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Academic risks will study at University

To help educate a group it has had little contact with, DePauw University this summer plans to launch its own program for some 60 high schoolers who are either academic risks or culturally disadvantaged. With these sixty will be an additional 60 who already have been admitted to DePauw. These students will come to the campus to get a head start on their college careers. The expectation of the experiment is that a reduced summer load may make their college transition less harrowing academically. The six-week program is being set up as entirely self-supporting, according to Assistant Dean Dwight L. Ling. He will be assisted by Professor James Findlay of the history department. At this point the university — through its regular admissions chanels and through visits by Findlay and Admissions Director Louis Fontaine, is trying to identify the students who fit the Fowler asks for increase in taxes WASHINGTON UPI — Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler is asking Congress to come up with a tax increase and end the danger of a return to the “boom or bust” economic cycles of an earlier era. The immediate danger is on inflationary "boom,” he told the House-Senate Economic Committee, but the long term threat is the destruction of orderly economic growth, putting the nation backin the inflation-recession cycle that was finally broken in the 1960s. The current inflationary trends are dangerous, Fowler testified, and can be checked chiefly by enacting the 10 per cent surtax on income taxes President Johnson requested last year. The Treasury chief encountered an old familiar answer from both Democrats and Republicans in his audience: The President should first cut spending. To both, replied Fowler. “Let’s get this bird in hand,” he said.“If you can then reduce federal expenditures more, well, godspeed to you. •‘While we’re waiting and waiting and waiting, we’ve lost S4.5 billion in additional revenues. Meanwhile, I’m one who has to go out and borrow the money to pay the bills.”

“risk” and “disadvantaged” categories. Some 40 students whose high school motivation has been poor but whose test scores are OK wall be admitted to the summer session after they complete their junior year in high school. If they do well here, they probably will be readmitted the following summer and be added—if they want to—to DePauws regular freshman class in 1969. The 20 disadvantaged youth will be students who have some ability but little or no home encouragement towards college. Their progression through the program will parallel that of the academic risks. In both of these cases involving high school juniors DePauw intends to offer credit for their summer work. The credit will be held in escrow until they become regular DePauw students. All the disadvantaged youths will receive financial support to attend the June 24-August 3 program. Others will pay tuition, room and board and book costs. Approximately nine professors will teach in the summer program. Dr. Ling said DePauw’s faculty approved the program to permit the school to develop its own approach to what is needed for this particular type of student. He said he believes the Government will be encouraging private schools to do more in the area of aiding culturally disadvantaged and academic risk students. “Because of the lack of sufficient scholarship funds, the private colleges have not been able to serve this group adequately,” Ling said. “In addition to helping these students, the summer program will give our faculty valuable experience in teaching academic risks and disadvantaged students. It’s an area where we can meet a pressing contemporary problem and help in a small way some deserving young people.” Furthermore Ling said the summer program should enable DePauw’s faculty to see what is needed in tutorial and counseling work and also provide some answers about the feasibility of a larger academic summer session on the campus. The faculty committee steering the long range development of a program for academic risks and culturally-eco-nomically deprived students includes Professors Donald Orlosky, Preston Adams. Robert Weiss, Vincent Serpa, Findlay and Ling.

County cattle tour is slated for February 20

The Putnam County Cattle Feeders Tour will be held Tuesday, February 20th. First stop will be at 9:30 a.m. at the Max Clodfelter farm which is on state road 36 about one mile east of the junction of 36 and 43. Clodfelter has several hundred cattle on feed, part of them weighing more than a thousand pounds and part of them calves. His cattle are fed in confinement on corn silage and high moisture corn. At 10:30, the tour will move to the James Malayer farm about two miles north and east from Bainbridge. Malayer has 200 yearling cattle being fed on corn silage, high moisture corn, and

liquid supplement. These cattle are fed outside by automatic feeder. The group will lunch on their own at 11:30 and will reassemble in the Lions Club Hall in downtown Bainbridge at 12:30. During the afternoon, Ken McDonald Purdue Animal Scientist will discuss different systems of cattle feeding, management problems and pointers, equipment, and marketing. The Putnam County Cattlemen’s Association will hold a brief business meeting and election of officers. The tour was arranged and will be conducted by county extension agent Paul Jackson.

Traffic death slate clean in 39 Indiana counties

INDIANAPOLIS UPI—It is no surprise that 39 of the 40 countries with no Indiana traffic fatalities through the first month and a half of 1968 were able to keep their safety records clean. But the big shock is Allen County, which last year logged 74 fatalities and ranked third in the death derby only behind heavily populated Marion and Lake Counties, which always head the list. By this date in 1967. Allen had recorded 11 fatalities and was racking them up at the rate of nearly two a week. Yet here it is mid-February and more than six weeks have passed and Allen is still free of white crosses on its highways and the streets of Fort Wayne for 1968. In fact, that county got through the final 10 days of 1967 with no fatalities and now has stretched the number of consecutive days of death-free driving to at least oi>.

Next most notable name in the list of clean counties is Shelby, which ranked 18th among the 92 last year with 20 fatalities. Others with moderately heavy rates last year were Wabash with 19, Cass with 18. Steuben and Dearborn 17, Rush and Vermillion with 16. Hendricks and Noble with 15, Green and Morgan 14. and Marshall 13. Counties still unmarked with fatalities through Feb. this year but which in 1967 averaged fewer than one per month are Ripley and LaGrange with 11: Clay and Owen with 10: Montgomery, Parke and Perry with 9; Posey and White with 8; Brown, Carroll, Fayette. Harrison. Jefferson. Jennings and Pulaski with 7; Blackford, DeKalb and Pike with 6. Others were Jay and Warren with 5; Switzerland with 4; Crawford and Union with 3; Franklin, Lawrence and Scott with 2.

Co-ed correspondent

Miss Peggy Eppelheimer, 13, of 706 South Locust Street, has been named Co-ed Correspondent for the 1967-68 school year according to an announcement by Miss Margaret Houser, editor of Co-Ed Magazine, published nationally by Scholastic Magazines, Inc. for home economics students contains articles on food, fashion, beauty, home furnishings and faction. Miss Eppelheimer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eppelheimer, is an 8th grade student in Greencastle Junior High. She was appointed correspondent by Mrs. Harold Scholl, her home ec. teacher. Selected for qualities of leadership and enthusiasm, Miss Eppelheimer will serve as junior advisor to Co-ed editors. I.ike the other Co-ed correspondents in the U.S. and Canada, she will keep the editors informed of activities at her school. Award presented DPU Sigma Chis Xi Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity at DePamv University has been awarded the Peterson Significant Chapter Award by the Sigma Chi Foundation for Outstanding Chapter performance during the last academic year. The chapter was one of only 17 of the Fraternity’s 145 chapters so honored. The award recognizes those chapters of Sigma Chi whose performance each year is above average and significant in all areas of major endeavor. The chapter rated high in the areas of scholarship, finances, housing, citizenship, public relations, faculty relations, alumni relations, and fraternal activities. The Peterson Significant Chapter Award is the highest honor that can be awarded a Sigma Chi chapter. It Is named in honor of Past Sigma Chi International President J. Dwight Peterson, retired Board Chairman of City Securities Corp. in Indianapolis. Sigma Chi Foundation Executive Director William T. Bringham, in announcing the aw r ard to the chapter, said “You have brought distinction to both your University and the Sigma Chi Fraternity.” The award will be presented to the chapter at the Sigma Chi Leadership Training Workshop this summer at the University of Tennessee.

DPU seniors rate honorable mention

Two Hoosier DePamv University seniors were announced as Honorable Mention winners in competition for national Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. They are Ronald A. Heady, classical languages. Dale and Richard H. Hudelson. philosophy, New Castle. The two men were among 980 students In the nation who were chosen for the honor along with 1,124 others who were named as winners of the fellowships. Over 11.600 students applied for the awards. Woodnwv Wilson honors go for graduate work to college seniors who are believed to have the best potential for college teaching. This year for the first time in several years the winners do not receive an actual stipend from the Foundation. Monies from the underwriting Ford Foundation, amounting to over $52 million in the past 10 years, have been diverted to other programs. This year the names of winners and honorable mention designates will be forwarded to graduate schools with the expectation that having survived the rigorous Wilson competition they will be awarded graduate fellowships. Students chosen for the final awards were selected in a series of rounds of competition that began on the local level.

Red China not first rate military power yet despite hydrogen bomb

HONG KONG UPI —Communist China is not yet a truly first-rate military power, despite her hydrogen bomb. The Red Chinese Army is a formidable foe on Chinese territory or in adjacent border regions. It proved this in Korea more than 15 years ago. The Red Chinese armed forces of today are capable of striking swiftly and strongly against any enemy not separated from her by sea. But they lack the long strike capability, a key element of military power in the nuclear and missile age. The Chinese are working hard to acquire this capability. This year should see some spectacular progress in both the nuclear weapons and missile delivery fields. According to the best available intelligence information, top priority in China’s defense program still is in the manufacture and refinement of nuclear weapons. With a growing stockpile of weapons “estimated more than two dozen and some progress in refinement to get a bigger bang in a smaller package, more emphasis is being put on a delivery system. It is anticipated that the Chinese will declare operational sometime in 1968 an intermediate range Ballistic Missile. If there are no serious disruptions of her defense industries, China may be able to put some Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles into operation on a very limited scale by 1970, some sources believe. No matter how rapidly China progresses in the development of missiles and nuclear weapons, the most Important element in her military establishment

for a long time to come wall be her tremendous reservior of manpower. This more than anything else would deter any potential attacker. China’s armed forces at the moment probably number between 3,000.000 and 3,500,000 men. Of these. Air Force manpower is estimated at around 250,000 while Naval forces are about 200.000. The number of men in the air and naval arms may appear small, but this is explained by the fact that much of the logistical and other support services are performed by the army. The ground force consists of about 40 field armies encompassing about 160 divisions or more distributed throughout 13 military regions. The heaviest concentration of combat troops is in the northeast area, along the Russian and Korean borders. The next largest concentration is on the “Fukien Front”, opposite Taiwan. Other major concentrations of combat troops are in Tibet, along the Sino-Indiana border; in the Sinkiang region where nuclear testing facilities and some missile facilities are located, and in the southern border regions near Laos and North Vietnam. In addition, China has between 50.000 and 100.000 troops in North Vietnam. They are there in a non-combat role at present but could change that role on a moment’s notice. China’s Air Force is one of the world's largest. Just where it would rank in effectiveness is a mystery. It is estimated that the Chinese Air Force has more than 3,000 planes of which more than 2,000 are jet. These include several hundred UlG-21s, probably a modified version.

The Chinese Navy is primarily a coastal patrol force. However, it is known to have a few submarines with missile firing capabilities. It also is building more of these Russian-type submarines at Dairen. Army units ready to quell city riots WASHINGTON UPI — Seven Army units totaling 15.000 men have been earmarked for possible duty this year in quelling city riots, Gen. Harold K. Johnson disclosed Friday. Johnson. Army chief of staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that seven brigade-size “task forces” are “specifically earmarked and available for civil disturbance duty.” "Additional Army forces are available should they be needed, he said. “Although the strength and resources of the National Guard should prove sufficient for those situations likely to occur, the active Army can complement the guard, if that becomes necessary,” Johnson said. Johnson and Army Secretary Stanley R. Resor testified in a closed session but gave statements to reporters. They also revealed other military preparations to counter riots which President Johnson recently said were inevitable. Both placed the burden of coping with such emergencies on the National Guard rather than active Army units. During last summer’s wave of riots, active Army units were ordered only into Detroit. Resor said that since last summer antiriot training has been stepped up in both regular Army and guard organizations.

Two traditional allies now at odds

When the British announced their decision to withdraw their forces from east of Suez they left up for grabs the future of nearly a dozen tiny states fringing the shores of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman which live on oil or the hopes of finding it. And. as happens even in the best of families when it comes to dividing the estate of a rich uncle, it has placed at odds two traditional alhes. They are Iran and Saudi, Arabia. At stake are tiny shiekdoms ranging from Abu Dhabi whose oil wealth gives it the highest per capital income in the world to tiny Ajman whose wealth is counted in its date palms and the daily intake of its fishermen. Early this month, Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi of Iran suddenly canceled

a scheduled visit to Saudi Arabia where he had been scheduled to discuss with King Faisal his proposal that they should fill the vacuum being left by the British. Together they represented by far the greatest military power on the gulf. Together they had been allied against President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic and they were bound by religious ties. Then came the visit of the ruler of Bahrain, Sheik Isa Bin Sulman al-Khal-ifa, a producer of oil for more than 30 years and with an important Americanowned oil refinery, is an island just off the southern Persian Gulf coast. Until the 18th century it had been ruled by Iran and the sheik was said to have feared Iran would reassert its claims.

Faisal promised him Saudi Arabi's support. After that came the falling out between two friends. Within the total area, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, are states producing about one-fourth of the world’s petroleum products. Richest of all in terms of population is Abu Dhabi. Its oil income runs around $70 million, giving it 20,000 inhabitants a per capital income of $3,500, most of which they do not see. Some other states are poor relations, living in villages set on desert sand, under tribal laws interpreted by judges who ignore the 20th century. And, in the spider's web of midwestem politics, Faisal of Saudi Arabi ha* drawn closer to Nasser <u his relation* with Iran have cooletL

NO MORE Dl'ST—Pictured above is the new part of the struction that will nd the cement dust problem from Greentwenty milion dollar Lone Star Cement plant now under con- castle. The dust precipitator will be part of the new plant located just north of the old on*.