Fitchburg Sentinel (Newspaper) - September 22, 1966, Fitchburg, Massachusetts For 127 Vein 1838 Vol FITCHBURG MASS 01420 THE WEATHER during Mild SEE ON PAGE 1 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1966 34 PAGES CHANGES IN STATE DEPARTMENT President Lyndon B Johnson announced that Atty Gen Nicholas DeB left soon will resign to become undersecretary of state replacing George W Ball second left who is leaving government service He also said Foy D Kohler third left Senators Asking Where To ambassador to the Soviet Union would become deputy under- secretary tof state for political affairs and Eugene V Rostow at right former Yale Law School dean will be second under- secretary of state AP Wirephoto State Department Shuffle Raises Policy Questions 42 A Wiik Delivered By 10 CENTS City Offers New Structure Site To AAV Registry WASHINGTON AP Cl rious senators are about to seiz the opportunity of taking a reading on President foreign policies as a result o the shakeup in his State Depart ment team There was little doubt that th nominations of Atty Gen olas Katzenbach to be under secretary of state of Prof Eu gene Rostow as undersecretary for economic affairs and of Am Foy D Kohler as dep uty undersecretary of state wii get Senate confirmation But before that happens mys Democrats and Republi cans on the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee made it clear they want to know what it's al about and whether the appoint vents Johnson Wednesday portend any change in his international course Almost without exception senators expressed amazement Katzenbach would step down from a Cabinet to a sub- Cabinet level on his successor centered on Deputy Atty Gen Ramsey Clark son of Supreme Court Justice Tom C Clark a Texan like Johnson But the possibility of the selection of Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall a Negro for the top post was not ruled out Attorney Leon Jaworski ofi Houston Tex a friend who visited with Johnson al the White House Tuesday night was described by one source as one of two or three under consideration for the job He told a newsman Wednesday night that Secretary night there is no way I could T comment on this Any an- would have to come from another source A Paul sion station reported of Agriculture Orville L Free man will be named bach's successor Freeman former governor of Minnesota was the Labor candidate for Minnesota BULLETIN U.S Offers To Halt North Viet Bombing Start Withdrawal UNITED NATIONS AP The United States of- ered today to halt all bombing f North Viet Nam if the Hanoi would agree to re- uce its own military activities gainst South Viet Nam U.S Ambassador Arthur J made the offer in a lajor policy declaration before he General sembly He asked the Hanoi government for a reply either private or public Goldberg also declared the United States was ready to begin a phased withdrawal of its troops from Viet Nam under effective supervision if the Communists would agree to withdraw theirs He posed these two question to North Viet Would it in the interest o peace and in reponse to a prior cessation by the United States of the bombing of North Vie Nam take corresponding am timely steps to reduce or bring to an end its own military against South Viet Would North Viet Nam be willing to agree to a time sched ule for supervised phased from South Viet Nam if all external forces those of North Viet Nam as well as those from the United States and er countries aiding South Viet Jimmy Loved His Champagne Right Down To The Cemetery YORK want to Maine AP be remembered champagne boy I want to be buried with a bottle of pagne at my head and another bottle at my feet Friends of James McMillan Gibson in this seacoast resort village remember those words from him He meant them When he was buried his grave was marked with two tall gran A bitter controversy in this village forced his widow to order the bottles removed The bottles of a gallon and 37 inches high had been carved in blue gray granite Falzarano in Barre Vt Relatives of persons buried in First Parish Cemetery com stones in old New England cemeteries with a lot worso than champagne bottles Gibson was the grandson of two U.S senators the late an- dall Lee Gibson of Louisiana in blue gray granite by James McMillan of Igan He was an aide to Secretary State Edward Stettinius in j that the champagne a tourist ite champagne bottles A multimillionaire Gibson divided his time between his The Rev Clarence H R h Harbor home Palm whose Congregational Church hart prope faced the village common had a home in the over two centuries points section of Washington later sold out where cars of the curious to Mrs John F Kennedy have worn a track through the of the formation of the United in San Francisco Art Berger a York garage owner drove Mrs Gibson to the airport when she left town this week after supervising removal attorney general in 1950 He was defeated Freeman was not available for comment Wednesday night His wife told a newsman the report was erroneous She said Freeman was in bed with a bad cold Whether Katzenbach was ing the first step toward ally succeeding Dean Rusk as secretary of state remained an intriguing question that ently only Johnson himself could answer Sen Bourke B Hickenlooper called for a thorough inquiry by the Foreign tions Committee into bach's views and any impact the appointment might have in altering the administration's course in Viet Nam and where Sen J W Fulbright D Ark Foreign Relations Committee chairman who has been critical of the administration's east Asia decisions indicated In a separate interview he expects the committee to explore policy matters at some length with Katzenbach Although Fulbright said he didn t know Katzenbach was interested in foreign affairs the appointee told a news ence Wednesday he felt he was returning in a way to my first ove I guess Katzenbach taught lonal law at both Yale and the University of Chicago and is an authority on the legal aspects of Katzenbach said looks on his new assignment as another new and exciting I hink that nothing in the world s more important than trying to vork for peace Sen Joseph S Clark a Foreign Relations man who has been critical o Johnson's Viet Nam policies said m this connection he hones Katzenbach will be more in in finding ways toward peace than some other State De officials have been Republican reaction to the appointment was divided said he was in sub- stantial disagreement to some of the far-fetched positions Katzenbach had taken as ney general Sen John J liams said he wished Katzenbach had resigned and stopped right there An attractive surprise age offer of a spanking nei building at a new location o land was made t fie Massachusetts Registry o Motor Vehicles at a meeting i City Hall this morn ng signaling the very stron that the Registry o Vehicles offices on Wate t will be relocated The offer was so much of that it caught even ome city officials because the plan ha come to the discussion stag nly this week The suggestion that the cit a new building on city owned land was made by Council Pres C Warren Smith Jr Buildings Supt Roland J Caron and Mayor George J Bourque at a meeting in Council chambers with Moto Vehicles Registrar Richard E McLaughlin City officials asked that the proposed location be not until they had additional life and a champagne of He died of leukemia in Palm Beach last May 30 at the age of was struck by a motorist Friends of Gibson defend his right to have champagne bottles on his grave City Basins Up Over 65 Mayor Hits Ban Mayor George J Bourque said today that this city's reservoirs are per cent higher in water content than they were a year ago at this time and complained that a stubborn City Council has cost the taxpayers by its refusal to ease the water ban The mayor said that figures supplied to him Wednesday by the water division showed the city's reservoirs to be at 46 per cent of their capacity He said we had only ex- to be at 38 per cent of capacity at this time and en- have told us that this WATER Page 2 opportunity to discuss its in January you'll be new buildings in other com lease to the state with the pom trouble individual lease to the state with the com missions who administer the property Registrar McLaughlin interested in the al although he gave no specific indication of approval only warning city officials that some action must be taken probably before the State meets The new offer stems from the fact that after the Registry de- manded renovation of its ent cramped quarters on Water St the city sought bids whose otal doubled what the city expected to pay for the renovation At this morning's session i was pointed out that the may be able to finance construe ion of a new own a cos of only slightly more than the involved in renovation f the old structure on Water trouble When renovation of the try quarters on Water St first was proposed the City Council and other city officials ed the cost at about However when bids were finally whose individual coit has been estimated at At this point Council Pres Smith interjected and said it might be possible for the city to build a new owned that amount wei c mac amount in according to Buildings on a loan the Caron the total figure building would be paid for at ing all accessory costs came to the end of that period and city would be collecting As Caron explained these some rent from the Registry Jres Registrar McLaughlin future years the Registry is planning REGISTRY Page 2 Attending the session were the mayor Caron Smith Registrar McLaughlin Roland A main Registry engineer City Philip Salny and am E Murray executive di- ector of the Fitchburg ber of Commerce While it was mentioned only n passing the meeting i was acting under pressure rom Leominster where it has een reported that officials lere hope to interest the ry in moving out of Fitchburg location near the er State Police Barracks on cute 2 Registrar McLaughlin added ome fuel to these reports with s warning to the city officials Organization of a sett Opportunity Council com- bining and expanding the activities of the Fitchburg Leominster and North New C AC Agency For 10 Towns May Start Nov 1 Elected Very Rev Msgr Leo J Battista and Norman C Cross three years Mrs E Caton and David J Hart two years James J Hammond and Charles J Sala one year Agencies is nearing completion and could be operative by Nov l The new agency will directly administer federal funds under he Economic Opportunity Act and is being organized to con nuu votaries one ter County Community Action All elections in the future will IK ho be for three years Elected recently by the inster Community Action cil Mrs Anne S Pursel and Miss Arlene three years Robert M Beaulieu and Amerigo Tocci two years m LWU form with federal requests William F Moore and create larger Troups to consolidate resources ind obtain more effective ing for community programs The new agency will serve 10 communities with a population f with provisions for ex- Martin L Moran two years The North Worcester County Opportunity Council previously voted to join the regional agency on the contingency that inster and Fitchburg became members They will elect their _._...o u ivn VA wm elect hat some action must be into 16 communities representatives at the next oon Fitchburg has been meeting g the renovation plans for The Fitchburg Community participation ia early two years he pointed out Action Committee Inc regional program has been I'm afraid he said that voted unanimously to by Mayor George J ss firm decision is Regional agency and elected i Bourque before the Legislature six delegates to MOC i REGIONAL Page 2 Vocational Salary Set U.S To Be Scanned For Area Educator ty be held after his funeral and that nobody mourn his death Berger said 56 n u a two MONUMENT ROCKS This monument to James Millan Gibson featuring wo sire champagne bottles has been removed from Parish Cemetery York Maine persons buried nearby complained the monument was becoming a major tourist attraction Gibson a multimillionaire died in Beach last May so He snid his home in Georgetown section of Washington to Jacqueline Kennedy AP Wirephoto Surveyor Spins Out Of Control Mission Failure PASADENA Calif enlists unable to halt the spinning of the Surveyor 2 spacecraft said early today that the mission is failure A spokesman at Jet sion Laboratory We kept firing the third rocket attempting to the spacecraft but the rocket wouldn't fire and the bling increased We dumped the helium turned on the radar adapter system and ran a few ments before firing the pound thrust retro engine It burned for about 30 seconds before we lost radio contact with the craft Setting a to sa ary the Regiona Vocational Technical Schoo Committee voted Wednesday t seek candidates from the country to fill the principal post left vacant with the death of the late Franklin M An gevine The position will be advertised nationally and applications can be obtained by writing to the district school committee Al applications must be returnee by Nov 15 No interim appointment wil e made but several proposals to carry on the organizational work are being considered il was reported by Orrin F street committee chairman In other business Mrs ion Aldrich Westminster com- reported that the town was unaware that the school would be a six-year gram when residents voted to join the district They have since voted to withdraw Mr Bradstreet answered however that the curriculum plans for the school were well in that it was reported in the press several times and open discussions of the six-year program were held with and residents of the town The original plan was to hav four-year usual vocational technical program plus grade 13 and 14 for advanced student and advanced study plus an adult training program for education and retraining o adults in new skills the chair man replied We had planned from the tart to make use he school to make full use of be school and the tax dollar he said Education needs to change vith the times and while we re in the planning stages for lis new school it is an opportunity to keep up with he times and new development n technical education We are lanning a pilot school to bring lose changes to the added Providing new education could also make the dis- ict eligible for private as well s special federal grants he dded The committee is g for applications for grants om such agencies as the Fordj Polaroid General Co and the etts Institute of Technology STAR OF SCHOOL VISITS PROGRAM Mr Robot ning 14th season this week at Boston's Museum of Science greets fans following his opening performance in new science Brains Over Brawn Before school year ends he will have been seen by some students under state-wide program which is sponsored by Metro- District Commission and State Dept of Education Left to Don Weagle 12 Morse School Cambridge Gemma 12 Academy Winchester John Bukowski 13 Sacred Heart School Andover and Museum's Director of Education Chan Waldron AP Wirephoto Today's Index Almanac 2 Bridge jg Classified 21 Comics ig Crossword is Editorial g Family Pages Movies Obituaries if t 700 Women Learn Keys To Safety Common sense and if you must a policy are the keys to safety for women who live alone drive alone or walk alone especially after dark This was the message that a panel of experts representing the police departments of ton and Leominster the local postal authority and the tele- phone company imparted to a capacity audience of 700 women who despite the pelting rain turned out to learn how to lect themselves program Wednesday night in B F Brown chool auditorium The program wii presented under the of four and Women's namely Clinton The local Civic committee the and Mm Philip B Lynch the women and the four guest speakers A judo demonstration pointing put the practicability of ing self-defense rounded out the program Richard Mahon of Gardner served as moderator ing the four speakers Police Chief Alan of Leominster opened the gram with discussion of the best ways of a borne At the outset he stressed It is impossible to make a home 100 per cent but as deterrents he good locks a door chain asking the identity of a caller keeping porch and yard on well a few in the wme when the owner is out for the evening Animal lovers would be wise to oira a he snid Chief emphasized took whether for on evening or well lighted and avoid walking a leader however in the fight the vicinity of shrubbery against pornography although he said is the court's responsibility vacation He then cautioned Mrs Stanton pointed out that those walking alone after dark if they suspect obscene to choose a street where the being sent through the least amount of trouble might the post office cannot and incurred Preferably walk with does not open first class mail a friend always where it is She added The post office ii in If physically in obscenity scream and keep The postmaster noted that the the police post office in co-operation and ment head advised He with other law en- I don't want to instill a agencies is in you so that you will never leave the house but on the other hand an ounce of prevention is ally working to rid the mails of this kind of trash Their are not confined to this coun worth a pound of cure itry she said Postmaster Elizabeth She further pointed out that Stanton also a member of as some might be- club confined her talk to is not controlled by large scene literature and what to but rather is the about it She said that this type of individuals jof literature gives pleasure to She reiterated that the Post some is repulsive to others is waging a war against for others is a matter of and urged parents Explaining the screen the mail of their i in this delicate BPW Page 2
