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Additional Weather as iTHE STATE JOURNAL 4 iWaqfiKSBF Associatec United Pros International, The Ne York Times and Los Angeles Times Washington Post News Serv.ce. PRICE TEN CENTS 52 Pages LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1969 ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH YEAR Wharton Will Head MSU Bipartisan Vote Ends Long Hunt Advisory GI Force Nixon Aim By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON fAP) mm i 1 I tJ mm JACK BRESLIN DR. C. R.

WHARTON JR. By HELEN CLEGG State Journal Staff Writer Dr. Clifton R. Wharton of New York City, a specialist in foreign economic development, was named president of Michigan State University this morning in a 5-3 bipartisan vote by the Board of Trustees. The appointment is effective Jan.

2. Wharton becomes the first Negro to head a major American university. The vote came after a long night meeting and early morning private session of the board. MSU Secretary Jack Breslin, who lost by a 4-4 vote when nominated for the presidential post during Thursday's executive session, was appointed executive vice president of the university. This is a new administration position.

He rein a i as secretary of the board. MARTIN MOVED Introducing the motion to elect Wharton was Dr. Blanche Martin, D-East Lansing. Voting for Wharton, in addition to Martin, were Trustee Chairman Don Stevens, D-Okemos; Kenneth W. Thompson, R-Grand Rapids; Frank Merri-man, R-Deckerville and Ste-p S.

Nisbet, R-Fremont. Voting against Wharton were Warren M. Huff, D-Plymouth; Clair White, D-Bay City; and Frank Hartman, D-Flint. Wharton apparently was agreed upon by the five during an executive session Thursday night following a meeting with the All-University Search and Selection committee. Dr.

Wharton, 42, is vice president of the Agricultural Development Council. He is the son of America's first Negro career diplomat, Dr. Clifton R. Wharton See WHARTON, A-4, Col. 1 has spoken publicly of administration thinking along these lines, and it is at odds with those demanding a total and swift U.S.

withdrawal. At a spot news conference, Laird refused to be specific, but said such a "residual force" of trainers and advisers would be a little bigger than the 6,000 or 7,000 men he said were in Vietnam during the Kennedy administration. The U.S. advisory force grew to about 16,000 men by the time Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. President Lyndon B.

Johnson sent American troops to Vietnam on a major scale in 1965 and the fighting strength rose to 543,500 after the United States assumed the leading combat role. NO PREDICTION Asked how long the United States would keep an advisory force in Vietnam, Laird replied that "I wouldn't want to make a prediction." However, when reporters noted the United States still has 55,000 men in Korea 16 years after the Korean War and about 320,000 in Europe 24 years after World War II, Laird commented "I would not plan for anything like that." He indicated the advisory force could be an issue in bargaining with North Vietnam. "It is a matter that could be negotiated on a mutually acceptable basis," the defense secretary said. The administration now is embarked on a phased pullout of U.S. combat troops, with 60,000 men due to be removed by mid-December and other withdrawals in prospect early next year.

The defense secretary mentioned the residual force while discussing budgeting plans for the 1971 fiscal year beginning next June 30. Campus Visit Set for Nov. 1 LANDING Col. Georgy Shonin (left) and spacewalker Valery Kubasov, the crew of Soyuz 6, smile happily as they stand in snow following the landing of their space craft in the Karaganda recovery area in Soviet central Asia Thursday. The Soviets brought Soyuz 7 back to earth today, leaving only Soyuz 8 in orbit.

(UPI Cablephoto) Second Soyuz Down, Third Is Still Aloft Thousands of U.S. troops probably will remain in Vietnam to advise and train South Vietnamese forces even after the war stops, according to Defense Secretary 1 i R. Laird. Laird's remarks to newsmen Thursday sounded like a return to the U.S. advisory effort maintained in South Vietnam under President John F.

Kennedy. This was the first time Laird New Draft Plan House OK Likely By JIM ADAMS WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon's plan to draft 19-year-olds first under a lottery system appears likely to win House approval next week but its fate in the Senate is an open question. The House Armed Services Committee approved the plan aimed at giving 18-year-olds advance notice of their draft prospects by a surprise 31-0 vote Thursday. House leaders, who believe they can block efforts to tack wholesale revisions on the bill, almost immediately scheduled floor action for late next week, indicating there is little hard opposition there. REPORT DISCOUNTED But reports from the Senate indicated Armed Services Chairman John C.

Stennis. was reluctant to put the bill on the floor where critics, who count Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, have a host of proposed revisions including elimination of all college draft deferments. Stennis could not be reached for comment but Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, who favors elimination of the draft, discounted those reports.

"I feel certain that if the House passes it, he (Stennis) will report it out as expeditiously as possible." Mansfield said, "and if he does, I'll call it up as expeditiouslv as there hasn't been time yet to do any planning." Wharton has a Ph.D degree in economics, a B.A. in history and a Masteis degree in international affairs. "I have visited the campus many times," he said. "I think that Michigan State has always been an excellent institution a great one, for thy money." The new MSU president said he's a registered Democrat, but "I believe the position of president of a state university should be as bipartisan as possible because it involves the education of students of all backgrounds and beliefs." Moscow Radio said Soyuz 7, carrying Anatoly Filipchenko, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Gorbatko, landed in the Soviet Union. It was in orbit nearly five days.

Still flying in space aboard MOSCOW (AP) The second spaceship in the Soviet Un-ion's troika mission landed safely today, returning three more cosmonauts to earth and leaving only two aloft in Soyuz 8. NEW YORK (UPI) Dr. Clifton R. Wharton 42, newly-appointed president of Michigan State University, said today he was "deeply honored" to be chosen and probably will visit the campus for the first time on his new job for homecoming Nov. Wharton, now vice president of the Agricultural Development council, a private nonprofit corporation in New York City, said "I will do my best to meet the confidence which the Search and Selection Committee showed in nominating me and the Board of Trustees showed in selecting me.

"It will be a privilege to become a part of this great university," he said, "and to serye the faculty and students as well as the nonacademic staff of the university, and through them the people of the state of Michigan" he said. SUBSCRIBE TO TRADITION "As the first land grant college, Michigan State University pioneered the concept of service to the people a tradition to which I wholeheartedly subscribe and will do my very best to maintain." Dr. Wharton said he's not sure exactly when he will move to the campus at East Martin Quits As Fed Chief; Burns Named Snow, Cold Forecast For Game Weekend Outlook WASHINGTON (UPI) The White House announced today the resignation of William McChesney Martin as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the selection by President Nixon of Arthur F. Burns to succeed him. Martin's term was due to expire Jan.

31, 1970. Burns, counsellor to the President since the start of this Administra-t i was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors during the Eisenhower Administration. Soyuz 8 were veteran cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov and Alexei Yeliseyev. The other ship in this big-gest-ever mission, Soyuz 6, was brought to earth Thursday with Georgy Shonin and Valery Kubasov aboard. Soyuz 8 is expected to land Saturday.

Soyuz 7 landed 96 miles northwest of Karaganda, in Kazakhstan, only 15 miles from the site where Soyuz 6 came down. The broadcast said search parties reached the spacecraft quickly and the three cosmonauts "feel excellent." The mission of Soyuz 7 was declared "successfully completed," as Soyuz 6's flight had been 24 hours earlier. ONLY PIONEERING The only pioneering aspect of the flight announced so far has been the testing by Soyuz 6 of new automatic welding equipment to determine the feasibility of its use in the construction in space of a large orbiting station or platform, the goal of the current Soviet space program. Reporting on the experiment, Dr. Nikolai Kazakov wrote in Krasnaya Zvezda Red Star: "For the first time we obtained information on how different metals are welded and cut and how they melt in conditions of space vacuum and weightlessness." "It is still too early to sum See SOYUZ 7, A-4, Col.

1 Cloudy and cold weather with a chance of snow flurries is forecast for the Saturday afternoon MSU-U of football game at East Lansing. Lansing's low temperature tonight will be 30 to 34, Saturday's high will be 46 to 52. Chances of precipitation are 30 per cent tonight and Saturday. Sunday's outlook is Tor a chance of light rain, clor.dy and not quite so cold. Lansing.

"The first occasion for which I'll be there will be the homecoming weekend I heard about the aDDointment only late this morning and O'Rafferty travels to Haslett, Howell is at Okemos, DeWitt is at home to face Pewamo-West-phalia and Fowlerville invades Williamston. In Saturday football, Michigan State hopes to rebound after two consecutive losses with a win over the Wolverines of the University of Michigan in Spartan Stadium at 1:30 p.m. Later in the afternoon the MSU soccer team battles the University of Akron (Ohio) at 3:30 on the soccer field, near the football stadium. The Association is featured Saturday at 8 p.m. at Jenison Field House in the first concert of the MSU Popular Entertainment Series.

In other weekend action the Central Michigan Lapidary and Mineral Society presents its 4th annual Gem and Mineral Show at the Michigan National Guard Armory. Auctions, swap tables, displays and door prizes are among the activities in the three-day event. Hours tonight are from 5 to 10, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m.

to 6 p.m. The Lansing Belles and Beaus will sponsor its second annual road rally-square dance Saturday, starting at Eberhard's parking lot on VS. 27 at 5:30 p.m. The dance will be at the final destination, with Dick Kenyon as caller. Metal sculptures by Ed Gray will be on display at the Sparrow's Nest in Okemos through Nov.

1 daily from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fine arts activities move front and center on this weekend's stage of family entertainment in the Lansing area. The Broadway hit comedy, "Generation," will be presented by the Lansing Civic Players tonight and Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

at the West Junior High School Auditorium. "Are You Kidding?" has been held over at the Barn Theater on Okemos Road for its third weekend. Performances by the Community Circle Players are scheduled for tonight and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Theodore Johnson, violinist, will perform tonight at 8:15 at the Michigan State University Music Auditorium in the faculty recital series. On Sunday, the Day With the Arts moves into the Lansing Civic Center to kick-off the week-long Fine Arts Festival.

From 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday musicians, thespians, writers, artists and dancers from most of Mid-Michigan's fine arts group will perform. A wide variety of exhibits and demonstrations offer entertainment for every member of the family. Tonight's high school football action is highlighted by a "must" conference tilt for Sexton against Kalamazoo at Memorial Stadium at 7:30. Ann Arbor Huron meets Everett at 7:30 at Centennial Stadium.

It is homecoming for both Lansing high schools. In other prep contests, Gabriels is at Holt, CONSTANT COMPANION TV Lansing's low temperatire i morning was 39. Thu s- otate Journal day's high was 53 degrees- Financial News D-9 Doctor Shortage Homes, Building D-2, D-3 Tto -mr Mid-Michigan News A-15 Jn INotC(l Onlooker D-l People in the News C-8 HONOLULU (AP) The Senior Forum A-18 United States is 50,000 doctors Sports C-ltoC-6 short of its present needs and The Doctor Says D-8 the situation is likely to Theater D-4, D-5 worsen, says Dr. Frank Ger- TV Listings C-7 bode, president of the Pan-Pa-Weather C-7 cific Surgical Association. Today in The Ann Landers B-4 Around-The-World A-17 Bridge Column A-18 Capitol Affairs A-8, A-9 Classified D-10 to D-17 Comics D-8 Crossword Puzzle D-18 Deaths A-2 East Lansing, MSU A-3 Editorials, Features A-12, A-13 Family Living B-ltoB-8 Every Saturday im THE STATE JOURNAL Lansing East Lansing Michigan's Complete Sewspaper Walter Adams for Governor? Never, Says He when his name is mentioned among Democrats as a candidate for governor there is enthusiastic response," Traxler said.

"Walter Adams possesses all of the qualifications I would like to see in our candidate." OTHER PLANS But Adams insists he has other plans. On Jan. 2 he is scheduled to begin a year of sabbatical leave from his regular MSU assignment as professor of economics. University trustees approved the leave March 21, the same day they named him acting president when John A. Hannah left to join the Nixon administration in Washington.

If the board has forgotten about the sabbatical, Adams says he intends to remind them it's already approved. my game plan goes according to schedule and, of course, there's always a chance for an interception I will be out of this office by Jan. 2," he said Thursday. "On Jan. 2 my sabbatical leave begins, and it continues until Dec.

31. 1970. INCOMMUNICADO "By March of 1970. I expect to be on the high seas on the southern route to Europe, soaking up sun and incommunicado to radio and television, and, if you will forgive me, not even reading The State Journal." What other plans does he have for next year? "The only thing at the moment that grabs me is the request I Jiave had from some publishers to write a book about my experiences in this office." Will he do it? "I don't know." By WILLARD BAIRD State Journal Capitol Bureau Dr. Walter Adams, acting president of Michigan State University, tried Thursday to squelch efforts of Democratic admirers to induce him to run for governor next year.

He wasn't at all sure he succeeded. "It's ridiculous it's sheer madness," he said when asked about talk among Democratic associates of urging him to become a candidate for governor. At a press conference a few hours earlier he had reaffirmed a statement of March 21. when he was named acting president of MSU, that "under no circumstances" would he accept appointment as permanent president of the university. Many of his faculty friends and thousands of MSU students hadn't really believed he couldn't be persuaded to change his mind, he remarked.

PAST EXPERIENCE That experience conditioned him to expect his disclaimer of interest in elective office won't be accepted any more readily. "They won't believe me you won't believe me." he told his interviewer. "I guess I'm the least persuasive man in the state of Michigan." But. believe it or not. Adams is saying "no" as flatly as he knows how to the reports circulating in Democratic ranks that he might be lured into the 1970 campaign as the party's candidate for governor.

He put it in these words: "I am not now. nor do I ever intend to be, a candidate for governor or any other elective office in the state of Michigan or in any of the other 49 states of this indissoluble union." A few hours after Adams declared that stand, Democratic State Chairman James M. McNeely said he intends to have a chat with Adams in the near future. "A number of people have talked to me about Walter Adams as a candidate for governor, and a lot of people are very interested in seeing him run," the party chairman said. "I think he would be an excellent guy.

"He and I have not discussed it up to this point, but I do intend to sit down and talk to him about it." It was learned that a key Democratic figure broached the idea of gubernatorial candidacy to Adams several months ago. Adams gave him no encouragement at the time, but left the impression that he wasn't totally rejecting the idea. UNDER WRAPS Gradually the talk of urging Adams to seek the nomination circulated throughout the party's state and local leadership ranks, but those pushing it kept the plan under wraps so long as it appeared Adams might be offered and induced to accept the permanent presidency of MSU. This week the budding Adams-for-governor movement drew favorable comment from several Democratic legislators. Rep.

J. Bob Traxler, D-Bay City, spoke of Adams as a candidate "of the type we're looking for." "I haven't talked to him myself aboijt it, but I know that i star Journal WALTER ADAMS.