Car Safety Code Released, Tougher Policy Is Hinted Draft Quota Cut for January

F riday Colder . Inside today .. Cloudy, cold with snow flu r Computer Teachers, p. 4 ries today. High temperature Entertainment, p. 7 MICHIGAN 12 degrees. Partly cloudy to Hannah at Shaw, p. 9 m orrow and remaining cold. MSU Soccer, p. 4 STATE UNIVERSITY East Lansing, Michigan D e ce m b er 2, 1966 10c Vol. 59 Number 92 Classes Strike Called By Berkeley Students Speech Movement which dlsruptedclasses The students arrested were charged BERKELEY, Calif, If)- University of as students sought greater on-campus with interfering with police. California students at a mass meeting political liberty. Thursday called a classroom strike be Savio was one of six nonstudents ar The trouble started when CorinneGold- cause police had been summoned during rested by police when they protested the stick, a nonstudent, and Reiss Erich, a a sit-in protesting Navy recruiting on the presence of Navy recruiters in the Stu student member of the Students for a cam pus. dent Union. He was freed on $440 bail Democratic Society, set up a card table Some 3,500 of the Berkeley campus’ when he made his talk. next to the Navy recruiting table. 30,000 students attended the meeting and Last month Savio had been turned down Student groups are not ordinarily per voted overwhelmingly by a show of hands for readmission because he allegedly mitted political tables inside the student to strike classes starting at 8 a.m. violated Berkeley’s literature distribution union building. Nonstudents are not allowed Students declared that off-campus or rules. He is appealing that decision. to man tables anywhere on the campus. ganizations are not permitted by regula m i l You Go Peacefully... At a morning news conference before Campus Policeman Dlno Airale asked tions to man tables on the campus. The to remove classes began, the Council of Campus Goldstick to remove the table of Uniformed and plainclothes policemen attempted university administration said government Miss Organizations, a successor to the Free the newly formed Berkeley Draft Informa leaders of a sit-in protesting a Navy recruiting table at the Uni organizations were exempted from that Speech Movement, demanded that police tion Committee. versity of C alifornia Student Union Thursday. The attempt at rule. never again be called to the 27,500-stu peaceful removal resulted in struggles requiring several officer dent campus. M ario Savio speaks Nonstudent issue cited fo remove each person. University officials said they believed When the warrants were issued Wednes ssted on warrants, mostly non-stu- The last speaker to urge the strike day, activity shifted from a sit-in to a about eight persons were arre, The group flopped on the floor, and UPI Telephoto was Mario Savio, who led the 1964 Free near-riot. Campus policemen had open dents. Airale called for reinforcements. wounds from bites. A Berkeley officer “Navy must go! Navy must go!” the was hit in the face. Policemen got rough demonstrators shouted as campus police with spectators who tried to interfere. locked all the doors to the building. Controversial card table University police, backed by two bus loads of Alameda County sheriff's dep Mario Savio Ten persons were arrested. Most were uties, waded into the demonstrators with Car safety code released, Former University of Calif charged with assaulting police and resist night sticks and riot helmets, dragging o rn ia student and leader of the ing arrest. Bail was set at $3,520 each. out the nonstudents. An estimated 3,500 Four of those arrested were students. students jeered police. now defunct Free Speech Move ment, Mario Savio addresses Savio was charged with trespassing, Savio said the issue was whether non students sitting in at the Uni tougher policy is hinted but was freed on $440 bail. The Navy student recruiters should enjoy on-campus versity of California student recruiting team had long left the scene. privileges denied to nonstudent political Five nonstudents were charged witn deadline for receiving comments on the column or some sort of collapsible groups. union. UPI Telephoto trespassing and creating a public nuisance. WASHINGTON If) — The Com m erce current proposals and AlanS, Boyd, under steering wheel. The standard merely Department made public today the fine secretary of commerce for transportation, spells out how much "give" should be print of its 23 proposed auto safety stand said the proposals could be changed in incorporated into the mechanism. ards and hinted at a much tougher code the light of any comments received. Part of the proposed hydraulic brake in the years ahead. “The proposed initial standards should standard would require that failure or NO CHANGE FOR STUDENTS The proposals themselves were out not be taken as indicative of the scope rupture of the brake master cyliner, wheel lined in Detroit Tuesday night by Dr. or contents of the revised standards to brake cylinders or brake line or hose William Haddon Jr., director of the Na come later,” he said. should not result in complete loss of the tional Highway Safety Agency. The 76- brake system. page document spells out the proposals The industry has already called laudable If failure of one of these components Draft quota cut for January in technical detail. but impractical at this time at least two causes a loss of pressure in one part of They range from a ban on winged nuts of the provisions in the interim list to the system, the remaining portion would with Selective Service legislation, prob be published in the Federal Register - lective Service Law will be up for con for wheels to brake and tire standards have to provid» enough braking power tt By JE FF STONE ably no revision will appear, Holmes one for arm rests and the other for gressional review in 1967. The methods and the amount of “give” which must bring the vehicle to a stop without swerving said. Michigan draft calls for January have are reviewed every four years. be incorporated into the steering mech head rests. off the highway. Draft calls in 1968 will probably rise been cut 45 per cent, from nearly 1,900 anism . The industry said last month that further The same proposal also calls for a red Although several groups have appeared as the 24,000 Michigan men drafted in the research is needed to determine the effect light on the instrument panel which would to 977. before the commission appointed by the large 1966 buildup complete th eir two- Many of the standards are derived Monthly draft quotas averaged about from those used by the General Services iveness of head rests as a protection illuminate in the event of a partial brake President to recommend Selective Service year tour. For the months following Jan against whiplash injuries. system failure. 2,000 in 1966 for Michigan. changes, Holmes feels no changes will uary, 1967 though, Holmes could make Administration for government vehicles The action by the Selective Service One performance factor requested by Another provision would bar instrument result from it. no predictions. Too many changes can and from the auto industry itself. System came as a result of a Defense the government was a collapsible steering light reflections into the windshield._____ occur in U.S. policy andd international The department fixed Jan, 3 as the Department announcement that fewer men Similarly, In the House and Senate affairs, he said. will be needed than planned in early 1967. Armed Forces Committees, which deal Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara INVESTIGATION SET announced the cut in a public statement last week. College students will not be affected Finals package offer by the cut. “There will be no change in policies concerning student status," No hope seen for more survivors said Col. Arthur Holmes, staff director of the Michigan Selective Service System. traced to U-M student Michigan local boards are requiring college freshmen to take physical exams fresh fruits, candies and hot chocolate." from sunken freighter Morrell and are placing eligible men in 1-A status By BOBBY SODEN Miss Bailey said that Hazlett, a personal until the end of their academic year. State News Staff W riter friend, asked her to rent an East Lansing Nine more bodies were recovered lone survivor was adrift for 36 hours in HARBOR BEACH, Mich. Iff" - With Holmes expressed some doubt that this An MSU coed said Thursday that the post office box, to which orders could a raft. icy Lake Huron reluctantly yielding the Thursday after the storm let up enough change in draft quotas would continue. “MSU Student Committee" which offers be sent. bodies of one crewman after another, to permit aircraft to rejoin the search. Deck watchman Dennis Hale, 26, clad "This happens almost every year, draft “I really don't understand it," she in undershorts, pajamas and a pea jacket, gift packages for exam -taking students authorities said Thursday there’s little, calls are lowered in January, enlistment said. “He was very vague." Asked whether there was any hope more was plucked from the raft by a heli does not exist. if any, hope that more than one member drops off too, then In March draft calls Miss Bailey added that she had assumed survivors would be found, Sheriff’s Deputy copter Wednesday. He was lying beneath Barbara A. Bailey, Triadelphia, W. Va. from a crew of 29 survived the sinking are raised again," Holmes said. sophomore, explained that the chairman of the packages would be m a d e up by students Robert Swackhamer said, “No. .none." the bodies of three m ates who had died of the Daniel J. Morrell. Enlistments usually follow draft calls, the alleged committee, George Hazlett, at Ann Arbor, but that Hazlett was not of exposure.

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