(Etmnrrttrttt SatUj €a%&* Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXX NO. 60 STORRS, CONNECTICUT Thursday, December 7, 1972 truman near death, wife at his bedside KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP1) Doctors announced Truman had -Former President Harry S. Truman, been receiving treatments at his home 88, his heart and lungs failing, lay in Independence, Mo., for the past two gravely ill Wednesday night "in a weeks because of a congested iung but delicate and critical balance." Doctors that he was suddenly rushed to the said "Death may be imminent." hospital Tuesday night because of "President Truman has shown a symptoms of heart failure. very slight improvement but his "He is in the worst condition I've condition continues to be critical," a seen him in," a hospital spokesman hospital spokesman said. "He is in a said. very deep stupor." "Vital signs are unstable and not Bess Truman, 87, tired and strained within normal limits," according to the from her vigil at Truman's bedside, hospital's definition of critical. 'There returned to the hospital Wednesday are major complications. Death may be night when doctors reported the imminent." former President's condition had Doctors said Truman was worsened. continuously taking oxygen. Margaret Truman Daniel, the "His vital signs are being stabilized former President's daughter, flew from by continued therapy," the Washington, D.C., in a jet provided by announcement said. "He is beginning the White House to be at her father's to respond to treatment." side. The doctors said Truman suffered a President Nixon was kept relapse which prompted them to constantly apprised of Truman's change his condition from serious to conditions by White House doctors. critical but he began "to respond and "Mr. Truman is in a deep stupor react more favorably to treatment." but responsive to painful stimuli as The condition of the tough little differentiated from a coma, when the "man of Independence" had patient is unresponsive," said Wilson deteriorated from "fair" to "serious" Miller, an internist at Research during the day, but at S p.m. he was Hospital. reported slightly improved and more "An infection complicates the comfortable. Two members of the UConn music department sing ballads accompanying conditon," the hospital spokesman He was rushed to the hospital diners at the annual Elizabethan dinner last night. Over 230 were served a dinner said. "He has not responded to Tuesday night, suffering pulmonary that began with wassail, a mixed liquor punch, ate rock cornish hen, and antibiotics. His condition continues to congestion. He was given oxygen to listened to member of the University choir. (Photo by Noel Voroba) be in a delicate and critical balance." help him breathe. His wife Bess was at his bedside in his sixth-floor room. ''Former President Truman continues in serious condition," Dr. Wallace Graham, his physician, said in a statement read at a 3 p.m. (EST) last moon mission launched medical briefing. "However, he is slightly improved and more comfortable." CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -Apollo "This night launching is something oldest as well as the youngest moon Transfer Planned 17 's astronauts sat calmly on the to behold," Schmitt told mission rocks yet sampled in the Apollo launch pad through a technical delay control. program. Evans will circle overhead in Graham said Truman's heart was of nearly three hours and then The astronauts swung into earth the command ship America. weakened and his lungs were filled thundered into darkened space early orbit 12 minutes later, and prepared to Once launched, the flight was with fluid. John Dreves, a spokesman Thursday morning, embarking on fire the rocket's third stage — the focus flawless. But there were tense moments at Research Hospital, read Graham's America's last planned mission to land of the problem that delayed the launch on the ground when Apollo 1 7 for the medical statement. men on the moon. — again to kick away from gravity for first time in the 1 1 Apollo missions "Dr. Graham has a dual concern The failure of a computerized the quarter-million-mile journey to the experienced an interruption of the over pulmonary congestion and cardiac sequence system to pressurize a liquid moon. countdown for technical reasons. output," Dreves said. Asked if there oxygen tank on the third stage of the Their goal, to be reached Monday The hundreds of thousands of were danger of further complications, frost-coated Saturn 5 rocket resulted in afternoon, will be a mountain-ringed spectators took up a midnight vigil as other than pneumonia, Dreves said, an automatic halt in the countdown 30 valley in the Taurus-Littrow region on the three astronauts sat "perfectly "There is always a danger of a sudden seconds before the scheduled liftoff at the southeastern rim of the vast Sea of calm" in their floodlighted spaceship change in heart function with lun« 9:53 p.m. EST. Serenity — the left eye of the "man in atop the 3 6-story Saturn rocket. congestion." After a series of holding delays, the moon." Cernan mused that ther delay afforded Dreves said Truman would be ground engineers succeeded in Scientists believe that Cernan and a good opportunity to discuss transferred to the hospital", intensive pressurizing the fuel tank manually and Schmitt will find there some of the literature. care unit if his condition worsened. circumventing the problem to permit a fiery night-time blastoff 2 hours and 40 minutes late. Apollo 17 was the 11 th and last mission in the bold Apollo series that asg to hold own referendum unlocked the secrets of the moon. Flames spewing from the giant rocket turned night to # day for an by Mark Fisher senate bill said. "Arrangements for said circulationg a petition requesting the estimated 500,000 spectators on the The Student Senate of the referendum would be with the Office referendum be delayed until other Florida beaches below as Associated Student Governemtn (ASG) of Student Affairs." proposals for a new student astronautsEugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. passed legislation last night in a Deitch, in her last act as senate government can be finished, publicized, Evans and their civilian scientist meeting at Wheeler D to hold a "fair chairman before assuming the and placed on the ballot along with the companion, Harrison H. "Jack" referendum, open to all government Presidency, used her tie-breaking vote Federation. Schmitt soared away at 12:33 a.m. proposals". The legislation is power to defeat another bill which CRSG issued a statement Tuesday EST contingent if the Committee to Redraft called for the ASG to hold new saying it will hold the referendum as announcement Student Governance (CRSG) holds its elections if the proposed Federation is scheduled and originally written, The Connecticut Daily Campus proposed referendum on Dec. 13 as a defeated in the referendum. The bill if despite the request of Associate Dean for Student Affairs John J. Manning, publishes the last issue this semester on simple "yes-no" vote on its proposed passed would have caused the ASg to Dec. 8. Classified advertisers and Federation of STudents and Service make public its intent to hold new Mr., to either delay it or include a question giving students a choice of activity sponsorers should take note of Organizations. election "so that it is known to all that this date to avoid any inconveniences. Melanie Deitch, who became ASG to vote against a proposed government another, later referendum. The Daily Campus will publish its president last night when cx-president does not mean a vote for the present Manning, whose office is annual Sports and Storrs advertising David Kaplan's resignation became ASG." conducting the referendum, made the supplement on Dec. 14, after which official, said however she is Senator Dori Bruce, President of request on behalf of Bruce's regular publication resumes on Jan. 17. "uncertain" whether or not to veto the the so-called "Ad-Hoc Committee for a committee. Daily Campus business office will bill. Fair Referendum," said she wanted to Deitch earlier told the Senate the move from the Student Union to its 'The ASG, as the official student make it clear that her committee was Board of Trustees' subcommittee on new location next to the Blue and government i must guarantee a fair "in no way" connected with the ASG subcontracting told her if UConn's White Restaurant on Jan. 15. referendum for the student body," the actions. The committee has begun Continued on page 9, eol. I ber 7,1972 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR atlg (Eampua Mike London much too general. They offer sexual love Judy Fogelman little inspiration and they are r-in-Chief Les Morrell actually forced upon the December 3, 1972 Gerhard Kiohn student. Lincoln Millstein To the Editor: and untold others 4) What was the purpose of I have been greatly Managing Editor Business Manager dividing the QPR system?If a disturbed by a letter that student experiences one bad Alan K. Reisner Donald E. Waggaman appeared in the Daily Campus out to abolish To the Editor: semester what are his chances entitled "Virginia Virgin" and of ever erasing it and aiming for signed by a J. Arthur Gorham One week from today the entire student body will be a new start? III who claimed to have a niece We feel that the University at UConn. Mr.'Gorham's voting through their house residents on the new Senate has progressed and attitudes disturb me because I regressed, in their actions fs.s.o.-more time needed see a great many people like constitution. Wc would like to remind students that a NO vote toward the academic honors by him around me — people who making them "a little more sec sex as a dirty word, people against the new constitution is It took the Committee to Redraft Student restrictive".