PAGE FOUR ;,,t4ji AP News Capsule U.S. Battle Deaths Near Year's High SAIGON Furious fighting last week sent U.S. bat tle deaths to the second highest level of the year and more than double those of the previous week. South Vietnamese and enemy losses also were heavy. The U.S. Command said 430 Americans were killed and 3,185 wounded last week, compared with 184 killed and 1,236 wounded the week before. It was the highest toll since the week ended March 1, when 453 U.S. troops were killed and 2,503 were wounded. By the command's account, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong paid a heavy price in stepping up their attacks. It reported that 5,6E16 enemy troops were killed last week compared with 3,095 the previous week. This sent enemy battle deaths to 500,509 since the United States entered the War. South Vietnamese headquarters reported 537 govern ment troops were killed and 1,643 wounded last week, the highest total in more than a year. Two weeks ago 183 South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 753 wounded. * * * United States Sees 'Productive' Talks PARIS The United States said yesterday "a basis now exists for productive discussions of key issues" and the negotiators at the Paris peace talks opened debate on rival plans. But both sides acknowledged they were un able to make progress. The 18th full-scale session of the talks lasted four hours and 50 minutes, but afterward, Xuan Thuy, North Vietnam's chief negotiator, said: "Today the conference made no progress at all." U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge was asked by reporters whether he saw any willingness of the other side to negotiate and replied: "Well, it is rather obscure." Inside the meeting hall, Tran Buu Kiem, the chief delegate of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front, accused the United States of rejecting "the most essential and fundamental points" in the Front's 10-point plan. Nixon Says No Nominations for Friends WASHINGTON President Nixon said yesterday he will never nominate a personal or political friend for the Supreme Court and will not consider race, religion or geography in making such selections. Nixon met informally with newsmen in his oval office and, at what turned out to be a single-subject news con ference, talked at length about the court and his nomina tion of Warren E. Burger to be chief justice. However, the President asked that he not be quoted directly and that publication of reports of the conference be withheld for several hours. At this time. Nixon said, the Supreme Court needs an infusion of members whose nominations raise no questions about personal friendship or political considerations. * * * Chances Slim for Sirhan Execution SACRAMENTO, Calif. The odds are that it will he a long while before Sirhan Bishara Sirhan goes to Cali fornia's gas chamber—if he ever does. There's a chance the assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy may never be executed. Prison authorities declined to speculate yesterday on the prospect that Sirhan might escape death, to which he formally was sentenced Wednesday by a Los Angeles judge. But an indication of his chances is reflected by figures on the fate of others sent to San Quentin Prison's crowded Death Row. The State Department of Corrections said that of 93 death penalty cases on which there was action between Jan. tl, 1963. and March 31, 1969, the original death penalty held is only 34, United Statei Training Vietnamese for Battle WASHINGTON Secretary . of Defense Melvin R. Laird indicated yesterday the United States is giving increased priority to preparing the South Vietnamese for assuming more of the Vietnam fighting if the Paris peace talks should fail. At the same time. 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The tone of Laird's remarks seemed more pessimistic than those by U.S: Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge who said in Paris that "we think a basis now exists for pro ductive discussion of the key issues" between the warring parties in the Vietnam war. Living Cost Rise Swiftest in 18 Years WASHINGTON The swiftest rise in living costs in 18 years continued in April with another hefty hike of six-tenths of one per cent yesterday the government re ported. Price hikes for food, clothing, transportation, medical care and recreation pushed the Labor Department's con sumer price index to 126.4. This, means it cost $12.64 last month for the same typical family purchases that cost $lO in the 1957-59 period on which the index is based. The soaring price spiral, exceeded only in the Korean War and World War I eras, has eroded nearly a nickel in the past year from the already emaciated dollar of a decade ago. The value of the dollar dropped from 83.4 cents a year ago to 79.1 cents last month in terms of 1957-59 purchasing power. * * New Teacher Walkouts Hit Western Penna. PITTSBURGH More than 30,000 children were out of school yesterday as a new wave of teacher walkouts hit Western Pennsylvania. Teachers walked out of the Fox Chapel and Shaler Town ship school districts in suburban Pittsburgh and the Shade- Central school district in Somerset County. Classes were also boycotted by teachers at the Freedom school district in Beaver County. The first-day walkouts were prompted either by salary and fringe benefit demands or the refusal of school boards to negotiate. Teacher strikes continued in New Castle in Lawrence County, the Elizabeth Forward system near McKeesport and the Ringgold district in Washington County. But a five-day strike by 375 teachers in Connellsville Area schools in Fayette County ended when the school board agreed to a $6,500 minimum starting salary and other fringe benefits. About 8.900 children had been kept away from classes, which were set to resume today. Committee To Study Hospitals, Schools HARRISBURG Rep. William H. Eckensberger Jr., D-Lehigh, was named chairman of a special House commit tee to investigate the physical condition and management of state mental hospitals and schools for the mentally retarded. The investigation was prompted by a resolution calling conditions at many of the institutions "deplorable," even in new buildings because of what some lawmakers termed "glaring defects and deficiencies in construction." Other Democrats appointed to the committee by House Speaker Herbert Fineman wore Reps. Andrew J. McGraw, Allegheny, chief sponsor of the resolution; Paul F. Lutty and Gerald Kaufman, also of Allegheny, •and Harry R. J. Corner and James D. Barber, both of Philadelphia. House Minority Leader Lee A. Donaldson named the fol lowing Republican members; Reps. Sherman L. Hill, Lan caster; H. Sheldon Parker, Allegehny; William H. Claypoole, Armstrong, and Patricia A. Crawford, Chester. dinners under $2. Enjoy! Herlocher's Restaurant 418 East. College Ave: l~ ~"~ Short on change? Herlocher's offers four Dine in air•conditioned comfort Behrend Registers 24 Blacks; Site of 'Project Reach Out' By - MIKE WOLK Collegian Staff Writer Behrend Campus in Erie, one of the University's 19 Commonwealth Cam pus es, has registered 24 black stu dents from the Erie area for Fall Term. The increased enrollment of blacks at Behrend was dis cussed here Saturday as part of an annual organizational conference held by the Or ganization of Student Gov ernment Associations. OSGA is one of three chartered stu dent organizations recognized as spokesmen for the student body. The organization is made up of the Student Gov ernment Associations at the Commonwealth Campuses. During Winter Term, ques tionnaires were sent to the 13,000 students attending Common wealt h Campuses. The questionnaires were sent directly to students in an ef fort "to increase direct stu dent involvement in their own government," according to Ron Batchelor, OSGA. president. One result of the "direct communication" was t h e erkele Demonstrators Hel Protesters Arrested BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) looking for another "people's police who forcibly recovered Riot-ready National Guards- park" site, a university-owned lot out men surrounded and arrested Earlier yesterday, Univer- side the campus, which hip some 200 "people's park" sity of California President Pies and others had appropri demonstrators yesterday i n Charles Hitch said the re- ated as a "people's park." downtown Berkeley. No one sponsibility for tactics in the Rector Death was injured. week - long "people's park In the battle that followed, The prisoners were booked war" ,lay with the sheriff. James Rector of San Jose, a on "field arrest" cards and "I deeply regret that those convicted burglar and nar herded into Alameda County in authority decided that cotics user, was fatally shot sheriff's vans which ferried certain tactics were necessary and 127 other persons, in them to Santa Rita Prison, to protect persons and prop- eluding 60 peace officers, the county lockup. erty," the president of the were injured or wounded. The arrests were made after statewide nine-campus sys- Arrests so far have totaled guardsmen warned the dem- tem said in a statement. more than 450 onstrators that they were Home Besieged violating Gov. Ronald Rea- Hitch made a pointed of- I gan's emergency order ban- fort to take the heat off Roger ning marches and assemblies Heyns, chancellor of the Berk in Berkeley. eley campus, whose home Trapped By Troops was besieged fo r several' About 300 troops trapped hours yesterday by chanting, them in an alley as they were singing demonstrators. marching around, reportedly Heyns on May 15 cane' Free Parking Lof in Rear. choosing by OSGA, of the Behrend Campus as the pilot site for its black recruitment program, "Project Reach Out." As part of the program, black students and OSGA members visited the black community in Erie and spoke at both black and white schools and at black com munity centers. The students '"strengthened" interest 'in college attendance in general, and specifically in Penn State," according to Batche lor. "As a result, the University has enrolled 24 black stu dents from the Erie area for Fall Term;" he continued, "That's quite different from the situation of this past year —when there were six blacks at Behrend—all from Phila delphia." Motivation Program At the OSGA conference, executives also passed "The OSGA Joint Motivation Proj ect," designed "to aid and educate the youth of under developed neighborhoods." Through the program, Penn State students will tutor stu dents in ghetto areas near selected Commonwealth Cam- "Many students have trou puses. The University will ble' adapting to University reward tutors with three Park after a year or two at credits in whatever subject a Comomnwealth Campus," they teach. Batchelor said. The motivation program is "We thought that this a joint effort with the Under- might be the answer, but stu graduate Student Govern- dent response in the ques ment. Batchelor pointed out tionnaire indicates that there that this is the first time that is no desire for special orien both organizations ha v e tation. Most students don't worked together toward a even want to live in the resi "specific, common goal." dence halls; they want to He urged members of both move directly into apart organizations to work as a ments," he added. single unit, to achieve the basic function of the tutoring! program, that of "educating' the, , youth of Pennsylvania." Housing Orientation Another OSGA program, this one dealing with hous ing orientation for branch campus students, was dis cussed and 'ultimately ,dis missed at the conference. The program was initiated at the same time as "Project Reach Out," and also was student-directed with ques tionnaires. 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