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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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