(~), ifris-iCir nilimhinn THESE PIPES ARE not an elaborate system for making moonshine. They sup-
KJU LUUUI fJIUI I lull ly port workers as they add a third story to the HUB as it grows up and out. Con
struction is set to be completed in December, 1974.
Nixon, Hirohito to visit
WASHINGTON (AP) President Tanaka. The Nixon visit could take place
Nixon and Japan’s Prime • Minister before the end of this year, possibly in
Kakuei Tanaka agreed that the i December
President and Emperor Hirohito will
exchange formal visits at suitable dates
still to be determined
The dates are subject to mutual
agreement, according to Japan’s Am
bassador Takeshi Yasukawa who sat in
on White-House talks between Nixon and
Astronauts
postpone spacewalk
SPACE' CENTER, Houston (AP) Space officials postponed a spacewalk
Skylab astronauts said yesterday they for the third time, saying it would come
felt “in pretty good shape” after a three- no earlier than Saturday. The spacewalk
day bout with motion sickness. But a had originally been set for yesterday and
planned spacewalk was. postponed until has been postponed twice before,
the spacemen get their housekeeping The main jobs of the astronauts
chores back on schedule. yesterday were stowage and
“We’re all going to be in pretty good housekeeping .chores, a procedure
shape by the end of the day,”-Skylab . ongmany scheduled to be finished by
commander Alan L. Bean said. “As long ! Monday Officials said they were more
great o * ** thr ° Ugh m6alS ’ “* coMer Don Puddy said there
e was no requirement that the spacewalk
Bean and his crewmates, Jack R. be held Saturday and noted that it could
Lousma and Dr. Owen'K. Garriott, said be postponed until next week with no
they felt well enough yesterday to forego serious effect on the mission,
medication to soothe their 1 queasy Garriott and Lousma are scheduled to
stomachs. It was the first day without make the spacewalk. During three and a'
medication for any of the three since half hours outside the spacecraft they
their record 59-day space adventure will replenish film in a solar telescope
started last Saturday. camera array and deploy a sun shade.
Strothers: man on the move
By STEVE IVEY
Collegian Staff Writer
Stewart A. Strothers, an easygoing,
open man, has his sights on big targets:
becoming vice president for student
affairs at the University.
Now director of the Educational
Opportunity Program, Strothers told
The Daily Collegian he does not like to be
seen as an expert about minority affairs
because he is black.
. “I don’t want people to see me as a
black administrator. Jnstead, I want
them to see me as an administrator who
happens to be black,” he said.
Strothers said he would not have ac
cepted the EOP directorship last March j
if EOP was exclusively for black ’
students.
“I took this position with the ex
pectation the EOP would not just help
black students, but all disadvantaged
and minority students to become a part
of the University community,”,he said.
He added he would not have taken the
job if he did not think he could offer
something to Penn State.
Strothers brought to the University a
diverse background that includes being
a professional musician, < a medal
winning medic, a counselor and a man
with a firm commitment to helping
people.
“I’m extremely lazy,” he said. “I
should have had my doctorate years ago,
but I hate school.”
Unfortunately, Strothers said, “I’ve
found that to be really heard around
here, I have to get that doctorate.”
He told this reporter he does not want
to stay in his position as EOP director
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The Emperor’s visit could be timed for
next spring. An earlier plan for him to
come here this fall-bogged down when it
became a political'Controversy in Japan.
Agitation by Communist and leftist
;tudents forced the cancellation of
recover
for more than a few years.
“I hope that I’ll put myself out of a job
before too long,” he said. “In a couple of
years I hope we will have worked our
selves right out of our jobs.”
Once his role at EOP is finished,
Strothers expressed ambitions of
becoming one of the University’s vice
presidents. He said he especially is
eyeing the vice president for student
affairs position now held by Raymond O.
Murphy.
A native of Pittsburgh, Strothers said
he <was taught to respect the rights of
others.
“My parents were both very well
educated,’’ he said, smiling. “My
mother completed the . eighth grade
while my father completed the eleventh
grade and became a barber.”
He attributed his interest in helping
people to the influence his mother had on
him, saying she was the greatest
counselor he has ever known.
“Our house was a sort of refuge. No
one was turned away at our house,” he
said. “One man came to our house to
spend one night and ended up staying for
14 years. He wasn’t even a relative.”
Always having lived in a, racially
mixed community, Strothers said he was
taught that no person is superior to
another because of race or ethnic
background
“I was also taught not to hurl racial
epithets. If I did, I would get hit in the
mouth,” he said.
Although he started in music by
playing the violin, Strothers said he was
an accomplished saxophone player by
15.
Before he was to get his bachelor’s
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President Eisenhower’s scheduled visit
to Japan in 1960. No U.S. president has
ever visited there.
On the first day of two days of talks,
Nixon arm Tanaka also examined the
international situation including the
energy crisis and trade problems.
Nixon was informed by the Japanese
leader that Japan has now reached 100
per cent liberalization of capital in
vestments since the two leaders met last
year. Nixon was impressed by this and
told .the Japanese that this was par
ticularly desired by American in
dustrialists, according to diplomatic
sources.
Earlier Tanaka told newsmen that
contrary to earlier reports, Japan has
not refused to join a consumers union
with the United States and European
industrial countries in seeking more oil
production from Middle East suppliers.
He also pledged that if American oil
companies from whom Japan now
purcliases the bulk of its oil, should
become nationalized, Japanese
technicians would not take over and run
the seized plants. He described the
relationship between Japan and the
United States as “brothers.”
Weather
Cloudy with showers today and tonight.
High today of 78; low tonight of 63.
Variable cloudiness and mild tomorrow
with a chance, of showers in the mor
ning; high of -79.
degree in 1954, Strothers said he also
worked as a shoeshine boy, gardener,
painter; plumber’s helper and parking
lot attendant.
Strothers joined the Army after
graduating from high school and was
stationed in Japan as a military
policeman. He called the Japanese to be
“the most sensitive people I have ever
met.”
After his tour of duty, he entered the
University of Pittsburgh as a psychology
major, from which he was shortly
“kicked out.”
“I wasn’t a good student,” he said,
adding that he nated school.
Upon the outbreak of the Korean war,
Strothers’ unit was recalled and he found
himself in the fighting as a medic, for
which Strothers said he won the name
"the fighting medic.” He also won a
Bronze Star for pulling some men out of
an ambush. *
After his discharge, he returned to
Pitt, where he eventually received,his
bachelor of science degree in psychology
and his master of education degree in
counselor education.
Strothers said his first counseling job
was with the state Department of Public
Welfare in 1954 as a case worker.
“I didn’t like the work- because we
were pencil pushers. We really weren’t
helping anyone.”
The next year he joined the state
Department of Labor and Industry as an
unemployment compensation claims
examiner and youth counselor, where he
was to stay i for 11 years.
Strothers said that he was regarded as
a troublemaker by the main office
Says evidence counterfeit
Ervin rips Haldeman
WASHINGTON (AP) Senate
Watergate chairman Sam J 'Ervin Jr.,
D-N.C., yesterday accused {the White
House of ordering former presidential
chief of staff H.R. Haldeman to reveal
his interpretation of disputed tape
recordings which President Nixon has
refused to make: public.
Haldeman denied the charge and said
in answer to a. question that he would
welcome the opportunity to i play the
tapes to the committee “because they
would confirm what I told you.”
“I think this is counterfeit evidence,”
Ervin said as thecommittee heard again
from Haldeman how he listened to
recordings of two key meetings between
Nixon and John W. Dean 111, the ousted
White House counsel who has accused
Nixon in the Watergate coverup.
Ervin said, “I would say the clear
indication is that the White House
counsel’ordered’Mr. Haldeman to reveal
his interpretation of the stapes to the
public...
“The facts are that the President of
the United States stated on July'23rd-he
had sole control of the tapes and none
would be published. Now the man closest
to him appears the next week and puts
his interpretation of them into evi
dence.”
Haldeman startled the committee
Monday when he said, he listened in late
April to the recording of a March 21,
1973, meeting between Dean and Nixon,
and then listened just three weeks ago to
the tape of a Sept. 15, 1972 meeting.
Haldeman yesterday disclosed he was
also given additional tapes in July to
take home, but said he did not listen to
them, since he had not attended the
meetings recorded by the recently
disclosed White House sound system.
The Senate panel, the Watergate
special prosecutor ?nd Nixon niave
battled for possession of the tapes sincfe
a former White House aide disclosed '
their existence earlier this month.
Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn.,
who has sought to compromise the battle
rather than have it end in a massive
constitutional confrontation, asked
Haldeman if he would be “agreeable to
bringing these tapes up here and play
them.”
Photo by Rick Nelson
Police force expanded
State College Borough Council last
night unanimously approved the ap
pointment of six police officers effective
today, bringing the force to a total of 43.
Of the six, one will take the place of a
resigned officer and one is a woman.
“There is a point at which we are
going to have to put our foot down and
say this is it. The limits of the borough
are just so much,” Councilman Edwin
Frost said.
workers. “I was sent to work: in the Hill
District of- Pittsburgh, sort of as punish
ment because people didn’t like me
downtown,” he said. “But I think that it
Was probably the most enjoyable year
I’ve spent up until now.
He left the Labor Department for the
Urban League of Pittsburgh, where he
was the director of a number of
programs. The League “was the first
time I had worked for a black-directed
organization, and I liked it very much,”
he said, adding he stayed there three
years.
Although professing a dislike for
school, Strothers said he had to fight to
get into Pitt’s graduate school which
would not admit him because of his poor
undergraduate record.
“So I conducted one of the first sit-ins.
I sat in the Director of Graduate Studies’
office every day for a week, until they
finally let me in.”
Graduation netted him a job with
Pitt’s continuing education department
and some teaching assignments. Two
years ago he went to Presbyterian
University Hospital as human resource
development director, “a fancy name
for a counselor for the hospital staff.”
Strothers said his unhappiness at the
hospital prompted him to accept his
present Penn State position.
“I like what I see here,’’ he said. “This
is an area that’s kind of off the beaten
track, but this is a wholesome place to
live.
“Penn State has the kind of at
mosphere where you can make friends
easily. I’ve made some very good
friends in the short time I’ve been here. I
like that.”
Haldeman said, “You’re asking me to
By JEFF DeBRAY
Collegian Senior Reporter
Before the vote some councilmen
questioned whether the borough, con
sidering rising costs, could afford the
addition as authorized by the budget.
“I’m wondering whether we can af
ford five new policemen at the present
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take a legal position different from the
President’s.”
Haldeman restated in more detail
yesterday [how Nixon asked him to
report on the two meetings and how he
listened to one tape at his office, the
other at home.
One crucial segment of the March 21
tape is said by Haldeman to have Nixon
telling Dean it would be no problem to
raise $1 million for Watergate defen
dants, but that it would be wrong.
Noting Nixon’s previous statement
that the I tapes' would sustain the
Presidents position on lack of
Watergate cover-up knowledge,
Haldeman said, “My opinion is that any
reasonable person who listened to the
tape as I did would come up with the
same conclusion as he and I did.”
White House spokesman Gerald L.
Warden said yesterday Nixon decides
who can listen to the tapes “based on the
President’s judgment of who could best
assist him in determining, the facts on
the Watergate matter without jeopar
dizing the confidentiality of the tapes.”
The White House sought executive
privilege for Haldeman concerning a
portion of one meeting Haldeman had
not attended, but the committee denied
this Monday.
Haldeman said Monday the tapes
contained ho evidence that Nixon knew
of the coverup, contrary to Dean’s
testimony about the two meetings.
Nixon himself has said the tapes are
open'to various interpretations, though
he contended they show to his view his
innocence.; Ervin said getting one in
terpretation of the tapes to the com
mittee “is what I would call leaking the
tapes. There does not seepi to be quite as
much concern in certain quarters about
leaking things now as there professed to
be in times past.”
i
Under questioning yesterday morning
after having read a two-hour statement
Monday, Haldeman told the committee
he made jno moral judgments about
payment of Nixon campaign fluids to
Watergate [defendants and said he did
time. The. cost of law enforcement is
going up,” he added.
Councilman Arnold Addison expressed
similar reluctance. “Most certainly we
should not add any more until we know
what the cost is going to be with the
upcoming contract with the police force
(which has yet to be negotiated),” he
said. I
But Councilman James McClure said
the appointments “have to be argued
from the need" of the department for
personnel.”
“We are still in a position to reduce it if
the money isn’t there, or if we find out
we can’t handle it,” he said.
One additional police car, also
programmed in to the 1973 budget, will
be needed to facilitate the new officers.
Councilman Richard Kummer ex
pressed disappointment that only one
Tm extremely lazy. / should have had my
doctorate years ago, but I hate school.'
not recall several key events testified to
by prior witnesses.
Time and again Haldeman said he did
nof recall doing, saying or being told
what other witnesses reported to the
committee. He denied, among other
things:
That shortly after the break-in he
told his assistant, Gordon Strachan, to
clean the files of papers referring to the
Nixon re-election committee’s political
intelligence capability, as Strachan has
said.
—That he told CIA officials to instruct
the FBl'to curtail the FBl’s Watergate
investigation, as CIA Deputy Director
Gen. Vernon Walters has told another
congressional committee.
That former Atty. Gen. John Mit
chell told him in June about other
“White House horrors,” including the
break-in to the office of Daniel
Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, the forging of a
State Department cable or the spiriting
out of town of "ITT figure Dita Beard, as
Mitchell testified.
That he heard in January ,'of any
executive clemency contacts between
Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt
and White House aide Charles W. Colson,
as Dean has testified.
In other Watergate-related
developments:
The- House Armed Services Com
mittee voted 33 to 0 to start contempt of
Congress proceedings against
Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy,
who refused even to take the swearing-in
oath when he appeared before a sub
committee July 20. The subcommittee is
investigating CIA aspects of the
Watergate affair-. Liddy is serving a
contempt sentence for refusing to testify
before a federal grand jury, and is under
sentence for the Watergate break-in.
Sen. John G. Tower, R-Tex~, said
four or five GOP senators reported that
their mail has started to turn against the
Senate Watergate committee. “Some
feel it is a kangaroo court proceeding,”
Tower told reporters.
woman was selected by the Public
Safety Commission. Addison said he also
had hoped two women would be selected.
In other action, Council voted to fund
the State College Area Youth Project
$1,200 so it can continue
through August.
The Youth Project applied to the
Centre Regional Council of Govern
ments Finance Committee for the funds,
but Councilman Allen Patterson urged
council to provide the funds.
“This is a rescue operation. There is
no way they are going to get the money
: n a hurry from COG. By the time they
get around to voting on ft, it (the fund
ing) will be a dead issue,” he said.
Patterson said the funding fell within
the revenue sharing guidelines and that
it was a “reasonable State College
share.”
EOP Director Stewart Strothers
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Photo by Steve Ivey