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' .. 'A •"°:•'-''''... -.':. , • :'` ............................. Laureate Martin Luther King Jr., Negroes, when he was shot.
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Two unidentified men were ar- standing up, he wouldn't have been hit march leaders, alike, blamed the out- Arme(
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il, - '-., .......:11ii;..4. , :•'• i k. :. `‘ ,. ''''::!:.• , '--- . '•• night by an assassin's bullet. rifle on Main Street about one block "I knocked him down," he said. One 7-year-old Negro youth was - Hollot
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King, 39, was hit in the neck by a from the motel, but it was not con- "When I turned around, I saw police killed in the violence after the march, indicated b
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t.::. .:;V.':.• :.‘ .-I :.4' . '„: . , # • ; AFj-,•-• ordered 4,000 National .Guard troops "Martin Luther King is dead," running from the scene. - snipers firing on police and national The cif
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y7.,.-,•`:' . : , ...',:i:::: , i;ec.:v.e:.-... , , where a King-led march turned into a first word of the death. Wednesday to lead another massive reported hit by the shots.
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the strike
Police said incidents of violence, Hess confirmed later that King died at of the garbage strikers. Sympathizers acts of vandalism also were reported.
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The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize win- others in the King party were getting as 10 : 000 or more were expected for the "until further notice" as youths ran tract or thi
DR. MARTIN L. KING
Dies Last Night
Partly sunny windy and chilly
today. High near 46. Cold to
night; low 31. Sunny and warmer
tomorrow. High near 63. Partly
sunny and warm Sunday. High
near 72 . . . a good Whipples
Weekend..
VOL. 68, No. 96
Fox, Wormer Pair Off in USG Race
Womer Campaigns
Without Party Aid
By KITTY PHILBIN
Collegian USG Reporter
James Womer (9th-politiCal
science-Havertown) is expect
ed to officially become the in
dependent candidate today for
the presidency of the Under
graduate Student Government.
Womer said at the convention
of the New Party last night that
he needed approximately 100
more signatures to complete
his 500-name nominating peti
tion before being able to run
officially.
Referring to the opening on
the New Party's slate for presi
dent, Womer said that he
"didn't choose, to seek the
nomination" of that party. '
The NeW—Party began its
convention' by passingla resolu
tion relinquishing its right to
nominate or endorse a candi
date for USG president. The
New Party's Executive Corn
mittee did reserve the right to
alter this decision if it would
be "consistent with the wel
fare of the party, its candi
dates, and the student body."
Gerson Nominated
Beginning nominations with
the vice-presidential position,
Pot Probe
Urged Here
By RICHARD WIESENHUITER
Coitegian Editor
The Philadelphia Inquirer re
ported yesterday that State
Sen. R. Lawrence Coughlin has
called for an "immediate in
vestigation and prosecution by
the State Attorney General of
marijuana peddlers" on state
supported colleges and univer
sities. The story lists the Uni
versity as a main target of
such a probe.
The Inquirer story 'said
Coughlin, a Rep blican who
represents the 17th district
covering parts of Delaware
and Montgomery counties, has
evidence of pot parties at
tended by instructors and stu
dents at University Park
Coughlin, according to the
story, has urged University
President Eric A. Walker "and
other university authwities" to
initiate their own investigation
of drug use here.
The Inquirer quotes Coughlin
as saying that a parent of a
(Continued on page five)
Novotny Admits Serious Errors
PRAGUE Antonin Novotny, the ousted Stalin-line
ruler of Czechoslovakia, recanted yesterday' before the Com
munist reformers who forced him from power. He admit
ted "serious errors and' aberrations" during his 15 years as
party chief.
Novotny criticized his own role in the Stalinist purge
trials of the 1950's at a meeting of the party's Central Com
mittee, the official news agency, CTK, said.
He said his errors would remain a dark stain on C"ch
oslovakia's postwar history. At least 12 prominent Com
munist leaders were hanged during a series
Novotny was ,pushed from his post as party secretary
in January by liberals led by Alexander Dubecek, the new
party chief. He surrendered his second major position, the
largely ceremonial presidency, last month.
U. S. Relief Forces Approach Khe Saha
WASHINGTON U.S. military officers, citing past
statements by key North Vietnamese leaders, cautioned
yesterday against optimism that peace negotiations would
bring a simultaneous end to the fighting.
These officers claim that Asian Communist history
shows the Reds follow a "fight-and-negotiate policy" in a
maneuver to improve their position at the bargaining table.
Two principal statements cited in this connection were
made by Le Duan, first secretary of the North Vietnamese
Communist Party Central Committee, and Gen. Nguyen Van
Vinh, chairman of the party's "reunification department."
Both statements appear in docum^uts c';• I . r.
.........................................
ner, was standing on the balcony of his
motel here, where he had come to lead
protests in behalf of the city's 1,300
T4r
Faith Tanney, past president
of the Association o 2 Women
Students, nominated Steve Ger
son, Administrative action
commissioner of USG present
13r.
Gerson told the delegates
that a program of drug educa
tion must be continued, and
that a variable admissions
policy should be established,
both illustrating social issues
affecting the Penn State stu
dent.
Academically, Gerson pro
posed the establishment of an
endowment fund devoted strict
ly to academics: library de
velopment, visiting lecturers,
'and scholarships.
"I, view' next year's admin,
istration as a year - of student
power through responsible stu
dent action," Gerson said.
The nornhaticn was unani
mously acclaimed by the dele
gation.
For treasurer, the New Party
endorsed Do n Paule (6th
liberal arts-Alexandria, Va.).
Paule was also chosen by
unanimous acclamation.
Sandman Endorsed
For the positions of congress
men, James Sandman (Bth
political science - Johnstown)
was endorsed for USG repre
sentative from the Inter-Fra
ternity Council.
Elena Ciletti (6th-art-Potts
vile) won New Party endorse
ment for North Halls congress
woman.
The nominees from Pollock
area were chosen by ballot,
Endorsed are Edward Beck
with (3rd - science - Pompton
Lakes, N.J.) and Bonnie Smith
(6th - elementary educa tio n-
West Chester).
New Party candidate from
East Halls is Jill Green, chosen
by ballot.
Susan O'Hare (Bth-consumer
services-Camp Hill) will run
for congresswoman from South
Halls.
Garry Wamser (6th-pre law-
Bethlehem) was ndorsed as
West Halls congressman.
USG President Jeff Long
announced Wednesday that he
will publicly endorse several
candidates, including class of
ficers running for positions as
officers of their new classes.
Long will also endorse nomi
nees for the USG executive
positions. Long said he will
make the announcement of his
endorsements next week.
)from the associated press
News from the World Nation
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Batig
10 Pages
NEW" PARTY SUPPORTERS (left) wave signs at lag:
night's nominating convention. The New Party, whose
entire slate of candidates swept to victory last year, failed
to endorse a candidate for USG President. The Student-
Lion Party convention (right), on the other hand, nomi•
LBJ, Asian Leaders To Meet in Hawaii
WASHINGTON (/?) President Johnson pre
pared yesterday for a weekend Vietnam strategy
conference in Honolulu. amid growing caution
here about the prospects of preliminary peace
talks.
The White House announced that on his way,
Johnson will stop at March Air Force Base, Calif.;
today to talk with former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower. It was disclosed also that South
Korea's president, Chung Hee Park, will join the
weekend Hawaii• meeting Sunday.
Shortly before Johnson's scheduled late-night
departure, Hanoi charged that American planes
bombed a North Vietnamese town northwest of
the country's Capital—deep inside the territory
the President had declared off limits to U.S. air
raiders.
The Pentagon quickly disavowed any "present
knowledge of any such U.S. attack since the Presi
dent's speech Sunday night," in which he pro
claimed the curtailment of U.S. bombing of North
Vietnam.
"Nonetheless an immediate investigation has
been ordered," Asst. Secretary Phil G. Goulding,
said in issuing the Defense Department statement.
The Honolulu meeting of the President with
his top Washington and Saigon advisers follows
Johnson's pattern for such get-togethers every
half year or so for an across-the-board review of
the Southeast Asian conflict. Such sessions have
Saturn 5 Rocket Fails Preliminary Test
CAPE KENNEDY America's second Saturn 5 super
rocket developed troubles with three engines and hurled
a 132-ton payload into the wrong orbit yesterday, possibly
delaying the man-to-the-moon program by casting doubt
whether the rocket is ready to launch astronauts.
If the flight had been intended to launch men to the
moon, "We would have had to conduct an alternate mission
in earth orbit," said Maj. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips, director
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's
Apollo program office.
"The objective of having a propulsion system function
properly on each stage was not fully met," Phillips said.
"It certainly makes this less than a perfect mission."
Experts Warn Against Optimism in Vietnam
SAIGON U.S. relief forces pulled up within a half
mile of the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh yesterday
amid reports the enemy is lifting the three-month siege as
a goodwill gesture.
Only light artillery and mortar fire from the North
Vietnamese opposed Marines in the vanguard of a 20,000-
man relief force. Flown by helicopter, these Marines oc
cupied hills just outside Khe Sanh.
Soviet sources in London said the light resistance since
the allied drive began Monday was because the North
Vietnamese were lifting their siege of the battered base
ready to go to dinner when the shoot
ing occurred.
"King was on the second floor bal.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1968
Pentagon Disclaimer
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A similar march March 28 of about
6,000 erupted into the first violence in
need popular USG: vice-president Jon Fox for president.
Fox's acceptance speech drew thunderous applause from
the largest crowd ever to attend a campus convention. Fox
will be opposed by independent James Worner.
Officials Pessimistic an Peace Talks
been held before in Hawaii, Guam and Washing
ton.
But this week's spectacular developments
toward direct negotiations with Hanoi have.greatly
heightened the potential of this weekend's parley.
This time the U.S. strategists must weigh what
shifts may be necessary in the conduct of the war
to accompany possible developments on the diplo
matic front.
White House sources indicated, too, that the
choice of a successor to the U.S. commander in
Vietnam, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, would
be on the agenda.
After four years at Saigon, Westmoreland is
returning to Washington to become Army chief of
staff in July. The U.S. commander in the Pacific,
Adm. U.S. Grant Sharp, also is due for replace
ment by July.
Westmoreland and Ambassador Ellsworth
Bunker will be in the U.S. contingen* from Saigon.
Flying out from Washington are Secretary of De
fense Clark M. Clifford, Gen. Earle G. Wheeler,
chairman of the 'Joint Chiefs of Staff, and William
P. Bundy, assistant secretary of state for East
Asian affairs.
Rusk Arrives Saturday
Arriving at Honolulu tomorrow night from a
foreign ministers' meeting in New Zealand is Sec
retary of State Dean Rusk.
Administration authorities took some pains
~~:Kh. e .. .. ..
in the northwest corner of Vietnam and had begun to
withdraw.
They said Hanoi had decided on a withdrawal as a
sign of good intentions if the United States agrees at pre
liminary talks to halt all bombing of North Vietnam
preparatory to peace talks. There was no confirmation of
this from Hanoi.
LBJ Presses Surcharge, Budget Increase
WASHINGTON—The Johnson Administration win con
tinue to press for quick adoption , of the 10 per cent income
tax surcharge and a military budget approaching $BO bil
lion despite overtures for talks on Vietnam.
President Johnson in his speech to the nation last Sun
day increased his adMinistration's estimate of war spend
ing in both the current and the next fiscal years.
That's still considered the best estimate in govern
ment circles based on the facts as they actually are.
The reasoning goes something like this:
1. Even if peace talks should ultimately result from
the move for contacts between Hanoi and Washington, de
fense spending won't ease significantly.
2. To hold up action on the supposition that peace talks
will result would be a mistake.
3. The surcharge could be removed easily if the stim
ulus of war spending suddenly disappeared from the eco
nomic picture. This could be done within a matter of
weeks.
Totirgiatt
Coordination
* * *
rampant, many of them with fire
bombs in their hands.
A bomb threat was telephoned to
to divorce Park's trip to Honolulu from the all-
U.S. meetings which will precede his arrival. This
was to avoid pressure from other allied leaders
to attend the conference too.
Johnson aides said he and Park have been
wanting for some time to talk together about the
common problems the two countries face with a
militant Communist North Korea. The situation
reached a crisis level in January with North Ko
rean terrorist infiltration against South Korea
and seizure of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo.
While the two presidents will of course talk
about Vietnam—Seoul has sent some 48,500 troops
into combat there—their main topic will be Korea,
the Washington source said.
Pessimism on Peace
The growing caution in Washington quarters
about peace talks—in some cases ranging to pessi
mism—stems from more than North Vietnam's
accusation of U.S. bombing far north of the 20th
parallel limit set by Johnson in his Sunday nego
tiations offer.
Some U.S. sources said that while no response
has been received yet through diplomatic chan
nels to Johnson's agreement Wednesday to estab
lish contact with Hanoi representatives, the North
Vietnamese have shown no evidence yet of back
ing down from their earlier demand.
This has been for a complete halt to the U.S.
bombing of the North without reciprocal military
(Continued on page seven)
MESE
Student-Lions Hail
Fox for President
By DENNIS STIMELING
Collegian USG Reporter
Standing ovations seemed
to be the order of the day
last night at the joint Stu
dent-Lion Party nominating
convention for the upcoming
USG elections.
The enthusiastic audience
response was invoked by the
current USG vice president
Jon Fox upon his acceptance
of the nomination for Presi
dent. Fox's statement to the
convention that "the answer
is in your hands as to where
student government will go
next year" drew a thunder
ous response from his audi
ence.
None of'the three nominees
for the USG executives offi
ces of president, vice presi
dent or treasurer were op
posed at the convention.
Merger Approved
Last night's convention be
gan with the attending stu
dents unanimously approv
ing a merger of the Student
and Lion parties. This made
possible the creation of iden-
& State
Teachers Urged To Use Good Judgement
HARRISBURG—Gov, Shafer urged Pennsylvania
school teachers yesterday to exercise reasonable judgment
when they meet this weekend to review the legislative
deadlock on their higher salaries.
"I think the majority of teachers want to resolve this
in an orderly fashion," Shafer said when asked for com
ment on the meeting of the Pennsylvania State Education
Association's ruling House of Delegates set for Saturday.
When questioned about the possibility of massive teach
er resignations or even a statewide strike and what the
state would do, Shafer responded:
"We'll have to face that if it comes. I don't think it will
come about and I would hope the House of Delegates would
not recommend it. I think the majority of teachers want
to keep their profession on the highest professional level."
* * *
Central U. S. Hid• by Winds, Tornadoes
FREEZING AIR and bitter, strong winds lashed the
Midwest yesterday as a savage snow and wind storm
which left 18 dead from Nebraska to Kentucky pushed
across the northern Great Lakes.
Readings fell to the freezing mark in 11 states from
the Great Plains to northern Mississippi. Snow fell in
lowa, Minnesota, Michigan and the Dakotas.
Winds whipping at 30 to 50 miles an hour crossed
the Great Lakes and turned toward the Mid-Atlantic
States. Saginaw, Mich., recorded wind gusts of 67 miles an
hour.
Freeze warnings accompanied flash flood threats in the
lower Mississippi Valley where the thunderstorms and tor
nadoes of Wednesday night were followed by heavy rains.
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Hospital and police were
the scene.
d guards were immediately
St. Joseph Hospital where
man said early investigation
the assassin was a white male,
"50 to 100 yards away in a
" He said police had no defi
but that two persons were
Garbage Strike
£ty's garbage collectors, about
nt of them Negroes, struck
)r union recognition, payroll
of dues and pay increases.
Henry Loeb had declared
was illegal and said repeat
,ould not grant a written con
le dues checkoff.
The strike, which drew its racial
overtones from the large proportion of
(Continued on page ten)
Here We Go Again
---See Page 2
tical slates for both parties in
the ensuing election.
The USG executive posi
tions were the first to be
brought to the floor for nomi
nations.
Dick Weissman, chairman
of the Lion Party, placed the
name of Fox before the con
vention for consideration as
presidential nominee.
In his acceptance speech,
Fox immediately turned to
the issues which will high
light his election campaign.
While saying that establish
ing a University bookstore
and stopping a tuition hike
would be the main issuesi
Fox also suggested better
registration, additional stu
dent parking and re-evalua
tion of the University grading
system.
'Clear Issues'
At the conclusion of his
address the convention
cheered and applauded for
nearly five minutes and then
proceeded to nominate him
by acclamation.
Similar events occurred as
the convention turned to the
nominations for USG vice
president.
Dave Vinikoor of Town In
dependent Men made the
nominating speech for the
only person to be considered
for that office, Theodore
Thompson.
Vinikoor said that Thomp
son, currently USG Congress
man from East Halls, "is the
only man qualified for the
office of vice president of
USG."
In his acceptance speech
Thompson reiterated the par
ty platform that Fox had out
lined, He then proposed his
own solution to the "down
town problem," the creation
of a Student Better Business
Bureau. Thompson said, "Stu
dents and merchants should
work with each other instead
of against each other."
Standing Ovation
Thompson also received a
standing ovation. Since no
other candidates were pro
by acclamation.
There was also no contest
for the Student and Lion
Party nominee for 'USG
treasurer. William Cromer,
USG liaison to Harrisburg,
proposed the nomination of
Harvey Reeder and it too
was accepted by acclamation.
Cromer called the present
sophomore class president "a
dynamic person, concerned
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