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Partly Cloudy and mild today.
High near 67. Cool tonight; low
near 53. Chance for -, few show
ers late tonight. Partly sunny
and becoming warmer tomor
row. High near 75. Partly cloudy,
warm and humid Thursday wlth
showers or' thunders:ww:rs.
VOL. 68, No. 123
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• - -ront Lewis with Demi n•s
PART OF THE GROUP of approximately 100 black stu
dents as they left Old Main last night after presenting
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By MA'AM EPSTEIN He will land at the Mid-state Airport in
Collegian Managing Editor Philipsburg at 11 a.m. Plans call for 'a 12:20 p.m.
More than 15,000 persons are expected to arrival in downtown State College.
gather on the lawn of the Hetzel Union Building Rockefeller spokesmen reported last night that
tomorrow to hear an address by Gov, Nelson A. the governor will walk from College Avenue
Rockefeller. toward the HUB, passing through the middle of
The Republican presidential candidate is the crowd
scheduled to speak at 12:30 p.m. His subject will The governor will deliver a 15-minute speech.
be 'Peace in Vietnam and the Rest of the World." This will be followed by a 20- to 30-minute period
National 'Coverage in which he will answer questions presented by _ __.
Representatives of the major national radio the audience.. Motorcade Planned
and television networks will converge on State William Cromer, state chairman of the Re-
Plans call for busses from Penn State's
College to cover Rockefeller's speech. publican College Council, requested last night
.* * * It * - * Commonwealth Campuses and other colleges in
- , the'slate to travel here' for. -- he speech.
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, motorcade and the other on the HUB lawn.
• • . Cromer also said that the speech will be
Nebraska Primary Camnaign made in Recreation Building if the weather should
prohibit an outdoor program.
. ' Introduction Planned
OMAHA. Neb. (W) It was Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy against the Democrats field and Richard
M. Nixon topping the GOP list as candidates
wound up their campaigning for today's Nebraska
presidential primary.
Kennedy played the traditional game of hedg
ing against a possibly unsatisfactory outcome. He
insisted that he couldn't get the 50 per cent of
the Democratic vote that would notify prospec
tive convention delegates in other states that his
campaign for the nomination was surging in high
gear.
Former Postmaster' General Lawrence F.
O'Brien, a Kennedy strategist, said he thinks that
if the New York Senator gets 35 per cent of the
vote in the Democratic column, he will have
racked up a substantial victory. He noted that in
Nebraska the late John F. Kennedy hit his lowest
mark of 37.9 per cent in the 1960 presidential race
with Nixon.
McCarthy Prediction
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, Kennedy's chief
rival on the ballot, expressed confidence he will
do better at the polls today than he did when he
ran third in last week's Indiana primary. Ken
nedy got 42 per cent of the vote in that test. Mc-
Carthy placed behind Gov. Roger D. Branigin, a
favorite son candidate, with 27 per cent.
The Minnesota senator declined to deal in
percentages, saying that "a horse doesn't have
to predict who's going to win a race."
O'Brien expressed public concern that a cam
paign for a Democratic write-in for Nixon might
cut into Kennedy's strength.
Crossovers are- barred among the state's 329,-
014 registered Republicans and 281,752 registered
Democrats. But , write-ins are easily scribbled in
on either party's ballot.
Nebraska Democrats for Nixon, headed by
Karl E. Dickinson of Lincoln, has mailed an aP-
News from the World, Nation
Strikes, Demonstrations Hit France
PARIS Hundreds of thousands of portesters against
the De Gaulle regime surged through the heart of Paris
yesterday in the climax of a day of general strike and dem
onstrations across France. The protests seemed a success,
but strike effects were so spotty it was often difficult to
tell one was on.
Workers, students, people of all ages and classes
marched for three miles amid chants .for President Charles
de Gaulle to' resign and cries of "De Gaulle assassin! De
Gaulle assassin!" _ • •
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It was the largest people's .parade through Paris in
memory and the strongest such demonstration against De
Gaulle's Fifth Republic. He leaves today for Romania on
a state visit.
After some concessions from the regime toward stu
dents who had rioted last week, the demonstrations took
on a wide -tone of criticism against the entire Gaullist
structure.
Alliei Declare VC Offensive 'Crushed'
SAIGON With 5;000 North Vietnamese pressing in
for the kill, U.S. cargo planeshave airlifted nearly 1,700
allied troops an,d civilians from mountain-ringed Khani
Due Special Forces camp near Da Nang, the U.S. Com
mand reported yeiterday. 'At , the setae time, allied com
manders declared the Viet Cong offensive in Saigon
crushed.
The. North Vietnamese at Kliam Due shot dovin a four
engine U.S. Cl3O Hercules transport loaded with goiiern
ment troops as it lifted off the tiny airstrip Sunday. .
The plane crashed and exploded, killing its six -U.S.
crewmen and -an "unknown number" of South Vietnamese
soldiers and civilian irregulars, the command said. A Cl3O
can carry -up to 100 passengers.
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peal to every Democrat to write-in Nixon's name
on their party's ballot. Dickinson's effort to rally
disgruntled Democrats is based on the theme that
McCarthy, Kennedy and Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey offer "nothing - but more of the same"
of rioting in the cities and excessive spending.
An under-financed and publicly disavowed
write-in drive for Humphrey was not generally
expected to provide him with any significant por
tion of the Democratic vote.
But the vice president seemed likely to share
heavily in the state's 30-vote convention delega
tion. The two Democratic National Committee
members, who automatically get places on the
delegation. are for Humphrey.
The 28 other delegate votes will be repre
sented by individual winners elected separately
and unbound by the results of the popularity
contest in which the national contenders are
vying.
Candidates supporting or leaning toward
Humphrey offer the best known names in the
delegate contests.
The undetermined factor in the mixed four
some of Democratic candidates is President John
son. His March 31 announcement that he would not
accept renomination came too late for his name
to be removed from the ballot.
Republican Gov, Norbert T. Tieman said votes
for Johnson could be assumed as votes for Hum
phrey, although the President has not publicly
offered political help to his second man.
Tiemann forecast that Nixon would get 70 per
cent of the Republican vote, a prediction that
former Secretary, of Interior Fred Seaton took
pains to downgrade. Seaton, a long-time Nixon
associate, said the former vice president would do
well to get 50 per cent in a contest where write
ins for Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York
will be a factor.
from the associated press
8 Pages
—Collegian Photos by Pierre Beilicini
a list of demands to Charles L. Lewis, vice president for
student affairs.
LBJ Still on Ballot
Driving hard to block the evacuation,' the North Viet
namese killed• 19 U.S. soldiers and Marines and wounded
another 125 in the desperate rear-guard action.
Poor People Begin 'Summer Siege'
WASHINGTON The Poor People's Campaign raised
:its wooden camp on a lawn by the Lincoln Memorial yes
terday to begin what its leaders say will be a summer
long siege of Congress.
, The Rev, Ralph David Abernathy promised protesters,
"We're going to plague the pharaohs of, this nation with
plague' after plague until they agree to give us meaning
ful jobs and a guaranteed annual income."
Although the pentagon placed an unannounced num
ber of troops in what it termed "a state of readiness,"
there were no incidents of any type reported.
Abernathy, leader .of the campaign planned by the
late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., - said, "We're going to
stay here until the Congress acts or the Congress adjourns,
'and then we will go on wherever Congress goes."
, The first marchers arrived by bus from Mississippi
and Tennessee Sunday. Other regiments wound their way
toward the -capital Monday through Michigan, South
Carolina and New Jersey.
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20,000 Reserves, Guardsmen Called
Armed services reserves and National Guaidsmen,
some 20,000 strong, left their homes and repoited for
active duty at' military centers across the country yester
day. They may be 'kept in uniform, up to two years, and
10,000 already are earmarked for Vietnam.
• The men were notified of their Gall-up in mid-April
and given 30 days ' o arrange their affairs. In general, they
seemed in good-spirits and some were anxious to be Sent
overseas quickly.
"If I'm going to be on active duty, I'd' rather be in
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1968
that faculty members cancel tomorrow's fourth
period classes.
"We urge that professors cancel their classes,
in order that students and instructors may hear
Rockefeller," Cromer said.
Rockefeller will speak from a platform on
the top of the HUB lawn. ..4k table for the press
will be set up on the sidewalk in front of the
HUB, and television stands will be manned from
the lawn.
University President Eric A. Walker was re
ported to have been asked to introduce Rocke
feller. He will be out of town tomorrow, however.
Cromer said that T. Ralph Rackley, University
provost, will be sought as a replacement for
Walker. •
Rockefeller will leave State College at
1:20 p.m. He will return to Philipsburg for a 2 p.m.
departure for Pittsburgh.
He is scheduled to meet in Pittsburgh with
other Republican governors, to discuss ideas for
the GOP national campaign platform.
Columbia Student
To Speak on •I DA
A teach-in concerning the Institute for De
fense Analyses will be held on Old Main Lawn at
2 p.m. Thursday to inform students of IDA's ac
tivities and Penn State's role in IDA.
Mike Klare, a member of Columbia Univer
sity's Students for a Democratic Society, will be
the main speaker. Klare has done much of the
research on IDA for the SDS national organiza
tion.
A petition demanding the exposure of IDA
work at Penn. State and the withdrawal of the
military reesarch organization from' the campus,
is to be presented Friday to President Eric A.
Walker.
Confer for Three Hours in Old Main;
Increase in Black Enrollment Asked
By MIKE SERRILL
Collegian Editorial Editor
Approximately 100 black students
made a surprise visit to Old Main yes
terday afternoon and confronted Vice-
President for Student Affairs Charles
L. Lewis with a list of 12 demands for
changes - in the University's policy re
garding black students.
On the list were demands for a
larger black enrollment at the Univer
sity, more black professors and more
black graduate students.
The students entered Old Main
about 4:30 p.m. and jammed into
Lewis's ground floor office. He agreed
to hear their grievances and the group
:moved into the larger Dean of Men's
' office at the west end of the Adminis
tration building.
Three-hour Talk
The black students talked with
Lewis until 7:26 p.m., then quietly
filed out of Old Main and dispersed.
The meeting was closed to report
ers, but Wilbert Manley, newly elected
president of the Douglas Association,
released the list of demands, which
To Discuss Platform
Vietnam than anywhere else," said 22-year-old Robert
Anspach, who reported with a Navy Seabee battalion at
Oklahoma City.
Reservists reporting in Cleveland included the 1002 d
Supply and Service Company, which has 33 enlisted men
and nine officers. Its commander, Capt. Donald Sceranka,
31, has a wife and four children.
Sceranka said most members of the unit were white
collar workers who would suffer financial hardship shift
ing from civilian to Army payrolls.
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'Specter App -cis Confessions Ruling
PHILADELPHIA Dist. Atty. Arlen Fpecter asked
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court yesterday to reconsider its
opinion that laid down new guidelines on how police may
obtain confessions.
The high tribunal 10 days ago ruled that a confession
obtained by police froin a 17-year-old New Kensington
girl violated her constitutional rights. The court said she
hadn't been advised properly that a lawyer could better
help her understand the nature of the charges.
Geraldine Taper was convicted of second degree mur
der in the 1965 gun slaying of a Westmoreland County man.
"All but a handful of the thousands of confessions
given throughout the Commonwealth over the past two
years ,are inadmissable under the new ruling by the court,"
Specter said.
"The effect, however, will be felt most severely in
murder cases, where the victim is no longer available to
testify against the defendant, and less in minor cases,
where the confessions are seldom sought or used," Specter
added.
thing President Named far Cheyney
CHEYNEY; Pa. Wade R. Wilson, former president
of the Pennsylv,ania State Education Association, was
Lewis signed, at 10:30 p.m. last night
They include
ore black undergraduates.
There are presently only, about 200
black students attending the Univer
sity. The Douglas Association demand
ed that the undergraduate enrollment
include 400 black students by the fall
of 1968, 1,000 by the following fall and
10 per cent of the undergraduate popu
lation thereafter.
eThat a building be named after
and dedicated to the late Rev. Martin
Luther King
•That a Martin Luther King
scholarship fund be established
•That a course in Negro history
be made a permanent part of the cur
riculum
e More black professors
*More black graduate students
e That a section of Pattee Library
be devoted exclusively to black authors
THE DOOR was closed to Collegian reporters
while the students met with Lewis.
Harriman, Thu Muffle Accusation
Peace Envoys Cordial
PARIS (PP) Each side in the Vietnam
war demanded yesterday that the other side
scale down the bitter conflict as a step
toward peace.
But the special emissaries of Presidents
Johnson and Ho Chi Minh—Ambassador W.
Averell Harriman and Minister of State
Xuan Thuy—were careful to muffle their
charges and countercharges in relatively
mild terms. It was as if they were signaling
a readiness to talk on and on, despite their
public postures, to end a war they both
detest.
It was a predictable send-off for the
long awaited encounter, held amid the
Gobelin tapestries and glittering chandeliers
of the storied former Majestic Hotel within
sight of the Arch of Triumph.
Harriman and Thuy, seasoned in the
graces of diplomacy, each courteously prom
ised to study the presentation of the other
and to meet again tomorrow.
The central demand of Thuy's declara
tion, delivered first at Harriman's invitation,
was as simple as it was stark: "Since the U.S.
government has unleashed the war of de
struction against the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam, the U.S. has to definitively and
unconditionally cease its bombing raids and
others acts of war on the whole territory of
the DRV.
"That is the prime and most pressing
att
Reevaluation of the athletic re
cruiting program with regard to bl..c:k
students
• More black literature offered in
the University's English courses
•The introduction of an African
culture study program.
The confrontation was at least in
part the result of a statement by Lewis
printed Sunday by Philadelphia's Sun
day Bulletin. Lewis is quoted as say
ing that student dissent at Penn State
is not as "dangerous as at Columbia"
because Penn State "is not in an urban
area and not contaminated by Harlem."
The statement was reprinted yes
terday in the Students for a Democratic
Society newsletter, "Southpaw."
The - blacks reportedly resent the
word "contaminated" and the implica 7
tion that the Douglas Association is
associated with the radical SDS.
Lewis called the Bulletin during
the conference and, according to Man
ley, retracted the statement. A spokes
man for the Bulletin said last night
that a story concerning the issue will
be *st.oted in today's paper.
Sunday's article dealt almost ex
clusively with SDS activities at Penn
State. Most of the information was con
tributed by Neil Buckley, SDS regional
organizer, and a graduate of the Uni
versity.
Buckley entered Old Main about
7 last night with two other men, ap
parently planning to join the con
ference in the Dean of Men's office. A
black student spoke to Buckley in pri
vate and he immediately left the build
ing.
When the meeting ended, none of
the black students would comment to
The Daily Collegian. Lewis left the of
fice hurriedly. and also refused to com
'ment. He. was 'visibly fatigued and. per-
Neither Manley nor Vincent Ben
son, vice-president of the Douglas As
sociation, would say what the black
students plan to do if the Administra
tion fails to comply with their demands.
legitimate demand of the DRV
To the relief of some on the American
side, Thuy did not go on then to warn he
will leave the conference if he does not get
his way. He spoke instead of the "serious
attitude and good will' with which his side
intends seeking an end of American military
action in order to be able to proceed "to
other points of interest."
This was a plain reference to the prob
lem of a wider peace settlement—the prob
lem which Harriman made the theme of his
2,000-word address.
America's millionaire trouble-shooting
diplomat outlined a seven-point program for
peace in all Indochina, beginning with a
swift agreement to restore the once demili
tarized zone between North and South Viet
nam as a genuine buffer.
Harriman charged the Northern Reds
are totally violating the demilitarized zone—
sending troops through it, firing over it and
ail the rest.
"We believe the demilitarized zone
should function as a genuine buffer," he
said. "Let us begin by pulling apart the con
tending forces as a step toward broader mea
sures of de-escalation."
He saw such a move as "a reasonable test
of good faith" which, if fulfilled, could lead
on to other elements of a settlement.
& State
named acting president of Cheyney State College yester
day to succeed Leroy Banks Allen.
Allen resigned last Friday for what he said was the
good of the school in the wake of student demonstrations
that included• seizure of the campus administration build
ing for three days.
About a third of the predominantly Negro school's
1,800 students participated in the protests. The ousting of
Allen was near the top of the. list of student demands.
Both Allen and Wilson are Negroes.
Wilson, director of the development, grants and awards
program, is a Cheyney graduate and has been on the
faculty since 1947. He was president of the PSEA last year.
Allen came to Cheyney in 1965 after seven years as
president of Bluefield, W.Va., State College.
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Private School Aid Bill Now in Senate
HARRISBURG A House-approved bill that would
provide about $27 million in state aid, for nonpublic schools
was given to the Senate Appropriations Committee yes
terday amid predictions that further action would be slow
in coming.
Sen. George N. Wade, R- Cumberland, committee chair
man, said he' did not expect his panel to release the bill to
the floor for some time.
"The bill will receive early attention," Wade said, "but
don't expect prompt action, because there is no money
in sight."
Wade said the committee would consider the bill
"within the next couple of weeks."
The bill, which would set up a special authority to
purchase educational services from private and parochial
schools, was passed by the House last Wednesday.
- As now drafted, the measure would finance the non
public school authority by allocating to it 15 per cent of
the state's annual cigarette tax collections.
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