Greenfield Recorder Gazette and Courier (Newspaper) - October 17, 1969, Greenfield, Massachusetts 245 Greenfield, October 17, 1969 10 On Air Today To Speak To President buoyed by statistics pointing away from the unremitting inflation of the past four is taking his views on living costs to the chose to make his promised economic report to the today in a half-hour radio broadcast largely directed to captains of consumer The nationwide broadcast was scheduled for 4 p.m. reportedly planned to make with a no-nonsense that the government thinks it is doing Its part to end inflation and expects labor and businessmen to do the President Is going to talk to them directly In a way that we hope will them to get the Arthur F. Burns said and Paul W. chairman of the Council of Economic told a White House neas conference definite indications of weakening inflation are beginning to restraints pretty clearly now beginning to show some McCracken Burns vowed will not from restraints until they the President was preparing to appeal to his key economic advisers were trying to enlist the support of the nation's top Industrialists for the administration Secretary David M. McCracken and Burns were among those attending closed meeting of the Business Va. Indications were the administration would make its first direct to big business to help slow the inflationary sources also said they expect a similar appeal would be made to organized labor for restraint In wage administration spokesmen said their policies are doing the job of slowing the feeling was not unanimous on Capitol House Democrats called on the President Thursday to mount genuine war on including possible consumer credit And they asked him to withdraw his objections to wage-price and Burns spoke after two days of conferences culminating with a meeting between Nixon and the chairman and Republican members of the Senate and House appropriations and finance made clear to the congressmen he might veto federal pay raise also the tax reform if it would contribute to a budget also appealed to Congress to extend the income tax surcharge until next June at 5 per half Its current The Senate Finance Committee voted the continuation Thursday but lb fate on the floor is less because of the extended debate likely on the tax reform the same time McCracken and Burns were outlining rent administration the Commerce Department and Federal Reserve Board disclosed a mixed set of economic Gross National Product output of goods and by billion in August and increase was larger than the billion boost In the second quarter and as made up primarily of price production rose only about 2 per cent. The same as the second GNP rose another key industrial declined for the second consecutive the Federal Reserve Board against a 1957-1959 base of 100, the index declined to 173.8 in September from 174.3 in August and 174.6 in housing measured at an annual rose to 1,518,000 units in September from 1,383,000 in arresting a decline that began In February and has the housing Industry Bus To Wall Street Yorkers stroll through paper littered Wall Street In New York City Thursday after spontaneous celebration by the public erupted after the Mets took the World Series from the Baltimore Workers on and in other areas of the city poured paper out of windows in a wholly spontaneous demonstrating their happiness over the Mets Vietnam Battle Losses Double South Vietnamese battlefield deaths during the past five months have been double those of American pointing up the steadily the Vietnamese armed forces are taking in the pattern of rising South Vietnamese losses and lower numbers of American combat dead began the week of May 11-17, three weeks before President Nixon announced the first withdrawal of 25,000 U.S. Official weekly casualty figures show 8,301 South Vietnamese government troops killed In the 22 weeks after May 10; U.S. losses were 4,134 the first 19 weeks of the until May 10, South Vietnamese battlefield deaths totaled 4,930 while 4,292 Americans were killed in trend Is the result of at least three enemy is directing more of his attacks against small militia or home guard units protecting villages Russian Ship The second spaceship In the Soviet Union's troika mission landed safely returning three more cosmonauts to earth and leaving only two aloft in Soyuz 8. Radio said Soyuz 7, carrying Anatoly Vladislav Volkov and Viktor landed in the Soviet It was in orbit nearly five flying in space aboard Soyuz 8 were veteran cosmonauts Vladimir and Alexel other ship In this Soyuz 6, was brought to earth Thursday with Georgy and Valry 8 is expected to land 7 landed 96 miles northwest of in only 15 miles from the site where Soyuz 6 came The broadcast said search on Page Page 4 16 Page 8 Page 12 Page 13 Page 10 Page 14 Ads Page 19 WEATHER cooler lows 35 to 45; partly little in Isolated or newly pacified The strength of these has been to 400,000 In recent American units moving out and more withdrawals the South Vietnamese army is taking on more of the the 9th Infantry Division left In the first U.S. for the South Vietnamese army took over defense of the entire Mekong areas where South Vietnamese and American troops are operating the policy now is for the Vietnamese to search out enemy camps while the troops hold This exposes the Vietnamese to more the lull In the war with only a handful of skirmishes Spokesmen reported no U.S. casualties in any of the forces killed 34 enemy troops In four clashes 28 to 70 miles north of South - Vietnamese regional forces suffered three men killed and 10 In a of but they reported killing 11 enemy headquarters reported 15 rocket and mortar attacks none against American The Air Force said its made eight five of them against targets in 250 miles northeast of Vietnam said today the Soviet Union is increasing Its economic and military assistance to Hanoi for 1970 and will continue to hike it until the United States is Communist party Nhan thanked the Soviets for the new announced Thursday in but the newspaper did not disclose the The United States In the past has estimated Soviet aid to Hanoi at more than a billion dollars a of this is believed to have been military but the agreement announced Thursday provided for both military and economic the announcements Nhan Dan said the Russians would also Still Mass. Thirty-eight persons were arrested Thursday night for curfew violations as helmeted police carrying nightsticks patrolled the city's predominantly black Winchester Square area to prevent a renewed outbreak of Wednesday's said the area was generally but some minor rock and bottle throwing was windows were smashed the total damage estimate by police for the two days of disorders to rash of false alarms also kept firefighters busy In the city's public housing violence followed the arrest of about 40 welfare mothers who had occupied a welfare office to demand allowances for winter They were ejected by helmeted police as about 1,500 persons who attended a Vietnam Moratorium nearby milled about outside the officials opened a surplus food store Thursday to aid welfare recipients after welfare checks failed to arrive In the Officials said Wednesday's violence at the welfare office delayed the processing of the 8,000 leaders of the welfare organization in Springfield were arrested William 28, of Rights Organization was held in lieu of bail after denying charges of breach of Vera 24, a welfare leader in the section where violence was charged with breaking a window and held in 19, was charged with throwing a brick Wednesday which struck a Valentino causing a fractured He was held in lieu of bail for a Oct. 24 court Springfield NAACP set up a rumor control center to help further The group's leaders planned to lecture In the city's schools today In an effort to calm racial of those arrested Wednesday were released In personal recognizance after they pleaded Innocent to charges of curfew trespassing or disturbing the disturbance Is the third in Springfield In recent Rumors of police brutality led to disturbances In 1965 and National Guard troops were second Incident Involving police In 1968, led to a minor rampage by some Frank H. Freedman said Thursday that the curfew would continue in effect as long as It was needed to Insure FRANCISCO The killer who himself and boasts of five victims now writes that he wants to add to his death list halting a school bus so he can North Vietnam's proposal for secret talks without Saigon and the prompt U.S. rejection If It emphasized the deadlock at the peace talks on two basic the future of the Saigon regime and the withdrawal of all troops who aren't South seeking to cash In on the antiwar sentiment manifested in the Moratorium Day demonstrations in the United North Vietnamese Ambassador Xuan Thuy proposed at the peace talks Thursday that the United States at once begin secret talks with the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge quickly countered with the U.S. position that all four delegations at the peace talks must be represented in any private without Saigon's representatives would constitute a measure of U.S. recognition of the Viet Cong and would give Hanoi and its South Vietnamese allies a heavy weapon in their campaign to replace President Nguyen Van Thieu's government with a coalition the talks began in Hanoi and the Viet Cong have repeatedly demanded that the United States abandon what they call its regime in have rejected the U.S. proposal for mutual withdrawal of Vietnamese contending that the question of Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam is an Internal question for the Vietnamese to Instead they Insist on the unconditional and total rtn the as they come bouncing his latest letter was sent to the San Francisco police issued special instructions Thursday to school bus drivers to keep buses moving all In event of an to instruct passengers to lie on the and to attract attention with their horns and children make nice he wrote the think I shall wipe out a school bus some Just shoot out the front tire and then pick off the as they come bouncing am admittedly apprehensive about another murder occurring in the near said Capt. Martin chief of the city's detectives called the lac killer extremely dangerous to marked with a symbol of a rifle have boasted of killing a city taxi Paul 29, here last Saturday and of four earlier weekend all in San Francisco Bay area A deciphered cryptogram sent to three newspapers in this area like killing people because It Is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game In the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of victims were Darleng E. 22, killed last July 4 near Betty Lou 16, and David 17, both of Dec. 20; and Cecelia Ann 22, Sept. 27, near The male escorts of Miss and Miss Shepard were revised a description of the cab driver's They now quote witnesses as saying the man is a white about 40 years with a heavy build and short brown possibly with a red letter boasting of the taxi driver's death contained a piece of bloodstained cloth from the victim's Hand writing In all the notes Is Won't To 8 selectmen this morning denied of store request to extend town hall parking meters from four to eight of wrote that the longer parking period would be a convenience for the selectmen said the purpose of the four-hour time limit Is to provide greater opportunity for shoppers in the downtown an otherwise quiet the board granted a variety of several after conducting hearings at which there was no Leo J. to store 2,000 gallons of gasoline underground at Wayland Peter C. to increase gas storage to 20,000 gallons at 100 Mohawk and New England Telephone to bury cable and string wires to next week was the application for a Class 2 autc license at 263 High St. filed by Porter F. whc was not present for the to Monday vyas a re view of the town's rubbish col lection Bernard Begin complained of what he called at a Wells St. property he It has more than the maximum four apartments at which the town will He claimed town's crew is collecting at other multi-unit said they preferred to take up the matter at Monday's Department of Public Works board granted extension of its street light project to increase lighting at Cottage and Pierce Higher lumen lights will be installed by To 11 astronaut Michael Collins slowed down in his travels long enough to feed a tortoise during a visit to the house in where he lived after being bom in the Italian capital 39 years on seeing the remembered that as a played with a tortoise In the same The tortoise belongs to the family now living on the Collins was born In a Rome hospital whUe his father was military attache at the U. S. Will Help Ship In A South Vietnamese navy vessel fired on and hit a Soviet trawler off the coast of South Vietnam on Thursday but the trawler escaped with smoke from her forward official sources Informants said today the trawler was intercepted by a South Vietnamese naval patrol boat inside South Vietnam's 12-mlle territorial waters limit south of Da The patrol boat asked the trawler to identify herself and when she refused the Vietnamese fired a warning the sources the trawler continued on her the Vietnamese craft fired another shot but this time aimed to hit and the sources the trawler headed Into open reports said that U.S. ships were but a spokesman for the U.S. denied trawlers loaded with electronic monitoring equipment in place of nets and fishing equipment regularly shadow U.S. 7th Fleet vessels off Pay Cost raises for Franklin County personnel will cost taxpayers this legislature In August raises of 12^? or Plans Scheduled For Mass. The Air Force plans nearly SI million in new construction at Westover Air Force Base this fiscal It was announced said projects include industrial waste treatment and disposal a water storage tank and new officials said the news came as a surprise after the Air Force's recent announcement that headquarters of the Eighth Air Force would be deactivated with about 2,000 men transferred Air Force also said Thursday that Westover manpower would be maintained at a level of about 8,000 whichever is retroactive to 1. The same scale was used for state the exception of a few positions covered by special laws such as Judges all county employes will get the when the money becomes commissioners this week sent to Boston details of the on Page Killer Mass. G. 32, who police said shot and killed his estranged wife and two other Wednesday night before turning the gun on died Thursday officials said Garcia died at Worcester City Hospital at 6:30 In the fray Wednesday were Mrs. Evelyn about 20, and Miss 22. 23, died Thursday Gov. Francis W. Sargent said today he will seek a million bond Issue for housing the said at a news conference that of applicants now await vacancies that don't which he will submit to the legislature after the first of the will provide that tenant rents and the existing state subsidy for housing for the elderly will pay for the currently has 251 housing for the elderly and by 1971 will have 18,000 senior citizens in governor said his plan will provide housing for another 6,000 Republican governor said he Is asking the rtn ol the 10 per cent Social Security Increase offered by the Nixon advocated raising that to 15 per and Including a built-in cost of living and raising to from to over three years the maximum amount an elderly person can earn while on Social also advocated removing the state's Old Age Program out of the Welfare Department and the Division of Social who toured some housing projects Albert his ant for urban also announced that he will ask the legislature next session to increase state subsidies to hire more police for elderly housing The Are nf 772-026! and Win With
