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Student Trustees for College Boards of Regents Debated By STEPHEN KENT Associated Press Writer OLYMPIA (AP) Students and administrators agreed Wednesday on the need for greater communication among themselves but sharply differed on methods of achieving it They appeared at a Joint hearing of the House and Senate Higher Education Committees on two bills which would add a student to the Boards of Regents or Trustees of all universities colleges and community colleges One of the bills would also include a faculty member on each hoard Five of the six student government representatives who favored the bills were backed by Sen Martin Durkan D-Issa- quah and James Dolliver administrative assistant to Gov Dan Evans The students shared the viewpoint that the boards are unable to comprehend the problems Noel Borshaw Western Washington State College student body president said are not condemning the boards but pointing out how with students they can have better The administrators said the governed cannot be the governors and many conflicts of interest would result PRIVATE DECISIONS University of Washington Student Body resident Thom Gunn said the trustees there depend on President Charies Ode-gaard for informa turn both on campus problems and recommendations to solve them which he said fairly He said although students may attend the public meetings of the trustees the decision making is done privately student leaders have the support of every responsible sector of the student body But the Students for a Democratic Society and other activists see a student-trustee as a fraud because they feel there is no redemption for the system we work through the legislature we face these he said Durkan a co-sponsor of request measure to include both student and faculty members said be has heard nothing from the latter He said he press for faculty representation but supported student membership as a of confidence and because SUPPORTS BILL Dolliver said Evans supports the bill because it would give students a forum at a high level give students a better idea of the problems of the trustees and draw on the untapped talent of the students Archie Baker chairman of the community college district governing Edmonds and Everett colleges opposed the measures am deeply and firmly convinced the citizens of our state do not want our colleges turned over to the student or he said am committed to a program of shared governance with faculty and students "A college has neither the right nor responsibly to establish itself as the moral guardian or to act as the parent of any he said OPPOSED IDEA Elliott Johnson student president of Skagit Valley College opposed the idea as and appeasement' have had a student as non-voting member for two years and all we have gotten is -the right to sit at a he said Washington State University President Dr Glenn Terrell favored consultation of students at all levels of decision making but opposed membership on boards of decision making would be damaged by membership because they would be voting on recommendations they submitted to the he aid Dr Emerson Shuck president of Eastern Washington State College said pressures on student and faculty members as well as potential conflicts of interest outweigh the advantage of membership advantage of having members who are removed is that principles' can remain in the face of personal he said University of Washington Vice President Ernest Conrad said it was more appropriate for foe administration to consult widely with students rather than depending on the viewpoint of one FINAL THURSDAY February 20 1969 Volume 80 No 'bb 10 Cents 1 Herald Today mmsmmm Return to 1954 Pact Rejected i PARIS fUPI) The United States said today a return to foe 1954 Geneva agreements which ended foe French-Indochina War would bring an early peace to Vietnam The Communist negotiators immediately rejected the suggestion I said was misrepresented and then rejected" US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge told newsmen after fifth inconclusive Vietnam session He had displayed some impatience earlier at the Communist position repeated over and over In tough statements foreshadowing a hardening of their attitude foe North Vietnamese and Viet Cong negotiators said the war will go on until there is a complete and unconditional pullout of foe American expeditionary force When Lodge asked for a return to the 1954 Geneva accords Hanoi negotiators Xuan Thuy and foe Viet Tran Buu Kiem said foe Americans must pull out of Vietnam and let its people settle foe problems along lines suggested by the Communists Lodge said despite foe hard Budget Bill Coming Out NEW SHELL SAFE AND SNUG A1 Stocker ia doorway at extreme right who will be Western Washington State's first rowing coach directs foe of the spanking new eight-oared shell in foe boathouse at the Lutherwood camp at Lake Samish Two eight-oared shells and a four-man craft were delivered Wednesday (Additional crew picture on Page Herald photo Middle Route to Link Freeway Gets Approval to he said I think pass the The final gateway version passed by the House would allow revision of entire articles or subjects but would not permit redrafting an entire' constitution NOTICE GIVEN Notice of the budget bill was given Wednesday by Sen Martin Durkan D-Issaquah who said his Ways and Means Committee will pass the capital budget bill out by the end of this week The omnibus budget bill which he said would be the bill submitted to the legislature by Gov Dan Evans containing the 821 billion in new general fund spending will be referred out next week Major changes in the capital budget Durkan said will be restoration of 820 million in community college construction funds cut from the college request by foe governor Money to pay for that restoration would come from 813 milium worth of tightening in certain tax credit statutes 85 million from the bond reserve account and the rest from cuts in the proposal to add almost 10000 new state jobs in the coming biennium Boat Bills Aired OLYMPIA Stale Game Director John Biggs got the support of sportsmen but parks Director Charles Odegaard was backed by the Coast Guard and law officers as the two pleaded the cases Wednesday night for their agencies to administer a state boating safety law Both drew foe fire of Lyle Iverson Seattle attorney representing yacht clubs who said boaters were made the pawns of two rival empire builders who want some political The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on a bill backed by Gov Dan Evans which would have boating safety administered by foe Parks Commission and a rival bill which would give it to the Game Department THIRD MEASURE Iverson representing the Interclub Association of Washington favored a third biil which would adopt the regulations of the Federal Boating Safety Act The largest and most vociferous crowd to attend any hearing this session jammed the galleries and overflowed onto foe floor of foe House chamber Odegaard said the Paris Commission favors some changes in the bill proposed by the governor chiefly to exempt boats from personal property tax He said it would be undesirable for an agency to be in foe position of rules and regulations governing water on which use was made by any group from which it derived Biggs said foe Game Department has 100 wildlife agents permanently stationed throughout foe state and owns more than 125 powered watercraft He said it was desirable to have a statewide agency administering foe law to assure uniformity Tbe Evans bill puts enforcement in foe hands of county sheriffs COSTS THE SAME Speakers supporting Biggs included Paul Telford of the Richland Rod and Gun Club who argues that enforcement costs the same regardless of a boat's size The Game Department bill provides for a fee of 8250 on boats of 12 feet or over regardless of size The bill makes the baric fee 85 with an additional dollar for every foot over 12 feet Pete Yarwood director of the Northwest Conservation Council said the average boatowners would pay more than 89 under the Evans measure Rear A dm Frank Helmer commandant of foe 13th Coast Guard District in Seattle said the Game Department bill several serious which would make it difficult to get Coast Guard approval This is especially foe case in foe process of building he said are too many hang-ups that would in my opinion seem to be the result of a lack of push on the part of district He said be thinks it could be traced to foe highway commission form In which the highway director answers directly to foe governor appointed commission expect a commission made up of laymen to have a full grasp of foe complex problems before he said What he is saying he explained is foe highway director stands he was not completely discouraged by the Communist delaying tactics He said that in his opinion any settlements would have to be based on the Geneva agreements His statements were met by charges of neocolonialism in South Vietnam and other At foe same time Thuy gave a clear hint the North Vietnamese had no intention of withdrawing from South Vietnam if the Americans pull out is one Vietnamese people and one he said claim that North Vietnam is attacking South Vietnam amounts to saying that the inhabitants of Washington attack those of New session lasted 5 1-2 hours foe shortest since foe expanded talks began Jan 18 The delegates agreed to meet again next Thursday NOT READY The tough uncompromising attitude of Hanoi and the Viet Cong confirmed Allied forecasts the Communists are not yet prepared to engage in meaningful give-and-take bargaining Lodge went so far as to accuse the Communists of showing no interest in reaching some common grounds from which the negotiations might develop Lodge flatly rejected Communist demands for an unconditional military pullout and said de-escalation of the war by both sides was absolutely essential first He displayed impatience at the repeated demands for an American pullout Backed by South Vietnamese chief delegate Pham Dang Lam Lodge accused foe Communists of hampering foe progress of the month-old conference by failing to make concrete proposals while insisting on demands they knew were unacceptable United Slates believes that the essential elements of the 1954 accords which we have all said we support as the basis for a future settlement provide common ground on which to build foe structure of peace in Lodge said Oil and gas feasefe along foe Gulf of Mexico coastline already have brought foe Interior Department close to 8200 million to bonus bids Sixteen tracts were leased Nov 19 1968 for a total of 8150 million in bonuses followed by another 20 tracts for 844 million Jan 14 Preliminary steps have been taken toward the possible leasing late this year of areas off Alaska but that sale has not yet been definitely scheduled Announcing the latest move Hickel said have postponed the Gulf Coast sale as another step in foe exhaustive review being conducted into all aspects of federal offshore drilling and production any bids re-cived for foe Louisiana tracts will be returned to the sender unopened" announcing this he added again declare that monetary considerations must not be allowed to obstruct consideration of what is best to protect the environment to which we Federal Fish Sanitation Biil Proposed By JERRY MOSKAL Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Quality and sanitation controls for the fishing industry were proposed in a bill introduced Wednesday by Sen Philip A Hart D-Mich fact that Sen Warren Magnuson this time looks favorably on the bill gives it a good said Hart who indicated Magnuson may become a co-sponsor of foe measure Magnuson a Washington Democrat is chairman of foe Senate Commerce Committee where the bill will be referred A similar bill was introduced late last year by Hart Because of the time factor the measure died in committee The measure would impose federal inspection on fish and fishery products in interstate commerce This would bave its impact on such coastal states as Washington and Great Lakes states including Michigan Hart said doubt about foe quality of fishery products' accounts for much of their poor market His legislation wold impose periodic inspection of fishing ships transportation and storage facilities: requre inspection legends on fish products and compel foreign exporting to the US to adopt equal fish inspection programs To enable the fishing industry to meet the proposed standards Hart's bill permits an authorization of 815 million from the fisheries loan fund April Draft Call 33000 WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon maintaining high induction levels this year called today for the drafting of 33000 men in April The Selective Service System was asked to draft 30500 for foe Army and 2500 for foe Marines Draft calis have been relatively high this year as foe Pentagon prepares to release thousands of Reservists and National Guardsmen who were ordered up in 19 8 after foe Pueblo crisis in Korea and the Tet offensive in Vietnam be prodded enough by the commission because the con- mission possibly know enough about all that is involved to do so SOME PROBLEMS On the Swinomish Slough bridge project Berentson said engineers are trying to make a decision on whether to elongate -the span They are having a rough time locating nearby fill material and in finding solid bottom in foe slough he said The city of Anacortes has asked for a bearing before the final bridge design is decided he said as a review of such things as esthetics By HUNTLY GORDON Of The Bellingham Herald A meandering route from 12th St and Donovan Ave to foe freeway was recommended by State Highway Department engineers at a corridor hearing Wednesday afternoon It is same route the Bellingham City Engineering Department had suggested after a study in 1967 The route suggested would follow Donovan east to 14th Street curve southeast to cross Wilson Avenue in the vicinity of 16th Street then swing east a block south of Wilson In the vicinity of 22nd Street it would curve southeast again then east at 24th Street south of Padden Creek where it coincides with Julia Avenue at '30th Street The route was chosen over two other routes under study One would have gone slightly south of the one recommended and a third would have followed Donovan to 30th down 30th to Julia and Julia to the Lindsay Avenue interchange By MICHAEL FLYNN OLYMPIA There was a light at the end of foe legislative tunnel today as foe first bipartisan proposal of the 41st session passed from the House to the Senate and the lawmakers were given notice that the capital budget will be out this week Republican and Democratic Senate leaders predicted cautiously that the gateway amendment passed by the House Wednesday will make its way out of the Senate before the end of the session Rep Stewart Bledsoe R-El-lensburg the House majority leader commented after the 81-18 vote for the gateway that one or foe three priority issues of the session had been handlde in a bipartisan manner practiced walking together and it too he said But Sen Greive D-Se-attle Senate majority leader called foe proposed constitutional amendment more than a puff of smoke nowhere as big a deal as the House Republicans and the governor have made it out mRSsSN! NEWS'-W CAPSULE MIAMI BEACH AFL-CIO officials accused major corporations today of running away to Mexico to take advant age of cheap wages in a growing trend that could soon cost foe American economy hundreds Of thousands of jobs INDEPENDENCE Mo Former President Harry Truman announced today Chief Jus- tioe Earl Warren will direct foe activities of the International Criiter for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem OLYMPIA A proposed constitutional amendment delating foe right of people to clean air pure water and freedom from excessive noise was recommended for passage Wednesday by the Senate committee on constitutions and elections BEIRUT Iraq today executed seven men convicted of spying for Israel and put their bodies on public display in Bagh- Liberation Square Radio Baghdad reported Hickel Bans Lease Sales for the suggested route is 8740-000 for 15 miles compared with 8940000 for the Donovan route and 8760000 for the southerly route City Engineer Ed Henken one of 60 persons attending foe hearing at Western Washington State College complimented foe highway department staff on its working closely with his department in its study He also revoiced his opinion that the highway should be of community arterial rather than controlled access design for foe development of the area HOW ABOUT ACCESS? He answered a question from School Supt Gordon Carter on routing a north-south access between the truck route which has been designated Highway 110 and College Parkway He said that the access route would probably follow 23rd Street but that it hadn't been designed He said that it would not utilize 24th Street next to Happy Valley School tion program under the priority system is being administered as efficiently as it should he said He realizes the on the department from cuts in available federal funds and from the effect of foe traffic explosion in the Seattle area it seems there are too many chiefs and not enough In- on the job of keeping on schedule Berentson said think the Legislature has given the highway department some of foe best laws In foe nation with which to work I just feel the administration of' the program leaves something to be The engineers also recommended that foe highway commission designate foe road a community arterial rather than a limited access roadway The suggestion that foe road not be limited access was because both foe city and the state engineers felt such a road could limit development of foe area A 1358800 sum for the design and right-of-way acquisition is included in the budget for foe 1969-71 biennium which will receive legislative action this session Wesley Bogart District 1 highway engineer said that if foe plans are followed foe route which connects the freeway with Chuckanut Drive and foe South Bellingham port and industrial area would be built in foe 1971-73 biennium cheapest too Listing a number of criteria favoring foe route engineers also noted that it would be the most economical to build Projected construction cost portion going into The budget contains 825 million for construction of a new Swimonish slough bridge on State Highway 536 have been trying to get this budgeted in foe last three Berentson said highway department is running behind foe schedule set four years He said he had been assured by (he Highway Commission and foe department that foe project from foe slough bridge east to Fredonia would be completed by the 1971-73 biennium have a serious question whether foe highway construc Berentson Criticizes State Priorities WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of foe Interior Walter Hickel in his third action of the week aimed at preventing another Barbara today called off the sale of offshore oil and gas leases The sale of 27 Gulf coast tracts that could have brought the government millions of dollars was scheduled for next Tuesday and was the only such sale of federal offshore leases imminent Hickel said the sale would be postponed we are positive we have regulations which will prevent pollution such as the Santa Barbara He referred to the 11-day leak of a Union Oil Co well which spread an 800-square-mile slick across the Santa Barbara channel off California before it was plugged Feb 8 Earlier this week Hickel issued regulations bolding oil companies responsible for cleanup and damage costs from any offshore-well pollution and proposed new and tighter regulations for drilling in the Santa Barbara channel By GLENN LARSON Of The Bellingham Herald OLYMPIA A Skagit County legislator says he has a that the state highway priority construction program is being administered as efficiently as it should be Rep Duane Berentson (R-Bur-lington) vice chairman of the House highways committee said foe highway budget hearings would start next week There likely will be few changes in foe total budget request Berentson said But perhaps in sub-committee discussions various sections of foe budget will be ed he said as the pro.