The daily collegian., April 23, 1968, Image 1

Partly gunny, and mild today.
High near 70. Becoming‘cloudy
tonight with showers or thunder
storms likely late tonight and
early tomorrow. Low 55. Becom
ing partly sunny, breezy and
cooler tomorrow afternoon.
Chance of rain 10% today, 80%
tonight, 30% tomorrow.
VOL. 68, Np. 108
zuxsza from the associated press
News Roundup:
From the State,
Nation & World
The World
Clifford Foresees Reduction of Troops
NEW YORK—Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford said
yesterday increased effectiveness of South Vietnamese
forces will now enable the United States to level off its
war effort “and in due time to begin the gradual process
of reduction.”
Clifford offered no timetable as he appeared before
the annual membership meeting of The Associated Press,
for his first public address since he became secretary of.
defense seven weeks ago. Army officials have raised the
possibility of a withdrawal of American troops beginning
in 1969. . . . A
His speech followed his outline of policy at his first
news conference April 11, when he said the administration’s
goal is to gradually turn over the bulk of the fighting to
the South Vietnamese.
Party Head Favors Immigration Curbs
LONDON—Conservative leader Edward Heath said
last night thht he favored strict curbs on colored immigra
tion into Britain, but that he had dismussed Enoch Powell
from the party high command because of “the inflammatory
language” he used in urging the same curbs.
Heath said he had the unanimous backing of the party
hierarchy jfor his action Sunday in ousting Powell from
his “shadow cabinet.”
In a television interview, Heath rejected—almost con
temptuously—Powell’s accusation that in 'effect the Tory
leader was prepared to compromise with principle to win
party unity.
Powell, Heath said, should “speak plainly and not say
what he has to say' by innuendo.”
In a letter to Heath earlier in the day, Powell accused
Heath of “unsaving policies and views which you hold and
believe to be right, for fear of clamor from some section
of the press or public.”
South Vietnamese Army on Full Alert
SAIGON South Vietnam’s army in Saigon and 11
outlying provinces was ordered on full alert yesterday,
apparently because incidents of the past three days con
vinced officials the enemy is about to launch a second big
offensive against the capital,
Key sources laid the alert to a case of war jitters. A
U.S. mission spokesman said: “No alert or any warning has
been issued to American personnel.”
Another source said U.S. military police in Saigon had
been told to exercise caution in the next few days. Marine
guards at the U.S. Embassy were briefed on Vietnamese
intelligence reports, but the source described this as
routine. .
Vietnamese intelligence reports asserted the attack
would be with all the fury of the Tet offensive in February
that wrought havoc in Saigon.
The alert seemed to put little reliance on Operation
Complete Victory, the biggest allied offensive of the war
now sweeping the'll provinces around-Saigon in an at
tempt, to flush enemy forces.
This drive-by 100,000 allied troops,' launched April 8,
has encountered small North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
units but not the big division sought.
The Nation
NASA Faces Major Budget Cutback
WASHINGTON The space agency, already braced
for heavy” cuts of its 1969 budget by the House next week,
has suffered a new and' damaging setback: An official
report that it erred in not insisting that a multimillion dollar
Lunar module subcontract be awarded through competi
tive bidding.
The subcontract for radar equipment, was estimated
originally at $23.4 million. It already has cost the govern
ment $ll2 million, says the General Accounting Office, the
agency which checks executive spending for Congress.
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. is the prime con
tractor for the lunar module, one of three major sections
of the Appllo spacecraft that is to take men to the moon.
The subcontractor named in the GAO report is the Radio
Corporation of America.
ICC To Investigate Train Service
WASHINGTON An Interstate Commerce Commis
sion examiner ruled yesterday, in an unprecedented step,
that the ICC has the power to tell railroaders how to run
their passenger trains. '
And he recommended setting minimum standards for
the quality of rail passenger service. If the report, by ex
aminer John S. Messer, is adopted by the commission, it
will also be the first time in the ICC’s 81-year history that
the commission has investigated the quality of s service pro
vided on passenger trains.
If the commissioners agree with Messer and the com
mission ruling withstands court challenge, the result could
stem the continuing decline in the number of passenger
trains. Since 1958 the ICC has permitted more than 500
passenger trains to be discontinued.
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Telephone Workers Continue Strike
WASHINGTON A nationwide telephone workers’
strike persisted yesterday as a federal judge in Kentucky
threw out one of two state court orders which union offi
cials said blocked chances of settling their walkout.
Attorneys for the AFL-CIO Communications Workers,
representing some 200,000 strikers in 40 states, were also
reportedly asking a federal judge in Mobile to void the
Alabama state injunction.
Alabama strike leaders said, meanwhile, the picket
lines would remain up in that stale.
The union president, Joseph A. Beirne, described the
two state-court injunctions obtained by the Southern Bell
Telephone Co. as preposterous and anti-union, and said
they had dashed hopes for new negotiations to end the
wage dispute which started the strike last Thursday.
Nixon Rules Out First Ballot Nomination
CHEYENNE, Wyo. Richard M. Nixon all but ruled
out yesterday the probability that he will win the nomi
nation for president- on the first ballot at the Republican
convention next August.
But he asserted publicly for the first time that he has
developed strong second-place support in nominally un
committed delegations.
In a news conference in Cheyenne, the former vice
president said, “No one has the nomination wrapped up,”
and in another response, “it will not be locked up in the
present reading.”
On his second choice strength, Nixon said:
Pennsylvanians will vote in a primary
election today highlighted more by issues,
especially constitutional revision, rather than
candidates.
The major battle,' in a campaign marked
by citizen disinterest, appears to be shaping
up over the five proposed amendments to
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" ~ Gov. Shafer, an announced favorite son
Impipla E candidate for the Republican presidential
w nai S InSIUQ = nomination, confined his campaigning to
5 support of the constitutional proposals. Join
= ing him in urging constitutional revision was
= a bipartisan team of state leaders, including
r two former governors, Republican William
5 W. Scranton and Democrat George M.
5 Leader.
E The governor says Tuesday’s primary
E may be one of the most important elections
= in Pennsylvania “in this century.” But he
x warns that voter apathy could endanger ap-
E proval of constitutional revision.
E The constitutional proposals would re
ts vamp the judiciary, local government, legis
ts lative apportionment, tax and finance ar
s , E tides of the state’s 1874 Constitution.
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“I should say that we have developed and do have
a great deal of second-place support in many of these states
where their leaders, the governors, are not committed. And
once their leaders release them, they will move in another
direction.” • ....
WAS THE USG ELECTION A "FARCE"? Col
legian USG reporter Dennis Siimeling offers his view
on Page 3.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS speak out in a
new Collegian column, starling today on Page 3.
RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE provides a guide
to this week's campus activities on Page 5.
THE UNIVERSITY WOMEN in town starting
their own "Town Independent Women"? Also on
Page 5.
• THE NITTANY LION BASEBALL SQUAD split
with Rutgers over the weekend. Don McKee tells
all about it on Page 6.
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Key USG Races in Doubt
ly DENNIS STIWVELiNG
Collegian USG Reporter
The debate over last week’s Under
graduate Student Government Elections were
thrown into deeper confusion last night as
the possibility of a reversal in the election
results was noted by Edward Dench, elec
tions i commissioner.
The presidential and vice-presidential
races could be changed as a result of the con
troversy. James Womer beat Jon Fox for
the USG presidency by 108 votes. In the
vice presidential race, Theodore Thompson
beat Steve Gerson by 86 votes.
Last week the USG Supreme Court
threw out the results of the contest for the
West Halls congressional seat. That decision
was based on the complaint made in behalf
of Jay Hertzog, write-in candidate for the
seat, that students had not been instructed
by pollsters how to write in his name on the
voting machines.
Court Sees Doubt
The court agreed that there “was a rea
sonable doubt as to how the instructions for
voting for a write-in candidate were given to
students.”
The protest was initiated with an affida
vit signed by. seven students who claimed
that they had been denied the necessary in
formation to vote in this situation.
After the court had reached its decision,
Dench denied the charges made against the
commission members and said, “Those seven
signatures are either faked or they aren’t
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LAURENCE H. LATTMAN, professor of geomorphology,'
displayed the spring spirit Saturday as he directed a
"Slave Auction" for Gamma Sigma Sigma, service sorority,
Laltman even managed to, capture the following of the
youngest present (below).
Con Con Results Judged Today
By The Associated Press
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1968
West Halls Holds Balance,
Supreme Court Rejects Vote
what they seem to be.”
Dench asked the court to reconsider its
decision, but Dan Clements, Chief Justice,
refused. He simply said, “We have made our
decision. It is now up to the Elections Com
mission or the acting president of USG, Jon
Fox, to enforce it.”
Last night Fox commented on the West
Halls situation. He said, “The Elections Com
mission is the only established body which
can run elections. It is their responsibility
to handle all election business and to rule on
any and all infractions.
“As acting USG President, I must back
them in any action they see fit’ to take,” he
added.
Dench commented on the court decision
and Clement’s refusal to reconsider it, “The
Supreme Court has made a bad decision, but
it is too stubborn to change its mind.”
Dench said, “West Halls was identical
to every area in the election. There is no
reason why the Supreme Court should single
out West Halls. Their motives seem question
able.”
—Collegian Photo by Pierre Bellicinl
tice Michael A. Musmanno of the Pennsyl- five constitutional proposals over the week
vania Supreme Court publicly have ex- end, saying, “There is no reason in the world
pressed opposition to the judicial question, to approve the questions.”
Few others have declared their opposition The Constitutional Party has 3,952 voters
openly, but many members of the minor registered in the state,
judiciary are known to be working against Republican State Chairman John C. Jor
it. . dan and Democratic State Chairman Thomas
Andrew J. Watson, chairman of the Con- Z. Minehart have endorsed all five constitu
stitutional Party, voiced opposition to all tional questions.
Over 5 Million
Eligible to Vote
HARRISBURG (AP) Pri
mary election at a glance:
To be elected Delegates to
Republican and Democratic na
tional conventions; State Com
mittee members; sh; State
House of -Representatives in
special elections; presidential
Fox's Comment
Vote on Issues Set
By DAVE NESTOR
Collegian Staff Writer
More than 75 per cent of the na
tion’s total college enrollment is ex
pected to vote tomorrow in Choice ’6B,
the nation’s first collegiate presidential
primary.
Time Magazine is sponsoring the
straw poll, and a UNIVAC 1108 com
puter will be used to tabulate the re
sults. Votes from an anticipated turn
out of mo,re than two million students
on presidential candidates and national
issues such as Vietnam will be pro
cessed, totaled, and analyzed by the
computer.
, Balloting at , the University will be
held in the same locations as the USG
elections. - Students ; may vote tomor
row from 9,a.m. to 5 p.m. The ballot
is a perforated punched card. Using a
pencil or any sharp pointed object,
the student pushes out the perforations
to supply requested information.
Students are asked to specify age,
party preference and whether or not
they are foreign students.
Choice on the Ballot
First, second and third choices for
president may be chosen from twelve
names representing the Democratic,
Republican, Socialist Worker and
American Independent parties. Stu
dents can also write in, as first choices,
a candidate not appearing on the ballot.
Also appearing on the ballot will
be three referenda, two concerning the
war in Vietnam and one dealing with
the urban crisis.
Returns from each college will be
coded to identify the school; The com
puter will make a complete evaluation
which will include the percentages of
first, second and third place votes re
ceived by each candidate; percentages
of students favoring each course of ac
tion in the referenda; comparison of the
first choice voting with the voting on
the referenda; and analysis of the vot
ing and the course of action by age
groups, party, region ' and type of
TIM Endorses Borough
Condemnation of Housing
The Town Independent Men’s
Council last night hesitantly endorsed
the borough’s condemnation of 92 per
cent of downtown housing.
“We’ve been saying for the past
three years that the housing in State
College is bad, it’s about time they’ve
started to do something about it,” TIM
President Ed Dench said.
Dench said that although the bor
ough’s action may' leave hundreds of
apartment dwellers homeless, “it’s
_ Pennsylvania’s favorite son candidate, Re
popularity contest. Republicans, 2,550,295. Demo- publican hopefuls withheld their names from
Constitutional proposals—five crats, and 3,952 Constitutional the ballot. The governor’s favorite son role
to be decided by yes or no vote., party members. In addition, is designed to unify the state’s 64-member
To be nominated U.S. 62,043 voters registered as in- delegation to the National Con-
Senate, 27 congressmen, State dependents and minor party vention at Miami in August.
Treasurer, Auditor General, members will be eligible to vote However, former Vice President Richard
Superior Court judge, 25 state only on the constitut’onal pro- M. Nixon, the only announced GOP presi
senators, 203 State House of posals and nothing else. dential aspirant, New York Gov. Nelson A.
Representatives. VOTING HOURS— 7 a.m. to Rockefeller and others should get a number
Eligible to vote 2,595,279 8 p.m., Eastern Standard Time?.' of write-in votes. '
He added, “I feel this is an attempt by
Hertzog to get on the ballot. He didn’t rea
lize this, was impossible.”
Last week, the Supreme Court decided
that the West Halls congressional election
must be repeated. Dench refused to do this,
saying, “It was a fair election and we refuse
to rehold it because the results were not
even close.”
Congressional Aaces
The two candidates for the office were
Barry Todd of the Student-Lion Tarty and
Garry Wamser of the New Party. Todd won
the original election by a margin of more
than three to one, according to a high USG
official. Hertzog received “only a handful
of votes.”
Last night Clements said the court will
stick by its decision because “it was made in
an unprejudiced manner. The election must
and will be held again.”
Dench accused the court of being biased
and added, “If the election is held again for
the congressional seat, it must also be con
ducted for all the seats which were decided
in the previous election. This includes the
executive offices of USG and the class presi-
Choice Student Poll
school. This detailed breakdown is ex
pected to be available during the first
month of May.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.)
outlined his views on the ballot ques
tions. On the Vietnam issue he said,
“I believe that the only solution for
the Vietnam crisis is to reverse the
process of military and political esca
lation in which we have been engaged
for almost five years.”
McCarthy went on to say that the
following specific steps should be tak
en. “We must immediately halt all
bpmbing in North Vietnam. We must
halt the escalation of the ground war
and. freeze troop strength in Vietnam.
“We must, I think, make it clear
to the government' in Saigon ithat our
commitment is not open-ended, that
the Saigon government can no longer
exercise a vote power over our efforts
to negotiate. For we cannot continue to
escalate the war without the risk that
the conflict will spread further and
possibly involve China and the Soviet
Union.”
The Interfraternity Council elec
ted Eric Prystowsky, a brother in Alpha
Sigma Phi Fraternity, president for
1968-69 at last night’s meeting.
Jerry North, a brother in Theta
Delta Chi Fraternity, was elected ad
ministrative vice president and Brad
Lawrence, of Kappa Sigma Fraternity,
secretary-treasurer. .
The first balloting for president
failed to provide any of the candidates
—Charles Adams, Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Fraternity; Robert DiOrio, Delta Sigma
Phi Fraternity; Tom Haney, Acacia
Fraternity; and Prystowsky—the nec
essary 28 votes for victory.
For the second balloting, Haney,
having the lowest number of votes in
something we must go along with.’’ He
explained that he would rather see the
students moved out of the poor housing
now than not at all.
In other efforts to obtain better
living conditions for the student living
off campus, the TIM council is seeking
through its Legal Awareness committee
the approval by landlords of a standard
lease.
Written by Dave Vinikoor, chair
man of the committee, copies of the
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Residents
Prystowsky Wins
IPG Presidency
By MARGE COHEN
Collegian IFC Reporter
Primary
A Rare Choke
—See Page 2
dencies.”
Dench added that there are “1100 po
tential voters in West Halls who could alter
the results of the last election.
“A one hundred vote change over the'
previous totals could change the president
or vice president of USG,” ~ne said.
If a new election is held in West, it will
not take place before USG’s Thursday night
meeting, according to Dench. It is at that
meeting that the results of last week’s elec
tion will be certified by the Elections Com
mission.
BULLETIN
The Coalition for a Day'of Dialogue on
Peace, originally scheduled for Friday, has
been canceled the Collegian learned last
night. The Coalition has been rescheduled
for May 10.
Professors are advised by Arnold Bod
ner, spokesman for the Coalition, not to can
cel their classes this Friday.
Further details were not immediately
available.
In other election news, Dench announced
that, recounts of the ballots cast for USG
president and vice president will be con
ducted tomorrow. The recounts were re
quested as a result of the close results of
the two races.
-The new congressmen, class presidents
and organization presidents will assume their
offices at the meeting Thursday.
Concerning the urban crisis Me-,
Carthy said that America must move
to establish a set of civil rights that
are basic for every American. Among
these he named as most important the
right of every man to have a job and
be able to support his family. Second
ly , v the senator said that every Ameri
can has the right to the quality and
amount of education sufficient to ful
fill his potential.
Choice ’6B will test the reliability
of many of the popularity polls. The
latest Gallup Poll shows that the
young people prefer to remain uncom
mitted in party preference. A poll at
Stanford University showed that 59
per cent of the students prefer Sen.
McCarthy and 13 per cent favor Sen.
Robert Kennedy of New York.
“Choice ’6B is a complete poll of
the nation’s college students, and thus
is more authoritative than a survey
based on sampling,” said Gene Mc-
Laughlin, Manager of the Program
ming Services Department, Univac
Scientific and Computer Services.
the first round, was dropped from the
race, and the Council voted on the re
maining three men. Prystowsky swept
the election with 30 votes.
Prystowsky stated that ‘‘l will do
everything within my power to have
the changes I have advocated realized.”
North defeated his opponent, Scott
Bailey, a brother of Kappa Delta Rho
Fraternity, by 32 to 21 in the race for
administrative vice president.
Commenting on his victory, North
said, “IFC must continue to initiate
many programs through support from
all fraternity men.”
In the race for secretary-treasurer,
Lawrence received 32 votes, while his
opponents, Jim Pittinger of Beta Theta
Pi Fraternity and Clarence Spannuth
of Phi Kappa Pi Fraternity, received 13
and nine, respectively.
Expressing his appreciation to his
supporters, Lawrence said he would
work “in particular, for the expansion
of the Fraternity Purchasing Associa
tion.”
In other business of the Council,
Board of Control Chairman Gerry
Haines announced that applications for
his position for next ■ year are still
available in the IFC office, 203 Hetzel
Union Building. Deadline for these ap
plications is the end of this week.
Bob DiOrio, co-chairman from
Greek Week—’6B, announced that the
deadline for applications for Pi Omicron
Sigma honorary fraternity is also the
end of this week.
Prystowsky said applications for
executive vice president will also be in
the IFC office today.
The main event between candidates is a
Democratic affair pitting U.S. Sen. Joseph
S. Clark, 68, against U.S. Rep. John H. Dent,
60, for the Philadelphian’s Senate seat. Clark
is seeking nomination for a third term.
Clark and Dent did little talking, spent
hardly any money, and almost ignored some
sections of the state in their campaigning.
U.S. Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy twice
visited the state trying to stir up interest
in his campaign for the Democratic presi
dential nomination. The name of the Minne
sota senator is the only one on the presi
dential ballot, but there is expected to be
write-in votes for New York Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy and Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey, among others,
In deference to Gov. Shafer’s role as
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