CAMPUS Partly sunny and warmer todj&? COP; High near 70. Cool tonight; low near 45. Partly cloudy and con tinued mild tomorrow. High near 70. Monday: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. For Los Angeles today...the weather won't any difference Nittany Lions all the way] VOL. 69, No. 18 g- from the associated press | News Roundup: i 1 From the State, | I Nation & World l The World U. S. Troops Capture Enemy Weapons SAIGON In a battle that swept through rice paddies and thick hedgerows, U.S. troops tried to trap 300 enemy troops on the northwest invasion corridor to Saigon yester day but most escaped. The Americans, however, captured another big weapons cache. The battle broke out Thursday when 400 U.S. 25th Division infantrymen came under heavy fire from enemy troops dug in among the hedgerow’s near Trang Bang, 27 miles northwest of Saigon. About 600 U.S. reinforcements were flown in and at tempted to throw a cordon around the enemy as fighter bombers, helicopter gunships and artillery hammered the hedgerows. Fighting flared through the night but when U.S. in fantrymen drove forward at dawn they met only small rear guard action. A sweep of the field turned up 26 enemy bodies. U.S. casualties were 6 killed and 16 wounded, ★ ★ ★ Three Russian Intellectuals Exiled MOSCOW Three Soviet intellectuals were sentenced yesterday to relatively light terms in exile from Moscow and two others were sent to labor camps for staging a public protest in Red Square against the invasion of Czech oslovakia. After three days of testimony laced with denuncia tions of the invasion, the five were convicted of disturbing public order and slandering the Soviet Union. They had been arrested after demonstrating for about three minutes Aug. 25. The organizers—Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin’s foreign minister, and Mrs. Larisa Daniel, wife of an im prisoned writer—were banished from Moscow for five and four years respectively. Konstantin' Babitsky, a specialist in the history of the Russian language, was exiled for three years. Their companions. Vladimir Dremlyuga and Vadim Delone, were sentenced to labor camps for three years and two years and 10 months respectively. The Nation 90th Congress Ready for Adjournment WASHINGTON The 90th Congress, which displayed traits of courage, defiance and fickleness as it wrote some footnotes to history, was poised for adjournment yester day. The members have three weeks for campaigning be fore the Nov. 5 elections in which all 435 House seats and 34 of the 100 Senate seats will be filled. The session which started last Jan. 15 and was inter rupted by several recesses was marked by some rare hap penings. There was a lock-in of House members and a sit-out of senators in the closing days, defeat of a major presi dential nomination, a tax increase in an election year, an about-face on mandated spending cuts when they hit close to home, and enactment of some historic legislation. During the' 10-months session,; two public figures, —iDiv-Martin Luther King Jr., and Sen.-Robert F. Kennedy,- - -were assassinated; an incumbent President decided not to seek re-election, violence erupted in the capital and in other major cities, casualty lists continued to flow in from Vietnam, and two national political conventions were held. ★ ★ ' ★ LBJ May Cal! Senate Back into Session WASHINGTON President Johnson said yesterday he may call the Senate back into special session to ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty rather than wait until the new session i:. January, as Senate leaders plan. The President said delays could force the United States into a dire dilemma if new nuclear powers come into being before the Senate acts. Johnson taped for radio and television use his new appeal shortly before Senate Majority Leader Mike Mans field, D-Mont., told the Senate the pact to halt the spread of nuclear weapons would not be brought up in the session now ending. ★ ★ ★ Cuban Exiles Jailed for Terrorist Plot MIAMI, Fla. Nine Cuban exiles were jailed here yesterday on federal charges of plotting terror attacks on ships and planes of Spain, Mexico and Great Britain as part of a nationwide anti-Castro vendetta by the group calling itself Cuban Power. The man indicted as the leader. Dr. Orlando Bosch, seemed triumphant after his arrest by FBI agents. While being taken to jail under sso.ooo'bond, Bosch raised his handcuffed arms and made “V" with fingers of each hand as he shouted: ‘'Victory for Cuban liberation.” Bosch and two of the nine were charged in the Sept. 16 cannonading of a Polish freighter in Miami. The attack became an international incident. The indictment also identified Bosch as the mysterious “Ernesto,” the voice of Cuban Power who announced at tacks sometimes before they occurred. The State Violence Closes Philadelphia Schools PHILADELPHIA The troubled area surrounding Bok Technical High School in South Philadelphia was quiet Thursday after Bok and nearby South Philadelphia High School were ordered closed until Monday. But vio lence broke out in other city schools. A white pupil, was reported stabbed Thursday after noon at Dobbins High School. The 2,300 pupils, at Dobbins of which 60 per cent are Negro—had been held m class an extra hour, while some 200 Negro pupils who had marched there from Edison High School stood around out- Busloads of policemen were called in to help the pupils get home. Just before the pupils came out, a man identified as Freedom George Brower addressed the Edison pupils and tried to get them to go home. • “This is not the time,” he said. “We 11 get them on their own grounds.” . _ , , T - i Earlier, white pupils from Overbrook High School were attacked by Negroes. * * * Musmanno Hospitalized After Stroke PITTSBURGH State Supreme Court Justice Michael A. Musmanno, who rose from Pennsylvania’s steel mills and coal fields to presiding judge at the Nuremberg War Crimes trial, was hospitalized in critical condition yesterday after suffering a stroke. , , ' ' ’ TT , The 71-year-old jurist was rushed to Mercy Hospital after a guard discovered him laying unconscious in a pair of blue pajamas at his downtown apartment. The guard was sent to the apartment after Musmanno failed to appear,at a 9 a.m. conference of Supreme Court justices. Former Student Held On Drug Possession The third reported local narcotics raid in the last two weeks, was made Thursday night when Robert G. Kar pawich was arrested on possession of narcotics and drugs. Karpawich was listed last year as a junior majoring in pre-law. It was not immediately known if he is still enrolled at the University. The State College'Police Criminal Unit found 25 cap sules and about a pound of marijuana in Karpawich’s apartment. He is being held in Centre County Jail in lieu of $5OO bond. 'Two weeks ago a graduate student was arrested on a charge of possession and sale of a hallucinogenic. Tuesday three undergraduate students living in Bluebell apartments were arrested on charges of possession and use of mari juana. 1 ' (Tit? Satlg OktU?gi 4 Pages Walker town action committees will present progress reports at the Free Speech Movement (FSM) forum at 2 p.m. Sunday. The action groups were set up last week to investigate the recruitment of black students, downtown housing rents, the establishment of a free press, the University’s ties with the military and the creation of a University-owned bookstore. The White ’ Liberation Front, a group of white students concerned with racial relations, is investigating the racial situation on campus. The organization, headed by Steve Haimowitz, circulated a petition this week urg ing the administration to admit additional black students and to gear more courses around “the racial crisis in this society”. Haimowitz said the group is also trying “to expose white students to the facts of white racism which created the racial crisis and to the alternatives to the resolution of this crisis.” A proposal was made last week that the White Liberation Front work together with the Douglas Association, but Haimowitz said he doesn’t seek the black student group’s support. ‘‘lt’s a white problem,” Haimowitz said. “The black person does not have to defend him self to a white person. The white people have Disorder at PSU? YAF Will Sue The University has been threatened with a legal suit if student disorders ocoUr on campus. In a telegram sent to University President Eric ■ A. Walker yesterday, the Young Americans for Freedom wrote, “By accepting our tuition, this University has entered into a contract with us.” The telegram went on to say, ‘ If the ac tions of a belligerent minority deny us our rights by interrupting classes, we will bring suit if necessary to have the University live up to its contractural obligations. We will not pas sively accept a situation simuar to that which occurred at Columbia. We urge your support." YAF member Don Ernsberger, who was appointed chairman of YAF’s Student Commit tee for a Responsible University, said that a petition is being drafted on student issues aired at the Free Speech Movement (FSM) forums. "We are going to try to get reforms, but we will not tolerate obstructivism to get them,” Ernsberger said. Issues to be examined by the new YAF committee include housing, admissions policy, Reserve Officers Training Corps on campus, a University-owned bookstore and the nature of education'at the University. FSM set up com mittees to investigate these issues, but YAF plans to adopt its own stand. The committee will also prepare a state ment of purpose, a definition of student rights, a definition of the University and goals for the University community. - Commenting on the telegram sent to Walker; Doug Cooper, YAF chairman; said, "Students whose • education would be inter rupted have, by right of the contract they sign ed, the legal sanction to compel the University to live up to its contractural obligations by not allowing, the educational process to be inter rupted.” UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1968 Apollo 7 Lift-off Successful 3 Men To 11 Days SPACE CENTER, HOU STON (/P) The room, full of chatter moments before, was hushed as the voice of Mission Control counted: “Six . . . five . . . four . . . we have ignition.” ★ ★ ★ CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP The three Apollo T astronauts rode the world’s largest manned spaceship into orbit on a perfect flight yesterday, said they were “having a ball” and succeeded in a docking maneuver vital to a man to-the-moon flight. Although no actual link-up oc curred, Navy Capt. Walter M. Schirra Jr., Air Force Maj. Donn F. Eisele and civilian astronaut Walter Cunningham steered Apollo 7 to within 4 or 5 feet of a target circle painted on top of the second stage of their Saturn IB booster rocket. “It's absolutely beautiful here,” Schirra said as he steered Apollo 7 toward the target. “We have a lot of loose chaff up here. It seems to be between 3 o’clock and 6o*clock and 9 o’clock and 12 o’clock. Another Flight Possible Cunningham interrupted with a screamed “Look out,” apparently referring to some chaii getting near the spacecraft. He referred to small b*ts of treebymg manor out side the ship, possibly debris result ing from the separation. If the planned 11-day flight conti nues successfully, it could clear the way for sending another Apollo crew on a moon orbit flight in December and put the United States firmly on the path to landing men on the moon next year. The simulated docking maneuver occurred shortly after 2 p.m. EDT after the astronauts separated Apollo 7 from the second stage, cal led the S4B, to which they had been attached for two orbits of the globe after their 11:03 a.m. EDT blastoff from Cape Kennedy. Fires. Small Jets Commander Schirra fired .small Action Groups To Report At Sunday's FSM Forum By MARC KLEIN Collegian Staff Writer ■A White Problem’ Spend Space jets to scoot Apollo 7 about 50 feet ahead, then turned around to face the 58-foot-long S4B. He gingerly pulsed his thrusters to jockey his ship to within’4 or S feet of the target as both vehicles raced along at 17.500 miles an hour more than 150 miles above the earth. On an actual moon mission the Apollo craft will separate from the S4B. turn around as Apollo 7 did yesterday, and dock with the Lunar Module stowed atop the stage. The Module is the vehicle which two as tronauts will ride to the surface of the moon. Before the separation from the stage, the astronauts were flying a massive spaceship which measured 113 feet, 3 inches long and weighed 69.034 pounds. After separation, the Apollo 7 ship was reduced to 33,589 pounds and a height of 33 feet, 4 in ches, still four times heavier than any previous U.S. manned space vehicle and about two tons heavier than Russia’s largest. Enters Different Orbit After conducting the simulated docking. Schirra gave his jets a short burst of power to place Apollo in a slightly different orbit calcu lated to move the astronauts out about 83 miles in front of the S4B by today. Then the pilots will conduct a series of maneuvers intended to bring about a rendezvous of the two vehicles about 5 p.m. EDT todav. ★ ★ ★ Powerful Failure In a sudden, scary contract to the near perfect performance of Apollo 7, a power failure struck the con trol center at ■ Houston. Tex. It threw some control consoles into darkness for one to two minutes at about 12:20 p.m., but the vital com puters were not affected. This Apollo flight was delayed for more than years bv the fire that claimed the lives of three as tronauts. There was a poignant reminder of that tragedy at the Sehirra home. The widow of Virgil I- Grissom, who was to have corn ; manded Apollo. 7,,j&es neact-io the-t- the responsibility to alter the situation.” Haimowitz said his group will use FSM to disseminate information. Vincent Franklin, head of the committee on downtown housing, was planning a rent strike to protest the alleged poor housing conditions and high rent in apartments owned by Univer sity professor Shiou-Chuan Sun. Grievances against Sun, however, were set tled Wednesday when he agreed to meet with students and to settle their demands. Housing Investigation Franklin plans to continue to investigate the downtown housing situation. He urges all students who have any grievances concerning housing to submit them to him. Max Homer, a member of th The Educa tion Committee in the State House of Represen atives, has shown interest in the housing sit uation here, Franklin said. In a reply to a letter sent him by a resident from Sun’s apartments, Homer said that he would make a personal investigation of the si tuation if Franklin’s committee finds evidence of landlord neglect. Homer, from the Pittsburgh area, is co chairman of a House committee investigating private housing at state colleges and universi ties. • A free press is being started by Judy Rubin. Miss Rubm calls her IValkertown com mittee a “group effort with no single leader.” To Be Published Wednesday The paper, called the Catalyst, will be published for the first time Wednesday. Miss Rubin said that speakers from FSM along with anyone else interested will be invited to submit material. The paper, she said, will contain stories concerning FSM plus interviews with various people on £ampus. Danny .Gallo, head of the committee study •ing the University's ties with the military, said that his group is researching Reserve Officer Training Corps activites and on-campus military operations and projects. “We should have the facts before accusing the University of complicity with the military,” Gallo said. The committee working for the establish ment of a University-owned bookstore plans to wait until November when the University Senate will discuss the issue. Adam Sokolow, committee head, said that h c feels the Senate will.support the bookstore. “I don’t think we can do anything without faculty support,” Sokolow said. Bookstore Strategy The Student Union discussed the bookstore at a meeting Thursday night. Richard Hardy, chairman of the Union, is also planning strategy to establish a bookstore here. Sokolow said he will work with Hardy. He added, “I’m by no means the leader of the movement, just an interested student.” Walkertown, which started out a protest agaihst the housing shorage, grfew into an open forum where students were invited to air any grievances. The forum has been held on Old Main lawn, but in case of cold weather it is scheduled to move to the -Hetzel Union Building ballroom this week. Schirras. She was up early yester day, going about her normal tasks. Schirra told the trackers at Car narvon. Australia that t h e spaceship came through the blast off unscathed. “The windows appear to be al most crystal clear,” Schirra said. “This is good news for us all. We have very good visibility out of all five windows, and the center hatch window is a dream for monitoring boost.” Families Watch Flight With the thousands watching the flight from the Atlantic shoreline near Cape Kennedy was Cun ningham's wife. Lo Ella, and their two children, Brian.B, and Kimber ly, 5. They were aboard a boat in a river near the launch site. The Schirra and Eisele families watch ed the shot on television at their homes near the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. Schirra’s reports came quick and —AP Wirephoto APOLLO 7 astronauts discussing plans Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, Lunar Modulo for their 11-day flight which began late Pilot. R. Walter Cunningham and Com yesterday-morning. Pictured ura . Command mandcr'Walter M. Schirra'JrT”"' " University Adds Parking Spaces The University announced parking for students. The lot 3‘esterday that 270 additional wifi be designated Student spaces for student parking Lot 52, with space for 118 will be -assigned effective cars. Monday morning. In addition, a 52-space area The east section of the pre- in Lot Blue B, just south of sent Blue D parking area. Student Lot 80 near the in immediately north of the tersection of Curtin and Women’s Athletic Field bet- Bigler Roads, is being assign- Shortlidge and Bigler ed for student commuter Roads, will provide 24-hour parking only. By DAVID NESTOR Collegian Staff Writer The results of the Undergra duate Student Government elections are now official, and with the exception of Pollock A all new congressmen will be ready to take their posts at the USG meeting next Thursday night. In addition to the results an nounced Thursday night, John Beisinger was named the win ner in Pollock B with 112 write in votes. There was no an nounced candidate in this area. All of the candidates ran as write-ins, with Beisinger receiving the most votes. A dispute has arisen in Pol lock A concerning announced candidate A 1 Rubenfield and a write-in, Steve Greenberg. The dispute centered around the lack of a polling place con venient to Greenberg and that he lost many votes because of this. Because of this alleged in convenience to Greenberg, the elections commission announc ed late Thursday . night that there would be a revote in the Pollock A area. Ask USG To Seat Both Later the two candidates an nounced that neither would run in a revote. They said they wanted USG to seat both of them, with one-half vote each. “We talked it over and decided that we agree on al- Three University students were involved in an automobile accident last night near McClellan's Esso Station on E. Col leSeone 6 student, not immediately identified was rushed to Centre County Hospital with what witnesses described as head lacerations. , _ T • c. .-.u The drivers of the other two cars. Bruce Light (ith general arts and sciences-Lebanon) and Lee Richter (4th scienes-Jersey Shore) were not injured. The accident evidently occurred when the driver of the first car, traveling west, attempted to pass the other two cars at the point where College Ave. narrows from four to two lane, Ihe first car reportedly hit Light’s car, forced Richter’s, car over the curb and then crossed College Ave. into the ser vice station lot, knocking over a gasoline pump. According to witnesses, the driver was forced through the windshield. Police, fire and emergency squads arrived at the scene in time to prevent the damaged gasoline pump from ex ploding. LAUNCH: After only a 3- minute delay, a Saturn IB rocket used a first stage thrust of 1.6 million pounds to blast the Apollo 7 spacecraft into or bit. lifting otf at 11:03 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time at Cape Kennedy, Fla. ASTRONAUTS: Navy Capt. Walter M. Schirra Jr., 45; Air Force Maj. Donn F. Eisele. 38, and civilian Walter Cunningham, 36. reported no sure. He clicked off his observa tions as the spaceship built up its five mile per second speed. “It’s a little bumpy on second stage.” he said. As the excape tower atop the spaceship was jettisoned, he re ported, “All beautiful. That tower USG Results Now Official Student Injured In 3-Car Accident Flight Statistics problems _and said they were j “having a'ball.*' 5 FLIGHT DURATION: 10 I days, 20 hours, 9 minutes. 'i PURPOSE: Test all systems > ot qualify Apollo spacecraft for later flights to the moon. ORBITAL PATH: Initial orbit of 140 by 183 miles was very near the target of 142 by 176 miles. ESTIMATED MISSION 1 COST: $145 million. 1 really blew.” Doctors at consoles in the control center noted that Schirra's heart rate rose to 92 beats a minute dur ing the powered flight, up from his normal rate of about 75 beats ft minute. WHISKY - - . v '■ most every point. We feel that we - could both represent our area better than any other con gressman, and we feel that we should both be seated,’’ Rubenfield said. “If there is another election USG will just have to find new candidates,” Greenberg added. Both candidates had praise for each other. “It was a very clean campaign. When I found out that Steve was running against me, I went to see him and explained some of the USG elections procedures,” Ruben field said. Candidates Worked Together Greenberg said that rather than working against each other, they worked together. “We went around to the various houses in the area and asked the house presidents if they would call a house me eting so that we could talk to the men. We wanted them to know for whom they were vot ing, and I must say that we didn't get much cooperation,” Greenberg said. Both candidates said they felt that together they could more than adequately repre sent their constituants. Steve Geron, USG elections commissioner, said that the elections commission could not make a ruling on the split vote. He said that this kind of decision is not within the com mission* s jurisdiction. The commission will recommend a revote to congress, he said. Vietnam Revisited -See Page 2 SEVBM CENTS Petition On Race Circulating By JOHN BRONSON Collegian Staff Writer A petition voicing student concern over the racial im balance at the University, went into circulation yesterday. Steve Haimowitz, organizer of the White Liberation Front, an organization designed to focus attention on the racial si tuation here, authored the peti tion. It states; “We the undersign ed, in full support of the facul ty, petition to racially balance the University, and as respon sible students, demand that The Pennsylvania State University, specifically its Ad ministration and faculty, emerge from the shadow of in difference and inaction and make a concerted effort toward resolving the racial crisis in its own domain. “The University should first take steps to insure that the student body is representative of the state’s population, and second, change its orientation to insure that each student receives an honest exposure to the facts of the racism which has created the critical si tuation and the current al ternatives for its resolution. “Failure to clo so by the University means a forsaking of its obligations to the state of Pennsylvania, the student body and the goals to which it avows.” Haimowitz said that “the petition asks the student “for more than his signature. It asks him to admit a commi ment beyond what most stu dents consider the thing to do.” This petition complements another petition which is al ready circulating within the faculty. The faculty petition is directed to the University Sen ate “to introduce changes in admissions standards in order to admit to all University de gree programs many more stu dents from minority group and poverty backgrounds.’* Although the student petition began within the White Liber ation Front, it is not limited to that organization. Members of the Free Speech Movement and other students who want to commit themselves, are help ing to circulate it. Their goal is to reach 15,000 signatures by the end of Fall Term. ’ Judy Gould, a student mem ber of the President’s Commis sion for the Culturally Disad vantaged, said, “The petition isn’t designed with any specific program in mind. Its purpose is to provide students with a vehicle to disprove the charge of their apathy. It’s their chance to prove the apathy-seers wrong, and to show that they are con cerned and want to be com mitted.” Copies of the petition are available in S-211 Human Development Building. Miss Gould said.
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