Wellsville Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - January 8, 1969, Wellsville, New York pally Reporter Eighty eighth Serving Potter Counties NEW Wednesday January 1969 A Quiet Day Is the Report On Viet War Cents Copy By GEORGE MCARTHUR Associated Press Writer SAIGON AP The and South Vietnamese commands today reported only two small skirmishes and two shellings in what appeared to be one of the Vietnam wars quietest days since the Paris negotiations be The Command also re ported a Air Force Phantom jet crashed into an American artillery camp killing two sol diers and a Vietnamese civilian in the The Command also reported two helicopters shot down ear lier this with one crew man killed and two troops were involved in only one of the two fights Tues a clash about 70 miles north of Artillery and helicopter gunship crews of the 1st Air Cavalry Division sprayed a small enemy band with rockets and and 16 enemy bodies were There were no American In the other a South Vietnamese militia force report ed it killed 14 guerrillas during a patrol in the Mekong Delta 49 miles southwest of The South Vietnamese report ed a district town and a Special Forces camp were shelled dur ing the Ten mortar rounds hit the town of Tan 272 miles northwest of wounding one Ten rounds also hit a Special Forces camp at Thanh 43 miles west of inflicting light The Phantom downed Tues day was one of two jets hit by intensive fire on a mission about 30 miles north of Saigon in War Zone Attempting to nurse nis stricken plane back to Saigons Tan Son Nhut Airport for a the pilot was warned by the second plane Youre on An Air Force spokesman said the two crewmen stuck with burning plane until it was clear of a heavily populated area north of suburban then The two fliers landed but the plane crashed into an artillery base of the Air borne destroying two frame barracks buildings as well as killing the two Ameri cans and a South It was the plane lost in Regional Forecast Heavy snow watch for Thurs Changeable with scat tered snow flurries ending this High 20 to Cloud ing up with light snow likely developing by Low in Windy with snow possibly moderate to heavy at times High 25 to Westerly 10 to becom ing 5 to this after noon and southeasterly Increasing to 15 to High Low 13 Local Report As of 8 the ac cumulation of snow at the Water and Light Plant measured ap proximately five with more of the white stuff continu ing to filter down during the The snowstorm resulted in 14 of an inch of the total measured in the period from 8 Tuesday to 8 judging from the regional forecast the end is far from Temperatures ranged from at to at with the latest reading the 18 at 11 The barometer was at inches and shortly before The temperatures Yesterday noon 3 6 9 mid night Today 3 6 9 11 combat in South The helicopter losses announced to day brought the total of that type of aircraft lost to The allies acknowledged that action reports were unusually Viet Cong and North forces have withdrawn into jungle and the en emy command is evidently weighing its next major move while trying to keep Its forces out of the way of allied troops engaged in more than 50 sweep operations up and down the American spokesmen ques whether the enemy can mount another sustained offen One reason for their doubt is the large amount of war boo ty found by patrolling American South Vietnamese The generally small caches have added up to an impressive haul of arms and On Tuesday troops of the 4th Division found a base camp area in the central highlands near It contained rounds of small arms 17 50 hand gre 300 pounds of rice and uniforms and medical Popularity of Claimed on Upswing For British Workers By GLENN GOODEY Associated Press Writer LONDON AP Smoking marijuana is becoming a week end pastime for more and more unskilled British an of committee reported The committee recommended that the maximum penalty for using pot be reduced from 10 years to It also urged a re view of the powers of the police to make drug searches and ar We have no doubt that the wider use of marijuana should not be said Sir Edward the committee But on the other hand we think the dangers of its use have been overstated and that existing criminal sanctions intended to curb its use are un justifiably The report was prepared by the Committee on Drug Depend ence in appointed by the government to investigate The committee said there had been a gradual growth of mari juana smoking over the past 20 years in but it was im possible to estimate the num bers Marijuana society is pre dominantly youthful and without the report But there is evidence of growing numbers of marijuana smokers in unskilled occupations who smoke the drug for pleasure at The committee stopped short of recommending legalization of saying it doubted that would be in the interests of public It agreed that the drug has as great a capacity as alcohol to alter judgment and functional It said marijuana is a drug which can be smoked in a baked in to taken in a drink or even eaten Sales Tax Increase Rockefeller to Seek 5 Per Cent Cutback n States Spending EARLY MORNING FIRE All units of the Wellsville Fire Department responded to an early morning fire at Margarets Restaurant at 67 Main Heavy smoke poured from the building as First Assistant Chief Robert Erwin in white coat directed work Re porter Begins In Cellar Fire Damages Local Restaurant All units of the Wellsville Fire Department responded shortly before 8 today as fire damaged Margarets Res at 67 Main First firemen on the scene under First Assistant Chief Rob ert Erwin found dense smoke pouring from the cellar and first floor of the Fire men donned smoke masks to lo cate the which apparently began in overhead wiring in the A man on his way to work called the Police Department shortly before 8 reporting that he had noticed a strong odor while walking past the which lies just north of the Lester Chevrolet parking Patrolman Ray McQueen in and summoned fire men when he determined that the building was Firemen of the McEwen Com pany who broke down the back door of the building removed a metal container with about three gallons of gasoline in and firemen later removed four large glass jars partially filled with Also found in the cellar were quantities of baled oily and other volatile Chief Erwin noted that stor age of such whether in homes or business created a substantial fire haz ard and asked the public to check for such The Margaret was reported to be out of town this The apart ment on the second floor above the restaurant was unoccupied at the The business had been closed at it was Fire damage was mainly con fined to overhead cellar joists and the floor of the with one large hole burned through between the basement and the first floor near the south wall of the Timbers there were badly charred by the An electric clock on the first floor was found stop ped at State Police and members of the Wellsville Police Depart ment aided fire police in main oneway traffic along South Main Street during the Fire department units were released at intervals during the with the Genesee Com last on the being released at No estimate of the damage to the building was available at press SIRHAN TRIAL RESUMED LOS ANGELES AP De fense motions to set aside Sir han Bishara indictment and his plea of innocent come before Judge Herbert Walker today as his trial resumes on charges of murdering Rob ert The case of the People Sir han opened formally Tuesday Within one of attorneys asked for a closed ses sion in Walkers chambers to discuss After an hour in four motions were introduced in open court and ruling against wo directed the defense to submit written requests today on the Sirhan a Jordanian who came to this counry as a was neatly dressed in a gray suit shirt and blue lie He waved to his at as he entered the ly He sat next to thm at the left eid of the long counsel table but made no public The motion to withdraw the plea of innocent is a legal tech 4 Final Setback for LBJ No Action on Nuclear Pact By SCHWART HI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP Lyn don Johnsons onetime base of pro vided him a last and bitter dis appointment in the final mo ments of his public Chairman Fulbright of the Foreign Relations Commit tee made official Tuesday what had long been suspected De spite presidential urgings there will be no immediate action on tha nuclear nonproliferation Thus the a New Frontier legacy that became for Johnson something of a personal cru Nixon Short Honeymoon WASHINGTON AP Dem congressional while not reneging on pledges of cooperation to Richard Nix making preparations that could mean a short honey moon for the new The House Education and La bor Committee drew able battle lines in three areas Tuesday with introduction of a whopping school con struction and measures to continue President Johnsons antipoverty and school aid pro On the Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Mon tana announced he is broaden ing the scope of the Democratic Policy Committee as a step to ward offering party alternatives to Nixon Indications so far from Nixon Cabinet members and Republi can congressional leaders have been that the new GOP adminis tration would concentrate after 20 on trying wherever pos sible to improve already exist ing programs while careful studies are made of any new In the Education and Labor Chairman Carl Per kins early trip to the hopper may signal a strategy of push ing but pro grams to force the Republicans to oppose or trim Perkins school construction calls for annual expenditures of about billion for five years to help build elementary secondary probably will bear the sig nature of a Republican There was no immediate com ment from the White Nor in the waning days of th delicate transition period to a new administration was one ex But for a wartime leader who had sought to leave this lasting imprint on efforts to ensure there was ample cause for For one was his personal devotion to getting it This last ironical ly was denied him by a Democratic controlled Senate where less than a decade after gaining legendary power as ma leader hs faced as dent some of the bitterest oppo sition to his Vietnam War poli II also was a Senate that turned in four short years from him pass a flood of Great Society social legislation o serious challengers from his own party for a job he lly up The treaty that falls to the administration to ramrod through the would bar signers from sharing nuclear weaponry and knowhow with lacking It would prohibit nations from seeking nuclear arms or help developing It passed the General Assembly last and was signed by nations including the United the Soviet Union and Great Britain July Under California an indictment can not be quashed while a plea After a plea is and if another indictment is re he original plea may be The motion attacking indictment is based on a conten tion the grand jury which indict ed him was not composed of a proper of the com said Russell one of three defense Parsons said such juries fre exclude mem bers of minority groups and of various Sirhan is charged with shoot ing Kennedy to death and wounding five bystanders just after the New York senator pro claimed victory in Democratic presidential pri Bystanders seized Sirhan after shots rang out as Kennedy walked through a crowded kitchen area of the Ambassador site of the victory Roll of Tape Thats Art DETROIT AP While 100 other works of art were un veiled for the exhibition for Michigan another was a roll of On the floor of the Detroit Art Institute theres a bona certified work of art that is made of 180 feet of black mask ing stretched in a double It was among items chosen from It had to get through two ju ries to be accepted for the said Samuel the institutes curator of con temporary it really turns me said the tape Charles a Wayne State Uni versity art The stuck to the gallery has been stepped on and torn by museum work men lacking a certain aesthetic The exhibit will be opened to the public It stretches the length of a 90 foot gallery in two inter in the middle by a parti tion on which are hung several other By CHARLES DUMAS Associated Writer AP Gov Rockefeller took the new legis lature by surprise today with a plan for a five per across theboard cut in state besides an expected request to increase the states sales tax from two to three per Rockefellers call for a sales tax increase had been widely anticipated but his proposal for a broad slash in state spending was The two moves constituted the Republican governors plan for balancing his new budget and highlighted his annual State of the State message to the open ing session of the new On Capitol rumors had been rife that Rockefeller would propose a sales tax increase and extension of the levy to such presently exempt items as food close a million plus revenue gap in his During the last how Rockefeller spurned the advice of fiscal advisers urging a broadening the sales tax decided on a dramatic cutback in Well posted sources said the governor would recommend trimming five per cent from the normal spending requirements for operation of the state gov from state aid pro grams and where possible from state construction His decision for exam contrary to the State Education Departments request for extra aid to the public the slate would curtail aid If accepted by the his plan would reduce expected payments for welfare programs and per capita assistance to lo cal governments outright aid that can be used for any pur pose and require department and agency heads to chop their Rockefeller made this the bas is of the annual message he pre pared for personal delivery to the opening session of the legis He hoped for a politically friendly since houses of the legislature will be under Republican control for the first time since The GOP regained command of the As sembly in the November elec tions and has held the Senate since The Republican governor had given serious consideration to a variety of tax to raise the revenue needed to balance a budget expected to climb from the present level of billion to about billion He settled a few weeks ago on the increase in the sales tax expected to yield about million in the coming fiscal Since local governments are entitled to levy local sales taxes of up to three per the maximum rate thus would rise from five to six per cent At one Rockefeller had considered a 20 per cent sur charge an on the state income But he concluded that in come tax rates already were so high that New York would be at a competitive disadvantage in attracting industry and execu tive he turned his attention tr ine possibility of broadening the sales to take in groceries and such other exempt services as laundry and dry cleaning and barber and beauty shop ser These changes would es calate receipts by about and easily close the budget But Rockefeller decided to go the economy route instead to halt the spending spiral and to go before New York citizens in a series of town meetings across the state to explain and defend his decision that state spending should not be allowed to outstrip the capacity of New York The blanket spending cut he was prepared to recommend would reduce the gap between income and outgo by about Coupled with the boost in the sales tax rate and with other adjustments to be re in his the econ ony drive would bring his budget into At the same he held in case the legislature did not endorse his economy plan in proposals for extracting more revenue from the income without revising One change would be to do away with the present and credits that New York tax payers now are allowed to sub tract from the final amount of tax The other would abolish the maximum deduction for life insurance These two alterations would yield about million in revenue during the new fiscal Rockefellers fiscal plans at most of the attention at the although his word message dealt with a vari ety of other He to call for tighter stricter laws to prevent discrimination in employment and steps to protect consumers against erroneous loss of their credit rating and to renew prev proposal for control of fire arms and a compulsory health insurance plan covering all Following the Sen ate and Assembly were to con vene at noon in their respective chambers and to meet in joint session at 1 to hear the governor deliver his Perry Duryea of Mbn Suffolk was set for election as speaker of the As while Assemblyman Stanley Steingut of Brooklyn beat out Moses Weinstein of Queens for the post of Assem bly minority In the Earl Brydges of Niagara Falls was back at the helm as Republican majority leader and Joseph Za retzki of Manhattan as Demo cratic minority State of Message Budget Highlights AP will include strengthen are the highlights of Rocking and improving the states State of the State licensing and IP sage to the legislature censing the owners of rifles and STATE FINANCES shotguns The state confronts a fiscal PUBLIC EMPLOYES The fiscal situation is our greatest single problem this me s until there is a redress There been Potentially of the imbalance in the federal strikes by utility the difficult fiscal steps company employes and fuel oil I have recommended are un truckers the State cannot avoidable if we are to preserve dea with these the states competitive eco and the federal govern nomic position ment does UISe the lei Our states economy is sound to memorialize Con and growing and our tax re gress to extend the sources are growing according the Taft Hartley but the spending required by Act to cover these state local law for aid to local government or emergencies in the is growing beyond our present sector which imperil capacity to meet health and It is clear that our budget NEW YORK CITY for the coming fiscal year can New York City officials have not include any new programs asked for an extra million involving expenditure of the tax the next fiscal payers This is on top of a There is a net revenue gap in cd million increase in aid to the next budget of mil New which would bring next years total to Budget Recommendations A 5 per cent cut across the I plan to appoint a commis board in budget expenditures ion implement studies under the recommended to the problems of the large ur to permit a budget re ban areas in New York duction of and to recommend specific steps A 1 cent increase in the state to assure the continued vitality sales effective April to jf local government in this produce EDUCATION Federal Government Proposals The Board of Regents and I the federal government are cooperating in the appoint national standards of wel ment of a special commission to f ire payments and take over explore the cost and fi of education in both our public and private primary and secondary he full cost of financing wel are the federal government a national contributory decentralization of the plan for universal health insur New York City school system inee to take the place of medic will be a matter of the highest TRAFFIC SAFETY we will continue the I will submit legislation growth of the State University which remove minor traffic vio to serve the growing number of lations from the criminal courts young men and women who d place them in an adminis want and need a college educatrative unit within the Depart ment of Motor HEALTH i will recommend legislation I will again this year submit to set standards for both new and strongly urge your passage and retreaded tires on passen of a system of University Health ger and commercial Insurance to assure our citizens f c of adequate health care This proposal will be coupled NEW YORK AP A penny with a hospital cost control is not a penny gram that would make hospital says Queens Councilman Joseph rates contingent upon milit efficiency I will again submit a to modify GUN SAFETY Modugno received a notice from the city recently which New Yorks abortion said that he owed one penny In back taxes He paid the penny but not without noting that the I shall again submit a com city spent six cents in postage to prehensive firearms control
