12 COPIES
Partly sunny and warm. today,
but with increasing cloudiness
this afternoon and a chance for
showers before nightfall. High
near 75. Variable cloudiness and
continued mild tonight through
tomorrow night with periods of
showers; mostly light. Low 55,
high tomorrow near 70.
V0L..68, No. 122
from the associated press
News Roundup:
From the State,
Nation & Work!
The World
SAIGON U.S. fighter-bombers pulverized a half
mile square area of modest homes and shanties in Saigon's
southern suburbs early today.but Viet Cong holed up in the
rubble still fought on.
The aerial bonibardment began near sundown Friday
after rockets from helicopter gunships had failed to silence
snipers who pinned down 'U.S. 9th Division infantrymen
trying to push into the area.
The jets continued their strikes into the early morning
south of the Kinh Doi Canal that marks the southern
limits of Saigon proper.
U. S. officers said this was the last major holdout area
of the enemy, which launched attacks against the capital
Sunday in an apparent attempt to influence the peace talks
in Paris.
"All the civilians left there two days ago," one 9th Di
vision officer at a battalion command post said. "We're
certain there are two reinforced battalions of Viet Cong in
there and we're going to wipe them out."
The Nation
Flooding Causes Derailment, Deaths
DALLAS, Tex. = Texas counted six deaths, many
closed roads, a train derailment and washed out bridges
yesterday from turbulent weather that brought up to a foot
of rain and tornadoes by the dozen.
Flash flooding Thursday and yesterday temporarily
crippled at least five cities and the excess water sent many
creeks and rivers out of their banks.
The funnel clouds did little damage and not all of them
reached the ground.
A new upper air disturbance, meanwhile, crossed the
southern Rockies and bore down on West Texas bringing
the threat of more severe weather.
Houston underwent a cloudburst of two inches in 45
minutes about noon, flooding police headquarters and ris
ing into basement quarters in City, Hall. A number of
streets and underpasses of the nation's third largest port
city were flooded. The roof of an automatic laundry col
lapsed. Two funnel clouds were sighted but did not reach
the ground.
WASHINGTON Secretary of Welfare Wilbur J.
Cohen says estimates of the cost of medicaid, the federal
program of medical care for the poor, may have to be
raised sharply over projections made only last December.
Cohen told Sen. Carl T. Curtis, R-Neb. in a statement
that while the annual federal cost of the program five years
from now was estimated in December at. $1.7 billion, the
estimate probably will have to be raised to $2.5 billion or
perhaps as high as $3 billion. The $1.7 billion estimate to
which Cohen referred was made by a Senate-House con
ference committee in a report issued Dec. 11.
• It now appears that -the 1972 estimate will _be
almost this fiscal'year, a spokesman for the medic
aid'program-said Thursday in resjibtLie — toa . fetfoffer's ques-
bahen'i statement was in reply to questions submitted
by Curtis prior to Senate confirmation Thursday orCohen's
appointment as head of the Department of Health,'Educa
ton and Welfare. Curtis, a member of the Senate Finance
Committee which considered Cohen's nomination, has long
differed from Cohen's views on social-welfare programs.
* * *
Controversy Erupts In Teacher Firing'
,NEW YORK -- The' attempted firing of 19 teachers
and administrators by a predominately Negro local school
in Brooklyn emerged yesterday as the newest controversy
in the city's volatile experiment with community control
' led schools.
Three special districts have been established in Negro
and mixed neighborhoods in the past two years to test the
efficiency of giving the community more control over a
school system that is 'more than 50 per cent Negro and
Puerto Rican.'
All three have been roof-high in controversy one time
or another with the citywide Board of Education. The latest
battle erupted as the state legislature was about to con
iider the entire future of decentralization for the huge
1.1" million pupil system.
The 19—including a Negro and a Puerto Rican—were
summarily fired Thursday by the community elected board
in a special district composed of six schools in the slums of
Brooklyn's Oceanhill-Brownsville area. The Board of Edu
cation told the 19 to ignore the notices, and said the local
board had no power to hire and fire. The board won the
grudging support of Mayor John V. Lindsay, a proponent
of systemwide decentralization.
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Freeing of Trapped Miners Expected
HOMINY FALLS; W.Ve. The families of 15 miners
entombed for more than four days in a flooded Southeast
West Virginia coal mine were told at 5 p.m. yesterday that
the men would begin coming out in two to five hours.
Crowds of people began gathering at the mine en
trance soon after the announcement.
Six ambulances were standing by to take the men to
hotpitals nearby. • -
C. E. Richardson,.,president of the company that owns
the mine, said the trapped men would be taken out through
the entrance, A tunnel that - was being drilled as an alter
nate route' had not been ,completed 'at the time.
The wall of an adjoining abandoned mine burst Mon
day sending millions of gallons of water coursing through
a shaft, which is only : 3 feet high in spots.
Giant pumps have been at, work for days. The water
level finally lowered- enough yesterday to give hope - for
early rescue. .
The State
Telephone Contract Talks Break Off
PHILADELPHIA Marathon contract talks aimed at
settling 'a 16-day strike against ,Bell Telephone Co. of
Pennsylvania broke off yesterday afternoon after 25 hours.
The deadlock reportedly occurred over whether telephone
company employes should install all underground cables
or whether some of the work can be farmed out.
Bell accused the union, the 13,000-member Federation
of Telephone Workers of Pennsylvania, of rejecting its own
proposal on the_farm-out question. Both the union and
Bell said apparent agreement had been reached on wages,
benefits and working conditions in the talks that started
at 1 p.m. Thursday. They estimated the contract was worth
about $22 million over three years.
"Suddenly we found ourselves hopelessly tied in knots
over a distorted issue," said W. W. Kinkle, Bell's chief
negotiator. Kinkle said the union had made a written pro
posal on the cable installation question which the union
agreed to.
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• Yes, we have reviews today. "The Pawnbroker" and gi wick, Maine, was stabbed a block from where
"Sweet November" by Collegian Filar Critic Paul f'i bUses of the marchers were being boarded.
Seydor, and "West Side Story" by Drama Critic Alan ii .
Slutskin. All on Page 2. Knocked to. Ground
. Joseph Miot-Mroz, who , carried anti
• Another queen contest. This time ifs for= a: - Dairy
Princess. See -Page 3. ' '- ' 2 ; Communist signs, was stabbed when his car'
~• '' , ' window was broken. The 43-year-old self
ia'On Page 4.. Collegian photography.Editot -Dan Rogers • 4 styled Polish freedOm fighter is' from Salem,
• offers his view of the Spring Arts Festival. ' * - Mass., and .is well known in New England
• Plenty 'of :Sports ori • Page 5 --' baseball, lacrosse, and lifor -: participating in' demonstrations ..of all.
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Charles L. Lewis, vice president for student
affairs, yesterday commended the Undergraduate
Student Government for its handling of the issue
of the University's relationship wtih the Institute
for Defense Analysis.
"I was satisfied to see students face a com
plex issue, debate it, and then act maturely,"
Lewis said. "Quite a few students took the time
to find out more about the issue before acting.
This was an example of responsible student ex
ploration," he said.
Thursday night USG refused to demand that
the University dissaffiliate itself from IDA, claim
ing that it did not know enough about IDA at
the present time.
Earlier in the week, Neil Buckley, regional
organizer of the Students for a Democratic So
ciety, had initiated a drive to have the University
sever its ties• with IDA, which researches and
analyzes security matters for the Federal Gov
ernment.
The , drive culminated with the presentation
of a bill to USG which was signed by 1,000 stu
dents, faculty members and alumni, asking that
STUDENT STRINGS his art work on South Allen St. for the Spring Arts Festival.
Activities will continue today, ending tonight with a jemmy at the Birdcage.
The seventh and final day of the
Undergraduate Student Government
Spring Arts Festival will begin at 10
am. today with a clothesline art sale
on' S. Allen St.
The art sale will 'feature the works
of student artists who wish to sell or
simply display their pieces. The, sale be
gan yesterday and will continue until
10 tonight.
Several festival activities sched
uled for Thursday were either post
poned or cancelled by Tim Hare, festi
val chairman, due to rain.
Among the events not completed on
Thursday were the student participa
tion activities of painting the street and
constructing the festival symbol.
Stiident participation in many of
the festival.activities has been below ex
pectations, possibly due to Thursday's
inclement weather. Today's activities
will be the last ones of the festival and
the last chance students will have to
participate in the feStival's theme,
"Creative Man: a Language of His Soul.
The festival's main purpose, accord
ing to Hare, is to "make Penn State stu-
By The Assochited Press
Marchers in the Poor People's Cam
paign picked up more supporters yesterday
as they moved toward Washington; but a
demonstrator picketing the march was
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UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1968
s Commends
By PAT GUROSKY
Collegian Administratzon Reporter
Arts Festival Ends Today
By DENNIS STIMELiNG
Collegian USG Reporter
Small Participation
Poor March Protestor Stabbed
any IPA-University ties be ended.
Elburt F. Osburn, vice president for research,
reported Thursday that there is no IDA research
on campus, but that individual professors do serve
as consultants to the organization.
Lewis claimed that there is "nothing new"
with the concerns students have regarding the
ethical issue of science research.
"This is an example of the eternal problem
of communication and understanding that will al
ways be with us," he said.
Lewis said he believed the IDA issue "got a
thorough airing. Quite a wide segment of the stu
dent population spoke out. Such' communication
can prevent a major disruption on campuses," he
said.
Lewis claimed that he didn't think all the
IDA Protesters Meet Today
Neil Buckley, regional organizer for the Stu
dents for a Democratic Society, announced last
night that students petitioning the University to
sever its ties with the Institute for Defense An
alyses will meet at 1:30 p.m. today in 160 Willard.
Clothesline Art Sale Featured
dents more aware and appreciative of
the arts." These arts include painting,
sculpture, architecture, music and
Hare said he expects participation
at the festival to reach its height today
because of the great number of parents
expected here, for Mother's Day week
end. Hare said, "With the wide range of
festival activities, it is within the inter
est of parents as well as students to
participate."
The dadaism booth on the ground
Today's Arts Festival Schedule
10 a.m.-10 p.m. Clothesline Art Sale
Student Art Works
S. Allen St. Mall
11 a.m.-4 p.m. Centennial Exhibition
6 p.m.-9 p.m. Hub Gallery
12:30 p.m.- Sidewalk and Car
Painting
4:30 p.m. S. Allen 'St. Mall
1 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Watercolor Painting
Demonstrations
S. Allen St. Mall
1 p.m.-5 p.m. Concert '
The Little German
Band
S. Allen St. Mall
1 p.m.-5 p.m. German Root Beer
Garden
, S. Allen St. Mall
from the buses - when he was knocked to th: ,
ground twice by . bystanders. He went • to his
car, made a circle turn, ;and was, a block
away when he was stabbed. ,
He was placed on the danger list at
City Hospital. "
The Southern segment - of the march
headed for Macon, Ga., from Atlanta. It
was to pass through the Social Circle com
munity, which experienced school :integra
tion disturbances last year.
Hosea, L. Williams, in charge of the
Southern leg of the• journey. • spoke of im
prcniements ,in :organization. = _
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'We are better organized, in' lea:ving,At
lanta than weever have been," he said.
He talked'to newsmen at the Atlanta
Stadiumi ariiicre 'pile •orbiiiwn paper bags;
and other baggage.
IDA Bill Tabled
Unanswered Questions
floor of the Hetzel Union Building will
be open today. "Dadaism" is the under
lying concept of the Arts Festival. It
was an art movement in the 1930's
which attempted to repulse and offend
as many people as possible through the
medium of art.
Most Popular
The HUB booth has proved to be
one of the most popular features of the
festival. Each day Hare and members
of his committee have attempted to en
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8:30 p.m
8:30 p.m.=
12:30 a.m.
First Violent Incident
USG Stand
questions surrounding IDA have been answered.•
"We have tried to answer as best we can 'what it
(IDA) is and does, but there is still the need to use
dialogues and seminars to discuss the issue. And
that is what the University is for," he stated.
Lewis added that the State legislature has
"debated for years" how much of the Common
wealth's money should be put into research at
the University. "It is the underlying question of
what is the University's role as a land grant uni
versity," he said.
Lewis claimed that he had not met with any
SDS members concerning the IDA question,
IDA's affiliation with Columbia University
was also an area of protest by students at that
university in recent weeks. Lewis claimed that
these incidents have renewed the question of to
what degree a university must become involved in
the affairs of the community surrounding it.
"How far can a unviersity go in involvement
in the community before the University itself is
changed?" Lewis ask. "This question has not been
answered by the closing of Columbia University.
It is a topic of constant debate," he said.
Peace Talks Set
For
PARIS (AP Negotiators
for the United States and North
Vietnam, meeting it, what both
sides called a good atmosphere,
agreed yesterday to open pre
liminary peace talks Monday
morning.
The accord broke through a
potential barrier of technical
problems and raised hopes of
U.S. officials that serious ne
gotiations on ending the war in
Southeast Asia may become
possible.
Another session on arrange
ments will be held at 10:30
a.m. and 5:30 a.m. EDT, today
by Ambassador Cyrus R.
Vance, deputy, chief of the U.S.
delegation, and Col, Ha Van
Lau, 'N0..2 man of ,the North
Vietnamese group.
Agreement Firm
Both Vance and Lau made
clear after yesterday's session
that the agreement on Mon
day's meeting is firm.
A North Vietnamese spokes
man saic later he believed the
few 'procedural questions left
Lecture
Professor Zelinski
102 Forum Building
Dance Concert
Modern Dance Club
White Hall Dance
Studio
Thespians
"West Side Story"
Schwab Auditorium
University Theatre
"The Servant of Two
Masters"
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Pavilion
Jemmy
The Munchkins and
The Mauve
Electron Light Show
Birdcage (Hammond
Bldg.)
Williams said the Southern leg now was
blessed with a luggage truck and 1,000 over
night toilet kits. He said reorganization in
cludes a division leader for every 240 persons
and squad leaders for every 20.
And he stressed nonviolence.
"We are going to have two nonviolent
workshops each day," he declared.
The marchers from Tennessee—the first
contingent scheduled to arrive in Washing
ton—rode over the Great Smoky Mountains
to North Carolina. The 11-bus caravan
planned to arrive in Charlotte after a stop
at Lake Junaluska, N.C.
May 30 Demonstration
From North Carolina, the caravan is
scheduled to spend tonight at Danville, Va.,
and proceed to Washington tomorrow. ,
Other groups will arrive periodically
an- Film, Show . Reviews
Columbia Protest
Monday
to be decided could be settled
today and that a third session
on procedure would not be
needed.
One question settled, the
North Vietnamese spokesman
said, was that of tongues. He
said English and Vietnamese
would be the official languages
of the talks and that statements
by both sides would be trans
lated into French, the confer
ence's working language.
No Further Details
The Hanoi spokesman -de
clined to give further details,
saying, "The Americans sug
gested that nothing further be
said and we agreed with that."
This agreement, he said, was
part of the good atmosphere
that prevailed.
The White House in Washing
ton said President Johnson re
ceived a full report on the
session from Dance. Tom John
son, assistant White HoUse
press secretary, said the Pres
ident will continue to receive
reports from his diplomatic
team as the talks continue.
Monday's meeting will bring
together Ambassador W. Aver
ell Harriman, President John
son's top negotiator, and Presi
de& Ho Chi Minh's special en
voy for the talks, Xuan Thuy.
Yesterday's meeting to o k
place in the International
Conference Center, suggested
by France last week when the
site within Paris threatened to
become as much of a block to
arrangement:, as selection of a
city for the talks had been dur
ing the previous month.
Greeks' Term
Averages Listed
By MARGE COHEN
Collegian IFC Reporter
The mean grade point average for fraternity men for
Winter Term was 2.563, Mel S. Klein, dean of men in
charge of fraternity affairs, has announced.
The all-University men's average was 2.569 with non
fraternity men averaging 2.571. From the University's 55
fraternities, Klein said 21 had averages above the all-Uni
versity men's average.
The top 10 houses are Alpha Zeta, 2.908; Alpha Epsi
lon Pi, 2.828, Alpha Kappa Lambda, 2.822.. Beta Sigma
Rho, 2.815; Phi Epsilon Pi, 2.750; Triangle, 2.702; Phi Sigma
Kappa, 2.699; Acacia, 2.691; Tau Epsilon Phi, 2.648; and
Theta Xi, 2.646.
Winter Term marks the 42nd consecutive listing of
Alpha Zeta and Triangle among the top 10 fraternities,
Klein said. He added that Delta Sigma Phi showed the
greatest improvement last term, moving from a ranking of
53 to 16. The house average was 2.599.
Of even greater significance to the Interfraternity
Council, Klein continued, was that out of the 55 fraternities,
only two houses obtained averages below the minimum IFC
requirement of 2.350. In the fall, 22 houses fell below the
requirement, he noted.
after that, ending in a massive demonstra
tion May 30..
Soldiers assigned to riot control duty
in Washington probably will carry unloaded
weapons. They would be permitted to load
them and fire only on direct order of an
officer, or non-commissioned officer if an
officer is not present.
The philosophy behind military civil dis=
turbance operations is maximum show of
force but a minimum use of force.
The National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People's Legal De
fense Fund announced it would handle - all
legal work connected with the Poor People's
Campaign.
. Leroy Clark, a fund attorney, said about
50 Washington attorneys have agreed to help
the fund's staff of 15 attorneys and 250
cooperating lawyers throughout the-nation.
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SEVEN CENTS
CHARLES L. LEWIS
`Satisfied' with USG Action
The session lasted an hour
and 45 minutes. When it was
over, the J.S. Embassy here
issued a statement under
Vance's name.
It said: "Representatives of
the two parties met from 3
p.m. to 4:45 p.m. today to
discuss procedures to be fol
lowed by the two e.elegates in
the future. We will continue
these discussions tomorrow, be
ginning at 10:30 a.m.
"The parties have agreed
that on Monday the full dele
gation representing the two
parties will meet."
'Not Quite Sure'
U.S. officiali who see pro
longed and difficult negotia
tions ahead were not quite sure
what to make of the day's turn
of events. The simplest expla
nation appeared to be that the
North Vietnarnese were gen
uinely concerned about confer
ence arrangements and that
they had decided as,a matter of
tactics not to make a major
issue immediately of such mat
ters as the conference agenda.
The agenda problem is poten
tially a barrier to progress in
the next few days. North Viet
nam says the only purpose of
the preliminary talks is to'
settle the matter or ending all
U.S. attacks on North Vietnam
ese territory, then other issues
can be raised.
But the United States wants
to know whether North Viet
nam will scale down its mili
tary operations to justify a
total bomb halt.