Councillor Wants 3 College Curfew

Councillor John D. Lynch introduced an order to put undergraduates at the College, Radcliffe, and M.I.T. under the Present curfew applying to Cambridge minors, at yesterday's City Council meeting. The proposal was sent to the sub-committee of public safety.

The curfew would require all students to be off the streets by 9:30 p.m., unless "accompanied by an adult or guardian, or coming from or going to a supervised group activity."

Councilman Chester A. Higley, chairman of the public safety committee termed Lynch's motion "foolish and stupid--absolutely ridiculous. This is mass punishment, and I'm not in favor of it. This won't come up before a public safety meeting for a long time, I'll see to that."

Lynch said that he proposed the men sure because "he wanted to call to the attention of the authorities that "they're just kids up there-and there's a proper way to treat them." "Right now they're running around like their heads were cut off", he added.

Commenting that he had received mans complaints about students loitering in Harvard Square, "a little on the 'wet side," Lynch asserted that it was the "duty of the city fathers to guide these adolescents." "I'm sure good parents aren't spending hard-earned money to give them an education in drinking and carousing--they should all be domiciled," the Councillor said.

Ready Replies

Mennwhile, Chief of Police Patrick J. Ready replied to the queries of James S. Pope, of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, on why police had interfered with the CRIMSON'S coverage of the recent Pogo rally.

Ready stated that he "would like to sit down with Mr. James Pope and talk this over. It is very evident that he has no idea what we have to put up with in Cambridge." Ready proposed that some member of the A.S.N.E. should come to today's trial, when the five CRIMSON editors state the stand. "This would be a wonderful way to get the first-hand story from officers on the scene", he commented.

Chairman of the A.S.N.E.'s Freedom of Information Committee, Pope wrote Ready that "the CRIMSON feels that newsmen have been discriminated against in that they were not permitted to cover the event properly by your police."

Referring to the ripping of film from a camera by a policeman, Pope claimed that "so far as we know, there is no law in the State of Massachusetts against snapping a camera in a public place," and added that the CRIMSON might have a legitimate suit for damages for willful destruction of its property without a warrant.

Pope added that "these young men who are now forming their concepts of democracy and how it operates in the United States should be given every benefit of the doubt. There is no calculating the ultimate harm that might result from a conviction among a considerable group of university students that the police power in this country is the same as in an Iron Curtain country."

Trial Today

Eleven students who were granted a continuance in Friday's trial go before Judge Louis Green at 9 a.m. this morning. They are David W. Cudhea '53, Augustus B. Field III '55, Charles Flather '54, Robert E. Giffen '52, Frederick Gooding Jr. '54, Frank M. Hardy '55, William S. Holbrook III '52, George H. Rose '54, Paul R. Rugo '55 and Norman Well Jr. '54.

Tomorrow the court will try the cases of Frank B. Day '54, Charles F. Dubay '54, Joseph A. Dubay '53, Lloyd M. Garrison '54, David M. Hershey '53, John W. Larrabee, Jr. '55, Adrian A. West '55, Thierry Van Zuylen '54, and Gerald J. Zyfers '53.