Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - November 5, 1968, Zanesville, Ohio Good Hear BMP that waste to aMbk cute Greea Pay Backers The Times Recorder Are You Keeping Up On Current Try Your Skill On The News Page 18 PAGES GAINESVILLE OHIO 43701 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5 1968 TEN CENTS Candidates Make Final Bids For Votes And Humphrey End Close Campaigns Viet Cong Delegates Arrive For War Talks PARIS UPI Viet Cong negotiators headed by a woman guerrilla fighter arrived day and warned the United States must agree to its terms or face continued Vietnam fighting But a Saigon boycott threatened to torpedo day's opening session of the expanded Vietnam talks Both U.S and North ese negotiators said Monday that South Vietnam's announced refusal to sit at a conference table that includes tives of Hie Viet Cong's National Liberation Front has forced them to consider Wednesday's scheduled opening of talks Death Toll Climbs In Italy Flood BIELLA Italy cuers pressed their search for the living and the dead under clearing skies Monday in an area stricken by four days of disastrous flooding The death toll neared 100 Authorities said at least 93 persons were known dead with more than 40 injured and some missing in the hilly area around where rivers and creeks rampaged down valleys and through five towns Thousands were homeless and factories and other buildings were washed away during the weekend that dealt northwest Italy a severe economic blow Lake Maggiore Italy's cond largest was reported still rising late Monday threatening several towns along its eastern shore Some hotels were flooded and telephone lines were out The Biella area in the Strong Valley northeast of Turin was hardest hit bat Venice 250 miles to the east on the Adriatic also suffered heavy tag Water five feet deep covered San Marco Square a magnet for tourists Sunday Knife Greets Firefighters CINCINNATI UPI Fire men had to disarm and sub- due a 90 year old woman Monday and forcibly remove her from tar burning Hanoi officials said no firm plans have been made as of tonight for a meeting day U.S sources said the American delegation was in continued contact with Hanoi representatives to work out details of the conference but no plans had yet been completed for the first expanded session Officials said that even if the meeting is held Wednesday it will be devoted solely to procedural matters Wednesday had been the regular meeting day for preliminary talks before both sides agreed to broaden the tions to include Saigon and the Viet Cong in following the U.S bine halt The team of negotiators received a jubilant welcome on their arrival at Le Bourget Airport The Viet Cong delegate leader Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh made a brief but ing statement that appeared unlikely to soften the tough position of the Saigon ment The diminutive black-clad Viet Cong official said her Communist insurgent movement would fight on hi South Vietnam unless the Americans withdrew from the country and agreed to a settlement on Viet terms White a crowd of airport chanted Long live Ho Chi Mrs Binh Unless the American ment gives up its aggressive aims obstinately intensifying war in South Vietnam and hanging on to a puppet administration in Saigon while pursuing tiie dark aims of perpetuating its domination in South Vietnam then the Vietnamese people will pursue their struggle with perseverance until final ry The Viet Cong delegates quickly settled down hi their Paris quarters and then met with Xuan Thuy chief North Vietnamese delegate in Paris o Military Convoys Seen Headed For Viet South SAIGON naissance pilots ranging over North Vietnam have detected numerous military truck con- voys moving toward South Vietnam since the bombing halt began last Friday American military sources said Monday The trucks were believed headed for the Ho CM Minh supply trail the network of mountain passages and jungle paths winding for hundreds of miles through Laos and dia into South Vietnam In Washington Air Force Secretary Harold Brown said Monday it was too early to say whether the bombing halt would hold He said U.S pilots were carrying out sance flights and would continue to do so to guard against any buildup by Communist forces in the lower reaches of North Vietnam Sources in Saigon said some of the U.S reconnaissance flights are being flown by the top-secret the delta wing jet which succeeded the U2 and flies at altitudes of up to feet The reconnaissance reports from the U.S flights over North Vietnam said one truck convoy was sighted about 60 miles southwest of Thanh Hoa an inland city on Highway 1 at the southern end of the Red River Delta about 225 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone Fights Rage In Mideast Curfew Set AMMAN Jordan UPI commandos testing efforts to restrict forays into Israel fire Monday on troops loyal to Jordan's King Hussein The government said the dos used women and children as shields during hours of street There were no official reports on casualties in the fighting which lasted most of Sunday night and ended Monday ing Officials imposed a curfew on Amman and backed it up with roadblocks tanks armored troop carriers and patrols by tough Bedouin tribesmen Passengers Delayed In Cuba Hijacked Jet Returns MIAMI self-styled black nationalist freedom fighter hijacked a National Airlines jet enroute from Houston to Miami with 65 persons aboard to Havana Monday but the plane was returned eight hours later with only its A special freedom airlift flight was being sent to Varadero to pick up the 57 passengers who were left behind A will re- main in Havana The plane finally released by Cuban authorities at p.m landed at Miami International Airport shortly before 7 p.m carrying only its seven men The FBI customs and gration authorities immediately began questioning the crew The remaining passengers Firefighters were called to a blaze in the second-floor filled apartment of Mrs Emma Seyffert M When the firemen entered mey were oy wrs Seyffert armed with a largs butcher knife They relieved her the and hsr the Sbs was for More Political News Inside TR Ms teas fee a were not expected back hi the United States until late Monday at the earliest The hijacker dubbing the plane Republic of New was not immediately identified Nor was it known the type weapon he used to pull off the mid-air piracy It was the 12th hijacking this year of an American plane and the third this year of a National Airlines plane National aircraft were hijacked March 12 and July 17 The in Houston but the hijacking did not occur unto after the jet took off for Miami from New Orleans its one intermediate stop According to a National spokesman first word of the hijacking came when the pilot Capt Hunter 50 radioed the FAA air route tunic center m HOBNOB about ajn that he was Democrat Gains In Late Polls WASHINGTON UPI ard and Hubert H Humphrey blitzed the nation on television Monday at the end of a presidential campaign ly so close that the public opinion pollsters said it was either man's election to win A final survey published by Louis Harris on election eve put Humphrey in the lead for the first time giving him a 43 to 40 percentage point margin over his Republican rival with the protest candidacy of George C Wallace drawing 13 per cent The remaining 4 per cent of the voters were undecided But the Gallup poll published earlier Monday showed Nixon holding the edge 42 to 40 per Both pollsters noted that a 3 to 4 per cent margin of error in their polls made the results too close to permit a prediction of Tuesday's outcome I am very de- clared Humphrey campaigning to the last minute for the 40 electoral votes of California a state the Democrats once tended to write off as hopeless But Nixon predicting he would draw three million to five million more votes than told his California campaign workers that he would run 5 per cent better than the Gallup poll anticipated In visit to his southern California quarters in Los Angeles Nixon said only his election could prevent what could be a diplomatic disaster in the Vietnam peace talks Campaigning in the same city Humphrey sternly ed that Saigon participate in the expanded peace talks arranged with the North Vietnamese in the agreement which led to President Johnson's decision to halt the bombing of North Vietnam Former President Dwight D Eisenhower in a statement issued by an aide and by the Nixon headquarters in Los Angeles praised Nixon for not criticizing the bombing halt decision even though the President's action taken just before the election seemed likely to have political sions adverse to his own fortunes It would be supreme irony if these positions of Richard de- spite the greatest provocation should now be turned into instruments of political injury to Eisenhower said Republican Presidential candidate Richard Nixon shakes hands with outside his campaign headquarters as he arrived in Los Angeles to visit his campaign workers Man he is shaking hands unidentified TCI Telephoto President Hubert Humphrey waves to me crowd as Us running mate Sen Edmund S right and Democratic Senatorial candidate Alan Cranston reach out to the crowd during a motorcade through downtown Los Angeles Nixon Holds Small Lead In City Poll By FRED WHISSEL Any Presidential candidate who tells you he has this thing all wrapped up as the campaign grinds out its final week has not been informed of the latest most official poll We The Times Recorder Official Presidential Pollers and Authorized Wine Testers con- ducted the latest poll on the Presidential contest recently in die seven downtown Zanesville major parking lots Richard Nixon Republican was holding a slight edge with the support of 1.44 per cent of those surveyed while Democrat Hubert H Humphrey and American Independent George Corley Wallace each were blessed with the assurance of 0.48 per cent of the vote Surprisingly 97.5 per cent of those surveyed had not decided on their choice for the dency It appears likely that such a decision would take place before p.m Tuesday in this area Official count was Nixon 6 supporters Humphrey 2 supporters and Wallace 2 supporters Fourth party date Patrick Paulsen the ful energetic and bright comedian faced a miserable defeat Not one of those polled could even remember of hearing of him Perhaps even more ing was the support being offered a gasoline company entry He would apparently garner at least one vote from an enthusiastic supporter who told us he was for Tippecanoe and Tiger Too Shockingly one voter said it was Your Future Your De- Choose Army It would be the first time any service group had ever been elected President of the United States he boasted with a regimented smile Questioned about the large number of undecided voters 404 a spokesman for one campaign headquarters here said he was certain there was some mistake Y'all just ain't making no sense know got at least 102 per cent of the vote just yesterday got a call from the belt and suspenders people GEORGE WALLACE telling us we had their support An we also got an the women in labor pulling for us right right We as official pollers were somewhat taken aback in questioning each of the three major party headquarters Spokesmen for each of the candidates said their In- all showed their candidate would win by a landslide It was not im- mediately certain how that was possible But you never know about politics What was certain is that it was perhaps the most official survey ever conducted in the seven major Zanesville town parking lots of bumper stickers The World This Morning Rhodes Spares Man From Chair COLUMBUS UPI Con- murderer Veroon Keaton will not be executed Friday night Gov James Rhodes said late Monday The prisoner at Ohio Penitentiary was granted an indefinite stay white he un- psychiatric tion Rhodes said Ohto Penitentiary Warden Harold Cardwell W Va had certified that Keaton is vice presidential T says Global Views SAIGON President Nguyen Van Thieu reiterates his refusal to send a South Vietnamese negotiating team to the ex- Paris talks with the Viet Cong Page PRAGUE Czechoslovak army units move into outlying districts of Prague on standby alert for possible demonstrations Wednesday and Thursday when the nation ob- serves a tense anniversary of the Russian Revolution Page The Nation SAN ANTONIO The current lull in ground action in South Vietnam does not mean the enemy is deescalating the war third party vice presidential candidate Gen Curtis LeMay that if he were vice president and seriously opposed a position of his President on a national issue he would have no other ethical choice than to resign Page Around Ohio COLUMBUS Fifty-five bers of the General Assembly who have worked to improve schools in the Buckeye State have been endorsed for tion by the Ohio Education Association Page CINCINNATI Ellis 42 is sentenced to die to the electric chair next March 16 for murder in the ing of two women here last July 6 Page PALM BEACH GARDENS Fh Association exerts on sors to reach decision on Mure loyalties Page ST LOUIS The condition of sport Harry Caray changes from critical to following treatment for serious injuries including compound frartures of both legs when hit while jaywalking Page The Weather FORECAST Generally fair with little temperature change today and tonight See details on Page Inside The TR Page See B Classified B B t B X A 4 A II A I A M B
