The United States . MICHIGAN Cloudy and Windy . . . attempts to export dem ocratic institu­ STATE Light rain likely. tions, like Velveeta T urn in g cooler at night. cheese, all over the UNIVERSITY world, --Heyward Ehrlich

Vol. 57 Number 27 East Lansing, Michigan Friday, October 8, 1965 Price 10c COMPUTER CARDS EXPECTED

CONDITION GOOD Book Check-O ut LBJ Surgery Today To Be M echanized

WASHINGTON f —President Lyndon B, John­ Hallenbeck and other presidential doctors son, his condition described as generally ex­ in a briefing for newmen agreed that aside New IBM ‘Credit Cards9 cellent on the eve of a major operation, will from the faulty' gall bladder, Johnson is in keep his date with the surgeon at about 7:30 excellent health. To Be Issued This Year A.M. today, his doctor said Thursday. Dr. James C, Cain, Johnson’s family doc­ By DAVE HANSON tor and like Hallenbeck a staff member at te Deluged with get-well cards from the mighty State News Staff W riter and the humble, Johnson swept through a w hirl­ Mayo Clinic, said the President’ s blood pres­ wind day of White House business and c e re ­ sure is normal and his weight at a good level. All MSU students and personnel will be monies, a day which ended in a Bethesda Naval As of Tuesday, it was 202 pounds. issued plastic IBM ‘‘credit cards“ some­ Hospital bed. Vice Adm. George G. Burkley, the White But Dr. George A. Hallenbeck, who will re­ House physician, described Johnson’s respir­ time this year. Comptroller Paul V, Rump- move the President’s gall bladder In a one-to ation and pulse as perfectly normal. sa said yesterday. two hour operation, said it may be six weeks Hallenbeck said Johnson may be able to get before Johnson again feels as well as he did out of bed briefly today. And certainly will Initially, the cards will be used in the Thursday. ______be up by Saturday. computerized l i b r a r y check-out system, But the President is expected scheduled to go into operation by spring term . to rem ain at the 18 -story hospi­ tal in suburban Maryland for 10 to 14 days. The laminated plastic cards will have student information in Electro nic Lin k Dr. Willis Hurst, who treated raised lettering and will be punched with IBM guides. Johnson after his severe heart In addition to library check-out, the cards may be used for stamp­ attack 10 years ago, said there ing information on University forms - and applications, such as has been no recurrence of that adm is^nns to Olin Health Center and examination form s. For M SU, Big 10 ailment and *'he is in the cate­ The new check-out procedure at the Library will begin in gory of risk equal to that of a January, using internal staff for testing. Dale H. Pretzer, assis­ man who never had a heart tant to the director of libraries, said he hopes the check-out sys­ By JEANETTE RUCINSKI to examine the possibility of a attack.” tem will be functional by the beginning of spring term. State News Staff W riter nationwide network of electronic TOKEN OF APPRECIATION--State Senator Roger E. Craig, (D-Dearborn), Individual IBM cards will have to be made for each of the "We see absolutely no prob­ whose protests on the television black-out of the UM-MSU game made head­ connections for American col­ lems,” Cain said. 1,100,000 volumes in the L ib rary , he said. The cards will then be MSU will soon become part of lines earlier this week, is presented with passes to the Auditorium telecast leges and universities. Hallenbeck said there is noth­ placed in the back of each book. an electronic communications by Kyle Kerbawy, Union Board president. Students wishing to secure tickets Financed by a $145,000 grant ing that suggests the presence At check-out, student and book IBM card s will be placed in network that will transmit educa­ may still do so at the Union. Photo by Russell St^ffey a small computer and the necessary information will be recorded to the NAEB by the U.S. Office of any malignancy. tional material to 11 midwestern of Education, the midwestern Students will no longer have to universities. program will employ many of And he said the risk in a gall fill out form s to take a book from Scheduled for experimental op­ electronic systems, including ra­ bladder operation, unless there the L ib rary and the machine pro­ eration inl966,theclosed-circuit dio, television, data transmis­ are complications, is minimal, cess will take from three to five network will instantly communi­ sion facilities, teletype and un­ like that in surgery for appen­ seconds. cate instructional, research and usual multiplexing and recording d icitis. Career Displays Arrive Daily P retzer said that the new sy s­ administrative activities during techniques. Hallenbeck said Johnson willbe tem will not only save tim e, but given a general anesthetic, but it will eliminate human errors a daily assigned period, thus Under the title of the Educa­ from 6:30 to 10 p.m . and T u es­ eliminating time and expense of did not specity the type. By JOAN SOLOMON in the procedure. He said that an tional Communication s by stem day