Mostly cloudy with light rain likely
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most of tomorrow. Low tonight near
34, high tomorrow near 40. Partly
cloudy and cool Friday. The chance
of measureable precipitation 'is 40%
today, 90% tonight, and 80% tomor
row.
Vol. 70, No. 90
Commission Chairman
Commends Walker
For 'Slleedv Action'
By TINA HOND•RAS
Collegian Staff Writer
Edward L. Mattil, chairman of the President's Com
mission, yesterday expressed his satisfaction with Univer
sity President Eric A. Walker's action on the commission's
proposals.
Matti', also head of the Department of Art Education,
said Walker is acting as speedily and efficiently as pos
sible to find out whether the commission's proposals are
feasible and how they can be implemented. He added,
"I am pleased that the president is moving as he has
moved in this."
The commission was set up in June 1969 to study the
black community, governance and student conduct and judi
cial systems. On Feb. 20 it issued a report calling for the
establishment of a black cultural center, a black studies
program and a section of black literature and culture in
Pattee.
Admissions Standards
The committee made recommendations to the College
of Education, proposing the establishment of a commission
on admissions standards and a follow-up committee to the
report on the black community.
The report also called for the establishment of an off
campus black cultural center.
Regarding the possibility of using the president's house
for the center, Mattil said he had no idea what the plans
for the house are, but added. "If they do use it as a
black cultural center, I think it would be marvelous."
Stanley F. Paulson, dean of the College of The Liberal
Arts, said he spoke briefly to Vice President for Resident
Instruction Paul M. Althouse about the commission's re
port. He added, "We would be glad to cooperate with
other colleges."
Paulson said he thought the commission had done
"a real service" for the University.
Speaking of the University as a whole, Paulson said,
"We have started some things, but they are not complete
enough."
Student Member Optimistic
Don Paule, a student member of the President's Com
mission, was optimistic that the segment on the black
community, along with the rest of the report, would be
endorsed as soon as possible. He said he would, as an
Undergraduate Student Government congressman, "bring
the entire President's Commission report in front of USG
for adoption by the Congress."
Paule added, "I would hope the Organization of Stu
dent Government Associations, the Undergraduate Student
Government, the Graduate Student Association and the
Black Student Union endorse it."
Paule also supported using the president's house as a
black cultural center, saying, "I think that's fine."
Paule expressed hope that Walker would endorse the
report before the end of his term in office. Walker will
retire July 1, 1970.
USG President Ted Thompson commented on the re
port's proposals, declaring, "I am going to be vehemently
In favor of it." _ _ ,
Leaders Urge End of Walkout
WASHINGTON (AP) The air traffic controllers who said. Federal employes are forbidden to strike and a number
have disrupted flight schedules for a week with mass sick of restraining orders have been issued against the controllers
calls were urged by their union leaders yesterday to return to since the work stoppage began,
work unless they actually are
PATCO is one of six unions who represent the nation's
But attorney F. Lee Bailey, executive director of the Pro- 14,000 air traffic controllers. PATCO claims a membership of
fessional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, said he did not 7,500 among the 8,500 journeymen controllers.
know what effect his "clarifying statement" would have in _
ying absent
restoring the tangled air travel picture. The FAA has started sending telegrams notif
"I do not advocate a sickout," Bailey told a news con- controllers that dismissal procedures have been started
ference. "It is an inconvenience to the American public and against them, allowing five days for an individual controller to
should be terminalvd at once." submit a doctor's certificate that he was ill.
Bailey had no direct comment on the FAA action, saying
"we will have to deal with that in the best way we can, when
As he spoke, there continued to be mass flight can- the time comes '
cellations and delays up to four hours at the nation's airports
because of a shortage of controllers at 21 air traffic control
centers which handle high-altitude flights.
The Federal Aviation Administration said 495 of a schedul
ed 1,739 controllers reported sick at the 21 centers yesterday
with the heaviest absences in the busy centers at New York,
Chicago. Cleveland, Kansas City and Oakland, Calif. It has
started sending 30-day notices of dismissal to absent con
trollers, giving them five days to submit doctors' certificates
if they really were ill.
Bailey, who must appear in court Wednesday with two
other PATCO officers to answer contempt charges, said his
statement does not mark a shift in his position.
Roped for Dialogue
"I have never been in support of a strike, but have hoped
a dialogue could be started and the situation not polarized," he
Cancellations Continue
Leftist Students Hijack Korean
,Plane
SEOUL, Korea A group of samurai-wielding leftist stu
dents ordered a hijacked Japanese jetliner to take off for
North Korea at daybreak today after officials here failed to
trick-them into thinking they were already there.
The South Koreans had .rigged special signs, dressed
soldiers up in North Korean uniforms and had. the control
tower announce that the Japan Air Lanes jet had landed at
Pyongyang, North Korea's capital. But the ruse collapsed.
The students, numbering about 15, insisted the 100 other
persons on board—among them two Americans—remain for
the flight to Pyongyang.
South Korean officials threatened to keep the Boeing 727
grounded at Kimpo International Airport here until all of its
passengers were released, although they said they would abide
by the wishes of Japanese authorities.
Navy Jet Downs Threatening MIG-21
SAIGON A U.S. Navy Phantom jet swooped in to shoot
down a MIG-21 threatening an American reconnaissance plane
over North Vietnam last week, the U.S. Command announced
yesterday.
It was the first reported air kill in North Vietnam since
the United States halted bombing raids 17 months ago.
A U.S. Command spokesman in Saigon said the action
came last Saturday, 125 miles north of the demilitarized zone,
which separates the two Vietnams.
The F 4 Phantom, one of the top U.S. fighter-bombers, was
flying cover for the reconnaissance plane. The Soviet-built
MIG-21 is the most modern fighter in the North Vietnamese
air force.
There was no report of the MIG firing on the U.S. planes
but the spokesman said "undoubtedly it was in some' sort of
maneuver indicating that it was attacking the reconnaissance
aircraft."
Therefore; the, Navy escort "took protective action to an
enemy threat. ..an inherent right of self-defense."
Deans Meet
Union Calls Air Controllers Back to Work
News From the World, Nation
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,W4r. :Pang fottrgi
6 Pages
Mitty
Minded
Earth
PITTSBURGH (/P) Earth Day, an in
tensive four-day symposium on environment
and the preservation of life, begins today at
three city universities.
Its organizers say they want to increase
public awareness of the damage man is
doing to his environment.
The observance will be opened with an
hour-long "walk for life" from Schenley Park
in the Oakland section to Duquesne Univer
sity, downtown.
Actually, the national observance of
Earth Day at various universities isn't
planned until April 14, but vacation and ex
amination schedules at the University of
Pittsburgh, Duquesne and Carnegie-Mellon
University interfered.
So Earth Day in Pittsburgh will set the
stage for other teach-ins and symposiums
later in the month.
Government officials, scientists, conser
vationists and students and the general pub
lic are invited to attend or participate di
rectly.
Today's march will end with an address
by Wilson Talley, an undersecretary in the
Department of Health Education and Wel
fare. Among other speakers is U.S. Sen.
Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.), one .of the origina
tors of the Earth Day idea and an early
proponent of, ertv,ir4:mmental--rconeer
The Air Transport Association, which says an average of
500 flights have been cancelled each day of the controllers'
work stoppage, has filed .suit against PATCO, claiming an
unspecified amount of damages. ATA spokesmen say the
airlines' losses run in the millions.
The controllers contend they are undermanned and over
worked to the point of fatigue. They also want newer equip
ment.
Airline spokesmen and FAA officials have said privately
the stoppage is part of a PATCO bid for power.
No negotiation sessions were held during the work stop
page.
The Bailey news conference came just as the day shift
was ending in eastern times zones. The full effect of his state
ment was not expected to be known until today's shift.
from the associated press
Red Forces Advance Further into Laos
VIENTIANE, Laos—Communist-led forces have pushed
farther south into Laos than at any time since the 1962 Geneva
agreements. Nearly one-third of Laos' three million inhabi
tants are refugees, many of them as a result of American
bombing.
By the same token, it is American air power and a group
of American civilians, Central Intelligence Agency personnel
and military attaches that are preventing the 70,000-man
Laotian army from collapsing.
The only solution appears to be a political one, but a
negotiated settlement seems far off, despite the recent five
point, peace proposal by the Communist Pathet Lao which the
government of Prince Souvanna Phouma agreed to study.
The stumbling block for Souvanna is Pathet Lao insistence
that all American bombing stop in Laos before talks can
begin. Souvanna has rejected any preconditions, saying that
North Vietnam must remove its troops—he says there are
67,000—hefore U.S. bombing can cease.
Removal of Disorderly Defendants Approved
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court endorsed yesterday
the forced removal of disorderly defendants who disrupt their
own trials with noisy outbursts.
The decision. by Justice Hugo L. Black, also approved the
binding and gagging of unruly defendants as well as their
jailing contempt to protect courtroom decorum.
"It would degrade our country and our judicial system to
permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humilated and
their orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defen
dants," Black said.
Except for'. some reservations by Justice William 0.
Douglas, the ruling was unanimous. Douglas said the court us
ed the wrong case—that of an evidently mentally disturbed
defendant=to outlaw courtroom sabotage and violence.
The decision has a special impact in the light of a recent
spate of tumultous trials, including the interrupted prosecution
of 12 Black Panthers for an alleged bombing conspiracy in
New York and the Chicago riot conspiracy trial.
Published by Students - of The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pa., Wednesday Morning, April 1, 1970
PERRY SWEETSER, as Walter Mitty in the Penn State
Player's production of "A Thurber Carnival," is caught in
the middle of one of his famous fantasies. The play pre
sented in the Pavilion Theatre runs through April 4.
Three Pittsburgh Universities
Day Starts Today
The teach-in, supported by more than 30
local and regional governmental, educational
and health groups, will explore two major
questions—Will there be life on earth in 20
years? If we survive, how will we be living?
Numerous exhibits, seminars, films and
speeches are scheduled between today and
Saturday. A complex of five domed build
ings has been erected at Carnegie-Mellon
duplicating life in the future and what it
could be like if pollution is not stopped.
Tomorrow will be devoted to panel dis
cussions on "Quality of Life and Ecology."
Keynote addresses for the teach-in will
be held tomorrow night at the Syria Mosque
near the Pitt campus. Speakers will be Ken
neth Boulding, of the University of Colorado
Institute of Behavioral Sciences, U.S. Sen.
Robert Packwood (R-Ore.), and Frederick
Close, chairman of the board of the Alumi
num Co. of America.
Population, resources and technology
will be the topics Friday. One session at
Pitt is entitled "Alternatives to Doomsday."
Sen. Nelson will be among the speakers
at a session at Pitt entitled "Direction and
Action."
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On Saturday, ad hoc workshops, dia
logues and group discussion are planned for
the entire day. Films and. celebrations- will,
wind up -IffrfeaCh=in SatutdaY night - at Pitt.
Junior Class Confirms
Kunstler's Appearance
Mike Kleeman, president of the Junior Class which is
sponsoring William Kunstler. defense attorney for the Chicago
7, last night denied the rumor that Kunstler would not appear
at the University.
Kleeman said he had spoken to Kustler's wife last night
and she had confirmed her husband's April 11 appearance.
Kunstler said he did not want to speak that day, but after hav
ing made the committment, he agreed to appear.
Kleeman said the class has encountered problems with the
location for Kunstler's speech. Although Kunstier originally
was scheduled to appear in Schwab, Kleeman said the
sponsors believed Schwab would be too small for the number
of students expected to attend the speech.
The sponsors agreed that the Hetzel Union Building
Ballroom would be a better location. A service sorority,
however, has the use of the ballroom the night that Kunstler is
scheduled to appear. Kleeman said if the sorority agrees to
hold their function in Schwab, Kunstler would speak in the
HUB Ballroom April 11.
• The Students for a Democratic Society, which is sponsor
ing Yippie leader, Abbie Hoffman, was not available for com
ment on plans for Hoffman's scheduled visit.
New Wage Offer Made in Postal Dispute
VVASIIINGTON The Nixon administration made a "new
and unconditional wage offer" to union negotiators yesterday
in a renewed effort to achieve a wage increase agreement for
the nation's 750,000 postal workers.
The announcement came after government and union of
ficials completed their fifth day of intensive bargaining for a
settlement of postal issues, of which pay has become the key.
Another session was set for this afternoon.
A joint statement noted that after Postmaster General
Winton Blount laid the latest administration offer on the
bargaining table, union represdntatives countered with a
three-point proposal of their own.
By agreement between the parties, the spokesmen declin
ed any elaboration or explanation of the latest developments
in the effort to break the bargaining impasse.
A union spokesman emphasized, however, that there were
"no conditions tied to the government's offer."
Trucking Industry Raises Contract Offer
WASHINGTON The trucking industry, pressing for a
new nationwide Teamster Union contract before last night's
midnight deadline, reportedly raised its Sl-per-hour offer to
hike wages and fringe benefits for 425,000. drivers.
The amount of the higher offer and the response of
Teamsters Union negotiators was not immediately, learned,
and the union continued to keep mum. about possible strike
plans.
Union negotiators headed by acting President Frank E.
Fitzsimmons earlier had demanded three-year hikes of $1.75 in
wages alone, plus' substantial boosts in mileage pay, pensions.
health and welfare and vacations.
Most drivers now average $4 an hour in wages
• The nation's top federal mediator, J. Curtis• Counts, was
participating in the talks in an effort to spare the Nixon ad
ministration still another major labor crisis in the transpor
tation industry.
Thompson Moves
To I day Voting
By LARRY REIBSTEIN and BILL BROADWATER
Collegian Staff Writers
Undergraduate Student Government Presi
dent Ted Thompson moved last night to defer
executive elections until the fourth week of the
term.
Thompson disclosed after the special USG
meeting that he will veto a section of the elec
tions code that calls for the elections to be held
during the third week.
In a statement to the Collegian. Thompson
said. "It is impossible to conduct any kind of
fair and equitable election if the elections com
mission is compelled to operate within the two
and a half weeks left."
Notes Former Method
In the past. Thompson noted, the elections
commissioner was appointed in the fifth week
of Winter• Term and thus had about eight weeks
to work on elections. The present elections
commisisoner, Ricki Greenwald, however, was
appointed just this week when the original com
missioner, Steve &mallow, was called up in the
National Reserves suddenly during the term
break.
Miss Greenwald resigned as elections com
missioner when Congress voted to go ahead
with the voting in the third week. She asserted
that she couldn't have the mechanics for the
elections ready by that time.
As a result of the vacancy, Thompson
declared, "By executive order ; I am ordering
all prospective and announced candidates to not
campaign until a formal announcement of the
elections commissioner is made and an initial
candidates meeting is held.
'Viewed as Improper'
"It will he viewed as improper and in poor
taste for, any candidate to begin and continue
campaigning for election and if any candidate
or representative begins or continues cam-
2 Seek State Senate Nomination
hi Democratic Party Primary
Democrats Joseph M. Am- in 40 years. He was re-elected
merman and Irwin L. Murray in 1957 and held that post until
he was appointed United States
will seek their party 's District Attorney for 2..
nomination for the State western districts of Penn-
Senate in the May 2 0 sylvania in 1961. Resigning as
primaries, while Galen E. district attorney in 1963. Am-
Dreibelbis will run unopposed merman lost in abid fur judge
for the Democratic House of of Clearfield County
Representatives nomination
Active in other civic affairs,
Ammerman, a Curwensville, Ammerman has served as
Clearfield County attorney, president of the Clearfield
began his political career in County Chapter of th e
1953, as _the first Democratic , American Red- Cross -and on
DiStrict' Attorney in Clearfield the Clearfield County Develop
ment Council. The 45-year-old
Ammerman is currently the
county's Democratic state
committeeman.
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att
Murray will enter t h c
senatorial campaign with
legislative experience behind
him. He served in the State
House for four years until 1966.
In the primaries that same
year, Murray campaigned
unsuccessfully against Robert
Against Air Traffic Controllers
U.S. To File Petition
PITTSBURGH (AP) A federal petition seeking to
force 37 air controllers back to work at Greater Pittsburgh
Airport will be filed in U.S. District Court here this morn
ing, assistant U.S. Atty. Charles F. Scarlata announced.
Scarlata said he was drawing up the papers himself for
submission to the court.
The controllers are part of a nationwide sick-call in
volving the ,Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organiza
tion.
The Justice Department has taken similar measures
against absent air controllers in at least 15 other major
cities.
The Pittsburgh airport's chief air controller, Kenneth
McMechen, said supervisory personnel are filling in for
the absentees and that "tower clearance operations are on
a normal basis" for reduced airliner schedules.
• -2‘,'
& State
First U.S. Satellite Plunges to Death
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. Explorer 1 plunged to a fiery
death in earth's atmosphere yesterday and many here paused
in their preparation for America's third moon landing mission
to recall this nation's entry in the space race 12 years ago.
Word spread through the Kennedy Space Center at mid
morning that Explorer 1, the oldest manmade satellite still in
space, re-entered the atmosphere at 5:45 a.m. over an isolated
area of the Pacific Ocean. It had circled the globe about 58,000
times.
Explorer 1 took longer than many more recent satellites
to be pulled down by the earth's gravity. because it was very
light at 31 pounds and had been placed in a fairly high orbit,
ranging up to 400 miles out originally.
Many of the men who launched the cylindrical Explorer
Jan. 31, 1958, now form the nucleus of the Saturn-Apollo
launch crew which has sent two manned expeditions to the
moon's surface in the last nine months. That team now is
readying Apollo 13 for an April 11 blast off to the moon's
highlands.
Lawyer Represented Corporate Taxpayer
HARRISBURG A state Justice Department attorney.
cleared last week of possible conflict of interest, was private
counsel this year for a corporate taxpayer dealing with the
state, Auditor Gen. Robert P. Casey said yesterday.
Atty. Gen. William C. Sennett last week cleared the at
torney, Herbert A. nigel of Philadelphia, of conflict of interest
charges after news stories revealed Fogel had represented a
private client before the state Liquor Control Board.
Casey, the Democratic organization's candidate for gover
nor, provided additional information about Fogel's activities in
a letter to Sennett, dated yesterday. Fogel is special counsel to
the State Horse Racing Commission.
"In light of the questions which have been raised, I deem
it my duty to bring the following facts to your attention con
cerning Mr. Fogel's further'activities involving state agencies,
more particularly his participation in stipulation conferences
as private counsel for a corporate taxpayer," Casey wrote.
Time for Calm Talk
--see page 2
paigning, I will exercise the authority of my
position and not allow him to be eligible to
run." Thompson said.
The power to declare a candidate ineligible
has never been tested.
Congress voted to ask Thompson to name a
replacement for Miss Greenwald by tamer
row's USG meeting.
No students have formally announced their
candidacy but at least three students are ex
pected to announce this week. They are Jim
Antoniono, town congressman, Bob Brinley,
supreme court justice, and Tom Stillitano.
junior class vice president. Only Antoniono has
begun campaigning.
Vote Divides
The vote on when to hold the elections was
largely divided according to political lines. An
toniono's supporters in Congress mostly voted
to hold the elections in the third week as An
toniono's organization is reportedly well pre
pared.
Brinley's and Stillitano's backers voted to
delay the elections because they reportedly
were not organized until recently.
In other action: USG voted to urge students
to boycott classes April 15 to protest the war in
Vietnam. The boycott is part of a nationwide
strike organized by the Student Mobilization
Committee in protest of the war.
Endorses Strike
A bill passed by USG concerning the strike
states that since "USG has already expressed
disapproval of the undeclared war in Vietnam,"
USG endorses the April 15 strike.
USG postponed debate until tomorrow night
on a Fair Campaign Practices Code for USG
Executive Elections. The code, if passed, will
set up a committee to handle all violations in
the upcoming executive elections.
USG also postponed until tomorrow a new
constitution that would make ex-officio mem
bers non-voting congressmen.
P. Casey and Milton J. Shapp
for the Democratic guber
natorial nomination.
Murray, 49, is the Cameron
County Commissioner. The
Emporium resident also serv
ed as Democratic county
chairman.
House candidate Dreibelbis
is the youngest Democratic
contender at 35. A State Col
lege businessman, he has been
self-employed since he was 21.-
years-01d,.
Dreibelbis'" public services
includes youth work through
University athletic suppor t
programs. As a member of the
executive • committee an d
board of directors of the
United Fund, Dreibelbis also
worked with students in solicit
ing funds in State College. In
other areas, the local
businessman served as
secretary of the regional
swimming pool drive and as a
volunteer fireman for 15 years.
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Seven Cents