July 25, 1968

1 Worrie r Rejects 3W K^*P fSpeTT-"" Tuit ion Protest Stokes Accuses By DAVE COLKER Slimmer Stajf Writer Negro Militants Undergraduate Student Government President Jim CLEVELAND, Ohio t'.-P) — Mayor Carl any more of the burning and looting that Womer announced Tuesday that there would be no student ¦ B. Stokes blamed a "small and determined" erupted on a small scale during the shooting. rally this week (o protest the University's proposed tuition K? '- i| - ;'. ¦ increase. c '"y ' band of Negro militants yesterday for am- Trouble in the Negro slum, which was Speculation arose last week that a student protest Bb&\'*~' , bushing police and touching off a bloody untouched during the Hough rioting two rally would be organized to confront the University night of gunfire that took 10 lives. A Black years ago, began shortly after sundown Board of Trustees which will consider the tuition increase Nationalist was quoted as saying he led Tuesday when, according to police, snipers when they meet tomorrow in Erie. Womer ended the spec- the uprising. opened fire on policemen trying to remove ulation when he addressed the Summer Coordinating Com- ¦St. mittee, a group of student leaders and administration per- Seven of the dead were Negroes, two an abandoned auto. sonnel. of them snipers in African garb. Three while Sporadic fire still crackled at dawn from "The Board of Trustees are meeting in Erie, not at Uni- policemen were killed and 19 others wound- t he are at East 105th Street and Superior versity Park," Womer said. "This makes a demonstration &*SmKiiiilllir ed, before drenching rain, police sharp- Avenue. here rather irrelevant. We will have to wait for the Trus- Smoke drifted from a complete block tees' decision, and then work from there." shooters and 4,000 National Guardsmen put an end to the violence in a slum area. of Superior Avenue stores destroyed by fire Womer raised the possibility of a student petition if bombs between East 103rd and East 105th the proposed S25 increase is approved. The petition would Stokes, in office nine months as the streets, and smashed display windows gaped be then intended to induce the Trustees to lower tuition to P'v-SHH first Negro mayor of a major U.S. city, its present level of $150 per term. !-"»!». ->»¦ in a hit-and-miss pattern for several blocks. said the group he considered responsible for Stokes said most of the dead and Wqmer also expressed his disappointment that the . "%-r " Trustees would not be meeting at University Park where A the machine-gun-like exchange between po- wounded were shot during a 30-minute "concerned students could express their opinions on this i lice and snipers did not reflect the feelings period when police dueled with snipers in a very important issue." Womer said that he had asked per- of most Negroes. two-story building on Lakeview Avenue. He mission to speak before the Board of Trustees, but had The mayor said the FBI and been refused. MX * -- . •i military said subsequent arson and shooting appeared Hrw intelligence warned him two days ago In citing the impracticality of a weekend demonstra- ***. that "completely unrelated" to the shooting. tion, Tom Golden, Interfraternity Council. President Pro ¦ Cleveland and other cities were in for trou- Temp, cautioned against blaming the University for the •''M B ble. In Washington, an FBI spokesman said * • * proposed increase. ?. the bureau was following events in Cleve- "It appears that neither the University nor the State land very closely. But an official declined Government has enough money to carry out its programs," to comment on Stokes' remarks. Golden said. "But if I had to blame anybody, I would a' s£*1 Negroes Help blame the General Assembly. They've set how much money ^**pf^ Stokes' statement that the violence was the University is to receive. A demonstration at this time i planned was the first such official in- would do little." timation of its kind in any of the nation's USG Treasure Harvey Reeder agreed. "Besides," recent major urban disturbances. Restore Calm Keeder added, "a successful demonstration must have pub- ' * ' ' " licity, and now there isn't enough time to organize it." V' • •. 4fc 1 Also, an aide to Gov. James A. Rhodes CLEVELAND, Ohio (/P) — Negro police What was even more discouraging to the group was y said Cleveland police knew that a group and 500 Negro community leaders replaced the reaction Golden encountered when he visited an East of Negro militants had rifles and had bought National Guardsmen and maintained calm killed Halls residence area. ammunition Tuesday. in a slum area where 10 persons were in a night of gunfire Tuesday. "I talked to some of the kids in the dorms," Golden "It is a little unusual for people to buy Nationalist was quoted by police said "and they didn't seem to care that A Black their tuition was —Colle gian Photo ty Mike Urban ammunition for automatic weapons." said as saying he led the uprising in the East going up." where three white po- Womer also cited figures claiming the aide. John McElroy. Side neighborhood that Pennsylvania Oh, To Play All Day With the Clay ! licemen and two Negro snipers were among is 43rd in per-capita expenditures to higher education. "And The theory of an organized Black Na- LEARNING HOW to make pottery out of clay is only one part of the 1S68 Central the dead. Penn State has the third highest tuition of any state sup- tionalist infiltration was supported by fami- Rains Helped ported school in_the nation," Womer added. Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, but to this little girl it is the best. The Arts Festival lies living in the area of the shooting, a Heavy rains contributed to the calm that Others attending the Summer Coordinating Commit- continues through Sunday. shabby, crowded East Side neighborhood. settled the area last night. Guardsmen pa- tee meeting were Pam Augenbaugh, president, Panhellenic troling the area during the day were with- Council; Terry Jablonski, second vice president. Associa- * * * "They've been living in the neighbor- drawn to watch the perimeter of a six-mile tion of Women Students; Conrad Schmidt, president, East Dall Events Continue Through Sunday hood less than six months." a woman said area that included Hought, scene of Negro Halls Council; Russ Messier, president, Graduate Student y violence in 1966. Association; Warren Hartenstine, representative of the slain snipers. "They seemed to stick , Associated ' All white persons were banned from the Student Activities; William Fuller, manager, Hetzel Union to themselves. I don t believe people paid troubled area. The withdrawal of the guards- Building; and Champ Storch, Director of Student Activi- them too much attention." men came at the request of Mayor Carl ties. d beared Ahmed Fred StokStokes, in office nine months as the first major city. He had been Festiva l Termed Success Evans, an astrologer and Black Nationalist Negro mayor of a told by 109 Negro leaders that blocking off By DIANE LEWIS Building: experimental and documentary leader, as saying he led a group of 17 men the area to white persons would restore films, 9:30 p.m. in- the Festival Mall. against the police. He said he surrendered Collegian Staff Writer . peace. Saturday,-JnH- 27:-Dance-Conference, 9 after his rifle failed to -fife while he was The Negro community leaders • moved ' SACJ3ets Support With the close of the Central Pennsyl- a.m. to noon, in Room I Keller Building; aiming at a policeman. through four potentially troublesome neigh- vania Arts Festival still three days away, the Flower Show, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the State borhoods and talked to residents who flocked event has already been termed a success by College High Schqol; Folk Music—Pete No formal charges were filed imme- to the streets for relief from the oppressive the festival's executive co-chairman, Kessler, 2 p.m. in the Festival Mall; Calypso diately against Evans, a man known to humidity. From DiBernardo successful," said William H. Allison, head oi Singer—Stan Shepard. 3 p.m. in the Festival Mayor Stokes personally. Black Nationalists Help said William H. Allison, head ol Mai; Folk Singers—Goode For You Trio, 4 The street workers ranged from Black successful, After meeting with 109 Negro com- The newly organized Students nominated. the Department of Theatre Arts. "The crowds p.m. in the Festival Mall; Gilded 7—Dixie- Nationalists to Cleveland School Board for an Alternative Candidate have been substantially larger than last year, land Band, 7 p.m. in the Festival Mall; Jazz munity leaders in the afternoon, Stokes an- member Arnold Pinkney and State Rep. SAC plans a massive letter Thomas E. Hill, both Negroes. (SAC) received a verbal boost and petition writing campaign with the same high level of enthusiasm. The Spokesman, 8:10 in the Festival Mall: film nounced he would seek to have the National last night when number and quality of program (request night), 9:30 p.m. in the Police quoted Ahmed Fred Evans, an Al DiBernardo, directed at delegates to the extent of coverage, Guard pulled out of the trouble zone, so chairman of the University's entries, show improvement. A wider Penn- Festival Mall. astrologer and Black Nationalist leader, as Convention and Democratic " the Negroes could have a free hand in re- saying he led a group of 17 men against Students for McCarthy, praised leaders of the state. Students sylvania audience is being reached. Sunday, July 28: Picnic on the Grass, the fledgling anti-Humphrey encouraged by the way noon at Strawberry Hill; Children's Art Sale, storing calm.

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