Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - October 4, 1967, Zanesville, Ohio Good An ulcer is something you get toy aver molehills Eirl The Times Recorder Are You Keeping Up On Current Try The TR News Quiz On Page 104TH 233 PAGES ZANESVILLE OHIO 43701 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 4 1967 TEN CENTS Johnson's Surcharge Held Up Tax Hike Plan Shelved By House Committee c c A TT TIC ben Symington Urges To Cease Firing In Vietnam Demanded Assured r WASHINGTON Stuart Symington posed Tuesday that the United States halt military ties in Vietnam in a bid for peace talks but return freely to the war if the Communists fail to respond Then the United States would feel free to pursue this war in any manner of its own he told the Senate Symington went beyond rising demands for an unconditional halt in the bombing of North Vietnam which he said would result in greater American casualties Instead he said I propose that this government announce as of a certain date the cessation of all military action in South Vietnam as well as over North also that there will be no reinforcements into the theater The government would an- that these policies were being undertaken in earnest hope that their adoption would result in prompt and meaningful negotiations in the interest of a just he said At the same time he said South Vietnam should declare its willingness to negotiate with anybody and offer amnesty to members of the Viet Cong If the Communists refuse to Hanoi Rejects Johnson's Latest Peace Proposal TOKYO Communist North Vietnam Tuesday ed President Johnson's latest peace proposals as containing nothing new Hanoi said the only way to stop the war was for America to halt its bombing and cited American doves in Congress for references The official Hanoi newspaper Nhan Dan published the first official reaction to Johnson's speech in San Antonio last weekend The newspaper said the speech was basically one Fern Fails Fears Fall BROWNSVILLE Tex Upstart Hurricane Fern moved westward toward the northern coast of Mexico Tuesday but was weakening fast and was barely still a Hurricane The New Orleans Weather Bureau estimated Fern's winds at 75 miles per hour just above the minimum for hurricane rating Mexico braced for high winds but the threat to Texas coast seemed to be small Fern was expected to hit the Mexican coast between Tampico and the mouth of the Soto La Marina River Tuesday night The Soto La Marina is about 150 miles south of Brownsville A state of emergency was declared in Tampico a port city of population and a number of residents in low-lying areas were evacuated The Brownsville Weather Bureau said the south Texas region ravaged during the past two weeks by floods tornadoes and high winds of Hurricane Beulah could expect only light scattered showers Light showers fell In but the Weather Bureau did not expect any great change in the amount of rainfall This would take some pressure off the Rio Grande which was already nearly bankfull near Brownsville from Beulah's de- luge and the same as recent addresses by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and United Nations Ambassador Arthur J berg There was nothing new in these Nhan Dan said in an editorial signed a nom de plume frequently used by high Communist party officials Johnson and his aides ly used vague terms and about their intentions remained bare The newspaper said that only if America unconditionally stopped its bombing of North Vietnam once and for all could there be favorable conditions for seeking a peaceful ment of the war Even U.S congressmen such as Sen J William Fulbright Sen Wayne Morse and Sen Frank Church have demanded cessation of the bombing of North the newspaper pointed out Fulbright Morse D- Ore and Church have been three of the most severe critics of Johnson's policy in Vietnam Nhan Dan said public opinion around the world especially within the United States is demanding that the U.S stop unconditionally and for good its bombing in North Vietnam in order to create favorable conditions for seeking measures to attain the settlement of the Vietnam problem So long as the U.S imperialists stubbornly pursue their war of aggression the Vietnamese people continue to fight them until their aggressive design is Nhan Dan vowed In spite of the opposition from world public opinion Johnson remains an obdurate it said Floods Hit Italy ROME storms flooded streets in Genoa and Pisa Tuesday then moved down Into central Italy talk peace and continue ing he said the United States could resume the war as it saw fit Symington did not say what military steps he would favor or whether escalation of the w a r would result The Missouri Democrat led off yet another day of Senate debate on the war in which the Republican leadership supported President Johnson's bombing policies Backed by Senate GOP leader Everett M Dirksen Senate Republican whip Thomas H Kuchel said the embattled Marine outpost at Con Thien just below the Demilitarized Zone would be open to massive ground assault by the if the air raids were stopped -I cannot understand how any fair-minded approach to ble negotiations would deny them their principal means of defense through air power while they are under the California Republican said This prompted Sen Thruston B Morton to clarify his speech last week calling for an unconditional halt in bombing and search and destroy missions by U.S forces I didn't mean to imply that I would not give air any troops wherever they might Morton said This Morning's News Report Global MOSCOW The Soviet Union marks the eve of the 10th birthday of the space age by launching a new type of com- satellite that will transmit television programs to the Soviet Far East and sibly Paris Page PARIS President Charles de Gaulle says the French ment has already done more than any other country for its farmers and blames Monday's riotous demonstrations by 000 farmers mi their stubborn refusal to modernize Page B The Nation CAPE KENNEDY The power plant aboard the unmanned Apollo 4 spacecraft is damaged during a test and must be replaced Page NEW YORK Folk singer composer Woody Guthrie for much of the past 14 years dies of a nervous tion He was 55 Page Around Ohio CLEVELAND Backers of former Alabama Gov George Wallace have scheduled a series of six meetings in Ohio to boost Wallace's campaign for the presidency Page OBERLIN The National Transportation Safety Board acted hastily in releasing its report blaming an air traffic controller here for the Aug 27 deaths of 16 skydivers a union representing the controllers leges Page CINCINNATI The Cincinnati are willing to trade their biggest basketball star Oscar Robertson who is holding out for a salary this season Page BOSTON More than fans will jam into Fenway Park today to see St Louis Bob Gibson face Boston's Jose Santiago in World Series opener Page The Weather FORECAST Sunny and warm today See details on Page B Inside The TR Page Sec Births 1 B Bridge 4 B Classified Ads B Comic Page Crossword 14 Deaths Funerals 10 Editorial Page 2 Markets 11 Police News 13 Sports Women's B B B A B A B A To Boycott Queen VALETTA Malta position leader Don Mintoff Tuesday said his Labor Party would boycott the visit of British Queen Elizabeth II next month because the government had invited her to divert attention from a severe ic crisis WASHINGTON house Ways Means tee voted overwhelmingly day to shelve President son's proposed tax increase until he and Congress can agree on cuts in federal spending The committee's vote came shortly after the House reversed itself and killed a Republican attempt to force on President Johnson a billion reduction in tures On a roll call the House in effect accepted assurances by Rep George Mahon chairman of the House Appropriations tee that he would do all he could to save money and help reduce a prospective federal budget deficit of billion this year Mahon warned the GOP would have Congress abdicate its responsibility and leave spending cuts up to the President's judgment The Ways Means vote did not kill Johnson's request for a 10 per cent surtax on individual and corporate income tax bills designed to yield billion in revenue But it made official the committee's prevailing vate sentiment against a tax increase until spending cuts are agreed on Rep John C Watts offered the motion to put the tax measure aside temporarily until such time as the President and the Congress reach an understanding on a means of implementing more effective reduction and controls as an essential corollary to further consideration of a tax increase Once such an agreement is reached the tax will be called up again as the committee's first order of business The was sidetracked unable to get any firm commitments from top tration officials on its own demand that federal spending be trimmed by at least billion The administration promised it would try to slash billion in spending plans for the current fiscal year ending next June 30 UPI TelephotO Nixon Daughters At Funeral Once prominent before cameras when their father Richard Nixon was a presidential candidate in the now attractive young women 19 and Trida Nixon 21 appear saddened as they leave funeral services for their grandmother Mrs Hannah Millions Nixon at Whittler Calif Their father can be seen in the background During Raids On Haiphong And Hanoi Viet Reds Claim 7 U.S Planes SAIGON Hanoi reported early Wednesday that Communist MIGs antiaircraft fire and missiles shot down seven American planes Tuesday during new U.S raids on the port city of Haiphong and the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi The Communist broadcast said one American plane was downed by a MIG in a dogfight Negro Beats Cleveland Mayor In Primary Test CLEVELAND B Stokes a Negro state Tuesday night defeated incumbent Ralph S Locher for the Democratic mayoralty CLEVELAND Ralph S Locher Tuesday night conceded the Democratic nomination to Carl B Stokes Locher wished Stokes well and said electorate has spoken tion The endorsement normally is tantamount to election Stokes 40 thus is ir position to become the first Negro elected mayor of a major American city He will face Republican Seth Taft an attorney and grandson of President William Howard Taft in the November general election Taft was unopposed for the Republican nomination They the voters have indicated my faith in can democracy Stokes said I will feel obligated to keep the faith and wage a vigorous campaign in order to move forward and recover the city's reputation The third candidate in the three-man election was Frank P Celeste former mayor of suburban Lakewood He ran a poor last With 850 of the city's 901 precincts reporting the vote Locher 90.359 Stokes 97.789 Celeste above Hanoi It claimed three others went down over phong and three over North Vietnam's Ha Back Province There was no immediate comment from U.S spokesmen on the reported new raids or the losses In South Vietnam Viet Cong mortar shells smashed into five points in and around the old imperial capital of Hue day hitting a jail hospital and schoolhouse in the biggest outburst of terror attacks since the national election a month ago At least n civilians were killed and 16 wounded Communist forces also at- tacked two government posts in the Mekong Delia south of Saigon and mortared an airfield northeast of the capital Nine women and children dependants of South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and three wounded in the Delta attacks In the Central Highlands American infantrymen pushed through scrubland near the Cambodian border in an at- tempt to trap part of a North Vietnamese regiment Three companies of U.S 4th Infantry Division troops were lifted by helicopter into the field 23 miles southeast of Pleiku and only a few miles from Cambodia after an air observer spotted a unit of North Vietnamese on the move Viet Buddhist Nun Burns Self To Death SAIGON swelling Buddhist revolt against the government of President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu was tized Tuesday by the fiery suicide of a young Buddhist nun Le Thai Cue a woman barely out of her teens drenched her saffron robes in gasoline and set herself afire outside her pagoda in Can Tho 80 miles southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta The immolation came only a National Assembly approved the Sept 3 election of Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky to the presidency and vice-presidency The woman was a follower of Rocket Ship Flies EDWARDS AFB Calif UPI rocket ship its coated surface glowing cherry red from air friction streaked to a new world speed record for winged aircraft Tuesday ing miles an hour Air Force Maj William Pete J Knight piloted the No 2 during the brief flight traveling at mach 6.72 about six and a half times the speed of sound Peak altitude was feet Knight said he had two minor problems One was the air launch and the second was a light but that neither affected the flight He admitted he was tired from the strain of the flight Knight 37 held the previous unofficial speed record of 4.250 or mach 6.33 set Nov 18 1966 in the same ship The record altitude of feet or 67 miles was set by the late Joe Walker Aug 22 1963 militant monk Thich Tri Quang Vietnam's most powerful leader who has been staging a six-day sitdown demonstration outside the Palace in protest against alleged government persecution of his sect Ky called on the Buddhists to halt tions simmering in Tri northern stronghold of Hue in Saigon and elsewhere to your he ordered The woman died a lonely death in the predawn twilight She left no note Her colleagues at the Can Tho pagoda had planned to march to local government headquarters to present a protest Tuesday but they called off the plan the the province chief somberly went to the pagoda to receive i petition Tri Quang appeared shocked when told of the burning at his vigil outside the palace He said the nun's cause was right her method wrong If I had known of this before I would have stopped it because Buddhist discipline disapproves of this the year-old monk said It was Tri followers and other militant Buddhists however who shook the regime of dictator Ngo Dinh Diem to its foundations with a wave of seven self immolations four years ago NE
