Fog and low cloudiness dissi
pating this morning followed by
sunny and milder this afternoon.
High near 65. Clear and cool to
night with ground fog possible
by morning. Low near 40. Part
ly sunny and warmer tomorrow.
High near 70.
VOL 69, No. 17
Outcome of USG Elections
Early Results
South Halls' (tentative)
Toni Benedict—los
Pollock A (no results)
Al Rubenfield
Pollock B (no results)
Pollock C (tentative) '
Laura Wertheimer—69
Diane' Clymer—76
Simmons-McElwain
(tentative)
Judy Rubin—l 42
Mary Ann Ryan—l 67
West A (final)
Dennis Siimeling—l22
West B. (final)
Barbara Mizik—B6
Jeffery Shear—76
East A (final)
Aron Arbittier—-132
Tom Ritchey—l7o
3 Bears Chase
Golden Fleece
By The Associated Press
The campaigns of George C. Wal
lace and Richard M. Nixon took new
turns yesterday, while Hubert H_ Hum
phrey planned strategy for the next
three weeks with his running mate and
campaign manager.
George C. Wallace, declaring that
the Vietnam war “is the most important
matter facing the American people,”
bore down hard on foreign policy in
speeches yesterday after announcing he
would send his running mate, Curtis E.
LeMay, to Vietnam.
The third party presidential candi
date, in stronger than usual language,
said in Peoria, “I’m going to assure you
that .we .will the Vietnam .war
tariiy wi t h conventional - weapons,”
should diplomacy fail. : '
Why In Vietnam?
“If we lose politically and diplomati
cally and cannot win militarily, I won
der why we’re there in the first place.
“We’re not going to police the whole
world. And your sons and your grand
sons are not going to continue to go to
Vietnam forever.” .
Wallace’s opening remarks of his
speech announced his decision to send
LeMay, a retired former Air Force chief
of staff, to Vietnam on what Wallace
called a fact-finding mission.
Wallace charged Wednesday that
Richard M. Nixon is in cahoots with the
Gallup Poll and said the national public
opinion polls are rigged.
Investigate Polliakers
Wallace called for a congressional
investigation of the professional poll
takers, who he said are controlled by. the
Eastern moneyed interests.
The third-party presidential' chal
lenger predicted the next major poll will
show that he has lost ground to Repub
lican Nixon. He offered this explanation
at a rally of 5,000 in Scranton, Pa., elab
orating at an airport news conference in
Albany later:
Nixon Speaks to Labor
Nixon charged yesterday that “some
union treasuries are being emptied to
support the sagging campaign” of Vice
News From the World, Nation
Thieu Denies Report of Coup Attempt
SAIGON President Nguyen Van Thieu went on
radio and television last night and denied reports of a
thwarted coup against his one-year-old elected govern
ment. He blamed the reports on "rumors” spread by “Com
munists and their henchmen.”
Thieu made no mention of the fact that high-level
government sources and spokesmen—although not from his
office—had told newsmen that there had been a coup
attempt Tuesday night.
These sources said there had been arrests in connec
tion with the coup and that more persons would be taken
into custody. Thieu said there had been no arrests.
Throughout Wednesday and Thursday in Saigon, offi
cial and off-the-record comment from government offi
cials on whether there had been a coup attempt was in
direct contradiction. There did not appear to be any
political affiliations among the various spokesmen to ex
plain the contradictions, however.
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Saigon VC Starve As Caches Seized
SAIGON Some North Vietnamese units that once
threatened Saigon are on the verge of starvation after huge
food caches were seized in allied sweeps, U.S. officers re
ported yesterday.
Adding to the enemy difficulties, North Vietnamese
bases near the Cambodian border have been pounded by
U.S. 852 high altitude bombers and enough weapons have
been captured since Jan. 1 to equip four divisions, the
U.S. Command reported. v
The command added that in the past two'weeks nearly
100 tons of cached rice have been found.
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President Not To Replace Earl Warren
WASHINGTON President Johnson pulled back yes-,
terday from any new effort now to replace Earl Warren
as chief justice of the United States,
It was left unclear, however, whether Johnson might
8 Pages
East B (tentative)
Bette Jean Corson—l67
Libby Hegyes—l9s
Bob Lachman—34B
Don Paule—4lB
Ken Rodgers—2o7
ITo dock
East C (final) Norman Schwartz—3Bo
i-aii'icia No>l 178 Leo Simmons—3l6
Begina Slepahin—l7B Dexter Thompson-432
Barry Todd—3lB
Richard Wynn—3ll
North (final)
Alan Krivoy—l7l
•Mike Epler—los
•Sharon Fasenmyer-40 Freshma (^t l a^ S ve^' eSldent
Fraternity (final) Gary D’Orazio—l67
George Beighley 154 Robert Kepler—lss
Robert Brinley—l77 . Steve Mackin—l6o
Hank Millman—l4l Roger Mellott—46B
Jim Sandman—l 27 George Rampulla—l33
George Slrachan—lB2 Don Rappaport—62
Fred Westphal—ll9 Robert Simon—l7o
Dave Still—l 26
•Joe Zedrewski—42
Town (final)
Marty Finan—3o9
Terry Klasky—432
President Humphrey.
The GOP White House campaigner
staged a rally in Moline, 111., and another
in Akron urging Republicans to work
for the ticket, cautioning them against
overconfidence.
Nixon made his assertion about
union funds in a statement issued in in
dustrial Akron.
“Today, the rank and file of Ameri
can labor is rightly resentful of the way
some union treasuries are being emptied
to support the sagging campaign of an
administration that has proven to be a
false friend of labor.”
- Going To -'Win Big'
In Moline, Nixon forecast he would
--“win big” in the Nov. s^election.-He said,
“the stakes are too high hot to have ’a -
change in America this year.”
The GOP nominee, campaigning in
Illinois and Ohio, said he is taking
nothing for granted despite the signs
that he is ahead, and will campaign
intensively in the waning days of the
race.
No Debates Jolts HHH
Humphrey quoted his political stock
on Wall Street—in a mixed market—
and then huddled with his running mate
and campaign manager yesterday to
plan strategy for the final three and a
half weeks of their uphill campaign.
The vice president met with Sen.
Edmund G. Muskie, the No. 2 man on
the Democratic ticket, and Lawrence
O’Brien, national Democratic ciiau.u.u
and campaign chief, at Humphrey’s hotel
suite.
The Humphrey-Muskie campaign
strategy received a jolt yesterday. Hum
phrey said he regretted Senate Republi
can Leader Everett M. Dirksen’s bar
ring of action on legislation that would
have changed the equal time rules to
permit a television debate' involving
Humphrey, Nixon and the third party
candidate, George C. Wallace.
Humphrey earlier took his search
for campaign cash and votes to Wall
Street and standing under a pink con
fetti shower drummed a theme of Dem
ocratic prosperity.
K2S from the associated press
•Write-in
make another attempt before his term expires Jan. 26.
Warren submitted a notice of retirement last June to
take effect at the President’s pleasure. Johnson nominated
Associate Justice Abe Fortas to head the court. At the
same time he submitted the name of Homer' Thornberry,
an old friend who is now a U.S. Court of Appeals judge
in Texas, to fill the vacancy that would be created by
Fortas’s elevations.
The Fortas nomination was blocked in the Senate by
a filibuster and Johnson withdrew it, at Fortas’s request.
Later, with no opening to fill, he also pulled back the
Thornberry nomination.
Senate Says 'No' to Three-Way Debate
WASHINGTON Efforts to remove the legal hurdles
to free television-radio debates between the major presi
dential candidates collapsed yesterday in the face of a
Republican sit-out that.blocked Senate action.
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., was unable
to muster a quorum to take up the House-passed legisla
tion and said under the circumstances he had no choice
except to bow to the GOP opposition.
And even after that, with the Republican sit-out lifted,
it took nearly two hours to muster a bare quorum of 51
—l7 Republicans and 34 Democrats.-Most of the 49 other
senators were out -of town.
Mansfield then moved that action on the equal time
bill be postponed indefinitely, thus killing it.
Wilson, Smith Fail To Agree on Rhodesia
GIBRALTAR negotiations marked new
meetings yesterday of Prime Minister Harold Wilson of
Britain and lan Smith of Rhodesia on the white-ruled
African territory’s future, though their language was de
scribed as affable.
. The two leaders talked for 3% hours before lunch,
first privately then with members of their delegations, in
the wardroom of the Fearless, a British assault ship
moored at this British base at the western end of the
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1968
Winners Discuss Aims;
Mellott Frosh President
By DAVID NESTOR
and ALLAN YODER
Collegian Staff Writers
Results of the Fall Term Under
graduate Student Government elec
tions were announced at 10:30 last
night in the ballroom of the Hetzel
Union Building.
Elected to the freshman class pres
idency was Roger Mellott. Twenty
three congressional seats were also
filled.
Steve Gerson, USG elections com-
missioner, said late last night that
some results are still tentative. The
votes of several ballot boxes will be
recounted.
Krivoy Wins in North
Alan Krivoy, the winning candi
date from North Halls, said- after his
election that “my main object in USG
TIME'S UP . • • Their pari in student government finished, the voting- machines will
now go back into a dark and dusty storage, while the students who voted and those
elected try to keep from doing the same.
3 Astronauts To Go 11 Da
Apollo 7 Ready
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)
—Weather was “a bit of a ques
tion mark,” but three confident
Apollo 7 astronauts yesterday
were given a “go” to blast off
today on an 11-day space flight
that could steer America back
on course to the moon.
Even as the countdown clock
began for an 11 a.m. • liftoff,
however, project officials ad
mitted there was “a distinct
possibility” the flight by vet
eran astronaut Walter M. Schir
ra Jr. and his two space rookie
copilots, Donn F. Eisele and
Walter Cunningham, will not go
the full 11 days.
May Be Shortened
*‘We expect the possibility—
and we think it’s a distinct pos
sibility—to shorten it, but we
are planning for the full dura
tion,” said William C. Schneid
er, .Apollo 7 mission director for
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
“Our most important learn-
is to try and show the students that
we can do things through the recog
nized channels, and Dr. ’W’alker has
designated USG as a proper channel.
I want to give USG some kind of voice
and power.
“I’d also like to see the Free
Speech Movement endorsed by USG.
“My main goal is to create a
student-faculty senate. Most of the
See box for complete electiou results
power at the University lies with the
Faculty Senate, and it’s about time
for students to determine their own
lives."
Krivoy also said that he hoped
to see USG become a body where stu
dents and faculty and Administration
can work together.
ing for this flight is to deter
mine how the spacecraft lasts,”
added flight director Glynn
Lunney in a news conference.
“We can gain just about every
systems objective in the first
Collegian Wins
First Class
The Daily Collegian has
been awarded a First Cla o s
rating by the Associated Col
legiate Press for Winter and
Spring Terms 1968.
The Collegian scored 3,400
out of a possible 4,000 points
to win the award, second
highest of the ACP.
ACP awarded Collegian per
fect scores in the categories
of news balance, sports writ
ing, sports display and copy
reading, among others.
Mediterranean. They met alone for another IVz hours in
the afternoon.
There was no indication that the talks would per
suade Smith to renounce white control of the rebel British
colony.
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Mail-Order Gun, Bullet Sales Banned
„ WASHINGTON Congress sent President Johnson
Thursday a gun control bill weaker than the one he asked
for but still the strongest it has ever passed.
The bill would make it illegal for a person to buy,
either in person or through the mails, any guns or am
munition outside the state in which he lives. It would also
outlaw sales of firearms or ammunition to juveniles, fugi
tives, mental incompetents, drug addicts or persons under
criminal indictment.
The House, completing action on the measure, passed
it by a 160-129 roll call vote. The action climaxed a long
fight that was intensified after the gunshot killings of
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The bill requires a mandatory additional jail term
of l-to-10 years for a first offender and 5-to-25 years for
subsequent offenders who use or carry guns in the com
mission of a federal crime.
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Nine Convicted of Draft Records Burning
BALTIMORE, Md. A jury found nine Catholics
guilty yesterday ot three charges in connection with the
seizure and burning of draft board records.
The jury deliberated one hour and 20 minutes.
The jury was polled for each of the defendants and
after the last verdict’of guilty was pronounced, somebody
in the audience stood up and said:
“Members of the jury you have just found Jesus Christ
guilty.” Several other persons in the courtroom seconded
that statement.
Chief U.S. District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen, ordered
the room cleared.
The audience sang “We Shall Overcome” as they left
Announced
Terry Klasky, victorious incum
bent town congressman, said "there
are two things that I want to see USG
accomplish in the coming year. First,
a restructuring of the Congress and
completion of the reorganization pro
gram that I started last year.”
Klasky said that he would like to
see USG “push through legislation
passed last year and get the Faculty
Senate to accept and pass these bills.”
In connection with this he mentioned
the Student Protection Act and his bill
limiting 400-level courses enrollments
to 35 students.
“The administration has turned up
its nose at us for varying reasons. I
want to get the Senate to act favor
ably on USG bills,” he said. Klasky
added that we would like to see stu
dent participation on the University
Board of Trustees, either as observers
or ex-officio, non-voting members.
Ryan Defeats Rubin
Mary Ann Ryan, who defeated
Judy Rubin in Simmons-McElwain,
said, “I was shocked by the Collegian’s
endorsement of my opponent.”
She went on to say that she would
like to see USG “opened up to smaller
groups, and encourage these groups
to work through USG.”
three or four days,” if an equip
ment problem requires the mis
sion to be terminated early, he
added.
“Weather is a little bit of a
question mark at the moment,”
as far as the launch is con
cerned, said Dr. Wernher von
Braun, director of NASA’s Mar
shall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala., which devel
oped Saturn-Apollo rockets.
Predictions Good
“The predictions are good,
but there will be some shower
activity in the morning. And
should the shower situation in
dicate that the wind prior to
launch may increase, it may
become necessary for the crew
to leave the spacecraft in which
case we would scrub for 24
hours,” he said.
Otherwise, “everything is
right on the money and all tests
of subsystems clicked off like
a charm” in preparation for
liftoff, the rocket expert said.
Paule Tops in Voting
For Town Men Coundl
Results of the voting for Linda Kauffman. 311; Dexter
Town Independent Men's Coun- M. Thompson. 290; Elliot
oil was announced last night in Sacks. 256: Bob Connell, 234;
conjunction ' with the Under- Robert Lobb, 280; Barry Todd,
graduate Student Government 27G; Marilyn Warnick, 262;
election results. Robert Krajci, 242.
Of the 35 candidates running _ Da ':! d *L hoad ?' 216; ,?° nald
for council, the 21 with the most t “?°: T „Greene,
votes were elected. The follow- J? Frcd N° u ,; I’s; Richard
ing is the list of candidates lree |>-
elected and their vote totals; ” 1: r Sc ?“ J - Hdd «« ran t\ J 163 j
Frank Lordi. 160; Edward
Don Paule, 385: Bob Lach- Dicenzo, 158; Robert Reago,
man; 380; Susan Rhodes, 365; 156.
Students Probe
Bookstore Issue
By JANICE MILLER
Collegian Staff Writer
-At the-meeting of the Student Union, hold last night
fn Waring Lounge, discussion centered on possibilities of
establishing a student-run bookstore.
One of the members of The Union, a graduate student
from Berkeley, said, “We know we need a bookstore; we
must discuss how we will set one up.”
This student offered information about Berkeley’s
bookstore. He said that their bookstore op
erates on a profit basis; the profits, however, are used to
benefit the students themselves in providing funds for
lectures and similar cultural activities.
Discussion on this topic resulted in a proposal to initi
ate correspondence with student governments of univer
sities which have successfully employed the use of a
student-run bookstore.
Discount Centers Source
A group also established a tentative plan in connection
with discount book 'centers in New York. It was dis
covered that certain book centers advertise the sale of
books at discount prices in The New York Times Book
Review section.
The Union intends to send letters to these book
centers, explaining the book situation at the University,
and inquiring whether or not the centers would be willing
to send representatives to discuss possibilities of a discount
bookstore.
It was also pointed out that if the required books for
each term were known before the start of the term, a
boycott could be established by ordering books from these
agencies if individual orders would be placed with some
sort of guarantee of refund if the books are not used.
It was mentioned that “three major bookstores down
town have a monopoly on booksales in this area” and
that “ordering books outside would force the bookstores to
lower prices.”
No Interference with Freedom
When the idea was brought up of demanding
fessors to do away with required texts, it was quickly
discarded because the group doesn’t “want a boycott that
will interfere with the professors’ academic freedom.”
Chairman of The Union, Richard Harty, said that the
Faculty Senate has a “hang-up that a student bookstore
cannot operate without creating a deficit.” A report is
now being made by the Union to find out what problems
would create such a deficit, and how they could be avoided.
& State
and continued the civil rights hymn while standing around
a battle monument near the Post Office which houses the
U.S. District Court.
N. J. McCarthy Men Endorse Humphrey
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. Leading New Jersey backers
of Sen. Eugene McCarthy and the late Robert F. Ken
nedy yesterday endorsed Hubert H. Humphrey for the
presidency'.
The McCarthy-Kennedy supporters' said": “Each of us
in our individual rather than in any representative capacity
urges ail Democrats to join actively in support of Hubert
H. Humphrey' and Edmund S. Muskie.
The statement, read by Daniel Gaby, a McCarthy
delegate to Democratic National Convention, was timed to
coincide with a visit by Muskie to New Jersey yesterday.
Gaby said “Our quarrel with the vice president related
to his position on the Vietnam War. To the limited extent
that Mr. Nixon has confided in the public, he is even more
of a hawk on the Vietnam question than Mr. Humphrey
ever was. “We believe that Mr. Humphrey has become more
receptive to fresh approaches to the Vietnam solution.”
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Negroes Arraigned for Grocer s Death
PITTSBURGH Three young Negroes were arraigned
yesterday on charges of murdering a white grocer—a slay
ing that marked the beginning of a series of racially-tinged
incidents.
Jailed after arraignment before Coroner Ralph J.
Stalter of Allegheny County were Russell L. Sewell, 18, of
Pittsburgh’s Oakland section and Roger DeVaughan and
Homer Dennison, both 17 and both of the Homewood-Bush
ton area.
They’ll be given a hearing Oct. 18.
Detectives said they picked up the three youths Wed
nesday night and early yesterday.
They’re accused in the death of Michael DeLuca, 64,
who. was gunned down in his small store in'Homewood-
Brushton Monday afternoon.
Columbia: Can
It Happen Here?
—See Page 2
SEV6N CENTS
In connection with the Free Speech
Movement, she said that she would
like to see President Walker meet with
USG for an open forum, concentrating
on items of campus interest.
USG ‘Will Kill It*
Bob Lachman, new USG town con
gressman, also discussed the Free
Speech Movement.
“If USG takes the movement over,
it will die. USG will structure it, and
this structuring will kill it.
‘Get Deadwood OH’
The new congressman from Ham
ilton and Thompson in West Halls,
Dennis Stimeling, said “The elections
are over and it’s time to get the
deadwood off USG.”
Stimeling said that he wanted to
make the congress more liberal and
progressive, and that USG should de
mand power in the University from
the Faculty Senate and the Adminis
tration.
Mellott, the new_ freshmen class
president, said that he wants to in
stall “enthusiasm” in the freshman
class.
He based his victory on honesty.
“I tried to be honest with the fresh
men. I didn’t offer anything fan
tastic, just the truth.”
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