the Americans would not resume bombing if peace talks be came snarled. Wilson replied he could give no such guaran tees and stressed he had no authority to speak for the Americans. Kosygin then made clear he could not speak for Hanoi. • ★ ★ ★ Thieu To Bolster South Vietnamese Army SAIGON While troops battled yesterday against Viet Cong holed up in Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu decreed quick bolstering of South Vietnam’s armed forces. He forecast Commbnist offensive designs would persist throvh 1968. lathj (Q) (tolfcgimt News 4 Pages Campus Safe By PAUL LEVINE Collegian Sports Editor Campus patrolmen last night recovered the Lambert trophy—the University’s trea sure of the 1967 football season. Responding to an anonymous telephone call at 10:40 p.m., patrolmen rushed to Beaver Hall where they found the trophy in an exit. According to University officials, the gold plated symbol of Eastern football supremacy is undamaged although partially dismantled. It was discovered in a cardboard box along with a note that described the incident as a “prank.” The note also said that the prank was designed to show that anything as Valuable as the Lambert Trophy should be kept in a safer place. Shortly after the, call to Campus Patrol, Len Stuart, a disc jockey at radio station WMAJ, received a tip from an unidentified caller. Stuart was told that the whole affair was a prank, and that it was carried out by two persons. The trophy, which had been on display in a glass-enclosed case on the first floor of the Hetzel Union Building, was apparent ly taken late Thursday night. The theft was discovered early yesterday ARI HO GGI N BOOM Talks Set on Peru, • \ \ \ Genetics, Computers ' There’s something for everyone afnong the lectures, colloquiums, forums and plain talks scheduled this week. All are free and open to the public. Ari A. Hoogenboom, professor of history, will discuss the American Civil War with international students Monday. The lecture is one of a series sponsored by the Office of International Student Af fairs to supplement the international stu dent’s knowledge of the English language and American culture. The programs are held at 7:30 p.m. each Monday in 173 Willard. Israel Information Week will open at 7:30 p.m. Monday with a film at the Wesley Foundation. Maurice A. Mook, professor of anthro pology, will speak on and show slides of Peru at 8 p.m. Monday in the main lounge of Simmons Hall. The talk, sponsored by Sim mons’ Spanish House, will be in English. 'Creative Edge' The “Creative Edge" series will present Rustum Roy, director of the Materials Re search Laboratory, in discussion of “Materials Research: The Material Difference” at 12:30 p,m. Tuesday in the' Memorial Lounge of the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel. The series offers interdisciplinary discussion of knowl edge and human values. It is sponsored- by the faculty committee .of United Campus Ministry, and the Office of Religious Affairs. The Society of the Sigma Xi will present a lecture on genetic control in man by James E. Wright Jr., professor of genetics at 8 p.m. Wednesday in 111 Boucke. from Carnage and fires still stained Saigon and street fight ing picked up again in Hue in the 11th day of the struggle set off across the country by the Viet Cong’s lunar new year drive, which Thieu and American authorities had once declared crushed. . . Emphasizing the threat of four, or five North Vietna mese divisions to allied forces below the demilitarized zone was the appearance of four enemy tanks and a column of, 20 other vehicles in the mountains a few miles southwest of the U.S. Marine stronghold at Khe Sanh. The U.S. Command said jet planes-disabled two of the tanks Thursday and destroyed some of the trucks. The North Vietnamese used- tanks for the first time in the war' Wednesday in overrunning the Lang Vei Special Forces, camp west of' Khe Sanh. Allied authorities said. seven of these armored vehicles, of Russian make,, were destroyed in the fight. Cubans Hijack Boat, Force It. to Guantanamo WASHINGTON . A small group of Cubans hijacked a Cuban ferryboat at knifepoint and forced it .to go to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, sources said yesterday. It was reported three Cuban men and an* 11-year-old boy were in the group that got off at the U.S. naval base on the eastern end of Cuba, then’ allowed the ferryboat to go its way. ' • The Defense Department has said nothing about this incident, which occurred last week. More significantly, perhaps, the Cuban government has UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1968 Patrol Finds Trophy in Box, Dismantled RUSTOM ROY (torn the associated press the World, Nation & State morning through an anonymous phone call to another WMAJ disc jockey, Paul Nichols. At 2:30 a.m., Nichols said, a male voice told him that the Lambert Trophy had been stolen. He immediately called Campus Patrol. Campus Patrolmen found that the lock to the HUB showcase had been broken, and fastening screws, had been taken out. State Police were summoned. At about 3 a.m., Nichols received an other telephone message. A caller claimed that the trophy was stolen “because of a lack of school spirit,” and said that it would be returned undamaged. Locked ns Usual The HUB doors were locked at 11:10, Thursday night as usual, according, to Cam pus Patrol. Patrolmen found no evidence of forcible entry, and concluded that the thief or thieves must have hidden inside the build ing until everyone had left for the night. The trophy is presented each year to the outstanding eastern collegiate football team. Last year’s award was Penn State’s fifth.. The trophy is a 3-foot high representa tion of a football player standing on a foot ball. It was awarded to Penn State following the Lions’ 8-2 record last season. The Department of Architectural Engi neering will sponsor a seminar on a new computer programming system at 1:30 p.m. Monday in 132 Engineering East. Members of the architectural engineering staff will discuss “a programming, system for the generation and use of Problem-Oriented languages,” originally developed at the Mass achusetts Institute of Technology. Vance Myers, chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau’s Hydro-Meteorological Branch will speak on “Probable Maximum Precipitation and its Application to the Design of Spill ways” at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in Dining .Room “A” of the Hetzel Union Building. Oakley Crawford, assistant professor of chemistry, will conduct a chemistry collo quium on “Electron Collision Frequencies in Polar Gases" at 12:45 p.m. Thursday in 310 Whitmore Laboratory. '“Current Problems of Antibody Biosyn thesis,” fourth topic in the University’s Bio logical Science Lecture Series program, will be discussed by Julian Fleischman,. assistant professor at the Washington University School of Medicine, at 4 p.m. Thursday in 105 Forum. ■ Turn On, Drop Out The "turned on” and the “dropped out” will be David Gottlieb’s topic when he speaks at the Human Development Graduate Stu dent Organization’s meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 209 Human Development. Gott lieb, former assistant director of the Job Corps, is now, professor -of human develop ment. made no public protest. In the past, Fidel Castro has usually leaped at even small incidents to accuse the United States of provocations and to demand U.S. evacuation of the base. Few details of the latest incident are available but it is understood to have involved a ferryboat carrying Cubans between two small towns not far from the base. There are several hundred Cubans living on Guantan amo by choice. Because of treaty requirements that the United States turn over, any “criminals” who enter the U.S. base, American’ authorities have sought to avoid any official -statements acknowledging that refugees from Castro’s Communist Cuba are there. Some refugees have, been taken out of Guantanamo by U.S. authorities and resettled in the United States. * * ★ Civil Unrest Continues in South Carolina ORANGEBURG, S.C. Gov.'Robert McNair put this college town under a night-time cUrfew yesterday and said Black Power advocates sparked violence in which three Negro, students were shot to death. MbNair-declared a state of emergency in Orangeburg after the three' were killed and 37 other persons were injured during a brief exchange ’of gunfire with police -Thursday night. It was the fourth night of violence on adjoining South Caroliha State College and Claflin College campuses. - President Johnson and Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark were asked by the state chapter of the National- Association for DAVID GOTTLIEB in Beaver Hall —Collegian Photo by Dan Rodsan- THE BRONZE likeness of Abraham Lincoln stood a mere 20 feel way# but thieves were not intimidated by Honest Abe. Breaking into the trophy case in the HUB late Thursday night, they stole the Lambert Trophy, but left the Gator Bowl Trophy (shown above) behind. Washington Official Release New Information on Pueblo WASHINGTON. (AP) U.S. 21, two days before her cap officials reported last night ture. This was to avoid detec that numerous shots w;re fired tion while operating off North across the USS Pueblo’s bow Korea. before she was halted and The Jan. 20 message was de boarded by North Koreans. scribed as'a routine transmis- The officials said the shots sion. reporting a couple of fish were fired while Comdr. Lloyd : ing boats off the ship’s bow. Mi- Bucher maneuvered'" the'-The Pentagon-said tfie Pueblo lightly armed Pueblo in evasive operated without radar surveil action. lance of a»'y kind for 12 days The U.S. officials said that •according to the account of the action as now reconstructed from various types of intelli gence, there were eight MIG jet fighters over the Pueblo at the time it was seized, although only two of which were seen by the crew. Another 75 North Korean air craft were on alert at nearby Wonsan, it was stated. This information, the source of which was not given, was at variance with previous official accounts of the Jan. 23 seizure of the U.S. intelligence-gather ing- ship. President Johnson dispatched troubleshooter Cyrus R. Vance to Seoul, Korea, last night to talk with President Chung Hee Park about the “grave threat” of North Korean hostile acts. Vance, former deputy secre tary of defense, is leaving by special plane, accompanied by State and Defense Department officials, the White House said. The Pueblo and 82 surviving members of her 83-man crew now are being held by the North Koreans, who charged the vessel was captured while intruding into North Koera’s territorial waters. Government officials pre viously had said there was no specific reference to any gun fire in messages from the Fueblo during the encounter. It, was disclosed also last' night that a continuing search of records has yielded a Jan. 20 radio messag. from the Pueblo showing it was then hi interna tional waters. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said last Sunday that the Pueblo observed radio silence from Jan. IP until Jan. prior to her capture. She was under orders, U.S. officials said, not to enter North Korea’s territorial waters. In response to questions, the Pentagon reported that no U.S. vessels were assigned to track by radar the Pueblo’s move ments between Jan. 10 and 11 to keep a record of her loca tions. Because the ship was out of touch then, the United States cannot state positively it never crossed into North Korea’s 12- mile limit.' The Pentagon’s earlier position was the Pueblo at no time intruded in North Korean waters. Some congressmen have openly wondered whether the United States had in fact kept tabs on the Pueblo by radar surveillance from a distant ship, and thus knew exactly where she had been. Several gaps still remain in the overall story of the Pueblo but a general picture is now Student Recovering From Meningitis The University student con- When his condition became fined in Centre County Hospital worse, Ritenour doctors diag with meningitis said yesterday nosed the illness as menin that he is "feeling great.” gitis. Dowdell was then trans- Jeffrey Dowdell (sth-engineer- r f d to Centre County Hos ing-York), in the hospital since p! vr' . ... . ~ , , Sunday night, said that he Meningitis is considered mod hopes to be out of bed within m a week flammation of the three mem branes surrounding the brain Dowdell, a member of Sigma and spinal cord. Pi fraternity, was taken to Members of Sigma Pi-and Ritenour Health Cer.ter last other persons wh- had close Saturday. He appeared to have contact,with Dowdell have been a bad case of the flu, accord- given sulfa drugs as a pre ing to his fratemi „ brothers, cautionary measure. the Advancement of Colored People to send National Guardsmen from “neutral areas outside of South Carolina.” In a telegram, the organization said out-of-state guards men were needed “to guarantee safety of Negro citizens and students.” The outburst of shooting started Thursday night when state troopers and National Guardsmen attempted to push students back onto a campus to douse fires they had started. .Con Con Acts on Proposal To Raise Debt Limit HARRISBURG A proposed revision to the constitu tion raising the $1 million state debt limit was submitted for drafting yesterday by the Constitutional Convention. The action, approved by a unanimous vote, virtually assured the proposal being placed on the April 23 primary election ballet, although the convention must pass on the issue once more. Under the proposal, the General Assembly would be empowered to borrow up to 1.75 times the "average annual amount of tax receipts for five years in order to finance capital spending. The immediate' effect would be to raise-the legisla ture’s borrowing authority to $2.3 billion. Any amount in : excess of that would need the .approval of the voters. The convention took up the issue of real estate tax exemptions amid reports that a score or more delegates",' were unhappy with the proposal of the Taxation and State . Finance Committee. . . ' Review of the Week -See Page 2 available •in an Associated Press compilation of some of the answers—-and nonanswers —provided piecemeal by the de fense. department in recent days: Q. Has it been clearly estab lished that the Pueblo was in international waters at ail times? A. At no time did the Pueblo violate territorial waters. Q. Was the Pueblo at any time in North Korean waters by U.S. definition, 3 miles, or, theirs, 12 miles? A. No. Q. Were any vessels, subma rines or aircraft of the Soviet Union in the vicinitv of the Pueblo in the 24 hours preced ing the incident? A. No comment. Q. Did the Pueblo call for help from Air Force or Navy planes when accosted? A. Pueblo requested aid at .time of boarding. There was ho request for assistance .before this. Q. Does the first part of this incident—that is, the appear ance of North Korean patrols near our surveillance ships occur so often that it is not standard operating procedure for F 4 Phantoms and FlO5 fighter-bombers to be scram : bled to the site every time it happens? A. True, thas is not SOP. ★ ★ SEVEN CENTS
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