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high near 70.
Vol. 69, No. 131
SDS Stages Protest of Berkeley Death
BARRY STEIN, member of SDS and unsuccessful candi-
On the Old Main date for the USG presidency, speaks to a crowd of more
than 200 dissident students yesterday who were protesting
Steps ... Again the death of a bystander at the May 15 demonstration at
the University of California at Berkeley.
$lO Donation Requested from Con
USG Bill Seeks Aid
By PAT DYBLIE
Collegian Staff Writer
A resolution calling for a $lO
donation by Undergraduate
Student Government con
gressmen to obtain food for
poverty-stricken families in
Appalachia will be considered
by Congress tonight.
Ted Thompson, USG presi
dent. and Joe Myers, USG con
gressman, will present a
resolution "to show a positive
protest against the war in Viet
nam" and to amend previous
legislation.
USG on May 8 passed by a
vote of 17 to 12 a resolution
calling for a tivo-week vigil and
fast' to be -conducted in the
Hetzel Union • Building court
yard from last Sunday through
June 1.
The new resolution calls for
a committee to investigate
ways funds could utilized "in
terms of food, clothing, and-or
other specifics" for people in
Appalachia.
Regarding the USG vigil and
fast, the resolution states, "All
individual congressmen or con
gresswomen shall be free to
take part, as he or she sees
fit."
Congress also will consider a
bill to provide a 575. per term
salary to elected USG con
gressmen. If passed, th e
legislation would become ef-
Bomb Threats Lodged
Against Sparks, Sackett
Bomb threats against Sparks and Sackett were received
by Campus Patrol yesterday.
The threats were made at 10:15 a.m. against Sparks
at 1 p.m. against Sackett by anonymous telephone callers.
The threat against Sparks was designated for third period
classes, which begin at 11:10 a.m. and against Sackett for 3
p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
In both cases, notices of the threats were posted at en
trances to the buildings and personnel in the buildings were
advised of the threat and given the option of remaining or
leaving.
A total of 21 threats have been received since the first
threat on March 10.
A 55,000 reward, offered April U for information leading
to the apprehension and conviction of persons responsible
for the threats, still stands.
AP News
U.S. Spokesman Defends Battle for Peak
SAIGON Allied troops dug. more enemy bodie
yesterday from Dong Ap Bia as a U.S. spokesman defended
the 10-day fight for the mountain as a battle to spare the
old city of Hue.
A bloodied battalion of U.S. paratroopers that cap
tured the mountain top Tuesday was pulled out to tend
its wounds, but another battalion was flown in to meet
any North Vietnamese counterattack from nearby Laos.
U.S. officers answered indirectly a charge by Sen. Ed
ward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) that the attack on Dong Ap Bia
was "senseless and irresponsible."
A spokesman for the U.S. Command, emphasizing that
"we don't comment on what senators say," said the battle
for 3,000-foot Dong Ap Bia on the north was "a real fine
operation from our point of view."
"We are not fighting for terrain as such," he con
tinued. "We are going after the enemy. Relative casualties
is one way to measure it."
* * *
Israeli Jets Battle Egyptian MIGs
Israel's jets fought Egyptian MIGs over the Suez
Canal yesterday while its ground forces shot up a guer
rilla base in Jordan and Israeli and Arab gunners ex
changed fire on two fronts.
Israel claimed three MIGs were brought down, but
Bgypt claimed none was lost.
A spokesman in Tel Aviv said Israeli planes downed
two Egyptian fighters and damaged a third after inter
cepting the raiders sweeping in from the Great Bitter
Lakes area.
Another Egyptian formation came in from Port Said,
the spokesman said, and a ground-to-air missile sent one
crashing inside Egyptian territory.
Cairo radio claimed, however, that the dogfight oc
curred after three groups of Israeli planes violated Egyp
tian airspace over the northern sector of the 103-mile
waterway.
•
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Kennedy, Asks 'Compassion' for Sirhan
' LOS ANGELES Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleaded
yesterday for "compassion, mercy and God's gift of life it
self' for his brother's assassin, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
A letter from Sen.', Kennedy said, "My brother was
a man of love and sentinient. and
,compassion. He would
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feetive when Congress recon
venes Fall Term 1969.
Elected USG Congressmen
currently receive no pay:
The bill's intent is "to pro
vide a monetary sum as an in
centive and reimbursement to
USG congressmen for devoting
extensive time and effort in
the betterment of student
government.'
Thompson also will present
to Congress a bill which calls
for the creation of a com
mission to formulate policy
and policy statements for the
USG Executive and Congress.
The commission would be
responsible "to f o r,m ulat e
policy which is applicable to a
specific situation and
crisis."
"The primary purpose of this
commission is to act quickly in
the name of Congress,"
Thompson said.
Thompson said that Congress
could rescind a policy state
ment which was issued by a
two-thirds majority vote within
two weeks of the release.
Congress will reconsider the
transfer of sponsorship of cer
tain USG social activities to
the University Union Board.
Dennis Stimeling, West Halls
congressman, and Tom
Worgul, Inter College Council
Board representative to USG.
are sponsors of a bill to
transfer immediately
Ektitg Tultrgi
—Photo by Roger Greenawalt
ressmen
sponsorship of Cinema X,
Model United Nations. College
Bowl, Spring Arts Festival and
Spring Week. Homecoming
Would be transferred to UUB
in Fall Term 1970.
Congress defeated a similar
bill on May 8. Thompson voted
for USG to retain sponsbrship
to break a tie vote in Congress.
Bob Lachman, chairman of
USG's Steering Committee to
Protest the War in Vietnam,
announced last night that a
learn-in scheduled in con
junction with the fast and vigil
would not be conducted this af
ternoon because of a rally by
Students for a Democratic
Society. The learn-in will be
held at 2 p.m. Tuesday,
Lachman said.
Dale Winter, religious affairs
associate, will be the keynote
speaker. The Learn-in will be
broken' up into six groups to
discuss different aspects of the
war in Vietnam.
Thompson Answers Questions
By CONNY BERRYMAN
Collegian Staff Writer
Ted Thompson, Undergraduate Stu
dent Government president, discussed
positions USG is taking on current cam
pus issues at a meeting of Young
Americans for Freedom last night.
Thompson dispensed with formalities
and answered questions from YAF mem
bers on subjects ranging from the cur
rent USG vigil protesting the war in Viet
nam to USG's inability to obtain a
quorum at several of its meetings last
term.
Asked if USG should have obtained
student approval by holding a student
referendum prior to the USG vigil,
Thompson replied there was no time to
hold such a referendum. "The con
gressmen who voted in favor of the vigil
were elected by students in different liv
ing areas to represent the student body,"
he said. "USG wants to work on a wider
range of issues than simply getting more
student parking places and better cam
pus lighting." Thompson added.
Concerning the lack of a quorum at
past USG meetings, Thompson said that
there will be a "tightening up" on con-
Capsules
not have wanted his death to be a cause for the taking
of another life."
The same jury that convicted the 25-year-old Jor
danian of murder in the gunshot death of Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy last June ruled after a penalty hearing April 23
that he should die in the gas chamber.
A judge has the power to overrule the jury and re
duce the penalty to life imprisonment. Superior Court
Judge Herbert V. Walker has done so but once in 19
similar cases, and then at the suggestion of state penal
authorities.
* * *
Congress May Pull Down Tax Shelters
WASHINGTON Wealthy Americans will find much
of their currently well-protected income exposed to federal
taxes if Congress •passes administration proposals to pull
down some tax shelters. And• it could be that Congress
will go further than the President has proposed.
Administration researchers cite the case of a man
who paid no federal income tax at all on an income of
$7.1 million in a recent year. With the Nixon proposal
enacted, the man would face a $957,730 tax bill on the
sate income.
The administration prescription to tax the wealthy
comes in two parts, with the core proposal called the
Limit on Tax Preferences—LTP. Tied in with it is a re
quirement for allocating itemized deductions between tax
able and tax-sheltered income.
M!WEIMMM
PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania voters turned down
a proposed change in the method of selecting judges for
state courts, late returns from the state's primary election
revealed yesterday.
By a narrow margin, the electorate chose to retain
the present system of choosing judges by popular, partisan
vote, rather than accept the new plan under which jurists
would be appointed initially by the governor.
Rejection of the suggested constitutional amendment,
which had the endorsement of Gov. Shafer and two former
chief executives, set the trend of balloting which could be
characterized by a single word—negative.
The. vote on the state judge selection proposal was
607,077 in favor and 628,480 against with only 45 precincts
of Pennsylvania's 9,504 still to be heard from.
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pa., Thursday Morning, May 22, 1969
Old Main Flag Lowered by Dissident Students;
Returned to Full Mast by University Officials
By ROB McHUGH
Collegian Staff Writer
University officials ma rch e d
through a crowd of more than 200
dissident students yesterday and.
pushing aside those in front of the Old
Main flagpole, returned the American
flag to full-mast.
The flag had been lowered to half
mast two hours earlier by students
protesting the death of a bystander to
a May 15 demonstration at the
University of California at Berkeley.
About 4 p.m., several officials,
including Dean of Student Affairs Ray
mond 0. Murphy and Director of
Security William C. Felton, came out
and asked Barry Stein, member of
Students for a Democratic Society and
an unsuccessful candidate for the Un
dergraduate S tu d e n t Government
presidency, if the group would raise
the flag again.
Not a Leader
"I don't know where you got the
idea I'm any kind of leader here. If
you want the flan' ' raised , ask the peo
ple." Stein said . He then called for a
voice vote from the crowd, which
loudly rejected the suggestion.
The officials then left, but returned
a short time later. The crowd cleared
a path to the flagpole, but several stu
dents refused to move from the base
of the pole.
Pelton and several other security
men forced their way in and used a
crowbar to break the lock on the pole.
At that time State Trooper Daniel
Burger Named
WASHINGTON (AP) War- If the Senate confirms the pointment of a new chief
ren E. Burger, a 61-year-old nomination after what may Justice—when Nixon could
federal appeals court judge, prove to be the closest scrutiny have waited until summer to
was chosen by President Nixon ever given a Supreme Court choose Warren's successor--
last night to be chief justice of appointee, Burger will succeed promised to overshadow to
the United States. Earl Warren in the highest some degree the tempest
The white-haired, 61-year-old judicial seat in the land. created when Justice Abe For-
Minnesotan, who has sat for 13 Warren is retiring next tas resignation last week under
years on the U.S. Court of- Ap-- month at age 78 after 16 tur- criticism for his off-the-court
peals for the District of Colum- bulent years as chief justice financial dealings.
bia, told the President: "You and at a time when the court Fortas was nominated to the
pay tribute to all of the sitting itself has become a center of top judicial post by former
judges of the federal system controversy. President Lyndon B. Johnson
with this nomination." But the timing of the ap- last summer. Senate
Discusses USG Positions
gressmen who continuously are absent
from meetings.
Discussion arose concerning two of
YAF's 10 proposals for University
reform, presented to University Presi
dent Eric A. Walker and Jacob J. Kauf
man, director of the Office for Student
Discussions. After looking at the first
proposal concerning periodic evaluation
of the quality of education at Penn State
by faculty and student committees,
Thompson said, 'tl campaigned on that
issue myself."
However, concerning the proposal
that guidelines be set up to insure
peaceful student demonstrations,
Thompson said. "USG has no spelled out
guidelines regarding disruptions, to the
best of my knowledge." He added that
USG does not want to formulate a code of
student behavior.
The question of guidelines led to
discussion of proceedings three weeks
ago when YAF took out an injunction
against demonstrators in the Hetzel
Union Building who were blocking
passage to the Navy recruiter's table.
Thompson said he viewed the in
junction as unnecessary. "It didn't help
cure the situation, but caused more
Brody grabbed a student who refused
to move and pushed him from the
base of the pole into the crowd.
When one student shouted an
obscenity at Pelson. he crabbed the
student and demanded his name. but
the student broke away.
Immediately atterward. several
fistfights broke out in the crowd. but
the trouble lasted only a few minutes.
Chants of 'Pig'
After students had been pushed
from the base of the flagpole, so m e
people in the crowd started chants of
"pig, pig " Then students both for and
against the action became in% olved in
fistfights, broken up by others in the
crowd, including Alurph3..
In an interview with reporters from
The Daily Collegian. Vice President
for Student Affairs Charles L. Lewis
said. "We follow the traditions of the
country and the state when it concerns
the flag. There is a certain protocol in
volved. The flag was flying map
propriately."
Asked what action would be taken if
the flag were lowered again. Lewis
said, "We intend to keep it flying full
staff. We'll do that as courteously as
possible."
Lewis said a meeting had been held
to determine how to handle flas , lower
ings. He said he. University P resident'
Eric A, Walker, Vice President
for Business Ralph E. Zilly and others
had been at the meeting.
Stein opened yesterday's rally,
sponsored by SDS. with an explanation
of the events at Berkeley.
Becomes New
tension." he said. Former YAF Chairman
Doug Cooper explained that the intent
was to prevent either side from getting
out of hand, citing the eruption of fist
fights and blockage of the recruiter table
as necessary conditions for action.
Thompson agreed that it was an "ex
plosive situation" and repeated that USG
had no guidelines to regu 1 a t e
demonstrations but that they could be ex
plored.
One of the major complaints YAF
members directed at Thompson concern
ed the possibility of USG joining the
National Student Association in the fu
ture. Thompson said that USG was "inter
ested in services that NSA offers. "Such
services include a record club and travel
club featuring reduced student rates.
Cooper countered that NSA would
represent a monopoly on campus and
that there should be a student referen
dum on the question before USG decided
to join NSA. "NSA has never won an
election on campus and left Penn State
four years ago after a CIA investigation.
Cooper said that the NSA is a leftist
organization and "students should be able
to vote on whether NSA will be allowed to
represent the students on this campus."
Astronauts To Survey Moon
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)
Ground controllers gave the Apollo 10
astronauts a "go" yesterday to fire a
rocket burst behind the moon and set
tle their spaceship into a hazardous
orbit 69 miles above the lunar surface.
Air Force Col. Thomas P. Stafford
and Navy Cmdrs. John W. Young and
Eugene A. Cernan prepared to start
their 2 1 / 2 -day survey of the moon with
a five-minute rocket burn performed
while the crew is blocked off from
earth, flashing over the moon's back
side.
The crew was to pass out of touch
with their home planet at 4:38 p.m.
and fire the rocket some •seven
minutes later.
Rockets to Slow Craft
The rocket fire will slow the fleeting
spacecraft from 5,500 to 3,500 miles an
hour and surrender to the moon's
gravitational embrace.
Earlier, with the moon nearing them
but still out of sight, the astronauts
beamed to earth a color - television
view of their home planet.
The telecast started, Stafford said.
while the moon was only 10,000 miles
away, but, the earth—a blue half
disc—was more than .40.000 miles
away, . .
Stafford told television viewers that
earth "looks slightly smaller than a
tennis ball and a little larger than a
golf ball."
He said the crew was unable to see
the moon, "although it's accelerating
toward us."
"In about 15 minutes," Stafford said
in a running monologue, "we will pass
into the shadow of the moon."
The command pilot then switched
att
Shortly afterwards, Stein declared
that Old Main lattn "from the sundial
down is People's Park East. That's
liberated territory. that's for us "
Stein also said he could be "asking
for a statement from the Ad
ministration on the tactics being used
in Berkeley. - He added. "As long as
things like this are going on in
Berkeley. we'll be here every day."
Stein and two other students rent
into Old Main to ask for a statement
from the Administration. When at
tempts to see Walker. Provost J. R.
Rackley and Vice President for Resi
dent Instruction Paul Althouse
they left a request ‘kith Alt house's
secretary asking for "a statement by
tomorrow night from th e Ad
ministration on their opinion of the
tactics being used at Berkeley to quell
the dissent over 'People's Park.' "
Stein said he felt the request was
"reasonable" and that they could sup
ply Althouse with a pamphlet "telling
him what's happening" there. He also
asked that some kind of response be
made, even a "no comment,"
Rally Planned Today
Another rally has been planned for 2
p.m. today. At an SDS meeting held
last night. no official strategy was for
mulated. but it was announced that
the two SDS co-chairmen (Scott Gibbs
and Jon \Vineland) "will not lower the
flag again tomorrow and will en
courage others to not lower the flag."
Robert H. Barnes. special security,
said yesterday the rally and flag
Chief Justice
Republicans led a fight to
defeat the nomination.
however, citing his continuing
close ties to Johnson and his
acceptance of outside fees
while sitting on the court.
Nixon's choice remained a
secret yesterday after the
White House announced the
President had reached a
decision and would take to
nationwide radio and television
to make known his selection of
a jurist who has won a
reputation as a "law and or
der" judge on the appellate
court.
Ground Control Says 'Go'
the color television camera into the
spacecraft interior and showed his
crewmates and himself.
Toward the end of the 17-minute
telecast, ground controllers asked if
they could see the sun setting behind
the moon. They said they could not see
Use sun or the moon. The astronauts
said it seemed to be getting darker.
The crew was allowed to sleep two
hours longer than planned.
They awoke to the musical strains of
"On A Clear Day" a short time after
their spacecraft passed into the
gravitational influence of the moon
and began arcing toward earth's only
natural satellite.
"Everybody's up and everybody
feels great," a sleepy-sounding Staf
ford replied a few minutes later.
The 2 1 / 2 -day flight about the moon
must go nearly perfect for America to
land men on the moon as planned 61
days from now.
Stafford and his crewmates will try
out the navigation and guidance
techniques the crew of Apollo 11 must
use to land on the moon and return to
earth successfully.
If Apollo 10 discovers problems as
yet unknown, the planned landing
could he delayed, perhaps indefinitely.
A gravitational game of lug-of-war
between earth and moon ended at
10:19 a.m. yesterday when the
spacecraft moved into the lunar
gravity field and immediately started
to accelerate from its low speed of
2.000 miles an hour to 5,700 miles an
hour,
Apollo 10 had gradually been slowing
down ever since it was launched
toward the moon on Sunday. It began
lowering %las "malicious mischief"
and was not a "question of freedom of
assembly.-
Trouble at Berkeley has centered on
the closing of the "People's Park. -
established there by local hippies and
radicals. The park was set up on a V a
cant lot mined by the university and
located six block. off-campus. The
founding of the park was supported by
many different segments of the com
munity. Gibbs said. Many improve
ments uere made and poor people in
the area were given free meals.
The murder victim. James Rector of
San Jose, died Tuesday in a Berkeley
hospital. He had been a bystander to a
demonstration protesting the closing
of the park when he was shot. Gibbs
said police started using guns sup ,
posedly loaded with "just buckshot' .
but that .38 caliber bullets were
removed from several of those wound
ed. including Rector.
Tuesday a National Guard helicop
ter flew over the campus and dropped
powdered tear gas on several hundred
students, faculty members an d
demonstrators.
To Court
Only when Nixon marched
into the East Room of the
White House with Burger at
his side did the verdict become
known—at least. to those able
to recognize the tall, white
haired judge.
Cabinet officers and other
high government officials—but
not Supreme Court
justices—were awaiting the an
nouncement in the East Room.
So were the chief justice
designate's family:his wife,
Elvera, his son, Wade, and his
daughter, Margaret•
"I believe." the President
said. standing with Burger
before a microphone. "that the
most important nomination the
Student Awaits Hearing
John K. Fetters, 18, of Bellefonte, is in Centre
County jail awaiting a preliminary hearing on charges
of robbery by assault and force on campus.
His arrest by State Police on Saturday was in con
nection with a Feb. 2 attack on Wesley Litzinger of
Indiana, Pa., a sophomore, who was attacked shortly
before midnight in Parking Area 80. The money in his
wallet was taken and he was treated at the Ritenour
Health Center for lacerations to the right eye.
its outward flight at 24,196 miles an
hour, but the pull of earth slowly
robbed it of speed.
Once in orbit of the moon, the Apollo
10 astronauts begin man's most
hazardous space adventure.
Cernan and Stafford today will
crawl from the command module into
the attached lunar lander. They will
undock from the mother ship and fly
alone around the moon.
The moon machine will be guided to
within 9.3 miles of the surface and
then out to 229 miles above the lunar
backside.
During the near pass of the moon
man's closest approach to another
celestial body—Stafford and Cernan
will take pictures, test a landing radar
set and record their own observations.
Apollo 8 orbited the moon 10 times
last December in man's first journey
to another celestial body. But that
flight was not nearly as complex or
daring as the Apollo 10 lunar venture.
Landing Zone 'Z'
The Apollo 10 astronauts will be
looking for the so-called Apollo Land
ing Zone Z, a flat, smooth area in the
Sea of Tranquility east of the moon's
center and just above a crater called
Moltke.
While Stafford and Cernan fly the
flimsy lunar module—which will be
called "Snoopy"—Young will continue
to circle the moon in a 69-mile Apollo
10 orbit. Young will be the only help
available to the lunar module crew
should they become stranded in their
independent orbit of the . moon.
The lunar module is unable to return
to earth. Stafford and Cernan must re
join the command module to survive.
Budget Procrastination
and PHEAA Loans
--see page 2
Seven Cents
The violence grew out of a silent
"funeral march" being held in
memory of Rector.
About 500 marchers Tuesday ad
vanced on the home of Berkeley Chan
cellor Roger W. Heyns and were
dispersed by security guards using
tear gas and bayonets. Many of the
demonstrators were chanting "mur
derer."
president of the United States
makes during his term of of
fice is that of chief justice of
the United States.
"The chief justice is the
guardian of the Constitution of
the United States. Respect for
law in a nation is the most
priceless asset a free people
can have. The chief justice and
his associates are the ultimate
custodians and guardians of
that priceless aset.
"And when we consider what
a chief justice has in the way
of influence on his age and the
ages after him. I think it could
fairly be said that our history
tells us that our chief juatices
have probably had more pro
found and lasting influence
on their times and on the direc
tion of the nation than most
presidents have had."
Terming Burger "superbly
qualified." Nixon paid tribute
to the judge's education as
"one that he got the hard
way—he went to law school at
ed during the daytime—but
he made a brilliant academic
record."
As the ornate chamber
resounded with applause.
Burger, smiling slightly, step
ped to the microphone.
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